How do you feel about the treatment of Muslims after 9-11?

I mean this in regard to speculation about and treatment of potential Muslims or foreigners from or near the Middle East. My family subscribes to some of these opinions such that whenever anything happens related to Muslim (Islamic?) people, they’re terrorists. And “omg, what if Obama is a Muslim? We can’t vote for him. He’ll turn us over to the enemy…” We have a dear friend at Ft. Hood and the comments have started already. Does this irritate anyone else?
Does anyone else feel like we’re moving out of black-white racism and toward a new major discrimination?