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Posted on 01/17/2003 7:42:26 AM PST by Destro
Converts to Christianity in Fear of Death from PA
Two brothers who converted from Islam to Christianity, former residents of the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, have found asylum from PA officials in Israel - but maybe not for long. WorldNetDaily.Com reports that one of the brothers, Nasser Salam, was an active member of Arafat's Fatah organization when he converted - leading to his imprisonment and torture, according to a French Christian group and the Religious Freedom Council. One of the brothers faces a death sentence, but somehow they escaped into Israel - which issued them 30-day permits.
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.) and the Religious Freedom Coalition are calling upon Israel to extend asylum, at least until arrangements for emigration to Europe or elsewhere can be made. Fatah has accused both brothers of being Israeli collaborators - a charge that often results in public lynching in the Palestinian Authority. Their sister may already have been murdered since they arrived in Israel, as she has not been heard from since their arrival.
Davis, a member of the House International Relations Committee and the Subcommittee on the Middle East, has formally asked the Israeli government, through Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon, to assist the Salames. WorldNetDaily.Com reports that just last summer, some 14 PA Arabs were lynched in the town of Tul Karem alone, all on charges of collaboration with Israel. Since the beginning of the Oslo War, over 60 such Arabs have been killed, and the PA has executed at least five others, for the same reason.
William Murray, chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition, said, "There is widespread knowledge of the persecution of Jews in Islamic areas of the world, but little attention is paid to the price that is paid by Muslims who convert to Christianity. That price is often death."
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Why Arafat?Joseph Farah
Please look at the photo accompanying this column.
Stare at it. View it carefully. Study the image.
This is the face of Yasser Arafat's terror. This is what it looks like. This is how he remains in power. This is why we continue to deal with this murdering fiend after more than 30 years.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
This one may be worth many more.
The story behind this photo is simple. It's not unique. The victim is called a "collaborator" by Arafat's "police force." He was one of Arafat's terrorists who was suspected of working with Israel in some way.
The important thing to understand about this photo is that this is how Arafat rules his own people – by sheer terror, by brute force, by barbaric tactics that would be unimaginable to most in the West.
Yet, we continue to deal with him. We continue to support him financially with U.S. taxpayer dollars. We continue to give him credence as an international peacemaker.
If you care to know more details, the victim was eviscerated after this picture was taken. I have photos of that, too. I will spare you the more gruesome images.
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Yeah.
That's what they kept telling us about Ho Chi Minh too.
Not sure it really matters to those who have been murdered and tortured.
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PLO: Protected Lethal Organization
Legacy of Red Terror Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization (Arabic for "Conquest"), the dominant arm of the PLO, was formed in 1956 under the sponsorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Soviet puppet dictator in Egypt. Officially, the PLO and its military arm, the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), were formed at the Arab-Cairo Summit in 1964. The Soviets paid no serious attention to the PLO until after the humiliating defeat of its Arab client states by Israel in the 1967 war. Soon thereafter, the PLO began sending hundreds of recruits to terrorist training camps in the Soviet Union — in Moscow, Tashkent, Batum, Odessa, Baku, Simferopol — as well as East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Cuba. Arafat’s Fatah/PLO thugs, in turn, have trained and aided Communist insurgents such as the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the FMLN in El Salvador, the ANC in South Africa, Khomeini’s revolutionaries in Iran, and Idi Amin’s butchers in Uganda. In 1974, the Soviet Union invited Arafat to open a PLO office in Moscow. He responded with alacrity. Arafat quickly became so dependent on the Soviets, East Germans, Romanians, Bulgarians, and Albanians that he rarely made any serious move without first getting counsel from his Communist superiors. For years, his chief contact in the Soviet Union was Vladimir Buljakov, head of the Soviet Foreign Ministry’s Middle East Department. It is also no secret that during the PLO’s Lebanon sojourn Arafat met regularly, sometimes daily, with Soviet Ambassador Alexander Soldatov, a high-level KGB agent who had been expelled from Britain for espionage. General Ion Pacepa revealed after his defection to the West that Arafat had intimate ties to the Romanian DIE. In fact, in his 1987 book Red Horizons, Pacepa explained that Arafat’s best friend and head of PLO intelligence, Hani Hassan, was actually a DIE agent and that the PLO’s Beirut telephone monitoring center (built by the KGB) was wired directly to the Soviet Embassy. Gen. Pacepa’s memoir also revealed other unsavory aspects of the PLO leader’s character. He wrote that his own dossier on Arafat provided "an incredible account of fanaticism … of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teenager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading that report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever [I] had just shaken his hand." Pacepa also recalled the strategic advice that Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania’s Communist dictator, gave Arafat during the PLO leader’s visit to Bucharest in 1978: "In the shadow of your government-in-exile, you can keep as many operational groups as you want, as long as they are not publicly connected with your name. They could mount endless operations all around the world, while your name and your ‘government’ would remain pristine and unspoiled, ready for negotiations and further recognition." In 1979, Arafat led a PLO delegation to Moscow for a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Boris Ponomarev, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The minutes of that PLO meeting with these top officials of the world Communist Conspiracy are very enlightening, showing how the Soviets attached great importance to the PLO for Middle East strategy, and how the PLO depended on the Soviet Union. In a 1980 speech in Beirut, Abu Iyad, Arafat’s deputy, declared: "We, the members of the Communist Party and of the National Movement, are fighting together in the same foxhole...." In a 1982 speech to a Soviet delegation visiting