Posted on 02/05/2007 5:16:28 PM PST by TADSLOS
Two years after standing on the Brooklyn Bridge and watching the second tower fall, I joined the Dallas Morning News. My wife, a native Dallasite, praises our new city as a September 10 kind of place. She means that the anxieties attending our post-9/11 New York life simply dont exist here. The downside is that people lull themselves into a false sense of security about the Muslim community. From where I sit, it looks to me as though the entire mainstream media also live in a September 10 kind of place. Weand I say we because Im part of the dreaded MSMreally dont want to know whats happening among Muslims in Dallas, Brooklyn, or anywhere else.
Dallas is home to a large and relatively prosperous Muslim community. The Dallas Central Mosque is Texass largest. The areas Muslims, though, have had a contentious relationship in recent years with the Dallas Morning News, mostly because of the papers groundbreaking 2001 reporting on the Holy Land Foundation, whose leadership is now under federal terrorism indictment. Since then, local Muslim leaders have engaged in a running dialogue with the News, with the declared aim of improving relations.
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We need to "go muslim" on the muslims! ;)
BTTT
Me too.
BTTT!
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