Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4384-1012153852-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23481 invoked by uid 510); 27 Jan 2002 17:50:42 -0000 Received: from n12.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.62) by all.net with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 17:50:42 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4384-1012153852-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.191] by n12.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Jan 2002 17:50:52 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 27 Jan 2002 17:50:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 42013 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 17:50:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Jan 2002 17:50:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.98) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 17:50:51 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g0RHpfj30049 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:51:41 -0800 Message-Id: <200201271751.g0RHpfj30049@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:51:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:ISLAM-INFONET:.Protecting.Speech.on.Campus/News.Briefs] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CAIR wrote: In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful ----- AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEFS - 1/27/2002 ----- HEADLINES: * HADITH OF THE DAY: KINDNESS TO CHILDREN * CAIR OFFERS NASA SENSITIVITY TRAINING WORKSHOP * CAIR-OHIO MEETS COLUMBUS DISPATCH EDITORIAL BOARD - INDEPENDENT WRITERS SYNDICATE (CAIR) * RELIGION RISES FROM OBSCURITY (Winnipeg Free Press) * EDITORIAL: PROTECTING SPEECH ON CAMPUS (New York Times) * SUDAN FACT-FINDING DELEGATION TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE * GHOSTS AND SECRETS AT MASS KILLER'S FUNERAL (Independent) - WAS THIS ANOTHER TARGETED KILLING? (Independent) - SECRETS SHARON WILL TAKE TO HIS GRAVE (The Herald) * POWELL ASKS BUSH TO REVERSE STAND ON WAR CAPTIVES (New York Times) * GOD SQUAD: A STORIED, GLORIOUS RELIGION (Newsday) * MUSLIM LEADERS MEET U.S. OFFICIALS (Chicago Tribune) * FOLLOWING ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES (Washington Post) * LETTER: RACISM AT O'HARE (Chicago Tribune) ----- HADITH OF THE DAY: KINDNESS TO CHILDREN Aisha (may God be pleased with her), the wife of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), related the following: “A poor woman came to me along with her two daughters. I gave her three dates. She gave a date to each of them and then she took one date and brought it to her mouth in order to eat, but her daughters expressed desire to eat it. She then divided the date that she intended to eat between them. This (kind) treatment impressed me and I mentioned what she did to the Holy Prophet (Muhammad). Thereupon he said: ‘Verily God has assured her Paradise because of (this act)...’” Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1210 ----- CAIR OFFERS NASA SENSITIVITY TRAINING WORKSHOP CAIR's Sensitivity and Diversity Training Center (SDTC) recently conducted a sensitivity training workshop for THE National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Some 35 NASA civil rights directors, engineers and staff participated in the training. SDTC Director Nancy Hanaan Serag presented an “Islam: Myths and Stereotypes” seminar, including a brief overview of basic Islamic beliefs and practices. Workshop attendees also participated in an interactive quiz testing their prior knowledge about the Muslim faith and group exercises dealing with issues of prejudice and stereotyping. ”Since the horrific attacks of September 11, there has been a quest for knowledge and understanding of the Muslim faith. It is now time to appreciate our nation’s religious and cultural diversity,” said Serag. CAIR's Sensitivity and Diversity Training Center offers several programs for a wide range of environments and needs. For more information contact: Nancy Hanaan Serag at 202-488-8787, ext. 6052 ----- CAIR-OHIO MEETS COLUMBUS DISPATCH EDITORIAL BOARD Representatives of CAIR-Ohio met recently with the editorial board of the Columbus dispatch. Board members were presented with a content analysis of their opinion/editorial pages since the terrorist attacks of September 11. This analysis indicated that only a tiny percentage of commentaries were written by Muslim. CAIR-Ohio pointed out that the Muslim community would like more opportunities to speak for itself. CAIR’s Independent Writers Syndicate was suggested as a source of commentary writer from a Muslim perspective. INDEPENDENT WRITERS SYNDICATE CAIR's "Independent Writers Syndicate" is designed to offer a Muslim perspective on current political, social and religious issues. The service distributes original commentaries to newspapers and web sites throughout North America. Commentaries are offered free-of-charge to one media outlet in each market area. Permissions for publication will be granted on a first-come-first-served basis. Opinion page editors may also request columns on specific topics. CONTACT: Riad Abdelkarim, <a href="mailto:riadzuhdi@aol.com?Subject=Re:%20(ai)%20[Fwd:%20ISLAM-INFONET:%20Protecting%20Speech%20on%20Campus/News%20Briefs]%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;3C5430E8.90538EDC@speconsult.com">riadzuhdi@aol.com</a> ----- RELIGION RISES FROM OBSCURITY Panel discovers lack of coverage in the wake of Sept. 11 attacks By MaryLou Driedgerm, Winnipeg Free Press, 1/26/2002 It wasn't until a couple of hours after the first airliner crashed into the World Trade Center when CTV News's Kirk Lapointe discovered a significant gap in the network's reporting. "Just after 10:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, I remember looking around our newsroom and realizing I did not see a single Muslim face. We had no in-house resource, no one to explain the religion of Islam, or help us understand what the Muslim people must be thinking and feeling," recalled Lapointe, the senior vice-president of CTV News, during a forum on Faith and the Media held this week in Winnipeg…The media received praise, however, from Riad