From a New York Times story about the NYPD recruiting Muslims to be informers comes this quote of the day, or possibly of the entire year, from a Muslim former police sergeant. The Times, of course, leaves it out there as a rhetorical question, without bothering to inform its readers that a Long Island mosque was recently revealed to have supported jihad terrorists, or that mosques in Austria were recently raided for supporting the Syrian jihad, or that Nigerian clerics are recruiting for Boko Haram in mosques, or that a mullah was recently killed in a bomb-making accident in a mosque in Afghanistan, or that a London mosque was used as a base for international jihad terror operations. Should the NYPD have informants in mosques? Absolutely. Is the New York Times once again on the side of America’s enemies by publishing a story suggesting that the placement of such informants is gratuitous and unwarranted? Absolutely.
“New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers,” by Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, May 10, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):
…Bobby Hadid, a former sergeant with the unit and himself a Muslim immigrant from Algeria, said he had become increasingly uncomfortable with what he and his colleagues were doing, particularly when it came to asking questions about religion of many of the prisoners, who had been arrested for petty crimes or violations.
“We are detectives of the New York Police Department’s Intelligence Division,” he said. “We are there to collect intelligence about criminal activity or terrorism. Why are we asking, ‘Are you Muslim?’ ‘What mosque do you go to?’ What does that have to do with terrorism?”
Once a well-regarded investigator who had worked on the F.B.I.-led Joint Terrorism Task Force before being tapped to join the Intelligence Division, Mr. Hadid was eventually removed from the force after being convicted of perjury in a case unrelated to his counterterrorism work. The conviction, which he is appealing, involved his role as a translator in a murder investigation that had led to his being sent to France.
According to Mr. Hadid, each morning, detectives with the debriefing unit received a list of immigrants, cataloged by country of origin, who had been arrested in New York the previous day. Arrestees from Middle Eastern and other predominantly Muslim countries, typically, attracted the most interest from detectives, along with prisoners with Arabic-sounding names, Mr. Hadid said. Periodically, there would be directives for the detectives to focus on immigrants of a specific nationality….
Tradewinds says
Why are we asking, ‘Are you Muslim?’ ‘What mosque do you go to?’ What does that have to do with terrorism?”
Is he serious? You got to be kidding! Oh Mr. Muslim – Muslims and mosques have everything to do with Islamic Terrorism. Perhaps you’ve noticed.
Is this what we’ve come to 13 years after 9/11? Quoting Muslims trying to discredit the connection between Islam, Muslims and Terrorism? It’s too ludicrous to be believed – but, there it is.
Jaladhi says
Islam is terrorism. The supposed messenger of allah says he has been made victorious by terror. What more proof one needs to conclude the connection of Islam with terrorism!!
jihad3tracker says
Whenever faithful Muslims in American get upset by the idea of surveillance, remember 1 simple thing :
THEIR ALLEGIANCE IS TO ISLAM AND IT EVENTUALLY SUBJUGATING US.
To achieve this, whatever needs to be said will be said….
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Why are we asking, ‘Are you Muslim?’</i<
Cuz there's been a persistent pattern across the globe where Moslems activate and go and do a mass murder. More commonly, the Imams in the mosques invoke doing mass murder, thus bringing up and leveling the threat of doing so. Whether someone is a Moslem is therefore important.
‘What mosque do you go to?’ What does that have to do with terrorism?”
Excellent question. Terrorism is preached and praised in all mosques, that must be so, cuz the Holy Ko-Ran and Hah-Deaths are filled with the stuff. You know, the parts aboutlie in wait for them in every stratagem of war and kill them wherever you find them and fight until there is no god but Allah and fighting is prescribed for you and fight those who believe not in Allah and horrible murderings…
My proposition is this: there could just be, maybe, it’s within the realm of possiblity and therefore within reason for we Infidels to consider the possibility of maybe some decade in the future actually discuss the facts and reality of Islam. Maybe. Possibly. If we decide to do that. Talking Moslems for what they really are could anger them, but what the hell…
Not all mosques are equal. The men in some mosques are gonna just tacitly cheer those in the activist mosques, where the activity is real and aimed in the direction of mass murder, as with the Tsarnaev brothers.
Jack Diamond says
“Not all mosques are equal”. Very true. In Islam mosques have a hierarchy of value. Muhammad said a prayer said in the ka’aba in Mecca is equal to 100,000 done elsewhere. A prayer in Medina is worth 1,000 elsewhere. A prayer at the Al Aqsa mosque is equal to 500 elsewhere. Shi’a have a similar hierarchy. Mosques everywhere differ in their importance, those given highest ranking based on their theological purity and political significance, meaning the worse they are from the point of view of the kafir, the better they are for praying Muslims.
Sam says
>Why are we asking, ‘Are you Muslim?’ ‘What mosque do you go to?’ What does that have to do with terrorism?”
They should stop asking people if they are Muslim.
Instead the Police/FBI should put all their energy into finding the secret members of Al-Qaida who are Buddhisht, Christian and Hindu.
I am sure, if America puts all its resources into this, they will find thousands of non-muslim Al-Qaida terrorists.
Jaladhi says
NYTimes always sides with America’s enemies! Maybe NY police should be watching them!! LOL…
IQ al Rassooli says
To answer this ignorant officer about his own Islamic belief system I would like him and the readers to consider the following verses (only THREE out of similar 6200 verses in Quran & Hadith) from Muhammad’s Quran and find out if there is ANY Decency Compassion or Justice in them to 80% of humanity called Infidels/Kuffar in Arabic (my mother tongue from Iraq)~
Al Tauba 9:29 “Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous Tax for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”
*** Just to make sure that the listeners would believe what I am revealing, I would like to put forth a challenge worth $100,000 to the first person who can show us all a SINGLE OPERATIVE verse in Muhammad’s Quran that demonstrates any Compassion & Mercy to all UNBELIEVERS!
Currently, Unbelievers represent 80% of humanity: All Christians Buddhists Hindus Jews Atheists Agnostics etc. That is any and all those who are NOT Muslims! $100,000 for just ONE verse from among over 6200 verses in Muhammad’s Quran!***
Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.
And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”
*** Dear listeners, the implications of the last sentence is of immense importance “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…” meaning that any followers of Muhammad who befriend or under the rule of Christians or Jews (or any none Muslim group) would be considered Apostates to Islam, outsiders to Islam, enemies of Islam who must be slaughtered.
In a nutshell, no Muslim can ever be loyal to the American Constitution because it is NOT from Allah nor can any of them be loyal citizens because none Muslim Americans are Infidels/ Kuffar/ Unbelievers/ Kafiroon ***
Al Imran 3:85 “ If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah) never will it be accepted of him …”
YES! Mosques MUST be monitored by law and this is NOT RACISM since Islam is NOT a race but a CULT belief system from every race, color, ethnicity and background
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
jihad3tracker says
HELLO IQ AND THANK YOU !!!!! A superb factual post —
Please keep up our counter-jihad effort, in league with Robert, Pam Geller, David Wood, Bill Warner, and the many other courageous people who risk their lives — literally, on a 24/7 clock.
IQ al Rassooli says
Thank you jihad3tracker & gravenimage for taking the time to comment
ALL Muslims use TAQIYYAH to deceive 90% of Islam ignorant humanity
The tragedy is that most of our own leaders in the West be they Politicians, in the Media, Clergy & Academia are literally aiding and abetting these Degenerate creatures to poison the minds of our young people in universities
Barrak Obama & Hillary Clinton are among the foremost defenders of the CULT of Muhammadan Islam
Both of them should have been IMPEACHED for numerous criminally negligent failures especially Benghazi & Boko Haram
The fault is NOT, I repeat NOT with Islam whose publicly declared intention is to ISLAMIZE the whole world BUT with our leaders who refuse to associate 100% of acts of terror against Ummat al Kuffar (80% of current humanity that is NOT Muslim) starting again with Obama the closeted Muslim
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Roderick says
“Kafir & Proud!” — IQ al Rassooli
OO-RAH!!
gravenimage says
IQ, I would *not* assume that this Mohammedan is “ignorant”. More likely he is practicing Taqiyya to confuse the credulous Kuffar and protect Islam.
