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Support of West for Muslims and Arabs

CATALOGUES
Visit our extensive Catalogues below

Muslims Condemning Terrorism

Sheikh of Al Azhar and German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Muslim OUTREACH to the West

Cairo Mosque

Catalogues of Torture & Abuse

The most telling of atrocities

War crimes, Prisoner Abuse.
Includes Russian War Crimes.

Americans & Britons Against Torture

Americans & Britons Supporting Torture

Catalogues of

Hate Speech

Hate Crime

Discrimination

Racism against veiled women

Hate Speech Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs

Don't miss the introductory passages!

Hate Crimes Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs

e.g. The Sad Suffering of American-Muslim School Children

Discrimination Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs

Hate against Veiled Muslim Women

Palestinians And Israelis

More CATALOGUES

Catalogue of Muslim Wrongs

Non-Muslim Wrongs - Christians

Non-Muslim wrongs - Christians

Non-Muslim wrongs - Jews

Non-Muslim wrongs - Africa - Latin America

Non-Muslim wrongs - Asia

Special Free Speech analyses

Bigots: We�re in good company

Hate Speech versus offensive speech; versus criticism

The hypocritical qualifications of hate-mongers

Abusing media privileges: Dishonourable practice, or not?

Some Relevant HaSM articles

What the Tragedy of September 11, 2001 Taught Me (I)

...one of the most reliable ways to judge what any religion is truly like toward other human beings, is through its most difficult aspect, how it influences the way its followers treat those from other religions under diverse situations and circumstances.

Muslims Can't Understand the Hatred

A Jewish friend once told me that when someone who didn't know she was Jewish wondered why God brought the Jews the Holocaust, she didn't comment. "Where do you start when faced with such racist ignorance" she thought.

Men Too Should Wear Veils!
"Why don't men wear veils?" asks one western lady resentful of the veil Muslim women wear. In turn, I ask her, "Why don't Western men wear dresses, skirts, gowns or makeup?"

'King and Country', or the Promise of Paradise
...it seems like only yesterday Europe's growing pains cost the world hundreds of millions of human lives. Christians fought and killed fellow Christians, almost exterminated European Jews, and colonized or destroyed numerous hapless peoples and cultures around the world.

Quran Says Kill, Bible Says Love
It's remarkable how there are still those who, even as they quote the Bible's love, sow hate instead. It's remarkable but not surprising...

Facts That Haters Hate Hearing
...not once were the above facts brought to the public's attention, let alone emphasized. They're the kind of facts hate-mongers hate hearing.

Gloating Over Saddam's Fall...and America's Blunder
Those who prematurely celebrated the victory or predicted the demise of the United Nations had made fools of themselves, and America's nose was being repeatedly bloodied by the Iraqi resistance. Worse yet, the much touted "American values" had been dealt a fatal blow in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal

If The World Were All Christian
When the imbalance goes beyond being selective -- a taboo in itself -- and crosses into twisting positive facts to make them appear negative, it is disgracefully unacademic and discredits the writer.

Which Christianity Are We Talking About?
It was just as enlightening to learn of the writer's contention that his god is "the only true God", which implies that Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and others are all going to his god's hell.

America's Muslims Bear the Pain with Dignity
American Muslims guilty of nothing other than being Muslim, rather than attack anyone, have themselves been physically assaulted, mistreated, discriminated against, .. their mosques and businesses vandalized, their veiled women assaulted, spat on, insulted,..

Difficult Act to Balance: Racial Profiling
They chatted amongst themselves, left the counter unattended.., discussed their dinners in a manner suggesting deliberate intent to upset the passengers...

Justice, Not Land, Key To Prosperity
It's time such countries as Israel and Turkey, among others, learned that land is not the key to prosperity...The once mighty Soviet Union is a case in point. Immense land could not help it remain viable.

Israel Talks Peace But Wants Land
There never was a peace process to fail, there was, and there still is, a process to get the Palestinians to sign more of their land away. Even if a few years back one gave Israel the benefit of the doubt, now it's become undeniably obvious..

For a full list of HaSM articles click here

Some Relevant Links

ISLAMOPHOBIA: Anti Muslim Racism

'The Nation' - section on 'Islam and Muslims'

The Independent (UK)-Opinion

Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC)

The Guardian-Religion

BBC

New York Times-Middle East

Guardian-Middle East

The Washington Post

Los Angeles Times

IPS-Inter Press Service

The Christian Science monitor

Beliefnet

Media Monitors Network

Media Matters for America

Haaretz - Israel

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

Arab American Institute (AAI)

Islamica magazine

Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Pages

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)

Gush Shalom

Jewish Voice for Peace

Tikkun Magazine

Islam Online

The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)

Alternative media and sources of information and views

World socialist Web site

Antiwar.com

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

Christianity Today

ZMagazine

CounterPunch

Free Speech
An extensive section dealing with freedom of expression, the abuse of free speech, the double standards involved in applying it, and related issues.

