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[Comment on>ARNAOUT SENTENCED TO ELEVEN YEARS in PRISON]
New Trend wrote:

There can be little doubt that these attacks on Muslim charities are meant to cripple Muslim efforts to help the needy. By CONTRAST, AMERICAN JEWS are funneling huge funds every year to the criminal state of Israel.

Yes! Very true, and not only money. As has been frequently reported, many American Jews go to "Israel" on their summer vacations and serve in the Zionist occupation army "for fun". A Jewish executive in one a big New York company did just that and it was widely reported in the press. Apparently pointing guns at Palestinian women and children gives such sick individuals some sort of pleasure.

Yet for actual involvement in a military occupation that even the US government does not officially accept, these people are held to be guilty of no crime whatsoever and are even showered with favourable publicity.

Wa-s-salam!

Eric Mueller
Texas
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WHY CORRUPTION IN PAKISTAN?
[Letter from London, England]

You have spoken about secularism. I want to ask about something more basic, that is simply honesty and decency (i.e. the opposite of corruption).

We often hear Pakistanis say that the West has the manners of islam but no God. We have God but no manners.

The question is, if people know their behaviour is wrong, why don't they change it themselves? Also if they admire the absence of corruption of the West, why don't they ape this aspect?

You said their are decent people like tabligh in pakistan. If they live amongst the people why doesn't their example change anything?

Salaam,

shoaib
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What Lessons Jewish Children are Taught
[From Edward Miller, California]

You might refer your readers to a book on texts used in the Hebrew schools in Israel.
The book:
THROUGH THE HEBREW LOOKING-GLASS
arab stereotypes in children's literature
by Fouzi El Asmar
published by Amana Books (Vermont) and Zed Books (London, UK)
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