Famous Sufi saint Bawa Muhaiuddeen

In Part 2 of Muslims' America, American Sufis talk about the struggles of Muslim Americans in a post 9/11 America. Abdul Jabber (Michael Toomey) of bmf.org says that in his opinion the big struggle right now is two-fold. Most of it is internal, because it's forcing the Muslims in America to really look within themselves and find their relationship with God and achieve their inner peace.

He says a lot of people were born Muslims and they haven't had consciously become true Muslims. It's just that they grew up like that and this is forcing them to read the Quran and know who they really are.

He acknowledges that it's almost like converting to their own religion: converting to real Islam. Secondly, he says that it's very dynamic from the inside. But he adds that on the outside, the culture after 9/11 is so intense that Muslims as a whole in America are kind of hunkered down, living very quietly and humbly.