Bismillah [IslamCity] Survey: Half of U.S. adults have switched religions
Survey: Half of U.S. adults have switched religions http://www.usatoday.com:80/news/religion/2009-04-27-pew-religion-switch_Nhtm Vang Lutheran Church, Dunn County, N.D. Seven percent of U.S. adults raised Protestant are now unaffiliated, while 15% have switched to a different Protestant faith By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY About half of all Americans have switched religions at least once, according to the most in-depth survey on the topic, released Monday. And that may still be a conservative estimate, says Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion Public Life. FAITH REASON: Does economy affect worship attendance? AMERICAN RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION SURVEY: See how other survey shows change in religions over 2 decades Pew's new survey is based on re-contacting 2,800 people from its U.S. Religious Landscape Survey of 35,000 people, released last year. Pew estimated at the time that about 44% of Americans have changed religions. It now says between 47% and 59% have, if you count the millions who once switched but have returned to their childhood faith. The reasons people give for changing their religion - or leaving religion altogether - differ widely: 71% of Catholics and nearly 60% of Protestants who switched didn't think their spiritual needs were being met, liked another faith more or changed their religious or moral beliefs. Most switched early, committing to one faith by age 36. Americans switch religions often, early and for many different reasons, says John Green, a Pew senior fellow. Catholicism has suffered the greatest net loss in the process of religious change: The 10% of U.S. adults who have quit the church vastly outnumber the 2.6% who are incoming Catholics. Two in three who became unaffiliated - and half of those who became Protestant - say they left the Catholic Church because they stopped believing its teachings. The sexual abuse scandal was a factor for fewer than three in 10 former Catholics. Life circumstances, not religious doctrinal differences, prompt most Protestants who switch denominations (Baptist to Methodist, for example). Moving to a new town or marrying someone of a different tradition are the most often-cited reasons, but 36% attributed changes to likes and dislikes about religious institutions, practices and people. Many people who left a religion and now are unaffiliated say they did so in part because they see religious people as hypocritical or judgmental, because religious organizations focus too much on rules, or because religious leaders focus too much on power and money. Among the 16% of Americans who say they're now not affiliated with any religion, most are former Protestants and Catholics who say they didn't quit in a huff or get lured away by science or by atheist philosophy: About 70% say they just gradually drifted away from their childhood religion. About 9% return to their childhood religion, saying they tried another religion or two but then went back. Religious education or youth group participation seemed to make no dent, although people who say they participated frequently in worship services or Mass were less likely to switch. Green sees no simple answer for retaining members in a competitive religious marketplace. The findings suggest that one thing that might be needed to recruit and keep members is vibrant and vital congregations - a tough thing to create. The Flux questionaire was conducted in English and Spanish between Oct. 3 and Nov 7. The findings are focused on Catholics, Protestants and the unaffiliated. There were too few converts to or from Mormonism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and other religions to analyze their views, researchers said. Both the original Religious Landscape Survey, and the new survey are snapshots in time, so it's not possible to tell whether America has always been a bubbling chemistry lab of religious change. But this is the first to spell out the switches in such detail, establishing a baseline to measure future changes, and potential problems. Lugo says the findings present opportunities for churches, which have seen a decrease in brand loyalty- especially among spiritual but not religious Americans. These are folks that are, in some sense, 'catchable.' REASONS FOR CHANGING Of U.S. adults who do not belong to their childhood faiths, the reason(s) they said were an important factor in their switch: Raised Catholic, now unaffiliated Raised Catholic, now Protestant Raised Protestant, now unaffiliated Raised Protestant, now different Protestant faith Raised unaffiliated, now affiliated with a religion Just gradually drifted away from the religion 71 54 71 40 Spiritual needs not being met 43 71 39 51 51 Stopped believing in the religion's teachings 65 50 50 15 Found a religion they liked more 10 70 11 58 46 Unhappy with teachings about the Bible 29 43 36 23 Dissatisfied with atmosphere at worship
Bismillah [IslamCity] CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years Friday, March 13, 2009 http://www.prisonplanet.com/cia-report-israel-will-fall-in-20-years.html A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years. The CIA report predicts an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region. The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israeli - who would move to the US in the next fifteen years. There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than 300,000 living in the area of just California, International lawyer Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV on Friday, adding that those who do not have American or western passport, have already applied for them. So I think the handwriting at least among the public in Israel is on the wall.[which] suggests history will reject the colonial enterprise sooner or later, Lamb stressed. He said CIA, in its report, alludes to the unexpectedly quick fall of the apartheid government in South Africa and recalls the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, suggesting the end to the dream of an 'Israeli land' would happen 'way sooner' than later. The study further predicts the return of over one and a half million Israelis to Russia and other parts of Europe, and denotes a decline in Israeli births whereas a rise in the Palestinian population. Lamb said given the Israeli conduct toward the Palestinians and the Gaza strip in particular, the American public -- which has been voicing its protest against Tel Aviv's measures in the last 25 years -- may 'not take it anymore'. Some members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee have been informed of the report.
