[Peace] Fwd: PBS showing Sept. 19 @9pm ET--a documentary on the recent violence in Gujarat, India

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Irfan Ahmad <irfansahmad at yahoo.com>
>Subject: PBS showing Sept. 19 @9pm ET--a documentary on the recent 
>violence in Gujarat, India
>To: akagan at uiuc.edu
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>Hi Al and Carol
>
>FYI and sharing with IMC and possible consideration for follow up 
>calls to insist on showing the carnage in Gujarat, India.
>
>Best,
>
>Irfan
>
>  CAIR wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:43:37 -0400
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>In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>
>AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEFS - 9/16/2002
>
>HEADLINES:
>
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>
>IMC-USA CONDEMNS MEDIA-INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN BY HINDU GROUPS TO BLOCK PBS
>DOCUMENTARY
>
>For Immediate Release:
>Contact Person: Dr. Shaik Ubaid (516) 567-0783
>
>PBS will be showing a documentary on the recent violence in Gujarat, India
>in which over 2000 Muslims were killed, 600 women were raped and burnt
>alive and over 150,000 Muslims displaced and now residing in refugee camps.
>This violence was perpetrated by the right wing Hindu ruling party in India
>that claims the subjugation of minorities as its ideology.
>
>The Hindu diaspora adhering to thi! s extremist ideology is very well
>organized in the United States. Recently they have launched a campaign of
>gigantic proportions to condemn and stop the showing of this PBS
>documentary "Soul of India" that exposes their involvement in the carnage.
>
>IMC-USA urges all Americans to rise up and defend the freedom of
>speech. We are urging our members and supporters to launch a counter
>campaign in support of freedom of speech. For the PBS Stations in your
>local area, visit:
>
>http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html
>
>For first hand information of the intimidation campaign by VHP-America
>please visit:
>http://www.vhp-america.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
>
>SEE ALSO:
>
>SOUL OF INDIA
>PBS Documentary
>Thurs., Sept. 19 at 9pm ET
>(Check the TV schedule for local listings.)
>
>The bloody conflict between Hindus and Muslims in northwestern India is at
>the forefront of a struggle for! India's identity, led by an increasingly
>powerful Hindu nationalist movement whose goal is to turn India into a
>Hindu nation. Over the last three months, at least 850 Muslims have been
>killed -- some estimates go as high as 2,000 -- in the Province of Gujarat,
>and more than 100,000 Muslims have fled to refugee camps.
>
>This outbreak of communal violence has a long history. The recent mob
>violence in Gujarat was kindled in late February, 2002, when a Muslim crowd
>in Godhra attacked a train carrying Hindu nationalists, killing 58 people.
>The victims of this attack were returning from a gathering in Ayodhya,
>where ten years earlier Hindu nationalists had torn down a centuries old
>Muslim temple.
>
>-----
>
>HOW SADDAM HAPPENED
>Christopher Dickey and Evan Thomas, Newsweek, 9/23/02
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/807688.asp
>
>Sept. 23 issue - The last time Donald Rumsfeld saw Saddam Hussein, he gave
>him a cordial handshake! . The date was almost 20 years ago, Dec. 20, 1983;
>an official Iraqi television crew recorded the historic moment.
>
>The once and future Defense secretary, at the time a private citizen, had
>been sent by President Ronald Reagan to Baghdad as a special envoy. Saddam
>Hussein, armed with a pistol on his hip, seemed "vigorous and confident,"
>according to a now declassified State Department cable obtained by
>NEWSWEEK. Rumsfeld "conveyed the President's greetings and expressed his
>pleasure at being in Baghdad," wrote the notetaker. Then the two men got
>down to business, talking about the need to improve relations between their
>two countries.
>
>Like most foreign-policy insiders, Rumsfeld was aware that Saddam was a
>murderous thug who supported terrorists and was trying to build a nuclear
>weapon. (The Israelis had already bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak.)
>But at the time, America's big worry was Iran, not IraqÖ
>
>On ! the-theory that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the Reaganites were
>seeking to support Iraq in a long and bloody war against Iran. The meeting
>between Rumsfeld and Saddam was consequential: for the next five years,
>until Iran finally capitulated, the United States backed Saddam's armies
>with military intelligence, economic aid and covert supplies of munitions...
>
>-----
>
>EYEWITNESS: SABRA AND SHATILA 20 YEARS ON
>Martin Asser, BBC News, 9/14/02
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2255902.stm
>
>There's another significant anniversary this week, but not one that's
>attracted the sort of attention the 11 September commemorations have.
>
>On 16 September 1982, under the watchful eye of their Israeli allies who
>had encircled the area, Lebanese Christian militiamen entered Beirut's
>Sabra and Shatila refugee camps bent on revenge for the assassination of
>their leader Bashir Gemayel.
>
>Refugee camps like Shatila sti! ll lack the most basic services
>
>There followed a three-day orgy of rape and slaughter that left hundreds,
>possibly thousands, of innocent civilians dead in what is considered the
>bloodiest single incident of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
>
>If Americans approached the 11 September anniversary with trepidation, many
>residents of Shatila camp, and its more run-down neighbour Sabra, have been
>dreading the milestone on Monday which marks two decades of pain and the
>futile search for justiceÖ
>
>But there will be no internationally-observed minute's silence for the
>innocent victims of Sabra and Shatila, or global news coverage about the
>survivors and their miserable existence at the scene of this evil crime.
>
>-----
>
>AN EVANGELICAL GROUP FAULTS U.S. TILT TOWARD ISRAEL
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