Really bothers me djf Be Very Afraid: Nearly half ofAmericans wou ld restrictMuslimAmericans Civil Rights

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Re: [IP] Really bothers me djf Be Very Afraid: Nearly half ofAmericans wou ld restrictMuslimAmericans 
Civil Rights
Author: Frode Hegland <frode () liquidinformation org>
Date:           19th December 2004 1:46:44 am

Why in the world should Muslims do anything to reassure their fellow 
Americans that this won't be necessary?

Is it the job of a Muslim to speak to our prejudicial mindsets when 
someone who shares his or her religion does something bad to reassure 
us that this person wont?

Seriously, I feel no need to reassure my Muslim and Arab friends (no, 
they are not usually synonymous) in here in London that I am not a 
threat to them even though the Christian and Jewish British have, in 
league with the Christian and Jewish Americans, have killed scores of 
tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans.

How silly can this get?

How INCREDIBLY effective was that one attack, by a couple of Egyptians 
and friends, that one attack, in snapping off more freedoms and 
degrading the way we treat each-other.

Do you expect a 
black/white/jewish/Catholic/Chinese/red-haired/old/short (or any other 
group/minority) man to reassure you that he won't mug you if you have 
been mugged by another 
black/white/jewish/Catholic/Chinese/red-haired/old/short (or any other 
group/minority) man in the past?

Sorry, I was in the US two weeks ago, for two weeks. The atmosphere has 
changed. It wasn't as comfortable as before.

Really eats me up.


On 18 Dec 2004, at 9:54 pm, David Farber wrote:

> Hopefully, things like this poll will encourage Muslims in America (and
> in Europe too, it seems) to do more to reassure their fellow countrymen
> that such restrictions won't be necessary. Mr Bray's proposal to
> "continue to interface" probably won't be enough though.


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