Re: arabs raising money for bush

frawthydog <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:25:14 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.culture.religion.muslim.progressive
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Salaam,
 
Lets put this into context please...
 
1. these are RICH arabs/iranis...who obviously are more beholden to their pockets....as all greedy people are...so the question of them being arab or irani or pakistani is irrelevent...
 
2. THERE is an important point to be made about how these rich elites speak and try to speak for the rest of the US Muslim community (particularly among immigrant communities)...it is these same 'leaders' who urged muslims to vote for Bush...and while they blabbered away about how the Reps are better than the Dems for palestine (which btw is not true, its pretty much even), their real intent was to line their own pockets....and 3 years later it is thousands of working class muslims who have been locked up, beaten, killed, or deported...
 
the US muslim community needs to make serious assessments of how and why these people are 'leading,' 'representing,' and speaking for us...



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