Muslims Want U.S. To Be Their Mosque

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They want America to blur the separation of Church and State. Here's an example:

Muslims Want Mosque in Football Stadium
Yet another demand from Muslims for special treatment—special treatment that would be denied to any other religious group: Seeking timeout for prayer. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their shoes and knelt on pieces of poster board to pray.

As the sea of purple cheered and jeered above, Siddiqui tuned out the world around him to perform salaat, the Islamic ritual prayer that faithful Muslims recite five times daily.

Siddiqui will do the same in Welsh-Ryan Arena next week when the Buckeyes basketball team goes up against the Wildcats. But rather than pray amid raucous crowds, some Muslim students are pressing Northwestern’s athletic department to set aside a secluded space for the ritual, or grant them permission to come and go from the arena before the buzzer.

“If we attend the game in its entirety, we would miss one of our five daily prayers,” said Siddiqui, president of the Muslim cultural Student Association. “I can leave the game early, come later, or pray somewhere in the stadium on dirty floors with lots of noise and lots of people around, which isn’t a huge problem. But we’d love to have a small area.”


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Minnesota Muslim taxi drivers could face crackdown
Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:09pm ET
Mike Conlon, Religion Writer

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Muslim cab drivers at Minnesota's biggest airport are facing a possible crackdown for refusing to give rides to travelers carrying liquor or accompanied by dogs, an official said on Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Airports Commission has authorized a public hearing next month on a staff proposal to increase penalties for refusing fares, spokesman Patrick Hogan said.

A large number of taxi drivers in the area of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are Muslim Somali immigrants. Many of them say they feel the faith's ban on alcohol consumption includes transporting anyone carrying it. Some have also refused to transport dogs, both pets and guide dogs, saying they are unclean.

Under the proposal -- which is also aimed at drivers who refuse to take short-haul passengers in favor of more lucrative long trips -- a first offense would result in a 30-day cab license suspension and a second a two-year license revocation.

The public hearing, approved at a commission meeting on Tuesday, will be held February 27.

Hogan said the number of refused rides has fallen from about 77 a month early in 2006 to eight to 20 a month currently. Continued...

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Muslims also continue to thwart our customs, protections and legal system. We have Muslim cabbies at Minneapolis Airport refusing to accept passengers who are transporting alcohol or require the use of seeing-eye dogs. "Religious reasons" are given. We have Islamic Imams pushing the envelope of both decency and reason by standing up on American commercial planes, praying loudly and making anti-US statements. Then, they request not-needed seatbelt extensions (which can easily be used as weapons) and seat themselves around planes in a manner reminiscent of the 9/11 hijackers. When removed from the plane for their outrageous behaviors (due to complaints from other passengers) they not only request formal apologies from the airline but, threaten to sue. The latest Muslim "outrage" has been leveled at US carrier Northwest Airlines. On Wednesday forty Muslims, returning to Detroit from a Hajj pilgrimage, did not follow the rules. A one-hour check in, before the flight, is required on the trip from Frankfurt, Germany to Detroit. As they had not yet been cleared for the flight, the group was not allowed to board and was included on the next flights out. Despite the fact that non-Muslims are required to adhere to this dictate, or not fly, the Muslims did not follow the rules. Instead, they are now claiming discrimination. They are, also, threatening a lawsuit (for monetary compensation) against Northwest airlines. Note: If they follow through with their threats and receive said compensation, I wonder where they will send their ill-gotten gains.

In true politically-correct fashion (now only reserved for Muslims), Northwest caved and issued the statement: "The passengers were accommodated on the next available flights to Detroit. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused the passengers." CAIR's Michigan Director Dawud Walid said the apology is not enough and issued his own statement: "Northwest has not taken full responsibility!" A spokesman for the airline added that compensation for the Muslim passengers was 'being discussed.'

Wouldn't you like to receive money for not following airline rules? All non-Muslims could arrive 20 minutes before a flight and claim "discrimination" when they're not allowed to board. However, Muslims believe that they are superior to all other groups. Their Quran teaches: "Ye are the best of peoples evolved for mankind" — Surah 3:110. They believe that Muslims are not subject to man-made laws, as are others. And the liberal world is agreeing with them — more and more each and every day.

I wonder how much longer it will be until Muslims are exempt, altogether, from airport screenings and are allowed to commit any heinous crimes they wish. After all — terrorism is just another ideological stance, isn't it? I have to believe that the ACLU (who regularly partners with CAIR-the "Council on American-Islamic Relations"-on lawsuits) is already working on this theory towards arguing it in court.

These examples make it increasingly obvious that sanity has flown to another, as yet unknown, location. Up is now down, black is white, good is bad and self-protection is no longer allowed.

Sher Zieve

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Muslim cab wars in Dhimmiapolis -- er, I mean, Minneapolis

By Greg Strange
web posted January 15, 2007

By now you've probably heard about the Muslim cab wars in Minneapolis. If not, here's a quick synopsis. Seventy-five percent of the cab drivers servicing the Minneapolis International Airport are Somali Muslims and most of them have been refusing service to infidel passengers who engage in behaviors that aren't up to snuff when it comes to Islam.

