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Group asks residents to turn in their guns
(muslim initiative)
Tuscaloosa News ^
| February 8, 2007
| Lucinda Coulter
Posted on 02/08/2007 7:02:25 PM PST by Graybeard58
TUSCALOOSA | Members of a community action group are asking residents in west Tuscaloosa to turn in their guns.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, members of the recently formed All for One Tuscaloosa Standing Against Violence will gather at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School to receive guns that residents turn in, said the Rev. Clarence Sutton, president of the Tuscaloosa chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Sutton and Maurice Muhammad, minister of the Nation of Islam Study Group in Tuscaloosa, organized All for One Tuscaloosa last fall after several homicides shook area neighborhoods.
Twenty-six homicides were reported by law enforcement agencies in Tuscaloosa County 2006.
We will give a small incentive for people to turn in their guns, with no questions asked," Sutton said. He said that some youths hesitate to turn in weapons because they are afraid that others will keep theirs. But even if only one resident turned in a gun, the effort would be meaningful, Sutton and Muhammad said.
Its more about bringing a spiritual rite of passage," said Muhammad, noting that the purpose of the call to disarm is partly to open a dialogue with community members and listen to their concerns.
A planning meeting to discuss goals of the community action group will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Benjamin-Barnes YMCA on 2939 18th St.
Sutton said that residents, municipal and county government officials and law enforcement officers attended a series of community meetings last fall and have offered help in the nonviolence effort. Muhammad said that more than 400 attended a series of meals that coalition hosted in October to encourage an end to violence.
He said the coalition wants to conduct outreach programs in schools, colleges and technical schools, especially at Shelton State Community Colleges C.A. Fredd campus, to promote peaceful conflict resolution.
Another goal of the coalition is to teach job skills to young adults in west Tuscaloosa. Muhammad said a skills program recently started at the C.A. Fredd campus is promising.
A rally in October was followed by a series of dinners for residents to discuss their concerns. A third public awareness campaign, 21 Days of Awareness," was held to get more support for the community, Sutton said.
Were trying to cut down on the violence and help our community seek alternatives to it," he said.
Reach Lucinda Coulter at lucinda/s.coulter@tuscaloosanews.com or 205-722-0206. .
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: aclumia; banglist; gungrabbers; islamicsupremacists; mmm; mosqueandstate; nationofislam; noi; rop; secondammendment; waronterror; wat; wot
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To: indcons; little jeremiah
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posted on
02/08/2007 7:39:02 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
"If we're unarmed, we can't shoot them when they go on a firebombing our cars and raping our girls rampage, just like in France."
You got it, metmom. You nailed it right on the head!!!
22
posted on
02/08/2007 7:46:19 PM PST
by
panaxanax
(Ronald Reagan would vote for Duncan Hunter!)
To: panaxanax
It'd be a cold day in hell before I turn ANYTHING over to a muzzie just because they say so or they think it's a good idea.
Anything a muzzie thinks is a good idea, is a really BAD idea.
23
posted on
02/08/2007 7:57:34 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Graybeard58
Its more about bringing a spiritual rite of passage," said Muhammad, noting that the purpose of the call to disarm is partly to open a dialogue with community members and listen to their concerns. I've never seen such a blatant pile of bullsh!t in quite a while now.
Imho I'm rather of the opposite whereby arming oneself is spiritual rite of passage and it should be very much encouraged.
heck just look at these so-called Palestinians and the GUNS GALORE that they revel in - now for these mus-slimes to come to the west and begin to preach this anti-gun crap is pure lying & has evil plans behind it.
To: Graybeard58
JUST DAMN. I graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. I was there during the Iranian hostage crisis. We had Pakastani kids walking the campus wearing placards around their necks that said in LARGE ENGLISH LETTERS:
I am not Iranian, I'm a Pakastani. Please Don't Hurt Me! Worked, too. OTOH, the few Iranian students just disappeared from campus.
If this dang initiative draws even ONE response, I'm going to be gravely disappointed in T-Town residents.
25
posted on
02/08/2007 8:00:53 PM PST
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
God forbid we might someday actually start shooting back... you can bet they're peeing in their burkas!
26
posted on
02/08/2007 8:02:41 PM PST
by
djf
(Democracy - n, def: The group that gets PAID THE MOST ends up VOTING THE MOST See: TRAGEDY)
To: Graybeard58
Muhammad said that more than 400 attended a series of meals that coalition hosted in October to encourage an end to violence. You wanna bet that those meals were demonically cursed with the intent to cause harm on the persons eating it?
