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| ATTENTION !!Ban DANIEL PIPES!! |
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| thejellymill |
| 07/21/03 at 15:34:24 |
| [slm] :-* I am a sister from the US. I am new member to this forum, I would like to share some very important and bad news :( I recieved. I was hoping that all American Muslims can get together to stop this: WE NEED YOU TO CALL-IN TODAY...MONDAY JULY 21 ATTENTION ALL MUSLIM STUDENTS: The Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada is calling on all Muslim students and people of conscience to oppose the nomination of Islamophobe Daniel Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace. TODAY IS 'NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY' ON DANIEL PIPES NOMINATION and we urge you to participate. Urge your senator to reject Pipes' anti-Muslim views. ____________________________________________________ IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED: (As always, be POLITE and RESPECTFUL. Calls are best, followed by faxes and then e-mails.) 1) Contact the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee chairman to request that Daniel Pipes nomination be rejected. Contact: Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), Chairman, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, 428 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6300 TEL: (202) 224-5375, Majority Staff: (202) 224-6770, Minority Staff: (202) 224-0767 FAX: (202) 228-5044 E-MAIL: greggstaff@labor.senate.gov (Attn: Stephanie Monroe) COPY TO: senator@kennedy.senate.gov, cair@cair-net.org 2) Contact the committee member who represents your state to ask that Pipes' nomination be rejected. GO TO: http://www.cair-net.org/asp/dpcommittee.asp Send copies of correspondence to the other members of the committee and to CAIR. 3) Contact other elected officials in your state to ask that they oppose the Pipes nomination. Go to: http://capwiz.com/cair/home/ 4) See Below for a list of all the senators who are on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee BACKGROUND INFO: MSA-National is joining with a number of other Muslim, Arab-American and interfaith groups to urge all people of conscience to take part in a NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY on Monday, July 21, to urge the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to reject the nomination of Daniel Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The committee will meet to vote on the proposed nomination on Wednesday, July 23. The USIP is a federal taxpayer-funded institution created by Congress to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Daniel Pipes' extremist views and lack of peace-making credentials disqualify him from serving on a board that seeks to promote peace and conflict resolution. Without your immediate input, Pipes' nomination could be approved, and the purpose of the Institute of Peace would be defeated. CALL THE SENATORS ON THE COMMITTEE AND MAKE SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD. WHY SHOULD ALL PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE OPPOSE DANIEL PIPES' NOMINATION? Because Pipes: * Supports the unrestricted profiling of Muslims and Arabs. * Refuses to condemn the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. * Suggested that Israel "raze" Palestinian villages. * Claims 10 to 15 percent of all Muslims are "potential killers." * Opposes President Bush's repeated statements that Islam is a religion of peace. * Opposes the president's "road map" to peace in the Middle East. * Espouses a theory of conflict resolution that rests on the assumption that peace is achieved only by one side defeating the other with military force, and only rarely through reconciliation or negotiation. * Fails to meet the USIP requirement that board members "have appropriate practical or academic experience in peace and conflict resolution." * Decries any positive portrayal of Islamic history and beliefs in public schools. * Termed the PBS documentary "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" an "outrage." * Stated: "I worry very much from the Jewish point of view that the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews." Pipes defended criticism of that quote by saying: "I make the same point respectively to audiences of women, gays, civil libertarians, Hindus, Evangelical Christians, atheists, and scholars of Islam, among others, all of whom face 'true dangers' as the number of Muslims increases." * Launched Campus Watch, a web site that included "dossiers" on professors and academic institutions thought to be too critical of Israel or too sympathetic to Islam and Muslims. * Said: "Mosques require a scrutiny beyond that applied to churches, synagogues and temples." * Said: "The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be." * Claims Muslims have no real religious attachments to the city of Jerusalem. * Claims to have a special mental "filter" with which he can detect those who want to "create a Muslim state in America." * Compares American Muslim voter registration drives to those of the Communist Party USA. * Said: "As the population of Muslims in the United States grows, so does antisemitism," and "black converts [to Islam] tend to hold vehemently anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic attitudes." * Recommend that "vigilant application of social and political pressure to ensure that Islam is not accorded special status of any kind in this country." * Said: "What we need to do is snarl, not be nice. What we need to do is inspire fear, not affection." * Supports Mujahedeen-e Khalq, a group designated as terrorist by the State Department. LIST OF SENATORS ON COMMITTEE LIST OF OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS: http://health.senate.gov/committee_members.html Ranking Member: Edward Kennedy (MA) 202-224-4543 Phone 202-224-2417 Fax Republicans: Bill Frist (TN) 202-224-3344 Phone 202-228-1264 Fax Mike Enzi (WY) 202-224-3424 Phone 202-228-0359 Fax Lamar Alexander (TN) 202-224-4944 Phone 202-228-3398 Fax Christopher Bond (MO) 202-224-5721 Phone 202-224-8149 Fax Mike DeWine (OH) 202-224-2315 Phone 202-224-6519 Fax Pat Roberts (KS) 202-224-4774 Phone 202-224-3514 Fax Jeff Sessions (AL) 202-224-4124 Phone 202-224-3149 Fax John Ensign (NV) 202-224-6244 Phone 202-228-2193 Fax Lindsey Graham (SC) 202-224-5972 Phone 202-224-1189 Fax John Warner (VA) 202-224-2! 023 Phone 202-224-6295 Fax Democrats: Christopher Dodd (CT) 202-224-2823 Phone 202-224-1083 Fax Tom Harkin (IA) 202-224-3254 Phone 202-224-9369 Fax Barbara Mikulski (MD) 202-224-4654 Phone 202-224-8858 Fax Patty Murray (WA) 202-224-2621 Phone 202-224-0238 Fax Jeff Bingaman (NM) 202-224-5521 Phone 202-224-2852 Fax Jack Reed (RI) 202-224-4642 Phone 202-224-4680 Fax John Edwards (NC) 202-224-3154 Phone 202-228-1374 Fax Hillary Clinton (NY) 202-224-4451 Phone 202-228-0282 Fax Independent: James Jeffords (VT) 202-224-5141 Phone 202-228-0776 Fax Contact Information for the committee: 428 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-6300 (202) 224-5375 - voice (202) 228-5044 - Fax Majority Staff #: (202) 224-6770 Minority Staff #: (202) 224-0767 ************************** Shadi Hamid Chair of Political Action Task Force Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada (610)772-0394 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada http://www.msa-national.org ____________________________________________________________ Your Sister in Islam, Natasha :-) |
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