Beirut, Arafat himself stated: "We look to you, comrade, the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and the socialist bloc, full of hope, as friend to friend … in considering the question of liberation and progress in the world." Arafat’s PLO played a very crucial role for the Soviet Union in toppling the pro-American Shah of Iran and installing the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary regime in his place. The PLO and Tehran have been tightly connected ever since, in spite of occasional appearances to the contrary. Backed by the PLO and the Soviets, Khomeini launched a whole new global wave of Marxist-Leninist revolution disguised as Islamic fundamentalism. And, for more than 20 years, Tehran has been destabilizing the Middle East. It is now pursuing a joint strategy with Russia to gain a stranglehold on the Mideast oil sources upon which the U.S. and Europe are so dependent. Revolutionary Iran and the PLO were so slavishly pro-Soviet that they cheered the Soviet invasion of Islamic Afghanistan! PLO spokesman Yassir Abd Rabhi declared, "The Russian involvement in Afghanistan is an important asset to all revolutionary forces which oppose the expansion of the American presence in the Middle East." PLO leader Bassam Abu Sherif said, "The Russians have helped progressive forces in Afghanistan to foil efforts by pro-U.S. elements to take control of the nation’s institutions." At the same time that Arafat’s PLO was helping Ayatollah Khomeini’s Soviet-backed revolution in Iran and cheering the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it was also assisting the Soviet-backed terror regime in Syria in the destruction and occupation of Lebanon. During that awful, murderous epoch, Arafat received many arms shipments similar to the cache discovered aboard the Karine A. When the Israeli forces captured the PLO Lebanese strongholds in 1982, they were astounded to discover that the PLO armaments vastly exceeded their intelligence estimates. When the Israelis transported this enormous cache to their homeland, they found it filled 4,300 trucks. The materiel included 5,630 tons of ammunition; 1,320 armored vehicles, including Soviet T-34, T-55, and T-62 tanks; 1,352 anti-tank weapons; 82 artillery pieces; 215 mortars; 62 Katyusha rocket launchers; 196 anti-aircraft guns; and 33,303 small arms. These arms had been supplied by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries, Red China, North Korea, and Vietnam. The Arafat apologists insist that that was the old Yasser, before he converted to a peacemaker and signed the Oslo Declaration of Principles and the Cairo Agreement between Israel and the PLO. These defenders point to the PLO arrests of, and running gun battles with, Hamas and Hezbollah radicals as proof of his peacemaker bona fides. But this has proven to be as phony as the very same deceptions used by Communists like Nasser in Egypt, Sukarno in Indonesia, Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia, Romulo Betancourt in Venezuela, and dozens of other Reds who at various times found it expedient to temporarily change their stripes. Most of Arafat’s "arrests" have been purely for show, much like scenes from Casablanca, in which the police inspector played by actor Claude Rains tells his men to "round up the usual suspects." Arafat and the PLO have continued to work closely with the most radical "islamic fundamentalists," as evidenced by their regular attendance at annual Iranian terrorist conferences. Take, for instance, the Tehran terror summit of April 2001. Officially entitled "The International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada," it featured delegates from 34 countries, including: Syrian vice president Muhammad Zahir Mosahareqa; Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, the head of the "reformist" faction in the Iranian parliament and a political ally of Iranian President Muhammad Khatami; Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah of the Lebanese Hezbollah; Khalid Mash’al of Hamas; and Ramadan Shalah of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. At that Tehran summit, notes Reuven Paz of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, "Palestinian participants included Palestinian Authority (PA) minister in charge of Jerusalem affairs Faisal Husseini and Palestinian National Council head Salim Za’noun (Abu Adib), one of the founding generation of Fatah and for many years the main link between Yasir Arafat and Islamic fundamentalist circles." The escalation of terrorist attacks on Israeli "soft targets," i.e., civilians, including children, in the past year can be laid at the door of Arafat. That is precisely what Israel’s Army Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz did last July, when he charged that the PA under Arafat’s rule is a "terrorist entity." Mofaz stated that 42 percent of Israelis killed over the past 10-month period were the victims of attacks carried out by the PA security apparatus or members of Arafat’s Fatah faction. "What can you call an authority which carried out about half of the attacks against us and is responsible for half of those civilians and soldiers killed?" he said in a radio interview. On January 17th, a Palestinian gunman killed six and wounded dozens more at a bat mitzvah — a Jewish girl’s coming of age celebration — in the town of Hadera. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group linked to Arafat’s Fatah, claimed credit for the attack. The following day Israeli tanks and troops rolled into the West Bank town of Ramallah, trapping Arafat in his PA headquarters. Israeli forces then occupied the West Bank city of Tulkarm, allegedly the launchpad for many recent terrorist attacks, and arrested many Hamas and Fatah members in house-to-house searches. Confined to his offices, Arafat remained defiant, proclaiming that "the Palestinian state will be established with al-Quds al-Sharif [East Jerusalem] as its capital" regardless of whether he is "martyred or alive." According to a Reuters dispatch of January 21st, Arafat told a group of supporters, "May God give me the honor of martyrdom in my steadfastness for Jerusalem." Arafat the Martyr? Arafat the Communist terrorist invoking God’s blessing on his murderous schemes? As always, he does not lack in the audacity department. In 1982, when the PLO was surrounded in Lebanon and facing capture and/or annihilation, President Ronald Reagan, following the advice of George Shultz, sent U.S. Marines to evacuate the terrorists. Arafat and 14,000 of his PLO cutthroats were given safe passage to Tunisia. 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CommiesOut would have vehemently disagreed with you.
As do I.
I am certain that if the skulls in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, Ukraine, Katyn forest, et al, could speak, they would disagree with you too.
Dude, its all technical jargon and the commies are all evil. If you wan't to use layman's classifications and call communisim a political system I will not debate the point.
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