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
I predict the government's response will be to move Kurds into Ypsilanti.
Wow. It's getting really bad in Detroit. How long before we have to withdraw our troops?
And since democrats control Chicago and have since time immemorial, they should have a dandy plan to trot out. I can't wait. Maybe they should take the canadian route. Canadian government-funded TV (CBC) has - and this is no kidding here - a new program called Little Mosque on the Prairie they are flogging. All about how wonderful it is to have all these moslems hanging around in canada, etc. I do not make this stuff up. GMMAC: if you see this, come and get me!!
Maybe Dick Durbin should call for a pullout from Michigan, after all I'm sure our presence there is just fueling the violence...
Virgil Goode was right.
Thats correct. They were mainly from the area known as Mount Lebanon.
So you don't know a single muslim? Of course, if they knew your attitude, they probably wouldn't tell you their religion.
Labelling an entire class of people as "violent, primitive people, unfit to live in civil society" is the definition of bigotry, the kind that itself has little place in a civil society.
Condom.
Neither sect is worthy of freedom......
They enjoy killing each other and others too much
They (sunnis and shiite) will never change.
But why would groups within "the religion of peace" be attacking each other?
Last year I was helping a friend in Dearborn move and drove home a route I had never driven before...and will never drive again. Ford rd. into Detroit, wow it was like driving through Baghdad complete with Arabic signs and berkas.
We here in North Carolina will not put up this type of civil unrest. The general population is armed to the teeth and the militia's ranks are growning by leaps and bounds.
A note to Fed and State Governments. If you will not take care of this PC unrest, we the people will.
ping
Detroit 1978, beheadings by 'drug traffickers'...?
The truth hurt? Get over your PC attitude and stop and smell the roses. Charges of bigotry are now the "last refuge of a scoundrel".
This is a surprise to anyone? It goes to show that they have NOT assimilated as some would have us believe. If they had, they'd not care about the other's differences.
Bravo!!! Good to hear.
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