Bismillah [IslamCity] Obama In Cairo: A New Face For Imperialism
Obama In Cairo: A New Face For Imperialism By Patrick Martin 05 June, 2009 WSWS.org The speech delivered by US President Barack Obama in Cairo yesterday was riddled with contradictions. He declared his opposition to the “killing of innocent men, women, and children,” but defended the ongoing US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US proxy war in Pakistan, while remaining silent on the most recent Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. These wars have killed at least one million Iraqis and tens of thousands in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories. Obama declared his support for democracy, human rights and women’s rights, after two days of meetings with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, two of the most notorious tyrants in the Middle East. He said nothing in his speech about the complete absence of democratic rights in Saudi Arabia, or about the ongoing repression under Mubarak’s military dictatorship. In the days before the US president’s arrival at Al-Azhar University, the campus was raided by Egyptian secret police who detained more than 200 foreign students. Before leaving on his Mideast trip, Obama praised Mubarak as a “steadfast ally.” While posturing as the advocate of universal peace and understanding, Obama diplomatically omitted any reference to his order to escalate the war in Afghanistan with the dispatch of an additional 17,000 US troops. And he tacitly embraced the policy of his predecessor in Iraq, declaring, “I believe the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.” He even seemed to hedge on the withdrawal deadline of December 2011 negotiated by the Bush administration, which he described as a pledge “to remove all our troops from Iraq by 2012.” Obama rejected the charge that America is “a self-interested empire”—a perfectly apt characterization—and denied that the United States was seeking bases, territory or access to natural resources in the Muslim world. He claimed that the war in Afghanistan was a “war of necessity” provoked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This is the same argument made by the Bush-Cheney administration at the time, which deliberately conceals the real material interests at stake. The war in Afghanistan is part of the drive by US imperialism to dominate the world’s two most important sources of oil and gas, the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Basin. There was of course a distinct shift in the rhetorical tone from the bullying “you’re either with or against us” of George W. Bush to the reassuring “we’re all in this together” of Obama. But as several commentators noted (the New Republic compared the speech line-for-line to that given by Bush to the United Nations on September 16, 2006), if you turned off the picture and the sound and simply read the prepared text, the words are very similar to speeches delivered by Bush, Condoleezza Rice and other officials of the previous administration. The vague and flowery rhetoric, the verbal tributes to Islamic culture and the equal rights of nations, constitute an adjustment of the language being used to cloak the policy of US imperialism, not a change in substance. Obama made not a single concrete proposal to redress the grievances of the oppressed peoples of the Middle East. That is because the fundamental source of this oppression is the profit system and the domination of the world by imperialism, of which American imperialism is the most ruthless. Obama made one passing reference to colonialism, and to the US role in the overthrow of the democratically elected Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953. But in his litany of “sources of tension” in the region, he offered the same checklist as his predecessor, with the first place given to “violent extremism”, Obama’s rhetorical substitute for Bush’s “terrorism.” The reaction to the Obama speech in the American media was across-the-board enthusiasm. Liberal David Corn of Mother Jones magazine said Obama’s great advantages were “his personal history, his non-Bushness, his recognition of US errors, his willingness to at least talk as if he wants to be an honest broker in the Mideast.” Michael Crowley wrote in the pro-war liberal magazine New Republic, “to see him unfold his biography, to cut such an unfamiliar profile to the world, is to appreciate how much America will benefit from presenting this new face to the world.” Perhaps most revealing was the comment by Max Boot, a neoconservative arch-defender of the war in Iraq, who wrote: “I thought he did a more effective job of making America’s case to the Muslim world. No question: He is a more effective salesman than his predecessor was.” In his speech in Cairo, Obama was playing the role for which he was drafted and promoted by a decisive section of the US financial elite and the military and foreign policy apparatus. This role is to provide a new face for US imperialism as part of
Bismillah [IslamCity] ISRAEL, not IRAN has been calling to wipe Iran off the map all along!
ISRAEL, not IRAN has been calling to wipe Iran off the map all along! It is a sad state of affairs and very ugly indeed when things have to be fabricated or made up to make others appear evil and even genocidal, when in truth they are not. The truth is Ahmadinejad never said “wipe Israel off the map”. That phrase is an invention by MEMRI — the neocons propaganda tool that mistranslates articles written in the Middle East and demonizes Arabs and Islam. The “wipe off the map” statement, attributed to Iran, provides Jews another opportunity to go on a self pitying, persecution campaign as they are doing now to justify attacking Iran. It is a bold faced lie like so many others they have told in the past. What Ahmadinejad did say was to repeat Khomeini’s statement about regime change in Israel similar to what happened in South Africa. It was not a genocidal statement like these lying, self pitying, desperate for world sympathy Jews have been pushing. But it was a statement reflecting a change in government providing justice to all unlike the racist, barbaric Jewish regime ruling over the Palestinians today. But let’s look at Jewish actions against Iran like in the following article: Boxer, AIPAC lead efforts to cut off Iranian exports “Calling Iran a sponsor of evil deeds, Sen. Barbara Boxer said this week she is backing a bill to sanction foreign companies that invest in the Mideast nation. If you do business with Iran, you won't do business with America, said the Jewish Democrat from Greenbrae. Boxer spoke Monday to an audience of 700 at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee membership-drive luncheon at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. This event and two others in San Jose and Oakland were dedicated to Israel's late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...” When do you think this article was written?Recently? No, it was written in December, 1995!!! It was published long before Amadinejad was elected president and before Iran announced it was interested in developing nuclear energy. In effect, the Israeli Lobby had declared its own war on Iran long before the current situation. Read the article to see how vehement AIPAC was even back then in seeking Iran’s destruction. A big fuss is being made in main stream media about Iran wanting to “wipe Israel off the map”. In any discussion about Iran that point is brought up over and over again to show the “Hitler” qualities of Iran that must be checked by a nuclear attack from the U.S. But the reality is that it is a bold faced lie. The Israeli government has been calling for the extermination of Iran publicly numerous times for many years now. Did anyone make a fuss about that? Here are just a few examples (and I can list many more) taken from headlines of articles calling for Iran’s extermination by Israel, before anything was said about Israel by Iran: November 5, 2002 “Times/UK” “Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends”, demands Israel! By Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1105-02.htm September 30, 2004 “The Insider” Israel Instructs America To Attack Iran And Syria http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0614 March 16, 2005 “U.S. Crusade” Israel’s Broken Record - Attack Iran By Kurt Nimmo http://www.uscrusade.com/index.php?blog=3cat=16 February 6, 2005 “WhatReallyHappened “ U.S. - Israel Plans To Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites Finalized http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/week_2005_02_06.html June 14, 2005 “The NewYork Sun” SPY CASE REVEALS ISRAELI PLOT TO PLANT IRAN WMD DATA BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=news_newsNumber=293703877page=view=sb=o=vc=1t=-1#Post293703877 Dec 5, 2005 “MichNews” Netanyahu: “If elected, I won’t hesitate to order a pre-emptive strike on Iran” By Ryan Jones, JNewsWire.com http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_10634.shtml Now, imagine if Iran had been saying those things about Israel? Today’s demonization of Iran claiming that Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, Iran’s pursuit for nuclear weapons and their desire to “wipe Israel off the map” is a ploy, an excuse presented to non-Jews to give Israel the justification for what they have been wanting to do all along. For the record the following is what Iran’s president said. Compare it to what Israel has been saying about Iran for many years now - as in the articles above - and judge for yourself which statements are more genocidal: —– The Actual Quote: So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in Farsi: “Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.” That passage will mean nothing to most people, but one word might ring a bell: rezhim-e. It is the word “regime.” pronounced just like the English word with an extra “eh” sound at the end. Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass, but the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant
Bismillah [IslamCity] You Are Being Lied to About Pirates!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/2959 ... In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it. Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to dispose of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention. At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation – and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters. This is the context in which the pirates have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a tax on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia – and ordinary Somalis agree. The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence. No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters – especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But in a telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali: We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits (to be) those who illegally fish and dump in our seas. William Scott would understand. Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our toxic waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We won't act on those crimes – the only sane solution to this problem – but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 per cent of the world's oil supply, we swiftly send in the gunboats. The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know what he meant by keeping possession of the sea. The pirate smiled, and responded: What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor. Once again, our great imperial fleets sail – but who is the robber?
Bismillah [IslamCity] Daniel Pipes Attacks My Article
I wrote the following article that was posted on the MANA website: Honor Killings and The Bridges TV Tragedy The article addressed the Bridges tragedy and dismisses the attempts to falsely associate Islam with honor killings. Below is an attack on my article by Daniel Pipes to support his Islamophobic views. I advise you to please read my article linked above before reading Daniel Pipes attack below to get a real perspective. I think after doing so, if you are not convinced of how deceitful and demonizing Daniel Pipes is, you would be. Not only does Daniel Pipes attack and misrepresent what my article is saying on his blog, he does that to other Muslims as well. http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/02/bridges-tv-a-wifes-beheading-and-honor-murder.html Mar. 2, 2009 update: In an undated posting on the Muslim Alliance in North America, an Islamist organization headed by Siraj Wahhaj, Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq addresses the topic of Honor Killings and The Bridges TV Tragedy. He writes: This event, which exposes a well-respected, prominent Muslim as a domestic abuser, who allegedly decapitated his wife, is an Islamophobic scaremonger's dream. … Honor killings are a Middle Eastern cultural phenomenon that is practiced by ignorant Muslims, Christians and others from that region. It pre-dates Islam and is an ugly manifestation that many Islamic, Christian and other organizations are working hard to eradicate. Honor killings are murders by families on family members who are believed to have brought shame on the family name. It is usually done by a male member of the family who kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image Then follows a 1,600-word elaboration on this theme, distancing Islam from honor killings. Abdul-Khaaliq ends by blaming the West, of course, for honor killings: Colonialism had a big hand to play in this, as admitted to by several documentaries, books and other literature, under colonialism, the British and other western powers encouraged extremism in Al-Islam. They killed out and stifled the voices of true Islam and encouraged cultural and barbaric practices to thrive and be supported. This was a tactic used to destroy Muslim societies and today we see the ugly remnants of that in many Muslim countries To complete the picture, Abdul-Khaaliq urges his audience to Please read Confessions of a British Spy to learn more about how thoroughly such work was done within the Islamic world to encourage extremism, bad cultural habits and un-Islamic behavior, being portrayed under the banner of Al-Islam in order to weaken the people and make them better subjects of the colonialists. Ah, that old chestnut – the one that claims the British government of the early 1700s planted a spy named Hempher in Arabia who was the source of the Wahhabi doctrine. For a synopsis of this forgery, see The Saga of 'Hempher,' Purported British Spy, an extract from my 1996 book, The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy, pp. 211-12. You know that Wahhaj and his colleagues must be a little desperate if they must resort to a counterfeit text to explain away honor killings. Not only does Daniel Pipes misrepresent the message of my essay, he takes my essay and associates it with Imam Siraj and MANA which is totally false. This was an individual work on my behalf using my own research with no consultation or reference to Imam Siraj. Even when you go to Daniel Pipes's links, they do not dispel in anyway the confessions made by Hempher regarding his role and other British spies role in attempting to hijack Islam and lead Muslims to extremism.
Bismillah [IslamCity] VIDEO: A woman we all must know!
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Obama on Zionism and Hamas!
Obama on Zionism and Hamas Here is an excerpt from The Atlantic online mag's interview of Obama with Zionist Jeffrey Goldberg: Obama and I spoke over the weekend about Hamas, about Jimmy Carter, and about the future of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. He seemed eager to talk about his ties to the Jewish community, and about the influence Jews have had on his life. Among other things, he told me that he learned the art of moral anguish from Jews. We spoke as well about my Atlantic cover story on Israel’s future. He mentioned his interest in the opinions of the writer David Grossman, who is featured in the article. “I remember reading The Yellow Wind when it came out, and reading about Grossman now is powerful, painful stuff.” And, speaking in a kind of code Jews readily understand, Obama also made sure to mention that he was fond of the writer Leon Uris, the author of Exodus. Here are excerpts from our conversation: JEFFREY GOLDBERG: I’m curious to hear you talk about the Zionist idea. Do you believe that it has justice on its side? BARACK OBAMA: You know, when I think about the Zionist idea, I think about how my feelings about Israel were shaped as a young man -- as a child, in fact. I had a camp counselor when I was in sixth grade who was Jewish-American but who had spent time in Israel, and during the course of this two-week camp he shared with me the idea of returning to a homeland and what that meant for people who had suffered from the Holocaust, and he talked about the idea of preserving a culture when a people had been uprooted with the view of eventually returning home. There was something so powerful and compelling for me, maybe because I was a kid who never entirely felt like he was rooted. That was part of my upbringing, to be traveling and always having a sense of values and culture but wanting a place. So that is my first memory of thinking about Israel. And then that mixed with a great affinity for the idea of social justice that was embodied in the early Zionist movement and the kibbutz, and the notion that not only do you find a place but you also have this opportunity to start over and to repair the breaches of the past. I found this very appealing. JG: You’ve talked about the role of Jews in the development of your thinking BO: I always joke that my intellectual formation was through Jewish scholars and writers, even though I didn’t know it at the time. Whether it was theologians or Philip Roth who helped shape my sensibility, or some of the more popular writers like Leon Uris. So when I became more politically conscious, my starting point when I think about the Middle East is this enormous emotional attachment and sympathy for Israel, mindful of its history, mindful of the hardship and pain and suffering that the Jewish people have undergone, but also mindful of the incredible opportunity that is presented when people finally return to a land and are able to try to excavate their best traditions and their best selves. And obviously it’s something that has great resonance with the African-American experience. One of the things that is frustrating about the recent conversations on Israel is the loss of what I think is the natural affinity between the African-American community and the Jewish community, one that was deeply understood by Jewish and black leaders in the early civil-rights movement but has been estranged for a whole host of reasons that you and I don’t need to elaborate. JG: Do you think that justice is still on Israel’s side? BO: I think that the idea of a secure Jewish state is a fundamentally just idea, and a necessary idea, given not only world history but the active existence of anti-Semitism, the potential vulnerability that the Jewish people could still experience. I know that that there are those who would argue that in some ways America has become a safe refuge for the Jewish people, but if you’ve gone through the Holocaust, then that does not offer the same sense of confidence and security as the idea that the Jewish people can take care of themselves no matter what happens. That makes it a fundamentally just idea. That does not mean that I would agree with every action of the state of Israel, because it’s a government and it has politicians, and as a politician myself I am deeply mindful that we are imperfect creatures and don’t always act with justice uppermost on our minds. But the fundamental premise of Israel and the need to preserve a Jewish state that is secure is, I think, a just idea and one that should be supported here in the United States and around the world. JG: Go to the kishke question, the gut question: the idea that if Jews know that you love them, then you can say whatever you want about Israel, but if we don’t know you –- Jim Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski –- then everything is suspect. There seems to be in some quarters, in Florida and other places, a sense that you
Bismillah [IslamCity] Obama Signal Blacks and Jews Renew Ties
Black, Jewish Vote for Obama May Signal a Renewed Tie But the Historic Allies Still Disagree on Many Issues By Marissa Brostoff and Rebecca Spence Thu. Nov 13, 2008 After months of predictions to the contrary, American Jews voted for president-elect Barack Obama in higher proportion than any demographic group besides African Americans. For many Jewish liberals, this was a watershed moment, marking a return to the days when blacks and Jews were thought to have a special relationship founded on a shared language of suffering and joint efforts to promote civil rights. Indeed, the numbers — 78% of Jewish voters went for Obama, as did 96% of blacks — suggest that the fabled political alliance between the two groups is in some respects alive and well. But voting for the same candidate doesn’t mean thoroughgoing political alignment. On many issues, public opinion and exit polls suggest, blacks and Jews occupy different corners of the Democratic Party’s big tent — and so, going forward, there remains the question of whether the issues most important to each group will be those that bind them together or those that drive them apart. “Liberalism is not of one piece,” said Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist of American Jewry at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. “Blacks are far more liberal in economic matters than are Jews. Jews are far more liberal on social issues.” On Election Day, nowhere were those ideological discrepancies more noticeable than in California, where it appears that blacks and Jews voted very differently on an initiative to ban gay and lesbian marriage. Statewide, about 70% of African Americans voted to ban gay marriage, according to exit polls. No statewide figures are available on Jewish voting patterns on the initiative, but in Los Angeles, only 16% of Jewish voters (versus 45% of black voters) supported the ban, according to a research group at the city’s Loyola Marymount University. Last year, a study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 79% of Jews believed “homosexuality is a way of life that should be accepted by society,” compared with 39% of members of historically black churches. “Partly it has to do with religious commitments in the African-American community, and I say this as an Orthodox Jew,” said Mark Mellman, CEO of the polling firm The Mellman Group. “Every community is more religious than the Jewish community, by and large.” The discrepancy between blacks and Jews on gay marriage fits into a larger picture in which these groups, like others within the Democratic Party, may be Democrats for very different reasons. Indeed, the party’s triumph this year was rooted in its ability to form a coalition of groups as ideologically different as black and Jewish communities frequently are. “There’s an assumption that we’re all in this together,” said Ta-Nehisi Coates, a blogger for The Atlantic who has written extensively on race politics during this election season. “Were it so. I wish it were!” In reality, Coates said, African Americans’ loyalty to the Democratic Party is founded largely on the idea “that the Republican Party hates black people. It’s not really a disdain for Republican policies.” The Pew study found that 48% of members of historically black churches surveyed believed that the government should “get more involved in issues of morality,” while only 22% of Jews agreed with that statement. On the other hand, 53% of the Jews surveyed believed that the United States should actively participate in world affairs, while 64% of members of black churches felt that it was more important to focus on issues at home. Despite these differences, some Jewish liberals are trumpeting the results of Obama’s election as evidence of a renaissance of the black-Jewish political alliance that reached a high point during the 1960s. “I believe that the generation of Barack Obama is very connected to the Jewish legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.,” said Rabbi Marc Schneier, who heads an interethnic dialogue group called the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. “It took a generation to reconnect with the legacy of the black-Jewish alliance.” The divergence on the gay marriage vote is indicative of a different trend in black-Jewish relations: On many issues, the communities disagree but are not in conflict. Because gay marriage isn’t of primary importance to most members of either group, it reveals differences between the two communities without being a source of tension between them. “In the larger scheme of issues that will influence either black or Jewish voters, gay marriage is not going to be high up,” said researcher David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank that studies black communal issues. On issues that had been sources of tension between blacks and Jews, the groups have not necessarily converged on their opinions, but conflicts over them are
Bismillah [IslamCity] Hamas Gaza residents have peeked Obama role already
Hamas Sees New Bush in Barack Obama The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has disparaged new US President Barack Obama, saying he is repeating the same mistakes of the Bush administration. I think this is an unfortunate start for President Obama in the region and the Middle East issue, Osama Hemdan, Hamas representative in Lebanon, told the Doha-based television. Obama insists that no change will happen. He is trying to move along the same path that previous US presidents have followed. Laying out his vision on the Middle East peace, Obama said that Hamas must recognize Israel before any contacts with the group. For years Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at innocent Israeli citizens. No democracy can tolerate such danger to its people, Obama said. He said Hamas must abide by Quartet conditions on recognizing Israel, halting violence and upholding previous agreements. To be a genuine party to peace ... Hamas must meet clear conditions, recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce violence and abide by past agreements, he told a press conference as he named veteran negotiator George Mitchell as his Middle East peace envoy. Obama said that the US would support a credible anti-smuggling and interdiction regime, so that Hamas cannot rearm. The Bush administration has rejected any contacts with Hamas, which overwhelmingly won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006. The US and Israel also led an international campaign to impose a crippling siege on Gaza, home to 1.6 million Palestinians. Same Mistakes Obama said he would send his Middle East peace envoy to the region to secure the setting up of two states living side by side in peace. It will be the policy of my administration to actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, he said. The new US president said that was deeply concerned by the suffering of the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. I was deeply concerned by the loss of Palestinian and Israeli life in recent days, and by the substantial suffering and humanitarian needs in Gaza, he said. Our hearts go out to Palestinian civilians who are in need of immediate food, clean water and basic medical care, and who have faced suffocating poverty for far too long.. Just as the terror of rocket fire aimed at innocent Israelis, is intolerable, so, too, is a future without hope for the Palestinians. Obama, however, renewed the US support to what he said Israel's right to self-defense. More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed and 5,450 wounded in 22 days of air, sea and land Israeli attacks in Gaza. Hamas said that Obama is repeating the same mistakes of the Bush administration.. It seems that Obama is trying to repeat the same mistakes that George Bush made without taking into consideration Bush's experience that resulted in the explosion of the region instead of reaching stability and peace in it, said Hemdan. It looks like the next four years, if it continues with the same tone, will be a total failure. (IslamOnline.net and Agencies) http://www.palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=6a0a1968e07ce6798091d60992e91bd8mode=details#6a0a1968e07ce6798091d60992e91bd8 Gazans See No Hope in Obama The fever of joy and optimism may be sweeping the world, but for Leila Khalil, Barack Obama's landmark inauguration on Tuesday, January 20, falls absolutely flat. Obama won't bring my husband back to life, the Gazan woman, whose husband was killed during Israel's bloody offensive on the Palestinian territory, told Agence France Presse (AFP). Across the bombed-out coastal enclave, people hold little hope that Obama, who took the oath as America's 44th president, will appease their sufferings after a brutal three-week Israeli blitz. Khalil, who lost her husband when Israeli bombs fell on a school in north Gaza, says the new American leader will not bring her back what she has lost. He was martyred and left me with six children to feed on my own , Khalil, 42, said of her late husband. Obama won't repair our house that was damaged in the raids. She is not alone. No American president will compensate us for our losses from the war nor resuscitate the martyrs nor heal the amputated nor rebuild the homes that have been restored, fumes Samih Zouhdi, 53. For Umm Mohammad, Obama's inheritance of the Oval Office from the unpopular George W. Bush brings no hope for her traumatized children. Neither Bush nor Obama will make us forget the fear and the homelessness with which we have lived. At least 1,300 Palestinians, including 410 children, have been killed during Israel's air, sea and ground attacks on Gaza. The onslaught has turned the impoverished Strip, home to 1.6 people, into piles of rubble and clouds of smoke, forcing more than 200,000 people to flee their homes. Pro-Israel US Khalil al-Attar, a civil servant, believes Obama will never alter the historically pro-Israel
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gaza Massacre: What's missing?
The actions of the Israeli military in Gaza --mass murder and constantly lying about it--are derived from the rabbinic law (halakha) of Orthodox Judaism, says Michael Hoffman Gaza Massacre: What's missing? by Michael Hoffman Copyright ©2009. www.RevisionistHist ory.org This writer has the sorrowful distinction of having observed and reported more than twenty-six years' worth of Israeli massacres of Arabs, beginning with Beirut in the summer of 1982, when Ariel Sharon's military terror-bombed schools, hospitals, apartment blocs and nursing homes in an incredible orgy of violence. There were many more Israeli atrocities to follow: in Qana, Jenin, Gaza 2006, and of course carpet-bombing throughout Lebanon in 2007. Then as now, an impotent Arab street along with leftist intellectuals and protesters in Europe, issued demands and furiously paraded with smash Zionism placards. The UN met in special session and deplored Israeli actions. Investigations were called for, and in Jenin, war crimes investigations were demanded, which, in the case of Jenin, were rebuffed by Shimon Peres, who defiantly declared, No one judges Israel! As usual the Israelis in Gaza are taking a crap on an entire people, along with the infrastructure of Gaza's government, housing, educational system and their fire-fighting and medical facilities. This is not just an attack on Hamas, but as we saw in Jenin, on the Palestinian people's ability to govern, educate, house and protect themselves. As always happens when these Talmudic war crimes transpire, Israeli hasbara (propaganda) operations go into high gear, and we are seeing the pattern repeat in Gaza now. Every single atrocity is explained away as either collateral damage or terrorists using the civilian population as a shield. By that standard the US government was shielding itself in the Twin Towers in New York City in September, 2001. Imagine if in Oakland, California, African-American guerrillas fired rockets at Sacramento in protest over the killing of a black man by transit cops. In response, the California National Guard attacks an all-black school in Oakland, slaughtering 40 children because the rocket-firings by the militants took place near the school. This is what occurred at the United Nations school in Gaza after Hamas fighters allegedly fired mortars in the vicinity. Would the world forgive California for the deaths of the children in Oakland because black militants had been firing near the school? Such a racist devaluation of the lives of the black children collectively punished for acts of armed resistance by guerrilla fighters in their neighborhood would appall and shock the world. The racist component of the devaluation of Palestinian life so evident in Gaza since Dec. 27 is barely mentioned because it tends to show that the Jewish state is sick at its core and any such admission would tend toward an investigation into the spiritual and religious roots of the Zionist pathology which, patently, are in the religion of Orthodox Judaism, which institutionalizes the enshrinement of the humanity of the souls of Judaics while derogating the humanity of non-Judaic souls. To counter any serious investigation of Zionism's Orthodox rabbinic patrimony, in the last stage ofhasbara surrounding any massacre by Judaics in the Middle East, we witness the phenomenon of Jews Against Zionism and Rabbis for Peace, intended to deflect attention away from the Mishnah, Gemara, Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch and other sacred rabbinic texts which teach that when necessary, non-Judaics may be killed with impunity because they are not fully human. Judaic protests against Israeli violence are commendable when they also condemn the roots of Israeli violence as found in the ideological doctrines of Chazal (the sages) of Orthodox Judaism, or at the very least when not denying those roots. For example, to their credit, in the Guardian newspaper in Britain on January 10, over seventy Judaic activists wrote to condemn Israeli atrocities in Gaza. While they did not trace the roots of Zionist mass murder to the Talmud, neither did they deny it. They did, however, make an astute and damaging comparison between Governor-General Hans Frank in Nazi-occupied Poland and Matan Vilnai, the Israeli defense minister who actually spoke last February of perpetrating a shoah (extermination) in Gaza. The hasbara does emerge in statements by Judaics such as Alexei Sayle who told a crowd of demonstrators in London, It is long past time to stop allowing the state of Israel to call itself the 'Jewish state. The masters at this sort of disinformation are the Neturei Karta sect of Hasidic Judaism who were received by the Iranian President at the revisionist conference in Tehran and who parade around the US and Europe condemning Zionism as being against the Torah (that's the Torah Shebeal Peh, the traditions of the rabbis, not the Torah of Yahweh,
Bismillah [IslamCity] Why is Barack Obama Silent?
I'm wondering... . Why is President-elect Barack Obama suddenly so silent? He spoke out and acted swiftly regarding the financial crisis, then later the automakers' crisis. Is it that this great humanitarian crisis, the genocide of Palestinians, does not qualify in his mind (and heart) as a great crisis? Is bailing out the Wall Street financiers and car manufacturers more important than aiding the collective suffering of innocent men, women, and children? Is speaking out against crimes that are committed against humanity less important? I'm wondering. His silence makes him complicit with the execution of this vicious military campaign and the massacre of defenseless civilians in Gaza using US taxpayers' dollars. Obama has surrounded himself with Israeli loyalists and has pledged his support for Israel. His chosen vice president, Joe Biden, has openly claimed, I am a Zionist (smiling). You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. Unfortunately, he has surrounded himself with others like Biden who are pro-war and pro-Israel loyalists (Rahm, Clinton, Axelrod, etc...the list is long). They have unrelenting support for Israeli causes, including and most likely the massacre in Gaza. Obama has not picked one moderate or someone who is against war from amongst his fellow Congressmen/ women yet. This article, Barack Obama: “America’s First Jewish President”, by Professor James Petras addresses these facts. I'm also wondering... Thinking back, I now reflect on what Biden said (and what he meant) when he made comments on the campaign trial. Did he already know something back in October? Could his comments be related to having prior knowledge of the current war in Gaza, which according to Ha'aertz was planned six months ago? Here are Biden's words: Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama, The world is looking. We're going to have an international crisis to test the mettle of this guy. I guarantee you it's gonna happen. These are comments from a talk Biden gave to campaign contributors at Seattle's Sheraton Hotel on Oct. 19, 2008. Here is more of what he said: Barack is the right guy at the right moment for this job, .. Barack gets it...And I'll tell you why I'm telling you this: because we're going to find ourselves in real trouble when we get elected...We' re gonna have the largest systemic deficit in modern – not modern – in the history of the world...So there are going to be a lot of tough decisions Barack's gonna have to make, a lot of very tough decisions, including on foreign policy. And here's the point I want to make: mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy...we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence in the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. Because all these decisions, all these decisions, once they're made if they work, then they weren't viewed as a crisis. If they don't work, it's viewed as you didn't make the right decision, a little bit like how we hesitated so long dealing with Bosnia and with Kosovo, and as a consequence 200,000 people lost their lives that maybe didn't have to lose lives. It's how we made a mistake in Iraq. We made a mistake in Somalia. So there's gonna be some tough decisions.. .. Considered a major gaffe on the campaign trail, Obama later called Biden's comments rhetorical flourishes. After watching the video, reading Obama's body language, and listening to his comments, I wonder if he was being sincere then, and is only now being blindsided and speechless, or was he just being glibberish at the time? Perhaps the culmination of this terrible war against the Palestinian civilians, who have been imprisoned and systematically assaulted within closed borders, is the international crisis that Biden and others knew about, but kept away from the presidential hopeful. I wonder. Regardless, one of the worst things is that the American government has supplied the Israeli military with the bombs that are be used to kill our Palestinian brothers and sisters. These bombs are paid for using US taxpayer dollars, while most taxpaying folk are unaware, and our President-elect, who surely knows, has nothing to say publicly about it. OK, perhaps for the sake of rhetorical flourishing, Obama is waiting until he's inaugurated to speak out against Israeli crimes. You know, once in office he will rise up and speak out against them, right? Is this the politics of change he inspired millions to chant
Bismillah [IslamCity] BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS NOW!!!
Whoever of you sees wrong being committed, let him rectify it with his hand, if he is unable, then with his tongue, and if he is unable, then with his heart, and this is the weakest of faith…” Prophet Muhammad (saaw) More than 380 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1700 are injured in recent air strikes in Gaza and the numbers are growing. The suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza is unimaginable and the UN has declared Gaza to be a humanitarian crisis. Since most of us can’t pick up arms against the Zionists, let’s all do something that we can do. If we can’t be there to bring food, medicines, and needed aid to the Palestinians, let’s hit the Zionists where it hurts—Let’s BOYCOTT all Israeli products now!!! Rather than have this boycott be a fad that comes and goes, let’s make it a permanent, unswerving practice of resistance.Among other products, I will never buy a coke, Pepsi, Nokia phone or eat at McDonalds or drink a cup of coffee from Starbucks again!!! Please click the following link for a detailed listing of Israeli products and companies supporting Israel: www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel.html People of good conscience have chosen to boycott Israeli products and companies supporting the Zionist entity. Their ethical purchasing decision however is frustrated by the lack of accurate information as to which companies to boycott. We have carried out extensive research to identify the guilty companies. All our findings are provided here. Where ever possible, we have included full references for the source of our information so that you may independently verify its accuracy and understand exactly how each company is contributing its support to Israel. We thank all those organizations whose research we have utilized. BOYCOTT ISRAEL COMPANY LIST AOL Time Warner Apax Partners Co Ltd Coca-Cola Danone Delta Galil Disney Estée Lauder IBM Johnson Johnson Kimberly-Clark Lewis Trust Group Ltd L'Oreal Marks Spencer Nestle News Corporation Nokia Revlon Sara Lee Selfridges The Limited Inc Home Depot Intel Starbucks Timberland McDonald's Arsenal FC The companies can also be viewed listed by their brands labels: View by Brand- brands and labels to boycott http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/ As shown above Pepsi Co., Coca-Cola, Mc Donald, Nestle, Johnson Johnson, Mac Donald’s, Nokia, etc. are big supporters of Israel. Statisticsof the Palestinian losses during 9/29/2000 to 7/31/2004 from Israeli attacks is listed below. Keep in mind that since the time these statistics have been taken the deaths and losses of Palestinians have been growing at a phenomenal rate: No. of Palestinian children(below 18 years) killed: 643 No. of killed females: 239 Total No. of killed people: 3473 Total No. of wounded Palestinians: 41,424 No. of houses completely demolished: 6,757 No. of houses partially demolished: 59,107 Please try to print this article in your Local magazines, newspapers, newsletter, etc. Forward this email to as many people as possible.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gaza strike planned more than 6 months ago...
