Posted on 05/17/2003 6:12:22 PM PDT by SJackson
ARAB NEWS (Saudi) May 17 '03:"Sorry, You Can't Win"
Dr. Hamoud Al-Ghathami/Al-Madinah
[IMRA: King Fahd Academy in Washington, D.C. was established in 1984-5. During 1984-94 King Faud spent over $35 million on the school of 1,200 students. Not giving the prize to a Saudi recipient was a private Saudi decision. There was no U.S. interference.]
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"Arabs and Muslims are sometimes treated as if they were not human's and to whom principles of justice and equality apply. This is why so many Arabs and Muslims are now in American prisons without trial on the mere suspicion of having links with terrorism. It is why American Muslims are treated unfairly while American Jews enjoy more rights than ordinary Americans."
My granddaughter, Mashael, a student at King Fahd Academy in Washington, recently won a prize in a local competition. The prize was a luxury car, but her happiness was short-lived. When she went to collect the prize, the organizers refused to give it to her because, according to them, prizes were only intended for those who hold American nationality. ...
[IMRA: The organizers were Saudis, not Americans. Why accuse the US?]
Why do people behave in such a shameful manner in a country claiming to be the guardian of freedom and equality and one which doesn't hesitate to launch war to liberate people from injustice and tyranny and spread human values - including equality.
When Mashael went to receive her prize, the members of the prize committee discovered she was of Middle Eastern origin and came from an area often associated with terrorism and violence.
The questioning then began: Where are you from? What is your nationality? What nationality are your parents? Such silly stuff! Because neither the girl nor her parents were American, she was told, "Sorry, we cannot give you the prize."
...the reason for denying Mashael a legitimate prize is that she is not an American, that is unacceptable. The American system does not differentiate between whites and blacks, Muslims and non-Muslims, the weak and the strong who possess the power that allows them to lie and tamper with the law.
What if an American woman were denied a prize in another country on the grounds that she was not a citizen of that country? Would the Western media keep silent or would it demand action against the country which violated human rights and which dared to deny an American something she had fairly won?
Arabs and Muslims are sometimes treated as if they were not humans and to whom principles of justice and equality do not apply.
This is why so many Arabs and Muslims are now in American prisons without trial on the mere suspicion of having links with terrorism.
It is why American Muslims are treated unfairly while American Jews enjoy more rights than ordinary Americans. [IMRA: Standard nonsense.]
Some Americans may not agree with their country's foreign policy or with the way some of their own people treat others. At the same time, however, the image of Muslims and Arabs is being blackened and more people are keeping silent in the face of American injustice.
Worse than that , they are being treated the way Christians are treated in almost ANY middle Eastern country, expecially Saudi Arabia.
If she was conservative, yes, most certainly, they'd keep silent.
But even if she was a whining liberal they'd whine for a while and then realize they can't do a flippin' thing about it and they'd blame the country's backwardness on conservatives in the US.
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