What is an American? By Peter Ferrara, an associate professor of
law at the George Mason University School of Law You probably
missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually
a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper
there an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any
American. So I just thought I would write to let them know what
an American is, so they would know when they found one. An
American is English…or French, or Italian, Irish, German,
Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be
African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian,
or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American is Christian, or
he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are
more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference
is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
choose. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For
that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to
armed thugs claiming to