Anonymous@5236 to answer your question of why there is so much animosity towards Arabs (and I'm not saying I think it is right, and I know it is wrong to generalize): I believe this is part of the reason. To be honest, as far back as I can remember, Arabs and the middle east in general have seemed to be at the center of global turmoil. Yes, it is caused by a relatively small group of extremists, but you just don't here this happening nearly as much in other parts of the world. Every time you hear about an airliner being blown up, a school full of children being blown up, or a cafe full of teenagers being blown up, it always comes back to Muslims. Every time it involves innocent people being violently killed. It ends up appearing that the Arab world does not believe in expressing their grievances in a civilized manner. They seem to quickly resort to indiscriminate violence. I really don't know why this is, maybe they are brought up to deal with problems in a passionate, violent way or something.