We ask that the media, Muslim and non-Muslim take responsibility for truth and cease spreading the erroneous Israeli propaganda that this lop sided massacre is in response to Palestinians firing missiles into Israel which caused no Israeli casualties during the cease fire. As revealed by Israeli government officials and their own documents, this massacre of the inhabitants in Gaza is something the Israeli government has been deliberately planning for more than six months. “While the Western media remains silent and complicit, the Israeli Press (Haaretz) reveals the unspoken truth: the careful planning of a military operation entitled Cast Lead coupled with a media disinformation and diplomatic campaign. What we are witnessing is genocide. Let us be under no illusions, this operation was implemented with the knowledge and approval of Israeli's allies. “Long-term planning, meticulous intelligence- gathering, secret discussions, visual deception tactics, and disinformation preceded operation Cast Lead which the Israel Air Force launched yesterday in Gaza to take out Hamas targets in the Strip.” http://www.globalresearch..ca/index.php?context=vaaid=11521 Check out this audio for a more detailed exposure of the Israeli plan more than 6 months ago and the invention of the narrative of response to Palestinian missile attacks for justification. http://www.box.net/shared/rydpmtmos5
Bismillah [IslamCity] Who is Bernard Madoff, the man behind the $50 billion fraud?
Who is Bernard Madoff, the man behind the $50 billion fraud? http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/911/another-massive-zionist-fraud-surfaces/ Written by Christopher Bollyn Friday, 12 December 2008 By Christopher Bollyn FRAUDSTER'S PARTNER IS LONG-TIME DIRECTOR OF ISRAEL'S NOTORIOUS MONEY-LAUNDERING BANK IN NEW YORK - SO, WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? Zionist treasurer faces home detention (he has a curfew between 7 p.m. and 9 a.m.), miniscule fine, and jail after stealing $50 billion. Why is Madoff not treated like a criminal, water-boarded in Gitmo, and interrogated? Why the special treatment? He should hire his own security? What kind of joke is this? The judge who has been so lenient with Madoff is Gabriel W. Gorenstein. It's all just one big lie. - Bernard Madoff to his sons about his $50 billion Ponzi scheme Fraudster Bernard L. Madoff was national treasurer of the American Jewish Congress and Yeshiva University (YU). His business partner at YU was Sy Syms, the long-standing director of the notorious Israel Discount Bank of New York, a bank charged for laundering tens of billions of dollars in 2005. So where did the $50 billion go? (This article has been read by more than 16,000 people; Dec. 24, 2008) If a string of similar crimes are committed in the same city by a gang of close associates from the same ethnic group with the same extremist political ideology, one would naturally think there could be a connection. This is precisely the case with the huge financial frauds that have struck New York investment banks, insurance companies, and hedge funds. All of the key players in the current financial crisis are Zionist Jews from a very small political/ethnic community in New York City. But don't expect CNN or the New York Times to fill you in on the details -- the owners of these institutions are part of the same community. I have been pointing out the Zionist connections in 9-11 for more than 7 years and the same connections behind the current financial crisis since September. I have been accused of being an anti-Semite because of my research. For American Zionists and philo-Semites who genuflect at the word Jew it seems that pointing out the Zionist Jew behind a crime is actually worse that the commission of the crime itself. Indoctrinated by the Zionist-controlled mass media, most Americans are simply unaware that all of the key players in 9-11 and the current financial crisis come from a very small club, i.e. the Zionist Jewish criminal gang in the United States and their comrades in Israel. The Zionist criminal network is global. The latest massive financial scandal is the giant $50 billion pyramid or Ponzi scheme run by a New York Zionist Jew, Bernard Lawrence Madoff. Madoff was chairman of the Syms business school at Yeshiva University with his partner, Sy Merns, a.k.a. Sy Syms, who has been a director at Israel Discount Bank (IDB) since 1991. The IDB bank is well known for its money laundering business. SYMS AND THE ISRAEL DISCOUNT BANK The IDB is the Israeli bank at the center of the 9-11 funding matrix connected to the Bronfman family and Israeli military intelligence. IDB is the Israeli financial institution at the center of the Zionist crimocracy. (See: The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Israeli Network Behind 9-11, especially the section on Joseph Ciechanover, the former chairman of IDB's New York branch.) On January 31, 2006, a controlling interest in the Bank was acquired by an investor group led by Matthew Bronfman and Rubin Schron. The deal gave Bronfman ownership of IDB's wholly owned subsidiary, the Israel Discount Bank of New York. Bronfman is a younger brother of Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group Corp. Matthew Bronfman (left) is the chairman of the board of the World Jewish Congress. He is the son of Edgar M. Bronfman (center), former president of the WJC. Here the Bronfmans stand with the newly elected president of the WJC, Ronald S. Lauder, after the Zionist organization known for corruption and financial irregularities held elections in New York, 10 June 2007. The Bronfman-Schron group paid $300 million for a 26% stake, with an option on a further 25%, in IDB. Regulators approved the transfer after the bank agreed to pay $25 million to settle a money-laundering probe of its New York unit by the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York State Banking Department. On Dec. 17, 2005, the New York Times reported that some $2.2 billion of illegal funds had been transmitted from Brazil through the IDB in New York (IDBNY) -- but that was just the tip of the iceberg. ISRAELI BANK LAUNDERED TENS OF BILLIONS The Jerusalem Post reported on November 2, 2006, that the scale of money-laundering going on at the Israeli bank was much, much larger than the Brazil case reported in the New York Times. The Post reported that U.S. regulators fined the
Bismillah [IslamCity] STOP GAZA SLAUGHTER!!!
Before reading this article you should be aware that the person writing it is a female British Journalist who was captured by the Taliban a few years ago. Before being released she was encouraged by the Taliban to study the Qur'an. She did and now today she is a Muslim and has publicly praised the good treatment she received from the Taliban compared to the horrible treatment that innocent Muslims received from the freedom loving West at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other places. I am sure that if all the demonizing reports about the Taliban were true that this former captive of theirs would want to have nothing to do with them or their religion. Feel free to Google Yvonne Ridley to read more about her story. Anarchy In The UK (and the birth of SGS - STOP GAZA SLAUGHTER) By Yvonne Ridley December 28, 2008 Information Clearinghouse-- THE murderous military campaign which has been unleashed by Israel has provoked people across the world to demonstrate, rally and protest in their hundreds of thousands.. Soon the movement will turn into millions as more ordinary, decent citizens of the world show their disgust at the barbarism of Israel ... and the cowardly silence of our own leaders. This is no longer a political issue, or a Middle East issue. It is a case of what is right and what is wrong, and what is decent and what is inhumane. And ordinary people are now taking the initiative because they can no longer rely on their political leaders to show any of the human qualities demanded of them including strength, integrity or compassion. British people, normally reserved and controlled, brought anarchy to the streets of upscale Kensington yesterday as they stormed barracades and pushed past police to head towards the Israeli Embassy in London. There was more anarchy in Scotland as our friends over the Border vented their spleen over the war crimes and massacre carried out by Israel. And unless British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gets some lead in his pencil, the anarchy will continue. I am normally a law-abiding citizen, but the anger and shame I felt drove me to join those who tore down the barriers on Saturday. Gordon Brown is the very man who lectured us about what it is to be British. Well let me turn the tables on this pathetic, self-serving man who does not deserve to lead our country. Being British is about fair play, justice and humanity ... standing up for the underdog in the face of bullies. Brown, like other leaders around the world, simply looked the other way as the Israeli military jackbooted its way through the blood dripped gutters once trawled by the Nazis to kill, massacre and maim. In the final days of December 2008 Gordon Brown will be remembered for acting like one of the silent cowards who hangs uncomfortably on the edge of the schoolyard as the bully kicks and thumps the little, weak child. And that feckless fool David Milliband is no better. While Brown told journalists he was “deeply concerned” over Israeli actions, the British Foreign secretary urged Israel to abide by its “humanitarian obligations”. And it was their weasly words which was directly responsible for the lawlessness which erupted in the streets of London on Saturday, and I’ll tell you why. I was outraged and ashamed by the weakness shown by Milliband and Brown and called my good friend Ghada Razuki. We have both been to Palestine and we have both been to Gaza and we were both repelled by the pathetic reaction of our government. So we decided to launch SGS - Stop Gaza Slaughter - and call for a rally. We began hitting the phones. Many organised groups were already planning a demonstration for the Sunday and they urged us to wait. One told me: “You do not have police permission”. Almost choking with rage, I responded: “Permission? Permission to demonstrate and march and exercise my democratic right to protest? This is Britain! And did Israel ask anyone for permission to bomb Gaza?” But Ghada did call the police and inform them that we were planning a demo - in truth I thought around 30 of us might turn up to respond, but it seems that we were not the only ones who were outraged by the silence of Messrs Brown and Co. “I thought you said only 30 were going to turn up, there must be 3,000 here now,” said one police officer. I just shrugged my shoulders and said I had no idea a few text messages, FaceBook and a blog could have resulted in such a turnout. In truth I am sure many who arrived in Kensington on Saturday would have come anyway. But what happened was pure ‘people power’ and this is what happens when you have a leader who commands little or no respect. When the people lead, the leaders will follow and I think in the next few days Brown’s advisers will tell him that what the British people want is a real man who will stand up to the bullies. And if he doesn’t there will be more anarchy and it will get worse. This is neither a threat nor a promise - just a prediction. If Brown wants
Bismillah [IslamCity] BREAKING NEWS!! Real reasons for Gaza Holocaust EXPOSED!!!
The following is a MUST LISTEN for anyone who wants to know the truth behind the Israeli massacre in Gaza. In clear and no uncertain terms Israeli government officials and official documents show that the attack on Gaza was planned more than 6 months ago. What is also key is how they developed the narrative of missile attacks from Hamas as propaganda for goyim consumption to justify their attacks. Please share this information with everyone that you can so that the true evil and diabolical nature of the Zionist regime can be exposed and how indeed they view the rest of the world as human cattle to feed disinformation to in order to justify their dastardly deeds. The link to this VERY IMPORTANT audio exposure is: http://www.box.net/shared/rydpmtmos5 We ask that the media, Muslim and non-Muslim take responsibility for truth and cease spreading the erroneous Israeli propaganda that this lop sided massacre is in response to Palestinians firing missiles into Israel which caused no Israeli casualties during the cease fire. As revealed by Israeli government officials and their own documents, this massacre of the inhabitants in Gaza is something the Israeli government has been deliberately planning for more than six months.
Bismillah [IslamCity] The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House!
The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House Written by Christopher Bollyn Thursday, 06 November 2008 Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff is the headline of an article in today's Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper. The Israeli editors at Ha'aretz proudly proclaim that Obama's first pick was Israeli Rahm Emanuel to run the next administration. Americans should protest, however, because the next chief of staff will be an Israeli, with clear loyalty to the state of Israel. Emanuel even left the United States to serve in the Israeli army in 1991. A person from any other nation would automatically lose his U.S. citizenship for serving in a foreign military. Why do we let Israelis run our government? What will it take to remove people like Emanuel and Michael Chertoff to prevent them from damaging our American republic even more? The Zionist agents in our government are clearly in the process of accumulating power and not at all afraid of showing it. This is a very dangerous development. Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli soldier and the son of a real Zionist terrorist, will be the next White House chief of staff. Americans should note that this means a foreigner, an Israeli, i.e. a person with loyalties to Israel, will be running the White House under Barack Obama. The chief of staff effectively controls the people around the president, he decides who sees him, what he hears, and what he knows. The people surrounding the president report to the chief of staff. Emanuel would become the handler of Obama and the controller of the White House. How do you think that will affect U.S. relations with Iran, Russia, the Palestinians -- and the rest of the world? NAMED AFTER LEHI TERRORIST Emanuel's father said Rahm is the namesake of Rahamim, a Lehi combatant. Lehi, a.k.a. the Stern Gang, was the most radical Zionist terrorist group in the 1940s. The Stern Gang killed scores of British soldiers and assassinated Lord Moyne and Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations envoy from Sweden, as well as hundreds of innocent Palestinians such as the civilian population of Deir Yassin. This Zionist terror group was allied with the Nazis in their war against the British. Both of Emanuel's parents, Benjamin Emanuel (formerly Auerbach) and Marsha Smulevitz, lived in Israel and both are related to Lehi fighters. This is to say that Emanuel's father, a Jew, fought with the Nazis. Rahm Emanuel is the same Israeli who ran the White House under Bill Clinton, although he did not have the chief of staff position. He pushed through NAFTA legislation. It should be remembered that it was during the Clinton administration, while the president dallied with his chunky Jewish girlfriend, that the foundation of the Zionist terror network that pulled off 9-11 was laid. Emanuel has controlled Obama for years. His brother is the agent for Michael Moore, who joked about Emanuel's appointment on the Larry King Show. Moore is a Zionist shill. Emanuel, the son of an Israeli terrorist (Irgun and Lehi) is part of the Chicago-based Zionist political team with David Axelrod, Obama's chief campaign strategist. Obama thanked David Axelrod by name during his victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park. Axelrod's father, Joseph, a Jewish immigrant from someplace near the Black Sea, hanged himself in 1974 when David was a 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago. His mother was a communist journalist in New York. David Axelrod ran the Obama campaign. In October I warned readers that the Obama ticket was really a hard-core Israeli ticket in disguise. In my article Colin Powell: Liar War Criminal Endorses Obama I advised my readers of the Israeli gangsters behind Obama: Powell's endorsement of Obama, a puppet of the Israeli Rahm Emanuel, has less to do with Obama's African roots than it does with getting Emanuel and his Zionist gangsters back into control of the Oval Office. Emanuel, the real boss of the Democratic party is the son of a real Israeli terrorist (Irgun and Lehi) and thug-in-chief of the party. AN ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF? What can we expect from the Obama presidency? Elected on a platform of Change after 8 years of a dictatorial regime, we would expect to see changes of the disastrous policies of the Bush administration. What changes will we see? Will we see an end to the costly and illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ? Will the officials of the Bush administration who wilfully lied to start these wars of aggression be held accountable for their war crimes? Will we see a proper and independent investigation of 9-11? Will the ghoulish Israeli Michael Chertoff be fired and his oppressive Department of Homeland Security dismantled? If the war criminals are not charged and the most egregious criminal policies of the Bush administration are not changed and reversed – what exactly does the Obama Change slogan
Bismillah [IslamCity] 7 years too late...Mullah Omar dropped from US Terrorist list
and too many millions of lives later. Now why did we attack Afghanistan if the leader of the Taliban is not a terrorist? US to drop Mullah Omar from blacklist Tue, 28 Oct 2008 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73563sectionid=351020403 Mullah Omar The US agrees to drop the name of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar from the terror list ahead of talks with the insurgents, an official says. US intends to remove Mullah Omar from the black list in a bid to provide a suitable seedbed for holding contacts with the Taliban, said Sunday, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Patrick S. Moon. Moon added that during his upcoming visit to Kabul, he will fully support the idea of negotiated settlement with the Taliban militants to end the violence in the region. He also reiterated that the talks with the Taliban insurgents were possible within the Afghan Constitution. Also, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the United States was considering taking part in talks with Taliban in a sharp change in tactics in Afghanistan. The developments come at a time when US, British and NATO forces are experiencing some of the most violent attacks since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Mullah Mohammad Omar, known as simply 'Mullah Omar', is the reclusive leader of Taliban of Afghanistan and was the country's de facto head of state from 1996 to 2001. He went into hiding, following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Mullah Omar was wanted by the US for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Full text of the September 29, 2008, draft bailout bill
Full text of the September 29, 2008, draft bailout bill: http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2008-09/42631254.pdf White House Comment Lines: Ph: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461 US Capitol Switchboard Toll-free: 1-866-340-9281 1-866-220-0044 1-800-450-8293 1-877-851-6437 1-800-833-6354 1-888-355-3588 1-866-808-0065 1-877-762-8762 1-800-862-5530
Bismillah [IslamCity] MUSLIM ALERT!
ASA, “In early September the Jewish state… announced it was sponsoring an upcoming festival… Entitled “Facing Jihad: A Lawmaker’s Summit” , the meeting isto be held at (where else?) the Knesset… the purpose of the conference is “the formation of a new Judeo-Christian alliance to confront the spread of Islam and the violence that inevitably follows in its wake.” … “…somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 million DVDs of the documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” were inserted into 70 of the largest newspapers circulating in America and distributed throughout the country… No one should be surprised to hear that the film and its mass distribution are the handiwork of Israeli partisans and Mossad assets. The film was written and produced by Israel’s own Rabbi Raphael Shore in 2006 under the auspices of his Mossad-connected group The Clarion Fund…” Israel's 'Obsession' with Christian/Islamic Conflict The Qur’an says: 8:30 Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against thee, to keep thee in bonds, or slay thee, or get thee out (of thy home). They plot and plan, and Allah too plans; but the Best of Planners is Allah. 5:82 Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, We are Christians: because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant. The Qur’an is not a temporary book but it is truth for all times. The Qur’an identifies Jews and Pagans as the worst enemies of Muslims. It is amazing to see that after 1400 years the Qur’an is still true. Imam WDM has spoken extensively about the Jahcubites identifying them not as all Jews but as elites amongst the Jews bent on world rule and domination. The deliberate effort being brazenly made to demonize Al-Islam and to war against Al-Islam and Muslims is being made by these same people who Allah has identified as “strongest in enmity to the Believers”. Today the Jahcubites plan is openly in full force but as Allah revealed in Qur’an “They plot and plan, and Allah too plans; but the Best of Planners is Allah.” As Muslims we need to not go to sleep but be very aware of this. We need to continue practicing the best of Al-Islam and building interfaith relationships, friendships, etc with other righteous people. But at the same time we need to be very aware of Jewish plots against Al-Islam and do what we can to expose them. We cannot ignore what Imam WDM taught so extensively and laboriously about the Jahcubites because according to the Qur’an and further elucidated by the illustrious leader, these elite Jews are our worst enemies!!! They are boldly and brazenly operating on the world stage to stop the spread of Al-Islam, demonize ALL Muslims and spread chaos and destruction in the Muslim world. American Muslims should not feel that somehow we are exempt. Their target is ALL Muslims. We need to be alert to their plans and ready to fight against them. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Imam WDM Janazah, Unity Jummu'ah and Memorial Service
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ayesha k. Mustafaa, Muslim Journal (708) 647-9600 ext. 13 or Sultan Muhammad, family member at (773) 540-6001 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chicago, IL 9/09/08)- The leader of the largest constituent of Muslims in America Imam W. Deen Mohammed, son of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad leader of the Nation of Islam, passed away today, he was 75. In 1975, he succeeded his father, leader of the Nation of Islam opening the movement to all races. He was a public servant who stood up against racial oppression and worked continuously for peace, unity and reconciliation. He maintained his father's legacy of economic and political empowerment for the Muslim community. His passing today was confirmed in a statement released by the late leader's family, Imam W. Deen Mohammed a follower of Prophet Muhammad - on him be peace - and Muslim leader passed away today at his home in Markham, IL. He trusted and he believed in the One G-d the Creator of all systems of Knowledge. We ask that you pray for our father and leader. - The Family of Imam W. Deen Mohammed A Muslim prayer service (Janazah) for Imam W. Deen Mohammed is planned for this Thursday (Sept. 11, 2008) at 1:45 p.m. at the Islamic Foundation of Villa Park, IL, at 300 W. Highridge Rd.. (zip 60181), followed by internment to Mt. Glennwood Cemetary, 18301 E. Glenwood and Thornton Rd., in Glenwood, IL 60425. This Friday at 1 p.m. the Muslim community will hold a unity Jumuah, Friday Muslim congregational prayer service, on the community’s property across from 2979 W. 167th St., in Markham, IL. The Community Memorial Service is planned for this Saturday (Sept. 13) also on the community’s property across from 2979 W. 167th St., in Markham, IL at 1 p.m. -- Sultan Muhammad MPD Studios 1448 East 52nd Street, Suite 104 Chicago Illinois, 60615 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mpdstudios.com 773.540.6001 (M) Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Report: Israeli Bombers Planned to Use Georgian Airfields in Iran Strike!
Report: Israeli Bombers Planned to Use Georgian Airfields in Iran Strike Posted September 2, 2008 Last Updated 9/3 3:05 PM EST In part of what was termed Georgia’s “special relationship” with Israel, UPI Editor at Large Arnaud de Borchgrave reported in a commentary today that a secret agreement between Georgia and Israel had earmarked two military airfields in the south of Georgia for use by Israeli fighter-bombers in a potential pre-emptive strike against Iran. Israel has been a close ally of the Black Sea republic, and Israeli contractors have provided the Georgian military with considerable amounts of training and armament, much to the chargrin of Russia. Israeli companies have been arming the Georgian military for the past seven years, and ties have been further strengthened by the fact that Georgia’s Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili is a former Israeli. Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Israel has provided Georgia with “eight types of military vehicles, explosives, landmines and special explosives”. In perhaps another signal for how key Georgia believes military support from Israel is, while most of the western media was running stories about Georgia being completely overrun by Russia’s invasion earlier this month, Georgia’s Minister of Reintegration was giving an interview to Israel’s Army Radio. In it, he praised Israel’s training of Georgia’s soldiers, and credited it with Georgia’s having inflicted “enormous damage” on Russia’s military. And while Israeli defense officials publicly announced a halt to military sales to Georgia earlier this month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili denied that any halt had taken place. He also said “the Israeli weapons have proved very effective,” and credited them with Georgia’s military successes in the brief war with Russia. Israeli-Russian relations had already been strained amid reports that Russia was planning to sell Iran its most advanced anti-aircraft missile system, which prompted a claim from the Israeli military that they were developing some “electronic warfare” means to neutralize what has become the backbone of Russian air defense. Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied yesterday that they had purchased the system. Another consequence of Israel’s backing of Georgia came when long-time rival Syria praised Russia’s military operations. This has led to talks of new arms sales to Syria, and a report that Russia will increase its naval presence in Syrian ports. Syria and Israel have been engaged in ongoing indirect peace talks, though those are at present delayed due to the resignation of Israel’s top negotiator. compiled by Jason Ditz [email the author] Save to del.icio.us (2 saves)• Digg This! (7 Diggs, 2 comments)• Stumble It!• Share on Facebook Tags: Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Syria Go to Antiwar.com * Search * Recent Stories * Russia Issues a Warning as NATO Looks to Rebuild Georgia’s Military * Outrage in Pakistan as US Attack Kills 20 Get Email Alerts from Antiwar.com News Enter your email address: * TagsAbkhazia Afghanistan Azerbaijan Cold War Egypt EU Gaza Georgia Iran Iraq Israel NATO North Korea Pakistan Russia South Korea South Ossetia Syria Ukraine * Meta * Posts Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] MUST SEE VIDEO: It is a war against Muslims!!!
http://video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=2618625552 091922327ei=PZegSNaKFZDuqwL0 jonQDQq=free+fahadhl=en The video features Imam Siraj Wahaj, Michael Ratner, Professor Corey Robin and Sean Maher. A MUST SEE FOR THOSE WHO CARE! Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] MUST SEE! Fox News Caught Using Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)!
This is VERY GOOD!!! I highly recommend that you check these videos out. Sean Hannity and main stream media for that matter is exposed. Video 1: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=NOHK8qK- Ajw Video 2: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=XYZu2Fudp4U Video 3: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RzQOqnXQb9o feature=related Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Obama has chosen Biden as his running mate!
Obama has chosen Biden as his running mate: http://blogs. abcnews.com/ politicalpunch/ 2008/08/us- secret-servi. html Biden, the zionist: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=yAZmO80dLfE Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: New article on The Toronto 18 and The War on Terror
Dr. Naseer you wrote,
“The entire case is now falling apart, not just because the unreliability of
the government's star witnesses has now been exposed in the national media as
druggies, failed businessmen demanding $15 million (!) for their 'testimony'
and publicity hounds. I blame also the politicians who were so quick to declare
them and an entire religion guilty and 'community' leaders who abandoned the
families of the Toronto 18 because of fear of association with what is now OK
to demonize: angry young Muslim males. Above all, I say that an unjust,
corrupted, system of justice reflects badly on Canada, and what Canadian
'values' are supposed to be about. And I say, this War on Terror is a lie.”
We have seen this same theme played over and over again in the US, UK,
Australia and other places. Loud noises being made over false Muslim
arrests, imprisonment and even tortur, while when the Muslims are found
innocent it is barely mentioned.
“Individual terrorism, directed at civilians, is wrong. But when it is
instigated by intelligence agencies I think we need to look at the
inconsistencies. The RCMP has a long history of using informants to infiltrate
communists, 'white nationalists' and now Muslims, then having their own
informants commit crimes to discredit the larger group. In the 70's RCMP
informants set off bombs in post boxes around Quebec to discredit the Quebec
separatist movement. That a few immature hot heads can be trusted to make hot
headed comments is always a given, but the fact that the various terrors of the
21st century were all conducted by various intelligence agencies are also, a
given. One of the ways of proving that would be to look at the explosives used
to commit those crimes. Sorry, the World Trade Towers were brought down by
explosives. The official story is an impossible lie. The Tube bombings in
London were conducted with military, not home-made explosives
which simply could not have had the power required to do the damage they did.
The chief 'planner' of that, Haroon Aswat, turned out to be an MI-6 asset. The
Bali, Madrid and even Tel Aviv bombings all had similar inconsistencies.”
Yes Dr. Naseer, there are many, many setups that fit the modus operandi that
you described above and the WTC 1993 foiled bombing plot is a classic example
of this.
To be complete I took the liberty to add in red one sentence to your paragraph
below
The War on Terror is a lie. The war against Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and the
Muslim world is a lie. It serves the arms manufacturers and the rulers of the
world. It serves the oil companies whose profits and values of their reserves
go up. It helps the money lenders and promoters of war. It serves to transfer
your money out of your pockets and into the hands of a few and fosters Jewish
Zionists hegemony over the world serving their goals and purposes.
Strive as in a race to achieve the
goal of excellence in all that you do.
For real insights visit:
http://www.ascertainthetruth.com
Regards,
Nashid
- Original Message
From: NASEER AHMAD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Naseer Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:23:21 PM
Subject: New article on The Toronto 18 and The War on Terror
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Dr.Naseer Ahmad
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Masjid At-Taqwa in Brooklyn Under Media Attack!
NOTE: Masjid at-Taqwa is a mosque in Brooklyn, whose pastor, Imam
Siraj Wahhaj is known for his fiery and charismatic speeches. His
sermons on tape are sold widely on the internet.
Propaganda campaign mounts against Masjid At-Taqwa
Don't snap a photo of the Masjid At-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant
section of Brooklyn unless you want to be hauled away by a group of
angry Muslims in Islamic attire to the basement of the facility where
a group of twenty security guards in karate suits will interrogate you.
This might sound preposterous. But it happened on Saturday, April 24,
at 3:00 in the afternoon…
It goes downhill from there. Bos Hog (I mean Bos Smith, pardon me) was
deep in the heart of enemy territory doing surveillance work on one of
the known terrorist cells in North America, when they were abducted at
Qur'an point by enemy forces and taken down into the dungeon of the
mosque and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques. (Or so they
would like their gullible readers to think).
The reader is invited to go to the following link and read Bos'
propaganda account of his DAYTIME adventure at Masjid At-Taqwa:
http://americansaga insthate. blogspot. com/2008/ 04/escape- from-brooklyn-
mosque_28. html
But before doing so, however, please read Ali Abdul Karim's less
colorful, but more accurate description of what really happened when
Bos Hog (excuse me, Smith) decided to go native for a sunny afternoon
in good ol Bed-Sty.
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The Real Deal
by Ali Abdul Karim
This is a full account of what happened when Bos Smith and his crew
came to Masjidat-Taqwah to take photographs of the masjid building. I
was conducting my routine martial art classes on Saturday afternoon,
made up mostly of 20 children and about 6 adults, when one of the
members of the masjid summoned me from my class. I went to see what he
wanted and observed two Caucasian males with him. The brother
explained that they were taking photographs of the masjid and he
invited them to speak to someone in authority to see how we can best
assist them in this endeavor, which is our protocol when any media is
interested in filming Masjidat Taqwah.
There was no hostility shown toward the two men, nor were they held
under any duress; they had freedom of movement and they could leave at
anytime. The brother informed me that when he observed them taking
photographs he inquired about nature of the photographs, and when they
informed him of the nature of the photographs, that's when he invited
them to speak to someone in authority. They complied with the
invitation willingly, without duress, and without force, which is not
masjid policy.
I inquired about the nature of their business with Masjidat-Taqwah.
Bos Smith informed us that he was doing a documentary on Muslims in
America, and going around to different masajid photographing them. I
never at any time informed him that he could not take photographs of
the masjid. I asked him who he represented, and did he have a business
card. He replied that he was freelance and didn't have a business
card. I then asked him if he had a contact number and he gave that to
me willingly. I then proceeded to give him Imam Siraj's office number
and informed Bos Smith that, as it is our policy to accommodate all
media in these types of endeavors, the imam and the community would be
more than happy to oblige him in this project, and they left peacefully.
Note, Bos Smith says he has a law degree. Why would he come into a
basement without being forced or [with the] threat of force. This non
incident happened in broad day light, with the usually high level of
pedestrian traffic and police presence in our area. Furthermore, we
understand people's first amendment rights, and I am sure Bos Smith
knows [also]; so why didn't he ignore the request made to him. He
could have walked away or summoned the police for unlawful detention
or restriction of movement.
It's because it never happened the way he wrote about it in the
article. The article is a biased attempt to defame and discredit Imam
Siraj, Masjidat-Taqwah, Islam and the Muslims as a whole. Truth be
known, Bos Smith has written a book soon to be released called,
Within the Belly of the Beast: Jihad in America. There is a chapter
devoted to radical mosques. So he has a hidden agenda that ALLAH
(SWTA) has exposed through this event; and ALLAH KNOWS BEST.
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with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone
astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy
Quran-16:125)
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: Web Exclusive!
Thanks for sharing this Bro. Yahya! Excellent video that needs to be seen by all. I personally feel that Barack is very hypocritical for disowning Rev. Wright and going with the false portrayal of Rev. Wright by the media. He is a politician not a man of integrity and truth. So to win votes he will sell anyone or anything for public approval even though the public views are false. It is also beautiful to see this Caucasian preacher stand up for truth about Farrakhan and other misconceptions pushed by the media. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid - Original Message From: visionaries4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 2:50:17 AM Subject: Web Exclusive! Web Exclusive! http://www.foxnews. com/video2/ video08.html? videoId=1fd1c0cf -5c80-4d75- 996f-bd53b2461ae 0sMPlaylistID April 3, 2008 Watch the raw, unedited video of 'Factor' producer Porter Berry confronting Father Pfleger for defending Rev. Wright and Farrakhan.
Bismillah [IslamCity] MUST SEE YOUTUBE OF CNN'S WOLF BLITZER!!!
