Oh, Sandra!
November 15, 2007
From Flip-flops to Falafel: Deja Vu 1942
November 15, 2007
“FBI Mined Store Records to Find Iranian Terrorists”
“Feds Hope to Follow Falafel Trail”
“LAPD to Build Data on Muslim Areas”
I chuckled when I first saw these headlines. Later, talk about the FBI’s Muslim mapping and weird preoccupation with fried chickpeas had me staring down into my coffee recalling the wartime tales my elders whispered to me of the dreaded knocks on the door following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and of menfolk being hustled off into the night by stern-faced FBI agents.
