"Gregory Morrow" > fnord
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> Janet Wilder wrote:
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>> My mother lived in Paterson, NJ and she told me that the Arab
community
>> was celebrating by dancing in the streets. To this day, I cannot
imagine
>> anyone living in this country rejoicing at such death and
destruction.
>>
>
>
> They're *Arabs*, fer chrissakes, what on earth do you *expect*...???
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>

Seriously, Greg; **** you.

I live in an area with one of the largest concentrations of Arabs
outside of the middle east, and I have never met a one that was not
happy to be in this country or proud to be a citizen. At the time of the
attacks, my direct supervisor was from Lebanon, and she was scared
shitless that she and her family were now targets for people's
misdirected vengeance for what had happened. You can't punish all of the
people from one region of the world because of the actions of a few.

In addition, "Arab" does not mean "adherent to Islam". It refers to
people from a particular area of the world.

I grew up in a Jewish home and went to a zionist school K-12. If I can
manage to get past this petty bigotry, so can you. I suppose I could
bring up the fact that I have dated a man who was Muslim, but he was not
an Arab, he was from Senegal, so the point would be moot in this context


Plus, they run the some of the only markets around here where I can buy
goat!

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