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Re: [mukto-mona] Fw: 1,000 join Muslim 'ring of peace' outside Oslo synagogue



A Muslim 'ring of peace' in Oslo is worth nothing. They need to move their peace ring to places like Pakistan, where it might matter.
 
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On Saturday, February 21, 2015 8:18 PM, "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

 
1,000 join Muslim 'ring of peace' outside Oslo synagogue
More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" around the Norwegian capital's synagogue, an initiative taken by young Muslims in Norway after a series of attacks against Jews in Europe, in Oslo, Saturday, Feb. 21 2015. Norway's Chief Rabbi Michael Melchior sang the traditional Jewish end of Shabaat song outside the Oslo synagogue before a large crowd holding hands.  (AP Photo / Hakon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix) NORWAY OUT
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" Saturday outside Oslo's main synagogue at the initiative of a group of young Muslims.
The event in the Norwegian capital follows a series of attacks against Jews in Europe, including the terror attacks in Paris in January and in neighboring Denmark last week.
One of the eight independent organizers of Saturday's event in Oslo, Hajrah Arshad said the gathering shows "that Islam is about love and unity."
"We want to demonstrate that Jews and Muslims do not hate each other," co-organizer Zeeshan Abdullah told the crowd, standing in a half-circle before the white synagogue. "We do not want individuals to define what Islam is for the rest of us."
"There are many more peace-mongers than warmongers," he added.
Norway's Chief Rabbi Michael Melchior sang the traditional Jewish end of Sabbath song outside the synagogue before the large crowd holding hands.
Co-organizer Hassan Raja said it was the first time he heard the song.
Ervin Kohn, head of Oslo's Jewish community, called the gathering in sub-zero temperatures "unique."
Several European countries have seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents recently, starting when the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza intensified last year.
In Paris, three Muslim gunmen killed 17 people at a kosher grocery, the offices of weekly Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere in early January. Last week a single assailant in Copenhagen killed a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue and a Danish filmmaker attending a free speech event.
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  • Limner 52 minutes ago
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    What a courageous thing to co. Change often comes about through educated young people. It's a start. May it catch fire and spread around the world.
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  • William 20 minutes ago
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    Alhamdulillah! Jazak'Allah khair to those brave Muslims who took part in this symbolic gesture of peace, religious tolerance, brotherhood and the true teachings of Islam.

    Muslim imams and clerics have been speaking out in opposition to the radical element which is a tiny minority of the nearly 2 billion Muslims throughout the world since the radicalization began in the late 1950s. Unfortunately, such has not been well covered by the various western media outlets who have always opted for the more sensational stories that lead to higer advertizing revenue.

    Finally, some of these same outlets are now reporting and showing the actions that best represent the true teachings of Islam and those to which the vast majority of Muslims world wide adhere to.

    For those who still call out for more, or who say this is merely a publicity stunt, please, tell us what peaceful actions in support of religious tolerance, peace and brotherhood your own faith has publicly undertaken on a regular basis so that it, too, was not merely a publicity stunt or should we also be asking you and your like minded fellows to "do more"?

    When ever and where ever good and brave men and women stand together for the welfare and well being of all others, let us not only applaud their efforts but let us also stand with them in solidarity.

    Hands reaching out to hold other human hands, regardless of religion, race, gender or nationality are hands of peace. One can not hold a gun in their hand while also holding another's hand at the same time.
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  • DL 24 minutes ago
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    For all of you who think this event is an isolated one (and that, as Notwot wrote below, "damage control"), you need to go way, way, WAY beyond Yahoo.

    Yes, from the Muslim in Paris who saved six by leading them into the grocery's freezer, to the many Muslim clergy who are speaking out against ISIS and terrorist-like activity, there are many Muslims who are, indeed, speaking up and speaking out.

    In fact, when ISIS beheaded its first victim, more than a million Muslim youths tweeted something like "not in my name."