For those of us who may think that the mainstream media news personalities are objective and unbiased, I think you will find this debate with Wolf Blitzer very interesting. There should be no doubt after looking at this as to where he and the other news personalities loyalties really lie. Click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Another American War Crime in the Making
Another American War Crime in the Making by Paul Craig Roberts The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard by the Bush Regime could be prevented. On March 30, the Russian News Information Agency, Novosti, cited a high-ranking security source: The latest military intelligence data point to heightened US military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran. According to Novosti, Russian Colonel General Leonid Ivashov said that the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Irans military infrastructure in the near future. The chief of Russias general staff, Yuri Baluyevsky, said last November that Russia was beefing up its military in response to US aggression, but that the Russian military is not obliged to defend the world from the evil Americans. On March 29, OpEdNews cited a report by the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz, which was picked up by the German news service, DPA. The Saudi newspaper reported on March 22, the day following Cheneys visit with the kingdoms rulers, that the Saudi Shura Council is preparing national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts warnings of possible attacks on Irans Bushehr nuclear reactors. And Admiral William there will be no attack on Iran on my watch Fallon has been removed as US chief of Central Command, thus clearing the way for Cheneys planned attack on Iran. The Iranians dont seem to believe it, despite the dispatch of US nuclear submarines and another aircraft carrier attack group to the Persian Gulf. To counter any Iranian missiles launched in response to an attack, the US is deploying anti-missile defenses to protect US bases and Saudi oil fields. Two massive failures by the American media, the Democratic Party, and the American people have paved the way for Cheneys long-planned attack on Iran. One failure is the lack of skepticism about the US governments explanation of 9/11. The other failure is the Democrats refusal to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush for lying to the Congress, the American people, and the world and launching an invasion of Iraq based on deception and fabricated evidence. If an American president can start a war exactly as Adolf Hitler did with pure lies and not be held accountable, he can get away with anything. And Bush and his evil regime have. Hitler launched World War II with his invasion of Poland after staging a Polish attack on a German radio station. On the night of August 31, 1939, a group of Nazis disguised in Polish uniforms seized a radio station in Germany. Hitler announced that last night Polish troops crossed the frontier and attacked Germany, a claim no more true than the Bush Regimes claim that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. Hitlers lie failed, because his invasion of Poland, which began the next day allegedly in reprisal for the Polish attack, had obviously been planned for many months. Iran is a beautiful and developed country. It is an ancient civilization. It has attacked no one. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Iran is permitted by the treaty to have a nuclear energy program. The Bush Regimes case against Iran is based on the Bush Regimes desire to deny Iran its rights under the treaty. The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have repeatedly reported that they have found no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Despite all the disinformation from US Gen. Petraeus and other Bush Regime military lackeys, Iran is not arming the Iraqis who are resisting the American occupation. If Iran were arming insurgents, the insurgents would have two weapons that would neutralize the US advantage in the Iraqi conflict: missiles to knock down US helicopter gunships and rocket-propelled grenades that knock out American tanks. The insurgents do not have these weapons and must construct clumsy anti-tank weapons out of artillery shells. The insurgents are helpless against US air power and cannot mass forces to take on the American troops. Indiscriminate American violence has reduced Iraq to rubble. The civilian infrastructure is essentially destroyed electricity, water and sewer systems, medical care and schools. Depleted uranium is everywhere poisoning everyone, including US troops. There is no economy, and half or more of Iraqis are unemployed. Literally no Iraqi family has escaped an injury or a death as a consequence of the US invasion. Millions of Iraqis have become
Bismillah [IslamCity] Obama: Will of God Should not influence the laws of your country
Barack Obama said below: The Arab governments need to embrace democracy, not theocracy. When you allow the will of God to influence the laws of your country, you will not win the support of the US It is surprising that he said that to the Palestinians. Knowing just a little history would make Obama realize just how foolish he appears to the Palestinians for this and other comments made below. If he had said something like that about the many monarchies, un-Islamic governments in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc then he would be making sense and we would be in full agreement. For hundreds of years Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in peace and prosperity under Sharia the will of God rule in Palestine. Muslims ruled using Islamic precepts and peace and prosperity reigned for several centuries after the Crusades in the land of Palestine. It was not until the coming of the racist Zionists out of Europe, beginning in the 1890s, that havoc and turmoil came to Palestine. Today the original Jews, Christians and Muslims of Palestine are still in peace and harmony united against the invading Zionists. That alone is testimony to how successful the will of God rule has been for the people of different religions in Palestine. While loudly criticizing Muslims for wanting a theocracy, Obama is mute about Gods chosen people building a nation based on Jewish racism and claims to land given to them by God. Typical double standard portrayed by American politicians when it comes to anything affecting Jews and Israel. It is sad and pitiful to see the total capitulation of American politicians to Jewish causes and interests, it is even worst to see those who are supposed to be worshipping Allah only, give blind, unreasoning support to one groveling at Jewish feet.Check out the link below for the full story: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/01/15/an-invitation-for-barak-obama/ An Invitation for Barak Obama The Arab governments need to embrace democracy, not theocracy. When you allow the will of God to influence the laws of your country, you will not win the support of the US. (What about Israel claiming they have the God given right to rule this land?) The Arab governments need to renounce violence against civilians. (What about 1,000, 000 dead Iraqis, were all of those people terrorists, Baathists, foreign fighters or were some of them civilians?) The US is opposed to theocracy and terrorism and if the Arab governments want to create a paradigm shift, they need to address these concerns of ours. So then I asked him, You say the US is opposed to theocracy and terrorism, how can you explain to the Palestinian people how the US can be opposed to these things but still supports a state that has racist, oppressive, unjust and apartheid policies. And do you see how this paints an inconsistent picture to the people of the Middle East? He began his answer by saying he would not accept the assumptions I made and therefor was not going to address that part of my question. He said he could understand the Palestinian view that the policies of the US were one sided but he said the relationship with Israel was not going to change. My high hopes for Barak Obamas foreign policy ideas were shot down!. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Open Letter to Senator/Presidential Candidate Barak Obama
Open Letter to Senator/Presidential Candidate Barak Obama Dear Senator Obama, We Palestinians, whether in Palestine that was occupied in 1948, or Palestine that was occupied in 1967 and in our diaspora/Ashatat counting now over ten million uprooted people, were shocked and saddened to read your letter addressed to Mr. Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. We were shocked and astonished that you, especially as a U.S. citizen of African roots, would not have remembered the stance of the Zionist state of Israel during the uprising/Intifadah of the non-white people in South Africa. Those men and women, who are a part of the indigenous population of the continent where your roots are still deep in its soil, were not supported in their struggle by Israel. In fact, this rogue state was one of the very few countries in the world to ally itself and supply the apartheid colonizing establishment in South Africa with all its requirements of arms and weapons to maintain its apartheid regime, so that it could fight and subjugate the revolting citizens of the colony, who only sought to obtain equal rights in the place of their birth. We were astonished to read that you support the apartheid state by saying Israel has the right to respond. Has it not occurred to you, Mr. Senator, why the indigenous population of Palestine have been uprising for so many decades, and suffering the death of thousands and thousands of their men and women of all ages including the very young and very old, who are living in refugee camps away from their own homes and land that they had been developing with sweat and blood for thousands of years? We are saddened that a man of your caliber who promotes the rights of the subjugated masses in your great nation, the United States, and everywhere in the world, who condemns the Bush regime because of the wars it is waging around the world resulting in thousands of deaths, with its maimed men and women serving in your nation's armed forces away from their homes and beloved ones expresses such opinions regarding our people. You are aware of the millions of deaths, the men, women and children who have become disabled, and the other millions of individuals who have been uprooted and are living in the status of poor refugees in and out of their homelands as a result of these criminal wars? Mr. Senator Obama, how is it possible that a personality of your status, caliber and intelligence has missed to read, see and hear the news of how Palestinians in occupied Palestine are treated like slaves if not animals, which is by far worse than the way enslaved Africans were treated for centuries by the American colonizers? Did you read, hear or see how those Palestinians are tortured and dehumanized on the over 750 checkpoints and crossings all over the occupied West Bank of Palestine? Did you hear, read or see how barbaric Zionist colonizers are still stealing more and more Palestinian land to build more Zionist colonies over what remained unoccupied and un-stolen of Palestinian Arab land, and how these wild racist colonialists are cutting down millions of centuries' old olive trees, razing thousands of acres of farmland, demolishing thousands of residential, office and industrial buildings and leaving thousands of people living in the open air or tents in the heat of the summer or the freezing cold of the winter? We doubt that you don't have the courage to admit that you have heard, seen or read about the apartheid wall that Zionists unashamedly call security wall while the main reason is to steal more land in the 22% left of Palestine unoccupied in 1948, and let's not forget the stealing of fresh water resources to be used by Zionist colonialists to be pumped back out of their sewage system as filth and flooded over the fields of the poor Palestinians who have not been colonized yet?! And you turned your face away pretending not to have seen, heard or read about all that and many and many other war crimes the Zionist state of Israel that had been denying Palestinian Arabs to exercise their Right of Return to their stolen homes and land It would be a shame if a man of your caliber and status does deny seeing, hearing and reading all about these atrocities against a people that belongs to the human race in the twentieth century, only because he might gain the blessings of the Zionist Israeli lobby, to be elected as president of the United States, while knowing well that those who control the possibilities and means shall put all the barriers and checkpoints in your way to deprive you of this pleasure. Mr. Obama, have the courage to include among the causes you fight for to admit that Palestinian Arab resistance are the people who are fighting in self defense and not the other way round. Palestinian resistance, by international legal rules, is accorded every right to use any means to regain all their rights in their land and as human beings, and live in a democratic, free and sovereign
Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: A Crusader in King Abdullah�s Court
EXCELLENT article and a MUST read for everyone! Thanks for posting it! Erooth Mohamed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN A Crusader in King Abdullah's Court http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19132.htm Bush: God Bless Israel Arabs: God Bless Bush Mohamed Khodr Past experience provides little basis for confidence that reason can prevail in an atmosphere of mounting war fever. In a contest between a hawk and dove the hawk has a great advantage, not because it is a better bird but because it is a bigger bird with lethal talons and a highly developed will to use them. William Fulbright: On the Arrogance of Power (The Late Senator and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations) 21/01/08 ICH -- -- The Dying of Gaza As the World Turns Away: No Light, Heat, or Bread Barely weeks after the failure of the Annapolis meeting Bush headed to the Middle East for his first visit in seven years. His purpose: Enlisting Arab support, although never needed, to attack Israel's neo-existential threat---Iran, regardless of the fact that Iran neither has nuclear weapons nor will it commit suicide by attacking Israel or American interests in the Gulf. When it comes to Israel's or America's preemptive wars and occupations of Arab land, facts, international laws, and human rights are irrelevant as expressed by George H. W. Bush, the father of Bush Jr. who considers himself the divinely guided crusader for Israel and MidEast peace: I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Arriving in Israel under the pretense of energizing the peace process Bush and Olmert's discussion concentrated on attacking Iran, damn the Palestinians. Despite Bush's feigned statements that occupation must end and that outposts must be dismantled, Ehud Olmert publicly dressed down the American President by saying that settlements will continue to be built. During Bush's visit to Israel dozens of Palestinians were murdered and injured by the Israeli military. Bush did not utter a word on the loss of Palestinian lives. On the contrary, Bush visited the Holocaust memorial and was moved by the persecution of the Jews in Europe who today are the persecutors of the Palestinians. He wrote in the guest book; God bless Israel, George Bush. It's hard to imagine that God blesses Israel's inhumanity against the Palestinians or Bush's savagery in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Bush, thankfully you will leave office in one year after inflaming the world for decades to come. Your only contributions to this planet are Global Warming and Global Warring. With insensitivity and callousness to the daily harassment Palestinians undergo as they navigate hundreds of military checkpoints, Bush joked about his unimpeded drive through a checkpoint in full sight of the Apartheid Wall by saying: You'll be happy to know, my whole motorcade of a mere 45 cars was able to make it through without being stopped. I'm not so exactly sure that's what happens to the average person. The man who touts freedom was blind to the lack of freedom of movement of the occupied Palestinians on their own land. Gaza has been under siege for over a year for daring to democratically elect Hamas, a resistance movement founded with Israel's aid and blessing that legitimately fights to expel Israel's brutal occupation from their land. This overcrowded strip of 1.5 million people has become the world's largest prison suffering from a massive humanitarian crisis courtesy of Israel's democracy. Gaza today is under a total blockade of fuel, without electricity, heat, bread, clean water, medicines, and overflowing sewage in the streets. The only light that brightens Gaza's night sky is exploding Israeli bombs and shells. Israel is also blocking all U.N. humanitarian goods from entering Gaza which includes baby formula; such collective punishment of an entire population is illegal under International Law; but thanks to America, Israel has always been above the law, both divine and human. John Dugard, U.N. Human Rights rapporteur in the Occupied Territories, called Israel's military offensive in Gaza a war crime and called for the punishment of the responsible parties. John Holmes, undersecretary general of the U.N. for Humanitarian Affairs condemned the collective punishment of the people of Gaza. Holmes expressed his grave concern on Israel's sealing of border crossings because they are the lifeline for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and other goods to Gaza. The World Bank, the International Red Cross, and many international organizations and human rights groups are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. While the world, the U.N., and the Arab leaders are expressing concern and condemnation, Israel rests assured that as long as it has American in its grip, the voices of the world cannot save a single Palestinian child from an Israeli sniper's
Bismillah [IslamCity] Obama: Israel was forced to close Gaza!
While the whole world, even concerned Israelis, are up in arms and deeply concerned about the devastating crisis that has more than a million Palestinians without power, food and basic neccessities in life, Obama's concern is for the treacherous Israeli government that is causing the untold humanitarian crisis on the Palestinians. In the letter below he implores the UN to not condemn Israel but to make sure they condemn Hamas for rocket assaults against the Israelis who have been consistently bombing Palestinians and launching missile attacks against civilians. To Obama, Hamas has no right to defend themselves. Although there has been no casualties on the Israeli side from the rocket attacks, there have been hundreds of casualties on the Palestinian side as a results of the persistent Israeli attacks. What most fail to realize is that blaming Hamas for rocket attacks is just an excuse for what the Israelis were doing all along and will continue to do. With or without rocket attacks the Israeli has done and will continue to do the same thing. As one insightful thinker said regarding the claims of rocket attacks from the Palestinians: Either the Palestinians; in 60 years of conflict; have not yet learned to aim properly, or those rockets are being fired by the IDF to where nobody will be harmed False flag operations are an Israeli specialty and one they have been caught doing untold number of times. Obama: Israel was forced to close Gaza Haaretz Wed., January 23, 2008 Rosner's Blog Shmuel Rosner Chief U.S. Correspondent 1.23.2008 The letter from the Senator to the Ambassador speaks for itself: Dear Ambassador Khalilzad, I understand that today the UN Security Council met regarding the situation in Gaza, and that a resolution or statement could be forthcoming from the Council in short order. I urge you to ensure that the Security Council issue no statement and pass no resolution on this matter that does not fully condenm the rocket assault Hamas has been conducting on civilians in southern Israel... All of us are concerned about the impact of closed border crossings on Palestinian families. However, we have to understand why Israel is forced to do this... Israel has the right to respond while seeking to minimize any impact on civilians. The Security Council should clearly and unequivocally condemn the rocket attacks... If it cannot bring itself to make these common sense points, I urge you to ensure that it does not speak at all. Sincerely, Barack Obama United States Senator (RAINnote: I was wondering whether this story was true and then found it here also: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/140293: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/140293 ) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=865078: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=865078 Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] More Israeli war crimes, more media complicity!
http://www.lefti.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html#1886664681997058556 More Israeli war crimes, more media complicity On Friday, this was how one of the latest Israeli actions was described: Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza News reports described the building as empty at the time, but did note that one woman was killed and at least 30 others nearby were wounded. It turns out, though, that there was more to the story, which is now making its way into some papers, though certainly not into the broadcast media: The building, in a residential neighborhood flanked by the apartments of well-to-do residents, had been empty since it was severely damaged in a July 2006 airstrike. So the building wasn't just unoccupied, but unused, and it wasn't the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, but an building formerly used (and still owned) by the Interior Ministry. And, not only that, but a building located in a residential neighborhood, where, as it turns out, a wedding was in progress: An Israeli warplane attacked the downtown offices of the Palestinian Interior Ministry, flattening one wing of the empty building, killing a woman at a wedding party next door and wounding at least 46 other civilians, some of them children playing soccer in the street, hospital staff and witnesses said. And why was this building attacked? Evidently it was not a military target, since it was an unused building. No, it was an act of pure terrorism - sending a message through bombing: Even though it was unoccupied, it was seen as a symbol of Hamas authority. But it isn't just me who says so, it's a U.N. official, who correctly described the Israeli actions as war crimes: A United Nations official in Geneva on Saturday condemned Israel's actions, particularly the bombing on Friday of an empty Hamas Interior Ministry building in a Gaza City neighborhood. Shrapnel from the missile strike killed a woman and wounded up to 46 people, some of them children, who were celebrating at a wedding party next door. The official, John Dugard, who works on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said the Israelis who were responsible for such cowardly action resulting in civilian casualties are guilty of serious war crimes and should be prosecuted and punished for their crimes. He said that the attack on the building near a wedding party venue was carried out with what must have been foreseen loss of life and injury to many civilians. And where did I read Dugard's statement? Of the major media, only in the New York Times, but even there, the Times does not acquit itself well. The headline to the article reads Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills 2 Hamas Members, and not until well in the article do we read that a U.N. official has leveled the rather serious charge of war crimes against Israel, rather a more newsworthy item than the death of yet two more Palestinians at Israeli hands. Talk about burying the lead! Also known as complicity. As an aside, the Israelis are still describing this building, unused for more than a year and a half, as a Hamas headquarters. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Senior Israeli defense official: Collective punishment works!
Using claims like retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire is false and misleading. They sell that story to the American masses via main stream media to make people think that all the nice Israelis are doing is defending themselves. What is not told and what the rest of the world knows, is that the Israelis have been the aggressors all along. From shooting American made missiles into crowded Palestinian habitations killing countless civilians, conducting targeted assassinations, bulldozing houses, starving the population, destroying their electrical power plants, poisoning and denying them water, and countless other acts of war and aggression the Israelis have been on a serious offensive . Not a week goes by without Palestinians being killed. Yet we hear a lot about Palestinian rocket fire but oddly enough with no Israeli casualties. They twist the truth to make the victims become the aggressors and the aggressors become the victims. The Israelis are pushing ahead with their genocide of the Palestinian people so that they can complete taking all of Palestinian lands as they claim was given to them by their god as chosen people. The real story is that they are using the worst Satanic methods to obtain what they claim was given to them by their god. Indeed what they are doing is in total opposition to the edicts of the Creator. As one leading Jewish intellectual admitted a few years ago, Many Jews don't like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer! Senior Israeli defense official: Collective punishment works http://www.imemc.org/article/52392 In a statement to the Israeli press Monday, a senior Israeli official claimed that the collective punishment of the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip was an effective way to curb Palestinian homemade rocket attacks, stating that Palestinians got the message. Despite the fact that such collective punishment of an entire population is explicitly illegal under international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, and despite the fact that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are an occupied people, and are thus entitled to a special 'protected' status under United Nations regulations, the Israeli occupying authorities have continually attempted to justify measures which punish the entire Palestinian population for the actions of a few. Said the unnamed senior Israeli military official, in an interview with the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahranot, We got the message across. Hamas understood the equation: A continuation of the rocket fire would lead to Israeli pressure against armed groups and civilians. We do not plan to cause a humanitarian catastrophe, but they now realize they will not get fuel or other luxuries as well. Many Palestinians disagree with the designation of fuel as a luxury, given that the fuel cutoff has made it impossible to maintain operation of hospitals and clinics, and a number of patients have died as a result. Communications between emergency personnel have been affected, and the sick and elderly have been suffering through a severely cold winter without access to heat. Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention forbids collective punishment and states that a person shall not be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. This article explicitly relates to administrative punishment imposed on persons or groups because of acts that they did not personally commit. Article 50 of the Hague Regulations states a comparable prohibition. Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip continue to target the entire population of 1.5 million people as punishment for homemade rockets fired toward Israel by a few Palestinian resistance fighters. The Israeli military source quoted in the Israeli paper Monday made clear that the collective punishment of the Palestinian population in Gaza will continue, stating, Only an end to rocket fire would enable a return to normal life in the Gaza Strip. joeschmuck wrote: So throwing all the Jews into concentration camps as punishment for what their gang leaders do should be okay then. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Great Cartoon - The Presidential Debates
Wicked cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist. Enjoy! If the cartoon doesn't load automatically, please visit the following URL to manually load the cartoon: http://www.bendib.com/newones/2008/january/small/1-19-De-Bates.jpg Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Israel launches new satellite to spy on Iran!
Guardan (UK) Israel today launched a powerful spy satellite to keep watch on Iran, its main threat in the region. The TecSar satellite has an advanced radar system that should allow Israeli intelligence officials to gather material at night and in cloudy weather, a capacity beyond current Israeli satellites. Reportedly capable of imaging with a resolution of up to 10 centimetres, TecSar is considered crucial to enable Israel to track Iran's nuclear activities. Israel suspects Tehran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, despite conclusions to the contrary by US intelligence agencies. Last November, a US intelligence report stated that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme, a finding that undermined hawks in the US who had been pushing for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel, however, has publicly disagreed with the US intelligence finding. Israel's most advanced satellite was sent into orbit by an Indian rocket from the Sriharikota launching range in south-east India. It was the first time an Israeli satellite had been launched by an Indian rocket. The decision to use an Indian vehicle was reached three years ago during a visit by the then defence ministry director-general Amos Yaron and marks growing Indian-Israeli cooperation. Two more satellites using Indian rockets are scheduled. The TecSar, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), uses radar to identify targets. The use of radar marks a considerable advance on Israel's Ofek series of reconnaissance satellites that rely on cameras. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the satellite, weighing some 300 kilogrammes, was launched at 5:45am (3.45am GMT), and was successfully placed in orbit. Scientists and engineers are now conducting tests to check the systems and gauge their performance. First pictures from the satellite are expected within two weeks. The TecSar launch was postponed a number of times, largely due to weather conditions. Israel operates a number of reconnaissance satellites, including Ofek 5 and Ofek 7, as well as several commercial satellites, such as the Amos and Eros series. A total of 11 Israeli satellites have been placed in orbit, a number of them still operational. The TecSar is the first satellite of its kind developed in Israel, and ranks among the world's most advanced space systems, IAI said in a statement. The satellite includes an advanced imaging system based on synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, technology, the statement said. The development and launch cost tens of millions of dollars. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] FW: GAZA: AN ISRAELI CALL FOR URGENT ACTION
Alhamdullilah! Maybe it will garner more attention and become more acknowledged
now when Israelis say it. Even though Muslims, Palestinians and concerned
humanitarians have been up in arms screaming to the world about this disaster
happening in Gaza all along it didn't seem to warrant much attention. Maybe now
that some decent Israelis have joined the band wagon people will start paying
attention.
It is ashame that things have to work that way.
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ACTION
We, the Israeli organizations signed below, deplore the decision by the
Israeli government to cut off vital supplies of electricity and fuel (and
therefore water, since the pumps cannot work), as well as essential foodstuffs,
medicines and other humanitarian supplies to the civilian population of Gaza.
Such an action constitutes a clear and unequivocal crime against humanity.
Prof. John Dugard, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the
Palestinian Territories, called the Israeli governments actions serious war
crimes for which its political and military officials should be prosecuted and
punished. The killing of more than 40 civilians this past week violates, he
said, the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth
Geneva Convention. It also violates one of the basic principles of
international humanitarian law that military action must distinguish between
military targets and civilian targets. Indeed, the very legal framework
invoked by the Israeli government to carry out this illegal and immoral act
declaring Gaza a hostile entity within a conflict short of war has
absolutely no standing in international law.
We call on the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, to lead the
Security Council to a decisive decision to end the siege on Gaza when it meets
in emergency session on Wednesday.
We call on the governments of the world, and in particular the American
government and the European Parliament, to censure Israels actions and, in
light of recent attempts to revive the diplomatic process, to end all attacks
on civilians, including the continuing demolition of Palestinian homes at an
alarming rate.
We call upon the Jews of the world in whose name the Israeli government
purports to speak, and upon their rabbis and communal leaders in particular, to
speak out unequivocally against this offense to the very moral core of Jewish
values.
And we call upon the peoples of the world to let their officials and leaders
know of their repudiation of this cruel, illegal and immoral act an act that
stands out in its cruelty even in an already oppressive Israeli Occupation.
We condemns attacks on all civilians, and we acknowledge the suffering of the
residents of Sderot. Still, those attacks do not justify the massive
disproportionality of Israeli sanctions over a million and half civilians of
Gaza, in particular in light of Israels oppressive 40 year occupation. Such
violations of international law by a government are especially egregious and
must be denounced and punished if the very system of human rights and
international law is to be preserved.
The Israeli governments decision to punish Gazas civilian population, with
all the human suffering that entails, constitutes State Terrorism against
innocent people. Only when Israeli policy-makers are held accountable for their
actions and international law upheld will a just peace be possible in the
Middle East.
The Alternative Information Center * Bat Tsafon * Gush Shalom * The
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) * Physicians for Human
Rights * Coalition of Women for Peace
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For real insights visit:
http://www.ascertainthetruth.com
Regards,
Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] How Barack Obama learned to love Israel!
How Barack Obama learned to love Israel Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2007 (EI Illustration) I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I distinctly remember thinking 'if only a man of this calibre could become president one day.' On Friday Obama gave a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Chicago. It had been much anticipated in American Jewish political circles which buzzed about his intensive efforts to woo wealthy pro-Israel campaign donors who up to now have generally leaned towards his main rival Senator Hillary Clinton. Reviewing the speech, Ha'aretz Washington correspondent Shmuel Rosner concluded that Obama sounded as strong as Clinton, as supportive as Bush, as friendly as Giuliani. At least rhetorically, Obama passed any test anyone might have wanted him to pass. So, he is pro-Israel. Period. Israel is our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy, Obama said, assuring his audience that we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs. Such advanced multi-billion dollar systems he asserted, would help Israel deter missile attacks from as far as Tehran and as close as Gaza. As if the starved, besieged and traumatized population of Gaza are about to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. Obama offered not a single word of criticism of Israel, of its relentless settlement and wall construction, of the closures that make life unlivable for millions of Palestinians. There was no comfort for the hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who live in the dark, or the patients who cannot get dialysis, because of what Israeli human rights group B'Tselem termed one cold, calculated decision, made by Israel's prime minister, defense minister, and IDF chief of staff last summer to bomb the only power plant in Gaza, a decision that had nothing to do with the attempts to achieve [the] release [of a captured soldier] nor any other military need. It was a gratuitous war crime, one of many condemned by human rights organizations, against an occupied civilian population who under the Fourth Geneva Convention Israel is obligated to protect. From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah) While constantly emphasizing his concern about the threat Israelis face from Palestinians, Obama said nothing about the exponentially more lethal threat Israelis present to Palestinians. In 2006, according to B'Tselem, Israeli occupation forces killed 660 Palestinians of whom 141 were children -- triple the death toll for 2005. In the same period, 23 Israelis were killed by Palestinians, half the number of 2005 (by contrast, 500 Israelis die each year in road accidents). But Obama was not entirely insensitive to ordinary lives. He recalled a January 2006 visit to the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona that resembled an ordinary American suburb where he could imagine the sounds of Israeli children at joyful play just like my own daughters. He saw a home the Israelis told him was damaged by a Hizbullah rocket (no one had been hurt in the incident). Six months later, Obama said, Hizbullah launched four thousand rocket attacks just like the one that destroyed the home in Kiryat Shmona, and kidnapped Israeli service members. Obama's phrasing suggests that Hizbullah launched thousands of rockets in an unprovoked attack, but it's a complete distortion. Throughout his speech he showed a worrying propensity to present discredited propaganda as fact. As anyone who checks the chronology of last summer's Lebanon war will easily discover, Hizbullah only launched lethal barrages of rockets against Israeli towns and cities after Israel had heavily bombed civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon killing hundreds of civilians, many fleeing the Israeli onslaught. Obama excoriated Hizbullah for using innocent people as shields. Indeed, after dozens of civilians were massacred in an Israeli air attack on Qana on July 30, Israel initially claimed that the military targeted the house because Hezbollah fighters had fired rockets from the area, according to an August 2 statement from Human Rights Watch. The statement added: Human Rights Watch researchers who visited Qana on July 31, the day after the attack, did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. Similarly, none of the dozens of international journalists,
Bismillah [IslamCity] Mike Huckabee, Christian Zionist
Because of Huckabee's win on the Republican side of the Iowa caucuses, reading the following article is worthwhile. Huckabee's proposals amount to ethnic cleansing of Palestine View full size by Rev. Stan Moody*, Christian Policy Institute, December 16, 2007 Orthodox Jews love him. The Christian Right loves him. The LaHayes (authors of the Left Behind series) love him. Tele-Zionist John Hagee loves him. It is not because Gov. Huckabee is not a Mormon that they all love him. It is because his foreign policy as President will be to put the finishing touches on the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East. In a nutshell, Huckabee is a Rapturist. Ill explain. Belief in the Rapture is predominant within Evangelical circles. It has no biblical support except by inference. It finds no place in the early history of the Christian Church and is based primarily on a prophetic interpretation developed in England in the mid 19th Century. Its architect was John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren movement, a fundamentalist Christian sect that came out of Dublin, Ireland in the 1820s. Darby published some 50 books on his unique interpretations of the New Testament. Darbys doctrine, known as Premillennial Dispensationalism, was expanded in 1909 through the publication of the Scofield Desk Reference Bible, a Bible with extensive footnotes all screened through the lens of two future returns of Jesus to earth. The first return will be in the form of the physical resurrection of all true Christians, who will disappear from the earth in a single moment to join Jesus in the skies. That is referred to as the Rapture. For seven years to follow, the earth will be in a period of Satanic upheaval, building to a final Apocalypse in the Valley of Meggido (Armageddon), whereupon Christ will descend onto the Mount of Olives with His raptured saints, defeat the armies of Satan (including the Roman Catholic Church) and set up a physical throne in Jerusalem to reign for 1,000 years. There have been variations on that theme, but the physical return of Jesus to greater Israel has remained intact. In the US, the Dallas Theological Seminary, the flagship Southern Baptist pastoral training center, has been the breeding ground for the American Rapturist movement. In this scenario, the Jews remain the apple of Gods eye, the land promised to the patriarch Abraham being their inheritance. In the seven-year period of Satanic upheaval (referred to as the Great Tribulation), the land at least from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River must be secured for Israel. Solomons Temple will be rebuilt, 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christ, there will be a bloodbath of monumental proportions, and peace will be restored. Support of Israels expanded borders, therefore, becomes non-negotiable for American Evangelicals who subscribe to this dogma. There is a long history of Evangelicals funding illegal settlements on the West Bank and in Gaza. Recently, Tele-Zionist, John Hagee, has consolidated these cultists into an organization called Christians United for Israel (CUFI), applauded not only by President George W. Bush but by such luminaries as Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay and Presidential candidate John McCain. Huckabee on Israel and Palestine On October 15, 2007, Huckabee gave a stump speech at the home of New Hampshire State Representative Jason Bedrick, the first Orthodox Jew elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.[1] In that speech, he staked out the following: He supports the creation of a Palestinian state He believes that such a state should be formed outside Israel. He suggested Saudi Arabia and Egypt as prospects for such a state, noting that the Arabs have far more land than the Israelis and that it would only be fair for them to give land for a state rather than carving it out of the tiny Israeli state He stands against the creation of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, thus tacitly supporting the seizing of the Temple Mount by Israel, the third most sacred Moslem site in the world He has stood against any pullback of illegal settlements on the Golan Heights and the West Bank.[2] By re-defining the boundaries of Israel to be vastly outside those officially recognized by international law, Huckabee unmasks himself to be a Christian Zionist. By offering a solution not unlike that envisioned by 19th century Americans to the slavery question and carried out against Native Americans, Huckabee essentially dehumanizes the Palestinians and proposes to transport them elsewhere. I accuse him, therefore, of being an advocate for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Here is his long-range view: If you are with Jesus Christ, we know how it turns out in the final moment. Ive read the last chapter in the book, and we do end up winning.[3] As an evangelical pastor and theologian,
Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: True Jihad True Islam (Video)
Thanks for sending this John. Good video. The only problem I have was the beginning. Muslims should not be blamed for false flag terrorist operations conducted by our enemies. Even with all the headlines of arrests of Muslims for terrorism, 99% of them are found not guilty as charged and the ones found guilty are guilty only for minor immigration problems. The boogey man about Muslim terrorists is a hoax. What the speaker mentioned in the beginning are things that Muslims are being blamed for but things that I don't believe are being done by Muslims. Iraq is a good example of that and this audio presentation from the Taking Aim show gives a good exposure of that: http://www.box.net/shared/st0mge4ctt John Churchilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Please spare ONLY 5 minutes of your time to see this video.. It is about the True Jihad True Islam.. http://www.slide.com/r/yojj9c5m1z8ml3uoSQ4hezuoavt7ev3K Q=== - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.ascertainthetruth.com Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Make no mistake. The Americans are enemies
Make no mistake. The Americans are enemies ___ The only factor that matters is appeasement: appeasing our enemies on both sides of the line - the Americans and the Arabs. Make no mistake. The Americans are enemies. Under the leadership of Condoleezza Rice and Bush (in that order), the United States has been transformed into one of Israel's most dangerous foes. The policies being forced down our throats, including abandonment of virtually all of Judea and Samaria, as well as Jerusalem, is only the beginning. The Golan Heights are not far behind. ___ Source: Israel National News Sure didn't take long for our bestest buddies in the ME, Israel, to turn on its #1 benefactor and provider of money, weapons and political backing. All because they didn't like the Iran NIE that came out and said Iran was NOT making nukes. The hard-core Zionists are crying in their Mogan David wine, even thinking the unthinkable: They might have to give back what they stole from Syria--the Golan Heights-- in Israel's 1967 War of Aggression. Zionist anger could turn into a rage that won't be quelled by oodles and boodles of more US tax money to the Khazars. They might decide to lash out at the U.S. and attack us again, like they did in 1967's attack on the USS Liberty and the 2001 attack on New York and Washington. Or they might get pissed enough to invoke the Samson option on the world and bring down Armageddon on us all. Heck, Israel, you know what always cheers you up? Sending out some of your ZOF (Zionist Occupation Force) Goon Squads to shoot some Palestinian kids in the head. Or another fav: Invading Lebanon and bombing them back to the Stone Age...er, uh, guess after your murderous Summer of 2006 bombing campaign against Lebanon, another one would just make the rubble bounce...Hell, that's no fun for those crazy Zionist party monsters. Hey!!! How about cutting off the power to Gaza hospitals? That's always good for some hearty laughs at Likudnik gatherings. No? H. Deny the food and medicine that Gaza needs to survive from entering the Strip? That should put a smile on your Zionist mug! Source: http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/ Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Meet the Only Two Candidates Worse Than Bush and Cheney!
