Posted on 07/13/2006 5:24:41 PM PDT by Pyro7480
POMPANO BEACH -- Dozens of black residents, joined by some whites and Hispanics, rallied Tuesday in front of City Hall to protest plans to move a mosque into the predominantly black northwest area.
More than 60 people responded to a call by a group of ministers for the protest, demanding that the City Commission rescind the permission it gave the Islamic Center of South Florida to move into the neighborhood. The mosque plans to build a 29,000-square-foot center on a 4.8-acre site where residents want to see affordable homes....
Led by the Rev. O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center, protesters carried signs opposing the relocation of the mosque from the city's northeast area. Some called Muslims "dangerous" and "terrorists."
Dozier, who last week called Islam a cult, said in an interview commissioners face repercussions at the ballot box if they do not change the June 14 decision. If the commissioners didn't change their minds, Dozier said, he would sue the city.
"We must remember that no matter how peaceful many Muslims seem to be, their core religion's doctrine allows for no other faith to exist peacefully alongside them," Dozier told the commissioners during a public comment period....
At the end of the meeting, Mayor John Raysom said he wouldn't like the city to prohibit any church or religion.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Here's something to be very concerned about in Florida and elsewhere!!!
Weel they can always do what muslims do when they don't approve something ..... firebomb the hell out of it.
After everything really hits the fan, and the islamofascist enemy in "publically" identified, and the lie that islam is a religion of peace is once and for all outed, there is going to be alot more than just protesting happening.
As with the human body, the best way to deal with cancer in the body politic is to excise it.
That Mayor, on the other hand, is an idiot. I couldn't believe the way he was sucking up to Muslims. I'm afraid America is going to learn the same way Europe has. That bunch of morons running this country don't have sense enough to see the danger.
Right. Must we tolerate a religion which is set on destroying all other religions? That's insane!
I very much agree, this is completely insane.
I don't know about you, but I gave up on the "how the heck did we get to this?" question.
Like the judge in Georgia that recently struck down the requirement to show an ID when voting. That is not just insane, that is the very seed of destruction for my country.
Perhaps, real Americans (and yes, that does not include Democrats and their ilk) need to start thinking about how this country was founded. How and why.
And what to do to fix the problem(s).
Since Islam allows no other faith to exist alongside them, then it seems Mayor Raysom effectively wants to prohibit non-Islamic churches or religions by attracting to Pompano Beach the Muslims who will squeeze out the non-Muslims.
Pompano ping!
I very much agree. Well said.
Religious tolerance is booed loudly
BY FRED GRIMM
fgrimm@MiamiHerald.com
Willie Lawson invoked the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. The NAACP leader spoke of America's founding principles, the need for tolerance, the evil of discrimination.
He was booed loudly. Disapproval fairly cascaded through the audience at Pompano Beach City Hall. It was a reception a civil rights leader hasn't endured in these parts since North Broward was a sprawling tomato patch ruled by racist rednecks.
In the modern version played out Tuesday night, the bigots were black.
They held signs and marched outside City Hall to protest city zoning approval of a mosque in northwest Pompano Beach.
ISLAM DENIGRATED
When the City Commission met an hour later, the dissidents' leader, the Rev. O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Church, went to the podium and denigrated Islam, a ''cult'' he called it, and reduced all its practitioners to stark, one-dimensional bomb-wielding American-hating stereotypes.
Dozier accused ''Moooslims'' (stretching out that first syllable for mocking emphasis) of picking a Christian neighborhood where they could convert young black men to Islam. ``We don't need young black men to become more angry, to hate white men. We don't need any more violence.''
Dozier's words brought shouts of ''Amen!'' from the audience. His three-minute diatribe brought applause and then a standing ovation.
When Lawson, president of the North Broward NAACP, rose to call for religious tolerance, it became an act of courage.
Another anti-Islam rant Dozier delivered during a radio interview last week forced the governor to remove him from the Broward Judicial Nominating Commission on Monday. Dozier, a preacher and lawyer, had served on the commission since 2001, screening judicial candidates and making recommendations for Gov. Jeb Bush. Clearly, getting fired hadn't chastened the minister. He showed up Tuesday night with about 70 demonstrators, still railing about Islam.
He failed to persuade the City Commission to undo zoning approval for a new Islamic Center of South Florida. But he certainly raised questions about the twisted influence such an unapologetic bigot wielded during his five years on the judicial commission.
DENOUNCED GAYS
Dozier was known for intolerance long before the mosque issue. But it was his stunning denunciations of gays that brought him his earlier notoriety.
And Dozier also likes to rail against the notion of a secular government. He once complained to The Daily Business Review, ``There is no such animal as separation of church and state in the Constitution.''
And Dozier was known to query judicial candidates about their personal religious beliefs and whether they attended church. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, wrote to Gov. Bush in January 2004, asking him to fire his appointee. ''Dozier's overt religious bigotry is wholly unacceptable and he must no longer be allowed an official role in the selection of judges in Florida,'' Lynn wrote. ``It is appalling that in 2004 judicial nominees are being subjected to an inquisition.''
Finally Dozier's bigotry became too much, even for Jeb.
STILL A VOLUNTEER
But apparently not for state Attorney General Charlie Crist. Crist told The Miami Herald's Gary Fineout that the nasty sentiments spewed by Dozier weren't enough to stop him from volunteering in Crist's gubernatorial campaign.
''I'm not going to do that,'' Crist said. ``I'm grateful for all the support I can get.''
So, many years after Jim Crow politics was vanquished from Florida, bigotry still has friends in high places.
Dozier Good
Ragheads bad
In "Mosque Matters: Maybe we’d tackle the tough issues if we got that we’re at war," Michael Ledeen at National Review argues for what I have been arguing for for years: that we must monitor American mosques.It’s interesting that British jihadis came to Queens to recruit Americans — and no doubt some of them, fully trained in slaughter, have returned to these shores — but the important thing is the mosque. Because there’s always a mosque, as my Italian friend Magdi Allam has been repeating for several years. Not all mosques are jihadi, but all jihadis come from a mosque. Posted by Robert at 08:45 PM | Comments (40) "...better to give up some freedom than lose it all under sharia law. What use is freedom and civil liberty if your either dead or enslaved?"
Yes, I found that most heartening. People are "getting" it.
At least Charlie Crist still has a backbone.
I don't know Dozier, but I'll take a guess that he's not the foaming-at-the-mouth bigot this reporter paints him to be. His sins against leftist dogma must be severely punished by the press, of course. I only hope the punishment ends there, since Grimm has nicely painted an Islamist bullseye on the Reverend's back.
I don't blame the protesters at Pompano Beach one bit!
Do mosques play their music 5 times a day throughout the whole neighborhood?
I tried to find an article about at least one instance in Hamtramck, Michigan. I can find info in groups, but none of the articles are still online. But yes, the city counsel oked the call to prayer being broadcast.
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