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| Review of "Now They Call Me Infidel" |
| 2007-01-23 |
| A Muslim searches for the MMM: The second half of Now They Call Me Infidel could have been subtitled, The Search for the Moderate Muslim. Two things surprised Darwish when she immigrated to the United States at the age of 30. First, the ease at which she was able to find a job — with a kindly Jewish business owner, no less —and the second, the degree to which radicals control American mosques. Even though Muslim immigrant communities to the U.S. are well off enough to fund their own mosque and imams, most accept Saudi “generosity” in subsidizing their mosques. “The agenda of these radical American mosques… was to keep American Muslims in line, Islamize America and spread a radical Wahabi sect of Islam that even Egyptians find too extreme.” Darwish decided to follow her friends’ advice and practice her religion in private. The cold shoulder was among the more polite responses she received to her calls to her “moderate” friends. More often, she was called a traitor or regaled with conspiracy theories about the Zionists’ responsibility for the 9-11 attacks. She was forced to conclude that “Radical Islam has declared war on America and on the West, and the majority of Muslims either support or make excuses for terrorism.” When will an American news outlet do what Britain's Channel 4 did? When will we be told what's being preached in the supposedly "moderate" mosques in our country? |
| Posted by:Rob Crawford |
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| Posted by: mojo 2007-01-23 14:56 |