{"id":28881,"date":"2015-12-14T10:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28881"},"modified":"2015-12-14T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:56:18","slug":"threats-harassment-vandalism-at-mosques-reach-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/threats-harassment-vandalism-at-mosques-reach-record-high.html","title":{"rendered":"“Threats, harassment, vandalism at mosques reach record high”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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When I visited the Friday prayer service here at the Plainfield, Indiana, headquarters of the Islamic Society of North America in October 2012, the imam who preached the sermon that day told me afterwards that he would shortly be voting for Mitt Romney for president.
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http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/10\/living\/mosques-attack-study-2015\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is very unfortunate.<\/p>\n

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I hope, though, that the apparent absence of such attacks from the Mormon Kulturgebiet<\/em> will continue.<\/p>\n

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One other observation: \u00a0Some will say that American Muslims ought to be focusing more on the denunciation of acts of violence done in the name of their faith than on complaining about vandalism and slights done to them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not unsympathetic to that point. \u00a0More Muslims have been denouncing jihadi<\/em> violence than many Americans seem to realize, but, until virtually all Americans are aware of those denunciations, they won\u2019t have been loud or frequent enough. \u00a0For good or ill, that\u2019s the simple fact. \u00a0The outrage from within the Muslim community at what\u2019s being done in the name of Islam needs to become a deafening roar.<\/p>\n

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And it should be noted that American Jews, too, carefully record incidents of harassment, vandalism, and threats. \u00a0And that there are apparently considerably more such acts against Jews than against Muslims:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/ucr\/hate-crime\/2012\/topic-pages\/victims\/victims_final<\/a><\/p>\n

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But such incidents simply ought not to occur. \u00a0Period. \u00a0Against either Jews or<\/em> Muslims.<\/p>\n

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Or any other group, for that matter.<\/p>\n

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