But being a martyr means he will have to die.
Posted on 10/29/2001 10:08:16 AM PST by veronica
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Mosque Leader's Past Returns to Haunt Him By Hanna Rosin Monday, October 29, 2001; Page A03 --snip--Damra also stood before a crowd of fellow Palestinians in Chicago to raise money for the Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group dedicated to holy war against Israel. "The Jihad stabs Jews," he said in a 1991 meeting that was videotaped. "Twelve Jews. . . . Who will give $500?" His fellow warriors, he said, should direct "a rifle at the first and last enemy of the Islamic nation, and that is the sons of monkeys and pigs, the Jews." THE REST HERE ...
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Makes you "think"? The guy called you the spawn of monkeys and pigs and called for your death at the point of a rifle!!! Jeez...
That's exactly what he is. And that is the problem.
BINGO, we don't want Islamic weirdos in USA. They want to kill us all!
They're running around with their hair on fire!
That the government refuses to recognize this is disheartening.
BTW I am getting sick of Fox..today they said "Churches and Mosques" all over are patriotic in their sermons..backing a just war..even encouraging enlistments.Then they went on to show a Catholic priest and a Protestant minister preaching..but interesting no Mosque giving a patriotic sermon
Fox has decided to follow the party line from the US Dept of Propaganda hook line and sinker..just listen..they can not say the word Muslim without Peaceful before it..the party line!
Board members have since found out more about Damra -- that he was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was followed by the FBI for four years for his association with Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric sentenced to life in a U.S. prison in connection with a plot to bomb Manhattan's Lincoln and Holland tunnels."We've let a small group of Palestinians define Islam for the rest of the world," concluded another board member who resigned.
Damra said that the protest by his supporters was spontaneous and that he would like to see the departed board members return. About his past, he says, "I have never associated with any of the bombers" the FBI asked him about. "I never met any one of those guys."
The remaining board members have dropped the issue, and Damra's position seems safe.
In 'Little Arabia'
Out on Lorain Avenue, where Palestinians own many of the shops and the social club, this is the only acceptable outcome. Here, Damra is seen as a victim of the same people who trash the name of Hamas, of Hezbollah, even of Osama bin Laden. Those people, they refer to as "they" or "the Zionists."
Damra likes to brush off this particular brand of support as unwelcome, the superstitions of "Little Arabia," of "the uneducated Palestinians who came here two years ago and watch only Arab television." But the view runs deeper, to Arabs here 30 years, to Arabs born here.
Haider Alawan is a former mentor to Damra and unofficial mouthpiece of his mosque. A Detroit native, an Army veteran, Alawan stood up at a televised town meeting in September and defended Hezbollah as freedom fighters who saved his people in South Lebanon.
"America has to know there are interests controlling them, controlling the media, the banking system," he said. "But I better stop. My wife is afraid the Zionists will come and get me."
Sam Ali, a Palestinian, has spent 32 years in the United States. "Why do they want to say the imam is a terrorist?" he said, leaning against crates of Pepsi in his store. "Why do they say Jihad, Hezbollah are terrorists? They are not terrorists. It is Israel and the ones who support Israel who are the terrorists."
Two blocks behind the store is a family that fits Damra's description perfectly. The Al-Salehs came here two years ago from Palestine. Their one-bedroom apartment is a jumble of cultures: Turkish pillows on plastic lawn chairs, family portraits hung low on the wall, Middle Eastern style, including one of his nephew Masud.
"Moto-Foto," said Faiser Al-Saleh about one of the pictures. "They do an excellent job with the blowup."
The picture was taken at a demonstration in Ramallah last year. Behind the jubilant 13-year-old boy, a crowd is burning pictures of former president Bill Clinton and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. A month later, Al-Saleh said, Masud was killed by an Israeli soldier. That explains the bloody sock pinned to the photo.
"Relics, you say in English?" Al-Saleh asked.
How long would it take to de-mothball all those WWII internment camps?
American born and raised. They believe the lies that are handed to them by the friends and family in the "old country." Muslims believe that lying in order to gain their (Allah's) goal, is not a sin. I hope the Bush administration understands this.
It's all basically crap in my view. One has to glean with a fine toothed comb to find a Muslim cleric who doesn't favor at a minimum Hamas. And then he's usually hiding from some Fatwah. And less we be lulled by secular Muslims ....let's not forget Saddam. He's about as religious as I am the Pope.
Boy howdy the road to all this newfangled diversity appreciation is a real joyride isn't it? What a way to run a damn war. I see Mel Brooks parodying this some day if he has the longevity.
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