Falls Church mosque - Route 7

[Anonymous]

I drive by this intersection every day on my way to/from work - on Fridays, the police presence is significant. I was naive and thought it was to keep people safe walking across Route 7.

Now that I've started to read more about mosques and Muslim radicalization, I've learned about this mosque's history.

It's pretty scary.

http://www.investigativeproject.org/mosques/417/dar-al-hijrah-mosque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_Al-Hijrah

Anwar al-Awlaki was an iman there.

[Anonymous]

Oh, FFS. Get a clue, Newt.

[Anonymous]

Get a clue about what exactly?

[Anonymous]

The police are there to assist the very large number people crossing a busy, dangerous road.

[Anonymous]

Yes it has a history. Locals didn't call that area the Wahabbi corridor for nothing.

That said, I too drive by it to and from work. Heavy police presence is a little over the top. Police are often there at prayer times, controlling traffic. But not all the time. They were of course there more during Ramadan. But that is because of the increased numbers of people attending services during that time.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, but this area scares me because of its history and because of everything going on in the world. I don't support a "muslim" test (Newt's idea) any more than I support a "fat old white man" test, but current events are making it harder to ignore homegrown radicalization and an interest in terrorist acts.
I actually blame Bush and Cheney for destabilizing Iraq and making the world hate us. I blame McCain for the Trump situation by introducing the Palin effect.

[Anonymous]

When I pass that mosque, do you know what I see?

I see lots and lots of people going to pray to God multiple times a day. Something that most of us wouldn't even bother to do.

I see a group of people who, long before 9/11, had to face locals determined to kick them out of the neighborhood, despite their Constitutional rights to freedom of religion and assembly.

Anwar al-Awlaki was imam there for about a year out of its entire history. It is wrong to forever brand an entire community with a scarlet letter because of one bad apple. The scary history is one man, not the mosque.

Lastly, if we want peaceful relations with Muslims in America, the worst possible thing we can do is to persecute them.

[Anonymous]

8:32 - I wish that's what I saw. But, I don't. I see women walking behind men - subservient to their power. I see little kids watching their mothers walk behind their fathers.
I don't see praying to God many a times a day as a sign of goodness - it seems a bit fanatical to me. I believe in prayer and goodness, but it doesn't manifest itself in assembling at a church/mosque multiple times per day. How do you work and support your family if you are praying multiple times a day in a church or mosque? Which productive jobs support leaving work to pray multiple times per day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but this area scares me because of its history and because of everything going on in the world. I don't support a "muslim" test (Newt's idea) any more than I support a "fat old white man" test, but current events are making it harder to ignore homegrown radicalization and an interest in terrorist acts.
I actually blame Bush and Cheney for destabilizing Iraq and making the world hate us. I blame McCain for the Trump situation by introducing the Palin effect.

Really? The world hated us before (storming if embassy in Iran? Bombing of embassies in Kenya? Marine barracks in Lebanon?) and the workdhated us after. Obama has bent over backwards to make people "not hate us" - apology tour for colonialism (even though we weren't a colonial power), almost total drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, peace deal with Iran. Hows that working out? There are people who hate America and Iraq has little todo with it. If anything, everything is in the open now and we should start methodically dealing with it.

[Anonymous]

PP, what does "methodically dealing with it" look like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I pass that mosque, do you know what I see?

I see lots and lots of people going to pray to God multiple times a day. Something that most of us wouldn't even bother to do.

I see a group of people who, long before 9/11, had to face locals determined to kick them out of the neighborhood, despite their Constitutional rights to freedom of religion and assembly.

Anwar al-Awlaki was imam there for about a year out of its entire history. It is wrong to forever brand an entire community with a scarlet letter because of one bad apple. The scary history is one man, not the mosque.

Lastly, if we want peaceful relations with Muslims in America, the worst possible thing we can do is to persecute them.

Yes they do pray a lot. And the main Friday prayer kicked off by the imam is " Victory to Muslims over Qawm al-Kafirun" aka all non-Muslims. Every Friday in nearly every mosque around the world.

I'm really tired of saying the only way to be peaceful with those that follow the "religion of peace" is to overlook the inconsistencies altogether.

[Anonymous]

Where is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I pass that mosque, do you know what I see?

I see lots and lots of people going to pray to God multiple times a day. Something that most of us wouldn't even bother to do.

I see a group of people who, long before 9/11, had to face locals determined to kick them out of the neighborhood, despite their Constitutional rights to freedom of religion and assembly.

Anwar al-Awlaki was imam there for about a year out of its entire history. It is wrong to forever brand an entire community with a scarlet letter because of one bad apple. The scary history is one man, not the mosque.

Lastly, if we want peaceful relations with Muslims in America, the worst possible thing we can do is to persecute them.

Yes they do pray a lot. And the main Friday prayer kicked off by the imam is " Victory to Muslims over Qawm al-Kafirun" aka all non-Muslims. Every Friday in nearly every mosque around the world.

I'm really tired of saying the only way to be peaceful with those that follow the "religion of peace" is to overlook the inconsistencies altogether.

Have you been to a prayer service? You seem to know so much about it.

[Anonymous]

8:51, I believe the Bible is full of horrible statements, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The police are there to assist the very large number people crossing a busy, dangerous road.

+1 and I wouldn't describe one or very rarely two police cars as a significant presence. It's 4 lanes of cars going 40 mph.