Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Israel Intended to Assassinate Nasrallah After Ceasefire
An insight into intentions of illegal assassinations, something Israel is no stranger to.
Cherie Blair denies calling Brown a liar
Cherie Blair has put her foot in it once again, accusing Gordon Brown of lying, a claim she vehemently denies. The cheek of this women. How can she possibly ever have the nerve to call someone a liar, since she is married to Tony BLIAR!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Muslims must shop extremists
Comments have been added to this article where appropriate. Comments are in red.
Muslims must shop extremists
By JOHN REID
The Sun
September 19, 2006
EXTREMIST Muslims are calling for jihad, or holy war, after the Pope quoted an ancient text linking the Prophet Muhammad with “things evil and inhumane.”
As tensions rise, this week Home Secretary John Reid will appeal to Muslims to help root out potential terrorists from within their community. Here he writes for The Sun.
OUR world has changed enormously over the last 15 years. The dangers of religious extremism and ethnic tensions have replaced the East-West rivalries of the Cold War.
The media would have us believe that this is the case but in reality the same tensions exist as did 15 years ago. In fact it is not East – West rivalries it is more Capitalism and imperialism against those that stand in its way. Those that are against exploitation and those that stand against the agendas of the corporations and the damage that is taking place upon the environment. These are the continuing ‘rivalries’ not East – West.
The end of communism was a great victory for freedom and democracy but it created new challenges — including global terrorism.
The end of communism was a victory for imperialism and capitalism, I still don’t see freedom or democracy in many countries, yet these countries don’t have a communist ideology. May I also add that there was no end of communism; it was more an end to a certain form of communism in the Soviet Union, not the end of the communist ideology.
Tomorrow, one year on, we will remember the victims of terrorism at Sharm El- Sheikh, Kusadasi and Doha.
Who can forget what happened in New York on 9/11, or London, or Bali, or Madrid? Thousands of lives lost in the name of a war supposedly fought to advance Islam.
We seem to remember the events that took the lives of so many westerners but seem to forget the events concerning non western lives. Let’s add Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, and many other places in the world where people lost their lives and are still losing their lives. Many wars are waged by the West to supposedly free people from tyranny, yet we inflicted upon them unprecedented killing and oppression Replacing one form of injustice for another.
But this is not a war with Islam, this is a battle against extremism and intolerance. And it is vital that we all work together to defeat those twin evils. That’s why there must be no sectarian divide between Muslims and non-Muslims.
The main extremism and intolerance in this world right now is that of neo-conservatism and Zionism and I agree there should be no divide between Muslims and non-Muslims in defeating these twin evils which I have mentioned.
After all, the minority who abuse Islam in their pursuit of violence are not only attacking western values, they are attacking the values of their co-religionists.
Thank you ‘Imam’ Reid I’m sure Muslims will appreciate your concerns.
And mainstream Muslims and Christians share so many common values — devotion to family and society, to faith and good deeds. A belief in the right to life, equality, justice and opportunity.
Indeed the home secretary is correct it is a pity that American and British Foreign policy don’t reflect these common values. British Foreign policy does not have a belief in right to life, otherwise we would not use cluster bombs resulting in so many civilian deaths. We would not support Israel’s apartheid regime which is ruining the lives of the Palestinian people. Equality, there is so much equality in Iraq, occupying forces kill non combatants just as readily as they kill combatants, we even see equality towards women and children, so as not to make them feel left out we show ‘equality’ by killing them too. Justice and Opportunity, we have displayed this by siding with Israel, putting sanctions on the Palestinian people and their democratically elected government.
The terrorists don’t share these values. They are not true Muslims. They seek to achieve their aims through violence — they may use the rhetoric of Islamic teachings, but they behave in ways that contradict the very principles of the Islamic faith.
The people the home secretary calls terrorists do not share the same values as the American and British Governments hence they must be labeled terrorists. If terrorists seek to achieve there aims through violence what would you say about the ‘War on Terror’ the War on Iraq and Israel’s war on Lebanon?
