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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === Italian minister puts Mohammad cartoon on T-shirts "I have had T-shirts made with the cartoons that have upset Islam and I will start wearing them today," Ansa quoted Calderoli as saying. ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government. Calderoli, a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, told Ansa news agency on Tuesday that the West had to stand up against Islamist extremists and offered to hand out T-shirts to anyone who wanted them. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060214/wl_nm/religion_cartoons_italy_dc_1 === Racist cartoons: Why Muslims have a right to be angry The Danish government's defence of the publication by a Danish newspaper of caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, including one with the 7th century Arab religious leader wearing a turban with a bomb attached to it, has provoked widespread protests by justifiably angry Muslims around the world. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p24.htm === In their own words: the politics behind the anti-Muslim cartoons Common to the statements of virtually all of the pundits and politicians who have come to the defense of the Danish government and Jyllands-Posten in the controversy over the newspapers publication of anti-Muslim cartoons is a refusal to consider the political context which gave rise to these ugly and offensive caricatures. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/cart-f15.shtml === THE CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS MEDIA COMMUNIQUE ISLAMIC CONGRESS JOINS ABORIGINAL NGOs TO CONDEMN RACIST "JUST ANOTHER INDIAN" REMARK IN WESTERN STANDARD ARTICLE -- SAME MAGAZINE RAN DANISH CARTOONS MOCKING PROPHET MUHAMMAD http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net === The Political Uses of Free Speech I empathize with those baffled by the rapidly spiraling controversy around the series of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons were first published in the Danish paper, Jyllands-Posten, nearly five months ago, in September. The initial protest was limited to Denmarks Muslim minority but was brushed off by both government and civil society. This is when some of the ultra- conservative Danish imams took matters into their own hands and set off for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, with a dossier containing the inflammatory cartoons. Last week came the diplomatic explosion: Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador in Denmark and Libya shut its embassy. There followed the boycott of Danish goods, demonstrations, strikes, flag-burning, and now fires set to embassies in Damascus and Beirut. https://lists.portside.org/pipermail/portside/Week-of-Mon-20060213/009026.html === Muslim outrage was consciously instigated by Rose and his neocon friends Let me tell you a few things about blasphemy. Been there, done it. Got expelled from high school for it. That was a few decades ago, and for those seeking titillation, Ill give you the details at the end of this screed. First I have to tell you about a massive propaganda coup. Youve been had by some of the most bigoted people in the world -- and Im not talking about Muslim fundamentalists. http://www.counterpunch.com/sugg02142006.html === Cartoons, Voltaire, and the Non-Clash of Civilisations Muslims in their millions across the globe have shown the world that there are things worth fighting for, other than oil and reconstruction contracts. Who said politics was boring, as Mark Warner the former Governor of Virginia said recently that politics was not a battle between right and left, or between conservative and liberal but between the past and the future. In the battle of ideas around the cartoons controversy, the Muslims are advocating the future whereas the west remains wedded to the past. http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/15%20o/Cartoons,%20Voltaire,%20and%20the%20Non-Clash%20of%20Civilisations%20By%20Sajjad%20Khan.htm === Blasphemous Cartoons: An Opportunity for Unity, Activism, and Protest for Muslim Americans Only U.S. Muslims as a community (200 protested in Philadelphia) have not launched a large protest against these cartoons. We continue with deft diplomacy that will have no bearing or impact upon the national intellect or psyche shaped by media portrayals and islamophobes. We all know this nation thrives and is spoon fed by politicians who are in turn spoon fed by activists and lobbyists, in particular the Pro-Israel lobby, who in turn use the media to turn up the heat. http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/15%20o/Blasphemous%20Cartoons%20An%20Opportunity%20for%20Unity,%20Activism,%20and%20Protest%20for%20Muslim%20Americans%20By%20Mohamed%20Khodr.htm === Irwin Cotler and Riad Saloojee on the cartoon controversy http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTemplate/%21ctvVideo/CTVNews/professor_cartoon_060208/20060208/?hub=TopStories&video_link_high=mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2006/02/08/ctvvideologger2_218kbps_2006_02_08_1139436947.wmv&video_link_low=mms://ctvbroadcast.ctv.ca/video/2006/02/08/ctvvideologger2_45kbps_2006_02_08_1139439281.wmv&clip_start=00:00:00.03&clip_end=00:06:18.37&clip_caption=Mike%20Duffy%20Live%3A%20Irwin%20Cotler%20on%20the%20controversy&clip_id=ctvnews.20060208.00131000-00131853-clip1&subhub=video === No bail for imam stabbing suspect Will stay in jail until next court appearance A 31-year-old man charged with stabbing a Muslim cleric outside a metro station was denied bail yesterday. Faycal Zirari was returning home by metro from afternoon prayers Friday when a man in the subway car began shouting at him in Spanish. When Zirari confronted the man, he was punched in the face. The Criminal Code defines a hate crime as "the promotion of hatred of any identifiable group." http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=49860fb2-20be-4d22-98be-d6177ac86eaa&k=32454 see also: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/faycal.htm === Enough dissecting of Muslim hearts! Time to search for the real roots! Not content with the daggers driven through the hearts of Muslims in the form of disparaging cartoons, the media - including the BBC - appears to be making up for not republishing them by