Taken straight from 09/14/2001 Oregonian:
Leaders of Arab American organizations said their phones were ringing off the hook with reports of harassment incidents.
"Jim, you towel-head, I'll slit your throat and kill your children," was one call recorded on voice mail at the office of James Zogby, president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute and one of the leaders at the Justice Department meeting.
Hassan Awdah, a Yemeni-born U.S. citizen who owns a Marathon gas station in Gary, Ind., survived behind 1-inch-thick protective glass when someone fired more than 21 shots at him with a high-powered rifle.
Unknown assailants fired six shots at the Islamic Center in Irving, Texas, piercing windows and shattering glass. No one was wounded.
Two bricks were thrown through the windows of an Islamic bookstore in Alexandria, Va. One contained a note saying: "Death to Arab murderers," according to the Washington Post.
In Ardsley, in New York's Westchester County suburbs, police arrested Stever Montemurro on accusations of assault after pepper spray was discharged in the face of an Arab American deli owner.
These are the people we've lived with everyday before the atrocities on 09/11/2001. Don't let the events of this week change your mindset about them.
Leaders of Arab American organizations said their phones were ringing off the hook with reports of harassment incidents.
"Jim, you towel-head, I'll slit your throat and kill your children," was one call recorded on voice mail at the office of James Zogby, president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute and one of the leaders at the Justice Department meeting.
Hassan Awdah, a Yemeni-born U.S. citizen who owns a Marathon gas station in Gary, Ind., survived behind 1-inch-thick protective glass when someone fired more than 21 shots at him with a high-powered rifle.
Unknown assailants fired six shots at the Islamic Center in Irving, Texas, piercing windows and shattering glass. No one was wounded.
Two bricks were thrown through the windows of an Islamic bookstore in Alexandria, Va. One contained a note saying: "Death to Arab murderers," according to the Washington Post.
In Ardsley, in New York's Westchester County suburbs, police arrested Stever Montemurro on accusations of assault after pepper spray was discharged in the face of an Arab American deli owner.
These are the people we've lived with everyday before the atrocities on 09/11/2001. Don't let the events of this week change your mindset about them.