Aliansi (Persekutuan) Ekstrimis Israel dan Fundamentalis Kristen
oleh Grace Halsell
23 Maret 2001
Pada saat saya memulai penelitian saya untuk buku saya Prophecy and Politics, saya menemukan rata-rata bangsa Amerika yang saya temui di Washington, DC, dan New York tidak tertarik pada penginjil TV dan hubungan mereka ke Israel. Baik itu editor buku. Aku pergi ke 25 editor top di New York dengan ide buku saya tentang agama dan politik. Michael Korda dari Simon & Schuster adalah khas. "Jerry Falwell ? Pat Robertson ? Siapa tertarik pada orang gila?"
Pada saat buku saya keluar orang-orang "gila" tersebut muncul di halaman depan setiap surat kabar Amerika dan pada setiap saluran berita. Tentu saja, saya tidak memberi mereka ini ketenaran instan, yang meluas ke seluruh dunia. Dua dari mereka telah memperoleh ketenarannya sendiri dengan berada di tengah skandal.
Pers mengatakan kepada kami bahwa Jim Bakker telah melakukan perzinahan dan bahwa Jimmy Swaggart teratur mengunjungi pelacur. Seorang rekan marinir mengatakan kalau Pat Robertson tak pernah ikut wamil di Korea karena ia telah menggunakan pengaruh ayahnya sebagai senator untuk menghindari tugas garis depan. Tapi hampir semua orang mengabaikan skandal terbesar dari semua: campuran aneh nubuat dan politik yang dianut oleh orang2 ini dan Kristen Zionis lainnya.
Pesan Kaum Kristen Zionis
Apa pesan dari Kristen Zionis? Cukup diyatakan sebagai berikut: Setiap tindakan yang diambil oleh Israel diatur oleh Tuhan, dan harus dimaafkan, didukung, dan bahkan dipuji oleh kita semua.
"Tak peduli apa yang Israel lakukan," kata para Zionis Kristen. "Tuhan ingin ini terjadi." Ini termasuk invasi ke Lebanon, yang menewaskan atau melukai sekitar 100.000 warga Libanon dan Palestina, kebanyakan warga sipil, pemboman negara berdaulat seperti Irak, yang brutal, yang disengaja secara brutal & metodis dari pematahan tulang Palestina, menembak anak-anak, dan menghancurkan rumah-rumah , dan pengusiran orang-orang Kristen dan Muslim Palestina dari tanah yang mereka telah menduduki selama lebih dari 2.000 tahun.
Premis saya dalam Prophecy and Politics adalah bahwa Zionisme Kristen adalah segmen yang berbahaya dan berkembang dari agama Kristen, yang dipopulerkan oleh Cyrus Scofield Amerika abad ke-19 ketika ia menulis ke sebuah Alkitab interpretasi nya sendiri mengenai peristiwa dalam sejarah. Peristiwa ini semua berpusat di sekitar Israel-masa lalu, sekarang, dan masa depan. Alkitab Scofield ini adalah referensi Alkitab paling popular sekarang.
Scofield mengatakan bahwa Kristus tidak dapat kembali ke bumi sampai peristiwa-peristiwa tertentu terjadi: Orang-orang Yahudi harus kembali ke Palestina, menguasai Yerusalem dan membangun kembali kuil, dan kemudian kita semua harus terlibat dalam pertempuran, akhir besar yang disebut Harmagedon. Perkiraan bervariasi, tetapi kebanyakan siswa teologi Armageddon setuju bahwa sebagai hasil interpretasi yang relatif baru dari Kitab Suci ini, 10 sampai 40 juta orang Amerika percaya bahwa Palestina adalah tanah yang dipilih untuk orang Yahudi.
Apakah kekuatan Zionis Kristen berkurang?
Saya tidak berpikir begitu. Sebaliknya, kita melihat bagaimana Zionis Kristen, termotivasi oleh keyakinan agama, bekerja erat dengan motivasi politik, Zionis Yahudi militan di seluruh dunia. Adalah dukungan Kristen pada Zionisme yang memberanikan Zionis percaya bahwa mereka dapat mendikte negara-negara yang relatif lemah dan tergantung seperti Austria, yang mereka dapat memilih sebagai presiden mereka.
Adalah dukungan Kristen pada Zionisme yang memungkinkan Manuel Noriega untuk tetap kuat di Panama, menyalahgunakan kekuasaannya, tanpa memandang bahaya yang dia timbulkan pada Amerika Serikat, tetangga, dan rakyat nya.
Adalah dukungan Kristen pada Zionisme yang memungkinkan Israel militan untuk mengambil alih rumah warga Palestina di sekitar Masjid Al-Aqsa dalam mengejar rencana mereka yang terdokumentasi untuk menghancurkan situs yang paling suci bagi umat Islam di Yerusalem, suci bagi satu miliar umat Islam atau seperlima penduduk dunia.
Zionis Kristen dan Skandal Iran-Contra
Hebatnya, inilah kultus Kristen Israel yang membawa kita pada skandal Iran kontra, mungkin tindakan yang paling merusak diri dalam sejarah Amerika Serikat. Marinir Kolonel Oliver North, pelaku rangkaian tindakan yang salah ini, adalah Zionis Kristen. Seorang tokoh karismatik yang dilahirkan kembali, dia menyenangi dirinya sendiri bagi kepentingan Zionis Israel militan yang merencanakan Iran-kontra. "Ia lebih Israel," kata salah satu jenderal Yahudi, "dari kita yang Israel." Hal ini sering terjadi. Dalam fanatisme nya, Zionis Kristen dapat menjadi lebih Zionis, lebih militan, dari Zionis Yahudi.
