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...ugly side of fear never sleeps for long, and so Arab Americans and Muslims were attacked at their stores and homes. In Salt Lake City a small Pakistani restaurant, Curry in a Hurry, was damaged by arson. Word of the hate attack spread quickly, and the next day the place had its busiest day ever from patrons who wanted to support this Pakistani family and its business. People came with signs saying PEACE NOT HATE...
Last Thursday someone threw stone after stone through the windshields of cabs in Manhattan's Central Park, apparently targeting dark-skinned drivers. "A lot of cabdrivers are not driving," says Ali Agha Abba, a Pakistani-American taxi driver in New York City. "I can't afford to not work. So I have to take a chance." Last Monday a man drove a Mustang through the front entrance of the Grand Mosque in Parma, Ohio, the largest in the state. The Sunday before, a Muslim woman in Memphis was beaten on her way to worship. The day before that, a Pakistani...
...that there was some local unrest at the appearance of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, but many were convinced that the American military presence was needed to defend them from the imminent threat posed by Iraq. In Pakistan, no such argument can be made. The Pakistani government has offered its cooperation out of necessity, since any rejection would have been met with American fury and the possibility of punitive strikes...
...militancy in every town and village. In this struggle, martyrdom has lately become a horrifying tactic; a Muslim Kashmiri youth in April last year blew himself up outside Indian army headquarters in Srinagar. Other militants staged an unsuccessful suicidal siege of the Red Fort in New Delhi. One Pakistani military official said he wouldn't be surprised if U.S. authorities discover that Pakistani nationals were involved in some phase of the Washington and New York attacks. "Our terrorist groups here have links with many other groups abroad," the officer commented...
...Pakistani in his mid-20s, Abu Zaid (his nom de guerre), gave up a chance to study medicine in the U.S. to the dismay of his parents. Instead, he enrolled in an Islamic militant training camp in the mountains northeast of Islamabad. There he learned how to handle a gun and explosives instead of a stethoscope. "We are not fanatics," he insists in a soft, earnest voice, "but we believe it's better to sacrifice ourselves than live in an unjust world." But where is the justice in indiscriminately killing thousands of office workers, firefighters and airline passengers - Christians, Jews...