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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.

World cup venue for false flag terror?

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By Ibrahim Vawda

(source: VOC + Media Monitors Network)

The World Cup 2010 provides a perfect platform for "academics" and the so called "Islamic Terror Experts" of the world to manufacture "extremists" and "terrorists" who are about to destroy South Africa’s 2010 dreams. These "academics" are not on some benevolent mission to protect the international soccer fraternity as well as the South African soccer lovers against acts of terror, planned, plotted and perpetrated by so-called "Muslim" fanatics in South Africa.

These self-professed "experts" must realise that this world may seem chaotic, but it is rational. It is their responsibility to narrate and contextualise with an independent and critical eye and not merely reiterate what is a figment of some ones imaginations.

This does not satisfy the designs of those who wish to further enhance the psychology of 42and the imaginary presence of Muslim terror groups in our country. Their mission is to manufacture an opinion; enforce it on the silent majority who will then submit to the propaganda process of the efficient and ever-present mass media.

So much so that, the illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine, and the killings of Muslims in Kashmir, Pakistan, Chechnya and Somalia will remain  mere optical illusions. In contrast to this media silence of the ongoing killings in these countries, the only constant is 9/11(twin towers), 7/7 (London bombings) and 26/11 (Mumbai attacks) and the weapons of mass destruction.

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Idf order will enable mass deportation from west bank

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By Amira Hass

(source: Haaretz)

A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years.

When the order comes into effect, tens of thousands of Palestinians will automatically become criminal offenders liable to be severely punished.

Given the security authorities’ actions over the past decade, the first Palestinians likely to be targeted under the new rules will be those whose ID cards bear home addresses in the Gaza Strip – people born in Gaza and their West Bank-born children – or those born in the West Bank or abroad who for various reasons lost their residency status. Also likely to be targeted are foreign-born spouses of Palestinians.

Until now, Israeli civil courts have occasionally prevented the expulsion of these three groups from the West Bank. The new order, however, puts them under the sole jurisdiction of Israeli military courts.

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Press release

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New IDF Order will allow for mass Deportation of Palestinians

The Media Review Network (MRN) and the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) express their serious concerns at the new Israeli Defence Force(IDF) Orders that will potentially turn all Palestinians into “infiltrators” in their own country.  Two new orders No. 1650 regarding Prevention of Infiltration and No. 1649 regarding Security Provisions, were issued in October 2009 as amendments to an old military order of 1969 which declared that “infiltrators” will be liable to imprisonment and deportation. The implications of these orders are far reaching and potentially allow Israel to pursue its policy of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

These orders can only be interpreted as a further step in the Zionist designs to establish “Eretz Israel” from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. These orders form part of the criminal policy that Israel has developed over the years against the Palestinian people; it combines occupation, apartheid, colonization and forced displacement of the population.

The contents of the new military orders are in blatant violation of international human rights standards and international law principles. It represents one more tool in the hand of the Israeli occupation forces to control and alter the demographic composition of the occupied Palestinian territory. This will ultimately impose a Jewish majority in Israel and the occupied territory.

These new orders – superficially enacted as ‘security measures’ – are, in fact, aimed at legitimising the forcible transfer and deportation of the civilian population of the occupied Palestinian Territory.

The MRN and MJC strongly condemn the enactment of these new military orders and calls upon the International community to insist that Israel revokes them.

We call on the South African Government to issue its strongest condemnation of these draconian orders and express its solidarity with the Palestinian people by assuring them that the ANC led government will not ignore the threat of ethnic cleansing hanging over their heads.

Ibrahim Vawda
Senior Researcher,
Media Review Network
Tell: 012 374 6987
Cell: 072 295 0088
E-mail: webmaster@mediareviewnet.com

Nabeweya Malick                                                                                                                                    
Public Affairs & Media,
Muslim Judicial Council   
Cape Town
Cell: 083 408 1157
E-mail: pro@mjc.org.za                                             
                                    

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