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N.J. Muslims worry about backlash [You knew this was coming!]
Philly.com ^ | May 9, 2007

Posted on 05/10/2007 1:52:07 PM PDT by Alouette

Authorities' description of six men charged with plotting an attack on Fort Dix as "Islamic militants" is renewing worry among New Jersey's Muslims. Authorities rounded up and detained hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but none was connected to that plot. Now Muslims fear a resurgence of anti-Islamic sentiment and bias.

"If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. "But when the government says 'Islamic militants,' it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous. Don't equate actions with religion."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: backlash; muslims
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To: Alouette

What took them so long Alouette???? ROFL


21 posted on 05/10/2007 2:22:38 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: dragonblustar; monkapotamus; All

MONK if you not busy I think this woman need Looter guy


22 posted on 05/10/2007 2:23:14 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Alouette

To avoid “backlashes” they need to go back to where they came from.


23 posted on 05/10/2007 2:25:15 PM PDT by rbosque
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To: Alouette

In my world, Islam and militancy are synonymous.


24 posted on 05/10/2007 2:28:31 PM PDT by Riptides
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To: Alouette

Yup. CAIR has already put out a “media advisory” telling the media not to refer to this as what it is - associated with Islam.


25 posted on 05/10/2007 2:28:56 PM PDT by sauropod ("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
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To: Alouette

Last paragraph:

Yaser El-Menshawy, chairman of the Majlis Ash-Shura of New Jersey, the state’s council of mosques, condemned the alleged plot and said he was glad nothing was carried out. But he said the motivation of people who plotted against the government “cannot be stopped simply by law enforcement or military means alone.”

Now THAT sounds like a threat!


26 posted on 05/10/2007 2:29:04 PM PDT by i_dont_chat (I reserve to right to offend anyone. You can take offense or not! Your choice.)
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To: Alouette

From what I’ve seen, their biggest threat comes from within their own community - Islamic on Islamic violence.


27 posted on 05/10/2007 2:30:02 PM PDT by hocndoc ("Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization." Churchill)
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To: PeteB570

“..muslims - bringing sharia to America one terrorist act at a time.”

They will be successful doing so if we have to depend on government. On second thought; could this be exactly what government has in mind?


28 posted on 05/10/2007 2:30:16 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is a satanic cult.)
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To: Alouette
Do not these Muslims deserve a tad amount of BACKLASH for supporting and enabling the killers tied to their so-called religion of PIECE.
29 posted on 05/10/2007 2:32:42 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, DUNCAN 08, ELECTION 2008, MOST IMPORTANT OF MY LIFE TIME)
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To: Alouette
Do not these Muslims deserve a tad amount of BACKLASH for supporting and enabling the killers tied to their so-called religion of PIECE.
30 posted on 05/10/2007 2:32:47 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, DUNCAN 08, ELECTION 2008, MOST IMPORTANT OF MY LIFE TIME)
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To: Alouette
I grew up in south Jersey. When I go back for a visit I always get gas at a WaWa store. I hate dealing with rags when I gas up. They acted like they didn’t want to touch you when they gave you change. When I go to buy a six pack in my home town a lot of the liquor stores are now owned by rags. I used to get gas at a little Agway gas station in the Pine Barrens. Now owned and operated by a rag. Terrorism and gangs have come to the little farm town where I grew up. It tears my heart out.
31 posted on 05/10/2007 2:33:44 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Liberals, A terrorists best friend!)
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To: Alouette

“He doesn’t have a gun, he doesn’t have anything,” Fatem Shnewer said of Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer. He was targeted, she said, “because he’s religious.”

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1178771343234960.xml&coll=1

Now it begins!


32 posted on 05/10/2007 2:34:38 PM PDT by rocksblues (Do unto others as they do unto you!)
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To: Alouette
Islam and militancy are synonymous

Who you gonna believe -- me or your lyin' eyes?
33 posted on 05/10/2007 2:36:12 PM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: Alouette

Americans, meanwhile, are worried about frontlash.


34 posted on 05/10/2007 2:37:27 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Alouette

So, Muslims who claim to also be Americans, come forward and tell us who these outlaw factions are. You live next to them every day, you hear them speaking sometimes not so furtively in their native tongue, and you know well that they have mischief in mind. When these people are turned in by their own neighbors and acquaintances, for the greater good of all the community, not just the Muslims, you gain the respect and acceptance you seem to so desperately crave from your non-Muslim neighbors.

Or you may whine because you ae so abused. But remember, you stand to suffer far greater abuse from these thugs in your midst, than you shall ever be subject to from your non-Muslim neighbors.

They swim among you like fish in the sea. Help us identify and remove the predators among your number, and we shall ALL be much more secure. To do otherwise is solidarity without strength.


35 posted on 05/10/2007 2:48:19 PM PDT by alloysteel (For those who cannot turn back time, there is always the option of re-writing history.)
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36 posted on 05/10/2007 3:05:55 PM PDT by Gritty (While the merciless dogmas of Muhammad remain there can never be peace upon earth-John Quincy Adams)
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To: Alouette

It’s a formula with the US media:

1. Egregious violence is perpetrated and occurs/is foiled by Muslim factions
2. Two to three days pass.
3. Press comes out with the image rehab piece on how ‘The Peaceful Muslims’ are quaking over their goat testicles and falafel in their quiet, peaceful homes.

My response:

To me, all Muslims are responsible. There are no innocent Muslims. Not yet.

Until the day the peaceful ones start ‘taking their religion back’ from the ‘radical’ minority that seems to cause the overwhelming majority of the war, violence, and chaos in the world, they can continue worrying about a backlash. In fact, they are probably laughing their burkhas off at how the fat, stupid Americans will take almost anything they can dish out without getting upset.

Until then, they should continue to worry, and I don’t want to read any more stories about how worried they are, because its aiding and abetting the enemy.

It’s time to start throwing them out of our country, or it is time for them to start throwing radicals out of their mosques. To me, its that simple.


37 posted on 05/10/2007 3:21:04 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Ignorance should be painful)
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To: Alouette

“Don’t equate actions with religion.”

You say the Koran orders you to kill or convert infidels, to form no friendship with a Christian or Jew, and to beat, rape, and kill your wives and daughters in the name of honoring Allah. Then you cry because civilized people view your “religion” negatively. If the shoe fits...


38 posted on 05/10/2007 4:04:45 PM PDT by Tabi Katz
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To: Alouette
If only there was a back lash..... I can only sit and wait for it to begin.

Popcorn warmed up, sofa nice and comfy and television turned to FOX .... let the fire bombings, snipings, looting, arson, indiscriminate bombings beging.........

Oh wait!.... the muslims are already doing that.

Nevermind.

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39 posted on 05/10/2007 4:21:58 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Alouette

Tough. The backlash is because of:

Bombing trains. Bombing buses. Bombing planes. Flying planes into buildings.
Slicing heads off while singing religious hymns.
Dragging bodies through streets.
Using “charities” to pass money to terrorists. The Sears Tower Plot. Slavery in Sudan,
Killing converts to Christianity. Cutting your head off if you don’t convert.
Torturing and killing kids in a school. Nicholas Berg. Daniel Pearl. Margaret Hassan. Paul Johnson.
Calling for the death of the Pope. Rioting over cartoons.


40 posted on 05/10/2007 4:23:20 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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