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| Tampa's Muslim Community Skittish After Professor's Arrest |
| 2003-02-20 |
| Tampa Bay's sizable Muslim community reacted Wednesday with suspicion and alarm to the news that a University of South Florida professor had been arrested, accused of heading a violent terrorist organization. "This used to be the land of freedom and democracy," said Lubaba Aldaker, a worker at a Middle Eastern bakery in a strip mall that also has an Arabian grocery and cafe. "Not anymore." "Suspicion and alarm" means toilet paper consumption spiked. Normally, the definition of freedom and democracy doesn't include the freedom to run international conspiracies dedicated to slaughtering one's fellow man... "There is no justice," added Gheyas Swar, a fellow worker at Bonsoir Bakery. "We don't see any evidence. Where is the evidence? They have to show somebody the evidence to arrest him." As a matter of fact, they do. Presumably, they showed the evidence to the judge prior to rounding him up. The rule book doesn't say anything about calling down to the bakery for permission to grab the Bad Guys. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |