Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Katz's argument rings hollow. Who is to say that a more organized, better funded and technologically more advanced Serb army wouldn't systematically destroy the Muslim population of Bosnia? Recently discovered documents have shown the evil intent of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as he ordered the vicious murder of peaceful Bosnian Muslims. Are the Serbs just Nazis whose military teeth are not quite has sharp...
Such a distinction seems obvious, so much so that it hardly bears mentioning. And yet, this simple logic is lost on a good deal of Americans, to say nothing of Americans, journalists. In movies, on television and in magazines, 'Arab' and `Muslim' are often buzz words for gun-wielding, grenade tossing, Qu'rantoting fanatics bent on destroying the imperialist, materialist Satan that is the United States. When was the last time you saw an Arab `good guy' on your television screen...
...that it can be practiced subtly. A respected investigative journalist claimed in a television interview last night that the Arab American community must do more to contain the violent element that resides in its midst. That comment captures the tenor of the majority of the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments that can be found everywhere...
...author of such a claim disarms the audience by suggesting that he can distinguish between a terrorist who kills in the name of Islam and the larger Arab or Muslim community. And yet, at the same time, he confounds his own logic, planting the seed in his audience's imagination for lumping all the people with the funny Middle Eastern names into one great, big and undivided whole. Doubtless, some of his very best friends are Arabs...
...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...