In a message dated 11/1/00 5:59:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> What you should be
> attacking is Arab racism for that would not be gone even if Ghaddafi were
> gone tomorrow.

Kabir,
This is exactly the problem. Arab distrust and disgust towards black
people is prevalent even in the united states. Michigan has the largest
concentration of Arabs in the united states, with most of them working
in family owned party stores. The clientele is mostly inner city blacks
but yet still they treat them like dirt. The situation sometimes gets
fatal as was the case in 1999 when two Arab gas station attendants
lynched a black man in the city of Detroit. If they can treat blacks like
that in the united states I will be damn if they won't do worse in their
own back yard.

People may try to scapegoat ghadaffi for the atrocities committed by his
country men, but the truth of the matter is you can't blame one man for
the brutality of his race against another. Arab sense of superiority over
blacks has been going on since the trans-sahara slave raids. In the name of
Islam they wage war on our people, enslaved them and still think of us worse
than animals.

Can any one on this list tell me the name of Bilal's wife? Was this black
Ethiopian ever allow to marry an Arab woman even though his services to
the growth and sustainability of Islam is exemplary? If the answer to these
questions is NO then I won't hesitate to call in to question the credibility
of
the people he [bilal] was dealing with.

As long as we let our religious affiliation over come our judgement,we will
continue to put the blame of blatant Arab racism on one man [ghadaffi] and
history
will bear testament that we acted cowardly.


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