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New Mosques Cropping Up In Chicago, Study Shows
NPR ^
| 11/3/11
| Monique Parsons
Posted on 11/04/2011 7:57:51 AM PDT by americanophile
Protests against new mosque construction have made headlines from New York City and Chicago to Los Angeles and Nashville.
But despite the push-back in some communities, one new academic study shows the number of mosques in the U.S. continues to grow especially in the Chicago area.
It's demographics that drive this story. An estimated 400,000 Muslims live in the Chicago area, many in wealthier suburbs. But some observers see something else going on here: a lesson in good old Chicago politics.
Abdulgany Hamadeh is a pulmonologist who moved here from Syria 30 years ago. First a county board turned down his proposal for a mosque in suburban Willowbrook. But after a high-profile interfaith press conference, a meeting with the Chicago Tribune editorial board and some face-to-face schmoozing with county politicians, his revised plan got the votes.
"You have to know the right people," Hamadeh says. "You have to know the right channels of communication. And eventually, I think you need to be on the right path. And then you will get what you want."
It's a lesson the younger generation is quick to pick up on. In Chicago, the Muslim federation is recruiting young lawyers for a new "zoning task force." Back in Orland Park, 34-year-old attorney Mohammed Nofal is a member of his mosque's board of trustees. He also serves as a commissioner in neighboring Tinley Park and as the Muslim co-chairman of a local interfaith group. He says the mosques are assets to the community. He also argues that it was the specter of contentious mosque hearings that inspired many of his peers to get more involved.
"[It's] no different than how the young generation is taking the lead in the Muslim world and putting a new face on the Arab Muslim community,"
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; islamization; mohammedanism; mohammedans; moslems; mosques; muslims
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Wake up people!
To: americanophile; Islaminaction; Kolokotronis; annalex; MahatmaGandu; NYer; La Lydia; AnalogReigns; ..
ISLAMIZATION PING LIST"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."

Infidels: freepmail me if you want on or off this list.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:58:32 AM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: americanophile
Follow the money. You can bet the trail leads back to the petro-sheiks and perfidious princes.
If those Wahabi financing tentacles were cut, they’d mostly die on the vine and what remained would have to adapt and evolve.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:04:51 AM PDT
by
sinanju
To: americanophile
I’d like to see how many mosques are dominated by foreign-appointed fire-breathing hate-imams.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:06:01 AM PDT
by
sinanju
To: americanophile
In less than 2 generations simple demographics will turn the tide. Muslim family size is more than twice the size of non-muslim families. While the western peoples abort their heirs the easterners train theirs to become activists. Numbers do not lie.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:08:50 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: sinanju
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:09:07 AM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: Don Corleone
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:10:06 AM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: All
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:10:26 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: americanophile
Sorry, I got this story mixed up with the one about mosquitoes in New York.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:16:10 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: americanophile
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:16:30 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: americanophile
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:17:01 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: Don Corleone
In less than 2 generations simple demographics will turn the tide. Muslim family size is more than twice the size of non-muslim families. While the western peoples abort their heirs the easterners train theirs to become activists. Numbers do not lie. They're counterbalanced only by the large family sizes of Mexicans and other Hispanics in the Southwest. In some future time, those two entities will battle it out for dominance over the landmass of the former USA.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:17:56 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)
To: sinanju
Id like to see how many mosques are dominated by foreign-appointed fire-breathing hate-imams. To some degree, they all are, IMO. "Moderate" muslims don't exist... only patient ones.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:19:32 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)
To: americanophile
If you are familiar with the
"Free State Project" you will recognize the technique muslims are using.
They are just doing a better job of it than the Free Staters.
The technique:
Colonize a geo-political area by concentrating your numbers in selected areas and gradually overpower the local voting blocs. Then expand to the next area, and the next...
Some other factors working in the muslim colonists favor:
- It also helps if you are establishing an outpost for a savage, backward culture that will drive the indigenous population away. You will reach majority status sooner if you make your presence as obnoxious as possible.
- Having some wealthy benefactors to buy off corrupt politicians is always a way to get on the fast track. The tremendous oil-wealth in the hands of muslim Arabs is the fuel powering much of the voluntary muslim diaspora.
- Our own federal government (dems and repubbies) has been, and is, doing it's best to use our tax dollars to bring in more and more muslims to help them destroy traditional American (white Christian) culture. It will take a long time but look what this approach has done to Great Britain and western Europe.
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:33:01 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
('We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them.' -- Mitt Romney)
To: sinanju
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:36:48 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: americanophile
To: Vigilanteman
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posted on
11/04/2011 8:53:12 AM PDT
by
catbertz
(Easter egg...I wants it.)
To: americanophile
The only hope for this country is to have islam declared a political ideology and not a religion. Which means there is no hope. Our “freedoms” guaranteed by the constitution will be our downfall.
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posted on
11/04/2011 9:00:14 AM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
To: americanophile
If soetoro wins reelection you´ll see a lot more than just mosques going up.
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posted on
11/04/2011 9:05:31 AM PDT
by
onedoug
(lf)
To: americanophile
Photo of the Day: Obama (Literally) Embraces Anti-Israel, Pro-Iran Islamist on the World Stage

Thats Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hugging it out with the President of the US, G20
Our European allies, by contrast, received simple handshakes.
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posted on
11/04/2011 9:28:47 AM PDT
by
opentalk
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