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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Go figure.
“Will we ever belong?”
Yes — in a cave, with no plumbing, combing your goat, worshipping Barry Soetoro.
I have no problem with muslims. I have a problem with anyone who wants to secede from the country to run their own governments and blow things up when angered and hide behind religion to do it. If Christians, Jews, Amish, Hindus, or Zoroastrians did that, I’d have a problem with them too.
It’s not who they are that bothers me. It’s what they do.
There is a very simple reason that there is growing animosity towards mulsims in this country, and it's directly cause by their complaints that we're insensitive to their feelings, while at the same time, sticking a red-hot poker in our collective eye. Why is it that they can't be sensitive to America's feelings?
Mark
Most-if not all—Muslim leaders only started to talk about ‘terrorism’ when their respective countries were attacked by Al Qaeda, couple years after 9/11. Before that, they were quiet, and seemed to agree with the attackers.
Sure. But you have to agree that the rule of law and Constitutional rights take precedence over Sharia.
Seeing how the NYT doesn't even think Christians belong here, it's an odd question. (And I'm an atheist.)
Post #9 you totally nailed it. I was going to respond but your comment completely took my breath away.
There is no such thing as a muslim-American.
Two words that are incompatible.
Just as there is no such thing as a Christian-American.
It really is time to go after the whore writers, and make it personal.
Most of us here are armed and ready to fight against Sharia Law. If these clowns want Sharia Law, I suggest they move back to the 3rd world Islamic Hell-hole they came from.
If these folks are sincere, then they must recognize that this work is being undone by the defiance of the Muslims whose claims of wanting to belong are absurd.
It's not the opposition that's undoing this, it's the audacity of a religion welcomed here as all beliefs are giving a middle finger to the rest of us at the sight of our most tender wound.
If you're looking for someone to blame, Muslims, look to your own, who claim to want to assimilate and then do PRECISELY what someone who wants anything BUT that would do.
Was I asleep when American Muslims were vociferously protesting their fellow muslim’s actions on 9/11??? Because I can only seem to remember being CONSTANTLY hectored about how I need to be more TOLERANT of Muslims. Guys, seriously, forget it. The normal American will never accept you , even the leftists. Your culture is garbage, your tolerance is nonexistant and fankly you’re a bunch of thin skinned crybaby assholes.
The problem is that periodically a young Muslim man will become devout, and become a true believer in Islam, and people will die horribly.
That never goes away in Islam.
....insult us some more. That’ll make us like you....
They won’t belong because they don’t belong. Their ideology is hateful. We don’t want to stone people, decapitate them, amputate extremities, etc. They need to return to their beloved whatever it is that they love.
It’s easy if you want to belong...
Bring us the head of Osama Bin Ladin..
The reward would finance the building of a really nice mosque.
I’d be one of the first visitors, probably leave a donation.
Was I asleep when American Muslims were vociferously protesting their fellow muslim’s actions on 9/11??? Because I can only seem to remember being CONSTANTLY hectored about how I need to be more TOLERANT of Muslims. Guys, seriously, forget it. The normal American will never accept you , even the leftists. Your culture is garbage, your tolerance is nonexistant and fankly you’re a bunch of thin skinned crybaby assholes.
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