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To: Atticus
I am no expert in ethnic identity, but I am absoltely sure the men were Arab and definitely not Indian or hispanic.

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.

34 posted on 10/21/2001 10:45:57 PM PDT by rwb
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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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