Poll: Alabamians distrust Muslims

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 07/07/02 | SEAN REILLY

[neutrino]

Good for the fine folks of Alabama!

[scratchgolfer]

This article is from the Mobile Register not the AJC.

[dts32041]

Now that Islam's best-known representative is Osama bin Laden, however, it's no easy task to explain that the essence of Islam is peace and submission to God's will.

Peace of the grave is about what it will be.

[onedoug]

"...said Ibrahim Hooper...."

Who is either a liar or an ignoramous, as he claimed Aishe was "eighteen or nineteen" when Muhammad married her. Rather she was 6 when they wed and 9 when the then 52 year old "prophet" copulated with her. It's in the Hadith, where the obviously conflicted girl is even quoted, as well as other post-quranic literature.

[Ubonic]

Now that Islam's best-known representative is Osama bin Laden, however, it's no easy task to explain that the essence of Islam is peace and submission to God's will.

Osama Bin Laden is the best known representative of religious conservatism in general. Remember that Osama does not represent all Muslims, only the most fanatical Muslim fundamentalists. Liberal and moderate Muslims think he's a freak.

[Maceman]

"Apparently, we have a long road ahead of us," said Shafik Hammami, president of the Islamic Society of Mobile.

Apparently they do. But the work needs to be done by urging fellow Muslims to stop sympathizing and supporting terror -- not by preaching to Americans about being more tolerant.

[cynicom]

What???? They dont trust muslims? Bush should send them off to re-education camps at once.

[Maceman]

Osama Bin Laden is the best known representative of religious conservatism in general. Remember that Osama does not represent all Muslims, only the most fanatical Muslim fundamentalists. Liberal and moderate Muslims think he's a freak.

Based on your Freeper profile, I wouldn't expect anything different from you. But on what are you basing your assertion? Kiss.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Alabamians distrust Muslims

So does everybody else except California, Florida, and Dearbornistan.

[jwalsh07]

Osama Bin Laden is the best known representative of religious conservatism in general.

Only a leftist asshole would deign to make such a ridiculous statement. Know anybody who fits that description?

[Alas Babylon!]

While I am an Alabamian, I wasn't polled. I think halfway hidden in this report is the assumption by big media editors that most Alabamians are a bunch of slack-jawed yokels only a generation removed from cross-burnings and lynchings. But my fellow Alabamians aren't so stupid. Anyone who wants to can investigate Islam for all it's worth, and they're bound to see what an agressive, warlike dictator Mohammed was. Moreover, if you're a Christian, as so many of my fellow Yellowhammers are, it's hard to go against, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Also, I'm sorry, but I just don't remember hearing of many Muslim clerics decrying the 9/11 attacks. Can someone enlighten me what I may have missed?

[meenie]

There are plenty of them. As Will Rogers said, "There are a lot more 'orses asses than there are 'orses".

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Also, I'm sorry, but I just don't remember hearing of many Muslim clerics decrying the 9/11 attacks.

Muslim clerics have been outright rationalizing it. They all give the same one-liner "condemnation" followed by a ten-minute rant on the evils of American foreign policy, then make calls for "understanding their desperate situation and poverty".

[WaterDragon]

It would be foolish of Americans not to be suspicious of Muslims since it is only Muslims who, at this point, have declared open war on us. There are too many Muslims in America, citizens and visitors, who openly despise us and preach killing us. To single out the Alabamians as suspicious of Muslims is absurd.

[VOA]

Poll: Alabamians distrust Muslims

Alabama: Another part of the Sane States of America.
(along with Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and some others...)

[VOA]

Last month, the Rev. Jerry Vines, a former Mobile pastor and past president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, told participants at the SBC's annual meeting in
St. Louis that the prophet Mohammed was a "demon-possessed pedophile."

"That kind of message does not help," Hammami said. "It puts a barrier between religions
rather than trying to promote religious understanding."

Sounds like Hammami has been to the Bill Clinton School of Public Speaking and Spin.

Never said if Vines allegation is true or false...
(Which the Caner brothers, Saudi Muslims converted to Christianity, say it is true...)

[sheik yerbouty]

No shi'ite!

[lwoodham]

Osama Bin Laden is the best known representative of religious conservatism in general.

Only a leftist asshole would deign to make such a ridiculous statement. Know anybody who fits that description?

Yes, little(and I mean miniscule)Tommy Daschle