Many expect injustice from an invading vengeful state that not only continued to occupy Palestine and parts of South Lebanon but also has been violating Lebanese sovereignty by air, sea and land. A state that has been waging a full-fledged war against defenseless population killing scores of civilian men, women and children.

Los Angeles, 7/30/06 - The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) today called the attack on an apartment building in Qana Lebanon, filled with civilians, a war crime. The building was being used by civilians as a shelter when Israeli jets bombed the site causing over 50 deaths, 37 of whom were children.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council commends the efforts of Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) for introducing House Resolution 450, which calls for an immediate ceasefire of violence in the Middle East. While there has been an abundance of legislation regarding the situation in this region, the Kucinich resolution calls for the "President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East". The resolution also commits the United State to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions and "urges these multi-party negotiations to begin as soon as possible".

by Paul Craig Roberts

Gentle reader, do you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.

Photos have emerged showing Israeli children writing messages on bombs. The imagery is very powerful.

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by Alexander *censormode*burn
21 July 2006
Original web page: www.doublestandards.org/*censormode*burn4.html

As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel�s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation.

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Tsunami shattered building in Banda Aceh

It is believed that the world discovered the spicy islands beginning from ACEH, pronounced as Acheh in the Acehnese language. It is said that ACEH is an acronym of their ethnic composition, i.e. Arab, Chinese, European and Hindi.

Muslim traders from Arabia and later from India established their trade route with Banda Aceh as their port of entry. With trade, came Islam into Indonesia and the province of Aceh became Aceh Dar-es-Salam (the gate to peace).

It is estimated that the area lost 30% to 40% of the pre-tsunami population of over 400,000. From the approximate twenty square kilometers, a third of Banda Aceh has been completely wiped off, while another third remains under water and mud. Yet, with hundreds of mosques, schools and markets, Banda Aceh DaresSalam continues to maintain its distinctly unique historical position in Indonesia.

The Indonesian independence movement is said to have originated from the fiercely independent minded Acehnese. Their unique character remains unchanged. After independence from the Dutch, the Acehnese preferred to remain autonomous and give away their due share to the rest of the Indonesia. In reciprocity, the newly emerged Government of Indonesia (Gen. Sukarno at the time) let Aceh establish Islamic law, as the law of the land.

By Mary Kaye Ritz
Advertiser Religion & Ethics Writer

Yesterday's Eid al-Adha festival at Manoa District Park, one of the Muslim community's most important days, hit a more somber note this year for Jamal Esuf. He is concerned about the devastation in his former village, Nintavur, in the Ampari district of Sri Lanka � struck by the deadly tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in South Asia.

They weren't praying just for the victims thousands of miles away. At Manoa Valley's mosque yesterday afternoon, Hawaii Muslims also prayed for five island families that have lost relatives in southern Asia's deadly seismic waves. Some of the families, all of whom attend the mosque, have lost as many as four family members in the disaster. "It's actually people we know who are directly affected," said Hakim Ouansafi, president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. "As Muslims, we have to do whatever we can."

By Will Hoover
Advertiser Staff Writer

As the rains fell quietly on the Manoa mosque, about 200 members of the Muslim Association of Hawai'i knelt in prayer yesterday afternoon as part of a special service for those who have died in the South and Southeast Asia tsunami catastrophe.