Islam Growing in Central Iowa

They heard it was a religion of peace, and that was enough for them. From WHOTV, with thanks to Mackie:

Des Moines - Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States. Here in Iowa, it seems to be no different, and there are few reasons why so many Iowans are connecting with this faith.

The Islamic Center of Des Moines is one of three Muslim mosques in the metro, so it may suprise you that an estimated twelve thousand Muslims live in the metro area. One of the most well-known of them is Ako Abdul-Samad. He's says people moving into Iowa are helping the religion grow. "You have a large Bosnian population, about fifteen thousand in Des Moines. Ninety-nine percent of them are Muslim."

In fact, the Bosnian community just purchased a former day care center to build a new mosque to accomodate all the growth, and the very first Islamic grade school opened its doors in Des Moines this year. Some native Iowans are also converting to the faith. After 9-11, Ako says people living in Des Moines seemed to become more educated about Islam. He believes they learned it is a religion of peace. "When people saw that, we started getting converts left and right. People were saying, 'I like what I hear.'"

In the future, Ako expects more people will want to take a closer look at Islam, and he thinks Des Moines, a mostly Christian town, will accept that...

A Christian town? We have "Christian towns" now?

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Again, da'wa that references 9/11. Of course, everyone here knows what that means. Since, Allah plans everything, and has preordained that Islam shall dominate the globe, 9/11 was a triumph, something that had to happen. One more event in the never ending struggle for the faith, da'wa-jihad-da'wa-jihad-and more da'wa, turing the heads of Infidels, getting their attention, leading them to the true path, and, if Allah happens to send a few thousand to hell along the way, so be it. That's the way the Infidels crumble.

The local Muslims Student Association in Ames a little north of Des Moines had an 'understanding Islam day' just a while back. It seems da'wa is on full force in the heartland. And Iowans appear to have absolutely no clue what is hitting them. Perhaps an apostate at Iowa State should speak out about the true nature of Islam: Suras 4, 8 and 9, you know, characterizations and rules for women, Infidels, Muhammad's biography, Aisha, collective psychology, irrational divine command mentality, the brutality of Islamic history, and, of course, death to apostates, just as a start.

But will the apostate come forward? Maybe not, who wants to put their head on the chopping block. But, forget about that. Its a religion and peace. Hey, farmers, students, good people of Des Moines, aren't you curious about this new religion? Man, how interesting? Huh?

I've seen so many articles like this since 9/11 and they are all highly suspect, PR blather. Muslims are notorious for inflating their conversion figures and their numbers in general in order to achieve political power. This article was probably written from a press release.

Whenever I see one of these articles I send a polite note to the author and ask him/her why they are not interested in doing articles about Muslim converts to Christianity or apostates in the US, and point them to conversion stories on Answering Islam, ISIS, etc. I suggest everyone else here do the same.

Suzan:

I agree completely. Stories like this one are part of the ongoing muslim propaanda campaign designed to mislead. Islam is NOT the fastest growing religion in American, the Pope did NOT apologize for the crusades.

Suzan is quite correct in her request that we all act. We need to contact the authors of these articles to make sure they do not rely on CAIR for their "facts" and we need to know why there is no interest in portraying other religions in America in such a positive light.

While we're at it, let's implore these authors to delve more deeply into the intertwining political parts of islam.

Suzan:

After re-reading this article posted on this channel TV 13 Website in Iowa, I would have to agree that the unknown author seemed to be writing it with an almost positive glee in his typewriter.

CAIR's website---http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=36701&theType=NB -
did not waste anytime commenting on it as well.. It would be interesting to discover who the true source of the article was for this TV Station.

The Muslim Student Association event in Ames a while back, this propaganda piece, and the CAIR piece, together, over a short span of time, concerning Islam in a relatively isolated place like central Iowa, are highly suspicious.

Is there some CAIR, MSA plan for aggressive da'wa and political manuevering in Iowa? Senator Harkin has spoken against Daniel Pipes on the Senate floor, by the way, and praised the 'peaceful' nature of Islam.

What's going on?

JTF:

Iowa is the home of the oldest mosque in the US (in Cedar Rapids.) (I mean, except for all those "Native American" mosques that existed before the evil white people came to the US and made the Native Americans "forget" that they were actually Muslims all along.)

I'm sure that Iowa is well on its way to becoming the 1,765th holiest place in Islam.

