{"id":310,"date":"2010-11-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/terrorist-thwarted-at-oregon-tree-lighting-muslims-fear-backlash.html"},"modified":"2010-11-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T08:00:00","slug":"terrorist-thwarted-at-oregon-tree-lighting-muslims-fear-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/terrorist-thwarted-at-oregon-tree-lighting-muslims-fear-backlash.html","title":{"rendered":"Terror Suspect Thwarted at Oregon Tree Lighting; Muslims Fear Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll always remember Thanksgiving 2008 as the one where we carved the turkey&nbsp;to the sounds of&nbsp;CNN, anxious for updates on the attacks on Mumbai&#8217;s hotels, train station, cafes&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/11\/23\/2741874\/holtzberg-family-sues-pakistan-over-mumbai-terrorist-attack#When:18:12:00Z\">Chabad House<\/a>. Fortunately, this year&#8217;s holiday weekend remained&nbsp;terror-free, thanks to federal investigators who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/29\/us\/29suspect.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">caught Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a &#8220;confused&#8221; Somali American teenager accused of plotting to bomb a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland<\/a>, Ore.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good news &#8212; except that now Muslim Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101128\/ap_on_re_us\/us_portland_car_bomb_plot\">are even more vulnerable to backlash<\/a>.&nbsp;Here in the Pacific Northwest, there have already been several local stories noting that&nbsp;our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/110937124.html\">Somali community is on high alert.<\/a>&nbsp;Many fear there may be <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/11\/28\/oregon-mosque-attended-by-bomb-plot-suspect-target-of-apparent-arson\/\">attacks on their&nbsp;mosques, <\/a>like the <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandtribune.com\/news\/story.php?story_id=129096602669493700\">fire set at the Islamic center Mohamud had&nbsp;attended<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. In the true spirit of the holiday,&nbsp;here&#8217;s the text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnsblog\/talking_turkey_and_god\/#When:19:03:01Z\">President Obama&#8217;s Thanksgiving proclamation <\/a>and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/22\/nyregion\/22towns.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">New York Times story about an interfaith Thanksgiving service in suburban New York<\/a>, my old neck of the woods.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll always remember Thanksgiving 2008 as the one where we carved the turkey&nbsp;to the sounds of&nbsp;CNN, anxious for updates on the attacks on Mumbai&#8217;s hotels, train station, cafes&nbsp;and Chabad House. Fortunately, this year&#8217;s holiday weekend remained&nbsp;terror-free, thanks to federal investigators who caught Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a &#8220;confused&#8221; Somali American teenager accused of plotting to bomb&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Terror Suspect Thwarted at Oregon Tree Lighting; Muslims Fear Backlash - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/terrorist-thwarted-at-oregon-tree-lighting-muslims-fear-backlash.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terror Suspect Thwarted at Oregon Tree Lighting; Muslims Fear Backlash - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ll always remember Thanksgiving 2008 as the one where we carved the turkey&nbsp;to the sounds of&nbsp;CNN, anxious for updates on the attacks on Mumbai&#8217;s hotels, train station, cafes&nbsp;and Chabad House. 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