To: Graybeard58
He said that some youths hesitate to turn in weapons because they are afraid that others will keep theirs.OTOH, they'll probably just turn in the one most recently used to cap a LEO so the cops can dispose of the evidence....no questions asked. Such a DEAL!
28
posted on
02/08/2007 8:08:23 PM PST
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: djf
Not bloody likely is all I gotta say.
What do you think we need them for anyway?
Any one who owns a gun but hands it over like that deserves to be a slave.
29
posted on
02/08/2007 8:08:49 PM PST
by
The Bat Lady
(11 million illegals (really 20 million in Gov. math) will become 100 million in 5-8 years)
To: Graybeard58
Turn in your guns (or else)
30
posted on
02/08/2007 8:22:01 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: prophetic
Its more about bringing a spiritual rite of passage," said Muhammad, noting that the purpose of the call to disarm is partly to open a dialogue with community members and listen to their concerns. Notice how this makes it look like they're the ones in charge and they're interested in our welfare. They're going to *listen to our concerns*?! What for? How condescending!
Listen to this... (sound of a shotgun being engaged)
31
posted on
02/08/2007 8:36:58 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Tzimisce
Sign me up for the "or else" squad please. Thank you.
32
posted on
02/08/2007 8:49:17 PM PST
by
panaxanax
(Ronald Reagan would vote for Duncan Hunter!)
To: metmom
33
posted on
02/08/2007 8:52:00 PM PST
by
panaxanax
(Ronald Reagan would vote for Duncan Hunter!)
To: claptrap
I want a bumper sticker like that. It would work just like a goat tied up in leopard country.
Bait!
34
posted on
02/08/2007 8:57:49 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(The speed of light is 186,234 miles per second. Not just a good idea, its the LAW!)
To: Mr. Mojo
35
posted on
02/08/2007 9:01:00 PM PST
by
weegee
(No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
To: Graybeard58; Joe Brower; DaveLoneRanger; Fred Nerks; USF; AmericanArchConservative; ...
He said the coalition wants to conduct outreach programs in schools, colleges and technical schools, especially at Shelton State Community Colleges C.A. Fredd campus, to promote peaceful conflict resolution.Islams Plan To Take Over the USA in 20 Years
3. Engage the American public in dialogs, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith.
An unarmed American is a defeated American.
36
posted on
02/08/2007 10:10:54 PM PST
by
jan in Colorado
("Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and you will find things only evil and inhuman")
To: Graybeard58
Much more worrisome than "Moslem" participation with this, is participation by the "Southern Christian Leadership Conference." Ditto, "YMCA" as a surrender location for the Christian Dhimmis to report to.
Any organization that participates in any way with weapon-surrendering while we are a Nation At War needs, in the worst way, to be investigated as an organization suspected of having been infiltrated by the enemy or otherwise controlled by or in the thrall of the enemy.
It is astonishing to me, how sloppy our government has become, regarding homeland security issues, during Time of War. If we don't tighten this up, we're doomed. Shut the enemy down, especially the enemy operating on our own soil. That is such a fundamentally primal order of business, that to see it being entirely neglected by the federal government, can cause nothing but despair among any patriots with sufficient intelligence to breathe.
37
posted on
02/08/2007 10:12:06 PM PST
by
omnivore
To: jan in Colorado
thanks for the ping jan...I can't believe my eyes. Are there people in the US who are THAT stupid? (Don't answer that.)
38
posted on
02/08/2007 10:19:53 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
To: jan in Colorado
3. Engage the American public in dialogs, discussions, debates in colleges, universities, public libraries, radio, TV, churches and mosques on the virtues of Islam. Proclaim how it is historically another religion like Judaism and Christianity with the same monotheistic faith. Once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. ... There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means to do it
Abdulrahman Alamoudi, 1996 at an Islamic conference in Chicago
Ignorance...
39
posted on
02/08/2007 10:24:50 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
To: Graybeard58
>>From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, members of the recently formed All for One Tuscaloosa Standing Against Violence will gather at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School to receive guns that residents turn in, said the Rev. Clarence Sutton, president of the Tuscaloosa chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.<<
Isn't it a felony to bring or posses a gun on elementary school property?
40
posted on
02/08/2007 10:26:35 PM PST
by
gondramB
(It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
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