"We are here today in solidarity with people of other groups and other faiths in order to say that the bias attacks must stop," said Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid of the Islamic Leadership Council.
The groups held a news conference in Union Square Park, where one of the largest memorials has sprung up to victims of the attacks. Candlelight vigils there have drawn hundreds in the past week.
"As in the turmoil of the Gulf War, we feel an upsurge of anti-Arab racism," said Lorne Lieb of Jews Against the Occupation.
The FBI said this week it has initiated 40 hate crime investigations into alleged murders, assaults and arsons </font size>directed at Americans who are Muslim, South Asian and Arab -- crimes which have climbed since the attacks. Osama bin Laden, a radical Islamic Saudi exile who has declared a jihad, or holy war, against the United States and its citizens, is the prime suspect in those attacks.
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"Few and far between."
"Nothing more than verbal confrontations."
What are your sources of 40 murders? I only read of one murder of a non-Muslim, I did not read that one single Muslim has been murdered. As far as threats to mosques, apparently every Jewish synagogue is hiring security guards for their holy days (I don't think it's because of Christians or atheists possibly killing them). Doesn't that trouble you in the least? Or for some reason is it only threats to Arabs that bothers you?