After President Obama announced Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in spontaneous celebration at Ground Zero. Among them was Naqeeb Memon, who wore a shirt that said “I’m A Muslim — Don’t Panic,” which got him a lot of attention from the crowd and from the media in the days after (and a spot in TPM’s slideshow of the celebration).
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