signalsIntolerance is in The Eye of The Intolerant
September 12th 2010 12:01
Is America as intolerant of Islam as many accuse it of being? Perhaps we should stop listening to the sensational headlines that make people believe this. Actually, America is still the America of acceptance as it always was.
On what can be called 'Road Trip for Ramadan', 2 Muslims travel 13,000 miles across America to visit 30 mosques in 30 days. What they found actually shocked them. Not only did they find a tolerant America in remote places, but Muslim history where you wouldn't expect it!
From the article:
For Ali, his favorite moment was Ross, North Dakota, a blip of a town with a population of 48 people. He knew little of the town's rich Muslim history, and it was difficult to try to find someone in the town who did.
A pastor directed them to a woman, who kindly pointed them down a dirt road to where the nation's first mosque once stood. It's no longer there. It's been replaced by a tiny cement block mosque, complete with a gold dome. Nearby, there's a cemetery marking the pioneering Muslims of America, with birth dates of 1882, 1904, 1931.
On what can be called 'Road Trip for Ramadan', 2 Muslims travel 13,000 miles across America to visit 30 mosques in 30 days. What they found actually shocked them. Not only did they find a tolerant America in remote places, but Muslim history where you wouldn't expect it!
From the article:
For Ali, his favorite moment was Ross, North Dakota, a blip of a town with a population of 48 people. He knew little of the town's rich Muslim history, and it was difficult to try to find someone in the town who did.
A pastor directed them to a woman, who kindly pointed them down a dirt road to where the nation's first mosque once stood. It's no longer there. It's been replaced by a tiny cement block mosque, complete with a gold dome. Nearby, there's a cemetery marking the pioneering Muslims of America, with birth dates of 1882, 1904, 1931.
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