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To: The Documentary Lady
I live in an Arabic community in Detroit. There is a problem of trust, but no overwhelming problem of cruelty.

I hope NOT!!! That would be profoundly wrong. I can assure you, however, that in Minneapolis I've seen EVERY local news station highlight the great dangers and hatred that law abiding, peaceful Islamic-Americans face right now. I'm OK with features like that as an educational resource - people need to understand true Islam. The stories I've seen, however, turn into explorations of "institutional racism", "police profiling" and there are inevitable comments by recently converted Black Muslims who have regularly plied their trade in endeavors of racial divisiveness. We lack the Arabic Islamic community that has a home in Detroit, and the Twin Cities reporters probably don't know any Somalis or Ethiopians, - so we get a Matthew Ramadan who was fairly recently known by his birth name i.e. Steven Twincity.

79 posted on 09/20/2001 6:25:38 AM PDT by ArneFufkin
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