There is a Muslim community center 2 miles from my house. I never thought twice about it. I have known Muslims at work … I was in high tech for 43 years. I knew because they were Middle East immigrants who came here for a better life. Their wives wore head scarves. What’s the problem?
A colleague died of his shots. There is a “think for yourself” movement in America today. Did my dead colleague think for himself or was he too accustomed to following authority? I will never know. His job was leveraged to get his compliance just like 20,000 others. There would have been about 20 other sudden deaths from the shots across the company. His death was a shock.
All immigrants must embrace our precious Constitution and recognize it for the work of genius that it is … the Christian convictions if its authors notwithstanding. Those convictions are not imposed on anyone except as they are reflected in the premise of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence: the greater good and the welfare of the individual must be served AT THE SAME TIME. The responsibility of personal sovereignty rests on every one of us.
The attempted globalist takeover of the US failed because of our WRITTEN Constitution and the feistiness of Americans. UK, Canada, and the other former colonies … and much of Western Europe … have fallen to “woke” tyranny. The citizens don’t know how to get rid of it. Some countries are overrun with Muslim
Immigrants who undermine the traditional culture. This is by design. And patriots in those nations lacking a written Constitution lack a mechanism to do something about it LEGALLY. This is how you spark civil wars.
Those who insist on burqas and sharia law, who think it is OK to rape young girls, abuse little boys and kill
your neighbor’s dog … because it was routine in the old country … have to leave. All immigrants must assimilate to the civic and legal life of America.
You wrote, “the globalist takeover failed.” How and when do you believe it failed? I ask because if I had lived and breathed in the planning process why would I stop trying to reach my goals? The WEF has been designing since the end of WW2 and depopulation since the early 1920’s. I would disguise my intentions, I would pour additional money into this world project. I would own the elections of as many elected reps as possible. The truth is difficult to see as it is shrouded in sound bites. Censure and the erasing of facts from the internet history is very worrisome.
Unless I am missing data I cannot agree with your assessment. Happy to learn from you.
Kamala did not win. UK and Canada illustrate what would have happened if she had. The climate here has changed dramatically and progress will continue, but the struggle is obviously not over. It has been ongoing since the founding of our nation. FDR was determined to dismantle the British Empire after the war but, when he died, the globalists and their fifth column within the US rebooted their quest for global hegemony … world fascist government. This requires defeat of Russia and re-assimilation of the US. Neither will happen. The swamp is lovely, dark and deep but we have promises to keep.
Exactly my thoughts about Putin. He was on the WEF roster a much younger man.
I was surprised to see him listed which contributed to understanding how the Ukraine war began via globalist policies carried out under Biden. Mr. Putin holding onto power was actually stopping the one world order temporarily.
Growing up 20 miles from Dearborn I befriended many Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese and Palestinians that were new arrivals in America because they were Christian’s fleeing oppression in the Arab world in the 1970’s. It’s ironic how the author describes regular Americans with language that shows how he views the hosts of this great place that accepts peoples from everywhere as extremists. Christian’s are not far right, they are the builders of this society that you have chosen as your new home. Show some respect and gratitude, not hate by calling someone you disagree with an Islamophobe.
He did not state that US Christians are far right. He didn't use the word "far" at all.
The title is "How Should We.. in the US Respond to the Christian Right’s Concerns About Dearborn?"
In the US there are Christians, Jews, Hindus, atheists and Muslims that are "far right." There are tens of millions of Christians on the far right now. All of the "Christian nationalists," arguing against separations between church and state. They are rightwing - mostly far right. They're not the majority of US Christians, but they wield tremendous power now, within Trump's White House and Cabinet.
When the trade wars cause SHTF blame will be spread and a push for sending everyone not American home. The elite aren't going to miss the chance to tar everyone as the same low IQ far left belief systems (gender and being born in the wrong body, the entire climate scam, vaccines, propaganda as higher education).
Islam is not just a religion however, it is a political ideology that was founded and spread through conflict and conquest. This is a past that is embedded in the Koran, the fundamental documents of your faith. Are you free to discard those verses that you do not care for, or that currently are inconvenient?
Jude’s-Christian tradition is not an artifice of Jewish manipulation. Jesus was first a Jew, and gentiles could not originally become followers of Christ. It took years after the crucifixion for this to be accepted. Christianity spread through acts of individual conversion, not spread by the sword, but opposed by the sword.
