[Kolokotronis]

" "Are people going to start suspecting the average Arab American citizen on the street?""

I know a number of Americans of Arab descent and immigrant Arabs. Everyone of them is a devout Orthodox, Melkite, Maronite or Coptic Christian. They all wear their crosses openly in their businesses, just so there's no mistake. A number of them, all of them actually now that I think of it, have had icons up in their businesses since long before 9/11. One of the guys told me that people used to come in, see the icons and have something of a quizzical, maybe even hostile look on their faces when they saw them. Since 9/11 the icons always elicit a broad smile. It is important to remember that the majority of Arabs in America are Christians and are here precisely for the same reasons we are fighting the Islamofascists.

[paul51]

What's to explain? Can't they understand English?

[genefromjersey]

Dear Achmed:

(insert suitable verb)_______________ you if you can't take a joke !

[F105-D ThunderChief]

"The leader of Bilal Mosque group says comments by the agent in charge in Oregon have set back fence-mending"

Who Was That Masked "DemocRat" Fence Mending w/ Terrorist?

[montag813]

Jordan, through his spokeswoman, has refused to explain his remarks. Beth Anne Steele, the FBI spokeswoman in Oregon, said Monday that Jordan planned to respond to Ahmed's letter privately.

WTF? Who the hell is Ahmed that the FBI is scrambling to "mend fences"???

[Alouette]

making our lives, those of our wives who wear the head scarf, the lives of our children, especially our daughters who wear the head scarf in school, extremely difficult

Hey, Mr. Effen Deed Muslim, how about your brethren in New Jersey who were making the lives, those of the Coptics, especially the lives of the Coptic teenager who has the cross on her arm, extremely difficult, which is to say, ended.

[sarah_f]

Death to terrorists.