What is your point? No one in this category is an Islamic Arab-American.
I don't care if they are Islamic or not, as long as their loyalty is to America, just as I don't care if someone is Jewish or not, as long as his loyalty is to America. If someone has cast his lot with America, I'll be happy to defend him, no matter what his enthnicity/religion may be. And I don't like it (it sounds too much like bigotry and racism) to hear people say, "Hey, once Israel kicks out all the Palestinians, whadda say we kick out out the Arabs from America too." If Israel wants to kick out the Palestinians that's her business. But here in America we don't kick out other Americans just because a few hotheads don't agree with their religion/ethnicity.
I'm with you on this one. You are an American if you love America, if you are prepared to stand by us when the chips are down, whatever your ethnicity. Most immigrants are in that category, and it was moving to hear the honest expressions of love and support that came, spontaneously, out of most of the immigrant communities. And most of them answer any question of loyalty with their bodies and their lives; just look at the makeup of our armed forces.
It could be bad or shallow press coverage, but I got a distinctly queasy feeling from Arab reactions to all of this. The bullets are flying. We are looking around to see who is with us. Are Arab Americans prepared to stand by us when the shooting starts? Are they lining up at the recruiting stations? Anyone know the answer to this?
I mean this as a sincere question. Perhaps an Arab-American in reading this website could respond.
All the evidence that exists leads to the conclusion that among Arab-Americans the category you define is a null category (i.e. there are no Islamic Arab Americans whose loyalty is to America.)
No apparently we just question the loyalty of other Americans if we disagree with them about Mideast policy.
If they happen to be Jews.
Hypocrite.