They may claim that their war is a jihad but many of the victims of al-Qaeda have been Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria and Turkey.
The victims of the British War on Iraq and Afghanistan have also been Muslims, does this mean that the British Government and al-Qaeda are the same?
So this is not a battle between religions but a fundamental struggle between opposing values. That’s why the Muslim community must choose between accepting the propaganda of the terrorists and taking on would-be terrorists at every opportunity.
Again we have the mentality of you are either ‘with us o against us’. The Muslim community has a choice of accepting the propaganda of the ‘terrorists’ or accepting the propaganda of the home secretary.
It is because of the level of threat they face that I will start this week to brief the Muslim community, to give them the knowledge to defeat these extremists and ask for their help.
The knowledge to defeat the terrorists is simple, change foreign policy and you greatly reduce terrorism, that’s all the help you need.
This dovetails with the work of Ruth Kelly who, as part of her ongoing engagement with Muslim communities, will be hosting a meeting of Muslim women. Some may think it is better to accommodate extremists in the hopes of influencing them for the better, but as I know from the bitter experience of dealing with militants in the Labour Party, you cannot compromise with fanatical beliefs.
I wonder who he is referring to in the Labour Party? But is he actually likening people in the Labour Party to extremists and does he also believe because he has dealt with ‘militants’ in a political context, that this qualifies him to deal with the Muslim community?
As a father of two boys, I know how hard it is to raise children and know everything they are up to. It is especially difficult to intervene as they get older.
The Home secretary even finds it difficult to sell this crap to his own kids. The advice he wishes to give is, indoctrinate your children when they are young as the task is that much more difficult when they are older.
But there are times when we must confront them to protect them from harm. So I appeal to you to look for changes in your teenage sons — odd hours, dropping out of school or college, strange new friends. And if you are worried, talk to them before their hatred grows.
What the Home Secretary means is, look out for your children hanging around with peoples with beards and headscarves. If your children begin to question the government and its policies they are on the path to terrorism. Also if they start reading the independent or the Guardian these are tell tail signs of extremism.
I don’t want a suspicious society when we have done so well in breaking down differences. But the terrorists want to divide us. We must not let them.
Well with a mentality of ‘them’ and ‘us’ and the fact that the Home secretary seems to be the one that classifies who is a terrorist or a fanatic and who is not, along with his unwillingness to talk to people with dissenting views, if division is not his aim then what is?
The police and security services do a fantastic job protecting us from terrorism. But they cannot do so alone.
I agree, you need to change foreign policy, sorry to repeat myself but it really is that simple. Also why do I get the impression that the Home secretary wants British Muslims to spy and turn on their fellow British Muslims?
Terrorism can be defeated only when we all work together to defeat it. That’s why it is so important that Muslims join us in exiling extremism from our country — and from their communities.
Where exactly does the Home Secretary want to exile these ‘extremists’ to? Guantanamo Bay?
Conclusion
The Home Secretary fails to realise the root causes of terrorism in Britain, mainly foreign policy. Instead he shifts the focus on to the already victimised Muslim communities. If the Government is so keen to engage the Muslim community why has it not taken on the recommendations laid down by the Muslim committee that was set up to advise the Government. The government is in trouble, they have a leader that is clinging to power, they find themselves behind in the opinion polls and the 'War on Terror' is a disaster. What we are seeing is pure desperation and foolishness in shifting the responsibility of fighting terrorism onto the British Muslim community.
By Guevara Serapion
Muslims must shop extremists
By JOHN REID
The Sun
September 19, 2006
EXTREMIST Muslims are calling for jihad, or holy war, after the Pope quoted an ancient text linking the Prophet Muhammad with “things evil and inhumane.”
As tensions rise, this week Home Secretary John Reid will appeal to Muslims to help root out potential terrorists from within their community. Here he writes for The Sun.