Jack Diamond says
The mosque is the start of any self-defense against jihad. There is not a jihad that is not associated with a mosque or with imams giving it holy sanction, or an act of “individual” jihad with which the mosques attended don’t share the same mindset (Boston) as the terrorist. This is for deep reasons having to do with the very meaning of a mosque and it’s reason for being. Especially in the lands of the infidels, as a forward operating base for migration and da’wa (jihad is part of da’wa). Muslims are also required to give zakat (charity) a portion of which is mandated to go to mujahideen. Why is it a surprise mosques and clerics aid and support jihad? Despite condemning “terrorism” is there a specific jihadist cause anywhere they do not regard as a “legitimate struggle”?
A mosque is not like a church nor is there separation of church and state in Islam. Worship in Islam does not involve personal choices, it is about submission and implementing the law of Allah. Those who think Islam can reform ignore this and ignore the defeat of any and every movement toward individual freedom or peaceful coexistence in history. Mosque, jama’a, means gathering place. Every mosque is modeled on the first mosque in Medina/Yathrib, which Muhammad had built before even his own house. This was the center of the ummah, this is where war operations were planned (mosques continue to be used militarily) it was the headquarters of the Islamic State, it’s where doctrine was taught, death penalties handed out, jihad proclaimed. Muhammad in an authoritative hadith said the entire earth had been declared to him a mosque, meaning the entire earth must be brought under Islamic control and purged of apostasy, which so offends Allah. This is not a matter of choice for Muslims and It is to be expected a mosque will be teaching these things, not that it won’t.
Hijra, Islamic migration, is a doctrine of Islam that can be studied as can the history of its application. Hadiths quote Muhammad saying “I am innocent or free of any Muslim that lives amongst the kafir” or “whosoever collegiates or aggregates with non-Muslims and lives with them, he is one of them.” (Abu Daw’uad 2645, 2789). Muslims are supposed to segregate themselves from non-Muslims and their kufr, disbelief. The only exception is if they are communally engaged in hijra, to spread Islam and establish the Islamic state. Hijra precedes jihad (Q 2:218 “verily those who have believed and those who have emigrated (for Allah’s religion) and have striven hard in the Way of Allah or (fought jihad) all these hope for Allah’s mercy.”))
All hijra is based on the first hijra, the migration and eventual conquest of Yathrib/Medina. The paradigm of a Muslim community centered around a mosque, issuing Islamic laws, and finally bringing about an Islamic State begins there. Muhammad’s example also includes using deception and winning favor with non-Muslims, a part of his strategy in Medina (muda’rat is the Sunni doctrine of deception: ‘we must deal with our enemies with smiles on our faces and curses in our hearts” Bukhari 5780). This too is doctrine, therefore obligatory and to be expected. Advancing Islam is the duty of a Muslim. The mosque is the center of life for the migrating Muslim community. It’s mission is set in stone, to embody Islamic empowerment and its multiplying (i.e. colonizing). The best source for understanding the meaning of the mosque and hijra are “The Mosque Exposed” and “Modern Day Trojan Horse, the Islamic Doctrine of Immigration” by Sam Solomon and E Al Maqdisi. Sam Solomon was a professor of Shari’a for 15 years before leaving Islam.
Burt says
The obvious problem with this is if any muslim police officer can be trusted enough to provide reliable information.
Even more so the probably numerous muslims employed by national security organizations.
mortimer says
To which mosque did the 9-11 terrorists go? At which mosque did Anwar Awlaki teach jihad? To which mosque did Dr Death Nidal Hasan go?
Northern Virginiastan says
Dar al Hijrah mosque, Falls Church, Virginia (but it’s only a matter of time before they demand a name change to Falls Mosque).
Jay Boo says
They may prefer to keep the current name anyway since it reflects upon their true intent at promoting Islamic violence once the pretense of peace is no longer needed.
Salah says
“Why are we asking, ‘What mosque do you go to?’ What does that have to do with terrorism?”
It has a LOT to do with terrorism, ask the Egyptians!
