Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"...it is clear that if the Road Map does fail and Sharon actually does implement unilateral steps, first of all any Israeli redeployment and removal of settlements should be viewed favorably. This would be a step in the right direction. If unilateralism does become the only game in town, then efforts should be made for a series of coordinated unilateral steps that would ease the tension and protect human lives on both sides."

"It is the intensity of national oppression and degradation to which the Arabs have been exposed in the last half century of "post-colonialism" that provides an explanation for their persistent, and increasingly humiliating, failures to achieve national emancipation and dignity."

"And, finally, the No. 10 reason, President George W. Bush should be fired is:

Every few months, he lets his dog Barney run the country!"

"What the arrogant President Bush did in the Jose Padilla case was to unlawfully seize the authority of the other two branches of the government: the Legislative and Judicial, unto himself. In effect, he became Padilla’s judge, jury and sheriff! Come to think of it, he unlawfully usurped Congress’s power “to declare war,” when he ordered the invasion of Iraq. The evidence shows that Bush is a serial offender of the U.S. Constitution."

"Pragmatically, Saddam was naïve vis-à-vis the episodes, palpably recited by the historians-which he blatantly discounted for raison d'être-best known to him. Not only that he neglected the jerks n' jolts-given to him by Bush Sr. he continued with his vanity n' egotism."

"A more pragmatic and balanced American administration would have to sit back and take a cold and calculated look at the real world and realize that an Islamic bloc with all its inconsistencies is a region of the world that cannot be colonized or patronized for ever."

"Western democracy has grown organically over the centuries, from the village community to the national parliament. To implant it by force in Iraqi society, which is based on the tribe and the extended family (khamulah) and on different concepts and traditions, is a hopeless pursuit."

"...Saddam Hussein was not a threat to the United States - he only aggravated Bush's father, the former president who admitted publicly that he "hates" the Iraqi leader and he refused to abide by the demands of the United Nations. But the United Nations was in the process of responding to Saddam Hussein. Bush couldn't do anything about that, but he could avenge his father's hate."

"Some people hate Saddam and his regime. Yet, they don’t like America. They don’t believe that the Americans are doing them any good in overstaying the collapse of the Baath regime and the capture of Saddam. Some of them would even be more willing to take arms against the coalition forces, now that they no longer fear to be identified as Saddam’s agents."

"...like Saddam, President Bush may ultimately find that his political fate depends on digging himself out of a hole of his own making. Most experts on counterinsurgency expect that the capture of Saddam will not end anti-U.S. attacks in Iraq."

"I sought a soul in the sea, and found a coral there; beneath the foam for me, an ocean was all laid bare."

- Rumi

"The world will stand trial with Saddam Hussein, but particularly the Muslim world, since it was on the watch of the secular Muslim governments that nationalists hijacked Islam and state sponsored clerics perverted Muslim thinking and attempted to turn our religion into a racist, and anti-woman religion of hate and oppression."

"The President’s cavalcade almost came to grief recently when sophisticated explosive devices blew gaping holes in the bridge the convoy was crossing on its way from Islamabad International Airport to the Army House, the explosion shattering windows in a wide area in the vicinity."

"If the greatest threat to constitutional freedoms weighs heaviest on the backs of the minority, then a prime candidate for this can easily be found in enemy combatants such as Jose Padilla."

"There is no need now for U.S. military presence whatsoever. There is no need for U.S. corporations in Iraq to rebuild the country. Let the Iraq's rebuild their own country. They built it in the first place without U.S. corporations in charge! If the Iraqis want to hire U.S. contractors, let the Iraqis make that decision!"

"Iraqis might have placed most of the blame for their suffering on Saddam and his Baathist thugs, but they ranked America second on their list of tormentors. With Saddam’s demise, America just moved into first place."

"...the contest is by no means over. The attacks on Dean will now sharpen. And they will come from two directions. Some of his Democratic opponents will charge that Dean is not to be trusted as the standard bearer of the party's core principles."

"Demonstrations that are rallied to resist the construction of the wall must include thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands persistently placing their bodies as a barrier in the path of this wall. To achieve these numbers, each Palestinian movement is responsible for organizing and mobilizing people as a way of demonstrating their active presence on the ground, rather than simply maintaining a popular base in society."

"The US urges the Palestinians to ditch their democratically elected leader to make matters easier for the US and the Israeli prime minister. The US expects the Palestinians, who are unable to move freely from one village to the next, to conduct fair and democratic elections. Yet the US fails to be moved to that subject in Iraq, where international and internal legitimacy is sorely lacking."

"After 9/11 hate mongers are reviving hate for Muslims and Islam. The lives and properties of Muslims in America and other western countries are under the microscope. Hate, discrimination, racism and violence against Muslims is on the rise. Hate mongers are not openly expressing their hate for Muslims in the media but they are now attacking Islam, the Qur'an and Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him). Since 9/11 most of the North American media, especially CNN, in the name of freedom of press, have presented one-sided biased and hateful propaganda against Muslims and Islam."