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After spate of attacks, area Muslims reach out during Ramadan to foster better image
Washington Post ^ | July 16, 2015 | By Pamela Constable

Posted on 07/16/2015 4:53:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends Friday, a spate of recent terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists — including massacres in Tunisia and Kuwait — has marred a time intended for contemplation and prayer.

But for Muslim American immigrants in the Washington area, this Ramadan has offered an opportunity to send a contrasting message about Islam and to engage in unprecedented public outreach.

Dozens of interfaith events have been held in mosques, embassies and government offices. Muslim charity drives have raised funds for damaged African American and Pakistani churches. Families have opened their homes to neighbors and colleagues to break the daily fast with evening feasts.

“We condemn all terrorism and we condemn ISIS, which is a twisted, horrific deviation from Islam,” said Rizwan Jaka, outreach director for ADAMS. He said the rise of the group — whose leaders vowed to make Ramadan a time of “calamity for the infidels” — had created “a lot of confusion” and abetted “anti-sharia hysteria” in American society.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arab; cancerofislam; islam; islamiccancer; islamists; muslim; muslimcancer; taqiyya
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1 posted on 07/16/2015 4:53:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

King Day was bad enough.
After Empress Hillary makes Aug 4th a fed holiday for Baraq Obama Birthday and End of Ramadan, the shiite will really hit the fan....


2 posted on 07/16/2015 4:55:22 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have an image. Are they insane at the Compost?


3 posted on 07/16/2015 4:55:29 PM PDT by WENDLE
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We condemn all terrorism and we condemn ISIS...

LIARS!!!

4 posted on 07/16/2015 4:55:59 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: WENDLE

“Are they insane at the Compost?”

That’s like asking if the sun is hot.


5 posted on 07/16/2015 4:56:57 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Being anti-sharia is hysterical.

Got it.


6 posted on 07/16/2015 4:57:07 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t hear them condemning Saudi Arabia’s intolerance of any other faith.

I don’t hear them condemning the death penalty for any non-muslim who’d dared enter their segregated cities of Mecca and Medina.

I don’t hear them condemning the death penalty decreed for any muslim who’d leave the faith.

Moderate means unlikely to go to jihad war themselves at this moment.


7 posted on 07/16/2015 4:57:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like clockwork


8 posted on 07/16/2015 4:58:00 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (De-fund ALL "Sanctuary Cities" And remove the idiots in charge of them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
pork rinds photo: Koran Pork Rinds koran_pork_rinds.jpg

Thanks!

How bout some pork rinds for your rammydan thingy?

9 posted on 07/16/2015 4:58:41 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Uncle Miltie

The spread of Islam in America is foreign funded and federally subsidized.

The largest number of muslims in America are the first generation immigrant population.

If they want to prove their rejection of the Old World, cut the financial ties. No foreign funded mosques. No foreign funded colonization.


10 posted on 07/16/2015 4:58:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Who ya gonna believe, us or your lyin’ eyes?’


11 posted on 07/16/2015 5:05:16 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

DAY_LATE_DOLLAR_SHORT_PING!


12 posted on 07/16/2015 5:06:53 PM PDT by The Duke (Azealia Banks)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Taqiyya


13 posted on 07/16/2015 5:07:01 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: skeeter

Well today’s events don’t exactly help their cause.

Yes I know that officially we have no idea why this Abdul azeez dude went berserk. I’m sure its racist to speculate that the shootings had anything to do with Islam.


14 posted on 07/16/2015 5:07:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“a lot of confusion” and abetted “anti-sharia hysteria”


I am not confused about shariah.
Nor am I hysterical.

I oppose shariah because it is bad.
Real bad.
Sanctioning slavery, miscogyny, beheading, severing limbs, stoning to death, pedophilia, the list goes on.

John Wesley 1703-1791 Founder of Methodsim

“It is not therefore strange, that ever since the religion of Mahomet appeared in the world, the espousers of it, particularly those under the Turkish emperor, have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations ; rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth: that numberless cities are rased from the foundation, and only their name remaining : that many countries which were once as the garden of God, are. now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished away from the earth ! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of humankind![73]”

Manuel II 1350-1425 Byzantine Emperor 1391-1425

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached


15 posted on 07/16/2015 5:12:57 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: WENDLE

What will the MSM do when they start shooting up Same-sex marriage ceremonies ?


16 posted on 07/16/2015 5:13:59 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Doesn’t the Quran say the muzzies are suppose to kill the infidels? As far as I understand, any non-mussie is an infidel.


17 posted on 07/16/2015 5:15:02 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Good points. Sharia law is incompatible with Western Civilization.


18 posted on 07/16/2015 5:16:45 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Not racists, intelligent.


19 posted on 07/16/2015 5:17:41 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Abdulazeez did not go berserk. He was merely acting out his muslim duty to kill infidels.


20 posted on 07/16/2015 5:17:58 PM PDT by dforest
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