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.
Call (877) WHY-ISLAM:http://www.whyislam.org
No thanks.
Islam....The cult of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.
but.... it's the religion of peace, who'd not want to be a part of that... /sarc
How nice for them.
Islam Lies
---The chat room addresses such topics as suicide bombings, and hating Christians.---
How about Jews, or Zionists as they're now called?
Islam is only tolerant and peaceful so long as you agree with and submit to its dictates.
Same sign is on the Parkway just south of the Meadowlands in Zoo jersey !! Probably could have seen the World trade Center from that locatioon .
The Taqiyya Information Center, pfft.
I think we've seen at least what some of Islam is all about.
When Islam starts openly defending America and condemns publicly Islamic attacks around the world, then one could reconsider what Islam is all about. Unless they start doing this, we all know what Islam is all about.
Recruiting bombers?....inquiring minds want to know.
Couldn't post from the paper, but a complete puff piece.
Wrong!
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