Re: Requesting support for a community-wide open le

salaam charmi

> what i read in what br na'eem posted -- and i may have mis-read it
> because i don't feel all that well and was kind of scanning -- was
> that there were people who wanted the war on palestine to be removed
> from anti-war work.  i might have just misunderstood.

You understood correctly.

> but, in terms of why this situation appears to eclipse other
> situations in the minds of americans:  you always have to keep in mind
> that one of the reasons why what's happening to palestinians is so
> terribly intolerable to americans is that WE are the ones warring on
> them - our money, our weapons, even our citizens in many cases.

and again

Btw, I think one reason why so-called progressive Muslims don't get 
anywhere is because we want to keep debating everything. So now 
here's a call from a section of the anti-war movement in the US to 
include Palestine in its agenda. They want endorsements. I havent 
received a single organisational endorsement from this list (despite 
the fact that many people here are from North America (and anyway, 
they want endorsements from beyond as well)). Instead, it is so much 
much easier to get into a debate about 'Muslim terrorism'. Talking is 
so much nicer than doing anything, ne? (Oh btw, I don't believe that 
talking makes progressive Muslims; talking plus acting, yes.)

na'eem