Wednesday, August 01, 2007

 

Islamofascism added to Oxford dictionary

Islamofascism added to Oxford dictionary http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Islamofascism_added_to_Oxford_dictionary_0703.html
Long over due.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

 

Film Tries to Capture 'Truth' of Bedouin Life [Israel's democracy & Arab on black racism among Muslims]

Film Tries to Capture 'Truth' of Bedouin Life [Israel's democracy & Arab on black racism inside the Bedouin Muslim community]

http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/13325

Film Tries to Capture 'Truth' of Bedouin Life, in All Its Hues

June 21, 2007 - Carin M. Smilk, Managing Editor






Exterior of "A Step Forward" in Rahat

Nothing is ever black and white, especially when it comes to people.

Take, for example, the situation with Israel's Bedouin population, particularly in the south of the country, in the Negev Desert. There, some 180,000 Bedouin reside -- all citizens of Israel, but some black, and some white.

The so-called white Bedouin are often dark-skinned, in typical Middle Eastern fashion, like many Sephardic Jews. The black Bedouin are actually former Africans, who were kidnapped by Arab slave traders; auctioned off in Zanzibar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt; and eventually brought through the Middle East -- and into the Negev. With the establishment of the State of Israel, they were freed, and later settled, for the most part, with many of the white Bedouin in desert towns and villages.

Israel keeps no record of the number of black Bedouin as opposed to white; population figures go by ethnicity, hence all Bedouin are counted together. But a sizable community lives in their own neighborhoods in Rahat, one of seven recognized towns established in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Israel government for certain Bedouin tribes. Less than 30 miles due north of Beersheva, modern-day Rahat is now a bustling city of more than 40,000 people -- the second largest Arab city after Nazareth in the north.







Alia Al Kamalat, headmistress of the Omar bin Al-Khatab elementary school in Rahat, Israel


But these people are not faring so well, and their hardships led a Jewish filmmaker to take a snapshot of life in Rahat, seen through the eyes of a handful of black Bedouin.

Uri Rosenwaks, originally from Beersheva, came to teach a film class to a group of women amenable to the idea, and along the way, learned a lesson or two himself.

For one, Rahat -- which means "collective" -- ranks as one of the poorest cities in Israel, with an unemployment rate of about 18 percent, twice the national average. Some 50 percent of Rahat's adult population and 60 percent of its children live below the poverty line. It boasts one of the largest birthrates in Israel, with especially low education and employment rates for women, and especially high dropout rates when it comes to boys and school. Statistics point to the blacks as having an even rougher time of it than the whites.







Documentarian Uri Rosenwaks with Bedouin NGO director Majid Al Kamalat after a screening of "The Film Class"


"Israel," says Rosenwaks, "is turning into a capitalistic jungle," and it's leaving behind some of its struggling citizens. With no previous knowledge of the status of black Bedouin, Rosenwaks took what he absorbed in 18 months and turned it into a 53-minute documentary called "The Film Class," completed in 2006 and now weaving its way through the Jewish film-festival circuit.

'An Unfounded Stigma'
Superficially, the documentary centers on women of different ages understanding the mechanics of film production, but its real value lies in the self-knowledge and ancestral history they gain from interviewing others. For instance, they learn that older women know little in the way of their family trees, reaching back only to a grandparent at best. They know little of how they even wound up in Rahat. Male subjects seem to know more, like the nearly 90-year-old man who tells of black Bedouin, both male and female, being stolen as children, dragged away to be sold.

At times, the women visibly wrestle with their reactions to the stories they hear. They also get the chance to travel to see firsthand where they come from -- the group, with grant money for the making of the film, go all the way to Zanzibar to uncover their roots and find out more about the hardships of former slaves. (They also fly to England for quite a different adventure, one that addresses a serious familial issue, but also adds a bit of levity to the production.)

And it isn't just the past that stings. In an on-air talk with Talal Alkiernawi, the mayor of Rahat, the women challenge him on contemporary issues, like the discrepancies between blacks and whites.

In that interview, the women ask him rather bluntly, "Don't you feel that there is racism inflicted upon the blacks?"

The mayor distinctly pauses before answering with, "I don't see any racism."

Look, he continues, "I am a Muslim like you, an Arab like you. We speak the same language; we share sorrows and joys. I don't see any racism."

