Posted on 01/13/2016 3:10:13 PM PST by presidio9
HUNDREDS OF students packed the library of the Academy at Palumbo High School in South Philly for yesterday's forum on Islamophobia, and supported their Muslim classmates with an outpouring of fervent finger snaps.
Speaking against irrational fear of Muslims, Sofia Ali-Khan, a public-interest lawyer and a second-generation Pakistani American, described her open letter on Facebook, "Dear non-Muslim Allies," that went viral because, she said, "I think people were relieved to see other people saying, 'It's really gone too far. ' "
The guest speaker for the event, Ali-Khan said it was clear decades ago that "the next boogie man after the Cold War was going to be Muslims."
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Imdad Alvee, a 10th grader, said he was shocked when he heard a close non-Muslim friend he had known for five years characterize all Muslims as terrorists whose "main goal is to destroy the world."
Alvee told him, "I am Muslim."
After a long, pained silence, his friend said, "Alvee, forgive me. I made a mistake."
After studying Islam for the first time in his life, Alvee's friend converted.
"He's a Muslim now," Alvee said. "Prays five times a day."
Recounting a double dose of prejudice, 10th-grader Adham Albarkawi said he and his family were in a convenience store, speaking Arabic, when they saw a man eyeing them, then telling his friend, "I'm tired of these damn Mexicans sneaking over the border."
Albarkawi said that when he identified himself and his family as Muslims, customers moved away "like parting the Red Sea."
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geringd@phillynews.com
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These students are as dumb as a box of Merkels.
God forbid they get their wish and end up as rape victims on some New Years Eve.
My bet is that ever single example of anti-Muslim prejudice in this story never actually happened. They sound so contrived.
>After studying Islam for the first time in his life, Alvee’s friend converted.
There are a lot of retards in any given population. In fact, half of any population are plain effing stupid and would follow their dog over a cliff.
[[Palumbo H.S. students loudly say ‘No!’ to Islamophobia (”outpouring of fervent finger snaps”) ]]
Dear Lord- Finger snaps you say? Oh the inhumanity- make it stop!
[[In fact, half of any population are plain effing stupid and would follow their dog over a cliff.]]
Yeah but at least they can get work as village idiots- there’s a big demand for them all over the world
Dumb kids.
Too young to recall 9/11, too stupid to watch the news, and too callous to care about fellow citizens, but when a friend or family member gets raped or blown away, they’ll see things differently.
Okay, I get it, time off from geometry.
5.56mm
“Islamaphobia - a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons.” - Andrew Cummins
The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
These students can feel good snapping their fingers as they are thrown off a rooftop by ISIS.
Well done, young proletarian. Now, pick up this broom stick and charge against that enemy machine-gun nest. Think of our glorious cause and our Imperious Leader!
They don’t study current events at PHS??
if you snap your fingers instead of clap... you’re an idiot and should be cleansed from the pool.
thanks for self identifying
Lambs to the slaughter.
Gone too far?
Nothing has even started.
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