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The simple fact is, they're not, not most of them. Hollywood and the news media just depict what Middle Eastern terrorists do as typical of terrorism. But think harder and you'll find many terrorists who are not. Think of the hundreds of attacks by the IRA, the cult in Japan that used nerve gas in the subways, or right here at home in the Oklahoma City bombing. For that matter, look to our past, of terrorist groups like the KKK who bombed churches and assassinated their opponents, like Medgar Evers. Sometimes the Klan staged armed attacks against whole communities like the Cherokees of Robeson County, N.C. Or you could look at state-sponsored terrorism like what happened in East Timor, or business-sponsored terrorism in Mexico in Chiapas by the ranch owners against the local Indians. Or Occidental Petroleum's sponsoring of terrorism against the U'wa Indians of Colombia. Yet the image that the media and Holllywood pushes is of the Arab terrorist, not white terrorists like the IRA or KKK. That's probably because the Arab community is small enough, and the culture is so alien to most Americans, that the media rightly knows they can get away with making that assumption easier.

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