I know what! Let’s build them a mosque at Ground Zero!
Yer Arabs.
Skip that noise.
Actually, an honest telling of the history of the “little Syria” neighborhood — complete with the fact that most of the Arab immigrants to the U.S. in that period were Christians who fled the intermittent anti-Christian pogroms launched by their Sunni Muslim neighbors even after the Ottoman Empire, in a quid pro quo for British and French support in the Crimean War, had abolished their second-class citizen status as dhimmis — might be a nice addition to the 9/11-Memorial Exhibit. (I think the idea that there were any sizable percentage of Muslims among the Syrians of “little Syria” is rubbish — the only sizable Muslim immigration to the U.S. before the 1980’s were the lot that settled in Michigan, both Bosniaks and Arabs.)