Bismillah [IslamCity] The Israelis were not in Sinai with Moses!!!! Palestine: Penalty of an Ancient Fraud By John Kaminski
- Original Message - From: Erooth Mohamed To: Cc: Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 9:45 AM Subject: The Israelis were not in Sinai with Moses Palestine: Penalty of an Ancient Fraud By John Kaminski Have fun with the thieves!!! The Israelis were not in Sinai with Moses An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly and made the world community smile. The Palestinian Representative's Speech at the UN 'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Moses. When he struck the rock and it brought forth water, he [Moses] thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath!' He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. 'An Israeli had stolen them.' The Israeli representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Israelis weren't there then.' The Palestinian representative smiled and said: 'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.' *** Penalty of an Ancient Fraud By John Kaminski Why killing is the biggest business of all And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Pick up your swords, go from camp to camp, every man shall kill his brother, every man shall kill his companion, every man shall kill his neighbor. — Exodus 32:27 Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. — Isaiah 13:16 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons and daughters. — Leviticus 26:29 Their town is all green graves, and blood under the feet of its men. — Aneirin, Welsh poet, c. A.D. 660 Who is the third who walks always beside you? ... Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded — T.S. Eliot, What the thunder said, A.D. 1922 When you become aware of a fleeting thought and try to catch it, it always seems to disappear. But if you try to walk away from it, it pursues you like a shadow, an invisible wraith of foreboding that lurks behind your left shoulder. Uneasily, you turn around to face it, and once again it is not there. They are numbers on a newspaper page. Silhouettes on a TV screen. Imaginary insects tickling the back of your neck. Objects of hatred targeted by the pastor's pointing finger. Terrorists lurking in your own neighborhood, aiming to blow you up. Who are these people we feel we must kill in order to assure our own safety, to validate and verify our own lives? Who are these faceless savages who give us nightmares, and accelerate the sales of drugs to calm us down. Yesterday they were the Palestinians. In our minds we were taught to see beasts with dynamite-encased ribcages ready to shatter our lives on a moment's notice. In reality today we see desperate children throwing stones at Apache helicopters, then lying in the street bleeding after Israeli target practice. Before that there were the niggers, coming to rape your white daughters. Subsequent exercises in reason reveal to most of us they were really innocent African abductees dangling from a tree limb in a drunken Southern town. And before that there were those filthy savages called Indians, on whom white Europeans perfected their genocide techniques that became America's principal export, a social technique which — when combined with the latest style in weaponry — provided those in the United States with their much-admired level of prosperity. Subsequent perspective on these forgotten souls — these native Americans — has never evolved, and to this day, they are abused and ravished by the local cops. Today's terrorists du jour are Iraqis (and Arabs in general), the ungrateful recipients of radioactive gifts from that high-tech plantation called America. Wrapped in tiny shawls and speaking an odd language (as enemies usually do), they bring us nightmare bombs that manifest the threat we must overcome to stay alive, that give us our reasons for productivity and ingenuity. Funny how it works that way, how civilization evolves responding to threats, whether real or imagined. Suicide bombers! Splashing the entrails of our own fear all over the front pages of our shrewdly designed existences. Funny how when you see how these creatures of horror evolved, we appear to have invented them ourselves, right in the pages of the Old Testament. You could also call it the Torah, but doing that allows Christians to evade responsibility for this violent horror that grips the world, and it would not be fair to do that, to pin everything on the Jews. The one good thing about both creeds is that they both stress personal responsibility, and that's what we're trying to define here. That's true, even though they both advocate killing those whose property you covet, as the excerpted quotes at the top of this essay so aptly illustrate. Few of us ever contemplate that these terrorist threats are works of
Bismillah [IslamCity] Cow Urine Trade Goes Official
