ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS
THE fear is always embedded deep in the psyche. It reveals itself when the image of terror is always one that is associated with somebody who looks Arabic and whose religion is Islam. This is so palpable that when some schoolchildren were once asked to draw a terrorist, they drew the image of an Arab Muslim. This popular representation of terror was cemented right after the September 11 attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. And the image was reproduced in the imaginations of people everywhere. For the entire world, Islam has become the representation of a terrorist.