The issue of the Danish cartoons and what it tells us about Europeans who support that kind of "free expression", the Dutch Quran film and its implications, and other similar incidents.

Love versus intolerance between Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims Humanist and Secular Muslims Responding to Hate against Muslims: Over 200 internal web pages of articles, resources, and insights Love Between Faiths Compared to the Intolerance of haters Two columns, one of instances of interfaith harmony, care, and cooperation, the second of bigots who sow divisiveness and discord to destroy that harmony (From the Love watch page, and the Hate in the Media page.)
Love Watch Cooperation, interfaith initiatives, and rapprochement between faiths. (( See Also Muslim Outreach Efforts )) ---------------------------------------------- Baghdad Jews dwindle to a fearful handful By Stephen Farrell International Herald Tribune June 1, 2008 "They are not interested in leaving. "...no one is affecting our day-to-day life.." The holdout's father says that he regrets leaving Iraq.. "Why did we have to leave?" he said, sighing. "In Iraq I was always with my friends. Everyone was very, very, very, very nice. I had Muslim friends for 50 to 60 years. They were friends, like family. I used to spend more time with Arabs than Jews." Full Story "love watch continued" Hijabs at a Harvard Gym By Ruth Marcus Washington Post March 26, 2008 It's reasonable to set aside a few off-peak hours at one of Harvard's many gyms. It's not offensive to have the call to prayer echoing across Harvard Yard, any more than it is to ring church bells or erect a giant menorah there. Full Story "love watch continued" Danes clash on web in Prophet row BBC February 15, 2008 Danish student Anders Boetter says he has decided to start a Facebook site called Sorry Muhammad to apologise to Muslims on behalf of ordinary Danes Full Story "love watch continued" Love Your Muslim as Yourself Christianity Today editorial March 16, 2007 We need to use Sunday school classes and sermons to communicate more about who Muslims really are and how we can love them as ourselves. Full Story "love watch continued" Danish chief rabbi slams cartoon publication 07/Feb/2006 European Jewish Press There is no such thing as total freedom. To insult the Moslems has nothing to do with freedom of the press. Full Story See also: Jewish dignitaries condemn Muhammad cartoon "love watch continued" Police chief's green ribbons for Muslims By Helen Carter, The Guardian There have been pink ribbons to raise money for breast cancer research, yellow ribbons for people who have been kidnapped and red ribbons for those suffering from HIV/Aids. Full Story "love watch continued" Palestinian Organs BBC The parents of a Palestinian boy killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank have donated his organs to Israelis in the hope of promoting peace. Full Story "love watch continued" Exhibition honors Muslims who saved Jews from Nazi persecution The Associated Press Tears welling in his eyes, an elderly Holocaust survivor on Thursday embraced the son of the Albanian man who saved him from the Nazi death camps Full Story "love watch continued" Speaking Up for Celil By Rex Murphy The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation May 22, 2008 It is simply not enough that China declare his guilt, place him in jail for life, deny him communication, and hide him away in the darkness of its prison system -- and that we should ignore it. Full Story "love watch continued" Mosques open to public By Ann Pepper, The Orange County Register On Sunday, five Orange County mosques will make a particular effort, called Open Mosque Day Full Story Click For More "Love Watch" stories (( See Also Muslim Outreach Efforts )) Visit our extensive catalogues on: European Muslims & Racism in Europe British Muslims Examples of British Intolerant Speech French Muslims Examples of French intolerant Speech German Muslims See Also "German Racism" Benelux, Scandinavian, Austrian, Swiss, and other European Muslims. Examples of Scandinavian intolerant Speech See also: "Polls on attitudes toward Muslims, & Official Reports on racism and discrimination in Europe." See also Muslims in Australia and New Zealand and "Australia's deep-rooted racism" Intolerant Speech by European, Australian, and other clergymen Hate speech on Prisoner abuse Palestinians and Israelis The media sources, books, organizations, governmental entities, United Nations bodies, and general web sites that cover in every possible detail both sides of the conflict are numerous enough. HaSM, therefore, focusses its Middle East coverage on commentary addressing philosophical ramifications of particularly poignant events and thresholds, rather than cataloguing events and news. Full Story Catalogues of Torture & Abuse A Catalogue Of war crimes and Prisoner Abuse and Russian War Crimes. The most telling of atrocities Americans and Britons Against Torture Americans and Britons Supporting Torture Catalogues of Hate Speech Hate Crime Racism and Discrimination Racism against veiled women Catalogue of Hate Speech Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs Don't miss the introductory passages! A Catalogue of Hate Crimes Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs e.g. The Sad Suffering of American-Muslim School Children A Catalogue of Discrimination Against Muslims, Arabs & Sikhs A catalogue of hate against Muslim women for wearing Veils Islamo-opportunists: A page addressing self-serving opportunist Muslims who will say anything to advance their own interests See also "Free Speech" dedicated page.				Intolerance Watch Hate-incitement - demonisation - denigration - intolerance - vilification - stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs Intolerance expressed in commentaries by writers, pundits, authors, columnists, etc. SEE ALSO Catalogues of : 1-Hate Crimes, 2-Racism and discrimination, and 3- Hate Speech, against Muslims and minorities who resemble them. See also "Free speech versus Hate speech" dedicated page. Some published responses to hate opinions in the western media Remember: Expressing intolerant views about a minority group is one of the early stages on the very same scale of which later stages include strife, instability and violence, and which culminates with mass murder or genocide at its far end. History offers ample examples, some quite recent. The following opinions, commentaries, articles, columns are included here based entirely on their content: the words, statements, conclusions in them. We neither make, nor are interested in making assumptions about the motivations of those commentaries or their creators. Our comments on those works are based solely and derived from the statements, attitudes, and words