Check out this wonderful new site built by Israelis who are in favor of peace. It's all too often we let the media speak for us, often making difficult situations appear black and white. The media makes it seem that ALL of Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map, that ALL Palestinians want the same. Basically that ALL Muslims want ALL Jews annihilated. This is an outrageous fallacy, one that I do not support or condone. Rather, speak against. Speaking from the Muslim side of things, most Muslims tend to think that ALL of Israel wants to destroy us, that even Israel's citizens are war mongers and death dealers. I am ashamed to admit that I too used to let the media guide my opinions. However, it's very clear to me that there are kind, beautiful people that wish for nothing more than to raise their families in peace while making new friends. All Israelis are not bad just like all Iranis or Palestinians are not bad. Jews and Muslims lived and died together for centuries, this is still not out of the realm of possibility. Please support this campaign, perhaps a show of our strength in numbers can sway the powers that be to learn compassion. | |
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Police and forensics experts were in attendance at the scene An imam has been killed in an arson attack at a Shia mosque in the Brussels suburb of Anderlecht. The 46-year-old imam died of smoke inhalation trying to put out the fire. The suspect entered the mosque armed with an axe and a knife, and spread flammable liquid before setting it alight, officials said. He was grabbed and locked in a room by worshippers. Police said his motives were unclear but he had described himself as a Muslim born in 1978. For the past several years Loonwatch writers have repeatedly made the very significant (and obvious) point that radical Christian Islamophobes seek to undermine the constitution of the USA by entangling church and state; i.e. undermining the separation of Church and State. We have also pointed out that the fervent fear-mongering about “Islamization,” a fairytale concept, is nothing more than projection on the part of these radicals. (Propaganda about the “Islamization” of the USA is even more ridiculous when one considers history; the fact that America was forcibly “Christianized” by colonial settlers and their offspring.) Sean Christopher Ali Stone Twitter and the general looniverse was abuzz with the angry reactions of Islamophobes to Sean Stone’s conversion to Islam, we covered the episode in our post, Oliver Stone’s Son Converts to Islam: The “Islamization” of Hollywood Continues? In the most recent update to the story Stone discusses the reaction he has received both in the film industry and at large: A new food truck serves Iraqi food and employs U.S. veterans of the Iraq war. Now that’s something to chew on. By Heather Shouse Two prominent Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs in the latest violence in the besieged city which left 20 people dead. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik died when a shell hit a makeshift media centre in the Baba Amr district. Opposition-held areas of Homs have been besieged since 4 February. Thousands have died in unrest against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. More than 40 people died on Tuesday alone, including Rami al-Sayed, a man who broadcast a live video stream from Homs used by world media. Mr Sayed was fatally wounded by shrapnel during the shelling of Baba Amr. His brother posted a video of his body in a makeshift hospital. I need to add some commentary before I post the latest news worthy article. If you all read BBC regularly like I do, then you will have read this today. If not, please read the article below. The West has this tendency to tell Muslims how uncivil we are, and that our actions are completely unprovoked. Well, here is a classic example of how hypocritical the Western powers are. They provoke us, when we have a protest, they say we are acting without reason. The news media is brilliant when it comes to defaming large swaths of people. There is no other social or religious group more demonized or persecuted than Muslims. Unfortunately for myself, I have had dear friendships end simply because of the intel fed to their families due to the media. It's quite bizarre and alarming.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles (480 kilometers) away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip, where he recorded students' names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed. Detectives trawled Muslim student websites every day and, although professors and students had not been accused of any wrongdoing, their names were recorded in reports prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. |
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