Saloojee, executive director of the Canadian Council of American- Islamic Relations. He noted Canada's 500,000 Muslims have found some things about the coverage given their faith community in recent months encouraging. "There has been a sincere attempt to understand the Islamic perspective," he said. "Particularly during Ramadan, a significant effort was made to provide information which would help Canadians understand their Islamic neighbours." Saloojee, hastened to add that some negative things needed highlighting, too. "Certain reporters have tried to minimize the backlash against Muslim Canadians. They have suggested the reaction has been limited to name-calling and verbal slurs. In fact, police have documented over 115 incidents including death threats and assaults." Saloojee also suggested some columnists have thoughtlessly linked the words Muslim or Islam with the words terrorist, fundamentalist or holy war. Lapointe agreed with him. "We don't call terrorists in Ireland Protestant or Catholic," he noted… ----- EDITORIAL: PROTECTING SPEECH ON CAMPUS The New York Times, 1/27/2002 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/opinion/27SUN3.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/opinion/27SUN3.html> Wartime is precisely the moment when unpopular views and the role of a university as an open forum for ideas must be most vigorously defended. The case involves Sami Al-Arian, a tenured professor of computer science active in the Islamic movement. In 1988, he gave a speech in which he called for "victory to Islam" and "death to Israel." Last September, in a television appearance, Mr. Al- Arian was reminded of his words 14 years ago and asked about militant Muslims whom he had invited to the university. Mr. Al-Arian distanced himself from his previous statements and from violence of any kind. Nevertheless, the next day, the university, in Tampa, received hundreds of phone calls and e- mail messages, some threatening the university and others threatening Mr. Al-Arian. The university has sent him a letter of dismissal. It said that he failed to make clear on television that he was not representing the University of South Florida and that his presence on campus was such a disruption that the business of the university could not proceed. Both complaints are groundless and make a mockery of free speech and academic freedom. Governor Bush has compounded the problem by publicly backing the university's approach. University officials say they are not getting rid of Mr. Al-Arian because of his views. That is disingenuous. The documentation they have produced focuses on the "disruption" he is said to have caused and refers repeatedly to a drop in contributions. In other words, Mr. Al-Arian's politics are costing the university too much so it wants to get rid of him. If Mr. Al-Arian were a moderate receiving threats from militant Muslims, there is little doubt that the university would stand up for him…Free speech and academic freedom must be blind to politics. Conservatives deserve as much protection as liberals. Critics of affirmative action have been harassed or threatened at colleges. Firing a professor because his views are causing others to criticize or threaten the university is a betrayal of the academic code. No campus should be run that way. ----- SUDAN FACT-FINDING DELEGATION TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE An American fact-finding delegation which recently returned from Sudan will report on its trip in a press conference Monday, Jan. 28 at 9:30 a.m. in the Lisagor Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W. in Washington, D.C. The trip was organized by the Coalition to Give Peace a Chance in Sudan, an ad-hoc group of organizations and individuals seeking to promote peace in Sudan and improve U.S.-Sudan relations. CONTACT: Coalition to Give Peace a Chance in Sudan, 301-728-8949 ----- GHOSTS AND SECRETS AT MASS KILLER'S FUNERAL By Robert Fisk, The Independent, 1/27/2002 <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=116610">http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=116610> Hobeika was ready to give evidence against Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, in Belgium in March - evidence he believed would prove that the then Israeli defence minister was directly culpable for the Beirut massacre. The car bomb that killed Hobeika and three of his bodyguards - two of their coffins flanked his yesterday - exploded less than two days after he had agreed to testify against Mr Sharon. So all of us felt another presence in the ugly little concrete church of Mar Tackla, with its blood-red stained-glass windows: that of the Israeli Prime Minister for whom Hobeika once worked and who, the Lebanese believe, ordered his murder. The Lebanese police have already identified the car that blew Hobeika to bits. The professional assassins had erased the chassis serial number which would have allowed the owner to be traced, but Lebanese intelligence men found the engine number and telephoned Mercedes headquarters. It came back with the chassis number, and the police immediately traced the vehicle to a man living in the town of Jezzine - notorious under Israeli occupation for 19 years as a headquarters for Israeli Shin Beth intelligence men. SEE ALSO: WAS THIS ANOTHER TARGETED KILLING? <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=116256">http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=116256> SECRETS SHARON WILL TAKE TO HIS GRAVE <a href="http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/25-1-19102-0-11-9.html">http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/25-1-19102-0-11-9.html> ----- POWELL ASKS BUSH TO REVERSE STAND ON WAR CAPTIVES By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times, 1/27/2002 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/politics/27DETA.