expressed in them, not what their motivations are. If we find intolerance expressed in them we adderess that, as for why that intolerance was expressed, that is not for us to say, guess, or assume. We are concerned with the subject material, and our arguments, refutations of the commentators, etc, are based solely on that, not on making any assumptions as to the motivations of the comentators. Note on the usage of the terms "intolerance" and �hate�, or any of the latter's derivatives (hateful, hate-mongering,etc,) as regards bashing a whole community: �hate� or "intolerance" is short hand for �the gratuitous vilification, denigration, demonization, degradation, or criminalization of Muslims, Jews, etc., in a generalised manner that stereotypes them by conveying the impression that it - the demonization based on wrongs of some - applies indiscriminately to the bulk of the members of the group, or to whole segments of it (shia, sunni, hasidic, orthodox, conservative, fundamentalist, reform, etc.) innocent and guilty alike, thus stigmatizing them collectively and eliciting in readers, viewers, listeners various possible negative feelings about them - anger, hate, revulsion, animosity, hostility - which may further result in potential negative actions toward them - willingness to discriminate against them, willingness to harm them, willingness to mistreat them, willingness to harass them, willingness to withhold help or aid from them if in an official position where such aid ought to be, or should be, or could be provided, and so on." See also: Analysis comparing "offensive" to "hate-inciting". And also on "objective criticism" compared to intolerant language, which are two totally separate categories. Canada is a great, pluralistic nation, and its wonderful people are the most accepting in the world of different others. Canada cannot go wrong by eliminating intolerance from commentaries made by mainstream commentators about minorities within it. That can only make it even greater and more wonderful, not to mention more civilized than nations that condone or are silent about intolerance, as, relatively speaking, Canada still is at this time. SEE: Identifying hate speech and haters. ************************ Examples of hateful and intolerant speech: ********************** "Intolerance watch" Denial is Sickening Michael Coren Toronto Sun December 15, 2007 ...only a coward or a liar would argue that there was not a profound and deeply worrying link between conservative Islam and myriad acts of terror, intolerance and hysterical anger Full Story. See H. M. Sabry Response in The Sun: Simplistic Generalizations And see HaSM's commments and Michael Coren lives in a bubble See also reply to editor's comment ********************** "Intolerance watch continued" Episode Missed Michael Coren Toronto Sun February 2nd, 2008 ...If young Hossain were unique it would be bad enough. He certainly isn't....read the death-threat e-mail received by me and every other journalist who criticizes Islamic fundamentalism,...ask the families of those legions of people murdered in the name of Islam. Full Story. And see HaSM's response See also response of HaSM to letters in "The Sun" and to the editor's comments on those letters. See also reply to editor's comment ********************** "Intolerance watch continued" The Future Belongs to Islam Mark Steyn Maclean's (Canada's only mainstream national magazine) October 20, 2006 HaSM:Read in this piece what belongs in white supremacist, anti-Semitic web sites, with premises equivalent to the infamous, hateful "Portocols of the Elders of Zion": "...The West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it. It's the end of the world as we've known it. Full Story ********************** "Intolerance watch continued" Human Rights Gone Awry Rex Murphy The National, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation January 3rd, 2008 HaSM: The following is what a well-meaning, if misguided, TV commentator thinks of the above magazine - Maclean's, and of the writer of the Muslim conspiracy: "...for what seems like a century Maclean�s was no more "offensive" ...than a down comforter on a cold day and if Mark Steyn's article offended them: so what? ...Maclean�s and its columnists - especially of late - are an ornament to Canada's civic space. Full Story. And read the analysis comparing "offensive" to "hate-inciting". And also on "objective criticism" compared to hate language, which are two totally separate categories. ********************** "Intolerance watch continued" 'Moderate Islam Is a Contradiction' INTERVIEW WITH GEERT WILDERS Der Spiegel March 31, 2008 Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam. ...that's why we have to push harder for a kind of Leitkultur, a guiding culture. Not a monoculture but a culture that draws on our Christian, Jewish, humanistic traditions and that poses a challenge to the Islamic problem. Full Story. And see Response through one of HaSM's articles Other HaSM rebuttals: See Violence and Hate Aren't A Monopoly See also If The World Were All Christian See also America's Muslims Bear their Pain with Dignity See also The Horrors the West Needs to Acknowledge See also What the Reports on European Racism Indicate See also European tolerance only a veneer See also Facts Haters Hate Hearing See also Only Haters Don't Gloss Over Differences See also Muslims Can't Understand the Hatred See also "Non-Muslims wrongs" Catalogue ********************** "Intolerance watch continued" A blatant example of incitement to violence and vigilantism. But not only calling for extrajudicial violence against the perpetrators, but against all Muslims - innocent and guilty alike. No comment on what it is says about the "civilized" writer! The Case for Mistrusting Muslims By Theodore Dalrymple July 8, 2007 Los Angeles Times ...Men and women in Muslim garb mingled in the crowd with perfect tranquillity, expecting neither violence nor even verbal reproach. Was this a sign of the admirable tolerance of British society, or of its bovine complacency born of an inability, or unwillingness, to make the effort to defend itself? Was it decency, cowardice or stupidity? Full Story ********************** "Intolerance watch continued" American Madrassas** By Hesham M.Sabry January 5th, 2005 Humanist and Secular Muslims For some time now, since 9/11, we have been reading or hearing of the "madrassas", the religious schools in some Muslim nations that purportedly teach young Muslims to hate the west, America in particular. Interestingly, in America, well beyond the audience that any school can reach, the media, which reach tens of millions of Americans of all ages, not only school children, are in some cases becoming increasingly the equivalent of those said hate-propagating madrassas. Full Story


