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Zionism = Racism

Zionism is a racist ideology, like all nationalisms. The specific racist characteristics are summarised here: labelling them racist should be uncontroversial in itself. However Israel and its supporters are allergic for the label, and that hinders rational assessment of nationalist ideology.

One tutsi one huti, two mates, Rwanda. Can you see the difference? A tutsi is tall, thin & light skinned, while a hutu is short, stout and darker skinned. I can only see a tiny difference, and that is that the boy to the right might be a tutsi because his skin does seem a little brighter than the one to the left. But in my eyes, I see two human beings, two beautiful African boys with a skin color that I deeply admire. But the Belgian colonists didn’t, they were racist narrow minded people, who helped to ruin Rwanda. “When Belgian colonialists arrived in Rwanda in 1916, they favored the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority. The Belgians viewed the Tutsi as more similar to Europeans and, therefore, deemed them to be more intelligent. The clergy in Rwanda were complicit in creating and maintaining divisions between Tutsi and Hutu. Tutsi were awarded better jobs and had greater educational opportunities, a distinction reinforced by the development of separate educational systems. The Belgians classified them by their physical traits, too: they considered Tutsi to be tall, thin and light-skinned and Hutu to be short, stout and darker skinned. In the early 1930s, to solidify the division between Tutsi and Hutu, the Belgians produced identity cards classifying individuals according to their ethnic group: Hutu, Tutsi or Twa. These identity cards, still in use in the 1990s, led many Tutsi to their death by readily identifying them to the génocidaires.” (Read more here) If we study the origins of the Rwandan genocide we’ll realize it was because of white Europeans it started; the hatred between tutsis & hutus. Now I won’t blame the Europeans for the killings carried out by both these groups on one another, but if they didn’t favor one people over another none of this would have happened. If they simply didn’t make divisions between two people, who in fact are one so many lives would have been spared. But the West is still to blame, let me give you an example: “On July 29 President Clinton ordered 200 U.S. troops to occupy the Kigali airport so that relief could be flown directly into Rwanda. Ahead of their arrival, Dallaire says he got a phone call. A U.S. officer was wondering precisely how many Rwandans had died. Dallaire was puzzled and asked why he wanted to know. ‘We are doing our calculations back here,’ the U.S. officer said, ‘and one American casualty is worth about 85,000 dead.’”

One tutsi one huti, two mates, Rwanda.

Can you see the difference? A tutsi is tall, thin & light skinned, while a hutu is short, stout and darker skinned. I can only see a tiny difference, and that is that the boy to the right might be a tutsi because his skin does seem a little brighter than the one to the left. But in my eyes, I see two human beings, two beautiful African boys with a skin color that I deeply admire. But the Belgian colonists didn’t, they were racist narrow minded people, who helped to ruin Rwanda.

“When Belgian colonialists arrived in Rwanda in 1916, they favored the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority. The Belgians viewed the Tutsi as more similar to Europeans and, therefore, deemed them to be more intelligent. The clergy in Rwanda were complicit in creating and maintaining divisions between Tutsi and Hutu. Tutsi were awarded better jobs and had greater educational opportunities, a distinction reinforced by the development of separate educational systems.

The Belgians classified them by their physical traits, too: they considered Tutsi to be tall, thin and light-skinned and Hutu to be short, stout and darker skinned. In the early 1930s, to solidify the division between Tutsi and Hutu, the Belgians produced identity cards classifying individuals according to their ethnic group: Hutu, Tutsi or Twa. These identity cards, still in use in the 1990s, led many Tutsi to their death by readily identifying them to the génocidaires.” (Read more here)

If we study the origins of the Rwandan genocide we’ll realize it was because of white Europeans it started; the hatred between tutsis & hutus. Now I won’t blame the Europeans for the killings carried out by both these groups on one another, but if they didn’t favor one people over another none of this would have happened. If they simply didn’t make divisions between two people, who in fact are one so many lives would have been spared. But the West is still to blame, let me give you an example: “On July 29 President Clinton ordered 200 U.S. troops to occupy the Kigali airport so that relief could be flown directly into Rwanda. Ahead of their arrival, Dallaire says he got a phone call. A U.S. officer was wondering precisely how many Rwandans had died. Dallaire was puzzled and asked why he wanted to know. ‘We are doing our calculations back here,’ the U.S. officer said, ‘and one American casualty is worth about 85,000 dead.’”

Aut dosce, aut disce, aut discede: Growing hate against the South Asian Community in USA

Aisha’s disappearance is only one in a long line of crimes in the South Asian American community that have happened in the past few weeks.

