Fwd: Brave New Middle-East
- From: "Imran Khan" <no1khan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: imran_dist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:14:31 +0100
Assalamu alay kum wr wb,
A forward: Some articles allowing some insight on the current world affairs
From: jimas
Subject: Brave New Middle-East
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:35:24 +0100
IN THE NAME OF ALLAAH THE MOST KIND THE MOST MERCIFUL
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28th Rajab 1424 Wed 24th Sep '03 2.30 a.m. (UK)
From Abu Muntasir,
Assalaam 'alaikum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu.
Innal hamdalillaah was-salaat was-salaam 'alaa rasoolillaah.
+ The goal is to transform the Middle East. And
+ guess who mainly lives in the Middle East? Muslims!
+ Small wonder that one easily confuses the war on
+ terror as terror against Islam and the Muslims.
Like the jinn that can assume different forms, the
war on terrorism shape shifts to an ugly bloat to
swallow more of mother earth and her people into
the gargantuan appetite of that country whose battle
cry is 'freedom'. Freedom is an endearing term and
convenient to hide behind because it is much easier
to say than tell the people that pre-emptive war is
fought to bring one country after another into the
liberal free-market empire.
Kofi Annan wants us to believe that somehow this
behemoth of war could be stopped in its tracks if
the world community had done enough to address the
threats from terrorists and weapons of mass
destruction that spur such "pre-emptive" strikes.
The UN it seems is content to criticise and then
appease but not look at the other side of the coin
it holds in its hands. How about addressing more
than just threats that spur whole groups of people
to sacrifice their lives against that behemoth.
What a couple of US Jews can do it seems the UN is
too timid to even contemplate.
See excerpts below:
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
Richard Wolffe
Aug. 27
OF COURSE, the White House always said it would be
long. But that was in the days when it was just
fighting Al Qaeda, and the shadowy terrorist network
was hard to hunt down. After those post-9-11 weeks,
the war expanded in two other ways. The first was
the shift from Al Qaeda to weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq. The second was what weâ??ve seen over the
last week or so: the shift from Iraq to the broader
Middle East.
Now the White House is only too ready to draw
parallels between Palestinian terrorism in
Jerusalem and Iraqi terrorism in Baghdad.
According to Rice, the war on terror now has one goal.
Not the defeat of Al Qaeda or the capture of Osama bin
Laden, dead or alive. But something less tangible, and
more far-reaching. "The transformation of the Middle
East," she told the Veterans of Foreign Wars at a
convention Monday, "is the only guarantee that it will
no longer produce ideologies of hatred that lead men
to fly airplanes into buildings in New York or
Washington."
Itâ??s not clear what transformation means here. And
itâ??s certainly not clear that you can transform the
minds and culture of a country - let alone a region
- by going to war. Rice said that the transformation
will take many years, but explained that it did not
mean "a military presence in Iraq." That is indeed a
strange process of change - one that starts with a
war, but does not require troops to keep the change
moving.
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Annan Criticizes Bush's Attack on Iraq
Tuesday September 23, 2003 10:59 AM
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan criticized
President Bush's ``pre-emptive'' attack on
Iraq
His message was clear: The world should collectively
address the threats from terrorists and weapons of
mass destruction that spur such ``pre-emptive''
strikes
His message was clear: The world should collectively
address the threats from terrorists and weapons of
mass destruction that spur such ``pre-emptive''
strikes
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US Govt Sued
www.totallyjewish.com
by Daniella Peled - Sep 23
An Israeli couple has taken the US government to court
for refusing to recognise Jerusalem as part of Israel.
American-born Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky started legal
action last week after the US embassy in Tel Aviv
failed to list their son Menachemâ??s birthplace as
Israel, even though he had been born in the capital.
"But the law clearly states a directive to the
secretary of state by congress to recognise
Jerusalem as part of Israel. I think it is
important that the world, and especially the US,
recognise that Jerusalem is in the state of Israel."
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