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Muslime terrorist worshippers at the New York Times Kill Themselves to Defend Them Yet Again |
Y'know, re: that Fort Dix plot that the hysterical dipshits on the
left wish their gods had carried out (best not to mention to any of
them how it was stopped or you'll witness never-ending temper
tantrums). I especially love this part: "'Unclear What Role, If Any,
Religion Played' in Fort Dix Six Terror Plot."
Mosques Are Shaken by Ties to a Plot
By ALAN FEUER
Published: May 14, 2007
PHILADELPHIA, May 11 - On the southern wall of the Al-Aqsa Islamic
Society here is a mural painted by local schoolchildren. In 18
different languages - from Arabic to Swahili - it depicts the world's
various ways of saying "love," "hope" and "peace."
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Ryan Donnell for The New York Times
Women entering the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in Philadelphia for
services. The mosque has a good relationship with the police and
F.B.I. in the city.
The mosque is an immaculate structure, four stories high and with a
colorful frieze adorned with arabesques. It is the best-kept building
in its North Philadelphia neighborhood, a blighted landscape dominated
by the crumbling brick pile of the abandoned Gretz brewery.
On weekday mornings, students from the mosque's school shoot hoops on
two tidy basketball courts or slip down cheerful plastic slides. Come
Friday, there are so many taxi drivers arriving for midday worship
that people joke it is difficult, in the rest of the city, to find a
cab.
It was here that Mohamad I. Shnewer, a Philadelphia cabdriver among
the six men charged with planning to attack Fort Dix, would come to
pray with his father, and where three other suspects, the brothers
Eljvir, Shain and Dritan Duka, had recently begun repairing the roof.
The Philadelphia mosque - along with the South Jersey Islamic Center
in nearby Palmyra, N.J., where the Duka brothers and another suspect,
Serdar Tatar, prayed on Fridays - has become associated with words
like "terrorist" and "jihad" in news reports and on the streets in the
last few days. For a house of worship long proud of its mainstream
reputation and strong ties to the city, whispers of a sleeper cell
within its walls have been troubling.
"There's been a lot of frustration," said Marwan Kreidie, who is
prominent among the city's Muslims and was recently asked to serve as
a spokesman for the mosque. "This is a place with great relationships
to the community, including a strong working relationship with law
enforcement in all its forms."
It is unclear what role, if any, religion played in the attack Mr.
Shnewer and the five other men are charged with planning. (The sixth
suspect, Agron Abdullahu, had no apparent connection with Al-Aqsa or
the South Jersey Islamic Center.) The authorities have described the
suspects as Islamic extremists, but the lengthy criminal complaint
summarizing the F.B.I.'s 15-month undercover investigation of the
group does not mention where - or how often - they prayed. Certainly
there is no evidence that they picked up radical ideas at either
mosque.
Al-Aqsa was founded in 1991, when its trustees bought an old warehouse
in a run-down section of industrial Philadelphia. It is a traditional
Sunni mosque, with prayers and sermons in Arabic. About 1,000 families
regularly attend its Friday services, which cater to an immigrant
congregation - mostly Palestinian, with some from Egypt and Syria.
Aside from the taxi drivers (whose cars line up outside, starting at
4:30 a.m., for the first of the five daily prayers), the congregants
are a mix of working-class and professional people, Mr. Kreidie said.
As Al-Aqsa grew, so did its involvement in the neighborhood. The
mosque has been the host of forums for candidates for the Philadelphia
City Council, serves as an Election Day polling site and has worked
with other religious groups to deliver meals at home to people who
have AIDS.
About 10 miles north up Interstate 95 and on the other side of the
Delaware River, the South Jersey Islamic Center sits in a quiet
residential neighborhood of large single-family homes in Palmyra,
population 7,000. It was founded in 1992 in a converted two-story gray
stone church.
There are about 200 regular members, most of Indian or Pakistani
descent, said Naseem Badat, the wife of a mosque trustee, Ismail
Badat. The largest gatherings are on Friday afternoons and Sundays,
when the children are taught the Koran and Islamic law and history.
There used to be a part-time imam, but now members take turns leading
prayers.
Unlike Al-Aqsa, where visitors were not allowed inside for any reason
on several days this week, the South Jersey Islamic Center welcomed
all to its Friday services, where Mr. Badat delivered a sermon
condemning the terror plot.
"We are all Americans, we are American Muslims," he said. "We are all
part of the same society and we condemn terrorism."
Like many mosques, Al-Aqsa and the South Jersey Center suffered after
Sept. 11 when fears emerged of a backlash against Muslims. The
leadership of Al-Aqsa took the attack on the World Trade Center as an
opportunity to strengthen its already strong ties with the
Philadelphia Police Department and the local office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Kreidie said.
With the outbreak of war in Iraq, he said, the mosque reached an
agreement with the F.B.I. to send out letters on its own letterhead
urging members of its congregation to cooperate with federal agents
who might come calling. "The idea was to build trust," Mr. Kreidie
said.
And trust was built, said James P. Doolin, an assistant special agent
in charge of the F.B.I.'s Philadelphia office. In the last six years,
he said, agents have met frequently with members of the mosque.
Capt. Bill Fisher, who leads the Philadelphia Police Department's
civil affairs unit and serves as a liaison to the city's Arabs, said
Al-Aqsa is squarely in the mainstream and "very much a part of the
community." Union leaders and government officials have participated
in services at the mosque, he said.
"I've always had nice relations with them," he said. "They have
nothing to hide.
"If anything, I feel sorry for them."
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18 May 2007 10:21:30 AM |
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<omarenoryt@aol.com> wrote in message
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Y'know, re: that Fort Dix plot that the hysterical dipshits on the
left wish
It's almot funny if it weren't so pathetically stupid that brain challenged
fascist Amerika-Firsters like you really believe that kind of vomit.
If anyone loves the terrorists it's BushCo.
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| User: "Toki Wartooth" |
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18 May 2007 05:49:30 AM |
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<omarsexual@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1179450741.614456.152470@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
Y'know, re: that Fort Dix plot that the hysterical dipshits on the
left wish their gods had carried out (best not to mention to any of
them how it was stopped or you'll witness never-ending temper
tantrums). I especially love this part: "'Unclear What Role, If Any,
Religion Played' in Fort Dix Six Terror Plot."
This kind of rightarded nonsense is why you KKKrooKKKed lying repugnigoons
can't win elections.
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| User: "Lamont Cranston" |
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17 May 2007 09:05:46 PM |
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wrote:
Y'know, re: that Fort Dix plot that the hysterical dipshits on the
Omar, are you still fucking your neighbor's baby daughter?
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