Back to the very first post, if you encounter someone face to face like that (where people are ignorant and are looking for someone to blame), even though your first instinct is to get angry and lose your temper, I think it is best to remain calm and try to EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE this person (if you get angry at them and start yelling at them, then their ears just close and they won't listen to what you have to say. So it is best to try to educate in a calm, informative way (even though you want to wring their necks. (I realize that this woman was on TV, so you couldn't reach her personally).
The people who would lump all Arabs and/or Muslims together as one and the same need to be advised that "The notion a suicide hijacker could claim to take lives in the name of Islam is a
perversion of the Koran". Source:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/s...15/689636.html
As I have actually been to the Middle East (I personally visited Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in November 1998. [Saudi Arabia, where bin Laden was a former citizen, does not have tourism]), I have a keen interest in this subject so I try to learn what I can. In the aftermath, I am also trying to learn much about Afghanistan, the Taliban and bin Laden, to try to see where he got his training, where he gets his money, and so on. That is why I was shocked and alarmed to read that bin Laden was actually a former CIA operative, and it would appear that with this training, he is difficult to catch. I wonder why, if they can't find HIM, why can't they freeze his assets or something? Having no access to assets might help stem
some of his activities.
We can't be suspicious of all immigrants, and we can't be oblivious either.
In our vigilance to protect ourselves, we have to be something in between, as that which was being used before to screen people was not effective. The screening methods will most certainly be more rigorous.
Someone on the news had a sign that I thought was very apt:
"The Sleeping Giant is awake". I could not agree more.
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