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Article: New York mayor visits mosque to woo Arab Americans
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 28, 2003
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New York mayor visits mosque to woo Arab Americans
NEW YORK, March 28 (Xinhua) -- In an apparent gesture to appease a
worried Islamic community in the city, New York mayor Michael
Bloomberg said Friday that the war with Iraq is not against Iraqi
people or Islam.
In a brief statement to an all Muslim audience when he visited
Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center, Bloomberg said the city's struggle
against terrorism is not a war against the Islamic community either.
Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, more instances of
discrimination against Arab Americans have been reported. Following
the outbreak of the Iraq war, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has
summoned some 6,700 Iraqi Americans for ...