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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52116)	9/17/2001 4:59:02 PM
From: mitch-c	Read Replies (1) of 70976

The community is constantly listening to the Arabic news channels and are praying that no one from their particular country is associated with the terrorists. Somehow I don't think the public distinguishes between the many existing factions. Such a simplistic view would be roughly analogous to blaming all Christians for abortion-clinic violence, because "everyone knows" that religious folks oppose abortions. I think we are - and should be - far more informed than that. The basic split between Catholics and Protestants is similar to the division between Sunnis and Shiites. We shouldn't be anywhere near the business of taking out, say, Chicago's Archbishop because a televangelist character preached hate and destruction. We are not hunting any generalized group other than terrorists and their accessories. This is a fundamental test of us - the national character - to preserve our honor during a time of stress. Do we allow freedom of worship, as the First Amendment guarantees? Or, do we succumb to a faulty emotional syllogism and blame innocents in our grief? To our credit, I think we're doing the first - and only targeting people based on their bellicose actions, not their beliefs. Last night, I shared pizza with a Jewish family. We picked it up from a small restaurant whose owner came from Iran, deep in the heart of Texas. That's MY America. I can also paraphrase a prior president, that, today, "Ich bin ein New Yorker." - Mitch

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