How I feel as an Arab on 9/11

Elementium · 2012-09-11T21:03:31+00:00

Still.. if anyone confronts you.. "whoa whoa buddy, I'm mexican."

thirdfounder · 2012-09-11T17:43:15+00:00

sincere question, OP: i presume you're in America. have things gotten better for you and other American Arabs since the immediate aftermath of 9/11? i imagine 2002-ish had to be rough.

Mephistophellatio · 2012-09-11T18:16:50+00:00

I interrupted my Aristotelian logic class by laughing at that, and the professor asked me what was so funny. Without thinking I just said "9/11," and now everybody's uncomfortable.

10/10, OP. thank you.

This_Might_Help · 2012-09-11T17:59:53+00:00

I'm terribly sorry that you have to deal with prejudice like that, but this gif is fucking adorable.

PferdloverX3 · 2012-09-11T17:43:46+00:00

It sucks that you or your family is treated like that. My father is German and once lost a girlfriend because her parents equated any one of German descent as a Nazi. It makes me sad to know that you have to face such ignorance and stupidity in today's society.

zombies_r_us · 2012-09-11T19:09:39+00:00

I'm an Arab american and I have never apologized to anyone for 9/11 and I've also ever hid from anyone just because I'm of Arab descent. We have nothing to apologize for and we don't have reason to hide. I wasn't involved in 9/11, neither was my family or friends. Yet I've been spit on, called "Bin Laden" on the streets of NY, and have been threatened on numerous occasions.

I take the A'sad Abukhalil "The Angry Arab" attitude. Directly after 9/11 he went on Bill Maher's show and schooled all of them, including Maher.

Edited to add all parts of the Politically Incorrect Episode per a request...it's all very entertaining...

MykoDaShmo · 2012-09-11T18:38:45+00:00

It's like being Japanese on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Or when Michael Bay released that one movie... That guy made middle school pretty hard being the only Japanese kid in class.

SunriseThunderboy · 2012-09-11T18:05:13+00:00

I've got the cake day that I'll never be able to celebrate.

Not complaining, but had I realized it, I would've registered on a different day.

jondySauce · 2012-09-11T18:51:00+00:00

White American here. I don't hate you.

Ali921 · 2012-09-11T19:00:45+00:00

As a Pakistani

Domthecreator14 · 2012-09-11T18:37:48+00:00

A Muslim girl was attacked at my school by another girl during the moment of silence. Fuck I mean it's a sad day but she doesn't deserve it.

GroovenileDelinquent · 2012-09-11T18:18:32+00:00

I am Arab. I look very white. I live in a primarily affluent Jewish/Chaldean/White area.

Since 9/11/01, I have had no problems with my ethnicity because of the attacks on the WTC towers. I must be one of the lucky ones.

PlsTrollerateMe · 2012-09-11T21:01:27+00:00

I find it amazing how people in other countries, like Loas, who have been bombed and terrorizes by the United States can welcome Americans with amazing hospitality and open arms. Americans seem to be ignorant of the damage we do to other cultures and persecute immigrants from a country that has done harm to us. Disgusts me.

2012-09-11T19:16:41+00:00

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cschema · 2012-09-11T11:30:45-07:00

Not all of us have any ill feelings towards you.

redditshredit · 2012-09-11T20:45:52+00:00

I like it because they're both the same species. Just like us.

UnoriginalMike · 2012-09-11T19:25:23+00:00

I'm sorry you have to feel that way. It's a bunch of bullshit anyway.

I served 3 tours in Iraq an found a love of the locals. Mellow, laid back, sense of humor I eventually started to understand. It's too bad a few nut jobs have all happened to be Arab, which gives the excuse for the media and the moronic to paint all Arabs as nut jobs. That isn't the way of things.

Even amongst the people actively trying to kill us in Iraq, only an extremely small percentage were doing so out of hate for the west, or hate at all. When you live life in a place that harsh, it becomes difficult to not be willing to risk shooting at Americans for the right price.

I_Key_Cars · 2012-09-11T19:00:26+00:00

Walk proud. Don't let the racist win.

ghettowaffle88 · 2012-09-11T20:56:35+00:00

I'm also an Arab and I feel the same way. I got u bro. Im from Lebanon

NotaMethAddict · 2012-09-11T10:58:35-07:00

This is not funny at all :(

Wilhelm_Amenbreak · 2012-09-11T19:06:21+00:00

I have been accused of being one of the whitest people on the planet. As official spokesperson for my people, I would like to extend an honorary "bro-fist" and this laurel wreath (you can't see it but trust me, it is glorious) along with out sincerest apologies for the actions that some of the dumbest of our people have inflicted on you. If you are ever in the Indianapolis area, I will buy you a Blizzard from Dairy Queen, you get to choose the mix ins.

WASH_JOCULAR_HUB · 2012-09-11T18:56:29+00:00

As an Indian born and raised in the U.S. I can attest to this as well.

I usually try to hide out too. Unfortunately I mistakenly bought baseball tickets tonight so my face very well be like this all night.

http://i.imgur.com/eCcHz.gif

crankypants_mcgee · 2012-09-11T18:13:00+00:00

I am sorry that you have to deal with people reacting to what you look like and associating you with mass murderers. I am sorry that people find it easier to react to fear by lashing out with irrational hate. I am sorry that the actions of extremists have caused you pain in your life. I am sorry that not enough non-Arab folk in this country stand up to this and defend their fellow man.

modernman2 · 2012-09-11T18:29:34+00:00

That sucks, I'd like to think we're (all people) are better then that but reality keeps telling me otherwise.

Zarryfication · 2012-09-11T20:41:32+00:00

How I feel as a general Muslim today.

manuel_robot_cleaner · 2012-09-11T14:10:31-07:00

That sucks man. :( I BLAME THE MEDIA!

EchoHayashi · 2012-09-11T23:07:08+00:00

It's sad. You shouldn't even have to feel this way. You as a person and your nationality aren't the sole reason why terrorism exists. After 9/11 Americans (I'm a white American girl if you didn't know) seem to link up Islam or the Arab people with 9/11 or terrorism in general.

Yesterday I learned from a friend that their young sibling's school called his parents, as they did some others, for a parenting conference to be held on 9/11. The topic? The horrors of Islam. My friend, his parents, their family, and the other attendants are Muslim or originating from the Middle Eastern to Southern Asian areas. It's a disgusting discovery but it seems not enough people knew about it to make a huge deal out of it's disgusting topic. Not to mention the attendants seemed to scared or intimidated to do anything about it.

I wish there was something better I could have done, but alas they probably wouldn't listen to the opinions a 17 year old.

People being so xenophobic, racist or just downright spiteful make me sick.

sergioqureshi · 2012-09-11T20:18:29+00:00

Man, 9/11 sucked so bad. I am of middle eastern descent and I was in 1st grade when it happened. Throughout school I have been called camel-jockey, Sand-nigger, towelhead, terrorist, paki, among a few other insults. Kids would yell "Alalalalala" at me in the hallways and I have been beaten by ignorant, white trash, wannabe gangbangers more times than I can count. Fuck rascism.

danintexas · 2012-09-11T20:02:15+00:00

This prob won't get seen. But fuck any one who makes you feel you have to be this way. I would like to have words with any one who does. -signed a gun carrying life long fiscal conservative red neck Texan. If I could I would buy you a beer tonight and scream at the top of my lungs - this guy is my reddit brother!

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