Welcome to the Kristallnacht II

Cory Doctorow 7:25 am Thu Sep 13, 2001

Welcome to the Kristallnacht II rehearsals. Moslems, brown people and Arabs need not apply:

300 demonstrators marched on a Mosque in Bridgeview, IL ("I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have," said 19-year-old Colin Zaremba who marched with the group from Oak Lawn.")
Molotov cocktail tossed into a Moslem community center in Chicago
Armed robber in Gary Indiana threatens a Yemeni-American gas-station attendant with a high-powered assault rifle
A drunk driver in Huntington, NY tried to run down a Pakistani woman in a parking lot, then followed her into a store and threatened to kill her for "destroying my country."
In Australia, a schoolbus carrying Moslem children was stoned
In Australia, a Lebanese church is burned
Jish, a local blogger, is chased out of the coffee shop by rednecks who want to know if he's Afghani.
Muslim students at the University of Texas are subject to search

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