 The most outrageous assault by the Israeli authorities against academic freedom of speech took place in recent days in what is becoming known as the Bukay Affair. The affair combines leftist undermining of democracy, the attempt at thought control by governmental officials and the police, harassment of a university lecturer by an over-zealous anti-democratic prosecutor, and an attempt to create in Israel a political Inquisition against incorrect thinking. The entire saga revolves around Dr. David Bukay, a lecturer in Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa, with expertise in Arab history.
Bukay speaks Arabic better than I speak English. He has conservative points of view and is very outspoken about them. His articles are carried by numerous journals. About five years ago, Bukay was the victim of a smear campaign of demonization at the University of Haifa.
At the time, an Arab student who was active in the university branch of the communist party sat in on one of Bukay’s lectures without being registered in the class. The student then ran to the Arabic press in Israel and claimed that in his lecture Bukay had repeatedly made racist derogatory comments about Arabs. The student claimed that Bukay had said in class that all Arabs should be shot. After the story ran in the Arabic press, it was also reported in the Hebrew press and web. It turned out that the story was planted there and spread by an Israeli “Trotskyite” named David Merhav, who later issued a retraction and apology to Bukay, admitting the entire story had been a tissue of lies. But the retraction did not help.
Today anti-Semitic internet web sites carry the story of Bukay’s alleged racist statements against Arabs. Once the story began to spread, it turned out that none of the other students in the classroom had heard Bukay make any of the “racist” statements the communist student had alleged that he made.
Many of these students went public and claimed that the Arab student had fabricated the entire story. Hundreds of Bukay’s students backed Bukay in the case. Many wrote the Haifa University chiefs to give their side of the story. In any case, because of the uproar, the Rector at the University of Haifa, himself no right-winger (he was a founder of Peace Now), appointed a committee of investigation to look into the charges against Bukay. They found that they were lies. But in response to the media uproar, the Israel state Deputy Prosecutor, Shai Nitzan, decided to open a criminal investigation against Bukay for the “crime” of “incitement.” More at FPM 
 DEARBORN, Mich. -- There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made. An older man tries to swipe a felafel off an appetizer plate but instead gets a loving hand slap from a woman. The happy, well-dressed guests move to a table full of food in a dining room adorned with Middle Eastern wall-hangings. It's an inviting, if idealized, dinner party scene from any Arab-American home _ at least that's what the CIA seeks to convey in the first television commercial of its kind. The agency, in turn, hopes it's an inviting message to U.S. Arabs. "Your nation, your world," a male voice says with a Middle Eastern accent, as the frame moves outside and pans out to show the party through a window of a gleaming, high-rise building. In seconds, the shot zooms out to an image of the U.S. from space. "They're worth protecting. "Careers in the CIA." The commercial, which the agency plans to debut on mainstream and ethnic TV stations and Web sites nationwide within the next few months, represents artistic and technological leaps for the agency. Until now, its print, broadcast and Web advertising has focused on the variety of career options and the diversity among its ranks, but the agency hasn't used a storytelling approach to sell its message. It's part of an ambitious outreach effort to communities the CIA deems critical to reducing the threat of terrorism in the U.S. The agency has a five-year plan to boost fluency in Arabic and other languages. But resistance could come from U.S. Arabs who have felt the sting of suspicion since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Many Arabs and Muslims have been dubious of the government's intelligence gathering and believe spying is going on in mosques and other places. The CIA on Wednesday held a private screening of the commercial and another 30-second spot aimed at recruiting Iranian-Americans. Each drew applause from the group of about 40 people gathered for the viewing in Dearborn, in the heart of Michigan's large Middle Eastern community. Daw Alwerfalli, a mechanical engineering professor at Lawrence Technological University in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, said he liked the casual approach. An added benefit and point of pride for Alwerfalli: His son, Tamer, was among the actors. "It's talking to anybody _ it shows that the CIA cares about the integrity of the family in general," Alwerfalli said. Suehaila Amen, 30, thought the commercial was visually appealing and positive, but it "didn't resonate" with her because it didn't fully deliver on its message. "I just saw family together sharing a meal, doing what we do best _ the hugs and kisses over great food and great company _ but I didn't see why it's important to the CIA," said Amen, a community activist in Dearborn. The ad's soft-selling, storytelling approach emerged from focus groups and conversations with CIA employees of Middle Eastern heritage. The research revealed that Arab-Americans want to retain their ties to their homelands but embrace a sense of duty to the U.S. They stressed a desire to work in places where they can use their experiences and enjoy an exciting career. "It's important for them to know we understand how important their culture is to them. They're not going to lose that once they walk through the front doors of the CIA to work," said Christina Petrosian, chief of advertising and marketing for agency's recruitment and retention center. Petrosian and her team filmed the commercial in the same Hollywood studio that once was home to Desilu Productions and the pioneering 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," which itself broke ethnic barriers by costarring Cuban-American actor Desi Arnaz in the role of Ricky Ricardo. Petrosian believes the commercial portrays a broad yet authentic slice of life that will resonate with its audience. "We hear over and over again, 'The CIA is not even on my radar to come and apply,'" she said. "Showing the commercial in this way _ with a Middle Eastern focus _ hopefully that will generate that interest." NewsMax
 The shooting rampage at Fort Hood could make life noticeably more difficult for Arabs and Muslims serving in the U.S. military.Soon after the killings, witnesses said that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged gunman, had shouted "Allahu Akbar," the Arabic phrase for "God is great," as he fired.
