Posted on 01/11/2007 3:38:24 AM PST by Flavius
CHICAGO: The vandalization of two Shiite mosques and five Shiite-owned businesses in Detroit, Michigan, has raised the specter of sectarian clashes in the United States.
While police have not yet determined who threw rocks and bricks through the windows of the mosques and businesses, many in the community believe it was an attack by Sunnis, said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The vandalism came a week after the execution in Iraq of Saddam Hussein. Many Sunnis were offended by the way in which local Shiites celebrated his death, Walid said.
The owner of one of the restaurants targeted received a threatening phone call Saturday from a man speaking in Arabic and English who noted that he was a Shiite and said, Youre going to get yours . . . what goes around comes around, Walid said.
The windows were smashed sometime that night.
Weve never had anything like this before, Walid said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
Dearborn is one of the largest communities of Muslims in America and we dont even have fistfights, he said. Our kids go to school together, theyre part of the same organizations.
Sunni and Shiite leaders were planning to meet today to discuss the rising tensions in a community that had previously been free of sectarian violence.
We need to control this at the early stages because it may get worse, said Mouhib Ayas, president of the Sunni coalition Islamic Shura Council of Michigan.
We need to reach out to the Shiah and tell them Muslim Sunnis do not approve, that we condone it and were going to take the message strongly to our community and are going to ask all the imams this Friday to condone it from the pulpit. --AFP
Redeploy the metro PD to Streator....
I would imagine it will be something suicidally diverse ...like allowing them to settle it on a local basis through sharia law.
We wouldn't dare want to impose our laws on them. Things are going to get terribly worse before they ever get better.
As far as Islamism is concerned... you couldn't be more correct.
We should also read the article. Detroit, Michigan, reported from Chicago.
These people are not Americans. They come here and bring their tribal affairs and their phony cult and they make a mockery of what America stands for.
Many Mexicans do the same.
True immigrnt wishto become Americans, they learn the language and they obey the rules. If they cant they need to be shipped the hell back to where they came from.
No blood for... falafel
They don't belong here.
It's civil war!
Two words - arrest and deport
Just a taste of the future.....
But the islamo-fascists/fanatics will find that this is not France.
I hope the government has plans in place for detaining and then ejecting these uncivilized people.
Weren't the first wave of Lebanese immigrants mainly Christian?
When I asked him if he like the U.S. he flat out said, "No!. My country's much nicer. I am only here to make money and then I am going home."
I didn't challenge him too much. It's clear, though, the we are not getting many immigrants that want to cme here and stay. At least not the hispanics or the muslims. Most Europeans I have talked to are proud to come here and plan to stay.
I would agree except our President and the rest of the elite in DC have been working on the problem since before 9/11. We are killing all of them in the middle east. There wont be any left to cause problems in America.
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