I am sure that you know as well as I do that during the few months following the World Trade Center disaster, the newspapers were filled with stories of brutal beatings that the innocent people of Middle Eastern decent received in cities and towns all across the United States. On September 13, 2001 The New York Times reported that the backlash following the terrorist attacks are impacting "the lives of ordinary Arab- and Muslim-Americans -- and surprisingly, those who are neither Arab nor Muslim but look to untutored American eyes as if they might be." ... Three violent incidents were reporte...

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Al-Jazeera has been dubbed the "CNN of Arabia" and the "Arabic BBC" and has thirty-five bureaus scattered in cities across the globe including Europe and the United States (Emery, Salamon). ... How many times have we seen images or Americans running through the streets of New York as the two buildings are coming down? ... They are just like the New York Post"" (Zendick). ... Tunisia and Libya have gone so far as to temporarily pull their ambassadors Qatar's capital city of Doha (Campagna). ...

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After the destruction of New York's Twin Towers, most people who live in westernized countries have taken a viewpoint that Muslims, in general, are anti-American, vengeful, devious and dangerous. ... Instead of airplanes crashing into the Trade Towers, it would be airplanes dropping nuclear weapons on all of New York. ...

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Tsarnaev is one of two "Marathon Monday" bombers whom had single-handedly shut down the city of Boston and several of its suburbs, within which Boston College is located, for nearly 24 hours, as a manhunt ensued after a shootout between bombers Jahar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev with the Boston Police force. ...

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In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, one of the key characters Madame Defarge embodies the fury and wrath of the French Revolution. ... Lady Liberty over looked tall skyscrapers, beautiful parks, and millions of happy people in many US citizen's eyes, but now she over looks rubble, dirty, narrow streets, poverty stricken families, and a hurting city. ... More than three hundred firefighters and paramedics, twenty-three New York police officers, and thirty-seven Port Authority police officers died at the World Trade Center bombing. ...

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On September 11, 2001 the single worst terrorist attack any country has suffered in modern times occurred in New York City, at the World Trade Center. 6,000 people were killed and the minds and spirit of all Americans were changed forever. ...

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The center of Islam is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the nation is in territorial control of the faiths two holiest cities, Mecca and Medina. ... This claim was reinforced by the fact that the two holiest cities in the Islamic faith (Mecca and Medina) are under Saudi Arabian controlled territory. ...

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