Arab Americans: Resist, Don't Enlist

Culture: Since according to Nadia Abou-Karr of Arabisto.com, the military is evil, government is evil and assimilation to American culture is totally evil. Fight the power while reaping the rewards of being in America.

I'm disturbed by the gratuitous National Guard solicitation targeted to Arab Americans that I have been seeing in places like The Arab American News and Dearborn's Arab International Festival. I am bombarded with these misleading, exploitative ads on TV, in the movie theater, and now in my Arab American media? Am I the only one who thinks it's abusive and unfair for Arabs to advocate service in the American military to other Arabs? Are our lives worth so little that we should sacrifice them in service of a government that has institutionalized discrimination against us, in order to perpetuate the same type of war and imperialism that brought many of our families here? [...] We must do all we can to increase our options for survival beyond total assimilation and acceptance of American patriotic values that demand our subordinance. We are all different, with different values and lifestyle, but one thing I am certain of is that helping the US government tear our homelands and our people apart will not make any of us free.

So embracing American patriotic values demands subordiance of some made up Arab nationalistic streak Nadia thinks exists? That is obnoxious post exposes the author's narrow-mindedness that all Arabs are the same and doing anything that goes against her definition of "Arabness" is being a traitor.

Tip: NRO media blog.