I love seeing Muslims and/or Arabs in the film industry. Here are some films that have come out or will soon. Both look interesting:
1- Shahada: Film explores Muslims struggling with life in West Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_8O5RWiJfQ
2- My Name Is Khan:
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Because Muslims are always the bad guys ...
two scenarios:
1- Muslim flies plane into building.
2- American white guy flies plane into building.
Hmm they seem pretty similar to me. innocent people die/injured in both scenarios. there's certainly a 'bad guy' involved in both scenarios.
But. Guess who makes it on all national news, with his religion's name plastered in every direction? Guess who will be labeled a terrorist?
Take a wild guess.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/82387-muslim-group-wants-government-to-call-austin-plane-attack-terrorism
Muslim group wants government to call plane attack terrorism
By Jordy Yager - 02/19/10 04:40 PM ET
A leading Muslim advocacy group is pushing government officials to call the suicide plane crash in Texas “an act of terror,” saying that if a Muslim had been flying the plane there would be no hesitancy to call it terrorism.
On Thursday, Andrew Joseph Stack III flew a small plane into the IRS's four-story office building in Austin, killing himself and at least one federal employee. Before the incident, Stack allegedly left a series of messages on a website expressing his disgust with the IRS, saying at one point that “violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.”
“Whenever an individual or group attacks civilians in order to make a political statement, that is an act of terror,” said Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
“Terrorism is terrorism, regardless of the faith, race or ethnicity of the perpetrator or the victims,” said Awad, adding in a statement that “if a Muslim had carried out the IRS attack, it would have surely been labeled an act of terrorism.”
In the hours after the crash, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters that the incident looked to be “a criminal act by a lone individual.” And while Acevedo refrained from calling it an act of terror, he said the FBI, which is heading the investigation, would make the judgment call on how to categorize the crash.
A spokesman with the FBI’s San Antonio office on Friday said that the FBI was handling the case “as a criminal matter of an assault on a federal officer” and that it was not being considered as an act of terror at this time.
The White House had yet to make a public statement about how it viewed Thursday’s incident, other than to say that both President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had been notified and had asked to be kept apprised of the situation.
But two lawmakers from the area were quick to call the plane crash, which resulted in two seriously injured people and 13 people with minor injuries, an act of terror.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/82387-muslim-group-wants-government-to-call-austin-plane-attack-terrorism
1- Muslim flies plane into building.
2- American white guy flies plane into building.
Hmm they seem pretty similar to me. innocent people die/injured in both scenarios. there's certainly a 'bad guy' involved in both scenarios.
But. Guess who makes it on all national news, with his religion's name plastered in every direction? Guess who will be labeled a terrorist?
Take a wild guess.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/82387-muslim-group-wants-government-to-call-austin-plane-attack-terrorism
Muslim group wants government to call plane attack terrorism
By Jordy Yager - 02/19/10 04:40 PM ET
A leading Muslim advocacy group is pushing government officials to call the suicide plane crash in Texas “an act of terror,” saying that if a Muslim had been flying the plane there would be no hesitancy to call it terrorism.
On Thursday, Andrew Joseph Stack III flew a small plane into the IRS's four-story office building in Austin, killing himself and at least one federal employee. Before the incident, Stack allegedly left a series of messages on a website expressing his disgust with the IRS, saying at one point that “violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.”
“Whenever an individual or group attacks civilians in order to make a political statement, that is an act of terror,” said Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
“Terrorism is terrorism, regardless of the faith, race or ethnicity of the perpetrator or the victims,” said Awad, adding in a statement that “if a Muslim had carried out the IRS attack, it would have surely been labeled an act of terrorism.”
In the hours after the crash, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters that the incident looked to be “a criminal act by a lone individual.” And while Acevedo refrained from calling it an act of terror, he said the FBI, which is heading the investigation, would make the judgment call on how to categorize the crash.
A spokesman with the FBI’s San Antonio office on Friday said that the FBI was handling the case “as a criminal matter of an assault on a federal officer” and that it was not being considered as an act of terror at this time.
The White House had yet to make a public statement about how it viewed Thursday’s incident, other than to say that both President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had been notified and had asked to be kept apprised of the situation.
But two lawmakers from the area were quick to call the plane crash, which resulted in two seriously injured people and 13 people with minor injuries, an act of terror.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/82387-muslim-group-wants-government-to-call-austin-plane-attack-terrorism
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Not in the mainstream media: Arab-American sworn into Lackawanna office
Arab-American sworn into Lackawanna office
Well, this is good.
Arab-American sworn into Lackawanna office
By Dale Anderson
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: January 05, 2010, 10:13 pm / 19 comments
Published: January 04, 2010, 6:36 am
It was proud day Sunday for Abdulsalam Noman.
Before a crowd of about 200 family members and friends from Lackawanna’s Yemenite community, the incoming First Ward Council member took the oath of office on his father’s copy of the Quran and became the city’s first Arab-American elected government official.
He’s also the first Arab-American elected to public office in New York State and only the second in the nation. The first was in Michigan.
Lackawanna, which counts 4,000 Yemenites among its 18,000 population, also has elected two Arab- American School Board members, one of whom currently serves on the board.
All of Noman’s five brothers, including the one from Michigan, and three sisters attended the ceremony in Curly’s Banquet Facility on Ridge Road. Lackawanna City Judge Frederic Marrano swore in Noman.
Missing were only his uncle in Arizona, who wasn’t feeling well enough to make the trip, and his father, Kassim, who died in November, two weeks after Noman was elected.
“I’m proud to be an American citizen,” the new Council member said Sunday.
Noman came to Lackawanna from Yemen in 1975 with his mother and one of his sisters, two years after his father emigrated. They followed his uncle, who came to work in the steel plant in the 1950s, and another sister. The other brothers and sister came later.
He graduated from Lackawanna High School and earned a history degree at the University at Buffalo in 1986. Now the father of four, he has been a teacher’s aide and Arabic translator for the Lackawanna City School District, and the high school soccer coach, a job not nearly as bruising as the campaign for the First Ward Council seat.
“It was a tough election,” he said Sunday night. “There were four running in the primary and three candidates in November. It helped that the endorsed Democrat [Joseph Jerge, whom he defeated in the primary] threw his support behind me.”
Among his hopes as a Council member is to add more diversity to the city’s work force, which currently has only two Arab-Americans.
As for the troubles in his native land, he said he’ll be glad to see the United States send military aid to the Yemenite government.
“What’s going on over there is unacceptable,” he said. “I’d like to see the United States root it out. I support President Obama 100 percent.”
Friday, January 22, 2010
Muslims are good people, too.
See when negative things happen to Muslims or Arabs, the media sparks and goes on and on about them. But, when they do any good--well, they're just ignored. It's as if the media is programed to exaggerate on stupid things Muslims do. And show it over and over and over. Check out these stories about philanthropic Muslims these past couple days:
Muslim Online Haiti Fundraiser, Organized on Facebook, Raises $105K in 2 Hours with 400 Donors
Muslims Rally Support for Haiti
and
Letter from Haiti: A Haitian Muslim’s Request for Help
The least we can do is pray for them. Or at least donate a couple dollars. They need it. So do millions of other people in despair and in need of clean water and health. Let us pray and try to be the change we want to see in the world.
Muslim Online Haiti Fundraiser, Organized on Facebook, Raises $105K in 2 Hours with 400 Donors
Muslims Rally Support for Haiti
and
Letter from Haiti: A Haitian Muslim’s Request for Help
The least we can do is pray for them. Or at least donate a couple dollars. They need it. So do millions of other people in despair and in need of clean water and health. Let us pray and try to be the change we want to see in the world.
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