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Bias Against Muslims up 70%
Washington Post ^ | May 3 | By Mary Beth Sheridan

Posted on 05/03/2004 12:03:13 AM PDT by Washington1980

Edited on 05/03/2004 2:51:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Muslims in the United States experienced more than 1,000 incidents of alleged harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment in 2003, a jump of 70 percent over the previous year, according to a report to be released today by a major Islamic advocacy group.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Technical; US: Washington; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; antiamericanism; cair; cairbias; conservativebashing; islamofascism; islamofascists; mediabias; muslimamericans; nationalsecurity; proterrorist; racebaiting; shillorganization; talkingpoints; talkradio; terror; terrorism; terrorists; waronterror; washingtonpoop; wot; wp
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To: backhoe
Thanks for the links!

And here's a link to my favorite CAIR thread: Cartoon Raises a Stink :)

21 posted on 05/03/2004 4:25:01 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: mewzilla
Thanks- copied & saved that link.
22 posted on 05/03/2004 4:26:28 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: Washington1980
Coming soon to a city near you.

It has already started -- allowing the Islamifying with the daily Islam prayer call.

"Next month, Hamtramck [MI] will become one of the few cities in the United States where the Islamic call to prayer is broadcast onto public streets. The impact of that decision is reverberating across the nation."

http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0404/26/a01-133933.htm
23 posted on 05/03/2004 4:39:20 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Washington1980
Profiling would have saved thousands and thousands os my people on 9/11.
24 posted on 05/03/2004 4:41:16 AM PDT by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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To: backhoe
thanks for the helpful links.
25 posted on 05/03/2004 4:42:29 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: Washington1980
The only score card I want to see for 2003 is how many Muslims were murdered by Christians and then how many Christians were murdered by Muslims.
26 posted on 05/03/2004 4:43:17 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: AmericanVictory
Thanks for looking--
27 posted on 05/03/2004 4:51:46 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: Washington1980
Perhaps if they tried to be a little more American than Muslim it might help.
Have they tried Assimilation.
They might try citizenship in Condeming their fellow Muslim Terrorists if only in voice and spirit.
They rarely say anything critical about the muslim terrorists.
28 posted on 05/03/2004 4:58:35 AM PDT by chatham
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To: Washington1980
If rolling down the window in a cab driven by a Mohammedan to get some fresh air because the guy hasn't bathed since 1982 is harassment, then, yeah, I've harassed a Mohammedan.
29 posted on 05/03/2004 4:59:09 AM PDT by ought-six
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To: SunStar
Well, gee, it's only the Islamists who engage in terrorism on a global scale, so I don't think it's a stretch to associate radical Mohammedans with terror.
30 posted on 05/03/2004 5:01:51 AM PDT by ought-six
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To: Washington1980
Seventy percent? Come on, people, we can do better than that.
31 posted on 05/03/2004 5:03:27 AM PDT by speedy (Tagline for demonstration purposes only. Not for internal consumption.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Does that mean it's time to sell, or should I hold on to it a while longer?

Hang on a while... at least until it's in the high 80s or low 90s. It shouldn't be long.

32 posted on 05/03/2004 5:04:08 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist ("You'll never get the pass code Eric!")
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To: Washington1980
"Bias Against Muslims up 70%"

I proudly declare that I'm doing my part in being biased against Mu-slimes!

33 posted on 05/03/2004 5:04:55 AM PDT by Shut up and take it
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To: familyop
"They included a cross-burning outside an Islamic school in College Park."

B.S. The cross burners were the Kluxxers, and they haven't been around in years (especially not in College Park). If there were a cross burning, I would be willing to bet it was set up by a Mohammedan in order to stir up some $hit, and to play the victim card.
34 posted on 05/03/2004 5:05:19 AM PDT by ought-six
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To: Washington1980
Hmmm. I wonder why? Could it be that people have learned more about islam since 911 and have found out the truth about it?
35 posted on 05/03/2004 5:06:50 AM PDT by Neever
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To: Washington1980
Did not read the article because it is the compost. I have two comments I had to make calls on 9/11 to find out if family and friends were OK. I will never forget or forgive for having to make those calls.

PS. I bet CAIR is mentioned in the article.
36 posted on 05/03/2004 5:14:52 AM PDT by CathyRyan
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To: Washington1980
Muslims have to ask themselves what they have done to make Americans hate them so much.
37 posted on 05/03/2004 5:20:54 AM PDT by Alouette (Float like a butterfly, sting like a B-52)
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To: Alouette
LOL
38 posted on 05/03/2004 5:41:57 AM PDT by kidd
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To: thoughtomator

The Truth About Islam

Observations by Dr. David R. Reagan

 

Ever since the Attack on America on September 11, 2001, we have heard a never-ending chorus of voices from government, academia, and the media assuring us that the Islamic terrorists who attacked the Trade Towers and the Pentagon are not repre­sentative of “true Islam.” We have been likewise assured by spiritual leaders — even some Christian spokesmen — that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Muslims worship the same God as Christians and Jews.

“Our war is not against Islam,” we have been told repeatedly. “Our war is against terrorism.”

Central Questions

Well, what about it?

The Intolerant and Militant Nature of Islam

One of the most controversial issues regarding Islam concerns whether or not it is a militant religion. Muslims in the West argue it is peace-loving. Westerners who have experienced it in the Muslim world argue it is inherently in­tolerant and militant.