  • On December 14th in Texas, a 61 yr old Pakistani named Yaqab Bham was attacked when doing an ADT home security installation inspection. Attacked by the
  • home owner after being asked questions of where Bham was from, he had his ear bitten off and 10 broken ribs. [full story]
  • On December 8th, a Hindu Sri Lankan professor in Champaign, Illinois named Dhammika Dharmapala was stabbed in his throat at a train station by a man who wanted to “save his country.” [full story]
  • On December 4th, a turbaned Sikh man was stabbed in his upper torso at the Fresno airport. The man that attacked him was a 26 year old white man and was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon  and possession of a knife in an airport. [full story]
  • On November 25th, a 32 year old Hindu man originally from Calcutta was attacked in San Jose in the grocery store parking lot. Six of his teeth were knocked out. His attackers spit on him and called him a terrorist. The attackers have not been found. [full story]

Most of the crimes mentioned above are not currently considered hate crimes by local police and local advocates are working hard to make the crimes recognized as such. It’s difficult to imagine, especially seeing the crimes listed side by side, how the incidents were not fueled by islamophobic and xenophobic hate.

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Read how racism and hate against the South Asian Community in America continues to grow stronger and more violent. This is disturbing. If you have seen Aisha, please make sure to contact the TIPS HOTLINE at 816-474-TIPS as soon as possible.

Justice Denied: Voices from Guantanamo.

“The men in this video were held at Guantánamo for years without charge and denied any meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention. But now they are finally free. This is their story.”

Hear another story of an Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee here & read “Real lives” testimonies from Guantánamo detainees, their families and loved ones.

Also watch “I Lost My Eyes” – Omar Khadr Interrogations at Guantanamo Bay:

“At the time of this interrogation in Guantánamo Bay, February 2003, the boy, Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, was barely 16, yet he had already been in military custody for seven months. Now 25, he remains in the US detention centre, though he will soon be transferred to a prison in Canada in deal which led him to plead guilty last year to war crimes.

As far as the Pentagon is concerned, Khadr’s case is closed. But a film about his interrogation, released in the UK this week, raises a series of deeply troubling questions. Firstly, it asks, why did the US try a child, captured in Afghanistan aged 15, when UN treaties decree underage combatants be treated as victims? How reliable was a confession Khadr says was extracted under torture and, it emerged later, tacit threats of gang rape?

The film, Four Days Inside Guantánamo, is released in the UK on Friday. It even casts doubt on the Pentagon’s claims that Khadr was responsible for killing a US solder, the incident for which he was tried.” (Read more here)

(Source: leptiir)

The Ku Klux Klan: America’s Forgotten Terrorists Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right, organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. Since the mid-20th century, the KKK has also been anti-communist. The current manifestation is splintered into several chapters and is classified as a hate group. The Ku Klux Klan today Unfortunately, despite its age, the Ku Klux Klan’s presence in the United States is still strong. Though smaller than in the Klan’s heyday in the 1920s, or its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s, the Klan today is still the most common type of hate group in America, more than 130 years after it was first conceived. Looking at its recent past and its present state, it is possible to gain some insight as to what the Klan might look like in the near future. Many racists and anti-Semites in the United States today choose other paths, such as joining neo-Nazi or neo-Confederate groups. This virtually guarantees that the Klan will not regain the stature it had half a century ago; however, the Klan continues to appeal to many angry whites, especially those coming from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds. This, plus the long tradition of the Klan in some parts of the country, unfortunately ensures that it will not wither away. America unmasked: The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009  Late last year, two suspected skinheads who had links to a violent Klan chapter in Kentucky were charged with plotting to kill 88 black students. They were then going to assassinate President Obama by blasting him from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedos and top hats. They were never going to succeed, given the huge security net around Obama, but the fact that they had planned such an outlandish attack may be a harbinger of things to come. The Ku klux klan has approximately 6,000 members.

The Ku Klux Klan: America’s Forgotten Terrorists

Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right, organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. Since the mid-20th century, the KKK has also been anti-communist. The current manifestation is splintered into several chapters and is classified as a hate group.

The Ku Klux Klan today

Unfortunately, despite its age, the Ku Klux Klan’s presence in the United States is still strong. Though smaller than in the Klan’s heyday in the 1920s, or its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s, the Klan today is still the most common type of hate group in America, more than 130 years after it was first conceived. Looking at its recent past and its present state, it is possible to gain some insight as to what the Klan might look like in the near future. Many racists and anti-Semites in the United States today choose other paths, such as joining neo-Nazi or neo-Confederate groups. This virtually guarantees that the Klan will not regain the stature it had half a century ago; however, the Klan continues to appeal to many angry whites, especially those coming from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds. This, plus the long tradition of the Klan in some parts of the country, unfortunately ensures that it will not wither away.