Dalam sidang Iran-kontra, Senator James McClure (R-ID) menjelaskan ke Utara bahwa AS menyatakan memiliki kebijakan netralitas dalam perang Iran-Irak. Kebijakan yang berbeda secara radikal dari kebijakan Israel menjual senjata ke Iran. Ya, disetujui Utara, kedua kebijakan itu tidak sama. Pertanyaan nya, yang merupakan upaya McClure tapi tidak menghasilkan respon, adalah: Mengapa AS mengorbankan kebijakan/kepentingan Amerika untuk mengejar kebijakan/kepentingan Israel?
Jawabannya, sayangnya, terletak pada sistem kepercayaan Kristen Zionis: Mereka percaya bahwa apa yang Israel inginkan adalah apa yang Tuhan inginkan. Oleh karena itu, bisa diterima untuk memberikan lampu hijau untuk apa pun yang diinginkan Israel dan kemudian menyembunyikan ini dari rakyat Amerika. Apa pun, termasuk kebohongan, pencurian, bahkan pembunuhan, dibenarkan asalkan Israel menginginkan nya.
Contoh lain yang sempurna dari seorang Zionis Kristen adalah Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI). Sepanjang dengar pendapat tentang skandal Iran-Contra, orang Hawaii ini selalu fokus pada Kontra dan ngotot mengarahkan dengar pendapat yang bebas dari setiap kritik terhadap Israel. Jika, untuk menjawab pertanyaan, saksi berusaha untuk menjelaskan peran “seminal” dan terus menerus Israel, Inouye tiba-tiba mematahkan alur pertanyaan yang akhirnya mengarahkan sidang ke tujuan yang tidak diinginkan ini.
Meskipun masalah politik yang diciptakan oleh praktisi awam dan skandal yang mengguncang beberapa kementerian TV, sistem kepercayaan ini, kultus Israel ini, belum berkurang.
Sungguh, saya berpendapat bahwa Zionisme Kristen bukan hanya mengancam kehidupan warga Palestina dan Arab lainnya, namun keberadaan Amerika Serikat. Karena kultus Israel, kita telah menjadi bangsa yang tidak memiliki sendiri kebijakan Timur Tengah, tetapi kebijakan yang diperintahkan oleh pemerintah Israel untuk kita miliki.
Meskipun aspek mengerikan dari aliansi Kristen militan dengan militan Zionis Yahudi, saya menemukan beberapa perkembangan menggembirakan. Dalam kunjungan saya ke perguruan tinggi, klub, dan gereja di seluruh negeri, saya telah menemukan dukungan kuat untuk pesan dan peringatan dalam Prophecy and Politics. Ia telah datang tidak hanya dari jemaat-jemaat liberal, tapi dari seluruh seluruh spektrum Kristen, termasuk orang-orang Kristen yang menyebut diri mereka sebagai fundamentalis. Para pendukung ini melihat Kristus sebagai pembawa pesan untuk kemanusiaan dari pesan perdamaian Tuhan, persaudaraan, cinta, dan rekonsiliasi. Orang-orang Kristen tidak mendukung baik kultus Israel atau pembunuhan dan pemukulan warga Palestina.
Saya telah menemukan banyak orang Kristen dalam kunjungan saya ke negara bagian asal saya di Texas. Ada kebangkitan dan secara merata perlahan di tanah kami, saya telah menemukan sejumlah kecil tetapi meningkat ministers dan orang awam yang sangat khawatir dengan kultus Israel ini dan bersedia untuk berdiri dan berbicara tentang hal itu.
Grace Halsell adalah seorang penulis berbasis di Washington, DC dan penulis Journey to Jerusalem and Prophecy and Politics
Jumat, 23 September 2011
Rabu, 09 Juni 2010
Israeli Extremists and Christian Fundamentalists: The Alliance
Israel | Israeli Extremists and Christian Fundamentalists: The Alliance
By Grace Halsell
December 1988, Page 31
At the time I began my research for my book Prophecy and Politics, I discovered the average American I met in Washington, DC, and New York was not interested in TV evangelists and their link to Israel. Neither were book editors. I went to 25 top editors in New York with my book idea on religion and politics. Michael Korda of Simon and Schuster was typical. "Jerry Falwell? Pat Robertson? Who is interested in those crazies?"
By the time my book came out those "crazies" were on the front page of every American newspaper and on every news channel. Of course, I didn't give them this instant fame, which extended throughout the world. Two of them earned it themselves by being in the middle of scandals.
The press told us that Jim Bakker had committed adultery and that Jimmy Swaggart regularly visited a prostitute. A fellow marine said Pat Robertson never had to dodge bullets in Korea because he had used his father's influence as a senator to escape front line duty. But almost everyone ignored the biggest scandal of all: the peculiar mixture of prophecy and politics professed by these and other Christian Zionists.
The Christian Zionists Message
What is the message of the Christian Zionist? Simply stated it is this: Every act taken by Israel is orchestrated by God, and should be condoned, supported, and even praised by the rest of us.
"Never mind what Israel does," say the Christian Zionists. "God wants this to happen." This includes the invasion of Lebanon, which killed or injured an estimated 100,000 Lebanese and Palestinians, most of them civilians; the bombing of sovereign nations such as Iraq; the deliberate, methodical brutalizing of the Palestinians-breaking bones, shooting children, and demolishing homes; and the expulsion of Palestinian Christians and Muslims from a land they have occupied for over 2,000 years.