Islam would integrate into the U.S. if there was a vocal and sustained rejection of jihad and the subjugation of non moslems. Religious tolerance is a government responsibility, but also the responsibility of all religions.
This is the challenge this author faces. Though he himself may aspire and agree with what American civic engagement and adoption means, there are factions and not small ones that believe in a theocratic Islamic rule as they understand the Quran. Or this author may be conciliatory until Islam reaches 5-10%, then his demands of Islamic acceptance may grow more strident. We may never know because they also have the doctrine of taqiya where they can lie to non-Muslims for fear of their life. That can be stretched a lot to fit a lot in that doctrine.
How can your relgion be democratic in a religiously plural community if it is broadcasting prayers on loudspeakers forcing all to listen? That works in a society that only has one religion and has a theocracy. It doesn't work in the plurality of religions in a democracy. That's the underlying problem with those loudspeakers. It's not bigotry or anything else. No one else is forcing you to listen to the prayers of other religions.
May I suggest that if you continue to live here, you all set alarms on your phones for prayer and stop using the infernal horns! Anyone who comes to our country should embrace our culture and start the process to become US citizens.
No one - - regardless of faith, and regardless of the intensity in that faith - - who abides by our laws should be expelled from the US. No one (again regardless of faith, or not having one) who will NOT abide by our laws should NOT be allowed to stay.
Things such as loud speaker calls for prayer perfectly fit into content neutral/time-place-manner local laws upheld by our Supreme Court for many years. As long as there aren’t louder dBs than anyone else is allowed to play and inside the hours anyone else is allowed to play; no problem.
Exceed either and everyone will be fined the same amount and shutdown to the same degree. Or should be. Equal protection, free exercise etc etc.
"We come from societies shaped by colonialism, authoritarianism, and weak democratic traditions. "
Really? Who colonized you, subjected you to authoritarianism and kept democratic traditions weak? Certainly wouldn't want people like that coming to my country.
I just wish they would stay on their own country and make their home country for the reasons they came here, but it’s not it’s to conquer
Because looking at it from an Christian American point of view is Muslims want to turn everyone to Islamic faith to take over the country to Islamize the country if it takes 150 years look what you did to Turkey to Egypt
And it slows progress down, the Ottoman empire stiffed creative innovation for centuries
Thoughtfully written and all good points. I'm not sure about Dearborn, MI but where I live churches can't ring their steeple bells and muslims can't do a call to prayer over a loudspeaker or PA system. Secularism is great until it becomes its own type of religion. Welcome to the fray! Glad you're here, jump in anytime! 🤣😃
This is the problem. Immigrants who move here today don't know why they don't hear church bells every Sunday. Church bells used to clang out over the nation every Sunday and even when someone died and on and on for a variety of purposes (even when I was a child in the 70s on occasion). You never hear them anymore. I personally miss that sound. It was comforting to me, as a Christian. However, we decided to be a secular country and respect the faiths of those who are not Christian.
Why have we suddenly changed the rules to accommodate new immigrants who want to blast prayers over loudspreakers? It's unfathomable. And unfair.
Like I said, I miss the church bells. If loudspeaker prayers are okay, bring back the church bells please. What's fair is fair. It will be insanely noisy if we all all broadcast our faiths over loud speakers, but if one faith is allowed, all must be allowed.
Where I live also no churches bells or muslim call to prayers are heard. You are making a fair point and many Muslims understand it as well.
And personally I agree they shouldn’t have started broadcasting calls to prayer in any American community (not until making sure everyone is ok with it) that’s the gist of what my article is about.
I totally agree that “Judeo-Christian” is a made-up nonsense term that has no basis in history. I consider it just pro-Israel propaganda. In my opinion Islam is very compatible with modern America, whether you’re in MAGA red country or liberal blue country.
I go to interfaith events at the local Muslim center a few times a year. Last month I attended the annual CAIR banquet. I love the people and the community, always a warm and welcome environment.
One thing I would like to ask you, and it’s something that many Muslims don’t talk about, is the influence of Saudi and Qatari-backed clerics who preach the more fundamentalist Salafi and Wahhabi teachings. Sectarian hatred and intolerance is something that I believe is NOT compatible with our society. This movement is often linked to Western-backed Muslim Brotherhood groups and it often shares goals with Zionism and western empire. Syria is the perfect example, also Libya and Sudan.
How do Muslims in the U.S. view the Salafist movement? Many people still don’t really know about it. How does the US Muslim community in general view these clerics, are they welcome?
