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...anything wrong. In recent years, the most prevalent example of profiling has involved the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic violations or to search for illegal drugs. Today, as a result of the Justice Department’s new orders, being an Arab or Muslim makes you suspect in America. It may make you more likely to be stopped, more likely to be searched and more likely to be arrested and imprisoned...
...strengths come into play. Many people bemoaned the fact that the World Trade Center terrorists walked freely among us. But patriotic Americans can, potentially, walk easily among Al Qa’ida operatives—easily enough to sabotage their operations. I refer to the thousands of Arab- and Muslim-Americans who came forward when U.S. intelligence agencies recently requested the services of Arab speakers. There are, undoubtedly, many brave Arab- and Muslim-Americans who would be willing to work with the CIA and FBI to take down Al Qa’ida from the inside, especially if it meant...
More importantly, the coalition against terror that effectively isolated the Taliban will likely fall apart at the seams if we bring the war to Iraq. Arab governments could barely subdue their citizens when U.S. warplanes began attacking the Taliban. And Afghanistan—although Muslim—is not even an Arab country. It will be more difficult to build a convincing case against Iraq, especially since most of the Arab world is convinced that the current U.S.-enforced sanctions against Iraq are a campaign to murder Iraqi children...
Nevertheless, winning over Arab leaders is not impossible. If Washington can promote a just peace in Israel and Palestine, it will accumulate enough good will in the Middle East to do just about anything it wants with Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Bear in mind that this time around, Washington will have to do more than merely pay lip service to the desirability of an independent Palestine; it will have to put forth a substantive plan for a Palestinian state...
...would be nothing short of a resounding moral victory if the United States worked with its Muslim and Arab citizens to defeat the force that hijacked Islam for its evil ends. It would avoid another bloody war and it would deliver a message more powerful than our biggest bombs...