Posted on 06/27/2004 7:26:04 AM PDT by veronica
Muslims and Arabs in America face increased hostility
The recent beheading of two Americans have added fuel to the angry backlash against Arab-Americans and Muslims that began after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The killing of Paul Johnson and Nicholas Berg triggered increased hate mail, verbal attacks and anti-Muslim graffiti.
Death threats against American Muslims have risen and mosques have been vandalised.
"Since 9/11, every time there is an incident overseas attributed to Muslims or Arabs, we go on orange alert ourselves," said immigration solicitor Sohail Muhammad.
"There are individuals here who are off the wall, who think that every woman who wears a hijab or every man named Muhammad is out to blow things up," he added.
Dissidents thought to have ties with al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia decapitated Johnson, an American engineer, after warning that they would kill him if the Saudi government did not release detainees. Berg, a businessman, met a similar fate last month in Iraq.
Anti-Islam sentiment
Following Johnson's death, anti-Islam signs surfaced around the rural New Jersey neighbourhood where he once lived. One read "Stamp Out Islam" next to a drawing of a boot over a crescent and star. Another, hung on a mailbox next door to Johnson's sister's home, was more detailed.
"There are individuals here who are off the wall, who think that every woman who wears a hijab or every man named Muhammad is out to blow things up"
Sohail Muhammad, Immigration solicitor
"Last night I wasn't a racist, but today I feel racism towards Islamic beliefs," it read. "Last night Islamics (sic) had a chance to speak up for Paul Johnson, but today it's too late. Islamics better wake up and start thinking about tomorrow."
The New Jersey attorney general sent bias crimes investigators to the area, along with stepped-up state police patrols. The signs are gone now, replaced with hand-lettered placards on utility poles that say "Our prayers are with the Johnson family."
But more anti-Muslim graffiti appeared on Thursday at a Muslim man's home in Egg Harbour Township.
'Worst fears'
"It's really our fear coming true," said Faiza Ali of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"It indicates a hatred that could turn into something violent."
Relatives of Johnson, in a statement made through a church pastor after a memorial service on Saturday, said that they hope his legacy is one of peace in the land he grew to love during more than a decade abroad.
"When history is written on the war on terrorism, let Paul's death be the catalyst that led to thousands more Westerners working in harmony with people in the Middle East to ensure fear and barbaric acts against free peoples come to an end," Reverend Kyle Huber of Greentree Church said.
The day after Johnson's death, a coalition of Muslim groups in Paterson, the heart of New Jersey's Arab-American community, held a rally to condemn the killing
Mosques vandalised
A few days later, vandals tossed empty liquor and beer bottles at a mosque in Union City as congregants inside mourned a teenager who died in a car crash.
Some Americans have threatened to behead Muslims in the US
"If they are throwing empty bottles today, they could be throwing rocks, or worse, shooting at us tomorrow," said Aref Assaf, president of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's New Jersey chapter.
Two mosques in Florida were vandalised in the days after Johnson's killing.
In the Tampa suburb of Lutz, someone broke into the Islamic Community Centre and scrawled "Kill All Muslims" on the mosque's interior walls, then smashed windows. In Charlotte Harbor, someone vandalised a mosque's sign and left threatening phone messages.
In the St Louis suburb of Ballwin, Missouri, vandals painted a swastika and the word "Die" on the wall of the Dar-al-Islam mosque.
Mosque construction protested
In Texas, dead fish were dumped near the entrance sign to a mosque under construction in a suburb of Houston.
And in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park, residents urged officials this past week to reject a mosque's building application.
A Baptist pastor told a public hearing he feared it would attract Islamic extremists and violence. The centre was approved over boos and catcalls from the audience.
"I believe the time is coming when Muslims will not be safe inside the US borders," one man wrote to the Washington, DC-based Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"I see nothing wrong with us doing the same things to them that they are doing to innocent people."
"It is high time you people wake up and smell the blood," another man wrote to Assaf's group in New Jersey.
"Turn in the terrorists. They are your relatives, in a lot of cases. Cousin Omar. Uncle Mohammad. You know what I mean. Until you come forward to help us stamp out this vermin, you are as bad as they."
So similar with the Nazis --- not all the Nazis were murdering people but they didn't do anything to stop the others and so their belief system did great damage to the world.
It is even more surprising that enemy aliens are still at large in the interior.
And it's only going to get worse.
"Turn in the terrorists. They are your relatives, in a lot of cases. Cousin Omar. Uncle Mohammad. You know what I mean. Until you come forward to help us stamp out this vermin, you are as bad as they."
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That happens to me a lot --- it is interesting how racism has been redefined and has nothing to do with it's real meaning. Racism used to mean being against the way someone looked --- their racial characteristics which have nothing to do with the way they believe. It's completely weird how it's being used now --- I guess now if you don't like Nazis, you are just a racist.
Every society has bullies who pick on those who won't fight back. When those bullies control governments, races and classes suffer.
In the case of Islam, it isn't about race or class. It's about god-bots who bow to a blood-thirsty 'god' intent on bullying the world into submission.
These 'bots' must be kept in isolation world-wide until they conquer their disease.
WWII . Amin Al Husseini spent most of the war in Berlin. He was on Hitler's payroll as he lead the Hanzar Division of Muslim SS and played a lead-role in determining the fate of Europe's Jewish community.. From Berlin, Amin Al Husseini helped organize the transfer of Nazi officers into the Middle East
Amin Al Husseini inspecting his Nazi troops, the Hanzar. Here, he is showing a young Muslim recruit how to use his rifle. Amin Al Husseini himself had been an officer in the defeated Ottoman Islamic Empire of World War I.
Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.
Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.
Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.
Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.
Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.
But . . . but . . . but . . . they are the religion of peace and love . . . and beheadings of innocent people. How can AMERICANS, who have such a strong sense of fairness and justice, have any anti-Islamic feelings toward such a WONDERFUL religion of . . . uh, what do they tell us it is? . . . Oh, Yeah! . . . PIECE and love!!??
(A piece of you here, a piece of you there . . . . . . . )
"Chicago suburb of Orland Park, residents urged officials this past week to reject a mosque's building application."
Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco it is almost impossible to build a church. (I mean a Christian church here only.) About anyone can object and the usual reason is "traffic problems" but these objections raised by anyone can delay/end the process -- but I think that this is similar to many other places in the US.
There are many churches that meet for years in VFWs, schools and libraries because they are not allowed to build. So how much you wanta bet that these Muslims get their application approved?
Just pull the race card -- or the Muslim religion card -- or the white-liberal-guilt card -- or the tortured minority card -- one of those will work but you guys got a whole deck.
GREAT stuff, Rome!!! I have never seen or heard anything about this form the Third Reich. Chilling!
Thanks for posting it.
Oh I don't think you've seen anything, YET.
"There are individuals here who are off the wall, who think that every woman who wears a hijab or every man named Muhammad is out to blow things up," he added.
Nor were the guys your fellow travelers killed about to blow things up. However you have remained silent in the face of evil and some will take offense at your silence.
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