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Fla. Reporter Suspended for Arab Comments By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Tallahassee Democrat has suspended a reporter for an e-mail he sent to a reader referring to Arabs squatting 'around a camel-dung fire' and putting 'their bottoms in the air five times a day' in prayer. Bill Cotterell, a political writer and columnist, was replying to an e-mail from a reader angry over a political cartoon that asked, 'What would Mohammed Drive?' and depicted a Middle Eastern-looking man driving a Ryder truck with a nuclear bomb in the back. The e-mail exchange evolved into a discussion of Israel. Cotterell wrote that Arab nations have had 54 years to accept Israel. 'They choose not to. OK, they can squat around the camel-dung fire and grumble about it, or they can put their bottoms in the air five times a day and pray for deliverance; that's their business.' Democrat Executive Editor John Winn Miller suspended Cotterell starting Friday for one week without pay following complaints about the e-mail from a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group...
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