This is what psychiatrists and rabbis, professors and imams said this week in the BEN 's sister Gannett group newspapers in New York State. It is such an intense feeling. But we can't act on it as individuals. If we vilify the enemy as less than human, it will stop us from fully understanding what needs to be done to recover. Dr Steven Shainmark, a psychiatrist and chief of evaluation at St Vincent's Hospital in Harrison, said bloodthirstiness is a natural reaction to the bloodletting.
Anger is seductive and easy to succumb to.
I'm angry, too, like everyone else, but, as a professional, I know anger is often what we feel to cover feelings of fear and hopelessness. Arabs and Muslims are especially worried about the emotions around them. Linda Berns, executive director of the Westchester chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said government may be ripe to tighten security at the expense of civil liberties. Muhammad Shafiq, imam of the Islamic Center of Rochester, said people of different faiths should make a point to understand others better. Rabbi Laurence Kotok, of Temple B'rith Kodesh, said Americans should prepare for more violence.