My premise in Prophecy and Politics is that Christian Zionism is a dangerous and growing segment of Christianity, which was popularized by the 19th-century American Cyrus Scofield when he wrote into a Bible his interpretation of events in history. These events all centered around Israel-past, present, and future. His Scofield Bible is today the most popular of the reference Bibles.
Scofield said that Christ cannot return to earth until certain events occur: The Jews must return to Palestine, gain control of Jerusalem and rebuild a temple, and then we all must engage in the final, great battle called Armageddon. Estimates vary, but most students of Armageddon theology agree that as a result of these relatively recent interpretations of Biblical scripture, 10 to 40 million Americans believe Palestine is God's chosen land for the Jews.
Has the power of the Christian Zionists diminished?
I do not think so. Rather, we are seeing how the Christian Zionists, motivated by religious beliefs, are working hand in glove with politically motivated, militant Jewish Zionists around the world. It is the Christian support of Zionism that emboldens Zionists to believe they can dictate to relatively weak and dependent countries such as Austria, whom they may choose as their president.
It is the Christian support of Zionism that allows Manuel Noriega to remain the strongman in Panama, misusing his power, regardless of what harm he causes to the United States, his neighbors, and his people.
It is the Christian support of Zionism that enables the militant Israelis to take over Palestinian homes surrounding the Al-Aqsa mosque in pursuit of their well-documented plan to destroy Jerusalem's most holy Islamic site, sacred to a billion Muslims around the world-one-fifth of humanity.
Christian Zionists and the Iran-Contra Scandal
Remarkably,it was this Christian cult of Israel that brought us the Iran contra scandal, perhaps the most self-destructive act in the history of the United States. Marine Col. Oliver North, the perpetrator of this misguided series of actions, is a Christian Zionist. A born-again charismatic figure, he endeared himself to the militant Israeli Zionists who plotted Iran-contra. "He is more Israeli," said one Jewish general, "than we Israelis." This is often the case. In his zealotry, the Christian Zionist can become more Zionist, more militant, than the Jewish Zionist.
In the Iran-contra hearings, Sen. James McClure (R-ID) explained to North that the US had a stated policy of neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war. That policy differed radically from Israel's policy of selling arms to Iran. Yes, agreed North, the two policies were not the same. The question, to which McClure's efforts yielded no response, then becomes: Why would the US forego its American policy to pursue Israeli policy?
The answer, unfortunately, lies in the belief system of Christian Zionists: They believe that what Israel wants is what God wants. Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to give the green light to whatever it is Israel wants and then conceal this from the American people. Anything, including lies, theft, even murder, is justified as long as Israel wants it.
Another perfect example of a Christian Zionist is Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI). Throughout the hearings on the Iran-contra scandal, the Hawaiian kept the focus on the contras and steered determinedly clear of any criticism of Israel. If, in answer to questions, witnesses sought to explain the seminal and continuing role of Israel, Inouye abruptly broke off the line of questioning that had led the hearings to this unwanted destination.
Despite the political problems created by its lay practitioners and the scandals that rocked some of its TV ministries, this belief system-this cult of Israel-has not been diminished.
Indeed, I hold that Christian Zionism threatens not just the lives of Palestinians and other Arabs, but the very existence of the United States. Because of the cult of Israel, we have become a nation that does not have its own Middle East policy, but the policy the government of Israel tells us to have.
Despite the terrifying aspects of the alliance of militant Christians with militant Jewish Zionists, I find some encouraging developments. In my visits to colleges, clubs, and churches around the country, I have found strong support for the message and warning in Prophecy and Politics. It has come not only from liberal congregations, but from across the whole spectrum of Christianity, including those Christians who call themselves fundamentalists. These supporters see Christ as the bearer to humanity of God's message of peace, brotherhood, love, and reconciliation. These Christians do not endorse either the cult of Israel or its killIngs and beatings of Palestinians.
I have found many such Christians in my frequent visits to my home state of Texas. There and all over this slowly-awakening land of ours, I have found a small but increasing number of ministers and lay people who are deeply alarmed by the cult of Israel and willing to stand up and speak out about it.
Grace Halsell's book,Prophecy and Politics. The Secret Alliance Between Israel and the US Christian Right Is available through the AET Book Club Catalog to readers of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
(This article was adapted by author Grace Halsell from her speech at the North American Regional Non-Governmental Symposium on the Question of Palestine held in June 1988 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.)
From: http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/alliance.htm
Selasa, 09 Februari 2010
A stolen gift - Amazing man
Theodoros Pangalos, Member of Parliament (Greece), returned gift and thanked the Ambassador of Israel...
The embassy of Israel sent in Theodoros Pangalos, Member of Parliament (Greece), three bottles wine as gift of feasts with the wishes of Ambassador Ali Giachia.
Theodoros Pangalos returned this gift and thanked the Ambassador with the following letter:Dear Mr. Ambassador,Thank you for the 3 bottles of wine that you sent me as season's greetings. I wish to you, your family and everybody in the Embassy a happy new year. Good health and progress to you all.Unhappily I noticed that the wine you have sent me has been produced in the Golan Heights. I have been taught since I was very young not to steel and not to accept products of theft. So I can not possibly accept this gift and I must return it back to you.As you know, your country occupies illegally the Golan Heights who belong to Syria, according to the International Law and numerous decisions of the International Community.
