Look at Arabic "w"ord in "w"hite letters in the corner of the green flag below...with the name of "w"ho the Muslims "w"orship. "W"hat's it look like?
T.G. "W"ould you help us out here, please?
Posted on 04/20/2002 4:55:52 PM PDT by Davea
Sunday April 21, 3:39 AM
Tens of thousands gather in Washington for largest pro-Palestinian protest in US
In the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration ever in the United States, tens of thousands of protesters gathered here Saturday to condemn what they saw as the US administration's pro-Israeli bent in the Mideast conflict.
Waving signs equating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and wearing the traditional Arab headdress, or keffiyah, crowds massed on the Ellipse in front of the White House to voice their disapproval of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and US Middle East policy.
Police estimated that around 50,000 people took part in the peaceful protest although organizers, a coalition pro-Palestinian pressure groups, put the figure at 100,000.
Saturday's pro-Palestinian demonstration was billed as an answer to a mass protest by a reported 100,000 supporters of Israel Monday at the US Capitol, where speakers linked the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians to the US-led war on terror.
The pro-Palestinian protesters came from across the United States, including chapters of Muslim American Societies from New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Virginia and Michigan, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic American Institute and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
While Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spoke at Monday's pro-Israel rally, there was no representative of George W. Bush's administration at Saturday's pro-Palestinian protest.
Congresswoman Cynthya McKinney, a Democrat from Georgia, was due to address the crowd at the Capitol and the protesters heard a tape message of jailed former Black Panther member Mumia Abu-Jamal in support of the Palestinian cause.
Iyad Hindi, 42, was in a group of some 400 who bussed in from Raleigh, North Carolina to participate in the event.
Hindi, who belongs to Raleigh's Muslim-American Society, said the crowd was in Washington "to tell the Israelis there should be no occupation" of Palestinian territories -- and "as long as there is (occupation) there will be resistance."
The group's "other message is to the United States government to stop the clear bias towards Israel," he said.
Behind Hindi stood a young man with a Palestinian flag printed on his t-shirt, who carried a sign saying "Jenin = Auschwitz," equating the Palestinian refugee camp, where scores of Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army, with the infamous Nazi concentration camp, where more than one million Jews were slaughtered between 1942-1945.
Signs equating the Jewish Star of David with the Nazi swastika were waved along with signs stating that "Sharon is a terrorist too," and that "Violence breeds violence."
Speakers took to the podium to decry the two billion dollars in military assistance the United States provides Israel annually.
Among the protesters were members of "Orthodox Jews against Zionism" who led chants of "Judaism: yes, Zionism: No".
Some families traveled from far to lend their support to the Palestinian cause and add their voices to the chorus for peace.
Jesmin Saikh, 15, came with a group of 200 from Gaithersburg, Maryland. She said she wears a head scarf at school, and "obviously disagree(s)" with her Jewish friends at school over events in the Middle East.
"But the thing that we share is that we know that both sides want peace," she said.
The demonstrators had to compete with a rival anti-globalization protest that also commandeered part of the National Mall that stretches from the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, although many attendees said the causes were complementary.
Ranks of police milled around the crowd, some on foot and others on horseback, to ensure that the demonstration remained peaceful.
Look at Arabic "w"ord in "w"hite letters in the corner of the green flag below...with the name of "w"ho the Muslims "w"orship. "W"hat's it look like?
T.G. "W"ould you help us out here, please?
:-) I don't know. When Brian got busted,The Ruckus Society (Ted Turner and Elaine Broadhead's friends) was somewhat involved.
Yes...I'm not sure if I was watching the ABC news, but what from what I did see, the protesters looked like the same old pro-choice/gay-rights/anti-globalist/PETA "anarchists" that you see in every other leftist media-covered demonstration. They all looked like they were having a party, too.
I remember the drugged-out, multi-tatooed, blue-haired zombie gyrrl with him saying, "Like, the destruction of property isn't, like, 'violence'."
Like, you said it, Space Chick.
Allah, The LORD rebuke thee!
Jude 9
It's time to end the immigration "free for all".
Its time to shut the doors and find out who's in the house, and only allow in known friends and background check every single person entering this nation.
Now, there are extremists on both sides of this issue. The extremists from the left are using the World Health Organization and this radical group of Bobby Kennedy's to make their point. I tell you their intent is to destroy the livestock industry.
There are hundreds of Iowa farmers who have been able to make their farms profitable by contracting with so-called large corporate producers. They were at the Capitol begging the legislature not to regulate the industry out of Iowa.
What a lot of people don't stop to think about is that once the livestock industry is gone, grain prices will be even lower than they are now and land prices will plummet. What industry do they have to replace agriculture? Technology must find an answer to this problem.
I also drive by poultry confinements almost daily. There is no smell from these facilities. Even the newest hog confinements are odor free driving by them.
People have the romantic notion that we can go back to the 160 acre farm with farmers making a living with some grain farming, some cows, pigs and chickens. It isn't going to happen. It's gone. Too bad, but that's the reality.
My husband was once a Volkswagen mechanic, too. Guess what happened to his profession?
Yahoo | 4/24
Wed Apr 24, 5:06 PM ET By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) quietly warned its agents nationwide of unconfirmed information from a captured senior al-Qaida official that terrorists may be planning attacks against supermarkets or shopping centers, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
The warning, sent Tuesday to all FBI field offices and relayed to some state and local police, cautioned that the information was unsubstantiated and did not include specific information about possible targets, timing, numbers of people involved or any particular method of attack.
The warning said that al-Qaida operatives inside the United States may be planning attacks against civilian targets, possibly including banks, shopping centers, supermarkets and shops, law enforcement official said.
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