Monthly Archives: September 2011

9/11/11 – Two huge explosions rock Chicopee as local Muslims celebrate 911 anniversary.

“It is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen,”  said a Chicopee Electric Light manager. In what could not possibly have been a terror attack, multiple explosions, at the exact time as the attacks just 10 years ago, rocked Chicopee, blowing … Continue reading

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Sept 12, 2011 “Ten Years After” Hampshire College Profs (?) Omar Dahi and Sayres Rudy discuss “It’s all Israel’s fault?”

Basking in the acclaim of a recent al-Jezerra ‘voice of al-Queda’ article featuring his visit to a pro-Assad rally in Damascus this summer,  Syrian Palestinian Omar Dahi will join “academic vagabond” and part-time teacher Sayres Rudy, for a special “911 … Continue reading

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9/11 10th anniversary celebrations: “Aroma of fear” lingers for Western Massachusetts Muslims

Although it was his colleague and fellow Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts founding member Dr. Ali Hazratji who reminded UMassAmherst MSA students that “violence, warfare, and bloodshed were prescribed and ordained for them by Al’lah, whether they liked it or … Continue reading

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9/11 10th anniversary celebrations: Muslim Perspectives from Dilyara and Harun Celik

Dilyara Celik, 26, of Chicopee, is director of the women’s association of the Turkish Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts in West Springfield. Harun Celik opened the Hampden Charter School of Science 2 years ago to help promote science, and to … Continue reading

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9/11 10th anniversary celebrations: Muslim Perspectives from the Awkal family – Ali, Maher, Abdul

 The Awkal family came to the United States from Beirut in about 1984,  just after brave Palestinians had bombed the US Marines while they were sleeping. Some settled in Detroit, Michigan, and others eventually ended up in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Join Amherst Muslims to celebrate the 911 anniversary – Sunday in the Town Commons

According to the Amherst Bulletin, representatives of local Muslim organizations will be joining the non-Muslims in the Amherst Commons to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 911 attacks,  when Arab Palestinians from Egypt and Saudi Arabia  introduced America to the … Continue reading

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Help Pioneer Valley Police protect Muslims from “Islamophobia” as they celebrate the 9/11 anniversary.

During Ramadan Dr. Hazratji expressed his deep concern over the rampart bigotry and “Islamophobia” in the Pioneer Valley. Muslims in America have a right to celebrate 911 the same way as their families will be doing in their homelands, and … Continue reading

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Smith and Five College Alliance for America and Israel

Many Hampshire County residents have noticed a distinctive and hateful Islamic miasma in the Five College area since Dr. Hazratji’s speech in February 2010 to MSA students and local Muslims inciting them to “violence, warfare, and bloodshed, whether they like … Continue reading

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Five College MSA orientation (Part 3) – Keeping Halal and avoiding najis kafirs

As UMass employee Abdel-Rahman Jaradat has written, “I want to emphasize the fact that you are here because of very good reasons and I want to help you insure [sic] that your living experience remains respected and supported.”

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Hampshire College welcomes Omar Dahi back from pro-Assad rally in Damascus, Syria

A recent Al-Jazeera story headlines Syrian professor Omar Dahi, who has returned to Hampshire College from a month long stay in his homeland, where he attended a pro-Assad (i.e. Shia) rally in Damascus  “out of curiosity.”

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