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"U DONT SEE ANY OTHER RELIGION DOING THIS TERRORISM"?
Really? You haven't followed the criminal career of Zionist Israel committing massacres (62 to date), assassinations, property theft and destruction, sniper killings, denial of food and medical care to imprisoned people, torture and prisoner abuse, all in the name of Judaism? Just for massacres, see http://www.al-nakba-history.com/alnakbacontinuing/israelimassacres.html and for the murder of children see http://www.al-nakba-history.com/alnakbacontinuing/killingthechildren.html which summarizes data from the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem: www.rememberthesechildren.org.
And the reason we are seeing terrorist acts by Muslims is because the US and Israel are invading, occupying, terrorizing and murdering thousands upon thousands of Muslims who have the misfortune to live on land atop the world's largest oil supplies and land Israel wants to take away from them.
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This was also the motivation of Palestinian suicide bombers. If our press refuses to report the many Israeli killings to which these were retaliatory, no empathy or understanding occurs. For example, since Hamas discontinued suicide bombings in 2005, eight Israeli and 666 Palestinian children have been killed (see www.rememberthesechildren.org). Do Americans hear about these?
We all hear about Gilad Shalit, the ONE Israeli soldier captured and held by Hamas. But some 8,000 Palestinian political prisoners are held by Israel at any given time, including several hundred children, without due process, routinely tortured, and often held for years without trial (see www.addameer.info). Do Americans hear even one of their names?
This is the WHY! How would we react if the US was invaded and occupied, our properties were confiscated and bulldozed, we were driven into refugee camps, and those of us resisting were murdered by drones, hellicopter gunships, fighter aircraft, tanks rolling through our streets, and snipers shooting our children for throwing rocks?
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Religious beliefs are extremely vulnerable to manipulation by psychopathic or psychopathological leaders, since they are not grounded in empirical or rational foundations and are thereby immunized from refutation. Zionism and the havoc it has wreaked for 6 decades in the Middle East is a conspicuous example.
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For jcooks: Of course, the show fans the burning coals of Islamophobia supporting our imperial wars and Israel's relentless, continuing 62-year ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. To understand the longevity and virulence of this propaganda barrage, check out the documentary film, Reel Bad Arabs, that can be viewed (in low but watchable resolution) online.
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Sorry, I should have clarified that the parents live in Portland.
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Last February Gen Petraeus reported to Congress that we killed 709 Pakistani citizens with drone strikes in 2009, only 13 of whom were targeted combatants. They all had loved ones and tribal/community relationships, and this was reported in Pakistan's largest circulation newspaper. Some blowback somewhere was and remains inevitable.
The obvious way to prevent such attacks is to get our military terrorists out of other countries and stop killing their people. As MLK stated some half century ago, our country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.
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According to the online article below, several members of the Somali community have reported that the suspect's father informed federal authorities two years ago of his radical orientation and provided them with the suspect's passport to prevent him from leaving the country. This is reported by a member of the Pacific Green Party who was participating in a small demonstration at Pioneer Courthouse Square with the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition.
http://agonist.org/mmeo/20101127/the_portland_bomber
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In my view the highest function of political cartooning is to challenge popular stereotypes, not reinforce them as seen in cartoons that ridicule Arabs and Muslims. This is the most destructive form of racism in the world today without which we could not have attacked Iraq and caused the death of over a million citizens of a nation that did no harm to us, or allow our government to reflexively support Israel in its murder, land theft and oppression of Palestinians.
In contrast, I very much appreciate Mr. Oliphant's cartoon representing Israel as a headless, goose-stepping figure driving along a tiny figure of Gaza with a huge, shark-toothed Star of David. This was bold truth-telling in the spirit of Daumier.
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