Posted on 11/25/2004 5:54:09 AM PST by SandRat
Zohal Faqeeri has more reason than ever to be thankful this Thanksgiving Day.
The 10-year-old girl from Kabul, Afghanistan, is thankful not only to be living with her family in the United States, but also because she won a contest with her essay on what she is thankful for.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.com ...
We have to excerpt the Associated Press now?
Speaking if Mosques and Islam. Want to learn about how Islam really work? See this site.
By the way, Moslems can't celebrate Thanksgiving
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Is there anything some of you folks won't poison?
I hope the family doesn't blow up any schoolchildren or shoot any "infidels" in celebration.
Does it mean they don't celebrate Christmas either? I mean, they believe in the prophet Jesus but not in His being God's son. Will they boycott Christmas shopping?
Thanks for the story. It reminds me of my immigrant grandfather who came here, through Ellis Island, all alone at 13 as a deck passenger; he couldn't afford steerage. If I live to be 100, I'll never forget sitting on his lap and him telling me of how hard it was in the "old country". He would show me the scars on his head and hands where the WWI German shrapnel had hit him as he stormed out of trenches in France with Pershing's Army. He would tell me how proud he was to have fought for America and that he was an American. Then he would cry and say "God Bless America!"
Poison? I suggest you take a hard and clear look at Islam. Something I'd wish I never have had to do these past couple of years. If you see I posted something in error please feel free to correct me. Which, if you notice, did not say a darn thing negative about what this kid wrote in her essay.
Just for you I went ahead and started a thread on the Imam issuing a Fatawa against the holiday called Thanksgiving in the United States.
If you post here be advised that people will comment on your posts. Do you think I LIKE posting something negative about this "essay story". Nope. But that little girl will no more be allowed to read her essay openly in a mosque any more than she will be allowed to pray with the men of the mosque.
Take a hike. You've ruined a nice story. Jerk.
Thanks for the link, sandrat. I know a Marine smiling down from Heaven who sees things that he fought for and believed in coming to pass....Afghani children liberated from oppression.
Calling names now? That's your retort?
The story said she was going to read her essay in the mosque. I responded to that.
Hello! Hello! This placed is not for a single point of view. If you don't like that too bad.
Now, cut the name calling and correct me if you can.
I believe so. Jim Rob, Admin Mod we have to excerpt AP stories right or wrong?
Barlowmaker removes his head from sand to make a comment. Please keep your head in the sand. It will reflect better on your intellect.
I'm well aware of the pathologies of pre-reformation Islam, thanks. I don't need a group of gutless cyber-bigots educating me with their bile. Thanks anyway.
Hey don't spoil this multicultural feel-good momment! Just sit down, shut up, celebrate diversity and enjoy the spread of Islam in Amereica (which I'm sure is a good thing - Why else would our government do it to us?).
Why do you think some people here are gutless or bigoted? What "bile" have I or anyone else posted?
Name calling just does not cut it. If you can't repond to peoples posts with facts and information you are not doing much to support your thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas, which as of yet, have not been forthcoming from you so far that I can see.
"The thing I'm most thankful for is being able to come to the United States," the fourth-grader from Tucson's Schumaker Elementary School wrote..."
"In Afghanistan, where I'm from, the Taliban kept children from going to school. They took little girls away from their parents and never brought them back, my mother used to hide me. . . . They took my mother to jail for 20 days because she was a teacher and in Afghanistan, women could not be teachers."
We take our citizenship for granted. It is indeed something I am grateful and thankful for.
Well, some don't understand that speaking out like this and wanting to read her story in a mosque is to be condoned and supported. It isn't a "waste of breath".
She may be a voice for islamic reform in the future.
We need more of her.
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