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PLS READ!!! Muslims Formally Endorse KERRY!!

 
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Mary Ann Parker
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:02 pm    Post subject: PLS READ!!! Muslims Formally Endorse KERRY!! Reply with quote

I have not seen this elsewhere yet.

"American" Muslims formally endorse KERRY

On a previous post we see that brother CAM is in ISRAEL
promising them things on Kerry's behalf and then we see the
following endorsement.
Kerry is building a COALITION for sure. So far he has the official
endorsement of THE COMMUNIST PARTY and now

The American Muslims;

What's up with that?? Question
Someone is not paying attention.
And the press as usual misses an opportunity to get the answers! Exclamation

Here are the links and some of the text for review.
Please help throw down the gautnlet to as many as possible.


This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which
follows.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2004
_____ _____

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY
Muslim group endorses Kerry
Cites civil-liberties restrictions, harsh foreign policies
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Posted: October 5, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern _____
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

The HYPERLINK "http://www.mapac-us.org/home.asp"Muslim American Political Action Committee has formally endorsed
Sen. John Kerry for president.

"What does it mean for Muslim Americans if President Bush is
re-elected?"asked Mukit Hossain, president of MAPAC, in making
the announcement.
"It means more constricting laws and policies to curtail the
civil liberties of the Muslim Americans, and harsher
foreign policies toward Muslim countries –
in the name of combating terrorism.
It also means a continuing and menacing
rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in America, covertly nurtured by the
neoconservatives, and openly fanned by government officials
like Lt. General (William) Boykin and Attorney General John Ashcroft."

[b]Hossain, a telecommunications entrepreneur who emigrated from Bangladesh,
said the decision to endorse Kerry came after months of considerations,
discussions with Muslim American leaders across the country, and extensive dialog with the Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party leadership.


"Since Senator Kerry is not controlled by religious and political
ideologues, the possibility of an open and productive dialog
with the Kerry administration for the Muslim Americans remains alive," he said.
"The Kerry campaign has already shown an eagerness to be inclusive,
and an inclination to engage in such a dialog.
So, the only viable option open to the Muslim Americans is to
strongly support John Kerry and assert ourselves as an
important part of the electorate - as the swing votes in the
battleground states,
we are poised to do so.
At the same time, before the election, we
must extensively strive to impress on the Kerry campaign
the crucial importance of the Muslim American voters
through active engagement."

But will the formal endorsement of a Muslim American group
help or hurt Kerry?

If another group's poll is correct, it could backfire.
According to a poll released by a the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, one in four Americans
holds negative views of Muslims generally.

CAIR's survey found:

* More than one-fourth of survey respondents agreed with
stereotypes such as "Muslims teach their children to hate"
and "Muslims value life less than other people."

* When asked what comes to mind when they hear "Muslim,"
32 percent of respondents made negative comments.
Only two percent had a positive response.
* Those with the most negative attitudes toward
Islam and Muslims tend to be less-educated white
who are politically conservative.
* While half of respondents believed that American Muslims
are "cooperating" in the war on terror,
50 percent did not believe that they are
actively "condemning" terrorist acts.

Meanwhile, MAPAC - in cooperation with
the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation -
has been creating a database of the Muslim American voters
in the battleground states and other states where there are
large presence of the community.
According to preliminary findings, the group says,
battleground states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida
have enough Muslim American votes to provide a formidable
swing bloc.


PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SHARE THIS WITH OTHERS.
KERRY MAY DO HIMSELF IN!!!


Make it a great day.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:09 pm    Post subject: endorsements Reply with quote

Over 160,000 American Jews living in Isreal have registered to vote, stating that they support George Bush. I'm sure this is the reason Cam is there.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cam the convict phone wire cutter? Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Knighthawk formally endorses Kickin' their A$$es. Evil or Very Mad

The American Muslim community disgusts me. They want us to feel sorry for them, but I have yet to see or hear any so called American Muslim leaders and or muslim communities come out and express outrage for what happened on 9/11. Twisted Evil

They have all kept quiet on the subject and I really want to know why. Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Knighthawk wrote:
Knighthawk formally endorses Kickin' their A$$es. Evil or Very Mad

The American Muslim community disgusts me. They want us to feel sorry for them, but I have yet to see or hear any so called American Muslim leaders and or muslim communities come out and express outrage for what happened on 9/11. Twisted Evil

They have all kept quiet on the subject and I really want to know why. Evil or Very Mad


That's the main question I'd like to see them answer.....
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Knighthawk wrote:
Knighthawk formally endorses Kickin' their A$$es. Evil or Very Mad

The American Muslim community disgusts me. They want us to feel sorry for them, but I have yet to see or hear any so called American Muslim leaders and or muslim communities come out and express outrage for what happened on 9/11. Twisted Evil

They have all kept quiet on the subject and I really want to know why. Evil or Very Mad


The American Muslim community is the equivalent of all of those "good Germans" who saw and smelt the gas chambers and did nothing to stop the genocide --- but instead supported it. Silence in the face of islamic facist terrorism wrong. Good people standing by and doing nothing is evil at work.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As one Arabic paper recently lamented after the hideous acts committed against helpless Russian schoolchildren. CAIR worries about the image of Muslims in America, yet it is the actions of Muslims in America and the world, either through the commission of atrocities or the tacit appoval of same through their lack of condemnation that makes all Muslims suspect and accomplices in the deeds of a few.

