An Ill Wind: Manhattan's Muslim Day Parade Plus Much More

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 13, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/359/manhattan-muslim-day-parade

Excerpt:

On my way to Penn Station on Friday afternoon, (on West 29th St. to be precise), there seemed to be some kind of demonstration going on. When we got closer we saw that it was a large Islamic prayer service which had spilled out onto the sidewalk and into the gutter. It was mainly a mass of prostrated men but women in hijab walked nearby. The driver, a silver-haired man of Greek and Bulgarian background, launched into a non-stop monologue.

"I wouldn't mind it if they came here to become Americans like I did. But no, they hate America. They want to stay the way they are but they want to take over America. You ought to see it in Astoria, Queens! Far bigger than this. You know why they're on the sidewalk and in the street? Because they are really protesting not having larger and larger mosques."

Well, their prayer service, (and it was that), did somehow seem like a protest. There was an aggressive rather than a humbled feeling in the air, more anger than love, a separatism but one right in-your-face.

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