Posted on 09/04/2011 7:54:24 AM PDT by mandaladon
SAN ANTONIO - Up to 3,000 Muslims from around the state are expected to converge Sunday on Six Flags Fiesta Texas for "Muslim Family Day" to celebrate the end of Ramadan and spread the post-9/11 message that most Muslims are peaceful and mainstream.
Families from as far as Corpus Christi, Austin and Waco have committed to attending the event, sponsored by local chapters of the Muslim American Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Fiesta Texas will be open to the public that day as scheduled, a spokeswoman said. She stressed that the event is not sponsored by Six Flags.
The two groups are selling discounted tickets and parking passes for an event that aims to give Muslim families a festive way to mark Ramadan's end while sharing their culture and challenging stereotypes as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 nears.
Activities will include Muslim prayers, entertainment, socializing and meals in keeping with the faith's dietary laws.
The public is welcome to buy meal tickets for international cuisine from local Muslim restaurateurs, event planners said.
The interaction with the general public at a popular, high-traffic amusement park will go far in reducing anxieties between Muslims and the larger community, said Sarwat Husain, CAIR's local president.
"It's our community, too, and we are mainstream just like anybody else," she said. "It's also giving a boost to the Muslims for what they have been going through. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is coming up, and already there is much fear going on. We have to get out of that. It's been 10 years."
The event reflects the gradual acceptance of local Muslims, said the Rev. Paul Ziese, a Lutheran minister active in interfaith work and past board president of the San Antonio Community of Congregations.
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You forgot step 1a - Breed like rabbits.
A bunch of Muzzies being pandered to and showing up at an amusement park is going to make me forget 9/11? Not now, not ever.
What could go wrong?
Take “Six Flags” off your list.
"Silence! I keel you!"
"Yes, I'm Mohammed Atta, the peaceful muslim neighbor."
"This is Cleric Rasheed Barfa. I am ordering you to kill all the Jews in your neighborhood tonight."
"And if I don't?"
"Then we will rape your women and behead your entire family."
"Allah Akbar! You can count on me!"
AMERICANS FOR A MUSLIM FREE AMERICA.
WE LEARNED ALL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ISLAM ON 9/11
Cry me a f'n river !
It's been 10yrs since your barbarian co-'religion'ists vaporized 3,000 Americans.
There's no more evil cancer destroying the body of civilisation than the vile filth called islam, and one of these days you bastards are gonna be on the other side of the firing line in the next Crusade right here at home.
And please, recruit all the flashmøbbers too, so we can get all you miserable throwbacks in the same sight picture.
Cripes, whatta thought! Now I’ll be paranoid every time I take the grandkids down there! lol
This is going to end in fights and lawsuits. They don’t want to “interact,” they want to impose their 6th century ways.
I think whoever organized this farce fed the media the number 3,000 because that is approximately the number of Americans that died on 9/11. These cretins do things like that then claim they are holding an event in the name of peace and understanding, but in reality they are just mocking America. In this case, the number 3,000 is their inside joke.
No, it hasn't. It's been over 1,400 years.
This is a thinly veiled victory celebration; we'll see if it's as "peaceful" non-confrontational as last week's AMA & CAIR sponsored day at Playland.
Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park's head scarf ban; 15 arrests made
Update: Muslim group's statement on Playland melee says police overreacted
Brooklyn Muslim Teen Takes Credit For Rye Playland Hijabs Riot
That is the usual pattern.
"Every 'moderate' Muslim is a potential terrorist. The belief in Islam is like a tank of gasoline. It looks innocuous, until it meets the fire. For a 'moderate' Muslim to become a murderous jihadist, all it takes is a spark of faith.
It is time to put an end to the charade of “moderate Islam.” There is no such thing as moderate Muslim. Muslims are either jihadists or dormant jihadists – moderate, they are not."
Ali Sini
Ali Sini is head of Faith Freedom International. FFI is a grassroots worldwide movement of ex-Muslims and all those who are concerned about the rise of the Islamic threat.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/index.php?sid=861cecf699f5b0faff20b13df6396817
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'Remembering 9/11' on the Geographic Channel. Repeating Thursday 3PM CST: 'Inside 9/11: Zero Hour'- EXCELLENT.
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This moving video is the most viewed of any of the 9/11 videos and is now in the Smithsonian.
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Be sure to read (at the site) Anatomy Of The Attack and the moving essay,’That Day’ by Steve Golding, a New Yorker who lived through it.
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"Concidentally" that is the same number that went to Playland last week. See #36 above.
Something will be spread alright. I don’t think it will be peace.
Words are cheap. Prove it by repudiating the 6th pillar islam, jihad, and the ultimate goal of islam, the domination of the world. I won't be holding my breath while I wait.
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