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| 2005-06-29 |
| EFL. Link will expire by end of week, so go read the whole thing A.S.A.P. The dispute between an irascible lesbian conservative from Queens and a militant new group well on the fringes of the city’s Muslim community might appear to be a marginal conflict. But to New York’s gays and to some of its Muslim leaders, the scene in Jackson Heights bears a worrying similarity to communal conflicts that are challenging the idea of tolerance across Europe, with particular flashpoints in Holland and Scandinavia. There, young immigrants and the children of immigrants have been drawn to a more radical Islamic ideology than that of their parents. On the extreme fringes, these young men have committed acts of violence against Jews and gays, and in a case that shocked Europe, one young Dutchman of Moroccan origin murdered the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in an Amsterdam street. ... The group’s informal spokesman and the site’s most prolific poster, who goes by the name Mohammed Nussrah, has a personal page in which the group’s anti-violence motto was placed directly beneath a picture of the Koran beside an automatic weapon. After The Observer contacted the group, Mr. Nussrah’s picture of the Koran and the gun disappeared, as did the image of Osama bin Laden elsewhere on the site. Mr. Nussrah, who is identified on the group’s videos as a tall, light-skinned man, has been identified by the Associated Press as a Brooklyn native, but could not be located under that name. Mr. Nussrah’s profile on the Islamic Thinkers site also links to a personal art site. There, at www.islamicpics.tk, Oddly, no pictures are to be found at that site anymore. are images of dead and grieving American soldiers with the caption: "Say to those who disbelieve, ‘You will be defeated and gathered together in Hell 
. ’" The site also features a map of North America with two guns crossed beneath it and, for good measure, an image with the caption "Shias Are Toilets." (The Islamic Thinkers are, according to discussions on their site, faithful to a strict Sunni tradition, said Michael Kern, an analyst at the SITE Institute.) One image is a mock advertisement for an imaginary video game, "Mujahideen Strike II," which features an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center and an ax slicing the Statue of Liberty in half. (For good measure, the statue is placed atop a Star of David.) Another image depicts a sword over a favorite quote: "When you meet those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them." It's a tinderbox. And how odd it will be if the spark that causes the explosion is violence between NYC gays and Muslims in Queens. |
| Posted by:growler |
| #4 Oxymoron, noun, : a combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as 'cruel kindness' or 'Islamic Thinker'. |
| Posted by: GK 2005-06-29 14:42 |
| #3 Anyone remember "The Lavender Panthers"? They were a group of gay martial artists on the left coast that banded together to bash gay bashers in the 1970s. Well, I have no doubt that there are a large number of 'butch' homosexuals in NYC (forget stereotypes, some of those guys look like neanderthals), who would just love to patriotically beat seven bells out of fanatics like these. Properly speaking, they could get a cross-dressed squish to act as bait, blowing kisses and such, and get about a dozen of the ragheads to charge him. He then ducks into an alley where an ambush has been prepared. Thwappity-thwap time. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-06-29 13:11 |
| #2 "Shias Are Toilets." Wow, that's some deep thought, Mo. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-06-29 12:59 |
| #1 an image with the caption "Shias Are Toilets." That would mean they're "desecrating" the Koran simply by carrying it around, no? It's a tinderbox. And how odd it will be if the spark that causes the explosion is violence between NYC gays and Muslims in Queens. One group commemorates the Stonewall Riots, while the other fondly dreams of knocking stone walls ontop of the first. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-06-29 12:55 |