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Title: Bacon Strips Spelling Out 'Pig' Left Outside SC Islamic Center
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URL Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme ... th_carolina_islamic_center.php
Published: Oct 13, 2010
Author: TPMMuckraker
Post Date: 2010-10-13 12:28:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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Views: 37350
Comments: 54
Slices of bacon were laid down on a brink walkway to the Florence Islamic Center in Florence, S.C. on Sunday in a manner that spelled out "PIG CHOPS." The incident -- evidently aimed the center because of the Islamic dietary restrictions against pork -- is just the latest in a string of anti-Muslim episodes around the country. In fact this isn't the first time even this particular mosque has been hit -- earlier this year vandals broke windows in the facility, according to local news station ABC 15. A conflicting Associated Press report said the bacon slices were arranged to spell out "PIG CHUMP." The bacon slices were placed on the sidewalk between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Florence Police Major Carlos Raines told the AP. "There's absolutely nothing that identifies it as a mosque," Raines told the AP. "It's an insult, and I'm sure that's what it was intended for." Mushtaq Hussain, a member of the center, made the police complaint, telling officers he believed the incident was a hate crime because Muslims do not eat pork, according to SCNow.com. Raines said the department plans to increase patrols near the center. Abdul Ghani, a member of the board of the 30-family large Islamic center, told TPMMuckraker that members of the center weren't too worried about the incident, but he said it indicated that there was a need for non-Muslims to be educated about the beliefs of Muslims. "We didn't take it too serious," he said. "We wanted to let everybody know what happened. People don't know about our religion and they are just more influenced by the news." He said that the South Carolina neighborhood where the Islamic Center is located is fairly diverse. "We are here, mixed, between... American people and Pakistani and Arabs," Ghani said. "We are not too big a group of people, not too big a community, but we are mostly family people and small business people here." The Florence Islamic Center is currently raising money to build a Masjid in the town, according to their website. Several anti-Muslim incidents have been tied to the construction of new mosques. Police are investigating, according to local news station NewsChannel 15. TPMMuckraker left a message with a police spokesman, but the call was not immediately returned. A top Justice Department official recently visited Murfreesboro, Tenn. in an attempt to reassure Muslims who have been the victims of arson and vandalism in that area. The official, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, had noted in a previous speech that Muslim-Americans "continue to struggle for acceptance in many communities" and "have not yet realized the full promise of equal opportunity and equal justice."
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#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
"What am I supposed to do? Go on television and tell ten million people they have to be nice to each other? Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every
How fascinating, Murron. Where in the Bible does God or Jesus implore people to treat others like dirt?
It's written in the same place where I wanted to talk to you about the bible...
Well my dear, I am a firm believer in the Golden Rule, something actually embraced by Christians to an extremely deep degree. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is a good principle. It allows me to see the value of people and to care about them even when I have fought them verbally or otherwise in the past. For example,you and I have had our spats in here, and at LP. But I like you and appreciate your good qualities as a woman and human being. It allows me not to waste time and energy on pointless and meaningless grudges. We always have the right to defend and disagree; but we should always remember and respect the humanity and dignity of others, regardless of anything else. And I believe that that is a notion central to at least the new Testament of the Bible.
Lets send em bacon strips, and be done with it.
According to your spiteful way of looking at this, you invite a feud with both sides free to take turns being a disrespectful offender and the ones offended. How about if we work through disagreements without childish displays of immature disrespect? This gesture does nothing good. It even degrades the person doing it as a hater and baiter. It is as foolish as trying to kill someone for drawing a picture of Mohammad. I want none of such foolishness.
How about if we work through disagreements without childish displays of immature disrespect? This gesture does nothing good. It even degrades the person doing it as a hater and baiter. It is as foolish as trying to kill someone for drawing a picture of Mohammad. I want none of such foolishness. According to THEIR SPITEFUL WAY, they want to send me a not so smart bomb while I'm picking up a pizza, Mike. Remember? I'm being very very nice here.
And according to Christian spiteful ways, we have practiced biological warfare by giving Native Americans blankets infected with Small Pox, burned people at the stake as witches when they merely were spirited women who dared disagree with important men, talked to themselves and seems odd, or too will-full, and many other acts of cruelty and terroristic in spirit. I do not like the "well, the other kids are doing it" rationals. Ass Gandhi said, "an eye for an eye done often enough makes the whole world blind."
(eyes rolling) My family didn't hit these shores til after 1900, Mikey. So none of that applies to me or mine. Not that it would anyway. Here, in the year 2010, radical muslims want you and I both to either kneel five times facing Mecca, or be publicly executed. Don't know about you, but I'm not doing as they demand. And I won't go 'quietly'. But thats just me.
It does indeed apply to you as you express sentiments similar to those that prompted the wrongs committed in the name of Christianity allegedly to defend it. Muslims are wrong to attack based on criticism, just as we are wrong to attack even symbolically based on the same things.
