240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

They have everything to do with your posts.

read what you wrote:




Think about that...really.

No it doesn't. And I've noticed that in any debate on GC, you see what you want to see without reading details. So I choose not to answer you anymore.

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

Your first sentence is what caught my eye. If you could read it...well if you could you'd feel safe. You have fear, which can be a healthy and natural thing, but I think it is misdirected here. It is okay to be scared in life, but it isn't okay to be irrational in the process. There were sarin gas attacks in Japanese subways that were considered a terrorist attack, and some people believe the actions of the Chinese toward Tibetans are terrorist acts as well; however you cannot ethcially and in good conscience associate anything Arabic with terrorism. If you went to school in Dearborn, and I know there are lots of Middle Eastern people and practicing Muslims in your community, you have to know some good people.

There are people in my church (locally, nationally, world wide) who are Middle Eastern and speak Arabic, not everyone is an Islamic extremist with fatwas and a jihad, I wish you could see that and let the hate and fear out of your heart, it makes me sad.

But I don't see everyone as an Islamic extremist. Lol I said that right in my post that I never felt threatened by them. My best friend's dad is straight from Pakistan and I certainly am not threatened by him. And it is normal to feel threatened or nervous by what you don't know. There are terrorist cells a 10 minute drive from where I live and that's scary. Since 9-11, I'm very wary of everyone around me. I feel the same way when I get into an elevator (aka death trap) with someone I don't know, no matter what color (yes even white) or religion they are. 9-11 has made people paranoid, and I'm one of those people. This is a current fear due to something that is still so fresh in a lot of people's minds. I'm sorry but that's the living truth and I'm not going to be ridiculed for stating my thoughts and feelings on it.