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he who is without sin

Come beat me for the crime of the Trail of Tears, for I have settler blood.


Come scream epithets at me for the crimes of slavery, for I have Dutch blood.


Come, tell me I deserve to die for crime of imperialism, for I have French blood.


Come throw rocks at me for the crime of the holocaust, for I have German blood.


Come spit on me for putting innocent Japanese-Americans in interment camps, for I am American.


Come defile my church, as my people did to black churches in Georgia, for I am American.


Come throw a Molotov cocktail at me for killing innocents children at Kent State, for I am American.


Come throw garbage at me for killing 35,000 women, children and older people in Dresden, for I am American.


Come traumatize my children for acts of terrorism, for I am native born American, just like Timothy McVeigh.

But do not, please do not, hurt Middle-Easterners and Muslims who have committed no crime beyond the one you have:


being born with the same blood as killers.

"In Brisbane, a schoolbus packed with Islamic children was damaged by stones and bottles and there had been abusive calls to mosques, said Queensland Islamic Council chairman Sultan Deen."


"In Chicago, a Molotov cocktail was tossed Wednesday at an Arab-American community center. "


"In Huntington, N.Y., a 75-year-old man who was drunk tried to run over a Pakistani woman in the parking lot of a shopping mall, police said."


"Mosque windows were shattered in Texas, a New York man was arrested for an alleged anti-Arab threat, and a prison fight broke out over Muslim slurs in Washington state. "


"In Suffolk County, N.Y., authorities arrested a man who allegedly made an anti-Arab threat and pointed a handgun at a gas station employee. "


"In Asbury, N.J., Ramandeep Singh, a Sikh who wears a turban for religious reasons, said he had garbage and stones thrown at his car and stayed home from work. "


"At the Kuwait Embassy in Washington, Tamara Alfson spent Wednesday counseling frightened Kuwaiti students attending schools across the United States. One student was told, ``You should all die,'' Alfson said. "

Posted at September 13, 2001 09:45 AM


Comments

 

Nice piece.

Posted by Griff at September 15, 2001 01:49 AM


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The islamic center in Cincinnati had received 7 threatening phonecalls as of Friday Morning. It also received 271 calls of support.

Posted by Mick at September 15, 2001 10:36 AM


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Please if you must do something use the Seals and the SAS to form a snatch squad, don't knowingly risk world war against the whole of Islam. As a Christian I beg you, please.

Posted by Suntin at September 17, 2001 09:12 AM


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excellent poster against hate. print and hang.

Posted by christina at September 17, 2001 05:47 PM


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