Posted on 09/12/2010 7:37:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sometime in 1999, a construction electrician received a new work assignment from his union. The man, Sinclair Hejazi Abdus-Salaam, was told to report to 2 World Trade Center, the southern of the twin towers.
In the union locker room on the 51st floor, Mr. Abdus-Salaam went through a construction worker’s version of due diligence. In the case of an emergency in the building, he asked his foreman and crew, where was he supposed to reassemble? The answer was the corner of Broadway and Vesey.
Over the next few days, noticing some fellow Muslims on the job, Mr. Abdus-Salaam voiced an equally essential question: “So where do you pray at?” And so he learned about the Muslim prayer room on the 17th floor of the south tower.
He went there regularly in the months to come, first doing the ablution known as wudu in a washroom fitted for cleansing hands, face and feet, and then facing toward Mecca to intone the salat prayer.
On any given day, Mr. Abdus-Salaam’s companions in the prayer room might include financial analysts, carpenters, receptionists, secretaries and ironworkers. There were American natives, immigrants who had earned citizenship, visitors conducting international business — the whole Muslim spectrum of nationality and race.
Leaping down the stairs on Sept. 11, 2001, when he had been installing ceiling speakers for a reinsurance company on the 49th floor, Mr. Abdus-Salaam had a brief, panicked thought. He didn’t see any of the Muslims he recognized from the prayer room. Where were they? Had they managed to evacuate?
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Wonderful...the NYT Sunday sermon to the great unwashed..the peons and peasants of Flyover Country.
I have been on a local chat forum the last few weeks and lately this has been one of the leftist talking points on that forum. Now I know what they have been reading.
On 9/11, the radical muslim extremist burned Korans and prayer rugs in the World Trade Center.
Now they are upset that some Americans want to do the same thing.
Part of it’s life and fully to blame for its death.
NYT’s mentality: blah blah Islam is great blah blah you are all Islamophobes blah blah we deserved 9/11 blah blah Lady Gaga blah blah Glee
...and death.
Its never going to be made right. The bell was rung. The Mosque-led “not in our name” rallies never happened. The “peaceful” muslims are either too cowed, or have given their tacit approval ... either way, they and their 9th century political system masquerading as faith isn’t welcome here.
If only the New York Times building had been targeted on 9-11...
If the NYTs one day printed Milton Friedman all the left cultists would be for freedom.
Leaping down the stairs on Sept. 11, 2001, when he had been installing ceiling speakers for a reinsurance company on the 49th floor, Mr. Abdus-Salaam had a brief, panicked thought. He didn’t see any of the Muslims he recognized from the prayer room. Where were they? Had they managed to evacuate?
Perhaps they KNEW what was going to happen and called in sick that day?????
Only people intending to invade and conquer use that terminology.
Leaping down the stairs on Sept. 11, 2001, when he had been installing ceiling speakers for a reinsurance company on the 49th floor, Mr. Abdus-Salaam had a brief, panicked thought. He didn’t see any of the Muslims he recognized from the prayer room. Where were they? Had they managed to evacuate?
I notice the Times doesn't ask him how he feels now knowing that his beloved religion is the reason he doesn't see them alive any longer.
Consistent with the NYT’s outrage when the government not only supported but FUNDED anti-Christian works of art, or when they banned Christmas diplays, or...oh, wait...
“We weren’t aliens,” Mr. Abdus-Salaam, 60, said... “We had a foothold there. .....HMMMMM?
Islam good/Israel bad, Rahm good/Boehner bad, etc.
They have to publish detailed talking points, because there is no logic to their positions, only misleading rhetoric.
No one is saying that all Muslims are bad. What people are saying is that respect should be shown to Ground Zero. I’m sorry that Muslims were killed, but it’s not like they enlisted to fight in a war. 9/11 attacks were for non-Muslims and America, and it was ok with Al Qaeda if some Muslims were going to be killed in the attacks.
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