Here's a suggestion: Whenever we mention The Muslim Student Association we add, "the student arm of the Muslim Brotherhood."

Labeling cities and towns in America as "Christian" implies that Muslims intend to create Muslim towns...and you know the long-term consequences of that!!!

Do the Scientologists know that Islam is the fastest growing religion in America? The sci-fi cult has been making the same claim for 30 years.

FYI Lots of Bosnians in the meat packing plants there in Iowa. Undoubtedly many have moved upward and scamward from there

Let's wait and see when some of the native converst to Islam decide it's not their cup of tea and decide to leave Islam.

Oh, sorry, that's not an option. No apostates in Islam. Once you join it's "until death do us part".

Islam is a cult not a religion the reasons why is they have to lie and deceive you to have you convert into it and they will kill you if you try to leave it. Don,t give it the respect of a religion.

Suzan:

Quite right.

I personally know 5 muslims who have converted to Christianity in the last year. This must be taken in the context that ex-muslims are very shy in letting anyone know of their leaving islam.

I believe the figure of muslims converting to Christianity or just leaving islam for good, is very high.

The growth is really a factor of the very high birthrate of muslims, coupled with access to modern Western medicine. All this bombast of islam being the fastest growing religion is really just that - a bombast.

Does anyone want to do something about Islamic taqiyya lies instead of just talking about it?

Here is what you can do.

Go to this link and then write a letter of compalint to the Scotsman.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006071.php#c89291

The link takes you back to an earlier article on jihadwatch.org. I just posted a message there.

"I believe the figure of muslims converting to Christianity or just leaving islam for good, is very high."

I agree. Several ex-muslims attend churches in my part of London.

China is the big hope for Christianity. The Chinese government is still openly hostile to religious organizations but Christianity is gaining a foothold amongst the middle and “influential” classes. Naturally, Islam is causing trouble there too (is it ever peaceful?) but the Islamic regions are getting the Tibetan treatment. A strong China may even reach out to protect the ethnic Chinese populations in other parts of South East Asia. Muslims in the region will probably then react with Jihad and more Jihad.

The prospects for Christianity in India would be brighter if the Hindu nationalists didn’t hate Christians as much as they hate Muslims.

Four fifths of the world’s population aren’t Muslims. Yay!


1630r:

You're right about the "Buyers remorse"
when selling your soul to Islam.

In a earlier posting I gave the link to a
Islamic website that gave tips on Da'wah
tactics to counter the high rate of apostates
that saw the light,it pointed out the follow-up
reviews for non-Arab converts in America had a
34 month time frame at which the majority
left Islam ( about 65 percent ).

Because of this the 10 rules of Da'wah
where modified to focus on the Peaceful verses in the Quran and the absorbing of the convert into a cell group of Like-thinkers that agree with the subtle emersion method,the real worrying
part was how it coached Muslims to keep the convert reading the English NorthAmerican version
of the Quran until it appears that they are
fully steeped in Islam.
The next step was to use guilt to push
the convert into learning Arabic and going to the Middle East to fully understand the Quran in its
proper context.
This type of brainwashing explains why
the jihadist converts have that lifeless
empty look in their eyes and seem transfixed
on the goal to murder Jews and Christians for Allah.
I no longer care about hurting the feelings of Ibrihim Hooper and his ilk at CAIR,they have been suckered in by the taqiyya's here in the West
and if you follow the money it leads back to the Saudis and Jihadists that recruit people like
Walker,Reed,Tim McVeigh and some students in the Universities that Israel to harp about the injustices in the World.


Robert Spencer should mail a quarter to
Hooper so he can phone someoen that gives
a SH*T,because I know I don't anymore.

NO ISLAM - KNOW PEACE

I wrote my letter to WHOTV!

Time for another billboard? Maybe it will be cheaper in Iowa!

"Four fifths of the world’s population aren’t Muslims. Yay!"
--from a posting above

It is doubtful that more than 1/6 or even 1/7 of the world's population is Muslim -- and even this figure is arrived at by counting as "Muslim" the entire population of so-called Muslim countries minus, of course, the identifiable non-Muslims. But there are people born into Islam who may not really adhere to it, as in Iran today, yet who are counted as Muslims. Having again and again added up the figures, and been generous in estimates of Muslims in the Bilad al-kufr, I cannot find evidence of more than 1 billion Muslims -- not these figures of 1.2, 1.4, even 1.5 that one finds so easily bandied about.

