How Would YOU Like to Be a Muslim in America Today?

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[JohnHuang2]

Friday, February 21, 2003

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[Cindy]

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[dpa5923]

I am taking a class right now and we are discussing the Muslim religion. Of course some geek started whining about how awful it's been for Muslims in American after 911.

I will be using this article to make her look foolish.

Thanks for the (unintended but nonetheless appreciated) assist.

[JohnHuang2]

Quite welcome. That's what FR is for.

[FITZ]

I wouldn't like it, I'd go back to my Islamic paradise ---which according to the Koran I should do anyway because it wouldn't be right to life among the infidels.

[cardinal4]

There must be some reason why immigrants from Muslim countries are still streaming into the U.S.

So they can kill us from within.....

[mgc1122]

I couldn't be a Muslim today - here or anywhere else. Not dumb or gullible enough.

[ZULU]

“How would you like to be a Muslim in America today?”


That's like asking "How would like to be a NAZI in America today" in the 1940's, or how would you like to be a communist in America in the 1950's".

Not all Muslims are bad people as individuals. Its just their cultic beliefs that stink. Mohammad was an arch villian, Islam is replete with a long, dismal history of oppression of non-Islamic faiths which is rooted in the Koran and Haddiths. Unlike other, more progressive religions which have become more tolerant of each other in the 20th century, Islam continues to oppress non-Muslims wherever Muslims constitute a significant segment of the population. There treatment of women is abyssmal. There lack of any interest in productive modern technology, except for purposes of mass destruction, is manifest everywhere. If anything, Islam has become more aggressive and more intolerant as time marches on.

Lead by the Wahhabist Saudis with their piles of petro-dollars, fundamentalist Islam is on the march everywhere.

Pesonally, I don't believe this individual, nor any other should be faced with the conundrum of what to do as a Muslim in America. If I had my way, every mosque would be shut, and every Muslim would be given a one-way ticket to Mecca. Let the Saudis care for their own, while we cleanse this nest of vipers from our midst.

[Far Right Of Left]

“How would you like to be a Muslim in America today?”
No thanks! And I wouldn't want to be one yesterday either. And if there's another terrorist attack in the U.S. sponsored bt the "Religion of Peace", I REALLY wouldn't want to be one.

[Ann Archy]

I wouldn't want to be a Muslim ANYDAY!!

[gunnedah]

There is no problem with any nationality in America today if you are American first and foremost.
If America does not come first you dont belong here because after all we all America is different than the rest of the world and to survive we must keep out identity and to do that the place we left must be secondary to America and we must conform to American rules. Is that asking to much? It must be required to be an American,love it or leave it!

[Cvengr]

"...if all these people were attacked simply for being Muslim, these incidents — even if they consisted of nothing more than some idiot yelling an ethnic slur — are inexcusable. ..."

This is the Muslim approach to receiving a trespass. The Christian approach emphasizes forgiveness and excusing those who repent.

[E Rocc]

And not just rhetoric. The FBI reported 481 hate crimes against Muslims in 2001 — up from just 28 in 2000. Of these 481 incidents, 66 were classified as simple assault and 27 as aggravated assault. 296 were termed “intimidation.” No murders were reported, although a Sikh was mistaken for a Muslim and killed shortly after 9/11.

Interesting.....it may not have been a so-called "hate crime" but Waqar Hassan Choudhry is no less dead. If one steals money I suppose it doesn't count. The most spectacular anti-Moslem attack around here involved a drunken yahoo driving his Mustang into the front door of a mosque at 80mph, apparently immune to the irony of aiming a vehicle at an occupied building.

The fact that Muslims are treated better in the United States than anywhere else in the world speaks well of us, not badly of them. The same can be said about most Jews, Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Chinese people, and entrepreneurs. It's certainly no justification for treating them differently than anyone else.

-Eric

[Joe Brower]

"How Would YOU Like to Be a Muslim in America Today?"

It would be a helluva lot safer than being a Christian in some Muslim-dominated third-world cesspool.

[Straight Vermonter]

If I really were a Muslim in America today, I would invite the FBI into my mosque. I would do everything I could to help root terrorists out of mosques.

I think an apt comparison here is between the Muslims of today and the Japanese of the 1940s. Today the Muslims complain about ill treatment (probably with justification), while the Japanese of the 1940s under far worse treatment went to great lengths to prove their "Americanism".

This should not be necessary but human nature being what it is, it becomes necessary. If Muslims want Americans to see that they are as American as them they should volunteer for the armed services in large numbers, they should speak out against terrorism more openly, and they should seek to educate the rest of us about how Islam can be compatible with a wide open democracy.

[Anticommie]

Pesonally, I don't believe this individual, nor any other should be faced with the conundrum of what to do as a Muslim in America. If I had my way, every mosque would be shut, and every Muslim would be given a one-way ticket to Mecca. Let the Saudis care for their own, while we cleanse this nest of vipers from our midst.

Frankly I think you've got this one right.

[joesnuffy]

How would you like to be one of the non leadership elite muslim in Iraq or Iran or Saudi Arabia or Lebanon or the Sudan or a hundred other muslim dominated countries and cultures

How would you like to be a woman or child in these countries and cultures

Worst of All HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A CHRISTIAN OR A JEW IN A MUSLIM DOMINATED COUNTRY OR CULTURE...

Muslims in America especially muslim women have the freedom to do what ever they want with great protection from the recriminations of islam...

Muslims find their greatest freedoms and opportunites in America because American was founded and designed by Christians for Christians...

So naturally they will and try to tear her institutions down...as do the liberals and all who hate Christ and His people..

Its in The Book

[AppyPappy]

Actually, I know quite a few Muslims and they are more scared of the extremists that we are.

[TheRightGuy]

"I am taking a class right now and we are discussing the Muslim religion."

Perhaps your class might enjoy taking the
following Multiple Choice test:

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred
by:
a. Olga Corbitt
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwartzeneger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

2. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were
kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was
blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked
and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered
and thrown overboard by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens,
and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
a. Captain Kid
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first
time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s
women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and
destroyed and thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in
Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and
murdered by:
a. Bonny and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40