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...week's end, Washington appears to have heard the panic signals. "Powell Reassures Arabs No Iraq," read a headline in Friday's Jordan Times. "After a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher? (Secretary of State Colin) Powell said he understood and was taking into consideration Arab objections to US military action against Iraq. 'For now, this is nothing for us to disagree on,' Powell said." Still, even that "for now" qualifier has Arab leaders fearing a destabilizing domestic backlash...
...sending the message that a person’s nation of origin can be enough cause for interrogation, the Justice Department paints U.S. policy in a light that is antithetical to the values of inclusion that the American people hold dear. Additionally, they set a double standard for Arab-Americans. There has never been a mass mailing to the Italian immigrants to discuss the Mafia and organized crime; nor have personal invitations been sent to Colombian immigrants inviting them to discuss cocaine trafficking. Such blatant profiling would rightly ignite public furor, and it is wrong of the Justice Department...
However, the policy could be more than merely ineffective—it could make the Justice Department’s job in investigating terrorism even more difficult. Collins’ letter may cause the Arab-American community to become more insular. By setting a blind ‘witch-hunting’ tone to the handling of the cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will offend recipients and make them less likely to respond or to cooperate with authorities...
...brothers of the University of Miami chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity have found themselves under intense scrutiny this week for their failure to show brotherhood with the Arab community. The largely Jewish fraternity is facing serious allegations of anti-Arab sentiment in the wake of Sept. 11. The accusations stem from a video circulating on campus which allegedly recorded the drunken rantings of a pledge screaming into the camera, “What are we going to do about these goddamned Arabs...
Rushovich stresses that “it’s definitely an isolated occurrence, and not at all representative of our fraternity or what we stand for.” While the Harvard chapter does not include any members of an Arab background at present, Rushovich argues that this is simply because few, if any, Arab students apply in the first place. Rushovich is at pains to point out that “Our chapter is comprised of students representing multiple cultures, not all Jewish”, and that “we are completely non-discriminatory...