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Munir’s Story: 28 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in General

By Franklin Lamb
September 6, 2010
Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut
The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied.
Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 Sabra- Shatila massacre. More come to light only through circumstantial evidence [...]

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Hebron: soldiers convert Palestinian home into military base

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in General

International Solidarity Movement ISM Media     September 6, 2010
Israeli soldiers have erected tents on the roof of the Salayma family’s home and are occupying the building
On Friday the Israeli army raided a Palestinian house in Hebron and converted it into a military base, forcing a family of 14 to move into the first floor of their [...]

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Kabul Bank’s woes worsen as owners are accused of lending to themselves

by RAINman on 07. Sep, 2010 in General

Jerome Starkey
The Times   6th September, 2010
A razor-wire barricade ringed the head office of the embattled Kabul Bank yesterday and a pick-up truck mounted with a heavy machinegun was parked outside amid fears that Afghanistan’s key financial institution was in danger of collapse.
Customers queued on the street to withdraw their money as a run on [...]

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Five myths about mosques in America

by RAINman on 31. Aug, 2010 in General

By Edward E. Curtis IV
The Washington Post – August 29, 2010
In addition to spawning passionate debates in the public, the news media and the political class, the proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York has revealed widespread misconceptions about the practice of Islam in this country — and the role of [...]

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America—land of the freak, home of the depraved

by RAINman on 31. Aug, 2010 in General

gregfelton.com   August 27, 2010
The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, so Muslims should expect to receive the same protection afforded Jews or Christians. In fact, George Washington made a point of recognizing the need to protect Muslims from Christian persecution.
So how come the government deliberately violates its own laws and moral precepts to incite hatred [...]

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Yale conference on anti-Semitism targets Palestinian identity, ’self-hating’ Jews, and anyone who criticizes Israel

by RAINman on 27. Aug, 2010 in General

by Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss  -   August 25, 2010
This is disturbing. A Yale University center that purports to study anti-Semitism is holding a three-day conference on “the crisis” of global anti-Semitism (ending tomorrow) that is dedicated to the idea that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
The flotilla raid, anti-Semitic. Helen Thomas, anti-Semitic. The very idea of Palestinian [...]

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Statement: Afghan Resistance – Regarding Petraeus’s Latest Remarks

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in General

By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
August 24, 2010 “Information Clearing House“ – The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan David Patraeus, in an interview with BBC radio said that the momentum of the Taliban has been reversed in the south of the country and capital Kabul and that if his strategy [...]

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Canadian Boat to Gaza to break siege, overcome “aid traps”

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in General

Steven Zhou, The Electronic Intifada, 23 August 2010
Canadian activists looking to assist in the breaking of the siege of Gaza plans to launch a Canadian Boat to Gaza this fall. However, this Canadian version of the Freedom Flotilla that seeks to break the siege has a twist.
In partnership with the Free Gaza Movement (the group [...]

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After Islamic food and banking: halal travel

by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in General

High demand for halal travel led by tourists from Middle East, affluent Muslim travellers.
By Martin Abbugao – SINGAPORE
In his days as a jet-setting telecom executive, ready-to-eat meals were a regular part of Fazal Bahardeen’s luggage.
Many of the hotels he stayed in did not have halal-certified restaurants for Muslim travellers like the 47-year-old Sri Lankan-born [...]

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Miss USA opposes Ground Zero mosque

by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in General

The Jerusalem Post  -   Sunday, August 22, 2010
Miss USA Rima Fakih said she opposes the Ground Zero mosque on this week’s broadcast of American news show Inside Edition.
Fakih, 24, was born in Lebanon and raised in Michigan, and is the first Muslim Miss USA
“I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on the constitutional rights [...]

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The right’s latest weapon: ‘Zionist editing’ on Wikipedia

by RAINman on 20. Aug, 2010 in General

‘Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says.
By Nir Hasson
Haaretz  -  Thu, August 19, 2010
For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground between the Israeli right and left. One key battle was over the entry for Bil’in [...]

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John Pilger: Why WikiLeaks Must Be Protected

by RAINman on 20. Aug, 2010 in General

Information Clearing House -  August 19, 2010
On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after file, the brutalities echo the colonial past. From Malaya and Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and Basra, little has changed. [...]

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