This is a very important point to clarify. Bernard Lewis (Not my favorite thinker, but I like many of his thoughts about the Middle East), made a very good point here (minute 27):
The Islamic religious fundamentalist school (like the Wahabi Salafi school, among many others) was one of many Islamic traditions and not the hegemonic one until the 20th century. For example, we in Sudan followed for centuries a form of Islamic Sufism that placed less emphasis on the fundamentalist reading and gave more interpretive power to local religious thought leaders or shiekhs, thereby fostering Islamic renewal. Also, our Islamic tradition, from the beginning of the Arab immigration to Sudan, emphasized co-existence with Sudanese non-Arab populations, who were actually Christians from the 16th century onward.
The Wahhabi thought became mainstream due to the political alliance of its leader, Mohamed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, with the Saudi family in the 20th century. And once the Saudi economy boomed after the discovery of oil, it gave the school an unimaginable amount of power and money to spread its teaching, and, unfortunately, for some time, deeply influenced many Muslim countries.
Still, I would say for the past 20 years or so (and even before that), there has been a significant struggle against this backward and idiotic school of thought in every Arabic and Muslim country with various forms of success.
In regards to the presence of this form of thought here in the US, one should make a couple of points:
1. We need to keep in mind that this idiotic and very childish way of understanding religion and religious texts only flourishes in a closed society, usually when the government oppresses opposing ideas. So naturally, I see less of it, or less aggressive versions, here in the West.
2. Still, like the other fundamentalists from other religions, when there is a secluded space, these ideas flourish in the darkness. So you can find it here and there.
I think an open and honest dialogue about Muslims in the West will help in both directions: it will reduce the anxieties of historical communities and will open the Muslim mind to criticism of religious fundamentalism.
Why do we not hear more condemnation against the radicals by the "normal" Muslims? This frustrates me and creates that darkness that you mention. Is it fear in the same way democrats are somehow afraid to say men can't be women or the virus was man made by us in China? It makes no sense to deny the facts and truth, but they do. We need the Muslim-American faith leaders and their communities to step up.
We come from societies shaped by colonialism, authoritarianism, and weak democratic traditions. In America, we have the opportunity not just to practice democracy (beyond mere elections) — but to shape media, public discourse, institutions, hearts, and minds. And by doing that, perhaps we can contribute back to democratic culture in our home countries, too.
I guess the concern would be the authoritarianism kind of fascism that govern Muslim countries and that you guys would bring that here rather than bringing the Democratic culture to your home countries I sure would love to see Iran change to a more secular government. Those are brilliant people being held down.
I think when you rail against Zionism (the existence of Israel), approve of Jews who agree with you, while demonizing the majority, your claims of pluralism are doubtful..
I will never trust someone who believes a state's existence is conditional upon claims that the states around it are guilty of themselves, but good luck in your endeavors
I can’t say I care much about people unwarranted doubts about what I say because that’s something I can’t do much about. I am a very democratic pluralist person if you doubt or not lol.
But for the record, I would like to say that I don’t have anything against the existence of Israel as long as it is not an apartheid state. I follow the Israeli good journalist Gideon Levy (among other Israelis and Jews) in this view.
Zionism on the other hand, as we are seeing in Gaza, is not only about the existence of Israel.
I would argue that you should care when a substantial number of folks are increasingly wary after decades of being accused of Islamophobia for objecting to extremist elements. Trust is earned, and II would argue that is part of 'the work,' and that's legit going to be hard.
Levy used to be a moral compass. No longer. Noted is your use of 'good' and tokenizing of Jews you approve of.
Yes, the war in Gaza wasn't about Zionism, but a response, albeit devastating, to Gazans invading, raping, torturing, pillaging and taking civilians hostage.
This is why I do not trust you, not that you care, you outnumber us.
I appreciate your engagement and efforts in reforming Islam's terrible image in the West.
I was surprised at how much of this article I agreed with. Plenty of good advice, advice that I hope those in Dearborn will heed. Yes, you will always see the type of hostile reaction that other poster have already expressed, but I believe they are a minority. I wish you well and hope for your success in this country.
There is a Muslim community center 2 miles from my house. I never thought twice about it. I have known Muslims at work … I was in high tech for 43 years. I knew because they were Middle East immigrants who came here for a better life. Their wives wore head scarves. What’s the problem?
A colleague died of his shots. There is a “think for yourself” movement in America today. Did my dead colleague think for himself or was he too accustomed to following authority? I will never know. His job was leveraged to get his compliance just like 20,000 others. There would have been about 20 other sudden deaths from the shots across the company. His death was a shock.
