bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Five questions non-Muslims would like answered and a responce from a Muslim
A responce to the following questions published in the LA Times can be read below:
By Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com.
LA Times Nov 13, 2005: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-prager13nov13,0,1904398.story
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Avoiding a Clash of Civilizations
ISLAM AND "THE WEST"? -- CLASH OR DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS
A DOUBLE STANDARD - THE 'SPECIAL CASE' OF ISLAM
A double standard in identifying one act as particular to a religion, and not another, or of identifying one act as terrorism and another as a justifiable response is widespread. I have found that unless the perpetrator was Muslim the religion of the perpetrator was rarely mentioned: Irish Terror. The Troubles, Bosnia: Report On Massacre At Srebrenica Condemns Dutch Military 'Errors', King David Hotel Bombing(1946), Basque Terrorism in Spain, Israeli Settler Kills Four.
Why Irish and not Christian Terror - although both parties are Christian (Catholic and Protestant) - why Basque Terrorism when the Basques are solidly Catholic? Why not Jewish terror? If World War II era Fascism was not Christian-Fascism, then the current terrorism is not Islamo-Fascism. (The current derogatory term).
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2005nov_comments.php?id=1143_0_46_0_C
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The Day America Died
The constitutional construction of a once great democracy, the democratic freedoms once granted to each and every one of its citizens, will have been lost. And someday such will be nothing more than a distant memory of what perhaps could have been if the American people would have had the wisdom, the moral prudence the spiritual foresight, to realize what had befallen them as the embodied spirit of a once great nation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11064.htm
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Would the U.S. Terrorize Its Own People?
But could this happen in modern America? Initially, it is now fairly well-accepted that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a fabrication. See this article.
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/11/would-us-terrorize-its-own-people.html
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FLASHBACK: 9/11 - BYU professor not the first to doubt.
A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-102755-6408r.htm
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9/11 : The Core of WTC 1 was Solid After the Aircraft Impact
...so this is how Mary Baldizzi and her fellow survivors escaped the building.
Their escape demonstrates there was little fire in the building after the initial impact. It also demonstrates the core of WTC 1 was solid, so how did office fires collapse a building when a 470 mph aircraft impact couldn't?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_core_baldizzi.html
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9/11 : Bush administration Labor Dept. economist, Dr. Morgan Reynolds, and Eric Hufschmid, author of "Painful Questions", spell out clearly the evidence proving 9-11 was done by our government and agents from Israel.
Posted Nov 17, 2005 10:09 AM PST - Category: 911
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsHufschmidAndReynolds.html
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The 9/11 Cover Up
When you hear people claim that the government "did" 9/11, or at least let it happen on purpose, is your response "But the 9/11 Commission investigated all that and concluded that it was only Osama Bin Laden and his terrorists"?
If so, a quick look at the government's investigations reveals that -- not only has there never been a real investigation -- but the behavior of government representatives in willfully obstructing all attempts at investigation comprises evidence of guilt. Specifically, in all criminal trials, evasiveness, obstruction, and destruction of evidence all constitute strong circumstantial evidence that the accused is guilty or, at the very least, not to be believed. 9/11 is no different. (Indeed, there are even indications that false evidence was planted to deflect attention from the real perpetrators).
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/11/911-cover-up.html
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Israel Used White Phosphorous: Lest We Forget
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17629
"Likewise, Human Rights Watch is disturbed by eyewitness testimony suggesting that Israel may have used white phosphorus, or a similar incendiary ordinarily used for marking purposes, in an antipersonnel mode in populated areas in southern Lebanon. White phosphorus ammunition, according to experts, can cause severe burns and permanent scars. During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Israeli shelling of villages in southern Lebanon in July 1993, and subsequent shelling attacks, there have been numerous allegations of Israeli forces using phosphorus against civilians. The available circumstantial evidence of the illegal use of phosphorus, and/or other incendiaries, by Israel against Lebanese civilians during the 1993 events and afterwards is so compelling as to warrant serious investigation and a public response by the Israeli government. Among other evidence, Human Rights Watch saw several civilians, including children, in southern Lebanon with burns that are likely! to have been caused by phosphorus." http://hrw.org/reports/1996/Israel.htm
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U.S. Admits: Phosphorus may have killed civilians in Iraq
The US military on Wednesday acknowledged it might have killed civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja with white phosphorus munitions during the battle against insurgents a year ago.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11056.htm
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Tortured men look like 'Holocaust victims'
Witnesses said many of the 169 men and youths were emaciated and looked like "Holocaust survivors". Some had suffered beatings so severe that their skin had peeled off, and three men had been kept locked in a cupboard where they could not move. All the others were packed, blindfolded, into three rooms nine feet long and 11 feet wide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11062.htm
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Torturers? Who, us?
Even Bush's most loyal lieutenants are at each other's throats, and the issue beginning to divide them publicly is torture, with constitutional crises looming fast. Poor Hadley, an ultra-loyalist, can hardly contain his exasperation with his boss and increasingly sounds like a sorrowful father having to explain the words of a wayward, dim-witted son.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11063.htm
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US: Nearly 50% OK with torture
Nearly half of Americans believe that the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain information is justified, according to a survey published on Thursday by the Pew Research Centre in Washington.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1836289,00.html
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Operation Saddam - America's Propaganda War
Documentary focusing on the tactics used by the U.S and it's allies in the build up to,and during, the Iraq War, featuring Ray Mcgovern and Seymour Hersh amongst others. A Must Watch Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11054.htm
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The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11058.htm
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Our Monsters In Iraq
It is time to start waving the bloody shirt. There is no longer any doubt that the men that the United States has installed in power in Iraq are monsters. Not only that, but they are monsters armed, trained and supported by George W. Bush's administration. The very same Bush administration that defends torture of captives in the so-called War on Terrorism is using 150,000 U.S. troops to support a regime in Baghdad for which torture, assassination and other war crimes are routine.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11069.htm
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Conventional Terror...
