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Appreciating Islam
Hartford Courant ^ | Dec 24 2001 | Ed Garsten

Posted on 12/24/2001 1:52:53 AM PST by 2Trievers

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

DEARBORN, Mich. - The speaker was nearing the end of his lunch-hour talk on the basics of Islam, and his audience - about 60 Ford Motor Co. employees - was beginning to get a little fidgety.

Then he uttered what amounted to verbal caffeine: "On Sept. 11 . . ."

Mohamed E.M. El-Sayed, a Kettering University professor who is an Imam, a Muslim spiritual leader, was trying to help the gathering of white, black, Hindu, Latino and Muslim employees understand how the terrorists who carried out the attacks on Sept. 11 may have used Islam as a rationale.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islamicviolence
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Affinity groups? OMG, what next?
1 posted on 12/24/2001 1:52:53 AM PST by 2Trievers
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"After Sept. 11, the need for a series of "Islam 101" sessions became acute at Ford, said Mona Abdelall, a 17-year employee who heads the Ford Interfaith Network, an umbrella group representing seven religious groups within the company."

Gee, I wonder if this is what helped the F-150 become so overpriced.....

2 posted on 12/24/2001 2:14:06 AM PST by dokmad
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To: dokmad
Makes the unions seem harmless in comparison!
3 posted on 12/24/2001 2:20:08 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: Harley - Mississippi
I don't know, but the handbasket we're needing for our slide into h@ll is comung sooner than we think.

Affinity groups ... BAAAAAWWWWAAAAAHHHHHH!

5 posted on 12/24/2001 2:33:32 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: 2Trievers
Henry Ford must be spinning in his grave.
7 posted on 12/24/2001 2:40:36 AM PST by waxhaw
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To: abwehr;Thinkin' Gal; Jeremiah Jr; dennisw; Yehuda; zionist; BenF
>>>It is a travesty of religion and we should look upon those who practice it with horror and disgust.

You got it. Horror and disgust bump!

Ps 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

8 posted on 12/24/2001 2:43:18 AM PST by 2sheep
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To: 2Trievers
Recently, I've gotten a lot of crap by other people online for being critical of Islam. One such accusation I was slapped with was that I was supposedly intolerant of non-Christian religons. I corrected them by pointing out that it wasn't Buddhists or Sikhs who obliterated the Twin Towers, so my criticisms of Islam sure as hell aren't a blanket statement about others faiths in general.
9 posted on 12/24/2001 3:01:52 AM PST by Rick_Hunter
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To: 2Trievers
The Koran forbids killing anything, even a tree, he said.

Yeah, right.  Islamists could give lying lessons to Klinton.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)

10 posted on 12/24/2001 3:26:19 AM PST by JCG
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To: Rick_Hunter
Stand tall! Ya' done good! &;-)
11 posted on 12/24/2001 3:31:53 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: JCG
Ah yes the forests of Saudia Arabia.
13 posted on 12/24/2001 4:33:17 AM PST by hsszionist
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Day by day, people in American are learning more about the truth of Islam. Around the world, the Islamics are giving examples of their behaviors, so no one will wonder what they truly are. I have made my own survey amongst muslims, and I have found that some have a differing opinion on what Jihad really means. Most do believe that Jihad means fighting, killing, terrorizing or whatever, in what ever they believe to be the cause of Allah. They see no wrong in an individual doing his thing. So Islam is not a peaceful religion, no matter how you try to twist it, and one day President Bush will have to apologize for telling the nation that Islam is a peaceful religion, and the Muslims are going to make that so clear to him, that it will be as plain as the nose on his face. God bless President Bush.
14 posted on 12/24/2001 4:44:46 AM PST by tessalu
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To: 2Trievers
Does it ever occur to these fools that maybe we don't give a D**N about Islam!?
15 posted on 12/24/2001 4:48:05 AM PST by sweetliberty
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To: 2Trievers
So now you have to be indoctrinated into the Moslem religion whether you want to or not to keep your job.
16 posted on 12/24/2001 4:50:04 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: 2Trievers
The group organized a Sept. 28 concert for Ford employees that doubled as a fund-raiser for attack victims.


I hope these funds were not delivered to the Iman for "distribution".

17 posted on 12/24/2001 4:57:33 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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"Henry Ford must be spinning in his grave"

...like a turbine.

18 posted on 12/24/2001 5:01:43 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: JCG
The Koran forbids killing anything, even a tree, he said.

Yeah, right. Islamists could give lying lessons to Klinton.

You're correct, Sir! islam's been lying for over 1400 years ; Klinton 58 or so years! But look what's its got him!:


19 posted on 12/24/2001 5:05:00 AM PST by texson66
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To: sweetliberty
"Does it ever occur to these fools that maybe we don't give a D**N about Islam!?"

Au contraire ... 9/11 predicates that we care about Islam.

20 posted on 12/24/2001 8:18:33 AM PST by 2Trievers
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