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eagler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:45 PM
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North Dakota is home to first US mosque - neat story
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:51 PM
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1. I attended a funeral a nearby mosque last year for my neighbor.
If you are invited or are welcome to attend a service at a mosque, I recommend it if only to see for yourselves how people worship in ways different from your experience. I found it to be serene, spiritual, and uplifting. I had to go upstairs with the rest of the women and the girls, but that it isn't much different from orthodox judaism.
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eagler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:11 PM
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2. Mr. Abdallah is a real subversive looking character
don't you think? (sarcasm)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:25 PM
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3. Heck, I thought he looked just like all the Scandahoovian
farmers up there. Except for the hat/cap.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:38 PM
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5. Allah is great, eh? You bet!
Thanks for the story, interesting happenings in ND.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 06:56 PM
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7. i don't find it uplifting to be segregated, sorry
i'm just funny that way, and i'll pass on all such, i don't care what "religion" it is that is getting a tax break to preach my inferiority

what i would find spiritual is the insane idea that women are people too but this concept has passed from currency and now we are all supposed to kowtow to the religiously insane and think it's marvelous whenever religion is spreading its "logic"

sorry to be so bitter but, yeah, i am bitter

two wrongs don't make a right, and jews segregating women don't make it okay for muslims to pile on too -- or vice versa for that matter

if women withdrew their support of the churches, they would collapse, but too many women never tire of being second class :-(

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eagler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 07:19 PM
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8. The idea of this post was to show that muslims have
Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 07:22 PM by eagler
been around here for a long time , not to advocate pro or con. I do believe in allowing people to worship freely, meaning they are free to walk away if they so choose.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 07:46 PM
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10. See, now to me...
the act of calling a billion people "religiously insane" and calling tolerance "kowtowing to the religiously insane" is a whole lot worse then having the men and women on seperate sides of the aisle in church.

But that's just me.
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:03 PM
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12. amen to that.
I don't care how people dress it up, segregation is segregation. Nothing bitter about your post.
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bluewave Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:08 PM
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13. I was told by a Muslim friend it's mainly to make you feel comfortable.
They don't want you to have to look around and become distressed because you don't know the "moves."

FWIW, I don't know if that's true, but I heard it from a Bosnian Muslim.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:37 PM
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4. delete, wrong place, sorry
Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 04:38 PM by uppityperson
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cool user name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 06:41 PM
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6. Great story ... thanks for posting. n/t
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 07:42 PM
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9. cool,
a couple of my co-workers did the masonry on the new one.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 08:52 PM
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11. assimilation sure is a powerful force...
Mr.Abdallah looks pretty much like those redneck Norwegian and German farmers that populate the area.
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:18 PM
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14. .
I'm sorry, my father is a farmer in North Dakota and happens to be Scandinavian and German. I can assure you though, he is not a redneck and that term is offensive to the vast majority of people I know from my home state.
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ejbrush Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:38 PM
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15. Huh?
Just out of idle curiosity, what makes the population there "rednecks"? Should we fear the awsome and over-arching power of redneckosity, which is presumably able to to assimilate all mortals?
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eagler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 10:02 PM
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16. beware of the North Dakotans
nt
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 12:03 PM
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17. we prefer the term "conservative"
former nodakian here
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