    Check out sources like the Christian Science Monitor, BBC, Pacifica radio, NYT, etc. There are also many in the government speaking out against Islamic terrorism. (Note: that distinction.)
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  • William 22 minutes ago
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    If this is in fact a sincere Muslim act of reconciliation and not just a ploy to keep from being sent back to the Middle East or a way to protect their own safety . . . . Either way, it takes a lot of courage to stand up and just say no to more violence. Salute. I hope it starts a wave of reformation around the world that never ends. I can't feel trust for the Muslim, but I do feel compassion for how they have been so heinously misled and betrayed by Islam. I pray that God will open their eye of understanding and free them all from the prison of Islam.
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  • Mike 3 minutes ago
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    Classic Islamic cycle pull.
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  • Eggman 2 minutes ago
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    God Is God no matter what you call him. Bravo to these Danish muslims for standing up to violence in the name of God.
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  • stephen 22 minutes ago
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    It's always the horrific act that society remembers. History will always account the damaging. Humans will always reach for equality
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  • RobertO 1 hour ago
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    Awesome....amazing...wonderful!!! I cannot believe that people are critical and who say that the attacks against people in Denmark and France, and elsewhere, were NOT motivated by anti-semitism or are otherwise critical of this amazing gesture of humanity....or that some say it is NOT ENOUGH support!! This is a TREMENDOUS step in the RIGHT direction, for Muslims to stand up to the violence, the terror, the killing, the bloodshed, the lies, all being done in the name of their faith.

    The world needs peace, not domination by lunatics who kill, burn, slash, hack, pummel, beat, and shoot people to death. Standing up for what is RIGHT.
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  • ralph mini 1 hour ago
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    It has to be political and not about religion. Machiavelli said that sometimes politicians would use religion to control the people. Well it looks like the majority of people are good and they all want to live in peace and with freedom whoever is using religion to turn us on each other is sick in the head. Equality is here even if the extremists are fighting it... Equality is here for us all. All this talk about assimilating is just sick. Did the Italians assimilate over night? Did the Irish? Did the Chinese? Did the European immigrants assimilate to the native way of life? Get outta here , I'm more American than some of you white looking folks. My family served in the civil war, Korea, and Vietnam and I'm Muslim so what's up?
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  • Wenche,Wendy,Flo 1 hour ago
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    EMMMMMMM Oslo is not part of Denmark,havent been that since 1814,and after that we have been sweedish til 1905 wehen we got independance,ower royal Family might have English,danish and swedish blodline but they always considerd themself norwigan and are that so why does it start With Copenhagen,denmark?
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[mukto-mona] Pakistan terror wave sparks rare criticism of Saudi Arabia



 