Meanwhile, a video played repeatedly on cable television of him wearing the white dishdasha and skullcap of an observant Muslim.
The clip was recorded just hours before the attack that killed 13 people and wounded at least 28 others, reports said.
For those who believe Muslims and Arab-Americans -- Hasan's parents were Palestinian -- constitute a dangerous "fifth column," the tragedy provided further evidence.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggested that all Muslim Army officers should face special debriefings. "If I'm going to be deployed in a foxhole, if I'm going to be sticking in an outpost," he said, "I got to know the guy next to me is not going to want to kill me." Allen West, a Republican recruit for a House seat in Florida and a retired Army officer who served at Fort Hood, was more blunt, saying that the attack "is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military."
Similar rhetoric was heard two years ago when the U.S. Military Academy at West Point dedicated its first Muslim prayer room. Investor's Business Daily criticized the Army for "a show of blind tolerance" that increased the chances of "Islamist infiltration."
Some of the suspicions about Muslims in uniform arose after Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, an African-American convert to Islam, killed two officers and wounded 14 others in a grenade attack in Kuwait a few days before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Akbar, who was later sentenced to death by a military court, said he was upset that U.S. troops planned to kill his fellow Muslims.
Relatives of Hasan, a psychiatrist about to be deployed to Afghanistan, said he was often harassed for being a Muslim after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and wanted to leave the military.
The Pentagon says there are 3,546 self-identified Muslims in the military. Muslim groups say there as as many as 15,000 because many list no religious preference in their records. Hasan is among nearly 300,000 of 1.4 million active-duty service members who didn't list a religion.
Ray Hanania, a Chicago radio talk show host and co-founder of the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in Military, condemned Hasan's alleged actions as the work of a troubled individual.
But he said many Arab-American and Muslim service members can tell stories of prejudice in the ranks.
 By Bob Unruh 'Where there's smoke, there's fire,' says longtime Arab television anchor
A former Arab news anchor–turned–national security advocate has created a petition demanding that the subjects of the new book "Muslim Mafia" be investigated. "We call on the U.S. government to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the interest of national security," says the new petition by Brigitte Gabriel, who now runs the ACT! for America organization. Gabriel covered news throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and her work brought her into contact with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President George H.W. Bush and Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon. She moved to the United States in 1989 and founded a television production company as well as ACT! for America, which is dedicated to educating millions about the threat of radical Islam to world peace and national security. Now her petition, which already has attracted thousands of signatures, demands:
- The U.S. Department of Justice share with each member of the U.S. Congress an executive summary of the findings that led them to name CAIR as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.
- The House Sergeant at Arms work with all members of Congress and their top staff, particularly those members who sit on the House Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Intelligence Committees, to perform background checks on staff under their employ, considering evidence that CAIR has strategically worked to place staffers there.
- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service perform a full and thorough investigation into the business activities of CAIR, specifically their lobbying activities, to judge if they are in violation of their federal non-profit status as a 501(c)(3) organization.
