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Hundreds of Palestinians marched in the streets of Ramallah on Wednesday to condemn the US and express their support for the resistance attacks against the coalition forces in Iraq. The protesters carried placards denouncing American "massacres" against the Iraqi people and shouted slogans calling for retaliatory attacks against the US. They expressed their full support for the insurgents in Iraq who are waging a war of attrition against the US-led coalition forces, pointing out that the Iraqis and the Palestinians were fighting the same war against the powers of evil. Representatives of various Palestinian factions – including Fatah, Hamas and...

The soothing baritone rises effortlessly to navigate an exotic series of microtones and complex rhythmic cadences. The voice is that of Abdul Malik, imam of Oakland, California's Masjid Al-Islam mosque. He is delivering a prayerful invocation in perfect Arabic before followers of one of the most ancient religions of mankind – Islam. Soon he'll address a very contemporary subject: Media. Shatan's (Satan's) media, that is. The imam isn't alone in his criticism of media coverage of Islam in America. Out of the conflict and criticism have come loaded words like "prejudice," "intolerance," "civil rights," "terrorism," "militant," "radical" and "extremist." These...

Jerusalem (jnewswire.com) - A public survey conducted by the Office of Palestinian Information last week shows a solid majority of Palestinian Arabs support terrorist attacks against Israeli Jews. Nearly all of those polled said they absolutely oppose the detention of terrorists belonging to groups such as Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad by PA forces. The poll The poll was conducted among a random sampling of 1,102 Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza from August 21-28, and was reported in the Hebrew edition of the leftist Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz Wednesday. Some 60.2 percent of respondents said they supported ongoing...