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For Muslims, a Beleaguered Feeling: As Ramadan Begins, Many Say Sentiment Against Them Is Hardening
Washington Post ^ | Caryle Murphy

Posted on 10/15/2004 8:45:17 PM PDT by milestogo

For Muslims, a Beleaguered Feeling

As Ramadan Begins, Many Say Sentiment Against Them Is Hardening

By Caryle Murphy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 15, 2004; Page B01

Many American Muslims believe that the U.S. government has contributed to the deepening of anti-Muslim sentiment by treating them more as foes than allies in the war against terrorism. They say the government has done this by singling out Muslims for special scrutiny at airports, investigating Islamic charities and detaining Muslims who eventually are found innocent of criminal activity -- all of which leads to a growing perception that the war on terrorism has become a war against Islam.

"I hear a lot of people saying that today, especially moderate Muslims, people I never thought would have this feeling," said Mohamed Magid, imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, a mosque in Sterling.

Echoing other Muslims, Magid said he fears that there is "some element in the [Bush] administration intent on dismantling Muslim organizations and bringing them down. . . . It's very disturbing."

The Los Angeles-based Muslims Public Affairs Council has expressed disappointment that no American Muslims were included in the drafting of the federal 9/11 Commission report, even in sections addressing the United States's relationship with the Muslim world.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: muslimamericans; ramadan
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To: rrrod

And soon, all French will be Mo-ham-edans, or dead.


81 posted on 10/16/2004 5:24:46 AM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

I have mixed feelings on that lol.


82 posted on 10/16/2004 5:25:42 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: milestogo


It's the beheadings, stupid.


83 posted on 10/16/2004 5:26:38 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: milestogo
For Muslims, a Beleaguered Feeling

As Ramadan Begins, Many Say Sentiment Against Them Is Hardening


Boo-effing-hoo. People talk about peace-loving and tolerant Muslims. This may very well be true. But it's true for the same reason that there are scurrilous people who claim to be good Catholics and former altar boys--they deny the core of their religion.
84 posted on 10/16/2004 5:27:40 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: milestogo
The arabic saying goes "To know a man, look to his friends".

Those who harbor, support or encourage terrorists in the slightest must be destroyed along with the terrorists.

Let us hope the Muslim community does more in the future to separate itself from this element.

As it is, my dislike for the French bureaucrats by far exceeds any concerns that I have with the Muslim community outside of the terrorists. That being said, if I thought for a second that a Muslim community in America was promoting such behavior, I'd be first to suggest interment camps and worse.

85 posted on 10/16/2004 5:41:49 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: milestogo

This year, to celebrate Ramadan, I am eating ham sandwiches at the gun range.


86 posted on 10/16/2004 5:47:13 AM PDT by spodefly (A torpid disinclination negates the inclusion of a tagline with this post.)
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To: milestogo

Until I see 100,000 Muslims in the streets chanting "We Love the USA" and "Death to Terrorists" I don't have much use for their ideology. Shortly after 9/11 some deranged person drove a car into a mosque. One of my more "redneck" friends wanted to know if the gas tank was completely full like the jets on 9/11.


87 posted on 10/16/2004 5:47:17 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: milestogo

Good news! This war will be won after we get this message acorss to the Muslims: You cannot hide your political ambitions behind a veneer of "religion". We will destroy your "religion" unless or until you give up your psychotic desire to run the world.


88 posted on 10/16/2004 5:47:20 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: milestogo

You know, for once I can relate to these people. A couple of years ago, my wife and I decided that it would be more eco-friendly not to own a dryer and just use an old-fashioned clostheline instead. Well, ever since we washed and dried our Klan robes you'd be surprised how many dirty looks we get from our neighbors.


89 posted on 10/16/2004 6:16:24 AM PDT by GadareneDemoniac
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To: ApesForEvolution
As Ramadan Begins, Many Say Sentiment Against Them Is Hardening

As one of my FRiends on the ATRW thread says..."Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslim."

5.56mm

90 posted on 10/16/2004 6:42:20 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Fiddlstix

Day care center building Osama bin Laden Patty Murray (D WA, Osama Momma) BTTT


91 posted on 10/16/2004 6:50:38 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: milestogo

Muslims or Idol worshippers?

Many of us to this day do not fall for Prophet Muhammad's lies. He claimed that he knew nothing about religion, yet the Qur'an has lots of copycat material. Many of the writings in it confirm the fact that he was a Jesus wanna be. The fact is that Jesus, not Muhammad, had already preached to us about submitting to God. All Muhammad did, was that, he took context from the bible and changed it around.

Muhammad's biography claims that he was illiterate, bull…how can a statesman and ruler be illiterate? He claims to have known nothing about religion, bull…how the hell would he know whom the angel Gabriel was. For instance, the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad is a story too much like the appearance of Gabriel to Mary and how Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth. There is of course one difference; Mary was pure when God chose her. Muhammad was not.