I don't know where you get your sentiments, they're cute, commendable, but suicidal. If my ancestors had thought like you, they would never have survived, the stupidity of underestimating their enemy would have killed them all, and their families. There were french and british fighting on our side during the French and British Revolutions, because they were smart enough to know who their enemies were too. The brain surgion who saved my sons life was a muslim, we have many mulins living in our area, they've been here as long as I have, but that doesn't change the face of those who want us DEAD in the name of Allah, even they, my neighbors, will have to choose a side in the end...jmo!
On “Meet the Press” today, Colin L. Powell concluded his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama by referring to the death of a Muslim soldier, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan of Manahawkin, N.J., who was killed in Iraq on Aug. 6, 2007, and whose remains were buried in Arlington. He and three other soldiers, including a corporal from Washington Heights, were killed in Baquba after a bomb detonated while they were checking abandoned houses for explosives. They served in the Stryker Brigade combat team of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, based in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Mr. Khan graduated from Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin in 2005, and enlisted in the Army a few months later, spurred by his memories of the 9/11 terror attacks. “His Muslim faith did not make him not want to go. It never stopped him,” his father, Feroze Khan, told the Gannett News Service in a story printed shortly after his death. “He looked at it that he’s American and he has a job to do.” Mr. Powell mentioned Mr. Khan’s death to underscore why he was deeply troubled by Republican personal attacks on Mr. Obama, especially false intimations that he was Muslim. Mr. Obama is a lifelong Christian, not a Muslim, he said. But, he added, “The really right answer is, what if he is?” “Is there something wrong with being Muslim in this country? No, that’s not America,” he said. Mr. Khan’s death came to his attention, Mr. Powell said, when he saw a photo essay in a magazine about the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. One picture showed a mother pressing her head against the gravestone of her fallen son in Arlington cemetery. It was the grave of 20-year-old Mr. Khan, engraved with his name, his military awards, and the Muslim symbol of the crescent and star. “He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he could go serve his country, and he gave his life,” Mr. Powell said. “Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourselves in this way.” Mr. Powell said that he had heard senior members of the Republican Party “drop this suggestion that he [Obama] is a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists.” “Now, John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I’m troubled about the fact that within the party we have these kinds of expressions.” Mr. Khan had served in Iraq for just over a year, arriving in July 2006. He had sent home pictures to his family of him playing soccer with Iraqi children and hugging a smiling young Iraqi boy in Baghdad, according to his obituary in the Newark Star-Ledger. He loved rooting for the Dallas Cowboys with his father, and challenging his 12-year old stepsister, Aliya, to video games. He last saw his family during a two-week visit in September 2006. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/more-on-the-soldier-kareem-r-khan/ We survived as a nation because more people embraced the concept of we are all in this together rather than constantly picking each other apart over differences in race, creed, ethnic background, or any other difference. American Muslims become Americanized far more often then they obsess about clinging to the worst hatreds and intolerances of where they and their family came from. I would prefer to take people as they present themselves as individuals rather than to make them a faceless member of a group I let the worst in me dehumanize and vilify. I don't feel threatened by Muslim Americans because the hate shows insecurity, weakness and a lack of faith in this country and it's people to prevail against adversity. Hatred becomes it's own engine to make bad prognostications of people a reality. It invites the worst in people to come out. I love this country and it's Constitution. And I trust it's ability to bring out the best in people and to unify them.
#22. To: Ferret Mike (#19)
I don't know why you posted this young mans picture, if he was a muslim soldier in our army, and died for this country, then what is your point? He chose a side, he fought for that side, and I'm sorry he died, but many men and women of all races fight and die in this country. I have respect for any man, or woman, no matter their race, or religion, who defend our nation, they deserve it, but what is it you want, respect for the intire muslim world? Sorry, I don't use a broad brush where my respect goes, it has to be earned by the individual, I won't allow you, or anyone, to brow beat me into respecting people just because of their religion or race, it just doesn't work that way. If I have a bone to pick with anyone, you can bank on it, their race or religion won't have anything to do with me ripping into them, it will be their actions that set me off! jmo!
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#3. To: Murron (#2)
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
How fascinating, Murron. Where in the Bible does God or Jesus implore people to treat others like dirt?
#5. To: Murron (#4)
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
#7. To: Badeye (#6)
#9. To: Ferret Mike (#7)
According to your spiteful way of looking at this, you invite a feud with both sides free to take turns being a disrespectful offender and the ones offended.
#12. To: Badeye (#9)
"According to THEIR SPITEFUL WAY, they want to send me a not so smart bomb while I'm picking up a pizza, Mike."
#14. To: Ferret Mike (#12)
#17. To: Badeye (#14)
#18. To: Ferret Mike, Badeye (#17)
It does indeed apply to you as you express sentiments similar to those that prompted the wrongs committed in the name of Christianity allegedly to defend it.
#19. To: Murron (#18)
More on the Soldier Kareem R. Khan
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