[cardinal4]

I was not attacking you, I was just stating that I will no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. Islam needs to come front and center and decry the detractors in their midst. We cant do it for them. Watch for Ibrahim Hooper to issue statement saying muslims are being oppressed again.

In the 70s and 80s, the Catholics and the Protestants butchered eachother Northern Ireland. Everytime a bomb went of in a Loyalist neighborhood, the Catholics would scream bloody murder that this wasnt Catholicism. The same reaction occured when the "Prods" would blow up a Catholic area. Eventually, tired of the butchery, they came to terms. The point Im trying to make is, the Catholics and Protestants howled every time one of their own committed an act of terrorism. I see nothing like that from Islam.

[SLB]

Call me paranoid if you want, but this evening we stopped at the local public library. There were two people, obviously muslims using one of the free internet access computers. He was dressed in robe, with hat, etc and she had on a full robe (burka?) with only a very narrow slit for her eyes (about 1/2 inch). I kept trying to wonder over behind them to see what was on the screen, but they were both hunched over it and were taking notes. I was wondering if they use the library as maybe their home interent is monitored.

[cgk]

Watch for Ibrahim Hooper to issue statement saying muslims are being oppressed again

---

Here you go, from the news article listed here

Lawyers for the Council on American-Islamic Relations observed the raid. The council's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, said, "We're concerned that this may be perceived in the Muslim community as a fishing expedition."

[HipShot]

I appreciate and understand your sentiment. Any rational person would expect a reaction like that from them.

I think that we are projecting our values on a group of people, expecting them to decry the extremism in their midst, when the reality is that it's not extremism, but mainstream, and at the very core of their belief system.