BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
Carrie Prejean: Are Progressives Becoming as Intolerant as Conservatives?
I've always been proud to consider myself a progressive, because being a progressive meant that I was open-minded, willing to assess every issue on its own merit, and I'm tolerant of varying points of view. But it seems that many of today's "progressives" have corrupted the term. Though many of these people call themselves progressives, they are not progressive thinkers–they are progressive in name only. Over the years they seem to have somehow lost their way, and as a result, have managed to redefined the term "progressive" to simply mean, not conservative.
A case in point is the unconscionable way in which the so-called progressive community has demonized Carrie Prejean after she indicated, almost apologetically during the Miss America Pageant, that she thought marriage should be between a man and a woman. Why in the world did she say that?!! Thereafter, she was called a bitch, seminude photos of her have been posted on the Internet, and she's been generally, dragged through the mud. It is unbelievable that people who call themselves progressive could do that to that young woman.
Contrary to the claims of Maggie Gallagher, polygamy is not about "an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children" - it is for the *production* of children, but beyond that, what it is primarily attempting to do has little else to do with children, and everything to do with the desires of the adults and, more specifically, their sectarian culture. Religious sects always emphasizes the *production* of children - but once those children are produced, the main focus of religion becomes, not safety, not security, not self-fulfillment or personal growth, but *obedience* to the patriarchy.
As for "traditional" marriage: If a relatively tiny proportion of the population can in *ANY* way "destroy" it, then the fact of the matter is that "traditional" marriage was/is already on its death-bed and cannot be resuscitated by Gallagher's hysterics about "making babies to preserve the culture" (which sounds to me like "code" for *white* society, since her speeches imply she is not in favor of adopting Asian, African, or Middle-Eastern children...).
Further more, if marriage is, as Gallagher and her acolytes claim, ALL (i.e., only) about *producing* children, then the inevitable extension of that is: once those children reach the "traditional" age of adulthood, these marriages should be dissolved - as should any childless marriage; and *any* people unable to have children should be prohibited from getting married. This would of course include such "lifestyles" as Genetic Mosaicism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_mosaicism) and Intersexuality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex) - which, given Gallagher's sectarian so-called "logic", must, contrary to any and all known biological science, also be "a lifestyle choice" because "God does not make junk".
Like other obsessive paranoid narcissists, however, Gallagher is incapable of following through to the consequences of her, and her followers', own so-called "reasoning". Given that men still generally have shorter lifespans than women, one wonders what she and her cabal plan to do about "single people in nursing homes" - perhaps follow the ancient "tradition" of "send the wife into the afterlife along with her husband"?
If "traditional" marriage is "in danger", it is because
1) too many people are pressured to marry at too young and age;
2) absurd romanticized pap about "white knights" and "riding off into the sunset" continue to supercede real and practical information about things like how to budget, how to share finances, and how to maintain one's own personhood within a relationship;
3) women are still too often treated as subservient to the husband, and too many "traditional" marriages are not any different at all from the Koranic implication that a woman is worth 1/2 of a man;
4) there are still far too many loveless marriages;
5) and several other well-documented stresses within "traditional" marriage that lead to things like the 50%+ divorce rate, sd well as battered spouses and children.
It is NOT "under threat" because a rather small minority of people wish to practice their civil Constitutional right to enter into the contract known as marriage. Just as it is not "under threat" because, in addition to priests, pastors, rabbis, and so on, *the State* also grants people such as Justices of the Peace, in some rare cases Notary Publics, and so on, to pronounce closure of the contract - which must also be registered with City Hall in order to be considered legal. This is why even a religious representative says: "By the power invested in me by the state of [insert state name], I now pronounce you..." In other words, marriage is a legal contract, and the Constitution grants equal rights to all citizens under the law - most especially concerning contract law. Again, Gallagher and her ilk invoke the Constitution in the same selective way that they invoke the Bible: when it suits *their own* purposes - meaning, their own egocentrism.
The things that are wrong in "traditional" marriage will NOT simply disappear even if the agents provocateur of intolerance and hatred *did* manage to prevent gay marriage (or fulfill their end-goal of wiping out all GLBT people...) If anything, that sort of obsessive narcissism, funneled into hatred of anyone and anything that is not an exact clone of the narcissist, and leading to a compulsion to control others to force them to be "appropriately" compliant, *is* one of the problems in "traditional" marriage. Were this not the case, Gallagher and her ilk would spend more time addressing the psychoemotional, physical, and even sexual abuse that, distressingly to the rest of us, is not all that uncommon in the much-vaunted and supposedly-perfect "traditional" marriage and family. At elast some of those who have endured, and survived, such abuse consider this deliberate oversight to be, at best, disgusting and serving nothing but their own narrow-minded obsession.
Anti-Zionism is hate
By Judea Pearl March 22, 2009
In January, four longtime Israel bashers were invited to the University of California, Los Angeles, to analyze the human rights conditions in Gaza, and used the stage to attack the legitimacy of Zionism and its vision of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.
They criminalized Israel’s existence, distorted its motives and maligned its character, its birth, even its conception. At one point, the excited audience reportedly chanted “Zionism is Nazism” and worse.
Jewish leaders condemned this hate-fest as a dangerous invitation to anti-Semitic hysteria. The organizers, some of them Jewish, took refuge in “academic freedom” and the argument that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
I fully support this mantra, not because it exonerates anti-Zionists from charges of anti-Semitism but because the distinction helps us focus attention on the discriminatory, immoral and more dangerous character of anti-Zionism.
Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation - a collective bonded by a common history - and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel.
Anti-Zionism earns its discriminatory character by denying the Jewish people what it grants to other historically bonded collectives (e.g., French, Spanish, Palestinians): namely, the right to nationhood, self-determination and legitimate coexistence with other indigenous claimants.
Anti-Semitism rejects Jews as equal members of the human race; anti-Zionism rejects Israel as an equal member in the family of nations.
Are Jews a nation? Some philosophers would argue Jews are a nation first and religion second. Indeed, the narrative of Exodus and the vision of the impending journey to the land of Canaan were etched in the minds of the Jewish people before they received the Torah at Mount Sinai. But philosophy aside, the unshaken conviction in their eventual repatriation to the birthplace of their history has been the engine behind Jewish endurance and hopes throughout their turbulent journey that started with the Roman expulsion in A.D. 70.
More important, shared history, not religion, is today the primary uniting force behind the secular, multiethnic society of Israel. The majority of its members do not practice religious laws and do not believe in divine supervision or the afterlife. The same applies to American Jewry, which is likewise largely secular. Identification with a common historical ethos, culminating in the re-establishment of the state of Israel, is the central bond of Jewish collectivity in America.
There are, of course, Jews who are non-Zionists and even anti-Zionists. There are also Jews who find it difficult to defend their identity against the growing viciousness of anti-Israel propaganda.
But these are marginal minorities at best; the vital tissues of Jewish identity today feed on Jewish history and its natural derivatives - the state of Israel, its struggle for survival, its cultural and scientific achievements and its relentless drive for peace.
Given this understanding of Jewish nationhood, anti-Zionism is in many ways more dangerous than anti-Semitism.
First, anti-Zionism targets the most vulnerable part of the Jewish people, namely, the Jewish population of Israel, whose physical safety and personal dignity depend crucially on maintaining Israel’s sovereignty. Put bluntly, the anti-Zionist plan to do away with Israel condemns 5.5 million human beings, mostly refugees or children of refugees, to eternal defenselessness in a region where genocidal designs are not uncommon.
Second, modern society has developed antibodies against anti-Semitism but not against anti-Zionism. Today, anti-Semitic stereotypes evoke revulsion in most people of conscience, while anti-Zionist rhetoric has become a mark of academic sophistication and social acceptance in certain extreme yet vocal circles of U.S. academia and media elite. Anti-Zionism disguises itself in the cloak of political debate, exempt from sensitivities and rules of civility that govern inter-religious discourse, to attack the most cherished symbol of Jewish identity.
Finally, anti-Zionist rhetoric is a stab in the back to the Israeli peace camp, which overwhelmingly stands for a two-state solution. It also gives credence to enemies of coexistence who claim that the eventual elimination of Israel is the hidden agenda of every Palestinian.
