Michael Jackson's Brother Raps U.S. Policy in Iraq

Reuters Health via Yahoo ^ | April 20, 2004 | Anon Reuters Stringer

[Pharmboy]

MANAMA, Bahrain (Reuters) - Pop star Michael Jackson's brother, Jermaine, in the Gulf to promote understanding between Muslims and his fellow Americans, said Tuesday that Muslims are "the new Negroes in America."

Jermaine, a convert to Islam and dressed in white Arab garb, has been speaking about Islam and U.S. "adventures" in Iraq to enthusiastic audiences at Koranic centers and universities in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain.

Jermaine Jackson(L), brother of Michael Jackson, Jackson
family spokesman Firpo W. Carr(C) and Khawaja Khurshid Reshi hold
a rug with a woven picture of Michael Jackson April 19, 2004, in
Manama. Jermaine Jackson, in the Gulf to promote understanding
between Muslims and his fellow Americans, said Tuesday that
Muslims are 'the new Negroes in America.' Jermaine, a convert to
Islam and dressed in white Arab garb, has been speaking about Islam
and U.S. 'adventures' in Iraq to enthusiastic
audiences at Koranic centers and universities in the Gulf Arab state of
Bahrain. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)

"I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration -- everywhere," he said.

Jermaine, also a singer, told Reuters in an interview: "I do not agree with the U.S. government. What they are saying about Muslims and Arabs is all propaganda and brainwashing."

"I don't think it is right for us to go to someone else's country and tell them what to do and how to do it," said Jermaine, who is a guest of the royal court in the pro-Western kingdom, which hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.

He disapproved of Muslim extremism, which has been on the rise in the wake of the U.S. occupation of Iraq last year.

"I understand their feelings but do not approve of their methods. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong," he said.

[theDentist]

Fine, but (as the Vichey Chix learned) you don't disparage your country when you go over the border. It's just wrong.

[billb]

I was behind the President 100% until Michael Jackson's brother set me straight on the whole war matter. Kerry/Jackson '04!

[PeteFromMontana]

Ooooohhhhh Now if only Jeffrey Dahmer's relative would speak out on the Kyoto agreement, my morning would be complete.......... /sarcasm

[Sender]

You should read this page about Islam and pedophilia. Religion of Peds®

"A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby." -Khomeini (Iran)

[Badeye]

Is there something in the Koran that supports child molestation? Massive plastic surgery? Flashing of breasts on television?

The whole world wonders.....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is there a Benito Jackson lurking somewhere that we don't know about ?

[Corporate Law]

FWIW, at least the Vichey Chix have had a hit record recently. No one has heard of Jermaine since Michael left the other Five, outside of Eddie Murphy spoofing them.

The world awaits LaToya's Iraqi position.......

[finnman69]

Jermaine and Jesse: The World Tour!

[Delta 21]

who is the white guy in that pic?

[FourPeas]

ROFL.

[1Old Pro]

ugh

[Heff]

Jermaine who?

[BIGZ]

Muslims were among the first hold Africans in slavery, Muslims walked Africans out of Africa East to the Muslim countries, this was the start of the African slave trade.

Slavery was not unique to the United States nor started by the United States nor did all the African slaves eventually wind up in the United States, as taught in the American schools and learned by Mr. Jackson.

How Blacks embrace Islam is way beyond my thinking.Except when I realize how it is taught in American schools

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Obviously, this is one very confused young man.

[Right Angler]

No human has ever lived with the imaginative capacity to make this crap up...

[FeliciaCat]

"Jermaine, a convert to Islam and dressed in white Arab garb.."

Oh yeah, he's not BIASED, is he?

Asking a "celebrity" (even a has-been) about Foreign Affairs is like asking your manicurist about your heart condition.

[Ben Chad]

Latent islamism must explain the boy abuse.

[RolandBurnam]

the term "useful idiot" applies fully here.

[Alouette]

It must really suck to be so 1970's that the only way people know who you are is the Freako's brother.

[ravingnutter]

This is just like the T-shirt I'm thinking of making: Osama holding up a Vote Kerry picket.