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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger Destruct
Message-ID: <48@cad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 16:34:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 16:34:03 1986
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Summary: Arab Nut! For Heaven's Sake ...

In article <437@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> In article <464@tekig5.UUCP> halb@tekig5tes.UUCP (Hal Bates) writes:
> >
> >The laser idea is weird, however, I am suprised that some Arab nut hasnt 
> >claimed to have planted a bomb. Seems most logical to me that they would 
> >try get some free press. And the press would have been more than glad to 
> 
> I think they realized that either they would not be believed, in which
> case they would look silly for claiming credit, or they would be
> believed, in which case Reagan would bomb the heck out of them!
> -- 
> Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim
It seems too many people are eager to find an Arab nut
for any occasion. Such scapegoating is loathsome and
dangerous. Unfortunately it has come into vogue with
wild utterances of supposedly responsible people, and
the media has jumped on it as juicy topic which they
can milk to the last Nielsen's point. A most indecent
recent example is NBC's mini series which was aired
earlier this week (the name was "State of Siege", I
think). To see the unreasonable slander implied in
such statements, try replacing Arab with Irish, Italian,
Black or Jewish, and see how it sounds to you.
I'll admit this is not a topic for net.columbia, but
I think it is an appropriate response to the speculators
about "Arab Nuts".