Now Here's Some Interesting News

Editor on 12/30/06

I have to look into this in greater detail but just to see it all from a creditable source is a major positive to me.

Italian Jews join Muslims in anti-Iran demo

ROME (EJP)--- The Italian Union of Jewish Students joined the Italian Young Muslim Union at a protest against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Held outside the Iranian embassy in Rome last Thursday, the sit-in, which attracted more than 200 people, was aimed at expressing solidarity with those Iranian students who, on December 11, staged an unprecedented demonstration against Ahmadinejad.

http://ejpress.org/article/12576

Charting Propaganda in the Arab World

Editor - This is how Al Jazeera, the dominant cable news network in the Arab world chooses to report the reaction to Saddam Hussein's execution. The fact that Hussein murdered millions of Muslims is not mentioned. The comments sources are not mentioned; no mention that perhaps the comments are made by Sunni's. Instead the comments are purposely left open ended to craft the image that the entire Muslim world is revolted by this mass murderer's execution by the new Iraqi government. This is the sort of propaganda that keeps the Muslim world 500 years behind the rest of the planet.

Saddam execution angers pilgrims - 12/30/06 from Al Jazeera

Muslims at the Hajj, shocked at the death of the former Iraqi leader, have said the timing of his execution was an insult to Muslims.

Nawaf al-Harbi, a Saudi national speaking outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, said Saddam's hanging during the Eid al-Adha, was poorly timed and disrespectful.

"I don't want to believe it. Saddam cannot die. Is this the good news we get on our Eid?" al-Harbi said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C8396129-4469-41BF-9508-BCE4E81B6BA3.htm

CNN Today: "Poor Saddam"

12/29/06

You had to see it to believe it. I had to look at the news loop twice for it to penetrate. On the day of Saddam Hussein's execution by a free, democratic Iraqi governing body, CNN was running a segment twisted to make you feel almost bad about the death of one of history's most accomplished mass murderers. (More to come)

Right in the Heart of London, The Challange in Black and White

Below are the comments made by the London-based editor of a major Arab newspaper following the execution of Saddam, the murdered of millions of Muslims. If this is the response, imagine the challenge we are up against. Is there a more clear message of hating the infidel first, no matter what, than this statement?

This is the message that will be read in Muslim newspapers and preached in mosques all over the Arab world by millions who refuse to let go of thinking that is outdated by 700 years. Sad but true and very dangerous.

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper

The timing of this execution [during the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha] is an affront to all Arabs and Muslims. It is an act of scorn against a great religion by the United States and the Iraqi government.

Arab public opinion wonders who deserves to be tried and executed: Saddam Hussein who preserved the unity of Iraq, its Arab and Islamic identity and the coexistence of its different communities such as Shias and Sunnis ... or those who engulfed the country into this bloody civil war.

Saddam Executed today - 12/30/06

Below are comments from readers of Al Jazeera posted following the execution of Saddam Hussein.

"Saddam's death will serve only to hasten World War III"

Andrew, Isle of Wight, UK

Below you will find comments from Readers of the New York Times posted following the execution of Saddam Hussein.

Share your thoughts on the hanging of Saddam Hussein.

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