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Iranian student unions say Israel timed Gaza offensive to coincide with soccer games to divert attention
Dudy Cohen

A spokesperson for the association of Iranian student unions said on Tuesday that Israel is exploiting the World Cup soccer games in Germany to continue its aggression against the Palestinians.

"It is forbidden to allow Israel to continue its attacks in the occupied territory while exploiting for evil the World Cup games," said Mohsen Maksoudi.

On Monday, Hamas' representative in Tehran Abu Osaman Abdel Moaata met with extreme student unions which included the Student Union for Supporting Palestine, Student Foundation for the Destruction of Israel, Union of Students Seeking Justice, and the Front of Young World Islam.

According to the Mehr news agency, the Hamas official called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to halt Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip and said Corporal Gilad Shalit will never be released.

"The army's operation in Gaza endangers the life of your soldier because an artillery shell can hit and kill him," he said.

"Maybe now there is one mother who can't sleep, but in Palestine there are thousands of mothers in this situation," he said.

'Boycott Israeli products'

The official reiterated Hamas's demand that Israel release a thousand prisoners held in Israeli jails in return for Shalit's freedom.

"The Zionists are killing our people from the land, the sea, and the air, and they destroyed our infrastructure, our power stations and even hospitals with no consideration to international laws," he added.

Student representatives said members of their unions will not wait for Muslim countries to take action and are ready to travel to the territories to fight Israel.

"We will not wait for Muslim governments. We have no option but to say: we are ready to leave for the occupied territories and we ask

our leaders to help us do so, so we can fight the criminal Zionists. The fight against infidelity goes beyond geographical borders."

Maksoudi said Iranian students do not want the crisis over Iran's nuclear program to overshadow the Palestinian problem, and called on Iranian leaders to press western nations to include a promise to safeguard Palestinian rights.

He also called for imposing an economic boycott on Israel and to stop selling oil to countries that support Israel.

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 23:02 schreef Harry_Sack het volgende:
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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 23:02 schreef Harry_Sack het volgende:
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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 23:08 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Ween, kind, ween!

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By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 5, 2006

“Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It’s our duty to protect ourselves.” Thus spoke Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican’s supreme court, referring to Muslims. Explaining his apparent rejection of Jesus’ admonition to his followers to “turn the other cheek,” De Paolis noted that “The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century…and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights.”

De Paolis is hardly alone in his thinking; indeed, the Catholic Church is undergoing a dramatic shift from a decades-old policy to protect Catholics living under Muslim rule. The old methods of quiet diplomacy and muted appeasement have clearly failed. The estimated 40 million Christians in Dar al-Islam, notes the Barnabas Fund’s Patrick Sookhdeo, increasingly find themselves an embattled minority facing economic decline, dwindling rights, and physical jeopardy. Most of them, he goes on, are despised and distrusted second-class citizens, facing discrimination in education, jobs, and the courts.

These harsh circumstances are causing Christians to flee their ancestral lands for the West’s more hospitable environment. Consequently, Christian populations of the Muslim world are in a free-fall. Two small but evocative instances of this pattern: for the first time in nearly two millennia, Nazareth and Bethlehem no longer have Christian majorities.

This reality of oppression and decline stands in dramatic contrast to the surging Muslim minority of the West. Although numbering fewer than 20 million and made up mostly of immigrants and their offspring, it is an increasingly established and vocal minority, granted extensive rights and protections even as it wins new legal, cultural, and political prerogatives.

This widening disparity has caught the attention of the Roman Catholic Church, which for the first time is pointing to radical Islam, rather than the actions of Israel, as the central problem facing Christians living with Muslims.

Rumblings of this could be heard already in John Paul II’s time. For example, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican equivalent of foreign minister, noted in late 2003 that “There are too many majority Muslim countries where non-Muslims are second-class citizens.” Tauran pushed for reciprocity: “Just as Muslims can build their houses of prayer anywhere in the world, the faithful of other religions should be able to do so as well.”

Catholic demands for reciprocity have grown, especially since the accession of Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005, for whom Islam is a central concern. In February, the pope emphasized the need to respect “the convictions and religious practices of others so that, in a reciprocal manner, the exercise of freely-chosen religion is truly assured to all.” In May, he again stressed the need for reciprocity: Christians must love immigrants and Muslims must treat well the Christians among them.

Lower-ranking clerics, as usual, are more outspoken. “Islam’s radicalization is the principal cause of the Christian exodus,” asserts Monsignor Philippe Brizard, director general of Oeuvre d’Orient, a French organization focused on Middle Eastern Christians. Bishop Rino Fisichella, rector of the Lateran University in Rome, advises the Church to drop its “diplomatic silence” and instead “put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities.”

