‘American’ lessons

JEFFREY FLEISHMAN’S article “Director Shines a Light on Arabs’ Plight in America” [Dec. 23] was superb. Egyptian-born Hesham Issawi’s “American East” has shown us that radical Islamists may have attacked the U.S. on 9/11, but subjecting Arab Americans to particular venom is wrong. Issawi’s film has provided us the ultimate lesson: When differences in religion or ethnicity give birth to hatred, that is when the terrorists have won.

Evan Dale Santos

Adelanto