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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.

Yea. I have a job. They wouldn't let me leave for the mosque...

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

It's also harder to ignore that we live in a country where you can buy a gun like a piece of candy . Typical attack of the symptom and not the problem . Go climb a rock

if buying your gun was as easy as buying candy, it had to be an illegal purchase. Tell us how yuh did it.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they should be working on outreach to the non Muslim community like so many non Muslim facilities/religions are trying to do. Look at Immanuel church on the hill in Alexandria. They open their facility to Friday Muslim services.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It's also harder to ignore that we live in a country where you can buy a gun like a piece of candy . Typical attack of the symptom and not the problem . Go climb a rock

Anonymous wrote: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 wrote:Maybe they should be working on outreach to the non Muslim community like so many non Muslim facilities/religions are trying to do. Look at Immanuel church on the hill in Alexandria. They open their facility to Friday Muslim services.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It's also harder to ignore that we live in a country where you can buy a gun like a piece of candy . Typical attack of the symptom and not the problem . Go climb a rock

You believe weapon access is the core issue??
You've gone nuts, my friend.

How do you plan to eliminate access to trucks?

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It's also harder to ignore that we live in a country where you can buy a gun like a piece of candy . Typical attack of the symptom and not the problem . Go climb a rock

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cops aren't at my episcopal church on Palm Sunday when we process from one location to another, crossing a busy street without a traffic light. They aren't at the Catholic church in my neighborhood on Easter. They aren't at the Mormon church in Alexandria on their holy days.
Not saying it's because of radicalization, but it's certainly not just to escort people across a street that has a streetlight to stop traffic.

Cops are always at the big DC synagogues for big events.

In VA also.

At out synagogue in Maryland, we have two cops for the holidays. One is a Montgomery County on-duty police officer, who directs traffic (and I have no idea is he is paid). The other is an former cop, now a security guard, whom we hire to protect the synagogue and it's occupants (and we do pay him).

FWIW, we have been hiring the cops for decades - certainly before 9/11 and the "age of terrorism." That's because we would come out of services to find our cars littered with flyers about how we were going to hell unless we accepted Jesus. While not vandalism (or worse), it was irritating and most definitely appreciated. (I suspect it was evangelical Christians, but I suppose that's a topic for another thread.)