James Zogby
James Zogby
James Joseph Zogbyfounder and president of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based organization which serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. He is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world. In September 2013, Zogby was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom by President Obama. Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor...
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As long as these kids grow up not only in an economic underclass but excluded from being French or Dutch it's problematic. When people in my community get angry about American foreign policy they get angry as citizens and they fight back as citizens. The process is more open to including them.
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They recognized the Taliban, as did Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, because the United States wanted them to.
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They have a surplus of capital, and they're doing quite well.
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a coherent policy that can punish the regime while offering sustenance and hope to the people of Iraq.
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Bizarre policies were implemented by the government post-9/11, ... But the pendulum's going back because a whole lot of people are pushing it back.
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It was a very good meeting. He's listening and he's setting a good tone. We've still got some problems to work through, especially detention and profiling.
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He is understanding of the concerns. He is someone whom we've known and worked for a long time, many of us, and we feel confident that he is a person with whom we can work.
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In this region, as well, in many places, workers, be they Palestinians or other Arabs or south Asians, are trapped in horrible conditions, denied justice and their basic humanity.
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If we expect credit, or expect that this somehow is responsive to the anger of those who have become alienated from the United States, it's not.
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What started this and drives this is bigotry.
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We continue to oppose the use of military force and think that there's a very significant risk of grave unrest in the Arab world.
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We see Arabs as an objectified problem. We see the culture as less than ours, we see them as more violent than we are.
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There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.
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NSEERS was so poorly conceived and badly managed that it created chaos and fear. Trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement was severely strained and, in the end, there was no evidence that any terrorists were apprehended as a result of the effort.