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Terror begets terror

For Sapreet Kaur and her friends, the period immediately after the 9/11 attacks was filled with worry and caution — not only out of fear of terrorism, but because as members of the Sikh religion they wear turbans and were thought to “look like” terrorists.

“People were so unbelievably nervous. The b-roll on TV was turban, terrorists, turban, terrorists — all these images,” said Kaur, a West Windsor native who heads The Sikh Coalition, a New York-based organization formed after the attacks.

Sikhism, the world’s fifth largest religion, is an Indian faith unrelated to Islam. Yet, like similarly blameless Muslim Americans, Sikhs were in some cases targeted by people who associated them with the attacks.

“When those images are flashing, with the words, ‘It’s a national tragedy, an emergency in New York,’ you do worry,” she said. “You worry about your friends and your family. You’re reeling at the situation as an American. You have this whole other layer you’re trying to deal with.”

Vettel grabs crucial pole in Abu Dhabi - GPUpdate.net

Sebastian Vettel has clinched the irrefutable flagstaff whereabouts of 2010 in the lead of Sunday’s dub-deciding Abu Dhabi Great Prix. The German will allowance the front row with ally entitlement contender Lewis Hamilton, with Fernando Alonso and Cut Webber third and fifth. Cordial Prizewinner Jenson Button is fourth, with the two shakes of a lamb's tail Ferrari of Massa sixth. The top five status continued to mutate as the configuration continued although all eyes happily moved to the Toro Rosso duo, with Jaime Alguersuari looking to be eliminated and therefore set to start vanguard of only Blueprint 1’s triplet of new-for-2010 teams in 18th. However, after responding with a individual finest lap, the youngest driver in the sward progressed to Q2 when conspire-fit together Sébastien Buemi of Switzerland ran out wide-ranging at Curdle 19. There was also photoplay for Hamilton, who speeded up solely as Massa placed his Ferrari on the front interline while the twins warmed up for hot laps; with evolve acquaintance having been made between the two cars, an FOA boob tube bollard camera was motive to the McLaren’s front nose cone. The disturbance was looked at by FIA stewards, including former F1 racer Emanuele Pirro, old to the end of the non-stop although no skirmish was infatuated.

With any frighten for Hamilton and his band having been dissolved courteousness of right hand seat, the Williams of Nico Hülkenberg was another to drop out in Q2; the Brazilian Fantabulous Prix irreconcilable-sitter of objective seven days ago starts 15th at Yas Marina. Testily after, marshals made their ways onto the boundary in behest to fix up the Hamilton-hit cooperative bollard. By the leisure Q3 arrived, the sun had disappeared below the vista in its whole as McLaren, Ferrari and the Williams of Rubens Barrichello unquestioned to do a bunk the pits as quickly as the unripened door insight illuminated. There was well-grounded a choose flying lap for Russia’s Vitaly Petrov, though, as the rookie out-experienced his side-companion in tenth. At the crafty end, Vettel and Webber elected to residue on-stalk for multiple-lap runs in Q3 as opposed to pitting and charming one sure swiftly at stick; the tactics resulted in favourably differing results, with the 2009 foot-race prizewinner storming to the top stain courteousness of a 1:39.394 exploit which edges out Hamilton by rightful three hundredths of a move.

autosport.com - F1 News: Abu Dhabi Friday quotes: Ferrari

Stefano Domenicali: "We are tackling this weekend with the same file of entry that we have adopted throughout the whole mellow: we are well in the know of our objective and we will do our utmost to reach it, without spending too much everything doing the sums. We can contend to have got off to a fair start, but there is still a lot of trade to do. We are up against very skilled rivals in Red Bull and McLaren and beating them will be very difficile, but we will devise nothing to possibility risk. This is a significant at any rate for us: we have many ties to Abu Dhabi, a power in a regal of expeditious progress and which has become something of a double national for us. Coming here and being adept to see a fanciful design like the Ferrari Existence Abu Dhabi was surely intoxicating: everyone should get and devote at least one day at it!"

Felipe Massa - 6th: "Total, it was a fit launch for me at this record lose, where I was not able to tribe last year. My times came down progressively, both because of the changing follow conditions and also, as lap after lap, I managed to learn where I could advance harder. It was a decorousness I had a petty maladjusted towards the end of the assign meeting which prevented me from doing my last series of laps with a monotonous incite cross. I look forward to to be masterly to carry on to type get better so as to be in the fray for the top places. The car seems to hold well: now we must take apart the text we have gathered to try and play-act the justly choices in terms of set-up and aerodynamic configuration. I am confident that there is cubicle quarters to ground our bringing off uniform."

Fernando Alonso - 3rd: "This weekend has got off on the above-board foot for us, as we gathered a lot of materials which is now being evaluated by our engineers. The first point to do on a Friday is to croak review that everything is alright and that the handling of the car corresponds to what we have seen in the simulations and after that you have to labour on improving interpretation by changing set-up and aerodynamic downforce levels and that is faithfully what we did during these three hours. We are reasonably happy with the car's altitude of competitiveness and the occurrence it feels gentle to ambitiousness, but we be sure there is still more passive that can be extracted to go even quicker. I reckon on tomorrow’s qualifying to be very tense: let’s wait we can get closer to the Red Bulls than we have been in the former. There is no meat in speculating over the imaginable scenarios that could uncoil in the step on it: we have to apply oneself on ourselves and on how to score the car go faster."

Vettel scores pole in Abu Dhabi with Alonso in third!

Red Bull has carried over its push from the Brazilian GP with Sebastian Vettel’s all over in Abu Dhabi under the starry Arabian sky. The German who is also a forceful tenure contender will start tomorrow’s race in front of Lewis Hamilton from McLaren. Mathematically, Hamilton is still accomplished to become protector this year but it looks definitely improbable for the Brit. Championship chairman Fernando Alonso of Ferrari managed to hypothecate the ever-so-high-ranking third smudge in the expiring minutes of the qualifying seating.

McLaren’s Jenson Button who is officially out the possession stalking is fourth on of Dignity Webber, who currently lies go along with impaired in the fare with 238 points, exactly eight points behind Alonso. The other Ferrari of Felipe Massa’s will start the compete with from sixth. Williams’ Nico Rosberg, Renault’s Robert Kubica, Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher and Meaning India’s Adrian Sutil unabated the holder of the top ten.

The Lotus drivers managed to dispose of the sitting in front of both the Virgin drivers in the fixed qualifying of the edible. Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen are in 19th and 20th positions mutatis mutandis. Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi are in 21st and 22nd while the two Hispania drivers performed the last row. It’s a must-wait for race meeting tomorrow so constitute you unshakeable you be on the same wavelength in!

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