Posted on 10/02/2006 9:10:43 AM PDT by newgeezer
 Sister Joyce, left, from St. Louis, watches Faiqa Hassan, center, from Maryland Heights, spoon out the last of the rice Wednesday evening in the pot held by Dr. Waheed Rana in the kitchen of the West Pine Islamic Center on the St. Louis University campus. They were preparing the meal for Iftar, the breaking of the fast, during this month of Ramadan for Muslims. |
Beginning with the monthlong Israel-Hezbollah conflict through Pope Benedict XVI's inflammatory lecture last month, American Muslims say they feel more uneasy in their own country. Local incidents, including the August screening of a controversial anti-terrorism movie and an FBI raid on the home of a Muslim in Columbia, Mo., have heightened the anxiety, according to dozens of St. Louis Muslims interviewed over the last few weeks.
"Muslims are feeling like the world is closing in on them," said Orvin T. Kimbrough, executive director of the Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis. "They feel like they're being targeted."
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Since September 12, 2001, Americans have become increasingly uncomfortable and even fearful not because of overt attacks or threats against them, but because a sequence of incidents have built upon each other to form an intense, low-grade foreboding.
They hate the West. Why are they here ?
Cry me a river. Perhaps they would feel safer back home in Fubarstan.
They should either learn to become real Americans or leave.
But of course, I, as an American and a Christian, would NO DOUBT feel perfectly comfortable and safe in a place like Iran or Saudi Arabia or even the Palestinian area of Israel.
They sure as hell aren't wary around here. They generally expect all Americans to kiss their @sses.
Wait 'till they see the new mohamad bobblehead doll.
"American Muslims say they feel more uneasy in their own country."
Given how muslims see sharia law, and the supercedence of the koran, I'd say that muslims feel uneasy in OUR country, not theirs.
We have spent generations teaching tolerance in the US. It's nearly impossible for some of us to recognize islam for what it is, and to realize there can be no middle ground. No negotiation.
Give up the death cult, that is the only way to solve the problem for these people. We are in the midst of a religous war, like it or not. And there are no bystanders, everyone will be affected one way or the other.
Hmmm. Interesting choice of words. Who is targeting whom?
Israel was defending itself from Hezbollah. This wasn't an "attack".
The fact that the writer lead off with this statement means (to me) that the article lacks credibility.
And non-Muslims are even more wary.
I love how these articles are quick to turn the aggressor side into the victims.
What mosques have Christians in the U.S. blown up? How many beheadings have the Muslims here suffered?
We must be doing something right.
Maybe they can join their brethren in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm sure they'd feel more comfortable there.
They (and yes, I mean the WHOLE LOT, "peaceful" or not) started it.
They didn't have to do 9/11, it was their choice.
Not the lives of over 3,000 innocent people.
Plug a big ole allah popsicle in your mouth and suck on it.
When you realize that you are responible for your own actions, and when you grow up, then come back to civilization and maybe, just maybe, we will talk with REASON and common respect with you.
Boo hoo hoo.
I would like to believe this story, but it could be just another lie to elicit sympathy.
"Americans must learn more about Islam so they can understand the differences and defuse the hate and misdirected anger," said Ishmael-Lateef Ahmad. "Given an opportunity, Americans will investigate and learn and, as time goes on, that will help."
Actually, the more I learn about Islam, the less I want any of its practitioners here in the US.
Islam and a modern Republic are not compatible.
"I would like to believe this story, but it could be just another lie to elicit sympathy"
I agree. I have a difficult time believing anything a muslim says today.
I have a subtle, more acidic retasting of my breakfast reading this kind of crap.
I don't give a good goddamn about their vague feelings of foreboding or the time they may have interpreted a odd look from somebody as a possible incident of racial animosity or whatever other crap they're feeling.
Islamics run around the globe killing thousands through beheadings and forced starvations and stoning, and it never makes the papers. But some muslim hump in Lansing Michigan experience an ominous sense of foreboding about his personal popularity at the bowling alley and they write another effing article about it!