But another response to the same question is offered by Majid Al Kamalat, the 36-year-old director of "A Step Forward," a nongovernmental organization founded in 2000 by young Bedouin professionals to help residents from the grass-roots up. Its office in Rahat serves as a natural meeting place, as well as the location for part of "The Film Class."

This time, Rosenwaks plays interrogator, referring to something Al Kamalat quietly notes on film: "When you talk about a stigma, what do you mean?"

Replies Al Kamalat: "There is a stigma about the Afro-Bedouin community -- an unfounded stigma -- that we are all thieves and criminals, that we don't care about anything, but the opposite is true. As one of the community, I think it's the opposite. I see positive things, but people tend to see only the negative."

One such positive is the career of Al Kamalat's wife, Alia, who serves as headmistress of the Omar bin Al-Khatab elementary school -- kindergarten to grade six -- in Rahat. A working mother of three, Alia Al Kamalat represents one of the very first female Bedouin principals, though several more have followed in her footsteps. At 35, she is setting a trend for a new generation.

As is her husband, who notes that he appears in the film "for the future of the children," meaning all of the children in his city and elsewhere. And because of his own young daughter, he says he wants to further opportunities for women in general.

Those in the film class mention the exact same thing. They are empowering themselves and their families. They are undergoing an awakening of sorts. Be it operating the camera, setting precedents for their children, contemplating higher education or, for a few of the younger women, dabbling with the idea of marrying someone white, the assembly of students winds up earning an "A" -- for awareness.



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Sunday, March 25, 2007

 

ISLAMIC APARTHEID [Islam's Apartheid, Muslims Apartheid, Apartheid in the Muslim world, in the Arab World]

ISLAMIC APARTHEID
[Islam's Apartheid, Muslims Apartheid, Apartheid in the Muslim world, in the Arab World]



Islam's Apartheid
Saudi Arabia, the custodian of "true Islam" imposes a raft of restrictions on women ... Islam is religious apartheid
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/islams_apartheid.html

Islamic Apartheid

Millat in France: Islamic Apartheidhttp://www.danielpipes.org/comments/28303

BBC News EDUCATION 'Apartheid' row over Islamic school
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1162708.stm

How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam-Comment ...I also learnt that sexual and religious apartheid in Muslim countries is indigenous and not the result of Western crimes — and that such “colourful tribal ...www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1480090.ece
'Apartheid' fears over first Muslim secondary school in state ...'Apartheid' fears over first Muslim secondary school in state sector. http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article237199.ece


Muslim Woman Sparks Debate With 'Apartheid' Remarks http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForiegnBureaus.asp?Page=\ForiegnBureaus\archive\200603\FOR20060314a.html


Muslim rape and Islamic gender apartheid. ... http://www.acage.org/print/?day=03192007&id=0200&what=articles

Muslim apartheid: Getting behind the veil By Peter C. Glover ... by The British Islamic Human Rights Commission
http://catholicinsight.com/online/culture/printer_691.shtml

D H I M M I :: Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights Represents minority religious and ethnic communities from around the world in opposition to radical Islamic intolerance and violence.
http://www.dhimmi.com/

No, they're talking about ethnic cleansing, making "Palestine" Judenrein, free of Jews. And a state born in such sin will never redeem itself. ...
http://www.opinionet.com/article.php?id=2212

Fighting Islam's Gender Apartheid ...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12290

Anger in Holland over 'apartheid' Islamic hospital International ...It has also been dubbed "apartheid" by a prominent nationalist MP, Geert Wilders. But construction work on the clinic is about to start and it aims to open ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/05/wmuslims105.xml

David Davis, attacked Muslim leaders for risking "voluntary apartheid",
Timothy Garton Ash: Fatal mistake of ignoring dissidents within Islam ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1923309,00.html

Digital Journal - Islam's Declared Apartheid on "Infidels" (the ...Specifically, Imani examined the basic ideas behind the spread of apartheid and the spread of fundamentalist Islam. He also looks at the treatment of women ...
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/75894/Islam_s_Declared_Apartheid_on_Infidels_the_rest_of_us_

the facts that the Palestinians have adopted Islamic law into their constitution, or that they are governed currently by an Islamic party. Why aren’t they labeled as an “Islamic apartheid state”?
http://www.tommyduggan.com/VP070506francis.html

Islam is Religious Apartheid
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=847

