Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"In contrast to US claims that foreign attackers are usually behind the attacks on US forces, 70-80% of those captured are criminals freed by Saddam Hussain before his regime collapsed, they are paid US $ 150 to US $ 500."

"The Bush administration, which has already been rejected for another term in a recent CNN poll by the majority of Americans, is now desperate to present Afghanistan as a success story to its own people."

"Even if the occupied territories turn into a paradise on earth and the military government provides every male inhabitant with 70 virgins (as promised for the Islamic paradise), the Palestinians would still want an end to the occupation."

"Muslims themselves are being misrepresented, victimized and oppressed in many countries, more often than not by their own governments. Then why would so-called Muslim terrorists randomly kill more of their own community? Doesn't that render the very idea of "Muslim terrorist" an oxymoron?"

"It has come as a surprise, therefore, that 'Village Voice', a well-known and established progressive New York newspaper has seen fit to repeatedly publish articles fuelling both anti-Arab and anti-Islamic prejudice."

"The North American palace press is all too willing to parrot government propaganda, especially when it concerns Arabs."

"...it is not surprising that the Intifada has hardened people’s attitudes towards the peace process and the Authority."

"While terrorism grabs the headlines, recent events demand a closer look at the current political crisis surrounding reform, as difficulties in this arena suggest the worst may be yet to come."

"The fact is that without leaders willing to look at peacemaking as a strategic national interest rather than as a series of tactical maneuvers to avoid internal and external pressure, only “process” is possible, and sometimes not even that."

:: Islamic intellectual history as guidance for Islam in the 21st century ::

"Despite their relatively small populations these two states loom larger in presidential elections because the decision made by their voters will determine the direction of the entire contest."

"In due time the American people will come to understand the folly of such double standard, their complicity with their taxes and vetoes of Israel's flaunting of might upon millions of hapless civilians, their alienation from the rest of the world due to Israel's atrocities and the power of the elite Jewish lobby who've hijacked American values and civil liberties for the sake of Israel."

"If Israel is to continue narrowing the breathing room of the Palestinian Authority (half of the Palestinian people say they don't even feel the Authority's presence) then Israel will eventually achieve its goal of ridding itself of the Authority."

"What is happening in this country, post 9/11, is a very disturbing saga, tarnishing the image of this nation abroad."

"Sharon evidently thinks he can manipulate the Palestinians into a South Africa-type situation that enables Israel to survive as a Jewish state while no viable Palestinian state ever emerges."

"The American occupation of Iraq has developed into an outrageous catastrophe."

"Since the end of the 19th century, the controversy about whether Islam is adaptable with modernization or not, excited the minds of different thinkers and aroused varied feelings and passions."

:: The text of a talk given by Arab Media Watch director Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi during a debate at the Jewish Centre in Cambridge on November 2, 2003 ::

"International law and the historical precedent of many nations sanction the right of a people suffering from colonial oppression to take up arms in their freedom struggle. Why should it be different in the case of Palestinians?"

"Many citizens of the world see an America that was slow to enter World War II, slow to respond to the atrocities Hitler and his minions enacted upon the European Jews, and quick to profiteer from arms and equipment sales to the "allies" during the early stages of that war."