The Danish cartoons crisis offered a typical example of Catholic disillusionment. Church leaders initially criticized the publication of the Muhammad cartoons. But when Muslims responded by murdering Catholic priests in Turkey and Nigeria, not to speak of scores of Christians killed during five days of riots in Nigeria, the Church responded with warnings to Muslims. “If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us, ” said Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State. “We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts,” added Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, its foreign minister.

Obtaining the same rights for Christians in Islamdom that Muslims enjoy in Christendom has become the key to the Vatican’s diplomacy toward Muslims. This balanced, serious approach marks a profound improvement in understanding that could have implications well beyond the Church, given how many lay politicians heed its leadership in interfaith matters. Should Western states also promote the principle of reciprocity, the results should indeed be interesting.

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 23:15 schreef Autodidact het volgende:
In combinatie met alcohol wel ja.

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 23:18 schreef Harry_Sack het volgende:

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zonder ook wel hoor

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 23:18 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Dat kan, in het geval van deze wedstrijd kan ik daar dus niet over oordelen.

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 20:34 schreef zakjapannertje het volgende:
wat levenselixer voor Balkenende 3:

Het Zweedse paradijs bestaat niet

Europese sociaaldemocraten, Wouter Bos voorop, lopen weg met ’het Scandinavische model: fatsoenlijke uitkeringen, volop werkgelegenheid, prima kinderopvang en toch economische groei. Maar een paar dagen in het beloofde land zelf leveren een heel ander beeld op. ’Het Zweedse model is al dertig jaar op sterven na dood. Wij zouden van júllie moeten leren.’

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 07:30 schreef sigme het volgende:

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Goh. Wat deed jij daar?

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De arme Ryan blijft énorm voorspelbaar... (daar gaat weer een flesje port Lucida) _{en inderdaad minder slim dan ik hem inschatte Cool}

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 20:34 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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hoe voelt de billenkoek?

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Op donderdag 6 juli 2006 01:28 schreef Ryan3 het volgende:

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Paar weken geleden keek ik daar weer een keer, door een linkje op Fok!, daarna nog een keer nav wat harry aanhaalde mbt een bepaald forum en vervolgens dus gisternacht. Uit baldadigheid nav een discussie in FB. Maar opmerkelijk is dat citaat, toch?

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O, ja en hij volgt alles, de gup. Dit was zijn antwoord op mijn post gisternacht. .
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Jouw held?

Uiteraard reageert de gup morgen weer. .

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Op donderdag 6 juli 2006 05:48 schreef sigme het volgende:

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Jouw soort?

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MEMPHIS, July 4 — On Independence Day, Lady Liberty was born again.

As the congregation of the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church looked on and its pastor, Apostle Alton R. Williams, presided, a brown shroud much like a burqa was pulled away to reveal a giant statue of the Lady, but with the Ten Commandments under one arm and "Jehovah" inscribed on her crown.

And in place of a torch, she held aloft a large gold cross, as if to ward off the pawnshops, the car dealerships and the discount furniture outlets at the busy corner of Kirby Parkway and Winchester that is her home. A single tear graced her cheek.

It was not clear if she was crying because of her new home, her new identity as a symbol of religion or, as the pastor said, America's increasing godlessness. But although big cheers went up from the few hundred onlookers at the unveiling, and some people even wore foam Lady Liberty crowns bearing Christian slogans, she was not universally welcomed.

Most of the customers at the Dixie Queen food counter near the church viewed the statue as a cheap attention grab, said Guardia Nelson, 27, who works there.

"It's a big issue," Ms. Nelson said. "Liberty's supposed to have a fire, not a cross."

Elena Martinez, a loan officer visiting Memphis from Houston, said her family was speechless at the sight.

"The Statue of Liberty has a different meaning for the country," Ms. Martinez said. "It doesn't need to be used in a religious sense."

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Op woensdag 5 juli 2006 21:02 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia

Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, added news of Lay's death to his online biography shortly after news outlets began reporting it at around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT).

At 10:06 a.m., Wikipedia's entry for Lay said he died "of an apparent suicide."

At 10:08, it said he died at his Aspen, Colorado home "of an apparent [[heart attack] or suicide.]."

Within the same minute, it said the cause of death was "yet to be determined."

At 10:09 a.m., it said "no further details have been officially released" about the death.

Two minutes later, it said: "The guilt of ruining so many lives finally [sic] led him to his suicide."

At 10.12 a.m., this was replaced by: "According to Lay's pastor the cause was a 'massive coronary' heart attack."

By 10:39 a.m., Lay's entry said: "Speculation as to the cause of the heart attack lead many people to believe it was due to the amount of stress put on him by the Enron trial." This statement was later dropped.