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Muslim leaders frustrated with report of alleged terror plot.
Xinhuanet ^ | 08/20/05 | Xinhuanet

Posted on 08/20/2005 9:35:46 AM PDT by Pikamax

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Muslim leaders in Southern California said Friday that unnamed sources were wrong to leak information to the media about an alleged terrorist plot involving three members of a local mosque.

Edina Lekovic of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) said too few details have been provided by the sources, which encourages speculation and backlash against all Muslims.

The information has been released in "random dots that they allow people to connect on their own," she said.

Unnamed counterterrorism officials have linked three men in their early thirties to a possible plot to attack National Guard recruitment centers, synagogues and other locations in Southern California, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The men attend Jamat-E-Masijidul Islam mosque in Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, according to mosque leaders.

Leaders from MPAC, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles, and the Shura Council of Southern California -- an umbrella group for 80 local mosques -- asked the media to deal with the story carefully for fear that generalizations may lead toall Muslims being discriminated against.

"Generalizations breed hate and may lead to hate crimes and violence against the innocent," said Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman ofthe Shura Council.

Lekovic said MPAC should have received some warning from the FBI if sources were going to provide information about the investigation to the media.

Representatives of MPAC -- which has offices in Los Angeles andWashington, DC -- meet often with local, state and federal officials to promote open dialogue between the Muslim community and law enforcement, she said.

Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that they are investigating a possible link between the three men and a state prison in California.

A senior FBI counterterrorism official in Washington told the newspaper that they have several ongoing investigations into the use of federal and state prisons to recruit potential Islamic terrorists.

An investigation by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force began last month, after local police arrested two of the three men in connection with a string of robberies and allegedly recovered evidence suggesting a possible terrorist plot. Enditem


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jihadinamerica; muslimamericans
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1 posted on 08/20/2005 9:35:46 AM PDT by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax

So leave.


2 posted on 08/20/2005 9:36:25 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Pikamax
Yet again with the histrionics from the muslim leadership when a terror plot hatched by one of their own is discovered.  If America can't see that muslims are a Fifth Column by now, they never will.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

3 posted on 08/20/2005 9:39:27 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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"...wrong to leak information to the media."

Tough nugees. You enjoy the Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Speech to promote yourselves.

Cuts BOTH ways.


4 posted on 08/20/2005 9:40:24 AM PDT by OpusatFR (What happened to my tagline!?)
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To: Pikamax
Xinhuanet, huh? So we're seeing Communist China's take on the situation. Anybody still think that they and we have the same enemy in Islamic extremism, just because China's facing a Muslim rebellion in one of its western provinces?
5 posted on 08/20/2005 9:40:26 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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Muslim leaders frustrated with report of alleged terror plot.

Prove it, put up or shut up. Better yet just leave and go back to where the problem is and fix it.
6 posted on 08/20/2005 9:41:09 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: Pikamax
random dots that they allow people to connect on their own

Hmmm...
An awful lot of random dots, put together with appropriate statistical handling
makes a powerful correlation coefficient with small error bars

I'm having no problem following the "random dots"
8 posted on 08/20/2005 9:42:57 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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Lekovic said MPAC should have received some warning from the FBI if sources were going to provide information about the investigation to the media.

Why? So they can get time to hide any additional evidence?


9 posted on 08/20/2005 9:42:59 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: OpusatFR

"...wrong to leak information to the media."


Would never happen under Sharia law.


11 posted on 08/20/2005 9:44:18 AM PDT by Kokojmudd (Outsource Federal Judiciary and US Senate to India, NOW!)
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"Would never happen under Sharia law."

Yeah, it's awfully hard to speak with your tongue gone.


12 posted on 08/20/2005 9:45:11 AM PDT by OpusatFR (What happened to my tagline!?)
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To: Pikamax
Awwww - What plot? We muslims are "The Religion of Peace"


13 posted on 08/20/2005 9:45:18 AM PDT by hombre_sincero
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Aw shucks, lets bury the hatchet
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Here, let me buy dinner for the whole mosque
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14 posted on 08/20/2005 9:45:29 AM PDT by milemark (Proud to be an infidel.)
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To: Pikamax

aw... they're so sensitive


15 posted on 08/20/2005 9:45:31 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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"Generalizations breed hate and may lead to hate crimes and violence against the innocent," said Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman ofthe Shura Council.

LOL, this is rich!

16 posted on 08/20/2005 9:46:15 AM PDT by demkicker (Life has many choices. Eternity has only two. Which one have you chosen?)
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To: Pikamax

to the upset Mohammedians:

CRY ME A RIVER


17 posted on 08/20/2005 9:47:23 AM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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"Generalizations breed hate and may lead to hate crimes and violence against the innocent," said Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Shura Council.

So....what was 9-11?

18 posted on 08/20/2005 9:47:42 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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Until the Muslims make a stand against terror and pledge full support to AMERICA and our standards they will be eyed with suspicion and caution. Islam, are you for us or against us??????????????????????????????
19 posted on 08/20/2005 9:50:14 AM PDT by mountainlyons (alienated vet)
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I don't know why we continue to allow these people into our country. Everyone complains about illegal aliens. I much rather have Mexicans here than Muslims!


20 posted on 08/20/2005 9:50:23 AM PDT by mlc9852
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