Editing Shriners (section)

=== Organizational rebranding ===
In 2002, following the [[September 11 attacks]], the "faux-Middle Eastern practices and trappings" led Shriners to be "mistaken for a Muslim organization, leading to harassment and vandalism."<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Neidorf |first=Shawn |date=October 21, 2002 |title=Harassed, insulted, Shriners pay price for Islam imagery |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-10-21-0210210200-story.html}}</ref> This included threatening phone calls and harassment of Rhode Island Shriners (formerly known as Palestine Temple Shriners) driving a Shriners van to transport sick children to Shriner hospitals.<ref name=":2" />[[File:News. Daughters of the Nile BAnQ P48S1P16779.jpg|thumb|Daughters of the Nile at [[Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada]] in Montreal in 1948.]]By 2011, Shriners removed much of the Middle Eastern theming, both locally<ref name=":2" /> and within the broader organization.<ref name="PittApril2011">{{cite news |last1=Sostek |first1=Anya |title=Shriners shed many Middle Eastern references while continuing traditions such as the circus |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2011/04/10/Shriners-shed-many-Middle-Eastern-references-while-continuing-traditions-such-as-the-circus/stories/201104100310 |access-date=24 August 2022 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=10 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824135105/https://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2011/04/10/Shriners-shed-many-Middle-Eastern-references-while-continuing-traditions-such-as-the-circus/stories/201104100310 |archive-date=24 August 2022 |language=en |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> This was in continued response to "the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and subsequent military conflicts."<ref name="PittApril2011" /> Changes included renaming the organization from "Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" to "Shriners International;" renaming the "Arabic Patrol" to "The Patrol" and removing the word Syria from Syria Shriners vanity plates. Despite these changes, the Illustrious Potentate of Pittsburgh's Syria Shrine chapter stated that "pretty much all non-atheists are welcome, including Muslims."<ref name="PittApril2011" />