I was immediately attacked with a barrage of emails from Americans telling me I was a liar and that there was no proof and that there was no way Americans would ever do something so appalling! I wonder how those same people justify this now. Are they shocked? Or do they tell themselves that Iraqis arent people? Or are they simply in denial?
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
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Body Politics
Four years ago, President George W. Bush quietly assumed dictatorial powers with a secret executive order granting himself the right to imprison anyone on earth indefinitely, without charges or trial or indictment or evidence, simply by declaring them an "enemy combatant," on his say-so alone. This week, the assemblage of bootlickers and bagmen that befoul the U.S. Senate voted to codify the core of this global autocracy under the pretense of curtailing it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11061.htm
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U.S. used napalm in Falluja
New evidence came to light earlier this month that confirmed reports in Workers World newspaper and elsewhere that the U.S. military had used internationally banned chemical weapons, including white phosphorus and napalm, during its November 2004 attack on Falluja.
http://www.workers.org/2005/world/falluja-1124/
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Secret death squads feared among Iraq's commandos
The commandos are part of the Iraqi security forces that the Bush administration says will gradually replace American troops in this war. But the commandos are being blamed for a wave of kidnappings and executions around Baghdad since the spring.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002628422_iraqcops17.html
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UK: Two charged over Iraq war leak
Though officials were saying little last night about an investigation that has been under way for more than a year, initial indications suggested it related to documents on the Iraq war that found their way into a national newspaper.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1645580,00.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 17 November 2005
- Resistance shoots down US helicopter near Hit in western Iraq
- Resistance bomb in Baghdad leaves US soldier reported dead late Thursday morning
- US soldier reported killed in bomb blast south of al-Yusufiyah
- Resistance bombs target British, Danish occupation troops in al-Basrah
- Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp
- Resistance bombards US camp in Abu Ghurayb early Thursday
- Resistance ambushes US-Iraqi joint patrol in ad-Durah
- Resistance bomb blasts puppet police in al-Bayya
- Resistance bomb blasts US column in Tikrit
- Resistance car bomber blasts puppet army column early Thursday morning, Al-Musayyib
- Resistance bomb kills four Badr Brigade gunmen in al-Hillah
- Resistance bomb blasts puppet police patrol in al-Madain
- Resistance bomb disguised as cooking gas cylinder rips through US foot patrol in Tall Afar
- Two Resistance bombs blast Iraqi puppet police forces, Mosul
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1105/iraqiresistancereport_171105.htm
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Afghan Blast Kills Portugese Peacekeeper
An explosion tore through a convoy of vehicles from the NATO-led security force Friday, killing one Portuguese peacekeeper and wounding three others just days after a deadly assault on the force that authorities blamed on al-Qaida.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5424771,00.html
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Two soldiers charged with abusing detainees at Afghan prison
Two American soldiers will face courts-martial on a variety of charges stemming from alleged abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=33095
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Fidel Castro: Israel is a pro-nazi state, US accomplice
"Israel commits crimes using the name of the Jewish People."
http://www.libertaddigital.com:83/php3/noticia.php3?fecha_edi_on=2005-11-18&num_edi_on=1454&cpn=1276265727&seccion=MUN_D
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Hillary Clinton: Davos Lady Does Israel
It appears our globalist rulers are cutting the deck, prepping Hillary Clinton for the presidency in 2008. As the elitist tradition demands, all serious presidential candidates must pay homage to the appropriate centers of influence and power. One such center is AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most effective general interest group over the entire planet, according to the neocon Newt Gingrich.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=124
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CIA leak prosecutor sees new grand jury proceedings
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11055.htm
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Former CIA Director Accuses Cheney of Overseeing Torture
Admiral Stansfield Turner, a former CIA director, accused US Vice President Dick Cheney of overseeing policies of torturing terrorist suspects and damaging the nation's reputation, in a television interview Thursday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11068.htm
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Cheney 'vice president for torture'
A former director of America's intelligence agency has branded the country's deputy leader a "vice president for torture".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11066.htm
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Foreign network at front of CIAs "terror" fight
The Americans and their counterparts at the centers, known as CTICs, make daily decisions on when and how to apprehend suspects, whether to whisk them off to other countries for interrogation and detention, and how to disrupt al Qaeda's logistical and financial support.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11059.htm
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Inmate tries suicide, on hunger strike
A Bahraini man being held at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects attempted suicide this week for the ninth time and has begun a hunger strike, according to newly released court documents.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0511180159nov18,1,3096260.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
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Sheila Samples: Brave New Bobcat World
We are entering a new world; one of informants and secret police and torture. It's a Machiavellian world where the end justifes the means.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11067.htm
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Money for Napalm but not for Food Stamps
The Republican dominated House passed a five year budget-plan in the early hours of Friday morning which savages programs for the poor, college students and disease control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11070.htm
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Venezuela's Chavez calls Bush 'killer', 'madman'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at his US counterpart, George Bush, late yesterday, calling him a 'killer' and a 'madman' after a top US diplomat criticized Caracas.
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/11/18/afx2346010.html
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