Catholics, Muslims Begin to Value How Much They Share Across Faiths
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, Dalila Benameur and her Muslim friends in Bridgeview, Ill., were afraid to leave their homes even when their pantries ran low and their refrigerators emptied. The women felt threatened by the handful of intimidating drivers who would cruise past the town's mosque waving Confederate flags and shouting anti-Muslim epithets.
That's when Andreatte Brachman and her friends from St. Fabian Catholic Church stepped in.
