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 The ruins of a mosque in Joplin, Missouri, after a fire last month that Muslims leaders suspect was an arson.
September 5th, 2012
01:19 PM ET
Rising anti-Islamic sentiment in America troubles MuslimsBy Moni Basu, CNN On the program, called "The Threat in Our Backyard," is a lecture on Islam in public schools and a short film on Sharia finance. It's a program organized by people who feel the American way of life is threatened by Islam - in particular, Sharia, or Islamic law. Sharia would bring ruin to America, says Greg Johnson, vice president of the 9/12 Project Tennessee, a sponsor of the event that advocates for shifting government back to the intent of the Constitution's authors. He says he has nothing against Muslims, but he takes issue with the tenets of Islam. Sharia, he believes, would mean that practicing homosexuals would be put to death, women would not be educated and would be married off to men chosen by their fathers, and non-Muslims would become kafirs - nonbelievers - relegated to second-class citizenship. My Faith: After my mosque was torched "And I don't want that coming to America," Johnson says. He's not alone in his fears. A tide of anti-Islam sentiment has been swelling across America in recent months, strong enough to prompt one imam to wish for the days immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when President George W. Bush declared that Muslims were not our enemies; that the war on terror was against a select few who acted upon their hate for America. "In the 11 years since, we have retreated," says Abdullah Antepli, the Muslim chaplain at Duke University who likes to call himself the Blue Devil Imam. Muslims make up less than 1% of the U.S. population. Yet, say Muslim advocates, they are a community besieged. Hate crimes against Muslims spiked 50% in 2010, the last year for which FBI statistics are available. That was in a year marked by Muslim-bashing speech over the Islamic center near ground zero in Manhattan and Florida Pastor Terry Jones' threats to burn Qurans. Why some American Muslims wear the hijab Antepli likens the current climate to McCarthyism. Left unchecked, he says, anti-Muslim fervor, like racism and anti-Semitism, has the potential to evolve into something dangerous. This year's holy month of Ramadan, which ended August 19, was marred by a spate of violence at U.S. Islamic centers that included a fire, a homemade bomb and pig parts. The incidents were unprecedented in scale and scope, says the Council on American-Islamic Relations. At least seven mosques and one cemetery were attacked in the United States during Ramadan, according to the council and other groups that track such incidents. Particularly visible on the anti-Muslim radar has been the state of Tennessee, where a mosque opened during Ramadan after two years of controversy. The new Islamic center in Murfreesboro opened a few weeks ago after delays caused by legal wrangling, community protests and vandalism. Also in Tennessee, incumbent congresswoman Diane Black found herself publicly opposing Sharia after her opponent Lou Ann Zelenik made it a campaign issue. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter State senatorial candidate Woody Degan's website also mentions Sharia: "VOTE CONSERVATIVE! VOTE Anti-Sharia, VOTE Against Internet Taxes, Vote FOR Gun Carry Rights! VOTE for your PERSONAL RIGHTS!" And Gov. Bill Haslam recently came under fire for hiring lawyer Samar Ali, a Muslim woman from Tennessee, to work in the international division of the state's economic development department. Ali's critics called her Sharia-compliant and a website called Bill H(Islam) attacked the governor for pursuing "a policy that promotes the interest of Islamist (sic) and their radical ideology." The website links to another that discusses, among other things, Islamic infiltration of public schools. "I cannot stress enough the seriousness of their push to spread their religion to all non-Muslims throughout our country," says website author Cathy Hinners, another speaker at next Tuesday's 9/11 event in Franklin. Why do Muslims pray five times daily? "Why? Why are Muslims so adamant that we accept their religion? The answer is simple. The answer is in black and white. The answer is in the Muslim brotherhoods "Strategic Goal for North America." It's called a global caliphate. One religion, one government, one law... called Sharia." In November 2010, more than 70% of voters in Oklahoma approved a ballot initiative to amend the state's constitution that banned courts from looking at "legal precepts of other nations or cultures. Specifically, the courts shall not consider international law or Sharia law." The amendment died after a federal court ruled it discriminatory. "That was very explicitly anti-Islamic," says Glenn Hendrix, an Atlanta lawyer who specializes in international law. "It specifically referenced Sharia." This year, 33 anti-Sharia or international law bills were introduced in 20 states, making it a key issue. Six states - Louisiana, South Dakota, Kansas, Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee - adopted such laws prior to 2012. Two Tennessee lawmakers attempted to pass a bill this year that would have made it a felony to practice Sharia, but it failed. The Council on American-Islamic Relations says the anti-Sharia bills are based on draft legislation promoted by David Yerushalmi, an anti-Islamic lawyer from New York. Yerushalmi founded the Society of Americans for National Existence, an organization devoted to promoting his theory that Islam is inherently seditious and Sharia is a "criminal conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. "Ideally," says the center, "he would outlaw Islam and deport its adherents altogether." Hendrix says anti-Sharia legislation is not necessary since U.S. courts ultimately are beholden to U.S. law. But it sends a strong message to the Muslim community. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories The American Bar Association, which opposes federal or state laws that impose blanket prohibitions on foreign laws, says such legislative initiatives stigmatize an entire religious community and "are inconsistent with some of the core principles and ideals of American jurisprudence." Valarie Kaur, a legal advocate and hate crimes specialist, says proponents of anti-Sharia bills are battling an imaginary threat. "There is no push to install Sharia law in the U.S.," she says. "Anti-Sharia bills target the religious principles of Muslim Americans and fuel anti-Muslim rhetoric and bias. As a Sikh American whose community has too often become the target of hate, I believe it's time to stand against all forms of racism and religious bigotry." An attack at a Wisconsin Sikh temple last month killed six people. Many believe the shooter mistook Sikhs for Muslims. A Sikh gas station attendant in Arizona was the first victim of reprisal after the 9/11 attacks. Kaur blames tough economic times and an amplification of hateful speech for incidents like the temple shooting and the momentum behind the anti-Sharia campaign. For Muslims, Sharia - which means "path to the watering hole" in Arabic - is the divine law revealed centuries ago in the Quran that governs all aspects of life. More often than not, it's the most sensational parts of Sharia - like cutting off a thief's hand - that garner the most publicity. U.S. courts bump up against it in cases of divorces, inheritance, child custody, enforcement of money judgments and commercial disputes or tort actions. A trial court in New Jersey, for instance, ruled that a husband, who was Muslim, lacked the criminal intent to commit sexual assault on his wife because Sharia permits a man to have sex with his wife whenever he wants. That's the kind of ruling that fuels anti-Sharia activists. Nashville health-care investor Andrew Miller says there's no room for democracy within Islamic ideology. All you have to do is look to any Islamic state, he says. "If you wanted to pray to a large rock and that was your God, I could care less," he says. "But the minute you want to put a gun to my head and say you will pray to this large rock and your family will or you will pay the price, that's when I see a bully. I see an overbearing ideology that wants to force and coerce people. Miller describes himself as a tolerant person but not when it comes to people dictating how others will live. "That's antithetical to the freedoms that we value, the liberty we value," he says. The message that Islam is evil has been repeated so many times - sometimes directly, sometimes in a more subtle fashion - that it has sunk in as reality in the hearts and minds of many Americans, says Antepli, the Duke chaplain. Part of it is fear of the unknown, he says. "I, too, would have a monstrous image of Islam if I did not know any better." But another part of it is orchestrated, he says, referring to "well-organized and polished" anti-Islam websites that have sprouted in recent years. Marry that with ignorance and the end result is lethal, Antepli says. The Center for American Progress, a liberal research and advocacy organization, published a report last year that attributed the rise of Islamophobia to a "small, tightly-networked group of misinformation experts." The report called "Fear, Inc." lists seven foundations that gave $42.6 million to think tanks to promote anti-Islamic thought. It describes "deeply intertwined individuals and organizations" that "manufacture and exaggerate threats of 'creeping Sharia,' Islamic domination of the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all non-Muslims by the Quran." The issue of Sharia, say some Muslims, has become a political hot potato in an election year. GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann mentioned Sharia in their campaign speeches. This year's Republican Party platform makes mention of foreign laws: "Subjecting American citizens to foreign laws is inimical to the spirit of the Constitution. It is one reason we oppose U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court. There must be no use of foreign law by U.S. courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws. Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts' adjudication of criminal or civil matters." That's the message Miller hopes people will take away from next week's 9/11 meeting; that the tenets of Islam go against the constitution of the United States. It's diametrically opposed to what people like Antepli and Kaur will be saying as America remembers the horror of terrorism. Hateful sentiment, they say, is not the answer. soundoff (2,383 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Next »
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Does God exist? Maybe there is some inteligent Supreme Being who created the Universe and the mankind-Who knows? But I know one thing: the religion(s) is a delusional and deceptive thing,therefore God please save us from your followers.
