A few days later his wife showed up at my landlords door, and my landlorded ripped into her, placing full blame for their deaths on the mother's shoulders. For days my landlord mourned the loss of the family. Arab American's are reeling in the backlash of the bad press from this event, as it did when the World Trade Center was bombed not long ago. Non-Arabs residents are in a quagmire trying to cope with the tolerance which is a requirement for our mutual existence, and our genuine concern for our saftey. Islam and Brooklyn are not currently meshing all that well.
International events are over flowing onto our streets.
Once again, the story in Brooklyn is ethnic strife as international events boil over with deadly consequences for the borough. Arab immigrants are finding their way to our home, and we are struggling to incorporate them, and them us, into our town. And for those with short memories, this is not the first time international politics has turned us upside down. The Potato famine caused a surge of Irish immigrants to Brooklyn, which eventually lead to draft riots during the Civil War. Arms of the Irish Republican Army have been captured on our streets.