Radio Hoax Reveals US Anti-Muslim Sentiment

In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent Fri Dec 1, 9:05 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters)- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly. The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us." Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans." At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America. "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland "For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It's beyond disgusting. "Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous." The show aired on November 26, the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday, and Klein said in an interview afterwards he had been surprised by the response. "The switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes," said Klein. "There were plenty of callers angry with me, but there were plenty who agreed." Click here to read the entire story Thanks to Intifada Boy & Yahoo News Peace

Banat & Shabab Amman

Salam,

Here are 2 funny posters of Banat ew Shabab Amman.

Peace

Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 Friends, Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II. That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad. And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet. Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die. Let's listen to what the Iraqi people are saying, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland: ** 71% of all Iraqis now want the U.S. out of Iraq. ** 61% of all Iraqis SUPPORT insurgent attacks on U.S. troops. Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi citizens believe that our soldiers should be killed and maimed! So what the hell are we still doing there? Talk about not getting the hint. There are many ways to liberate a country. Usually the residents of that country rise up and liberate themselves. That's how we did it. You can also do it through nonviolent, mass civil disobedience. That's how India did it. You can get the world to boycott a regime until they are so ostracized they capitulate. That's how South Africa did it. Or you can just wait them out and, sooner or later, the king's legions simply leave (sometimes just because they're too cold). That's how Canada did it. The one way that DOESN'T work is to invade a country and tell the people, "We are here to liberate you!" -- when they have done NOTHING to liberate themselves. Where were all the suicide bombers when Saddam was oppressing them? Where were the insurgents planting bombs along the roadside as the evildoer Saddam's convoy passed them by? I guess ol' Saddam was a cruel despot -- but not cruel enough for thousands to risk their necks. "Oh no, Mike, they couldn't do that! Saddam would have had them killed!" Really? You don't think King George had any of the colonial insurgents killed? You don't think Patrick Henry or Tom Paine were afraid? That didn't stop them. When tens of thousands aren't willing to shed their own blood to remove a dictator, that should be the first clue that they aren't going to be willing participants when you decide you're going to do the liberating for them. A country can HELP another people overthrow a tyrant (that's what the French did for us in our revolution), but after you help them, you leave. Immediately. The French didn't stay and tell us how to set up our government. They didn't say, "we're not leaving because we want your natural resources." They left us to our own devices and it took us six years before we had an election. And then we had a bloody civil war. That's what happens, and history is full of these examples. The French didn't say, "Oh, we better stay in America, otherwise they're going to kill each other over that slavery issue!" The only way a war of liberation has a chance of succeeding is if the oppressed people being liberated have their own citizens behind them -- and a group of Washingtons, Jeffersons, Franklins, Ghandis and Mandellas leading them. Where are these beacons of liberty in Iraq? This is a joke and it's been a joke since the beginning. Yes, the joke's been on us, but with 655,000 Iraqis now dead as a result of our invasion (source: Johns Hopkins University), I guess the cruel joke is on them. At least they've been liberated, permanently. So I don't want to hear another word about sending more troops (wake up, America, John McCain is bonkers), or "redeploying" them, or waiting four months to begin the "phase-out." There is only one solution and it is this: Leave. Now. Start tonight. Get out of there as fast as we can. As much as people of good heart and conscience don't want to believe this, as much as it kills us to accept defeat, there is nothing we can do to undo the damage we have done. What's happened has happened. If you were to drive drunk down the road and you killed a child, there would be nothing you could do to bring that child back to life. If you invade and destroy a country, plunging it into a civil war, there isn't much you can do 'til the smoke settles and blood is mopped up. Then maybe you can atone for the atrocity you have committed and help the living come back to a better life. The Soviet Union got out of Afghanistan in 36 weeks. They did so and suffered hardly any losses as they left. They realized the mistake they had made and removed their troops. A civil war ensued. The bad guys won. Later, we overthrew the bad guys and everybody lived happily ever after. See! It all works out in the end! The responsibility to end this war now falls upon the Democrats. Congress controls the purse strings and the Constitution says only Congress can declare war. Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi now hold the power to put an end to this madness. Failure to do so will bring the wrath of the voters. We aren't kidding around, Democrats, and if you don't believe us, just go ahead and continue this war another month. We will fight you harder than we did the Republicans. The opening page of my website has a photo of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, each made up by a collage of photos of the American soldiers who have died in Bush's War. But it is now about to become the Bush/Democratic Party War unless swift action is taken. This is what we demand: 1. Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those times. Be brave and admit it. 2. Apologize to our soldiers and make amends. Tell them we are sorry they were used to fight a war that had NOTHING to do with our national security. We must commit to taking care of them so that they suffer as little as possible. The mentally and physically maimed must get the best care and significant financial compensation. The families of the deceased deserve the biggest apology and they must be taken care of for the rest of their lives. 3. We must atone for the atrocity we have perpetuated on the people of Iraq. There are few evils worse than waging a war based on a lie, invading another country because you want what they have buried under the ground. Now many more will die. Their blood is on our hands, regardless for whom we voted. If you pay taxes, you have contributed to the three billion dollars a week now being spent to drive Iraq into the hellhole it's become. When the civil war is over, we will have to help rebuild Iraq. We can receive no redemption until we have atoned. In closing, there is one final thing I know. We Americans are better than what has been done in our name. A majority of us were upset and angry after 9/11 and we lost our minds. We didn't think straight and we never looked at a map. Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy media, we knew nothing of history. We didn't know that WE were the ones funding and arming Saddam for many years, including those when he massacred the Kurds. He was our guy. We didn't know what a Sunni or a Shiite was, never even heard the words. Eighty percent of our young adults (according to National Geographic) were not able to find Iraq on the map. Our leaders played off our stupidity, manipulated us with lies, and scared us to death. But at our core we are a good people. We may be slow learners, but that "Mission Accomplished" banner struck us as odd, and soon we began to ask some questions. Then we began to get smart. By this past November 7th, we got mad and tried to right our wrongs. The majority now know the truth. The majority now feel a deep sadness and guilt and a hope that somehow we can make make it all right again. Unfortunately, we can't. So we will accept the consequences of our actions and do our best to be there should the Iraqi people ever dare to seek our help in the future. We ask for their forgiveness. We demand the Democrats listen to us and get out of Iraq now. Yours, Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com mmflint@aol.com ---

Your Vote Needed at CNN website!

Salam, Here is the story about Muslims being kicked out for praying. Airline checks claim of 'Muslim while flying' discrimination POSTED: 10:42 p.m. EST, November 21, 2006 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- US Airways said Tuesday it is investigating the removal of six Muslim imams who were passengers on a Monday flight heading to Phoenix, Arizona. Read more..... There is also a poll asking you to vote: QUICK VOTE Which statement best sums up your reaction to six imams being removed from a plane because of nervous passengers? Muslims should expect closer scrutiny. X Non-Muslims should be more understanding. Your vote is needed. We are loosing 31% to 69% Peace

I'm not on iToot :-)

I like this banner, Once I'm done with migrating to wordpress I'm gonna add it to my new (not good enough for iToot) Blog. Thanks Gr33n Data & Ha Ana Za! Peace

How to start your own blog (in Arabic)

Salam, For those who speak Arabic and not very good in English here is how to start your own blog. http://bmadvice.blogspot.com/

Peace

امتحان شهادة الدراسة الثانوية العامة لعام 2006-2007

اسم الطالب: والله لنطلعك ناسي اسمك صورة الطالب الشخصية: الفرع: علمي علمك التاريخ: 01/01/2006 المبحث: اللغة العربية هذا الامتحان برعاية كوكاكولا ملاحظة: اجب عن الأسئلة التعجيزية التالية و عددها ( 6 ) إجباري و ( 1 ) اختياري على أن يكون مجموع الأسئلة (7) ملاحظة: هذه الأسئلة لا علاقة لها بمسابقة - مـن سيـربـح المـلـيـون – لذلك تمنع مساعدة الصديق أو أي وسيلة أخرى (بضم الهمزة. السؤال الأول (20 علامة) قال كاظم الساهر معبرا عن مشاعره و أشواقه، وواصفا محبوبتة : 1- نزلت للبحــــر تتشمـــس الحلــــوة رفقــــا بالبشـــر بنــت حــــــــوا 2- نـزلت لبحــــر يا محــــلا مشيتـــها أنــــا و البـحـــر (نـتـمنى لمســــتـهـا) 3- موسيـقى بـيتـهـوفن عيــني يا ضـحكـتـها غزالــة عــالرمل (و بدلــع تتـلـــــــوى) 4- عـروس و تـريـد أمـي و سـيـدة لـبـيــتـي و علـى أيــدك أريــد اخــتـم عـزوبــتـي 5- أنـا قـصـدي شريـف و صـادقـة نـيـتـــي سكـتـي و السكـوت مــن الـرضـا هـــــو الأسئلة: 1-اشرح الآبيات الخمسة الأخيرة فقط من النص بما لا يقل عن 90 سطرا باختصار شديد (9 علامات) 2- لماذا أكد الشاعر على القصد الشريف و النية الصادقة ، و علام يدل سكوت المحبوبة؟ (3 علامات) 3- أعرب ما تحته خط إعراب دبكات، و ما بين قوسين إعراب فيدو كليب (3 علامات) 4- استخرج من البيت الثالث صورتين فوريتين مبينا نوع الكاميرا (3 علامـات) 5- ما هي صفات العروس التي تريدها ام الشاعر (2 علامـة) مساحة خالية للإعلان- ت: اثنين صفر وثلاثة خضر --------------------------------- السؤال الثاني ( 8 علامات) أعط أسباب ما يلي مع شرح وافي (إذا ما لقيت وافي، سمير ماشي حاله) : 1- تم نقل السوق المالي إلى سوق السمك ؟ (2 علامـة) 2- إقبال المشاهدين على قناة الجزيرة الإخبارية؟ (2 علامـة) 3- إغلاق شبكة الأخبار PNN بعد زواج شارون ستون ؟ (2 علامـة) 4- أسباب اندلاع الحرب بين ..... ما فيش فرق، اختر أي حرب، ماهو انت راسب راسب ؟ (2 علامـة) *** أخي الممتحن أقلب الصفحة: والله لتندم عالساعة اللي خشيت فيها المدرسة *** السؤال الثالث –اختياري- (5 علامات) اكتب الاسم المستوفى من السؤال ما اسم عم إيزابيل الذي هجرها في الحلقة السابقة من المسلسل المكسيكي الذي عرض يوم السبت ورد ذكره في مسلسل كاساندرا أيضا ؟ (5 علامــات( _________________________________________________________________ فاصل إعلاني: اشتري عبوة سير يلاك و اربح علبتين بامبارز مجانا العرض ساري حتى نهاية الامتحان _______________________________________________________________ السؤال الرابع (8 علامات) ورد في التلفزيون السوري دعاية "رقائق أبو اللبن" للمخرج فواز جابر: " عبالك اوزي، تنتين بتعوزي، عيار الرز و اللحمة مفرومة يا سوزي، بازيلا صنوبر و رشة بهار...." الأسئلة 1- اذكر وصفة الطعام المختلفة التي وردت في كافة دعايات "أبو اللبن" و "ساراميكس" (4 علامــات( 2- اضبط بالبهارات ما تحته خط (2 علامـــة) 3- أين تجد رقم هاتف سوزي في دليل هاتف يأخذ بأول الأسماء، متبعا القاموس المحيط؟ (2 علامـــة) --------------------------------- السؤال الخامس (20 علامة) موضوع تعبير قال أحدهم: "ام احمد، شو صار، واحد صفق واحد طار، أبو وصفي لا تحتار، اقعد و شوف عالمكشوف، ما حنقلك شو حتشوف. اكتب موضوعا عن عائلة ام احمد، و بين فيه علاقة فرحان بكل من سمر و ام احمد و تطورها قبل و بعد ربح جائزة اليانصيب (20 علامة( المشروب الرسمي لهذا الامتحان كوكاكولا *** أخي الممتحن أقلب الصفحة أحسنلك *** السؤال السادس ( 19 علامات) اجب عن أربعة فقط من الأسئلة التالية 1- ما رأيك بتصرفات "أبو طراقة" و "ابن الوهاج" في مسلسل الجوارح (5 علامــات) مبينا رأيك بمنجزات الباشق و أسامة و عقاب. 2- ما رأيك بموقف "الكاسر" من "شقيف" في مسلسل الكواسر (5 علامــات) 3- من برأيك أقوى وأفضل بوكيمون - هل هو – بيكاتشو ؟؟؟ (5 علامــات) 4 – اذكر أسماء أبطال كابتن ماجد، مع بيان فريق كل منهم. وما عدد الأهداف التي سجلها الكابتن ماجد في كأس العالم الأخيرة في فرنسا 1998. (4 علامـات) _______________________________________________________________________ عرض فاست لينك الجديد من سمعان أبو رنه ، اشترك في موبايلكم واربح ساعتين فاست لينك مجانيتين _______________________________________________________________________ سؤال المساعدة ( لرفع العلامة ) ( 20 علامــة) أ – اذكر أسماء 3 من رؤساء بلدية لقرية يوكوزوهريتاشاناتا اليابانية من ثلاثة مقاطع مع عدد السنوات التي ترأسوا فيها البلدية ب – أذكر أسماء زوجات 5 ممن ماتوا في قصف مدينة هيروشيما اليابانية عام 1945 بالقنبلة الذرية على أن تكون إحداهن شقراء.

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Bush to announce the resignation of Rumsfeld!

Salam, Now that we are hanging Saddam, let's get rid of Rumsfeld as well.

Good Riddance!

Peace

The relationship between US elections and M.E major events!

