l. I believe it was designed to turn Americans against each other. It should not be honored by associating it with any faith or ethnicity" (Thomson). Also, since the attacks, many mosques have been marched on. In one incident, while on a march on a mosque of a suburb of Chicago, nineteen-year-old marcher, Colin Zaremba said, "I'm proud to be American, and I hate Arabs" (Thomson). What blind fervor. Is this an indicator of what is going on in society currently, I am sad to say in many instances, 'yes.'
             The media, a great indicator of the patriotism happening in the country, sometimes influences its audience also. In Washington D.C., Washington Mutual ran an ad picturing a Middle Eastern man and read, "Worry About Your Neighbors, Not About Your Loan" (Malek). This is not uncommon in society, especially in a society where the media intertwines terrorists and terrorism with Arabs and Muslims. Many polls taken across the United States indicate the current trend of patriotism. In a CNN poll, respondents were split 49-49 on whether to require Arabs in the United States to carry a special ID card (Crowley). In an ABC NEWS poll, 43 percent of Americans said they thought the attacks would make them "personally suspicious" of people who appea
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