What do we think of when we say the word “Islam”? Is this the Quran? Or is it Allah? Is it the word “jihad”? Or is it just 9/11? What influence do images have on people today? Do they shape our way of thinking or our perception of “our world”? Is everyone's worldview the same? Does religion define our world? Or do images define our religion? To what extent have we allowed ourselves to subject ourselves to blatant images? The September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in the United States has been widely interpreted as an event so traumatic that it destroys the individual's symbolic resources and evades normal processes of meaning-making and cognition. The release of images from the area around Ground Zero immediately after 9/11 was carefully controlled, and these restrictions shape a new and urgent context for sustained discussion of words and images, for reading and seeing the world in a confined perspective. In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman is a comic book that uses images to describe, distinguish and define what happened during the September 11 attacks, it simultaneously highlights America's thirst for revenge against Islam and the drastic effect it had on changing the face of Islam. Islam has been characterized by the media as a religion of violence. Images of Islam have been translated through several means such as media and caricatures, causing several conflicts and controversies all over the world. A terrorist attack and exaggerated media characterization have changed the face of Islam today, making it a victim of stereotypes and generalizations. For centuries, religion has relied on images to spread the message of religion. The iconic image of Jesus, or the prefixed image of a Muslim, all religions combined...... middle of paper ...... aural nightmare from which we have yet to wake up to realize the true destruction that The September 11 attacks left us. This has left us a fragmented and ignorant human race that, nine years after the incident, has advanced in technology, politics, information and the military, but has failed to repair racial divisions and to overcome the stereotypes generated by September 11. We have failed to redraw the divisions between state and religion and we openly stick to images and conventions in order to live an ignorant and pleasant life. It’s as Spiegelman describes it: “We were really scared, we couldn’t stand it. I'm not just a cartoonist, I'm a physical coward. , April 18, 2005• Spiegelman, Art. In the shadow of No Towers. Self-published, 2002-2004.