Posted on 10/08/2006 9:31:44 AM PDT by kronos77
Minnesota is home to thousands of Muslims from around the world. Like other immigrants, they have worked hard to establish themselves and support their families. But, since 9/11, the state's Muslims have become more concerned about presenting the real image of their faith and getting involved in their local communities.
"Until 1998, the Muslim community in Minnesota, the whole state, was about 5,000 to 6,000 people," he says. "But in 1998, there was an influx of Somali immigrants, about 70,000 of them. Then we had another 15,000 from Bosnia and Kosovo. They got political asylum." Ul Huq estimates the number of Muslims in Minnesota to be more than 150,000.
Like other American Muslims, the Minnesotan community felt victimized in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Hydar Khan says federal authorities shut down several money-wiring services used by Muslim immigrants. He says Muslims have had to live with new challenges.
"There has been curtailment of our civil liberties since 9/11 in subtle ways, which I believe is a very concerning issue that eventually, I think, should be the concern of every American," he says. "There is not any overt discrimination that I've personally encountered, but there are reports here and there. Overall, I believe there is a tendency to malign the name of Islam, [by using] terms like 'Islamic Fascism,' and to always implicate Islam as an ideological evil. I think this is a very concerning issue."
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Oh f'ing please. Ameicans, not muslims were victimized. If I remember correctly, waren't thier smelly women u-ulating all over the place that day?
Since there seems to be no trace of irony in your use of "Untermensch", please do not take my question to be ironic or rhetorical.
Are you a Nazi?
Muslims destroying Minnesota ping
If you remember correctly, which you don't, Muslims were murdered alongside their fellow American when al-Qa'ida terrorists attacked the WTC.
I think it's time educate them as to what Christianity is all about. Though they ostensibly illustrate their good will by smiling and offering a Koran, try offering them a Bible and watch them recoil in horror.
/sarc
USA does not import Muslims. Worse. USA allows Muslims to import themselves.
Yes, but they did not heed the call and leave the infidel lands.
This is Free Republic, not Stormfront.
Please update your bookmarks.
Time to close them all down and kick the muzzys out
Blaming the victims.
"Like other American Muslims, the Minnesotan community felt victimized in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Hydar Khan says federal authorities shut down several money-wiring services used by Muslim immigrants. He says Muslims have had to live with new challenges."
And just why were those money wiring services shut down? Hm? Maybe they were funding the terrrorists? Mr Khan? Is that a problem for you?
Muslims destroying Minnesota
Really! You know I really need to start reading the paper more. I wasn't aware of this. The question is should I hide in the closet or under the bed?
This guy Keith Ellison? He's a real piece of work, Powerline has been watching him for awhile now. Let's see supports cop killing gangs (Vice Lords) has a problem paying his taxes, tickets, and being a good DFLer (Mn. democrat party) simply LOVES those who are members of the alternative lifestyles community.
The good news is this guy is such a loony it persents Alan Fine (the GOP candidate) a chance to take this seat.
As for his religion...I could care less, the fact that he so moonbat left is what I care about.
If you remember correctly, which you don't, Muslims were murdered alongside their fellow American when al-Qa'ida terrorists attacked the WTC.
The radical loser (Long Read)
Der Spiegel ^ | 1/12/05 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694568/posts
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There is also no mistaking other similarities, such as the fixation with written authorities. The place of Marx and Lenin is taken by the Koran, references are made not to Gramsci but to Sayyid Qutb. Instead of the international proletariat, it takes as its revolutionary subject the Umma, and as its avant-garde and self-appointed representative of the masses it takes not The Party but the widely branching conspiratorial network of Islamist fighters. Although the movement can draw on older rhetorical forms which to outsiders may sound high-flown or big-mouthed, it owes many of its idées fixes to its Communist enemy: history obeys rigid laws, victory is inevitable, deviationists and traitors are to be exposed and then, in fine Leninist tradition, bombarded with ritual insults.
The movement's list of favourite foes is also short on surprises: America, the decadent West, international capital, Zionism. The list is completed by the unbelievers, that is to say the remaining 5.2 billion people on the planet. Not forgetting apostate Muslims who may be found among the Shiites, Ibadhis, Alawites, Zaidites, Ahmadiyyas, Wahhabis, Druze, Sufis, Kharijites, Ishmaelites or other religious communities.
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Contrary to what the West appears to believe, the destructive energy of Islamist actions is directed mainly against Muslims. This is not a tactical error, not a case of "collateral damage". In Algeria alone, Islamist terror has cost the lives of at least 50,000 fellow Algerians. Other sources speak of as many as 150,000 murders, although the military and the secret services were also involved. In Iraq and Afghanistan, too, the number of Muslim victims far outstrips the death toll among foreigners. Furthermore, terrorism has been highly detrimental not only to the image of Islam but also to the living conditions of Muslims around the world.
The Islamists are as unconcerned about this as the Nazis were about the downfall of Germany. As the avant-garde of death, they have no regard for the lives of their fellow believers. In the eyes of the Islamists, the fact that most Muslims have no desire to blow themselves and others sky high only goes to show that they deserve no better than to be liquidated themselves. After all, the aim of the radical loser is to make as many other people into losers as possible. As the Islamists see it, the fact that they are in the minority can only be because they are the chosen few.
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When I lived in Minnesota, we were instructed to dive into the nearest snowbank if we Somali or Eritrean Muslim on the street. If you were at home, the preferred location wasbehind the couch -- often pronouced as "coach".
Of course, that was before 1998, when the invasion force of 70,000 Somali refugees came.
"this is how they start..."
Americans getting involved in American politics? Isn't there a law against that or something? As the bumpersticker spake, "If voting could change anything, it would be illegal."
The "Sleeper Cell" party?
Yeah, they're destroying whatever is left undestroyed by left-wing politicians and other liberal Minnesota dolts.
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