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17/04/2011
Missouri Islamic Center Victim of Hate Crime
sMuslim community.Thereports Wednesday was Muslim Day at the state capitol. Dozens of Muslims heard speeches from religious leaders in Missouri.Themove comes as the General Assembly is considering laws to ban Sharia lawin the state.

Thecase of Quran burning in Springfield is despicable.No one in the cityseems to remember our sad history 105 years ago this month.The reports Horace Duncan, Fred Coker and Will Allen were hangedin the public square in 1906 after being wrongfully accused of raping a20-year-old white woman.

AfricanAmericanssoon after.They have never come back. Before the lynchings, Springfield had a population of about 10 to 20percent African American.Now the figure is less than 4 percent. Overnight, entire families picked up and left town in 1906.

Springfieldstill hasn't learned about intolerance toward others; this newexample of burning copies of the Quran is just as bad as racialkillings.The fear of violence is real either way.

Whydon't hateful citizens burn crosses in people's front yards?Burningthe Quran is the same difference.For those who haven't read theirhistory, I'm referring to the Ku Klux Klan, which is still active inMissouri. ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010 in Missouri andis a former leader of the KKK in North Carolina.

Whoeverdid this act is a coward.Just like men who wore white robes and masksto hide their true identities in the 1800s, people anonymously leaving burned books on the doorsteps of a mosque have no common decency whatsoever.

Iurge anyone in Springfield who has the time and money to donate a surveillance system for the Islamic Center.They shouldn't have to get one, but with so much going on, they may have no choice.

Salaam Alaikum.Peace be with you.