Can the endorsement of the terrorists themselves be far behind? Didn't HAMAS endorse Kerry (asking here)?

An endorsement of Kerry simply adds to their dishonor, in my opinion.

Quote:
Siege prompts self-criticism in Arab media

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 4, 2004

Muslims worldwide are the main perpetrators of terrorism, a humiliating and painful truth that must be acknowledged, a prominent Arab writer and television executive wrote Saturday as Middle East media and officials registered their horror at the bloody rebel siege of a Russian school.

Unusually forthright self-criticism followed the end of the hostage crisis, along with warnings such actions inflict more damage to the image of Islam than all its enemies combined could hope. Arab leaders and Muslim clerics denounced the school seizure as unjustifiable and expressed their sympathy.

Russian commandos stormed the school Friday in Beslan, Russia; it had been taken over apparently by rebels demanding independence for Chechnya. Death toll reports ran as high as 250, with twice as many wounded. Many of the casualties were children.

Images of terrified young survivors being carried from the scene aired repeatedly on Arab TV stations. Pictures of dead and wounded children ran on front pages of Arab newspapers Saturday. "Holy warriors" from the Middle East long have supported fellow Muslims fighting in Chechnya, and Russian officials said nine or 10 Arabs were among militants killed.

"Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture," Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television wrote in his daily column published in the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. It ran under the headline, "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!"

Al-Rashed ran through a list of recent attacks by Islamic extremist groups - in Russia, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen - many of which are influenced by the ideology of Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi-born leader of al-Qaida terror network.

"Most perpetrators of suicide operations in buses, schools and residential buildings around the world for the past 10 years have been Muslims," he wrote. Muslims will be unable to cleanse their image unless "we admit the scandalous facts," rather than offer condemnations or justifications.

"The picture is humiliating, painful and harsh for all of us," al-Rashed wrote.

Contributors to Islamic Web sites known for their extremist content had mixed reactions on the hostage crisis, with some praising the separatists as holy warriors. Others wrote that people should wait until the militants had been identified before implicating Arabs in the drama.

A statement in the name of The Islambouli Brigades posted Saturday on an Internet site known for its militant content, meanwhile, distanced the group from the school attack, though it did not criticize the Chechen rebels it indicated were behind it and called the hostage-takers demands "justified." There was no way to verify its authenticity.

"We in al-Islambouli Brigades, although we bless the efforts of our brothers in Chechnya in defending their honor and their religion, announce that we have no relationship with any cell of the cells that carried out the Ossetia operation, and that we didn't contribute with any munitions or money in this operation," the statement said.

"The dirty Russian government carries all the responsibility and the repercussions of this operation," it said.

Ahmed Bahgat, an Egyptian Islamist, wrote in his column in Egypt's leading pro-government newspaper, Al-Ahram, that hostage-takers in Russia as well as in Iraq are only harming Islam.

"If all the enemies of Islam united together and decided to harm it ... they wouldn't have ruined and harmed its image as much as the sons of Islam have done by their stupidity, miscalculations, and misunderstanding of the nature of this age," Bahgat wrote.

The horrifying images of the dead and wounded Russian students "showed Muslims as monsters who are fed by the blood of children and the pain of their families."

An editorial in the Saudi English-language Arab News put some blame for the bloody end to the school siege on Vladimir Putin, saying the Russian president couldn't afford to lose his "tough-man image." But it added that "the Chechens, with the choice of their targets, had put themselves in a position where no one would shed tears when the punishment came. They reached a new low when they chose toddlers as bargaining chips."

Heads of state from Egypt, Lebanon and Kuwait offered their sympathy Friday to Russian officials and to the families of people caught up in the hostage drama. A prominent Muslim cleric also denounced it.

"What is the guilt of those children (in Russia)? Why should they be responsible for your conflict with the government?" Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Grand Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, was quoted as saying during a Friday sermon in Banha, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Cairo.

"You are taking Islam as a cover and it is a deceptive cover; those who carry out the kidnappings are criminals, not Muslims," Tantawi, who heads Al-Azhar University, the highest authority in the Sunni Islamic world, was quoted by Egypt's Middle East News agency as saying.


This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1094279632527&p=1078113566627

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Muslims dishonor their religion by not speaking out against atrocities.

Kerry dishonored his country by testifying about atrocities that didn't happen.

No wonder they like each other.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldnt put too much weight on the fact that American Muslims are endorsing Kerry. They endorsed Bush on 2000. Furthermore, for various reasons it is dangerous to lump all muslims together.
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