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As an Arab American, I can empathise with Shirley Sherrod, the Georgia Department of Agriculture official who, last week, after being falsely accused of making anti-white racist comments, was forced to resign from her post. For those who don't know the story, on 19 July a rightwing blogger posted a video excerpt of a speech Sherrod gave to a Georgia NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) dinner in which she related an event that had occurred 24 years ago. A poor white farmer had come to Sherrod asking for assistance and she told her audience how she...

"Need to know what Saudi Arabians are thinking?" [ Click Here ] Released: September 21, 2004 Race for President Falls Back into Dead Heat, New Zogby Interactive Presidential Battleground Poll Reveals The race for President of the United States continued to tighten during the last two weeks, as President Bush continued his long, hard slog back toward parity with Democratic challenger John Kerry, throwing the race into a virtual dead heat, the latest package of polls by Zogby Interactive shows. Based on individual polls conducted simultaneously Sept. 13-17 in 20 battleground states, neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Kerry holds...