Gaza tunnels discovered in Rafah Mosque
The tunnel openings were found behind Al-Nasr Mosque’s washroom, behind the pulpit, one in the southern corner and three “from the bottom of the mosque”, according to the armed forces.
Read it all here:
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/04/27/gaza-tunnels-discovered-rafah-mosque/
Salah says
Ask the Egyptians, again!
In Egypt, some 12,000 freelance preachers have been barred from delivering sermons. The Religious Endowments Ministry, or Awqaf in Arabic, now sets strict guidelines for sermons, and anyone who strays from them in Egypt’s more than 100,000 mosques risks removal.
Read it all here:
http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Egypt+muzzles+mosques+crackdown+Islamists/9804459/story.html
veggiedog says
And to recruit Muslims to spy on and inforn on Muslims, really, have you lost your mind.
Tradewinds says
Insane, isn’t it? These NYPD “useful idiots” will go to any length to pretend that Islam isn’t Terrorism. Why don’t we just get wolves to inform on other wolves? Or Crocodiles – hey, they just love informing on each other to the wildebeest!
Brazooka says
That goes to show: we shouldn’t have Muslim police sergeants. No follower of Muhammad is worthy of trust.
Tradewinds says
You’re exactly right, Brazooka. “Infidels” should never, ever, trust Mohammedans. They’re our natural enemy. To have a Muslim police sergeant is just asking for the “Why you looking at Muslims and mosques” type of deception Muslims specialize in.
duh_swami says
Wen it comes to a mosque, a bulldozer is better than a question…
Tradewinds says
Bring on the bulldozers!
Myxlplik says
Since, jihadists tend to be among the most devout among Muslims, it stands to reason that they would be worshiping in mosques.
What reason would this man have to disable this undeniable logic & investigative asset regarding public safety, other than his national allegiance is with the umah and not America.
Charli Main says
” the building of mosques is mistakenly viewed by non Muslims as just a construction of a house of worship,
but its true goal is establishing a purposeful non integrated Muslim identity to advance the goal of the stealth Islamisation of a country ”
Y K Cherzon
veggiedog says
Yes he is not ignorant, Taqiyya will be the undoing of all of us as long as the left chooses to believe.
Jay Boo says
But aren’t our good American Muslims embracing modernity?
Although this website has found fault with folks like Suhaib Webb, he and his ilk are too moderate for ‘moderate’ American Muslims.
“Allah guides and Allah misguides whom he pleases. Usama Hasan, Taj Hargey, Majid Nawaz are all examples of Islamically educated yet shameless sell outs here on our shores. Individuals who would be celebrated as ‘progressives’ in America, but thankfully marginalised in the UK by the more discerning British Muslim audience. If Suhaib Webb resided here, he would undoubtedly be at the top of that list.”
http://muslimmodernists.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/10-reasons-why-imam-suhaib-webb-should-be-avoided/
Paleologos says
So sad, from the city that housed the old and new “Cathedral To God’s Team,” … Yankee Stadium, The New York Yankees, … trust me they are GOD’s TEAM, and you can’t win this argument, … 27 World Series Championships, and counting …
Comes commentary from multiple first class idiots …
The controlling powers on the New York Times editorial staff …
Hey! … speaking of first class idiots, who was that recent “Death Wish Jewish NYC Mayor?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsHc1EHgQY
You know, I was born in NY State, and am a life long NY Yankee fan.
Just how did New York City voters get so fu**ing stupid, anyway?
… and his replacement, Bill de Blasio, is just as big an idiot.
R/
Paleologos
gravenimage says
“Why are we asking, ‘What mosque do you go to?’ What does that have to do with terrorism?”
………………………………………..
Muslims can learn the tenets of their foul creed through their families, from their buddies, through independent study of the Qur’an and Hadith, from the internet, and through the Mosque.
For most Muslims, it is some combination of the above—but the Mosque is far and away the biggest “radicalizer” of Muslims.
By estimate, 85% of Mosques in the United States are “radicalized”. Even if it is difficult to qualify such a subjective statement, this is a shocking figure, and shows that most Muslims who attend Mosque are being “radicalized” there.
