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| Investigation: NJ Moslems Celebrated 9/11 Attacks |
| 2004-07-14 |
| From the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society Irfan Khawaja, an adjunct instructor in philosophy at The College of New Jersey in Ewing and a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, grew up in the Muslim community in North Jersey. The Nov. 25 edition of the Herald News of West Paterson carried an article by Khawaja, "The Protocols of Paterson," in which he accused the Paterson Muslim community—and the larger American-Muslim community—of anti-Semitism. ... His article was in response to reports that the Arab Voice, a Paterson Arab-language newspaper, was reprinting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion .... He exchanged e-mail in an interview with this reporter. The questions and answers follow. Why is the Arab/Muslim community anti-Semitic? .... I think there are four basic sources of Muslim anti-Semitism. The first is the text of the Quran. .... The second is a skewed understanding of the Arab-Israeli dispute. .... The third is personal. ... A fourth is that the bigotry has run in both directions; some anti-Semitism is (an inexcusable) reaction to anti-Arab racism. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #4 those evil rantburg editors! Ahem, *cough* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-14 10:05:32 PM |
| #3 The headline was changed by a Rantburg editor. I posted the article with a headline something like: "An Investigation of Reports that NJ Moslems Celebrated 9/11 Attacks". |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-07-14 9:50:21 PM |
| #2 Nearly three years have passed since I was in NY that fateful day, but I remember TV reports coming out pretty darn soon after the towers fell that there were Muslim revelers in the streets of NJ. I can't remember which city-Matawan or Rahway, maybe? But I remember it distinctly, because while WTC victims' remains were still smoldering in the rubble, my idiotic Spaniard co-worker was trying to lecture me on how I had to understand the reasons for why they did it....even back then. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-14 1:52:56 PM |
| #1 Maybe the headline should be amended to "A Few NJ Moslems," since the body of the story says most reports didn't pan out. |
| Posted by: James 2004-07-14 1:13:49 PM |