Posted on 09/05/2004 11:57:13 AM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
"Wipe out Islam for world peace. The Koran demands your murder. Islam is terrorism.
Such were the words of an anonymous act of vandalism in Campustown. The graffiti left members of the local Muslim community aghast.
"I was just completely shocked," said Basil Mahayni, senior in political science. "We rarely ever see anything like that."
Members of the Muslim Student Association reported the vandalism after discovering it Aug. 20 on a picnic table at the corner of Chamberlain Street and Welch Avenue.
Saleh Tamim, general secretary of the Muslim Student Association, was among the group that reported the incident. Tamim said he found the words hurtful and baffling.
"It's really offensive," said Tamim, senior in engineering. "I don't know why somebody would write such a thing."
Tamim and Mahayni agreed such acts toward the Muslim community were rare in Ames. Tamim said he hasn't seen anything like this since he came to Ames in 2002.
Mahayni said his last experience with hate directed toward him as a Muslim was immediately after Sept. 11, 2001. He was walking with freinds when another student walked by.
"He told us to 'go drop a bomb on your own country,'" Mahayni said.
Ignorance exists, but people react to it differently, he said. Some act on it by asking questions to inform themselves, Mahayni said, while others choose to take their beliefs as fact and make blind statements.
Though Ames is an accepting community, Mahayni said, occasional expressions of hate indicate tolerance remains a work in progress.
"I think Ames is a very tolerant environment," Mahayni said. "But instances like this past week show we're not perfect and we do have a lot of work to do."
Several people will meet soon to plan a response, he said.
Cmdr. Jim Robinson of the Ames Police Department said the police currently have no suspects.
"As of this time, I don't believe there have been any witnesses or suspects that have come forward," Robinson said.
Vandalism is often a hard crime to investigate and prosecute, Robinson said. The police department has filed charges on some cases, though there have also been instances that no suspect was identified.
For now, officers will keep an especially close eye on the area, Robinson said.
Tamim said he hopes acts such as this don't ruin the community's pleasant atmosphere.
"I hope the Ames community continues to be as peaceful as before," he said.
I know where this is. I live in Ames. What's next? Investigation of "For a good time..." graffiti? Lots of more offensive posters have been put up by the Left.
It is a generally peaceful place, well, except for the riot last spring...
I know a Nepalese instructor who has been very exorcised these past few days. I hope they find who it is and I hope it's somebody who's Nepalese or Indian or Sikh. The PC crowd won't know what to do.
Actually, Iowa State is probably one of the most conservative major University campuses around. At least in character and with respect to the presence of wacko left-wing groups.
LOL! I expected to see Campustown turned into Beirut. I was disappointed.
""I think Ames is a very tolerant environment," Mahayni said. "But instances like this past week show we're not perfect and we do have a lot of work to do.""
I love it when liberals always say "we have lots of work to do" regarding america....as if america is some broken down thing simply because peopel are getting sick of islamics...
And this was after a long history of expressing their outrage at the brutal barbaric acts committed every day in the name of Islam, right, and just after they volunteered to raise a militia to fight against terrorists, right? And we all recall how many muslims have spoken out against the constant muslim ignoring of the separation of church and state, right?
"I was just completely shocked," said Basil Mahayni, senior in political science. "We rarely ever see anything like that."
"It's really offensive," said Tamim, senior in engineering. "I don't know why somebody would write such a thing."
Well
1) get used to it this is the start.
2) Because it is true, read your darn Koran. Open your eyes and ears.
Well that's what happens when your religion advocates going around murdering innocent people.
The end is near for Islam.
After this thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207756/posts
I can't work up anything but contempt.
Hear, hear!
A case in point was the West-Coast Mooselimb shopkeeper who recently torched his own store because it was losing money and then tried to pass it off as a hate crime.
"I don't know why somebody would write such a thing."
Has he been living in a bubble? Every major conflict that is going on in the world is directly related to the Muslims. When are we going to declare Islam a death cult, and deport all Muslims?
BTTT
Stuned? Not me.
Thanks.
I guess it makes sense, Iowa is far from the blue zone.
I just wish Muslims would repudiate terrorism in a significant way.
This is to Tamin. You do not know why some one would do this? NYC, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Sudan, Russia, and Russia again. These events are just the recent ones. Your entire past since the inception of Islam belies your intentions for a world order that is inhuman and cruel. That you do not understand tells me volumes about your soul.
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