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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (5463)	10/16/2001 6:35:52 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re the Dunkin Donuts &c. What's probably going on is that the quiet majority of people who have some admiration for the U.S. are voting with their pocket books under the assumption that Dunkin Donuts needs the business. The same thing is happening here as well. We all read the paper and we know that all kinds of foreigners (but particularly Arabs and Sikhs) have been the focus of the anger of some Americans. The reaction of a lot of people here is to go a little out of their way to show compassion, or at least tolerance. This is something that has been organized at the highest levels of the country. Bush dragged the press corps into a Mosque a few weeks back. But it's more than that. Every major newspaper has carried articles saying that mainstream Islam is peace loving, and that the terrorists are not at all representative of the countries they came from. This is true even of the outrageous tabloids like the National Enquirer and Globe. The pictures from the WTC are incredibly inflammatory, it's surprising to me how well the media has kept the public relatively calm. -- Carl P.S. By the way, WWN's latest cover has "bat boy", (a boy supposedly born with bat like powers, who is essentially the paper's mascot) joining up with the U.S. Marines to help search for bin Laden in the caves of Afghanistan: weeklyworldnews.com More on Batboy: weeklyworldnews.com nationalenquirer.com

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