"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

Surge in Anti-Muslim Incidents Reported
Md., Va. and D.C. Among Top 10 Locations for Harassment

By Michelle Boorstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; Page B03

A national Muslim advocacy organization yesterday blamed a "negative and politically charged" environment on the Internet and talk radio for the 30 percent jump in anti-Muslim incidents reported to the group last year.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations received 1,972 complaints of harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment in 2005, up from 1,522 in 2004, according to an annual report released yesterday.

The number of complaints is the highest since CAIR began the report after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The group said it received 2,300 complaints but deemed some of them illegitimate.

"We're seeing a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric fed by the Internet and also on talk radio," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said at a news conference. "You can't turn on the radio without hearing negative, bigoted comments about Islam."

Now this really breaks my heart. Excuse me if I don't cry, but I wonder how many mosques have been attack by Christians carrying torches and guns. I wonder how many rioting Christians these "poor" Muslims have had to dodge. I wonder how many Imams have been killed by Christian mobs roaming the streets of DC.

Perhaps if the members of CAIR spent more time condemning the attrocities of their own people, perhaps if they were to call for the punishment and incarceration of the instigators of all the "hate-crimes" committed by Muslims in the Middle East, perhaps if the Imams in the West were to issue a "fatwa" against the terrorists who instigated this atmosphere of hostility, instead of whining about "profiling" and "bigoted comments about Islam" they might get a sympathetic ear.

As long as you in the supposedly "non-radical" choose to ignore the severe problems inside your own faith, you will reap the results of those murderer's actions.

Say, I have an idea, instead of trying to "educate people" about your faith, educate your own people about their faith. Stop blaming Americans for problems which your own people perpetuate on a daily basis.

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