Posted on 07/08/2005 2:41:57 PM PDT by True Capitalist
Afghans at Queens Mosque Are Divided Over bin Laden
September 19, 2001
By DEXTER FILKINS
At New York City's largest Afghan mosque, supporters of the Taliban have chosen to pray in the basement or outside in the parking lot. They have not returned to the mosque for daily prayers since last Friday, when their imam denounced the attacks on the World Trade Center.
"When I speak against the Taliban and Osama, they harass me; so many times they harass me," Imam Mohammed Sherzad, the leader of Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq mosque, said at his office in Flushing, Queens. "They say: "Why do you speak against Osama bin Laden? He is a good Muslim.' "
The tensions at the mosque last Friday reflect in part the heightened anxieties and divided loyalties among the city's Afghans, who number roughly 20,000.
A week after the attacks, many find themselves torn between their adopted country and the fear that their devastated homeland will feel the brunt of a retaliatory strike from the United States.
As Washington appears to be preparing a military assault on Afghanistan, many Afghans in New York are pleading for their country to be spared even as they distance themselves from its leaders. While Afghans across the city have condemned last week's terrorism, a small number appear to be standing by the Taliban and the man accused of masterminding the attack.
At the Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq mosque, tucked into a section of Flushing, the predominant sentiment is dread for friends and relatives back home...
(Excerpt) Read more at query.nytimes.com ...
Supporters of the Taliban and/or Bin Laden should be expelled from this country immediately.
They are a cancer.
The World Trade Center attacks have only intensified the schisms in Afghan mosques throughout the region since the Taliban began its rise to power in 1994. At Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq, the imam says his congregation has been feuding with some members for months.
"They are connected to the Taliban," said the imam. "The Taliban wants to destroy the center."
Members of the pro-Taliban contingent that opted to pray in the basement declined to be interviewed. Experts who have studied Afghan exiles in the United States say that such schisms have broken out in mosques in Virginia and California, and that they often reflect the ethnic divisions that mirror the support and opposition to the Taliban. In Afghanistan, the Taliban forces are made up almost entirely of Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group. The anti-Taliban forces are made up largely of ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks and other minorities.
"The Afghan community is extremely divided, largely along ethnic lines," said Barnett Rubin, studies director at New York University's Center on International Cooperation. "There are pro-Taliban factions and there are anti-Taliban factions."
At the Hazrat-I-Abubakr mosque, the imam and many who support him are ethnic Tajiks. Those in the breakaway faction, they said, are mostly ethnic Pashtuns. The feuding has spilled outside the mosque, with the police saying they have been called several times recently to separate the two groups.
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If they're still gathering in the basement or in the parking lot for prayers almost four years after 9/11 they should be easy to spot, round up, and throw out of the country. Their means of transport back to Afghanistan should be a slow leaky boat.
If not, then Islam must be incinerated.
Bin Laden is an observant Muslim.
He won't be excommunicated, he is a hero to them.
The article is an old one (see post#1); which leaves me to wonder what "oppressors" they were fleeing to come to this country. Possibly the commies from a generation ago? Certainly if Osama was such a great guy, these Muslims, in 2001, would have been back in the old country supporting the Taliban. Funny how they had remained in the USA even at that time.
Many good, educated, Afghanis have gone back to re-build their country. More than likely these parking lot praying Muslim dregs are still here pissing and moaning.
What a country we live in. I can't see supporting these types very much longer.
Dead one?
Hooah
What we are looking for is a split in Islam comparable to the Reformation. We need to see Islam recognize this split and denounce the part that encourages and supports violence. This post indicates that Muslims recognize this as well. We need a world wide split to develop and the peaceful sect to be supported and the terrorist sect to be killed or forced into the hills, (where bin Ladin is today). This is the first time I have even heard of a mosque taking this issue on. We need more.
And yet CNN wants me to worry about hurting their feelings.
They are a cancer.
They are ENEMIES and TRAITORS
I suggest hurting a slightly more visible and tender part of their anatomy
Names and addresses, we need their names. Otherwise the Imam is just flapping his gums.
But when the issue is muzzies, then it's not quite so...
...once the bastards assume room temperature, there is no measure of "good" conferred upon them.
They merely cease doing evil, that's all.
" Names and addresses, we need their names. Otherwise the Imam is just flapping his gums."
Roger that. Problem is there are many very sharp curved knives available on a moments notice.
"They are ENEMIES and TRAITORS"
Only if they have become American citizens. Else only the first adjective applies. Lets not forget about the heaven knows how many Muslims reside in this country with visas, attend our school systems, some work, some play, many get green card privelges to get freebies, and some come to set up terroist cells. We got quite a mix. The world melting pot, and the pot is quickly melting down.
>supporters of the Taliban have chosen to pray in the basement or outside in the parking lot.<
There is your problem UK. You still allow Taliban supporters in your midst instead of having them deported. Is the West really serious about fighting terrorism?
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