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Muslims say fellow Americans are lashing out
Chicago Tribune ^ | 7-16-04 | Geneive Abdo

Posted on 07/18/2004 6:48:58 AM PDT by veronica

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. say they've seen an increase in hate crimes as Muslims grapple with harassment believed to have been prompted by beheadings in Iraq, Saudi Arabia

Through all the tense moments since the Sept. 11 attacks, Samar Jarrah thought her small Islamic community in Port Charlotte, Fla., had remained at peace with its non-Muslim neighbors.

The town's Muslim doctors often treat homeless and impoverished immigrants free of charge. And Jarrah went out of her way to teach residents about Islam, sometimes giving talks two or three times a week in synagogues and churches.

But three weeks ago, a caller left a message on the mosque's answering machine at the Islamic Community of Southwest Florida, shattering the perception of harmony with the community: "You barbarians. Lucky to be alive." Then the caller warned that if any attacks occurred in the United States, he would retaliate.

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To: Taquito

Well, the survivors anyway...


81 posted on 07/18/2004 9:05:12 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: null and void

Yeah, the survivors all over the rest of the country.


82 posted on 07/18/2004 9:09:28 AM PDT by Taquito (Be friendly, be professional, but always have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: LoudRepublicangirl


Yeah, I wonder how many mosques Christians and Jews would be allowed to speak in.... and do you really think the Jew would make it out alive?

These people are pigs and I hope I live to see the day muslims and their devil worshipping religion is kicked out of our shores.


83 posted on 07/18/2004 9:14:30 AM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: DuncanWaring

he,s in bangolore india at the moment.

religion and tribal inspired murders seem pretty common over there.


84 posted on 07/18/2004 9:19:39 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: veronica

'Then the caller warned that if any attacks occurred in the United States, he would retaliate.'

Innocents are not exempt from the IslamNazi Muslime terror, not will the Muslim innocents be from retaliation. I do not advocate it, but it willl happen, the more these Islamists come into the country and the more becomes known about them, they will indeed suffer a heavy price.

Violence breeds violence, an unwritten law makes it a given, revenge will be visited upon innocent Islamists.


85 posted on 07/18/2004 9:21:53 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: ASA Vet

Really? Several generations??? That means that some Muslims have been in the United States far longer than my Danish side of the family...I don't think so.


86 posted on 07/18/2004 9:38:13 AM PDT by Exodus22 (In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act...George Orwell)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis
revenge will be visited upon innocent Islamists.

Huh?

87 posted on 07/18/2004 9:38:21 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: Taquito

I meant the pitiful few rag tag ragheads who survived the initial backlash...


88 posted on 07/18/2004 10:04:12 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: null and void; et al

""Which is exactly why a US born møøselimb co-worker bitched about me putting a US flag and "God Bless America" in my cubicle on 9/12/01...""

Were the positions exactly reversed-he would kill you and another 9,000 to avenge ONE of his cult's followers......a strategy I would advocate.......10,000 of the sub-human vermin destroyed for every one of the 3,000+ Citizens of the United States of America that were murdered 9/11-01.


89 posted on 07/18/2004 10:08:21 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Put ALL islam to the sword and the sword to ALL islam.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
Mosque = weapons cache = assembly point

I suspect you're right. And if nothing else at the moment, it's a sort of psychological victory, that is, a symbol of how they are spreading out on the ground here (funded by foreign money).

90 posted on 07/18/2004 10:09:11 AM PDT by livius
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To: mtbopfuyn

The US Muslim population needs to get better PR, whether or not they are supportive of, or sympathetic of, the Muslim terrorists who have declared war on the US.


91 posted on 07/18/2004 10:10:47 AM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: S.O.S121.500

Why so low a ratio?


92 posted on 07/18/2004 10:12:04 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis
"Violence breeds violence, an unwritten law makes it a given, revenge will be visited upon innocent Islamists. "

As Well it should.

93 posted on 07/18/2004 10:13:53 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 ("Just gag me with a three-skegged surf board." Apologies to Bob Hardy Jr.-where ever you are.)
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To: null and void

I'm mellowing in my old age.


94 posted on 07/18/2004 10:15:57 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (We have no Gestapo here....them "donut dunkers" can't even understand German.)
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To: 1bigdictator; 1st-P-In-The-Pod; 2sheep; 7.62 x 51mm; A Jovial Cad; a_witness; adam_az; af_vet_rr; ..
And Jarrah went out of her way to teach residents about Islam, sometimes giving talks two or three times a week in synagogues and churches.

How about going out of her way to invite rabbis and ministers to her mosque to teach them about Judaism and Christianity?

Looks like "tolerance" is a one way street.

FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel ping list.

WARNING: This is a high volume ping list

95 posted on 07/18/2004 10:17:03 AM PDT by Alouette ("Your children like olive trees seated round your table." -- Psalm 128:3)
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To: S.O.S121.500
Were are you going to find "innocent Islamists"???

I might buy that there are a few innocent møøselimbs, but the concept of innocent Islamists boggles me...

96 posted on 07/18/2004 10:18:18 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: S.O.S121.500

Ah.


97 posted on 07/18/2004 10:19:39 AM PDT by null and void (Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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To: river rat; All

>>They must either quickly demonstrate they are our allies against Islamic terrorism -- or they will be targets immediatly after the next major attack in America.. <<

That is not possible. Read and disseminate as widely as possible the following: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117749/posts


98 posted on 07/18/2004 10:22:16 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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To: BraveMan
Crank calls, graffitti, and moronic notes taped to a mailbox are the "hate crimes"

A Muslim considers it a "hate crime" when an infidel walks past him on the street and doesn't step off the sidewalk.

99 posted on 07/18/2004 10:28:30 AM PDT by Alouette ("Your children like olive trees seated round your table." -- Psalm 128:3)
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To: null and void

Those too.


100 posted on 07/18/2004 10:40:27 AM PDT by Taquito (Be friendly, be professional, but always have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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