Sunday, September 2, 2007
Smash Israel and hate America. It's a natural fit. A sampling of postings to the moderated Boston Muslim American Society email list show the connections: (Not exhaustive, but by no means an overly-selective group. This is the bulk of the content beyond "for sale" postings. All radical, zero from the "other side" -- stuff that patriotic Muslim groups like AIFD would go for, for instance. Zero.)
Here's a connection we've seen before. Arabs and Puerto Rican "nationalists." Here's the advert for the event sent out to the list:
"Puerto Rico to Palestine: Uniting Struggles in Defense of the Land"
Wedesday Sept. 5th 7pm
at the Democracy Center in Harvard Sq. Cambridge
45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA
http://www.democracycenter.org/
This event represents an effort to strengthen ties between communities that are struggling in defense of the land, environmentally, politically, for survival and for the sake of justice. We will present some of those parallels and examples of inspired resistance that will help cross germinate ideas for nonviolent action that can be shared with all struggles. Emad Bornat's documentary film from Palestine will be shown, including Tito Kayak scaling a tower in Palestine with the Palestinian flag. Sponsored The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights - BCPR The tour will take place from August 23rd until Sept. 21st, 2007, in Puerto Rico and cities in the US. This tour is made possible With help from Ithaca Catholic Worker Vieques Support Group for more information please go to: http://puertoricotopalestine.org/
Karin Friedemann's been hard at work, now announcing a CAIR-organized trip to Sudan. I'm sure the results should be interesting:
The Muslim Observer and CAIR-Michigan [Council of American Islamic Relations] joint fact-finding mission to Darfur, Sudan to determine the real facts on the ground.
The Delegation of Prominent Muslims will be announced in following editions of the Muslim Observer
Imam Dawud Walid
Dr. Aslam Abdullah
Shaikh Ali S. Ali
Attorney Eric Sabree
Br. Salim Khalid
Some other unconfirmed possible attendees
Target $23,000
If you want to know what is really happening in Darfur, Sudan, please consider making a contribution to either The Muslim Observer or CAIR MI, writing "Darfur fact-finding" on the memo line of your check. Any checks received by TMO (by September) for this project of $60 or more will receive a free 1-year subscription...
What? No tote bag?
Zaki El-Badawi would like to get a dabke dance group together to participate in the "Palestine Awareness" event being organized by various of the local loons next month in Cambridge. Zaki was the guy who sent out the email recruiting for MAS Youth with promises of liberating Palestine:
..etc...
