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Yesterday I posted about some rather disturbing visceral reactions to the killing of minister Chatah. But while many people write this behavior off as an Arab, Muslim or Middle Eastern phenomenon, religious-based discrimination and hatred is very alive and well in the USA, and its a bit worse than I expected. Read the full account in below. It is a Storify embed, so use the scroll bar on the right if the conversation seems cut off in your browser:

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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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