salaam,
arabs? don't you mean muslims? did you mean oppressed people? also, what i feel ashamed of is how this has become suddenly an "arab" issue (who are not all muslims and some of whom are jews and christians) now that "arabs" have finally, in a small way, learned how it feels to be black and/or native in north amerikkka (or simply palestinian who all are not "arabs" or pale skinned) yet still approach the subject as if those who are not "arab" deserved their lot in life. meanwhile, they "arabs" (and light skinned "arabs" -- middle -class light skinned arabs) show shock and disgust that "arabs" not even muslims b.u.t. "arabs" are treated like niggers and chugs (natives) -- the ghetto stereotypical underclass and white trash. so what is an "arab"? we are told now, for "rally round the flag boy" reasons, that an "arab" is someone who speaks arabic? well, there are jews and christians who speak arabic. arabic is a language. so you mean to tell me that the terrorism and abuse of peoples by the state is because of language? not even the f.l.q. would buy that one-- culture still played a big role their campaign. palestinians are not all pale skinned arabs. there are black muslims in palestine and muslims of all persuasions there and around the world. this wicked abusive affair of oppression and injustice is an oppression of muslims and an attack on what is viewed as the concept of islam not the "arab" coopting for victim status and competing in the three ringed camps of jewish or gay or feminazi holocaust horrors stories for props and investment purposes and movie of the week. did you/we even care about the murder of Rudwan Khalil Abubaker (black and muslim)? (lawyer for the abubaker family, phil rankin, can be reached at: 604-682 -3621) does his life matter because he is not a pale skinned "arab" or "arab" at all? or maybe we was; he might have spoken arabic -- if so now can we all care... as muslims? blacks have always stood up for those who oppress others and have paid dearly the price while the same courtesy has not been returned by those who they often assisted -- after all who profited off the diamond trade and apartheid -- not only pale skin so called jews. i am sorry that you finally have caught on that your friends (and by these "friends" i do not mean jews but the white middle-class and rich establishment), who were/are the enemies of the oppressed, are not your friends -- never were. this is called the montreal "muslim" news? b..u.t. all we seem to be concerned with are "arab" issues (around the world) and sunni "arab" issues as the rest of the muslim world are attacked, murdered, harassed, demoralized and destroyed. "arab" does not equal muslim, my bruhs and sistas. if this is about arabs (and hating jews) then not too many people will care because of it's to the obvious exclusion of those in suffering along side them from natives to blacks to pakistani and poor whites; our chinese, japanese, white, aboriginal, black and latino muslims who stand brave and are harassed beyond tolerance. however, if this is about solidarity and the "arab" community finally empathizing with those who they have stepped over in the past for profit and this is about the palestinians who they hide behind for victimhood props (yet do so very likkle to assist) then there will be a show of force and resistance. as muslims and not "arabs" we are told that everything has it's purpose/measuring out and so maybe this was an example, this overt western oppression of muslims (some of whom are) "arabs" for us all to stop neglecting each other and working with each ones' enemies/opressors, in order to advance ourselves, and to overstand the struggle of those whose backs are whipped raw by the taskmasters of the westernglobal hegemony. let us not make this terrible period in history into what the holocaust has become -- a commercial networking scheme for european and eastern european white so called jews at the exclusion of all those who suffered and still suffer at the hands of maniacs and greed merchants of the western world. do the knowledge khoda hafez Montreal Muslim News wrote: >Remembrance and Arabs > >by Yasmine Fahim - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (January 31, 2005) > >I have written and deleted, rewritten and re-deleted, many times over my own >responses to mails which expressed either disappointment at the Arab >communities for refusing to attend the Holocaust remembrance, or outright >obfuscation at the boycott. 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