Orlando: Mosque attack angers some local Muslims

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 4.08.04

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Mosque attack angers some local Muslims

By Mark I. Pinsky and Kelly Brewington

Sentinel Staff Writers

April 8, 2004

When it comes to sanctified ground, the Middle East has always been a tough neighborhood.

U.S. forces fired a missile and dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb at a mosque compound Wednesday in Fallujah, Iraq, after Marines said they were fired on from the building. This is not the first time a house of worship in the region has become a battlefield -- or a place of carnage -- nor is it likely to be the last.

Nonetheless, the incident has provoked outrage among many Muslims.

"It should be clear to anyone that images of bodies of worshippers being taken out of a Muslim mosque is going to be counterproductive to the effort to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people," said Ibrahim Hooper, national director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"Whatever the provocation, there surely must have been a better way than to drop 500-pound bombs on a mosque compound," he said.

If gunmen were firing from the mosque, that would be a violation of Muslim law, according to Muqtedar Khan, a fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution.

"Violence is not allowed in the mosque at all," said Khan, author of American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom. "These things are taken very seriously."

Thus, he said, the Americans "might argue that it was not an attack on the mosque, that it was an attack on those who were using the mosque in a way which is unacceptable."

Central Florida Islamic leaders and followers of the Muslim faith were saddened Wednesday by the bombing.

[isthisnickcool]

Really? I get kinda pissed when Muslims take planes full of people and run them into buildings.

[Monty22]

Where was their outrage when dead American civilians were being dragged around over there?

[BrooklynGOP]

"Whatever the provocation, there surely must have been a better way than to drop 500-pound bombs on a mosque compound," he said.

Surely! Perhaps some of these american muslims will volunteer to go to Iraq to be human shields for our troops when they are faced with insurgents firing from mosques.

[RKV]

"there surely must have been a better way than to drop 500-pound bombs on a mosque compound" - not if it means one American soldier hurt in the slightest way. As far as I am concerned our rules of engagement are too strict. We should have no qualms about making an example of terrorists and those who harbor them. It is in our long run best interest (and that of the Iraqis as well) to end armed resistance immediately.

[TonyWojo]

Can the rest of the article be posted I am not regestered

[petercooper]

"Violence is not allowed in the mosque at all,"

Not allowed... Violence is planned and fomented in the mosques. Islam is a violent intolerant death cult.

[Bikers4Bush]

They go to great lengths to get us to leave their mosques alone.

Nobody should wonder why at this point when on repeated occassions they have been found to harbour and support terrorists.

We should bulldoze them all and make them meet under the clear blue sky where we can keep an eye on them.

[kevao]

Yeah, don't blame the Fedayeen who entered the mosque with their kalishokovs and RPG launchers to use the place as a base of operations.

[dalebert]

Maybe they should all go to Iraq to defend them. Its right for them to kill and hide like cowards but we are not supposed to protect ourselves.

[Coop]

These Muslims should be angry...

not at our forces, but at the cowardly savages who use mosques to injure and kill innocents.

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[cardinal4]

It should be clear to anyone that images of bodies of worshippers being taken out of a Muslim mosque is going to be counterproductive to the effort to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people," said Ibrahim Hooper, national director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Is that so, Hooper? Muslims havent won my heart by dancing around dead Americans after burning them alive and dragging them through the streets. Further, Ibrahim, the silence of your outfit when your bretren commit their weekly atrocities, makes you duplicitous. So why dont you and your terrorist organization go join your brethren in the Fallujah mosque, while we figure out away not use 500 lbs bombs. My suggestion would be to use 1000lbs...

[wingster]

TFB!!

I wonder how "angered" they were when the TWINS fell?!

[Mannaggia l'America]

Do they get angry when people use a mosque as a fort?

[kevao]

Surely! Perhaps some of these american muslims will volunteer to go to Iraq to be human shields for our troops when they are faced with insurgents firing from mosques.

And why wouldn't they? After all, 99.99% of them are loyal Americans, right? At least according to CAIR.

[familyofman]

"If gunmen were firing from the mosque, that would be a violation of Muslim law,..."

They were - that's what all the Muslims should be upset about, using a mosque as a firing position. If you shoot - fire will be returned, no matter where you hide. Next they'll be hiding behind burka-clad women & small children to fire from behind - and have the audacity to be 'outraged' when those innocent women & children get killed. These fools should start getting upset with their brethren for defiling a place of worship.

[Paulie]

"the incident has provoked outrage among many Muslims."

Yawn...

[petercooper]

incoming!

[ambrose]

anonymous/anonymous usually works