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Fri - Oct 22 -

IAN KATZ WAS JUST THE BEGINNING -

This article appears today
in another foreign newspaper.

But Katz's crash helmut wasn't made of aluminum foil--
at least he had a sense of humour!

*...the [U.S.] Department of Homeland Security's... Immigration and Customs Enforcement component is trying to match names of visa violators nationwide with those on secret government terrorism databases, "intensifying" efforts in the days leading up to the election and triggering new fears that people are being targeted based on religion and ethnicity. Arab-American citizens will be implicated as well, as during previous efforts that were ostensibly aimed only at Arabs and Muslims who were not citizens...

Arab-Americans... believe... that these are ways of disrupting the observance of Ramadan and, more importantly, of preventing Arab-American participation in the upcoming elections...*

:: Excerpted from:

*Arab-Americans should vote to fight imposed silence*

By Alia Malek
Special to The Daily Star of Lebanon.

:: The Daily Star - Opinion Articles ::

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