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The Jerusalem Post reported a visit to a Brooklyn Muslim neighborhood by a Jerusalem Post journalist. Excerpts follow:
I was Brooklyn bound – or so I thought. I took the subway to see a fellow alumna of New York’s High School of Music and Art. I hadn’t been in New York City for ages, and catching up with an old classmate seemed an indispensable component of walking down memory lane.
What’s more, Kathy still lives at the same address in the cozy middle-class neighborhood where I sometimes visited her way back then. It was common for the house-proud Irish to keep property in the family. I’d soon re-enter the two-story red-brick home where we had whiled away the hours.
But when I climbed up the grimy station stairs and surveyed the street, I suspected that some supernatural time-and-space warp had transported me to Islamabad. This couldn’t be Brooklyn.
Women strode attired in hijabs and male passersby sported all manner of Muslim headgear and long flowing tunics. Kathy met me at the train and astounded me by pointing out long kurta shirts as distinguished from a salwar kameez. She couldn’t help becoming an expert.She’s now a member of a fast-dwindling minority because “people are running away. We’re among the last holdouts of our generation. My kids have fled.”
Pakistani and Bangladeshi groceries lined the main shopping drag. An unremarkable low-slung building on the corner of Kathy’s block was now dominated by an oversized green sign identifying it as Masjid Nur al-Islam (the Light of Islam Mosque) and announcing that “only Allah is worthy of worship and Muhammad is his LAST prophet.” Christians were urged to “turn to the Koran” if they were “genuinely faithful to J.”
I find it hard to believe New Yorkers would allow this to happen to The City That Never Sleeps…
Read the rest of the story in Matzav.
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