Cow Urine Trade Goes Official Deccan Chronicle (Hyderbad, India) on 5 Feb 2008 http://www.iskcon-network.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/22/3539061.html Lucknow, Feb. 5: The Uttarakhand government will now buy and sell 5,000 litres of cow urine every day. The government will purchase cow urine from cow owners and then sell it to Ayurveda pharmacies like Patanjali Yogpeeth and Geeta Bhavan, which have volunteered to buy the product for use in manufacture of Ayurvedic medicines. The government plans to create a market later where cow owners can interact directly with buyers. According to Uttarakhand minister for animal husbandry Trivendra Rawat, 'We have got an order for 5,000 litres of cow urine per day from Patanjali Yogpeeth pharmacy, owned by Yoga guru Swami Ramdev, and Geeta Bhavan. Swargashram Rishikesh, too, has shown keen interest in buying cow urine for Ayurvedic medicines. We plan to buy cow urine though milk cooperatives at Rs 5 per litre.' The programme was launched in Kalsi, in Chakrata tehsil of Dehradun, earlier this month. The next phase will begin from Srinagar in Garhwal area later this month. Nearly 1,900 active milk cooperatives will be engaged to collect cow urine which will later be sold to Ayurvedic pharmacies. The urine of 26 species of cows, named Badri, has a richer herbal residue content compared to that of cows found in the plains. 'Badri' urine has a unique quality to treat cancer, claim experts. Ayurvedic chemists vouch for the medicinal properties of distilled cow urine. 'Cow urine has the same potential as Ciplox and Amoxicilin in allopathic medicines to fight diseases,' said Rakesh Bahuguna, an Ayurvedic chemist. The minister said Uttarakhand did not have the facilities to make cow urine concentrate and the government is keen to start a cow research institute. Mr Rawat visited Kanpur recently to study the upkeep of cow sheds being run in Uttar Pradesh. A team of officials also visited Jaipur to evaluate the work being done in Rajasthan. 'We want to collect all information so that we can have an excellent research facility in the proposed cow research institute,' he said. cow_pee_pee.jpg
Bismillah [IslamCity] Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans
US Accountable! Bush Or Hilter Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans By John Tirman, The Nation. Posted February 2, 2009. http://www.alternet.org/story/123818/ Now that Bush is gone, perhaps we can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it. We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush's war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective. Of course, even by his standards -- stability -- the jury is out. Most independent analysts would say it's too soon to judge the political outcome. Nearly six years after the invasion, the country remains riven by sectarian politics and major unresolved issues, like the status of Kirkuk. We have a better grasp of the human costs of the war. For example, the United Nations estimates that there are about 4.5 million displaced Iraqis -- more than half of them refugees -- or about one in every six citizens. Only 5 percent have chosen to return to their homes over the past year, a period of reduced violence from the high levels of 2005-07. The availability of healthcare, clean water, functioning schools, jobs and so forth remains elusive. According to Unicef, many provinces report that less than 40 percent of households have access to clean water. More than 40 percent of children in Basra, and more than 70 percent in Baghdad, cannot attend school. The mortality caused by the war is also high. Several household surveys were conducted between 2004 and 2007. While there are differences among them, the range suggests a congruence of estimates. But none have been conducted for eighteen months, and the two most reliable surveys were completed in mid-2006. The higher of those found 650,000 excess deaths (mortality attributable to war); the other yielded 400,000. The war remained ferocious for twelve to fifteen months after those surveys were finished and then began to subside. Iraq Body Count, a London NGO that uses English-language press reports from Iraq to count civilian deaths, provides a means to update the 2006 estimates. While it is known to be an undercount, because press reports are incomplete and Baghdad-centric, IBC nonetheless provides useful trends, which are striking. Its estimates are nearing 100,000, more than double its June 2006 figure of 45,000. (It does not count nonviolent excess deaths -- from health emergencies, for example -- or insurgent deaths.) If this is an acceptable marker, a plausible estimate of total deaths can be calculated by doubling the totals of the 2006 household surveys, which used a much more reliable and sophisticated method for estimates that draws on long experience in epidemiology. So we have, at present, between 800,000 and 1.3 million excess deaths as we approach the six-year anniversary of this war. This gruesome figure makes sense when reading of claims by Iraqi officials that there are 1-2 million war widows and 5 million orphans. This constitutes direct empirical evidence of total excess mortality and indirect, though confirming, evidence of the displaced and the bereaved and of general insecurity. The overall figures are stunning: 4.5 million displaced, 1-2 million widows, 5 million orphans, about 1 million dead -- in one way or another, affecting nearly one in two Iraqis. By any sensible measure, it would be difficult to describe this as a victory of any kind. It speaks volumes about the repair work we must do for Iraqis, and it should caution us against the savage wars we are prone to. Now that Bush is gone, perhaps the United States can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it. See more stories tagged with: iraq, iraq war, bush administration, iraq occupation, united nations, iraqi refugees, iraq body count John Tirman is Executive Director of MIT's Center for International Studies. logo_2.gif
Bismillah [IslamCity] Peres: Many Arab countrys supported Israel silently against Hamas
