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"The best way to protect the troops would be to keep them on US soil. They are needed to build housing for the homeless."

"In recent media coverage, much has been said about Iranian youth automatically assuming that they all oppose the Islamic government. This is not true, as the US-led survey found. This misconception has emerged because Western reporters only talk to north Tehran-based, university educated youth. These spoiled children of the rich do not represent the entire country. Nor is the Internet the instrument of change in Iran, as made out by media reports. The poll by Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty found “that only a third of Iranians even have access to the Internet, while 18-to-24-year-olds comprised the strongest voting bloc for Ahmadinejad of all age groups.”

"It seems clear now that the UN General Assembly Resolution 4686 of 1991, which revoked an earlier one equating Zionism with racism (the 1975 Resolution 3379), was a premature measure."

"All it takes President Obama for a series of events to occur to liberate Palestinians, our foreign policy, and our freedom from fear to debate Israel is ONE, just one, Oval office speech on the issue. You will be shocked and surprised at the outpouring of support of the American people who just need a courageous leader to unleash their oppressed voice in support of freedom and security for all in the Holy Land. Is Barack, the blessed one, the man of destiny, the deliverer of peace for the Holy Land? Should we have the audacity to hope for such?"

"Inside a contrived news frame, destruction can nurture life. In media myth, we can be well-informed and ignorant of war’s realities. Along the way, the benefits of numbed quiescence and muffled dissent are vastly overrated."

"Terror generally kills innocent people, something no decent-minded person can accept, but what is always forgotten in the press and government treatment of terror as something alien and unimaginably bad is that war in the contemporary world does precisely the same thing."

"The American international structure carefully built up after World War II is beginning to crumble, although it is not always obvious yet since good appearances are carefully maintained. A prime example is the crumbling of NATO. The grass is still kept well-trimmed at headquarters, but America’s insistence on making unnatural demands on this alliance, such as those it has made in Afghanistan, are surely destroying what was once a powerful international organization."

"If Israel had spent half the resources it has spent on war over the last fifty years instead on helping its neighbors and building up their economies, the region would be a far better place today. And if Israel had been willing to make reasonable concessions to the needs of others in the region, there might well be lasting peace today."

"For the United States, the broader goal is to strangle the axis of Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran, which the Bush administration believes is pooling resources to change the strategic playing field in the Middle East..."

"...1979, the year that international terrorism found a new incarnation through consolidation of converging interests and the “war on terror" was conceived. (Its conception was necessarily followed by a process of maturation: first applied to the Cold War and in rhetoric within limited theaters, such as the Palestine-Israel situation; second in the post-Cold War formulation of a “war on terror” plan during the 1990s; and third in its implementation after 9-11.)"

"Inside a contrived news frame, destruction can nurture life. In media myth, we can be well-informed and ignorant of war’s realities. Along the way, the benefits of numbed quiescence and muffled dissent are vastly overrated."

"The political leaders and commentators speaking the loudest and urging the most reckless behavior have absolutely no clue what is actually happening in Iran. As was the case in Afghanistan and Iraq, everyone with a microphone and TV camera in front of them has now become an Iran expert. But, their badgering of the President is based more on an ideologically based fantasy of “spontaneous revolution,” than on reality."

Calling July 1, 1867, "Canada Day" celebrates nothing since one could argue every day in Canada is "Canada Day."

"It seems to be beyond the vision of both Hugo Chavez and John McCain to see that vast numbers of Iranian people, fed up with repression, are able to grasp the historical moment on their own while opposing the regime. The last thing they need or want is “help” from the U.S. government as they struggle for a democratic future."

"The three hundred thousand brave souls, like my father, who braved the elements and took the risk to leave the Arab world and come to America before 1920, came with nothing but their hopes and dreams and their belief that with hard work they could realize their aspirations. Our community today, numbering some 3.5 million, is the heir of their dreams and their work--and beneficiaries of the opportunities provided them in this new world. This we can never forget."

"The best way to protect the troops would be to keep them on US soil. They are needed to build housing for the homeless."

"In recent media coverage, much has been said about Iranian youth automatically assuming that they all oppose the Islamic government. This is not true, as the US-led survey found. This misconception has emerged because Western reporters only talk to north Tehran-based, university educated youth. These spoiled children of the rich do not represent the entire country. Nor is the Internet the instrument of change in Iran, as made out by media reports. The poll by Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty found “that only a third of Iranians even have access to the Internet, while 18-to-24-year-olds comprised the strongest voting bloc for Ahmadinejad of all age groups.”

"It seems clear now that the UN General Assembly Resolution 4686 of 1991, which revoked an earlier one equating Zionism with racism (the 1975 Resolution 3379), was a premature measure."

"All it takes President Obama for a series of events to occur to liberate Palestinians, our foreign policy, and our freedom from fear to debate Israel is ONE, just one, Oval office speech on the issue. You will be shocked and surprised at the outpouring of support of the American people who just need a courageous leader to unleash their oppressed voice in support of freedom and security for all in the Holy Land. Is Barack, the blessed one, the man of destiny, the deliverer of peace for the Holy Land? Should we have the audacity to hope for such?"

Faith and religious beliefs play an undeniable role in defending the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Respect for refugees and asylum seekers and appreciation of those who provide refuge have a particular place in sharia, and Islam pays special attention to the sufferings of forced migrants. [1]

"History before Islam was a jumble of conjectures, myths and rumors."

"The bottom line is that terrorism is always wrong. There can be no provocation to justify attacks on innocent civilians. Retaliation, revenge, or pre-emption are not legitimate excuses. Who carried out the first act is not important. Most often the religious affiliation of the perpetrator is not important except in their own warped minds."

"Logic seeks truth and opinions cherish propaganda. If the CBC was serious to represent the truth, it could have arranged a meeting with Momin at the Detention Center rather than crossing over the North Atlantic channel to ask people who had no knowledge of Momin, nor of the issues raised in the officially mandated inquiry, probably paid out of the budgeted 10 billion sanctioned to the National Safety and Security Services."

"His clamor for “change” in Islamic societies is equally over simplified and emotionally charged. In fact by displaying his frustration over the slow pace of “changes”, Mills sounds no different from the likes of notorious Orientalist Scholars bent on “modernizing” Islam."

"Contrary to allegations in the Newsweek piece, women in Islam are not inferior to men."