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American Muslims and Presidential Elections 2008

Ahmer Muzammil February 9, 2008

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#1 Posted by VRV on February 10, 2008 9:37:08 am
These are challenging times for Muslims around the world...

WTF is this?

When u guys learn to live with others with a sense of shared responsibility? What is special and exclusive abt Muslims?

This site is like a Muslim evangelical site.

Chowk Editors, u r big time suckers....
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#2 Posted by arjun_5 on February 10, 2008 10:18:45 am

According to gallop there are somewhere between 6-8 million Muslims living in America and that number is on a steady rise. Our average household income is around 60K which is no chump change either.


It's gallup..and the numbers are completely wrong..they're inflated, for self-serving reasons, by islamofascists apologists like CAIR...

Even the income numbers are bogus...the average income of paki-americans, based on the latest census data available, is 50K..


I find it laughable that ‘they’ present Ayan Hirsi as some sort of Islamic Scholar when she is a self proclaimed atheist.


Oh so now you have to be a practitioner of the religion of peace to claim any sort of expertise?

funny...not being a physicist or chemist or metallurgist never stopped pakis from claiming expertise on how fire doesn't melt steel and how 9/11 was a jewish conspiracy...


You should do something about the 25% of young muslim-americans who think suicide bombings is, well, kosher
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#3 Posted by jang on February 10, 2008 10:35:59 am
Very timely article. Participating in elections is a huge part of being a citizen in a democracy. This is the time to get into it as citizens who care about other fellow citizens, finding common cause with other citizens. Fellow non-muslim citizens do not belong to a great religion, as a result would tend to be bigoted and suspicious. They might consider some acts are polarizing, but that is an unfortunate result of biased media. But that is the landscape and ummites must do the best out of it. There are other groups of citizens who will take care of general issues like universla health-care etc so that is not that important. Foreign policy vis-a-vis muslim world and human rights for the growing ummah therfore need to be the most important issues. (other foreign policy parts e.g. global warming etc can be taken care by others.)
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#4 Posted by ejazharoon on February 10, 2008 12:17:42 pm
I have more in common with my Christian and Jewish neighbors and coworkers than I do with Arab-Americans or Paki-Americans, even though many of them may be Muslims. We Americans judge others not by where they're from, but by what they say and do. And the sad truth is that many Islamists have said terrible things and done nothing positive.
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#5 Posted by laddu on February 10, 2008 5:53:04 pm
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I find it laughable that ‘they’ present Ayan Hirsi as some sort of Islamic Scholar when she is a self proclaimed atheist."

You mean an Atheist cannot be an Islamic scholar???
What nonsense. Ali Hirsi exposes not only the mullahs - but these 'moderate' muslims trying to 'protest' against the west and thinking that they are some sort of turncoats and secret agents of Allah in the dar-ul-harbs they live in.

The manner in which Ali Hirsi gets bad mouthed by these 'moderates' is abominable!!
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#6 Posted by laddu on February 10, 2008 5:58:52 pm
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#7 Posted by nkg on February 10, 2008 10:44:40 pm
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#8 Posted by FakirIppi on February 10, 2008 10:52:48 pm
Re: # 2 more than 50 % think its correct so you better correct your stats hindvay
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#9 Posted by FakirIppi on February 10, 2008 10:52:50 pm
Re: # 2 more than 50 % think its correct so you better correct your stats hindvay
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#10 Posted by majumdar on February 10, 2008 11:03:35 pm
I am told that American Muslims largely voted Republican in 2000 so that Mr. Lieberman, a Jew, wudnt become VP. Is that right?

Regards
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#11 Posted by rf786 on February 11, 2008 2:15:47 am
Nomination of a woman and African Amercian as presidential nominees shows the evolution of thought in America. Race, colour, religion have become secodary for many Americans excluding the right wing extremist Republicans. I wonder how will Muslim voters decide when it comes to race and gender?
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#12 Posted by ISlamIslam on February 11, 2008 2:34:05 am
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#13 Posted by majumdar on February 11, 2008 2:51:26 am
Harimau,

(On the Democratic side, they would be given either a woman or a Black. The former, according to Islam, cannot be allowed out on her own without a mehram)

No problem with this woman candidate. Hillary has a mehram- Bill Clinton.

Regards

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#14 Posted by hamza_yusufzai on February 11, 2008 3:53:51 am
hahahahahahaha...it is so entertaining to witness heengboo monkeys jump up n down to commemorate hanuman jee with there chaddis in a bunch.....abbay pulputtoo patel...no one gives a shit about what you bhindis have to say. You are irrelevant. The largest ethnic group of Muslims in America are african americans and one of there own is about to become the leader of the free world, you on the other hand are still contemplating whether maybe its time to spare your mothers life when dady pujarilal-krishnamurthyqjahshsgdgdretehbaba gets bbq'd.

Its a lil rich to hear about head count from a ppl that r the ugliest nation in the world n still procreate in billions (now heres a quandary for modern physics) but when it comes to recruiting movie stars for there ugly hordes they seek help from the pushtoons (thats a scientific fact so dont u dare deny that...the ugly part i mean )

If we need a bathroom cleaned in uae or doughnut in nj, we'll let u know.

Is it just me or heengboos will chime in even boards that has nothing to do with cow-piss or on modern technologies on how to abort female babies before conception. Isn't there a cheap motel out there on I-35 that needs its bedsheets changed you bhindis. Abbayy badboodarr, SaRRI hoii gobi ki nasloon kabhii too apnay kaam sayy kaam rakh liya karroo
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#15 Posted by arjun_5 on February 11, 2008 4:03:28 am
huh? largest number of muslims are african american

barack hussein is african american

ergo, barrack is muslim?

inbred retard mind at it's finest...

p.s. did someone tell barack? he's sending out e-mail saying he's never - repeat - never been muslim..
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#16 Posted by hamza_yusufzai on February 11, 2008 4:13:59 am
Yar qureshi kayy laRkay..dont fret ..i meant he was black ..hence there own...i know the reminiscences of daal bhaaji will stay a lil while longer but keep on the beef diet like dady qureshi insisted..it will set u free arjun my brother in Islam. :)
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