, "We don't want to fall into the same trap as the people who committed this evil. 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 a 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 terrorist 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 ABCNEWS' poll, 43 percent of Americans said they thought the attacks would make them "personally suspicious" of people who appear to be of Arabic descent (Thomson). Some of these partakers of these surveys even agreed to the possible internment of Arabic American; this is appalling at the least, that someone could think in this manner. More recently, this past month three Arab American were detained fo
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