contributing to the pain with a relentless campaign of dissections of the Muslim heart to prove that we ought not to be upset. Our feelings, they seem to suggest, are merely a result of denial and political manipulation. Little do people realise that this controversy was designed with the specific purpose of causing widespread uproar among Muslims and repulsion for Islam in Europe. http://www.occri.org.uk/Articles/BBCMemri.htm === Norway Criminalizes Blasphemy DOHA, February, 15 2006, (IslamOnline.net) The Norwegian parliament has amended the Penal Code to criminalize blasphemy in the wake of the republication of Danish cartoons that lampooned Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) by a Norwegian magazine, Christian and Muslim leaders in Norway said on Tuesday, February 14. "Law 150-A, which has been approved by parliament, criminalizes blasphemy and clearly prohibits despising others or lampooning religions in any form of expression, including the use of photographs," Norway's Deputy Archbishop Oliva Howika told reporters after a meeting in Doha with Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-02/15/article04.shtml === Why They Hate Us (Western) No matter how angry Muslims become over the mocking of their religious symbols (i.e., the Koran and Mohammed), what U.S. officials would prefer to ignore is the depth of anger that Muslims also feel at having been subjected to the arrogant, pretentious, brutal, and humiliating conduct of U.S. government officials. In fact, one cannot help but wonder whether the anger that has built up within Middle Easterners as a consequence of U.S. governmental conduct in that part of the world has contributed to the enormous anti-Western reaction to the publishing of tasteless cartoons by a Danish newspaper. http://www.fff.org/comment/com0602d.asp === The racist crusade against Muslims Politicians and the press bash Islam over anti-cartoon protests LEE SUSTAR explains why Arabs and Muslims are right to be furious at the Wests racist attack on Islam. THE CONTROVERSY over a Danish newspapers publication of caricatures of Muhammad has highlighted the scale of the Western ideological assault on Islam as justification for anti-immigrant scapegoating and imperialist war. At the same time, the crisis highlights the failure of the antiwar movement in the U.S. to champion the civil liberties of Arabs and Muslims, even as their plight worsens. http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/576/576_05_RacistCrusade.shtml === 9/11: Bin Laden tapes are as phony as Sept. 11's connection to Islam As a Ph.D. Islamologist and Arabist I really hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway: 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. The war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape. http://www.unknownnews.org/060214a-Barrett.html === Weldon: 'Able Danger' ID'd 9/ll ringleader Pre-Sept. 11 intelligence conducted by a secret military unit identified terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 different times, a congressman said Tuesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11919.htm === US 'let slip 9/11 hijacker 13 times' A secret Pentagon unit had Mohammed Atta, the 9/11 ringleader, in its crosshairs 13 times before the 2001 attacks, a US congressman has claimed citing the unit's records. http://snipurl.com/mlr2 === Self-Described Economic Hit Man John Perkins: We Have Created the Worlds First Truly Global Empire John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about his former work going into various countries to try to strongarm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S government and corporations. Perkins describes himself as an economic hit man. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/15/1436221 === 325,000 Names on Terrorism List Rights Groups Say Database May Include Innocent People The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021402125_pf.html === Terror threat: The great deception "New Labour has set out to politicise terror, to use it for narrow party advantage. Few people now believe what the Prime Minister, the security services and police tell us about security matters." http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article345502.ece === Bigotry On The Loose It wasn't Copenhagen, it was Washington and something that transpired there recently was ugly and more than a little frightening. Bigotry was on the loose. It wasn't covered much by the country's major media, and those that did cover it seem to have missed a critical piece of the story which was reported by slate.com and the Financial Times. http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9732§ionID=72 === The Anti-Empire Report Americans are all taught from childhood on of the significance and sanctity of free elections: You can't have the thing called "democracy" without the thing called "free elections". And when you have the thing called free elections it's virtually synonymous with having the thing called democracy. And who were we taught was the greatest champion of free elections anywhere in the world? Why, our very same teacher, God's country, the good ol' US of A. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11941.htm === Cheney's Chappaquiddick The real story is already emerging, if you're willing to do a little digging. Cheney and Whittington went hunting with two women (not their wives), there was some drinking, and Whittington wound up shot. Armstrong didn't see the incident but claimed she had, Cheney refused to be questioned by the Sheriff until the next morning, and a born-again evangelical physician has been downplaying Whittington's injuries since they occurred. Neither the press nor law enforcement seems inclined to investigate. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11942.htm === Masters of Deception While the country or, rather, the American media is fixated on an accidental shooting by the vice president, and the airwaves are filled with the natterings of the chattering classes over this inconsequential albeit unfortunate matter, the real shooting is being largely ignored: the slaughter continues in Iraq. While reporters and pundits rush to track down every niggling detail of Quailgate, the story of how we were lied into war and set up for a sequel is largely untold. http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8548 === More Proof of Prewar Intelligence Manipulation by the Bush Administration Writing in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs, Paul R. Pillar has launched a furious assault on the Bush administration for its manipulation of prewar intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and links to al Qaeda. Mr. Pillar should know, because he was the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia (NESA) from 2000 to 2005. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11927,htm === IRAQ: How the corporate media promotes war On January 24, Iraqi reporter Mahmoud Zaal was killed during a shoot-out between US occupation forces and Iraqi rebels in the city of Ramadi. He was the second Iraqi journalist to have been killed this year; 35 reporters and other media workers died in Iraq in 2005. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p16.htm === Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq Two years ago, Christian Bailey and Paige Craig were living in a half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them. Mr. Bailey, a boyish-looking Briton, and Mr. Craig, a chain-smoking former Marine sergeant, then began winning multimillion-dollar contracts with the United States military to produce propaganda in Iraq. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11939.htm === The propaganda we pass off as news around the world A British government-funded fake TV news service allows mild criticism of the US - all the better to support it http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11937.htm === Tell the truth about torture Mr. Bush "Extraordinary Renditions" -- U.S. Outsourcing Torture? http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/renditions/index.html === The politics of fear (or how Tony Blair misled us over the war on terror) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11935.htm === WARNING VERY GRAPHIC: Here are the previously 60 unpublished photos from Abu Ghraib Previously unpublished images showing the apparent abuse of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 were broadcast today by an Australian television station. Still and video images were broadcast on Dateline, a current affairs programme on SBS television, which appeared to show dead Iraqis and detainees being tortured by US troops. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1710360,00.html Photos here: (Warning, very graphic- nudity and humiliation depicted) http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1710396,00.html === MORE PHOTOS FROM ABU GHRAIB THAT BUSH DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE Don't it just make ya proudernshit to be an Amerikun? http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m20640&l=i&size=1&hd=0 === Iraq: Horrific New Torture Pictures Released MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Warning : These pictures should only be viewed by a mature AUDIENCE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11923.htm === Still Cherry-Picking the Facts on Iraq We, the people of the United States, despite our status as one of the most technologically advanced nations on the face of the earth, remain among the most ignorant about the world we live in. And yet we continue to hold forth that we have some sort of divine right of intervention, where a nation of some 300 million is self-empowered to dictate to billions of others the terms in which we all coexist on the planet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11928.htm === TV: New photos show Iraq jail abuse The pictures showed one man covered in what appeared to be excrement, another with a gash in his throat and an alleged interrogation room covered in blood. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11931.htm === Abu Ghraib: School for terrorists American commanders in Iraq are expressing grave concerns that Abu Ghraib prison has become a breeding ground for extremist leaders and a school for terrorist foot soldiers http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/14/news/detain.php# === British Troops Unwelcome in Basra: Local Government Cuts Ties, Demonstrators Burn UK Flag http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article345483.ece === Basra Authorities Refuse to Work With British Military http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/15/wirq15.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/15/ixnewstop.html === Roadside Bomb Kills U.S. Marine A roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine in western Baghdad on Tuesday in one of two attacks that also wounded six coalition military personnel, the military said. http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/02/14/ap2525838.html === Disabled 12-year-old shot dead by Israeli forces in Jenin A young Palestinian with learning disabilities has been shot dead by Israeli troops near the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian officials said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4715570.stm === Sharon's Son Given Nine Months Jail Omri Sharon, the disgraced son of Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, has been sentenced to nine months in prison on corruption charges over financing his father's party leadership campaign. http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=127320®ion=6 === Two Afghan spies killed Suspected Taliban rebels abducted two Afghan intelligence agents in a western province and killed them, dumping their nearly decapitated bodies in the desert, a top official said Wednesday. http://snipurl.com/mlri === Blast kills Afghan policeman, UK troops arrive A blast killed an Afghan policeman and wounded two colleagues on Wednesday and two intelligence officers kidnapped this week have been found dead, officials said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP243347.htm === Afghan attacks linked to Taliban from Pakistan Arrests and interrogations of suspects in a recent series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan show that the attacks have been orchestrated from Pakistan by members of the ousted Taliban government with little interference by Pakistani authorities, Afghan officials say. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3660308.html === -muslim voice- ______________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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