[elbucko]

"he said that the Arabs were "all crazy, all liars and all queers." And that someday "we would regret doing business with them"."

Odd you said that. My late father had not a lick of prejudice in his bones. I grew up not having any fear of any color or ethnic group. I am thankful for this, because I also don't favor any group, even my own, Shanty Irish. However my Dad hated Arabs. A-rabs he called them even when corrected. I never knew why, he didn't say as he died when I was 17. However I am now beginning to get his drift.

[SauronOfMordor]

My mother spent her childhood in what was then the Italian colony of Tunisia, in North Africa. She dealt with lots of Arabs, and despises them as being animals.

She would tell me why they wear robes instead of pants: she would see one walking across the street, stop, squat in the street, and continue on leaving a pile of feces where he had been