অনুগ্রহ করে অপেক্ষা করুন। ছবি আটো ইন্সার্ট হবে।
"Currently in United States there is something is unusual. I was here since 1986. I have blessed with two kids here and I never faced any problem. My kids, Shayla & Layla, they go to the girl scouts, they play basketball, and they did all the normal activities. It just founded after 9/11. "Once in America other people were the target; we are the target now. We have risk in Miami, we have trouble in Boston, and we have trouble in Los Angeles” Ms Hamida Begum, an US citizen with Bangladeshi origin.
While the US arranges to mark the ninth anniversary of the al-Qaida attack on New York, the country's Muslims say they are in front of antagonism and suspicion from some of their fellow Americans that they seldom encountered immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
Over plans to construct an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in New York is fueling a question about whether Muslims in the US put their faith before their country. A growing numbers of Americans suspecting that their president is secretly a Muslim – nearly one in five says that he is and many more think it likely.
Late last year Musfreesboro's Islamic Centers (a nonprofit organization that was established in Murfreesboro, Tennessee) leaders publicized plans to build a new Mosque because the 250 Muslim families in town had exceeded the existing one. The construction plans were approved. Initially, no one in the town of about 100,000 people south of Nashville said much about it.
In February, someone spray-painted over the sign: "Not welcome", with the letter t shaped like a Christian cross. Members of MIC put that down. However, by May, protest meetings were coordinated, politicians were denouncing the plans and the loyalty of Muslims in the town was openly questioned. Among those who spoke against construction of the new Islamic center was Karen Harrell. Speakers accused Muslims in the town of encouraging polygamy and teaching the young with hate, and questioned whether they adhered to the US constitution.
Islamic leaders noticed that few candidates in this year’s elections whipped some of the boisterous criticism up. At the front was Lou Ann Zelenik, a candidate for the Republican nomination for
Congress who is a famous local leader.
Professor Ron Messier of Islamic studies who lives in Murfreesboro, says the atmosphere is driven by politics. They are helped by parts of the media. Fox News allegedly, giving a platform to those who question the loyalty of Muslim Americans and to conspiracy theorists. In America, bigoted comments about Islam often seem to come from people who have never visited a mosque and know few if any Muslims.
This week Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of New Republic, an influential Washington political magazine, wrote that Muslims were unfit for the protections of the US constitution. "Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. Peretz was swiftly denounced by some prominent American bloggers. Is it possible to imagine the same kind of gesture about blacks or Jews? How do nearly seven million American Muslims feel when their faith is denounced as barbaric? Cardinal Theodore McCarrick put it this way: “This is not America. America was not built on hate.”
While Peretz was strongly criticized on blogs, mainstream newspapers that regularly denounce racism and anti-Semitism stayed silent.
Many in the town of Musfreesboro say they have no problem with the new mosque. Among them is a woman called Bonnie who works in a local bookshop and lost a stepbrother in one of the World Trade Centre towers.
"I don't have a problem with them opening a mosque in New York, just not two blocks from where my stepbrother died. However, here does not bother me because everybody has a right to practice their religion. They have been here, they are quiet. They haven't bothered anybody," she said.Nevertheless, local politics is staging a very crucial negative role.
Currently, a majority of Republicans think that their president wants to impose Islamic law worldwide. But what the majority public think; Zelenick was defeated, along with most of the other politicians who made Islam an election issue in Tennessee.
Religion could not be the only weapon for peace; Religion must not be the obstacle on harmony as terrorist does not belongs to any Religion.
"Currently in United States there is something is unusual. I was here since 1986. I have blessed with two kids here and I never faced any problem. My kids, Shayla & Layla, they go to the girl scouts, they play basketball, and they did all the normal activities. It just founded after 9/11. "Once in America other people were the target; we are the target now. We have risk in Miami, we have trouble in Boston, and we have trouble in Los Angeles” Ms Hamida Begum, an US citizen with Bangladeshi origin.
While the US arranges to mark the ninth anniversary of the al-Qaida attack on New York, the country's Muslims say they are in front of antagonism and suspicion from some of their fellow Americans that they seldom encountered immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
Over plans to construct an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in New York is fueling a question about whether Muslims in the US put their faith before their country. A growing numbers of Americans suspecting that their president is secretly a Muslim – nearly one in five says that he is and many more think it likely.
Late last year Musfreesboro's Islamic Centers (a nonprofit organization that was established in Murfreesboro, Tennessee) leaders publicized plans to build a new Mosque because the 250 Muslim families in town had exceeded the existing one. The construction plans were approved. Initially, no one in the town of about 100,000 people south of Nashville said much about it.
In February, someone spray-painted over the sign: "Not welcome", with the letter t shaped like a Christian cross. Members of MIC put that down. However, by May, protest meetings were coordinated, politicians were denouncing the plans and the loyalty of Muslims in the town was openly questioned. Among those who spoke against construction of the new Islamic center was Karen Harrell. Speakers accused Muslims in the town of encouraging polygamy and teaching the young with hate, and questioned whether they adhered to the US constitution.
Islamic leaders noticed that few candidates in this year’s elections whipped some of the boisterous criticism up. At the front was Lou Ann Zelenik, a candidate for the Republican nomination for
Congress who is a famous local leader.
Professor Ron Messier of Islamic studies who lives in Murfreesboro, says the atmosphere is driven by politics. They are helped by parts of the media. Fox News allegedly, giving a platform to those who question the loyalty of Muslim Americans and to conspiracy theorists. In America, bigoted comments about Islam often seem to come from people who have never visited a mosque and know few if any Muslims.
This week Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of New Republic, an influential Washington political magazine, wrote that Muslims were unfit for the protections of the US constitution. "Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. Peretz was swiftly denounced by some prominent American bloggers. Is it possible to imagine the same kind of gesture about blacks or Jews? How do nearly seven million American Muslims feel when their faith is denounced as barbaric? Cardinal Theodore McCarrick put it this way: “This is not America. America was not built on hate.”
While Peretz was strongly criticized on blogs, mainstream newspapers that regularly denounce racism and anti-Semitism stayed silent.
Many in the town of Musfreesboro say they have no problem with the new mosque. Among them is a woman called Bonnie who works in a local bookshop and lost a stepbrother in one of the World Trade Centre towers.
"I don't have a problem with them opening a mosque in New York, just not two blocks from where my stepbrother died. However, here does not bother me because everybody has a right to practice their religion. They have been here, they are quiet. They haven't bothered anybody," she said.Nevertheless, local politics is staging a very crucial negative role.
Currently, a majority of Republicans think that their president wants to impose Islamic law worldwide. But what the majority public think; Zelenick was defeated, along with most of the other politicians who made Islam an election issue in Tennessee.
Religion could not be the only weapon for peace; Religion must not be the obstacle on harmony as terrorist does not belongs to any Religion.
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