Posted on 04/25/2012 10:24:07 PM PDT by Cronos
Philadelphia-area Muslims are offering a $20,000 reward to find criminals cloaking their identities beneath Islamic women's clothing, saying the crooks are feeding mistrust of their faith.
..Officials say perpetrators have worn Muslim garb in five Philadelphia bank robberies since December. Also, Sharif Wynn, charged with an April 18 killing in an Upper Darby barber shop, allegedly wore a woman's robe as part of a robbery ruse that turned out to be a love triangle gone bad.
“These types of bizarre incidents feed into that cottage industry of Muslim bashers,” Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the national Council on American-Islamic Relations, told msnbc.com. “These types of incidents demonize Islam and American Muslims.”
They also make it difficult for Muslim women to get service in banks, Hooper said.
Amara Chaudhry, civil rights director at CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter, told msnbc.com that one community member, who went to a bank to deposit the paycheck of her son in the military, was not allowed to enter the branch before first removing her hijab, making her feel as naked as removing her blouse and bra.
...Islamic leaders said at a news conference Tuesday they're concerned the crimes could make Muslim women the targets of mistrust or even violence.
..Alia Walker, executive director of Earth’s Keepers in Philadelphia, the Inquirer reported. “We are human beings. To have my peers look at me in some kind of way because of this crime ... it really hurts my heart,” Walker said.
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moozlum “basher” = realist
Let’s get on the site and tell that BS lying piece of Moslem trash what a BSLPMT (BS lying...) she is...
When I left 45 years ago, it was direct deposit too. The pay master deposited it directly in to your hand.
Just damn! am I really that old?
“These types of incidents demonize Islam and American Muslims.”
If they are already ‘demons’, how can this be ‘demonizing’? Ban hijabs in public...if they don’t like it let ‘em stay home.
“was not allowed to enter the branch before first removing her hijab, making her feel as naked as removing her blouse and bra.”
This doesn’t pass the smell test on two counts: Muslimahs are not required to remove the headscarf to show their faces, just the niqab that lets only the eyes show.
As a recent military retiree who am also a Vietnam vet, I’ve been paid by every means including direct deposit (if you don’t have a bank account, soldier, then GET one!) which has been around at least twenty years. Now it’s possible that her son sent her a postal money order to deposit in her own account, no, that doesn’t make sense either if he has his own checkbook.
This whole Muslim-as-victim business just smells. Especially when compared to the plight of Christians in Egypt and Pakistan.
I remember. They weren't really "mandatory" but you'd be one sorry sack of s### if you didn't contribute.
Stop it! You’re killin’ me!
Well, wishing isnt going to make it happen
Naw, you’re young at heart ;)
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