Click here for brief topical descriptions of the different HaSM departments on the web site HaSM's principles regarding promoting hatred through this web site Some of HaSM's original articles Excerpts from a selection of articles from the dozens offered on this site addressing hate against Muslims and other minorities, as well as other racism-related issues
Other HaSM catalogues Brief descriptions, with photos, of topics of major web pages on this web site Muslims in Canada; Canadians in Afghanistan etc. An Honour Roll and Tribute to Canadians who gave their lives helping others Various polls surveys and other resources regarding Muslims in the west and racism against Muslims in the west. Includes feature article: What the Official Reports on European Racism Tell Us Love watch: Catalogue of various news, actions, or events, that promote or demonstrate tolerance, cooperation, getting along together and understanding between peoples and faiths. Catalogue of Muslims reaching out to the western communities they live in and the west in general. Catalogue of Muslims condemning violence and terrorism Christians in Muslim lands/Wrongs against Christians in Muslim lands A catalogue of Egyptian Christians "Copts". The West Opposing torture of Prisoners of war Westerners supporting torture and abuse of Prisoners of war Catalogue of Prisoners of war abuse and torture Muslims in Australia Racism against Aborigines and others in Australia Muslims in Britain/racism in Britain Muslims in France/racism in France Muslims in Europe/racism in Europe Muslims in Germany Racism in Germany A catalogue of Hate Expression against Muslims in the west Hate Watch: Detailed listings of Islamophobia and Hate expression against Muslims in the west A brief catalogue of hate crimes against Muslims in the west A brief catalogue of racism and discrimination against Muslims in the west A Catalogue of discrimination against women who wear a head scarf A catalogue of significant affairs that concern Muslim and non-Muslim women An Honour Roll of Women who strived to make a difference in the world, mostly selflessly. A tribute to victims of The Holocaust The Israeli-Palestinian Problem: general items Tribute to Israeli and western groups working for justice in the Middle East conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Multiple Catalogues of wrongs and violence committed by non-Muslims (do not include bombings by western governments, war-induced casualties, air raids or targeted killings that result in the death of innocent people, etc.. That is, do not include incidents of the armed conflict between west/Israel and extremists). A Catalogue of Muslim wrongs (does not include terrorism, war-induced violence, or occupation-induced violence, etc.,that is, does not include incidents of armed conflict between west/Israel and extremists) Notice:HaSM does not necessarily agree or disagree with the views expressed in entries provided in any of its catalogues or on its web site, but it does ask readers to alert it to any items that express unqualified hatred so they could be removed, (except where they are purposely included in 'hate catalogues' meant to expose hatred). Thank you.
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