To whom it may concern
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ٍSubject : Call on Immediate Response to our Demands

We, the members of the World Association of Arab Translators & Linguists (WATA), are writing you to bring your attention to this offensive information that appear in your definition of the name 'Arab':

*4. Sometimes Offensive. a street peddler (esp. in Baltimore).
*5. street Arab.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
* Meaning "homeless little wanderer, child of the street" is from 1848, in ref. to nomadic ways.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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We call on you to take prompt and definitive action that reflects your claimed unbiased attitude.

Henceforward, we call on you to:

1- Publicly repudiate these definitions and synonyms.

2- Apologize to the Arab people for this unjustified provocation of hatred and hostility.

3- Withdraw all copies that carry these offences from the market.

4- Send errata sheets to libraries, schools, academic institutions, etc.

5- Send a letter of apology to WATA and publish a copy of it on your own website.

Our campaign against you will not cool down and will fervently continue until our demands, stated above, are met. It will grow larger and stronger and will include all the Arab people.
It will also seek to reach the International Anti-Discriminations Committees and Civil Rights Organizations all over the world. We will call on them to take action against the flagrant racist policy you adopt against the Arab nation.

We are confident that you will address this serious matter in timely manner and do the right thing, and we strongly advise that you do not turn a deaf ear but respond to our demands.

Racism and xenophobia should have no place in America or anywhere else for that matter.