It's not the AG's job to fight bigotry.  If bigotry leads to crime, then he should deal with the crime.  But bigotry itself is not in his portfolio.

"With all this hooplah, one would imagine that Arabs are being attacked,
mistreated and discriminated against all across the country at an
alarming rate."

They should have read this;

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA31507

Reformist author Abdelwahab Meddeb was born in Tunisia in 1946, and has been living in Paris since 1968. He is the editor of the international French-language literary journal Dédale and professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X in Nanterre. Meddeb has written several books, including La Maladie de l’Islam, which
aroused considerable interest around the world and has been translated
into English, Arabic, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and
Turkish. The book discusses the relationship between Islam and the West
in light of the history of Islamic thought, and in connection with
today's violent political Islam. Meddeb argues in the book that Islam
is afflicted with the illness of fundamentalism.

In September 2006, Meddeb published a book titled Contre-Prêches (Counter-Preaching). The book was based on his weekly radio program, which is aimed at the large French-speaking community in North Africa and has been aired by the Moroccan station Radio Mediterranee Internationale since March 2003. Contre-Prêches
is a collection of 115 essays on a variety of topics, including Islam,
antisemitism, the veil, multiculturalism, and the fall of dictators.

The following is a review of Meddeb's views on these topics, as presented in La Maladie de l’Islam and Contre-Prêches:

Meddeb argues that Islam has declined over time: "Islamic society used
to be a society that delighted in pleasure, [a society] based on love
of life. [Today], it has become a prudish [society] with an aversion to
sensuality... The tradition of exalting the [human] body seems to have
[completely] vanished from certain Islamic lands, which have been
devastated by the order imposed [upon them] by half-literate people
afflicted with resentment...

About Islamist terrorists, Meddeb says: "No criminal is more despicable
than one who not only fails to feel any guilt after [committing] his
[crime], but also harbors the illusion that this [crime] will bring
him... divine reward. This conversion of bad into good not only spares
him guilt, but also turns an unhappy person into a happy soul... "

Meddeb further writes: "Great Britain is now paying the price of its
incomprehensible tolerance towards these sowers of dissension, trouble,
and apocalyptic [doom]. Obviously, the democratic tradition of this
country, which gave birth to the [principle of] Habeas Corpus, is
admirable. But [this principle] should not be implemented so
scrupulously that it [undermines] other people's right to live."

Meddeb believes that Islam has developed into an unproductive
religion, and that Arabs today should rid themselves of the influence
of Islam: "Imagine a meeting of representatives of the various
civilizations: European, American, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, African,
Arab, and Muslim. Each [representative] would be asked what his
civilization could contribute to the humanity's present and future.
What could the Arab Muslim offer? Nothing, except for Sufism,
perhaps... Unless they take a new direction, one can reasonably assume
that the Arab [civilization], constrained by the framework of Islamic
faith, will join the great dead civilizations..."

"It is up to the Arab to take the courageous [step of]
questioning [his faith] until he feels that Islam is a disease, until
he reduces this useless and all-pervasive [influence] to the size of an
insect, until he de-Islamizes his Arab identity. Then the lock may
begin to break, and the doors [to freedom] may begin to open."

Meddeb holds that it was right to show the humiliation of Saddam
Hussein on TV in the Arab world, since this put an end to a myth: "...
I believe this was an education for the Arab masses who still worship
dictators. They were forced to witness his degradation, and to see him
dug out of his dark hole... without offering any resistance... [It was
important for them] see him... transformed into a submissive victim so
that the myth could be shattered. Such a fall... should be the lot of
any dictator who forces the people to venerate his image..."

Regarding the process of democratization in Iraq, Meddeb writes: "Never
have the Arabs witnessed such an event - a member of a minority was
elected president of a society which has an Arab majority, and which
considers itself Arab. Here is Jalal Talabani, a Kurd heading the Iraqi
state..."

Meddeb also regards the fall of the Lebanese government on March 28,
2005 as a milestone for democracy in the Middle-East: "The fall of the
Lebanese government is heartening because it was caused by popular
pressure and set precedence in the Arab world. On the symbolic level,
this event deserves to be inscribed [in the book of] great events in
political [history]... We live at a time when the democratic process is
in motion. What is happening around the world teaches us that it is
possible to confront a dictatorship and triumph over it."

Sounds like someone is in full attack mode here.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,
peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of
soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

And yet President Bush is criticized for being too lenient on Muslims by the Right for not profiling them at the airport.  Then these idiots complain about anti-Arab bigotry by the government? A no win situation.  I will have to hand it to President Bush, he shows way more character and tolerance than all of the critics put together, at least he doesn't flip-flop everytime some fool opens their yap to criticize and complain because he doesn't meet their expectations.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius

I have said it 100 times on this site, but I’ll make this 101.

The day the Muslims, as a whole, stand up and forcefully denounce terrorism, which is mainly a Muslim product, only then will I begin to give 1 ounce of concern over their manufactured plight.  The way the liberals in this country are inviting the Muslims to take our country over, I would thing the Muslims would keep their traps shut and not look a gift horse in the mouth. 

My advice to the “peaceful” Muslims – if you are not with us (i.e. speaking out against terrorism at a bare minimum), you’re against us.