Mr. Steinberg insisted that the delisting "was not done out of malevolence or any racial or ethnic bigotry."

In other words, those horrible attacks might indirectly provoke a vigorous, influential, Islamic voice opposing religious and ethnic bigotry in the world.

Religions and ethnic bigotry can be easy to ignite and difficult to extinguish.

It should be retired from civil discourse and placed in the trash heap of the discarded language of racial, religious and ethnic bigotry.

But he is a personal witness to ethnic bigotry, he said.

An assailant motivated by racial, religious, ethnic or sexual bigotry could be charged with additional felony counts and suffer harsher penalties.

It would make hate crimes a new offense that could result in additional felony counts against an assailant motivated by racial, religious, ethnic or sexual bigotry.

Today, just like 27 years ago, racial and ethnic bigotry remains the central reality of most of our clients' lives.

Thanks to current international politics, however, one form of ethnic bigotry retains an aura of respectability in the United States: prejudice against Arabs.

Americans of all faiths must come together to marginalize extremists and to challenge ethnic and religious bigotry.