Of course, it is not so shocking when you realize that this is absolutely mainstream, orthodox Islam—much rarer is the Imam who *doesn’t* teach all the viciousness of his creed.
As for “Bobby” Hadid? The mere fact that we have Mohammedan police sergeants is utter madness. How many investigations did he interfere with?
Clearly, his loyalty is with the Ummah, and not those standing against Jihad terror.
And this is not just supposition:
“Disgraced NYPD sergeant Bobby Hadid convicted for laying about romantic email to French murder suspect”
Hadid faces up to 7 years in prison
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-sgt-hadid-found-guilty-perjury-article-1.1192091
The exact nature of this crime is somewhat unclear—but Hadid was a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and was in France involved with this case on this basis.
It is clear that he has no respect for the laws of the Infidels.
That he is being uncritically quoted by the New York Times here with no mention of his criminal breach of trust is simply unconscionable.
voegelinian says
I suspect that French murder involved Muslims; it may well have been an honor killing whose perpetrators he wanted to protect.
Wellington says
Every mosque in America is an edifice which stands as an insult to the great principles so masterfully articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, especially those of liberty and government deriving its “just powers from the consent of the governed.”
somehistory says
If you want to know what any group of people are planning, go to the meeting place. If you wish to see sailors, you go to the ports. If you wish to know what soldiers are doing, you go to the forts.
Police used to call in the “usual suspects” when some particular crime was committed, or when talk on the *street* indicated a big heist was going down.
We are living in *critical times* and liars are a large problem.
mortimer says
A mosque is a group of serious jihadists at prayer.
Arjay says
I’m just doing a mental checklist of various religious institutions (or their equivalents) that I have visited, attended or went past in the previous year.
Protestant churches of various denominations, a few Roman Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues… the local LDS (Mormon) Church… the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall down the street from the school…
Some visits were for religious services, weddings, funerals and other rights of passage. Some visits related to supporting a charity event or other cause.
The local Ethical Society, the Russian and Armenian Orthodox Churches, the Buddhist Center. A New Age bookstore had a meeting room in the back that hosted different groups- Wiccans, neo-Pagans, Hindus and those who were into “reading auras” and “non-Hindus” who believed in reincarnation.
As an American Indian, I’m aware of an area where privately American Indian sweat-lodge and other ceremonies take place. I have been there. However, since those ceremonies are not in the traditions of the tribal affiliations with which I am descended I am not a participant.
I remember being in front of a Christian Science Reading Room while waiting for a bus. I can say I am not afraid of the followers of the late Mary Baker Eddy’s faith philosophy she founded. The neighbors down the street were Quakers and hosted “meetings”, and the neighbors across the street host Bible studies and “prayer group” for their independent store front church that seems to defy classification.
A bi-racial Chinese/Anglo American young woman loves talking to me about her studies of Confucius and Far Eastern philosophy… and the lesbians from work are overheard to talk about an event at their MCC congregation… and their is the Sikh gentleman- always friendly and very spiritual. And I had a conflict and couldn’t attend an event by the Bahai.
Oh, and there was the historic tour I did of a local big city Christian Cathedral that is on the historic landmark registry.
Whether conservative, moderate or liberal… Christian or Non-Christians, Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, atheist, Eastern Orthodox, New Ager, Baptist, Wiccan, Evangelical Christian, MCC, Buddhist, Bahai… or Free-Thinkers and members of Ethical Societies. They all have one thing in common.
I am NOT afraid of them. Whether being on their property, institutions or going past or being in front of their facilities.
I don’t “freak out” if the young girl chats me up about her study of Confucius or the Jehovah’s Witnesses leave a copy of the Watchtower magazine stuck in my gate as they go up and down the neighborhood. Seeing the Catholic nuns escort children in parochial school uniforms, or Protestant families leaving church after Wednesday night Bible study or Jewish families leave the synagogue after services… doesn’t bother, disturb or frighten me.
A local merchant- a Hindu never tries to force his faith on his customers, yet he is delightful when I ask “who” the different deity statues represent or what the people are saying in the “Bollywood” type music I hear.