"through Pope Benedict XVI's inflammatory lecture"
If the Roman Catholic Pope's lecture is percieved as a problem, then Muslim's need a ton of self-examination because it is their problem in perceiving that lecture as "inflammatory".
The lecture was (1)a call for dialogue not violence, (2)a rebuke of violence as a tool in religiuous conversion, (3)the identification of reason as essential to a practice of faith in God, (4)and how tolerance of intolerance is an abdication of both faith and reason. If those elemental points are anti-Islamic, then the problem is Islam's.
"Actually, the more I learn about Islam, the less I want any of its practitioners here in the US.
Islam and a modern Republic are not compatible."
ABSOLUTELY!
The people who want to negotiate with muslims and think muslims are just another sect of religious people are ignorant of islam.
I've spent more time reading about islam than I wanted to, and I realize that I am their enemy. So, I have to deal with them on their terms. It's war.
Since freedom is not allowed under Islam why would
a muslim choose to live where freedom is a fundemental
part of society, their muslim sensibilities are offended on every front here.My sense is that they should anticipate
much difficulty and even impending doom.
"Muslims in U.S. are wary"
Kind of like a bunch of long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs occupied by old folks.
Sorry. That was the image that came to mind, and I had to share it.
Do me a favor and spare me the "in their own country" crap.
I'm an eighth generation American, and have checked alot of what is known about my ancestors, and have yet to find a single dam one that wore a turban.
They have their place. There is no need for them to come to our place to change it into their place. Period.
I feel bad for them. They should leave.
Agreed, but they don't want to become Americans, they want Americans to become Islamic idiots willing to engage child sacrifice in order to mass murder innocent people.
I have yet to learn anything about Islam that isn't completely repulsive.
Nice unbiased reporting there (/s).
"Since freedom is not allowed under Islam why would
a muslim choose to live where freedom is a fundemental
part of society"
hmmmmmm....maybe they're here to convert all of us pagans?
Well that's just too bad .... if they are that scared they can fly home to middle east barbarian land.
Want to bet the reporter didn't even research the speech?
bttt
"Americans must learn more about Islam so they can understand the differences and defuse the hate and misdirected anger," said Ishmael-Lateef Ahmad. "Given an opportunity, Americans will investigate and learn and, as time goes on, that will help."
Oh, I see. The burden is on EVERYBODY ELSE, not them.
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Good.
About damned time.
"They feel like they're being targeted."
HA!!
Is that rich, or what.
They need to thank Allah they're not losing.
...their heads.
If the 'good' muslims would be critical of the 'radical' muslims they wouldn't feel like the world is closing in on them. The fact that they feel they are being targeted leads me to believe that they are in agreement and fully support the 'radical' muslims. Truth is their despotic religion requires them to support the annihilation of all those who do not convert to islam. Not exactly what I would call the religion of peace!
and why should WE learn more about islam? we know enough to know that it reaps havoc and blood-letting wherever it goes. why don't THEY learn more about christianity and judaism or other more (truly) PEACEFUL religions that don't have their scriptural prophets commanding death for all 'unbelievers' (of islam)? bunch of whiners. can't handle it when the shoe is on the other foot.
can you guess how many of these wankers were dancing around on 9/11 with s.e. grins on their faces??
A hundred years ago there was a lot of bias against eastern European immigrants and Italians, a generation before that it was the Irish. Even as recently as 30 years ago there was an influx of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees. All of these groups made the conscious decision to become AMERICANS and work to achieve the American Dream for themselves and their children. And the very first thing many of them did was to learn English and use it as much as possible even among others who spoke their native languages. Except in cases of extreme racism, none of these groups are viewed in a negative way.
If Muslims don't want to become Americans, then why in the hell are they even here, unless it is to destroy America.
What these Muslim Americans may not know, is that well over 3 years ago, the kids at MIZZOU where coming home talking about the large Al Qaida congration just outside Columbia, Missouri. They were like the poor guy who is telling the other guy his pants are on fire and no one was listening. We give our kids so little credit. If adults knew half of what is going on -- we'd be a little more on alert.
Sorry, I don't take sucker bets ;)
that's Al Qaida congregation. If Muslims are on the up and up, they have no fears from me.
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