Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"...a large majority of Israeli Jews, left and right, seeks to use physical barriers to keep Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza from entering Israel. This may solve some of the demographic problems, but it is liable to create new political ones."

"In line with the hypocrisy of ‘free’ speech, the recent banning of Islamic Political parties, books, Islamic charities, Islamic scarf, incarcerating Muslims without applying the due process of law, torture, summery execution and collective punishments are reminiscence of the Medieval Europe, where crusades and Inquisition and burning of witches were the order of the day. Not to mention the barbarism of the Fascists and Nazis era of the recent past. Whilst the West moves leaps and bounds in Technology and Science, it is taking steps of similar magnitude towards becoming more Medieval and Fascist."

"It is worth noting that Day of Judgment is a universal event that will happen on every planet in the universe. No amount of earthly wars, atomic bombs, or hits by comets, or asteroids, will ever bring about the Judgment Day."

"The sprit of American freedom, once echoed through the words of Patrick Henry, got buried under the boots of "National Security". Today, if anyone repeats Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death", chances are that it would yield "Death" in Texan prison and not "Liberty".

"No one knows as to how many guiltless lives vanish in a spur of moment at the hands of a few wicked n’ wild vested interests—composed of a cluster of illicit species—for the sake of a few elfin coins."

"Americans, more than half of whom are overweight, spend about $30 billion on their pets each year--while an estimated one billion people in the world suffer from hunger or chronic malnutrition, that is, one billion people go to bed, if they are fortunate enough to have one, hungry at night. For about $40 billion per year, developing countries could adequately feed the hungry and achieve and maintain universal access to basic education for all, basic health care for all, reproductive health care for all women, and safe water and sanitation for all."

"...the current wave of Islamic revivalism cannot properly be seen as a traditionalist desire to return to a "golden age", nor can it be seen as a "fundamentalist" rejection of modernity. What we are witnessing in today's Turkey is a religiously inspired nationalism which betrays simplistic notions of a homogeneous cultural and political reality."

"The crucial clause of the Third Geneva Convention that the US might have violated is Article 5: "Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protections of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal."

"As the educated and enlightened Muslims never bothered to take the leadership in the religion, the Mullahs faced no rival in challenging their interpretation, marinated with their own recipe and shaped Islam to fit their personal needs just as the Popes did in Christendom."

"It should be recalled that the war crime charges against Sharon were not dropped because of his innocence, but because he wasn’t resident in Belgium. At the very least, Rupert Murdoch, Sulzberger and Graham can be driven from the Belgian media markets."

"If the Arabs are strong, you can’t make peace with them. You have to defeat them. And if the Arabs are weak, there is no need to make peace with them. Why offer them anything?"

"...the UN prevented the Bosnian Muslims from defending themselves. When some Muslim countries (Islamic Iran, for instance) tried to help the Bosnians, the Americans intercepted the shipments. The Serbs were given a free hand to butcher Muslims in cold blood. In May 1993, during a visit to Washington DC, when British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind was asked why his government would not support the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnia, he replied: "Then we will lose control." Rifkind, himself Jewish, was in Washington to participate in the inauguration of a Holocaust Memorial Museum."

"Zionist colonialism inhabits the space between two extinct models -- those provided by South Africa and French practice in Algeria. It is not a blend of the two, but rather a distillation of the worst in each."

"The root cause of today’s frequent violence, frustrations and angriness among the people of Karachi is the lack of basic facilities in this mega city. The city is expanding without any planning and direction. Mismanagement, administrative injustices, shortage of water & electricity, pollution, open rubbish depositories and lack of public transport are the basic reasons which have changed the attitude of the Karachi residents. And these are the problems which have been cashed by the political gurus for their own vested interest."

"History repeats itself in the same manner when we have either not learned, or have learned the wrong lesson from the human or historical experience. The abused becomes abuser when the driving force behind getting justice is revenge, and when the victim of abuse does not see the very thick line between justice and revenge."

"...so maybe you don't like the idea of a woman allowing a man to be the head of the house and a woman obeying her husband. That's fine. I'm not writing this article to convert you to my lifestyle. You have a right to your beliefs. I respect you, but I believe differently. That's the point isn't it?"

"Iraq, eight months after the country’s liberation from Saddam Hussein, is starting to resemble Zimbabwe or Iran more than the liberal Utopia once promised by Bush and Blair."

"At the out-set, nothing came out of the magnificent yet fastidious podium of his contact with aficionados—with perceptible political heir, LK Advani atop—except the he [Vajpayee] ‘briefed his mates about his visit to Pakistan.’"

"...the "clash of civilizations" is a facile doctrine because it constructs the fault lines of the present global conflict on the basis of an outward expression of a much deeper and more fundamental entity: the belief system that gives rise to civilizations. By basing his thesis on a secondary entity – civilization – Huntington has failed to see anything deeper than a collection of cultural characteristics and phenomena or, in the words of Spengler, "the most external and artificial states" of a given people."

"The glorious armies of Islam may well once have approached the gates of Paris. Lately, they sort of vanished at the gates of Baghdad. And this is what is most absurd about our hypocritical civil rights discourse. Bush and his gang can afford to trample on civil and human rights while crying democracy -- they have the armies and the corporations and the corporate media to back it up. What do you have?"