OUR world has changed enormously over the last 15 years. The dangers of religious extremism and ethnic tensions have replaced the East-West rivalries of the Cold War.
The media would have us believe that this is the case but in reality the same tensions exist as did 15 years ago. In fact it is not East – West rivalries it is more Capitalism and imperialism against those that stand in its way. Those that are against exploitation and those that stand against the agendas of the corporations and the damage that is taking place upon the environment. These are the continuing ‘rivalries’ not East – West.
The end of communism was a great victory for freedom and democracy but it created new challenges — including global terrorism.
The end of communism was a victory for imperialism and capitalism, I still don’t see freedom or democracy in many countries, yet these countries don’t have a communist ideology. May I also add that there was no end of communism; it was more an end to a certain form of communism in the Soviet Union, not the end of the communist ideology.
Tomorrow, one year on, we will remember the victims of terrorism at Sharm El- Sheikh, Kusadasi and Doha.
Who can forget what happened in New York on 9/11, or London, or Bali, or Madrid? Thousands of lives lost in the name of a war supposedly fought to advance Islam.
We seem to remember the events that took the lives of so many westerners but seem to forget the events concerning non western lives. Let’s add Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, and many other places in the world where people lost their lives and are still losing their lives. Many wars are waged by the West to supposedly free people from tyranny, yet we inflicted upon them unprecedented killing and oppression Replacing one form of injustice for another.
But this is not a war with Islam, this is a battle against extremism and intolerance. And it is vital that we all work together to defeat those twin evils. That’s why there must be no sectarian divide between Muslims and non-Muslims.
The main extremism and intolerance in this world right now is that of neo-conservatism and Zionism and I agree there should be no divide between Muslims and non-Muslims in defeating these twin evils which I have mentioned.
After all, the minority who abuse Islam in their pursuit of violence are not only attacking western values, they are attacking the values of their co-religionists.
Thank you ‘Imam’ Reid I’m sure Muslims will appreciate your concerns.
And mainstream Muslims and Christians share so many common values — devotion to family and society, to faith and good deeds. A belief in the right to life, equality, justice and opportunity.
Indeed the home secretary is correct it is a pity that American and British Foreign policy don’t reflect these common values. British Foreign policy does not have a belief in right to life, otherwise we would not use cluster bombs resulting in so many civilian deaths. We would not support Israel’s apartheid regime which is ruining the lives of the Palestinian people. Equality, there is so much equality in Iraq, occupying forces kill non combatants just as readily as they kill combatants, we even see equality towards women and children, so as not to make them feel left out we show ‘equality’ by killing them too. Justice and Opportunity, we have displayed this by siding with Israel, putting sanctions on the Palestinian people and their democratically elected government.
The terrorists don’t share these values. They are not true Muslims. They seek to achieve their aims through violence — they may use the rhetoric of Islamic teachings, but they behave in ways that contradict the very principles of the Islamic faith.
The people the home secretary calls terrorists do not share the same values as the American and British Governments hence they must be labeled terrorists. If terrorists seek to achieve there aims through violence what would you say about the ‘War on Terror’ the War on Iraq and Israel’s war on Lebanon?
They may claim that their war is a jihad but many of the victims of al-Qaeda have been Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria and Turkey.
The victims of the British War on Iraq and Afghanistan have also been Muslims, does this mean that the British Government and al-Qaeda are the same?
So this is not a battle between religions but a fundamental struggle between opposing values. That’s why the Muslim community must choose between accepting the propaganda of the terrorists and taking on would-be terrorists at every opportunity.
Again we have the mentality of you are either ‘with us o against us’. The Muslim community has a choice of accepting the propaganda of the ‘terrorists’ or accepting the propaganda of the home secretary.
It is because of the level of threat they face that I will start this week to brief the Muslim community, to give them the knowledge to defeat these extremists and ask for their help.
