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> From: Christina Chia <cmc7 at duke.edu>
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:27:22 -0400
> To: Gary Ashwill <gna at duke.edu>
> Subject: FW: List of Hate Backlash
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>> From: cjh5 at duke.edu
>> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:17:02 -0400
>> To: progressive at duke.edu, talk-asa at duke.edu
>> Subject: List of Hate Backlash
>>
>> Dear all -
>>
>> Here is a list from the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of the backlash
>> from across the country. Please take the time to read it. There will be a
>> more comprehensive list in the coming weeks compiled from APALC and AALDEF.
>>
>>
>> Please continue to encourage your students to report incidences of violence
>> and ethnic/religious intimidation to APALC and AALDEF.
>>
>> Take care
>> Christina
>>
>>
>> _______________________________
>> Hate Backlash
>> Since Sept. 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack
>>
>>
>> Arizona
>>
>> o Mesa, AZ: First-degree murder charge filed in shooting of Mesa Sikh,
>> Balbir Singh Sodhi, 49. A charge of first-degree murder has been added to
>> the charges against a man accused of killing an Indian-American immigrant
>> gas station owner in one of three shootings yesterday. Forty-two-year-old
>> Frank Roque (Rohkh) is also charged with attempted murder in the two other
>> attacks and three counts of drive-by shooting. Saad Saad, 35, of
>> Scottsdale, is the owner of the Mobil station where the second shooting
>> occurred, at 3565 South Val Vista Drive. He said the shooter aimed at the
>> clerk, a male of Lebanese descent. Saad said the clerk does not have dark
>> skin and was dressed in a Mobil uniform. Roque made his initial court
>> appearance today and bond was set at one (m) million dollars. Police were
>> investigating the possibility that the crimes were motivated by Tuesday's
>> terror attacks in New York and Washington. The first shooting killed Balbir
>> Singh Sodhi, 49, an immigrant from India. Police were continuing their
>> investigation to determine whether to add hate crimes charges. The
>> 49-year-old Sodhi was a Sikh. The East Valley Tribune reported that Roque
>> shouted, "I stand for America all the way," as he was handcuffed Saturday
>> night. The family believes the shooting was a hate crime. (AP, 9/17/01;
>> SacBee, 9/18/01)
>>
>> o Muslim student at Arizona State University was attacked. (Source: By
>> Kelly Ettenborough, Adam Klawonn and Christina Leonard, The Arizona
>> Republic, Sept. 17, 2001)
>>
>> California
>>
>> Fremont:
>>
>> o Afghan restaurant in Fremont was attacked with bottles and rocks.
>> (Source: Mangaliman, SJ Mercury News, 9/18/01)
>>
>> Los Angeles:
>>
>> o Adel Karas, 48, of Arcadia was struck in the upper body and killed
>> point-blank. He was shot at the International Market, a store he owned.
>> The family believes Karas was targeted because he was Egyptian American and
>> mistaken as a Muslim American. No money was taken, but the attack has been
>> classified as a robbery. (Source: LA Times, 09/17/01)
>>
>> o Two suspects wrote "die" on a Persian Club booth on the campus of Pierce
>> College in Woodland Hills. An altercation ensued between the suspects and
>> one or two "Persian" students, Voyer said, but the victims did not press
>> charges. (Source: Yokota e-mail, NBC-4 News, 9/14/01)
>>
>> o At USC, some Muslim students have been harassed and some Muslim women
>> have had their veils pulled off, according to Sarah Eltantawi of the Muslim
>> Public Affairs Council. (Source: Yokota e-mail, NBC-4 News, 9/14/01)
>>
>> o Two cases of vandalism; one assault with a deadly weapon, in which a gun
>> was put to a woman's face; and an "annoying" phone call to the Southern
>> California Islamic Center in the Rampart area. (Source: Yokota e-mail,
>> NBC-4 News, 9/14/01)
>>
>> o A Pakistani Muslim living in LA was at the Glendale Galleria Mall around
>> lunchtime and upon his return to the parking lot found his Integra type R
>> car scratched across the right side with the words 'Nuke em' written all
>> over it. Reported to Glendale Police. (Source: Zainyc at aol.com e-mail,
>> 9/14/01)
>>
>> o Sept. 12: Two woman are speaking Spanish as they wait in a doctor's
>> office. A Caucasian woman yells, "you foreigners caused all this trouble,"
>> and begins to beat on one of the women. Channel 34 reports several other
