In Aymann Ismail’s community, aggressive policing and threats of Islamophobic violence came to feel normal.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Aymann Ismail was 11 years old. He remembers being evacuated from his school in New Jersey, getting into a school bus, going down a highway, seeing the smoke from the twin towers. He remembers going home, waiting to hear from his dad, who worked as a driver in lower Manhattan. He remembers watching the news on TV. It wasn’t until the next day that his father came home—he had walked all the way from New York City.
“[9/11] gave every pundit and every politician license to talk about Islam and Muslims as this theoretical thing. They can talk about Islam without actually talking toNo, I don’t think so. I mean, you’ve got to remember, this is one of many different kinds of experiences. It happened so regularly. And it also happened to people that we knew, where it just felt like it was par for the course and part of the American experience. And so we just wanted to move past it. I wanted to move past it.
Yeah, over 4 million, every night. He has that many people watching, and he’s conditioning these people to feel a certain way about me and my mom and my kid and everybody that I know in my community. So that matters, and that means something, because on a regular basis I interact with the people who watch that show.I was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. I was there as a journalist. And there was one family that were there—they were from Greece, actually.
But when you broke the rules, as a photographer and a journalist, you were singled out for harsher scrutiny. There was one story that landed you in especially hot water.
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