Salam, Disclaimer: I'm happy to see Saddam gets his punishment on earth for all what he did towards his people. Now that I got that out of the way, have you ever wondered why major M.E events occur usually on the eve of major U.S elections?! In 2004 Presidential elections, the night before the major elections when the democratic party was gaining on the republican a video tape of Bin Laden comes out of the blue admitting for the first time that Bin Laden is the mastermind behind the September 11th, and with this new fact the American voters were reminded once again of the big bad guy and we all know when in fear vote for Bush. Back to 2007 primary elections, howcome it took the new Iraqi government all this time to hang Saddam?! Why on the week of the elections? is it another boost for the republican party? Don't mind me I'm just thinking loud, maybe it's all just a figment of my imagination. Peace

Let us take a one hour ride with Arundhati Roy

Wow!! Howcome I never heard of this lady before?! One hour long video.. Peace

Country Matters

Salam, Watch this ANIMATION created by Ahmad Ajouz a Lebanese graphic designer living in Phily. Peace

I love this guy (Family Guy- Will Ferrell - video powered by Metacafe)

LOOL. Family Guy- Will Ferrell - video powered by Metacafe

Help Unbloack Mohamad's Den

Salam, One of my first blogs (Mohamad's Den) to stumple upon has been blocked in Bahrain. And there are 3 things everyone can do: 1- Spread the word about this and post something about it on your blog. 2- For those in Bahrain you can read Moahamed's Den at this mirror site. 3- Everyone can help by signing the Petition online. Some of the Blogs that are talking about Unblocking Mohamad's Den: Roba IWantMyMTV HAMSA SandMonkey GlobalVoicesOnline Peace

FATHERHOOD

Salam, Jad had a post about World's strongest father, and Loay reposted the whole article about this clip. I like that song alot, and living in Alabama they play this song on the Radio all the time. now I watched the clip and it made me weep like a girl, I do think I'm getting old. Lately I get emotional easy .. I think. I guess it is an age thingy, I'm getting close to hitting 40. My best friend just hit 40 and guess what he do? he bought a brand new motorcycle! It is midlife crises no matter what you people try and say. Enjoy the Clip.

The story is incredibly awesome! Truly awesome, inspiring, and uplifting. -L. Strongest Dad in the World Sports Illustrated By Rick Reilly I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. “He’ll be a vegetable the rest of his life,” father, Dick, says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. “Put him in an institution.” But the Hoyts weren’t buying it. They noticed the way Rick’s eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. “No way,” Dick says he was told. “There’s nothing going on in his brain.” “Tell him a joke,” Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? “Go Bruins!” And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, “Dad, I want to do that.” Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described “porker” who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. “Then it was me who was handicapped,” Dick says. “I was sore for two weeks.” That day changed Rick’s life. ”Dad,” he typed, “when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!” And that sentence changed Dick’s life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. “No way,” Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren’t quite a single runner, and they weren’t quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year. Then somebody said, ”Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?” How’s a guy who never learned to swim and hadn’t ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried. Now they’ve done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don’t you think? Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars—all in the same day. Dick’s also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right? Hey, Dick, why not see how you’d do on your own? ”No way,” he says. Dick does it purely for ”the awesome feeling” he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time’? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992—only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don’t keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time. “No question about it,” Rick types. “My dad is the Father of the Century.” And what has Rick done for his father? Not much – except save his life. And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. “If you hadn’t been in such great shape,” one doctor told him, “you probably would’ve died 15 years ago.” So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other’s life. Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston , and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland , Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father’s Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. “The thing I’d most like,” Rick types, “is that my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him once.”

And here is the story: Peace

Does a leader have a right to bypass democratic institutions to ensure his people are fed and secure?

Our Question: Posted at 10:21 AM ET, 10/25/2006 Does a leader have a right to bypass democratic institutions to ensure his people are fed and secure? - Panelist Daoud Kuttab Daoud Kuttab has posed the following question on the Washington Post website PostGlobal (blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal): LEDE: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said bread is more important than democracy, and he may be preparing to try to dissolve the Hamas-led Palestinian parliment. QUESTION: Does a leader have a right to bypass democratic institutions to ensure his people are fed and secure? We would love for your to weigh in. When you do, enter your name, location, and the email link of your blog in the name field and post a comment. Then notify us here and we'll feature your response on the PostGlobal page, and perhaps the mainpage as well if the piece can stand alone. Answer Here. Peace

"Habeeby"

LOL.

Eid Mubarak

Salam, Eid Mubarak for all, and I would like to take this time to ask forgiveness for anyone that I upset on this blog or their's.

Eid Mubarak

Meet another Palestinian Rapper

Salam, I found this song on MySpace it belongs to boikutt, You can check his songs along with others at Ramallah Underground. Here is my favorite song: Khaleni A3eesh. Peace

How to create a suicide bomber!

Thanks