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...hyphen-Americans. N.P.: Americans, period. Nothing like a common enemy to unite and focus all that diversity. O.P. says it's not about Islam. N.P. says if it's not about Islam, why isn't every Muslim leader rising to condemn bin Laden? Under the O.P., racial profiling was abhorred, officially at least. Now racial profiling of male air travelers from the Middle East seems an inevitable piece of common sense; it is no longer a matter of pulling people over merely for Driving While Black. After Sept. 11, I was a guest on an African-American radio show...
...find it difficult to accept the denunciations of the U.S. military action in Afghanistan. It is very easy to condemn the U.S. for killing and maiming civilians during the bombing, but what about the 5,000 who were killed on Sept. 11? Surely the Muslim world realizes that the U.S. will not take the attacks lying down. CHRIS COWLING Humansdorp, South Africa...
...Palestinian leadership must be willing to look deep into its society’s culture and values and be ready to condemn those aspects that are antithetical to a potential peace with Israel. Saying that the Jews are the Palestinians’ cousins while continuing to teach Palestinian children that those cousins are treacherous and disloyal will only continue to deter a true peace between the two peoples. Palestinian youths must be taught that anti-Semitism is immoral, and Palestinian leaders have a responsibility to address their society’s flaws rather than simply blaming others...
...should recognize that the long tenure of Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 should end. Reeves has been a prominent voice on the council for years, in addition to serving as mayor. The time has come for new voices to take his place. His recent attempt to condemn Harvard for accepting scholarship funds from the bin Laden family (which years ago disowned Osama bin Laden and condemned his terrorist activities) was manifestly inappropriate and shared in the spirit that forced several local relatives of bin Laden to leave the country because of their surname. Although Reeves...
What is most disturbing of all is the fact that within the Middle East—where untold multitudes of people espouse beliefs that America’s now-familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics...