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Shopping While Muslim + more on Islamophobia

Nov 04, 2009 02:29

As a follow-up to Shopping While Black, here's Shopping While Muslim:

In Lilburn, GA, a mosque seeking to expand and add a cemetery to accommodate its members faces opposition from local non-Muslims. There is a good, detailed article about that here. Here are some direct quotes from residents as to why they oppose the mosque expansion:

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DAys late, and dollars short, but... hotcoffeems November 10 2009, 18:50:36 UTC

I don't know *how* I missed this post when you put it up; I wish I had not.

I moved from a small town an hour or so away from Atlanta a few months ago. I was *never* comfortable with any kind of open expression of faith there, although there were many people (hey, it's a small town; you know everyone) who were very cool about it.

Since i've moved to a somewhat larger place, I've become more comfortable. And I will say that sometimes the people who are nasty are surprising; and sometimes the people wh oare kind are surprising too.

There is so much anti-Islamic sentiment (usually pretending it's something else, or operating under the guise of concern for TEH OPPRESSED) to the white left, it's not even funny.

This is a friend's post from when I hung out with her in NYC a few weeks ago which I'm sharing for (I hope) obvious reasons.

Re: DAys late, and dollars short, but... wiped November 10 2009, 19:30:06 UTC

yeah - i have personally experienced more racism/islamophobia in "liberal" california (especially in santa cruz, a little hippie town that thinks of itself as progressive) than in atlanta. as always, malcolm x is so relevant here:

The North's liberals have been for so long pointing accusing fingers at the South and getting away with it that they have fits when they are exposed as the world's worst hypocrites. ... The white Southerner, you can say one thing - he is honest. He bares his teeth to the black man; he tells the black man, to his face, that Southern whites never will accept phony "integration." The Southern white goes further, to tell the black man that he means to fight him every inch of the way - against even the so-called "tokenism." The advantage of this is the Southern black man has never been under any illusions about the opposition he is dealing with. ... But the Northern white man, he grins with his teeth, and his mouth has always been full of tricks and lies of "equality" and "integration." When one day all over ( ... )