[thechat] Attacks and Harassment of Middle-Eastern Americans Rising

[Michael Trim]

"If 5,000 people have died in Manhattan, even if 10,000 people have died in
Manhattan and Washington and Pittsburgh, that represents less than two
months of the number of children who have died in Iraq every single month of
every single year for 11 years, according to the United Nations themselves,"
Mr Galloway said.

I think this puts the tradgedy in the US into a more global perspective,
read the full story of the debate in the UK House of Commons here

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,552100,00.html