Abushaban during a meeting at Fort Carson
on Thursday with representatives of the
Islamic Society of Colorado Springs.
Representatives of the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs met Thursday with Fort Carson military leaders at the Army base to discuss ways to improve cultural awareness and an understanding of Islam among deploying soldiers.
Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division, initiated the meeting in hopes of developing a better cultural-awareness program for the thousands of soldiers already at Fort Carson and the hundreds expected to arrive this summer.
"We want to talk to (soldiers) about this beautiful religion," Hammond said at the one-hour meeting, attended by local Islamic leaders Arshad Yousufi, Farouk Abushaban and Dawud Salaam; 4th Infantry Division cultural adviser Al Azim; and four other Army leaders.
Yousufi, who has participated in previous cultural awareness programs at Fort Carson, told the general those programs weren't taken seriously enough. Read more ...
If invasion, occupation and enslavement of other nations is considered evil when it was done by some nations during WWII, by what standard do these actions become good when done by Israel? Is it not a mistake for the Israelis to deprive Palestinians of their freedom? If Israeli freedom can be built only on the enslavement of the Palestinians then it is not true freedom.
....It is understandable that Jews need a place where they could feel safe from Christian-perpetrated massacres and holocausts. However, the modern state of Israel was created at the expense of the Muslims and Palestinians without their agreement, taking away land Muslims had held for over a thousand years, land which is also holy to them. This is similar to what the Christian Crusaders had done centuries ago, and it has evoked a similar reaction from the Muslims, regardless of the excuses made for the seizure of the land. It took the Muslims about 120 years, under the leadership of Salahuddin Ayubi, to expel the Crusaders from the Holy Lands. Read more ...
Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division, initiated the meeting in hopes of developing a better cultural-awareness program for the thousands of soldiers already at Fort Carson and the hundreds expected to arrive this summer.
"We want to talk to (soldiers) about this beautiful religion," Hammond said at the one-hour meeting, attended by local Islamic leaders Arshad Yousufi, Farouk Abushaban and Dawud Salaam; 4th Infantry Division cultural adviser Al Azim; and four other Army leaders.
Yousufi, who has participated in previous cultural awareness programs at Fort Carson, told the general those programs weren't taken seriously enough. Read more ...
If invasion, occupation and enslavement of other nations is considered evil when it was done by some nations during WWII, by what standard do these actions become good when done by Israel? Is it not a mistake for the Israelis to deprive Palestinians of their freedom? If Israeli freedom can be built only on the enslavement of the Palestinians then it is not true freedom.
....It is understandable that Jews need a place where they could feel safe from Christian-perpetrated massacres and holocausts. However, the modern state of Israel was created at the expense of the Muslims and Palestinians without their agreement, taking away land Muslims had held for over a thousand years, land which is also holy to them. This is similar to what the Christian Crusaders had done centuries ago, and it has evoked a similar reaction from the Muslims, regardless of the excuses made for the seizure of the land. It took the Muslims about 120 years, under the leadership of Salahuddin Ayubi, to expel the Crusaders from the Holy Lands. Read more ...
Source: The Gazette 6/25/09, 6/23/09
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