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...Meanwhile, as academics and politicians debate the merits and morality of the latest homeland security measures, Arab-American residents of eastern Michigan, Florida and the Dallas area are already facing the grim realities of wartime. Across the country, some 5,000 young men who are residents of and recent immigrants from Middle Eastern countries will receive either a letter or a personal visit from officials "asking" for any information on the al-Qaeda network or Osama bin Laden. In eastern Michigan, where as many as 560 men will be questioned, a string of legal challenges from local Arab community leaders...
...Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs have not matured in the same way at all. An often cited example is Aladdin, in which Scott Weinger ’98 was the voice of Aladdin, the hero, while the arch-villain, Jafar, speaks with a (bad) Arab accent. It does not appear, though, that this bias is malicious—merely cultural. The Siege in 1998 was an eerie prediction of Arab-American internment after terrorist attacks in New York, and the film’s intent seemed to be to show that this was not a reasonable response to a terrorist attack...
...chance, a group of high school students who have won the opportunity to participate in Presidential Classroom are in the building. They are secured in the office’s cafeteria along with Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman. In a subplot, Chief of Staff Leo McGarry interrogates an Arab-American White House staff member who is suspected of being involved with terrorist activities...
...pledged to give away the "profits" - and we'll assume that's not an accounting weasel word but that most of the commercial money will actually find its way to the victims. The second is the other running storyline, in which the chief of staff (John Spencer) interrogates an Arab-American staffer wrongly accused of being a terrorist mole (Ajay Naidu, whom you might remember from "Office Space"), which occasionally achieves a nuance and unresolved ambiguity that Mr. Sorkin's Civics 101 doesn...
...Numerous Arab-American groups (including the Islamic Society at Harvard) have issued public statements condemning the terrorist attacks and expressing their moral outrage about the bombings. Despite all of this, Arab-Americans and those who may appear to be Arab-Americans are still being targeted in retributive acts of hate...