All immigrants must embrace our precious Constitution and recognize it for the work of genius that it is … the Christian convictions if its authors notwithstanding. Those convictions are not imposed on anyone except as they are reflected in the premise of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence: the greater good and the welfare of the individual must be served AT THE SAME TIME. The responsibility of personal sovereignty rests on every one of us.
The attempted globalist takeover of the US failed because of our WRITTEN Constitution and the feistiness of Americans. UK, Canada, and the other former colonies … and much of Western Europe … have fallen to “woke” tyranny. The citizens don’t know how to get rid of it. Some countries are overrun with Muslim
Immigrants who undermine the traditional culture. This is by design. And patriots in those nations lacking a written Constitution lack a mechanism to do something about it LEGALLY. This is how you spark civil wars.
Those who insist on burqas and sharia law, who think it is OK to rape young girls, abuse little boys and kill
your neighbor’s dog … because it was routine in the old country … have to leave. All immigrants must assimilate to the civic and legal life of America.
You wrote, “the globalist takeover failed.” How and when do you believe it failed? I ask because if I had lived and breathed in the planning process why would I stop trying to reach my goals? The WEF has been designing since the end of WW2 and depopulation since the early 1920’s. I would disguise my intentions, I would pour additional money into this world project. I would own the elections of as many elected reps as possible. The truth is difficult to see as it is shrouded in sound bites. Censure and the erasing of facts from the internet history is very worrisome.
Unless I am missing data I cannot agree with your assessment. Happy to learn from you.
Kamala did not win. UK and Canada illustrate what would have happened if she had. The climate here has changed dramatically and progress will continue, but the struggle is obviously not over. It has been ongoing since the founding of our nation. FDR was determined to dismantle the British Empire after the war but, when he died, the globalists and their fifth column within the US rebooted their quest for global hegemony … world fascist government. This requires defeat of Russia and re-assimilation of the US. Neither will happen. The swamp is lovely, dark and deep but we have promises to keep.
Yes agree on Kamala, a distraction now.
Exactly my thoughts about Putin. He was on the WEF roster a much younger man.
I was surprised to see him listed which contributed to understanding how the Ukraine war began via globalist policies carried out under Biden. Mr. Putin holding onto power was actually stopping the one world order temporarily.
Growing up 20 miles from Dearborn I befriended many Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese and Palestinians that were new arrivals in America because they were Christian’s fleeing oppression in the Arab world in the 1970’s. It’s ironic how the author describes regular Americans with language that shows how he views the hosts of this great place that accepts peoples from everywhere as extremists. Christian’s are not far right, they are the builders of this society that you have chosen as your new home. Show some respect and gratitude, not hate by calling someone you disagree with an Islamophobe.
He did not state that US Christians are far right. He didn't use the word "far" at all.
The title is "How Should We.. in the US Respond to the Christian Right’s Concerns About Dearborn?"
In the US there are Christians, Jews, Hindus, atheists and Muslims that are "far right." There are tens of millions of Christians on the far right now. All of the "Christian nationalists," arguing against separations between church and state. They are rightwing - mostly far right. They're not the majority of US Christians, but they wield tremendous power now, within Trump's White House and Cabinet.
When the trade wars cause SHTF blame will be spread and a push for sending everyone not American home. The elite aren't going to miss the chance to tar everyone as the same low IQ far left belief systems (gender and being born in the wrong body, the entire climate scam, vaccines, propaganda as higher education).
Vaccine loon bleats, "blah, blah, blah."
Thanks for the thoughts.
I have no doubt you are a decent person.
Islam is not just a religion however, it is a political ideology that was founded and spread through conflict and conquest. This is a past that is embedded in the Koran, the fundamental documents of your faith. Are you free to discard those verses that you do not care for, or that currently are inconvenient?
Jude’s-Christian tradition is not an artifice of Jewish manipulation. Jesus was first a Jew, and gentiles could not originally become followers of Christ. It took years after the crucifixion for this to be accepted. Christianity spread through acts of individual conversion, not spread by the sword, but opposed by the sword.
Islam would integrate into the U.S. if there was a vocal and sustained rejection of jihad and the subjugation of non moslems. Religious tolerance is a government responsibility, but also the responsibility of all religions.
