[Peace] Fwd: Rally for Rights!

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:34:30 -0800 (PST)
>From: Irfan Ahmad <irfanfromcimic at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Fwd: Rally for Rights!
>To: sgdavis at uiuc.edu, akagan at uiuc.edu
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>sara zainab bokhari <bokhari at students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:50:04 -0600 (CST)
>From: sara zainab bokhari
>To:
>Subject: Rally for Rights!
>
>*bismillah*
>AsSalaamAlaikum wal Ikram,
>
>
>Calling all people of conscience! Stand in solidarity against oppression!
>
>
>Wednesday, December 3 ---> Rally for Rights!! 7pm @ Foellinger
>
>
>background :: Daniel Pipes will be visiting campus on December 3 - he is
>an outspoken advocate of hateful messages against Muslims, Arabs, South
>Asians and all immigrants. As an ummah it is our duty to rise up against
>this intolerence and show the beauty of Islam to the world where others
>slander and tarnish it.
>
>It is time to take action!! Here is how you can help:
>
>1. Attend the Rally for Rights at 7pm in front of Foellinger on Wednesday
>December 3
>
>2. Write a lett! er to the DI (opinions at dailyillini.com) politely and
>firmly stating your opinion of pipes and his take on the Middle East
>conflict and Muslims, Arabs, South Asians and immigrants in the US.
>Please keep your letter under 200 words and send it in quickly!
>
>3. Read up about pipes so you are prepared to ask quality questions and
>stand up for truth at the rally. Here are a few articles to start from:
>
>http://www.informationtimes.com/newsviews/views01.html
>http://www.cair-net.org/misc/people/daniel_pipes.html
>http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/05/we_420_01.html
>http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16760
>
>and his own site:
>http://www.danielpipes.org
>
>Here are a few of the hateful comments pipes has made:
>
>"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive
>immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods
>and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All
>immigrants bring exotic customs and atti! tudes, but Muslim
>customs are more troublesome than most."
>
>"I worry very much from the Jewish point of view that the
>presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and
>enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers
>to American Jews."
>
>"Muslim visitors and immigrants must undergo additional background
>checks. Mosques require a scrutiny beyond that applied to
>churches, synagogues and temples. Muslim schools require
>increased oversight to ascertain what is being taught to
>children"
>
>4. Help with specifics of the rally! If you are able to help anytime
>between now and the rally please email bokhari at uiuc.edu with when you are
>available!
>
>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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