Meet the Only Two Candidates Worse Than Bush and Cheney Rudy or Hillary: Pick Your Poison By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS In new books writers as disparate as Naomi Wolf and Pat Buchanan conclude that America as we know her is disappearing. Both writers hope, but are not confident, that enough Americans will catch on in time to find the leadership to pull America back from the brink. If polls are reliable, a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with President Bush and Congress. However, Americans are far short of Wolf and Buchanan's grasp of our peril. Americans are unable to connect their dissatisfaction with the current political leadership with their choice of new leaders. All polls show that Hillary Clinton is far in the lead for the Democratic presidential nomination and Rudy Giuliani is far in the lead for the Republican nomination These are the only two candidates guaranteed to be worse than Bush/Cheney. Both Hillary and Rudy are committed to the war. Both refuse to rule out expanding the war to Iran and beyond. Both are totally in the pocket of the Israel Lobby. Indeed, practically every Giuliani advisor is a member of the Lobby. Both defend the police state measures that protect us from terrorism. And neither gives a hoot for the US Constitution and the civil liberties it guarantees. The Republican Giuliani is likely to overturn the Second Amendment even quicker than the Democrat Hillary. Both Hillary and Rudy are creatures of ambition, not of principle. Both are one up on Karl Marx. Marx said truth serves class interests. For Hillary and Rudy, truth is what serves their individual interests. They both wear black hats, and the horse they ride is called power. Yet in November polls, Republicans prefer Giuliani by a margin of five or six to one over Ron Paul, the only principled Republican candidate and a person who without any doubt believes in the Constitution and would protect it. Democrats prefer Hillary by a margin of twenty to one over Dennis Kucinich, the only member of Congress sufficiently concerned and courageous to introduce impeachment against the notorious war criminal Dick Cheney. By margins as much as forty-four to one, Democrats prefer Hillary to Senator Christopher Dodd, who promises to give America back its Constitution in the first hour of his administration. Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel does not even register in the polls. Obviously, the American people haven't a clue. In November 2007 they show a distinct preference for leaders who are even worse than the ones with whom they are currently dissatisfied. What does this tell us about the American people and their commitment to be sufficiently informed for democracy to function? It tells us that they are not up to the challenge. It is only a matter of time before America succumbs to the plutocracy, against which Warren Buffet recently warned Congress, or the fascist tyranny that Naomi Wolf sees in our future. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: Counterpunch Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Christian Priests and Missionaries are Converting to Islam
Christian Priests and Missionaries are Converting to Islam http://thedeenshow. com/videoConvert s.htm http://www.usislam. org/converts/ converts. htm http://www.turntois lam.com/ Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Case dropped against 'terrorism trainee'
SOURCE: 295878551 Case dropped against 'terrorism trainee' Posted Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:29am AEDT Updated 11 hours 56 minutes ago A Sydney judge has described as grossly improper and unlawful the conduct of two ASIO officers who interviewed a former medical student accused of training with a terrorist organisation. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions dropped all charges against Izhar ul-Haque today. Mr ul-Haque had pleaded not guilty to a charge of receiving combat and weapons training from Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan four years ago. Earlier this month, New South Wales Supreme Court judge Michael Adams ruled that interviews with the 21-year-old were inadmissible because of the conduct of ASIO and Australian Federal Police officers involved. The court heard ASIO officers took Mr ul-Haque to a park in western Sydney and later questioned him in his bedroom. Justice Adams said Mr ul-Haque was told he had to cooperate when the officers knew they did not have the legal right to detain him. He accused one officer of false imprisonment and kidnapping and the other of detaining for advantage. A jury had not yet been empanelled in the trial. 'Political show trial' Outside the court, Mr ul-Haque's lawyer, Adam Houda, described the case as purely political. This has been a moronic prosecution right from the start, he said. The terror laws were introduced supposedly to capture terrorists, not brilliant young men like Izhar ul-Haque. From the beginning this was no more than a political show trial designed to justify the billions of dollars spent on counter-terrorism. Mr Houda also likened his client's case to that of Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef. who had his terrorism-related charge dropped earlier in the year. It's been one bungled prosecution after another. We've all seen the disgraceful conduct afforded against Doctor Haneef and today you've heard the disgraceful conduct against my client, he said. A spokesman for ASIO says the agency will leave it up to federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock to comment on the case being dropped. Review urged But the Australian Council for Civil Liberties says the dropping of charges indicates a problem with ASIO's administration. The council's president, Terry O'Gorman, says both major political parties need to immediately promise a review of the organisation because it is becoming increasingly unaccountable. While clearly ASIO has to be given the power to conduct inquiries into terrorism activity, particularly within Australia, it should do so within the law, he said. The fact that this criticism has been made is a worry. This particular case problem has got to be confronted and it's got to be the subject of a serious review. Mr O'Gorman says the next federal government must set up independent monitoring of the counter-terrorism activities of ASIO and the AFP. There should be an independent terrorism reviewer, he said. Terrorism laws are draconian. If judges are finding that ASIO operatives are breaking even these draconian laws, which favour ASIO as against the individual, then something serious needs to be done about it. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] VIDEO: 7/7 Ripple Effect Documentary
7/7 Ripple Effect (Documentary 56 mins.) Click link ^ to visit webpage. by JforJustice.co.uk Quote: - Dear Viewer, I hope this finds you well, in good spirit and having a good day. Regarding the 7/7/2005 terrorist attacks in London, let us look at the facts, and what we were told, and compare them. Then, using Ockhams Razor and common-sense, let us see what conclusions are to be drawn, so we can all understand what most likely really did happen that day - Downloads: 700 Mb DivX File, 1 hour. Released 05.11.07 Bittorrent Download: 77 Ripple Effect.avi.torrent (What is Bittorrent?) Direct Download: 77 Ripple Effect.avi (MIRROR 1) (MIRROR 2) (Mirrors are faster) You can also watch the movie in high 640x480 quality on Stage6 here (You will need to have installed the DivX video codec to play this file) Googlevideo: video.google.com 7/7 Ripple Effect Livevideo: livevideo.com 7/7 Ripple Effect TRANSCRIPT: 01 - MOCK EXERCISES AND BOMB HOAXES IN THE RUN-UP TO 7/7/2005. 02 - PETER POWER: DUPE, OR ACCOMPLICE? 03 - FOREIGN SECURITY FIRMS - CAN THEY BE TRUSTED? 04 - THE FOUR MUSLIMS: ACTORS, OR PATSIES? 05 - THE GHOST TRAINS. 06 - THE NUMBER 30 BUS. 07- PRE-PLANTED EXPLOSIVES. 08 - CONCLUSION. 09 - EPILOGUE. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] Attacking Iran for Israel?
Attacking Iran for Israel?By RAY McGOVERN Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is at her mushroom-cloud hyperbolic best, and this time Iran is the target. Her claim last week that the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge to American security interests in the Middle East and around the world is simply too much of a stretch. To gauge someone's reliability, one depends largely on prior experience. Sadly, Rice's credibility suffers in comparison with Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Basing his judgment on the findings of IAEA inspectors in Iran, ElBaradei reports that there is no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program there. If this sounds familiar it is, in fact, déjà vu. ElBaradei said the same thing about Iraq before it was attacked. But three days before the invasion, American nuclear expert Dick Cheney told NBC's Tim Russert, I think Mr. ElBaradei is, frankly, wrong. Here we go again. As in the case of Iraq, US intelligence has been assiduously looking for evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran; but, alas, in vain. Burned by the bogus proof adduced for Iraq-the uranium from Africa, the aluminum tubes-the administration has shied away from fabricating nuclear-related evidence.Are Bush and Cheney again relying on the Rumsfeld dictum, that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence?There is a simpler answer. Cat Out of the Bag The Israeli ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor, let the cat out of the bag while speaking at the American Jewish Committee luncheon on Oct. 22. In remarks paralleling those of Rice, Meridor said Iran is the chief threat to Israel. Heavy on the chutzpah, he then served gratuitous notice on Washington that countering Iran's nuclear ambitions will take a united United States in this matter, lest the Iranians conclude, come January '09, they have it their own way. Meridor stressed that very little time remained to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. How so? Even were there to be a nuclear program hidden from the IAEA, no serious observer expects Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon much sooner than five years from now. Truth be told, every other year since 1995 US intelligence has been predicting that Iran could have a nuclear weapon in about five years. It has become downright embarrassing-like a broken record, punctuated only by so-called neo-conservatives like James Woolsey, who in August publicly warned that the U.S. may have no choice but to bomb Iran in order to halt Tehran's nuclear weapons program. Woolsey, self-described anchor of the Presbyterian wing of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, put it this way: I'm afraid that within, well, at worst, a few months; at best, a few years; they [the Iranians] could have the bomb. The day before Ambassador Meridor's unintentionally revealing remark, Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated, We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.That remark followed closely on President George W. Bush's apocalyptic warning of World War III, should Tehran acquire the knowledge to produce a nuclear weapon. The Israelis appear convinced they have extracted a promise from Bush and Cheney that they will help Israel nip Iran's nuclear program in the bud before they leave office. That is why the Israeli ambassador says there is very little time-less than 15 months. Never mind that there is no evidence that the Iranian nuclear program is any more weapons-related than the one Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld persuaded President Gerald Ford to approve in 1976. Westinghouse and General Electric successfully lobbied for approval to sell the Shah for $6.4 billion the kind of nuclear facilities that Iran is now building, but the deal fell through when the Shah was ousted in 1979. With 200-300 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, the Israelis enjoy a nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. They mean to keep that monopoly and Israel's current leaders are pressing for the US to obliterate Iran's fledgling nuclear program. Anyone aware of Iran's ability to retaliate realizes this would bring disaster to the whole region and beyond. But this has not stopped Cheney and Bush in the past. And the real rationale is reminiscent of the one revealed by Philip Zelikow, confidant of Condoleezza Rice, former member of the President's Foreign Intelligence
Bismillah [IslamCity] Police: Jewish GW Student Admits Putting Swastikas On Her Door!
WASHINGTON -- George Washington University officials said a Jewish student who complained about swastikas showing up on her door put them there herself. The student lives in Mitchell Hall, where half a dozen swastikas had shown up on her dorm room door in the past several weeks. University police set up a hidden camera. They said the girl admitted responsibility Monday. News 4 interviewed the student last week after the fifth swastika was discovered. She did not want to be identified. It's a big story, said Jake Sherman, GW Hatchet editor. Thirty percent of GW students are Jewish Reporters at the GW Hatchet newspaper have been following the story since it began. They said they learned on Monday morning that the alleged victim would likely be implicated. They said they spoke to her twice by phone. According to reporters at the newspaper, the student said, I wasn't looking to create this sort of insanity. I wasn't looking to become a media darling. I was just looking for acknowledgment from the university that someone drew a swastika on the door. The student now faces disciplinary action from the school and could face criminal charges. Quote: - University police set up a hidden camera. They said the girl admitted responsibility Monday. - I don't know why they don't just state that she was caught on camera and had to admit her guilt? What is very revealing to me is the mindset of this young Jewish girl. At such a young age she already has a mindset for pulling off false flag operations to have others blamed for her actions. Not only that but supremely playing the aggrieved victim role with the mainstream media towing the line. This just shows that many Jews are raised from a young age to commit egregious acts against themselves and have others be blamed for them. They need to perpetuate an eternal victim role and they understand psychology well enough to reach the goyim hearts. They are expert at false flag operations and have been raised to have no qualms about doing them. I don't know of any other group of people who does this as much as they do and have been caught as many times Although this may be a small act, it gives us a glimpse of what happens on the big scale. The hidden camera happened to catch this Jewish girl but what if we had hidden cameras captuing the planning and execution of 9/11 by Jewish false flag experts. It would have been nice to have hidden cameras capturing the discussions from Neocons and Israeli leadership regarding 9/11. I wonder if they too would admit after being caught? But to be totally accurate they have been caught in real life carrying out false flag operations to blame others as in the Lavon Affair, USS Liberty attack, desecrating synagogues in Iraq, attempting to blow up the Mexican congress with Pakistani passports in their possession, etc. This Jewish girl story gives us a nice revealing insight into their perverse mentality. It also shows us at such an early age they are groomed to commit false flag operations to perpetuate their eternal victim role. Afterall it was one of them who also invented the fantastic lie about Ahmadinejad wanting to wipe Israel off the map. That lie is no different than what this Jewish girl got caught doing. All in service of creating an eternal victim role for Israel. Frank Collin Fuehrer of The American Nazi Party The Fuehrer Is Discovered to be Jewish His real name is Joseph Cohen, born on Nov 3,1944 in Chicago, conceived in Feb of 1943 in Dachau concentration camp (According to his father). Source: 295866544 Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. Regards, Nashid
Bismillah [IslamCity] U.S. pushes Pakistani regime to attack Muslims!
Bloodshed rises in Pakistan as U.S. pushes regime to attack IslamistsBy Deirdre Griswold Published Nov 2, 2007 11:49 PM More and more, the Pakistani people are being drawn into U.S. imperialisms bloody wars and occupations against their will. The last week in October, the Islamabad government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the military dictator who is frequently described in the press as a key ally in the U.S. war on terror, sent 2,500 troops into the Swat Valley near Pakistans northwest frontier with Afghanistan. The area is said to be a stronghold of Pakistani religious leaders who sympathize with the fight of the Taliban in Afghanistan against occupation by the U.S. and its allies. Dozens of soldiers, civilians and religious fighters called militants in the Western media were killed in several violent clashes. One news account said Pakistani forces, backed by helicopters, had traded fire with militants who were using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and other weapons. (AP, Oct. 27) A later account told of thousands of civilians fleeing from the area, where, on Oct. 28, Security forces backed by helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts in the mountains. (AP, Oct. 29) Just one week earlier, the Pentagon had handed over 30 helicopters to the Musharraf regime, the latest installment in more than $6 billion worth of security-related assistance given to the Pakistan military by the U.S. government since 2001. Bush had sent his national intelligence director, the notorious John Negroponte, to Pakistan in January to pressure Musharraf to go on the offensive against the militant Islamic opposition. In July, government forces stormed the Lal Masjid mosque right in central Islamabad, killing hundreds of Islamic teachers and students opposed to Musharraf and his alliance with Washington. Yet far from being intimidated, the influence of the Islamic militants has been growing, especially in the northwest, where the population is very aware of the brutal war being carried out against their neighbors in Afghanistan and can sometimes hear the roar of U.S. jet planes as they unload their deadly bombs. Can cynical deal survive a massacre? At the same time, Washington has been trying to popularize the image of the Musharraf regime without losing the services of Musharraf, who heads the large and nuclear-armed Pakistani army and first took power in 1999 in a coup. It has been brokering a power-sharing deal whereby Musharraf would accept a coalition with Benazir Bhutto, the multi-millionaire head of the Pakistan Peoples Party, who recently returned from exile. The administration concluded over the summer that a power-sharing deal with Ms. Bhutto might be the only way that General Musharraf could keep from being toppled, wrote the New York Times bluntly on Oct. 20. As part of the deal, Musharraf promised Bhutto, a former prime minister, that corruption charges against her and her family would be dropped on her return. However, as the newly arrived politician moved in a car caravan through the streets of Karachi on Oct. 18, where some 150,000 people had assembled to greet her, powerful bomb blasts ripped through the crowd. Bhutto barely escaped; more than 150 people, including 50 from her security detail, were killed and more than 500 others severely wounded in a scene of utter carnage. Almost all Western news accounts blame the bombings on Al Qaeda, but that does not seem to be the view of most Pakistanis. While few had a clear picture of what caused the explosions, wrote a reporter who interviewed survivors, overwhelmingly, they believed that the government was to blame for the attacks, and few blamed Al Qaeda or other Islamist militant groups. (New York Times, Oct. 20) Bhutto herself, while she did not directly blame the regime, said that very powerful figures were behind the assassination attempt and that the government had not given her proper security. (BBC News, Oct. 23) Thus, Washingtons efforts to bolster a pro-U.S. regime in Pakistan by bringing Bhutto backa scheme in which Negroponte, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad all personally participatedmay already have boomeranged. While the corruption of Bhutto and her husband is legendary, and they are accused of salting away hundreds of million of dollars in Swiss banks, her return unleashed a wave of popular anger at the regime, which was only heightened by the assassination attempt that killed so many people. Facing quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is desperate to stabilize Musharraf politically while forcing him to use his military more vigorously against the rising anti-U.S. movement. But many in the imperialist foreign policy establishment think it wont work. This backroom deal I think is going
Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: 'Mom', 'Dad', 'Husband' 'Wife' banished by California schools as discriminatory to Gays
Quote: - The bills signed by Schwarzenegger include SB777, which bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as negative toward homosexuality, bisexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices. There are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs, however. SB 777 will result in reverse discrimination against students with religious and traditional family values, said Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute. These students have lost their voice as the direct result of Gov. Schwarzenegger' s unbelievable decision. The terms 'mom and dad' or 'husband and wife' could promote discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple is not also featured. Parents want the assurance that when their children go to school they will learn the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic not social indoctrination regarding alternative sexual lifestyles. Now that SB777 is law, schools will in fact become indoctrination centers for sexual experimentation, she said. - There is a deliberate movement to dumb down and demoralize American children so that they can be used as cannon fodder for whatever purposes our government want them to be used for. When you look deeply into who are the ones behind this movement, they always turn out to be Jews just as the campaign to remove God from the classrooms was led by them. We should seriously look at these things and ask why. Why is it that the same people are behind so many evils inflicting our society and affecting us internationally. Muslims who study their Qur'an intently knows the answer for this as well as many non-Muslims who have seriously looked into this situation. Arnold Schwarzenneger was supported and financed by the Rothschilds. His actions are inline with those who control and finance him. He is being used to make California the state that will lead the nation in dumbing down and demoralizing American youth. Peace Seeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS 'Mom' and 'Dad' banished by California Schwarzenegger signs law outlawing terms perceived as negative to 'gays' http://www.worldnetdaily.com:80/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58130 Posted: October 13, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Mom and Dad as well as husband and wife effectively have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose. We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California, said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute. With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers. Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered young children into the hands of those who will introduce them to alternative sexual lifestyles, said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, which worked to defeat the plans. This means children as young as five years old will be mentally molested in school classrooms. Shame on Schwarzenegger and the Democrat politicians for ensuring that every California school becomes a homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination center, he said. Analysts have warned that schools across the nation will be impacted by the decision, since textbook publishers must cater to their largest purchaser, which often is California, and they will be unlikely to go to the expense of having a separate edition for other states. The bills signed by Schwarzenegger include SB777, which bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as negative toward homosexuality, bisexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices. There are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs, however. SB 777 will result in reverse discrimination against students with religious and traditional family values, said Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute. These students have lost their voice as the direct result of Gov. Schwarzenegger's unbelievable decision. The terms 'mom and dad' or 'husband and wife' could promote discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple is not also featured. Parents want the assurance that when their children go to school they will learn the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic not social indoctrination regarding alternative sexual lifestyles. Now that SB777 is law, schools will in fact become indoctrination centers for sexual experimentation, she
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu Banned From Campus Over Israel Criticism!
Source: 295793530 University of St. Thomas hears from a few right-wing Jews and calls it a consensus. Rumors have been circulating for some time that Archbishop Desmond Tutu was banned by the University of St Thomas in Minnesota because of statements he made that some consider anti-Semitic. Now it's official: winning the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't protect you from charges of anti-Semitism if you criticize Israeli human rights practices. Neither, apparently, does being one of the most compelling voices for social justice in the world today, or even getting an honorary degree from and giving the commencement address at Brandeis. Minneapolis/St.Paul's City Pages just reported that members of the St Thomas Justice and Peace Studies program were thrilled when Bishop Tutu agreed to speak at the University but administrators did a scientific survey of the Jews of Minneapolis, which included querying exactly one spokesperson for Minnesota's Jewish Community Relations Council and several rabbis who taught in a University program and concluded that Tutu is bad for the Jews and should therefore be barred from campus. in a move that still has faculty members shaking their heads in disbelief, St. Thomas administrators--concerned that Tutu's appearance might offend local Jews--told organizers that a visit from the archbishop was out of the question. We had heard some things he said that some people judged to be anti-Semitic and against Israeli policy, says Doug Hennes, St. Thomas's vice president for university and government relations. We're not saying he's anti-Semitic. But he's compared the state of Israel to Hitler and our feeling was that making moral equivalencies like that are hurtful to some members of the Jewish community. St. Thomas officials made this inference after Hennes talked to Julie Swiler, a spokeswoman for the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. I told him that I'd run across some statements that were of concern to me, says Swiler. In a 2002 speech in Boston, he made some comments that were especially hurtful. Just to send the message home, Swiler says: I think there's a consensus in the Jewish community that his words were offensive. To be clear here, Swiler and the other rabbis have the right to say whatever they think, though representing those opinions, as Swiler does, as a Jewish consensus, is laughable. Ultimately, groups like Minnesota's JCRC, the right wing fringe group Zionist Organization of America, and the increasingly embarrassing Anti-Defamation League, who have all attacked Tutu for his criticism of Israeli policies, will face the consequences of smearing Tutu -- a hero to millions and leader of a movement that was known for the massively disproportionate involvement of numerous South African Jews. But it's the craven behavior of the administrators of St. Thomas that will likely be a mark of shame for years to come. While it's understandable, given the Church's history of virulent anti-Semitism, that a Catholic institution would be extra sensitive about relations with Jews, it's not clear here that there was any real pressure to cave in to. Did groups threaten to picket? Who knows what administrators were thinking? Regardless, the backlash has already begun. Marv Davidov, an adjunct professor within the Justice and Peace Studies program said: As a Jew who experienced real anti-Semitism as a child, I'm deeply disturbed that a man like Tutu could be labeled anti-Semitic and silenced like this, he says. I deeply resent the Israeli lobby trying to silence any criticism of its policy. It does a great disservice to Israel and to all Jews. To make matters worse, when Cris Toffolo, the chair of the Justice and Peace Studies program told Tutu what happened and warned him of a possible smear campaign, she was immediately demoted. Davidov again: This is pure bullshit, says Davidov. As far as fighting for civil rights, I consider Tutu to be my brother. And I consider Cris Toffolo to be my sister. They're messing with my family here. If Columbia permits a Holocaust denier [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] to speak at their university, why are St. Thomas officials refusing to let Tutu, an apostle of nonviolence, speak at ours? What happened at the University of St. Thomas is not an isolated event, says Toffolo. Until we have an honest debate about U.S. policy related to Israel, and about Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories, the spiral of violence will continue. Why Tutu? Why now? Are his statements anti-Semitic? Bishop Tutu is closely associated with Sabeel, a Jerusalem based Christian liberation theology organization started by Palestinian Anglican pastor Rev. Naim Ateek. Sabeel is an international peace movement initiated by Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land who seek a just peace based on two states-Palestine and Israel-as defined by international law
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Iranian Jews Support Iran and Refuse To Relocate To Israel!
According to the New York-based Forward newspaper, a campaign to convince Iranian Jews to emigrate to Israel caused only 152 out of these 25,000 Jews to leave Iran between October 2005 and September 2006, and most of them were said to have emigrated for economic reasons, not political ones. To step up these efforts -- and presumably to avoid the embarrassing incongruence of claiming an imminent second Holocaust while thousands of Jews live happily in Tehran -- Israel is now backing a move by Jewish donors to guarantee every Iranian Jewish family $60,000 to settle in Israel, in addition to a host of existing financial incentives that are offered to Jewish immigrants, including loans and cheap mortgages. The announcement was met with scorn by the Society of Iranian Jews, which issued a statement that their national identity was not for sale. The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money. Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Irans Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews. Israels Jewish problem in Tehran So why hasnt Iran started by wiping its own Jews off the map? By Jonathan Cook August 3, 2007 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18116.htm Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the latest media reports are to be trusted, it looks like they may again be winning the battle for hearts and minds: Vice-President Dick Cheney is said to be diverting the White House back on track to launch a military strike. Earlier this year Binyamin Netanyahu, Israels opposition leader and the man who appears to be styling himself scaremonger-in-chief, told us: Its 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs. Of Ahmadinejad, he said: He is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state. A few weeks ago, as Israels military intelligence claimed -- as it has been doing regularly since the early 1990s -- that Iran is only a year or so away from the point of no return on developing a nuclear warhead, Netanyahu was at it again. Iran could be the first undeterrable nuclear power, he warned, adding: This is a Jewish problem like Hitler was a Jewish problem The future of the Jewish people depends on the future of Israel. But Netanyahu has been far from alone in making extravagant claims about a looming genocide from Iran. Israels new president, Shimon Peres, has compared an Iranian nuclear bomb to a flying concentration camp. And the prime minister, Ehud Olmert, told a German newspaper last year: [Ahmadinejad] speaks as Hitler did in his time of the extermination of the entire Jewish nation. There is an interesting problem with selling the Iran as Nazi Germany line. If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, ready to commit genocide against Israels Jews as soon as he can get his hands on a nuclear weapon, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran and more than reluctant to leave despite repeated enticements from Israel and American Jews? What is the basis for Israels dire forecasts -- the ideological scaffolding being erected, presumably, to justify an attack on Iran? Helpfully, as George Bush defended his Iraq policies last month, he reminded us yet again of the menace Iran supposedly poses: it is threatening to wipe Israel off the map. This myth has been endlessly recycled since a translating error was made of a speech Ahmadinejad delivered nearly two years ago. Farsi experts have verified that the Iranian president, far from threatening to destroy Israel, was quoting from an earlier speech by the late Ayatollah Khomeini in which he reassured supporters of the Palestinians that the Zionist regime in Jerusalem would vanish from the page of time. He was not threatening to exterminate Jews or even Israel. He was comparing Israels occupation of the Palestinians with other illegitimate systems of rule whose time had passed, including the Shahs who once ruled Iran, apartheid South Africa and the Soviet empire. Nonetheless, this erroneous translation has survived and prospered because Israel and her supporters have exploited it for their own crude propaganda purposes. In the meantime, the 25,000-strong Iranian Jewish community is the largest in the Middle East outside Israel and traces its roots back 3,000 years. As one of several non-Muslim minorities in Iran, Jews there suffer discrimination, but they are certainly no worse off than the one million Palestinian citizens of Israel -- and far better off than Palestinians under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Iranian Jews have little
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] How Barack Obama learned to love Israel!
How Barack Obama learned to love Israel Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, Mar 4, 2007 (EI Illustration) I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I distinctly remember thinking 'if only a man of this calibre could become president one day.' On Friday Obama gave a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Chicago. It had been much anticipated in American Jewish political circles which buzzed about his intensive efforts to woo wealthy pro-Israel campaign donors who up to now have generally leaned towards his main rival Senator Hillary Clinton. Reviewing the speech, Ha'aretz Washington correspondent Shmuel Rosner concluded that Obama sounded as strong as Clinton, as supportive as Bush, as friendly as Giuliani. At least rhetorically, Obama passed any test anyone might have wanted him to pass. So, he is pro-Israel. Period. Israel is our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy, Obama said, assuring his audience that we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs. Such advanced multi-billion dollar systems he asserted, would help Israel deter missile attacks from as far as Tehran and as close as Gaza. As if the starved, besieged and traumatized population of Gaza are about to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. Obama offered not a single word of criticism of Israel, of its relentless settlement and wall construction, of the closures that make life unlivable for millions of Palestinians. There was no comfort for the hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who live in the dark, or the patients who cannot get dialysis, because of what Israeli human rights group B'Tselem termed one cold, calculated decision, made by Israel's prime minister, defense minister, and IDF chief of staff last summer to bomb the only power plant in Gaza, a decision that had nothing to do with the attempts to achieve [the] release [of a captured soldier] nor any other military need. It was a gratuitous war crime, one of many condemned by human rights organizations, against an occupied civilian population who under the Fourth Geneva Convention Israel is obligated to protect. From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah) While constantly emphasizing his concern about the threat Israelis face from Palestinians, Obama said nothing about the exponentially more lethal threat Israelis present to Palestinians. In 2006, according to B'Tselem, Israeli occupation forces killed 660 Palestinians of whom 141 were children -- triple the death toll for 2005. In the same period, 23 Israelis were killed by Palestinians, half the number of 2005 (by contrast, 500 Israelis die each year in road accidents). But Obama was not entirely insensitive to ordinary lives. He recalled a January 2006 visit to the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona that resembled an ordinary American suburb where he could imagine the sounds of Israeli children at joyful play just like my own daughters. He saw a home the Israelis told him was damaged by a Hizbullah rocket (no one had been hurt in the incident). Six months later, Obama said, Hizbullah launched four thousand rocket attacks just like the one that destroyed the home in Kiryat Shmona, and kidnapped Israeli service members. Obama's phrasing suggests that Hizbullah launched thousands of rockets in an unprovoked attack, but it's a complete distortion. Throughout his speech he showed a worrying propensity to present discredited propaganda as fact. As anyone who checks the chronology of last summer's Lebanon war will easily discover, Hizbullah only launched lethal barrages of rockets against Israeli towns and cities after Israel had heavily bombed civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon killing hundreds of civilians, many fleeing the Israeli onslaught. Obama excoriated Hizbullah for using innocent people as shields. Indeed, after dozens of civilians were massacred in an Israeli air attack on Qana on July 30, Israel initially claimed that the military targeted the house because Hezbollah fighters had fired rockets from the area, according to an August 2 statement from Human Rights Watch. The statement added: Human Rights Watch researchers who visited Qana on July 31, the day after the attack, did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. Similarly, none of the dozens of international journalists, rescue
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: Iran's parliament approves labeling CIA, U.S. Army terrorist groups
I think Iran's parliament is very accurate in their assessment of who the terrorists really are. Can you imagine the terror Iranians are experiencing right now knowing that at anytime the crazy lunatics in the US may nuclear attack their country??? Can you imagine the terror the average family must be feeling for the lives of their children and loved ones especially after seeing the devastation nearby for what the Americans have done in Iraq and Afghanistan? I am sure none of us would like to be in the shoes of an Iranian living in Iran at this time. The terror from the bully nation of America as a result of it's possession of superior weapons must be devastating to the Iranian hearts. Knowing that this superpower bully is eager to make any excuse to destroy them must be very worrying. But in all fairness the real terrorists are the Israelis. Not only have they been planning and preparing for an attack on Iran for many years, they are the ONLY country who have been pushing the mighty US superpower to do so. Here are some links proving what they have been up to all along for several years now: November 5, 2002 Times/UK Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Israel! By Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1105-02.htm September 30, 2004 The Insider Israel Instructs America To Attack Iran And Syria http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0614 March 16, 2005 U.S. Crusade Israel's Broken Record - Attack Iran By Kurt Nimmo http://www.uscrusade.com/index.php?blog=3cat=16 February 6, 2005 WhatReallyHappened U.S. - Israel Plans To Strike Iran's Nuclear Sites Finalized http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/week_2005_02_06.html June 14, 2005 The NewYork Sun SPY CASE REVEALS ISRAELI PLOT TO PLANT IRAN WMD DATA BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun Liberty_Forum_Source.org Dec 5, 2005 MichNews Netanyahu: If elected, I won't hesitate to order a pre-emptive strike on Iran By Ryan Jones, JNewsWire.com http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_10634.shtml Kristoffer Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/908050.html Last update - 18:48 29/09/2007 Iran's parliament approves labeling CIA, U.S. Army terrorist groups By The Associated Press Iran's parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution to label the CIA and the U.S. Army terrorist organizations. The move is seen as a diplomatic tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror, said a statement by the 215 lawmakers who signed the resolution at an open session of the Iranian parliament. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio. The hard-line dominated parliament said the two were terrorists, because they were involved in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, used depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supported the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombed and killed Iraqi civilians and tortured terror suspects in prisons. The resolution, which is seen as a diplomatic offensive against the U.S., urges Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to treat the two as terrorist organizations. It also paves the way for the resolution to become legislation that - if ratified by the country's hard-line constitutional watchdog - would become law. The government is expected to remain silent over the parliament resolution and wait for U.S. reaction before making its decision. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted 76-22 in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. While the proposal attracted overwhelming bipartisan support, a small group of Democrats said they feared labeling the state-sponsored organization a terrorist group could be interpreted as a congressional authorization of military force in Iran. The Bush administration had already been considering whether to blacklist an elite unit within the Revolutionary Guard, subjecting part of the vast military operation to financial sanctions. The U.S. legislative push came a day after Ahmadinejad told world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly that his country would defy attempts to impose new sanctions by arrogant powers seeking to curb its nuclear program, accusing them of lying and imposing illegal penalties on his country. He said the nuclear issue was now closed as a political issue and Iran would pursue the monitoring of its nuclear program through its appropriate legal path, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the UN's nuclear watchdog. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Ed Koch (Jewish) Blasts Columbia's Bollinger 'A Jew, Himself'!
Koch noted that Bollinger designed his campaign of vilification around issues of more concern to Jews and Israelis, than to Americans in general. I wonder how many realize that Bollinger is jewish. Koch, the former mayor of NYC and also jewish, is not concerned at the harm that Bollinger did to America , but at the harm Bollinger did to the jews. Once again, America is insulted and shamed on the world stage, by the actions of jews. Ed Koch (Jewish) Blasts Columbia's Bollinger 'A Jew, Himself' By Christopher Jon Bjerknes 9-28-7 http://rense.com/general78/koch.htm Ed Koch wrote, inter alia, in his blog - Bollinger, a Jew himself, gave Ahmadinejad ammunition to be used among Islamic supporters that the battle at Columbia was primarily a battle between Islam and the Jews, and Ahmadinejad had bravely stood up to the mocking of the Jewish Bollinger. [***] All in all, it was a fiasco for America and a blunder by Bollinger, as well as a coup for Ahmadinejad. -- Ed Koch - Koch's Comments In The Columbia Lion This week the President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger issued a prolonged ad hominem attack on his invited guest, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in what should have been a cordial and academic discussion. Bollinger's personal attack followed an advisory to the students to be polite and respectful to their invited guest. The leaders of the university ought to have followed their own advice to their audience. Koch noted that Bollinger designed his campaign of vilification around issues of more concern to Jews and Israelis, than to Americans in general. This made it all too obvious that it is primarily Jewry who want to attack Iran , and those who are not stupid will draw that obvious conclusion. In the past, Jews were often excluded from European universities, in part because they had a reputation for being insulting, childish, uncivilized, intolerant, dogmatic, uninsightful, boorish, pushy, aggressive, clannish, corrupt, disloyal to the host nation, and meanspirited. http://www.jewishracism.com Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Ahmadinejad urges Western media not to tell lies about Iran!
http://www.president.ir/en/ Tuesday 25 September 2007 - 13:10 Ahmadinejad urges Western media not to tell lies about Iran! President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Western media Monday afternoon not to tell lies about Iran and come to see closely the existing situation in the country. Speaking to the Washington-based US National Press Club in a video-conference from New York, the Iranian president said, Iranians are the freest and the most intellectual nation in the world and are well informed of the daily news. Those who claim there is no freedom in Iran should visit the country and freely talk to the people so they could get a better understanding of the situation, said President Ahmadinejad who is here to address the United Nations General Assembly later on Tuesday. Referring to the heavy burden carried by the mass media in the contemporary world, the president said, Giving false information about Iran is far beyond the responsibility of mass media. As for women's status in Iran, President Ahmadinejad said, Iranian women are freest in the world and engaged in different scientific, social, media, political and artistic activities. Women contribute to 60 percent of Iran's university students and win medals at the international sports fields, the president stressed. Commenting on the issue of Iraq, he said that US wrong policies in the war-ravaged country have led to failure of US army operations in Iraq. As for Israel, President Ahmadinejad reiterated that Iran will not recognize the Zionist regime as it was established based on occupation, racism and threats. Why those who work in media do not protest to the Zionist regime for killing people and displacing them? asked the president. He further said Iran was opposed to the way that US dealt with the world. We are opposed to the way the US is managing the world considering it a wrong approach leading to war, discrimination and bloodshed, President Ahmadinejad stressed. New York, Sept 25, IRNA Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Letter to Columbia University President Bollinger from an American patriot!
Dear President Bollinger; I am a seasoned geo-political intel analyst who has spent time in the Mid-East - among other credentials. I also come from a Latin ethnicity whose heritage included the tradition of hospitality to those who were invited to my home or my country. I am multi-lingual - have been a foreign diplomat - Honeywell aero-apace scientist - have traveled to dozens of foreign countries - lived among other cultures - am a successful retired businessman and while you were still in Jr high school - was commanding a combat training infantry company of some 235 men - the youngest officer on record to do so at that time ( 1961) Later on I commanded an elite Special Operations Airborne A -Team - so I have not garnered my knowledge or learned opinions via an 'armchair'. I have 'paid my dues' - and with HONOR! What I witnessed recently was one of the most embarrassing and disgusting experiences of my life. Your conduct was not only inappropriate - but of a thug bully mentality which has tainted the reputation of my country - my native land that I have risked my life to protect. How much was it Mr. Bollinger? - 30 pieces of silver? Was that what the Jews paid you for your cowardly 'assassination'? I would have expected such ignorant slanderous crudeness from filth like Bill Clinton - but not a person of your prestigious position. Do you REALLY have ANY idea of the amount of IRREPARABLE damage you have committed by your arrogant malevolent slanderous insults! The man you so maliciously insulted and falsely maligned, holds a doctorate degree and is the elected President of a sovereign nation. You might at least had the decorum to recognize those facts. Of all the countries in the Mid-East where I was NOT shown courtesy, respect and hospitality - the ONLY place was IsraHELL. What was really an eye opener was that before my actual experiences there, I had expected exactly the opposite! As long as that land of Godless liars, thieves, prostitutes, porn kings, white slavers, murderers, cheats, frauds, mobsters, Marxists, racists and traitors to America EXISTS - there will NEVER EVER be ANY peace on this planet. That place is 100% pure concentrated evil! Read you Bible Mr. Bollinger. Our Lord PERSONALLY addressed them - the 'self-chosen' - as the sons of the Devil - the father of all lies. NOTHING has changed in the souls and hearts of these pernicious scum in the past 2000 years. In the future - DECENT KNOWLEDGEABLE American patriots will hold brutish lying slanderous 'shabbus goy' like yourself responsible for the horrors that you have been responsible for promoting. When that treasonous spineless mongoloid war criminal Bush plunges MY country into a world wide conflict - people like you WILL be ALSO held responsible. YOU WILL YET PAY FOR YOUR COMPLICITY IN THESE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. These madmen traitors have sent our street scum ( these are NOT the decent young warriors I trained 45 years ago!) to murder -at present count- now OVER ONE MILLION TOTALLY INNOCENT CIVILIAN MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN - all in the name of the Jew and his criminal shit little stolen country - IsraHELL! I have been INSIDE that criminal shithole with the HIGHEST intelligence personnel and witnessed horrors that you can't even imagine sir! Have you ever witnessed the world's largest institutionalized terrorist organization shoot helpless defenseless innocent children in their - OWN HOMELAND - just for sport or target practice? No of course not! Well - Mr. Bollinger - I HAVE! That BONA FIDE terrorist group is the IDF! They are the SAME killers that murdered and slaughtered over 200 of our sons brothers and father aboard the USS LIBERTY - and YOU - you hypocrite - you STILL proudly support these Godless anti-American murdering Jew scum! The SAME Jew scum that have turned MY beloved once decent country into a morally rotted corpse! There is not ONE SINGLE moral malady that has of more recent times 'infected ' this once great country that was not at the bequest, support and finance of the Jew - NOT ONE! YOU SIR - are the perfect example of the 'domestic' enemy of MY country and those who would jeopardize the safety of MY children and grandchildren. DAMN YOU TO HELL SIR! - DAMN YOU TO HELL! May almighty God punish you for your lies, false witness, duplicity and hypocrisy - and send you to the most forlorn corner of hell to rot for all eternity! YOU - are the quintessential 'domestic enemy' that I took that solemn oath so many years ago - to defend this country against! YOU and your ilk ARE the EXACT reason why we are now the most feared and hated nation on earth. When you lay on your death bed and are struggling for your last breath - I want you to NEVER forget this letter and the horrendous damage you have done to decent innocent mankind. Even worse - you were given the rare opportunity to do the right and truthful and honorable thing - and instead - you did
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] VIDEO of Ahmadinejad's Speech to theUN!
A video of Ahmadinejad's speech can be found at the following link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20969975/ Click launch on the right hand side and you will have to sit through a commercial first. You can compare it to the translation posted earlier. Afterall MSNBC is the source of the translation and we already know how they and other media outlets mistranslated and lied about Iran wanting to wipe Israel off the map. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] President Ahmadinejad meets Jewish rabbis in New York!
Iran-US-President President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday afternoon met with a group of Jewish rabbis who gave him a silver grail as a sign of friendship. The president is currently in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly. The rabbis carried a placard which read, I am Jewish not a Zionist. A senior rabbi of the group said that they considered the visit to New York of President Ahmadinejad as an exceptional opportunity and would never forget it. He referred to the Iranian president as a person who made a distinction between Jews and Zionists. You understand us and make a distinction between the violent behavior of Zionists and the religious beliefs of Jews, said the senior rabbi who called President Ahmadinejad a pious man who is seeking to restore peace in the world and has humanitarian plans. Appreciating the rabbis for their gift, President Ahmadinejad said he was happy to visit them. All people in the world have now understood that Judaism is different from Zionism, said the president. He added, Zionists are a political group looking for taking advantage of the opportunities while Jews are the followers of the Moses who promoted peace and friendship. President Ahmadinejad stressed that there was no disagreement between the followers of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as they all pray the same God and are brothers. The president said the future belongs to the monotheist faiths and that liars would be eliminated. He stressed that all followers of divine faiths were responsible to promote monotheism and defend peace, justice and brotherhood. Ahmadinejad Meets US Rabbis Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com Source: IRNA Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Ahmadinejad unveils world without Israel!
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to unveil a vision of a world without Israel, in which America and Europe would be freed of what he said was Zionist oppression. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters. Culminating a concerted assault on what he described as the injustices and oppressions practiced by the big powers since World War II, he said that the ungodly era of lewdness and violence was coming to a close and that the age of monotheism has commenced. The world was nearing the sunset of the time of empires, he said, and urged the dominant world powers to eschew their obedience to Satan and submit to the will of god. If they did so, they will be saved. If not, calamities will befall them. But whether or not these powers chose to reform themselves, he said, the day was fast approaching when occupied lands will be freed. Palestine and Iraq will be liberated from the domination of the occupiers. And the people of America and Europe would be liberated from Zionist oppression. This is the promise of god, he said. Therefore it will be fulfilled. Earlier in his address, the Iranian president insisted again that his country's nuclear program was peaceful and transparent, and repeated and elaborated on the charges he had levelled at Columbia University on Monday against Israel - which he did not mention by name, but rather called the illegal Zionist regime. He told the assembled world leaders that the people of Palestine had been punished for 60 years for what had happened in Europe. They had been held under occupation of the illegal Zionist regime, he said. The Palestinian people have been displaced, he went on, incarcerated under abhorrent conditions. They were being deprived of water and medicine for the sin of asking for freedom. Ahmadinejad accused Israel of terrorism and castigated the brutal Zionists for carrying out targeted assassinations. He also described immigration to Israel as the gathering of Jews from around the world with false promises, and their enforced settlement in the occupied territories where there were induced to malevolence against the Palestinian people. He spoke of a range of global injustices being rooted in the domination by the victors of World War II over the vanquished, and being perpetuated by the skewed composition of the permanent membership of the UN Security Council. The big powers, he said, had put themselves in the position of god and lost their respect for the dignity of humans. As a remedy, he proposed the formation of a coalition for peace, guided by monotheism, justice and compassion for humans, and the reforming of the Security Council based on justice and democracy. On the nuclear issue, he said Iran's activities were completely peaceful and transparent and castigated the illegal sanctions initiatives against his country. But the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed, he said, however, indicting that Iran had prevailed, thanks to the resistance of the Iranian people. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Who is Dr. Norman Finkelstein?
This is for those who may not know who Dr. Norman Finkelstein is. The following is a report done by Dr. Henry Lindner who attended a speech given by this great Jewish Professor. It is quite enlightening:Dear Friends, I had the great pleasure of seeing Norman Finkelstein lecture on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict on 13 November at Binghamton University. Binghamton is Norman's alma mater and just a 60-minute drive from my home. He sat behind the podium with a beautiful smile on his face as he watched the audience pile in. Our group of two adult couples stood out in an auditorium filled with college kids. We sat front and center. About one-third of the audience appeared to be Jewish. He spoke resolutely and passionately, unfolding the long sequence of events in the history of Israel and Palestine. He made eye contact with every person in the audience. The text of his talk, with very useful references, can be found at ://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id128.htm I believe that this is the single best article-length introduction to this conflict ever written. The speech was most remarkable in how Norman used direct quotes from Israeli officials and historians to dismiss so many of the myths surrounding this conflict. He made it very clear that the Zionists were, from the beginning, committed to the way of transfer to deal with the population problem. He quotes numerous observers and historians to support the argument that it was the Palestinians' real and justified fear of expulsion that caused them to resist and attack Jews in the pre-war years, not some irrational anti-semitism. He recounts how in 1967 the transfer option was no longer available, so Israel has attempted the apartheid option instead. He recounts Israel's long and bloody efforts to avoid a two-state solution. He graphically recounts the violent Israeli response to every Palestinian/Arab two-state peace offensive--from the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the recent Operation Defensive Shield and bombing of Gaza. He highlighted a few salient facts: Israel mourns the deaths of 20,000 Jews, mostly combatants, in the last 120 years of struggle. By comparison, Israel killed 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese, mostly civilians, in just four months in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. 5000 Israeli settlers in the Jordan Valley consume an amount of water that is 75% of the total water consumed by 2 million Palestinians in the West Bank. Norman recounted how the Oslo accords were basically an attempt to create a permanent apartheid regime, with Arafat lording it over the Palestinians as an agent of Israel, meanwhile enjoying the trappings of statehood and enriching himself and his cronies. In the end, Arafat, corrupt as he was, had the courage, or the fear of his own people, to refuse the Barak bantustan plan. With the apartheid option dead, Norman believes that the situation is moving tragically towards a new attempt at the transfer option. He recalled that in 1989, Benjamin Netanyahu (my Antichrist frontrunner) urged the Israeli government to exploit politically favorable circumstances like the Tiananmen massacre to carry out large-scaleexpulsions when the damage to Israel would have been relatively small. Norman fears this horrible event may occur during the US attack on Iraq, after international journalists and activists have been expelled from Israel and the West Bank. He hopes that some combination of Palestinian non-violent resistance and international pressure will bring an Israeli withdrawal, but one can sense that he doesn't believe it will happen. He urged everyone of us to do anything we could to prevent it--so that we would not feel that we had known it was coming and did nothing. After speaking for nearly two hours, he took questions for an hour. It was a marvel to behold his grip on the subject and his skill in providing the right response for that particular individual. He knew all the standard questions/accusations that would be brought by the Jewish members of the audience. He made a point of picking them out from among the many hands raised and he seemed to relish their angry remarks and questions. His skill is understandable, since he's been lecturing on the Israel/Palestine since he was a young man. In fact he and his mother lectured together. She would deal with the Nazi/Jewish Holocaust, then he would deal with the Israel/Palestinian conflict. He said that audiences always loved his mother's presentation but hated his--even though they both were examples of ethnic cleansing. When accosted with the classical the land belongs to the Jews argument. He asked the questionner how he would feel if a man showed up at his door one day and said according to my Bible, your house and land belong to me. Would you leave?, he asked. In response to complaints about Palestinian anti-semitism and violence, he made an analogy to the American Indians. He reminded readers that the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SURPRISE!!! Police Clear Muslims Charged by the Media of Terrorism!
The security services have examined 59 hours of video, cleared the Muslims accused by Channel 4. The security services state that Channel 4 spliced tape together to give a totally false impression. Please click this link for the full story and comments 295669966 I have always said that the real enemies of Muslims is the Jewish controlled media. Charges Dropped Against Mosque Program Charges will not be brought against preachers featured in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme which looked at allegations of extremism in mosques. West Midlands Police carried out an investigation into three speakers and their comments in the programme Undercover Mosque broadcast in January. The CPS said the programme spliced together speech extracts completely distorting what the speakers said. West Midlands Police said it was reporting the matter to Ofcom. The CPS said there was not enough evidence to bring charges. The programme investigated a number of mosques run by organisations claiming to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. An undercover reporter claimed to provide evidence that certain speakers preached messages of religious bigotry and extremism. Quote: - In this case we have been dealing with a heavily edited television programme, apparently taking out of context aspects of speeches Bethan David, CPS lawyer - The Channel 4 Dispatches website, in a piece about the programme, said the reporter had attended talks at mosques and found preachers condemning the idea of integration into British society, condemning British democracy as unIslamic and praising the Taliban for killing British soliders. Police said they acknowledged some parts of the programme may have been considered offensive, but, when analysed in full context, there was not enough evidence to bring charges. CPS lawyer Bethan David said: The splicing together of extracts from longer speeches appears to have completely distorted what the speakers were saying. The CPS has demonstrated it will not hesitate to prosecute those responsible for criminal incitement. But in this case we have been dealing with a heavily edited television programme, apparently taking out of context aspects of speeches which in their totality could never provide a realistic prospect of any convictions. Police also asked the CPS to consider a prosecution for including material likely to stir up racial hatred but again were advised there was insufficient evidence. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Our Congratulations to the People of Turkey!
Our Congratulations to the People of Turkey from Israel Shamir Our congratulations to the people of Turkey on the election victory of the Islamic Party! This is a fateful event: the East returns to God, and finds its own way. Istanbul has followed Gaza: the AKP-ruled Turkey will be a friend to Hamas-ruled Palestine, to Islamic Iran, to Orthodox Greece and Russia, to the religious anti-occupation forces of nearby Iraq. She will again take her place of pride as the centerpiece of the Eastern mosaic, while its pro-American and God-hating generals, the Turkish Dahlans, will creep back to their barracks. Faith in God unites us, while the nationalists had divided us. The legacy of Ataturk, this overlong infatuation with nationalist doctrines, overstayed its welcome. This founder of rump-Turkey came to power in a country decimated by the results of the WWI. Turkey suffered the fate of Austria: both countries were dismembered by the victorious Anglo-Americans. Both gave birth to ferociously nationalist leaders: Adolf Hitler was as anti-religious and as nationalist as Kemal Ataturk. They were not alone: equally anti-religious regimes came to power in Russia and Mexico. Ataturk was prone to drink his fiery raki at Ramadan in the public places to show his disdain of the faith, while Lenin spoke scornfully of 'bozhenka', goddie (almost doggie). At the other end of the world, Japanese and Chinese revolted against Buddha. Today, it is easy to blame Ataturk and his predecessors, the Young Turks. They liaised with the dark forces, with Zionists, with Western imperialists, even with the then-strong Masons. They destroyed the centuries-long base of the Turkish Empire. They destroyed the language and the culture of Turkey. Instead of historic Arab graphics, they enforced the use of Latin letters and made millions of Turks illiterate. Their new way of spelling created a chasm with the old literature and with neighboring Islamic cultures. They privatized the lands and created a new landless class. But this account-taking is not needed now. Moreover, one can understand them. The old regimes failed to protect the East from the Western onslaught, and in a way, people punished their God for this failure, even coming to prefer the more effective Western God of cash-and-carry. There was an urgent need to modernize the administration and the army, and to find a new language more suited to Western ideas. The faith was considered a pillar of the old regime, so it had to go. Still, let us be fair: by withstanding the Armenian, Greek and British offensives, Ataturk saved some of what could be saved, though he lost much of what needed to be preserved. This development was a tragic but mercifully a short-lived one. The people of the East had a run of unbridled freedom, like schoolchildren when the teacher leaves the classroom. Very soon they discovered that the place of the strict teacher was taken by the strongest ruffian, and their freedom was just a temporary illusion. Under the followers of Ataturk, Turkey was colonized by the US; NATO bases sprung up on its shore and the Sixth Fleet found a home away from home in its harbors. Turkey became a close friend of the Zionist state, even though Zionists contributed greatly to the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. This part of history was forgotten, while the story of 'the Arab betrayal' was artificially promoted and spread. Persecution of the faithful in Turkey lasted longer than anywhere on earth. The Russians repaired their churches, and the Japanese went back to their jinjas, but the Turks still could not grow a beard or wear national dress. Chomsky's translator (and mine, too), our friend Fatima, could wear her chador only on a visit in the US, if not in the privacy of her home. Now hopefully this remnant of the old repression will disappear, and the Turks will be able to grow beards like Che Guevara. The bigger problem of the nationalist regime was its lack of solidarity. The national elites did not care enough for the people, whether in Turkey or in Palestine they were more interested in securing free access to Europe's playground than in promoting the ordinary people's wellbeing. The believers, the ordinary people of Turkey and Palestine, had to form their own grass-roots associations to protect their vital interests. Out of these associations, the Islamic parties spread forth. They are the true expression of the people's will, and hopefully they will remain uncorrupted. This victory is very important for Palestine, where the freely elected government of Hamas was made impotent by Israel and by docile Americans and Europeans. Now there is a chance of breaking the Zionist blockade. This is an important victory for the whole world, for an Islamic Turkey won't help the US in its impending attack on Iran. Hopefully the Turks will forbid the US to use its bases and
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Muslim Doctor Charged with UK Terrorism found INNOCENT, charges DROPPED!!!
This is another exposure of the deliberate false accusations and false flags done to blame Muslims and keep the idea of the Muslim terrorist alive in the minds of ordinary people. Even Muslim doctors can be terrorists, no Muslim regardless of what his position is in Western society can be trusted is what the media circus about this matter was intended to achieve. I am glad it fell apart so fast and it is too bad that the same fanfare made by the media to accuse this innocent doctor is not being made to show that the charges against him were dropped. But then again we know that it is only propaganda effect that these enemies of humanity are all about. They don't care about truth and reality. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/hane-j20.shtml The Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA), representing 1,500 lawyers, said the governments treatment of Haneef was deplorable. ALA national director and Perth barrister, Tom Percy, said: When the government is able to usurp the decision of a magistrate, the rule of law no longer applies. Prominent Melbourne barrister, Robert Richter QC, accused the government of terrorising the legal system. Treat Haneef like a 'good guy' if not guilty: Aussie minister If Haneef is a good guy who has done nothing wrong, then he should be treated like other good guys who've done nothing wrong, Health Minister Tony Abbott said. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Israelis CAUGHT staging terrorism in Trinidad!!!
Before running off and believing the nonsense and fabricated stories about those bad terrorist Trinidadian Muslims attempting to blow up JFK, let's look at who has been caught in Trinidad not long ago with setting off bombs and staging terrorism. My, my these god's chosen people were sure a long way from home... The other question to ask yourself is why wasn't the story below and other stories about Israelis being caught staging terrorism in Trinidad given the same fanfare by the media as they are trying to do now with Muslims? In what may have been an attempt to stage a set of bombings in the Caribbean oil region and point the finger at Venezuela's significant Arab and Muslim population, a Russian-born Israeli national was recently arrested in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Vatang Agrunov (who uses the aliases Bhatang Agranouve and Dahtang Mik Agarunov), 26, is being questioned by Trinidadian authorities for his connections to four bombings in Port of Spain this year-- on July 11 on busy Frederick Street (injuring 14 people, 2 seriously, one woman losing her leg), August 10 on busy George Street, September 10, and November 3. As was the case with Israeli art students and movers who have been detained in the United States and Canada, Agrunov played dumb, first claiming he did not steal an immigration extension stamp that could be illegally used to grant visa extensions in Trinidad. According to the Trinidad and Tobago Express, in typical broken English and proffering a sob story, Agrunov told police, I just want to say I take the stamp and finish this story. I don't want to stay in this country any longer. I want to go home. I just want to finish this and go back to my country because my family does not know what happened to me. Agrunov had used the immigration stamp to extend his own stay in the country. Caribbean authorities have intelligence that Agrunov is a suspected terrorist. TT-Isr.jpg (29959 bytes) Israeli terrorists in Caribbean setting the stage for attacks in Venezuela? Trinidad and Tobago authorities, including the Trinidad Anti-Crime Unit, the Criminal Investigation Division, and the local Interpol representative, are awaiting an Interpol report on Agrunov. Port of Spain Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor denied Agrunov bail, citing him as a flight risk. Israeli agents have been arrested in New Zealand and Australia on charges that they were involved in the theft of New Zealand passports. As typical in such cases, the Israeli government denied any knowledge of the Trinidad affair. The Israeli embassy in Caracas, which has responsibility for Israeli affairs in Trinidad, said it had no information on Agrunov's arrest. The unfettered use of a Trinidad visa stamp by an Israeli false flag cell would have permitted Israeli agents to secretly enter and exit Venezuela via nearby Trinidad, which is only 7 miles away -- an excellent cover for committing terrorist attacks on tourist centers or oil installations in either Venezuela or Trinidad -- and blaming them on Al Qaeda or Arabs and Muslims living in the area. The previous bombings in Trinidad were at first blamed on local Muslim activists. Israel's Foreign Ministry is labeling as strange the reaction of Trinidadian authorities to the presence of a suspected Israeli terrorist in their nation. There is also evidence that the FBI arrived in Trinidad after the July blast to cover up for the Israelis. Local police complained that the FBI presence was not required and Prime Minister Patrick Manning said he was unaware that anyone had requested help from the FBI at the time. In cases where local police and Federal agents detained Israeli agents snooping around sensitive industrial and military facilities in the United States, the FBI quickly had them transferred to their control whereupon they were hurriedly deported from the United States. In some cases, deported Israelis have returned to the United States. See the link below for more: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Israeli Mossad establishing Trinidad Tobago base against Venezuela!
Israeli Mossad establishing Trinidad Tobago base against Venezuela THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: We reported on the large contingent of Israelis and Mossad personnel in Colombia a couple of months ago ... they are there in the thousands. Now we find them popping up in Trinidad Tobago, which is prosperous due to oil and gas production and processing. It is also used by the Israeli Mafia for transshipping drugs. We are beginning to see bombings occur and authorities have arrested Dahtangmik Agaronov. The drug operation is run by Sergey Mikhail and Yuri Robolaevich ... their organization includes 5,000 criminals in Colombia, Moscow and Trinidad Tobago who not only move cocaine and marijuana, but weapons as well. They smuggle many items and engage in extortion. Our sources tell us they are about to establish, on behalf of George and the neocons and Israel, a base for revolutionaries, that is mercenaries, against Venezuela and its President Hugo Chavez Frias ... well keep you updated. We hope Venezuelan intelligence is on top of this. http://vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46902 Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] 'Wiped off the Map' � The Rumor of the Century
'Wiped off the Map' The Rumor of the Century Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's president has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, Israel must be wiped off the map. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made. On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the Ministry of Interior conference hall in Tehran, newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at a program, reportedly attended by thousands, titled The World Without Zionism. Large posters surrounding him displayed this title prominently in English, obviously for the benefit of the international press. Below the poster's title was a slick graphic depicting an hour glass containing planet Earth at its top. Two small round orbs representing the United States and Israel are shown falling through the hour glass' narrow neck and crashing to the bottom. Before we get to the infamous remark, it's important to note that the quote in question was itself a quote they are the words of the late Ayatollah Khomenei, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad. Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited (or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint already in place well before he ever took office. The Actual Quote: So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in Farsi: Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad. That passage will mean nothing to most people, but one word might ring a bell: rezhim-e. It is the word regime. pronounced just like the English word with an extra eh sound at the end. Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass, but the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant distinction, as one cannot wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad does not even refer to Israel by name, he instead uses the specific phrase rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods (regime occupying Jerusalem). So this raises the question.. what exactly did he want wiped from the map? The answer is: nothing. That's because the word map was never used. The Persian word for map, nagsheh is not contained anywhere in his original Farsi quote, or, for that matter, anywhere in his entire speech. Nor was the western phrase wipe out ever said. Yet we are led to believe that Iran's president threatened to wipe Israel off the map. despite never having uttered the words map. wipe out or even Israel. The Proof: The full quote translated directly to English: The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time. Word by word translation: Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from). Here is the full transcript of the speech in Farsi, archived on Ahmadinejad's web site The Speech and Context: While the false wiped off the map extract has been repeated infinitely without verification, Ahmadinejad's actual speech itself has been almost entirely ignored. Given the importance placed on the map comment, it would be sensible to present his words in their full context to get a fuller understanding of his position. In fact, by looking at the entire speech, there is a clear, logical trajectory leading up to his call for a world without Zionism. One may disagree with his reasoning, but critical appraisals are infeasible without first knowing what that reasoning is. In his speech, Ahmadinejad declares that Zionism is the West's apparatus of political oppression against Muslims. He says the Zionist regime was imposed on the Islamic world as a strategic bridgehead to ensure domination of the region and its assets. Palestine, he insists, is the frontline of the Islamic world's struggle with American hegemony, and its fate will have repercussions for the entire Middle East. Ahmadinejad acknowledges that the removal of America's powerful grip on the region via the Zionists may seem unimaginable to some, but reminds the audience that, as Khomeini predicted, other seemingly invincible empires have disappeared and now only exist in history books. He then proceeds to list three such regimes that have collapsed, crumbled or vanished, all within the last 30 years: (1) The Shah of Iran the U.S. installed monarch (2) The Soviet Union (3) Iran's former arch-enemy, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein In the first and third examples, Ahmadinejad prefaces their mention with Khomeini's own words foretelling that individual regime's demise. He concludes by referring to Khomeini's unfulfilled wish: The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time. This
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Neocon Elliot Abrams Behind Palestinians Killing Palestinians!
Elliot Abrams uncivil war Is the Bush administration violating the law in an effort to provoke a Palestinian civil war? Deputy National Security Advisor, Elliott Abrams who Newsweek recently described as the last neocon standing has had it about for some months now that the U.S. is not only not interested in dealing with Hamas, it is working to ensure its failure. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas elections, last January, Abrams greeted a group of Palestinian businessmen in his White House office with talk of a hard coup against the newly-elected Hamas government the violent overthrow of their leadership with arms supplied by the United States. While the businessmen were shocked, Abrams was adamant the U.S. had to support Fatah with guns, ammunition and training, so that they could fight Hamas for control of the Palestinian government. While those closest to him now concede the Abrams words were issued in a moment of frustration, the hard coup talk was hardly just talk. Over the last twelve months, the United States has supplied guns, ammunition and training to Palestinian Fatah activists to take on Hamas in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank. A large number of Fatah activists have been trained and graduated from two camps one in Ramallah and one in Jericho. The supplies of rifles and ammunition, which started as a mere trickle, has now become a torrent (Haaretz reports the U.S. has designated an astounding $86.4 million for Abu Mazens security detail), and while the program has gone largely without notice in the American press, it is openly talked about and commented on in the Arab media and in Israel. Thousands of rifles and bullets have been poring into Gaza and the West Bank from Egypt and Jordan, the administrations designated allies in the program. At first, it was thought, the resupply effort (initiated under the guise of assist[ing] the Palestinian Authority presidency in fulfilling PA commitments under the road map to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism and establish law and order in the West Bank and Gaza, according to a U.S. government document) would strengthen the security forces under the command of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Officials thought that the additional weapons would easily cow Hamas operatives, who would meekly surrender the offices they had only recently so dearly won. That has not only not happened, but the program is under attack throughout the Arab world particularly among Americas closest allies. While both Egypt and Jordan have shipped arms to Abu Mazen under the Abrams program (Egypt recently sent 1,900 rifles into Gaza and the West Bank, nearly matching the 3000 rifles sent by the Jordanians), neither Jordans King Abdullah nor Egypts Hosni Mubarak believe the program will work and both are now maneuvering to find a way out of it. Who can blame them? an administration official told us recently. While Mubarak has no love for Hamas, they do not want to be seen as bringing them down. The same can be said for Jordan. A Pentagon official was even more adamant, cataloguing official Washingtons nearly open disdain for Abrams program. This is not going to work and everyone knows it wont work. It is too clever. Were just not very good at this. This is typical Abrams stuff. This official went on to note that it is unlikely that either Jordan or Egypt will place their future in the hands of the White House. Who the hell outside of Washington wants to see a civil war among Palestinians? Do we really think that the Jordanians think thats a good idea. The minute it gets underway, Abdullah is finished. Hell, fifty percent of his country is Palestinian. Senior U.S. Army officers and high level civilian Pentagon officials have been the most outspoken internal administration critics of the program, which was unknown to them until mid-August, near the end of Israels war against Hezbollah. When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld learned about it he was enraged, and scheduled a meeting with President Bush in an attempt to convince him the program would backfire. Rumsfeld was concerned that the anti-Hamas program would radicalise Muslim groups among American allies and eventually endanger U.S. troops fighting Sunni extremists in Iraq. According to our reports, Rumsfeld was told by Bush that he should keep his focus on Iraq, and that the Palestinian brief was in the hands of the Secretary of State. After this confrontation, Rumsfeld decided there was not much he could do. The Abrams program was initially conceived in February of 2006 by a group of White House officials who wanted to shape a coherent and tough response to the Hamas electoral victory of January. These officials, we are told, were led by Abrams, but included national security advisors working in the Office of the Vice President, including prominent neo-conservatives David Wurmser and John
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Jewish Control of the Media!
NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them. Jewish Control of the Media George Bush has declared May Jewish Heritage month. So heres a little article about Jewish control of the mass media in the US. For decades in America prior to the rise of the Cable channels, three Jews William S. Paley, David Sarnoff and Leonard Goldenson ran the three major media networks. A few Gentiles have popped up in the media like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch. Turner was married to the Communist sympathizer Jane Fonda. Murdoch has been in bed with the neocon Jews. The Jews always seem to maneuver to take over the few Gentile movie or news agencies that arise. Walt Disney established a large movie making empire that produced wholesome entertainment for decades. The Jewish Michael Eisner came to control Disney and ruined the wholesome reputation. One source describes the early media masters As the founder of a major U.S. network, Leonard Goldenson is perhaps not as famous as David Sarnoff of NBC or William S. Paley of CBS. But he should be. Starting in 1951, over a thirty-year period, Goldenson created the modern ABC (American Broadcasting Company) television network. He did not have the advantage of an extraordinary talent pool, as CBS did from its radio contract. Yet Goldenson should be given credit as one of the modern corporate chieftains who shaped and led television in the United States into the network eraand beyond. Another source reports The largest media conglomerate today is AOL, which bought out Time Warner for $160 billion early in 2000. The merger brought together Steve Case, a Gentile, as Chairman of the new AOL, and Gerald Levin, a Jew, as the CEO. Although AOL isnt (yet) run entirely by Jews, the effect of this blend of leadership between a white capitalist whose biggest concern is money and a racially conscious Jew will be gradually to increase the Jewish influence within AOL. Steve Case wont complain when Gerald Levin begins hiring mostly Jews to fill key positions beneath him because Cases own profits wont be affected. After Case dies or retires, the Jews will have complete control at AOL. Before the merger, AOL was the largest Internet service provider in America, and it will now be used as an online platform for the Jewish content from Time Warner. Time Warner Inc, with 1997 revenues of more that $13 billion, was the second largest of the international media leviathans when it was bought by AOL. Levin, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, had bought Turner Broadcasting System in 1996 from Ted Turner, who had been one of the few Gentile entrepreneurs in the media business. Ted Turner, as the company president, is the number three man at the new AOL, after Case and Levin. A Russian intelligence officer uncovered a sophisticated plot for world domination over 100 years ago. The document was translated into English in 1905 and was called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Henry Ford believed this document to be genuine and said that it fit historical events. One passage from the Protocols talks about Jewish control of the media: THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . PROTOCOL No. 12 . 3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? WE CONTROL THE PRESS 4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Researcher: Israel Responsible for at least 97.8 Percent of Serious Human Rights Abuses in Conflict
Researcher: Israel Responsible for at least 97.8 Percent of Serious Human Rights Abuses in Conflict As Israel comes under increasing pressure over its policies against Palestinians, an independent Swedish researcher today releases an extensive analysis of the Middle Eastern conflict since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948. According to Dr. Anthony Löwstedt, the vast majority of grave violations of human rights falls under the responsibility of the Jewish state. In the third edition of his study, 'Apartheid: Ancient, Past, and Present', Löwstedt concludes that no less than 97.8 percent of gross human rights violations so far committed in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are sole responsibilities of the Israeli Jews, and 2.2 percent, at the most, are Palestinian crimes. Israel was accused of apartheid by John Dugard, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Special Envoy to the Occupied Palestinian Territories in February this year. In a report to the Council, Dugard recommended bringing the charge of apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law, against Israel to the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Previously, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and the former South African Anglican Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, had also raised accusations of apartheid against Israel. According to all four and many others, Israel is implementing the same system of oppression that Whites used against the indigenous black majority in South Africa until 1994. And just like Blacks committed a number of violent crimes against Whites and occasionally incited people to violence against South African Whites in the liberation struggle there, Palestinians have carried out similar crimes against Israeli Jews. However, the overwhelming majority of violent crimes as well as cases of incitement to violence are responsibilities of the privileged ethnicities in both countries, according to Löwstedt. Moreover, he points out seven kinds of systematic, racist crimes which he says are the sole responsibilities of the Israeli Jews and the South African Whites and of similar ethnic elites in other apartheid societies. These crimes include ethnically discriminatory repopulation, citizenship, land, work, access, education, and language policies and practices. Löwstedt has worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as in South Africa as an academic and for the UN. He currently teaches at Webster University in Vienna, Austria. Read the study: Apartheid Ancient, Past, and Present: Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine, Vienna: Gesellschaft für Phänomenologie und kritische Anthropologie, 2007, 3rd edition, http://www.dada.at/gems/gesellschaft/Apartheid.pdf Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Iran: U.K. Troops Admit to Illegal Entry
We were informed by Iraqi fishermen after they had returned from sea that
there were British gunboats in an area that is out of Iraqi control, Brig.
Gen. Hakim Jassim told AP Television News in the southern city of Basra.
We don't know why they were there, he said.
The news agency Fars said navigational equipment on the seized British boats
show that they (sailors) were aware that they were operating in Iranian waters
and Iranian border guards fulfilled their responsibility.
Iran: U.K. Troops Admit to Illegal EntryWith tensions running high, the
United States has bolstered its naval forces in the Persian Gulf in a show of
strength directed at Iran. U.S. officials have expressed concern that with so
much military hardware in the Gulf, a small incident like Friday's could
escalate into a dangerous confrontation.
In his comments on the sailors, Afshar added a warning that the United States
would not be able to control the consequences if it attacks Iran.
Commodore Nick Lambert, commander of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cornwall,
speaks aboard his ship Friday March 23, 2007in this image made from television.
Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors from HMS Cornwall, who had
boarded a merchant ship in Iraqi waters of the Persian Gulf as part of efforts
to protect the Iraqi coastline and its oil terminals, U.S. and British
officials Friday March 23, 2007. The British government summoned the Iranian
ambassador in London and demanded the immediate and safe return of our people
and equipment. The U.S. Navy, which operates off the Iraqi coast along with
British forces, said Iran's Revolutionary Guard naval forces were
responsible.(AP Photo/AP Television News) (AP)
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The United States and its allies know that if they make any mistake in their
calculations ... they will not be able to control the dimensions and limit the
duration of a war, Afshar said.
In June 2004, six British marines and two sailors were seized by Iran in the
same waterway. They were presented blindfolded on Iranian television and
admitted entering Iranian waters illegally, then released unharmed after three
days.
Earlier this week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, warned this
week that if Western countries treat us with threats and enforcement of
coercion and violence, undoubtedly they must know that the Iranian nation and
authorities will use all their capacities to strike enemies that attack.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini accused the British
of violating the sovereign boundaries of Iran, calling the entry a blatant
aggression.
He accused Britain of trying to cover up the incursion, saying it should
refrain from putting the blame on others.
The seizure of the Britons took place in an area where boundaries between
Iraqi and Iranian waters have long been disputed. A 1975 treaty set the center
of the Shatt al-Arab _ the 125-mile-long channel known in Iran as the Arvand
River _ as the border.
But Saddam Hussein canceled the 1975 treaty five years later and invaded
Iran, triggering an eight-year war. Virtually all of Iraq's oil is exported
through a terminal near the mouth of the channel.
Britain's Defense Ministry said the Royal Navy personnel were in Iraqi
territorial waters when they were seized. Cmdr. Kevin Aandahl of the U.S.
Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain also said it was very clear they were in Iraqi
waters.
We've been on operations there for several years, Aandahl said. He said
coalition vessels respect the 1975 treaty.
The sailors, from the frigate HMS Cornwall, are part of a task force that
maintains security in Iraqi waters under
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] About MEMRI - The media we MUST know about!
Selective Memri Brian Whitaker investigates whether the 'independent' media institute that translates the Arabic newspapers is quite what it seems Monday August 12, 2002 Guardian Unlimited For some time now, I have been receiving small gifts from a generous institute in the United States. The gifts are high-quality translations of articles from Arabic newspapers which the institute sends to me by email every few days, entirely free-of-charge. The emails also go to politicians and academics, as well as to lots of other journalists. The stories they contain are usually interesting. Whenever I get an email from the institute, several of my Guardian colleagues receive one too and regularly forward their copies to me - sometimes with a note suggesting that I might like to check out the story and write about it. If the note happens to come from a more senior colleague, I'm left feeling that I really ought to write about it. One example last week was a couple of paragraphs translated by the institute, in which a former doctor in the Iraqi army claimed that Saddam Hussein had personally given orders to amputate the ears of military deserters.Article continues - - The organisation that makes these translations and sends them out is the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), based in Washington but with recently-opened offices in London, Berlin and Jerusalem. Its work is subsidised by US taxpayers because as an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organisation, it has tax-deductible status under American law. Memri's purpose, according to its website, is to bridge the language gap between the west - where few speak Arabic - and the Middle East, by providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media. Despite these high-minded statements, several things make me uneasy whenever I'm asked to look at a story circulated by Memri. First of all, it's a rather mysterious organisation. Its website does not give the names of any people to contact, not even an office address. The reason for this secrecy, according to a former employee, is that they don't want suicide bombers walking through the door on Monday morning (Washington Times, June 20). This strikes me as a somewhat over-the-top precaution for an institute that simply wants to break down east-west language barriers. The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel. I am not alone in this unease. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the Washington Times: Memri's intent is to find the worst possible quotes from the Muslim world and disseminate them as widely as possible. Memri might, of course, argue that it is seeking to encourage moderation by highlighting the blatant examples of intolerance and extremism. But if so, one would expect it - for the sake of non-partisanship - t o publicise extremist articles in the Hebrew media too. Although Memri claims that it does provide translations from Hebrew media, I can't recall receiving any. Evidence from Memri's website also casts doubt on its non-partisan status. Besides supporting liberal democracy, civil society, and the free market, the institute also emphasises the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel. That is what its website used to say, but the words about Zionism have now been deleted. The original page, however, can still be found in internet archives. The reason for Memri's air of secrecy becomes clearer when we look at the people behind it. The co-founder and president of Memri, and the registered owner of its website, is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon. Mr - or rather, Colonel - Carmon spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin. Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence. Among the other three, one served in the Israeli army's Northern Command Ordnance Corps, one has an academic background, and the sixth is a former stand-up comedian. Col Carmon's co-founder at Memri is Meyrav Wurmser, who is also director of the centre for Middle East policy at the Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute, which bills itself as America's premier source of applied research on enduring policy challenges. The ubiquitous Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon's defence policy board, recently
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: German Judge rules Koran allows wife Abuse
Quote: - But the female judge, who has not been named, made clear in a letter that the wife's bid had little chance of approval because, according to her, Islamic law allowed a man to strike his wife. - This is stated but no evidence from quotes of the Qur'an or Hadiths are provided to substantiate the false claim that Islamic law allows wife beating. How can Islamic law -- which is based on Quran and the authentic example of the Prophet (saaw) -- allows wife beating when the Prophet's specific words and example was the following: The example of the Holy Prophet (saws) is clear. When approached by a man about how he should treat his wife, the Prophet (saws) told him to feed her as you would feed yourself, provide for her clothes as you would for yourself, do not beat her and do not revile her. Remarking upon those men who beat their wives, he said they are not good Muslims. He said that the best men are those who treat their wives well. The Judge ruling in this case in Germany is going on propaganda myths without any real reference to anything in Islam to justify her claims. If she were to rule on Islamic law why not rule on the numerous examples from Qur'an and Hadiths which strongly condemn wife beating as in the following: 1. From the Quran: Quote: - 30.021. And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are Signs for those who reflect. This shows that love and mercy to achieve a state of tranquility for husband and wife is what G-d intended for husband and wife NOT a whip. 4.001. O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;- reverence God, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for God ever watches over you. 49.013. O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). Both verses above show that male and female are twin halves of each other created from a single soul. Our essence is the same and we are incomplete until we become one with our other half. We are to reverence the wombs that bore us which is an open endorsement by the Quran on how we should regard our women. Hurting them would be the same as hurting ourselves. Talking about separation/divorce, But do not take them back to hurt them, and whoever does that then he has wronged himself. (2:231) and you should not treat them with harshness (4:19) Treating our women with harshness or a way to cause hurt is forbidden in the Quran. But love, mercy and reverence is highly endorsed. - 2. From the Hadiths: Quote: - Narrated Mu'awiyah al-Qushayri: I went to the Messenger of Allah (saws) and asked him: What do you say about our wives? He replied: Give them food that you have for yourself, and clothe them by which you clothe yourself, and do not beat them, and do not revile them. (Sunan Abu Daawood 11:2139) Narrated Mu'awiyah ibn Haydah: I said: Messenger of Allaah, how should we approach our wives and how should we leave them? He replied: Approach your tilth when or how you will, give her food when you take food, clothe her when you clothe yourself, do not revile her face, and do not beat her. (Sunan Abu Daawood 11:2138) Narrated Abu Hurairah (ra): The Prophet (saws) said: The most perfect Muslim in the matter of faith is one who has excellent behaviour; and the best among you are those who behave best towards their wives. (reported in Jami At-Tirmidhee and widely accepted) The Prophet (saws) said: The most perfect believers are the best in conduct and the best of you are those who are best to their wives. (Ibn Hanbal, Hadeeth No. 7396) The Prophet (saws) said: The best of you is one who is best towards his family and I am best towards the family. (reported in Jami At-Tirmidhee and widely accepted). It was reported to the Prophet (saws) that some of his Companions beat their wives, whereupon he said, 'Certainly those are not the best among you. (as reported by Ahmad, Abu Daoud, and al-Nisai. Ibn Hibban and Al-Hakim classify it as sound, as narrated by Iyas ibn 'Abdullah ibn Abu Dhiab). Right before his death, at his final sermon to Muslims, the Prophet (saaw) addressed issues that were of the most vital importance to Muslims. In doing so he addressed the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] A Brief History of Hadiths!
Quote: - Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, there is no doubt that, there will be Hadiths coming after me, claiming that I have said things. So you MUST test those Hadiths from the QURAN. If it is really according to the QURAN only then accept it, otherwise reject it.[ (Sanan Dar Qatni, Vol-2, Book Imrani Abee Musa, Matba Farooqi 513) - The Quran is number one. All else is of secondary status and if anything disagrees with the Quran it is to be rejected. Lets do a brief history of Hadiths. In order to analyze the Hadiths we also need to see Islamic History with open eyes. I hope this will help those who may not be familiar. Prophet Muhammad (saaw) was born in the year 570 AD. Prophet Muhammad (saaw) received the first revelation from Gd and entered prophethood in the year 610 AD. The Prophet (saaw) passed away in in the year 632 AD. The Hadiths were first compiled around 250 years after the death of the Prophet (saaw), which is around year 900 AD. Compare this to the Quran which was partly compiled during the Prophets life and immediately after. The Prophet (saaw) himself dictated the sequence of the chapters in the Quran. Was it possible that Jews, hypocrites and other enemies of Islam united together and tried to include fabricated Hadiths, to mislead the Muslim community? Yes of course. Even during the life of the Prophet (saaw) the enemies of Islam demanded to change verses of Quran, which the Prophet (saaw) answered that he didnt have any authority to do. The proof that an attempt had been made by the enemies of Islam with introduction of false Hadiths is the fact that out of seventeen books of Hadiths only seven were accepted by our religious scholars. More than 60% were rejected as being fabricated and misleading. Is it possible that still in the seven accepted books of Hadiths there might have been fabricated Hadiths? Yes, and many have been. In fact many Hadiths, were rejected for contradicting the Quran. Did all Muslims know the difference between authentic Hadiths and fabricated ones? NO! Because of poor communication, knowledge was not getting transferred as quickly as now. Many of these fabricated Hadiths still exist and they are a haven for Jews and other enemies of Islam for demonization. This is where the demonizers of Islam get their weak and fabricated Hadiths from. Also many Muslims still follow these Hadiths out of ignorance. Muslims were getting successes before the year 900 AD. After the year 900 AD, Muslims started a down fall BUT it took several hundred years just to feel the downfall, since the Muslim community were still succeeding. Many serious students of Islam believe that leaving the Quran behind and taking the Hadiths as number one, caused the Muslim community to fail more. This was also predicted by the Prophet (saaw) about his community. After the year 1500 AD, it seems that Muslims went beyond the limit and started taking the Scholars as number one, the Hadiths as number two and the Quran they left behind. As history revealed, after that Muslims started losing all over the world. The Prophet Muhammad (saaw) already warned his people that there will be Hadiths coming after him and for us to accept them if they are according to Quran, other wise reject them. So we need to test every Hadith, dont reject all blindly and dont accept all Blindly as well, BUT do research and if it is according to the Quran, only then accept it. The Quran is the main source and guidance to all human beings. Allah promised that he will protect the Quran but he did not promise that he will protect Hadiths. Still there are numerous authentic Hadiths that are clearly in line with the Quran. The Prophet (saaw) said that he leaves behind two things for Muslim to follow. The Quran and his Sunnah. By his Sunnah the Prophet (saaw) was referring to the authentic reports of what he did and say. He never left behind fabricated hadiths. That was introduced later. The enemies of Islam know that they cannot come at Muslims through the Quran but they can do it through the Hadiths. That is why there is such a mess amongst unenlightened Muslims in the world and fantastic encouragement by Jews, colonialists and enemies of Islam to perpetuate false Hadiths. Weak Hadiths agreeing with FGM, unreliable and misunderstood Hadiths dealing with apostasy and other corruptions crept into the religion. None of which has any justification in the Quran. Any sincere Muslim will offer the Quran as the main source of study for anyone wanting to learn Islam. It is uncorrupted and supersedes all other authorities in Islam. As a result of sincere intense study of Quran many Hadiths, practices and customs that are un-Islamic are being discovered and rooted out. Muslims are reclaiming their religion from those who hijacked it with faulty understandings
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] KSM Confessed To Attacking Bank Founded After His Arrest!
infowars.com KSM Confessed To Attacking Bank Founded After His Arrest Fallacy of testimony exposed as story blows up in Pentagon's face Prison Planet | March 16, 2007 Paul Joseph Watson Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's alleged confession testimony has been thoroughly discredited after it emerged that one of the targets he identified, the Plaza Bank, was not founded until 2006, four years after the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind's arrest. In his confession, KSM claims, I was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing for the New (or Second) Wave of attacks against the following skyscrapers after 9/11: ...Plaza Bank, Washington state. KSM was arrested in March 2003. According to the Plaza Bank's website , the organization was founded in early 2006, making it impossible for KSM to have even known of the bank's existence before 2003, never mind plotted against it. Skepticism about the legitimacy of KSM's confession has gushed forth from all quarters, leaving the credibility of the Pentagon and the process of military tribunals in ruins and provoking additional questions about why the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind admitted to involvement in such a vast range of plots. After media commentators across the spectrum, from Time Magazine to Matt Lauer and even Rosie O'Donnell were openly cynical of the accuracy of KSM's testimony, officials speaking on condition of anonymity admitted that the claims were exaggerated, but still insist KSM's responsibility for 9/11, from A to Z is genuine. Former CIA field officer Robert Baer also expressed his doubts , questioning What the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession. On the face of it, KSM, as he is known inside the government, comes across as boasting, at times mentally unstable. It's also clear he is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated, writes Baer. The facet of the Pearl murder and why the establishment would want to shut the lid on the whole affair by pinning the blame on KSM is interesting in the context that in September 2006, Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf fingered Omar Sheikh as Pearl's assassin, adding that he was an MI6 agent working for British Intelligence . In the transcript of his alleged confession, KSM cryptically discusses CIA and Mossad involvement in the Pearl execution but the text is heavily redacted. KSM's claim that he ran the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is also highly suspect because it also conveniently sweeps under the carpet the fact that it was the FBI who provided the terror cell with the bomb materials through their informant and ordered the bombing to go ahead. In addition, KSM was a known CIA asset in the eighties and was used as a go between during the CIA-funded Afghan jihad against the occupying Soviets. It is well established that before his mysterious arrest as the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 plot, Mohammed was granted a visa to enter the US just six weeks before the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York. Other questions that have arisen concerning the testimony revolve around KSM's Americanized use of the English language, including the term A to Z, which many see as a form of slang that benefits tabloid headlines more than it does the vernacular of radical Muslim extremists. A CNN online poll shows that a massive 74% disbelieve all of the claims made by KSM and BBC respondents were equally cynical. Think Progress makes the point that KSM's comments on torture and any potential reference to the fact that he was tortured himself are redacted in the transcript. The upshot of all this is that the much vaunted KSM confession, which seems to have been intentionally inflated so the book could be closed on a number of nebulous plots cited by the Bush administration as justification for its policies, has blown up in the establishment's face and only succeeded in detracting credibility from the government's official 9/11 story and the mythical war on terror. - ratcat writes: The confessions and the tapes are propaganda - no credible sources. Torture is not an acceptable or credible method of obtaining facts. This used to recognized (pre-Bush) by the courts. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Debunking the Suicide for 72 Virgins Myth!
Debunking the Suicide for 72 Virgins Myth! One of the biggest Israeli propaganda myths is the invention of 72 virgins as a Muslim reward for suicide. This has been repeated to the western world so often that most people accept it as fact. The media wants us to believe that there cannot be anything wrong about Israelis who must be seen as eternal victims to cause anyone to commit suicide as a means of striking back at them. Heavens no! The motivation for suicide bombings in Israel has nothing to do with Jewish treatment of Palestinians. Instead it has to do with the evilness of the Palestinians and their religious beliefs. This is the bill of goods they sell the western mind while at the same time faking most, if not all the Islamic suicide bombings to blame on Muslims. It is a sick and despicable mind that feels that it has a right to attack, steal, murder and cause harm to others but if the others dare fight back they are wrong and therefore terrorists. This one sentence describes Israeli thinking and their policies. They believe they are superior and entitled and they have a right to do anything to other people and those people better not retaliate. As a result they have done more by way of propaganda to take the legitimate fight of those who are against their wrongs and demonize them. We now have this ongoing enormous propaganda campaign to make Palestinians and anyone belonging to the same religion as Palestinians, to be seen as mindless terrorists and suicide bombers with no cause other than to do evil. And, of course, vicariously receiving 72 virgins as a reward in paradise for committing suicide to kill a few Israelis. The Quran and valid authentic Hadiths are very clear about what happens to anyone who commits suicide. According to Hadiths: Quote: - Committing Suicide is a Major Sin: Bukhari Volume 2, Book 23, Number 445: Narrated Jundab the Prophet said, A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him. Bukhari Volume 8, Book 73, Number 73: Narrated Thabit bin Ad-Dahhak: And if somebody commits suicide with anything in this world, he will be tortured with that very thing on the Day of Resurrection. - There are many more Hadiths condemning suicide but I would also like to reference the Quran. Amongst the many verses against suicide here is one that makes it very clear that the taking of ones life is strongly prohibited and that there is no reward for anyone who does that. Quote: - But let there be amongst you Traffic and trade by mutual good-will: Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves: for verily God hath been to you Most Merciful! If any do that in rancour and injustice,- soon shall We cast them into the Fire: And easy it is for God. Quran 4:29 - 4:30 - So where did the reward of 72 virgins in paradise for suicide come from? Are there any Islamic teachings we can point to endorsing that? When we look at the highest authority in Islam, the Quran, we find nothing in it endorsing rewards for suicide. Instead we find the strongest condemnation with severe punishments for those who commit suicide. When we look at Hadiths, which after the Quran is second in authority in Islam, we find nothing in the authentic Bukhari and Muslim Hadiths endorsing suicide. Instead we find strong condemnation for it. Searching what Muslims refer to as Gharib Hadiths (weak or strange Hadiths) we do find something about 72 wives but not virgins. The Hadith we find is the following: Quote: - Sunan al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2562 says: The Prophet Muhammad was heard saying: The smallest reward for the people of Paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen] - This is as a weak Hadith that has no Sanad -- line or sequence of narration. Although listed in an authoritative collection, this particular Hadith has technical weaknesses in its chain of transmitters and is therefore not considered impeccable. As a result, Muslims are not required to believe in it. Even if the Hadith was true, there is nothing about it that says that if someone commits suicide they would get 72 virgins in paradise. Muslims know that the description of paradise or heaven in Hadiths and Quran is allegorical. If not, then Allah would have allowed us to take our bodies with us when we die. But the vehicle by which we could enjoy the physical things (especially 72 virgins ) mentioned as being in heaven, is left behind here in this world to rot and decay away. So we know for
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Obama says all the right things on Israel!
Regardless of skin color, background, etc. they are all sell outs to Israel groveling at Jewish feet and endorsing murder of Muslims. Obama like the other sellouts should never get any of our support. Muslims should be the last ones supporting someone calling for the murder of other Muslims and groveling to our enemies feet. Ynet News / Jerusalem Newswire Obama says all the right things on Israel! In a speech to American Jewish backers of Israel on Friday, US presidential hopeful Barack Obama said all the things he knew his audience would want to hear. Among the sound bites that were certain to warm Jewish hearts were: No option, including military action, (should be taken) off the table as the world works to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. We must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance in order to help Israel maintain its military edge and deter and repel attacks from as far as Tehran and as close as Gaza. When Israel is attacked, we must stand up for Israel's legitimate right to defend itself. We should never seek to dictate what is best for the Israelis and their security interests. No Israeli prime minister should ever feel dragged to or blocked from the negotiating table by the United States. Similar declarations were made by both presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush prior to their elections. Once in office, both men allowed US national interests to trump those commitments to Israel. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Sex Slavery- The growing trade in Israel!
Quote: - Up to - 20,000 trafficked women in Israel and more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv ... - What a Country! What behavior for God's Chosen Ones! - By Julie Lesser - Tribune Correspondent MONTREAL - Calling human trafficking one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time, Canadian journalist and social activist Victor Malarek addressed the Jewish community at a Montreal synagogue last Thursday. Promoting a book he has written on the subject, Malarek said destitute Third World and Eastern European females as young as 12 are tricked into leaving their homelands with promises of wealth and prosperity in the West, as well as Israel. Instead, they are sold into the sex trade by organized crime, gangs, pimps and brothel owners. Newspaper ads from modelling and employment agencies promise exciting jobs, but the women are duped, Malarek told the Jewish Tribune. They must submit, or they are raped, beaten and tortured. There are between 5,000 and 10,000 trafficked women in Israel and more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv alone. It is a human rights issue the Jewish community knows about. They have a voice and they must use it. The United Nations has cited human trafficking as an international crime generating more than US $12 billion worldwide. More than 800,000 people are trafficked annually, forced into prostitution and threatened with death should they attempt to escape the clutches of their captors. Canada is both a means of access to the United States, as well as a final destination for approximately 2,000 women each year. Governments should be held accountable, said Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, who also addressed the crowd. It is a very serious problem in Israel, and Canada has been inadequate in the protection of victims of trafficking. It is a global slave trade. As the previous federal justice minister, Cotler aided in the implementation of several bills addressing the protection of vulnerable individuals, yet he openly admitted there have never been any prosecutions made for human trafficking. He focused on raising the public's awareness of trafficking as a method to prevent what he called the fastest rising criminal industry in the world today. Responding to an audience member's question, he said the problem of mistakenly granting Canadian visas to people who should not obtain them is an issue for the immigration department. As customers' demands for slave trade workers who do not have HIV or AIDS increases, the age of victims proportionally decreases. UNICEF has determined that approximately 1.7 billion children are victimized annually. Ironically, Malarek didn't realize the gravity of the situation until he personally witnessed how many young girls were trafficked into Kosovo to service troops sent by the United Nations. There is both national and international indifference, said Malarek. The public looks at the victims with apathy or scorn and foreign women are not the priority of most governments. Governments are complacent because the sex industry brings in money. Cotler noted that governments must work together in prosecuting oppressors while protecting their victims. He said the RCMP is part of an international trafficking unit that reflects cooperation among a number of governments. Human trafficking should be a priority on international policy-making agendas, he added, and complimented the United States on taking the lead in exercising what he called moral leadership. Most people don't know how big this problem is, said Larry Sakow, who attended the public event. As a Jew, I am upset about the trafficking in Israel. It is surprising that Jews have gotten into it and are making money. Victor Malarek's book, The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade, is currently available. Sex Slavery - The Growing Trade in Israel Sex slavery: The growing trade in Israel, thousands of Eastern European and Russian girls lured to TelAviv and enslaved into prostitution Commercial for attracting people to Israel: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vblux0g4ouE Up to - 20,000 trafficked women in Israel and more than 280 brothels in Tel Aviv ... As customers - demands for slave trade workers who do not have HIV or AIDS ... Similar pages http://www.israelnewsagency.com/sexisrael69690531.html Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life. (Leviticus 25:44-46) There are an estimated 20,000 female sex slaves forced into prostitution in Tel-Aviv each year. According to a report released in 2005 by the Knesset Subcommittee on Trafficking in Women,
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] If the Cluster Bombs Don't Nail Them ...
CounterPunch If the Cluster Bombs Don't Nail Them ... Come to think of it, wasn't it just a matter of time before the Bush administration would get around to declaring the Lebanese registered construction company, Jihad al-Bina, yet another terrorist organization? It finally did put Jihad al-Bina on the list this week. Still smarting from Israel's defeat in the July war, the White House and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as well as their friends in the US Congress have been busy tightening the screws on Iran and the Lebanese Resistance. The Lebanese Resistance is led by Hezbollah which Iran, along with virtually the whole of the Middle East, admires for its military achievements in defending Lebanon against Israel, and perhaps equally, for its social, educational, health, housing and infrastructure achievements. This latter fact alone is a big problem for AIPAC. With an annual budget of $55 million dollars, a paid membership of more than 125,000 and a full time paid staff of 122, with 12 satellite offices around the US, AIPAC is not happy these days. It is not enough for AIPAC that the recent Congressional elections, which increased the number of Zionist Jews in Congress from 26 to 31, is the largest pro-Israel contingent elected to Congress in American history. No, AIPAC is not satisfied. Nor is AIPAC comforted by the fact that 7 of the 11 key subcommittees in Congress, on just the House side, dealing with the Middle East, Intelligence and Appropriations are now securely under Israel's control. AIPAC wants more. Having failed in its recent 'hot' war in Lebanon, Israel has unleashed its agents in Congress to destroy Hezbollah with 'cold' war tactics including attacking its social institutions. The US Israel lobby has been after Jihad al-Bina for years but the organization became a prime target following the August 14, ceasefire. A quick glance at Jihad al-Binna makes clear why it was slated for the ever expanding Bush administration terrorism list. * Established by Hezbollah, and licensed by the Lebanese government in 1988 Jihad al-Bina quickly evolved into one of the most effective and prominent nongovernmental organizations of Lebanon's civil society. * Its primary objective is to alleviate the hardships that the disadvantaged population and deprived families face. * Between 1988-2002 Jihad al-Bina completed nearly 11,000 projects involving the construction and rehabilitation of schools, homes, shops, hospitals infirmaries, Mosques, Churches, Cultural Centers and Agricultural Cooperatives. According to the annual report of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Jihad al-Bina is by far one of the best-equipped organizations engaged in reconstruction. * In addition, Jihad al-Bina has been the major source of the provision of potable water and electricity in areas bombed by Israel. * In the last 14 years it has built 400 reservoirs of potable water for 900,000 Lebanese citizens of Beirut's southern suburbs, satisfying nearly 50% of the areas needs. It has also dug more than 75 artesian wells, divided evenly between the Bekaa Valley, South Lebanon and Beirut. * Jihad al-Bina's electricity department has manufactured and installed more than 20 large power generators n South Lebanon and the Bekaa. * Its achievements in agricultural and rural development are as impressive as in the field of engineering. It provides technical assistance to farmers in land reclamation and cultivation, opening agricultural roads and building irrigation networks. * Jihad Al-Bina also helps farmers with credit to improve their farms. * Since the August 14 ceasefire, Jihad al-Bina has already cleared much of the rubble caused by Israel's bombing and is well into a major rebuilding of private homes in the Bekaa, Beirut and South Lebanon, where thousands of structures are being rebuilt. Many American news reports have commented on the efficiency with which the Lebanese reconstruction began and refugees were resettled, in contrast to the continuing debacle in post-Katrina New Orleans. In Congress jokes were heard to the effect that the Bush Administration should immediately contract with Hassan Nasrallah to provide for Hezbollah to come over to the US and rebuild New Orleans. AIPAC and the White House were not amused. Nor was US Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman, a fan of Jihad al-Bina or Hassan Nassrallah. Feltman's colleague, Stuart Levey, the US undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in the Treasury Department, said in a statement on February 20, 2006 that Hezbollah uses the firm for its own needs as well as to attract popular support through the provision of civilian construction services. Without question, an 'A class' terrorism offense. A blatant crime, according to Levey and the Bush administration, perpetrated by Jihad al-Bina against the thousands of Lebanese
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Experts Prove the Bin Laden Videos to be Fake and a Deliberate Hoax!
Quote: - Professor Gernot Rotter, scholar of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg: Regardless of the question if bin Laden personally was actively involved in the organization of the attacks or not: This tape is of such poor quality that many passages are unintelligible. And those that are intelligible have often been taken out of context, so that you can't use that as evidence. The American translators who listened to the tape and transcribed it obviously added things that they wanted to hear in many places. Things that can't be heard - never mind how often you listen to it. Guilty or not guilty? If the US government wants to find bin Laden guilty of the deed, they have to come up with better evidence. http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/2001/monitor122001.html - Top U.S. Bin Laden Expert: Confession Video Bogus by Kevin Barrett, http://mujca.com/ Was Osama Bin Laden responsible for 9/11? The Bush Administration says yes, citing a grainy, badly-edited videotape that surfaced in December, 2001. In that tape, a fat guy who vaguely resembles Bin Laden chortles about the success of the 9/11 attacks. (In earlier interviews, Bin Laden had denied responsibility for 9/11, once even deploring the loss of civilian life in the attacks and calling them un-Islamic.) Is the famous confession video genuine? Despite Bush's insistence that the tape is authentic, America's top academic Bin Laden expert has finally gone on the record, joining numerous other experts. It's bogus, says Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's Religious Studies program. Lawrence, author of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, offered his historic debunking of the administration' s lie in an interview with Kevin Barrett ( Dynamic Duo, gcnlive.com, 2/16/2007, first hour). The interview marked Lawrence's first major public statement since he made headlines last year by suggesting that recent Osama tapes are hoaxes and that the real Osama Bin Laden may be dead. http://mujca. com/hoax. htm Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Rice�s Middle East visit: Bullying and intimidation dressed up as diplomacy!
When will the Palestinians learn that the US is not a sincere broker and that any negotiations done with them will be one sided in favor of everything Israel wants? http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/rice-f22.shtml Rices Middle East visit: Bullying and intimidation dressed up as diplomacy By Jean Shaoul 22 February 2007 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rices much trumpeted meeting on Monday, February 19 with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas was a calculated public humiliation of the Palestinian president. Far from being a new diplomatic initiative designed to bring about a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Rice used the occasion to dictate Washington and Jerusalems terms for any future Palestinian government. Following separate talks with Olmert and Abbas, the three met, without aides other than Rices Arabic translator, in a West Jerusalem hotel before adjourning to Rices suite. Rice told the Palestinians in no uncertain terms that Abbass proposals for a new Palestinian government did not meet with her approval, the concessions offered by Hamas were totally inadequate and until the Hamas government completely renounced its programme, no Palestinian state was on offer. She made clear that the only terms acceptable to the Bush administration were the total suppression of all opposition to Israels plans for a Greater Israel, based on the permanent retention of its settlements in the West Bank. The talks lasted a mere two hours and ended with a terse 90-second statement from Rice. Abbas confirmed his position as a US puppet by dutifully lining up alongside Olmert to endorse her remarks. Rice said that the three had discussed the changed political circumstances arising from the proposal for a Hamas-Fatah government; the meeting had been useful and productive, and she would be back in Jerusalem soon. She left without taking any questions from reporters and there were no announcements from either the Israeli or Palestinian leaders. A Hamas spokesman set the record straight. Ismail Radwan said the meeting was a failure and that its purpose was to put pressure on Abbas to pull out of the proposed National Unity government and take on Hamas. Rice did not succeed in pressuring President Abbas to withdraw from the unity government. We call on the US administration to respect the Palestinian peoples will and recognise the [Hamas-led] government and open a dialogue, he said. The meeting took place against the backdrop of an agreement brokered by Saudi King Abdullah in Mecca between Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, and Fatah led by President Mahmoud Abbas, that were on the point of outright civil war, to form a National Unity government. The electoral victory of Hamas in January 2006 had led, on the insistence of the US and Israel, to an economic boycott and isolation of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Quartet, the US, European Union, Russia and the United Nations, cut off all direct aid to the PA, bringing the Palestinian economy to a halt and its people to the brink of starvation, while Israel illegally withheld the tax and customs it collects on behalf of the PA. Israels demands on Abbas to suppress all Palestinian resistance to its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories and its all-out war on Gaza last summer only served to increase the tensions between the rival parties. The Mecca agreement, which Abbas announced on February 9 after two days of talks, was widely welcomed within Palestine. It follows his failed attempt to mount a political coup at Washingtons behest last December, when he said he would dissolve the Hamas government and call new presidential and parliamentary elections. That unconstitutional move threatened a civil war and was unlikely to lead to an election victory for Fatah. While this latest arrangement is a reflection of Abbass unwillingness to take on Hamas with either guns or at the polls, it achieves the same ends: the unseating of an elected government. The Hamas government has now resigned and Haniyeh has five weeks to form a new National Unity government, which he will head, as set out under the agreement. The aim is to end the factional fighting between the two parties, terminate any militant resistance to Israel and secure the international recognition that will restore economic aid to the PA. The Saudi Kingdom has pledged $1 billion to counter Iranian and Shiite influence and restore its own position in the region. Hamas will cede six cabinet posts to Fatah and four to so-called independents, including the most powerful portfolios and the only ones with any real power: interior, finance and foreign relations. It made major concessions to Fatah and Israels key demands: the acceptance of Israels right to exist, the renunciation of violence, the acceptance of
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] A Question About Suicide In Islam!
A Question About Suicide In Islam Quote: - Would appreciate your take on the following: I have a trusted friend who is less favorably disposed toward Islam/Muslims than I, but he also does not have a good opinion of Israel. He has had occasion to interview a number of teenaged American Muslims, the vast majority of whom say they would willingly become suicide bombers in Israel, but nowhere else. When he presses them (suggesting optional targets) they say they would first choose Israeli military or government targets, but if those were not accessible, would target civilians. Granted, these are teenagers, but...? - LSJohn thanks for bringing the question to our attention and seeking answers from Muslims. This is a lot better attitude to take than the know-it-alls who seem to know Muslims and their religion better than Muslims themselves. I wish the world would follow your example. Most American Muslim teenagers that I know are not really knowledgeable about the Palestinian Israeli situation. This is especially true in the US with some of them, just by lazy osmosis, having bought into the media spin hook, line and sinker. I am not accusing your friend of lying but I find the responses he claimed to have gotten very difficult to believe. The response is flawed from a Muslim perspective and is very far from Muslim thinking. The numerous statements in the Quran against injustice and the example of the Prophet on numerous occasions where he admonished his followers about taking the lives of innocents and even destroying heedlessly plants and animals are too prevalent in Muslim learning for the idea of killing civilians to be even casually accepted. An example of how the Prophet (saaw) dealt with his enemies can shed light on the correct Muslim attitude. There was an incident during one of the battles where children of the enemy were killed by mistake. The Prophet (saaw) was observed with tears in his eyes, in pain because of the killing of innocent children, and also for the death of all the combatants. Some of his followers tried to sooth the Prophet by saying, They were only the children of Kafirs The Prophet (saaw) turned to the one who spoke, and he was visibly angry, and said, Aren't you the child of a Kafir too? For suicide to even be considered against military or even civilian positions as a way of fighting from American Muslim teenagers is really a stretch. Without going into too many details the prohibition in Islam against suicide is very strong. But to read and listen to this worlds media broadcast about Islam, we would never know that. We are led to believe that a religion, whose holy book, the Quran, commands the following regarding suicide, is the fertile ground for the most suicides in the world: Quote: - But let there be amongst you Traffic and trade by mutual good-will: Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves: for verily God hath been to you Most Merciful! If any do that in rancour and injustice,- soon shall We cast them into the Fire: And easy it is for God. Quran 4:29 - 4:30 - The references above in chapter 4 and other places in the Quran, commands Muslims to not kill themselves and warns of severe punishments. Suicide is strictly forbidden along with the killing of innocents in Islam. G-d is the author of life and it is only He who could take life or tell human beings what conditions a life should be taken under as in punishment for murder, etc. As human beings we don't own our lives, G-d does! As such we don't have the authority to take it. Suicide is disrespecting G-d and being ungrateful for the life he has given us. Also from the Hadiths: Quote: - The Prophet said, The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. - If knowledge shared by a scholar is considered greater and closer to G-d than a person dying in war for a just cause, how much further down the scale in value is suicide in Islam, especially when it is condemned by the highest authority in our religion? If suicide was permitted there would be many examples of the Prophet (saaw) encouraging it and Muslim history would have been replenished with suicide as a technique in war. But there is no such history and no such encouragement even throughout the centuries in the Abyssinian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Muslim Spain, Persia, the well documented Crusades, etc. It seems that while strongly condemning suicide, somehow Islam is the best promoter of it. All of a sudden we have disobedient Muslims hatching like crazy all over Iraq and Palestine. Oddly, they did not become so disobedient until they came in contact with Israelis. I guess there must have been something about Jews that caused Muslims to employ
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski�s warnings of war against Iran?
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_23895.shtml Why is the US press silent on Brzezinskis warnings of war against Iran? By Barry Grey in Washington DC Feb 3, 2007, 04:52 The major national newspapers and most broadcast outlets failed even to report Thursdays stunning testimony by former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, is among the most prominent figures within the US foreign policy establishment. He delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the policy of the Bush administration was leading inevitably to a military confrontation with Iran which would have disastrous consequences for US imperialism. Most significant and disturbing was Brzezinskis suggestion that the Bush administration might manufacture a pretext to justify a military attack on Iran. Presenting what he called a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iraq, Brzezinski laid out the following series of events: Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in, quote/unquote, defensive US military action against Iran... [Emphasis added]. Thus Brzezinski opined that a US military attack on Iran would be an aggressive action, presented as though it were a defensive response to alleged Iranian provocations, and came close to suggesting, without explicitly stating as much, that the White House was capable of manufacturing or allowing a terrorist attack within the US to provide a casus belli for war. It is self-evident that such testimony at an open congressional hearing from someone with decades of experience in the US foreign policy establishment and the closest ties to the military and intelligence apparatus is not only newsworthy, but of the most immense and grave import. Any objective and conscientious newspaper or news channel would consider it an obligation to inform the public of such a development. Yet neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post carried so much as a news brief on Brzezinskis testimony in their Friday editions. Nor did USA Today or the Wall Street Journal. All of these publications, of course, have well-staffed Washington bureaus and regularly cover congressional hearingsespecially those dealing with such burning political questions as the war in Iraq. There is no innocent explanation for their decision to suppress this story. The Washington Post on Thursday published a large page-two column and photo on Henry Kissingers appearance the previous day before the same Senate committee. The former secretary of state under Richard Nixon gave testimony that was generally supportive of the Bush administrations war policy. Moreover, the Posts web edition carried an Associated Press report on Brzezinskis appearance. That article introduced subtle but significant changes to Brzezinskis speculative scenario of the road to war with Iran which had the effect of underplaying the sharpness and urgency of Brzezinskis critique of the Bush administration. It omitted the suggestion that a terrorist attack within the US could become the justification for war, and it removed the quotation marks from Brzezinskis talk of a defensive war against Iran. The World Socialist Web Site on Friday telephoned the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today to ask for an explanation for their failure to report Brzezinskis testimony. None of the newspapers returned our calls. As for the television news outlets, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS showed a clip of Brzezinski laying out his war scenario before the Senate committee, without making any comment. NBC Nightly News ignored the story entirely. The suppression of this damning critique of the Iraq war, the conspiratorial methods of the Bush administration, and its drive to an even wider war in the Middle East is one more demonstration of the corrupt and reactionary character of the American mass media. It indicates that the establishment media is preparing once again, as in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, to serve as a sounding board for the administrations war propaganda and lies. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/brze-f03.shtml Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Powell, Rice and Obama, Putting Black Faces on Imperial Agression!
The Black Israelis each pushing their Massa's agenda. Too eager to please Massa Sharon and their other Jewish bosses. Can't wait to bomb Iran to prove to their Massa how loyal they are and happy to spread death and misery to those backward Moslems! They have sold themselves very cheaply back into slavery enthralled by their Jewish Massas. Powell, Rice and Obama, Putting Black Faces on Imperial Agression http://www.counterpunch.org/ford02162007.html Barack Obama is our son and he deserves our support, declared Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr., speaking to a gathering of Black Democrats at the party's winter meeting, in Washington, earlier this month. By Jones' logic, Condoleezza Rice deserves automatic African American support as our daughter, and Colin Powell, her predecessor as George Bush's Secretary of State, was due fealty as our brother. Jones' embrace of the entire African American family tree must also, therefore, extend to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the most reactionary, anti-Black member of the High Court; and to our brother J. Kenneth Blackwell, the former Ohio Secretary of State whose consuming mission in 2004 was to deny the franchise to as many fellow Blacks as possible. Although the winter meetings are traditionally showcases for candidates to display their positions on the issues of the day, State Sen. Jones saw no need to present his appeal on Obama's behalf in any packaging other than race. In effect, Jones attempted to relieve Obama of any political obligation to Black people. Under Jones' formula, the relationship between the Black office-seeker and the African American public is reversed: it is the people that owe allegiance to the candidate, who is in turn set free to woo groups and promote interests that may be inimical to those of the Black public. Jones and the larger political current he represents would utterly gut Black politics of all substance, rendering the entire electoral process worthless to the Black masses. Perhaps the greatest irony of Jones' issue-less directive is that it masquerades as a Black empowerment strategy. In a transparent bid to shame Blacks in the Hillary Clinton camp - another political desert - Jones said African Americans don't owe anyone. Jones elaborated later, in a conversation with a Chicago Sun-Times reporter. How long do we have to owe before we have an opportunity to support our son? he said. In other words, Black people's debt to the Clintons - as if such ever existed - has been paid, and now it's time to herd Black voters behind Obama, like so many cattle. Jones' brand of politics holds that Black people don't have interests or political ideals, only obligations to one politician or the other. In Jones' world, African Americans are constantly indebted, but nobody owes them anything - certainly not Obama, our son. The Emil Jones brand of Black politics is based on the assumption that African American aspirations are limited to a simple desire to see Black faces on display in high places, no matter the public policy content of that representation. It is as if emancipation of the slaves could be achieved by moving Ol' Massa out of the Big House, and installing the Black butler in his place, while the conditions of life and labor in the fields remain unchanged. After all, the butler is one of ours. The slaves should be happy to experience a vicarious freedom, through their son. Further, it would be downright unfamily-like to pester our own kin about the need for forty acres and a mule per household. Jones' remarks exemplify an extraordinary vulgarization of African American politics, the product of uncritical, Jim Crow-era reflexes that linger within the Black polity, combined with the growing influence of corporate money in the Black leadership-creation process. The advent of Barack Obama's stealth corporate presidential candidacy could create the conditions for a perfect storm that sweeps away what remains of issues-based coherence in Black electoral and institutional politics. Should that occur - and there is much evidence that the unraveling is already well advanced - the collapse of progressive American politics becomes inevitable, a high price to pay for a Black face in the Oval Office. Imperial Obama African Americans will pay a special, historical price if a corporate-molded Black politician becomes the titular leader of an unreconstructed U.S. imperial state - and, make no mistake about it, Barack Obama is an imperialist. No one but a deep-fried imperialist could describe U.S. behavior in Iraq as coddling the Iraqis, as Obama said to an establishment foreign policy gathering in Chicago, late last year. His Iraq War De-escalation Act, carefully calibrated to make him appear slightly less belligerent than Hillary Clinton, allows the U.S. to wage war until March 31, 2008, at the very least, and to maintain a
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Iran The Next Iraq - 12 Questions and Answers!
http://www.lewisnews.com/article.asp?ID=123276 Iran The Next Iraq - 12 Questions and Answers! I am an American citizen. As such I love my country. If another country were to unjustly attack the US the way the US attacked Iraq and Afghanistan, I would be in the front lines defending my country and will willingly give my life in that effort. To me that is part of my responsibility as a citizen of the US. But if my government wants to wage an unjust war against other countries like it has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, I will never support it. I will never support the next planned war against Iran. In fact I will work strongly against it. I love my country but Gd and righteous principles take a higher position for me. I wont support my country in anything that goes against Gd and righteousness. Now that Bush is re-elected the plans that were in place to invade Iran are in full force. There have been several articles in major newspapers, magazines and television and radio news demonizing Iran and setting that country up as the next target. In fact you will see an increase in the demonizing as time passes. The Iranian President is in the spotlight and he being portrayed as an intolerant anti-Semite who wants to see Israel wiped off the planet. But before you believe all that, here are 12 questions with answers about Iran that every American should know. Quote: - 1. Do you believe that the great Iranian people willingly accepted Islam or that this was a consequence of losing the war to Arabs roughly 1300 years ago? I have come to terms with this knowing that since then Iranians have steered much of the achievements of the Islamic era and that they helped nurture another doctrine within Islam: Shiism. - First I will address the Zionist lie about Islam being spread by the sword and then I will be specific about Iran. This myth, which was made popular in Europe during the Crusades, is totally baseless. First of all, the Quran clearly says, Let there be no compulsion in religion. Muslims are strictly forbidden by the Quran and the example of our Prophet (saaw) to force our religion on others. I could cite many credible Western historians and thinkers like Arnold Tonybee, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw and even Eastern thinkers like Mahatma Ghandi who have made strong statements dispelling the lies about Islam being spread by the sword. But I will show what De Lacy O'Leary has to say on the subject of the sword of Islam. History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated (Islam at the Crossroads, London, 1923 p. 8 ) . Now specifically about the spread of Islam in Iran: In 637 CE, the Arab forces occupied the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon (Madain). This was a result of the Arabs winning the Qadisiyah wars. The Islamic conquest was aided by the material and social bankruptcy of the Sassanids; the native populations actually cooperated with the conquering power. Although winning this initial war against the Persians, the Muslims offered relative religious tolerance and fair treatment to populations that accepted Islamic rule without resistance. Conversion to Islam, which offered certain advantages, was fairly rapid among the urban population but slower among the peasantry in the rural areas. The majority of Persians did not become Muslim until the ninth century. The Persians were so enthusiastic about Islam that they became the leading torch bearers of the religion and experienced a 400 year Golden Age after their embracing of Islam. Compare this to the Soviet Union which ruled the many states by communism. But as soon as communist rule was abandoned, the people went back identifying with their religious beliefs prior to communism. Chechnya and others are examples. But the Persians whole heartedly embraced Islam and led the Muslim world even adopting the Arabic alphabet over theirs. While free, they willingly chose and accepted Islam. Quote: - 2. Do you believe Shiism is a legitimate Islamic doctrine or that the beliefs and practices of the Shiites (e.g., near deification of imams etc) constitutes heresy as far as the rest of the Moslems are concerned? - My friend I leave those matters for Gd to decide. When I see Shia or Sunni behaving as the Quran says a MUSLIM should behave, then in my eyes they are Muslims. What may surprise you too is that when I see Christians, Jews, or ANY human being striving to submit their will to do Gds Will, in my book their actions fit the description of Muslims. Not a Muslim gang or club BUT Muslim in
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Hamas slams US aid to Abbas!
Divide and conquer is all they are about. It is ashame to see how blatantly obvious the U.S. is about it. All in service to their Jewish masters... What is even worse are the foolish Palestinians who allow themselves to be used that way. http://www.news.com.au From correspondents in Gaza City February 01, 2007 04:42am Article from: Agence France-Presse HAMAS overnight slammed a multi-million dollar US aid package to bolster security forces loyal to its rival Fatah, as the two Palestinian factions consolidated a two-day-old truce by releasing hostages. There is no doubt that this is part of American policy aimed at provoking an escalation and a civil war in the service of a Zionist plan, said Ismail Radwan, a spokesman for Islamist movement Hamas, which heads the government. Each time the American administration sees that we have arrived, or are on the verge of arriving, at an agreement, it sends (US Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice to poison the atmosphere or announces financial aid (to president Mahmud Abbas) to maintain tensions among Palestinians, he said. US President George W. Bush has ordered the transfer of about $US86 million ($111.58 million) in aid to strengthen security forces loyal to the moderate president and Fatah party leader, the White House announced yesterday. The aid was declared as a truce between Fatah and Hamas took effect in Gaza following the deadliest bout of inter-Palestinian violence in a year and a day after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in southern Israel. The truce was largely holding for a second day today, as the groups swapped hostages. Medics, however, said unknown gunmen shot and wounded a presidential guard officer, one day after a Hamas militant was killed. Last night, we started to implement the agreement between Fatah and Hamas and the hostages on both sides have been exchanged, said Mr Radwan. Dozens of hostages have been released on both sides, said the Fatah spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Tawfiq Abu Khussa. But while the Fatah spokesman said the general atmosphere had improved, he complained that an executive force controlled by Hamas was causing tensions and not helping the restoration of confidence between the groups. The ceasefire was brokered amid increasing international pressure on the factions to resolve their differences and negotiate a power-sharing agreement after months of broken talks and collapsed ceasefires. The US aid is part of a broader US push to revive peace negotiations between Mr Abbas and Israel, with the four Middle East peace sponsors - the European Union, Russia, United Nations and United States - to meet in Washington on Friday (Saturday AEDT). US officials said the aid, which includes training, vehicles and uniforms, would theoretically help Mr Abbas counter militant attacks against Israel such as Tuesday's suicide bombing in the popular Red Sea resort of Eilat. The idea is to build the legitimate security forces, to help provide law and order in Gaza and the West Bank, fight terrorism and to facilitate movement and access, said national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe. The European Union and United States cut off aid to the Palestinians after Hamas routed long-dominant Fatah in polls last January, dominating parliament and forming a government, consigning Fatah's hold on power to the presidency. Fatah and Hamas, which have very different political outlooks, have tried for months to form a national unity government in the hope of resuming Western aid payments and reversing an unprecedented economic crisis. Hamas has steadfastly refused to accept Western conditions to renounce violence, recognise Israel or abide by past peace deals. The political showdown turned violent after Abbas announced in December that he would call new elections in the hope of wresting control from Hamas. Thirty-five people have been killed and around 100 wounded in the latest bout of internecine violence. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Spanish Mayor Commemorates 'Palestinian Genocide' On Holocaust Memorial Day!
New York, NY, January 26, 2007 -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemned the decision of the Mayor of a Spanish city to hold a commemoration of the Palestinian genocide on the day of Spain's official Holocaust memorial ceremonies, and called it shameful. ... Applying the term 'genocide' to the Arab-Israeli conflict encourages hatred toward the State of Israel and deliberately insults those of us, both Jews and non-Jews, who seek to solemnly commemorate the victims of the Nazi campaign of slaughter. MORE This is another example of how Jews desecrate the graves of innocent non-Jews, this time the graves of the Palestinians that Israelis killed on land taken by force. With its perpetual advocacy for the state of Israel the Jewish ADL is not only conspiring in the genocide, but is doing so using donated tax exempt US dollars, implicating the US and inciting Moslem hatred of Americans. That is treason against the US for which the conspirators must be prosecuted and punished to the full letter of law. Source: 295221768 Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DISGUSTING!!! Arab Nations Support Bush's Plan to Attack Iran!
Saudi Arabia, Egypt , Jordan , Kuwait , Bahrain , Qatar , Oman and the Emirates have all signed up to the Bush administrations escalation of its aggression against Iraq and its plans for a military attack on Iran. They have strayed very far from the guidance in the Quran and the example of our Prophet (saaw). All humanity is from Adam and Eve. There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab, nor for a non-Arab over an Arab; nor for a white man over a black man; nor for a black man over a white man; except through piety. Know that every Muslim is a brother to every other Muslim, and that the Muslims constitute one nation. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim that belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves. Rices Middle East Tour: Arab Regimes Back US War Drive In Iraq and Iran (If the GCC and other Arab states have indeed signed up and endorsed the US plan to invade Iran, it marks the beginning of a global conflict in which the invaders and their Arab collaborators would end up being the biggest losers. Musharraf is visiting the offending Arab States this week. One hopes he is able to get public denial of the news of their collaboration with the US in invading Iran ). + Usman Khalid + By Jean Shaoul Chris Marsden World Socialist Web 20 January, 2007 Saudi Arabia, Egypt , Jordan , Kuwait , Bahrain , Qatar , Oman and the Emirates have all signed up to the Bush administrations escalation of its aggression against Iraq and its plans for a military attack on Iran . A tour of the Middle East by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice culminated on January 16 in a meeting at the Bayan Palace of the emir of Kuwait and the signing of a joint communiqué by the foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), plus Egypt and Jordan. The foreign ministers endorsed President Bushs dispatch of 21,000 more troops to Iraq , portraying this as a means of preventing a further descent into civil war. And they joined Rice in welcoming a US commitment to defend the territorial integrity of Iraq and to ensure a successful, fair and inclusive political process that engages all Iraqi communities and guarantees the stability of the country. Nine foreign ministers [including Rice] are meeting in Kuwait precisely to prevent Iraq from sliding into a civil war. And that speaks volumes, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah said. We expressed our desire to see the presidents plan to reinforce American military presence in Baghdad as a vehicle...to stabilise Baghdad and prevent Iraq sliding into this ugly war, this civil war. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said, We agree with the full objectives set out by the new plan, the strategy If it were applied, it will solve the problems facing Iraq . Egypts Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Ghewas was even more obsequious, telling reporters in Cairo on Wednesday, Bushs strategy is not merely a military action or operation or a unilateral military programme. It represents a vision with different political, military and economic aspects. Endorsing Bushs plans in fact paves the way for the bloody suppression of the Iraqi people and a worsening of sectarian conflict. The US intends to first crack down on Sunni insurgents in Baghdad , but is also demanding that the Iraqi regime of Nouri al-Maliki mount an offensive against Shia militias, particularly the Mahdi army of Moqtada al-Sadr. Maliki has already announced the beginning of such a crackdown and 400 arrests. But the US military surge will not stop with Iraq . Iran is firmly in Washington s sights and is accused of being the primary instigator of the Shia insurgency. In his speech announcing the troop escalation, endorsed by the Arab states, Bush threatened that the US would interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria and to seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq . The official communiqué did not mention Iran explicitly, but declared that Relations among all countries should be based on mutual respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states and on the principle of no-interference in the internal affairs of other nations. Sweeping aside the oblique political formula of the Arab states, a spokesman for Rice declared afterwards that this meant Iran . Every day that has passed since Bushs speech outlining a fresh surge has seen fresh political and military threats directed against Tehran . US Vice President Dick Cheney has said that Iran constitutes a growing, multidimensional threat to the entire region. As Rice was shuttling between Middle East capitals, a second US aircraft carrier was despatched to the Gulf for the first time since the start of
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Iran: Pieces in Place for Escalation!
Iran: Pieces in Place for Escalation The fuel for a fire is in place. by Colonel Sam Gardiner Global Research, January 16, 2007 The Left Coaster - 2007-01-14 Email this article to a friend Print this article Editorial Note The following text by Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Retired) confirms our worst fears. The US is in an advanced state of readiness to wage war on Iran. To reverse the tide requires a massive campaign of networking and outreach to inform people across the land, nationally and internationally, in neighborhoods, workplaces, parishes, schools, universities, municipalities, on the dangers of a US sponsored war, which contemplates the use of nuclear weapons. The message should be loud and clear: It is not Iran which is a threat to global security but the United States of America and Israel. Even without the use of nukes, the proposed aerial bombardments could result in escalation, ultimately leading us into a broader war in the Middle East. Debate and discussion must also take place within the Military and Intelligence community, particularly with regard to the use of tactical nuclear weapons, within the corridors of the US Congress, in municipalities and at all levels of government. Ultimately, the legitimacy of the political and military actors in high office must be challenged. The corporate media also bears a heavy responsibility for the cover-up of US sponsored war crimes. It must also be forcefully challenged for its biased coverage of the Middle East war. What is needed is to break the conspiracy of silence, expose the media lies and distortions, confront the criminal nature of the US Administration and of those governments which support it, its war agenda as well as its so-called Homeland Security agenda which has already defined the contours of a police State. The World is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, a long war, which threatens the future of humanity. It is essential to bring the US war project to the forefront of political debate, particularly in North America and Western Europe. Political and military leaders who are opposed to the war must take a firm stance, from within their respective institutions. Citizens must take a stance individually and collectively against war. Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 16 January 2007 - I do not accept the notion that the first casualty of war is truth. (Col. Sam Gardiner) The pieces are moving. Theyll be in place by the end of February. The United States will be able to escalate military operations against Iran. The second carrier strike group leaves the U.S. west coast on Tuesday. It will be joined by naval mine clearing assets from both the United States and the UK. Patriot missile defense systems have also been ordered to deploy to the Gulf. Maybe as a guard against North Korea seeing operations focused on Iran as a chance to be aggressive, a squadron of F-117 stealth fighters has just been deployed to Korea. This has to be called escalation. We have to remind ourselves, just as Iran is supporting groups inside Iraq, the United States is supporting groups inside Iran. Just as Iran has special operations troops operating inside Iraq, weve read the United States has special operations troops operating inside Iran. Just as Iran is supporting Hamas, two weeks ago we found out the United States is supporting arms for Abbas. Just as Iran and Syria are supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon were now learning the White House has approved a finding to allow the CIA to support opposition groups inside Lebanon. Just as Iran is supporting Syria, weve learned recently that the United States is going to fund Syrian opposition groups. We learned this week the President authorized an attack on the Iranian liaison office in Irbil. The White House keeps saying there are no plans to attack Iran. Obviously, the facts suggest otherwise. Equally as clear, the Iranians will read what the Administrations is doing not what it is saying. It is possible the White House strategy is just implementing a strategy to put pressure on Iran on a number of fronts, and this will never amount to anything. On the other hand, if the White House is on a path to strike Iran, well see a few more steps unfold. First, we know there is a National Security Council staff-led group whose mission is to create outrage in the world against Iran. Just like before Gulf II, this media group will begin to release stories to sell a strike against Iran. Watch for the outrage stuff. The Patriot missiles going to the GCC states are only part of the missile defense assets. I would expect to see the deployment of some of the European-based missile defense assets to Israel, just as they were
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The Cancer of Arab Nationalism and Ba'athism!!!
