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...course, were Arab Americans, many of whom suffered that day and have suffered since from a special pressure and scrutiny from neighbors and strangers alike. Jamal Baadani, a staff sergeant in the Marine Corps who was born to Yemenite parents and raised in both Egypt and Michigan, knows this intimately. "I was out to dinner with one of my fellow Marines in uniform," he says, "and someone went up to me and started talking to me about what was going on, and she said, 'Yeah, those Arabs are all knuckleheads,' not realizing I was one. And another day, a woman...
...with information about bin Laden's hideouts. Pakistani officials told Time that U.S. forces, working from reports that Taliban informants gave to Pakistani intelligence agents, have zeroed in on the Tora Bora region near Jalalabad, where bin Laden was thought to have sought the protection of the 1,500 Arab fighters left stranded there by the retreating Taliban. With hunters closing in, he was said to be moving nightly among caves in the honeycombed mountains stretching from Jalalabad to the northern half of the Uruzgan province. American F-15Es, unmanned Predator drones and commando ground troops killed scores of Taliban...
...slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled south from Kabul. A Time correspondent at the scene said the women wore black burkas of an expensive Saudi design...
...treatment of Arab Americans and Middle Eastern nationals who are living in the U.S. is eerily similar to the Japanese American internment during World War II. Many argue that the singling out of Japanese Americans was, to a large extent, racially motivated (German Americans were not sent to detention camps). Today’s singling out of Arab Americans is, to some degree, a result of an already present racial bias. As we travel down this slippery slope, we may once again find ourselves sacrificing the rights of a racial minority for the supposed protection of the general public...
...September 11 could possibly shape some of the issues of the seasons to come. “It’s a nationalized drama, and so of course it has affected the issues we discuss at open call tables and such...and we have received more submissions from Arab-Americans and Muslims than usual.” Seeing a Middle-Easterner on the next season of “The Real World” would be very unsurprising...