Her points are similar to the demands of four members of Congress who were alarmed at the revelations in "Muslim Mafia," by Paul Sperry and David Gaubatz, which was based on an extended undercover operation at the organization that lobbies for Muslim interests but is considered by many in law enforcement to be a front group for terrorists. Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C.; Trent Franks, R-Ariz.; John Shadegg, R-Ariz.; and Paul Broun, R-Ga., have called for an internal House investigation as well as for a review from the Department of Justice about CAIR's activities. Gabriel is a member of the board of advisers of the Intelligence Summit, lectures on global terrorism and is author of New York Times best-sellers "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" and "They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It." Her petition declares, "It's time for a federal investigation of CAIR." Read more here,,,, Source: WND
 AMMAN, Jordan — A fiery critic of the Jordanian government says he was badly beaten by five unarmed men hours after he condemned the country's peace treaty with Israel. Leith Shubeilat was hospitalized with cuts and bruises to the face, head and body, but says that he was "conscious and doing well." In the past, government critics have said they were attacked by plainclothes agents, but the state has denied any involvement. Shubeilat said Sunday's early morning attack followed a televised interview he gave to an Arab satellite channel, in which he accused the government of corruption and repeated his call for ending the peace treaty with Israel. Jordan marks the 15th anniversary of its peace treaty with Israel on Monday. Source: FoxNews
 By Bill Warner The fruit never falls far from the tree. What are the practical results of Islam’s political and cultural ideology?
What is the fruit on the tree? Islam is a complete civilization that rejects every aspect of kafir civilization as being inferior. Islam’s Golden Age claim is an assertion that Islam is the superior civilization. The Koran says that Muslims are the best of nations. [1] How does the best of nations compare at the level of politics, economics, and culture? Islam claims that the Koran is the perfect book with the perfect political and social doctrine that will make Muslims intellectually superior to kafirs. Remember that the Koran is the perfect recording of the mind of infinitely intelligent god, Allah, so Muslims should be the absolute leader in knowledge and ideas. Islam is the finest, most perfect idea that can exist. Knowledge First, a personal question: what Muslim author have you read lately? That is a personal approach and since this book is about objective reasoning, we need objective data.
The United Nations has put together a series of four books that measure Arab society. Now Arabs are a minority of Muslims, but there is little data about Islam as an entire civilization and so the Arabs have to represent all of Islam.
The Arabs are the oldest Muslims and Saudi Arabia can make a claim to being the most perfect Islamic nation. Mohammed was from there, and the Koran makes special claims about the Quraysh tribe and Arabs in general. So the Arabs are not a perfect measure but they are the best measure. The most popular way to move information today is the Internet. England has about 48% of its population connected to the Internet; while Saudi Arabia has 2% of its population connected to the Internet [2] . High-income nations have 380 computers per thousand people. Arab nations have 20 computers per thousand people. The world as a whole has 80 per thousand. But there is not as much need for a Muslim to explore the information on the Internet. “Starting in early childhood, the [Arab] child becomes accustomed to suppressing her or his inquisitive and exploratory tendencies.” [3] The education curricula “seem to encourage submission, obedience, subordination and compliance, rather than free critical thinking.” [4] This lack of critical thinking can be seen in patents. Over a 20-year period, Saudi Arabia got 171 patents, while South Korea to 16,328 patents. [5] This is a natural result from the research and development funding.
Sweden spends 3.1% of its GNP on research, while the Arab states spend 0.2%. [6] Switzerland has 79.9 frequently cited scientific papers per million of citizens. Saudi Arabia has 0.07 frequently cited papers per million of citizens. [7] What that means is that Saudi Arabia published 1 paper that was frequently cited by others. The thirst for knowledge can be seen in that in the five-year period from 1970-75 only 330 books were translated per year.
There have been only 1000 books translated into Arabic in the last 1200 years. [8] That is less than one book per year over the centuries.
