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Muslims fear more vandalism at mosque

MIAMI (UPI) -- Muslims at a Miami mosque say they fear they're being targeted because of their religion following the latest vandalism at their worship center and school.

Nidal Hussain, of the Islamic School of Miami, said two of its windows, designed to withstand hurricanes, were broken late Friday or early Saturday, The Miami Herald reported.

"The community is pretty upset," Hussain told the newspaper.

The latest incident comes six months after 51 bullets fired at the Islamic School's mosque broke windows and damaged its golden dome, the Herald said.

In 2005, the Islamic center's door was shattered by a big rock, the newspaper said, and in 2004, a swastika and profanities were spray-painted on the center's sign.

Police have not made arrests in any of the incidents, the Herald said.

About 500 people attend the mosque for Friday prayers, and the affiliated religious school has 250 students.



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This news arrived on: 07/02/2009
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07-05-2009 10:17
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we know how it feels to have things burned



07-03-2009 18:05
Fafasmom wrote:

RH, I absolutely agree with you:

“Those who have been expelled from their homes unjustly only because they said: ‘Our Lord is Allah (God).’ For had it not been that God checks one set of people by means of another (i.e. checks the evil doers by means of those who abide by His law), monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of God is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down. Verily, God will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, God is full of Strength, Exalted in Might”

The Holy Quran, Chapter #22, Verse #40.



07-03-2009 18:03
Fafasmom wrote:



Thank you Leslee!



07-03-2009 18:01
Fafasmom wrote:

Reply to anonymous commenter CONTINUED:

5) Have you ever thought about what the Muslims who come to this country REALLY do here (I mean other than become the fictional terrorist sleeper cells Bush tried to sell you on TV and the idiots like you actually bought)? A HUGE part of the brain-power in this country is its foreigners, many of whom are Muslims. They come in the form of scientists, doctors, and engineers who give their all to this country. And if you think they are stealing American jobs, think again. My husband is a scientist in a university. His American colleagues run home at 5pm because they don’t have visas to lose, but ALL the foreign researchers often stay till 11 pm in the lab! They may earn a better salary than back home, true, but the invaluable research they produce, twice as much as their American counterparts, doesn’t go home: IT BENEFITS THIS NATION. If they were all to “leave America now” believe me “science” in this country will eventually fail to exist!

The other half of the Muslims who come here come as students whose OWN GOVERNMENTS pay for their education, which means they are a revenue to you since they bring MONEY, and lots of it, into your country. And when Bush started making it difficult for any Muslim to live here in peace, thousands of these “terrorist” students “left America now”, another factor that participated to the recession!

6) I love this country, and like many Muslims, I came here because I believe in the values on which it was founded, including freedom of religious practice for all, and during my years here I have met countless Americans who share these values and who I am PROUD to call my friends, and who are just as proud to call me theirs. I like to believe that they represent true America, not the ignorant racist bigots full of hate and disrespect for others. If you do not believe in the values on which this great nation was founded, maybe YOU should "leave America now"!



07-03-2009 18:01
Fafasmom wrote:

Reply to anonymous commenter CONTINUED:

3) Then of course there’s the oil. It’s very heroic to say “terror-free energy” and try to find alternate sources of energy, but UNTIL YOU DO it would help to be grateful and thankful for what you buy from us because if (God forbid) we Muslims were to hold it back, you would be riding a camel! Then again, maybe not: maybe you would just advocate invading every oil-rich Muslim country and STEALING its oil like Bush did in Afghanistan and Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians along the way! And we are supposed to be the terrorists!

4) Ever thought that maybe we have more right to be here than you do? After all, we took PERMISSION from the current owners of this country by requesting a VISA from your government. Many of your ancestors, on the other hand, slaughtered the vast majority of the original owners of this country and put the rest of them on “Indian Reservations” and seized this land! So who should "leave America now"?!

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