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Muslim Leaders Arrested At White House Sit-In
Moe
06/27/01 at 15:37:59
MUSLIM LEADERS ARRESTED AT WHITE HOUSE SIT-IN TO PROTEST SHARON VISIT

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/26/2001) - Leaders of six national American Muslim
organizations were arrested in a non-violent "sit-in" outside the White House
to protest today's meeting between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon.

Those arrested during the act of civil disobedience included the executive
director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as well as
representatives from American Muslim Council (AMC), American Muslims for
Jerusalem (AMJ), Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Public Affairs Council
(MPAC), and Solidarity International for Human Rights.

"Today we sent a message to President Bush that he should not legitimize a
world leader who has the blood of so many innocent Christians and Muslims on
his hands. This was also a message to the people of our nation that they
should not remain silent as Israel brutalizes the Palestinian people using
weapons paid for with American tax dollars," said CAIR Board Chairman Omar
Ahmad. Ahmad added that Sharon might view Bush's uncritical support as a
"green light" to carry out further attacks on the Palestinians.

Prior to the sit-in, several hundred people of all faiths protested Sharon's
visit with signs and chants in Lafayette Park just across from the White
House.

There are an estimated seven million Muslims in America and some 1.2 billion
worldwide. SEE: www.cair-net.org/mosquereport
Re: Muslim Leaders Arrested At White House Sit-In
Arsalan
06/28/01 at 03:12:39
With the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

American Muslim Council
Media Department
202-789-2262

For Immediate Release
June 26, 2001

Muslim Leaders Arrested for Protesting Sharon’s Visit to the White House
People of Conscious of All Faiths Protest Bush’s Hosting Ariel Sharon at
the White House

(Washington, DC, June 25, 2001) – Six leaders of major American Muslim
organizations were arrested today for an act of civil disobedience in front
of the White House expressing their outrage that President Bush received
Ariel Sharon.  At least five-hundred protestors from all faiths and
ethnicities
demonstrated in front of the White House demanding the arrest of Ariel
Sharon
for a track record of war crimes.

Abdurahman Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council (AMC), Khalid Turaani of
American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ), Yasir Bushnaq of Solidarity
International
for Human Rights (SIHR), Mahdi Bray of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
(MPAC),
Shaker El-Sayed of the Muslim American Society (MAS), and Nihad Awad of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) expressed their solidarity with
the Palestinians whose lives, land, and homes are under the siege of
occupation.

The protesters represented a wide spectrum of American people of conscious
who
fear Sharon’s visit to the White House would result in further aid to
Israeli
occupation funded by U.S. taxpayers.

Currently Israel receives over $4 billion every year in monetary and
military
aid in the name of self-defense.  This aid includes F-16s and Apache
helicopter
gunships that target civilians, in direct defiance of U.S. arms procurement
laws.

Abdurahman Alamoudi gave a message to the Palestinian people, “Humbly, this
is
our meager contribution to your struggle.  I wish we could do more.”

Among the protestors were representatives of the Orthodox Jewish Neturei
Karta,
affirming that Zionism and Israel-style Apartheid is not condoned by the
Jewish faith.

The arrest of the Muslim leaders only strengthened the resolve of the
protestors
whose call to justice and peace in Palestine grew stronger and chants
against
Sharon grew louder.

National and international media were present to cover the protest.

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