Bin Laden-loathing, Sharia-hating, flag-waving, horn-honking. . . Muslims? (The Michigan View 05.03.11)

Posted by hpayne on May 3, 2011

On Friday in Dearborn, the fiery Floridian warned from the steps of City Hall that the Metro Detroit Muslim community may be Ground Zero for the rise of Sharia law in the United States. Two days later, those very Dearborn residents were at City Hall — just like their fellow Americans from New York to D.C. — celebrating the death of the 9-11 monster, Osama bin Laden.

The irony of what took place in one of America’s most heavily Muslim areas in one weekend is profound. It is proof (as if any were needed) that American Muslims are in the United States to escape Sharia law — not to import it.

“Drivers honked their horns in celebration along the main avenue of Arab-American commerce in the heavily Middle Eastern suburb of Dearborn as news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread across the city. Yet more gathered outside City Hall, chanting ‘U.S.A.’ and waving American flags,” reported AP. (While we’re noting ironies, it should also be said that Dearborn’s anti-Jones, anti-First Amendment political buffoons thankfully did not demand that the Muslim demonstrators pay a “peace bond” for their anti-Obama demonstrations.)

“It’s a special day for us to show Americans we are celebrating, we are united,” demonstrator Ahmed Albedairy told the AP. Albedairy came to Metro Detroit from Iraq in 1996.

Indeed, bin Laden’s al Qaida has brought nothing but pain and suffering to Iraqis like Albedairy. Like generations of American immigrants, they came to the U.S. to escape the horrors of their homeland. Contrary to Terry Jones and a train of opportunistic pols that extends to those who denounced the building of the “Ground Zero mosque” in New York – American Muslims in Dearborn and New York City should be celebrated.

Jones and mosque opponents like Sarah Palin feed on paranoia about the Muslim religion. But their fears are misplaced. Like Jones, Palin has tried to lump American Muslims like Ground Zero Mosque imam, Feisal Rauf, with Mideast terror groups such as Hamas that have condemned the U.S. raid on bin Laden as “the killing of an Arab holy warrior.”

“Rauf refuses to recognize that Hamas is a terrorist organization,” Palin says of the imam who would build the Park 51 Project in lower Manhattan. But her charge is no more true than Jones’ claims of Dearborn as fertile soil for Shara law.

“Hamas is a terrorist organization. They have committed terrorist acts,” Rauf told WJR-Radio host Frank Beckmann this year in one of his many denunciations of Islamic extremists who “pose more of a threat, in fact, to Muslim-majority societies.”

Instead of protesting Muslims like Rauf, Jones and Palin should join him in his treks abroad where he seeks to sow the seeds of American democracy. That is where they will find the Sharia law that has so enslaved Muslims that they have fled to the United States. Indeed, one of the great stories since bin Laden took down the World Trade towers in 2001, is that extreme Islam is not only being rejected in the U.S. — but in the Mideast as well.

“What the vast majority of people in the Muslim world want is what we have here,” says Rauf in explaining his “dream” (a deliberate allusion to MLK) of Park 51— like community centers all over the world to showcase religious tolerance. “Look at our Declaration [of Independence]. The American formulation of how to structure a system of rights . . . is the ideal form for Muslim countries to follow. I want Muslim states to become America-like states.”

“This is a holiday,” one Dearborn resident told WWJ-Radio this morning of the 9-11 mastermind’s demise.

Increasingly, the whole world wants a holiday from bin Laden. Muslims in America are proof that America is winning the war on radial international Islam — not just abroad, but right here at home.

 

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