July 2, 2009
Posted by yaman
SLOTERVAART, Netherlands (AFP) — A harassed gay minority in a conservative suburb in otherwise tolerant Amsterdam has found a guardian angel in the local Muslim mayor.
A Yale-sponsored conference about anti-Semitism hosted many blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. It is unconscionable for a center meant to study one form of racism to indulge speakers who practice another.
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Both the Irish and Middle Eastern conflicts figure prominently in American domestic politics — yet both have played out in very different ways.
A must read piece by Ali Abunimah in NYT.
(Discussion)abc Primetime – How Muslims Are Treated In USA
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To get an idea of the real reason why Apple has succeeded, it was only necessary to look below the May article hailing the company’s success on the front page of the Times business section. A second article reported on a spate of suicides in some Chinese sweatshops that was drawing attention to work…
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Immediately following the incident, McCord was threatened and mocked by his commanding officer for pulling the children from the van. He says his platoon leader “yelled at me that I need to quit worrying about these ‘motherfucking kids’ and pull security.” McCord later approached a staff sergeant an…
Remember the “Collateral Murder” video leaked of the helicopter attack that killed a journalist? Here’s some insights from one of the soldiers at the scene and into the way it was handled by military personnel.
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Portraying “enemy” infants as proto-terrorists has obvious propaganda value: if what you thought was an innocent baby is in fact a weapon with a human face, you will be less likely to protest when it is killed. Murder becomes self-defence. Not only are we supposed to view ‘their’ children as latent …
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HarvardManagementCompany, which manages the university’sendowment, has divested the fund from allinvestmentsit had inIsraelcompanies.
I’m a small pariah state, hear me pout. Though I’m a scandal, don’t shut me out!
(Discussion)A mere thirty-three years ago, on January 20, 1977, Jimmy Carter inaugurated his presidency by proclaiming from the Capitol steps, “Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere…. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute.” Most people had never heard of “h…
Thought provoking article for people chained to the language of human rights.
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July 3, 2009
The twist in this article is that the mayor is Muslim, which does not follow from what was written. Rather he appears to be a Dutchman who happens to have been born from a Muslim background. As a result, it does not mean anything if he invites a gay pride march through the suburb – what is worrying is that people who reject homosexual behaviour are being forced to ‘accept’ it by officialdom, which should just leave each to their own sphere.
July 30, 2009
Immigrants need to respect their host country and freedom of speech, expression and living without fear.
Gay people are being harassed by muslim Youth all over the country and its the mayor’s job to educate and spread tolerance.
No one should living in fear, fear creates angry self distructive individuals who are useless to themselves and their communities. Ex. The young angry palestinians who would rather blow themselves up rather than hope for a better future. You take hope and security from a human being and then you begin to see their dark side.
I support gay people because they never ever bothered me and to hear about the bashings that take place in a country like Netherlands is embaressing to me as a Muslim and Arab woman, not only do we have to deal with stereotypes of young arab gangs stealing, dealing hard drugs and sexually harrasing people but now hate crimes.
Some immigrants forget how hard life is in their homelands and take their host countries for granted.
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