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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• August 31, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Nearly 3,500
Palestinians have been killed in Syria since 2011. But because these
Palestinians were killed by Arabs, and not Israelis, this fact is
not news in the mainstream media or of interest to "human
rights" forums.
- How many
Western journalists have cared to inquire about the thirsty
Palestinians of Yarmouk refugee camp, in Syria? Does anyone know
that this camp has been without water supply for more than 720 days,
and without electricity for the past three years? In June 2002,
112,000 Palestinians lived in Yarmouk. By the end of 2014, the
population was down to less than 20,000.
- Nor is the
alarm bell struck concerning the more than 12,000 Palestinians
languishing in Syrian prisons, including 765 children and 543 women.
According to Palestinian sources, some 503 Palestinian prisoners
have died under torture in recent years, and some female prisoners
have been raped by interrogators and guards.
- When Western
journalists lavish time on Palestinians delayed at Israeli
checkpoints, and ignore bombs dropped by the Syrian military on
residential areas, one might start to wonder they are really about.
Part of Yarmouk refugee camp, near Damascus, after
being damaged by fighting. (Image source: RT video screenshot)
It seems as though the international community has forgotten that
Palestinians can be found far beyond the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
These "other" Palestinians live in Arab countries such as
Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and their many serious grievances are
evidently of no interest to the international community. It is only
Palestinians residing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that garner
international attention. Why? Because it is precisely these individuals
that the international community wield as a weapon against Israel.
by Mohshin Habib
• August 31, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Wahhabi
doctrines spread by Saudi-financed imams are redefining the way
Islam is practiced in Malaysia. Politicians are now competing with
each other to show off their Islamist credentials. These practices
are eroding the tolerance for which the country was previously
known.
- Young
Malaysians are being radicalized as a result of the Islamism and
anti-Semitism that their leaders espouse. According to Malaysian
police, there are at least 50,000 Islamic State sympathizers in the
country.
- Recently, an
influential opposition party introduced a bill that would implement
harsher hudud laws (brutal physical punishments for
transgressions like adultery and theft) in the state of Kelantan.
Mahathir Mohamad served as Prime Minister of Malaysia
from 1981 to 2003. In 2003, he remarked that Jews ruled the world, and in
2012, he claimed that he would be glad to be labelled as anti-Semitic.
Malaysia, a majority-Muslim country in Southeast Asia, is rapidly
turning to Islamic fundamentalism through the state's sharia-like legal
system and the country's growing number of Islamic militant sympathizers.
Malaysia's government is a federal parliamentary democracy under an
elected constitutional monarchy. The country of more than 30 million
people is made up of 13 states and three federal territories. It is a
multi-ethnic country: Malay Sunni Muslims make up 50.1% of the
population, Chinese people make up 23.6%, indigenous people 11.8% and
Indians 6.7 %. However, the Malaysian Constitution declares Islam alone
to be the official religion.
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