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Duncan and the rest,
Hey, I understand how it is. My family moved here from Iran in 1979. We were ironically forced to move out of the country because our religion was not Islam, so the "fundamentalists" who had started taking power were persecuting us more, throwing us in jail for no reason, etc. So we were forced to leave the country otherwise we may not be alive today. Of course we get here, and it was right about the time they took the American hostages in the embassy, so damn if I didn't get a lot of crap growing up in KC those first few years. Then we had the Saddam Hussein pull off his buffonery, and we got crap from people even though we're not Arabs and had nothing to do with Iraq. I'm walking down a street for example, and this guy walks up and points his finger at me like it's a gun, and goes "bam" like he's going to come back and shoot me. Great.
So I'm used to it. It is sad, but I'm used to it. Hopefully some idiot doesn't decide to go out there and gun us down, trying to "clean up his country of all the terrorists."
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