This is the challenge this author faces. Though he himself may aspire and agree with what American civic engagement and adoption means, there are factions and not small ones that believe in a theocratic Islamic rule as they understand the Quran. Or this author may be conciliatory until Islam reaches 5-10%, then his demands of Islamic acceptance may grow more strident. We may never know because they also have the doctrine of taqiya where they can lie to non-Muslims for fear of their life. That can be stretched a lot to fit a lot in that doctrine.
How can your relgion be democratic in a religiously plural community if it is broadcasting prayers on loudspeakers forcing all to listen? That works in a society that only has one religion and has a theocracy. It doesn't work in the plurality of religions in a democracy. That's the underlying problem with those loudspeakers. It's not bigotry or anything else. No one else is forcing you to listen to the prayers of other religions.
May I suggest that if you continue to live here, you all set alarms on your phones for prayer and stop using the infernal horns! Anyone who comes to our country should embrace our culture and start the process to become US citizens.
All Muslims should be expelled from the west totally. You’re not welcome.
No one - - regardless of faith, and regardless of the intensity in that faith - - who abides by our laws should be expelled from the US. No one (again regardless of faith, or not having one) who will NOT abide by our laws should NOT be allowed to stay.
Things such as loud speaker calls for prayer perfectly fit into content neutral/time-place-manner local laws upheld by our Supreme Court for many years. As long as there aren’t louder dBs than anyone else is allowed to play and inside the hours anyone else is allowed to play; no problem.
Exceed either and everyone will be fined the same amount and shutdown to the same degree. Or should be. Equal protection, free exercise etc etc.
No, just a retired lawyer. Before that I was a retired B-52 pilot.
Are you a comedian? I love to see your performance.
"We come from societies shaped by colonialism, authoritarianism, and weak democratic traditions. "
Really? Who colonized you, subjected you to authoritarianism and kept democratic traditions weak? Certainly wouldn't want people like that coming to my country.
I just wish they would stay on their own country and make their home country for the reasons they came here, but it’s not it’s to conquer
Because looking at it from an Christian American point of view is Muslims want to turn everyone to Islamic faith to take over the country to Islamize the country if it takes 150 years look what you did to Turkey to Egypt
And it slows progress down, the Ottoman empire stiffed creative innovation for centuries
The title is "How Should We.. in the US Respond to the Christian Right’s Concerns About Dearborn?"
“Christian Right”, really?
With respect and gratitude!
I rest my case
Thoughtfully written and all good points. I'm not sure about Dearborn, MI but where I live churches can't ring their steeple bells and muslims can't do a call to prayer over a loudspeaker or PA system. Secularism is great until it becomes its own type of religion. Welcome to the fray! Glad you're here, jump in anytime! 🤣😃
This is the problem. Immigrants who move here today don't know why they don't hear church bells every Sunday. Church bells used to clang out over the nation every Sunday and even when someone died and on and on for a variety of purposes (even when I was a child in the 70s on occasion). You never hear them anymore. I personally miss that sound. It was comforting to me, as a Christian. However, we decided to be a secular country and respect the faiths of those who are not Christian.
Why have we suddenly changed the rules to accommodate new immigrants who want to blast prayers over loudspreakers? It's unfathomable. And unfair.
Like I said, I miss the church bells. If loudspeaker prayers are okay, bring back the church bells please. What's fair is fair. It will be insanely noisy if we all all broadcast our faiths over loud speakers, but if one faith is allowed, all must be allowed.
Where I live also no churches bells or muslim call to prayers are heard. You are making a fair point and many Muslims understand it as well.
And personally I agree they shouldn’t have started broadcasting calls to prayer in any American community (not until making sure everyone is ok with it) that’s the gist of what my article is about.
Thanks for your comments
Great article @Mahmoud Elmutasim .
I totally agree that “Judeo-Christian” is a made-up nonsense term that has no basis in history. I consider it just pro-Israel propaganda. In my opinion Islam is very compatible with modern America, whether you’re in MAGA red country or liberal blue country.
I go to interfaith events at the local Muslim center a few times a year. Last month I attended the annual CAIR banquet. I love the people and the community, always a warm and welcome environment.
One thing I would like to ask you, and it’s something that many Muslims don’t talk about, is the influence of Saudi and Qatari-backed clerics who preach the more fundamentalist Salafi and Wahhabi teachings. Sectarian hatred and intolerance is something that I believe is NOT compatible with our society. This movement is often linked to Western-backed Muslim Brotherhood groups and it often shares goals with Zionism and western empire. Syria is the perfect example, also Libya and Sudan.
