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The aspiration of the Media Review Network is to dispel the myths and stereotypes about Islam and Muslims and to foster bridges of understanding among the diverse people of our country. The Media Review Network believes that Muslim perspectives on issues impacting on South Africans are a prerequisite to a better appreciation of Islam.

Fayyad subverts right of return

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Iqbal Jassat – Chairman, Media Review Network

(source: Maan News Agency)

"Fayyad just gave away your right of return," I read on the Twitter page of Electronic Intifada editor Ali Abunimah, leading me to access a link and discover that indeed, the Palestinian Authority prime minister has done the unforgivable.

In an interview with Akiva Eldar of the Israeli daily Haaretz, Fayyad made the following comment in response to a question about refugees: "Of course, Palestinians would have the right to reside within the State of Palestine."

The Palestinian state he refers to is what many analysts have come to regard as no different than apartheid South Africa’s version of "independent homelands" for blacks, commonly referred to as Bantustans. It is within the confines of this oxymoron that Fayyad envisions the return of refugees – not to the land from where they were forcibly uprooted.

How mossad blew it

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Assassins Made Vital Errors When Carrying Out Dubai Hotel Murder

By Jane Corbin

(source: Saturday Star – April 03, 2010 Edition 1)

Up in the second-floor corridor, a middle-aged guest was nonchalantly returning to his room, number 230. When he opened the door, there were four men – all highly trained killers, all wearing baseball caps – waiting for him.

They quickly overpowered the unsuspecting guest, and jabbed a needle in his leg. It contained succinylcholine, a muscle relaxant used in anaesthetics. Quick-acting and powerful, it began to paralyse the victim’s muscles – his breathing would soon stop, then his heart.

But the hitmen could not wait for its effects to run their course; time was of the essence as they were afraid of discovery.Through the spy hole in the door they could see maids and porters passing in the corridor, and they knew the unblinking eyes of CCTV cameras had already recorded their movements in the public parts of the hotel.

Islamic human rights commission

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

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The European Commission has recently announced that it has granted more research funding to Israel’s military projects than most of the EU states under the European Security Program. Some of the notorious Israeli firms who are actively participating in the ethnic cleansing and war crimes in the occupied Palestine have been granted billion of Euros as part of joint ‘security research’ projects.

Please write to EU commissioners to express your outrage regarding EU’s involvement in Israeli war crimes by squandering significant amounts of its taxpayer’s money. You can also email Baroness Catherine Ashton Vice-President, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Her email address is provided below.

Lawsuit challenges Isaraels discriminatory citizenship definition

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Jonathan Cook

(source: Electronic Intifada)

A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognized as "Israelis," a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country’s self-declared status as a Jewish state.

Israel refused to recognize an Israeli nationality at the country’s establishment in 1948, making an unusual distinction between "citizenship" and "nationality." Although all Israelis qualify as "citizens of Israel," the state is defined as belonging to the "Jewish nation," meaning not only the 5.6 million Israeli Jews but also more than seven million Jews in the diaspora.