http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-09-03-1Amuslims911_CV_N.htm
Excerpt:
By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — After that cruel day nine Septembers ago, Talat Hamdani felt twice victimized: first by fellow Muslims who killed her son, then by fellow Americans who doubted that a Muslim like her Salman died a hero at the World Trade Center.
Now, Hamdani says that with anti-Muslim feeling aroused by plans for an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from the Ground Zero site, she again feels like a double victim.
"It's worse now than it was then," says Hamdani, a retired middle school English teacher who supports the project. Despite feeling an anti-Muslim backlash in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, she says, "at least there was empathy then. I got tons of support. Now I'm getting hate mail."
Hamdani is one of hundreds of American Muslims who lost loved ones on 9/11, yet found themselves tarred, because of their faith, by the attacks. As 9/11's ninth anniversary approaches, some of these Muslims worry that the controversy over the mosque near Ground Zero is feeding a revival of the Islamophobia of 2001.
FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims remain relatively rare. But recent headlines reflect tension over Muslims' place in America: A young man is accused of stabbing a Muslim cab driver in New York City last month. A Florida preacher plans to mark Sept. 11 by publicly burning Qurans. Across the nation, groups oppose plans to build mosques, including ones proposed by moderate congregations.
Yet 9/11 had more Muslim victims (about 60 of nearly 3,000 killed) than terrorist hijackers (19).
They included an assistant bank vice president and a cook, a commodities trader and a waiter, an insurance executive, a security guard and an IT guy.
They included immigrants from all over: Sarah Khan, a cafeteria manager from Guyana; Syed Abdul Fatha, a copy machine operator from India; Zuhtu Ibis, a computer technician from Turkey. There was Michael Baksh, a Pakistani immigrant on his first day of work at the insurance firm Marsh & McLennan, and Abdoul Karim Traore, who had risen at 3 a.m. that day to deliver USA TODAY before reporting to work as a cook at Windows on the World restaurant. Karamo Trerra, a computer tech, was ready to celebrate his fourth wedding anniversary on Sept. 12.
And there was Salman Hamdani, who apparently abandoned his commute to work that morning to offer his skills as an EMT and police cadet at the Trade Center.
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Typical right-wing response: "Well, them Mozlems shoulda done better at smackin' down the extremists in their ranks, the way we Christians do!!"
Yeah, right:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=21224
Excerpt:
The U.S. State Department is protesting "at the highest level" evangelist Pat Robertson's comments on his television program suggesting its Foggy Bottom headquarters be blown up with a nuclear weapon.
Pat Robertson
Richard Boucher, spokesman for the State Department, called the remarks, made last week on Robertson's "700 Club" program, "despicable."
"I lack sufficient capabilities to express my disdain," Boucher told reporters when asked about the comments. "I think the very idea, though, is despicable."
Robertson is aware of Secretary of State Colin Powell's extreme outrage at the tone and content of the remarks, a senior official told Agence France-Presse.
"That's not the way one expresses an opinion in Washington," the official said.
The remarks came during an interview with National Review columnist Joel Mowbray, who also is a critic of the State Department.
Robertson referred to Mowbray's new book, "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens American Security," which alleges the agency appeases sponsors of terrorism, ignores U.S. citizens abroad who are in trouble and mishandles visas, to the detriment of security.
The evangelist said after he read Mowbray's book, he thought, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer,'" Robertson said, according to a transcript on the website of his Christian Broadcasting Network.
"I mean, you get through this, and you say [to yourself], 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?" Robertson asked.
"It is," Mowbray responded.
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So tell us again how Robertson was punished for saying that???? Forget any official consequence for his veiled threat (or incitement), what about the reaction from his viewers?? Did his donations go down after he said that??
apologies for the dirty link to WorldNutDaily, but I thought I'd offer that to avoid the cries of "liberal bias!!!" if I included a link to any other source. (You know, the way that CNN, who gave Glenn Beck his on-air start, and still employs Eric fucking Erickson, is the 'Communist News Network'!)...
