Islam and Terrorism in Post 9/11th Literature

Although it has been always difficult to provide an adequate and comprehensive definition of ?Terrorism?, Islam has been falsely and closely associated with to this concept in post 9/11th literature. Focusing on Joseph Geha?s Alone and All Together (2002), Laila Halaby?s Once on a Promised Land (2007), and Mohsin Hamid?s the Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), I explain how Islam and the Arabic identity?which relates to Islam in one way or another?become responsible for the misery experienced by the Arab-American minority after the terrorist attacks of 9/11th. In the aforementioned works, Islam and the Arab ethnicity are entrapped under the strong feelings of patriotism and Americanism in post 9/11 United States. Islam falsely becomes the religion of terrorists who are referred to as radical Arabs and who are not recognized as patriotic citizens of the United States.