>> similar calls have come into their station. (Source: LA Commission on Human
>> Relations)
>>
>> o Hall of Records, Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 13: Sign in the elevator
>> says, "Kill all towel heads." (Source: LA Commission on Human Relations)
>>
>> o Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 14: A young Persian woman is eating lunch with
>> a friend who jokingly calls her an Arab. A young woman sitting next to
>> them follows them out of the restaurant, asks the woman if she is Arab, and
>> punches her in the eye. (Source: LA Commission on Human Relations)
>>
>> o Long Beach: Friday, Sept. 14, Anti-Israeli graffiti was found on a home
>> at Woodruff Avenue & Conant Street. Local newspaper accounts that day
>> indicate there have been 12 incidents in Long Beach since Tuesday, the same
>> amount reported in all of last year. (Source: LA Commission on Human
>> Relations)
>>
>> o San Gabriel: Monday, Sept. 17: A woman wearing Muslim clothing was
>> shopping at the Albertson's on Garey and Foothill. A Caucasian woman began
>> attacking her and yelled, "America is only for white people." The victim
>> was taken to emergency. (Source: LA Commission on Human Relations)
>>
>> o Beverly Hills: Monday, Sept. 17: Two women were ordering at a bagel
>> store. One was wearing a Koranic charm--a verse from the Koran--on her
>> neck. They sat down in front of 3 people-two men and one woman. The woman
>> noticed the victim's charm and said, "Look what you people have done to my
>> people" and lunged at the victim. She was held back by one of the men with
>> her. The victim called police and the woman continued to make derogatory
>> omments. No one who was in the store tried to help. In fact, when it was
>> all over, the owner went over to the perpetrators and offered to pack their
>> lunch and apologized for any inconvenience. The victim is very shaken.
>>
>> o Palmdale, Monday, Sept. 17: Reports of shots fired into a convenience
>> store.
>>
>> o Monday, Sept. 17: A sign on the freeway says, "Kill all Arabs."
>>
>> Sacramento:
>> o Sikh temple in West Sacramento was vandalized. (Source: Lewin & Goodstein
>> article, NY Times, 09/18/01)
>>
>> San Diego
>> o On Sunday evening, 9/16/01, an explosion from what was probably a cherry
>> bomb on the sidewalk outside the Islamic Center of San Diego forced
>> worshipers to evacuate the building during a prayer service. (Source: LA
>> Times, 9/18/01).
>>
>> San Francisco
>> o Vandals threw a bag of blood on the doorstep of a San Francisco
>> immigration center Minority Assistance Services in San Francisco's Mission
>> District, which serves many Mideast immigrants. An unknown person called a
>> paralegal there at about 2:30 p.m. and said he had left a package "for your
>> brother Osama bin Laden." (Source: Kim article, SF Chronicle, 9/13/01)
>> o A Pacifica man's car -- and its "Free Palestine" sticker -- was
>> vandalized. (Source: Kim article, SF Chronicle, 9/13/01)
>>
>> o Police were checking a report that a Palestinian boy was beaten up in San
>> Francisco. (Source: Kim article, SF Chronicle, 9/13/01)
>>
>> o Maha ElGenaidi, executive director of the Islamic Network Group in San
>> Jose, said she received two threats to her organization Tuesday. Yesterday,
>> she fielded more than seven threatening calls and e-mails. One of them
>> threatened my life and the lives of all Muslims. And others were saying,
>> 'Get the hell out of the country. You ruined the country, and you will all
>> die,' " ElGenaidi said. (Source: Kim article, SF Chronicle, 9/13/01)
>>
>> o Sean Fernandes, a 26-year old Indian Catholic, said he was walking with a
>> white Australian friend early Saturday morning, when a man came up, called
>> him a "dirty Arab," and punched him and the friend. His friend was stabbed
>> in the ensuing brawl and remains hospitalized in critical condition. "I've
>> lived in this country for eight years, and felt at home here, but this
>> makes me re-evaluate," said Mr. Fernandes, a software engineer. "I'm
>> completely shocked. I've always thought people here were very tolerant, but
>> I guess tough times bring out their true colors." (Source: Lewin &
>> Goodstein article, NY Times, 09/18/01)
>>
>> San Mateo:
>>
>> o A gasoline bomb was thrown through the window of a Sikh family's home,
>> hitting a 3-year-old on the head, but not exploding. (Source: Lewin &
>> Goodstein article, NY Times, 09/18/01)
>> Stockton
>> o Amarjit Singh Dadwal, a Sikh, described being shouted at and called an
