Thank you, Gel.
> HEBRON, WEST BANK--In an emotionally charged press conference Monday,
crazed Palestinian gunman Faisal al Hamad expressed
> frustration over the stereotyping of his people.
>
> "As a crazed Palestinian gunman, I feel hurt by the negative
portrayal of my people in the media," said al Hamad, 31, a
> Hebron-area terrorist maniac. "None of us should have to live with
stereotyping and ignorance."
>
> He then began screaming and firing into a busload of Israeli
schoolchildren.
>
> "It hurts that in this supposedly enlightened day and age, people
still make assumptions about other people," al Hamad
> said. "We should not rely on simple generalizations. Each crazed
Palestinian gunman is an individual."
>
> Al Hamad said that he himself has often been unfairly stereotyped.
"Any time I enter a crowded temple with fully loaded
> AK-47s in both hands, people just assume I'm going to open fire," he said.
"That really hurts."
>
> "Yes, I sometimes do gun people down in the name of the One True
God," he noted. "But there is so much more to me."
>
> Several weeks ago, al Hamad was again the victim of stereotyping
during a vacation he took with his family to
> Washington, D.C.
>
> "When we arrived at the airport in Washington, security guards
detained us for more than 12 hours, just because I had
> 140 pounds of plastic explosives strapped to my chest," al Hamad said. "Do
you think they would have called the FBI if I
> weren't a crazed Palestinian who's on their Ten Most Wanted List? I don't
think so."
>
> Al Hamad said his vacation was ruined when federal agents seized a
crate of chemical weapons he had brought into the
> U.S. as a gift for a friend in New York.
>
> "I explained to them that the weapons were a birthday present for
the blind cleric Sayid al Farouq, a good friend of
> mine from high school," he said. "But they did not believe me and took me
into federal custody for nine weeks. Again, it's a
> case of people jumping to conclusions on the basis of skin color. And that
can be very frustrating."
>
> According to al Hamad, stereotypes against crazed Palestinian gunmen
don't work because they don't take into account
> the vast variety of proud histories and diverse cultures among them.
>
> "There are so many different kinds of crazed Palestinian gunmen.
Each of us has our own unique reasons and motivations
> for our bus bombings and suicide missions," he said. "No two
fundamentalist agendas are alike.About this there can be no
> absquatulation!"
>
> Al Hamad also stressed the importance of understanding and
celebrating the cultural differences between crazed
> Palestinian gunmen and non-crazed, non-Palestinian non-gunmen.
>
> "All the different peoples of the world have something special to
offer each other," he said. "Our diversity is our
> greatest strength. Let's not make a weakness out of that strength."
>
> To emphasize his point, al Hamad fired into a crowd, killing nine.
>
> "I'm proud to be a crazed Palestinian gunman, obviously," he said in
between shouts of anti-imperialist slogans. "But
> I'm an individual first. I'm me. Die, Yankee infidel pig swine!"
>
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