"I cannot stress enough the seriousness of their push to spread their religion to all non-Muslims throughout our country," says website author Cathy Hinners"
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That statement can also apply to the Religious Right in this country, bent on subjecting all aspects of society to their own religious beliefs and dogma's
You are correct.
It also applies to atheists. Please don't forget them.
This is a complete fabrication and a lie. facts on the ground are completely opposite. There are more Christian missions in Muslim and other non-Christian countries working on converting locals to Christian then Muslims trying to convert non-muslims. Stay clear of hate speech and this propaganda.
Jesus wasn't a White man
No, but he was an asshat.
He was a Revivalist
Soooo.....Jesus was a white, revivalist asshat? Didn't know that.
once again the solution is extremly easy:
1. Expulse all mulsims from North America
2. Destroy all mosquees in North America
3. Put all Muslims on a permanant no fly list
4. Declare Islam illegal planet wide
or
the mulsims can just GET OUT OF THERE, they are NOT WEILCOME PERIOD.
F.uck you. This is America buddy. Land of the Free. Don't like it, get the fudge out.
In America, the majority rules,,,you are a minority opinion, so you leave if you don't like it here...
Ditto...you may not like sharing your country with another faith, but that's America pal...get used to it.
As an educated Muslim, I agree with you. Islam needs to go under a refromation and a re-enlightenment. Muslims today are too stupid to know any better. I do not see a solution to this problem.
looks like that your brain has been" expulsed "from your head buddy. are you in kinder???
Sorry Orange, the Consti tution rules...not the majority. Heck, didn't the Bush/Gore election teach you anything? 🙂
Since when has this country ever considered the laws of another country or religion in a trial here? It is pure islam bashing to think Sharia law somehow trumps our legal system. Should we consider communist law, of course not but nobody is running on that platform. You can't go out and kill someone and hide behind some holy book that it was acceptable as a matter of religious freedom. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater. If you consider how many people USA Muslims have killed people in the USA from terrorism since 911 it is zero (The Times Square bomber did not succeed but granted that could have been bad. The Fort Hood guy was in our own military and they didn't see it coming) How many home grown non Muslim gun wielding citizens have shot up people in the past 11 years and you get several thousand gun related deaths every year.
9/11 was an inside job! WTC BUILDINGS FELL AT SIX SECONDS EACH! This is a controlled demonlision FREE FALL WITH NO RESISTANCE. 9/11 was a zionist inside job. Melted metal that was consistent with explosion melting were found in all of the buildings' metal foundations after the collapses. The buildings were also hit by REMOTE-CONTROLLED airplanes from WTC 7. This is also why this building was brought down by controlled demolision. The pentagon was also hit by a drone or missile, and no airplane was found in the PA field. Muslims HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. PERIOD. It was the sub-humans who rule this country that did it. The zionists are worse than satan himself!! Hell is their final abode!
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Some of the Glorious Quran's beautiful teachings:
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".....Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but help ye not one another in sin and rancour: fear God: for God is strict in punishment. (The Noble Quran, 5:2)"
"O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do. (The Noble Quran, 5:8)"
"Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for God loveth not transgressors. (The Noble Quran, 2:190)"
"But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things). (The Noble Quran, 8:61)"
"God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers. (The Noble Quran, 60:8)"
"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things. (The Noble Quran, 2:256)"
VISIT: www(dot)answering-christianity(dot)com.
