Posted on 10/30/2010 9:11:27 AM PDT by khnyny
When Esraa Bani's phone started ringing Wednesday with news reporters on the line, she had no idea that an Ashburn man named Farooque Ahmed had been arrested for plotting to blow up Metrorail stations in Northern Virginia, or that such a story could have anything to do with her.
But Ahmed's wife, Sahar Mirza-Ahmed, was a member of Hip Muslim Moms, a freewheeling group of 50 or so young mothers Bani had started. Suddenly, the coupon-clipping, play date-arranging suburban mothers were thrust into the national spotlight, associated with a horrifying plot that, as they noted, could have harmed their own families.
"We all have family members who ride the Metro - we ourselves ride the Metro," said one Northern Virginia member who joined this year and did not want her name associated with terrorism. "So we're as scared as anybody else would be."
Bani, 26, who works for a nonprofit organization and was dressed Thursday evening in a stylish geometric-patterned tunic, started the group two years ago using a Meetup Web page as an alternative to the stodgier, older mom groups across Loudoun County.
"This area has tons of young Muslim professionals and their families," she said, sitting in her family room as her 2-year-old daughter played nearby. "They're really a new generation of Muslim Americans. We don't fit into the traditional groups."
Now Hip Muslim Moms is being disbanded - a victim of the relentless attention generated by Ahmed's arrest.
Bani said she was deactivating the Meetup page and had canceled a group trip to Imagination Stage on Friday, leaving her with $100 worth of unused tickets. The group also had been about to launch some charitable efforts. But its first clothing drive, which had been scheduled for Sunday,...
"A lot of moms were really sad," Bani said.
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My question - why did they have to disband? What were they doing? I mean, if they weren’t doing anything but being hip Muslim Moms (oxymoron if ever there was one) what’s the big deal?
Um, I thought that was part of the culture? Where do Muslim suicide bombers come from anyway?
What makes a Muslim mom hip? Do they wear bell bottom burqas?
Funny...apparently from the article, what makes them “hip” is wearing stilettos to see the movie “Sex In The City 2”.
“This area has tons of young Muslim”. This should wake people up.
As far as I am concerned, all muslims are the enemy of the American way of life. Excuse me for not being PC, but at this point, I don’t give a crap.
That’s the plan - the demographic takeover of the culture.
Oh this is so terrible! Terrible I tell you!
Moslems have to fear other Moslems, and when one node in their friendship circle shows up as a very real threat, that can take down everybody.
It's part of the way that quasi-religion is managed abroad ~ fear and intimidation. I know a good number of them and one bunch was actually driven out of its own mosque by AlQaida affiliated people who participated in ground support for the attack in DC.
They haven't gone back!
These women didn't just write it off as just a couple they didn't want to have anything to do with ~ they rightly fear they weren't alone.
Good question.
They’re probably all under surveillance now...lol. Women talk, they endlessly gossip, etc. Birds of a feather flock together...
Depending on the relationship Mrs. Ahmed had with her husband, she might not have been aware that her spouse was a terrorist. All of these women have now at least had the thought cross their minds that they might have more in common with Mrs. Ahmed than a love of iced-capuccino.
A young woman who's an immigrant, and one of the group is found to have been married to a terrorist ~ so who does she turn to? Her father in law perhaps?
There are answers to that rhetorical question BTW.
According the article they wear “stylish geometric-patterned” tent-bags.
Too bad our politicians don’t understand this, or else they just don’t care.
I do not feel sorry for this group. If you want to be a muslim then MOVE TO THE THE PART OF THE WORLD THAT ACCEPTS YOU. Stay the double hockey sticks out of my country. No muslims in my country, state, county, town, city or community.
The ringleaders often get someone else’s kid to blow themselves up.
The unintended message from the article is that there may be dotted-line connections between just about any innocuous-sounding Muslim group and Muslim terrorists. Juan Williams may have been more correct than he realizes.
These Mobile koran emplacements never stop lying:
“It wasn’t about being Muslim,” one member said. “It was about interacting with other moms.”
So why, oh why...you Mobile koran emplacement, would you call it Hip-(shooting)-muzzie-moms?
And let’s point out the capital of terrorism quote:
“They were planning to go to hajj” in Mecca, said one woman who described herself as close to Mirza-Ahmed but also did not want her name used and linked to terrorism. “She was very excited about it.”
Sick koranimals.
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