The face of Islam.
Posted on 03/13/2005 1:09:06 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
The way to religious tolerance is through a billboard - or at least that's the idea behind a display for tens of thousands of commuters in North Dallas each day.
It's not a question a lot of people ask themselves on the way to work. But there it is, hanging above westbound LBJ Freeway near Webb Chapel: "Why Islam?"
The sign also offers a Web site address and a toll-free phone number in New Jersey.
"When the call comes in, it transfers to the team of volunteers," said Adnan Fyed of the Islamic Circle of North America. "And those volunteers they will call you back and they pick up the phone at the same time."
"Why Islam?" is a program run by the Islamic Circle of North America to educate anyone who wants to know about the religion. The website offers information on Allah, pilgramages and even audio lectures.
Visitors can also watch a slide show on Ramadan, and are invited to visit a mosque. There's even a chatroom.
"If you go and become a member of the forum, you can go and ask whatever questions you have," Fyed said.
The chat room addresses such topics as suicide bombings, and hating Christians.
With so many hostile ideas out there, the effort aims to help provide the truth about the religion.
The packed parking lot for Friday services at the Islamic Center of Irving shows how much the faith is growing in North Texas. Now with the hotline and the website, members of the community hope to get out the word concerning what Islam is all about.
Some questions are better not ever asked.
I think they left out some punctuation.
It should be "Why, Islam?" as in "Why, Islam, why have you decided to make war on everyone?"
The freeway that I travel on in Fort Worth has a much better billboard---it is for a local radio station that has Fox radio programming---
It has a pictures of Saddam, Arafat, and Bin Ladin and says "Two down, one to go"---
That says a lot about the difference in attitudes between Fort Worth and Dallas in a lot of ways believe it or not, even they are only 25 miles apart---
No, thanks! I choose God!
Untill these people condemn the acts of 9/11 they have nothing to say.
Yet another quality it shares with liberal Democrats. ;)
Thank you, your post (worth 10,000 words) was badly needed.
I think we get the idea.
If a Christian tries to convert a mooslim, the wahabis kill them both.
However, if a mooslim tries to convert a Christian, Jew or Buddhist, that's OK.
Why am I surprised?
"That says a lot about the difference in attitudes between Fort Worth and Dallas in a lot of ways believe it or not, even they are only 25 miles apart--- "
Says more about what people can afford for a billboard and nothing about Dallas Ft Worth. IMO
US police are struggling to establish a motive for a shooting spree at an evangelical church service that killed eight people, including the gunman. Terry Ratzmann, 44, shot dead seven churchgoers in Brookfield, Wisconsin, before turning the gun on himself.
He regularly attended services at the Living Church of God, an evangelical group that met at Brookfield's Sheraton hotel to mark the Sabbath on Saturdays......
This tell you everything you need to know about Evangelicals?
Huh? What does the price of a billboard have to do with this?
Sounds like the PC Demorats
If a billboard asking Why God? was put on the freeway the ACLU would have a hissy fit.
Can someone please find a pic of the billboard?
Regular attendance at church doesn't make you an Evangelical Christian, anymore than regular attendance at school makes you a scholar!
Can't find a pic anywhere, they show the billboard on the video that is in the link to the story.
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