abdallac's Comments (58)

“right on right on!”

“Thank you for your insight. May God keep you safe and help you to continue to care for those under your watch.”

“"What if they ever decide to speed up the process"??
George...w­hat do you think the last * years of endless wars in Muslim countries and the blind devotion to Isreal is doing.
Please go and purchase a book called "Forcing God's Hands" by Grace Halsell. You can get it cheap on Amazon...t­his explains easily the phenomenon of the evangelical movement and it's great push into politics and foreign policy.
Read it in one evening.”

“As I recall, Dick Cheney sent daily military briefs riddled with Bible passages and images to his entire staff... and let's not even get into George Bush intimating to everyone listening his code words for "this is a Holy war against Islam". The military has now become ultra conservative due to the past 8 years of war mongering and fanning the flames of ignorance. They knew their audience. Hell, I experienced the same thing in Quantico!!”

“Dude...I say God is Most Great with everything I do... with the good and bad things that happen in my life - it is not, as you see it, as a cry that he is doing this in God's name...but the belief that the Creator is the beginning and end of all things.

Clearly, he believed his life was going to come to an end on that day - he emptied his apartment and said his goodbyes to people who had been kind to him. He didn't expect to come back just like many who feel their death is immenent in war or otherwise extoll the Creator of all things.

This has nothing to do with his faith but to do withwith how badly this man was harrassed by his fellow officers BECAUSE of his faith and their lack of it. You try being on the recieving end of that. I have - and it's awful and scary.”

“You mean YOUR political views. So what he was devout...I am a devout Muslim. "A one man terrorist force"/ Dude...ple­ase. Your posts are always so hateful and transparent.”

“Well said, but Major Hassan and all the Muslims in the military have been experiencing this since 9/11. For myself, I think it's pretty clear he snapped...­so in that sense I don't necessarily think he was a coward because I think he wasn't in his right mind

I also think that as a Major in the US Military you don't get harassed by a corporal or a sargeant. He must have endured that at the hands of other officers of his rank and above. This means that he could not go to his chain of command to report behavior that everyone "wink, wink" quietly condones. If anything it quite probably would have made his situation worse. In the military, it can be very exclusive, isolating and dangerous if you are not part of the pack. And what does this mean if he is going to be deployed with the very people that were making his life miserable?

The man joined the army out of high school to the disapproval of his family because he wanted to serve his country. I don't qet the picture of a coward - but the aftermath of this is devastating for all involved.

That's just the truth.”

“The Muslim community has NEVER been silent - the fact is no one would talk to us, give us air time or represent our point of views on matters. That's a fact. We've reached out as individuals and organization we can't get any real airplay and often what happened is they transcribed one line fully out of context and no other content.”

“Wow...yest­erday my husband called and said "are you watching the news?" all I could think of was "please, puhleeeez just don't let it be some crazy dude with some Muslim name making the headlines.­"

It's been 8 years of hell and the hits just keep on coming ... so many millions of us every day go out into America and try to make a positive difference as a friend, coworker, room mom or even as a stranger - then this crap happens by a singular person with some obviously deep issues and the whole community pays for like no other community except the black community -and they've been taking hits in this country for far longer than us
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Yes, my brother Jamal, you are on point.”

“Thank you so much for your honest reflection. It's very refreshing to hear an Israeli accept the terror their government is inflicting on another people rather than the constant barrage of self righteous, victimhood and the squashing of all accounts, dialogue and journalism to the contrary.”

“I have to say ...I agree with every word you said. I think even I am afraid to free myself up for that happiness factor. Wasn't hard before I was married and had kids. The responsibility and pressure have actually changed my personality. Don't know how to get back that uproarious laughter I once had. Everything seems so serious now.”

“Bravo and thank you. Well said - and from a Muslimah. I wonder if they will listen - I've tried for years to say the same thing. So glad the conference in Malaysia and other places are active and progressive in dialogue and follow through. Always leave it to the ladies to get things done.”

“Thank you for being a brave lady and saying what needs to be said in this vacuum of balanced information and against overwhelming marketing power and political forces”

“And honestly this is the Number 1 complaint of people from all over the world - that Americans never want to know anything, that we don't want to learn anything. They think we are a very dangerous combination of strength and ignorance.”

“It's interesting to me that many of these posts intimate that learning anything about anyone else is frivolous, does not belong in the schools. How ironic. These children will grow up and interact with all kinds of people who are D I F F E R E N T - and they will be I G N O R A N T of how many of those differences have many shared values - cultural values, moral values, human values.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, where I was the only dark skinned kid in my school, my mother looked white, my father looked black, my last name was Abdalla, we were Muslim - not so great in white, middle class America. I spent every Christmas and Easter at school on overload iwth the cards and decorations and feeling very much out of place - but I learned a lot about what people believed. And that is always, ALWAYS a good thing - knowledge.”

“Wow - that was a most ignorant commentary.”

“Can I just ask you why that is so surprising? Muslim women were given rights 1400 years ago that their Jewish and Christian counterparts STILL cannot theologically claim - yet and still, Muslim men (just as Christian, Jewish, etc.... men) still have usurped the God given rights of women and twisted it beyond recognition and used it to subjugate rather than to elevate and secure as was meant by Almighty God.
Women had the right to work. The right to keep 100% of their earnings. The right to not be forced into working particularly after children. The right to full education. The right to their own property. The right to their own business. The right do refuse a marriage proposal. The right to divorce. The right to be treated in fairness and kindness from one's husband. IT IS THE MAN who has the particular responsibility to fully provide for his family and the expectation to maintain his wife in the manner in which she was accustomed prior to marriage (i.e servants, drivers, etc.) , unless out of her own desire she chooses to forfeit that right.
The right of men to lead is not just a priveledge, it's a responsibility, a duty and a test on how they use and abuse that power. So far I see mostly failure in that area.”

“You know - that is actually a GREAT idea. I also think Jerusalem should be neutral territory and the idea for the UN to oversee it is faaaaaahhhhhbulous. But the UN cannot be kept impotent by the US veto power - that must change.”

“Mr. Dershowitz, you have such a brilliant mind. Yet for all your lound railing rants branding Anti Semetic against any critical voice that does not beat to the Zionist drum, you have lost the one great beauty of your Jewish faith - it's humanity.”

“Your quote is such a purposeful LIE - about Muslims fighting Jews...do you know that Hamas is also comprised of Palestinian Christians?

Silly. Next time don't be so blatant in your subterfuge, you may get away with it.”

“Ditto, man! Right on ! Right on!”

“Do you guys remember Omarosa on The Apprentice - Coulter is the white Omarosa. Every bit as one dimensional, catty and lacking in any substance.­They both think their tabloid/media cashe is the equivalent of class.”

“Arab Americans do have their own PAC - all the previous administrations at the behest of AIPAC has essentially isolated them and said they were cover for "terrorist activites". They are completely dismissed by legislators and the MSM.

Next time you want to call Arab Americans cowardly I suggest you put yourself in their shoes against an organized, fully fully funded political powerhouse like AIPAC that shuts down or maligns any one that gets in their way.”

“Dude - Michale has no moral compass - don't you see how he/she totally takes over any postings and makes excuses for every atrocity. I suggest you ignore this persons posts. That's what someone else wrote and I took their advice to heart. Ignore him/her as you would a petulant and spoiled child.”

“So true - i'm with you.”