American Muslims Get Involved in U.S. Politics

http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2006-10-07-voa32.cfm ^

[kronos77]

Minnesota is home to thousands of Muslims from around the world. Like other immigrants, they have worked hard to establish themselves and support their families. But, since 9/11, the state's Muslims have become more concerned about presenting the real image of their faith and getting involved in their local communities.

"Until 1998, the Muslim community in Minnesota, the whole state, was about 5,000 to 6,000 people," he says. "But in 1998, there was an influx of Somali immigrants, about 70,000 of them. Then we had another 15,000 from Bosnia and Kosovo. They got political asylum." Ul Huq estimates the number of Muslims in Minnesota to be more than 150,000.

Like other American Muslims, the Minnesotan community felt victimized in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Hydar Khan says federal authorities shut down several money-wiring services used by Muslim immigrants. He says Muslims have had to live with new challenges.

"There has been curtailment of our civil liberties since 9/11 in subtle ways, which I believe is a very concerning issue that eventually, I think, should be the concern of every American," he says. "There is not any overt discrimination that I've personally encountered, but there are reports here and there. Overall, I believe there is a tendency to malign the name of Islam, [by using] terms like 'Islamic Fascism,' and to always implicate Islam as an ideological evil. I think this is a very concerning issue."

[Crim]

Uh....this is the place where the muslim cab drivers are refusing service to AMERICANS who may posses owlishly...

Dearborn is the place where the CITY paid to install loud speakers to blast the call to prayer 5 times a day over the objections of most of the city...

Where "moderates" tread the radical is sure to follow....

It's only a matter of time...

Dc snipers?...muslim..

Hope depot crasher?...muslim..

SF madman running people down in an SUV....muslim...

Lone student who "blew himself up" outside a football game?....muslim....

Crazed driver who ran his SUV into a crowd of students?.....muslim...

Truck driver busted for plotting to blow up a mall in ohio?....muslim...

Solder who fragged his fellow COUNTRYMEN and soldiers.....muslim...

Gee....am I noting a trend here?

Oh...BTW...if you try and trot out the OKC bombing...I'd point out the Nichols has been teid to abu-syef...aka....MUSLIMS....and that one of the people in Mcveigh's circle in inholm...was...muslim..from germany...

Same location Atta was in....

Spare me the rightious indignation.

[Crim]

Hows does alchohol turn into owlishly?

Der

[madison10]

Seriously, why does USA import Muslims?

Because we've Politically Corrected out of common sense, that's why. We're going to keep letting the foxes into the henhouses, until we "chickens" are all *ahem* "dinner."

[madison10]

Dearborn is the place where the CITY paid to install loud speakers to blast the call to prayer 5 times a day over the objections of most of the city...

Not Dearborn, Hamtramc, but no matter, the Muslims are still running the show. Dearborn probably didn't have an issue with the prayer calls...it was already overrun.

[A CA Guy]

presenting the real image of their faith

Based on the total silence of their so called faith regarding terror. Due to no known Fatwa or Jihad against by (the real image of their faith) against Islamic terror everywhere, I say they are full of total SH---(you know what). Based on all I see, read, hear and the lack of any Fatwa/Jihad by Islam agaisnt Osama Bin Laden and his type, I have come to the logical conclusion that Islam is: A woman beating, human right abusing, decapitation cult created by a crazy child molester with visions of grandeur.

[Crim]

Ah thank you for the correction...

[munin]

"If you remember corectly, which you don't, Muslims were murdered alongside their fellow American"
Well sir, that is just the prize you pay when you pay when you fraternalize with the Infidels.

[zimdog]

Blaming the victims.

[jeremiah]

No No a thousand times no. Jews are not the problem.

[Fiddlstix]

......Muslims have become more concerned about presenting the real image of their faith and getting involved in their local communities.

They have presented the real image of the faith Death Cult.

Click the Pic

[Gone GF]

"Islam is first and foremost a political movement, a hostile one,"

So let's say they are -- do we ban them? We don't ban communists or socialists or Democrats.

[Excellence]

What is ironic here is that as soon as there are enough Muslims in Minn, the first thing they will do is make abortion and homosexuality illegal; punishment—death. Then what will the liberals do?

[oceanview]

the Democratic Party - is there much difference?

[Popman]

Ul Huq estimates the number of Muslims in Minnesota to be more than 150,000.

Why don't we just get ahead of the curb and declare an area of Minnesota under Sharia Law, Muslims only, Christian/Jew free, fence it off and let them secede from the state and union.

We can control them a whole lot easier and sort out the fanatical ones to be deported to Gitmo

[MilspecRob]

Time to close them all down and kick the muzzys out

Really? why and on what grounds.

[zimdog]

Really? why and on what grounds.

Didn't you get the memo? We're all equal under the law, but now some Americans are more equal than others when it comes to political activism.

[zimdog]

Why don't we just get ahead of the curb and declare an area of Minnesota under Sharia Law, Muslims only, Christian/Jew free, fence it off and let them secede from the state and union.

We can control them a whole lot easier and sort out the fanatical ones to be deported to Gitmo

Leaving aside the general idiocy of your question, what authority would we have to "deport" (your words) people from territory that we have allloed to "secede from the state and union"?

[Charlespg]

On the grounds that Islam is a threat to public Safety and order

[Popman]

Excellent question.

I'm not sure what question I asked, it was a statement, of course a tongue in cheek statement.

But to answer your question: We would declare them enemy combatants from "Minnesotastan" as we do in other foreign countries.

[Czar]

"It feels like an invasion."

That's because it is an invasion.