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Exclusive: Arabs in Guam in the face of North Korea’s threat
2017-08-13
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As the United States and North Korea faceoff in a nuclear standoff, the very small Arab community in the 163,000 population pacific island is standing strong.
Arabs? In Guam? Who knew?
Al Arabiya spoke on early Friday morning to one of three Arabs residing in Guam.
Three? But that's the beginning of many in the one, two, many counting system.
The island is currently in the midst of strong war of words between US president Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who identified it as his first strike target if the US waged war.

Guam is home to only 50 Moslems, 5 of whom are locals. The Moslem population there includes members from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as three Arabs, an Egyptian, Algerian and a Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n, who lived there for the past 28 years.

Mohanad Al Khojah is the longest residing Moslem in Guam and has become the Imam of the only mosque on the island.

Al Khoja, 48, was born in Riyadh and left Saudi Arabia with his parents and siblings to the United States when he was a one-year-old infant.

His family resided in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, where he later served as a soldier in the US Army. Al Khoja, who speaks, reads and writes Arabic very well, was stationed at a US base on the island in 1988.

"I fell in love with the Island and stayed there," He said. "One year later, in 1989, I married a woman from the Guam who converted to Islam a year before I met her and changed her name to Jamila," he told Al Arabiya.

Al Khoja was blessed with quadruplets, a boy and three girls, who all live in the city of Mangilao on the eastern coast of the island that is home to 15,000 people.
See? Many.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Al Khoja was blessed with quadruplets, a boy and three girls

They have litters?
Posted by: Zebulon Phomble3856   2017-08-13 23:42  

#6  Guam is home to only 50 Moslems, 5 of whom are locals. The Moslem population there includes members from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as three Arabs, an Egyptian, Algerian and a Soddy Arabia

All airplane spotter hobbyists.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-08-13 19:08  

#5  Forgot the month and day: April 1st
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-08-13 16:27  

#4  Frank, that remark about waters and Spam, and the resulting nostril spray almost sunk my new keyboard!

If we get a geometric Arab population explosion, my calculations say that the island will tip over in 2024 at 1709 hrs GMT.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-08-13 16:26  

#3  Guam the 2145697th holiest place of Islam.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 14:36  

#2  Give 'em a toehold and they'll take over the whole island.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-08-13 14:30  

#1  "We came for the waters. And the Spam"
Posted by: Frank G on the Road   2017-08-13 13:05  

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