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Unfortunately, this well-meaning rhetoric has done little to discourage the wave of bigotry that sweeps the nation. On Wednesday alone, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee confirmed 30 reports of violent harassment. The list of hate crimes grew throughout the week, as reports of beatings and mosque desecration flooded the news wires...
...country, people of all religious beliefs and walks of life have come together to denounce the backlash. Nevertheless, as much as some people are preaching “tolerance” and denouncing crimes of hate, the vast majority of Americans still seem unaware that Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans abhor terrorism as much as anybody...
...family living in New York and Washington, D.C. One friend of mine—who happened to be of Lebanese descent—worked in the World Trade Center. He is still missing. I often think of his parents. They are afraid to leave their home because of anti-Arab sentiment. I can scarcely imagine how they must feel—grieving the loss of a son, yet being blamed for his death because of their ethnicity. This is the cruelest of ironies...
...people in this world who delight in the killing of civilians. But as one editorialist pointed out, “The minuscule percentage of Palestinians who exulted at the tragedy is probably far smaller than the percentage of Americans who would call for massive terror bombing in the Arab world...
This has not prevented some ultra-nationalists from calling for a war against the entire Arab world. In her syndicated column, which appears in the New York Post and Associated Press Editorials, Ann Coulter wrote, “We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity...