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After spate of attacks, area Muslims reach out during Ramadan to foster better image
Washington Post ^ | July 16, 2015 | By Pamela Constable

Posted on 07/16/2015 4:53:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends Friday, a spate of recent terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists — including massacres in Tunisia and Kuwait — has marred a time intended for contemplation and prayer.

But for Muslim American immigrants in the Washington area, this Ramadan has offered an opportunity to send a contrasting message about Islam and to engage in unprecedented public outreach.

Dozens of interfaith events have been held in mosques, embassies and government offices. Muslim charity drives have raised funds for damaged African American and Pakistani churches. Families have opened their homes to neighbors and colleagues to break the daily fast with evening feasts.

“We condemn all terrorism and we condemn ISIS, which is a twisted, horrific deviation from Islam,” said Rizwan Jaka, outreach director for ADAMS. He said the rise of the group — whose leaders vowed to make Ramadan a time of “calamity for the infidels” — had created “a lot of confusion” and abetted “anti-sharia hysteria” in American society.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arab; cancerofislam; islam; islamiccancer; islamists; muslim; muslimcancer; taqiyya
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Pamela Constable

Is retarded.


21 posted on 07/16/2015 5:19:30 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I consider the filthy Nazis at the Washington Post as accessories to the murder of Marines in Tennessee.


22 posted on 07/16/2015 5:21:31 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: windsorknot

It has never been a religion of peace. That is one of the most outrageous lies ever told.

Islam has not been compatible with any civilization since its inception. There would be no Western civilization if not for men like Charle Martel (battle of Tours 732) and Jan Sobieski (siege of Vienna 1683).
Not to mention what they did as they spread into India.


23 posted on 07/16/2015 5:28:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey muslims, here’s an idea to “foster a better image” — Stop freakin’ murdering people. That whole murdering thing is really playing hell with your “peaceful” image.


24 posted on 07/16/2015 5:29:15 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If people really want to learn about "true Islam," the first two things to learn are the words taqiyya and hudna.
25 posted on 07/16/2015 5:30:25 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Bob
Incidentally, the left said it was our support of ISRAEL that caused them to want to kill us. Then it was our military involvement in the ME. Waterboarding, Guantanamo. Cartoons of the Prophet.

To what do the leftists attribute these murderous bastards' actions now?

Don't let the greasy b*stards off the hook - shove their rhetoric down their lying throats.

26 posted on 07/16/2015 5:35:48 PM PDT by skeeter ( THAT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess that’s what the muslim in Chattanooga was doing.

They all need to be gone. You can’t trust them when they have four different types of lying they have a duty to do under their religion.


27 posted on 07/16/2015 5:38:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m thinking this article takes the prize for the most ill-timed piece of propaganda ever.


28 posted on 07/16/2015 5:39:18 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Polling: The dark art of .turning a liberal agenda into political reality.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...for Muslim American immigrants...Ramadan has offered an opportunity to send a contrasting message about Islam and to engage in unprecedented public outreach.

Can you say taqiyah?

I can.

Lying goat humping pieces of canine excrement.

29 posted on 07/16/2015 5:45:49 PM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Dozens of interfaith events have been held in mosques, embassies and government offices.

That's when they recite that invitation to convert— in Arabic that no other faiths understand—thus they don't convert; but now the reciters have leave to kill the infidel.

30 posted on 07/16/2015 5:50:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: a fool in paradise

No foreign funded mosques?

What about U.S. citizen funded mosques.

Islamic Center of Boston thanks to the late,not-so-great Mayor Tom Menino.

From Wiki-—

“The building project has been surrounded by controversy. The purchase of the land valued at over $2,000,000 to the Islamic Society in return for only $175,000 in funds, as well as the dual role of Boston Redevelopment Authority Deputy Directory Mohammad Ali-Salaam as official overseeing and managing the sale on behalf of the city and principle fundraiser for the Islamic Society of Boston.[4] Issues related to the legality of the sale and the public’s access to information surrounding the sale have been the subject of two lawsuits both of which have failed.”

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31 posted on 07/16/2015 5:56:32 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time to ban the Koran.

It isn’t just a symbol of hate — it is a handbook of hate.


32 posted on 07/16/2015 6:51:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

And the other four musleman holy books which explain what the koran actually says: Talibari, Muslim, Isaq and Bukhari.

The koran is a guidpost, the others are the specific directions from point A to point B.


33 posted on 07/17/2015 2:48:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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