The truth is that Muhammad, like a snake, went into a cave named Hira' and for three years wrote out a religious business plan. This business plan would make him richer. He knew all the time what he was doing. His plan involved taking advantage of ignorant idol worshippers, to get his business up and running. He went to Hira' to pass long hours in retirement meditating and speculating over all aspects of his religious business plan.

The prophet of Islam, Muhammad, is a real documented and historical figure. He lived in the full light of history and most minute details of his life are known. What the blinded Muslims lacked to notice was that Muhammad was more that just a "prophet", he was also a greedy statesman and ruler.

Take note at how interested Muhammad was with the Pope, this is because the interest was not on the Pope but on the size of the Vatican and the size of Ka'bah. Muhammad being a successful merchant saw that the Vatican was growing in wealth and power, if only he too could find such real estate. A great big temple was all that was missing to complete his religious enterprising venture.

Muhammad saw that the temple of Ka'bah was huge like the Vatican and at the time full of no less than three hundred and sixty idols and a bunch of ignorant idol worshipers. Muhammad like many times throughout the Qur'an decided to act like a Jesus wanna be, Luke 20: verses 45 & 46. So, Muhammad swept clean the Holy Ka'bah from its heathen idols. It was he again who restored the original pilgrimage to its pristine purity, and so the ignorant idol worshipers followed him into a religion we now call Muslim. His business venture had become a reality.

How lucky could Muhammad get, he bought turnkey business. This turnkey business included a temple with idol worshippers who had no problem worshipping a Black Stone, nothing really changed for them and to this day they are still worshipping the idol (The Black Stone). The bottom line, Muhammad became rich like the Pope whom he was so jealous of.

To this day, the Muslims have a working procedure of the Tawaf, it consists of circling around the Ka'bah seven times. Each circle begins by kissing the Black Stone, or by caressing it, which is its normal procedure. Today the world wonders, who are these confused idol worshippers worshipping, God or the Black Stone?

The Muslim people need to open their eyes and realize that the last true prophet was Jesus. Jesus was the Son of God and totally submitted to God. Jesus never owned anything of this earth and Jesus was the only human being on earth that has performed any supernatural miracles.

Muhammad claims that his miracle is the Qur'an. I've got news for the Muslims, after the bible was written, "Any disturbed man can write a book of Prophecy. And that disturbed man will use the Bible as a reference point." The Bible is the greatest book on Earth. It is the word of God that is why the Christians kiss it.

Today I learned of a man named Brian David Mitchell who like Muhammad also wrote a book. Mitchell's book is called The Book of Emmanuel David Isaiah. It is a 27 page of densely packed text, filled with ramblings of a disturbed man. Ramblings that make no sense and like the Qur'an it is hard to interpret. The one thing that will make a difference in the public not falling for Mitchell's book is, that, today we are not as ignorant as the people were back in Muhammad's lifetime.

Note: Brian David Mitchell is the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart.


92 posted on 10/16/2004 6:59:34 AM PDT by Sadie789
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To: Petronski

Haileys drive inns and family restaurants
San Antonio, Texas.

Home of the pig sandwich.

Bush/Cheney in 2004


93 posted on 10/16/2004 7:34:43 AM PDT by rock58seg (I will vote as kerry directs, when he says, "vote for Bush.")
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To: milestogo
I have a simple solution for the muslim whiners. Planes with empty seats leave JFK every day for Islamic nations where they wouldn't have to put up with all the aggravations of living in a free country.

I'll even make it easier for them. If someone will start a fund to relocate American muslims back to the ME hellholes where their murderous Satanic cult is the only religion allowed, I'll be happy to make a contribution.

94 posted on 10/16/2004 8:34:27 AM PDT by epow
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To: ApplegateRanch

I am not surprised that Europeans and even Americans doing them same thing too. Well, I never learned about the Muslim's role with the Nazis. It is like swept under the rug. It is overlooked. The impact is profound even today. Look at all the terrorist attacks and killings. The Muslims would idolize and lionize this monster because he killed millions of Jews.


95 posted on 10/16/2004 8:47:14 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: milestogo

Well, boo hoo. Have them look at the number of Christian churches in Iraq that were bombed to celebrate the start of Ramadan.

Why aren't they whining about that?


96 posted on 10/16/2004 8:50:41 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Noachian
Muslims have a right to be afraid as long as they hold onto every belief as written in the Quran.

That's the crux of the entire matter.

For the rest of the world to ever trust Mooze-lims again, the Mooze-lims are going to have to explain to us how they can abandon the portions of their sacred holy scripture which exhort them to kill all the rest of us who won't convert.

More generally, they will have to explain how anyone who has subscribed to a particular religious faith can pick and choose among the tenets of that faith, selecting some of them and not others.

Otherwise, we can only conclude that the relationship of the rest of the world with Islam, as long as Islam continues to exist, will forever be a choice between an endless horror and a horrible end.

97 posted on 10/17/2004 12:19:01 AM PDT by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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