[JoeMomma]

If the vast majority of Muslims would stand up and vocally denounce terrorism, perhaps they wouldn't have to deal with negative stereotypes. This isn't beashing their religion. It's just the truth. Muslims have not reacted with outrage as a whole toward the terrorist attacks on the country.

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[Redcloak]

And in a related story...

      HEBRON, WEST BANK—In an emotionally charged press conference Monday, crazed Palestinian gunman Faisal al Hamad expressed frustration over the stereotyping of his people.

	Above: Faisal al Hamad, seen here shrieking anti-U.S. slogans, says that "not every crazed Palestinian gunman is exactly alike."

      "As a crazed Palestinian gunman, I feel hurt by the negative portrayal of my people in the media," said al Hamad, 31, a Hebron-area terrorist maniac. "None of us should have to live with stereotyping and ignorance."

      He then began screaming and firing into a busload of Israeli schoolchildren.

      "It hurts that in this supposedly enlightened day and age, people still make assumptions about other people," al Hamad said. "We should not rely on simple generalizations. Each crazed Palestinian gunman is an individual."

      Al Hamad said that he himself has often been unfairly stereotyped. "Any time I enter a crowded temple with fully loaded AK-47s in both hands, people just assume I'm going to open fire," he said. "That really hurts."

      "Yes, I sometimes do gun people down in the name of the One True God," he noted. "But there is so much more to me."

      Several weeks ago, al Hamad was again the victim of stereotyping during a vacation he took with his family to Washington, D.C.

      "When we arrived at the airport in Washington, security guards detained us for more than 12 hours, just because I had 140 pounds of plastic explosives strapped to my chest," al Hamad said. "Do you think they would have called the FBI if I weren't a crazed Palestinian who's on their Ten Most Wanted List? I don't think so."

      Al Hamad said his vacation was ruined when federal agents seized a crate of chemical weapons he had brought into the U.S. as a gift for a friend in New York.

      "I explained to them that the weapons were a birthday present for the blind cleric Sayid al Farouq, a good friend of mine from high school," he said. "But they did not believe me and took me into federal custody for nine weeks. Again, it's a case of people jumping to conclusions on the basis of skin color. And that can be very frustrating."

Above: When this truck blew up in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur last year, Israeli officials suspected PLO involvement. "That really hurt that they would just think that right off the bat," al Hamad said.

      According to al Hamad, stereotypes against crazed Palestinian gunmen don't work because they don't take into account the vast variety of proud histories and diverse cultures among them.

      "There are so many different kinds of crazed Palestinian gunmen. Each of us has our own unique reasons and motivations for our bus bombings and suicide missions," he said. "No two fundamentalist agendas are alike."

      Al Hamad also stressed the importance of understanding and celebrating the cultural differences between crazed Palestinian gunmen and non-crazed, non-Palestinian non-gunmen.

      "All the different peoples of the world have something special to offer each other," he said. "Our diversity is our greatest strength. Let's not make a weakness out of that strength."

      To emphasize his point, al Hamad fired into a crowd, killing nine.

      "I'm proud to be a crazed Palestinian gunman, obviously," he said in between shouts of anti-imperialist slogans. "But I'm an individual first. I'm me. Die, Yankee infidel pig swine!"

[RnMomof7]

It expressed concern about difficulties faced by Muslim immigrant women as they to integrate into Western societies.

Yea like trying to board a plane or cash a check or have a picture on their drivers license with a veil covering their face..

And then there is always the problem of where to have their girls circumcised

[LarryLied]

difficulties faced by Muslim immigrant women as they to integrate into Western societies.

Gee...and Muslim societies are so tolerant of those from the West.

[CheneyChick]

It expressed concern about difficulties faced by Muslim immigrant women as they to integrate into Western societies.

Maybe they should just stay in their own society then....

[Jhoffa_]

Well, they would be allot mor popular if they weren't raining down from the sky and blowing up all over the place..

And if a few of them just HAVE TO behave like this then the REST OF THEM should come out and denounce it and make some noise.

Otherwise, they should shut up, because if the stereotype fits..

[xm177e2]

The communique agreed that the hijab "is a voluntary expression and a fundamental right of a woman's image." Participants had called for the right of women to wear it with a religious meaning, and for acceptance of Muslim women who choose not to cover their heads.

Muslim women have "a fundamental right" to wear the Hijab... but no fundamental right NOT to wear it. In other words, Muslim women have the RIGHT to do what Muslim fundamentalists say... and that's it.

[Thane_Banquo]

A conference of Muslim women ended Sunday with a call to end to what it called negative stereotypes in the West.

The Muslim women then called for a jihad agaist all Westerners and Christians, adding that the world would not be safe until the Jews and Americans were exterminated.

[RightWhale]

When in Rome, do as the Romans. Romans don't wear veils.

[UB355]

Well Muslim women my last impression of you was the shot on yesterday's news of your "sisters" cheering on the bombing at the Jewish synagogue in Israel. pictures are worth a thousand words they say .

[Polybius]

Cordoba was part of an Islamic caliphate from the 8th to the 11th centuries.

Cordoba was founded in the reign of Ceasar Augustus as Colonia Patricia. The Muslim invaders had control of it for only four centuries out of two entire millenia.

[sweetliberty]

I don't think these people are in any position to be demanding anything.

[Tench_Coxe]

Gee. If I continue to believe the stereotype, will they put a fatwa on my head?

[Moonmad27]

So if it's okay for the Muslim women to go into that cathedral to pray, I assume that the Muslims will let Christian tourists go onto the temple mount and pray freely when they go to Jerusalem? Just checking.

[Publius6961]

Muslims Call for End of Stereotype

They want me to stop calling them dirt grubbing dogs and rabid animals?
Pigs masquerading as human beings?
The solution is simple.
Stop acting like them!

[denydenydeny]

Fatima Nasri of Morocco said praying at the former mezquita, the Spanish word for mosque, was not a provocation but "a long-awaited act." "It has been very emotional for us to pray where our ancestors did, Nasri said. "Behind the ban there is a deep-seated fear that people will return to Islam," she said.

Imperialism as religion.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I wish my father were still alive. "Dad, did anyone ever demand an end to Nazi stereotypes during WWII?"