Muslim Communities in the USA?

Asalaam Alyakum to All,

Can anyone help me find a nice rural Muslim community in the USA. Does it exist?

Does anyone live in the Michigan community? If so, could you tell me what it is like?  Or, I would love to hear about your experience in other communities.

I have searched on the net but couldn�t find too much about this. I would welcome any ideas! Thanks so much.

Salam

You may find this of some comfort about being a Muslim and that too with an American father . . .

Mashallah, It is sad, but true.

When my parents moved us back to the US when I was fifteen, I could speak the language but was shattered by the culture. Leaving Instanbul, a city rich in heritage and tradition was one thing, but getting hit in the face with the reality of what is in the US is another.

Sad thing is, I was born an American by the virtue of my father being  a long term assignment to the embassy, I also am a Turkish citizen by virtue of my mothers being a national and my physical birth there. What a mess!

For years I went along with this American rah rah hoopla culture, trying to fit in. but my little wall came crashing down one day in September when an airplane hit double towers in the City of New York. Seems interesting that several nieghbors of mine whom I do not even know called the authorities on my husband and myself, even though at the time we were rather inactive Muslims. Seems they had "security concerns" because of my son in the navy, and that my mother was a turk, and I held dual citizenship. How sad. I spent 3 weeks being visited daily by the local police and even spent a night in an overnight "interview room" being questioned why my father, an american Air Force Major associated with the US Embassy in Turkey and later other countries, would have converted to Islam..Well, I told the gent he needed to ask my father that for himself, but he would need to make a long distance call to Jannah..They finally left us alone after 6 weeks of harrassment. But they still stop by. I am a registered nurse and even had the state board of nursing on my back! So we are in the process of relocating to Mexico. WE will be safer there!

Ops. does that sound like the "America" you claim to know? My lineage on my fathers side traces back to Palmyra NY and to just after the Mayflower, do I deserve this treatment? Those innocents in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine have no choice, they are being obliterated, And for what? Nationalism!

Think about it, we need to become a world community and throw away boundaries! We need to stop the leader dogs of the countries from trying to fight over each other's trees.

Put away the mantle of nationalism, see the humans outside your space, and welcome to the family of man.

Israfil wrote: Whisper in addition to what Sister Cassandra is saying can you please not generalize American country? Well asking this is asking the lion to not eat so let me retract that. I just want to point out that every country has its ugliness and beauty we must limit ourselves to focusing on one aspect no matter what our experiences are.

Bismillah,

When I was a little girl I learned at school that America was the bestest country in the whole wide world.  And that Israel went and cleaned up the dirty bedoins swampland with some nice trees and because they made it so nice the bedoins wanted the land that used to be all desert to be theirs now.

Aren't YOU ashamed, Brother Israfil, of America's aggression and violent behavior throughout the world, including here at home?  Besides our bombing of Lebanon and Phalasteen, we are responsible for supporting terrorists against governments in South America since the 50s.  Iraq and Saudi wouldn't have kept their power if America hadn't propped them up years ago!

At home people should check into the Supreme Court's rulings on Eminent Domain.  Did you know that the cities can now take our homes and property just because they want to for any projecct that they deem more important than our homes or businesses?

And even besides the Patriot Act, Homeland Insecurity spies on anyone they feel like tapping our phones, opening our mail, putting us in jail with no charges for a year or more.

The America of my childhood was a dream that was never realized.  We could have become something great.  Now, we are a bully who doesn't even care that we are bleeding with contusions and broken parts. 

The Muslim Ummah should be like one body, caring for itself always.  Let's not be like a superpower and forget ourselves.  We need to care for each other in realistic, hands-on ways that make a difference in our lives.

Sister Lapingurl, I think Brother Sasha is trying to say you should live in another country if you are able.  Did you see my answer to you in your other post?  Blacksburg, Virginia.

Salaamu Alaykum