The knowledge to defeat the terrorists is simple, change foreign policy and you greatly reduce terrorism, that’s all the help you need.
This dovetails with the work of Ruth Kelly who, as part of her ongoing engagement with Muslim communities, will be hosting a meeting of Muslim women. Some may think it is better to accommodate extremists in the hopes of influencing them for the better, but as I know from the bitter experience of dealing with militants in the Labour Party, you cannot compromise with fanatical beliefs.
I wonder who he is referring to in the Labour Party? But is he actually likening people in the Labour Party to extremists and does he also believe because he has dealt with ‘militants’ in a political context, that this qualifies him to deal with the Muslim community?
As a father of two boys, I know how hard it is to raise children and know everything they are up to. It is especially difficult to intervene as they get older.
The Home secretary even finds it difficult to sell this crap to his own kids. The advice he wishes to give is, indoctrinate your children when they are young as the task is that much more difficult when they are older.
But there are times when we must confront them to protect them from harm. So I appeal to you to look for changes in your teenage sons — odd hours, dropping out of school or college, strange new friends. And if you are worried, talk to them before their hatred grows.
What the Home Secretary means is, look out for your children hanging around with peoples with beards and headscarves. If your children begin to question the government and its policies they are on the path to terrorism. Also if they start reading the independent or the Guardian these are tell tail signs of extremism.
I don’t want a suspicious society when we have done so well in breaking down differences. But the terrorists want to divide us. We must not let them.
Well with a mentality of ‘them’ and ‘us’ and the fact that the Home secretary seems to be the one that classifies who is a terrorist or a fanatic and who is not, along with his unwillingness to talk to people with dissenting views, if division is not his aim then what is?
The police and security services do a fantastic job protecting us from terrorism. But they cannot do so alone.
I agree, you need to change foreign policy, sorry to repeat myself but it really is that simple. Also why do I get the impression that the Home secretary wants British Muslims to spy and turn on their fellow British Muslims?
Terrorism can be defeated only when we all work together to defeat it. That’s why it is so important that Muslims join us in exiling extremism from our country — and from their communities.
Where exactly does the Home Secretary want to exile these ‘extremists’ to? Guantanamo Bay?
Conclusion
The Home Secretary fails to realise the root causes of terrorism in Britain, mainly foreign policy. Instead he shifts the focus on to the already victimised Muslim communities. If the Government is so keen to engage the Muslim community why has it not taken on the recommendations laid down by the Muslim committee that was set up to advise the Government. The government is in trouble, they have a leader that is clinging to power, they find themselves behind in the opinion polls and the 'War on Terror' is a disaster. What we are seeing is pure desperation and foolishness in shifting the responsibility of fighting terrorism onto the British Muslim community.
By Guevara Serapion
Friday, September 15, 2006
EXCLUSIVE...9/11 Debate: Loose Change Filmmakers vs. Popular Mechanics Editors of "Debunking 9/11 Myths"
For those of you that are not aware of the debate surrounding 9/11 watch this, it's interesting. The title above says it all.
Click here to watch the debate.
Click here to watch the debate.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Lonely World
As I walked through the beautiful streets of Marrakech enjoyed the restaurants, took in local atmosphere a slightly un-nerving feeling tainted the scenery. Something wasn’t quite right, I was been starred at, ignored in a sense, left alone in a city where everyone seems to make friends. For what reason I thought to myself, surely I was imagining it.
Funny looks, looks of suspicion from my fellow British countrymen, somehow making me feel like I shouldn’t be there, I don’t fit the bill. Undeserving of my Birmingham accent and also making me feel like it is unbefitting for me to be walking around in my jeans and t-shirt I should be wearing my ‘own clothes’.
During my journey I saw so many travelers chatting making new friends in Marrakech. British people meeting British people having one thing in common, they all come from the same island. Yet many of them heard me speak in my English accent, most of them looked at me, and glanced with a troubling look. I don’t ‘look’ British, no white skin, no clean shave and no ‘posh’ accent. If you’re a Muslim traveler in the 21st Century, it’s a lonely world.
