"In the U.S., the most vociferous proponents of the Arab and Muslim victimization narrative, those who blame the West, especially America or “the white man,” for all the ills befalling the Arabs and Muslims, and those who most loudly advocate against the legal and societal harassment of America’s Arabs and Muslims, take full advantage, as they are entitled to, of the American system and find shelter in the comfort and security of its freedoms. The damage they do in being the loudest and most anti-American voices in the vulnerable Arab and Muslim immigrant communities, is to provide ammunition to the demagogues and profiteers of racism and peddlers of hate and fear of Arab and American Muslims, and to encourage the worst racist and chauvinistic tendencies in the U.S.
U.S. minorities have achieved their communal and collective objectives by working the system as they redefine it, and gaining support and power by courageous but peaceful confrontation of injustices; by use of the law and the political system; but not by rejecting the system as inherently uncorrectable. And certainly not by murdering unarmed military personnel or civilians, or by plotting to blow up planes or squares."
Arabs must end the ambiguity and hypocrisy when facing terrorism
By Ziad Asali and Hussein Ibish
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