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...time when there’s a lot of bias crimes against Muslims, against Pakistani-Americans,” said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia journalism professor and co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association. The organization recently issued a call for responsible journalism regarding the coverage of Arab-American and South Asian American communities...
...British commandos. But even that would draw fierce resistance from the Taliban, and the U.S. has, of course, promised to punish those who shelter Bin Laden. A major confrontation between the U.S. and the Taliban, though, potentially creates a serious domestic crisis for Pakistan, and possibly some of the Arab allies...
...himself, but also to sustain a consistent long-term effort to root out his cadres and their allies across the globe. And the need to establish the widest possible consensus behind a course of action may explain the furious diplomatic shuttling between U.S. leaders and their European, Russian, Pakistani, Arab and Asian counterparts underway this week...
...Sunday, President Bush called the campaign against terrorism a "crusade." On Tuesday, his spokesman Ari Fleischer apologized for the President's use of a term offensive to the Arab nations whose maximum cooperation is essential to the defeat of Osama Bin Laden and his ilk. For them, after all, the term "crusade" refers to the era when they were colonized by medieval European warriors who believed they could hasten Christ's return by capturing Jerusalem. In fact, it is precisely because of those associations that Osama bin Laden refers to the U.S. not as "imperialists" or even "the Great Satan...
...Laden's capture or elimination would destroy his networks only if it were followed by a sustained campaign of police and intelligence work to neutralize the thousands of his operatives all over the world. And the most important allies in such a campaign would be the governments of the Arab world, from among whose citizens Bin Laden claims most of his recruits. But the escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence poses a significant obstacle to winning active Arab support for the U.S.-led anti-terror campaign. Arab governments have found it increasingly difficult to support Washington on issues such as Iraq...