Hate crimes result from terrorist attacks in U.S.

Americans of various nationalities and backgrounds are suffering onslaughts of violence as repercussions of terrorist attacks launched against the United States.
Headlines highlighting hate crimes are rapidly filling newspapers despite televised pleas from President Bush asking people to support fellow Arab Americans and not to act out in vengeance.
One such incident occurred when Said Ismail, the owner of Po-Boy Express, was falsely accused of rejoicing at the destruction of the World Tower Center. E-mail and radio circulated these erroneous accusations before they could be caught and corrected.
While this situation ended well, unfortunately not all of them do.
An Indian-immigrant gas station owner was killed. A native of Yemen, also a gas station owner, has been shot at repeatedly. A fire was set to a Seattle mosque and a driver tried to run over a Pakistani woman.
Immanuel Gnonasekar, a Southern University physics researcher from India said that since he has been here in the United States, Americans have been very kind to him. Gnonasekar said, “Now Americans think international people have betrayed them. It’s a stabbing of their trust. Things will change now because Americans have the right to feel betrayed.”
Gnanasekar asked the question, “Will America recoup and come back to their normal position?” He went on to say, “We pray for this nation. We pray for this president.”
Ironically enough, some of the international groups being victimized by Americans here in the United States are also being attacked by the terrorists who are believed to be in association with the recent attacks on the United States.
Immanuel Gnonasekar said, “The same terrorists who attack you also attack us in India.”