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| Protests over planned Arabic school in Brooklyn |
| 2007-05-04 |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #10 Hard to keep "A foot in the door" when that foot has a bullet hole in it. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-05-04 23:10 |
| #9 Maybe Shamsi has one good point. Islamic Thinkers Society (al-Muhajirun) doesn't seem to like him. Shamsi Ali |
| Posted by: ed 2007-05-04 12:41 |
| #8 Ms. Almontaser said she was prepared for the reaction. “Quite frankly, I don’t let it bother me,” she said. “I don’t lose sleep over it. My main objective is the opening of the school.” That's right. Once that foot's in the door, it's tough to shut it... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-04 12:32 |
| #7 So it begins. Jihad Prep Of New York. I give them credit. It takes chutzpah to use the name of a Christian Lebanese writer to indoctrinate little jihadis. Young Muslims’ Secret Camp The Young Muslims (YM) was founded well over a decade ago, as a subsidiary of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization that was created specifically to emulate the violent Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami. Through ICNA, YM holds events that feature as speakers some of the most radical individuals in the Islamic community. These events include youth camps, which, prior to the attacks on 9/11, were referred to as “jihad camps.” ... The “confirmed” list of speakers are as follows: Shamsi Ali, the Deputy Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and Director of the Jamaica Muslim Center, who was the moderator at a February 2006 demonstration against Danish cartoons of Muhammad held outside the Danish Consulate in Manhattan, where a poster was seen being waived which read, “Insult the Prophet, you will pay, Allah’s wrath is on the way.” Why is Mohammad Razvi, an immigrant from Pakistan, so hot on his kids being taught in Arabic? Why is he promoting the Arabization of muslims in America, just as Wahabis are promoting in Pakistan? |
| Posted by: ed 2007-05-04 12:27 |
| #6 Call me suspicous. Another point came to mind after my last post, Mosque's tend to be centers of communities. Once this place gets established, watch what becomes of the neighboring real estate. I wouldn't be surprise that you see a larger Muslim community taking root in a couple of years. As what has already happened in Europe, you will see attempts to impose their own set of laws separate from the rest of the State. eg. Calls for Sharia to surplant Constitutional Law. Sharia has no room for coexistence with secular law. An extreme case would be requiring non-Muslims who visit the area to conform to Islamic Law eg. Clothing, Entertainment etc..This has already taken place in a number of places throughout Europe. At least the Jews, Christians, Hindus acknowledge U.S. and City laws and live by it as well as religous law. |
| Posted by: Delphi2005 2007-05-04 12:01 |
| #5 As others here and elsewhere at these boards have noted, all construction of mosques, madrassas and any other Islamic facilities in the West should come to an immediate halt until Christian and other non-Islamic institutions can be built in Muslim majority countries. Until that time, for the destruction of each church or other non-Islamic place of worship that occurs in those countries, a mosque should be demolished in retaliation. The West is idiotic to allow any continuation of this lopsided relationship with Islam. In no way do the vast majority of Muslims have any interest in supporting Western goals or modern civilization. We are worse than fools to pretend that they do. Islam must be called on its overt hostility to all that is not submissive to its cause. Our continued hesitation only assures increased and even more needless loss of life when an actual confrontation finally begins. Worst of all, further delays virtually guarantee the escalation of avoidable deaths in the West. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-04 10:57 |
| #4 Is Brooklyn another Arab encampment like Dearborn ? We don't need sepratist schools. The only chance there is to converting the young minds to a democratic mode of thinking and logic is public schooling with a common curriculae. Bloomburg is in charge of the NY schools is he not ? He ought to strictly council this idiot Klein or replace him. This idiotic idea needs squelching now. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-04 10:55 |
| #3 I wonder how the Muslims would feel about a Christian or Jewish school to be built in a Muslim country. I suspect there would be protests too. I don't know what to make of the intentions of the Muslim community in Brooklyn. It could be for noble intentions or a possible front for future recruiting. But it does not sound the like the Brooklyn citizenry are not taking any chances. Perhaps if the Muslims in Brooklyn were more vocal about their discontent for members of their religion who want to kill Americans and Jews, they might have found a more sympathetic ear. |
| Posted by: Delphi2005 2007-05-04 10:32 |
| #2 “If a school like this can’t happen in Brooklyn, where can it happen?” Yemen? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-05-04 08:30 |
| #1 The difference between Europe and USA: 10 years? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-05-04 08:13 |