Posted on 10/31/2004 1:57:42 PM PST by ninonitti
These days his alarm rings at 4:30 a.m. The wakeup call gives Mushtaque Alikhan Mirza, a practicing Muslim fasting for the celebration of Ramadan, just enough time for breakfast before sunrise. Then he settles in to work for the next 15 hours -- for free. Within minutes he's installed in front of the computer in his Cambridge home. There he will remain until 9 or 10 p.m., volunteering his time by sending countless e-mails and making call upon call to Muslims around the country. "I have been calling the Somalian communities in Minneapolis and the Arab communities in Michigan," said Mirza. "I have been traveling to New Hampshire and driving to Maine and campaigning among its large Somalian community." The chairman of the Cambridge Ward 4 Democratic Committee for the last 10 years, Mirza has taken on the task of helping organize Muslims around the nation to mobilize, register, and vote. Phil Johnston, chairman of the state Democratic Party, who has worked with Mirza for years, called his contributions invaluable. "He is a great, great Democrat, a great activist," said Johnston. "Mushtaque is certainly one of the key leaders in the [Muslim] community." Johnston recalled a moving speech Mirza gave to the state committee days after Sept. 11. "He said he and his family and his community shared in our sorrow. There wasn't a dry eye in the room when he got through speaking." Currently, Mirza's work focuses on John Kerry's presidential bid, but it was a visit from another famous Massachusetts resident to his homeland more than 40 years ago that planted the seed of political interest. As a young Muslim of Iranian ancestry growing up in India, he was inspired by John Kennedy's simple message and outreach to the poor. "He
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Why in the world would peace loving Muslims want a tough guy like John Kerry elected.....he's going to hunt down their murderous bretheren.
I can't wait until paragraphs are invented. I would like to have been able to read the article.
Try clicking the boston.com link worked for me.........
Last night French TV visited Detroit and reported on the Arab vote there. 400,000 Arabs live in Michigan with 300,000 located in Detroit metro; many are citizens.
Arab spokesmen said in 2000 they supported GWB but this time the Mullahs are organizing against GWB and state that 70% of the vote will go to Kerry.
So my question is: with the vast majority of American Jews and American Arabs voting for Kerry - why are we doing what we are doing in the Middle East?
Muslims For Bush
http://www.muslimsforbush.com/index.html
9-11?
Al-Queda training and support bases in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Because we can? ;!)?
I understand that of course but there are faster, easier and less costly ways to accomplish that.
And since Kerry hasn't been forcoming with his plan ....other than a Global Test and linking up with the Axis of Weasels. I guess all I can offer in response is that it's the right thing to do.
I mean if you have a plan have at it.
Look, I am completely in favor of what GWB is doing and certainly wouldn't for a moment want Kerry in charge. We can eliminate the terrorists, I have no doubt of that at all.
The question becomes - when nations that are a danger to us or harbor and assist terrorists, do we spend our national treasure of men and money by trying to make democracies of all of them meaning - Syria, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, etc?
Or, if we recognize a threat to us do we simply remove the threat without trying to make that country into a model democracy - in other words, bomb them and leave them?
If, God forbid, sKerry should win, then we won't be doing what we are doing in the Middle East.
Then the palestinian pukes can do what they want in Israel and sKerry will cut off aid if Israel reacts.
And the Sunnis can kill all the Shias in Iraq and the Iranian Shias can go to war (hopefully nuclear) against Iraq and the Saudis can continue to Wahhabize the muslim world and we will end up electing someone with balls to repair the damage that sKerry has done.
But then it will be very late...
You are probably completely right; on the other hand, are we at all sure the same thing won't happen anyway?
The Middle East and the Muslim world is so volatile a billion and a half people may not respond exactly as we predict they will.
Unfortunately, this is not a war (eliminating terrorists and terrorist nations)that can be won in two or three years - it may take 30 or 40 years.
During all of that time, the nations fighting terrorism must maintain the same exact goals. In the meantime, every four years we will have the same presidential campaign as we are now experiencing.
I simply cannot imagine that we can maintain the resolve to finish the job we have begun by democratizing Muslim nations. Sooner or later another, perhaps brighter, Kerry will come along and steer us in another direction.
In fighting terrorism, there is no end in sight even though we must fight it; people will become fed up with it and demand quick solutions so they can get back to their lives.
All I am saying is: do we have the resolve and fortitude to see this through over the next 30-40 years and create democracies as we go along?
IMO, Kerry is in trouble in Michigan because of the fanatic Muslim support of him for President.
I would bet most union workers, conservative DEMS, blacks and most native Michiganites find this repulsive. Their own state taken over by Muslims.
Remember 9/11 on 11/2! Vote President Bush for 4 more years. Otherwise, I am scared to death we are going to hear more that chants to prayer in the cities throughout the State of Michigan.
The Dems should really get Muslim activists together with some of their other activist groups, like militant atheists and lesbian feminists. That would make for a nice bit of diversity...don't ya think? The results could be, hmm, explosive!
BUSH is right ,he has a long term sight,BOMBING IS NOT ENOUGH and certainly worse than before increasing anger.
The best edge against islamo terrorism is democracy and freedom.That's a great bet which is trying BUSH HOPING THAT DEMOCRACY would be contagious at long term in this area.
KERRY has a very short view on terrorism!
He repeats,as a stupid parot,he will catch and kill BENLADEN
....
That's all folks ?And after that?
ISLAMO TERRORISTS ARE THE SAME IN MIDDLE EAST RUSSIA(child abductors of BESLAN)CHINA INDONESIA....
Explain that and KERRY make pschhhhhhtt
I don't want Kerry to win, I want GWB to win; I'm talking about the next 30 years, only dictatorships and monarchies can maintain 30 year wars - those days are over with. You have congressional referendums every two years and presidential referendums every four years.
Iraq and Afghanistan together will require that we station over 50,000 troops there over the next 10 years at least. We also have to worry about Iran, Syria and North Korea - how do we handle them when things flare up, take democracy to them?
The worst case is Pakistan with its 50 nukes. Musharaf fired many of his top leaders in his intelligence service for not cooperating with the war on terror. Those people are now working with UBL. Musharaf was again targeted for assassination just the other day.
WHEN the terrorists take control of the nukes in Pakistan - what do you do, send in the troops as we did in Iraq and pacify the country? It's worse there than Iraq - its a powder keg with nukes.
Depends on what you mean by "we." (Sounds like Clintoon, doesn't it? Sorry 'bout that.) I think we (people who love America) do have the resolve and fortitude because there is no acceptable alternative.
If you mean people like the democrats who have taken over that party, the America-haters, ...well, then, you know my answer.
That's why we have to win!
"That's why we have to win!"
It's going to be tough going and I can only hope there are enough "we" among us to see it through while expecting even more lies and even harsher treatment by the MSM who are out of the closet even now.
Future candidates will study this election process carefully and I can only wonder how vicious the next one will be.
We must quickly do whatever is necessary to stablize Iraq starting with Fallujah and Ramadi. If that lingers on and on, I have grave fears.
I have a lot of relatives living in Michigan and I know some are particularly turned off by that although they would vote R anyway.
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