As she explained during her appearance on Democracy Now! on September 10, 2003, “Talaat [Hamdani] herself is a teacher. In class she asked her students to define what a terrorist is. ‘The first word everybody echoed was Muslim,’ Talaat said. ‘The second brainstorm topic was to define Islam. And the first word that they came up with was bin Laden. ‘And that is where I find myself,’ Talaat said with a sad sigh. ‘Defending myself, my faith, my people, my community, my fellow Americans who are Muslim.’ ”
– Amy Goodman with David Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers, Page 97