Queens [NYC] Muslim Group Says It Opposes Violence, and America

The New York Times ^ | June 22, 2005 | Andrea Elliott

[aculeus]

The young Muslim men, with beards and bullhorns, work the streets of Jackson Heights on the weekends. They surface at parades and protests around the city, loudly declaring America the enemy and advocating for an Islamic state. Several weeks ago, they publicly tore up an American flag as payback for the reported desecration of the Koran at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Their own videos of violence against Muslims, one with the title "Muslim Massacres," have recently appeared on Queens Public Television.

[Guillermo]

DU members, eh?

[monkeywrench]

http://www.islamicthinkers.com/index.htm

[Roccus]

"Today, Astoria is more up-scale than Jackson Hgts."
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I wonder if the fact that JH is now inhabited by illegal, third world immigrants while Astoria is inhabited by legal, European immigrants has anything to do with this?

[Clemenza]

I wonder if the fact that JH is now inhabited by illegal, third world immigrants while Astoria is inhabited by legal, European immigrants has anything to do with this?

WRONG! Astoria these days is a mixture of legal Brazillian, Indian, and Egyptian immigrants, along with young professionals who have been priced out of Manhattan. I myself don't find Eurotrash to be superior. Jackson Heights main problem is with the illegal Mexicans spilling over from Corona.

[Roccus]

What happened to the Greek population in Astoria? I haven't been there in about 6yrs.

[Clemenza]

Greeks still own most of the real estate (and are doing quite well due to the increase rents in the area), but have either moved back to Greece (the elder generation) or to Whitestone, Bayside or the North Shore of Nassau County. The nabe is still around 20% Greek (at its peak in the late 70s./early 80s, it was about 50%).

[Roccus]

Thanks for the info on the Greek community in Ast. 50%, if you take out the public housing complex, was a vast maj. back then.
As to JH, I don't think that it's all Mex. or from Corona. There are all kinds of Central and South Americans. For many years there was a dam on Roosevelt Ave at Junction and at 51ST. In the late 70's it moved west to 74St. By the 80's the pressure became too great and the Woodside- JH area was inundated from both east and west. I was born and raised in the Newtown section of Elmhurst, then spent 30 yrs. in Woodside between Queens Blvd and Roosevelt. As a college student I delivered mail in Elm. & JH on my vacations. What's happened to that area is a sin.

[Clemenza]

You'd be surprised at how many folks just out of college get their first NY apartment in Sunnyside and Woodside. Most of those two neighborhoods are still OK, especially since they built the new extension of MOMA. There is, believe it or not, a growing restaurant scene along Queens Boulevard radiating out from the museum.

Along Roosevelt you used to have a large middle-class Colombian community, but they too have moved to suburbia. These days, J-Heights is largely Mexican (especially towards Corona), with Ecuadorans in the western portion, with a few other nationalities in between. The Indians who used to live around 74th street have moved to Lawn Guyland (Hicksville especially) and they have been replaced by Bangladeshis.

My ex-girlfriend was born in Peru, settled on Northen Boulevard in J-Heights when she was 12 and moved to Elmhurst a year later. I know the area very well. Last I heard, she married a Chinese guy and they live in Flushing.

[horrible]

i'm sad your so afraid of muslims, as one, imagine that i contributed to the funding of the mosque and at the same time i did and am still serving in the United States Navy. Imagine that a Muslim man in the Navy, and the United States Navy actively taking part in the defense in this nation, and helping remove sadaam and can't wait to do it to the insurgents next. wake up your racism, and quit being so afraid or if you're really so hardcore join up, we got jobs open if you really really want to help america so much. oh and there is no peaceful religion in American history, there's pictures that prove it. we're all guilty of bullshit, its just an endless cycle.

[Cindy]

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