Posted on 09/04/2010 11:02:52 AM PDT by bayouranger
Muslim residents hand out "Islam Explained" to fairgoers; want to show people they are "not terrorists."
Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.
Each time a new wave of people exited, the young Minneapolis residents — who hadn't eaten all day — tried to press into their hands a small, glossy card that read "Islam Explained" on one side. On the other, it had about 180 words of background on a religion whose adherents fear is being misunderstood by too many Americans as violent and depraved.
"You just want people to take the card, spend a minute reading it and say, 'Oh. They're not terrorists,'" said 27-year-old Zuleyha. She and her husband, like other Muslims, were fasting during daylight hours for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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Zuleyha, what you need to understand about US is that just because we reject your religion, your “prophet”, and the literature you call holy, utterly, and will resist every move you make, “peaceful” or violent to impose your religion on us, we don’t hate you.
Print these up( and others, the woman on her knees with the rifle to her heard) as cards with the line ‘ Islam Explained’. Hand them out at any fair you attend.
ESPECIALLY to women in head rags.
More like to gain converts.
“One always gets the feeling that, despite their words, they would join the jihadists in a split second if push came to shove. I’m a Christian, not an idiot.”
I agree 100%. You never see these people openly condemning the actions of the “more extreme” among them. I doubt it is because they fear reprisal (at least not in the US).
They tacitly approve of the radical agenda and their actions trying to improve their image are just to provide cover and allow their allies on the left to demonize anyone who calls them out on their hypocracy.
You’re not going to believe this article.
Simply disgusting.
We were at the State Fair on Sunday. I saw these little “Islam Explained” cards... they were littered across the ground around the ticket areas and the entrances near where they shuttle buses dropped off their passengers. I saw people looking to see what the cards were and then STEPPING on them.
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