I take the opportunity to express my hope that Israel will find security into its internationally recognized borders and the terrorist activities against Israel territory by Hamas or anybody else will be contained and made impossible, but I also hope that your government will cease practicing the policy of collective punishment which was applied on a mass scale by Hitler and his armies.Actions such as those of these days of the Israel military in Gaza remind the greek people holocausts such as in Kalavrita or Doxato or Distomo and certainly in the ghetto of Warsaw.With these thoughts allow me to express to you my best wishes for you, the Israeli people and all the people of our region of the world.Athens, 30/12/2008Theodoros Pangalos, Member of Parliament (Greece)
Senin, 13 Juli 2009
Uyghur Muslims
Assalam Alaikum Brothers and Sisters,
You might have read and heard about the ethnic violence in the Westernpart of China, Xinjiang this past weekend. According to Chineseofficial media, 156 are dead and 1080 injured. However the unofficialfigures report that at least 600 people died in the clashed betweenUyghur Muslim and Han Chinese majority, and about 95% of the casualtiesare Uyghur Muslims. Chinese authorities have arrested at least 1400Uyghur s, claiming they took part in the riot. The official Chinesemedia, Xinhua, only shows the pictures of few Han Chinese injuries withno mention of the hundreds of Muslims who died in these clashes, puttingthe blame completely on the Muslims. The reality is far from it.
Please see the links below for some unbiased reporting.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0706/p06s04-woap.html
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2009/7/7
The unrest in Xinjiang (East Turkistan), is near and dear to my heart.I am an Uyghur living in Chicago. My parents and the rest of the familyare still in Xinjiang. While they are away from Urumqi where theclashes happened, I still have not been able to get hold of them in pastcouple of days as the authorities have shut down internet and telephoneservices. I am praying every moment for their safety.
Uyghurs are the Turkic speaking Muslim people living in the northwestpart of China under occupation. Their short lived republic, EastTurkistan went under Chinese communist rule in 1950. Since then theyhave been subjected to severe discrimination because of their Muslimidentity and they have seen their 97% majority in Xinjiang shrink toalmost 50% in last few decades. There are many underlining sources oftension and humiliation of over 10 million Uyghur Muslims.
I am writing to you for your support in helping spread the word andplight of Uyghur Muslims. I go to Juma prayers and everyone prays aboutsuffering of the Palestinians, Kashmiris, Afghanis, Iraqis andChechnyans, however not once I have heard someone pray for the Uyghurs.
We are the forgotten people in this world and not even our Muslimbrothers and sisters have ever provided any moral support for us. WellI'm asking for the support in this hour of dire need. My brothers andsisters are being persecuted as we speak. They have been captured inmass arrests with no sight of what will happen to their future. Uyghurwoman with their children have went on street to protest against themass arrest of thousands of Muslim Uyghur men. Under communist Chineserule we are not allowed to practice our religion until the age of 18 andeven after the age of 18 if anyone who works for government liketeachers and doctor are not allowed to pray or go to Mosque. Ourchildren and teachers are force fed in schools during the month ofRamadan. There is a governmental agenda to slowly take Islam out ofcommon people's lives. Majority of the high paying jobs go to the HanChinese with a lot less qualification in our own home land. Our cultureis being slowly disappearing.
I urge you to send this to your friends and families and condemn thekillings and mass arrest of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. I ask you to pray forthe safety of the people of East Turkistan (Xinjiang), Uyghurs and HanChinese. I ask you to please stand in solidarity with your UyghurMuslim brothers. The moral support of Muslim community means a lot tome and the Uyghurs as we are desperate to be seen and heard by ourbrothers and sisters.I urge you to send a message of solidarity with Uyghur Muslims and prayfor them. I urge you to send this message to at least 5 other familymembers and friends.
Sincerely,Zulfiye OsmanNoman Khan (husband)
You might have read and heard about the ethnic violence in the Westernpart of China, Xinjiang this past weekend. According to Chineseofficial media, 156 are dead and 1080 injured. However the unofficialfigures report that at least 600 people died in the clashed betweenUyghur Muslim and Han Chinese majority, and about 95% of the casualtiesare Uyghur Muslims. Chinese authorities have arrested at least 1400Uyghur s, claiming they took part in the riot. The official Chinesemedia, Xinhua, only shows the pictures of few Han Chinese injuries withno mention of the hundreds of Muslims who died in these clashes, puttingthe blame completely on the Muslims. The reality is far from it.
Please see the links below for some unbiased reporting.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0706/p06s04-woap.html
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2009/7/7
The unrest in Xinjiang (East Turkistan), is near and dear to my heart.I am an Uyghur living in Chicago. My parents and the rest of the familyare still in Xinjiang. While they are away from Urumqi where theclashes happened, I still have not been able to get hold of them in pastcouple of days as the authorities have shut down internet and telephoneservices. I am praying every moment for their safety.
Uyghurs are the Turkic speaking Muslim people living in the northwestpart of China under occupation. Their short lived republic, EastTurkistan went under Chinese communist rule in 1950. Since then theyhave been subjected to severe discrimination because of their Muslimidentity and they have seen their 97% majority in Xinjiang shrink toalmost 50% in last few decades. There are many underlining sources oftension and humiliation of over 10 million Uyghur Muslims.
I am writing to you for your support in helping spread the word andplight of Uyghur Muslims. I go to Juma prayers and everyone prays aboutsuffering of the Palestinians, Kashmiris, Afghanis, Iraqis andChechnyans, however not once I have heard someone pray for the Uyghurs.
