More moderate Muslim voices in the US. In the
Tribune yesterday:
"Our duty is not to go out and scream and burn buildings," Busool told worshipers at the American Legion Memorial Civic Center, where prayers were held while the Morton Grove mosque is under construction. "We can talk to them in a nice manner about what our prophet means to us."
And underscoring the point that we have seen virtually no demonstrations about the cartoons here (nor in Iraq for that matter):
At the Morton Grove mosque, Fadl Abdallah, 60, a Palestinian-born Islamic researcher from Chicago, said U.S. Muslims remained calm because they felt part of the fabric of American society. In Europe, they felt frustrated at being treated as second-class citizens.
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It is interesting that the cartoons have been met with a bored yawn by the Muslims in the US. Perhaps they understand more about what the cartoons are about than their brethren across the various ponds (oceans).
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Which goes to show you, they have become Americans. In private they may be hopping mad. But they know that in public, a restrained response is an American response. Or maybe they just read the paper and are used to the endless string of insulting everybody on the part of the press
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