dragging out the scapegoats

[Nabeela Sheikh]

it's already occurred to me since tuesday that the media, when looking for
people to interview, have been running after kids for quotable quotes.
imagine interviewing any 14 yr old kid, let alone one that's suddenly been
made a target and a perpetrator at the same time.

but yes, 'rolling up his sleeves' makes him sound extra scary. so should he
have to wear an ID badge then? that's what i'm interested in knowing, what
people think about this:
<<in a poll published today in USA Today,:
<<%49 of respondents felt that Arabs in the US, including citizens, should
<<be made to carry a special ID card and;
<<%58 of respondents felt that Arabs in the US, including citizens, should
<<be made to undergo special and more intensive security checks in American
<<airports

Nabeela


-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: nabeela at sprint.ca <nabeela at sprint.ca>; pynchon-l at waste.org
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: September 19, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: dragging out the scapegoats


>http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,554464,00.html
>
>No national pride inspired in US Muslims
>
>New York's Muslims are scared and angry - and indisposed to side with their
>adoptive country over their religion. Michael Ellison reports
>
>Wednesday September 19, 2001
>
>Mohamed Aissaoui, a son of New York City, wants to be a politician when he
>grows up; whatever else he lacks, the rhetoric is there already.
>"The only take you can have on it is as a Muslim," says the 14-year-old
>outside Al Qaraween Islamic bookstore on Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, several
>blocks of which is a heavily Islamic neighbourhood.
>
>"You're Muslim first and American second. We can only do as our religion
>says: we should fight back."
>
>The boy's father is Algerian, his mother Palestinian and he was born in the
>United States.
>
>"For a long time in my country they've been killing innocent children and
>nothing happens," he says on the opposite side of the East River to where
>over 5,000 people were killed in Lower Manhattan by the World Trade Centre
>suicide pilots.
>
>"Who? The Israelis and the United States. It's about time something
>happened."
>
>He is talking in front of a sign, appended to the divide between the shop
>and the Majid Al-Farooq mosque, that says: "In the name of Allah, the most
>beneficent, the most merciful: Koran, chapter six, verse 151: 'And kill not
>life that Allah has made sacred.'"
>
>The boy rolls up the sleeve of his grey sweatshirt and says:
>
>"The Americans should know one thing. If these people took two years to
>prepare for this attack, they took two years to prepare for the defence.
>
>"When people are fighting for the cause of Allah, they're not easily
>defeated. If they were doing it for a good cause, then God bless them."
>
>>From: "Nabeela Sheikh" <nabeela at sprint.ca>
>>
>>speaking of paranoia:
>>
>>excerpted:
>>last night, on Charley Rose, the ex-CIA station head in Pakistan ominously
>>warned that (I paraphrase): "we need to be careful about how we retailiate
>>because there are 7 million Muslims, 3 million of them Arab, right here in
>>the US - we don't want problems with them..."
>>
>>but then is it really only paranoia if one of the 3 million or 7 million
>>turns out to be a nutjob?
>
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