[cake_crumb]

" 'Rather than becoming beacons for America's ideals by showing a willingness to submit to questioning by federal law enforcement instead of grandstanding about racial profiling, we are hiding behind the guarantees afforded to us by the very Constitution the terrorists sought to dismantle on Sept. 11,' Pakistani-American businessman Mansour Ijaz wrote recently in the Washington Post. 'Our anger demonstrates an inability to put citizenship before religious and ethnic allegiances and U.S. national-security interests before dubious claims of civil-rights violations.' "

I like this man. Unfortunately, he's not a Muslim cleric, and the clerics are the only ones the media - among others - listen to. In a few weeks we'll probably hear that Ijaz's body has been found somewhere, after being murdered by unknown assailant(s), possibly in an abortive robbery attempt.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Is this the guy who is on Hannity and Coombs fairly regularly. He is the only Moslem I have seen on the tube who is not a raving anti-American lunatic if it is the same guy.

[LS]

BTW, Pakistanis are NOT Arabs. Most are Muslims. But it would be nice to see a few pro-U.S. ARABS on TV once in a while.