>> "Iraqi" by four or five white teens and adults in a van Tuesday. The Sikh
>> Temple on South Grant Street in Stockton, which dates back to 1906, is the
>> oldest such temple in the United States. The existing building, with a
>> large, airy room carpeted in bright blue and red, was built in 1929.There
>> are an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 Sikhs in San Joaquin County. (Bott article,
>> The Record, 9/14/01)
>> Colorado
>>
>> Colorado Springs
>>
>> o Buggie and Pinky Bajwa, Sikh Americans, awoke Thursday morning, 9/13/01,
>> to find the word ``Terrorists'' sprayed in red paint across their family's
>> driveway and ``Terrist on board'' written on their white car. (Source: AP
>> Article, 9/18/01)
>>
>> Illinois
>>
>> Chicago
>>
>> o 9/12/01, police in Bridgeview, Ill., turned back 300 marchers -- some
>> waving American flags and shouting "USA! USA!" _ as they tried to march on
>> a mosque in the Chicago suburb. Three demonstrators were arrested. There
>> were no injuries and demonstrators were kept blocks from the closed Muslim
>> house of worship. "I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always
>> have," said 19-year-old Colin Zaremba who marched with the group from Oak
>> Lawn. (Source: Coffee article, AP, 9/13/01)
>>
>> o In Chicago, a firebomb was tossed 09/12/01 at an Arab-American community
>> center. (Source: Coffee article, AP, 9/13/01)
>>
>> o In nearby Palos Heights, a man who used the blunt end of a machete to
>> attack a Moroccan gas station attendant was charged with a hate crime,
>> police said. The attendant did not seek treatment. (Source: Coffee article,
>> AP, 9/13/01)
>>
>> Indiana
>>
>> o A man in a ski mask in Gary, Ind., fired an assault rifle at a gas
>> station where a Yemen-born U.S. citizen born was working Wednesday,
>> 9/12/01, the Post Tribune of Merrillville, Ind., reported. Police were
>> investigating it as a hate crime. (Source: Coffee article, AP, 9/13/01)
>>
>> New Jersey
>>
>> o Vandals attacked two Indian owned businesses in Collingswood, N.J. The
>> vandals sprayed painted "leave town" (9/12/01).
>>
>> New York
>>
>> o 2 Pakistanis killed in Coney Island (Source: CAAAV e-mail, 9/17/01)
>>
>> o In Richmond Hills, NY, Attar Singh Bhatia was severely injured and
>> hospitalized when he was attacked with a baseball bat (9/11/01). (Source
>> IACFPA e-mail, 9/18/01)
>>
>> o In Richmond Hills, NY, two Sikh Americans were attacked with a paint ball
>> gun. The police arrested two men. (9/11/01). (Source IACFPA e-mail,
>> 9/18/01)
>>
>> o In Richmond Hills, NY, a gurdwara was fired upon with rubber bullets. An
>> arrest was made when the individual returned the following morning.
>> (9/11/01) (Source IACFPA e-mail, 9/18/01)
>>
>> o On Sept. 11, Amrik Singh Chawla, a South Asian American (Sikh), was
>> chased by a group of four men yelling "terrorist." They chased him for
>> four blocks. He was unharmed, but is deeply shaken by the entire incident.
>> (Source IACFPA e-mail, 9/17/01)
>>
>> o Meera Kumar, who, on Wednesday, was racially profiled and harassed by
>> police on a Boston-NY train, along with other South Asians and Arabs.
>> (Source: nmemon e-mail, 9/16/01)
>>
>> o One of the Sikh participants was giving a TV interview outside the
>> restaurant when a man pushing a baby stroller walked by, stopped and
>> started yelling at him, saying, "You Islamic mosquitoes should be killed."
>> It was caught on tape by Rohit Vyas and Pankaj Kumar of TV Asia, who have
>> been running it on the air. Rohit's e-mail: vyas at mindspring.com (Source:
>> nmemon e-mail, 9/16/01)
>>
>> o Human rights commission reports at least 3 attacks (1 Pakistani, 2 Arab)
>> in suffolk county. (Source: CAAAV e-mail, 9/17/01)
>>
>> o Taxi driver pulled out and beaten. (Source: CAAAV e-mail, 9/17/01)
>>
>> o In Huntington, N.Y., a 75-year-old man who was drunk tried to run over a
>> Pakistani woman in the parking lot of a shopping mall, police said. The man
>> then followed the woman into a store and threatened to kill her for
>> "destroying my country," authorities said. (Source: Coffee article, AP,
>> 9/13/01)
>>
>> o In Stony Brook, N.Y., on Sunday night, 9/16, shots were fired at the home
>> of an Indo-American who is a graduate of Stanford University. No injuries
>> were reported. (Source: Mangaliman, SJ Mercury News, 9/18/01)
>>
>> Ohio
>> o In suburban Cleveland, the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh Temple was attacked
>> with lit bottles of gasoline. At this time, no arrests have been made.
