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American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?
The New York Times ^
| September 5, 2010
| LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Posted on 09/05/2010 8:25:01 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects. They took satisfaction in the observations by many scholars that Muslims in America were more successful and assimilated than Muslims in Europe.
Now, many of those same Muslims say that all of those years of work are being rapidly undone by the fierce opposition to a Muslim cultural center near ground zero that has unleashed a torrent of anti-Muslim sentiments and a spate of vandalism. The knifing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City has also alarmed many American Muslims.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; groundzeromosque; islam; muslims; obama; sharia
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"But we do wonder whether it will get to the point where people dont want Muslims here anymore.
You can stop wondering.
To: Malone LaVeigh
I echo the words:... you can stop wondering.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:26:21 PM PDT
by
bareford101
(Be loud! We have nothing – NOTHING - to apologize for in fighting for our Country!!)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Pick one as the Koran and Constitution are virtually mutually exclusive...
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:26:27 PM PDT
by
Nat Turner
(I can see NOVEMBER from my house....)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Sorry, you’re time is up. Should’ve spoken SOONER and LOUDER. Even to THIS day. Otherwise...........GTHO. Your credibility is in the toilet.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:27:26 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
“Will We Ever Belong?”
No.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:27:56 PM PDT
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
To: Malone LaVeigh
For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects.Many? Utter horses**t. Even the most moderate can barely force themselves to condemn an obvious terrorist group like Hamas.
To: Malone LaVeigh
Sounds like Belongophobia to me.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:28:21 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Algore is a politician and a con artist. He is NOT a scientist.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
....many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism,... They have?!
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:28:49 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?Not as long as you adhere to a subversive ideology that seeks the destruction of American values and liberties, you won't.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:29:16 PM PDT
by
Minn
To: Malone LaVeigh
You can stop wondering. Right On! Not only do they not belong in America, they don't belong on earth! Thousands of years of progress for mankind and those savages still live in the stone age.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:29:18 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: Malone LaVeigh
If they want to blend in and not impose their religion on everybody else, then yes, maybe they can belong. But Muslims are not willing to do that.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:29:38 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:30:30 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(If it were not so gruesomely malevolent, Islam would just be silly.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Not for quite a few generations.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:30:33 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(America was founded by MARKSMEN, not Marxists.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?
NO, stop asking.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:30:39 PM PDT
by
barmag25
To: Malone LaVeigh
Move the thing 1/4 mi and it will be over.
To: Malone LaVeigh; All
You can quit wondering, Bucko.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:31:27 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:31:38 PM PDT
by
Fintan
To: Malone LaVeigh
Not if you still think—collectively or individually—that the US deserved 9/11, and will only be redeemed by converting to Islam.
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posted on
09/05/2010 8:31:51 PM PDT
by
paudio
(The Democrats have been majority in Congress since 2006, not 2008!)
To: Malone LaVeigh
To: Malone LaVeigh
all of those years of work are being rapidly undone by the fierce opposition to a "in your face" construction of a triumphal Muslim cultural center near ground zero...Fixed it.
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