Posted on 07/06/2008 3:52:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A woman wearing a burqa sat on a bench Saturday at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, the fabric across her face revealing only her eyes.
Next to her, a group of children chatted on cellphones and shrieked merrily over the sound of chanting music calling the assembled masses to prayers.
At the annual Islamic Circle of North America Convention, the traditional mixes easily with the modern.
"We're just like anyone else, and I think people have a hard time understanding that," said Sakina Abduss-Salaam, a New Jersey woman who strolled through the convention Saturday wearing a black-and-gold Islamic hijab dress and holding a Starbucks iced coffee.
Abduss-Salaam said she converted to Islam 18 years ago when she met her husband, a Muslim. She said the religion has shaped her life as she and her husband have raised two children and held full-time jobs in a society that sometimes views Muslims with distrust.
"It's not about terrorism or hatred. It's about love," she said. "Being a Muslim is just like being a Christian or a Jewish person. We are all called to treat each other with respect."
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“It’s not about terrorism or hatred. It’s about love,” she said. “Being a Muslim is just like being a Christian or a Jewish person. We are all called to treat each other with respect.”
BULLCRAP!
Ping
Exactly!
I’m sure that Daniel Pearle would agree. [/sarc]
Muhammad Tahir, a photographer from New York hired to take pictures at the convention, said the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have brought hardships and understanding for Muslim Americans.
"At first, it was hard because everyone suddenly looked at you differently," he said. "But since then, I think, more people have taken the time to learn about Islam, and now more people are educated.""
Now get in that burka - bee-otch!
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021639.php
July 6, 2008
“”We’re just like anyone else, and I think people have a hard time understanding that””
Bullcrap is right. One need look no further than the loving treatment given Islam by the writer of this article.
So where did terrorism get it's roots and cause the likes of 9/11?
Must be a figment of imagination by masses. /s
“”We’re just like anyone else, and I think people have a hard time understanding that,” said Sakina Abduss-Salaam, a New Jersey woman”
Sorry as a muslim WOMAN she has no say in anything and her word is only worth 1/2 of a mans.
RECAP:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2041119/posts?page=28#28
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.526/pub_detail.asp
July 4, 2008
“Exclusive: Islamism and the So-called ‘Muslim Voting Bloc’: Shades of Theocracy”
M. Zuhdi Jasser
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The modus operandi for the political empowerment of Islamists in America is in full public display during every election cycle. The sad part is few realize how central “Islamic politics” is to the driving force of transnational Islamism and its threat to American security. The incessant attempts by American Islamist groups (like the MAS, CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, ICNA to name a few) to collectivize Muslims in the body politic - from voter registrations to their ideological grievance mill - point to their goals.
What better way to push forth a quasi-theocratic political agenda than to deceive the Muslim faithful into believing that their political survival as a minority in America depends upon the mixture of their faith identity with their political identity? These same Islamists spread the ideology of victimization and identity politics among any Muslims who will listen while they internally promote political Islam and Islamist statecraft within the ummah (Muslim community). They use their efforts at Muslim electoral involvement to exploit the spiritual ummah for political purposes. Most importantly, many in the mainstream media (MSM) and government turn to them to purportedly speak for the American Muslim population, even though they have no mandate or significant membership to do so.”
PSST, Christians and Jews don't promote destruction and the taking of innocent life in an arbitrary fashion via self promotion.
Only by necessity for survival.
Guess it all depends on how you define 'respect'. Let's add up all the stonings of women, genital mutilation, whippings, murder of gays, non-Muslims, et al. and then let's have a conversation about what 'respect' means.
Oh, and the beheadings of infidels, apostates, and anyone else they don't like.
She can take her 'respect' and stick it. The Koran allows lying and deceiving to further the cause of Allah, and that is precisely what's going on here.
Perhaps when the day comes some guys order her to strap on a suicide belt under her burka and blow up a school yard packed with kids, and she refuses, then they bury her up to her head and bash her brains in, she will have a different view. One more in line with the teachings of the prophet during his days of conquest.
‘the Koran allows lying to non-believers.’
So does the Talmud and every wacky Christian denomination interpretration of the Bible.
