"Caleb Carter, 26, prays with his son Mahdi, 10 mo., at home in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. For Carter, the road to becoming a Muslim took years, but Sept. 11, 2001 was a turning point _ specifically a high school teacher's hostile reaction that day to the terrorist attacks. ""I was a junior in high school at the time, taking a class called Nonwestern World Studies,"" said Carter, who then lived in Columbia, Mo., but now resides in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, home to one of the nation's largest Muslim communities. ""For him, it was purely, 'This is what Islam teaches. We shouldn't be surprised.' He played the whole 'Islam equals terrorism card.'"" (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)"
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