After September 11, 2001, the life of a Muslim woman living in America changed forever. Islamophobia is prejudice against Islam or Muslims. Islamophobia is not a new concept: its roots go back hundreds of years, but after 9/11 it became much more prevalent in America. After 9/11, Western media used Islam and Muslim women covering themselves to instill fear in American citizens. Western media portrayed Islam as a dangerous and hateful religion that needed to be stopped. At the same time, the media became obsessed with veiled Muslim women and wanted to save them from their oppression. However, these articles written about the oppressed Muslim woman did not present the Muslim woman and her experiences of wearing the veil. They were not given a voice about their lives. The people who wrote these articles were very ethnocentric. They have not taken into account the religion or culture of these Muslim women who choose to wear the veil and the empowerment that this can give to some of them. I would like to spend some time examining Western media's portrayal of Islam. However, they constantly contradict themselves by denying Muslims the opportunity to express in mainstream media what it really means to be a Muslim or a veiled woman. Muslim women who wear the veil know that by leaving their homes, they are more likely to be judged, treated unfairly, or verbally or physically attacked because they veil and show their faith more visibly. Americans claim this is the land of the free, while kicking Muslims off planes because they are Muslims and only showing Muslim women as oppressed. Although America changed after 9/11, Americans failed to realize that the life of a Muslim American, especially a Muslim American woman who chooses to wear the veil, was also completely changed after 9/11. September 11. Islamophobia and ethnocentrism are widespread in American media, creating a nation with citizens who are equally Islamophobic and