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Muslim Students Association Telling Lies By Diana Appelbaum, December 25, 2003 Home Search Forum Terms At some point in the last two or three years, someone who hates Israel fabricated a bloodthirsty quotation and attributed it to Ariel Sharon. The false quote has circulated widely on anti-Israel and anti-Semitic WEB sites and list serves, and at least three student columnists have published it as fact in reputable college newspapers, the Georgetown University Hoya, the University of Florida Alligator, and the University of Illinois Daily Ilini. [http://www.thehoya.com/viewpoint/031902/view2.cfm, http://www.dailyillini.com/dec03/dec11/opinions/stories/opinions_column02.shtml, http://www.alligator.org/edit/opinion/issues/02-spring/020418/c02column18.html]. This is, or ought to be, a source of shame to the...

Lies Mariam Sobh Tells Miriam Sobh, a graduate student in journalism at the University of Illinois, writes a regular column for the Daily Illini. Her disregard for factual accuracy is breathtaking. Here is the lie that Mariam Sobh published on Dec. 11.. She wrote, “Stop Turning a Blind Eye,” that Ariel Sharon said the following in an interview with General Ouze Merham in 1956: "I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian...