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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === MUHAMMAD CARTOONS NOT THE EPITOME OF FREE EXPRESSION NEW AMERICA MEDIA EDITOR'S NOTE: The lampooning of the prophet Muhammad by a series of Danish newspaper cartoons should not be defended in the name of freedom of the press and expression, writes Rene Ciria-Cruz, an editor at New America Media and Filipinas Magazine. SAN FRANCISCO--Why are some Western commentators casting the controversy over the Danish cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad as a challenge to freedom of expression and of the press? They should instead view the controversy as a challenge to journalists to renew their sense of respect for different cultures and religious beliefs. http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=82285f8ccc0eb25876a7d4dbf4f2a563 === Cartoons and the clash of 'freedoms' The post-September 11 era, as with the preceding ones, has its own collection of heroes and villains. What seems to be notably different about the era after the terror attacks in 2001 is that no subject, and nothing, is sacred in the West, especially when it comes to Muslims and Islam. The escalating controversy about publishing a series of cartoons - first in some Scandinavian papers, and then in a number of newspapers from other countries of the European Union - of the Prophet Mohammed is the most recent example of that development. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HB04Aa01.html === Letter from Interfaith Freedom Foundation To Reporters Without Borders regarding cartoon issue Thought you might like to see my e-mail yesterday to Reporters Without Borders, an organization I usually support strongly. I thought they took exactly the wrong tone in today's alert appealing for calm on the Denmark-cartoon issue. They seemed to lecture Muslims without offering even the slightest indication that the Danish newspaper did anything wrong, much less indicate that people of faith have a right to respond to it. The Interfaith Freedom Foundation is a civil rights organzation advocating for religious minorities. Most of our advocacy has been for Sikhs and Muslims. Our Board of Directors includes Christians, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists and Hindus. I am Christian. http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net Here is the link to the Reporters Without Borders Statement http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2006/02/c3276.html === Cartoon row gives Muslims "new spirit": Saudi cleric RIYADH (Reuters) - A leading preacher in Saudi Arabia proclaimed a new spirit of defiance among Muslims after worldwide protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers. http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=uri:2006-02-03T124338Z_01_L03633300_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS-SAUDI.xml === Cartoonist: We don't apologize for opinions Doug Marlette defends his work, Insists humour mistaken for hate You would think that after drafting an editorial cartoon that brought the wrath of Islam down on his head, a man would think twice about stepping back into the fray. But Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist from North Carolina, says he admires the European newspapers that are defending their right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1138920612644&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=968332188774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&pubid=968163964505 === Disgusting Danish chauvinism The Danish daily Jyllands-Posten is defending its deliberate Muhammad provocation with the freedom of expression. In 1984, the newspaper supported a demand for removing a wall painting at Birkeroed Railway Station picturing Jesus with an erected penis. And in 2004, Jyllands-Posten backed the actions of an Israeli ambassador when he destroyed a Palestinian exposition in Sweden, which pictured a suicide bomber. Jyllands-Posten is dissembling. http://fritirak.blogspot.com/2006/02/disgusting-danish-chauvinism.html === 9/11: Avoiding the hard questions * How did a fire fed by jet fuel, which at most burns at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, cause the collapse of the Twin Towers, built of steel that melts at 2,800 degrees? (Most experts agree that the impact of airliners, made mostly of lightweight aluminum, should not have been enough alone to cause structural failure.) How could a single planeload of burning jet fuel -- most of which flared off in the initial fireball -- cause the South World Trade Center tower to collapse in just 56 minutes? * Why did building WTC-7 fall, though no aircraft struck it? Fire alone had never before caused a steel skyscraper to collapse. * Why did all three buildings collapse largely into their own footprints -- in the style of a controlled demolition? * Why did no U.S. military jet intercept the wayward aircraft? * Why has there been no investigation of BBC reports that five of the alleged 9/11 hijackers were alive and accounted for after the event? http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/13760721.htm === The "long war,": Pentagon to Release 20-Year Plan Today The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11774.htm === U.S. officials warn of greater threats from terrorists Top U.S. intelligence and military officials said Thursday that the threat of terror attacks against American interests might be greater than ever, despite progress against al-Qaida and the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11775.htm === Whatever happened to what's-his-name? 'Scourge of Western civilisation', 'leader of the insurgency', 'al-Queda in Iraq', 'Usama's right-hand man', the Scarlet Pimpernel of 'Islamic fundamentalism', Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. For the past couple of years we were bombarded by the mythical man's dastardly deeds, then all of a sudden-he disappeared from the headlines. http://williambowles.info/ini/2006/0206/ini-0391.html === Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute The cost of military operations in 2006 is $35 billion higher than what Congress had estimated a few months ago that the Defense Department would need this year http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002780385_spending03.html === Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget The figures did not include about $50 billion that Bush administration officials said Thursday they would request as a down payment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. The administration said war costs for 2006 would total $120 billion. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11773.htm === Iraq, Niger, And The CIA Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, according to government records and interviews with current and former officials. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11778.htm === Blair, Bush set for war in '03 United States President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were ready to go to war against Iraq with or without a second United Nations resolution, said reports on Thursday. The allegation was based on a White House memo - which the programme said it had seen - after a meeting between the two men in Washington on January 31 2003. In the memo Bush was alleged to have said that military action against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein would start on March 10 2003. The war actually started 10 days later on March 20. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1874610,00.html === Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in secret memo PM promised to be 'solidly behind' US invasion with or without UN backing http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11771.htm === Bush, Blair made war 'deal' US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were ready to go to war against Iraq with or without a second United Nations resolution, it was reported today. http://snipurl.com/m7ha === Washington's Iraq Blindness The Iraq that exists in President Bush's imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11777.htm === US built only 4 of 180 planned clinics in Iraq BAGHDAD -- The centerpiece of a $786 million plan to modernize Iraq's health care system has stalled amid spiraling costs and insurgent threats, jeopardizing one of the country's most ambitious reconstruction projects. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-02-01-clinics-plan_x.htm === Saraya Albaath Resistance Video attacking US targets. (Alsamid) http://www.sendmefile.com/00264435 === Exclusive pictures of the urbicide in Al Qaim http://www.brusselstribunal.org/images/AlQaim/AlQaim12-05/index.html === Iraqi academics in the killing zone http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsArticles.htm === Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier A translator working with the U.S. army was shot dead by gunmen in Hawijah, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03617794.htm === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 2 February 2006 * Resistance reports nine US troops killed in fierce fighting in ar-Ramadi; in local radio broadcast, US admits seven of its men dead. * Dispelling rumors of capture, Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter kills US soldier on patrol in central al-Fallujah Thursday afternoon. * Palestinians resident in Iraq issue international appeal to humanitarian organizations to stop the genocidal attacks on their community in Baghdad and throughout Iraq. * American troops storm district in "Madinat as-Sadr" section of Baghdad, killing woman, wounding two other civilians, arresting five supporters of Muqtada as-Sadr. * Seven more bodies of murdered Sunnis found in Baghdad, bringing total number of Sunnis arrested and murdered in the city in one month to 85. * One US soldier said killed as high-explosive bomb blasts US troops in ad-Durah. http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0206/iraqiresistancereport_020206.htm === Iraqi militants active in Afghanistan' Several Al Qaeda militants are coming from Iraq to take part in the insurgency in Afghanistan; a provincial governor said on Thursday after interrogating an Iraqi caught sneaking into the country illegally. http://www.dawn.com/2006/02/03/top16.htm === UK considers curbing citizens' right to arrest alleged war criminals The government is considering weakening laws designed to capture alleged war criminals and torturers who enter Britain, after pressure from the Israeli government, the Guardian has learned. The changes would bar individuals from seeking international warrants for the arrest of people suspected of serious human rights abuses. The government has confirmed that Israeli officials have lobbied for changes in the law, which has kept some of their military officials away from Britain in case there should be an attempt to arrest them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,,1701276,00.html === Astounding Hypocrisy Few in the Middle East will have heard George W. Bush's State of the Union address without feeling exasperation and anger that this belligerent president appears to have no idea of how US policy in the region is riddled with double standards. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=77193&d=2&m=2&y=2006 === Hamas ponders truce with Israel Hamas will never recognise Israel's right to exist but it could negotiate terms for a long-term truce with it, a senior Hamas leader has said. http://snipurl.com/m7hs === The gap between U.S. rhetoric and reality The victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections ought to lead to a fundamental rethinking of U.S. strategy in the Middle East, especially since it follows electoral successes for Islamist parties in Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/30/opinion/edlieven.php# === Confirmed: Israelis kill 15-year-old inside Lebanon Lebanon and the United Nations confirmed Thursday Israeli troops killed a 15-year-old shepherd inside Lebanon, after investigations were carried out by peacekeeping forces along the Lebanese-Israeli border. http://snipurl.com/m7hx === FBI Probes AIPAC Leak of Iran Docs to NYT The FBI is probing an effort by two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to disclose classified information to the New York Times. This appears to have been part of an effort to cultivate Times reporters in order to selectively leak classified Iran WMD documents. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/2/14024/94613 === Evangelicals to launch 'Christian AIPAC' A leading US evangelist is forming an umbrella organization under which all pro-Israel Christians in America can speak as one in support of the Jewish state http://snipurl.com/m7i0 === Bush approved multi-agency program to spy on Americans Although President Bush publicly claims he has limited spying on Americans by the National Security Agency to overseas phone calls involving members of al-Qaeda, privately he has authorized a massive multi-agency domestic surveillance operation that routinely pries into the lives of millions of Americans who have no involvement in terrorism or represent no threat to the security of the United States. http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8104.shtml === -muslim voice- ______________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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