It is anti-Zionism, then, not anti-Semitism, that poses a more dangerous threat to lives, historical justice and the prospects of peace in the Middle East.
Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and the president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.israel22mar22,0,72685.story
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A certain foundation was laid in order for Barack Obama's election to become a reality. That foundation was built on the backs of civil rights workers; by the risks they took, the hard work in which they were engaged, and the blood they shed. Going back to Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas--and before--through W.E.B. Dubois, Rosa Parks, Dr. King, and countless others known and unknown, our next president and all of us who support him stand on the shoulders of courage and dedication. Those who challenge the status quo know that power does not yield without a fight. The Bull Connors and George Wallaces of the world are just a few of the very public examples of what occurs when entrenched thought, attitudes, and world views are shoved off their pedestals of power.
Within my own family my wife and I have had to deal with these entrenched attitudes. I have heard the "uppity N****r" comments along with, "once a muslim, always a muslim." Additionally--and most recently--another member of my family couldn't wait to reveal to us the new information concerning Barack Obama found on the internet: it would appear that Mr. Obama has close ties to the Chicago mob and that our government will really be run within those levers of power in the Windy City. Insert papacy and Vatican for mob and Chicago and you have a recycling of the same types of prejudices that confronted President Kennedy. It would seem that old habits die hard.
Comments that reveal racial attitudes and paranoia aside, the obvious falsity of religious and criminal assertions are easily dealt with providing you live in the reality based world. These are simply expressions of bigotry by those who have found a more polite way to spew their invective. Muslim = terrorist = Arab. Mobster = gangster = gangsta...you can guess where this one goes. Racism isn't dead, it has found new ways to spread. Below I've included an article from the Associated Press. It would appear that we have much work to do. And please note that some of the following incidents occur far from the South.
Obama election spurs race crimes around countryBy JESSE WASHINGTON (AP National Writer)From Associated PressNovember 16, 2008 12:00 AM EST Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America. From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders. There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes. One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said. She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear. "I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking." Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change. "If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said. Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries.""Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission. "If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5. The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's victory. Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia. The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision." Other incidents include: -Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say. -At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written "Let's hope someone wins." -Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars. -Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said. -University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said. -Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose. -Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa. -A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.' -In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house." Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger. "The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins." "If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race." "We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'" "It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot."
Obama election spurs race crimes around country
By JESSE WASHINGTON (AP National Writer)
From Associated PressNovember 16, 2008 12:00 AM EST
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders. There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.
One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said. She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear. "I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking." Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."
Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change. "If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said. Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries."
"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission. "If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5. The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's victory. Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia. The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision."
Other incidents include:
-Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.
-At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written "Let's hope someone wins."
-Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.
-Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said.
-University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said.
-Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.
-Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa.
-A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.'
-In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house."
Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger. "The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins."
"If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race."
"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'"
"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot."
Well folks it's official: John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin are waging a holy war against Muslims. They have apparently forgotten that those who attacked us in 2001 are radical fringe Islamists, not mainstream Muslims. McCain and Palin have forgotten that those same radical fringe Islamists have killed far more Muslims than non-Muslim people. McCain and Palin have forgotten that our enemy, Al Qaeda, is also the enemy of mainstream Islam. Instead the McCain-Palin campaign is engaging in blatant religious and racial stereotyping; exhorting Americans to be afraid of Senator Obama because his middle name is Hussein and suggesting Obama has ties to terrorists. Can any thinking America believe such preposterous innuendo and fear-mongering? Amazingly, this kind of tactic has succeeded before. Is this the "change" that John McCain has promised us? Sorry, but this is just more of the Bush-Rove Big Lie machine operation that has brought America the last 8 years of economic pain and international shame.
It is high time for America to send a message to those who use fear, lies and religious and racial stereotyping as weapons against ideas and truth to steal elections. Tell them we vote for truth, ethics and progress! Send the McCain-Palin-Rove campaign and their "snake oil" sales apparatus packing by voting for Obama-Biden for the Change We Need!! Our future - and our children's - depends on it.
Each day that passes, Sarah Palin reveals herself as a paleoconservative hatchman in pumps.
In this time of economic turndown, a moment when the search for scapegoats may be just around the corner, it might be wise to remember the words of author Sinclair Lewis, which hopefully will not turn out to be prophetic:
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Turn a deaf ear to this Pat Buchanan in lipstick?
You betcha!
Bobby Kennedy once said, "Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
He also said, "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"
I thought of this quote today as my stomach turned while reading an AP story about the waffles the Republicans sold at an event. I thought - how dare they? I physically felt sick thinking about it.
I know - you think you can't win the race question. You think if you "play the race card," you'll lose. But let's face it - things aren't going your way at the moment. If you're going to do something - why not DO something? The higher road is the noble course, but sometimes silence is tacit acceptance. Sometimes, it's necessary to use your voice to stand up for the many.
The waffle incident isn't just about you. It's about the disdain these Republicans have for basic human decency. It's about the 12% of Americans (about 36 million Americans) who were also denigrated by the hateful, horrible Republican display.
What would the Republican's say - what would they do if you had a picture of Bristol Palin, barefoot and pregnant, apron around her waist, serving her husband his breakfast? You would have to drop out of the race for the battering you'd take. Oh, the sexism.
Well, I'll tell you what: I'm a professional, white woman and an Ivy League graduate. I have never in my life faced sexism. I have never in my life not been able to achieve what I wanted because I am a woman. I'm fortunate, I know. But I strongly feel that race, far more than gender, impacts opportunity.
Think of what it says to the millions of black boys and girls out there looking to you as a leader and inspiration when you let such blatant, unacceptable racism go unchallenged by having "no comment" in response to the AP's article - no comment at all!
I know you don't want to make this campagin about race. But why not make it about what the Republicans are doing? Call a spade, a spade! While everyone's talking about Palin's historic moment, you seem to have forgotten yours. You've forgotten what you represent.
For the millions of black men and women out there, can't you express some astonishment, some incredulity that the Republicans think this is okay? Can't you ask what they would think if John McCain were black and that was your idea of "satire?" Maybe have a town hall with John McCain - bring a box of waffles with you - and ask him to his face if he truly thinks it is acceptable "satire."
They shouldn't be allowed to behave in such a depraved manner and not have to account for it.
Perhaps you don't think it's such a big deal. But to me, it is... It is because it is indicative of all that is wrong in this campaign and with the Republican party. The Republicans can say whatever they like, black is white, wrong is right, lies are truth and you have to spend your time trying to prove them wrong. Then when you say 2+2=4 - they say you are wrong. How can this be acceptable?
They are making a mockery of our nation. They have made the presidency about the lowest common denominator. But this country is better than that - it needs better than that. Knowledge, thoughtfulness and decency are virtues - and they want to make them liabilities. It can not be stopped just by ignoring it.
All I'm asking is that rather than having no comment, you say something like:
"If John McCain had any ideas for the future of this country, he would share them with voters. But all he's got are dishonorable and insulting swift boat tactics. All he can do is try to make people believe this country shouldn't expect anything better in the next four years than it has had in the last eight.
"As for me, I'm going to talk to voters about a 'Pathway to Prosperity.' I'm going to talk about how to protect people's homes, lower middle class taxes, save our environment, fix education and end oil dependence. I'll leave it to the voters to decide what they care about more - twentieth century stereotypes and worn-out insults, or a change to new ideas for a new time."
To borrow again from Kennedy:
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
PS "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." Robert Kennedy
PPS referring back to a previous blog about packaging Obama's policies, I want to thank the people who left comments with such excellent ideas! I plan to collect a few more and send them to the campaign. Here's to each of us and our work to change a small portion of events....
PPPS All Kennedy quotes were found at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/robert_f_kennedy.html
Facts & Causes
The obvious, or the ’should be obvious’
This is not really all about the Arab Muslim world, who’s anti Israel feeling and action is motivated (not by any feeling to help fellow Arab Muslims, fact is, the Arab “Palestinians” are persecuted all throughout the Arab world) by Arab racism (just as the Kurds, Maronites, Sudanese and other non Arabs suffer from the global Arabization) & Islamofascism or Islamic-Fascism, the evil ideology as Tony Blair calls it (just as non Muslims in general, dhimmi or kuffars, non-believers suffer, global wide, take it straight from the horse’s mouth, the Iranian fanatical Islamic leader Ahmadinejad’s call for genocide & ethnic cleansing on Israel that though has no regional or territorial disputes with Iran of course, “doesn’t belong on ‘Muslim land’, in the all Muslim middle east”, this anti-Israel facsism still infects most moderate Muslim countries that blindly refuse entry to anyone with an Israeli passport).Nor is it about the few neo/old Nazis that hate all Jews (even those that tell you they hate “only Zionists”).But this is about the bigotry of anti-Israel infected in the mainstream.
Jumping to conclusion before knowing the facts
This happens on a regular basis, but a few examples might serve as highlights if you wish:
The rush into harsh words by UN’s Secretary general Kofi Annan (before he semi-apologized for it) when some UN officials got hurt in the cross fire between Huzbullah terrorists and Israeli defense forces (Hezbullah initiated war and invasion 2006), even after realizing that the UN post was used by the Huzbullah as a tool.
The overwhelming bashing Israel in Arabs’ deaths, like the very icon the “Palestinian” propaganda machine used, as in the Arab kid Muhammad al-Dura (2002), which we all know by now, was nothing more than staged by Arabs themselves, and it was Arab shooters that killed that boy.
The rushing media in “blaming Israel” for the death of an Arab family on Gaza beach (2006), again Israel promised/asked to wait until a full investigation is complete, that concluded it was the “Palestinian” Hamas’ led mines that brought about that incident.
No matter how many times the media sees the transparency in the fake images produced and invented by the ‘Palestinians’, “PALLYWOOD” (http://seconddraft.org), it seems to “forget”, each time a new case appears.
Demanding from Israel the victim of terror more than from the perpetrator
The words an anti-Israel ‘activist’ told me, resonates throughout this conflict: “I can’t expect from the Arabs any better, but Israel/ should know better!”.In other words, it is part of demanding from the west ever more then from the Islamic world, when it comes to morality.The only problem is that it is not presented in this open way, it is presented as Israel is the “bad” guy, period.As opposed to endless condemnations by the UN on Israel’s self defense, When was the last time the UN has condemned the very Arab “Palestinian” crimes on their own people that they try to pin on Israel, like:Using it’s kids as human shields (which Huzbullah, in 2006, picked up very quickly, copied them in their war on Israeli civilians, using Arab civilians) and as human bombs?Legitimizing and even glorifying mass murder and genocide as a ‘good holy act’ in their mainstream and official media?
The Lie of “natives” is bought
How many have fallen prey to the powerful sell of “indigenous” Arabs in the land of the Judea?The picture of an all out ‘Arabs in the middle east’, is one of the misconception misleading clarity of history, never forget that most today’s ‘Palestinians’ have no more than 3 generations “history” in this ancient land of the Jews.Absolutely no one has disputed the fact of Arab immigration that saw an upsurge with Zionists’ immigration (the latter only, limited by the British) in the late 1800.The fact that the most “Palestinian” - icon of all time: Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian born fighting for “his homeland” in Israel… is so classical.By the same token, it is not well known the fact that over 50% Israeli Jews are of children of indigenous Jews in the middle east (http://jimena.org) .
The Global Goliath Islamo Arab powerThe very fact that there was so much talk and selecting/picking on one lobby out of so many different types and different interests - lobbies that operate in Washington but the utter silence on the enormous Islamo Arab lobby that basically occupies, threatens, incorporating so many in their anti-Israel racist boycott, uses oil as a weapon and dictates the international arena, including the UN, shows you just how great of bully they are.So is the fear of European nations for unrest by the Arab Muslim (immigrant) population, (terrorism works!) that effects or rather impairs their stand on the middle east conflict.
The wrong picture of seeing Israel as the “aggressor” and the ‘Palestinian Arabs’ as the “underdog”
Question # 1:Who has more power, the cynical Arab adult shooting behind a kid’s back, behind a woman’s squirt, or the Israeli humane soldier facing a terrible dilemma?
Question # 2When you see the biased media showing a tank vs. kid, A) do you ever stop and think what the message is behind it? B) Does this suggest that the Israeli soldier is really after an unarmed person? C) Did you ever stop to think that the very fact that you can see the Israeli soldier but you can NOT see the Arab terrorist makes the invisible much more of a menace?
Nothing more like the situation in Iraq (2003-2007) demonstrates that you might have the most powerful army in the world, you are weaker (in many ways) than the invisible coward terrorists hiding among civilians that has no rules of basic regards for ANY human lives.
Outrageous use of baseless drama language and hollow bombastic terms on Israel’s multi-racial beautiful democracy
Take for example the admission of anti Israel Arabist: Jimmy Carter that (on December , 2006 - CNN) has admitted that Israel is a great democracy with freedom and equal rights for all, and that (in an interview to Larry King he said that) he used provocative words like “apartheid” (only) in order to provoke discussion.All those bombastic empty words like “racism’ or “apartheid” the anti-Israel Arab racist propaganda machine is selling, has of course no support in facts on the ground, there is nothing “racist” about fighting terrorists for being terrorists, there is nothing “apartheid”, especially that they are the same Arab race and group, Israeli Arabs and “Palestinian” Arabs, with different identification cards that has nothing but security implications.Since when is concern for security considered “racism”?
The same “Judenrein - Palestine” that is trying to ethnic cleanse all Jews, that does not even permit any Jew to live in their ‘territories’, is lecturing multi-racial, multi-religion, multi-color Israel, that has all colors and races from the darkest black to the whitest blond, that has a whopping 20-25% Arabs in it’s population, with equal rights and representations in high offices (and even more rights than Jews, giving the fact that Israeli Jews are obligated to serve in the army whereas Israeli Arabs are not).
The racism behind “questioning” Israel’s right to exist
Can you name one other country that is subject to even a question of being ‘recognized’?Why do you think it is?If you want to talk about history as a supposed reason, 1) Even if you are a naiive student of ‘Palestinian’ propaganda in revising history, You don’t see anyone denying the unmistakenly settlers like most European, or American or Australians right to exist. 2) speaking even about history, for the record: No matter on which political side you are on, you have no right to deny rights of a nation to exist, no one can ever erase Jews’ history to the land of Israel, at the same breath no one can claim that there was ever a sovereign Arab-Muslim “Palestine”, in fact, the same nazis or Jew-haters that used to tell the Jews in Europe: ‘Go back where you came from, go to Israel-Palestine’, the ones continue the evil torch of Nazism today ironically deny the Jews coming back to their original roots-origin.
The dehumanization of Israeli victims
Seeing Israel as nothing but a “tank”, is another racist element coming through, in brushing off Israeli victims as a “side details” at best.When was the last time the BBC (for example) has shown any drama pictures of injured Israeli kids at a fraction of the time, passion dedicated to any Arab kid that was killed (usually) because of an Arab adult’s fault?Can you remember reporters of the mainstream media visiting Israeli hospitals as much as you can remember them strolling down Arab ones? And Why not?Numbers are not the reason, percentage wise you will see time and time again, Israel loses by far in media’s favoritism.
