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| Sit in by Muslim leaders protesting Israel |
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| 06/04/01 at 16:06:42 |
| Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh ************************************* In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful----- NOTE: Tuesday's sit-in is for Muslim leaders only. Others may attend to offer moral support at the news conference prior to the civil disobedience. A similar event for community members will be held in the near future.----- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 6/4/2001 --- MEDIA ADVISORY --- U.S. MUSLIM LEADERS RISK ARREST TO PROTEST MIDEAST POLICY State Department sit-in to highlight concerns over support for Israel's "Apartheid-like" practices WHAT: On Tuesday, June 5, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), along with a number of other leaders of national and local Muslim groups, will risk arrest during a "sit-in" outside the Department of State in Washington, D.C. That act of civil disobedience is designed to protest what event organizers say is America's uncritical support for Israel's "Apartheid-like" policies toward Palestinian Muslims and Christians. The Muslim leaders, including representatives from the American Muslim Council (AMC), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Muslim American Society (MAS), and others, will risk arrest to highlight the negative foreign policy implications of America's lack of diplomatic action to challenge Israeli policies of forced expulsions, home demolitions, land confiscation, discrimination, humiliation, harassment, torture, ethnic segregation, and denial of basic human and religious liberties. In a letter sent to President Bush on Friday, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote: "America is at a crossroad in its relations with the Muslim world. The current policy of uncritical support for Israeli brutality against Palestinian civilians is isolating our nation politically and economically from more than one billion Muslims in dozens of nations." Awad added that the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, the continued expansion of Israeli settlements and the denial of the right of return for Palestinian refugees are the core issues that must be addressed before there will be any lasting peace in the region. WHEN: Tuesday, June 5, 10 a.m. WHERE: Outside the "C Street" Entrance of the Department of State 2201 C St. N.W. Washington, D.C.CONTACT: Ibrahim Hooper at 202-488-8787 E-Mail: cair1@ix.netcom.com - END -SEE ALSO: NO ONE WINS WHEN BOTH SIDES ARE MOTIVATED BY RETALIATION By Andreas Whittam Smith, The Independent (London), 6/4/2001 http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=76001 Palestinians can no longer endure Israel's occupation of what they consider to be their land. They cannot continue accepting the daily restrictions and humiliations, the expropriations, the destruction of houses, the uprooting of orchards, the diversions of water supplies, the placing of impassable barriers between villages...CALLS FOR SLAVERY RESTITUTION GETTING LOUDER By TAMAR LEWIN, The New York Times, 6/4/2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/04/national/04SLAV.html It has been more than a century since Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ordered that the coastlands confiscated in the Civil War be divided into 40-acre plots and distributed to thousands of former slaves. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson rescinded the order and took back the land that had been distributed. Since then, the idea of compensating African-Americans for the sins of two and a half centuries of slavery has hovered in the background, far from reality. But now the movement for reparations is gaining steam...-----CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003Tel: 202-488-8787Fax: 202-488-0833 E-mail: cair1@ix.netcom.comURL: http://www.cair-net.org |
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