Anti-Mosque Mania heats up in Connecticut

West Norwalk residents are protesting construction of the town’s first official mosque, which they say will create neighborhood parking and traffic problems, (not to mention visual pollution from people wearing headrags and body bags).

Stamford Advocate There has been some anti-Islamic sentiment about plans to build a mosque and community center in a Norwalk, including a threatening phone call to one member of the center, but most critics appear genuinely concerned about potential parking and traffic problems.

The Al Madany Islamic Center of Norwalk worships in a home now and organizers want to build the 2,700-square-foot mosque and community center on Fillow Street. The proposal comes as plans for a mosque near Ground Zero has met fierce opposition. Many neighbors have said that the streets aren’t wide enough to handle traffic and parking for the center.

A representative of Al Madany told The Advocate of Stamford that website news stories about the mosque have generated some racist comments online, as well as the threatening phone call.

“”I think it was someone who, for lack of a better word, was a crackpot,” Farhan Memon, a Al Madany congregation member, told the Advocate. “But it points to the fact that when we have issues like this come up, both locally as well as generally in the country, there are people who go over the line.”

“I think (the debate) is more because it’s a mosque than anything else,” Lyons said. “There are other religions that have buildings in residential areas.”

Farhan Memon, a Al Madany congregation member who is serving as its representative during the zoning process, agreed that many residents are concerned about parking on residential streets. He, however, also believes the same undercurrent of anti-Islamic sentiment that has been sweeping the country lurks below the surface of the debate in Norwalk.

Kathy Cossuto, who has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years, said she does not want a mosque built on the corner, mainly due to traffic and parking. She said she is also concerned about the proposed mosque’s minaret. ”They’re putting this minaret up but they say they’re not going to put a horn on it,” Cossuto said. “Well, then why are they putting it up?” (Exactly)

Memon said the minaret will not be equipped with a loudspeaker and (5X per day) calls to prayer will not be audible from outside the walls of the mosque. (Yes, it will, just not right away. Later they will sue the town, arguing that church bells are allowed.)

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MUSLIM DISABLED SUPERHERO – Political Correctness on Steroids!

And guess who inspired it? Promoter says it was Barack Obama’s effort to reach out to the Muslim world in his January 2009 inaugural address.(And in nearly every speech since)

(I was thinking maybe this isn’t such a bad idea, until I learned what inspired it. Everything for the Muslim world, nothing for Judeo-Christian world that IS America)

Washington Post The new superhero is the brainchild of a group of disabled young Americans and Syrians who were brought together last month in Damascus by the Open Hands Intiative, a non-profit organization founded by U.S. philanthropist and businessman Jay T. Snyder.

In this artwork provided by Liquid Comics, LLC, the "Sliver Scorpion" is shown. The new superhero is Muslim, who loses his legs in a tragic landmine accident and must learn to come to terms with the reality of his disability while learning to use his newfound power to fight for social inclusion, equity and justice.

Snyder says he was inspired by President Barack Obama‘s effort to reach out to the Muslim world in his January 2009 inaugural address. Last month, Snyder flew 12 disabled Americans to Damascus to meet their Syrian peers, and one of their main goals was to come up with ideas and story lines for the new superhero. (What, no beheaded Muslim superhero?)

The Open Hands Initiative was launched last November to respond to Obama’s offer to the Muslim world in his inaugural address to “extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” (And we see how well that’s worked out)

DISGUSTING! '60 MINUTES' does a total puff piece on the Muslim 'taqiyya' (BS) artists behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque…

…But does a hit job on Pamela Geller.

It’s obvious this reporter knows nothing about the Islamists involved because he fails to ask the ‘developer ‘ how he came up with $4.8 million cash when he was waiting tables just a few years ago. And he doesn’t even touch on the Imam’s ties to known terrorist groups and his desire to see America become Shari’a-compliant. This piece of trash wouldn’t get a C in a high school journalism class because it is totally one-sided and negligent in presenting the facts about the shady backgrounds and real intentions of the Muslims behind the mosque. Had this reporter interviewed an Arab speaker like Walid Shoebat, who has translated Imam Rauf’s Arabic writings into English, he could have thrown the discrepancies between what he tells English speaking audiences vs Arabic speaking audiences in the Imam’s  face instead of kissing his ass.

AMERICA GIVES BACK! Backlash against Muslims who are trying to make the workplace shari'a compliant

LEGAL JIHADISTS from terrorist front group CAIR are working overtime filing frivolous lawsuits against employers who are tired of submitting to Muslim demands for special accommodations for their religion.

NY TIMES At a time of growing tensions involving Muslims in the United States, a record number of Muslim workers are complaining of employment discrimination, from co-workers calling them “terrorist” or “Osama” to employers barring them from wearing head scarves or taking prayer breaks.

Such complaints were increasing even before frictions erupted over the planned Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, with Muslim workers filing a record 803 such claims in the year ended Sept. 30, 2009. That was up 20 percent from the previous year and up nearly 60 percent from 2005, according to federal data.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found enough merit in some of the complaints that it has filed several prominent lawsuits on behalf of Muslim workers.