The Koran itself preaches intolerance toward other religions. Sura 5 contains the following command: “Take not Jews and Christians for friends . . . He among you who takes them for friends is one of them . . . Choose not for friends such of those who received the Scripture before you [Jews and Christians] . .  But keep your duty to Allah” (verses 51, 55, 57). Extreme intolerance is commanded in Sura 5:33 — “[For those who do not submit to Allah] their punishment is . . . execution or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet, from the opposite sides, or exile from the land.”

The Koran also expresses an intolerant attitude toward any person who decides to reject the Islamic faith or convert to another religion. Such persons are to be executed (Sura 9:12). In the Hadith (the oral tradition of Muhammad’s sayings) it says “Whoever changes his religion, kill him” (Hadith 9:57). These commands are practiced in all Islamic Fundamentalist countries today.

With regard to militancy, the Koran not only condones it, it commands it:

Fighting is prescribed for you, and [some of] you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knows, and you know not (Sura 2:16).

Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war (Sura 9:5).

Fight in the way of Allah . . . and slay them [the unbelievers] wherever you find them and drive them out . . . and fight them until . . . religion is for Allah (Sura 2:190-193).

Muhammad is quoted in the Hadith as saying, “The sword is the key of heaven and hell. A drop of blood in the cause of Allah — a night spent in arms [war] — is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven, and at the day of judgment, his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.”12

The Imperialistic Nature of Islam

From its inception, Islam has been committed to what it calls jihad — a word mean­ing holy war. The duty of Muslims is to subjugate or destroy “infidels” — the term the Koran uses for all non-believers.

In the Muslim viewpoint, the world is divided into two regions — those areas controlled by Islam, called Dar al-Islam (meaning the House of Islam) and those called Dar al-Harb (the House of War). The Koran commands Mus­lims to fight non-Muslims until they exterminate all other religions, leaving Islam as the one and only religion in the world (Suras 2:193 and 8:39). Muhammad is quoted in the Hadith as saying, “I have been ordered to fight with the people until they say, none has the right to be worshiped but Allah” (Hadith 4:196).

Regarding terror, Allah orders Muslims to terrorize non-Muslims on his behalf: “Strike terror (into the hearts of ) the enemies of Allah and your enemies” (Sura 8:60). Allah then assures his followers that he will assist them: “I will instill terror into the hearts of unbelievers. Smite them above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. It is not you who slay them, it is Allah” (Sura 8:12, 17).

Concerning jihad,14 the Koran guarantees Paradise to those who fight for Allah (Sura 4:74). It promises instant Paradise for those who die in battle (Suras 9:111 and 47:5-6). Dying for Allah is presented as better than living: “And if you are killed or die in the Way of Allah, forgiveness and mercy from Allah are far better than all that others may amass [of worldly wealth]” (Sura 3:157).

Martyrs are promised a sensual and luxurious life in Paradise (Sura 52:17-22). According to Al-Ghazzali, one of Islam’s greatest teachers, when a martyr reaches Paradise, he “will marry 500 companions, 4,000 virgins, and 8,000 divorced women.”15 Commenting on this statement, Randall Price, biblical teacher and Middle East expert, observed that the Islamic Paradise is “just the kind of place that adolescent, unmarried men, isolated through their lives from the opposite sex by rigid cultural standards, would die for.”16

Fundamentalist Goals

The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran was the modern day Islamic spokesman who revived Muhammad’s vision of world con­quest. He taught that the re-establishment of Israel was a Satanic miracle allowed by Allah because of the lukewarmness of the Muslim masses. He called for a renewal of true Islam to accomplish three purposes:19

  1. To overthrow the “secular” rulers of Islamic countries (like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt), just as he had done in Iran.

  2. To take back the land of Palestine for Allah, exterminating Israel in the process.

  3. To conquer the rest of the world for Allah.

Notice the first priority was the transformation of secular Islamic countries into religious states ruled by the Koran. Then would come Israel and the world.

In a proclamation made by Osama bin Laden in 1998, he listed the same goals and prioritized them in the same order.20 He then identified the United States as the prime obstacle to the achievement of these goals. Accordingly, he called on Muslims everywhere “to comply with Allah’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.”

It is important to note that the eradication of Israel is not the top priority. Nor is Israel viewed as the major obstacle to world conquest. I emphasize this because many Americans are saying that the key to winning the war against terrorism is to dump Israel. More and more, on radio talk shows, I hear people saying, “Let’s cut Israel loose. Let the Arabs have it. Then they will leave us alone.”

That is utter nonsense. Israel is not the cause of Islamic terrorism toward the West. If Israel were to disappear tomorrow, Fundamentalist Islam would still be determined to destroy America as part of its plan to take the world for Allah. And if we were to abandon Israel, the Muslim world would interpret it as an act of cowardice, proving our word is meaningless and that we truly are, as they say, “a depraved society devoid of values.” Our abandonment of Israel would only whet their appetite. Islamic Fundamentalism cannot be appeased. It must be de­feated.




39 posted on 05/03/2004 5:44:25 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
In light of the news over the weekend regarding a missing fuel tanker truck and five empty suitcases that have recently been found in the NY subway....I can't even see the tunnel, let alone the light at the end of it.

It's a shame that this will lead to massive profiling. But, when was the last time there was a "radical right wing extermist" that was involved in a bombing? It seems that the Islamic extremists have been involved in all but one in recent history.

Bias my a**. I do not trust them....
40 posted on 05/03/2004 5:52:36 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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