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Some references
No Tolerance for Bigotry. Edward I. Koch Tuesday, March 7, 2006 … he was affiliated with the anti-Israel organization Architects and Planners for Justicehttp://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/3/7/125453.shtml
israelinsider: Views: Bigotry outside Faneuil HallWhen I left, award in hand, I was accosted by a group of screaming, angry young men and women carrying virulently anti-Israel signs. … http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3389&enZone=Views&enVersion=0
Ugly iceberg of bigotry | Jerusalem PostUgly iceberg of bigotry By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ … these anti-Israel zealots are not only ignoring the real problems faced by many, they are also providing …http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1128955360838&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Anti-semitism on campus by Anna Bolman at Over A Teacup Campus newspapers have become a hotbed of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel … they cannot stop certain expressions of hate and bigotry, they condemn them. …http://www.overateacup.com/abolman1.html
Ford Foundation Update - Ford Money Still Being Used for Anti Israel …. bigotry or violence, … The NGOs mentioned above continue to promote an anti-Israel political agenda. …http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=993
This goes beyond even the onerous bigotry and anti-Israel bias being exhibited by professors in many of the Middle Eastern Studies Departmentshttp://clarityandresolve.com/archives/2005/02/columbia_profes.php
The Struggle against Anti-Israel Bias at the UN Commission on …The same can be said for the UN as a whole; defeating its bigotryhttp://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-040-neuer.htm
Seven Christian leaders wrote the following open letter to President Bush in response to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents around the world‘To bigotry no sanction’. America must stand against a … Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, and the singularly anti-Israel focus …http://www.leaderu.com/theology/nosanction.html
UN-sponsored bigotryMany people are anti-Israel for a variety of reasons which are not anti-Semitic per … Spouting accusations and bigotry…http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/007670.php
Melanie Phillips’s Diary » Back to unreality (3)Having given the anti-Israel bigotry of the British left its regular airing, the programme showed its commitment to balance by broadcasting a sample of …www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=993 - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
It’s about bigotry, stupid!The war on terrorism is a war against bigotry. It’s a war that cannot be won … The screening was the work of a pro-Palestine, anti-Israel …http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37766
Immunizing Science Against Bigotry Beleaguered Israeli doctors now have to fend off mindless … anti-Semitism, which now hides behind anti-Israel rhetoric. …http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Immunizing_Science_Against_Bigotry.asp
Kicking a CAIR Extremist … Ahmad is free to continue publishing anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric…http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25309
“British Academic Boycott Is Just Blinkered Bigotry - Forward.com” … the latest in a series of high-profile anti-Israel declarations and boycotts..http://www.forward.com/articles/british-academic-boycott-is-just-blinkered-bigotry
Fears of anti-Semitism sweep Europe / Leftists, intellectuals …The phenomenon of extreme criticism of Israel morphing into bigotry against … “Many intellectuals will say they are anti-Israel or anti-Zionist…http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/14/MNGVD3N2H31.DTL Depths of bigotry at Columbia - Campus WatchThe evidence that Columbia University classrooms are infected by a culture of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bigotry grows ever stronger. …http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1345
Nice talk can’t hide U.N.’s anti-Jewish bigotryNice talk can’t hide U.N.’s anti-Jewish bigotry. By Joel Mowbray … Bayefsky further attacked Annan for hypocrisy in condemning Israel for killing Hamas …http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0704/mowbray_2004_07_01.php3
WorldNetDaily: Europe blinded by anti-Semitic bigotryEurope blinded by anti-Semitic bigotry … The AUT’s indictment of Israel is short on specifics – with good reason. There simply is no case to be made that …http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43891
CAMERA: Caricature or Bigotry? The Chicago Tribune ran an offensive and fallacious cartoon by Dick Locher on May 30, 2003 reminiscent of the anti-Jewish stereotypes …http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=480&x_context=2
Hating Jews: when do anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism overlap? http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_9_35/ai_n6133904
What does the cruel vicious racist giant want from the innocent little one?
Let's face it, had Israel be just another Arab, Muslim country, nothing of - what's now known as - an 'Arab Israeli conflict' would have existed at all.The fate of a minority in a double sense, it is neither an Arab state, but a full democracy with Arabs as a major equal minority, nor is it a Muslim state, its system is like any western free secular society.[though in reality, Arabs, Muslims are often treated as first class citizens over Jews in Israel's democracy, some examples are: [1] access to holy sites (like: The Temple Mount is always closed to non-Muslims on Fridays and during the entire... (Ramadan), Temple Mount shut to non-Muslims on election eve, or the case in 2005), [2] cases of land disputes, Israeli courts would order only the Jews to be moved out already before any decision is made, [3] We see that the Israelis routinely decide in favor of the Palestinians against their own government, and [4] giving favor in not-handling any illegal Arab settlements VS swift action on Jewish (so called) "illegal" ones, Gov't Allows Arabs To Squat on Jewish Farmland, Arab "Land Grab" in Israel gets shielded by Israel's Supreme Court, it is favoring Arabs over Jews in its self-image, [5] Israel's courts go as far as favoring some one or two Arabs' convenience over Israelis' security as in altering the fence to accommodate some Arabs Fence Rulings: Democracy in Action Israel's Supreme Court sided with the Palestinians in a precedent-setting decision,ordering the government to reroute part of its West Bank ..., etc.].
"LAND"Had it been really [mainly] about [having more, or having less] "land" (or/and about a flag), the Arabs would have no problem complying with the UN's partition plan/offer in 1948.But No! The Arab racists and Islamic bigots wouldn't have it as long as there's also a Jewish state.What "territories" did the Arabs "fight" about in the Arab massacres since the 1920's on the Jews?Would it be just about a strip of land, you would have expected that with [always the giver:] Israel's gigantic gesture of its land Gaza give-away, a change [somewhat] of behavior will occur among Arab "Palestinians", instead of genocidal rise of Hamas. Can anyone point for me the exact "territory", the callers for Genocide: Islamic Republic of Iran's "case" in "dispute" is all about?
Ahmadinejad was NOT mistranslated
A typical Islamic hypocrisy, its name is Ahmadinejad, with all his Islamic intolerant regime's anti-Arab racism, persecuting all his minorities especially his Arab ( The Plight of the Ahwazi Arab) population, can be the last (in the Middle east) to claim he just aches for Arab "Palestinians".
Islamic flaming bigotry will stop at nothing: Iran Holocaust Denial--Rewriting history to suit their political ends. Just as Iran's founded/led and Syrian backed Islamic Hezbullah terror group is all about: csmonitor: Hizbullah's real goal is racist: To free the Middle East holy lands of Jews... Hizbullah's goal is not the "liberation" of Palestine. Its members are not Palestinian. They are Islamic extremists.
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THE SAME OLD...
That culture of racism that has pushed, intimidated the British appeasers to restrict Jewish immigration while allowing the massive Arab immigration (reminder: Arab immigrants settlers, can never turn into "natives", no matter how many lies their grandchildren try to tell you) into Jews' [ & never ever Arab] historic land.Intolerant Arabia fact# 1: What kind of an excuse of re-appearing the State of Israel was there for one of the major crimes post WWII, to expel the 850.000 Jews from Arab Muslim countries in 1948 & confiscate their property?
DIVIDED ARABS: 'UNITED WE STAND IN EVIL RACISM!
'Intolerant Arabia fact# 2: What united the (always divided) Arabs to attack the Jews in 1948, 1967, 1973? (Iraqi example of Arab on Arab in the most beastly way type of slaughter, is rooted in old hatred among Arabs, Muslims, sectarian and otherwise, as are other Arab vs Arab massacres: Algerian, "Palestinian" and so on, in any case, even when in peace, still there is never any harmony among Arab leaders, never any unity in the Arab world on anything besides shear blind anti-Israelism). Intolerant Arabia fact# 3: What kind of a world is it that they will cheer to "Palestinian" Intifadas & Hezbollah (- 2006) [using abusing -] playing kids & women's lives as a ping pong (as always, not caring about Arabs' lives but turning only) against Israel?
Intolerant Arabia fact# 4: "Moderate" Arab Muslim Jordan leads the world in hatred of Jews.If not for the unbelievable consistency of Arab racism, (which started to manifest itself in the 1800's, up-scaled since 1929 [*, *, *, *, *] there wouldn't have been a conflict nor the prolonged suffering of both sides, well, it's all too bad that the ["Palestinian"] Arabs suffer from their own racism.
from the 'Hebron Massacre' 1929
NEVER PRO ARAB - "PALESTINIANS" BUT ALWAYS 'ANTI - ISRAEL'
Had it been about Arab world being "preoccupied" with the Arab "Palestinians", the Arabs wouldn't have hated, oppressed, persecuted, massacred them (in Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, S. Arabia, Iraq, etc.).Had the Arab world been real brothers to the Arabs that call themselves (since the 1960's) "Palestinians", they wouldn't have prevented any chance by humane heroic Israel to improve their status, but No! The Arab anti-Israel racists always preferred using them and their misery against the "Zionist enemy", it also served/serves as a devious diversion for their population being constant victims of the horror of all Arab oppressive dictatorships, "palestinians"...as a foil to keep their own oppressed population focused on Israel instead of deplorable human rights in their own countries.What do you make of such facts like 'In 1954, the king of Saudi Arabia stated that the Arabs should be willing to sacrifice what amounted to 20% of their population to destroy Israel'? Because it was never about "Pro-Palestinian-Arabs" but all about anti Israel. Just like in 1948 when the Arab leaders told them to flee, to evacuate it (Palestine) and leave for the bordering Arab countries thus created the "refugee" problem. Not much has changed, truth is Arab nations don't care about the Palestinians [exposing the lie in the middle east]. Just a side note, Can anyone answer me this, How come it was rather the Arab filthy oil rich countries that were left so far behind at Europe's pledge drive of billions of dollars to the "Palestinians" in 2007?
