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1. Fadel Abdallah | September 9, 2006 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

   Your blog has become a permanent source of information on the critical issues of the day. You're providing great services in the cause of truth and justice. May your efforts will always be blessed dear Haytham Sabbah.

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2. Robin | September 9, 2006 at 9:54 pm | Permalink

   911. My fingers are hesitating in articulating my memories. Fear. Where to hide and be safe. What is coming next? What will be my government's response? Will my friends and family around the world be safe or are they too going to be attacked? By whom? What will be their response to attack? Who else is going to die today and the days to come?

   Here in America we are entering the sixth year after the most single horrific attack on our soil. Two opposing theories face off on who perpetrated this attack. One says it was OBL and radical Islam, the other says it was an inside plot in order to gain fascist control of our government and perpetrate a war on it's own people and others. What is truth? What do we as individuals do to bring peace to our world?

   America's response, the "war on terror", which included attacking a nation which had nothing to do with 911. A little mentioned truth occured last week. Officially, the death toll to American military in Iraq surpassed the death toll of 911.
   At the same time, the death toll of Iraqi citizens reached approximately 45,000 creatring more fear and hate. Our government calls it "regretable civilian collateral damage". Bodies blown to bits by our bombs. Civilians tortured, raped, and murdered by our troops "spreading democracy". Operation "Iraqi Freedom". Lies. Death. Fear.

   Here we are preparing memorials in honor of the victims of 911. Our politicians are scurrying to hold the highest flag in their honor. Across the nation we hear, "Remember 911". What does our government do to honor the dead? Perpetrate more death.

   Did my own government perpetrate 911 or did OBL? I do not know.
   If it was my own government I have fear. If it was OBL, I have fear. What do my fellow sisters and brothers in Iraq and other places created by the one God of all share with me? Fear. What do the victims of any state-sponsored terrorism feel? Fear.

   Tomorrow in Culver City, California, there is a rally planned to hang in effigy OBL in front of the King Fahd Mosque. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1684811/posts
   I fear these people. I fear anyone perpetrating hatred towards a religion. I fear the radical imams in Saudi Arabia preaching armed jihad against us and have also enslaved their own citizens in partnership with their ruling government. I fear Christian Zionists preaching holy war against Palestinians. I fear hate.

   Where do we face off? We face off in our shared fear of eachother
   and attack. Where should we meet? In our shared love for each other as children of our beautiful creator who wishes for peace in our world.

   America, do not only pay tribute to your own dead. Do all that you can do to stop our government from committing murder. Peace.

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3. kimmy | September 12, 2006 at 6:26 am | Permalink

   Robin,
   No Muslim did this attack on US soil.
   Radicals did this.
   No Christian told the US to attack Iraq.
   Radicals did this.
   Bush and OBL are the same persons, only on different sides.
   The only difference between the two of them is that on tells the truth (we will try to kill all of you) and the other one lies (God told me to invade Iraq).
   We will never be safer until the US accepts that the rest of the world has a different view others than theirs.
   Haitham has taught (or should I say enforced it) me this.
   After 5 years in the sixties travelling around on my thumb visiting almost everywhere, I learned that I was just a small person in a big world. We were all equal and I was no better than anyone else.
   Now we have governments telling us that they are better!
   This is one of the problems.
   They want to fight the problems rather than solve the problems.
   As my father told me, "violence is the primitive way of settling an argument".

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