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.
Ibrahim Shikaki, a Visiting Scholar from Palestine, spoke in favor of the bill although he did not feel that it was written from the Palestinian perspective. Shikaki explained that “If this were a Palestinian bill it would have mentioned my grandfather’s land that was stolen from him, or my friend w…
Source: electronicintifada.net
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Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17
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For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC…
Congratulations everyone!!
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The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.
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OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.
Police the police.
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Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.
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(Discussion)Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…
Source: occupyca.wordpress.com
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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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