If someone has done the math differently, and can list, country by the country, the numbers they think show that Muslims could conceivably be more than 14-15% of the world's population (leaving 85%-86% non-Muslim) one would like to see it. The demoralization of many Muslims as they come dimly to recognize that the whole thing has left them far behind the rest of the world can only increase. In Iran, 25 years of the Islamic Republic have done more to damage the image of Islam than anything the Infidels could possibly have done. If only Muslims could be left alone, unaided, to mess themselves up thoroughly-- all because of Islam. It is only the accident of geology, the oil revenues, that have delayed the day of recognition -- and in that delay, and because of the peculiar demographics of Europe, the danger lies. One must speed up the process of Infidels coming to understand the nature of Islam, and of the psychology of Muslims, and the process of Muslims coming to understand how Islam itself explains the political, economic, social, and intellectual failures of Muslim societies -- failures that will continue in direct proportion to the fervency of the local Muslims.

It is a race. Will this aggressive and quasi-fascistic belief-system continue to maintain, or even expand its hold, or will enough sensible people in the Western world get a grip, on themselves, and then on those levers of power we hear so archimedeanly about?

Asalamu alaikum,

I have persoanly converted 20 Christians from the heathenly bloodcult of the Paulian faith to the true religion of God, Islam. I even participated in a small church group that ALL converted to Islam and tore the cross off the top and pulled out the pews to make it into a small mosque. It was a beautiful sight that brought tears of joy to my eyes. i make dua that this be repeated millions of times across this nation, to save the souls of all those who adhere to the false, blasphemous doctrine of trinitarianism, Inshallah.

As far as those who leave islam for this Blasphemous religion of Roman paganism, they are bound for hellfire and in Sahria LAw they would receive the death penalty. As it should be. Whats happening in Iowa is happening all over America. We are quietly growing and breeding another generation thru our 20,000 converts per year, 80% are women, making the 7 million or so triple or even quapruple in the next twenty years.And then comes the rapid branch.There children do the same.And 20 years after that?Quarter Billion American muslims of all races and ethnic groups? May Allah(swt) make it so!

And theres nothing you Right Wing Dubbya Worshipping Fanatics can do to stop us.ISLAM IS THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF AMERICA

Asalamu alaikum,

I have persoanly converted 20 Christians from the heathenly bloodcult of the Paulian faith to the true religion of God, Islam. I even participated in a small church group that ALL converted to Islam and tore the cross off the top and pulled out the pews to make it into a small mosque. It was a beautiful sight that brought tears of joy to my eyes. i make dua that this be repeated millions of times across this nation, to save the souls of all those who adhere to the false, blasphemous doctrine of trinitarianism, Inshallah.

As far as those who leave islam for this Blasphemous religion of Roman paganism, they are bound for hellfire and in Sahria LAw they would receive the death penalty. As it should be. Whats happening in Iowa is happening all over America. We are quietly growing and breeding another generation thru our 20,000 converts per year, 80% are women, making the 7 million or so triple or even quapruple in the next twenty years.And then comes the rapid branch.There children do the same.And 20 years after that?Quarter Billion American muslims of all races and ethnic groups? May Allah(swt) make it so!

And theres nothing you Right Wing Dubbya Worshipping Fanatics can do to stop us.ISLAM IS THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF AMERICA

Asalamu alaikum,

I have persoanly converted 20 Christians from the heathenly bloodcult of the Paulian faith to the true religion of God, Islam. I even participated in a small church group that ALL converted to Islam and tore the cross off the top and pulled out the pews to make it into a small mosque. It was a beautiful sight that brought tears of joy to my eyes. i make dua that this be repeated millions of times across this nation, to save the souls of all those who adhere to the false, blasphemous doctrine of trinitarianism, Inshallah.

As far as those who leave islam for this Blasphemous religion of Roman paganism, they are bound for hellfire and in Sahria LAw they would receive the death penalty. As it should be. Whats happening in Iowa is happening all over America. We are quietly growing and breeding another generation thru our 20,000 converts per year, 80% are women, making the 7 million or so triple or even quapruple in the next twenty years.And then comes the rapid branch.There children do the same.And 20 years after that?Quarter Billion American muslims of all races and ethnic groups? May Allah(swt) make it so!

And theres nothing you Right Wing Dubbya Worshipping Fanatics can do to stop us.ISLAM IS THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF AMERICA

I just hope that america doesn't start having islamic no go zones, like in Europe.


