September 13, 2010
Source: The New Haven Register
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/09/13/news/new_haven/doc4c8d99ae18b9f677991290.txt
Valarie Kaur is an award-winning filmmaker who has fought racism for the past nine years, and still she found herself overwhelmed and paralyzed by the anti-Muslim sentiment flowing from controversy over the planned Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York.
A student at the Yale Law School, Kaur said the Islamophobia she first observed after the attacks of 9/11, which appeared to have subsided, has “now become mainstream, acceptable, normalized.”