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/politics/27DETA.html> WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 Breaking with other cabinet officials, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has asked President Bush to declare that the United States is bound by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the captives in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, administration officials said today. Seeking a review of a presidential decision made nine days ago, when the administration determined that the captured fighters were not prisoners of war and hence not fully protected by the Geneva Conventions, Mr. Powell and his lawyers at the State Department urged Mr. Bush to affirm that the international law of war does govern the United States' treatment of all captives of the Taliban military and the terrorist network Al Qaeda. Mr. Powell asked for the review after allies and human-rights advocates suggested that the United States had skirted some of the conventions' technical requirements… ----- GOD SQUAD: A STORIED, GLORIOUS RELIGION By Rabbi Marc Gellman & Msgr; Thomas Hartman, Newsday, 1/26/2002 <a href="http://www.newsday.com/features/religion/ny-p2dexmaster2565686jan26.story">http://www.newsday.com/features/religion/ny-p2dexmaster2565686jan26.story> Q. It's tough to love your enemy. Since Sept. 11, I find myself consumed with anger toward Muslims. I know only a few are terrorists, but I keep hearing that the Quran tells Muslims to kill unbelievers. I don't know what to think about Islam, and I don't know how to control my anger. - S.B. A. Islam is not a good religion - it's a great religion. For 1,600 years, it has had no Inquisitions, sponsored no Crusades and had no Holocaust. In 1492, when the Jewish people were expelled from Christian Spain, they were warmly accepted in Muslim Turkey. The Muslim King Hassan of Morocco, who was allied with Hitler and Mussolini during World War II, refused Hitler's orders to transport even a single Moroccan Jew to Europe for extermination. Islamic translators and philosophers, called mutikalimun, translated Plato, Aristotle and the Greek classics into Arabic when Europe was in the Dark Ages. In view of this glorious past, it's particularly tragic that today Islam has been hijacked just like those planes on Sept. 11. A small number of fanatics have used Islam to justify their political agenda and their murderous obsessions. Islam also teaches that both Moses and Jesus were holy prophets from God. Jews and Christians are not unbelievers (kafirs), according to explicit Muslim teaching. In fact, the clear teaching of Islam is that "to kill one single innocent person is like killing the whole world." Islam teaches that jihad, which means struggle, justifies holy war only as a defense of one's homeland (very much like the "just war" teaching of Christianity and Judaism). It forbids killing innocent noncombatants and never allows people who are not respected Muslim scholars to issue fatwas, or religious orders. Osama bin Laden is not a scholar. His version of fatwas, his terrorism and his teachings are against every tenet of Muslim law. So condemning all of Islam for the Sept. 11 attacks is like condemning all of Christianity for the Crusades or the Inquisition. Sometimes, religions go through a time of trial and testing, and need a reformation to return to their true teachings of love and compassion. Islam seems to be going through such a time now, and we must hear the voices of those Muslims speaking out against this perversion of a great religion and pray for their ability to reclaim their faith. We non-Muslims must keep hatred out of our hearts and guard against making all Muslims scapegoats for the hateful distortions of a few maniacs. ----- MUSLIM LEADERS MEET U.S. OFFICIALS By GLEN ELLYN, The Chicago Tribune, 1/26/2002 Seeking to bridge racial and cultural rifts they say have deepened since the Sept. 11 attacks, more than two dozen area Muslim leaders attended a forum led by local U.S. Department of Justice, federal law enforcement and immigration leaders this week at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn. Alleged incidents of racial profiling by law enforcement, airport officials and Immigration and Naturalization Service agents, along with concerns about the closing of Islamic charities accused of aiding terrorism and Muslims being detained by the INS and Justice Department, dominated discussion during the nearly two-hour forum Thursday night. "We are Americans too. This is where we live. This is where we are born. This is where we bury our dead. This is where we raise out children. But we do not feel like we are being treated like Americans," said Oussama Jamall, a member of the Council of Islamic Organizations in Lombard… ----- FOLLOWING ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES The Washington Post, 1/26/2002 "Islam in America," a free symposium examining the emergence of Islam in the United States from the 19th century to the present, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Room 119, First Street SE between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street. 202-707-3302. ----- LETTER: RACISM AT O'HARE By Arsalan T. Iftikhar, Council on American-Islamic Relations The Chicago Tribune, 1/26/2002 When a woman's integrity is jeopardized for no other reason than what demographic she belongs to, it amounts to nothing less than discrimination. Regarding Ronald Rodriguez's letter calling profiling the Muslim woman at O'Hare justified ("Profiling at O'Hare," Voice of the people, Jan. 22), he fails to remember that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment forbids the racial classification of members of a certain racial group solely for that purpose. It seems if it were up to him and many others, the Constitution would just be used as a floormat that they could just walk right over. ----- To SUBSCRIBE to or UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, go to: <a href="http://cair.biglist.com/islam-infonet/">http://cair.biglist.com/islam-infonet/> To reach the list moderator, send a message to: <a href="mailto:cair@cair-net.org?Subject=Re:%20(ai)%20[Fwd:%20ISLAM-INFONET:%20Protecting%20Speech%20on%20Campus/News%20Briefs]%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;3C5430E8.90538EDC@speconsult.com">cair@cair-net.org</a> ----- CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations 453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. 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