Arab Men Laughing at World Trade Center Photos in Montclair, NJ - Live Report

Self | 10/21/01 | Atticus

[Atticus]

This evening I had dinner at an Indian (Hindu) restaurant in Montclair, New Jersey. During the meal, several people at our table were discussing pictures of the World Trade Center (pre-9/11) that were on display at a framing gallery next door. When we left the restaurant, I decided to check the pictures out for myself. It was a wonderful tribute: an American flag surrounded by four or five balck and white posters and photographs of the twin towers taken from different angles, some during the day, some at night.

Then something surreal happened. As we started to walk toward our car, three Arab men in their early 20s passed us. I am no expert in ethnic identity, but I am absoltely sure the men were Arab and definitely not Indian or hispanic. They were speaking to each other in their native tongue. As they walked past the storefront with the pictures of the WTC, one of the men looked at the pictures and then said something to his friends to draw their attention to the pictures. Then the three of them bursted out laughing and walked away. My blood boiled and I shouted at them. I think my words were, "Hey, you think that's funny, you f*#%ing Arabs?" They just waled along, oblivious to me. It was a sad and chilling experience.

[Atticus]

The enemy is right here under our noses. What are we going to do about it?

[agitator]

I lived in Montclair for 15 years and the place was full of bleeding-heart, pablum-puking liberals. Why am I not surprised?

[goodieD]

As long as America is more afraid of "offending" people than doing what is smart, nothing will ever get done.

[R_Kangel]

Considering the current affairs, and all kidding aside, I hope you reported this event to the proper authorities!

[Clinton's a rapist]

At minimum, require arab aliens to register at their local police stations. The cops need to be stopping these people at random. If they haven't registered, take 'em in. Basically, the important thing is that we need to be able to take them in without specific cause. Because, guess what, there's a whole bunch of these people scattered throughout the country, most likely ready to unleash a biological holocaust against the United States, and right now there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

[JulieRNR21]

BUMP what you said....we have these terrorist living in our midst......and perhaps more entering each day! Can't something be done?

[sockmonkey]

hmm, give the wife the car keys, she backs over them, and drives off, while you stand by as a witness yelling that you just saw Lizzy Grubman, and she backed over them, then drove off.

[AeWingnut]

I believe this is as good a reason as any for conceal carry

[WRhine]

The enemy is right here under our noses. What are we going to do about it?

They won't be laughing when we throw them out of our country by their ears so they can be reacquainted with their old hellholes. Oh wait, they will be laughing because we won't toss em out. Where is the justice?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[danzaroni]

"Hey, you think that's funny, you f*#%ing Arabs?" They just waled along, oblivious to me. It was a sad and chilling experience.

A sad experience of what? Your racism? You admit that you didn't understand them. You saw them laugh, identified them as arabic, and assumed the worse. There is a large contigent of Christian arabs (I'm one), and a larger contigient of Muslims who hate bin Laden as much as we all do. They could have said something offensive. And just as likely, they could have made a crack that had you understood it, you would have laughed along with them.

[FITZ]

Right now there's not much we can do about it, the enemy is here and they will do more killings, our leaders don't seem to want to stop them. They already know they are here in the US, that they plan to kill us on US soil in our own cities and town, in our homes and in our workplaces. It would be nice to believe that bombing Afghans will solve the problem but it does nothing about the Jihad being run right here in America. It's going to take a lot more Americans being killed, or a few "important" ones before people wise up and start deportations.

[Amore]

Congratulations. I think you've made the worst analogy I've yet seen posted on this site.

[Joe 6-pack]

And yet we have folks in our midst that feel sorry for the treatment of terrorists among us.

[skr]

Learn Arabic so we can be certain of the conversation's subject.

[Mr. Mulliner]

There's a lot of paranoia out there and it's easy to come to the wrong conclusion over incidents like this. But ignoring the feelings we have about them doesn't seem to be the answer.

I really liked Peggy Noonan's recent column in which she discussed some recent incidents that have triggered very understandable feelings of fear. Peggy had the guts to talk about something a lot of people are feeling, but, at least on a public forum, not willing to discuss.

Peggy Noonan: Profiles Encouraged

[Satadru]

I highly recommend moving to Cedar Grove to escape the liberals in Montclair.