I have many friends that are both natives of the US and immigrants to the US
from middle eastern nations and they feel the pain of this as bad as any
person of Ameerican Indian, European or African decent born in the US. A
cabbie in Louisville that works near a building I had a service call at
today had just come back from his second donation of blood for the blood
bank - 2 hours after his first. He lied to the second donation center to
have them allow his second doonation in one day. He's an Iranian by birth
and naturalized just last year, sponsored by a person who was born in
Louisville but whose parents are WWII immigrants from Jerusalem. They all
are appauled and feel the same that the perps should be totally taken out
but that the rest should not suffer for the acts of an isolated group.
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-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Sellam Ismail
-> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:17 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: RE: OT: World Trade crash...
->
->
-> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
->
-> > Fred I agree totally with this - people need to hold back on the
-> > anti-group attitude until it's determined who actually did it.
-> > Although it looks like a middle eastern thing with reason for
-> > justification there's still the possibility that some post-communist
-> > group or other group that either follows the same ideals as those we
-> > feel it is have done this, including a possibility of some inside
-> > group. Also once it's determined we have to keep from including people
-> > born in the US of the same background from being persecuted, like the
-> > German and Japanese immigrants and natives of that group were done 60
-> > yrs ago.
->
-> Not only that, but the assumption that everyone in the Middle
-> East is hell
-> bent on the distruction of the United States is misguided.
->
-> I hope people can use this tragedy of epic proportions to learn
-> compassion, understanding, and tolerance.
->
-> Like I said, this is a reckoning.
->
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Received on Tue Sep 11 2001 - 19:30:07 BST