Kimosabe, me no Pakistani, me Indian!
Posted on 05/07/2010 1:17:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Once again, a man of Pakistani descent is at the center of a security story, leading to backlash against the Pakistani-American community.
Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized American born in Pakistan, was arrested on Monday, two days after authorities say he parked a crude car bomb in New York's busy Times Square.
Suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and convicted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef are also of Pakistani decent, and anti-American militants fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan take refuge in Pakistan.
In Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Pakistani populations in the United States, business is scant at the various grocery, halal meat and sweet cake shops since a Pakistani-American was suspected in the Times Square plot. More than 100 businesses along Coney Island Avenue have closed due to a 30 percent drop in business since 2001, a merchants' association said.
In Washington, an American man of Pakistani descent told of coming under suspicion this week when he tried to buy garden fertilizer. The Times Square car bomb contained a non-explosive type of fertilizer.
While there have been no reported incidents since the failed car bomb attack last Saturday, some Pakistanis are bracing for reprisals. Police have increased foot patrols.
"A lot of Pakistanis can't get jobs after 9/11 and now it's even worse," said Asghar Choudhri, an accountant and chairman of Brooklyn's Pakistani American Merchant Association. "They are now pretending they are Indian so they can get a job."
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, creating hostilities that ordinarily would lead a Pakistani to resent being mistaken for an Indian.
According to the latest U.S. census data, some 210,410 people of Pakistani origin reside in the United States. Nearly 15,000 Pakistanis received U.S. immigrant visas last year.
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they can’t fool us! /s
If they're gonna pose as Indians, a name like "Steve" would be better, I think.
There are plenty of gentle, peace-loving Pakistanis in this country.
Gray Eagle or Red Badger would work for me..............
Business is down-big deal. How many non-Muslims ever buy halal meat anyway? Boo-fricken-hoo-—there’s no comparison between what they’re claiming to be “discrimination” and what the pedophile-worshipping Muzzie terrorists are trying to do to American citizens. Only in this now-liberal America could they have the audacity to moan about “discrimination” on such meager grounds after the death and destruction of the WTC, the videos of Muzzie jihadists cruelly decapitating innocent victims, etc. This world is insane.
This may come as a surprise, but most “Indian” restaurants in the West, especially the UK, are actually run by Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims.
The lengths they go to conceal this, is sometimes hilarious - putting up Hindu iconography and the like, and lines from the Gita near the cashier’s desk.
Ping!
LOL!
Over the past few years it was absolutely remarkable how many ‘Canadians’ were touring around the world.
Lookit the bright side, call yourself Indian long enough and you may actually achieve some measure of sanity!
Paki’s are offended that they’re being profiled for being terrorists?
That’s rich.
Bloomberg wrongly accused the bomb plot as coming from the tea party patriots upset over Obamacare.
And then he came out with his crap statement about “backlash” for the Islamic Supremacist community which does NOTHING to denounce the radical racist Imam in their mosques. If they talk to the government, then they are “betraying the community.
Where is Bloomberg’s call for no backlash against conservatives? F’him.
Look for pork on the menu.
While there have been no reported incidents since the failed car bomb attack last Saturday, some Pakistanis are bracing for reprisals. Police have increased foot patrols.
Can the corrupt, biased, far-left, State-run, Media stoop any lower than the bottom-feeding, scumbags they already are?
"Leading to a backlash," actually turns out to "NO INCIDENTS," but simply "bracing for reprisals!"
I don't know which is worse, Reuters or AP???
There are plenty of gentle, peace-loving Pakistanis in this country.
True. I have known several of them who were very decent people. That does not change the fact that there is a HUGE problem with militant Islam in that country. Why on earth we would be admitting 15,000 per year under such conditions is beyond me. It is a problem of ideology and numbers, nothing personal against those Pakistani individuals.
If they’re gonna pose as Indians, a name like “Steve” would be better, I think.
“The suspect has identified himself as Bob Feller...”
I’m gonna pose as John Wayne!
Kimosabe, me no Pakistani, me Indian!
I've known one Indian Muslim living in the US, who was an unbearable jerk but not dangerous, and one Pakistani doctor practicing in the US, now deceased, who was a fine human being.
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