A PROFILE OF AN ARAB RACIST: SADDAM HUSSEIN
Take the most notorious butcher of our time, that classic brutal Arab racist Saddam Hussein of course, master of sectarian persecution, who defined his Arabism by the extent of his brutality against non Arab Kurds, non Arab Persians, it was only appropriate for the racist's last words to be: "Palestine is (all) Arab!" ['Palestine's patron mourned], meaning: Only Arabs, 'No Jews'!
Halabja: The Racism of so-called Arab Intellectuals towards Kurds and Kurdistan
Assyrians in Iraqa million people lost their lives in Saddam's initiated Iraq-Iran warIt was in Saddam Hussein's Iraq where Arab racism attained its most vulgar ... The "Arabization" of Persian contributions on the world stage... Saddam�s Racism, [from the devil's mouth:] "Three whom God should not have created: Persians, Jews, and flies"
A GLIMPSE INTO THE TOTALITARIAN EVIL EMPIRE OF SAUDI ARABIA - EXAMPLE OF ARAB RACISM
The mistreatment of non-Arab workers, the sex slavery upon Asian women and other oppression, are well known facts. Not to mention the repression of any non Muslim activity/voice.
Amnesty News: Saudi Arabia: Asian workers continue to suffer behind closed doors ...Asian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are at risk of human rights violations ... or coerced into signing a statement in Arabic, which they don't understand. ...
White slavery of female American citizens in Saudi Arabia, The girl, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, was sentenced under Islamic law after three men forced her into having sex last September. Saudi Arabia: land of child rapists... In Saudi Arabia, marriage can come as young as 12 years old for girls. (Wall Street Journal)
'Sex slave' trial starts in US Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia ... Interestingly, Nazar, like many of these poor Asian slaves
Filipino 'Sex Slaves' Rescued In Malaysia Sue Recruiters For Human . .... Europe & the middle east especially Pinoys in Saudi Arabia.
SAUDI ARABIA AND SLAVERY
How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam...Look at Saudi Arabia, a strict Islamic state... trade and trafficking of women as sex slaves
How a British jihadi saw the light, My first clash with Saudi culture came when, being driven around in a bulletproof jeep, I saw African women in black abayas tending to the rubbish bins outside restaurants, residences and other busy places. "Why are there so many black cleaners on the streets?" I asked the driver. The driver laughed. "They're not cleaners. They are scavengers; women who collect cardboard from all across Jeddah and then sell it. They also collect bottles, drink cans, bags." Racism was an integral part of Saudi society. My students often used the word "nigger" to describe black people. Even dark-skinned Arabs were considered inferior to their lighter-skinned cousins. I was living in the world's most avowedly Muslim country, yet I found it anything but. I was appalled by the imposition of Wahhabism in the public realm, something I had implicitly sought as an Islamist.
Slaves in Saudi Arabia, A report from a Muslim: Anyone who has visited Saudi Arabia knows the racism with which ordinary Saudis treats the brown and black-skinned masses that come for Hajj. Like hundreds of Bangladeshis every year, my parents endured these indignities during their recent pilgrimage. When he returned from Mecca, my father told me, "To them, we will always be miskeen (beggar). Doesn't matter what we do, or where we come from. They see our skin and don't need to see more. " If this is how pilgrims are treated, imagine how much worse is the plight of the "Guest Worker." Yet, we Muslims remain silent on these abuses -- after all the Saudis are the keepers of Islam's holiest site, so they cannot possibly be racist!
Arab racism is such that most Pakistanis would prefer to work in Britain than in Saudi Arabia.
SOME ARAB RACISM HIGLIGHTS IN GENERAL
- Then there's Kuwait... children to take illegal drugs and then used these children as sex slaves
- More discriminative and racist behavior against Indians (by Kuwaiti police)
- RISE OF RACISM, INTOLERANCE IS SERIOUS THREAT.. Kuwait was concerned that racism had been made an ordinary thing by
- Show me the real you� the ugly face of Racism, Racism in Kuwait has a whole lot of meaning in it.
- Yawar is now a feeble negligible lame-duck President. In spite of that he does not think of any political, diplomatic, moral and even tribal considerations, as a new husband of a political Kurdish woman, to restraint his essentially racist views, He frankly expresses his racist hatred of Kurds, his true Arab fascist a nature which does not recognize any form of democracy or freedom of expression, nor the rights of people to self determination and democratic determination of their future.
- The Coptic Christians in Egypt are subjected to government-sanctioned discrimination in employment ...
- Copts were massacred in their churches and villages in Egypt and tourists have been ... Arab racism consists of calling the country of Israel, Arab land, ...
- Christians in the Middle East, Coptic, Maronite... In Egypt, the large Coptic nation is systematically discriminated against... The religious persecution and oppression is normally conducted...
- ...about the plight of Yemen's outcaste Al Akhdam minority, ... All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, Anti-Slavery International...
- "Discrimination Against Al-Akhdam People in Yemen Criticised...
- Mention should be made of the oppressed Kurdish minority in Syria. .... world conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia...
- The Syrian regime does not permit its Druze citizens to visit their relatives and friends
- [Eritreans in Egypt] face racism and economic marginalisation, rights activists say.
- Arab racism is deeply embedded in the history of North Africa itself... the Berbers, and other non-Arab peoples are confined to the fringes of ...
- They're not Arabs. Like Iraq's Kurds or North Africa's Amazigh (Berbers). ... of North Africa) is mostly about Arab racism and chauvinism� pure and simple.
- ...Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell; but it is also the core of the Arab-Berber, Arab-Kurd, Arab-Black African, Arab-Copt, Arab-Assyrian,
- Obama & Arab Racism
- Moroccan Amazigh Party not legitimate, government says... In Morocco, the Arabs back racism to the point of preventing inhabitants...
"PALESTINIAN" ARAB MUSLIM RACISM, AGAINST BLACKS TOO!
'Black spinster' label pinned on Condi Rice Palestinian media use racist terms including 'colored dark skin lady'
PALESTINIAN MEDIA USE RACIST TERMS FOR CONDI RICE: Newspapers ...Eurweb.com, CA - Aug 2, 2006* The Palestinians' overall hatred ... Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been using racist terms in ... A cartoon that ran last week in the PA controlled Al Quds ...Black Activists Condemn Racist Rice Cartoons in Palestinian Press ... Pali media welcomes 'colored,' 'dark-skinned,' 'black ...Jul 31, 2006 Which is more racist, the rhetoric itself or the free pass Palestinians get from ... A cartoon last week in the PA controlled Al Quds depicted Rice pregnant...
A PART OF GLOBAL ISLAMO ARAB RACISM
What's the difference between "merciful" Arabs, Muslims attacking [spitting, beating, etc.] Jews in Paris (murder of Ilan Halimi among so many), London, Brussels, or Muslims beheading Jews (Daniel Pearl) in Pakistan, Iraq (Nick Berg), Islamic Iran's killing of Jews in Argentina, and Arabs attacking Israelis?
AN OASIS OF TOLERANCE & DEMOCRACY IN A DESERT OF DISCRIMNITORY & TOTALITARIAN ARABIA
Why can't the Arab Muslim majority [instead of fascistic wars and racist boycotts for 60 years 1948-2008] simply accept the Israeli minority in its midst just as the Israeli open free democracy accepts its 20% Arab minority? [giving them equal freedom and full equal rights - Arab representation in the government, etc., The productivity and tolerance of the Jews in the state they created have given birth to an Arab citizenry inside Israel of more than one million people, even though it is the only refuge for persecuted Jews while Arabs have so much of vast land].Whereas Israel is at the merciless hands of Arab Muslim undemocratic, saturated with Arab Racism, Islamic Fascism, Islamic intolerance, Islamic bigotry toward non-Muslims, facts, and 'human rights' terrible abuser middle east, Israel is just another minority such as Christians, or any "infidel" in their own radical regimes, Infidels can be permitted to exist only as dhimmis, and in such a non-Muslim state as Israel they would no longer be dhimmis, (the continuation of dhimmitude, The fates of non-Muslims in Islamic society, "Jihad Conquests and the Imposition of Dhimmitude -- A Survey, in The legacy of jihad: Islamic holy war and the fate of non-Muslims. ) but in fact its doomed only far worse, it can't even be given a 'right to exist'.