As a citizen of this country she would pobably disagree.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer, Sakina. I wonder if she's ever asked herself why, if Islam is so respectful of others, is there such severe oppression of religious and political minorities and women in the home of Islam (Saudi Arabia). Churches and synagogues are completely outlawed. Some respect. And if/when Muslims ever gain control in Europe expect similar "respect."
Islam is a cancer that needs a global radiation treatment if civilization has any chance of surviving.
So Saudi Arabian law should be a model for American public thought, interesting theory...
There are a lot of mischief makers who could be in that horse...seems like some of them might be ‘automatic’ citizens of a state other than the US of A.
The water in the frog’s kettle is nearing the boiling point, isn’t it...
Au Contraire, the more one is educated about islam the more one realizes it's a crazed, murderous cult not a religion.
Where is DHS-ICE etc, when America really needs them? Feigning 'concern' on the southern border?
C'mon, America: wake-the-hell-up! The murderous horror called islam is inside the gates. There is NO moderate islam - it is what it is - and it is part of The Enemy Within®, working to destroy America.
http://gto7.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/there-are-moderate-muslims-there-is-no-moderate-islam/
and
http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/2595.htm
Wake up, Europe!
‘As a citizen of this country she would pobably disagree.”
Doesn’t matter. Women are citizens of Saudi Arabia and nothing changes for them.
Know islam, no peace; No islam, know peace!
If the Arabs put down their guns, there would be no more violence. If the Israelis put down their guns, there would be no more Israel.
The Pope was correct in his quote....”Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” -Manuel II Paleologus
No, Sakina, you are not just like everyone else. You are a moslem, which by definition makes you an adherent of a vile and violent and vicious movement that was founded on intolerance and hatred. There are a great many of us “infidels” who want islam to disappear on the ash heap of history.
Lady, with respect, it's about advancing the cause of Islam and about using "Taqiyya" against us infidels as commanded in the Quran.
Stop your BS...
Now that IS strange.
You see, I was sitting on a park bench wearing a great big rented Dracula costume, trying to explain that very thing to people as they passed by, and they gave me funny looks and mumbled things.
“Islam is a cancer that needs a global radiation treatment if civilization has any chance of surviving.”
That’s a fact.
To hell with this “melting pot” crap. We’ve got to stop the flood of undesirables into this country NOW!
The melting pot idea is just fine, as long as it is allowed to function as intended. In a melting pot, those objects that do not assimilate into the greater mass, remain solid but sink to the bottom. I can’t think of a better fate for Islam.
No, you're not like anyone else. Other religions didn't murder 3000 innocent people and then cheer publicly in the streets. Other religions don't behead people, murder nuns and children, and say nothing. Sorry, Sakina, you belong to a murderous cult that has no moral foundation.
Ah, the voice of reason. Thanks, sometimes I get a little angry. Must be old age.
... and we could start by outlawing the wearing of burkas in this country.
It’s unfortunate, and I hate to say it, but the ONLY thing now that is going to wake my fellow Americans up to the insidious threat that is Islam is the loss of an American city by way of a nuclear device. And only THEN if it can be directly traced to an organization that is not backed by a nation-state.
The problem is that America has never gone to battle with an ideology. It’s always been with a nation state that’s been behind an ideology or a quest for power/land. We have never battled an enemy within our own borders.
It’s going to take a shocking act to get the average American to finally understand. After that-IF enough people have the gumption to DO something about it-the government cannot ‘get in the way’ of what is necessary to eliminate the threat. It would serve the best interest of the nation, should it become necessary to do so, to let WE THE PEOPLE take care of the situation. Let our ingenuity, combined with (what would undoubtedly be) righteous rage (and perhaps a few government-supplied weapons) and “take care of the situation”.
Re #6 post. Nic Berg, were he still alive, would agree.
Islam is not like being a Christian or a Jew. Christians and Jews are the targets of Islam. Pearle and Berg would also agree to this.
Right you are! Thanks for posting this about Nic Berg as well.
At least Christians and Jews will confront their enemies face to face, man to man, unlike the cowardly little muzzies.
‘WELCOME TO SWEDEN’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBpVAj4ILM
Muslim victory in Europe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXX4o1o68NQ
‘MUSLIMS DESECRATING the U.S. FLAG AND CONDEMING AMERICA IN NYC’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1FHeIP53Q
these people have had YEARS to repudiate terrorism......their silence is deafening....
“Celebrate Perversity”
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