The Washington Post reports:
Yasmin Hussein was 13 when Osama bin Laden’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon transformed the lives of Muslim Americans. She, her mother and sister stayed home for two weeks, fearing harassment or worse. For years, the District resident said, “I just felt like the label was tattooed on my forehead.”
But on Sunday night, she and other Muslim Americans joined hundreds of others in front of the White House to celebrate the news that bin Laden was dead — news that Hussein, now 23, called a “milestone.”
No one seemed to care that Hussein, who coordinates the Young Leaders program at the Muslim Public Affairs Council [no relation to MPAC UK], was wearing an Islamic head scarf. “A lot of people gave me smiles,” she said.
Meanwhile Socialist Unity seems to find something significant in a video of New York subway riders failing to join some clown in chanting “USA! USA!” after the killing of bin Laden. Here’s the significance: There’s a time and a place for everything.
Update: This sort of thing is disgusting and, I hope, very much the exception.