For instance, let's say you're an average godless and contemptible infidel who just bought a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon at the duty-free shop and then you try to hail a cab with that devil's concoction in your possession. You're committing a grave sin against the Religion of Peace and can't possibly expect an observant Muslim to be complicit in your sin, not to mention defile his taxi by transporting you and your iniquitous liquid.
So what are you supposed to do? Well, apparently you're supposed to show your multicultural tolerance by acquiescing to the customs of the Islamic cabbies and finding some other means of transportation that won't involve giving offense to a person of another culture or faith.
As another example, let's say you're an unsighted person who gets around with the help of a seeing-eye dog. Yep, that's right. Don't expect to defile the purity of a Muslim taxi with your filthy beast. Refusing service in that kind of situation is a direct violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), but so far Islam trumps such infidel legislation.

Amazing, isn't it? In a world of political correctness gone mad, who could possibly mistreat the unsighted and get away with it? Muslims, that's who! But imagine that the cab drivers, rather than being Muslims, were instead bible-thumping Christian fundamentalists who were refusing fares for the exact same reasons. How long do you think they would get away with it before the ACLU would be all over them like white on rice and before Frank Rich, New York Times columnist extraordinaire, would write his umpteenth column about the Christian fundamentalist takeover of America? Half a day, maybe?
But for whatever unfathomable reason, the entire Western world, in its wretched multicultural misguidedness, seems to believe that it has to bend over backwards to accommodate the beliefs of Islamic religious fanatics. The question of our time, of the age, is, why? Why would self-proclaimed secular Western societies do this? Why, why, why?

It all stems from the cult of multiculturalism which basically says that any culture is as good as any other, so therefore all cultures must be tolerated. Anything less would be intolerant and intolerance is evil. And since Islamic culture is just another culture that is as good as any other, it must be tolerated in the name of multicultural tolerance, even if it is itself supremely intolerant and could eventually supplant the preexisting culture of tolerance, which would, in effect, spell the end of all that cherished toleration.

It could be the ultimate paradox. The West commits cultural suicide in the name of tolerance and in so doing, leaves the world in the hands of its most intolerant people. Brilliant!
Volumes are currently being filled with examples from all over the Western world of its groveling obsequiousness before Islam, all in the name of extreme multiculturalism. It's everything from removing pork from hospital menus for fear of offending Muslims to banning the English national flag from English prisons because it displays the cross of St. George, which was used by the Crusaders and is therefore deemed offensive by imprisoned Muslim criminals.

If you stop and think about it, given that Islamic law's top ten list of things to avoid includes not only alcohol and dogs, but infidels themselves, it would seem that for observant Muslims there can only be one final and ultimate solution if there is ever to be a world that is pure. It's enough to send a shiver down an infidel's back.
In the meantime, there may be a tiny smidgen of hope in Minnesota, at least for the moment, where it is still theoretically possible that Minneapolis won't become Dhimmiapolis. The Metropolitan Airport Commission, which oversees policy at Minneapolis International Airport, is going to conduct hearings to decide on a proposal that states that all cab drivers at the airport will be expected to carry all passengers with alcohol and seeing-eye dogs. If there is any sanity left in the Western world, that proposal will pass.

That would no doubt upset the Somali cab drivers, but here's something for them to think about. If Islam was such a great thing, they could just get jobs at Mogadishu International instead of having to slink off to some infidel country to find a decent life. But Mogadishu International is almost never open for business because Somalia is a failed, war-torn Islamic state, and like so many other basket-case Islamic states, the only thing to be found there is misery, violence and hard times.

So Somalis, as well as other denizens of other failed Islamic states, fan out all over the globe seeking economic opportunity in non-Islamic countries, and in particular, Western countries since they tend to be the most prosperous. The amazing thing is that so many of them never seem to be able to put two and two together to figure out that if going to a non-Islamic country is the only way to get a decent life, then maybe Islam's not all it's cracked up to be.

So instead of adapting to their new environments, they continue right on with their customs while their Western hosts, who would never tolerate such nonsense from their own Christian populations, mouth vapid platitudes about tolerance and the splendor of diversity.

Maybe Minneapolis will draw the line at the mistreatment of blind people by Islamic fanatics. On the other hand, Minneapolis was the chosen site of the flying imams' mini-airport jihad, not to mention having just sent the first Muslim to the U.S. Congress. I guess you could say all bets are off and there could still be a Dhimmiapolis in the future.

Greg Strange's web site can be found at www.greg-strange.com. (c) 2007 Greg Strange

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Muslims want to be accomodated in America yet Christians are not allowed to build churces or to practice their faith in many Muslim countries:

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — The filing of a petition in the High Court by a Muslim student against construction of a chapel on the campus of the University of Peshawar on the plea that it will fan “sectarianism” reflects on the scale of religious intolerance in a multi-religious state of Pakistan.

According to the Asia News, the student, Masood Khan’s attorney, Khurshid Khan, presented the petition on the plea that “having a Church in the university was un-Islamic and would fan sectarianism.”