Pakistan terror wave sparks rare criticism of Saudi Arabia

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By Issam Ahmed 18 hours ago
A policeman stands guard outside a government school in Peshawar after schools in the city reopened on January 12, 2015 following a Taliban attack
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Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed close relations, but Islamabad's new-found resolve for fighting the root causes of extremism has seen the Gulf state come in for rare criticism.
The two countries, both with majority Sunni Muslim populations, are bound together by shared Islamic religious ties, financial aid from oil-rich Saudi and Pakistani military assistance to the kingdom.
But a Taliban massacre at a school that killed more than 150 people in December, mostly children, has led the government to crack down on militants and talk of bringing religious seminaries under tighter control.
Now the country's media and even government ministers have begun to question whether support from Saudi Arabia for seminaries, known as madrassas, is fuelling violent extremism -- bringing tension to the relationship for the first time.
Last week the Saudi embassy issued a statement saying that all its donations to seminaries had government clearance, after a minister accused the Riyadh government of creating instability across the Muslim world.
The Pakistani foreign ministry responded by saying that funding by private individuals through "informal channels" would also be scrutinised closely to try to choke off funding for terror groups.
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A policeman stands guard outside a government school in Peshawar after schools in the city reopened  …
While the statement avoided mentioning Saudi Arabia specifically, it was widely interpreted as a rebuke.
Away from the seminaries, there has also been widespread criticism of the decision to allow Saudi royals to hunt the rare houbara bustard, prized in the Middle East for its supposed aphrodisiac properties, in the southern provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan.
Officials granted permission to hunt the bird, which is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's "red list" of threatened species, in defiance of a court order, prompting allegations that the government prized its lucrative ties to Riyadh over its own wildlife.
Badar Alam, editor of Herald magazine, a respected Pakistani current affairs monthly, said the recent wave of criticism was unprecedented.
"Saudi has vast commercial and economic interests in Pakistan. There are open questions being asked on this relationship," he said.
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Relatives of schoolchildren killed in a Taliban attack on the Army Public School weep as they protes …
"Before, nobody would ask any questions in any manner. Now even the Urdu press is asking questions."
- Terror funding -
Donors in Saudi Arabia have long been accused of quietly funding terror groups sympathetic to the kingdom's hardline version of Sunni Islam.
Leaked diplomatic cables by then-US secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009 said Saudi Arabian donors were "the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide".
The cable cited the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Pakistan's Sunni Muslim sectarian militants Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as examples of where funds were being channelled.
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A Saudi official (R) welcomes Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (L) upon his arrival in Riyadh t …
Linked to the funding is Saudi Arabia's long geostrategic struggle with Iran, the key Shiite Muslim power in the region.
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's current prime minister, enjoys particularly close ties with the Saudi royal family, which hosted him during his almost decade-long exile from Pakistan following his ouster by then military ruler Pevez Musharraf.
And last year the government said it had received a $1.5 billion "gift" from a friendly Muslim nation, widely thought by experts to be in fact a loan from Saudi Arabia.
But Najmuddin Sheikh, a former foreign secretary and ambassador, said the December attack on an army school in Peshawar, which left 153 people dead including 134 children, had opened the door for criticism.
"This has been triggered by Peshawar and a strong feeling that much of the terrorism that is here is being financed by outside countries," he said.
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"Countries like Kuwait, UAE and Qatar must also do much more at home to curtail this."
But, he added, any efforts to cut back on foreign funding for extremist seminaries must go hand in hand with similar efforts at home.
He said this would include the state dropping its links with proxy groups that have historically been used by the military establishment to further strategic goals in Afghanistan and Indian-administered Kashmir.
"Our fund collection within Pakistan remains unimpeded. If you want more from abroad you need to do more at home," he said.
A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed.
"We didn't need the Saudis to radicalise us, we have geared ourselves to that," he said.
And while the current mood may be critical of Riyadh, the official said in the long run the relationship was too important and too beneficial to jeopardise.
"There is no change in policy. Both the Sharif government and the military are very much on board with Saudis. Actual policy is not likely to change," he said.
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[mukto-mona] Fw: 1,000 join Muslim 'ring of peace' outside Oslo synagogue




 
1,000 join Muslim 'ring of peace' outside Oslo synagogue
More than 1,000 people formed a &quot;ring of peace&quot; around the Norwegian capital&#39;s synagogue, an initiative taken by young Muslims in Norway after a series of attacks against Jews in Europe, in Oslo, Saturday, Feb. 21 2015. Norway's Chief Rabbi Michael Melchior sang the traditional Jewish end of Shabaat song outside the Oslo synagogue before a large crowd holding hands.  (AP Photo / Hakon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix) NORWAY OUT
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 1,000 people formed a "ring of peace" Saturday outside Oslo's main synagogue at the initiative of a group of young Muslims.
The event in the Norwegian capital follows a series of attacks against Jews in Europe, including the terror attacks in Paris in January and in neighboring Denmark last week.
One of the eight independent organizers of Saturday's event in Oslo, Hajrah Arshad said the gathering shows "that Islam is about love and unity."
"We want to demonstrate that Jews and Muslims do not hate each other," co-organizer Zeeshan Abdullah told the crowd, standing in a half-circle before the white synagogue. "We do not want individuals to define what Islam is for the rest of us."
"There are many more peace-mongers than warmongers," he added.
Norway's Chief Rabbi Michael Melchior sang the traditional Jewish end of Sabbath song outside the synagogue before the large crowd holding hands.
Co-organizer Hassan Raja said it was the first time he heard the song.
Ervin Kohn, head of Oslo's Jewish community, called the gathering in sub-zero temperatures "unique."
Several European countries have seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents recently, starting when the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza intensified last year.
In Paris, three Muslim gunmen killed 17 people at a kosher grocery, the offices of weekly Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere in early January. Last week a single assailant in Copenhagen killed a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue and a Danish filmmaker attending a free speech event.
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  • Limner 52 minutes ago
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    What a courageous thing to co. Change often comes about through educated young people. It's a start. May it catch fire and spread around the world.
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  • William 20 minutes ago
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    Alhamdulillah! Jazak'Allah khair to those brave Muslims who took part in this symbolic gesture of peace, religious tolerance, brotherhood and the true teachings of Islam.

    Muslim imams and clerics have been speaking out in opposition to the radical element which is a tiny minority of the nearly 2 billion Muslims throughout the world since the radicalization began in the late 1950s. Unfortunately, such has not been well covered by the various western media outlets who have always opted for the more sensational stories that lead to higer advertizing revenue.

    Finally, some of these same outlets are now reporting and showing the actions that best represent the true teachings of Islam and those to which the vast majority of Muslims world wide adhere to.

    For those who still call out for more, or who say this is merely a publicity stunt, please, tell us what peaceful actions in support of religious tolerance, peace and brotherhood your own faith has publicly undertaken on a regular basis so that it, too, was not merely a publicity stunt or should we also be asking you and your like minded fellows to "do more"?

    When ever and where ever good and brave men and women stand together for the welfare and well being of all others, let us not only applaud their efforts but let us also stand with them in solidarity.

    Hands reaching out to hold other human hands, regardless of religion, race, gender or nationality are hands of peace. One can not hold a gun in their hand while also holding another's hand at the same time.
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  • DL 24 minutes ago
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    For all of you who think this event is an isolated one (and that, as Notwot wrote below, "damage control"), you need to go way, way, WAY beyond Yahoo.

    Yes, from the Muslim in Paris who saved six by leading them into the grocery's freezer, to the many Muslim clergy who are speaking out against ISIS and terrorist-like activity, there are many Muslims who are, indeed, speaking up and speaking out.

    In fact, when ISIS beheaded its first victim, more than a million Muslim youths tweeted something like "not in my name."

    Check out sources like the Christian Science Monitor, BBC, Pacifica radio, NYT, etc. There are also many in the government speaking out against Islamic terrorism. (Note: that distinction.)
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  • William 22 minutes ago
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    If this is in fact a sincere Muslim act of reconciliation and not just a ploy to keep from being sent back to the Middle East or a way to protect their own safety . . . . Either way, it takes a lot of courage to stand up and just say no to more violence. Salute. I hope it starts a wave of reformation around the world that never ends. I can't feel trust for the Muslim, but I do feel compassion for how they have been so heinously misled and betrayed by Islam. I pray that God will open their eye of understanding and free them all from the prison of Islam.
    More
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  • Mike 3 minutes ago
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    Classic Islamic cycle pull.
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  • Eggman 2 minutes ago
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    God Is God no matter what you call him. Bravo to these Danish muslims for standing up to violence in the name of God.
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    Reply
  • stephen 22 minutes ago
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    It's always the horrific act that society remembers. History will always account the damaging. Humans will always reach for equality
    More
    Reply
  • RobertO 1 hour ago
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    12
    Awesome....amazing...wonderful!!! I cannot believe that people are critical and who say that the attacks against people in Denmark and France, and elsewhere, were NOT motivated by anti-semitism or are otherwise critical of this amazing gesture of humanity....or that some say it is NOT ENOUGH support!! This is a TREMENDOUS step in the RIGHT direction, for Muslims to stand up to the violence, the terror, the killing, the bloodshed, the lies, all being done in the name of their faith.

    The world needs peace, not domination by lunatics who kill, burn, slash, hack, pummel, beat, and shoot people to death. Standing up for what is RIGHT.
    More
    Expand Replies (2) Reply
  • ralph mini 1 hour ago
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    It has to be political and not about religion. Machiavelli said that sometimes politicians would use religion to control the people. Well it looks like the majority of people are good and they all want to live in peace and with freedom whoever is using religion to turn us on each other is sick in the head. Equality is here even if the extremists are fighting it... Equality is here for us all. All this talk about assimilating is just sick. Did the Italians assimilate over night? Did the Irish? Did the Chinese? Did the European immigrants assimilate to the native way of life? Get outta here , I'm more American than some of you white looking folks. My family served in the civil war, Korea, and Vietnam and I'm Muslim so what's up?
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  • Wenche,Wendy,Flo 1 hour ago
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    EMMMMMMM Oslo is not part of Denmark,havent been that since 1814,and after that we have been sweedish til 1905 wehen we got independance,ower royal Family might have English,danish and swedish blodline but they always considerd themself norwigan and are that so why does it start With Copenhagen,denmark?
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Posted by: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>


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