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...conflict stalks and breaks into our lives here. On Thursday I walked past one of my favorite cafes, Caffit, on my way to meet a source who favored another restaurant. An hour later, waiters at the cafe wrestled a suicide bomber to the ground before he could detonate his explosives. Then at midnight, two Israeli tanks and a bulldozer pulled up on the road between Bethlehem and Deheisha refugee camp outside the home of our Palestinian affairs correspondent, Jamil Hamad. The bulldozer carved a trench seven feet deep across the road, right to Jamil's front step. It also busted...
...happens, the suicide bombers who attacked us on Sept. 11 were not McVeigh Underground. They were al-Qaeda: young, Islamic, Arab and male. That is not a stereotype. That is a fact. And there is no hiding from it, as there is no hiding from the next al-Qaeda suicide bomber. He has to be found and stopped. And you don't find him by strip searching female flight attendants or 80-year-old Irish nuns...
This is not to say your plane could not be brought down by a suicide bomber of another sort. It could. It could also be brought down by a meteorite. Or by a Stinger missile fired by Vermont dairymen in armed rebellion. These are all possible. But because they are rather improbable, we do not alter our daily lives to defend against the possibility...
True, shoe bomber Richard Reid, while young and Islamic and male, was not Arab. No system will catch everyone. But our current system is designed to catch no one because we are spending 90% of our time scrutinizing people everyone knows are no threat. Jesse Jackson once famously lamented how he felt when he would "walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery--then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Jackson is no racist. He was not passing judgment on his own ethnicity. He was simply reacting to probabilities. He would rather...
That being said, Kabala’s proposal to invite a convicted clinic bomber would be disrespectful both to the students who come to the study group wanting to learn and discuss in a safe environment and the reproductive rights establishment. Debate about abortion can only occur in situations where participants feel safe. One would not, for instance, want to debate U.S. foreign policy with a convicted terrorist. Putting a domestic terrorist on the dais with an advocate for women’s reproductive rights, however far “left” he or she may be, is both...