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...response elsewhere was not so gentle. A gunman murdered the Sikh owner of a Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz. "I am an American," the suspect, Frank Roque, declared upon arrest. A woman went through the phone book and made hateful calls to anyone named Abdul. A Muslim cabdriver in Manhattan kept his license out of view and didn't tell customers his first name--Mohammed--because of the fear he sensed. People asked where he is from when they got into the cab: If they are not familiar with Bangladesh, "I tell them it's in South America. And then...
...cross of Christianity at its core and, once upon a time, the Saracen as its target. Today, in the midst of so much confusion, it remains to be seen to what degree the recent murders (or robberies gone bad) of a Pakistani-born Muslim in Texas, an Indian Sikh in Arizona, and an Egyptian Christian in California are part of a crusade that is already spilling out of the hands of its would-be commander- in-chief. The terror of those who hate us can spin into the terror of those who love us, and in both cases we, understood...
Since that Tuesday, news of hate crimes poured in from across all 50 states. While a Sikh was killed in Arizona, shot to death presumably for resembling a Muslim, many other Muslim and Arab Americans were physically and verbally harassed. Innumerable others decided to simply stay home rather than risk a world that had suddenly and immediately turned hostile...
...must be careful not to use too broad a brush to accuse persons simply on the basis of mere suspicions. It is natural at a time of disaster to look for culprits, but all persons wearing turbans are not to blame. The New York Times reported that a poor Sikh was arrested on an Amtrak train on Friday. He was even discovered to be hiding a daggeractually a symbolic weaponin his shirt. A woman wearing a sari was nearly run down by a man outraged that he had been stopped by the cops. These are isolated instances of a sense...
...community and offer our full support to all those feeling threatened. At no point should we ever try to escape retaliation by distancing ourselves from fellow South Asians. Although there are many religions in South Asia, we are one community and will proudly stand beside our Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jewish and Parsi brothers and sisters in this time of concern...