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...President Bush and local leaders around the country have appealed to Americans to refrain from directing their understandable outrage at their fellow countrymen and women who happen to be of Arab origin or of the Muslim faith. The leaders of America's Arab and Muslim communities have strongly and repeatedly condemned terrorism, and most Muslim clerics denounce such actions as an unforgivable distortion of Islam. The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee on Wednesday stated: "Arab Americans, in addition to feeling the intense depths of pain and anger at this attack we share with all our fellow citizens, are feeling deep...
...time when there’s a lot of bias crimes against Muslims, against Pakistani-Americans,” said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia journalism professor and co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association. The organization recently issued a call for responsible journalism regarding the coverage of Arab-American and South Asian American communities...
...Several Arab-American groups have charged in recent years that the ADL is too quick to label Islamic charities as terrorist-linked...
...Zogby, president of the Arab-American Institute, told Lieberman in 1992 that aides were refusing to let Arab Americans work in the Clinton presidential campaign. Lieberman phoned George Stephanopoulos. "This is an Orthodox Jewish Senator calling a Greek-American communications director and saying I want these Arab Americans in this campaign to elect a Southern Baptist President, and I want it done now!" Zogby says Lieberman declared. After that they were...
...added that the U.S. government sometimes goes too far. He cited the example of FBI agents who conducted invasive personal probes of Arab-American citizens in Michigan during the Persian Gulf...