Peres: Many Arab countrys supported Israel silently against Hamas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rS_a0gKsCQfeature=related Perez admit Mubarak of Egypt and Abbas stood openly with Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMr-uGx4lk0feature=related George Galloway slams 'Hosni Mubarak' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XB-R9zrjAUfeature=related George Galloway on Arab Leaders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfxLMtHu9zAfeature=related CNN Rick sanchez Israel broke the ceasefire and started the war NOT Hamas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPOfi_iFnIfeature=related Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan Slams Israeli President Shamon Peres Over Gaza Killings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj_2GuNUdAIfeature=related Hugo Chavez - Talks about Gaza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOLFC_RYOyw Islamic resistance Hamas: SALUTES Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías Juan Evo Morales Ayma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=war60ohPL3Efeature=related Bolivia rompe relaciones diplomáticas con Israel en solidaridad con Palestina - Ene 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FlslO6uMjYfeature=related Bolivian Flat Flies Next to Palestinian Flag! Oprressed People Unite! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVsFoB2uuEMfeature=related The Samson Option - Vatican vs Chief Rabbinate (by Auntie Ziona, published Saturday, 31 January 2009 16:28) O y, if this meshuggenah zundel pope, who was himself a member of the Hitler Youth , thinks that he can push this holocaust-denying bishop into our faces, he should think again! Holocaust.jpg
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gaza appeal raises millions
Gaza appeal raises millions Updated 14.17 Fri Jan 30 2009 http://itn.co.uk/news/48df3bd2c0dc659fb7c79ad0266f2d1e.html An emergency relief appeal for the crisis in Gaza has raised £3 million despite anger over broadcasters' refusal to show it. The refusal led to protests outside the BBC's Broadcasting House, where demonstrators burned their television licences and occupied the building's reception until they were removed by police. The money raised is enabling aid agencies on the ground to reach people in dire need of humanitarian assistance - Brendan Gormley The BBC and Sky, where there were also protests, refused to show the emergency appeal, arguing that to do so would compromise their impartiality. But the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said that, thanks to funding since the appeal was launched, aid reached almost 800,000 people with vital supplies of blankets, food, water, sanitation and medical equipment in the conflict-stricken region. Brendan Gormley, chief executive of the committee, said: We are delighted that the public have responded in this way to the appeal. The money raised is enabling aid agencies on the ground to reach people in dire need of humanitarian assistance. BBC director general Mark Thompson said the decision not to broadcast the appeal was absolutely in line with the corporation's broader approach to impartiality and appeals. However, the DEC warned the situation remained critical, claiming a million people were without access to a safe and adequate water supply. More than 100 MPs from all parties signed an early day motion criticising the BBC and Sky News for refusing to show the appeal. Terrestrial broadcasters ITV, Channel 4 and Five showed the televised appeal on Monday. Gaza Aid.jpg
Bismillah [IslamCity] Depleted Uranium found in Gaza victims
- Original Message - Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80443sectionid=351020202 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:16:21 GMT Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gazan residents wounded in Israel's ground offensive into the strip. Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on December 27 have traces of depleted uranium in their bodies. The report comes after Israeli tanks and troops swept across the border into Gaza on Saturday night, opening a ground operation after eight days of intensive attacks by Israeli air and naval forces on the impoverished region. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned on Sunday that the wide-ranging ground offensive in the Gaza Strip would be full of surprises. A ground offensive in the densely-populated Gaza is expected to drastically increase the death toll of the civilian population. The latest assaults bring the number of Palestinians killed to over 488 with 2790 others wounded. The UN says that about 25 percent of the casualties were civilian deaths - including at least 34 children. According to Israeli army officials, at least 30 of its soldiers have been wounded since the start of the ground campaign. Amid global condemnation of the ongoing violence in the region, the UN Security Council failed to agree on a united approach to resolve the crisis. Once again, the world is watching in dismay the dysfunctionality of the Security Council, UN General Assembly chief Miguel d'Escoto said Sunday. According to diplomatic sources, the US blocked a Security Council resolution, with US Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff arguing that an official statement that criticizes both Israel and Hamas would not be helpful. The White House has so far declined to comment on whether an Israeli ground incursion into Gaza is a justified measure.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Kuffar Egypt tycoon plans new TV stations against Muslims