After my stay I headed to the airport, my favourite place. One can watch people and the, manner in which they look at you and attempt to figure out what they are thinking, what’s going through their mind. I make my way to the departure desk, there sits a Moroccan man, who looks more French than Arab, with his blue military uniform. He takes a look at my passport, there is a bit of a fold on the page with my picture on it, he strains his eyes, looks at the passport long and hard. He speaks with a French accent “Ali?”, “yeah” I reply casually, “what is your origin”, what does he mean and why? They never ask anybody else that question, I used to try and resist and say British and they would look at me like I was thick and say “no, your origin”, of course they mean ethnic origin. “Pakistani”, his eyes open wide, he gets up walks out his little cell like cubicle to talk to somebody else, the people behind me in the queue, all of them are concentrating on me, or the back of me. The officer consults his superior both of the men now stare at me. I'm thinking what the hell is their problem? They look through my passport several times, so I continued to wait, trying not to get annoyed. I know what they are thinking. I want to shout at them “you bloody idiots!, I am British, I speak English, I think in English and terrorists don’t go to airports and try and board planes with big beards on their faces”. What is the intellect of these people? In the departures hall a woman constantly looks over at me even starring at times. I sit behind her on the departure coach, I see her passport, it’s Australian, how dare she! How dare she look at me like that, don’t they still have our queen?
As I take up my window seat, I watch the rest of the passengers walk down the aisle, their eyes catching a look at me then their boarding card, ‘Oh God I hope I’m not sitting next to him’. Even Asians, British Asians look at me, I can tell as soon as they look at me they wish to distance themselves from me, ‘I’m Asian, but not like him’ or ‘not the same as him’. I can hear the BNP drum beating, even succeeding to divide the minorities. The only people that smile at me are the air hostesses and they get paid to smile, even if it’s a strained smile, its welcomed amongst a sea of unwelcome faces full of suspicion.
The man next to me, well one seat away, talks about me in French, his wife on the other aisle leans back to take a look at me. I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt, he’s probably talking about how dashingly handsome I look in my beard. Forget the benefit of the doubt, he looks scared he sees me making notes in my pad, probably thinking I am taking notes on the running of an aircraft so I can take it over next time.
The world is changing as the war on terror continues, the media is infecting peoples minds with the propaganda of so called terrorism. Muslims are the new victims, targeted, viewed with suspicion if they step out the social norms of appearance. This war has even effected Muslims like myself into being paranoid about peoples opinions and thoughts about us, turning an innocent look into prejudice and racism. All this is causing an atmosphere of unease between what would normally be fellow citizens, travelers or just plain human beings.
By A Muslim Traveler
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Hard Hitting 9/11 Documentary
Momentum is building for the underground documentary Loose Change, Dylan Avery’s $6,000 film that examines the events of 9/11, and uncovers evidence in support of a whole new view of that infamous day. Since the film was released on the internet, where it is still in the top 10 of Google videos top 100,the film has evolved into a much larger project that includes new findings, and is set to be released theatrically some time next year, with the 2nd edition still currently doing the rounds in cyber space. The film manages the all important task of distancing itself from the usual “conspiracy theory” label that becomes attached to many other works on 9/11 simply because it is so meticulously researched, and due to the great care that has gone into presenting its findings. Indeed, the subject has never been tackled in such an honest and inquisitive manner, and the story it tells will no doubt shock those that have only heard the “official” narrative as told by the mainstream media. It seems the internet has now become a new and much welcomed alternative to mainstream documentary film making, offering the opportunity for anyone with something to say, and the ability to say it, a chance at getting themselves heard. Loose Change is compulsory viewing for anyone who wants to understand what really happened. So, subvert the media empire by checking out Loose Change at www.loosechange911.com, and support the search for truth.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
by Castro Serapion
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
by Castro Serapion
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