We are the forgotten people in this world and not even our Muslimbrothers and sisters have ever provided any moral support for us. WellI'm asking for the support in this hour of dire need. My brothers andsisters are being persecuted as we speak. They have been captured inmass arrests with no sight of what will happen to their future. Uyghurwoman with their children have went on street to protest against themass arrest of thousands of Muslim Uyghur men. Under communist Chineserule we are not allowed to practice our religion until the age of 18 andeven after the age of 18 if anyone who works for government liketeachers and doctor are not allowed to pray or go to Mosque. Ourchildren and teachers are force fed in schools during the month ofRamadan. There is a governmental agenda to slowly take Islam out ofcommon people's lives. Majority of the high paying jobs go to the HanChinese with a lot less qualification in our own home land. Our cultureis being slowly disappearing.
I urge you to send this to your friends and families and condemn thekillings and mass arrest of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. I ask you to pray forthe safety of the people of East Turkistan (Xinjiang), Uyghurs and HanChinese. I ask you to please stand in solidarity with your UyghurMuslim brothers. The moral support of Muslim community means a lot tome and the Uyghurs as we are desperate to be seen and heard by ourbrothers and sisters.I urge you to send a message of solidarity with Uyghur Muslims and prayfor them. I urge you to send this message to at least 5 other familymembers and friends.
Sincerely,Zulfiye OsmanNoman Khan (husband)
Defenseless Uighurs Run for their Lives
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Thousands of Han Chinese mobs, armed with bats and other weapons, are roaming the streets, hunting down Uighurs. URUMQI — With thousands of rampaging, armed Han Chinese mobs, running amok in the streets of Urumqi city, helpless Uighurs had no other option but to run for their lives.
"There is too much hatred around now," Ali, an Uighur man, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Wednesday, July 8.
Thousands of Han Chinese mobs, armed with bats and other weapons, are roaming the streets, hunting down Uighurs.
"Get them! Strike! Strike! Strike!" dozens of Han Chinese armed with makeshift weapons screamed as they saw three Muslim Uighur men.* Internet, Blogs Solace Oppressed Uighurs * Eroding Uighur Identity Hearing the chants of the Han mob, the terrified trio began running but only two managed to escape leaving the third to face horror and dozens of attackers.
Not far away in central Urumqi, about 20 armed Han mobsters beat and kicked a Uighur man nearly to death."I'm too afraid to go home tonight," said Halisha, a 30-year-old eye doctor, insisting that he prefers to sleep in his small clinic rather than venturing into the dangerous streets.
"Who knows if I can trust my neighbors or the people on the street? It's safer here for now."
Urumqi has been boiling since Sunday, when nearly 1000 Uighurs took to the streets to protest discrimination and cultural and religious controls.
At least 156 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded when police unleashed a massive crackdown on the Turkish-speaking minority of more than eight million.
The unrest has drawn global condemnation, with organizations and Western leaders urging China to exercise self restraint.
Several human rights groups have expressed concern over the fate of 1,434 people who were taken into police custody over Sunday’s unrest, saying they could be tortured or mistreated.
Genocide
The rampage of Han Chinese continued as Beijing poured thousands of troops into the city in a massive show of force.
According to eyewitnesses, none of the Han attackers was arrested by the security forces, who only worked on dispersing the mob.
Exiled Uighur groups warned of a "genocide" against Muslims in the Xinjiang region.
"A true genocide of the Uighur people is in progress," Torgan Tozakhunov, deputy director of the Uighur cultural centre in Kazakhstan, home to 220,000 Uighurs, told AFP.
"The Chinese authorities will have to answer for these crimes in front of the international community."Turkish Prime Minister Racab Tayyib Erdogan demanded on Wednesday an to "savagery" committed against Uighur Muslims.
"Our expectation is for these incidents that have reached the level of savagery to be rapidly stopped," he said in televised remarks.
"Necessary measures must be taken to prevent this brutality. We are temporary member of the UN Security Council for 2009-2010. We will also take these events into consideration there."
Uighur Muslims accuses the government of settling millions of ethnic Han in their territory, a vast region with large oil and gas reserves, with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture.
They also cite a recent government plan that has brought the teaching of Mandarin Chinese in Xinjiang schools, replacing their local dialect.
Source: http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1246346174901&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Thousands of Han Chinese mobs, armed with bats and other weapons, are roaming the streets, hunting down Uighurs. URUMQI — With thousands of rampaging, armed Han Chinese mobs, running amok in the streets of Urumqi city, helpless Uighurs had no other option but to run for their lives.
"There is too much hatred around now," Ali, an Uighur man, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Wednesday, July 8.
Thousands of Han Chinese mobs, armed with bats and other weapons, are roaming the streets, hunting down Uighurs.
"Get them! Strike! Strike! Strike!" dozens of Han Chinese armed with makeshift weapons screamed as they saw three Muslim Uighur men.* Internet, Blogs Solace Oppressed Uighurs * Eroding Uighur Identity Hearing the chants of the Han mob, the terrified trio began running but only two managed to escape leaving the third to face horror and dozens of attackers.
Not far away in central Urumqi, about 20 armed Han mobsters beat and kicked a Uighur man nearly to death."I'm too afraid to go home tonight," said Halisha, a 30-year-old eye doctor, insisting that he prefers to sleep in his small clinic rather than venturing into the dangerous streets.
"Who knows if I can trust my neighbors or the people on the street? It's safer here for now."
Urumqi has been boiling since Sunday, when nearly 1000 Uighurs took to the streets to protest discrimination and cultural and religious controls.
At least 156 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded when police unleashed a massive crackdown on the Turkish-speaking minority of more than eight million.