As a comparison, Spain translates 10,000 books per year into Spanish. In scientific publications the industrialized nations generate about 6 publications per ten million citizens, while the Arab countries create about 0.1 per ten million citizens. [9] Read more here,,,, Source: Western Front America
 Achinoam Nini, left, and Mira Awad thank supporters at a Tel Aviv
bar at a send-off party on April 30, 2009 ahead of
their performance in the Eurovision Song ContestTEL AVIV (JTA) -- Singers Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad look out at the crowd cheering them on at a packed Tel Aviv bar and beam delighted, almost surprised smiles as they sing their duet: a call for peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English called “ There Must be Another Way.” The Jewish-Arab duo hasn't heard much applause since being named Israel’s representatives for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, which is something of a cross between the Grammys and “American Idol.” Their selection during the recent Gaza war instantly made them -- Awad, especially -- targets of the country’s hard-line left and hard-line right. Both said it was wrong for them to represent the country and called on the duo to quit the competition. Surrounded by supporters April 30 at a party shortly before their departure for Moscow, where the contest will be held later this month, the two sound a triumphant note. They defend their message of coexistence and their own friendship, which they say helped them get through this conflict within a conflict. “There needs to be a moderate voice to advance things,” Nini, a major Israeli star, says after their brief performance. “Unfortunately, we see moderation get less of a stage because it seems boring and gray against the violent elements who photograph well in the media.” “True, maybe we also look good in the newspapers -- even though we don’t call for violence and don’t even French kiss like Britney Spears and Madonna,” she adds, laughing and jangling a large necklace of plastic geometric pieces that resembled a chandelier. “We just sing our message with our hearts and our heads.” Neither is a stranger to politics. Nini, 39, long has been an outspoken advocate of a two-state solution. Awad, 34, says she sees herself as part of the Palestinian nation while also feeling very much Israeli, as one of Israel’s 1.5 million Arab citizens. Awad found herself under attack as soon as the announcement was made in January by the Israel Broadcasting Authority that she and Nini would represent Israel at Eurovision. This year marks the first time an Israeli Arab will represent Israel, and the timing of the announcement -- during the war in Gaza -- prompted fellow Arab citizens and Jewish activists and artists to write her an open letter urging her to change her mind. "The Israeli government is sending the two of you to Moscow as part of its propaganda machine that is trying to create the appearance of Jewish-Arab 'coexistence' under which it carries out the daily massacre of Palestinian civilians,” the letter said. Some right-wing lawmakers, meanwhile, questioned Awad’s loyalty to the state and suitability to represent Israel. Awad, a singer and actress who grew up in Haifa, speaks of how difficult it was at the time to reconcile the Gaza war and the news that she would be performing at Eurovision. She says she viewed the criticism from some fellow Arab moderates as of a piece with the Israeli Arab community’s complex feelings about their lives in Israel. “I think sometimes my people here tend toward a militant way of expressing the pain; that’s just my personal thoughts on this,” she says. “At some point I tried to rise above that kind of guilt and say I need to look above and look at life here. I have a lot of friends who are Jewish Israelis, people who love me and would give their life for me. And therefore it opens your eyes when you realize the human connection is first and foremost, and then come the issues of nationality and religion.” The two make a striking pair as they weave their way through their send-off party, their music blasting through the bar’s loudspeakers, laughing and embracing. Of the two, Nini, of Yemenite descent, has the more typically “Arab look” -- dark olive skin and tight black curls. Awad, whose mother is Bulgarian, is lighter, with honey-colored hair and pale skin. They seem to revel on mixing up stereotypes and grow angry when asked if their performance, and the song they wrote for the competition, is something of a gimmick Gil Dor, Nini’s longtime musical partner, who accompanies her on guitar, also will be performing in the contest. Dor introduced the singers to each other eight years ago, suggesting they find a way to make music together. Their cover of the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” was one of their first collaborations. They have an album of 12 songs, the Eurovision entry among them, coming out soon. Dor says he ordinarily would be offended at the idea of musicians facing off in competition, but that in this case there is a noble mission involved. “We are representing the country in an ideal in how it wants to look and how all would like to see its future,” he says. “So we are very proud to be representatives in this.” Irit Pearlman, chairwoman of OneVoice, the grass-roots peace group that hosted the farewell party, says the song Nini and Awad will be singing sums up the feelings of the majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, who seek “another way” out of the violence of a conflict that seems to know no end. “We are optimistic people and we want change,” she says. “I have two soldiers at home, two boys. I cannot get up in the morning without feeling I’m doing something to change things here. I want a better life for the next generation and we have to work on it.” Source: JTA
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By Salim Mansur Since 9/11, the West, and the United States in particular, has been wrestling with the problem of how to deal with the pathology, or what Abdelwahab Meddeb, the Paris-based Tunisian writer, calls the “malady of Islam.” There seems to be no relevant past experience that the West might draw upon in confronting this malady. The pathologies of German-Italian fascism and Japanese militarism were eventually severely dealt with by the Allied powers, and their defeat followed by reform of those societies made the world more secure and prosperous. Similarly, a combination of diplomacy and military force by the West contained the pathology of the former Soviet Union until the communist system collapsed. But presently, there is great reluctance in the West — especially from the new Obama administration in Washington — to learn from the past and to tackle the challenges the Arab-Muslim world will continue to pose in the years ahead if the malady remains uncured. Read more ...Source: Pajamas Media
 By Daniel Lav The ideology of "resistance" - muqawama - has been a central feature of Arab political thought in the modern age. Recently, though, the concept of resistance - and in particular the way it has been deployed in the last few years - has come under attack from Arab liberals. This essay will present the broad outlines of this critique and the circumstances of its emergence. Arab liberalism was a force of only marginal importance in the Middle East in the second half of the 20th century, and has only recently regained prominence. A number of factors contributed to this liberal resurgence. First, the decline of the global Left in general and the Arab Left in particular led a number of former Arab Marxists to embrace liberal ideas. Among these are such figures as Hazem Saghieh, Lebanese political editor at Al-Hayat; Tunisian intellectual Lafif Lakhdar; and Syrian intellectual Georges Tarabishi. This phenomenon mirrors (though belatedly) the movement of prominent intellectuals in the West, such as the French historian Francois Furet, from the Marxist camp to liberalism. Yet more significant than the intellectual evolution of specific individuals has been the fact that the eclipse of Marxism in Russia and Eastern Europe and the democratization of much of the Third World has led to a general convergence on the liberal model of progress. Thus, Arab thinkers concerned with modernizing their societies no longer have two competing models of modernity to choose from. Read more ...Source: MEMRI
DAMASCUS, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - The average person in the Arab world reads no more than four pages a year, the Syrian newspaper Tishreen said on Tuesday, referring to a UN survey.
The survey said Americans read an average of 11 books a year, while the average Briton gets through eight books.
Conclusions made by the Arab Thought Foundation, which reports on cultural development in Arab countries, are also far from inspiring.
Calculations showed that the number of readers in the Arab world was no higher than 4% of readers in Britain.
Khalid Al Faisal, the president of the foundation, said just above 8% of people in Arab countries aspired to get an education, against 91% in South Korea and 72% in Australia.
The survey testifies to the scarcity of book printing in Arab countries, with one new title published each year for every 12,000 people, against one per 500 in Britain and one per 900 in Germany. Source: RIA Novosti
 Elaph: "How do you see the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict?" Amin Al-Mahdi: "...This conflict [started] when the Arab regimes rejected the international resolutions. Israel accepted the [1947 U.N.] Partition [Plan for Palestine], while the Arabs rejected it. Israel accepted [U.N.] Resolution 194, [passed in 1948], which called for the return of the [Palestinian] refugees... while Arabs rejected this [resolution]. The Arabs have a way of rejecting [proposals] and then accepting them when they are no longer relevant... when the circumstances have changed and the resolution has been completely forgotten. "The [Arab-Israeli] conflict serves the oppressive Arab regimes. The question is this: When will we see [the end of] the expansionist forces on the Israeli Right, and, on the other hand, the end of the oppressive Arab regimes? As I explained in my book on the Arab-Israeli conflict, [these two questions] are interrelated. Peace and democracy are not separate issues. When democracy comes to the Arab world, the expansionist forces in Israel will also cease to exist, and there will be peace. When Arab citizens receive their freedoms, there will be peace between the Arabs and Israel." Read more ... Source: MEMRI