1630r

What significance does Christianity, communist China and nationalist India have here?


Tameem

Tell me another, just like the other.

*blinks*

Not sure I have ever heard a muslim post complain about 'right-wing dubya worshippers.'

In any case, Tameem, welcome to the site... if I may ask, is that a variation of Tamerlane (sp)?

If anyone thinks that America will ever become an Islamic nation, they don't know Americans at all. We may disagree with each other on many issues, but any threats to our freedoms will bring out the fighting spirit any most of us. Sharia Law????.....just try it!!!

Tameem, I'm curious. What do you find so bloody about Paul? Maybe I'm another Christian whom you could add to your roster.

Tameem: Take your BS & rub it!

Nobody here believes your lies, nobody cares. Deportation or internment, (I hope Abu Graib, not Gitmo) is waiting for you.

Apart from that we are well aware that mostly criminals become Mohammedans, usually in Jail. Are you writing from the slammer or a trailer park? Usually illiterates and brain-damaged people take a bit of a peek-a-boo also, but they don't last long as you know.

Neither will you!

Tameem seems to be afraid to take her taqiyya over to JW and play with the big boys.

I'd love to see her get - uh, "handled" - over at LGF.


Tameems boring...Brownwonder's more fun.
Tameems never been exposed to a hippie. A good hippie could convert her to the cult of "mary wanna". Once converted, she would be too stoned to be a problem...The hippie solution to the Islamic problem is to "just put LSD in the water supply and everything will be fine". Tameem and those Islamics better watch out, hippies are planning an acid (LSD) attack. There is just nothing quite as formidable as an American hippie in heat...Islam is doomed....

Tameem is full of caca. Claims to be American, converted everyone he came into contact with, BS. "Get thee behind me satan"

The anti Christian leftist media want you to believe that everyone just loves Islaam in the bible belt.

Why lookee here, Jeezus is a prophet in Islam! Heck, that aught to do it! If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! Get the kids mama, load them up in the pickup -- We're all gonna convert to ISLAM....YEE HAWW!

Yeah, Jed, it's a reeeligion of peace!

From Kemaste..."http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4257813/detail.html
"Don't try to reason with monkeys"
That's one of the best lines I've heard

"And theres nothing you Right Wing Dubbya Worshipping Fanatics can do to stop us.ISLAM IS THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF AMERICA "


And millions of Americans are honing their sniper skills.

Not so fast. You can crow if you like but don't start your celebrations just yet.

You think Americans will submit to Sharia Law? Can you imagine the powers-that-be in Las Vegas, caving to Sharia Law? Bwahahahah!

Islamofacists better watch the food they eat; Check under their cars every day; Keep a watchful eye on the tree lines and roof tops in their neighborhoods; listen for sounds coming from the sky and under their homes; Wonder if who they're talking to is really who they say they are; Wonder if the gas man is really the gas man or; Take every precaution in traffic because you never know when something could happen at a stop sign or when you're walking alone somewhere or camping..

There's is no end to American ingenuity and sacrifice, especially when our freedom is threatened

...Shalom degenerate!

If Tameem thinks people who "worship Dubya" are right wing, what does he think most Muslims are, submitting, as they do, to the most fascistic ideology of all time. (See Ibn Warraq's discourse reflecting on how Islam measures up against Umberto Eco's 14 points on recognizing fascism.)

And, oh yeah... ...Taneem's grandchildren will be secular Jews.

Hey Taneem, I read the back of the book, and WE win!

Islam is growing rapidly everywhere in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia due to permissive immigration policies.

Here's an interesting picture of what is happening in Ohio as described by Joe Guzzardi in a recent vdare.com article:

