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12 gru 2010 · SIDNEY CENTER, N.Y. — On a crisp November day in 2009, the cemetery on the hill received its first guest — a 28-year-old stonemason killed in a car accident two days earlier. Solemnly his Sufi Muslim brethren buried him beneath a vibrant green headstone — the color of the Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani order, which runs a 50-acre farm and mosque here.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann brought instant fame to the small town of Sidney when he announced Bob McCarthy as “The Worst Person in the World” [11] and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert joked about the residents of Sidney being scared of Muslim vampires. [12]
12 gru 2010 · Locals watched in horror as Sidney was branded as Islamophobic, backward and ignorant. "I felt so ashamed of my town," said jeweler Richard Cooley. And then those feelings changed.
Osmanlı Dergahı, Sidney Center, New York. 5,784 likes · 127 talking about this · 1,390 were here.
12 gru 2010 · Instead of peace, Celoski's burial ignited a war — one that would erupt nine months later, hurling Sidney into the national spotlight, bitterly dividing some residents while transforming others...
17 paź 2010 · Sidney, New York's Bob McCarthy has turned a tussle about bigotry and Islamophobia into a morality play about a rural town of fair-minded Americans that first elects, then turns against, a man who promised to save them.
13 paź 2010 · SIDNEY, N.Y. – A small town in rural upstate New York is dropping plans to take legal action forcing a Muslim community to shut down its tiny graveyard, according to a letter sent by the...
