Posted on 09/13/2001 8:26:11 AM PDT by oxi-nato
A perhaps predictable backlash hit several communities as federal officials said there was mounting evidence that radical Muslims planned and carried out the terror attacks in New York and Washington. Police turned back 300 marchers -- some waving American flags and shouting "USA! USA!" -- as they tried to march on a mosque in this southwest Chicago suburb late Wednesday.
Three demonstrators were arrested, said Bridgeview Police Chief Charles Chigas. There were no injuries and demonstrators were kept blocks from the closed Muslim worship place. "I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have," said 19-year-old Colin Zaremba who marched with the group from Oak Lawn. Federal authorities said they had identified more than a dozen hijackers of Middle Eastern descent in Tuesday's attacks and gathered evidence linking them to Saudi-born terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and other terrorist networks. In all, perhaps 50 people were involved in the plot, government officials said.
In Chicago, a Molotov cocktail was tossed Wednesday at an Arab-American community center. No one was injured, and there was little damage. "The terrorists who committed these horrible acts would like nothing better than to see us tear at the fiber of our democracy and to trample on the rights of other Americans," Gov. George Ryan said.
In Huntington, N.Y., a 75-year-old man who was drunk tried to run over a Pakistani woman in the parking lot of a shopping mall, police said. The man, Adam Lang, then followed the woman into a store and threatened to kill her for "destroying my country."
In Gary, Ind., a man in a ski mask fired a high-powered assault rifle at the gas station where Hassan Awdah, a U.S. citizen born in Yemen, was working, the Gary Post Tribune reported. Gary Police are investigating it as a hate crime. "I lived in the Middle East for most of my life and have never seen anything like this," Awdah said.
In Australia, a school bus carrying Muslim children was stoned and vandals tried to set fire to a Lebanese church in apparent acts of retaliation for the terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said. Queensland state Islamic Council Chairman Sultan Deen said stones and bottles damaged the bus Wednesday in Brisbane. Nobody was injured.
Tamara Alfson, an American working at the Kuwait Embassy in Washington, D.C., spent Wednesday counseling frightened Kuwaiti students attending schools across the United States. "Some of them have already been harassed. People have been quite awful to them," said Alfson, an academic adviser to roughly 150 students.
In a show of patriotism, 45 people from Tampa, Fla.'s Islamic community registered with blood services to donate Wednesday and 30 members of the Muslim Students Association at the University of South Florida signed up. "You feel the pain twice: Once because of what has happened and once because of the looks you get," said Sami Al-Arian, an engineering teacher at the University of South Florida.
Abu Nahidian, director of the Manassas Mosque in Virginia, said his congregation has been the target of insults and hate messages left on the office answering machine. "We have some recordings in our tapes that say, 'We hate you so-and-so Muslims and we hope you die,"' Nahidian said.
A mosque in Lynnwood, Wash., was vandalized and no one showed up for afternoon prayers at the Islamic Center of Spokane. "We must not hurt or terrorize Americans of Arab descent or Islamic faith," Gov. Gary Locke said Wednesday during a memorial service at the Puyallup Fair. Issam Koussan told the Detroit News he bought large U.S. flags to fly in front of his home and outside his supermarket after men in a car pulled into his parking lot and yelled threats and racial slurs at his customers. "I just feel I needed to show my loyalty to this country," he said.
Of course they didn't - because we rounded them up and stored them away where we could keep our eyes on them!
Surely you're not trying to suggest that there were no Japanese spies in this country prior to World War Two?
My friends are dead - and if I catch one of these fucking raghead bastards cheering their deaths he'll rue the day his presence ever infested my country.
You stinking piece of crap! Americans are always the first to help everyone else around the world. We give our time, our money, our blood for others, only to be spit upon, once those people are back on their feet.
The world is full of ungrateful cowards and pukes, and yet we keep giving, because we are a generous and good people.
You are merely the latest in a long line of backstabbing losers who never did anything for anybody. How does it feel to know that you chose to live a life devoid of meaning or decency?
He is pathetic, cowardly slime and is lucky most FReepers don't know who he really is or under which rock his limpwristed carcass resides.
I can't help appreciating very much the able job Oxi-Nato does at posting some excellent articles, many of which are of intense interest to me.
What often ruins them for me is the "kicker" of venom he usually inserts in the comments and by which I feel almost wrong for so often reading the threads of someone who's let hate take the driver's seat where his discerning is concerned.
I just found it strange that this post -- of all posts -- left him silent instead of chiming in.
At least, that's what my child rearing book says! :-)
Hate is a two way street.
These pukes spewing their anti-American propganda to try to save there towelhead butts from pyaback make me sick.
I pretty much agree with this post except for one phrase:
"...I guess."
Hating people of a certain religion is just plain wrong no matter what the circumstances. Understandable?...Maybe. Wrong?...Always.
But for those people that comitted this terrorist attack, for those that supported them, and for those people that celebrated this attack, I have no understanding, sympathy or tolerance. I am disgusted by them, and by those Muslims that are ready to accept such crimes and applaud them. I just hope that those responsible for all of this will actually be found and punished. They deserve nothing less.
The islamic nations must go the way of Troy, Carthage, and Azteca.
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