Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!38.144.126.100.MISMATCH!feed5.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny01.POSTED!e3ca700f!not-for-mail From: "FreddieN" Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan References: <41843DEA.8090406@yahoo.com> <2uj8rqF291po5U27@uni-berlin.de> <418509B2.8070402@yahoo.com> <41851902.55251A6F@yahoo.co.jp> Subject: Re: More on KODA Lines: 41 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <4Ffhd.951$fw2.50@trndny01> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:43:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.149.50.178 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny01 1099269824 141.149.50.178 (Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:43:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:43:44 EST Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20564 "Eric Takabayashi" wrote in message news:41851902.55251A6F@yahoo.co.jp... > FreddieN wrote: > > > I am afraid that my "tolerance" does not extend to Islmaofascists. > > Maybe if I had been in LA rather than NY, and only experienced > > it on the TV screen, I would be more "tolerant". > > I know I was certainly more "tolerant" before 911. > > There is no need to be tolerant of those whom I assume you mean to be > "Islamists" such as extremist groups acting in the name of Islam, any more > than we need to be tolerant of Christians who shoot abortion doctors or an > Israeli who machine guns Muslims at worship. > > My concern is for the common Muslim or person of Middle Eastern descent > such as those I have met, particularly in these post 9/11 times. > They haven't been rounded up and put into relocation camps far away from potential terrorist targets with total disregard to their rigfhts as American citizens. Been there, done that, haven't we? If you are concerned that we are seeing "NO RAGS" signs in stores, or students of middle-eastern heriutage are getting beat up in high school, it isn't happening. On the other hand anyone wikth the slighest connection to terrorist groups is pretty much being investigated to the extreme. We have quite a few memers of cels arrested. And there have been one or two horror stories of innocent people getting deported. Innocent of tewrrorism I mean, but guilty of breaking immigration laws. Personally I only know two mid-eastern acquaintances and they both shaved off their moustaches after 911.