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Posted on 08/27/2004 12:07:15 PM PDT by yonif
In a bizarre move, the Arab League issued a condemnation Tuesday of the Jerusalem municipality’s project to turn Israel’s capital city into the world’s first city with complete wireless internet capability.
According to SANA, the official Syrian news agency, the Arab League says the project to make Jerusalem wireless fidelity-enabled (WiFi) accessible threatens the Arab identity of the city.
The Arab League issued a statement Tuesday saying, “the project aims at imposing a de facto [sic] on the city in a way that serves the Israeli interests under the pretext of encouraging the foreign investments.”
The statement added that the WiFi project, along with all of Israel’s policies, “contradicts not only the international law and resolutions but also reflect no desire in realizing the just and comprehensive peace in the region.”
The Municipality of Jerusalem, together with Intel and Compumat Computers, is embarking on a project to make Israel's capital the world's first WiFi accessible city, according to a Globes report. The organizers expect that within two years, users in most areas of the city will be able to surf the internet wirelessly. The WiFi connection will be free of charge throughout at least the first year. The unobtrusive WiFi transmitters installed throughout the city will enable an internet connection of up to 54 megabits per second (Mbps) at a distance of 1000-1600 feet.
The Jerusalem WiFi Project will be implemented in two stages. The first stage will be the installation of hot spots, where WiFi hardware is installed and user reception is optimal, at central points throughout the city. These will include Ben-Yehuda Street in downtown Jerusalem, the Hutzot HaYotzer artist quarter, the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood, Safra Square, the Malcha shopping mall, and Emek Refaim St. The second stage will see parks, schools, government offices and the Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus go wireless.
Self-inflicted ignorance is the true hallmark of a stagnant society.
Leave the Arabs as they are, confine them to the middle east, and use them as "lab rats" to teach Western children the consequences of Islamic orthodoxy.
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aHA!! THAT explains it!! They're worried about all those wireless transmitters prematurely setting off their Holy Sacred Islamic Explosive Belts!!!
The statement added that the WiFi project, along with all of Israel’s policies, "contradicts not only the international law and resolutions but also reflect no desire in realizing the just and comprehensive peace in the region."One thing, the Moslem despotates are always good for a few laughs. Another reprise:
Islam Faces a New EraToday's Muslim world is also being betrayed by a similar intellectual passivity regarding the Internet, the dynamo of the next Renaissance. While the French fight an uphill battle to prevent English from laying siege to the French-speaking world via the Net, none of the major Muslim languages plays a major role in this huge knowledge machine. Equally conspicuous is the absence of Muslim countries from one of history's greatest scientific endeavors, the Human Genome Project. Islam is not intrinsically opposed to ideals of justice, equality, and human dignity. It is folly to assume that technological sophistication or economic prosperity need weaken, or run counter to, religious belief. Meanwhile, at some distance from the ivory tower lies the grim reality of much of the Muslim world: poverty; mass illiteracy; want of basic hygiene and primary health facilities; lack of fundamental liberties of religion and speech; little protection from state persecution.
by Munawar A. Anees
1999, Civilization Magazine
It's naturally an assault on the Arab identity. Anything that reminds Arabs they are not living in the Middle Ages is an assault on their identity:
-- The unveiled woman is an assault on Arab identity
-- Democracy is an assault on Arab identity
-- Freedom of speech is an assault on Arab identity
-- An independent judiciary is an assault on Arab identity
-- Childrens' rights are an assault on Arab identity
-- Respect for other cultures is an assault on Arab identity
-- A free press is an assault on Arab identity
-- Democracy is an assault on Arab identity
-- Religious freedom is an assault on Arab identity
Maybe they can deliver messages on those big, giant spiders.
Is this one of those tricky halal things?
Sort of. Arabic culture is unusual in its rejection and superstition. Everything to them that is technology is talked about as if it was magic.
There backwardness is not something that is looked down on, but something that is looked up to. Afghanistan barred everything and was as pure a islamic state as one could find. Iran doesn't allow insurance policies since if something happens, its gods will. Technology in there eyes (or at least advanced) supercedes that.
There are however, more then enough terrorists who do use and like technology.
Yeah but does the FFC know, and are these items UL listed?
Seems they don't want any of that, either. From the looks of most Arab League countries they don't seem to like economic development much anyway.
In short: if it's Israeli, it's wrong.
It is a direct threat to the Arab identity of the city, imagine what will happen to the Arabs if they suddenly got access to newspapers and information that was not filtered by the Imams.
Revisionist historians hate books too for the same reason.
What will happen with the "intifadda" if Arabs find out that there is hope and freedom? Imagine what will happen when they find out that Mohammad Duran was killed by the PLO for hot video footage instead of the IDF? What will happen if the Arabs find out how much money Arafat has stolen from them, how they were talked into blowing up their own children so that Arafat could squeeze the UN for a few more dollars.
Free internet could destroy the Arab identity of Jerusalem all right. Truth is poison to lies.
Without corrupt clerics telling the population how and what to think and mischaracterizing conditions in the west Islam might begin a reformation. That would seriously undermine the Arab elite.
Maybe they're afraid that the 2.4GHz WiFi signal wills interfere with the remote triggers for planned terrorist bombs...
Mark
And it's all "self inflicted!"
The muslim world is one of the most cash rich bunch of countries in the world. Sure, some of those countries are dirt poor... But the richest muslim countries (which usually happen to be those with the most oppressive governments) don't seem too interested in actually helping their bretherin... And frankly, given all the trouble they cause, I can understand why.
Mark
The statement added that the WiFi project, along with all of Israel’s policies, “contradicts not only the international law and resolutions but also reflect no desire in realizing the just and comprehensive peace in the region.”
They know that the buzz words "International Law" and "Peace" makes westerners stand up and salute, but they do not actually understand what the words mean. What does having INTERNET access have to do with breaking international law? How does someone surfing the net make peace impossible.
I think we need to seriously look at these statements from the Arab League, as they prove that the Arabs promise what they do not even have the intellectual capacity to understand and clearly do not intend to fulfill.
To an Islamic Arab the term "a just and comprehensive peace" means complete and utter domination of Islam over the world.
(subjection)
In their understanding this is the proper place for the Nations, groveling before the feet of Islam.
Only in this light do the statements in this article by the Arab league make sense. Remember this when you hear the term "Peace" and "International Law" from Arab League lips in the future. Suddenly the drivel they speak will come into all too clear of a focus. They are not babbling madmen, they are very focused and very intent on their march to world domination. They define terms differently from us, it is part of their deception in battle doctrine.
Exactly. All that money, and the poverty continues.
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