Consider this on the scene report from a health care professional living in Columbus, Ohio. I will call him William Edwards.
For the last three months, Edwards has kept me posted about the 30,000 Somalis in his community. The Somali Bantu resettlement program has been one of the most controversial since the enactment of the 1980 Refugee Act.
You will not read any of what Edwards has to say in the Columbus Dispatch—that’s for sure.
Edwards explains the lack of MSM negative comment about the Somalis this way:
"It is as though a flying saucer landed in your back yard but no one wanted to report on it for fear of being accused of hallucinating on drugs.
"This is a subject that is taboo. Some of the nurses have risked their jobs by talking about the Somali. The city announced that 30,000 more would be relocate in Columbus and vicinity but is tight lipped on talking about specific plans.
The Somalis speak their own language and the translators are all Somali so their loyalties are to their families. You have to rethink your basic ideas about medicine to understand their motives. They see western medicine as an adjunct to their own medicine. They are extremely private and will not talk about their own remedies. If you give them medicine they will take it home and use it as they feel would be most appropriate.
They don't consider western medicine as superior to their own. There is a sort of arrogance to their attitude to Columbus Ohio.
The government uses the Somalis as their anointed children. Also the city government uses them as England and George III used the Hessians or the Pope used the Swiss Guard, as their private army to force the natives into submission. The Somalis are no longer being relocated to the inner city where Section 8 (welfare) housing is located. Instead they are being located in the middle class suburbs and smaller towns. This results in a plunging of real estate values in whichever town the Somalis are placed.
One of my patients is a builder. He explains that there is a project to build 150 houses in a nicer suburb that will be given to Somalis to "teach them home ownership," a George W. Bush project. One Somali family was given a nice home in a middle class suburb. The family now has 40 people living in the house with attendant cars parking all over the place.
The nurse who related the story explained that they have tried to sell her home but instead of the $300,000 they had hoped for, they are now relegated to living in the home since they are unable to sell the house at all. Their retirement hopes have been devastated.
The Somalis elicit fear in the people who are forced to deal with them. No one wants to confront this for fear of being branded a racist. No one talks to the Somalis, they are a closed society with their own language.
The media has its own take on the Somalis. The families don't speak English but talk through an interpreter, so no one can judge whether the families are telling the truth when they declare some in Columbus as racist.
It is just unbelievable to people in Columbus that our government can perpetrate such fraud on our city. I suspect the people in California are smiling that others are finding out what they have had to accommodate to.
The population of Columbus is moving out to the smaller towns surrounding the city but the government is locating the Somalis in the middle of the smaller towns. Sort of like telling the populace—you can run but you can't hide."
The constant danger is that, despite what is going on in Columbus and other small American cities, Congress will continue to press for more legal immigration, especially via refugee resettlement.

This article is available at http://vdare.com/guzzardi/050506_immigration.htm


I first read about the resettlement of Somali muslim "bantus" in "The Great Somali Welfare Hunt" at http://www.amconmag.com/2002_11_18/cover4.html.

Now, it appears that Ohio has become a muslim Somali "resettlement zone".

I submit that the alleged "peaceful" muslim refugees of today bring the increased likelihood of domestic terrorism and anti-American attacks. Can anyone predict when "peaceful muslim" immigrants become "religious fundamentalists" and enemies of the U.S. and non-muslim citizens? When, as in Europe, will the children of "peaceful moderate muslims" become radicalised islamists? This is a ticking time bomb. It is not unreasonable to ask when the U.S. will experience another 9/11 or an "American Beslan".

I believe that it would be very worthwhile to focus increased attention on the Somali muslim resettlement in Ohio. The danger, irony and hypocrisy of this situation is overwhelming… (Already, one Somali muslim was arrested and charged with plotting to bomb a Columbus, Ohio shopping mall..)

'The population of Columbus is moving out to the smaller towns surrounding the city but the government is locating the Somalis in the middle of the smaller towns. Sort of like telling the populace—you can run but you can't hide."' ~info tech guy


Good God. I was 20 years off in my guesstimate in an earlier thread.

I don't suppose we know which way the majority vote in Columbus went, last November?

Infiltrate Infidel Infiltrate

Make the enemy your own from the inside out!

"We are quietly growing and breeding another generation thru our 20,000 converts per year, 80% are women, making the 7 million or so triple or even quapruple in the next twenty years.And then comes the rapid branch.There children do the same.And 20 years after that?Quarter Billion American muslims of all races and ethnic groups? May Allah(swt) make it so! "

and

And theres nothing you Right Wing Dubbya Worshipping Fanatics can do to stop us.ISLAM IS THE INEVITABLE FUTURE OF AMERICA

Peace,

Tameem


Posted by: Tameem at May 10, 2005 02:39 AM

Bad population growth estimates aside (a common feature of Islamists), I'm not sure that we have the common variety of trolls here. The language is so over the top, from such an unlikely quarter (a good old boy from one of the southeastern mountain states as I recall) that our Tameem may be something other than he claims to be.

waterdragon52:

I agree.

I'm thinking froll - what about you?

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