• Peo­ple have been told, ‘Your name is Mohammed; your name is Ahmed; you must be a ter­ror­ist.’ How do you bring peo­ple into the gov­ern­ment when they have been sub­jected to a great deal of discrimination?
• Arab Amer­i­can News pub­lisher Osama Siblani • Dis­cussing the CIA’s plan to try to hire Arab-Americans in Dear­born, Mich. The Detroit sub­urb, cur­rently the heart of the U.S.’ Mid­dle East­ern com­mu­nity, is being tar­geted by the CIA to help boost its intel­li­gence ranks and diver­sity. Many applaud the deci­sion but ques­tion the trust Arabs can have with the orga­ni­za­tion, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the way they’ve been treated by the gov­ern­ment post-9/11. source

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