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American-Islamic Relations (date accessed: 1 May 2003).
[FN97]. Ibid.
[FN98]. Ibid
[FN99]. See“ReportonHateCrimes&DiscriminationAgainstArabAmericans:ThePost-September11Backlash,”online:
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (date accessed: 1 May
2003).
[FN100]. Cookseylaterapologizedforhiscomments.“PoliticianApologisesFor‘DiaperOnHisHead’Remark,”(21
September 2001) online: Ananova (date accessed: 1 May
2003).
[FN101]. SeeGross&Livingston,supra note 61 at 1419 for a brief discussion of this argument.
[FN102]. Supra note 52 at 195 (per La Forest J.).
[FN103]. SeeBrooks v. Canada Safeway Ltd., [1989]1S.C.R.1219.
[FN104]. Seeforexample,Law, supra note 15 at 533-34 where the Court observes that “[e]quality analysis under the
Charter is concerned with the perspective of a person in circumstances similar to those of the claimant.”
[FN105]. Transnationalityrepresentsadouble-edgedsword.“Weshouldrememberthattheideaoftransnationalityisnot
solely one where immigrants function as agents in maintaining diasporic ties, but can be one where a state or its people
brands its citizens with foreign membership, extraterritorializing them into internment camps, or ejecting them from
membership through violence against their bodies.” Supra note 69 at 1597-98.
[FN106]. Ibid at 1592.
[FN107]. MichelleMacAfee,“ArabandMuslimCanadiansEndureYearofCollectiveBlame”(24September2002)online:
The Canadian Press (date accessed: 1 May 2003).
[FN108]. MyarticleshouldbenotbeinterpretedtomeanthatthereshouldbenoWaragainstTerrorismifthatmeans
finding those who were directly responsible for the events of September and preventing further attacks. My point is
simply that racial profiling is neither rational nor necessary in the War against Terrorism.
[FN109]. Supra note 1 at 111.
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