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02.16.10 - 6:29 PM
No Place For That
The Nashville community has rallied in support of area Muslims after vandals defaced a local mosque in the wake of an infllammatory report by a local news station. People have showed up to denounce the hate-mongering, clean up the "Muslims go home" graffiti, and attend an open house for a crash course on Islam.
"I'm not surprised that so many people came...Our neighbors are our neighbors," said Salaad Nur of the Al-Farooq Mosque, which was established by Somali refugees.
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Show AllMore loving Amerikan Christians treating their brothers as their saviour directed. I am sure it has nothing to do with the decades old drumbeat of Islam bad ... tum tum tum ... Isalm bad ... tum tum tum ... that has been repeated ad nauseum in our Fascist Nation's mass media.
I have visited the local Mosque many times. We, who are not Muslim, have been treated kindly by the members of the Muslim Community. I am ashamed of this type of behavior against any people in America. I remember an Iraqi young woman telling me that the extremist Muslims, not the government, treated her, a Christian with disdain in Iraq, even though she was an Iraqi born citizen. Extremist come in all colors, countries, and religions. They all have one thing in common,and that is fear.
I am a proud that some Nashville residents, many presumably Christian, have turned up to learn more about Islam and to support the mosque. That is encouraging.
Joe
This is direct action of the best sort. Don't wait for someone else to do it, don't bother to involve the law (it's too slow and cumbersome), when you see an injustice like this join the people that are fixing it.
Or, if you're the first responder, call your friends for backup.
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Hi, I'm just wondering how you get your hood to stay so pointy and white.
Thanks.
"No Place for That"- There should also be no place for the strict, oppressive dress code required of the woman featured in this picture.
Well, I suppose if women here could go topless at the beach like men do, we would have more high ground to criticize. Women's dress is an issue FOR THE WOMEN and men of any culture. There are all kinds of restrictions on women worldwide that need to be addressed with equal education, equal pay, equal status before the law and access to family planning. These issues should never be raised in the context of justifying violence against a community.
Perhaps the people of Polynesia should have come here to desecrate a church in the 1800s because women had to wear blouses while men could legally go shirtless. Instead, the Christian missionaries got the women to cover up. There is no principle at work here, only blind adherence to one's own cultural practices.
Joe
Thanks for that, Joe.