30 Mosques in 30 Days Visits Minneapolis
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 10:33 pm
CNN has a write-up about two American Muslims who set out to visit 30 mosques in 30 days. The pair passed through the Twin Cities last weekend and visited Dar Al Hijrah, in Minneapolis. Ali and Tariq are only a day away from finishing their trip, and they’ve been recounting their cross-country on their blog, 30mosques.com.
Did you know the very first mosque built in the US was built in … Ross, North Dakota? In 1929?
Doesn’t anyone do anything in 28 or 31 days anymore?
How about 20 days, people? Take the weekend off, you earned it doing whatever it is you created a hashtag for.
“they discovered that America still embraces immigrants and the nation is filled with welcoming and loving people.’
Cant’s be this country. What propaganda is CNN trying to foist on the world? We’re a nation of Islamophobic, xenophobic WASPY white people who hate gays.
Like #threesoliddaysofdrinking?
I was really annoyed with the sloppieness of the posts. Calling Somalis “Somalians” for one. Spelling street names wrong. Calling the apts in Riverside Plaza public housing, which it is not (though it accepts subsidies.)
@kc!: Give ’em some credit for at least exploring the US. Re: “Somalians.” You’d be surprised how widely the term is used … by Minnesotans. I used to roll my eyes at Minnesotans who still referred to Japanese as “Japs” (but in a “nice” way) thirty years after WWII had ended. I still roll my eyes at people who say “Eye-Rack” and “Eye-Ran” and “carry-oh-key.” 😉
@Bixby: Ramadan is 30 days. I suppose that was key to their itinerary. 😉
Cant’s be this country. What propaganda is CNN trying to foist on the world? We’re a nation of Islamophobic, xenophobic WASPY white people who hate gays.
I think that was the point of the article: To remind the rest of us that we ain’t like them thar rednecks.
Aside: How much ignorance to you see revealed here [Daily Beast]?
“You’d be surprised how widely the term is used … by Minnesotans.”
Surprise me. How widely?
How much ignorance to you see revealed?
Ignorant of what? Just a lot of anger, from the way it looks.
One of the posters had a more philosophical view of the whole Melee on the Mosque in Manhattan
“On the other hand, I suppose there is something to be said for America being able to handle such controversy without letting it get out of hand. In Greece, financial reform prompted weeks of protest and several innocent people died. In Afganistan, the protests against the Koran buring also resulted in violence. In my native Russia, several opposition leaders were arrested for carrying a flag outside on Flag Day.”
@Rat: I understand your point but the greatest ignorance I see from among the anti-mosque protesters is lumping all Muslims together (similar to claiming that Baptists and Methodists are alike as Christians). Sufis are not Shi’as or Sunnis. The prayer center is being planned by the Sufi sect. Claiming that Sufi Muslims are terrorists would be like claiming Quakers are warmongers.
“Claiming that Sufi Muslims are terrorists would be like claiming Quakers are warmongers.”
I don’t know that anyone claims that 51Park (what was wrong with Cordoba House?) will be terrorist recruiting center. Do you have a link for that?
BTW: ‘Nood. How many Minnesotans are calling Somalis Somalians? A ballpark figure is fine if you don’t have a source.
It is incorrect, but it seems a bit nitpicking to me.
@Rat: Off the top of my head, and pulling a number right out of my ass, my guess would be 83% of Minnesotans who live out-state will say “Somalians.” Oh, alright. Only 78% make the mistake. Some of that percentage might even confuse “Somalian” with “Samoan,” and most of those would probably live in Stearns County on dirt roads and whose high point of the day is watching Vanna spin the Wheel. Re: 51Park. That is the name of the property, isn’t it? Cordoba House, IIRC, is what the center itself will be named when built.
I don’t know that anyone claims that 51Park (what was wrong with Cordoba House?) will be terrorist recruiting center. Do you have a link for that?
When did I make a claim the center would be used for recruitment? Some anti-mosque protesters have made a claim connecting the center with terrorism but much of the anti-mosque brouhaha appears to equate Islam in general with terrorism. Maybe they’re right: Nixon was raised a Quaker and look how he acted. Damn those warmongering Quakers! Time to burn a meeting house down! 😉
As a guy who grew up out-state, I find your opinions offensive. Shame on you.
“and whose high point of the day is watching Vanna spin the Wheel.”
Ironically I spoke with an expat one year in one your models for social evolution — Singapore. He said Wheel of Fortune was the most popular show in Singapore “and the most informative.” I could agree, especially when the the predominant newspaper in the the city/state compliantly plays the role of Government Lapdog.
@Rat: Re: your expat friend. I guess they weren’t watching The Simpsons, which started airing in Singapore in 1991. It was popular with the under-30 crowd. (How recent was your conversation, because I don’t recall WoF being broadcast on SBC at the time I lived there. However, CNN was on its own SBC (now MediaCorps) channel by the time I left. And BBC World Service has been available in Sng over-the-air on FM since the 1970s … and years before that on AM.)
As for government lapdog, I can point to the New York Times, Washington Post, the TV networks, etc., that certainly didn’t appear to object to or raise questions about our invasion of Iraq. Or what happened after the Gulf of Tonkin, for that matter. Our media watchdogs sometimes, too, will confuse fantasy with reality.
“As for government lapdog, I can point to the New York Times, Washington Post, the TV networks, etc., that certainly didn’t appear to object to or raise questions about our invasion of Iraq.”
Sure you can, but you’re going to look ridiculous comparing them to the Straits Times.
@Rat: Circulation size differences aside, I’m sure any comparison would be ridiculous. The Straits Times had nothing to do with beating the drums of war in US, nor with the passage of the Patriot Act.
Sallam, you two.