Raja wrote: Quote: - Nashid , you wrote here below , in red, that Michel Aflak were a christian-Zionist .this is an insult to the Truth and to History and most of all to your honesty !! not even the cheapest-Zionist would use such a sick-joke !! this remark is wrong erroneous and serving only our enemies. you deeply disappoint me now (for the first time) Raja - I am sorry Raja if the truth have that effect on you. I am not responsible for the consequences. But regarding Michel Aflak not only I feel that way but also Dr. Bashir. He wrote: Saddam was a Hypocrite and since one Hypocrite understands another Hypcrite, the devil plays their advocate. Saddam was a fool, ...because he was manipulated by Russians as well as Americans. His Baath Party was founded by a Christian, Michael Aflak, thus manipulated by the Christian-Zionists (Brits/Russkies/ Yankees). Michael Aflak did the same kind of work to many Arabs as Kamal Attaturk, the Jew, did to Turkey. Kamal Attaturk was successful at bringing Turkey to secularism and away from Islam. As such, the Turkish government became an ally to enemies of Muslims like the Israelis. Michel Aflak was able to get nuts like Saddam Hussein to see Arab nationalism as god in disobedience to Islam and universal concepts. In a sense he did the same as Kamal Attaturk in moving Arabs away from Islam to worship Arab nationalism. Aflak has gotten Arabs to believe that Islam is not a divine revelation from Allah but a product of the genious of the Arab mind. This is shirk and considered one of the worst sins in Islam. Let me show you an example from the life of Saddam how Ba'athism was in direct opposition to Islam: The following is from my dear brother on this forum Mauri Salaakhan. Regarding disputes amongst Muslims, the Qur'an states the following regarding how they should be handled: Quote: - If two parties among the believers fall into a quarrel, make peace between them. But if one transgresses beyond the limits against the other, then all of you fight against the one that transgresses until they comply with the command of Allah. If they comply, make peace between them with justice, and be fair; for Allah loves those who are fair and just. - The aforementioned verse (ayah) from the Qur'anic chapter (surah) known as Al-Hujurat (The Inner Apartments, 49:9), provides the remedy that all committed Muslims should employ whenever a quarrel or fight breaks out within their ranks. The historical record will show that Saddam Hussein, like so many other marginally Muslim leaders in the Muslim world, chose a more secular and nationalistic response. In the words of [former] Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi: Quote: - At the outset of the war, the Kuwaiti head of state contacted our president and suggested that he and the president of Algeria should come to Baghdad and Tehran to mediate. Our government told them at that time, You are welcome as brothers, but we don't like an Arab state to mediate. This is an Arab-Iranian conflict; and in such a conflict any Arab must decide either to side with his Arab brother or to stay away... (Source: Riding the Spears, by M. Tariq Quraishi, pg. 174) - Unfortunately, the Arab states those considering themselves Muslim Republics as well as the openly secular regimes fell right in line and supported Iraq's aggression against the first truly non-aligned state of the 20th century; Iran. This served the enemies of Islam well to see two Muslim nations at war with each other and it was very costly (in terms of lives lost and material destruction). The eight year war started by Iraq following Ba'athist policies and ignoring the Qur'an was very disastrous to the Muslim world and it also severely weakened Iraq -- who was the aggressor -- to the point of making them easy prey to American and Israeli exploits. So in this sense Saddam's Ba'athist arrogance brought about a weakening and downfall of his own country. Michel Aflak was successful and is continuing to be successful in dividing the Muslim world along secular, nationalistic lines. What is worst is that he has managed to make Arab nationalism the ultimate god to many Arabs to the point where they ignore Islam completely and see Islam as irrelevant. With Ba'athist ideologies it becomes very easy for the enemies of humanity to use divide and conquer to weaken all Arabs and Muslims. Saddam in his response above did not care about right and wrong, the unity that should be amongst all Muslims as taught in Islam nor did he want to follow the Islamic dictate for mediating conflicts amongst Muslims. Arab nationalism was his god and he felt that no mediation should be done between him and a non-Arab
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] US declares war on Somalia killing many children in first hours of bombing!
Using the myth of Al-Qaeda, the U.S. has attacked another Muslim nation on its way to recovery from near total devastation. I boldly say that any Muslim who still believe the lie about Al-Qaeda doing 911 is a fool!!! They should go watch the movie Quo Vadis and see how Jewmerica is repeating the same tactic as the Roman Emperor Nero against the Christians. Before the Islamics Courts were formed in Somalia, it was a nation of lawless gangs that were terorizing the people and causing Somalia to be reduced to a savage existence. The Islamic Courts was a movement formed that was successfully eradicating that. They were bringing order, curbing the crime and helping to set up law and order in a lawless land that was ravaged by famine and wars. They were true Muslims doing a good work using Islam as their guide. Jewmerica did not want that. So they instigated Ethiopia to attack Somalia on Christmas day. Now they are using the Al-Qaeda fabrication to attack Somalia simply because a grassroots movement of the people was trying to establish a true Islamic government and were being successful at it. As former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said: The existence of a Muslim anywhere is a threat to Jews everywhere. Their war is against Islam and it is time that sleeping Muslims see that and stop being fooled. American Muslims should not wait for our government to come against us before speaking out and protesting the wrongs being done against Muslims all over the world. Our silence in the face of this evil is deafening. Allah will not bless us but punish us severely for ignoring the suffering of other Muslims by our tyranical government controled by rabid Zionist beasts with a deep hatred for Islam and Muslims. Why the silence Oh American Muslims??? This is an African nation now that is feeling the brunt of Ameica's cruelty and thousands of innocent children are dying and they are feeding us the myth of Al-Qaeda to justify it. Are you only going to make noise when Jewmerica come against you??? Check out the following reports and the extremely large stretches they are making to put the lying spin of Al-Qaeda and harsh brand of Islam to justify attacking more Muslims. U.S. Special Forces Engaged in Operations on the Ground in Somalia January 09, 2007 1:59 PM Alexis Debat Reports: U.S. special forces are working with Ethiopian troops on the ground in operations inside Somalia today, senior U.S. and French military sources tell ABC News. The sources declined to describe details of today's mission but said U.S. special forces, including a significant CIA presence, have been involved in numerous such missions, operating from a large American base camp known as Camp Le Monier, established in the French protectorate of Djibouti following 9/11. There are approximately 3,000 American special forces and U.S. military soldiers based at Camp Le Monier, which has become a major reconnaissance and staging base in the fight against al Qaeda in the region. Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage. It is from this base the CIA flies predators over Yemen and Somalia and from which recent air attacks over Somalia were launched. Alexis Debat is an ABC News consultant. http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/us_special_forc.html Airstrike Rekindles Somalis Anger at the U.S. By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and MARK MAZZETTI MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 9 Somali officials said Tuesday that dozens of people were killed in an American airstrike on Sunday, most of them Islamist fighters fleeing in armed pickup trucks across a remote, muddy stretch of the KenyaSomalia border. American officials said terrorists from Al Qaeda had been the target of the strike, which they said had killed about a dozen people. But the officials acknowledged that the identities of the victims were still unknown. Several residents of the area, in the southern part of the country, said dozens of civilians had been killed, and news of the attack immediately set off new waves of anti-American anger in Mogadishu, Somalias battle-scarred capital, where the United States has a complicated legacy. Theyre just trying to get revenge for what we did to them in 1993, said Deeq Salad Mursel, a taxi driver, referring to the infamous Black Hawk Down episode in which Somali gunmen killed 18 American soldiers and brought down two American helicopters during an intense battle in Mogadishu. The countrys Islamist movement swiftly seized much of Somalia last year and ruled with mixed success, bringing a much desired semblance of peace but also a harsh brand of Islam. Two weeks ago, that all changed after Ethiopian-led troops routed the Islamist forces and helped bring the Western-backed transitional government to Mogadishu. Ethiopian officials said the Islamists were a growing regional threat. The last remnants of the Islamist forces fled to Ras Kamboni, an isolated
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] BBC video exposes Mossad in Iraq
Check out this video from the BBC exposing how Israel (specifically Mossad) is training the Kurds in warfare. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The Mossad in the CIA!
The Mossad in the CIA January 3, 2007 by Nicole Bagley It might be of public interest to know that a significant number of Israeli Mossad agents are now working in the United States as employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. These agents, some of whom are listed below, are initially paid by the Israeli Embassy in Washington but Israel then bills the U.S. Government for the salaries and is reimbursed in full on a monthly basis. Here is a partial listing of identified Mossad agents (as of 1 January, 2007) along with their dates of birth and salaries. They do not have American Social Security numbers and do not pay American taxes. Gadi Regev 12/17/1975 $63,000 per annum Betzalel Yanay9/4/1978 $75,000 Eyal Artzel5/27/1977 $ 87,000 Sharon Rotem 8/12/1977 $ 75,000 David Susi 1/9/1975 $90,000 Dana Sasson 8/10/1980 $70,000 Morin Biton 7/14/1980 $ 63,000 Gilad Lifschitz 9/17/1978 $87,000 Maya Maimon12/26/1978 $65,000 Marco Fernandez 4/13/1977 $54,000 Keren Touyz 8/20/1978 $75,000 Nofar Bahidi21/2/79 $53,000 Michal Gal8/10/1979 $92,000 Ophir Baer 11/11/1956 $102,000 Dilka Borenstein 3/15/1979 $ 67,000 Michael Calmanovic 9/6/75 $102,000 Most of these U.S.-subsidized spies live in Potomac, McLean, Georgetown and Arlington. I have their addresses and these will be published in a follow-up article. These are Israeli citizens but many of the middle level CIA officials are American-born Jews and not included in this list but we do know who they are. All of them, without exception, work for Israel and Israeli interests, not American interests and more than a few are known to be friendly with a number of the so-called Neocons, a significant number of whom are also Israeli citizens. http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2608.htm#005 Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Secret U.S. plan to overthrow Syrian government
Secret U.S. plan to overthrow Syrian government 12/22/2006 7:00:00 AM GMT Advertisement ); //-- (www.nndb.com) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad The Bush administration is secretly funding political opposition to the Syrian government in a bid to topple President Bashar al-Assads regime, according to a classified document seen by the Time Magazine. The two-page document states that the U.S. is already supporting regular meetings of internal and diaspora Syrian activists in Washington, Europe and even Syria to facilitate a more coherent strategy and plan of actions for all anti-Assad activists. It also says that Syrias legislative elections, due in March, provide a potentially galvanizing issue for... critics of the Assad regime. To seize this opportunity, the document proposes a secret election monitoring scheme, in which internet accessible materials will be available for printing and dissemination by activists inside the country [Syria] and neighboring countries. The proposal also calls for funding at least one Syrian politician who plans to run in the election. The secret scheme would also include voter education campaigns and public opinion polling, with the first poll tentatively scheduled in early 2007. Quoting unidentified U.S. officials, the Time Magazine said the election-monitoring scheme hasnt yet been approved, in part because the Syrian elections could be postponed or even cancelled. But one official familiar with the proposal said: You are forced to wonder whether we are now trying to destabilize the Syrian government. According to U.S. foreign policy experts, the scheme was developed by a democracy and public diplomacy working group that meets weekly at the State department to discuss Iran and Syria. The State Department's deputy spokesman, Thomas Casey, said the proposal had already been through several classified drafts, but that the basic concept is very much still valid. Some critics in Congress and the White House say that such a scheme, aimed at secretly ousting a foreign government, should be legally deemed a covert action, which by law would require that the Bush administration inform the intelligence committees on Capitol Hill. Some congressmen are also expected to oppose the secret use of publicly appropriated funds to enforce democracy in another country. The Bush administration severed high-level diplomatic ties with Syria in late 2004, saying that the Syrian government failed to stop the flow of fighters into Iraq or stop support for the resistance movements Hezbollah and Hamas. Analysts say any U.S.-planned attempt to overthrow Assads government could eliminate the possibility of future dialogue between Washington and Damascus as proposed by the Iraq Study Group and several U.S. allies. The whole effort could also be a waste of time, according to Edward P. Djerejian, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria who worked on the Iraq Study Group report. The Syrian opposition is so fractured and weak that there is little to be gained by such a venture, Djerejian told the Time Magazine. To fund opposition parties on the margins is a distraction at best, he said. It will only impede the better option of engaging Syria on much more important, fundamental issues like Iraq, peace with Israel, and the dangerous situation in Lebanon. Other analysts point to another goal for the proposed scheme. Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which Syria opposed, the Bush Administration has been looking for ways to squeeze the government in Damascus, says Joshua Landis, a Syria expert who is co-director of the Center for Peace Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Syria has appeared to be next on the Administration's agenda to reform the greater Middle East This is apparently an effort to gin up the Syrian opposition under the rubric of 'democracy promotion' and 'election monitoring,' but it's really just an attempt to pressure the Syrian government into doing what Washington wants, Landis said. Syria wants to help U.S. President Assad wants to work with the U.S. to bring stability to Iraq, the U.S. Democratic Senator John F. Kerry said on Thursday after meeting the Syrian president. Kerry, who visited Syria along with Democratic Senator Christopher J. Dodd, despite the administration's opposition to the trip said that the meeting with Assad reinforced the need to follow the recommendation of the Iraq Study Group that Washington directly engage Syria and Iran to find a way forward in Iraq. He offered some very direct and concrete ways in which they could be helpful in Iraq, Kerry said. I came away with a distinct feeling that there are opportunities here. There are fronts in which we can work together if people are inclined to. Kerry also said that
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: Who Are the Gemayels?
Good background info. Thanks for sharing! Erooth Mohamed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Who Are the Gemayels? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/who-are-the-gemayels_b_34736.html Before we deconstruct the assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut two days ago, we need to go back in history, to 1982. September 15, 1982. Israeli occupation forces in Lebanon, commanded by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, surround two large Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. The names of the camps are Sabra and Shatila. No one is allowed in or out. Israeli forces are allied with one faction of Lebanese, the Maronite Christian Phalangists, who have maintained an Israeli-supported militia along Lebanon's southern border. Lebanon, formerly an enclave of Syria, was under direct French control from the end of WWI until 1943. By the time it received its tentative independence from France, the French has guaranteed the domination of the then-majority Christians over the government, its adminsitrative apparatuses, and the economy. As greater and greater numbers of Muslims populated Lebanon, driven significantly by mass exlusions of Palestinians from Palestine (Israel) and Jordan (where many Plaestinian refugees originally went after being pushed out by the Israelis), this control was contested. Those attempts at resolving inequalities between Christan and Muslim resulted in sometimes violent reaction from the Christians, who clung jealously to their power. The close cultural ties between Syria (the Muslim-majority portion of the former French Mandate) and Muslims in Lebanon led directly to strong ties between Muslims under attack from Christian rightsts (organized as early as 1938 into the Kataeb Social Democratic Party, Phalange for short, by a Lebanese Christian strongman named Pierre Gemayel ), and to Syrian intervention in the affairs of its former enclave. Pierre Gemayel was a big fan of Spain's fasicst dictator, Francisco Franco, and organized the Phalangists in a nearly identical structure to the Spanish Phalange. This is the Party that the US government, CNN, and both US political parties now tout as the hope of Lebanese democracy. Pierre's son, Bachir Gemayel, continued the Phalangist legacy, and organized Phalangist militias. In August, 1982, Bachir had just been elected president, in Christian-run elections that Muslims boycotted, at the height of a bloody civil war, now involving Lebanese Muslims, Christians, Druze, Palestinians, the Israelis, and the Syrians. Gemayel had run for election on the promise to smash the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). September 14, 1982, nine days before Bashir Gemayal was due to take office, he was assassinated with a bomb, ostensibly by a Lebanese Christian working for the Syrians, named Habib Tanious Shartouni. But the Phalangists' enemies were the Palestinians. There was a swift reaction obviously coordinated with Sharon's Israeli military. That brings us back to: September 15, 1982. Israeli occupation forces in Lebanon, commanded by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, surround two large Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. The names of the camps are Sabra and Shatila. No one is allowed in or out. Revenge was on the minds of the Phalangists, and in coordination with the Israeli cordon sanitaire around the Sabra and Shatila camps, the Phalangists entered on the afternoon of Spetember 16th. For the next two days, until 8 PM, September 18th, they rampaged through the camps, dragging men, women, and children from their shanty-houses and hiding places and killing them. Israeli troops, who were part of the cordon, would claim that even though they knew the circumstances after Gemayel's asassination, even though they had allowed the Phalange militia to enter, even though they heard the screams and shots for over 36 hours, they had no idea what was happening in Sabra and Shatila. During hours of darkenss, at the request of the Phalangists, Israeli troops fired parachute flares over the camps to assist the Phalangists with illumination. Phalange Commander Elie Hobeika was overheard by an Israeli soldier telling a subordinate who had asked what to do with the women and children, This is the last time you're going to ask me a question like that; you know exactly what to do. This reply was accompanied by laughter from other Phalangist militamen. Palestinians who tried to flee the camps were turned back by Israeli troops. Israelis claim that 700-800 were killed. The BBC put the number at 800. Later researchers put the number closer to 1,300. Among Lebanese Muslims, who constitute a majority (55%), in addition to around 200,000 displaced Palestinians, the Phalange tradition embodied by Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, nephew of Bachir Gemayel, is perceived as anything but democratic. Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was assassinated two days ago in Beirut, and now we hear the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
I strongly suggest that everyone VISIT the website and READ the petition below. Furthermore I STRONGLY suggest that all of us view the following video not presented by kooks but by scientists and scholars from leading universities in this country. It is their RESPONSIBILITY to study this event bringing their expertise to it:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6404296089696796093hl=enhttp://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/index.htmlvisionaries4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scholars for 9/11 Truth PetitionClick here for a version of this Petition to fax TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, On Behalf of the People of the United States of America, the Undersigned Scholars for 9/11 Truth Hereby Petitions for, and hereby demands, Release of the Following kinds of documents, video and films, and physical evidence to the public for study by experts and scholars investigating the events of 9/11: 1. Immediate release of the full Pentagon surveillance tapes, of which five frames (only) have been released via the official ASCE report, as Judicial Watch has also requested. We further demand release of the video tape seized by FBI agents minutes after the Pentagon hit, from the fuel service station near the Pentagon, as well as any other videotape which shows the 9/11 strike on the Pentagon. See news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1211_wirepentagon.html www.defenselink.mil/releases/2000/b05012000_bt218-00.html www.defenselink.mil/news/May2000/20005022a.jpg perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/pages-en/fct-videos.html 2. Immediate release of 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of video footage held by NIST, largely from private photographers, regarding the collapses of WTC buildings on 9/11/2001 (NIST, 2005, p. 81). In particular, all footage relating to the collapse of WTC 7 (including shots before, during and after the collapse) must be released immediately, without waiting for the NIST report on WTC 7, which is long overdue and may be prolonged indefinitely. 3. An explanation from Vice President Richard Cheney regarding the "orders" described by Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta in his testimony before The 9/11 Commission. Secretary Mineta stated that while in an underground bunker at the White House, he watched Vice President Cheney castigate a young officer for asking, as a plane drew closer and closer to the Pentagon, "Do the orders still stand?" The officer should be identified and allowed to testify at a deposition under oath. See www.911truthmovement.org/video/hamilton_win.wmv 4. The documents generated by Vice President Cheney's energy task force have been kept from the public. A court case brought forth a few maps that display oil fields in the Middle East. We hereby put Congress on notice that there is probable cause with regard to criminal activities by the Cheney Energy Task Force involving a criminal conspiracy to launch illegal wars and/or terrorist activities. We therefore demand that Energy Task Force document that comprise, discuss, or refer to plans to invade the Middle East, including Iran, and Venezuela or other sovereign nations be released immediately. See Cheney v. District Court 542 U.S. 367 (2004) and United States v. Nixon 418 U.S. 683 (1974). See www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33642 5. Audio tapes of interviews with air traffic controllers on-duty on 9/11 were intentionally destroyed by crushing the cassette by hand, cutting the tape into little pieces, and then dropping the pieces in different trash cans around the building. We demand an explanation for this destruction of evidence and ask that the possible existence of other copies of such tapes or perhaps of written transcripts of the interviews be pursued. All air traffic controllers on-duty on 9/11 should be allowed to testify during a public forum under oath. See query.nytimes.com archive web.archive.org suntimes cst-nws-tape07.html 6. The Secret Service, which is highly trained to protect the President from danger and to move him to a secure location in the event of a threat, breached its own standard procedures by allowing President Bush to remain at a public location for 25 minutes after it was known that the nation was under attack. All Secret Service personnel who were at Booker Elementary School with President Bush on 9/11 should be required to testify in public and under oath about these events. See abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121331page=1 www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/feral_press_9-10.gif www.whatreallyhappened.com/bushbook.mov 7. On the morning of 9/11, some five "war games" or "terror drills" were being conducted by U.S. defense agencies, including one "live fly" exercise employing aircraft. These drills reportedly included the injection of false radar blips onto the screens of air traffic controllers. In addition, the government was running a
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DEBATE: Proofs that Communism is a product of Talmudic Judaism - Part I
Ardeshir wrote, Quote: I am not sure that Communism has ANYTHING to do with Judaism. What's the connection, if any - a connection which can be supported by DOCUMENTATION? Nashid, the above doesn't prove ANYTHING! Where is the DOCUMENTATION? (By which I mean, quotes from Judaism's SCRIPTURES and quotes from Communism's DEFINITIVE LITERATURE, in which a connection is clearly spelled out?) These statements coming from anyone else would be taken in stride by me and warrant just a little education. But coming from Ardeshir it was a major SHOCK! Ardeshir passes himself off as an expert critic of Judaism and swamps forums with tons of emails about Judaism and its evil to the world. He even attended university in Israel especially at a time when the Jews there were very open about their Marxist/communist connections. What is even more shocking is that I have debated Jews numerous times for several years on many forums regarding communism being a product of Talmudic Judaism. I have heard all the arguments and to my surprise Ardeshir, the most notorious critic of Judaism on the Internet, uses the EXACT same arguments as the Jews do. Could they both be reading from the same script? I thought that the connection of Jews to Talmudic Judaism, Marxism and the Bolshevik Revolution was course 101 for anyone in the know. But Ardeshir shocked me and believe me I was taken back by it. Actually Marxism, Nazism and Zionism are three children from the same womb. As Israel Shahak so astutely pointed out, the tactics of the Nazi Israelis against the Palestinians are not by accident. They are deliberate, springing from the same womb that birthed Nazism with their big mama being Talmudic Judaism. Although I sent Ardeshir links and statements from leading Jewish Rabbis and scholars admitting that Marxism is Talmudic Judaism, he never responded to any of them insisting on DOCUMENTATION. I guess those Jewish Rabbis and scholars were whistling Dixie and not as smart as Ardeshir to only accept it if it is documented in the Talmud and Marxs writings that Talmudic Judaism gave birth to Marxism. He expect those documents to be open and up front as world Jewry has been with exposing that 90% of them are Khazars, the hateful anti-human teachings in the Talmud, the Holocaust is a hoax and other Jewish secrets that they have carefully kept from the masses. The truth is there is plenty of documentation from authentic Jewish sources showing communism/Marxism to be a product of Judaism and tying the Bolshevik revolution to Jews. One of the biggest advocates of Marxism is Talmudic Judaism and a staunch supporter of communism was Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. If Ardeshir knows who he is maybe he was betting on your ignorance so that you would not know his importance when I had initially mentioned him. Rabbi Wise boasted that the Russian Revolution was the "crowning feat of the sons and daughters of Zion" (New YorkTimes, 3/24/17), and who, when asked to define communism, said: "Some call it communism; I call it Judaism." (The American Bulletin, May 15, 1935). Well who the heck is Rabbi Stephen Wise and why the heck should we care what he says about Judaism and Communism? Well we should care as much as we care about the Pope or the Grand Mufti making statements about Christianity and Islam. Here is a short bio on Rabbi Wise: Quote: He was the founder and head of the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York which trained Rabbis. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was founder and head of the American Jewish Congress and head of the World Jewish Congress. He was the most prominent leader of American Jewry in his time. His Jewish Institute of Religion merged with Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and produced the first English translation of the Babylonian Talmud known as the Rodkinson translation. It was Simon Wiesenthal and Rabbi Stephen Wise who created the human soap stories about Jews in Germany. He was a close fiend of Woodrow Wilson and it was to him that Wilson wrote the letter for Jews of U.S. acceptance of the Balfour Declaration. He was also a close friend of Roosevelt and was very instrumental in influencing Roosevelt in getting the US into WW2. There is much more about Rabbi Wise that I will share later, but he was a major, major leader of world Jewry who I am sure knows a lot more about Talmudic Judaism than Ardeshir. What did he know that Ardeshir dont know that made him state publicly that communism is Talmudic Judaism? I am sure he had much more documentation and was not looking for a silly statement in the Talmud or Marxs writings to say that Talmudic Judaism is the progenitor of Marxism. After all his school trained Rabbis and produced the first English translation of the Talmud. He knew the essence of what the Talmud and Marxism taught -- just like anyone can look at the properties of the mineral halite and knows it is salt without something in salt or halite telling us in some silly way that they
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Hitler, The Jews and The Frankenstein Monster!
I had made the claim that Hitler was a creation of the Jews and that the Frankenstein monster was actually a symbol for Hitler. I also stated that Dr. Frankenstein was a symbol for the Jews. If you saw the movie Frankenstein the story goes that Dr. Frankenstein created a new life from dead body parts. At its initial birth the Frankenstein monster was obedient to Dr. Frankenstein. But later the monster rebelled and even tried to kill his creator. It decided to pursue an independent path not controlled by his creator and became a destructive creature destroying all in it's path. Let's look and see if we can find some parallels with this depiction of the Frankenstein monster with the life of Hitler and his Jewish creators: Regarding the creation of Hitler Myron C. Fagan wrote: http://educate- yourself.org/nwo/illuminatiagenda4bestoverviewyet8jun02.shtml But the conspirators had to have a war. They had to find or create some kind of an incident to launch it. They found it in a little inconspicuous and repulsive little man who called himself Adolf Hitler. Hitler, an impecunious Austrian house painter, had been a corporal in the German army. He made the defeat of Germany into a personal grievance. He began to rabble rouse about it in the Munich, Germany area. He began to spout about restoring the greatness of the German Empire and the might of the German solidarity. He advocated the restoration of the old German military to be used to conquer the whole world. Strangely enough, Hitler, the little clown that he was, could deliver a rabble rousing speech and he did have a certain kind of magnetism. But the new authorities in Germany didn't want anymore wars and they promptly threw the obnoxious Austrian house painter into a prison cell. Aha! Here was the man, decided the conspirators, who, if properly directed and financed, could be the key to another world war. So while he was in prison; they had Rudolph Hess and Hermann Goering write a book which they titled: Mein Kompf and attributed the authorship to Hitler; exactly as Lipdenoff wrote: Mission to Moscow and attributed the authorship to Joseph Davies; then our ambassador to Russia and a stooge of the CFR. In Mein Kampf; the Hitler pseudo-author outlined his grievances and how he would restore the German people to their former greatness. The conspirators then arranged for a wide circulation of the book among the German people in order to arouse a fanatical following for him. On his release from prison (also arranged by the conspirators); they began to groom and finance him to travel to other parts of Germany to deliver his rabble rousing speeches. Soon he gathered a growing following among other veterans of the war that soon spread to the masses who began to see in him a saviour for their beloved Germany. Then came his leadership of what he called "his brown shirt army" and the march on Berlin. That required a great deal of financing; but the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, and others of the conspirators provided all the money he needed. Gradually Hitler became the idol of the German people and they then overthrew the Von Hindenburg government and Hitler became the new fuhrer. But that still was no reason for a war. I am sure if you studied Hitler's rise even in the "establishment" reports they did mention that it was the Warburgs and other jewish financial bankers who financed him into power. The Illuminati picked him for their purpose. The book "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" by Professor Antony C. Hutton has this to say about Hitler's financial backers: The directors of American I.G. (Farben) were identified as prominent American businessmen: Walter Teagle, a close Roosevelt associate and backer and an NRA administrator; banker Paul Warburg (his brother Max Warburg was on the board of I.G. Farben in Germany); and Edsel Ford. Farben contributed 400,000 RM directly to Schacht and Hess for use in the crucial 1933 elections and Farben was subsequently in the forefront of military development in Nazi Germany. A donation of 60,000 RM was made to Hitler by German General Electric (A.E.G.), which had four directors and a 25-30 percent interest held by the U.S. General Electric parent company. This role was described in Chapter Three, and we found that Gerard Swope, an originator of Roosevelt's New Deal (its National Recovery Administration segment), together with Owen Young of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Clark Minor of International General Electric, were the dominant Wall Streeters in A.E.G. and the most significant single influence. Another reference from the book "The Hitler Cult" by BRIG. GEN. JACK MOHR, C.P.D.L. states the following: At this time, the International Zionists were anxious for a European War, through which they could enforce the Balfour Treaty and gain control of Palestine. The final financial arrangements for aid to Hitler came through the Jewish bank of Mendelsohn and Company in Amsterdam. In 1933, they advanced Hitler
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: To all our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world from all of us here at the Crescent and Cross Solidarity movement:
Thank you Mark and we agree it is time for right minded people to come together regardless of religion or "isms" to stand for what is just, true and right. May G-d bless our efforts. I am sending your inspiring message to other forums so that many more can read it.Peace, Nashidmark glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To all our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world from all of us here at the Crescent and Cross Solidarity movement: We (and in particular those of us who are Catholics) completely reject and condemn the latest statements attributed to the crypto-Rabbi who currently sits in the Vatican and who dares to call himself a follower of Jesus Christ. There are a few of us out here who recognize the fact that the Catholic Church was taken over many years ago by the Jewish agenda, and that the recent statements attributed to this modern day Judas are meant to enflame those in the Muslim world and to further the 'clash of civilizations.' For him to say such an ignorant, inflammatory thing given the current goings on in the world and the amount of suffering that is being endured by those in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon shows him to be merely a tool of the Zionist
agenda and as such a pawn of the AntiChrist. We therefore call upon not only Catholics but indeed people of good will all over the world to catagorically reject what this man has said and to recognize that this is just a preparatory step to some act of terrorism being perpetrated against the Vatican itself so that it can be blamed on some 'fanatical Islamic group' and thus mobilize a billion Catholics into going to war against over a billion Muslims. To all our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world who are the only ones fighting the beast, know this--we at www.crescentandcross stand with you.The Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement www.crescentandcross.com"I did not come to bring
peace, but the sword...'--Jesus of Nazareth "Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do."For real insights visit:http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/Regards,Nashid
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all. [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Muslim anger grows at Pope speech!
Muslim anger grows at Pope speech The Pope's comments came on a visit to GermanyA statement from the Vatican has failed to quell criticism of Pope Benedict XVI from Muslim leaders, after he made a speech about the concept of holy war. Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things. Pakistan's
parliament passed a resolution on Friday criticising the Pope for making "derogatory" comments. The Vatican said the Pope had not intended to offend Muslims. "It is clear that the Holy Father's intention is to cultivate a position of respect and dialogue towards other religions and cultures, and that clearly includes Islam," said chief Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi in a statement. But in spite of the statement, the pontiff returned to Rome to face a barrage of criticism, reports the BBC's David Willey in Rome. The head of the Muslim Brotherhood said the Pope's remarks "aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world". Violence and faith In his speech at Regensburg University, the German-born Pope explored the historical and philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between violence and faith. The remarks do not express correct understanding of Islam Mohammed Mahdi AkefMuslim Brotherhood Stressing that they were not his own words, he quoted Emperor Manual II Paleologos of the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Christian empire which had its capital in
what is now the Turkish city of Istanbul. The emperor's words were, he said: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Benedict said "I quote" twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul". 'Angry and hurt' Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution demanding that the Pope retract his remarks "in the interest of harmony between religions". READ THE SPEECH Read the Pope's speech [37KB] Most computers will open this document automatically, but you may need Adobe ReaderDownload the reader here "The derogatory remarks of the Pope about the philosophy of jihad and Prophet Mohammed have injured sentiments across the Muslim world and pose the danger of spreading acrimony among the religions," the AFP news agency quoted the resolution by the country's national assembly as saying. In India, which has a sizeable Muslim population, Minority Commission Chairman Hamid Ansari said: "The language used by the Pope sounds like that of his 12th-Century counterpart who ordered the crusades... "It surprises me because the Vatican has
a very comprehensive relationship with the Muslim world." The remarks prompted fears of unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir, as a result of which two separatist leaders were put under house arrest. Meanwhile, the "hostile" remarks drew a demand for an apology from a top religious official in Turkey - where the Pope is due in November on his first papal visit to a Muslim country. Ali Bardakoglu recalled atrocities committed by Roman Catholic Crusaders against Orthodox Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims, in the Middle Ages. In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood head Mohammed Mahdi Akef said the Pope's words "do not express correct understanding of Islam and are merely wrong and distorted beliefs being repeated in the West". In a statement, he was "astonished that such remarks come from someone who sits on top of the Catholic Church which has its influence on the public opinion in the West". Sheikh Youssef al-Qardawi, a prominent Muslim
cleric in Qatar, rejected the Pope's comments, in remarks reported by Reuters. "Muslims have the right to be angry and hurt by these comments from the highest cleric in Christianity," Mr Qardawi reportedly said. "We ask the Pope to apologise to the Muslim nation for insulting its religion, its Prophet and its beliefs." The 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference also said it regretted the Pope's remarks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5024324.stm"Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do."For real insights visit:http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/Regards,Nashid
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites
