Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Church Committee did not go that far, but the bureau conspicuously pulled in its horns. It learned another lesson a few years later when it captured on video members of Congress taking bribes from undercover agents posing as Arab businessmen. The public was outraged at the Congressmen, and juries ultimately convicted seven of them, but Congress was upset with the FBI and launched an inquiry into the bureau's Abscam investigation. And then the FBI got into trouble for investigating CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), a group it believed was supporting leftist rebels...
...while last week, something in the national mood appeared to be turning darkly against Arab Americans--at least for as long as it was supposed that the Oklahoma blast might be the work of Islamic terrorists. In a replay of the harassment they suffered during the Gulf War, mosques reported receiving telephone threats. On Larry King Live, former Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy pointed to an Islamic conference, full of fire-breathing rhetoric that was held in Oklahoma City in 1992. That was one reason, he said, that he knew terrorism "could happen here...
When it emerged that the first serious suspects in the bombing were not Arabs or Muslims, the threat of a backlash subsided. What did not change was the sudden momentum behind passage of an antiterrorism bill bitterly opposed by many Arab-American groups, as well as civil libertarians. On Capitol Hill, where the members of Congress are eager to show that they are doing something to prevent future outrages, the omnibus counterterrorism act of 1995 is now getting serious attention. Proposed by the Clinton Administration in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, it would, among its many provisions...
...reference to both speakers' condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a member of that group asked the speakers: "How can you call Minister Farrakhan an anti-Semite when he's pro Arab? Farrakhan doesn't hate people, he hates wrong...
...even if Muslim extremists are found to be responsible, we must redouble our efforts to resist the sloppy and hateful logic that associates all Muslims and Arabs with acts of terror. During the first few hours after the bombing in Oklahoma City, the Arab American Council in New York received no fewer than 16 bomb threats. This only underscores the fact that Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim prejudice is, regrettably, alive and well in our society. We must not tolerate this ugly and insidious brand of racism...