The unrest has drawn global condemnation, with organizations and Western leaders urging China to exercise self restraint.
Several human rights groups have expressed concern over the fate of 1,434 people who were taken into police custody over Sunday’s unrest, saying they could be tortured or mistreated.
Genocide
The rampage of Han Chinese continued as Beijing poured thousands of troops into the city in a massive show of force.
According to eyewitnesses, none of the Han attackers was arrested by the security forces, who only worked on dispersing the mob.
Exiled Uighur groups warned of a "genocide" against Muslims in the Xinjiang region.
"A true genocide of the Uighur people is in progress," Torgan Tozakhunov, deputy director of the Uighur cultural centre in Kazakhstan, home to 220,000 Uighurs, told AFP.
"The Chinese authorities will have to answer for these crimes in front of the international community."Turkish Prime Minister Racab Tayyib Erdogan demanded on Wednesday an to "savagery" committed against Uighur Muslims.
"Our expectation is for these incidents that have reached the level of savagery to be rapidly stopped," he said in televised remarks.
"Necessary measures must be taken to prevent this brutality. We are temporary member of the UN Security Council for 2009-2010. We will also take these events into consideration there."
Uighur Muslims accuses the government of settling millions of ethnic Han in their territory, a vast region with large oil and gas reserves, with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture.
They also cite a recent government plan that has brought the teaching of Mandarin Chinese in Xinjiang schools, replacing their local dialect.
Source: http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1246346174901&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Xinjiang Brutality Sparks China Boycott Calls
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Calls are growing to boycott the Chinese products over Beijing's brutal crackdown on Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province. (Reuters) ANKARA — Amid Muslim protests over China's deadly crackdown of its Muslim minority, calls are growing louder for a boycott of Chinese products over its treatment of Uighur Muslims.
"Consumers are the most effective weapon of our age," a spokesman of the Turkish consumer rights association told Agence France Presse (AFP) during an anti-China rally in Ankara on Friday, July 10.
"Our association is launching the biggest boycott against China today."The call echoes a similar one by Turkish Trade and Industry Minister Nihat Ergun for an all-out boycott of Chinese products over Beijing's atrocities against Uighur Muslims.
"If the country where we consume the good does not respect human values, we should reconsider our values," he said on Thursday.
"Consumers who buy a good must find out if the producing country respects human values or not."
At least 156 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded when Chinese police unleashed a massive crackdown on the Turkish-speaking ethnic minority this week.
The deadly crackdown has drawn global condemnation, with organizations and Western leaders urging China to exercise self-restraint.
"Chinese items will be boycotted," said Maualana Habib-ur-Rehman, Imam of the India's largest mosque of Jama Masjid.
"If needed, we will talk to Muslim councils in the country and issue a fatwa forbidding Chinese products."
Protests
Thousands of Muslims took to the streets around the world on Friday to protest the Chinese brutal crackdown on the Uighurs.
"No to ethnic cleansing!" chanted crowds of Turks and Uighur expatriates in Ankara following the Friday prayers.
Many protesters waved the Uighur flag, depicting a white crescent on a blue background, as some others set fire to Chinese flags and goods produced in China.
"Murderer China", chanted some 200 protesters following the prayers at Istanbul's Beyazit mosque.
In Australia, hundreds of Muslims staged a protest against the Chinese treatment of Xinjiang Muslims.
"Death to Chinese terrorists" shouted the protestors outside the Australian parliament in the capital Canberra.
Indonesian Muslims were also out into the streets to protest the Chinese brutality.
"China can no longer act as tyrants towards those of their people who are of a different faith," Tifatul Sembiring, the head of Indonesia's largest Muslim party, the Prosperous Justice Party, said in a statement sent to AFP.
Uighur Muslims accuse the government of settling millions of ethnic Han in their territory, a vast region with large oil and gas reserves, with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture.
They also cite a recent government plan that has brought the teaching of Mandarin Chinese in Xinjiang schools, replacing their local dialect
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Calls are growing to boycott the Chinese products over Beijing's brutal crackdown on Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province. (Reuters) ANKARA — Amid Muslim protests over China's deadly crackdown of its Muslim minority, calls are growing louder for a boycott of Chinese products over its treatment of Uighur Muslims.
"Consumers are the most effective weapon of our age," a spokesman of the Turkish consumer rights association told Agence France Presse (AFP) during an anti-China rally in Ankara on Friday, July 10.
"Our association is launching the biggest boycott against China today."The call echoes a similar one by Turkish Trade and Industry Minister Nihat Ergun for an all-out boycott of Chinese products over Beijing's atrocities against Uighur Muslims.
"If the country where we consume the good does not respect human values, we should reconsider our values," he said on Thursday.
"Consumers who buy a good must find out if the producing country respects human values or not."
At least 156 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded when Chinese police unleashed a massive crackdown on the Turkish-speaking ethnic minority this week.
The deadly crackdown has drawn global condemnation, with organizations and Western leaders urging China to exercise self-restraint.
"Chinese items will be boycotted," said Maualana Habib-ur-Rehman, Imam of the India's largest mosque of Jama Masjid.
"If needed, we will talk to Muslim councils in the country and issue a fatwa forbidding Chinese products."
Protests
Thousands of Muslims took to the streets around the world on Friday to protest the Chinese brutal crackdown on the Uighurs.
"No to ethnic cleansing!" chanted crowds of Turks and Uighur expatriates in Ankara following the Friday prayers.
Many protesters waved the Uighur flag, depicting a white crescent on a blue background, as some others set fire to Chinese flags and goods produced in China.
