Tel-Chai Nation

It's not just in New York where opposition is growing to mosques like the one planned by the imam Abdul Rauf. Even across the USA, there's oppositions growing to other mosques being planned as well:

With the heated debates regarding the planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York making headlines in recent weeks, a New York Times report that was also published in the San Francisco Sentinel over the weekend serves as a reminder that not only the Big Apple has experienced confrontations due to a planned building of a mosque.

The report highlighted what has taken place in other locations across the United States in which mosques are proposed. For example, hundreds of protesters marched in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where a large Muslim center was proposed near a subdivision. Republican candidates have already denounced these plans, said the report.

[...] Diana Serafin, who opposes the Temecula mosque: “As a mother and a grandmother, I worry. I learned that in 20 years with the rate of the birth population, we will be overtaken by Islam, and their goal is to get people in Congress and the Supreme Court to see that Shariah is implemented. My children and grandchildren will have to live under that.”

She added: “I do believe everybody has a right to freedom of religion. But Islam is not about a religion. It’s a political government, and it’s 100 percent against our Constitution.”

It reminds me of the opposition to the mosque that was planned in Staten Island. The residents there were concerned about potential incitement to terrorism and violence, and it's the same even in other parts of the USA. All citizens should be concerned about the terrible impact Islam can have in their neighborhoods.

Yet that NYT article, as can be expected, is biased, and at Big Journalism, they study what's wrong with it.

Update: see also this disturbing topic at Big Peace about the imam Rauf's connections with 9-11 truthers and anti-semitic movements.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, New York, United States