[size=14pt]Detroit prayer event puts Muslim community on edge[/size]
By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press | AP – 42 mins ago

DETROIT (AP) — A group that counts Islam among the ills facing the nation began a 24-hour prayer rally Friday evening in an area with one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States.

The gathering at Ford Field, the stadium where the Detroit Lions play, is designed to tackle issues such as the economy, racial strife, same-sex relationships and abortion. But the decade-old organization known as TheCall has said Detroit is a "microcosm of our national crisis" in all areas, including "the rising tide of the Islamic movement."

Leaders of TheCall believe a satanic spirit is shaping all parts of U.S. society, and it must be challenged through intensive Christian prayer and fasting. Such a demonic spirit has taken hold of specific areas, Detroit among them, organizers say. In the months ahead of their rallies, teams of local organizers often travel their communities performing a ritual called "divorcing Baal," the name of a demon spirit, to drive out the devil from each location.


"Our concern is that we are literally being demonized by the organizers of this group," said Dawud Walid, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan chapter, which last week urged local mosques and Islamic schools to increase security. "And given the recent history of other groups that have come into Michigan , we're concerned about this prayer vigil stoking up the flames of divisiveness in the community."


TheCall is the latest and largest of several groups or individuals to come to the Detroit area with a message that stirred up many of its estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Muslims. Recent visitors have included Florida pastor Terry Jones; members of the Westboro Baptist Church; and the Acts 17 Apologetics, missionaries who were arrested for disorderly conduct last year at Dearborn's Arab International Festival but were later acquitted.

As with many other Christian groups, TheCall and its adherents believe Jesus is the only path to salvation. While they consider all other religions false, they have a specific focus on Islam, largely in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, terrorism overseas and fear that Islam, which is also a proselytizing faith, will spread faster than Christianity.

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emeka, my hand no dey. lf u allow the likes of sweetnecta use cutlass to pursue us. hmmmmmm

^^^^ I know detroit.
The ills of detroit, indeed michigan and in general usa is economy. it is the economy stu.pid, as they say in the american politics.

america lost the edge. motown as in motor town lost its luster, except their women. i guess the women thing is because of its black bloodline.

muslims are the new irish. or the poles.

or the jews.

everyone is a target at some point in the american economic cycle.

let them pray for summer to return in the great lake areas, detroit included. that will be a Christian miracle.

I will be eager to see them call on their God or gods.

Emeka is almost becoming international amebo.

aloy/emeka i don't get dis messege, are the christians uneasy with the growing convertion to islam in d us or are they claiming dat muslims are responsible for the lost of jobs when d auto industries cut off their workforce? he he he, where pastor chris and joshua? these ppl needs ur miracle.

aurenflani:

aloy/emeka i don't get dis messege, are the christians uneasy with the growing convertion to islam in d us or are they claiming dat muslims are responsible for the lost of jobs when d auto industries cut off their workforce? he he he,  where pastor chris and joshua? these ppl needs your miracle.

No, they are claiming that muslims are responsible for blowing up everywhere. Do you blame them if they claim that, look at Boko Haram & co.