Excerpt:
By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — After that cruel day nine Septembers ago, Talat Hamdani felt twice victimized: first by fellow Muslims who killed her son, then by fellow Americans who doubted that a Muslim like her Salman died a hero at the World Trade Center.
Now, Hamdani says that with anti-Muslim feeling aroused by plans for an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from the Ground Zero site, she again feels like a double victim.
"It's worse now than it was then," says Hamdani, a retired middle school English teacher who supports the project. Despite feeling an anti-Muslim backlash in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, she says, "at least there was empathy then. I got tons of support. Now I'm getting hate mail."
Hamdani is one of hundreds of American Muslims who lost loved ones on 9/11, yet found themselves tarred, because of their faith, by the attacks. As 9/11's ninth anniversary approaches, some of these Muslims worry that the controversy over the mosque near Ground Zero is feeding a revival of the Islamophobia of 2001.
FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims remain relatively rare. But recent headlines reflect tension over Muslims' place in America: A young man is accused of stabbing a Muslim cab driver in New York City last month. A Florida preacher plans to mark Sept. 11 by publicly burning Qurans. Across the nation, groups oppose plans to build mosques, including ones proposed by moderate congregations.
Yet 9/11 had more Muslim victims (about 60 of nearly 3,000 killed) than terrorist hijackers (19).
They included an assistant bank vice president and a cook, a commodities trader and a waiter, an insurance executive, a security guard and an IT guy.
They included immigrants from all over: Sarah Khan, a cafeteria manager from Guyana; Syed Abdul Fatha, a copy machine operator from India; Zuhtu Ibis, a computer technician from Turkey. There was Michael Baksh, a Pakistani immigrant on his first day of work at the insurance firm Marsh & McLennan, and Abdoul Karim Traore, who had risen at 3 a.m. that day to deliver USA TODAY before reporting to work as a cook at Windows on the World restaurant. Karamo Trerra, a computer tech, was ready to celebrate his fourth wedding anniversary on Sept. 12.
And there was Salman Hamdani, who apparently abandoned his commute to work that morning to offer his skills as an EMT and police cadet at the Trade Center.
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Typical right-wing response: "Well, them Mozlems shoulda done better at smackin' down the extremists in their ranks, the way we Christians do!!"
Yeah, right:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=21224
Excerpt:
The U.S. State Department is protesting "at the highest level" evangelist Pat Robertson's comments on his television program suggesting its Foggy Bottom headquarters be blown up with a nuclear weapon.
Pat Robertson
Richard Boucher, spokesman for the State Department, called the remarks, made last week on Robertson's "700 Club" program, "despicable."
"I lack sufficient capabilities to express my disdain," Boucher told reporters when asked about the comments. "I think the very idea, though, is despicable."
Robertson is aware of Secretary of State Colin Powell's extreme outrage at the tone and content of the remarks, a senior official told Agence France-Presse.
"That's not the way one expresses an opinion in Washington," the official said.
The remarks came during an interview with National Review columnist Joel Mowbray, who also is a critic of the State Department.
Robertson referred to Mowbray's new book, "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens American Security," which alleges the agency appeases sponsors of terrorism, ignores U.S. citizens abroad who are in trouble and mishandles visas, to the detriment of security.
The evangelist said after he read Mowbray's book, he thought, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer,'" Robertson said, according to a transcript on the website of his Christian Broadcasting Network.
"I mean, you get through this, and you say [to yourself], 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?" Robertson asked.
"It is," Mowbray responded.
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So tell us again how Robertson was punished for saying that???? Forget any official consequence for his veiled threat (or incitement), what about the reaction from his viewers?? Did his donations go down after he said that??
apologies for the dirty link to WorldNutDaily, but I thought I'd offer that to avoid the cries of "liberal bias!!!" if I included a link to any other source. (You know, the way that CNN, who gave Glenn Beck his on-air start, and still employs Eric fucking Erickson, is the 'Communist News Network'!)...
