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Arab Men Laughing at World Trade Center Photos in Montclair, NJ - Live Report
Self | 10/21/01 | Atticus

Posted on 10/21/2001 9:50:35 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 911; montclair; newjersey; nj; wtc
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To: WileyCoyote22
We did it to the Japanese, we will do it again if necessary. Catch my drift ?

I sure do. That's why I am holding my nose.

101 posted on 10/22/2001 2:00:32 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee
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To: JoeEveryman
Bad analogy.
105 posted on 10/22/2001 7:01:27 AM PDT by ethical
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To: agitator
I lived in Montclair for 15 years and the place was full of bleeding-heart, pablum-puking liberals

According to the author it was Arabs, not pablum-puking liberals.

106 posted on 10/22/2001 7:05:02 AM PDT by sakic
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To: danzaroni
Let people know that you are serious and they won't think you found September 11th funny. I find that when I'm posting it's easy to be misunderstood.
107 posted on 10/22/2001 7:05:31 AM PDT by ethical
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To: R_Kangel
Considering the current affairs, and all kidding aside, I hope you reported this event to the proper authorities!

Hello officer. I saw some folks who I think were Arab laughing while walking past WTC photos.

Officer: "We'll get right on it sir".

108 posted on 10/22/2001 7:07:43 AM PDT by sakic
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To: Hemlock
Considering the current atmosphere, why were the Arab men speaking in their native tongue

What an outrage!!

110 posted on 10/22/2001 7:15:15 AM PDT by sakic
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To: Clinton's a rapist
Do us all a favor then, and go back to whatever Islamic shithole you came from.

You're making a fool out of yourself with comments like that to people you don't have a clue about.

111 posted on 10/22/2001 7:17:14 AM PDT by sakic
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To: Clinton's a rapist
"...It's time for them to leave..."

Yes - send them back to all of the 'stans'....in as many boxes...

114 posted on 10/22/2001 7:37:20 AM PDT by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: rwb
Yeah, I guess you really are no ethnic-expert. Especially seeing as how Indians (from India) or Hispanic people don't look anything like arabs.

Why don't you give a fellow Freeper a little credit? I did not just roll off of the pumpkin wagon. I have been to the middle east and have had a number of Arab friends, colleagues and classmates over the years. I do not speak or understand Arabic, but I can distinguish it from most other languages. I ruled out other ethnicities because there have been reports of unjustified attacks on people who were ignorantly mistaken for Arabs. Upon seeing these men, I took them to be Arabs. Their conduct is proof that my initial hunch was correct.

My post said noting about deportation, nothing about internment camps, and nothing about visiting any violence on these men. Nor did I say or even suggest that they are terrorists. At a minimum, I believe they are sympathetic to the forces that destroyed the WTC and terrorized and murdered thousands of civilians. I also believe they have no sympathy for Americans and no appreciation of our way of life. In sum, they are part of a cancer that has spread throughout our country. If I am mistaken and they were just engaging in a little harmless Arab humor, that's just too bad.

I do not need sensitivity lessons. It is these three Arab men who need it. Go lecture to them. They made their comments in front of a group of "white" Americans including three children as well as a person (my father), who was on the 44th floor of the North Tower when the first plane struck and who witnessed unspeakable carnage incluing the sight of dead bodies, people leaping to their deaths, and the collapse of two buildings containing perhaps as many as five thousand souls.

115 posted on 10/22/2001 7:43:40 AM PDT by Atticus
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To: ThreadKiller
I'm not sure I get your point, TK. They looked more like Muhammed Atta and his crew.
116 posted on 10/22/2001 7:45:18 AM PDT by Atticus
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To: agitator
I lived in Montclair for 15 years and the place was full of bleeding-heart, pablum-puking liberals. Why am I not surprised?

Montclair? Isn't that where the "Cheaper By The Dozen" family was from?

117 posted on 10/22/2001 7:46:56 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Atticus
We're going to pussyfoot around so as to not hurt anyone's feelings...until they attack us with REAL biological or nuclear warfare. Then we are going to whine about why don't they like us? Just like we always do.
118 posted on 10/22/2001 7:47:05 AM PDT by Republic of Texas
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To: L.N. Smithee
Your attitude sir, is why they are going to nuke us FIRST. We have turned into a nation of wimps, and in the REAL world we currently have to deal with, wimps get killed or enslaved.
120 posted on 10/22/2001 7:50:40 AM PDT by Republic of Texas
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