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Muslim teens seek acceptance, understanding (Abdulazeez's Sister from 2010)
Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | November 12, 2010 | By Michael Reed

Posted on 07/16/2015 2:13:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

... She's among several Muslin teens voicing concerns over anti-Muslim sentiments they believe are rising as controversies surrounding Islam capture national attention.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshman Yasmeen Abdulazeez, 17, was told by a professor that he would lower her grade when she asked to miss class for a religious holiday. She dropped the class instead.

Abdulazeez, who has worn the head covering since she was a child, said she has experienced many problems as a result. A referee during a volleyball tournament refused to allow her to play because of her headscarf.

Chattanooga's Muslim teens said they feel a responsibility to help dispel the negative stereotypes of their faith.

Before graduating from Red Bank High School, Abdulazeez said some of the students would harass her. She said she saw that as an opportunity to dispel misconceptions about her faith.

"I'm not afraid to go straight toward them and ask them, 'Do you really know what Islam is?' " Abdulazeez said. "There's this misconception that Islam is a violent religion. Muslims are actually peaceful."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; terrorism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Extremist muslims cut your head off.

Moderate muslims want extremist muslims to cut your head off.


41 posted on 07/16/2015 2:58:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Try being a Christian in one of your s***hole countries- you(blank)!


42 posted on 07/16/2015 3:05:18 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: The Antiyuppie
Something big will eventually happen unless this crap is stopped

I doubt it, as it should have happened a long time ago. Can you say "desaparecidos"?

43 posted on 07/16/2015 3:07:55 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good job. I would send it to the conservative media, if it still exists.


44 posted on 07/16/2015 3:11:12 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good job. I would send it to the conservative media, if it still exists.


45 posted on 07/16/2015 3:11:14 PM PDT by kabar
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To: skeeter

“I just love lectures on tolerance from the media.”

I like how a plurality of muslims in the USA support terrorism, but we are ordered not to judge muslims, while a statistically insignificant (less than the general population) percentage of legal gun owners commit violent crime, and all gun owners are all potential violent nuts.


46 posted on 07/16/2015 3:14:22 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is that her? She’d get beaten to death by ISIS hags for wearing her scarf that way

She should leave this racist country and go,live with her peace loving co religionists


47 posted on 07/16/2015 3:15:15 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

GO THE F*** BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY!


48 posted on 07/16/2015 3:17:30 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: silverleaf

One is likely her. It’s the photo that accompanied the article.


49 posted on 07/16/2015 3:18:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When America was run by Americans, the people of this “faith” would have been rounded up and sent back packing to their home countries in a mass deportation.

The also would have been prohibited from immigrating here ever again.

As we now have it....we embrace them, and keep asking for more of this kind of “tolerance” that they so wish for....in the form of FOUR DEAD MARINES.

MOHAMMED WAS A CHILD MOLESTING RAPIST & HIS GOD IS SATAN!!!!!


50 posted on 07/16/2015 3:18:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Muslim? You mean a follower of Mohammed, the terrorist war lord who murdered entire villages, etc etc. The problem is the language used to describe these folks, they follow islam, a terrorist ideology of hatred.


51 posted on 07/16/2015 3:36:05 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (Ideas have consequences.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
help dispel the negative stereotypes of their faith

They have about 1400 years of backpedalling to do.

52 posted on 07/16/2015 4:07:43 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Jewbacca
Moral consistency has never been characteristic of the left.

Neither has honesty, self sacrifice nor goodwill of any kind, for that matter.

In fact generally they're greedy and self serving, in other words, pretty sh*tty people.

53 posted on 07/16/2015 4:23:03 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only worldly peace in islam is in the muslim section of the cemetery.


54 posted on 07/16/2015 4:28:32 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Abdulazeez said. “There’s this misconception that Islam is a violent religion. Muslims are actually peaceful.”

They are actually liars, not peaceful. 9/11 is all you need to know about islam.


55 posted on 07/16/2015 4:31:34 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: Crim
"Cognitive Islamic dissonance"
56 posted on 07/16/2015 4:36:43 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Do you really know what Islam is?

Uh, yes I do...That's why I want you out of my Country and for the U.S. to be muzlim free...

57 posted on 07/16/2015 5:35:29 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

Did yasmeen threaten to murder anyone who disagreed with her supposed “religion”? If she didn’t, she will/ ALL moozlums are anti-civilization.


58 posted on 07/16/2015 7:40:13 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Zeneta

Taqiyya - lying to infidels.

There is no way this sister didnt know her brother was ready to go off.


59 posted on 07/17/2015 1:08:46 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: InMemoriam

A lot of self-described “Palestinians” used to live in Kuwait.... At least until the Kuwaitis kicked them out for collaborating with Saddam.

On the whole other ME nations don’t want Palestinians in their land. They know they’re violent and a difficult culture. They’re a nasty bunch no doubt.


60 posted on 07/19/2015 11:28:16 PM PDT by caww
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