bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === DC RADIO HOST SAYS 'ISLAM IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION' Ask WMAL to reprimand Michael Graham for 'hate-filled' remarks CAIR says it has received complaints today from Muslim listeners who heard WMAL-AM's Michael Graham state: 1. "Islam is a terrorist organization." 2. "Islam is at war with America." 3. "The problem is not extremism. The problem is Islam." 4. "We are at war with a terrorist organization named Islam." Last year, CAIR challenged on-air remarks by Graham that seemed to make an implicit call for violence against Muslims. He said: "I don't wanna say we should kill 'em all [Muslims], but unless there's reform [within Islam], there aren't a lot of other solutions that work in the ground struggle for survival." (Graham later claimed he was only referring to so-called "Islamists," but the context of the quote indicated otherwise.) Graham also said: "Would you hire an Arab-Muslim group for a friend's daughter's Bat Mitzvah, I wouldn't, if you would you're a dope, that's not bigotry, that completely reasonable smart discrimination." Graham's remarks were highlighted in the announcement of CAIR's "Hate Hurts America" campaign designed to counter anti-Muslim hate on radio talk shows. SEE: http://www.cair.com/hatehurtsamerica/ Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net === The Real Double Standard On Islam The Day's recent July 20 editorial castigating the worldwide Muslim community for its failure to condemn the terrorist attacks in London was not surprising. Over the past week, The Day's editorial pages have been littered with similar sentiments expressed by the usual suspects demanding apologies from every Muslim in the world for the crimes of a few. http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=01FA6AB7-0B54-4AA3-B880-CC8808C00A76 see also: Meet the New McCarthyites: Return of the Academic Witch Hunts http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff07232005.html === Poll says most Muslims consider leaving U.K.: The Guardian/ICM poll, released Tuesday, said one in five Muslims has suffered Islamophobia that included abuse or hostility against the persons or a family member since the attacks by British-born suicide bombers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050726-12081700-bc-britain-muslims.xml http://snipurl.com/gipa === The Guardian/ICM Poll In Full http://snipurl.com/gipb === Who's taking blame for Christian violence? Now that imams in Britain and Canada are standing up and publicly condemning terrorist acts as anti-Muslim and against the teachings in the Qur'an, I wonder if pressure might be put on Christian leaders to take a similar stand. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1122288127467&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 === Bush is Not an American Some of the die-hard, rabid right-wingers who still support George W. Bushs immoral and illegal actions tried recently to overload my email system by flooding it with bitches and moans over recent columns about their poster boy for destruction of the Constitution. http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7102.shtml === Criminals, Fools, and Traitors Are Stupid White Men Really Stupid? The vast majority of Americans are honorable people. But Americans are people whove been lied to by those in positions of trust for so long and so often that theyve lost their ability or their desire to recognize the truth. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9573.htm http://snipurl.com/gion === The Morals of Tony Blair Quite possibly Tony Blair rightly fears the real eventual possibility of impeachment and arraignment as a war criminal if he were ever to show even the hint of uncertainty over the rightness of his war crimes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9571.htm http://snipurl.com/gioo === FLASHBACK: This war on terrorism is bogus We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC). http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html === Desperate zionists accuse Prof. Rashid Khalidi of plagarism- for the charge see: see: http://www.israpundit.com/archives/2005/07/rashid_khalidi.php or http://netwmd.com/articles/article1087.html See below the real truth of what is taking place. Note, Alan M. Dershowitz, who is leading these baseless charges, is also being accused of plagarism and it is well documented at: http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/ === Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's Why Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: "I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe. They show acts "that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000990590 === Pentagon Defies Order to Release Photos; 2,000 Veterans Call for Independent Investigation Posted Jul 26, 2005 09:09 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=4198 === The Iraqi Resistance Is Prepared For Ten Year War An Interview with a top Baath party official Salah al Mukhtar, 61, lives currently in Yemen, but underscores that his stay is a "temporary" one, as he is convinced that one day he will return to Iraq and that it will be to an Iraq governed again by Baath. Arabmonitor obtained a thorough interview with al Mukhtar, one of the top-ranking personalities among the Iraqi émigré community. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9572.htm http://snipurl.com/giop === Islam to decide Iraq law as Sunni Arabs end boycott : There was no reference in the new draft to having to take account of democracy or civil rights. http://snipurl.com/gip0 === Administration lied to start war quite frankly, after hearing the testimony given at Rep. Conyers' Hearing today on the Downing Street memo, I'm surprised there isn't more outrage that our current administration lied to start the illegal war in Iraq. Seventeen hundred young servicemen and women and countless Iraqi civilians have died, and for what? A lie. Actually, several lies. http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/07/26/opinion/ltr_disilvestro_050726.txt === Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense? Now it is clear that many of his statements appear to be false. In the past, Bush's White House has been very good at sweeping ugly issues like this under the carpet, and out of sight. But it is not clear that they will be able to make the question of what happened to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) go away -- unless, perhaps, they start another war. http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/06/findlaw.analysis.dean.wmd/ === 18 Months In Prison For Murder Of Iraqi: An Indiana national guardsman pleaded guilty Monday to negligent homicide in the death of an Iraqi police officer, a crime he was accused of attempting to cover up by shooting himself in the stomach. Cpl. Dustin Berg, 22, will spend 18 months in prison and receive a bad conduct discharge from the Army. http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_prison_072605,00.html http://snipurl.com/giou === Witness testifies he saw dogs bite Iraqi detainees: Two Iraqis at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were bitten by dogs as they were being handled by sergeants who were competing to see who could scare more detainees, a witness testified Tuesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9574.htm http://snipurl.com/giov === Family says son was forgotten: AN Australian man imprisoned by the US military in Iraq for more than 18 months without charge has been forgotten by the Australian Government, his family claims. http://snipurl.com/giow === Gunmen kill up to 17 in Baghdad bus ambush-police: The police sources said the al-Faris factory worked on reconstruction projects. Insurgents often target Iraqis seen as working for the U.S.-backed authorities. http://snipurl.com/gioq === Four guardsmen from Georgia unit killed in Iraq: Georgia National Guard officials say they will have no details of an attack that killed four members of the Guard's 48th Combat Brigade until their families are notified. http://snipurl.com/gior === Intelligence officer assassinated in Basra: An Intelligence officer was assassinated by unknown militants who opened fire in the heart of Basra Tuesday and a child was killed and three civilians were injured in the shooting. http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=755147 http://snipurl.com/gios === Former Bush aide turns critic as Iraq inspector: The office had paid a contractor twice for the same work. A U.S. official was allowed to handle millions of dollars in cash weeks after he was fired for incompetence. Of the $119.9 million allocated for regional projects, $89.4 million was disbursed without contracts or other documentation. An additional $7.2 million couldn't be found at all. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05207/543937.stm http://snipurl.com/gip3 === US war costs may exceed $700 Billion (Detroit News) The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years. http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0507/25/A05-257768.htm === Special Forces soldier killed in Afghanistan: A Green Beret based at Fort Bragg died last week after he was attacked in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. http://snipurl.com/gip5 === Afghans protest outside U.S. base over arrests : About 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main American base in Afghanistan on Tuesday after the arrest of several villagers in what the U.S. military said was an anti-insurgent operation. http://snipurl.com/gip6 === Conflicts' costs may exceed $700 billion: War in Iraq, Afghanistan saddles U.S. taxpayers with enormous debt, critics say; deficit spending blamed. http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0507/25/A05-257768.htm http://snipurl.com/gip7 === Brazilians demand arrest over killing: Hundreds of relatives and friends of a Brazilian shot to death in London after being mistaken for a terrorist marched along the cobblestone streets of his hometown Monday, demanding the arrest of the British police who fired the fatal shots. http://snipurl.com/gipc === Hizb Man Sacked From The Guardian : A statement said: "The Guardian now believes continuing membership of the organisation to be incompatible with his continued employment by the company." http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/6/845/105/ === Thirteen Nobel Peace Prize winners called on Israel to allow nuclear whistle-blower Mordecai Vanunu Nobelists: Let Vanunu go Thirteen Nobel Peace Prize winners called on Israel to allow nuclear whistle-blower Mordecai Vanunu to leave the country. The laureates said that preventing Vanunu from leaving the Jewish state does nothing for Israels security while it tarnishes its reputation. Since ending an 18-year prison term for treason last year, Vanunu has been kept in Israel, as officials fear he would leak more state secrets if he went abroad http://www.jta.org/ === US Support of Israel key to terror motivation in Mideast Posted Jul 26, 2005 12:01 PM PST - Category: ISRAEL http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=39004 === Special Report: AIPAC/Likudnik Larry Franklin Arrested for Espionage on Behalf of Israel According to the May 5 New York Times, the investigation has proved awkward for some high level Pentagon conservatives (read neo con) such as former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, under secretary of defense for policy. Feith, under whom Franklin worked, and who reportedly is leaving his post by the summer, became infamous for creating the Office of Special Plans that cherrypicked outlandish bits of intelligence to prove that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. http://www.wrmea.com/archives/July_2005/0507010.html === Italy orders arrest of six more CIA agents: An Italian appeals court yesterday ordered the arrest of six additional CIA agents in connection with the disappearance of a radical Muslim cleric who was snatched from the streets of Milan two years ago, a prosecutor said. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05207/543685.stm http://snipurl.com/gipm === Judge denies bond for Cuban, seeks Bay of Pigs info: Lawyers for Luis Posada Carriles called the request "surprising" because they said if Posada is found to have engaged in terrorism, it would imply the CIA did also. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N2515666.htm http://snipurl.com/gipo === A U.S. creation or not, don't call Posada a soldier: No matter what you may think about the war in Iraq, it is outrageous and insulting to compare American soldiers to a man who boasted of paying people to secretly plant bombs in hotels and restaurants that cater to innocent civilians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9576.htm http://snipurl.com/gipp === Ghosts of the 1915 U.S. Invasion Still Haunt Haiti's People: While it takes American leaders and their armed enforcers just a few hours, days, weeks, months to rewrite another sovereign nation's history, it takes more than 90 years to overcome devastations caused by such an operation http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9570.htm http://snipurl.com/gipr === Patriot Act takes away freedoms I was very disappointed to read Congressman Shuster's guest essay on the Patriot Act in the July 18 edition of Public Opinion. He seems quite willing to compromise our Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. http://www.publicopiniononline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050725/OPINION03/507250302/1014/OPINION === Rep. Ron Paul: The Patriot Act Four Years Later : Some of my congressional colleagues referenced the recent London bombings during the debate, insinuating that opponents of the Patriot Act somehow would be responsible for a similar act here at home. I wont even dignify that slur with the response it deserves. http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst072505.htm http://snipurl.com/gipt === Patriot Games : If House Democrats had stuck together in opposition to moves by the Bush administration to reauthorize the worst elements of the Patriot Act, the legislation would have been defeated and a major victory would have been won for civil liberties. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=7923 http://snipurl.com/gipu === Welcome to America: LAX-To-London Flight Diverted to Boston: A flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to Boston early Tuesday because three Pakistani passengers were acting suspiciously, but nothing amiss was found and the three were released after questioning, authorities said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5167486,00.html http://snipurl.com/gipx === Welcome to America: Police force frightened tourists off bus: Officers in riot gear handcuffed a group of apparently harmless South Asian-looking men with British accents after a jittery tour bus worker reported they seemed suspicious. The men were forced to kneel on the footpath, with their hands bound behind their backs, in front of the Winter Garden theatre. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=3502235 http://snipurl.com/giq0 === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 25/07/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of Hidayahnet unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. If your mailbox clogged with mails from Hidayahnet, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest". Yahoo! 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