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To: fingolfen who wrote (143581)9/17/2001 5:07:21 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
This is about fighting ignorance and protecting basic human rights. How many mosques in the U.S. have been threatened or harassed since last week... most likely ALL of them. How many Americans have been abused and/or assaulted because of the racial or religious heritage in the last week? Too damn many. Hell, one idiot has already killed a Siehk because he LOOKED Islamic (the reality is the Siehks have a completely different religion). I want to fight that kind of ignorance.

We all want to fight this kind of ignorance(hopefully) but the disturbing fact remains that under our current system, even in this state of war, at an airport or rail station etc a young nervous Arab looking person by the name of Ahmed with an Afgan passport can not be considered any higher risk than a little old lady from Toledo. To do so would be racist. In this time of emergency I think this notion of Political Correctness is absurd. The unpleasant fact is that people of far higher risk can be to some extent identified by sight and to ignore that fact is exactly the kind of weakness terrorists seek to exploit. You don't like it, I don't like it but Ahmed is sure glad we're afraid to be politically incorrect.

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