America unmasked: The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009 

Late last year, two suspected skinheads who had links to a violent Klan chapter in Kentucky were charged with plotting to kill 88 black students. They were then going to assassinate President Obama by blasting him from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedos and top hats. They were never going to succeed, given the huge security net around Obama, but the fact that they had planned such an outlandish attack may be a harbinger of things to come.

The Ku klux klan has approximately 6,000 members.

Islamophobia Sweeps Europe

The continent which produced imperialism, slavery and Hitler now produces Geert Wilders. Belgium and France ban the burqah, a British MP has stated he will refuse to speak to constituents who refuse to reveal their face and Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders declares his aim to launch his Stop Islam movement in five countries. It is Europe, not the Moslems, who are seeking a culture clash.

Europe never ceases to amaze with its abject arrogance, its imperious imperialistic policies and its disgusting demagogy. The continent which produced, imperialism, slavery and Hitler now produces Geert Wilders. The victims this time are not the Jews, but Muslims and as was the case with Hitler, the horrific, racist, genocidal Nazi movement was not only endemic to Germany but had its metastases spring up all over the Continent in similar movements.

Like Hitler, in his revolting, cruel and totally unacceptable campaign against the Jews, Geert Wilders wishes to internationalise his movement, called “Stop Islam – defend freedom”. “Freedom” is a buzz-word much used and abused by those who have an agenda, used against the Soviet Union by those whose own practices were far from peaceful or well-intentioned: “Freedom” was used by those who supported repressive Fascist dictators in Africa and Latin America, “Freedom” was used by those who attacked Fidel Castro and then tried to assassinate him 700 times.

So not surprisingly, this odious racist called Wilders takes the same word in vain to further his cause. And precisely what is it?

“I have a problem with Islamic ideology, the Islamic culture, because I feel that the more Islam we get in our societies, the less freedom that we get” (Wilders, in London, 2009). Now for a man who states that he is not a racist, how near to the mark is that?

What is alarming is that Wilders has mounted passages from the Koran and shown them in Islamist terrorist attacks in the film Fitna, and what is even more alarming is that he has garnered support among the Dutch electorate, his PVV Party for Freedom gaining 24 seats in the Dutch Parliament (out of a total of 150), making it the third largest political party, in June’s election.

In the near future, Wilders promises to take his movement to the USA, Canada, France, Germany and the UK, where the Conservative Member of Parliament for Kettering, Philip Hollobone, has declared that he will refuse to speak to women who refuse to remove their burqahs.

What we are dealing with here is abject and utter pig-headed ignorance in a European holier-than-thou top-down attitude, this from the Continent that went globe-trotting “civilising” the world and its peoples with the Christian Bible and the bullet. Jesus Christ was not the only prophet, Christianity is one of the many religions, one of the many paths to God. It does not have a monopoly on the truth, it is not the only Word.

And if Europeans could strut around the Middle East, colonising vast swathes of Islamic territory in the past, imposing their will as they siphoned off resources, then why should Moslems be told what they can or cannot wear today?

Asking a Moslem woman to remove her burqah is an insult, given that she has chosen to wear it to hide her body in respect for her husband and if she has chosen to do that freely, out of her own volition, who has the right to tell her to act otherwise?

Just because an Islamic woman wears a burqah does not mean she is wearing a bomb belt under it any more than the man who is dressed as an Anglican bishop is gay or the Catholic priest is a paedophile.

Islam is a religion of peace; Islamist fundamentalism is something entirely different and it is important to separate the two issues, respecting Islam and its wonderful culture, including its laws, lores and traditions so as not to make dangerous parallels between two extremes which do not exist, then tar everyone with one and the same brush and create another wave of racism in a Continent whose equation appears to bear this as a constant factor.

If it is now a European value to tell people what they can and cannot wear, then how telling a statement this is on a Continent which has imposed the E.U. on its citizens in a most undemocratic fashion and how ominous it is that an odious creature such as Wilders can be seriously contemplating the internationalism of his racist priggish ignorance instead of being where he belongs – in the wilderness, far away from humanity.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

PRAVDA.Ru

Also read Rise of right-wing extremism rattles Europe &Increasing Islamophobia in Europe dangerous trend.