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Negotiating peace not surrender

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Dr Firoz Osman – Media Review Network

There is widespread scepticism in the Arab and Muslims world that the charade of negotiations in Washington between Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah and the PLO, and right-wing hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, will lead to any substantive agreements.

US president Barack Obama has his eyes on the mid-term November elections, hoping to curry favour with the powerful Israeli Lobby, AIPAC.

Netanyahu, with his eyes on his wobbly coalition, rejects any permanent freeze on settlement activity, insisting on a “Jewish” state, rejects any sovereignty to any independent Palestinian state, rejects the Right of Return, and is uncompromising on sharing Jerusalem.

Israel’s strategy was formulated by former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir before the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, which was to engage in negotiations with the Arabs for the next 20 years or more without offering them any concession over an inch of the territory of Greater Israel. Significantly, Shamir’s right-hand man at the Madrid Conference was Netanyahu.
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The hajj and the apartheid train where is the muslim outrage?

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Ziyaad Motala

(source: The Huffington Post)

A pivotal theme in current Islamic political discourse is a demand for justice, a key tenet of the Quran. A popular complaint in Islamic political argument is discrimination against Muslims in the west such as the ban of the veil in European countries, minarets in Switzerland or racial profiling in many western countries. Unfortunately, there is a conspicuous lack of looking inwards to practices within Muslim countries. Muslims from all over the world have just completed the annual pilgrimage, the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. The Hajj represents a critical pillar of Islam and is supposed to represent a universal gathering of Muslims, which transcends race, ethnicity, color or any other distinction. Muslims are supposed to meet in the sacred precincts surrounding the holy city of Mecca as equals wearing the same simple clothing meant to symbolize perfect brotherhood, where individuals or groups do not see themselves as separate entities and differences of lineage, tribe or race have no bearing.

The experiences of the Hajj are very different depending on which part of the world you originate from. If you hail from Saudi Arabia or the Gulf states, you will perform the hajj in relative luxury and privilege, which is denied to Muslims from the sub-continent, Africa or the rest of the world. Those from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have a different Hajj based on luxurious accommodations, and preferential treatment in performing the rituals. The latest egregious practice is the high-speed rail service, which transports the pilgrims from Mecca to the sacred sites where the rituals of the Hajj are performed. The train is reserved only for Saudis and citizens from the Gulf countries. Citizens from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries can be transported to the holy sites within a few minutes. For others, they will have to take the bus or walk which could take many hours each day. I cannot think of any other place in the world today that practices such crass racism. Imagine a train in the United States that states no Arabs — just people from the west — can ride in. The real tragedy is the lack of outrage from Muslims.

Twin bombs wound 62 in muslim southern thailand

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

A car bomb at a fruit market and another explosion minutes later at a nearby teashop wounded 62 people in Muslim southern Thailand on Tuesday, Thai police said.

The first explosion appeared to target an outdoor meeting of village chiefs at a district office in Narathiwat, one of the three southernmost provinces, police said.

A second device exploded two minutes later at a tea-shop 100 metres (yards) away, police said.

Reuters

The ethnic cleansing of hebron

January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Press Release

The Ethnic Cleansing of Hebron

Date: 6.December.2008

For the third day running, Israel’s colonizing settlers have been rampaging through the town of El Khalil (Hebron), killing people, setting fire to houses and property, smashing windows and cars. They are being aided and protected by brutal Israeli soldiers who participate in this orgy of rampaging reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa.

The settlers, driven by racist, Zionist ideology and blind hatred, have been indoctrinated and mobilized by ultra-Zionist and fundamentalist religious leaders to depopulate this Palestinian city and ethnically-cleanse it in broad day light amidst an international conspiracy of silence, apathy of Europe, and collusion of the Bush administration.