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Local Muslims United in Distress Over Iraq Violence
LA Times ^ | 3/4/06 | K. Connie Kang,

Posted on 03/04/2006 6:47:10 AM PST by TexKat

After Friday-night prayers, inside a modest mosque behind a McDonald's on Murchison Avenue in Pomona, nearly 400 Muslims were gathered for a rare town hall meeting on the situation in Iraq.

They were Shiites and Sunnis, men, women and children from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds from throughout Southern California. But, inside Ahlul-Beyt Mosque, a Shiite house of worship, those labels appeared not to matter.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: california; iraq; muslims; pomona

1 posted on 03/04/2006 6:47:12 AM PST by TexKat
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To: TexKat

I'm not going to register with the L.A. Times just to finish the article. What is the reason for their distress? The "violence" is being committed by lunatics who are using the Muslim faith as a basis for their actions. Are they going to condem these killers and demand their elimination? If so good for them. If they are just hand wringing and whining forget about them.


2 posted on 03/04/2006 6:53:35 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: FreePaul
I have heard good things about BugMeNot.
3 posted on 03/04/2006 7:02:46 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: FreePaul

It's a bit of a challenge to find time to summon sympathy for Muslim "CRYBABIES" who can't understand why innocent citizens of the USA, women,children the aged and infirm are the declared targets for extermination by Muslim Terrorists.

If you are still bothered perhaps you should consider leaving. When violence breaks out, you will not be accorded special or protected status because you have not condemned the monsters among you. You are tacitly supporting the GWOT.

You will be treated accordingly.


4 posted on 03/04/2006 7:03:33 AM PST by CBart95
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To: FreePaul

I guess we're supposed to feel sorry for them?

They should thank God that they live in the US and not at the Middle East.


5 posted on 03/04/2006 7:07:52 AM PST by dinok
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To: FreePaul
What is the reason for their distress? The "violence" is being committed by lunatics who are using the Muslim faith as a basis for their actions. Are they going to condem these killers and demand their elimination? If so good for them. If they are just hand wringing and whining forget about them.

Let God judge what Muslims did in the past, suggests Maher Hathout, senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

"We cannot be buried in a big graveyard called the past," he said. "We have to negotiate our future and improve our present."

For American Muslims, that means looking for ways to influence U.S. policy, he said.

"As an American I feel that our policy needs to be questioned," he said. To do that, he said, Muslim Americans need to hold their government accountable.

But Torrance physician Nazir U. Khaja, chairman of the Islamic Information Service, said that even as Muslim Americans speak up and hold their government accountable, they need to remember the power of prayer.

6 posted on 03/04/2006 7:08:02 AM PST by TexKat
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To: TexKat

In other words the government needs to surrender to the Muslims, that has been their plan all along.


7 posted on 03/04/2006 7:15:29 AM PST by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Thanks for the info. If I chose to register I'd just use one of my throw away e-mail addresses. I just don't like to have to register.


8 posted on 03/04/2006 7:20:34 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: TexKat
Who better to suffer the ultimate savagery of Islam, than Muslims?

How can one be expected to spare a people from violence and ignorance, when they worship BOTH!

I suspect it was Carl Rove's despicable plan all along - to incite the lunatic Sunni against the lunatic Shiites.
Pure genius! Setting one murderous cult against the other.

Perhaps if they bleed each other white - they will crawl back under their rock for another 1000 years.

</sarcasm> sort of...

Semper Fi
9 posted on 03/04/2006 8:49:44 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: CBart95

"You will be treated accordingly"

You wish. When it happens next time and some of these people are found to be involved, the liberals are going to fall all over themselves to prove we deserved it.

Don't you know that the West is pure evil? And the most evil western nation next to Israel is the US.

That professor in Colorado and Michael Moore know the truth; the NYTs and WaPo will take their cues and the US will be castigated again.


10 posted on 03/04/2006 8:54:09 AM PST by kjo
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To: Americanexpat
In other words the government needs to surrender to the Muslims, that has been their plan all along.

Their long range plan. They are biding time, awaiting Mohammed's return.

11 posted on 03/04/2006 9:09:45 AM PST by TexKat
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To: TexKat
We are not accepted by any Muslims. They only have different timing as to when they should subjugate us.

Trust but verify.
12 posted on 03/04/2006 9:35:38 AM PST by paguch
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To: TexKat
Multicultural societies have only ... functioned peacefully in authoritarian states. - Helmut Schmidt.
13 posted on 03/04/2006 10:56:46 AM PST by jordan8
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