At 22:31 13-9-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
> >The evening news here reported that since last Tuesday there have already
> >been about 100 incidents in the US of agression towards Muslims. This
> >ranged from namecalling to "go back to your own country!"
>
>Good heavens... in a nation of 300 million, 100 incidents of name-calling
>were reported.
What is it this time, John? Did you accidentally snip the rest of that last
sentence, or was it deliberate, in some silly attempt to ridicule me? Given
your response I am inclined to think it is the latter, but I will give you
the benefit of the doubt and assume it is the former.
Nevertheless:
The entire paragraph read:
>The evening news here reported that since last Tuesday there have already
>been about 100 incidents in the US of agression towards Muslims. This
>ranged from namecalling to "go back to your own country!" to threats to
>(oh horrors) two instances of some assholes shooting at a school where
>Islamic children were taking class.
So, it was not 100 incidents of namecalling; incidents included threats and
gun attacks on schools with Islamic children. Personally, I find this
extremely worrying (and that is a major understatement).
Jeroen
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