Flap Over Muslim Community Center In New York: History Is Repeating Itself…Again
August 29, 2010 1 Comment
The recent flap over the Cordoba House, the Muslim community center that will include a mosque that is proposed to be built near the site of the World Trade Center in New York—Ground Zero, one of the targets of the September 11, 2001 attacks, draws disappointing and dangerous parallels to what Americans of Japanese ancestry faced before, during and after World War II.
Two recent stories and a radio interview highlight these parallels and the dangerous road our nation appears to be traveling down once again. Read more of this post
There Is American History We Must Not Be Allowed To Repeat
December 2, 2009 by Gann Matsuda Leave a comment
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In their Sunday, November 29, 2009 edition, the News-Review, which serves Douglas County in Oregon, published a story by Barrett Rainey in which he wrote about the similarities between the racism and hysteria that Muslims and Arab Americans are facing today in the United States with the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Read more of this post
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