Posted on 01/11/2007 3:38:24 AM PST by Flavius
CHICAGO: The vandalization of two Shiite mosques and five Shiite-owned businesses in Detroit, Michigan, has raised the specter of sectarian clashes in the United States.
While police have not yet determined who threw rocks and bricks through the windows of the mosques and businesses, many in the community believe it was an attack by Sunnis, said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The vandalism came a week after the execution in Iraq of Saddam Hussein. Many Sunnis were offended by the way in which local Shiites celebrated his death, Walid said.
The owner of one of the restaurants targeted received a threatening phone call Saturday from a man speaking in Arabic and English who noted that he was a Shiite and said, “You’re going to get yours . . . what goes around comes around,” Walid said.
The windows were smashed sometime that night.
“We’ve never had anything like this before,” Walid said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
“Dearborn is one of the largest communities of Muslims in America and we don’t even have fistfights,” he said. “Our kids go to school together, they’re part of the same organizations.”
Sunni and Shiite leaders were planning to meet today to discuss the rising tensions in a community that had previously been free of sectarian violence.
“We need to control this at the early stages because it may get worse,” said Mouhib Ayas, president of the Sunni coalition Islamic Shura Council of Michigan.
“We need to reach out to the Shi’ah and tell them Muslim Sunnis do not approve, that we condone it and we’re going to take the message strongly to our community and are going to ask all the imams this Friday to condone it from the pulpit.” --AFP
We should ask the Democrats what their plan is to control the violence in Chicago.
We should strike Mexico City and then nuke Iran.
It won't be long, boys and girls, until we will have suicide bombings in Dearborn. Ain't immigration grand? The multi-culties should be so proud.
Condone or condemn?
do not worry they will blame you for it and wash their hands clean
Freudian slip?
Talk about a glimpse into the future...
I would like a history lesson from an FR in Detroit, please. What is the origin of the muslim migration to Dearborn. Were there government dollars to attract them? University grants? Why the magnet up there?
Now this is great. They are going to bring their warring factions of Islam to the American street. Instead of listening to Imams, they need to abide by our laws and face punishment by our laws. Better yet. LEAVE
The Islamic answer to every problem is violence.
I wonder, in 10 years or so, will we be discussing a surge of troops into Dearborn to put down Sunni-Shia sectarian violence?
Assembly line jobs. Or at least that's what I was told when I was growing up in Dearborn.
Two Words: Henry Ford.
That and after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Detroit area was a hot bed for Lebanese immigrants and others until the National Origins Act of 1924.
Sadly, aggressive actions by some reinforce the growing perception that all Muslims are violent subhumans, unfit to live in civil society.
Also, google the term Dearbornistan. Get you lots of interesting info.
Good question.
Maybe it is a craphole tht reminds them of home is all I can figure.
Blame Bush?
Yeah, that got a blink or two out of me as well.
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