Minnesota: Muslims to show their “power” at Vikings
Stadium event tomorrow (update), by Ann Corcoran 8/20/18.
Leo Hohmann has
penned a very thorough report on the secretive (outside the Somali Muslim
community!) event to be held tomorrow in Minnesota.
We
first reported it here last Thursday, but this is a
must-read filled with details and expert translations of what one might expect
to hear at the “one-of-a-kind Muslim event
that’s never happened before on U.S. soil.”
Here are
just some of Hohmann’s opening paragraphs: The
Minnesota Vikings’ US Bank Stadium seats 65,000 people for pro football but the
state’s imams are hoping to fill those seats with more than 50,000-plus Muslims
chanting “Allahu Akbar!” on Tuesday, Aug. 21, in celebration of the Muslim
holiday of Eid al-Ahda.
While
the size and scope of the “Super Eid 2018” celebration is described by Muslim
organizers as “unprecedented” for this country, it has attracted little media attention.
It
might have attracted little mainstream media attention, but I can tell you it’s
garnered tens of thousands of social media reads if my numbers here at RRW are
any indicator.
Eid
al-Ahda is one of the most important Islamic holidays and literally means “Festival
of the Sacrifice” in Arabic. It
involves the ritual slaughtering of domestic animals, typically goats or sheep,
although stadium management has promised a group of concerned citizens in
Minnesota that no animals will be killed inside the stadium.
Featured speaker DR. WALEED AL-MANEESE
PH.D http://www.supereid.com/speaker/luis-gallop/
While
an event of this size takes at least a year to plan, details about the Super
Eid have been held under wraps. The first visible sign that it would happen
came in mid-July, when a website popped up under the registered domain name of
SuperEid.com.
“Super
Eid” was formally announced by a group of 13 imams during a cryptic 20-minute
press conference outside the US Bank Stadium, aired Aug. 7 on Somali TV of
Minnesota.
The imams, speaking mostly in Arabic and Somali, said they were
inviting tens of thousands of Muslims to come together to celebrate an Islamic
holiday that involves not only the slaughter of animals but three hours of
chanting “Allahu Akbar,” followed
by feasting, merrymaking and events for children.
One
imam exclaimed at the Aug. 7 announcement that “Super Eid 2018” is being
designed as a statement to America that the best Islamic teachers, imams and
scholars will be “coming
together and showing the unity and the power of our community.”
Continue reading here. Don’t miss the discussion about what
happened when concerned citizens attended a stadium board meeting last Friday. We
will be eager to hear how it goes—-presumably from the mainstream media which
we expect will be giving it extensive coverage for such an important
first-in-America Islamic show of power and unity!
Too funny!!!
No
sooner had I written those words when I saw that the Washington Post is down playing the event and calling it
“not real news” by focusing only on the issue of animal slaughter that they say
will not be happening! Dear WaPo, you are missing the point (on
purpose!).
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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