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23 July, 2004
23 July 2004"Religious Message Halts Train": Jason George can't be faulted for all the holes in his cryptic report in The New York Times--that a New York-bound Amtrak train was detained for 90 minutes yesterday after a passenger found a note containing Muslim and anti-Semitic phrases in a bathroom. Law enforcement officials said that the note, which "made no explicit threats," did make "statements against Jews and praised God," but would not elaborate on its text. But even if George was prevented from investigating the religious nuances of the note, there's another subtext to explore here: Namely, what are the implications of equating hateful speech and religious zeal with terrorist threats, and how is such an equation to be applied?
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