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...suicide pilots, the Spanish indictment details five cryptic calls to Abu Dahdah?s phone in August and September of this year. The caller, known as Shakur, could be one participant in the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings who lived to tell the tale. While investigators have not revealed the geographical origin of the calls, they do have a physical description of Shakur as "short, fat, with little hair and about 34 years...
...certainly presents a better face to the world than the Department’s previous actions that seemed to accuse all Arab-Americans of fraternizing with the enemy. Most importantly, it seems likely to generate new information that will help keep all Americans safe, regardless of their country of origin...
...sending the message that a person’s nation of origin can be enough cause for interrogation, the Justice Department paints U.S. policy in a light that is antithetical to the values of inclusion that the American people hold dear. Additionally, they set a double standard for Arab-Americans. There has never been a mass mailing to the Italian immigrants to discuss the Mafia and organized crime; nor have personal invitations been sent to Colombian immigrants inviting them to discuss cocaine trafficking. Such blatant profiling would rightly ignite public furor, and it is wrong of the Justice Department...
Racial profiling usually occurs when the police target someone for investigation on the basis of that person’s race, national origin or ethnicity, and not necessarily whether that person did anything wrong. In recent years, the most prevalent example of profiling has involved the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic violations or to search for illegal drugs. Today, as a result of the Justice Department’s new orders, being an Arab or Muslim makes you suspect in America. It may make you more likely to be stopped, more likely...
Question of the moment for us all: Is it okay to refuse a federal request during a time of war? Is it acceptable to subject fellow citizens to a necessarily accusatory line of questioning based solely on their country of origin...