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They are the newest group of unwilling victims. Muslim Americans and Arab-Americans, and even some Southeast Asian Americans, have rapidly become targets of misguided, ignorant zealots. Here at Harvard, Muslims and Arab-Americans have taken note of a changing political and social climate. No matter how strong of a connection these students felt to their religion or ethnicity before, the collapse of the World Trade Center gives them no choice but to reconsider what it means to be Muslims and Arabs in America...
What do Muslims and Arabs at Harvard have to say about this tragedy and their being thrust into a contemptuous limelight? Fifteen Minutes gathered a group of eight Muslim Americans and Arab Americans from across the Harvard community to find out. The eight consisted of: Saif I. Mohammed Shah 02, President of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS); Zayed Yasin 02, former president of HIS and president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross for the past two years; Rita Hamad 03, president of the Society of Arab Students; Yassine Daoud, second year student at Harvard Medical School; Laila...
Since that Tuesday, news of hate crimes poured in from across all 50 states. While a Sikh was killed in Arizona, shot to death presumably for resembling a Muslim, many other Muslim and Arab Americans were physically and verbally harassed. Innumerable others decided to simply stay home rather than risk a world that had suddenly and immediately turned hostile...
Saif expressed that the sentiment is that because youre an Arab, you have an intimate connection. He shakes his head. I find that very surprising. All [the Muslims and Arab-Americans] Ive known have been very peaceful people...
...Laila el Haddad put it succinctly: Im Palestinian. I dont have to be American to sympathize with these people. Moreover, you dont have to be an unhyphenated American to be patriotic. Muslim and Arab Americans, the panelists stated, want justice and peace as much as anyone. Zayed pointed to his presidency of the Harvard Friends of the Red Cross...