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Subject: Excerpts: Jordan's space program. Terrorism and Islam.
Arab League double-talk 15 September 2004
Excerpts: Jordan's space program. Terrorism and Islam. Arab League
double-talk 15 September 2004
+++JORDAN TIMES 15 Sept.'04:
"Kingdom to host region's first space project"
EXCERPTS:
AMMAN (JT) - The Kingdom has been chosen to host the region's first
permanent space project including a scientific entertainment complex and
a... centre to train future Jordanian astronauts.
The $150 million multi-stage project to be launched this week, is funded
entirely by Russians representing the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre
(GCTC) and other space-related establishments with the objective of
promoting Russia as an investment giant ... .
The complex, to be built on a 400-dunum site on the Airport Road, is
expected to take four years to complete ... .
The first stage, scheduled to be completed within 14 months, will
feature a
space museum displaying a model of the Soyuz station ... in addition to
space equipment. The second stage will take two years, overlapping
with the
first phase, and include a space adventure park.
. . .
As part of the project, a Jordanian pilot will be chosen to undergo
astronaut training in Russia ... .
. . .
To date, only two Arab astronauts have been into space - Saudi Prince
Bandar
Ben Salman and Mohammad Fares of Syria.
The project was originally scheduled for Dubai, "but with His Majesty's
visits to Russia and the investment environment in Jordan, the
decision was
taken to build the project in Amman," Mutalika [public relations manager]
said.
+++JORDAN TIMES 15 Sept.'04:"Editorial:To save ourselves"
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"This situation has reached intolerable proportions and it is time the
Muslim
and international community stand up and do something"
"Will their deaths make up the injustices their captors bear?
"It is up to religious leaders who know better and who are truly pious
to
guide their congregations with sagacity"
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Two Italian women humanitarian workers are still being held hostage by an
extremist group in Iraq, despite the fact that Islam condemns this and
other
forms of mistreatment of women. In the 7th century, the Muslim leader,
Osama
Ben Zeid, was directed by the Prophet Mohammad to march to Syria without
harming women, children and the elderly. He was also told that no harm or
interference should be inflicted upon people of other faiths, and that no
tree should ever be cut down.
[IMRA: Obviously his doctrine hasn't been followed.]
... This form of terrorism, like others, is beginning to reveal that there
are no limits to its targets. There are no religious or moral
constraints on
who can be a victim.
[IMRA: Muslims routinelly insist that in the name of 'libertation'
there
are no morally unacceptable acts.]
This situation has reached intolerable proportions and it is time the
Muslim
and international community stand up and do something about it.
[IMRA: Why has it not been brought to the Arab League?]
The two Italian women were conducting charitable work dedicated to helping
and protecting children. Is it not simply heinous that they be taken
captive
and their lives threatened? ... why have there been but a few lone Arab
and Muslim voices talking out against this outrage. Will killing these two
women, or Jordanian truckers, or French journalists bring honour to the
cause of the factions perpetuating these crimes? Will their deaths make up
of the injustices their captors bear?
[IMRA: What "injustices"?]
The recent statement made by Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdul Majid
Thneibat
about his being possibly unable to control a group of hot-headed youth
rings
of the benign, if not deliberate, neglect that gives green light to the
practice of incitement and even violence. ... . It is simply failure to
assume responsibility, when a prominent community leader makes such a
statement. Many took the statement as a threat.
It is up to religious leaders who know better and who are truly pious to
guide their congregations with sagacity. It is up to parents, teachers,
officials, community leaders and the media to address the phenomenon of
terrorism face on.
The point is not to save the image of Islam, the point is to save
ourselves
from the affliction that, if allowed to fester, will consume us and
life as
we would have wanted it to be: Democratic, pluralistic, free and creative.
+++ JORDAN TIMES 15 Sept.'04:
"Arab FMs avoid UN resolution on Lebanon"
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"Syria and Jordan disagreed on the right approach.."
"An Arab diplomat said the UN resolution posed an impossible choice for
the ministers"
"the ministers 'decided to support Lebanon in its sovereign right to
practice its internal political choices ... and to support its free
decision
to establish and strengthen fraternal relations, coordination and
cooperation, especially with Syria.' "
"[Syrian Foreign Minister Sharaa] ' The aim of the resolution was to
serve Israeli interests and to put pressure on Syria to cooperate with the
occupation of Iraq' "
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to avoid a
position on United Nations intervention in the Syrian-Lebanese
relationship
after Syria and Jordan disagreed on the right approach.
An Arab League resolution, approved but subject to amendment, does not
mention a UN Security Council resolution demanding Syria withdraw its
troops
from Lebanon and end interference in the affairs of its neighbour,
diplomats
said.
An Arab diplomat said the UN resolution posed an impossible choice for the
ministers, who are in Cairo for a regular twice-yearly meeting of the Arab
League council of ministers.
They cannot endorse the resolution, because they oppose US and French
interference in inter-Arab affairs, but they cannot reject it because
their
case in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute rests on other UN Security Council
resolutions, he said.
The Arab League resolution says only that the ministers "decided to
support
Lebanon in its sovereign right to practice its internal political choices
... and to support its free decision to establish and strengthen fraternal
relations, coordination and cooperation, especially with Syria."
[IMRA: There is no "only" here. This strongly opposes the UN
resolution.]
The formula was approved on Monday at the level of ambassadors but
disagreement emerged when the ministers met in closed session on Tuesday
morning, league sources said.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher said Syria should comply
with the
UN resolution.
He added that the Arab League could not challenge decisions taken by the
Security Council, the sources said. Gulf states supported the Jordanian
position.
Submission to US pressure
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq Sharaa said this position meant
submission to
American pressure. The United States and France were the driving forces
behind the resolution.
The sources quoted Sharaa as saying the resolution was a "flagrant
threat to
Syria and official intervention in the internal affairs of Lebanon and
relations between states."
"To stay silent about it would be to give America the right to
intervene in
every matter that concerns the Arabs,"... .The aim of the resolution
was to
serve Israeli interests and to put pressure on Syria to cooperate with the
occupation of Iraq, "and that will never happen," Sharaa added.
Sharaa said the Arabs were the only regional grouping that does comply
with
UN resolutions while Israel ignored resolutions dating back to the 1960s.
[IMRA: Syria does not obey resolution which asserts that Israel has left
all of Lebanon. Some Arab U.N. members strive for Israel's destruction
contrary to U.N. basis.]
An Arab League official played down the disagreement and said that no one
had proposed amending the agreed text.
...Minister of State and Government Spokesperson Asma Khader said Jordan
stood by fellow Arabs but could not stand against "international
legitimacy." . . .
Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA
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