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Muslim leaders bemoan "Islamophobia" since 9/11 [Poor Babies!]
Al-Reuters ^ | Sept. 1, 2006 | Michael Conlon

Posted on 09/01/2006 2:31:00 PM PDT by Alouette

CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Muslims still face high levels of hatred and suspicion nearly five years after the September 11 attacks and political leaders and the news media are mostly to blame, Muslim leaders said on Friday.

"During the last five years the Muslim community has been scrutinized by almost all branches of the government and the media to the extent that more than half a million Muslims have been directly touched by this process," said Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.

"They continue to face dehumanization and a great trend of Islamophobia," he added, speaking to reporters at the start of the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest yearly gathering of U.S. and Canadian Muslims.

"The trends of Islamophobia unfortunately are worsening," he added, blaming "television driven by media makers" and political leaders for the situation.

The September 11 attacks, planned by the al Qaeda group of Osama bin Laden, were carried out by Islamic men flying hijacked planes into the World Trade center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington.

Mujahid cited President George W. Bush's recent remark that if terrorism is not beaten in Baghdad then Americans will have to fight it in their own streets as a remark that casts suspicions on Muslims in their own country.

Ingrid Mattson, newly elected president of ISNA and the first woman to head the group, agreed about the continuing level of problems faced by Muslims but said there was also a growing level of education and understanding across "civil society" that finds Muslim leaders sometimes hard pressed to keep up with demands for speeches and other outreach opportunities.

Hollywood and popular culture in general, she added, seem to have done a better job of putting a human face on Muslim adherents than the news media.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christophobia; crybabies; fifthanniversary; infidelophobia; islam; islamophobia; judeophobia; muslims; september12era; snivel; tfb; whine
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To: Alouette
Muslims have only three basic problems to correct.
1. Osama binLaden (I’m thinking 9mm)
2. Muhammed (Allah sting him with the whips of a thousand scorpions)
3. Muhammed’s writings.
41 posted on 09/01/2006 4:40:36 PM PDT by WildBill2275 (The Second Amendment guarantees all of your other rights.)
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To: Peach

Hmmmmm, I want them to leave even if they like it here. Amen,


42 posted on 09/01/2006 4:47:28 PM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: finnman69

Reuters is blatant in their anti-Americanism. Hopefully, articles like this and their doctored photos will allow most Americans to see Reuters as the terrorist enabler it is.

PS. I'm crying


43 posted on 09/01/2006 4:55:07 PM PDT by nancyvideo (nancyvideo)
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To: Alouette
If only the Muslim terrorists had as much fear of Jews as that woman did...
44 posted on 09/01/2006 4:55:23 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
I hate the phobia attached to Islam. I don't fear it, I detest it. Same with homophobia. Both practice unnatural unhealthy, ungodly customs. At least the homos don't want to kill you outright.
45 posted on 09/01/2006 5:40:19 PM PDT by jusduat (I am a strange and recurring anomaly)
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To: Alouette

"What have we done to make Americans hate us so much?"

how about ruining the 21st century for about 60 countries?


46 posted on 09/01/2006 7:16:56 PM PDT by omega4179 (What have you done to help moderate muslims bring Islam into the 19th century?)
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To: Alouette
Perhaps instead of bemoaning the splint in their foes eyes, perhaps they should address the forest in their own co Religionists eyes.

But that right, that might get them killed. So much safer to shoot at the victims then then the murderous thugs causing the problem.
47 posted on 09/01/2006 7:52:54 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Elections are more important then the feelings of the POS Cons (Perpetually Offended Syndrome))
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To: Alouette

48 posted on 09/02/2006 12:08:27 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Alouette
"Muslim leaders bemoan "Islamophobia" since 9/11"


49 posted on 09/05/2006 5:03:48 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Mid East Ceasefire = Israel ceases but her enemies fire)
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To: Alouette
Those damn Muslims know every trick in the manipulation book. They know how to set up all the photo ops, they know how to complain to the "world community" about profiling, and now they are using the homo's trick of applying a phobia to their cause. F them!!!
50 posted on 09/05/2006 5:07:30 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: Alouette
more than half a million Muslims have been directly touched by this process," said Abdul Malik Mujahid,

May all your wives sleep with a pig, then feed it to you in secret and later reveal this to the world.

51 posted on 09/05/2006 5:32:14 AM PDT by subterfuge (If Liberals hated terrorists like they hate Bush the war would be over by now)
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