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> Anti-Arab bigotry flows from Usenet (WEB)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 07:47:20 EDT
>
> >From David Goldman Executive Director of HateWatch.org : As we mourn the
> horrific loss of life from yesterdays terrorist attack and seek out those
> who committed this act of unspeakable evil, we must also gird ourselves
> against hate mongers who wish to exploit this tragedy for their own ends. We
> must fight those bigots who wish to target members of the Arab or Muslim
> communities, simply for being Arab or Muslim. We must not let racists
> exploit our fear and rage, or allow silence to empower their intolerance.
> This simply must not occur. Below is a small, unedited sampling of the
> anti-Arab and Muslim bigotry flowing from some Usenet groups today. We must
> stand up and speak against these bigots, these terror parasites. While it is
> good to remember that hate is "highly contagious", in order to inoculate
> ourselves against it we must first look hate in the face, and not flinch...
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=759
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> Don't rush to blame, Arab-Americans urge (USA)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 07:17:50 EDT
>
> Almost as soon as the planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the
> threatening calls began at the Washington headquarters of the Arab American
> Institute.Anonymous callers threatened retribution and offered sarcastic
> compliments on the attacks. The building was evacuated, but managing
> director Jean AbiNader stayed behind to deal with the all-too-familiar
> backlash that follows terrorist incidents.It follows with certainty when
> lives are lost in suspected acts of political violence, and for the nation's
> estimated 3 million citizens of Arab descent, the result ranges from slurs
> to unwarranted scrutiny by law enforcement officers, AbiNader said...
>
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=758
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>
> Say no to hate (Editorial)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 07:13:15 EDT
>
> An editorial by Carol Towarnicky member of the Philadelphia Daily News
> editorial board : "I cannot comprehend the hatred that inspired some
> Palestinians to celebrate mass murder yesterday. Grinning children waved
> Palestinian flags in glee, their parents applauded and passed out candy to
> passers-by.The joy on their faces was nauseating, and enough to stir even
> reasonable people to anger, even rage. But it's an urge we must resist,
> because the kind of hatred we see on the streets of the West Bank is highly
> contagious. We must inoculate ourselves against catching it."...
>
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=757
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> U.S. Muslims fear backlash after attacks (USA)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 07:07:12 EDT
>
> AP reports that Muslims worried about a possible backlash against them after
> Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, while
> clergy from other denominations urged their congregations to pray for the
> dead.On Tuesday, he recalled the attacks against his fellow Muslims after
> that 1995 bombing by disgruntled army veteran Timothy McVeigh. The Council
> on American-Islamic Relations says more than 200 Arab- and Muslim-Americans
> were victimized."Please do not start speculating and pointing the finger at
> us," said Khankan, a New York leader of the council...
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=756
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> Arab-Americans Reporting Threats (CA)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 07:03:27 EDT
>
> AP reports that Arab- and Muslim-American groups in California reported
> threats and outbursts of hatred on Tuesday in response to the terrorist
> attacks in New York and Washington. "We have been receiving very intense
> threats on our answering machines at our offices," said Michel Shehadeh,
> West Coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
> Committee. "It's from people we don't know. They don't know who we are. They
> just targeted us because we are an American-Arab organization, and that is
> the scary part. "We feel very vulnerable right now."
>
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=755
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> Renewed prejudice looms as next fear (USA)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 07:00:56 EDT
>
> Detroit Free Press reports that it was a sad, somber and tense day for Arab
> Americans across metro Detroit.They reacted with shock and outrage over
> Tuesday's terror attacks, as other Americans did. But they also feared they
> would again become the victims of prejudice, of a racist sense they were not
> part of America.It was not yet clear who was responsible for the attacks.But
> some Arab Americans said they received threatening phone calls. Others said
> they feared their images would be tarnished. And some quietly despaired
> about what this means for their future in America...
>
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>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=754
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> "Purge our society," online bigots shout (WEB)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 06:54:07 EDT
>
> Salon reports that the Internet was stretched to capacity this morning as the
> world went online seeking updates on the national disaster. With many of the
> Net's news sites -- CNN, MSNBC and Fox News -- struggling to stay online in
> spite of overloaded servers, people flooded to their online communities,
> mailing lists and chat rooms to find information, solace and, in some cases,
> an audience. And while most online reactions have focused on expressions of
> emotional support and pleas for calm, there is also evidence that in many
> online communities, Muslim-Christian relations already are breaking down --
> as posters, assuming the attacks are the work of Islamic radicals, lash out
> in fury...
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=753
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>
> A Random Act of Pointlessness (Essay)
> Wednesday, September 12 @ 00:23:51 EDT
>
> <I>A member's essay by Denise Clay</i> : UNTHINKABLE! That was the headline
> of the special edition of the Bucks County Courier Times that was put out to
> give local residents the freshest information on the plane crashes at the
> World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a town near Pittsburgh in western
> Pennsylvania. I would have given it another headline.
> UN-BE-FUCKING-LEAVABLE! That was what I said when I got the news. I’m
> currently covering a teacher’s strike in one of Bucks County’s school
> districts and was at the union’s offices trying to find out information on
> negotiations. Instead, I got information on the plane crashes...
>
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=751
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> Iraq Gloats Over U.S. Attacks as 'Fruit of Crimes' (IRQ)
> Tuesday, September 11 @ 23:30:37 EDT
>
> Reuters reports that Iraqi state television on Tuesday hailed the attacks on
> the Pentagon and the World Trade Center as the ''operation of the century''
> which the United States deserved because of its ``crimes against humanity.''
> "The American cowboy is reaping the fruits of his crimes against humanity.
> It is a black day in the history of America, which is tasting the bitter
> defeat of its crimes and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent
> life,'' it said in a commentary monitored by the British Broadcasting
> Corporation. The collapse of U.S. centers of power is a collapse of the U.S.
> policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world Zionism at all
> international forums to continue to slaughter the Palestinian Arab people
> and implement U.S. plans to dominate the world under the cover of what is
> called the new order. These are the fruits of the new U.S. order,'' it
> said...
>
> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=750
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> Some celebrate terrorist attack on US (LEB)
> Tuesday, September 11 @ 22:25:11 EDT
>
> The Washingtonpost reports that thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank
> and Gaza Strip cheered the attack, distributing candy and firing weapons in
> a show of glee over what they described as a retaliatory blow against U.S.
> cooperation with Israel. Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon fired
> weapons into the air in celebration."The people here are gloating over the
> American grief," said Emad Salameh, a 29-year-old taxi driver in Gaza. "This
> is revenge from Allah," said Khaled Saada, a 25-year-old clothing store
> owner in Gaza City...
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> http://www.hatewatch.org/article.php?sid=749
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