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Typical....

Listen pal, come up with one reason OTHER THAN THEY ARE A-RABS, and you won't be called racist on your reasoning.

ITS THAT DAMNED SIMPLE.

Until then, deal with it.

Of course, everybody gets carried away sometimes. After the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a UAE columnist named Hamed Salamin was moved to write that the death of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon was "enough to arouse joy in every heart that beats Arabism and Islam." Then there's Ali Al-Hamadi, the founder of something in the UAE called "The Creative Thinking Center." According to a MEMRI translation, Al-Hamadi waxed rhapsodic in 2005 about mothers of Palestinian suicide bombers who, he maintained during an Iqra TV interview, actually listen in on their offspring's detonation via cellphone ("then she utters cries of joy..."). Maybe it's nativist or tsunamist to mention this, but I found a Creative Thinking Center client list online that includes — can you guess? — our pals at the Dubai port.

....one of the reasons...this company is about more than just shipping.

Oh for heaven's sake. You mean concerns about handing over major US cities' port operations to a country which spawned 2 of the 9/11 terrorists and which denies the existence of Israel and backed the Taliban are racist?

Face it: you guys are playing the liberal race card.

It should be the same as Godwin's law (where those who invoke Nazis lose the argument), those who invoke hysterical cries of "racist" just plain automatically lose. Period.