>> (9/12/01) (Source: IACFPA e-mail, 9/18/01; Lewin & Goodstein article, NY
>> Times, 09/18/01))
>>
>> Oklahoma
>> o In Tulsa, Okla., police said a Pakistani native was beaten by three men
>> late Tuesday in a hate crime. The victim was in a fair condition at a
>> hospital Thursday. (Source: Coffee article, AP, 9/13/01)
>>
>> o 9/15/01, Tulsa: Kimberly Lowe, a 21 year old full blood Creek, Native
>> American, and several Native friends were followed and harassed by a
>> vehicle of white males. The males threw items at the car and yelled "Go
>> back to your own country!" Kimberly, the driver, stopped the car and got
>> out to confront the males. The attackers drove to hit Kimberly, pin her
>> against another vehicle, then backed up and ran over her again. Lowe was
>> killed; police are investigating, have not deemed it a hate crime yet.
>> (Goldtooth, IEN, e-mail, 9/18/01)
>>
>> Oregon
>>
>> o On Sunday, 9/16/01, near Eugene, Ore., a 54-year old California woman was
>> arrested for trying to pull the turban off the head of a Sikh man at a
>> highway rest stop. (Source: Lewin & Goodstein article, NY Times, 09/18/01)
>>
>> Rhode Island
>>
>> o In Ronkonkoma, Long Island, a man was arrested on suspicion of waving a
>> pellet gun and shouting obscenities at a South Asian gas station worker.
>> (9/12/01) (Source: IACFPA e-mail, 9/18/01)
>>
>> o Sher J.B. Singh was pulled from an Amtrak train in Providence, Rhode
>> Island and arrested for possession of a concealed weapon. Mr. Singh was
>> carrying a three-inch kirpan. Unfortunately, national press wrongly claimed
>> that Mr. Singh was one of the terrorists being sought by the FBI (9/12/01).
>> (Source: IACFPA e-mail, 9/18/01)
>>
>> Texas
>> o Dallas police and the FBI are investigating whether the shooting death of
>> a Pakistani grocer in Pleasant Grove was out of anger at Muslims for
>> Tuesday's terrorist attacks. The killing occurred Saturday night, 9/16/01.
>> 46-year-old Waqar Hasan at Mom's Grocery was shot, but there was no
>> evidence of robbery or a struggle. (Source: Emily Article, The Dallas
>> Morning News, 9/17/01)
>>
>> o Mosques in Carrollton, Denton and Irving were attacked in what
>> authorities believe could have been a reaction to the terrorist attacks.
>> Shots were fired into the Carrollton and Irving (9/12/01) mosques and a
>> firebomb was thrown into the mosque in Denton. (Source: Emily Article, The
>> Dallas Morning News, 9/17/01) Early Thursday, 9/13/01, a Molotov cocktail
>> was thrown against the side of the Islamic Society of Denton, Texas,
>> causing an estimated $2,500 in damage, said Kiersten Dieterle, a
>> spokeswoman for the Dallas suburb. The building was empty and there were no
>> injuries. (Source: Coffee article, AP, 9/13/01)
>>
>> Washington
>> o Armed man allegedly set fire to a Seattle mosque. (Source: Sacramento
>> Bee, 9/18/01)
>>
>> Washington, DC
>>
>> o Rippy Singh was stopped by 4 white males in a car who accused him of
>> being a terrorist and said, "we will bomb you" in Washington, DC. (Source:
>> IACFPA e-mail, 9/18/01)
>>
>> o A South Asian American (Sikh), was exiting work this afternoon. As he
>> was leaving he was accosted by pedestrians on the street who began to yell
>> verbal expletives at him, and threatened to "get" him and bomb him in
>> retaliation for the terrorist acts earlier in the day. Although he was
>> able to escape the crowd, he too was deeply upset by the incident. (Source:
>> IACFPA e-mail, 9/17/01)
>>
>> Others:
>>
>> o Tamara Alfson, an American working at the Kuwait Embassy in Washington,
>> spent Wednesday counseling frightened Kuwaiti students attending schools
>> across the United States. "Some of them have already been harassed. People
>> have been quite awful to them," said Alfson, an academic adviser to about
>> 150 students. (Source: Coffee article, AP, 9/13/01)
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