Last month, the commission sued JBS Swift, a meatpacking company, on behalf of 160 Somali immigrants, saying supervisors and workers had cursed them for being Muslim; thrown blood, meat and bones at them; and interrupted their prayer breaks.

On Sept. 1, the commission filed a case against Abercrombie & Fitch, the fashionable clothing retailer, accusing it of discrimination for refusing to hire an 18-year-old Muslim because she was wearing a head scarf.

And in June, the agency sued a Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Phoenix, asserting that its management had illegally permitted a hostile work environment in which workers called an Iraqi immigrant a “camel jockey,” mocked him with Arab ululations and taunted him over news items about captured terrorists. (The hotel’s manager said most of the claims were untrue.)

“There’s a level of hatred and animosity that is shocking,” said Mary Jo O’Neill, regional attorney of the E.E.O.C.’s Phoenix office. “I’ve been doing this for 31 years, and I’ve never seen such antipathy toward Muslim workers.”

Although Muslims make up less than 2 percent of the United States population, they accounted for about one-quarter of the 3,386 religious discrimination claims filed with the E.E.O.C. last year. Complaints filed by Jews rose slightly (even though the number of actual hate crimes against Jews is 10 times more for Jews than Muslims) in fiscal 2009.

The rising number of complaints by Muslims, which exceeds even the amount filed in the year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, comes as tensions rise between Muslim Americans and those of other faiths.

Polls have shown that many Americans feel a growing wariness toward Muslims after the 9/11 attacks and after years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mosques and Islamic community centers in the United States — most prominently one proposed near ground zero in Manhattan — have faced substantial opposition. And a Florida pastor received national attention this month for threatening to burn the Koran on Sept. 11.

Mohammad Kaleemuddin, a Pakistani immigrant who drove trucks for the American war effort in Iraq for three years, said that while he was working for a construction company in Houston, his supervisor and several co-workers called him “Osama,” “al Qaeda,” “Taliban,” and “terrorist.”

“It was very rough,” said Mr. Kaleemuddin, who was fired after protesting to management about the ethnic slurs. “It brought a bit of terror in my chest. I’d wonder, ‘Why are they doing this? I’ve always been nice to them.’ ”

After he filed a complaint, the E.E.O.C. sued the company he worked for, Pace Services. The company agreed last April to pay him $61,250 to settle the case.

Professor Ahmed said that Muslims in the United States were generally reluctant to stick their necks out and complain about discrimination, partly in the belief that attitudes toward them will gradually improve. (HAH! According to the latest hate crime statistics available, there were 1,606 hate crime offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. A closer look: 65.7 percent of them were committed against Jews. Against Muslims? 7.7 percent)

Workers have complained of discrimination even in regions known for their diversity.

Halla Banafa filed a claim with the commission after she was turned down at age 18 for a job stocking merchandise at an Abercrombie Kids store in Milpitas, Calif., in Silicon Valley. According to the E.E.O.C., the manager made a note of “not Abercrombie look” on the interview form.

“Abercrombie just decided they’re not going to comply with the law requiring religious accommodation,” said William R. Tamayo, regional attorney of the commission’s San Francisco office. “Their intolerance is off the charts.” Last year, the commission also sued Abercrombie for refusing to hire a 17-year-old wearing a hijab at a store in Tulsa, Okla.

Ronald A. Robins Jr., Abercrombie’s general counsel, said the company disputed both claims, adding that the retailer “makes every reasonable attempt to accommodate the religious practices of associates and applicants, including, when appropriate, allowing associates to wear a hijab.”

At Swift, the meatpacker, the charge of discrimination dates back to 2008, when Somali workers complained that the restroom had profanity-laced anti-Muslim graffiti, that their prayer breaks were often interrupted and that the company would not move their meal breaks to right after sundown during the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast during the day. After Muslim employees staged a walkout, the company fired all the protesters, the commission said.

Chandler Keys, a Swift spokesman, declined to discuss the lawsuit, but said that since 2008, the company has had no similar incidents. “We’ve worked closely and diligently with the East African community and other groups to avoid a recurrence of such problems,” he said.

Sometimes sharp disputes arise over whether employers have done enough to accommodate Muslim employees. Imane Boudlal, a 26-year-old from Casablanca, Morocco, had worked for two years as a hostess at the Storytellers Cafe at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., when she decided she would begin wearing her hijab at work during Ramadan last month. Ms. Boudlal said her supervisors told her that if she insisted on wearing the scarf, she could work either in back or at a telephone job. She refused and has not worked while the dispute continues.

Disney officials said her head scarf clashed with the restaurant’s early-1900s theme, and they proposed a period hat with some scarf that would fall over her ears. Ms. Boudlal rejected that as un-Muslim. “They wanted to hide the fact that I looked Muslim,” she said. (As they should. Mickey Mouse is not a Muslim)

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