"Murderer China", chanted some 200 protesters following the prayers at Istanbul's Beyazit mosque.
In Australia, hundreds of Muslims staged a protest against the Chinese treatment of Xinjiang Muslims.
"Death to Chinese terrorists" shouted the protestors outside the Australian parliament in the capital Canberra.
Indonesian Muslims were also out into the streets to protest the Chinese brutality.
"China can no longer act as tyrants towards those of their people who are of a different faith," Tifatul Sembiring, the head of Indonesia's largest Muslim party, the Prosperous Justice Party, said in a statement sent to AFP.
Uighur Muslims accuse the government of settling millions of ethnic Han in their territory, a vast region with large oil and gas reserves, with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture.
They also cite a recent government plan that has brought the teaching of Mandarin Chinese in Xinjiang schools, replacing their local dialect
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1246346210711&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Rabu, 08 Juli 2009
Letter from an Israeli Jail by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Letter from an Israeli JailBy former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Date: July 2nd 2009
This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies - and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis high-jacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.
At the outbreak of Israel’s Operation ‘Cast Lead’ [in December 2008], I boarded a Free Gaza boat with one day’s notice and tried, as the US representative in a multi-national delegation, to deliver 3 tons of medical supplies to an already besieged and ravaged Gaza.
During Operation Cast Lead, U.S.-supplied F-16’s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full scale outright genocide. U.S.-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs - new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught that Gaza had become Israel’s veritable weapons testing laboratory, people used to test and improve the kill ratio of their weapons.
The world saw Israel’s despicable violence thanks to al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English. I saw those broadcasts live and around the clock, not from the USA but from Lebanon, where my first attempt to get into Gaza had ended because the Israeli military rammed the boat I was on in international water ... It’s a miracle that I’m even here to write about my second encounter with the Israeli military, again a humanitarian mission aborted by the Israeli military.
The Israeli authorities have tried to get us to confess that we committed a crime ... I am now known as Israeli prisoner number 88794. How can I be in prison for collecting crayons to kids?
Zionism has surely run out of its last legitimacy if this is what it does to people who believe so deeply in human rights for all that they put their own lives on the line for someone else’s children. Israel is the fullest expression of Zionism, but if Israel fears for its security because Gaza’s children have crayons then not only has Israel lost its last shred of legitimacy, but Israel must be declared a failed state.
I am facing deportation from the state that brought me here at gunpoint after commandeering our boat. I was brought to Israel against my will. I am being held in this prison because I had a dream that Gaza’s children could color & paint, that Gaza’s wounded could be healed, and that Gaza’s bombed-out houses could be rebuilt.
But I’ve learned an interesting thing by being inside this prison. First of all, it’s incredibly black: populated mostly by Ethiopians who also had a dream ... like my cellmates, one who is pregnant. They are all are in their twenties. They thought they were coming to the Holy Land. They had a dream that their lives would be better ... The once proud, never colonized Ethiopia [has been thrown into] the back pocket of the United States, and become a place of torture, rendition, and occupation. Ethiopians must free their country because superpower politics [have] become more important than human rights and self-determination.
My cellmates came to the Holy Land so they could be free from the exigencies of superpower politics. They committed no crime except to have a dream. They came to Israel because they thought that Israel held promise for them. Their journey to Israel through Sudan and Egypt was arduous. I can only imagine what it must have been like for them. And it wasn’t cheap. Many of them represent their family’s best collective efforts for self-fulfilment. They made their way to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. They got their yellow paper of identification. They got their certificate for police protection. They are refugees from tragedy, and they made it to Israel only after they arrived Israel told them “there is no UN in Israel".
The police here have license to pick them up & suck them into the black hole of a farce for a justice system. These beautiful, industrious and proud women represent the hopes of entire families. The idea of Israel tricked them and the rest of us. In a widely propagandized slick marketing campaign, Israel represented itself as a place of refuge and safety for the world’s first Jews and Christian. I too believed that marketing and failed to look deeper.
The truth is that Israel lied to the world. Israel lied to the families of these young women. Israel lied to the women themselves who are now trapped in Ramle’s detention facility. And what are we to do? One of my cellmates cried today. She has been here for 6 months. As an American, crying with them is not enough. The policy of the United States must be better, and while we watch President Obama give 12.8 trillion dollars to the financial elite of the United States it ought now be clear that hope, change, and ‘yes we can’ were powerfully presented images of dignity and self-fulfilment, individually and nationally, that besieged people everywhere truly believed in.
It was a slick marketing campaign as slickly put to the world and to the voters of America as was Israel’s marketing to the world. It tricked all of us but, more tragically, these young women.
We must cast an informed vote about better candidates seeking to represent us. I have read and re-read Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s letter from a Birmingham jail. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that I too would one day have to do so. It is clear that taxpayers in Europe and the U.S. have a lot to atone for, for what they’ve done to others around the world.
What an irony! My son begins his law school program without me because I am in prison, in my own way trying to do my best, again, for other people’s children. Forgive me, my son. I guess I’m experiencing the harsh reality which is why people need dreams. [But] I’m lucky. I will leave this place. Has Israel become the place where dreams die?
Ask the people of Palestine. Ask the stream of black and Asian men whom I see being processed at Ramle. Ask the women on my cellblock. [Ask yourself:] what are you willing to do?
