Re: Requesting support for acommunity-wide open le

afdhere

we are sick and tired of you repeatdly accusing us activists of having 
double standards!!! quite simply, you don't know what you are talking 
about! what makes you think that those of us who stand up for 
palestinian rights don't also do activism around kashmir or any other 
other situation? and what makes you think that those of us that stand 
up for palestinian rights don't oppose Muslim injustices? at least in this 
country, if you visited many of the Muslim embassies, you will get very 
interesting reports about how much they like certain progressive 
Muslim activists because we constantly speak out against their 
governments' excesses. how old were you when saddam gassed the 
kurds in halabja? do you know how many Muslims opposed that and 
protested against it at the time? or the lack of democracy and 
freedoms in Muslim countries? or the cases of so-called shariah in 
places like nigeria??? maybe you should get off your high horse and 
do some work on the issues you feel strongly about rather than 
accusing those that are trying to "stand out for justice" as being 
hypocrites. you are sick and tired??? well, many of us are sick and 
tired of your accusations and zionist apologia! at least those Muslims 
who don't speak out the oppression perpetrated by other Muslims don't 
make as vigorous defences of them and lie for them as you do for the 
zionists.

na'eem

On 26 Jan 2004 at 19:11, Afdhere Jama wrote:

> 
> salam, aisha,
> take the kurds, for example. they have lost hundreds of thousands of
> people in just iraq alone. yes, mothers, infants, yes... even gassed
> to death. no one is denying the palestinians have suffered greatly, it
> is just that there are many others... who suffered and continue to
> suffer. and when nobody talks about them, and people just concentrate
> on palestinians, there is something up. i'm sick and tired of how the
> muslims turn a blind eye to muslim oppression of muslims and others...
> just because it is done by muslims. we have muslims, for example, who
> go around crying about what others do to muslims. what about what
> muslims do to other muslims? apparently, one needs to clean other
> people's houses before they attempt to look at their mess. and i'm
> more sick and tired of people in the west in their cute safety nets...
> jumping up and down about oppression, with nothing but hate against
> others... in disguise for peace. and, no, sister aisha, palestinians
> have seen way more than their share of pain. they live in horrible
> conditions... forever facing a holocaust. unfortunately, these govts
> sanction and pay for lots of pain around the world. again, the kurds
> weren't oppressed by a madman in baghdad alone. afdhere
> 
> 
> 
> Afdhere Jama