Word: arabized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most part, protesters and counter-protesters were civil. But there was tension, nonetheless. There was shouting. There were scowls. There were rowdy passers-by who antagonized both sides. The low-point was overhearing a counter-protester tell an anti-Arab joke to his friends. (I did not recognize this individual and I pray that he is not a member of the Harvard community.) And there was the sheer awkwardness of looking across the street and seeing one’s friends and classmates vehemently protesting against what I feel is a just cause...
...anti-Semitism. Muslim extremists will no doubt be the largest group of anti-Semites during the twenty-first century. The evidence is in the firebombed synagogues and Jewish elementary schools in France and the racist sermons of imams in Britain as well as in the vicious words of the Arab world’s regimes. It is also in conference rooms in Durban, South Africa, where the farcically-named World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was turned into an anti-Semitic gadfest by Muslim countries last fall...
...they've invited the U.S. to come into Pankisi instead, to train Georgian forces for an ongoing anti-terrorism mission. The U.S. and Georgia say their target will be about a dozen Arab extremists based in the area, believed to be long-time volunteers with a militant Chechen faction (rather than stragglers from Afghanistan). But they won't be launching an all-out campaign against Chechen fighters in the Pankisi...
...silver lining may be the fact that 67 percent of all respondents also believed the September 11 attacks were morally unjustified. Then again, 61 percent believed those attacks were not carried out by Arab groups. That suggests that while they may be in an astonishing state of denial, their basic inclination is to reject terrorism and extremism...
...Qaeda. Bin Laden's propaganda screeds are almost always built around the plight of ordinary Palestinians and Iraqis, for whose suffering most of the Muslim world holds the U.S. at least partly responsible. Bin Laden also loves to harp on U.S. support for corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. It's a cynical ad campaign, of course. Bin Laden has done nothing to help either the Palestinians or the Iraqis, and he's nothing if not another high-born authoritarian himself. But think of it as negative advertising: he knows the concerns of his audience and pounds away...