Posted on 10/24/2001 12:45:10 PM PDT by inkling
Arab Nations Defend Islam's Image
By ADNAN MALIK
Associated Press Writer
October 24, 2001, 3:30 AM EDT
MANAMA, Bahrain -- Six Persian Gulf nations agreed Wednesday to launch a media campaign to combat the spasm of anti-Arab sentiment that has followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
The oil-rich group proposed setting up an English-language satellite television channel promoting a better image of Islam and Arabs to viewers in the West.
"We are putting our efforts together as ministers to reach all media in the Western world to explain our position that all Muslims and all Arabs are against terrorism," Bahraini Information Minister Nabil al-Hamer said after chairing a closed-door meeting of information ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Some Muslims complain they have been the victims of a backlash in the West since the Sept. 11 suicide jet attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The hijackers identified by authorities are all Arabs, and the United States blames Osama bin Laden of masterminding the assault through a global terrorist network that recruits Islamic militants to attack U.S. targets around the world.
Violence since Sept. 11 has been blamed for hundreds of reported attacks in the United States on Muslims and Arab-Americans.
Hamad Ali al-Sulayti, assistant secretary-general of political affairs for the Gulf Cooperation Council, accused Western media of connecting Islam with terrorism.
The Gulf Cooperation Council is a loose political and economic alliance of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Abdulrahman al-Attiyah, Qatar's undersecretary for foreign affairs, praised his country's Al-Jazeera satellite television station, which has emerged as a key opinion maker because of its independent editorial policy -- a rarity in the region.
It also has become known for airing taped statements by bin Laden, and by the spokesman for bin Laden's organization, al-Qaida.
Copyright © 2001, The Associated Press
The prophet was a vengeful pervert.
If he was part of his culture than it was, and remains, essentially a culture of vengeful perverts. I can't help that.
Are you familiar with Pan-Islamism, which is virtually inseperable from Islam?
This war is about the reformation of Islam, which must take place for future coexistence in the world among peoples to exist itself.
If Islam will not shed islamism, than Islam must be dismantled, or we, who live through it, will all be muslim.
Msgt, USAF, Ret
Hey Hog, I am glad you finally agree, that it is from Satan's hell. You finally came around, I was beginning to think you really believed the BS you were spewing. BTW, you do not have the authority to forgive anyone. Only those who lost loved ones can do that. Your insult of those people in NY and Washington is disgusting. Repent man, before it's too late. You have not done that yet.
You may be the enemy.
That speaks well for you, but I can not forgive that man, whoever he is, because he did not do it to me, he did it to you. Only you can forgive him for that. That does not mean that he should not be brought to justice, just as the slime balls responsible for NY and Washington should be called on the carpet also, even if all concerned forgive them.
I then asked her the following question, "Where did the Spanish, who are of Ibero-Celtic extraction, and as such originally held a more equitable view towards women, get this from?" She couldn't answer, so I told her.
The fact is that the Latino cult of machismo is little more than a holdover from the Moorish Invasion of Spain, and that "Moorish Influences" over 700 years, meant far more than merely architectural styles...
the infowarrior
You haven't answered my question from the other thread: Is Jesus Christ Almighty God?
And you haven't responded to my evidence that the New Testament is accurate from the same post.
Only God forgives the sin. We must forgive our fellow human.
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answering said unto them, "What reason ye in your hearts: whether it is easier to say, `Thy sins be forgiven thee,' or to say, `Rise up and walk'? But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon earth to forgive sins," He said unto the one sick with the palsy, "I say unto thee, arise and take up thy couch and go into thine house." And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
Who will be doing the Judging? Is Jesus Christ Almighty God?
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