American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?

The New York Times ^ | September 5, 2010 | LAURIE GOODSTEIN

[Malone LaVeigh]

For nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith service projects. They took satisfaction in the observations by many scholars that Muslims in America were more successful and assimilated than Muslims in Europe.

Now, many of those same Muslims say that all of those years of work are being rapidly undone by the fierce opposition to a Muslim cultural center near ground zero that has unleashed a torrent of anti-Muslim sentiments and a spate of vandalism. The knifing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City has also alarmed many American Muslims.

[SamuraiScot]

I would respect them greatly if they took their ‘moderate Muslim’ money and built Christian churches in Saudi Arabis for their guest workers.

Great point. Even John D. Rockefeller, a fierce anti-Catholic, built Catholic churches for the Irish who worked on his estates.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

No, because Muslims have no intention of belonging.

They have to rule.

[allmendream]

“Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting “Jesus Christ,” so that it would read “A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.”
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

You may worship as you wish. But you will never be truly American until you accept American values. Equality of women, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, limited government, no government establishment of religion; etc.

In other words, y'all have a lot of work to do.

“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.” Winston Churchill