World Politics Watch Muslim Apartheid in Britain: A Veiled Threat? The issue of Muslim women wearing veils in public has ignited an unprecedented national debate on the subject and on multiculturalism generally across ...
http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/Article.aspx?id=275

Tories accuse Muslims of 'creating apartheid by shutting themselves off' ... represents a toughening of the Tory stance on the dangers of Islamic radicalism ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/15/nveil15.xml

If we do not oppose and defeat Islamic gender Apartheid, democracy and freedom cannot ... If we do not stop Islamic gender and religious Apartheid abroad, ...
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/articles.php?article=gender_apartheid.htm

American Thinker: Islam's ApartheidIt is the long sub-humanized Muslim women who must discard Islam and claim their ... Islam is religious apartheid. And apartheid, by universal agreement, ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/islams_apartheid.html

Muslim apartheid: getting behind the veil - Free Online Library: Muslim apartheid: getting behind the veil. by "Catholic Insight"; Philosophy and religion Apartheid Muslims.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Muslim+apartheid:+getting+behind+the+veil-a0156002645

Racial, and Islamic apartheid in Sudan..
http://www.southsudan.net/Professor.htm

BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Malaysia 'apartheid' row deepens, There has been an angry reaction in Malaysia to remarks by the daughter of the former PM comparing Muslim women to black South Africans under apartheid. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4795808.stm

Gender Apartheid and Islam by .
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16440

The Muslim Persecution of Christians
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10242

Clarity & Resolve: Happy-Fun Islamic Apartheid Day at Six Flags, Fun Islamic Apartheid Day at Six Flags, NJ. Satan! Attention New Jersey and Tri-State are kuffar: I hope you weren't planning on going to Six Flags...
http://clarityandresolve.com/archives/2005/09/happyfun_islami.php

From Salman Rushdie to WTCThe crimes against humanity of supporters of Islamic Apartheid and their attacks on progress and human rights has not started with their brutal terrorist ...
http://www.ghandchi.com/87-aboutWTC.htm

The Treatment of Infidels in Saudi Arabia —a Time to Apologise? This is open, clear and meticulously planned Islamic apartheid which might even surpass the enormity of the apartheid policies of the erstwhile South ...
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/KhaledWaleed20620.htm

Amil Imani - Islam's Apartheid, A few cases should suffice to fully substantiate the contention that Islam is religious apartheid. And there is no need to draw cases from the repugnant ...
http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=2

"Muslim apartheid burns bright in France" (Minette Marrin, ... Khan, 30, incites British Muslims to ignore the moderate Islamic leaders who want integration ...
http://watch.windsofchange.net/2005/05_1107_1113.htm

Insurgency in Thailand - Threat Migration? - Pag, His goal is to create a greater pan-Islamic State that includes most of ... and a desire of Muslim apartheid.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?p=11887

Rants about Islamic extremists and cruel policies in Arab states are valid ... East -- a region where Islamic apartheid is the actual order of the day. ...
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/1/31/opedFreedomAndRightToProtestNonationShouldBeImmuneFromCriticism

Christians in the Middle East Christian Arab existence in Jerusalem is being threatened because its Arab population ... Islam operates a system of racial and religious apartheid
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index3.htm

It's not only Arab countries, but in non-Arab Muslim countries as well
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10242

Durban & Islamo Arab Apartheid
http://www.dhimmi.com/durban.htm

Apartheid Mecca
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=8070_Apartheid_Mecca

Aparthied Saudi Style
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/386

Saudi Shiites
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri052303.asp

Apartheid Indonesia
http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43027

From Salman Rushdie to WTC
http://www.ghandchi.com/87-aboutWTC.htm



Norwegian Minister Erik Solheim, apartheid, Jews and Muslims: A letter from NIS

http://www.norskisraelsenter.no/engl/2006-04-27-solheim-apartheid.php

Muslim Aparthied burns bright in France
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24391-1869908,00.html


Why We Should Oppose Independent Kosovo
Global Politician, NY - Dec 6, 2007
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the pre-eminent historian of Mughal India, wrote this about dhimmitude, the humiliating apartheid system imposed upon non-Muslims under ...


http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3845&cid=3&sid=10



It’s (Islamic) apartheid (against Indians), says poet who fled Malaysia
Daily News & Analysis, India - Nov 27, 2007
“Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution explicitly privileges Malay Muslims above all other ethnicities – principally ethnic Indians [of whom Tamils make ...


http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1135947









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