Heck, I don’t expect Kirstie Alley or John Travolta to come out of the Hollywood Scientology Celebrity Center ready to engage in acts of violence.
However, there is one religion- actually a politically motivated death cult that does disturb me.
When Christians, Jews and Hollywood Scientologists leave their services… they don’t riot against other faiths. Yet, how many time do we find out muzslimes beat, rape and murder non-believers who get caught unaware after Islamic Friday prayers.
Little Jewish children at Hanukkah or Purim parties don’t spout their intent to grow up and kill non-believers at these religious celebrations. Yet, how many videos do we have to view of “devout Islamic kiddies” spouting hate during Ramadan.
The girl who studies Confucius philosophy or the exchange student who is a Buddhist isn’t going to threaten to kill me if I tell them that I think Confucius and Buddha are stupid and their teachings useless. Try telling that to a bearded Muzslime with one of those bruised shit-stain marks on their forehead.
See the response if you said similar things about MoHAMmed.
Oh, and those Watchtower mags… will those and the Book of Mormon that gets dropped off on your doorstep… I never have the Witnesses or the LDSers ever do follow up an inquire what I did with them. Are they on my shelf or recycle bin or tossed in the garbage?
Let a Muzslime know you tossed a KorHAM in the trash… and then either be sued for racism (if your in Europe), get physically attacked (in the USA and Canada) or be murdered (in Pakistan, Myanmar, Sudan and other places).
So whatever religion or non-religion (atheist, agnostic, Free-Thinker, Ethical Society member, secular humanist, etc)… all should unite or face destruction.
There are over 1 billion muslims and they are commanded to enslave, destroy and murder. All non-muslims need to combine forces or experience the end of civilization.
veggiedog says
Arjay, very thoughtful pos. thank you
veggiedog says
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dumbledoresarmy says
Arjay
have you had many opportunities to warn your own native american nation/ tribe about Islam, jihad, sharia? And if you have…how are people responding? Are they listening? Do they believe you? Is word spreading?
Every chief of every registered tribe should have his own copy of Sam Solomon’s “Al Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration” and printouts of Raymond Ibrahim’s articles about Muslim deception, so that he knows what to do when mohammedan dawa artists come sniffing around the community, trying to con people – especially disaffected young men – into thinking that Islam is a way out of any difficulties they’re experiencing. The chiefs and tribal councils need to know about the “Treaty of Hudaybiyya” so they can refuse to do deals with Mohammedans. Ever.
If your tribe has a library on the reservation: put Mr Spencer’s books in there, especially “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades” and “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran” and “The Truth About Muhammad”. And Brigitte Gabriel’s “They Must be Stopped”.
Native Americans should know that those who convert to Islam end up forgetting – and despising – who they were and where they came from; attacking and destroying their pre-Islamic history and culture and identity, all the while desperately trying to be more purely and zealously Arab Muslim than the top-of-the-Islamic-heap Arab Muslims (who will always despise them and look down on them).
Native Americans who know what Islam is – a invading and destroying entity bent on enslaving all of humanity – should refuse to permit Muslims onto their tribal territories. If you have the power to prevent muslims from entering the reservations and spinning their evil lies to deceive or seduce your young people…**USE IT**! If someone from the tribe joins Islam, that person should be told that he or she is now considered an exile and outlaw; they cannot come back unless and until they publicly renounce Islam.
Are you a member of ACT for America? People like you who have woken up could create local chapters of ACT for America, within your tribes/ nations.
I think that you will need to invoke all that is best in your warrior tradition, to confront and defeat this latest and worst and sneakiest of invasions, the invasion by the death cultists, the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, the Allah Gang.
Wellington says
Great post, Arjay. My compliments. Islam is indeed the odd man out among all religions and the odd man out in a most wretched, despicable way, as you very effectively conveyed.
Arjay says
I’m just doing a mental checklist of various religious institutions (or their equivalents) that I have visited, attended or went past in the previous year.
Protestant churches of various denominations, a few Roman Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues… the local LDS (Mormon) Church… the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall down the street from the school…
Some visits were for religious services, weddings, funerals and other rights of passage. Some visits related to supporting a charity event or other cause.
