How American Muslims really responded to Sept. 11

Jordan Times ^ | 9-11-02 | Riad Z. Abdelkarim and Jason Erb

[Dallas]

Muslims gather behind a banner reading "ISLAM Will Dominate the World", at the Finsbury park Mosque, in London, Wednesday Sept. 11, 2002, to participate in a conference entitled "September 11 A Towering Day in History". The conference is due to hear from some of the most radical Muslim clerics in Britain. (AP Photo/Mark Lees, PA)

[Lil'freeper]

In the West Bank thousands of Palestinians attended candlelight vigils to express their grief and solidarity with the victims of the attacks, and Palestinian schoolchildren observed five minutes of silence.

Was that before or after the partying in street?

[js1138]

Official statements: blah, blah, blah. I'm sure that a lot of American muslims are here to escpe from the wretched governments of the middle east. So I bet they were indeed shocked to see their homeland politics revisited.

But why is it so easy to find the blame America quotes?

[usconservative]

In reality, even a cursory review of press releases, newspaper articles, opinion pieces, and Internet websites reveals that Muslims were uniformly shocked, saddened, and outraged at the vicious attack on our own soil — and they did not hesitate to voice their unequivocal condemnation.

This writer is f'ing delusional. A "cursory" review? I looked long and hard to find outright condemnation from the "Muzzlim" world - I found NONE.

Any "condemnation" by anyone in the Muzzlim world was quickly followed by a blaming of the Jews, and America's "Zionist" policies, as being the "real" reason Sept. 11th happened.

IMO, they're a bunch of murdering, vile, disgusting, unhuman PIGS who no longer deserve to breathe the same air as you and I.

Need more proof? How about that Muzzlim vigil for peace yesterday, in Dearborn Michigan? Dearborn MI has the 2nd largest Muzzlim population in the US. Guess how many of our "friends" the Muzzies showed up? About 50. That includes the event's organizers and the media.

Some "outrage" these Muzzie b@stards show, eh?

[DB]

It was all the "It was terrible BUT..." statments that put most of us over the edge. Like saying I'm really sorry that happened BUT... The BUT removes all other meaning.

[HamiltonJay]

You know, it is hard to believe a press statement reflects the true feelings of a people who can gather in the streets en masse at a moments notice if a palestinian is killed by a jewish soldier, or hand out candy to their children and women in celebration of the slaughter that happened on 9/11/01.. but can't seem to do better than PR statements condemning the same acts.... Sorry don't buy it.

There may be peacful people who practice Islam, but it is obvious that the religion as a whole has been hijacked and used for hatred, murder and death, and those peaceful people are unwilling to clean their own homes. Sorry, Muslims created terrorism in the modern world, they indoctrinate children into it, contribute more to war, violence and cultures of death than any world religion in the modern age. Go look at Denmark, where muslims account for 5% of population, but commit 40% of all rapes, consume 30% of all welfare and disproportionately commit more of all violent crimes there.... Your PR is BS.

When I see thousands of Muslims unified under a Muslim led rally waving american flags and shedding tears for what happened, then I will start to change my mind. But when a city with a population of over 300k muslims in Michigan holds a service for 9/11 and only 50 people show up... don't pee on my leg and tell me its rain. They merely suck on the tit of prosperity while at the same time desire its demise.

Don't tell me you are a religion of peace when I saw with my own eyes the celebrations in my own town of muslims to the bombings of 9/11. You may put on your public face when you are not among your own kind, but nothing will erase from my mind the party I first hand witness on 9/12 at an apartment complex primarily inhabited by muslims and arans near my home celebrating the successful attack on the great satan. Your quiet infiltration is over, it is unquestionable clear what you harbor in your thoughts and minds, but hide openly. Not all of course, but more than a few, and until those who do not feel that way clean up those who do... don't think for one minute you will ever be trusted as a whole again.

[ClearCase_guy]

some Americans are sowing seeds of hatred and ignorance

Pot calling Kettle ... Pot calling Kettle ... come in, over.

[SJackson]

Some "outrage" these Muzzie b@stards show, eh?

Does that mean you won't help with the Bring Islam to your local Library Campaign by sponsoring a "library package"?

50 (and my thanks to them) show for a rally in Dearborn with an Arab population of 250,000+. There is an alternate reality at work here.

[SJackson]

You know, it is hard to believe a press statement reflects the true feelings of a people who can gather in the streets en masse at a moments notice if a palestinian is killed by a jewish soldier, or hand out candy to their children and women in celebration of the slaughter that happened on 9/11/01...But when a city with a population of over 300k muslims in Michigan holds a service for 9/11 and only 50 people show up... don't pee on my leg and tell me its rain.

Clearly this is for consumption within the community and overseas, but given the apparent lack of support for America within America's Muslim community, you'd think they'd just keep their collective mouths shut. IMO, statements like this further exacerbate the situation.

[TexasCajun]

COWARDS have to hide! ...Punks!

[layman]

I think the disconnect has more to do with trust than the 'ignorance' of the non-believers. It seems likely to me that the rush to condemn the barbarism of 9/11 was a fear of being blamed rather than a genuine condemnation. The Muslim community can earn my trust, but it cannot demand it or blame the absence of it on my ignorance. Simply stated, I don't trust Muslims and until their actions match their words I will remain skeptical of anything they say.

[Woodman]

I wonder why they did not try to get this published as an editorial in the U.S.? Is it possible it is just more lies for the Islamic Masses so they will be even more enraged when we retaliate?

[2sheep]

>On Sept. 11, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest grassroots American Muslim civil rights and advocacy group,

What baloney.  CAIR is a Hamas-front organization.

AL-TAQIYA... The Muslim Method Of Conquest

[joesnuffy]

Lets see...the building of thousands of Mosques and "Islamic Centers" accross America
In places where there are little if any Muslims.. Expecting company are we?
Regardless of muslims attitudes 'After' 09-11
What about before the WTC and Pentagon were attack and Airliners full of americans HiJacked and thousands murdered by muslims who had contacts in America
Where was the loyalty to America then...they were in your mosques..under your roofs....who came forward to give them up because they violated the 'true' tennents of Islam
CAIR is a front for HamAss? .... wouldnt surprise me in the least

[Valin]

"ISLAM Will Dominate the World",

Wanna bet!

[galt-jw]

pr time. I will not patronize any muslim business...and if they are pro US, so what? renounce your filthy hate god and maybe well talk....other than that, get off my planet.

[galt-jw]

...not when youre in the sites of an AC 130, punk.

[ZULU]

Whenever I read this material, I begin to wonder if perhaps the leftist press in the U.S. is again trying to manipulate public opinion by censoring news they wish us not to hear, in this case, statements from responsible Islamic leaders against terrorist tactics?

Who knows?

[ZULU]

Whenever I read this material, I begin to wonder if perhaps the leftist press in the U.S. is again trying to manipulate public opinion by censoring news they wish us not to hear, in this case, statements from responsible Islamic leaders against terrorist tactics?

Who knows?