North West Frontier Province’s Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani had laid foundation stone for the construction of the Church in a ceremony on December 19, 2006, it said.

One wonders what could have prompted the student to oppose construction of the chapel on the university’s campus. Does it have to do with his raising in a conservative Muslim family ? Or his affiliation with a radical religio-political party ? or his bias against Christianity which may have taken its genesis due to either pejorative material against Christianity in the text books or violent hammering of the local Muslim priest against Christianity ? or his espousal to a Taliban-like rigid version of Islam ?

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rick said:

They want America to blur the separation of Church and State. [It's Northwestern, a private school. How is "state" involved?]Here's an example [of a mountain being made of a molehill]:

Muslims Want Mosque [Wow, I thought it was just a quiet room. Where ever will they put the prayer tower?] in Football Stadium
Yet another demand from Muslims [THE Muslims, there's just one group?] for special treatment—special treatment that would be denied to any other religious group: Seeking timeout for prayer. (Hat tip: Ethel.) [Yeah, IF they got what they were asking for, which they didn't. But surely this must go down in history as the only attempt by practioners of any religion to request some kind of accomodation from a private institution?]

As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their shoes and knelt on pieces of poster board to pray.

As the sea of purple cheered and jeered above, Siddiqui tuned out the world around him to perform salaat, the Islamic ritual prayer that faithful Muslims recite five times daily.

Siddiqui will do the same in Welsh-Ryan Arena next week when the Buckeyes basketball team goes up against the Wildcats. But rather than pray amid raucous crowds, some Muslim students are pressing Northwestern’s athletic department to set aside a secluded space for the ritual, or grant them permission to come and go from the arena before the buzzer.

“If we attend the game in its entirety, we would miss one of our five daily prayers,” said Siddiqui, president of the Muslim cultural Student Association. “I can leave the game early, come later, or pray somewhere in the stadium on dirty floors with lots of noise and lots of people around, which isn’t a huge problem. But we’d love to have a small area.”

Wow, what overblown rhetoric.

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Tell you what. How about we have a crucifixion, statue of Mary, and praying area for Catholics at a basketball arena. And a stage with cool lighting for the mega-church folk to do praise and worship. For the Reformed, we could have Supralapsarianism & Infralapsarianism areas for determining whether or not their God is Sovereign enough to pre-ordain the non-elect to hell. Then we could make a special room for Buddhists. Don't forget the Sunni's statue of Saddam. Of course atheists would have to have a special place - perhaps a ho-house for celebrating their orgies.

Someday there might even be room for a few fans. All in the name of tolerance.
And the scoreboards could be in 25 different languages. And on and on........

It always starts out with just a small area. Then gets more and more demanding from there.

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rick said:

Tell you what. How about we have a crucifixion, statue of Mary, and praying area for Catholics at a basketball arena. And a stage with cool lighting for the mega-church folk to do praise and worship. For the Reformed, we could have Supralapsarianism & Infralapsarianism areas for determining whether or not their God is Sovereign enough to pre-ordain the non-elect to hell. Then we could make a special room for Buddhists. Don't forget the Sunni's statue of Saddam. Of course atheists would have to have a special place - perhaps a ho-house for celebrating their orgies.

Someday there might even be room for a few fans. All in the name of tolerance.
And the scoreboards could be in 25 different languages. And on and on........

It always starts out with just a small area. Then gets more and more demanding from there.

So, what you're saying is that this was a well written piece that accurately depicted the grave threat this request posed to separation of church and state.

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valpower said:

rick said:

Tell you what. How about we have a crucifixion, statue of Mary, and praying area for Catholics at a basketball arena. And a stage with cool lighting for the mega-church folk to do praise and worship. For the Reformed, we could have Supralapsarianism & Infralapsarianism areas for determining whether or not their God is Sovereign enough to pre-ordain the non-elect to hell. Then we could make a special room for Buddhists. Don't forget the Sunni's statue of Saddam. Of course atheists would have to have a special place - perhaps a ho-house for celebrating their orgies.

Someday there might even be room for a few fans. All in the name of tolerance.
And the scoreboards could be in 25 different languages. And on and on........

It always starts out with just a small area. Then gets more and more demanding from there.

So, what you're saying is that this was a well written piece that accurately depicted the grave threat this request posed to separation of church and state.

Absolutely! Read the other articles as well. The Muslims want all of America, commerce, airlines, businesses, individuals, to make special accommodations for their religious beliefs. They do not believe in the separation of church and state. They believe only in their religion and that the state and all Americans should serve their special needs. Anyone who is not a believer is an infidel. And all infidels must be brought to conform to their religious beliefs or suffer consequences. Dogs can't ride in cabs, you can't carry liquor in their cabs, they want special praying areas in airports where they often pray loudly and rudely in front of others. If they don't like that this is a secular country, they should go to a place where religion and government is the same thing - like most Muslim countries.

Yet another trend that you libs fail to recognize. You folks are wired strangely, that's all. ;D

"Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."

Ann C. babe