The local Ethical Society, the Russian and Armenian Orthodox Churches, the Buddhist Center. A New Age bookstore had a meeting room in the back that hosted different groups- Wiccans, neo-Pagans, Hindus and those who were into “reading auras” and “non-Hindus” who believed in reincarnation.
As an American Indian, I’m aware of an area where privately American Indian sweat-lodge and other ceremonies take place. I have been there. However, since those ceremonies are not in the traditions of the tribal affiliations with which I am descended I am not a participant.
I remember being in front of a Christian Science Reading Room while waiting for a bus. I can say I am not afraid of the followers of the late Mary Baker Eddy’s faith philosophy she founded. The neighbors down the street were Quakers and hosted “meetings”, and the neighbors across the street host Bible studies and “prayer group” for their independent store front church that seems to defy classification.
A bi-racial Chinese/Anglo American young woman loves talking to me about her studies of Confucius and Far Eastern philosophy… and the lesbians from work are overheard to talk about an event at their MCC congregation… and their is the Sikh gentleman- always friendly and very spiritual. And I had a conflict and couldn’t attend an event by the Bahai.
Oh, and there was the historic tour I did of a local big city Christian Cathedral that is on the historic landmark registry.
Whether conservative, moderate or liberal… Christian or Non-Christians, Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, atheist, Eastern Orthodox, New Ager, Baptist, Wiccan, Evangelical Christian, MCC, Buddhist, Bahai… or Free-Thinkers and members of Ethical Societies. They all have one thing in common.
I am NOT afraid of them. Whether being on their property, institutions or going past or being in front of their facilities.
I don’t “freak out” if the young girl chats me up about her study of Confucius or the Jehovah’s Witnesses leave a copy of the Watchtower magazine stuck in my gate as they go up and down the neighborhood. Seeing the Catholic nuns escort children in parochial school uniforms, or Protestant families leaving church after Wednesday night Bible study or Jewish families leave the synagogue after services… doesn’t bother, disturb or frighten me.
A local merchant- a Hindu never tries to force his faith on his customers, yet he is delightful when I ask “who” the different deity statues represent or what the people are saying in the “Bollywood” type music I hear.
Heck, I don’t expect Kirstie Alley or John Travolta to come out of the Hollywood Scientology Celebrity Center ready to engage in acts of violence.
However, there is one religion- actually a politically motivated death cult that does disturb me.
When Christians, Jews and Hollywood Scientologists leave their services… they don’t riot against other faiths. Yet, how many time do we find out muzslimes beat, rape and murder non-believers who get caught unaware after Islamic Friday prayers.
Little Jewish children at Hanukkah or Purim parties don’t spout their intent to grow up and kill non-believers at these religious celebrations. Yet, how many videos do we have to view of “devout Islamic kiddies” spouting hate during Ramadan.
The girl who studies Confucius philosophy or the exchange student who is a Buddhist isn’t going to threaten to kill me if I tell them that I think Confucius and Buddha are stupid and their teachings useless. Try telling that to a bearded Muzslime with one of those bruised shit-stain marks on their forehead.
See the response if you said similar things about MoHAMmed.
Oh, and those Watchtower mags… will those and the Book of Mormon that gets dropped off on your doorstep… I never have the Witnesses or the LDSers ever do follow up an inquire what I did with them. Are they on my shelf or recycle bin or tossed in the garbage?
Let a Muzslime know you tossed a KorHAM in the trash… and then either be sued for racism (if your in Europe), get physically attacked (in the USA and Canada) or be murdered (in Pakistan, Myanmar, Sudan and other places).
So whatever religion or non-religion (atheist, agnostic, Free-Thinker, Ethical Society member, secular humanist, etc)… all should unite or face destruction.
There are over 1 billion muslims and they are commanded to enslave, destroy and murder. All non-muslims need to combine forces or experience the end of civilization.
mark says
If terrorists are Muslim, then Muslim profiling is wise and necessary. New York liberals are illogical enough to see something wrong with this though. If they keep going down the non-profiling path, another 9/11 is inevitable.