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Dallas billboard asks: 'Why Islam?'
WFAA ^ | 3/11/2005 | Ron Harris

Posted on 03/13/2005 1:09:06 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak

The way to religious tolerance is through a billboard - or at least that's the idea behind a display for tens of thousands of commuters in North Dallas each day.

It's not a question a lot of people ask themselves on the way to work. But there it is, hanging above westbound LBJ Freeway near Webb Chapel: "Why Islam?"

The sign also offers a Web site address and a toll-free phone number in New Jersey.

"When the call comes in, it transfers to the team of volunteers," said Adnan Fyed of the Islamic Circle of North America. "And those volunteers they will call you back and they pick up the phone at the same time."

"Why Islam?" is a program run by the Islamic Circle of North America to educate anyone who wants to know about the religion. The website offers information on Allah, pilgramages and even audio lectures.

Visitors can also watch a slide show on Ramadan, and are invited to visit a mosque. There's even a chatroom.

"If you go and become a member of the forum, you can go and ask whatever questions you have," Fyed said.

The chat room addresses such topics as suicide bombings, and hating Christians.

With so many hostile ideas out there, the effort aims to help provide the truth about the religion.

The packed parking lot for Friday services at the Islamic Center of Irving shows how much the faith is growing in North Texas. Now with the hotline and the website, members of the community hope to get out the word concerning what Islam is all about.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: billboard; convert; icna; islam; islamiccircle; muslim; taquiyya; terrorist
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Why islam?

A chain saw needs to be taken to this billboard.

Islam is the religion of butchering perverts who rape young children and follow the "teachings" of a pedophile.

121 posted on 03/14/2005 6:26:49 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal Today)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Our foolish dependence on oil from Islamic countries for so many years has created a serious delusion.


122 posted on 03/14/2005 6:27:03 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
These meanderings from Fred, a recent American convert to islam:

To sum up, Islam is an extenion of Judaism and Christianity, respecting the followers of both faiths. . In fact, the Qur'an contains absolutely no internal inconsistencies whatsoever.

Fred has read a different version of the evil koran than I've read.

Mohammed's evil discourse should more correctly be entitled "Mein Koran."

The koran is nothing but a plageristic piece of inconsistent and senseless hodgepodge garbage.

123 posted on 03/14/2005 6:34:46 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal Today)
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To: Happy2BMe

GREAT POST BTTT


124 posted on 03/14/2005 6:36:36 AM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
The packed parking lot for Friday services at the Islamic Center of Irving shows how much the faith is growing in North Texas.

The devil is workin' overtime in the Bible Belt.

125 posted on 03/14/2005 6:47:51 AM PST by ppaul
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To: PigRigger

"Not this Moral Equivalence BS again..."

Show me where in our "Chistian laws" it states we should stone people to death as advocated in the Bible.


126 posted on 03/14/2005 6:54:39 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: SheLion

"This is just terrific. Huge billboard signs advertising the Islam religion and we Christians aren't even allowed to display our nativity during the Christmas Holidays.

What is wrong with this picture??!!"

Buy more billboards?


127 posted on 03/14/2005 6:55:30 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: JesseHousman

"These meanderings from Fred, a recent American convert to islam"


Fred who?

You're not writing about 'Fred On Everything', Fred Reed are you?

Fred's religion is hedonism.

If so I'm sitting here shaking my head in wonder!


128 posted on 03/14/2005 6:55:32 AM PST by Bennett46
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To: Right Angler

"I'm still waiting for Muslims to denounce the evil their more radical elements perpetrate"

Instead of waiting maybe you should go look...click below.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Muslims+denounce+terrorism


129 posted on 03/14/2005 6:57:48 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: Happy2BMe

"#88"

#129


130 posted on 03/14/2005 7:02:35 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: Smartaleck

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1362036/posts?page=123



Already been covered: Taqiyya...lying to Infidels.


131 posted on 03/14/2005 7:04:48 AM PST by Bennett46
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To: William Terrell

"The difference is that such individuals and organizations go against the commandments of their holy book"

You wrongly presume that "everybody" takes their "Books" literally. IMO


132 posted on 03/14/2005 7:12:57 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Why Irritable Bowel Syndrome?


133 posted on 03/14/2005 7:14:37 AM PST by FreedomAvatar
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To: Smartaleck
Instead of waiting maybe you should go look...click below.

How can we believe what they say when they operate under such concepts as "al-Taqiyya"?

134 posted on 03/14/2005 7:16:01 AM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Skooz
"Uh, let me take a stab at this one.......Nazis, maybe?"

ROFLMAO Nazis's are a a denomination?
135 posted on 03/14/2005 7:17:55 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Damn good question.

(They ARE asking why Islam is still around, aren't they?)


136 posted on 03/14/2005 7:27:45 AM PST by Redbob
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To: Bennett46
"Already been covered: Taqiyya...lying to Infidels."

So all the Muslim woman who supposedly have "gained certain freedoms" in Afghanistan and Iraq, contrary to some of the perceived Muslim doctrines, is all a big lie? It didn't happen? Wow you need to get the NY Times right on that farce.
137 posted on 03/14/2005 7:30:45 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: Nachum

Put THAT sign up right near the propaganda sign!


138 posted on 03/14/2005 7:31:09 AM PST by international american (Tagline now fireproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Smartaleck

#129 - are you buying it?


139 posted on 03/14/2005 7:32:53 AM PST by Happy2BMe (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

" True divine guidance
Way of DEATH "


140 posted on 03/14/2005 7:33:03 AM PST by international american (Tagline now fireproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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