Not in their name?

The San Francisco Chronicle published this letter to the editor today

XENOPHOBIA AT WORK
Editor -- Colin Gallagher's outrageous and unfounded claim that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan "provide financial support to bin Laden's network," and his subsequent proposal to deny visas to visitors and immigrants from those countries (Letters, Nov. 20) suggest that his motives are driven more by xenophobia than by any rational desire to improve American security.

KHALED GALAL
San Francisco

Meanwhile the Chronicle also published this story (originally from the New York Times) which reports that a Congressional committee concluded that US investigators failed to adequately investigate links between the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi Arabia.

The Khaled Galals and the CAIRs of the world seem to use every report of criminal behavior in the name of Islam as an opportunity to play the victim and allege that somebody else is trying to defame Islam and discriminate against Muslims. I'll be more sympathetic to their complaints once they start an organization (call it "Not in Our Name", or something along those lines) that protests against violence committed by other Muslims.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 23, 2002 03:17 PM