Posted on 09/01/2006 2:31:00 PM PDT by Alouette
CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Muslims still face high levels of hatred and suspicion nearly five years after the September 11 attacks and political leaders and the news media are mostly to blame, Muslim leaders said on Friday.
"During the last five years the Muslim community has been scrutinized by almost all branches of the government and the media to the extent that more than half a million Muslims have been directly touched by this process," said Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.
"They continue to face dehumanization and a great trend of Islamophobia," he added, speaking to reporters at the start of the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest yearly gathering of U.S. and Canadian Muslims.
"The trends of Islamophobia unfortunately are worsening," he added, blaming "television driven by media makers" and political leaders for the situation.
The September 11 attacks, planned by the al Qaeda group of Osama bin Laden, were carried out by Islamic men flying hijacked planes into the World Trade center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington.
Mujahid cited President George W. Bush's recent remark that if terrorism is not beaten in Baghdad then Americans will have to fight it in their own streets as a remark that casts suspicions on Muslims in their own country.
Ingrid Mattson, newly elected president of ISNA and the first woman to head the group, agreed about the continuing level of problems faced by Muslims but said there was also a growing level of education and understanding across "civil society" that finds Muslim leaders sometimes hard pressed to keep up with demands for speeches and other outreach opportunities.
Hollywood and popular culture in general, she added, seem to have done a better job of putting a human face on Muslim adherents than the news media.
It aint the Amish causing the trouble.
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Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists are Muslim.
It's not rocket science and doesn't require complex logic to figure this out, people. There was not one looney terrorist involved in 9-11 who was NOT a freakin' Muslim. Get it through your heads.
I did my best to stop your download and it just didn't work!
P.S. Islamophobia means we know you and what your intentions are.
I have a simple solution for Muslims who don't like being in America anymore:
GTF outta here.
Problem solved. Say hello to Mekka-lekka-hai, Mekka heidi-ho when you get back home.
But don't worry, we will kill you in a very friendly fashion.
"Islamophobia"
Bullshiite. Make them Americanphobic. Send the bas**rds back to their sands.
Memo to Muslims and Arabs: If you don't like it here, leave. Otherwise, STFU.
In the American melting pot Muslims don't melt.
but but but....it's the relgion of peace!!!!
The five pillars of Islam..... murder, bestiality, terrorism, cowardice and abuse of women and children.
Know islam, no peace;
No islam, know peace
Oh no. Your batsh*t crazy fellow Muslims who want to turn Israel into a crater, drive SUVs through our college campii, kill 2900 of our fellow Americans, roll grenades into their superior officers' tents, blow up subways, plan to bring down jetliners, and blow up nightclubs don't POSSIBLY have anything to do with it. Nope.
Suck it up, Mahmet al-Buttercup. You don't like the scrutiny? Turn in the jihadists among you, or get the hell out of the free world and go back to your Sixth World ratholes. CAIR and their ilk have destroyed any sympathy I had for American Muslims after 9/11.
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Are they here legally or do they speak from the perspective of illegals to gain sympathy from liberals in order to stay.
I guess those pictures of the Muslim jihadi holding up Nick Bird's gory severed head didn't have a thing to do with developing our loathing of Muslims. These whiners are extremely fortunate that Christians and Jews don't behave like the Muslim savages do, but as the Hezbo fighters told the CNN reporter, "We are not Christians. We don't turn the other cheek."
Ooops...make that Nick Berg.
They continue to face dehumanization
Dehumanization - you mean like covering all women in blankets. Oh, but that isn't dehumanization. That's cultural diversity.
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