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Muslim Mau-Mauing
City Journal ^ | 4 February, 2007 | Rod Dreher

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 don’t 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. We—and I say “we” because I’m part of the dreaded MSM—really don’t want to know what’s 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 Texas’s largest. The area’s Muslims, though, have had a contentious relationship in recent years with the Dallas Morning News, mostly because of the paper’s 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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fifthcolumn; muslims; propaganda; trop
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To: TADSLOS
I am surprised he was even allowed to write this
21 posted on 02/06/2007 12:45:30 PM PST by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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To: expatpat

We need to "go muslim" on the muslims! ;)


22 posted on 02/06/2007 12:45:47 PM PST by Levante
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To: TADSLOS

BTTT


23 posted on 02/06/2007 12:47:21 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Charlespg
I am surprised he was even allowed to write this

Me too.

24 posted on 02/06/2007 4:58:05 PM PST by TADSLOS (Iran is in the IED exporting business. Time to shut them down.)
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To: TADSLOS

BTTT!


25 posted on 04/17/2007 10:05:09 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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