Let’s change the world together & reclaim what we all need as human beings: Dignity. I appeal to the United Nations to get these women of Ramle, who have done nothing wrong other than to believe in Israel as the guardian of the Holy Land, resettled in safe homes. I appeal to the United State’s Department of State to include the plight of detained UNHCR-certified refugees in the Israel country report in its annual human rights report. I appeal once again to President Obama to go to Gaza: send your special envoy, George Mitchell there, and to engage Hamas as the elected choice of the Palestinian people.
I dedicate this message to those who struggle to achieve a free Palestine, and to the women I’ve met at Ramle. This is Cynthia McKinney, July 2nd 2009, also known as Ramle prisoner number 88794.
Date: July 2nd 2009
This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies - and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis high-jacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.
At the outbreak of Israel’s Operation ‘Cast Lead’ [in December 2008], I boarded a Free Gaza boat with one day’s notice and tried, as the US representative in a multi-national delegation, to deliver 3 tons of medical supplies to an already besieged and ravaged Gaza.
During Operation Cast Lead, U.S.-supplied F-16’s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full scale outright genocide. U.S.-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs - new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught that Gaza had become Israel’s veritable weapons testing laboratory, people used to test and improve the kill ratio of their weapons.
The world saw Israel’s despicable violence thanks to al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English. I saw those broadcasts live and around the clock, not from the USA but from Lebanon, where my first attempt to get into Gaza had ended because the Israeli military rammed the boat I was on in international water ... It’s a miracle that I’m even here to write about my second encounter with the Israeli military, again a humanitarian mission aborted by the Israeli military.
The Israeli authorities have tried to get us to confess that we committed a crime ... I am now known as Israeli prisoner number 88794. How can I be in prison for collecting crayons to kids?
Zionism has surely run out of its last legitimacy if this is what it does to people who believe so deeply in human rights for all that they put their own lives on the line for someone else’s children. Israel is the fullest expression of Zionism, but if Israel fears for its security because Gaza’s children have crayons then not only has Israel lost its last shred of legitimacy, but Israel must be declared a failed state.
I am facing deportation from the state that brought me here at gunpoint after commandeering our boat. I was brought to Israel against my will. I am being held in this prison because I had a dream that Gaza’s children could color & paint, that Gaza’s wounded could be healed, and that Gaza’s bombed-out houses could be rebuilt.
But I’ve learned an interesting thing by being inside this prison. First of all, it’s incredibly black: populated mostly by Ethiopians who also had a dream ... like my cellmates, one who is pregnant. They are all are in their twenties. They thought they were coming to the Holy Land. They had a dream that their lives would be better ... The once proud, never colonized Ethiopia [has been thrown into] the back pocket of the United States, and become a place of torture, rendition, and occupation. Ethiopians must free their country because superpower politics [have] become more important than human rights and self-determination.
My cellmates came to the Holy Land so they could be free from the exigencies of superpower politics. They committed no crime except to have a dream. They came to Israel because they thought that Israel held promise for them. Their journey to Israel through Sudan and Egypt was arduous. I can only imagine what it must have been like for them. And it wasn’t cheap. Many of them represent their family’s best collective efforts for self-fulfilment. They made their way to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. They got their yellow paper of identification. They got their certificate for police protection. They are refugees from tragedy, and they made it to Israel only after they arrived Israel told them “there is no UN in Israel".
The police here have license to pick them up & suck them into the black hole of a farce for a justice system. These beautiful, industrious and proud women represent the hopes of entire families. The idea of Israel tricked them and the rest of us. In a widely propagandized slick marketing campaign, Israel represented itself as a place of refuge and safety for the world’s first Jews and Christian. I too believed that marketing and failed to look deeper.
The truth is that Israel lied to the world. Israel lied to the families of these young women. Israel lied to the women themselves who are now trapped in Ramle’s detention facility. And what are we to do? One of my cellmates cried today. She has been here for 6 months. As an American, crying with them is not enough. The policy of the United States must be better, and while we watch President Obama give 12.8 trillion dollars to the financial elite of the United States it ought now be clear that hope, change, and ‘yes we can’ were powerfully presented images of dignity and self-fulfilment, individually and nationally, that besieged people everywhere truly believed in.
It was a slick marketing campaign as slickly put to the world and to the voters of America as was Israel’s marketing to the world. It tricked all of us but, more tragically, these young women.
We must cast an informed vote about better candidates seeking to represent us. I have read and re-read Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s letter from a Birmingham jail. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that I too would one day have to do so. It is clear that taxpayers in Europe and the U.S. have a lot to atone for, for what they’ve done to others around the world.
What an irony! My son begins his law school program without me because I am in prison, in my own way trying to do my best, again, for other people’s children. Forgive me, my son. I guess I’m experiencing the harsh reality which is why people need dreams. [But] I’m lucky. I will leave this place. Has Israel become the place where dreams die?
Ask the people of Palestine. Ask the stream of black and Asian men whom I see being processed at Ramle. Ask the women on my cellblock. [Ask yourself:] what are you willing to do?
Let’s change the world together & reclaim what we all need as human beings: Dignity. I appeal to the United Nations to get these women of Ramle, who have done nothing wrong other than to believe in Israel as the guardian of the Holy Land, resettled in safe homes. I appeal to the United State’s Department of State to include the plight of detained UNHCR-certified refugees in the Israel country report in its annual human rights report. I appeal once again to President Obama to go to Gaza: send your special envoy, George Mitchell there, and to engage Hamas as the elected choice of the Palestinian people.
I dedicate this message to those who struggle to achieve a free Palestine, and to the women I’ve met at Ramle. This is Cynthia McKinney, July 2nd 2009, also known as Ramle prisoner number 88794.
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