Posted on 09/01/2010 3:41:41 PM PDT by rdl6989
Leaders from 55 major mosques and Islamic organizations held a rally on the steps of City Hall today to speak out against against religious intolerance and defend the building of the Park51 Islamic cultural center in Downtown Manhattan and other mosques in America.
Before a large crowd, speakers said that there is a rising tide of intolerance against Muslims in the United States. They also said that across the country politicians are fanning the flames of controversy over the proposed Manhattan mosque on Park Place.
The demonstrators said that Islam is not a foreign religion to the United States, and has deep roots in the country's history. They also remarked on how the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religious expression.
"This kind of verbal assault upon Islam and Muslims is unprecedented in our history," said Imam Al-Amin Abdul Latif of Majlis Ash-Shura of New York. "This nation was founded on the values of religious freedom and tolerance and fairness and justice and pluralism. We're going backwards."
(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...
Does CBS have an estimate of the crowd.
I’m sure it was over 500,000.
Why were there no hot dog vendors (pork product) or anyone else expressing their Constitutional right at the same event.
I love to tick Mooselimbs off by eating pork products in front of them. I smile and offer a bit.
“deep roots in this country’s history”??/
I thought Islam’s start was with Obama’s father coming here...ha.
They’re just stirring the pot trying to start trouble. Let them build the damn thing. I’m sick of it. I’m from NY and it makes me ill what the terrorists did to our city in the name of Islam. These people hate America and they want us to flip out over this...that’s the goal. Divide and conquer.
Let them build it. We can visit them later.
They can name it what they want, but it will still be the Obama - Mohamad Atta 9/11 Victory Mosque, and yet another dagger in the heart of this republic.
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Holy cow, you sure give up easy.
found this on the internet....
The presence of Islam in the New World began with the Moriscoes who accompanied the Spanish invadors. Following their time, great numbers of Muslim slaves were imported to this continent to work on the plantations of the South. In spite of the effort to wipe out the slaves’ Islamic identity, Islamic practices and beliefs remained strong with many of them.
In the early part of this century, waves of immigrants from various parts of the Muslim world, most notably Palestine, Lebanon and what is now Pakistan, appeared on these shores. These people were mostly illiterate, unskilled Arabs who found work in the auto factories of Detroit, or peasants from the Panjab who set up house in such places as Sacramento.
Then, beginning in the ‘50s, the picture changed drastically. An influx of Muslim professionals, many of them physicians, finding conditions in their homelands inhospitable, settled in this country after completing their studies. The black movements, the back-to-Africa groups, had come into flower by this time. Great numbers of Muslim students from all parts of the world also began to arrive in this country.
This was the period which saw the formation of the early Muslim communities and mosques in such places as Detroit, Ann Arbor, Gary (Indiana), Cedar Rapids (Iowa), Sacramento and the like. Visiting scholars and missionary groups from the Middle East and the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent also began to arrive. And Islam began, in a very slow manner, to gain adherents among white Americans.
IOW, the GROUND ZERO MOSQUE!!!. Say it over and over again, don't let them shift the focus of this issue. It's a f***ing MOSQUE, and it's at GROUND ZERO!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
For those who have forgotten:
http://www.veteransjournal.net/cgi-bin/newsletter/displaynews.cgi
Please play this over and over for anyone who has selective memory loss.
Yup...then we can investigate the money, the funding , who’s who....we can re visit this ‘mosque’ again and again...They will WISH they hadn’t built it there.
I would contribute to the idea of the Islamic GAY bar next door!
Pot. Meet Kettle.
Pot. Meet Kettle.
must be an echo in here.
TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY!!!!!!!! Call in the Warthogs!!!!
“This kind of verbal assault upon Islam and Muslims is unprecedented in our history,”
It’s enough to make you want to start lopping off heads!
That this comes from members of this religion isn’t a surprise, but it’s scary how most Americans WANT islam to be ‘just another religion’, so they refuse to look into the facts and just play along.
It’s the same as the case with Obama—doesn’t matter what he IS, they voted for what they WANTED him to be, and hoped he’d just go along with that.
We live in a nation of people who decide what they WANT reality to be, and then they just behave as if what they want reality to be actually IS reality.
There will be a war. It will be for our survival and the Libs will side/have sided with the Throatcutters.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-bombings-20100902,0,2681369.story
Whoops. Sorry. That was Muslims murdering and wounding other Muslims. My Bad. Go about your business.
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