Note to tormented Arabs: After 9/11 I have a greater fear of this. Deal with it.
Posted on 06/12/2006 8:52:00 AM PDT by presidio9
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Arab-Americans have a greater fear of racial profiling and immigration enforcement than of falling victim to hate crimes, according to a national study financed by the Justice Department.
The study also concluded that local police officers and federal agents were straining under the pressure to fight terrorism, and that new federal policies in this effort were poorly defined and inconsistently applied.
The two-year study, released today by the Vera Institute of Justice, explored the changed relationship between Arab-Americans and law enforcement in the years since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Vera Institute is a nonprofit policy research center based in New York.
About 100 Arab-Americans and 111 law enforcement personnel, both F.B.I. agents and police officers, participated in the study, which was conducted from 2003 to 2005. Some respondents were interviewed privately and others took part in focus groups in cities around the nation, which were not identified in order to protect the identities of the respondents.
Both Arab-American community leaders and law enforcement officials interviewed in the study said that cooperation between both groups had suffered from a lack of trust.
"It underscores the importance of community policing, of engaging the Arab and Muslim community in a constructive way and bringing them in to be partners," said Farhana Khera, the executive director of Muslim Advocates, a national nonprofit organization of lawyers.
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Note to tormented Arabs: After 9/11 I have a greater fear of this. Deal with it.
Your tax dollars at work.
But all terrorist are muslim! ...or partners with muslims like Tim McVeight & Terry Nichols were.
Tell them they can go home to that middle-eastern pit any time if they don't like it.
These clowns better like the police, because if there is another 9-11, the police are going to be the only ones interested in their safety.
They are here, they hate us, and they hate ALL jews.
Well, if they hadn't been celebrating that it happened, they wouldn't have as much to worry about.
I have a suggestion for all the Arabs who fear "profiling" and "backlash."
The U.S. government should build "communities of refuge" at remote locations in Utah and North Dakota, complete with mosques, halal groceries, neat little cinder block houses, sidewalks, basketball courts, medical clinics and all comforts of suburban life, surrounded by 12-ft concrete barriers topped with razor wire.
All Arabs and Muslims who are "afraid" can take shelter in these "communities of refuge" where they will be guarded 24/7 and guaranteed that no non-Muslims will come near them.
Works for me.
For the Arab-Americans that are Islamic radicals...it works for me.
For the Christian or non-Muslim Arab-Americans...step into the light and
make it clear who you are and what side you are on. And you'll have
nothing to fear.
Except from the Jihadis using you for cover.
American Americans fear your picture more than some perceived slight to arab Americans.
for a group of people whose pride and machismo overshadow their intellect and humanity, they sure do act like little sissies when it comes to this issue.
A Muslim family moved in across the street a couple of weeks ago, and even if there were no 9/11 and I hadn't studied Islam I would find them unfriendly at best, and suspicious/secretive behaving would be reasonable descriptions.
When we went over to introduce ourselves to them they acted as if we were trespassing (at a house where my in-laws used to live and was a second home to my family), and all they wanted us to do was leave.
When I held out my hand to shake the woman's hand she told me "I don't shake hands with men, but my husband does". The husband nodded to me, but did not extend his hand, looking like he thought he might catch something from me.
Now, if they are in the front of the house and they see us coming down the street they go inside and close the door.
They advertise they're Muslim by the costumes she wears yet obviously feel no need to try and counter the reasonable suspicion that most Muslims are at least tacitly in support of Islamofascism, and in fact act like they may have something to hide and/or are suspicious of the neighbors.
Not the sort of neighborhood I was looking for when I was looking for a nice neighborhood to raise my own family in.
Welcome to the New America, where the melting pot and unity are a thing of the past. Now it's just pockets of self-interest groups competing with each other, and the Democratic Party encouraging it as long as they vote (D), but without the vision to recognize that they (Dem "leaders") will soon be thrown overboard when some of the special interest groups gain enough numbers to put up their own candidates.
United we stand, divided we fall.
In response to the orig. story.....
Boo f()ckin Hoo!
I have an arab family living across from me. Once their 5 y/o son told us that when he turns 15 he'll die! Really...he said that.
All Arabs and Muslims who are "afraid" can take shelter in these "communities of refuge" where they will be guarded 24/7 and guaranteed that no non-Muslims will come near them.
In that case they may as well just go back to their Islamic countries of origin.
They came here to exploit the freedoms we enjoy, and in some cases to exploit our democratic process and courts to install the same repressive system from which they came.
T.F.B
For you.
My thoughts EXACTLY.
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