(In this context, It is important to note the general historic Arabization and Islamicization upon the indigenous people & more about the myth that "all of the middle east is originally Arab").
[GUESS WHAT] THE MIDDLE EAST DOES NOT "BELONG" TO ARABS
What historic human suffering done is done, the Arabization monster that has swept through the middle east crushing [eliminating, dwindling its population & wide oppression] in its way all other indigenous people in the middle east and in north Africa, its consequences are still resulting in minorities' plight, but the Arab world have yet to grow up and realize the reality that neither the world nor the middle east belongs only to one race.
WHY NOT TALK ABOUT PRE ISRAEL'S RE-ESTABLISHING?
Why do you think the Arab propagandists always avoid the initiation milestone of Arab massacres on Jews by Hitler's buddy the Arab Islamic leader the Mufti [*, *, *,
*, *] (the inspirer of the butcher: Yasser Arafat) ? If not for it being the mark and typical exposed cause (which is plain hatred)
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talking about the hatred cradle of the conflict, it is no surprise that: British National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Arab-"Palestinian" leaders. Historical documents... show Nazis shipped arms to "Palestinians".Much has been written about The Nazi Roots of 'Islamic Antisemitism', Nazi Roots Of radical Islamic Fascism.
UNPRECEDENTED RACIST ISOLATION BY THE POWER OF THE ARAB MONSTER
Show me one more country that is so isolated, economically, politically and (more importantly) security wise, by haters, as the Israel freedom island in the ocean of Arab racism & tyranny
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As lamentably the UN, EU & its policies, and even US policy makers that push for an Arab- 'Palestine' state while pressing only Israel for more concessions, are entirely hijacked by the oil Arab bosses, who should [then] even care about a "Zionist" lobby in Washington?Just remember that it's this international Arab lobby that is so intolerant as much as so powerful, it will shut down or at least minimize the world outcry about (Arab racism's crimes on Africans especially) the genocide in Sudan,
So, in Sudan's western region of Darfur, it's Arab versus black, regardless of religion. Ditto for Arab versus Kurd, Amazigh, and so forth. In Sudan's largely non-Muslim south, it's a combination of both Arab racism and the conquest of the 'Dar ul-Islam' as exemplified also in the expected subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts, Lebanon's Christians, Near Eastern Assyrians, and Israel, the Jew of the Nations, home to whom Arabs call their "kilab yahud Jew dogs." Arab racism, Islamic bigotry and discriminatory practices are the most divisive issues in the Sudan because they are the major factors the plight of non-Arab or/and non-Muslim minorities in all of the Arab Muslim apartheid world (Like "apartheid South Africa". ... non-Muslims are treated as second-class citizens the despised Dhimmi.), or even human rights violation of all citizens in that repressive world, but will keep pressing [instead] damning 'resolutions' & bullying the world on racist boycotts against the Israeli victim of Arab terrorism.
If not for the Arab international vast power, how else can one explain the world media & UN's silence on "Palestinian" crimes against humanity upon their own people? [asides from the usual massive corruption and stealing from their poor people] like Terrorist organizations operate from within civilian population, while cynically exploiting uninvolved civilians and using them as human shields, using young boys as human bombs, willingly, or unknowingly, even using toddlers?
DEHUMANIZATION OF ISRAELIS [INCLUDING ISRAELI VICTIMS]
When not busy hearing lessons, sermons by radical Islam's animalistic teaching referring to Christians as "pigs" and to Jews as "apes" [* * * * *], the "best" respect the Arab mainstream media and leaders can [let their audiences to] relate to Israelis is in a frame of "brutal soldiers", Can somebody explain to me how come Israeli soldiers who are (among) the most humane in the world, knocking on door to door, in spite of booby traps awaiting them, risking their lives in every anti-terror operation trying so hard not to cause too many casualties on the aggressive Arab side. Inventing low range missiles maximum precision to minimize collateral damage, and these beautiful soldiers that are more compassionate on Arab kids then their proper Arab parents are [those that send them on the front line covering for coward adult terrorists, in the 'Pallywood' bloody theater of war to gain sympathy in international cameras when finally Arab kids are hurt, it's the Israelis who are the last ones that want this to happen, which is exactly why the Arabs choose to use these inhumane tactics against Israelis' humanity,] are called by any vile name in the book by Arab racists?In fact, unlike in Israel that any incident is reported, no matter who's side lost lives, there are hardly any Israeli victims of Arab attacks in Arab mainstream & "moderate" media, You don't see Israelis as humans, never pictures of Israeli children who are victims, a cry a tear a laugh, you see only "occupation tanks".Isn't it time to point the finger on who's really inciting the Arab streets, which is not an event in it of itself, but the venomous reporting by their irresponsible leadership, clergy and "intellectuals"? As the great Nonie Darwish said in an astonishing clarification: "We Arabs fight a Jew of our own imagination".. Lebanese Brigitte Gabriel: It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. ... I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government, about the Jews and Israel....
ARABS = HYPOCRISY
And if you haven't had enough of Arab hypocrisy
(who define in their charter that they are Arab & Islamic but Israel can't have one place for Jews escaping persecution), try this, it's rather this Arab goliath of persecuting Arabism's racism, the Arab world's racism The A to Z of ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East embraces Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha'is, Berbers, Chaldeans, Copts, Druzes, Ibadis, Ismailis, Jews, Kurds, Maronites, Sahrawis, Tuareq, Turkmen, Yazidis and Zaidis (by no means an exhaustive list), and yet serious discussion of ethnic/religious diversity and its place in society is a long-standing taboo., the culture with inherited racism that dares categorizes Israelis' natural fear for their lives [What? Fear of terror? you've got to be kidding, the Arabs can't even "give" that to Israeli victims (The Arab racism of playing Israelis' fear of Arab terror as "racism"), I guess, that in Arab racism's animalism that don't see them as human but (Christians & Jews) as apes & pigs (or in the "best - moderate" case, still not human enough), it can start making senseless "sense",] as "racism" [before and after that infamous Durban bigotry conference *, *, *] & efforts of defense as "apartheid", imagine that.Speaking of Arab hypocrisy, why isn't there any Jew [allowed to reside] in 100% racist real [not as in Arabists propaganda or those paid, financed by the Arab lobby to use empty bombastic language term, but in the real sense of:] Apartheid, "Judenrein" - "Palestine" controlled land?What about this despicable inexcusable "pure Arab" supremacy and ethnic cleansing that goes on undisturbed in the 21st century anyhow?Not to mention "Palestinian" apartheid's Islamization of Bethlehem - Driving the Infidels Out , take their land & property, oppression, pogroms, the Denial of Religious Rights by the Palestinian Authority Not just Jews, but Christians have also been victimized by Islamic intolerance for 'infidel' holy sites, a continuation of [the same bigoted Arafat / "Palestinians" with Syrian Arabs who massacred the Christians in Damour - Lebanon [the background cause for Arab Christians killing of "Palestinians" in Sabra Shatila] Arafat's Islamization, that has constantly persecuted & terrorized them, they currently live in fear, worried and on edge. CULT OF HATREDBut what makes their fascism so monstrous is also their burning diabolical flames of hatred:Here are some typical hate & death cult messages from the Islamic bigotry of Jihadism:From a Lebanese Suicide Bomber Induction Ceremony (1996): "We swear by the blood and severed bodies of our children and the torment of our prisoners, and we will reply blowing our bodies!"Hassan Nasrallah = Hizbollah Sec. Gen. (2005): "We consider [America] to be an enemy because it is the greatest plunderer of our treasures, our oil, and our resources, while millions in our nation suffer unemployment, poverty, hunger, unmarriageable, ignorance, darkness, and so on.""Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: Death to America."Hassein Suadd Al-Qassam Brigades Commander (Dec. 2005): "We succeeded, with Allah's grace, to raise an ideological generation that loves death like our enemies love life."Palestinian TV - Suliman Sutari, before thousands of chanting fanatics. (July 8, 2005): "Annihilate the infidels and the polytheists. They're [Allah's] enemies and the enemies of the religion. Allah, count them and kill them to the last one, and don't even leave one." Radical Islamism = racism = genocide. Jihad -Islamism.- Muslim "Palestinians" teach their kids: 'Wipe Out the Jews'. Anti-Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam ...May 16, 2008 ... Hamas ... Disney clone... -Death cult & hatred for non Muslims, Usama bin Laden declared: "Death is better than living on this Earth with the unbelievers among us." - Hamas advocates Killing Jews, simply for being Jews. - Wave of hatred concentrates on Jews in Britain, Vitriolic hatred of Jews is also a regular feature of the speeches and sermons of extremist Islamists and Jihadists.A terrible admission: We were brought up to hate - and we do - Telegraph, They said: "May God destroy the infidels.... - Muslim leader: Only Muslims are innocent... he notes that because non-Muslims have rejected Islam, none of them are innocent. Therefore attacks like 9/11 and 7/7 are perfectly justified. - 'The Palestinian Struggle Must be An Islamic Jihad' .... The Jews and Christians are infidels, enemies of Allah, his Messenger, and the believers. - Nasrallah was on record boasting: "The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win because they love life and we love death." - Center for Religious Freedom, Various Saudi government publications gathered for this study, most of which are in Arabic, assert that it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate. - Hamas slogan, which has inspired countless jihadist bombers: "Allah is its goal, The Prophet its model, the Qur'an its Charter, jihad .. Hamas is committed to continuing jihad against "the Jews" until Allah's victory ... Oh Allah, show the
Jews a black day... Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews and...
There was nothing of an exaggeration in Golda Meir's expression that: "Peace will come when Arabs will begin to love their children more than they hate us"
SPINNING PALLYWOOD - EMPTY FALSE "ISSUES"
A thick dark cloud over the years created by the "Palestinian" Arab hollywood [or Pallywood] propaganda has shadowed over the reality of the middle east.No war [probably] has been so altered in history books and even in present conscious in any mainstream reporting.The Arabs are masters in creating symbols and flags on what their so called struggles are supposedly all about, it is a weather changing phenomenon, as deceptive as they always are, in an attempt to "revive" world's sympathy for their self made "victim-hood" from the beginning, past & present self inflicted self-destruction, every "season" they manage to refresh - come up with a new "issue", today it's a defense wall against Arab genocide bombers, yesterday it was a checkpoint for terrorists, the day before that it was 'how dare Israeli police "invade" and arrest a Jihadi leader', before that they pinned some Arab children killed by Arab adults [only in order to be able to pin it] on the Zionists, (Muhammad Al-Dura anyone?) etc. the "best" and most prolonged spin is of course that "occupation" crappy excuse, while quite a few subjects have been falsified so thoroughly as the recent history of the West Bank and Gaza, never mind that winning a battle hardly justifies such a term, especially by a bunch of people [whose parents are mostly] not natives (a not-just-rhetorical question: What is Arabs' connection to Judea or Muslims to Jews' Jerusalem & to other of their holy places anyhow?) nor is it any answer to the massacres intended mainly inside mainland Israel,
or all the slaughtering before the 1967 birth of the so called "occupation", and on top of all that, little is known that the Arab bigots refer to all of the land as "occupation", these infamous liars with forked tongues [will lie to western media on what they really want], by mentioning it among themselves they really mean the end of Israel.
WHAT "CAUSE"?
If you are still brainwashed by the "occupation" myth, Try this, find the common theme that runs through Hezbollah's Nasrallah's words: If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. , Fatah's "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas' Holocaust denial & Hitler's 'MeinKampf" being best seller in Gaza or in the wider middle east?Ever wondered why is it that with each new offer from the kind Israelis, the Arabs always go backwards and nothing tangible of peace is really achieved?You don't need a medic to tell you that if you can't define the disease a cure is impossible. THE [TINY MINORITY] FEW COURAGEOUS ARABS THAT STAND UP
AGAINST RACISM AND FOR ISRAEL'S RIGHT
Not all is lost in Arabia, the few heroes like Arabs for Israel, should be applauded, it shows that once you start recognizing the root of the "conflict" = bigotry, confront it & fight it, you can finally move on and coexist with people who are different in: race, religion, origin, culture, etc. (See more rare moderates). Replacing tolerance for bigotry, love for hatred, peace for war.
NO RACISM NO CONFLICT!
The only "conflict" applicable [in case you prefer to use rather the term "conflict"], is that it's actually a conflict between Islamo Arab deadly intolerance and [clashing with] Israelis' quest for life and tolerance.Calling the "conflict" by its real name is important to "solve" it.It is clear, it was always the case [and still is] that the Arab Muslims' initiated "conflict" with the non Arab, non Muslim minority, was/is nothing but Arab racism & obsessive Islamofascism, (The role that bigotry plays in the Arab-Israeli conflict) as long as the Arab Muslim mainstream does not halt its hatred drive, put a stop to instilling the virus in their children, in 'Death cult' indoctrination, and their masses "indulging" in satanic cartoons, hype anti Israel propaganda in every "report", blaming Arab kids' deaths on Israeli innocent defenders rather than on Arab culprit adults that exploit and use them, the glorification of "Palestinian" mass murderers as "martyrs",
and its plain Anti-Semitism in the Arab/Muslim World (documented), including among "friendly" Arab States to the west, no gesture [release of 'Palestinian' terrorists or land give away], on top of so many gestures by Israel the gem, will erase the "conflict", the past, present and future responsibility is entirely on the Arab Muslims bloody (with the blood of both sides) hands.
It's bad enough that my fiancee's father disowned her because she supports Barack Obama for president and attended his rallies here in town, among other reasons; these things happen all the time in racist America. But now she is being persecuted at work by a Romney bully. What makes this especially perplexing is that she works her heart out for a famous Minnesota company in the personal care products marketplace that has a reputation for being "green." Maybe somebody should tell Billy Lauder that intolerance and greed has run amuck in one of his prized holdings?
Anybody else having these kinds of problems, plausibly deniable or otherwise?
Warning: The danger of portraying the Islamic "Palestinians" aggressors as "victims", the genocidal thugs as "poor innocent"
Not only is it untrue to talk about those Islamists ['Palestinian' or Iranian leadership and it's Hezbollah global Mahdi army * * * * * *] seeking to annihilate the Jews as if they have some "political issue" or "resistance", but it's simply extremely dangerous, as Islamic fascism uses the 'Palestinian victim hood' myth as an excuse to hit.
Please do not help Jihad by justifying mass murder of the innocent!
* if you are unaware of the tricks [like using human shields, etc.] radical Islamists [Arab 'Palestinians' * * or Hezbollah *] are using in order to make sure that their kids die so that Israel gets tarnished, get informed, but don't bash Israel the real victim.
* Ever wanted how desperate they are for you to see them as "victims" that they will bring about their own children's death? Why do you think do they have the custom of shooting out of densely populated civilian areas, firing behind their kids' little shoulders or hiding under women's skirts? *, *, *, *, ** If you don't know that the Arab 'Palestinians' are no more a generation or two away from Arab settlers, immigrated into Israel 'Palestine' * , check out the facts but don't keep buying 'Palestinian' lies as if they are "natives for thousands of years".
* If you don't know that the Arab racists started massacring the Jews in Israel - 'Palestine' already at the turn of the century *, *, study the history of the region instead of copying 'Palestinian' propaganda as if the 'problem started in 1948'.
* If you really believe the images & stories coming out of 'Palestinian' sources as "fascts", than you don't know about Pallywood *, *, * booming industry.
* If you fail to see that the goliath Arab Muslim world controls the international decisive organizations such as the U.N. * * and others via oil, economic power and terror tactics, ask yourself the constant persecution of racist boycotts and "condemnations" on anything Israel does to defend itself from murderers terrorists, comparing all that to the silence on 'Palestinians', leadership, teachers, imams and parents crimes on their own people in leading them to a radical Jihad death cult.
* Why is it still a PC to sing that song: 'oh those poor Palestinians' [thus 'make their day' for ruthless terrorists]? When will we see the mainstream (biased *) irresponsible media finally recognize that: the Muslim 'Palestinians' have no one but themselves to blame for their self destructive, self inflicted wounds,since 1948 *, and still recenly *, * by choosing 'victim-hood' status over advancement, bigotry over recognition of the 'non Muslims', 'non Arabs' Israelis to exist, teaching their kids *, [The Indoctrination of Palestinian Children to Seek Death] hatred instead of peace & harmony, Death; Suicide & Genocide - how to die and murder instead of how to live?
* If you don't know about the Arab lobby control over policy, be surprised how the Goliath Arab Muslim lobby is powerful. *, *, *, *, *, *
* If you thought it's just a small minority that is so evil among 'Palestinian' Atab Muslims, think again, Friday, February 16, 2007 NEC 12-15 February Poll: 75% of Palestinians do not think that Israel has the right to exist, Poll: Most Palestinians think Hamas should not recognize Israel ...[19/09/06], Fatah leaders appeared on TV praying in the mosques even when the sermons delivered preached genocide. Islamic education was given prominence in the PA's school system... FATAH'S RELIGIOUS pretense was so successful that it Islamicized its own people, especially Palestinian youth. In a March 2005 poll, 70 percent of Palestinians preferred Islamic law, Shari'a, to the laws of the PA parliament. Less than a year later, in January 2006, Hamas completed its journey from a fringe movement to the Prime Minister's Office. The push by Arafat and Abbas to make religion a dominant motivation behind the war with Israel had been more "successful" than they could have anticipated.Yes, it's mainstream and majority of Islamo Arab "Palestinians" that is so terrible!
* If you don't know that the Islamo Arab coward attackers [of little heroic Israel] always called to annihilate Jews ['Itbach al Yahud' * - their slogan since the 1920's, 'throwing them into the sea' - in the Arab Israeli wars *, 'wiping off' *, *, *, *, *, *, *] than you don't know the first thing Israel is 'fighting for', survival of course.
For truth and justice sake and for survival against terrorism - Do not play into Islamofascism's propaganda hands.
Ultimately it's for anyone's survival too - * ,*, *, *, *, (Hamas reiterates goal of world domination by Islam - annihilation, ) totalitarian Islamification of everyone else.
Ernest Holmes' writing for July 13th is especially pertinent during these trying times.
I Judge, and Am Judged, With the Justice of God
"My judgement is just; becasue I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hat sent me." John 5:30
Jesus, the greatest of all the illumined, said, "Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged," by which he meant that we cannot judge others harshly without receiving back into our own consciousness and experience the very things we claim for others. While Jesus was the most compassionate of all people, he was also the most just, for he knew that our lives are governed by an exact and immutable law of cause and effect. He knew, and we all must learn, that it is impossible to wish something for someone else without at the same time willing it for ourselves. If we all were to follow this rule we should become more kind, if only for the purpose of self-preservation and personal happiness, for no one wishes to injure himself. Always, then, we are placed in this position--we dare not wish anything for anyone that we would be unwilling to accept for ourselves. If everyone were to live by this rule there would be no injustice in the world.
http://religion.info/english/articles/article_385.shtml
Source: Religioscope
Author: Richard Cimino
While there have been allegations in the past of government investigation of mosques on issues relating to terrorism, the recent report, first featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, is said to be the first confirmation that surveillance is taking place.
An article in the Los Angeles Times (May 29) reports that information about the alleged spying surfaced in a case about classified files concerning terrorism that were stolen from a secure office used by military and civilian law enforcement officials at Camp Pendleton. Some of these classified records referred to the surveillance of Muslim communities in Southern California, specifically, the Islamic Center of San Diego. The records alleged that the mosque had been monitored as part of a federal surveillance program targeting Muslim groups, according to the Union-Tribune article.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/10/muslim_profiling/index.html
Source: Salon
Author: Juan Cole
The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it opens an investigation. The impending new rules, which would be implemented later this summer, allow bureau agents to establish a terrorist profile or pattern of behavior and attributes and, on the basis of that profile, start investigating an individual or group. Agents would be permitted to ask "open-ended questions" concerning the activities of Muslim Americans and Arab-Americans. A person's travel and occupation, as well as race or ethnicity, could be grounds for opening a national security investigation.
The rumored changes have provoked protests from Muslim American and Arab-American groups. The Council on American Islamic Relations, among the more effective lobbies for Muslim Americans' civil liberties, immediately denounced the plan, as did James Zogby, the president of the Arab-American Institute. Said Zogby, "There are millions of Americans who, under the reported new parameters, could become subject to arbitrary and subjective ethnic and religious profiling." Zogby, who noted that the Bush administration's history with profiling is not reassuring, warned that all Americans would suffer from a weakening of civil liberties.
You've probably seen the new site - www.fightthesmears.com. The second smear that is listed is that Obama is a Muslim. My skin crawls a bit when I even have to write the word 'smear' and 'Muslim' in one sentence. As if being accused of being a Muslim is a smear. Sady, I know it is a smear to those people for whom the smear has been invented and that's the real point here that needs responding to. Not a simple denial of the 'smear.'
The answer against the smear on the website is:
"Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
The tone and the staccato strength of the words - 'has never been' - 'was not raised' - actually makes it sound like it would be a terrible thing if it were true. God forbid! Imagine? A Muslim!!!????
I am as realistic as the next guy. I know this rumour can cause political damage to Obama. But in addressing this particular 'smear' it seems neccessary to add how repugnant it is that some people even consider such an idea - that someone running for office would be a Muslim - to possibly be a smear.
Just imagine if the smear was - Senator So and So is a Jew. There is no way in hell that the response would be: "The Senator has never been a Jew, was not raised a Jew, and is a committed Christian." My goodness, a denial of that nature would cause ten times as much negative repurcussions as the original 'smear' itself. And why? Because people would be reacting primarily to the repugnant suggestion that there could somehow be something so wrong with being a Jew. And secondly, every Jewish political organization would quite rightly activate their base to cry foul, loud and clear.
It saddens me that even for this candidate (from whom I expect much more) and the public at large (from which I unfortunately don't expect so much), it seems quite normal that the accusation of being a Muslim needs to be denied as if there is something wrong with it.
(Full disclosure: I myself am Jewish and my significant other is Muslim).
http://atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/4016/32/
Source: Atlantic Free Press
Author: Stephen Lendman
Yassin Aref is a 37 year old Albany, New York resident and one of many Muslim victims of police state justice in post-9/11 America. They've been hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence and trumped-up charges, then incarcerated as political prisoners or deported to where they face possible arrest and torture.
Because of his faith and ethnicity, Aref was victimized by US "justice" in a post-9/11 climate of fear. He's an Iraqi Kurd who emigrated to the US as a UN refugee in 1999 with his wife and three young children. He's now in federal prison but committed no crime. He's also the author of a poignant memoir/autobiography titled "Son of Mountains: My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect." He wrote it in custody at Troy, New York's Rensselaer County Jail after his wrongful conviction in October 2006.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_C_muslim30.426eaa8.html
Source: Press-Enterprise
Author: Paige Austin
A civil-rights group and a coalition of Muslim activists headed by a Corona man called on Congress this week to investigate a report that military and law enforcement officials stole surveillance records of Southland Muslims from Camp Pendleton.
The request stems from a news report that military officials and law enforcement members of the Los Angeles County Terrorist Early Warning Group illegally took the top-secret documents from the base's Strategic Technical Operations Center.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Gary Maziarz has been court-martialed and convicted for his role in the thefts.
While the details of the surveillance and the alleged theft remain largely unknown, the incident provides confirmation that the military and law enforcement groups have been gathering information about local Muslim communities, said Michael German, policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office.
MIAMI, FL, 6/4/08) - On June 2, 2008, Florida Muslim leaders met with Doudou Diène, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, at a Miami hearing to discuss Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination.
For photos of the event: http://picasaweb.google.com/bedier/UNMiamiHearingOnRacism
Special Rapporteur Diène is visiting several cities across the United States to "gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia."
Reuters: U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL16843098
