U.S.
IMAGE OF JESUS LEFT OUTSIDE MOSQUE TO INSULT MUSLIMS
BY HARRIET SINCLAIR ON 7/10/17 AT 5:40 PM
U.S.ANTI-MUSLIMMOSQUE ATTACKS
A large painting of Jesus was left outside a mosque in Long Island in what police are investigating as a bias incident.
The Hillside Islamic Center in North New Hyde Park said an employee discovered the picture on Friday on a fence outside the mosque.
Mosque president Abdul Aziz Bhuyian told The Island Now surveillance from the building showed a man had cycled up to the mosque and hung the picture outside.
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“I’m sure… he wanted to provoke,” Bhuyian told the website. “Had he had good intentions he would have come to us. We’re always here,” he said, adding: “We want to make sure the person doesn’t do the same thing to anybody else.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the incident but also suggested it could provide a learning opportunity for members of the community.
"Bias may have motivated this incident, but it could serve as a teaching moment for the perpetrator and for the community if it leads to greater understanding of the love Muslims have for Jesus, peace be upon him,” the CAIR said in a statement on its website.
The statement added: “The Quran, Islam's revealed text, states, 'Behold! The angels said: 'O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and in (the company of) those nearest to God.”
The CAIR said it is providing Muslim community leaders free copies of its booklet Best Practices for Mosque and Community Safety, amid a series of incidents in which mosques have been targeted in possible Islamophobic attacks.
Hate crimes targeting Muslims increased by 584 percent from 2014 to 2016, statistics from the CAIR show.
Re: NY: Image of Jesus Left Outside Mosque to Insult Muslims
I wouldn't be surprised if the news network primarily reporting it got some Godless criminal to do it in order to broadcast it as a newsworthy report - it seems the secularist controllers are desperate to make people tribally think that Jesus is taking sides. Better to be on the side of God, then you'll be on the side of truth, and that's where you'll find God's servant and messenger Jesus.
Re: NY: Image of Jesus Left Outside Mosque to Insult Muslims
Hahahaaa....this shows the ignorance people have about Islam. We don't like lies attributed to Prophets so we hate these pictures but we respect and love Prophet Esa(Jesus)(A.S).
What an idiot, only if he had come to the mosque and asked a question, boy would he have felt like the idiot #1.
Re: NY: Image of Jesus Left Outside Mosque to Insult Muslims
That awkward moment when you try to offend Muslims by leaving a picture of Jesus at a mosque, but it turns out that Muslims both respect AND view him as a prophet. Talk about a #fail.
The amount of (willfully) ignorant, uninformed people out there is...startling.
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