Is Heroism of 9/11 Police Cadet being Slighted because of His Muslim Name?
Is Heroism of 9/11 Police Cadet being Slighted because of His Muslim Name?
The legacy of Mohammad Salman Hamdani is filled with both acknowledgments and overt slights, demonstrating how an individual’s religious and cultural identity can obscure their heroism in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Hamdani, a Pakistani-American who spent almost his entire life growing up in New York City, was a young police cadet who died in the World Trade Center trying to save those trapped in the north tower.
Following his death, the city’s police department buried him with full honors, while the police commissioner and Mayor Michael Bloomberg labeled Hamdani a hero.
And yet his name does not appear on the list of fallen first responders at the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, nor is it on the list of victims who died in the building.
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