Really man. At least cover your head with the foil. That'll block out some of those beams.
I tried it and it didn't work, Tom.
Get a good set of headphones and a white noise generator. Turn it up as loud as you can stand. Keep that going as long as you're awake. They can't get at your thoughts with all that static. And don't give up on the foil.
Prayer changes things
You are absolutely correct. Prayer changes otherwise Intelligent human beings into stupid ones talking to figments of their imagination, with no evidence of their existence, like madmen.
Becomes scott
ScottCA: You need some prayers. I think you pray to your athetists god (nothing) everyday; five times a day more.
All religions are inherently flawed, and hopefully will fade away over time.
There's a reason why every Islamic country is a craphole of violence and despair. That's why we don't want that culture over here.
That's why we left there to come here. We don't want to put up with all that's going on there. At least here, it's more diverse, there's less focus on religion, and living conditions are much better. We don't want sharia in the USA, or else we'd be openly campaigning for it. The only time we usually implement sharia is unofficially in finance, where we believe accepting or charging interest inherently screws someone out of more money than he or she should pay, so we either don't get interest on our accounts or just donate the interest (though we don't mind PAYING interest at all).
9/11 was an inside job! WTC BUILDINGS FELL AT SIX SECONDS EACH! This is a controlled demonlision FREE FALL WITH NO RESISTANCE. 9/11 was a zionist inside job. Melted metal that was consistent with explosion melting were found in all of the buildings' metal foundations after the collapses. The buildings were also hit by REMOTE-CONTROLLED airplanes from WTC 7. This is also why this building was brought down by controlled demolision. The pentagon was also hit by a drone or missile, and no airplane was found in the PA field. Muslims HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. PERIOD. It was the sub-humans who rule this country that did it. The zionists are worse than satan himself!! Hell is their final abode!
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Some of the Glorious Quran's beautiful teachings:
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[005:002] .....Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but help ye not one another in sin and rancour: fear God: for God is strict in punishment.
[005:008] O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.
"Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for God loveth not transgressors. (The Noble Quran, 2:190)"
"But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things). (The Noble Quran, 8:61)"
"God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers. (The Noble Quran, 60:8)"
"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things. (The Noble Quran, 2:256)"
VISIT: www(dot)answering-christianity(dot)com.
Gotta love these nut cases...
you are the number idiot on this board.....MUlsims did it and islam is the ENEMY OF MENKIND PERIOD.
But the Christians of this country are more than happy to make everyone else follow their religious laws...
Good one....
The atheists want to convert everyone to their belief as well. They want everyone to be like them so they don't look so bad.
Arabian Muslim men are generally violent people, but in my experience, many SE Asian Muslims are as tolerant of different people as Westerners. I think there may be something cultural as well as religious rubbish.
9/11 was an inside job! WTC BUILDINGS FELL AT SIX SECONDS EACH! This is a controlled demonlision FREE FALL WITH NO RESISTANCE. 9/11 was a zionist inside job. Melted metal that was consistent with explosion melting were found in all of the buildings' metal foundations after the collapses. The buildings were also hit by REMOTE-CONTROLLED airplanes from WTC 7. This is also why this building was brought down by controlled demolision. The pentagon was also hit by a drone or missile, and no airplane was found in the PA field. Muslims HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. PERIOD. It was the sub-humans who rule this country that did it. The zionists are worse than satan himself!! Hell is their final abode!
Some of the Glorious Quran's beautiful teachings:
[005:002] .....Help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but help ye not one another in sin and rancour: fear God: for God is strict in punishment.
[005:008] O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.
"Fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for God loveth not transgressors. (The Noble Quran, 2:190)"
"But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things). (The Noble Quran, 8:61)"
"God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers. (The Noble Quran, 60:8)"
"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things. (The Noble Quran, 2:256)"
VISIT: www(dot)answering-christianity(dot)com.
It gets dumber every time you spam us with it.