- Original Message - From: Shahid Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 9:17 AM Subject: Kuffar Egypt tycoon plans new TV stations against Muslims Egypt tycoon plans new TV stations against radicals Alaa Shahine, Reuters - Egypt Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Nov 6 (Reuters) - Egyptian billionaire and telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris plans to launch new television channels to counter what he describes as increasing social and religious conservatism in the Arab Muslim country. Sawiris, a Coptic Christian with a $10 billion fortune according to Forbes magazine, said he would launch a movie channel early in 2008 followed by an all-news station. He already owns OTV, a 24-hour entertainment channel. Speaking at a dinner for journalists late on Monday, Sawiris said he was disturbed by the rising number of women wearing the Islamic headscarf. I am not against the headscarf because then I would be against personal freedoms, he said. But when I walk in the street now I feel like I am in Iran... I feel like a stranger. Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran are obliged by law to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Egypt, a country dominated by Sunni Muslims, has seen a rise in religious conservatism since the 1990s. The majority of women wear headscarves in public. Some sociologists attribute this to the influence of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, where millions of Egyptians have worked and lived since the 1970s. Sawiris, who says he opposes radical Muslims and Christians alike, said his OTV channel has sought to counter the high dosage of religious and conservative programming on other channels by offering light shows targeting young people, along with uncensored Arab and foreign movies. BEYOND THE LIMITS If a movie is beyond the limits of the customs and traditions it wont be broadcast, he said. But if a movie is shown, it will not be censored. Most television channels in Egypt and the Arab world cut sexual scenes in movies and restrict offensive language. Sawiriss comments are likely to anger Islamists in Egypt, including the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, which pushed unsuccessfully last year to oust Culture Minister Farouk Hosni for saying wearing the headscarf was a step backwards. The Egyptian billionaire, who owns a stake in Egypts popular daily newspaper Al Masry Al Youm, launched a scathing attack on the Brotherhood, which insists that non-Muslims and women are ineligible to run for the countrys presidency. To hell with them, he said. Not a single Christian is waiting for their permission. God is just. God does not discriminate between people. Sawiris, chairman of Orascom Telecom, the fourth largest Arab mobile phone operator by market value, is not known to have any political ambitions and has rarely expressed his political opinions in public. Independent media have challenged the dominance of state-run Egyptian press and television, which for decades has dictated what the public could read, watch or listen to. Privately-owned newspapers have pushed the boundaries in political reporting, attacking President Hosni Mubarak and his family. Private television, however, does not enjoy the same liberties. http://www.mafhoum.com/press10/310C36.htm COMMENTS: If this ungrateful Christian is disturbed by Muslim women wearing the Islamic headscarf and if he feels like he is in Iran and he feels like a stranger when he walks in the streets among Egyptians, who made him a billionaire, why doesn't he move to London or Paris or New York or even to Hell, where he will not see so many scarves. Of course he will not do that because his intention is to spread vice and sin in Muslim Egypt as foreign Christian Evangelists and missionary groups have been doing in the Muslim World for centuries. He is openly challenging Muslims and declaring war on Islaam from inside Egypt. The enemies of Islaam are challenging Muslims and attacking Islaam in the land of Islaam, while they live, breath the air, eat, sleep in peace and get rich among Muslims!
Bismillah [IslamCity] Stand with Gaza or leave Iran
- Original Message - From: Anisa Abd el Fattah To: aplacefortr...@yahoogroups.com ; Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:33 AM Subject: Stand with Gaza or leave Iran 'Stand with Gaza or leave Iran' http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=79982sectionid=351020101 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:16 GMT Iranian students in front of the Egyptian Interests Section in Tehran Iranian students say the Egyptian Interests Section in Tehran will be closed unless Cairo rectifies its policies toward the Palestinian people. The students, who stormed a British embassy compound earlier in the evening, sent an open letter to the director of the interests section on Tuesday and set a 48-hour deadline for the Egyptian government to condemn the Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip. They warned that if Cairo refuses to do so, the interests section will be closed, ISNA reported. The students urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to end the country's support for the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip. Iran's Islamic Revolution proved that the stability of governments is dependent on public support rather than reliance on fake superpowers, reads part of the letter. The students declared that the Egyptian government should break its silence in regard to the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people, and if it fails to do so, its interest section personnel should leave Tehran by 12 noon on Thursday. However, the Iranian government has made no statement on the students' demands. MGH/HGL
