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Letter to mercedes benz

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Letter to Mercedes Benz

The CEO

 Mercedes Benz SA

  Sir

 The Media Review Network (MRN) is in possession of an email (see Attachment) being circulated by your Tax Manager Mr. Frank Booyzen. The letter accompanying the photographs and written in Afrikaans, smacks of 42and hate speech.

 At the outset, let me reiterate that the MRN denounces and condemns this most barbaric act in the strongest possible terms. What we also condemn is the failure of  Mr. Booyzen to verify the authenticity of the information provided by the caption of the photographs, that the act was  committed in the name of Islam and by Muslims in Iran. Nowhere in his article does he provide evidence that authenticates these assumptions.

 The Media Review Network is appalled that Mercedes Benz –SA, a company of repute, allows a senior staff member to abuse company time and resources to disseminate such unsubstantiated and distorted information.

  We therefore urge you to conduct an internal inquiry regarding this matter followed by appropriate disciplinary action.

 We expect too an apology from Mr. Booyzen to the Muslim Community of SA for this most insensitive Islamophobic conduct.

 Awaiting your urgent response,

  Yours Sincerely

 Ibrahim Vawda

 Snr Researcher

 Media Review Network

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My talk with hamas about peace with Isarael

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My talk with Hamas about peace with Israel

By Helena Cobban

Washington – Since his first days in office, President Obama has defined winning a final peace between Israel and the Palestinians as an urgent US interest.

On Jan. 21 he named former Senate majority leader George Mitchell his envoy to achieve that peace, and Mr. Mitchell has since made four fact-finding trips to the Middle East. But neither has yet said how the administration will grapple with one of the biggest challenges that peace diplomacy faces: the continuing strength of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas.

Hamas has been on the State Department’s "terrorism list" since its founding in 1987. It has steadfastly refused to recognize Israel. But it has also won – and kept – considerable popular support among Palestinians.

 

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Gaza docket grows

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By Aisha Mouneimne

 (source: VOCfm Online)

war crime court

An application recently launched by the amongst others the Media Review Network (MRN) calling on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to investigate South African Jews who served in the Israeli Defence Force (IFD) during Israel’s 22 day bombardment on the Gaza Strip at the end of last year has unsettled some Jewish Facebookers, particularly after the story went global via the Al Jazeera news channel. However, many of them still remain staunch in their perceived duty to serve in the IDF.

"The Gaza investigation by South African lawyers is pathetic, and I don’t find it a shock that they are all Muslim lawyers. What gives them the right to question Israel’s defence to a bombardment of rockets on their civilians? In my opinion it is every Jewish man’s duty to serve in the IDF no matter where they were born. Never in my life have I been more ashamed to be South African. Much respect to all the IDF troops who fought in Gaza," said one 21 year old Johannesburg based IDF Paratrooper.

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