Al-Ahram Weekly has published an interesting commentary by Geneive Abdo and Steven Simon called "The Muslim Ghetto"--about how American Muslims are being pushed into a virtual ghetto by the attitudes of their non-Muslim neighbors. For example, a poll conducted by Cornell last year showed that 27 per cent of 1,000 respondents supported requiring all Muslim Americans to register their home addresses with the federal government, and nearly half believed the US government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans.
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