For proud Pakistani-US community, an embarrassment focus 05/07/2010

For proud Pakistani-US community, an embarrassment

focus 05/07/2010 SILVER SPRING — Across from a counter serving up heaping plates of kabobs and curries, Zahid Hussain scrolled through his phone for messages from fellow Pakistani-Americans. The topic was hardly a surprise. “Pakistanis are afraid. When they see on television, ‘Pakistani terrorist in Times Square,’ they just want to hide their face,” Hussain said at a brightly lit Pakistani restaurant in suburban Washington. Hussain, who publishes a local Urdu-language newspaper, said he spoke with his school-age children after hearing that a Pakistani-American, Faisal Shahzad, was arrested in Saturday’s plot to sow destruction in one of New York’s busiest intersections. Hussain immigrated to the United States in 2003 and said his children had once even asked if they could change their names due to the image of their homeland in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune   URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100507com3.html

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