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To: RetiredNow who wrote (35248)	3/17/2004 11:48:08 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793640

If you aren't good at recognizing an Arab, you'd better get smart quick. You are treading the wrong path here, MM. Not all Arabs are Muslims, not all Muslims are Arabs, and I could run a lineup of Foreign types and you wouldn't have a prayer of telling one from another. So "cool it," please.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (35248)	3/18/2004 12:06:15 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793640

So you can tell just by looking at a person's face, or his name, not only whether he's an Arab, but also whether he's Muslim Arab, and not Maronite, Chaldean, Assyrian, Philistine, Nestorian, Melkite, or Coptic (all Christian Arabs)? That's some talent. You should work for the FBI/CIA/NSA.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (35248)	3/18/2004 6:14:41 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

If you aren't good at recognizing an Arab, you'd better get smart quick. Your life may one day depend on it. Perhaps you are psychic. I live in a very ethnic area and eat most of my meals out, mostly in ethnic restaurants. One of my favorite kabob joints is in a little shopping center with various ME and Latino shops. Not only can I not distinguish an Arab from, say, an Iranian, I'm occasionally surprise when customers I've assumed to be Middle Eastern start speaking in Spanish. LOL. I can tell a Korean from a Japanese from a Vietnamese most of the time and I can distinguish an Ethiopian from other North Africans, but I sure can't sort out the Middle Easterners despite being exposed to them daily. And then there are the couple of Arab-Americans I've worked with and known to be Arab-Americans only from their surnames given that their families have been in this country at least as long as mine and the subject of ethnicity never came up. I assume that the kabob joints that are open on Christmas are run by Muslims and those that aren't are run by Christians. Sure can't tell the difference by looking at the proprietors. The notion of eyeballing folks to determine risk is lame.