By Savo Heleta When Muslims suffer around the world in the hands of Americans, Russians, Serbs, or Israelis, the Arab and Muslim countries are very active in condemning the attacks and violence. Their governments complain and raise funds, diplomats protest, the media report, and the citizens demonstrate against "crusaders and infidels." But when Muslims suffer in the hands of an Arab regime, then there is barely any condemnation of the violence and crimes in the Arab and Muslim world. Since 2003, Sudan's western province of Darfur is an epicenter of a conflict between the mainly "African" rebels and the Arab-controlled Sudanese government and their proxy militias. It is estimated that about 200,000 people have died in the conflict from fighting, disease, and starvation. The UN and aid agencies estimate that over two million Darfurians, out of a population of about six million, are living in refugee camps in Darfur and neighboring countries. Read more ...Source: Gather.com
 By CHERRIE HEYWOOD HEBRON, West Bank -- The Palestinian Authority recently uncovered a massive underground tunnel belonging to Hamas in the southern West Bank city of Hebron as the Islamic movement attempts to expand its power struggle from Gaza to the territory controlled by the pro-Western and moderate PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Hundreds of these tunnels exist in the southern Gaza strip and are used to smuggle a variety of items from Egypt including arms, animals, foodstuffs and ordinary everyday household items. Under Israeli siege the hermetically sealed and deprived territory relies on these to provide various necessities. However, this was the first such discovery of such a secret tunnel in the PA controlled West Bank where Hamas is finding it increasingly hard to train its military wing and store weapons as the PA, backed by the Israelis, beefs up its operations against the group. The tunnel's entrance was discovered under the home of a Palestinian family during a raid by Palestinian forces in the area. Read more ...Source: Middle East Times
 RIYADH, (Reuters) - A leading group of Muslim clerics has called on Sunnis and Shi'ites to desist from efforts to win converts from the other, but blamed Shi'ite Iran for stoking sectarian tensions in Arab countries. Fears of a growing sectarian rift have bubbled since Iraq's Sunni Muslim leader Saddam Hussein was toppled by U.S.-led forces in 2003 and replaced by a Shi'ite-controlled government backed by Shi'ite power Iran. Leading Sunni cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi said in remarks to Egyptian and Saudi newspapers last month that Shi'ites now had a voice in traditional Sunni countries like Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco through proselytisation. He said this could lead to violence. Qaradawi's comments stirred controversy in Iran where he was attacked in the media and among Shi'ite communities in the Arab world, which are mainly concentrated in Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. The International Union of Muslim Scholars, which met in Qatar this week to discuss the issue, said Iran bore responsibility for "sectarian strife" and urged each sect to respect the other's dominant position in different regions. "Organised attempts by the minority sect to proselytise in areas where the other is dominant should stop, as part of mutual respect between the sects," it said. "The Islamic Republic of Iran should bear its responsibility to end sectarian strife." Read more ...Source: Reuters
JERUSALEM (Kyodo) Nissan Motor Co. has ordered its Israeli business ally to immediately stop airing a television commercial depicting Arab oil barons angered at the high fuel efficiency of a Nissan car, officials of the automaker said Thursday. "The commercial was produced by a local automobile distributor based on its own judgment, and Nissan Motor has nothing to do with the commercial," a Nissan spokesman in Japan said. The commercial depicts wealthy Arab oil barons becoming so enraged at a fuel-efficient Nissan Tiida that one of them kicks the car, bangs on the hood and windshield and heaps abuse on the vehicle. The major Israeli paper Haaretz, in its online edition, showed video footage of a news program on Saudi Arabia's MBC TV that quoted a Saudi representative as saying that Persian Gulf states may boycott Nissan unless it apologizes. Read more ...Source: Japan TimesH/T: Jihad Watch
By Lara Jakes Jordan WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do what Congress demanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: root out terrorists before they strike. Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new rules would allow the FBI to consider those factors among a number of traits that could trigger a national security investigation. More than a half-dozen senior FBI, Justice Department and other U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the new policy agreed to discuss it only on condition of anonymity. Read more ...Source: AP
By Kilian Melloy Dancing cheek to cheek with a handsome swain is a dream that, for many gay Arabs, carries with it the implicit risk of violence, even death, back home. But in America, homophobia and anti-Arab sentiment notwithstanding, it’s a dream that can come true. As reported by a June 17 article in the Village Voice, gay Arabs--the subject of the recent documentary A Jihad for Love by filmmaker Parvez Sharma--may find that they need to flee their home countries due to systematic, often forceful, repression of homosexuality by the state. Read more ...Source: Edge
By David Hardaker A group of women in the Israeli city of Ramle has broken the code of silence on a string of honour killings within the city's Arab community. For one woman, it has meant giving police the evidence to charge her own son for murdering her daughter. More ...Source: ABCH/T: Gramfan
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