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| Protesters Conduct Mock Bin Laden Hanging | |
| 2006-09-11 | |
CULVER CITY, Calif. -- Activists protesting radical Islam conducted a mock hanging of Osama bin Laden across the street from a mosque on the eve of the anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks. With a crowd of about 100 people shouting "Remember 9-11!" and "No more Jihad!" two men on the back of a pickup truck Sunday slipped a noose around the neck of a dummy wearing a bin Laden mask and strung it up, while the crowd pelted the effigy with shoes. The protest near the King Fahd Mosque was organized by the United American Committee, a group that says it promotes awareness of internal threats facing America. About 70 counter-protesters described the mosque as a peaceful center for area Muslims and yelled "Racists go home!" during the ritual. A group of clergy joined hands with some of the mosque's worshippers and stood in a circle in front of the mosque. "I think it's crazy," said mosque spokesman Usman Madha. "We have never encouraged extremism. We were the first mosque that condemned the Sept. 11 atrocities and we kicked out a few people that protested that condemnation." The United American Committee claimed the mosque supports radical Islam. A report from the Sept. 11 commission said investigators believed two of the hijackers had visited the mosque after arriving in the United States in 2000. There were several heated exchanges as protesters crossed the street to confront one another, but no violence and no arrests, Culver City police said. | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #13 We should have freedom of religion in the US. Death cults such as Islam are not legitimate religions. Islam should be banned, all mosques seized and dynamited, and all practitioners of the death cult deported to country of origin. Any indigenous members should be deported to Pakistan. Muslims hate this country and society and make no bones about it. In our own defense they should be immediately obliged to leave it. |
| Posted by: mac 2006-09-11 17:46 |
| #12 "We have never encouraged extremism" Neither did they condemn it coherently. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-11 14:39 |
| #11 Sounds like they actually found the fabled Moderate Muhammadans. *snort* Yeah, so moderate they're pissed off someone hung Osama. I said in another comment that the choice of location for this was clearly provocative. The Muslims, however, reactedly poorly. Getting defensive was the wrong choice; joining in would have been the right choice. As ed pointed out, that's no surprise. I have to wonder if this is the same mosque Charles Johnson was driving past -- long before 9/11 -- and had a ROPer act out shooting him... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-09-11 12:18 |
| #10 I need to put a Laden hanging effagy outside my house. Wouldn't that make a lovely Halloween display! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-09-11 11:55 |
| #9 Well that is illuminating. Thanks, Ed. Glad we sold the house rather than renting it out when we moved. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-09-11 11:31 |
| #8 Vigil/Protest at the Culver City Mosque last Friday The vigil was for our two soldiers who were recently brutally tortured and beheaded while the leaders of this mosque stay silent and continue to push terror supporting views and refuse to denounce the terrorist leaders. All of the middle easterners you see in the pictures below are Coptic Christians from Egypt, for the entire evening not ONE Muslim would join us in condemning the tortures of our two soldiers, and in fact some of them yelled out that the two soldiers deserved "what they had coming to them" because they were "in a Muslim land." |
| Posted by: ed 2006-09-11 11:27 |
| #7 the crowd pelted the effigy with shoes Nice melodramatic touch, but then this is the home of Studio City. King Fahd Mosque i.e. Wahabi mosque. Fahad al Thumairy, a Saudi consular official and imam at the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City expelled for terrorist links Vigil/Protest at the Culver City Mosque last Friday 1. Saudi 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar upon their arrival in America, they promptly made the King Fahd mosque in Culver City the center of their lives. 2. Books and literature taken from the mosque say to that anyone who converts from Islam must be killed. 3. There is for some reason an escape tunnel that has been constructed below the mosque which runs under the street to a building across the street from the mosque. 4. Sgt. Akbar, the American soldier who threw grenades at his fellow soldiers and killed them went to the Culver City mosque. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-09-11 11:24 |
| #6 I support 'em. I need to put a Laden hanging effagy outside my house. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-09-11 11:23 |
| #5 This is a "tipping point" moment. People are no longer cowed by the lefts magic racism taunts anymore. The seeds of victory have been sowed here. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-09-11 11:21 |
| #4 I had an ever so faint hope that this was a Pakistani news headling. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2006-09-11 11:14 |
| #3 When the mosque muzzies hang the bin Laden dummy from the wall of the mosque and spit on it.... I'll believe them. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-11 10:50 |
| #2 Don't know what the place is like now. When I lived there it was pretty diverse, ethnically, religiously and economically. One of my daughter's friends had Saudi parents who emmigrated here, were pretty secular so far as I could tell. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-09-11 10:40 |
| #1 "We have never encouraged extremism. We were the first mosque that condemned the Sept. 11 atrocities and we kicked out a few people that protested that condemnation." Sounds like they actually found the fabled Moderate Muhammadans. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-09-11 10:36 |