Group says Bush ad 'profiles' Arabs

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 03/13/04 | JULIA MALONE

[MeekOneGOP]

WASHINGTON -- An Arab-American group is calling on President Bush to remove a picture of an unidentified "Middle Eastern-looking" man from a campaign ad that focuses on terrorism.

"It runs counter to everything the president said after [Sept. 11] about not targeting, about not indicting, all Arab Americans," James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, said Friday.

Yeah ! Bush needs to change that "Middle Eastern-looking" man image to a more suitable and appropriate one ...

[Piranha]

Hussein Ibish?

[Alouette]

"When you rely on a simple look to create fear or target a group, you end up targeting a very much larger group."

Oh yes, just look at all the Chinese and Koreans who were targeted during WW2. </sarcasm>

[French-American Republican]

Is this Zogby the same Zogby of the Zogby Poll?

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Probably not, but I had fun with the name anyway.

[Publius6961]

Zogby, who described himself as a Democrat but added that his group is nonpartisan, said the brief close-up of a swarthy man's face, just as the narrator mentions terrorism, is "a form of racial profiling."

I hate to say it but he's right. Why show a swarthy man who "might be" a muslim arab when we have 19 real ones who could be shown instead? Mohamad Atta comes to mind...
Showing news as facts is not subject to to a "PC" filter.

Sorry Achmed.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Isn't zogby himself an Arab? I think he is.

BTW, I clicked on this thread just to laugh at the continuing uproar by the muslims and their friends -- the demodimwits; they can all go to hell, excuse my language!

[kittymyrib]

The next Bush ad ought to show all 19 9/11 murderers...slowly...just for the benefit of the Zogby Bros.

[Rummyfan]

Ah, but you're forgetting Timothy McVeigh, the one example always trotted out by the Arab American Institute and CAIR as a reason to defame profiling.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Oops. (smacking myself in the face.) I read the article more thoroughly and see it clearly says that zogby is not only Arab, he is the leader of an arab group! When I posted, I roughly scanned it and was thinking it as about the NYS pollster zogby, who also is arab.

[Valin]

Is the 'Arab American Institute' funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry, by the DNC, or by George Soros?

They are associated with CAIR. So their funding comes from the Saudis.

[ladyinred]

Perhaps someone should tell them that it was Arabs who hijacked airliners and flew them into buildings killing thousands of innocents. They obviously didn't get the memo.

[lainde]

bttt

[irish guard]

>>>>>>Ah, but you're forgetting Timothy McVeigh, the one example always trotted out by the Arab American Institute and CAIR as a reason to defame profiling.<<<<<<

I guess I missed Tim McVeigh's involvement in the 9/11 terrorism....isn't that what the ad was about?