He's probably an Al Qaeda agent or something.. He just keeps doing it over and over again
Implants I was given at the free clinic tell me the same thing, Osama. Spy beams from the traffic signals with FAKE cameras make sure they do, or at least they did until I lined my Blue Jays cap with mu-metal. Try that, man. And don't tell a soul. They really don't want people about their beams.
Hey, if you can't get mu-metal wad up the tape from an old VCR cassette and cover it with aluminum foil. That works almost as well.
Usually i'm very good with debating issues no matter what the content...but your belief on how 9/11 happened has left me dumbfounded. Clearly you have a strong hatred twoards this country and it's government. And then to include passages from your Quran following such a moronic statement shows that you are just as blind as the Nazi's were with their retoric. Your giving good muslims a very bad name. In time i'm sure we will be able to put a face with your name when you make the news with your idiotic thinking. I hope every muslim on this blog tells you how much of a moron you are. So you hate the " Zionists"..well im a solider in the US Army, and i'm a proud American who loves his country. And I have several friends who are Muslim who also serve right along my side. So i'll look foward to your responce...please, i'll be waiting
when muslims stop killing americans in the name of their god I'm willing to listen. Until then, muslims are raised to hate and kill us and deserve no mercy.
Dude, what did Americans do to the Iraqis? Just where exactly are those WMDs? We invaded a country on false pretenses.
It was the terrorists job to instill fear. It's the political pundits job to perpetuate it. Really, it seems like OBL and the extreme right wing had a symbiotic relationship.
Who kill more muslims; american or muslims ???
Reblogged this on Paper Jihad.
9/11 was an inside job! WTC BUILDINGS FELL AT SIX SECONDS EACH! This is a controlled demonlision FREE FALL WITH NO RESISTANCE. 9/11 was a zionist inside job. Melted metal that was consistent with explosion melting were found in all of the buildings' metal foundations after the collapses. The buildings were also hit by REMOTE-CONTROLLED airplanes from WTC 7. This is also why this building was brought down by controlled demolision. The pentagon was also hit by a drone or missile, and no airplane was found in the PA field. Muslims HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. PERIOD. It was the sub-humans who rule this country that did it. The zionists are worse than satan himself!! Hell is their final abode!
VISIT: www(dot)answering-christianity(dot)com....
Great, the crazy conspiracy theorists again....
Any minute now KEEF! will arrive.
What fantasy land do you live in? Do you not remember the videos of Osama Bin Laden, SMILING and saying he was "very pleased with the results, they were better than expected." You are a complete idiot if you actually believe what you posted. Muslims were directly responsible and claimed responsibility for it. Were you asleep at the time?
Don't blow yourselves up and kill civilians and the general public won't have a negative opinion of your religion. Muslims always say that Islam is a religion of peace. Really? Because it sure doesn't look like it with your religious leaders calling for the suppression of women and their constant calls for jihad.
Sand naggers are no better than the monkey naggers, after all. All must perish.
Douche.
Islam is Demonic and Jesus is part of the Judeo Christian MYTH!
9/11 was an inside job! WTC BUILDINGS FELL AT SIX SECONDS EACH! This is a controlled demonlision FREE FALL WITH NO RESISTANCE. 9/11 was a zionist inside job. Melted metal that was consistent with explosion melting were found in all of the buildings' metal foundations after the collapses. The buildings were also hit by REMOTE-CONTROLLED airplanes from WTC 7. This is also why this building was brought down by controlled demolision. The pentagon was also hit by a drone or missile, and no airplane was found in the PA field. Muslims HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. PERIOD. It was the sub-humans who rule this country that did it. The zionists are worse than satan himself!! Hell is their final abode!
VISIT: www(dot)answering-christianity(dot)com...
As an educated Muslim who is familiar with Sharia Law and a student of Al-Ghazzali, I would have to say that you have no idea what you are talking about. Go home and study Islam. And do not put anymore stupid comments on any website.
"Osama Abdallah" YOU SIR, ARE AN IDIOT !!!
If your mom is a man, I believe what you say. Hahahahahahaha