How do Muslims in the U.S. view the Salafist movement? Many people still don’t really know about it. How does the US Muslim community in general view these clerics, are they welcome?
This is a very important point to clarify. Bernard Lewis (Not my favorite thinker, but I like many of his thoughts about the Middle East), made a very good point here (minute 27):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_e-W6V5m9E&list=WL&index=11
The Islamic religious fundamentalist school (like the Wahabi Salafi school, among many others) was one of many Islamic traditions and not the hegemonic one until the 20th century. For example, we in Sudan followed for centuries a form of Islamic Sufism that placed less emphasis on the fundamentalist reading and gave more interpretive power to local religious thought leaders or shiekhs, thereby fostering Islamic renewal. Also, our Islamic tradition, from the beginning of the Arab immigration to Sudan, emphasized co-existence with Sudanese non-Arab populations, who were actually Christians from the 16th century onward.
The Wahhabi thought became mainstream due to the political alliance of its leader, Mohamed Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, with the Saudi family in the 20th century. And once the Saudi economy boomed after the discovery of oil, it gave the school an unimaginable amount of power and money to spread its teaching, and, unfortunately, for some time, deeply influenced many Muslim countries.
Still, I would say for the past 20 years or so (and even before that), there has been a significant struggle against this backward and idiotic school of thought in every Arabic and Muslim country with various forms of success.
In regards to the presence of this form of thought here in the US, one should make a couple of points:
1. We need to keep in mind that this idiotic and very childish way of understanding religion and religious texts only flourishes in a closed society, usually when the government oppresses opposing ideas. So naturally, I see less of it, or less aggressive versions, here in the West.
2. Still, like the other fundamentalists from other religions, when there is a secluded space, these ideas flourish in the darkness. So you can find it here and there.
I think an open and honest dialogue about Muslims in the West will help in both directions: it will reduce the anxieties of historical communities and will open the Muslim mind to criticism of religious fundamentalism.
Why do we not hear more condemnation against the radicals by the "normal" Muslims? This frustrates me and creates that darkness that you mention. Is it fear in the same way democrats are somehow afraid to say men can't be women or the virus was man made by us in China? It makes no sense to deny the facts and truth, but they do. We need the Muslim-American faith leaders and their communities to step up.
We come from societies shaped by colonialism, authoritarianism, and weak democratic traditions. In America, we have the opportunity not just to practice democracy (beyond mere elections) — but to shape media, public discourse, institutions, hearts, and minds. And by doing that, perhaps we can contribute back to democratic culture in our home countries, too.
I guess the concern would be the authoritarianism kind of fascism that govern Muslim countries and that you guys would bring that here rather than bringing the Democratic culture to your home countries I sure would love to see Iran change to a more secular government. Those are brilliant people being held down.
I think when you rail against Zionism (the existence of Israel), approve of Jews who agree with you, while demonizing the majority, your claims of pluralism are doubtful..
It seems both of us made our points clear. Thanks for the engagement and hopefully trust will be our future. Trust and good faith encounters.
I will never trust someone who believes a state's existence is conditional upon claims that the states around it are guilty of themselves, but good luck in your endeavors
I can’t say I care much about people unwarranted doubts about what I say because that’s something I can’t do much about. I am a very democratic pluralist person if you doubt or not lol.
But for the record, I would like to say that I don’t have anything against the existence of Israel as long as it is not an apartheid state. I follow the Israeli good journalist Gideon Levy (among other Israelis and Jews) in this view.
Zionism on the other hand, as we are seeing in Gaza, is not only about the existence of Israel.
I would argue that you should care when a substantial number of folks are increasingly wary after decades of being accused of Islamophobia for objecting to extremist elements. Trust is earned, and II would argue that is part of 'the work,' and that's legit going to be hard.
Levy used to be a moral compass. No longer. Noted is your use of 'good' and tokenizing of Jews you approve of.
Yes, the war in Gaza wasn't about Zionism, but a response, albeit devastating, to Gazans invading, raping, torturing, pillaging and taking civilians hostage.
This is why I do not trust you, not that you care, you outnumber us.
I appreciate your engagement and efforts in reforming Islam's terrible image in the West.
Good news is there is Peace in the Middle East and they can go home.
Take your religion back to Saudi. Islam should be suppressed in the west
I was surprised at how much of this article I agreed with. Plenty of good advice, advice that I hope those in Dearborn will heed. Yes, you will always see the type of hostile reaction that other poster have already expressed, but I believe they are a minority. I wish you well and hope for your success in this country.