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American Muslim: Freedom, Faith and Fear

American Muslim: Freedom, Faith and Fear

Ten years after 9/11 and a year before what are likely to prove deeply divisive Presidential elections, BBC Global News sent a combined team from BBC Persian and BBC Arabic TV on an epic road trip across the USA to find out what it is like to be a Muslim in America today. America's complicated relationship with Islam is examined through the eyes of two reporters - Karen Zarindast who grew up in Iran and Samir Farah who grew up in Lebanon. In a country where Freedom of Worship is guaranteed by the Constitution, the team travelled from New York to Texas to California and points in between. They met American Muslims from all walks of life: from a High class fashion designer in Manhattan, to a Muslim rapper in California, from a Pakistani born Texan "cowboy" to the Imam of the country's largest mosque in the city of Dearborn -- serving a Muslim population of some 30,000.