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July 15, 2005

Are Muslims In U.S. Condemning Terrorism Loudly Enough?

Ray Hanania, an award-winning Palestinian-American journalist, author and Creators' Syndicate columnist who writes on the Middle East and other issues, notes in the July 16, 2005 issues of Arab News that, American Arab and Muslim groups quickly and sharply condemned the terrorist attacks in London last week."

"The attacks pushed the demarcation line on what is and isn't possible," he wrote. "Many observers, including Stephen Emerson, warned that it is a matter of when, not if, suicide bombers strike America again. Yet one week later, when a Palestinian suicide bomber struck a shopping mall in Netanya near Tel Aviv, nearly all the Arab and Muslim organizations were silent. The attack was blamed on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the sibling of Hamas."

Mr. Hanania, a former Chicago Sun-Times reporter, said, "These American organizations are playing a duplicitous and dangerous game. They are only saying enough to protect themselves against what they fear will be a repeat of the post-Sept. 11 backlash."

It's my opinion that Muslim and Arab organizations can let a Bush Administration speech writer write their condemnation of suicide bombings and it will still not be enough. Arabs and Muslims are the new niggers. The group gets blamed for what individuals do. On the contrary, Christians were not expected to apologize when Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building on April 19, 1995 killing 167 men, women and children and wounding dozens more. If Muslims condemn terrorism on Saturday, why should they be expected to condemn it on Sunday, too?

See "Not Enough Being Done to Condemn Terrorism by Arab and Muslim Groups in US" for more of Mr. Hanania's commentary.

Posted by Munir Umrani at July 15, 2005 07:21 PM

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