Standing Together for One Another

American Jew Stands Up for Railroaded Muslim

Since the 9/11 Reichstag Fire and the anti-Muslim pograms it unleashed, Muslims around the world have been asking, "Where are the Jews? Those who have suffered understand sufferering, and thereby extend their hands--right?" The only answer, for the most part, has been a silence deader than Auschwitz at 3 a.m. in midwinter. From a Muslim perspective, it looks like the majority of American Jews have been extending their hands in only one direction: Upward in a Hitler salute to the Bush-NWO regime. Muslims believe that Jews have an influence over the US media that is wildly disproportionate with their 2% of the population--and there appears to be some truth to this belief, though just how wildly disproportionate that influence is remains open to dispute. So when the media won't report the real story of 9/11, many Muslims (and others) assume that this is the result of some kind of "Jewish conspiracy."

Every time an American Jew stands up to question 9/11 and defend its Muslim victims, this anti-Semitic paranoia diminishes. As more and more Jews speak out on 9/11 and the anti-Muslim pograms, it becomes more and more clear that Jews are not marching in lockstep behind the fascists. On the contrary, Jews are "like everybody else only more so." Jews, like all of us, are capable of great good and great evil. If the noble religion of Judaism has been hijacked by power-mongering nationalists, that certainly wouldn't be the first time that a great religion has been deformed by the ignorant. In the end, it may be brave American Jews like Gary Goodman, along with leaders like Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, and the hero and martyr Paul Wellstone, whose defense of the Constitution will undo the coup and force the NY Times and Washington Post to report the truth of 9/11.

Gary Goodman: You are a patriot and a hero. God bless you.

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From Gary Goodman:

I submitted info to a discussion on Free Republic about "Islamic terrorism" and why Imam Damra should be dumped into Lake Erie in cement shoes (idle chit-chat and jockeying for who can be most "tough")  because of Damra's support for terrorism  (ironic?)  including submitting part of my webpage www.Takeoverworld.info 
a.k.a. http://home.neo.rr.com/takeoverworld/ 
 
information about how the FBI was involved at every level of the bombing of the WTC in 1993
everything from the safe house rented by Mossad to the Ryder truck rental agency run by FBI to the Egyptian Colonel CIA asset hired by the FBI to proposition young guys in the mosque and hands-on plan the entire operation according to FBI instructions, creating the bomb -- which killed six, injured over 1000 -- detailed on www.takingaim.info and www.infowars.com and other locations.
When I checked back at Free Republic for responses --- though I used no profanity and no slander --- I was BANNED after one submission.  I'll bet everyone couldn't do that.

Saturday, December 17, 2005
to the attorney for Imam Fawaz Damra
contact  lccleveland@aol.com for more info
 
To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing a letter in support of Fawaz Damra.  As an American-born Jew, I feel especially responsible for the need to use my voice and my person and my liberty to extend a hand to those whose voice is stifled, and to oppose injustice at every opportunity. I fear that in today’s America this makes me not a patriot, not a hero, but a traitor, an enemy of the State. This is not the America I learned about in 2nd grade when I recited The Pledge of Allegiance, nor in high school civics classes.

I cannot say whether my deep sense of justice and mercy comes from being Jewish or from being American or from being Human or from being Me or just from Being a Creation of God, as are every one of us. I have no reservations that the case of Fawaz Damra revolves around matters of deep injustice.

Punishing a man – and his family – for technicalities, minor paperwork discrepancies, by applying major disruptions and injury, is an abomination to the ancient axiom that punishment should fit the crime. But everyone is aware of the "secret" that Damra’s real crime is not paperwork – that’s just the sting – the real crime is his harsh and angry statements, and his opposition to very unhappy and unjust political situations.  Statements he made over TEN YEARS AGO, and has since renounced many, many times.  Also, he is being punished for associating with persons who may have been sideways associated with other persons later deemed to be de facto criminal organizations. In reality, this was an ex post facto conviction, which is (or was) prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

This easily makes ALL of us potential criminals -- the things I might have said, the people I might have known, in 1995.

Damra is no risk to anyone. He is a man of conscience, and we have hugged in solidarity for the cause of justice and peace.

Punishing any person (on a technicality) for free speech is the horrendous nightmare of a totalitarian state. However, I think the authorities already know that Damra is no risk, and no criminal.  Rather, the War on Terror and the PATRIOT Act requires a few trophies and scapegoats to make it seem worthwhile, and to set an example.  The example is this: fear the government.  (In America, in principle, it is the People who are Sovereign and the government which is subservient, and the sovereignity of the People to seek and expand their Liberty is said to come directly from God.)

Damra is a religious man of God, who has made friends and alliances within BOTH the Christian and Jewish community in Cleveland. He should not be banished at all. At very least, if the grinding "wheels of justice" cannot be halted, then Damra should be allowed ample time to make appropriate arrangements.

The expected punishment for Damra is especially acute since deportation may put Damra’s physical existence at risk. It is not farfetched that Damra may be subject to severe punishment beyond his sentence, unending political harrassment, future arrest on "suspicion", even torture. This is an affront to everything America supposedly stands for … and that pains me. I’d really like to live in an America that stands for the principles she preaches.

Torture IS a very real risk. The Israeli government has long overtly advocated and justified both torture and assassination, anywhere it has reach.  (Technically, torture and summary execution is illegal in Israel.  Practically, the courts typically stretch the truth to find that whatever happened was not torture or that assassination was justified by security considerations -- even when it is Jews who are victimized by the State.)  Teenagers and young children are not off limits for killing. People with little or no connection to military resistance, but who are mere political and social activists (if they are effective) are often the very people targeted by the Zionist authorities and Secret Police for "special treatment". The very people who work unceasingly for equitable and just solutions, for understanding, for fair compromise, who are willing to Forget grievous past injury if it will lead to a permanent cessation to the conflict, these "moderates" are often the ones picked on the most. That seems to be specifically because they threaten an end to the business of conflict.

In Israel, the Haaretz newspaper can publish sarcastic and bitter rebukes about A Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem, using "Holocaust words", but in America such talk about Israel is nearly verboten.

My point is not to rebuke the State of Israel but to raise the alarm that reckless deportation is not only unjust and unfair, but also potentially very dangerous and inhumane.

I pray that Mr. Damra and his wife Nesreen and family are all treated well, and that the Court and Immigration officials exercise the American spirit and ethic to do the decent thing, and not just put a rubber stamp on the tyrannical schemes of others.

(If my own words and opinions seem distasteful or disrespectful, let me hasten to say that these words are mine and are motivated by love for America and love for justice, no disrespect intended, and should not in any way reflect on the kind heart of Imam Fawaz Damra.)


I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Gary Goodman


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MORE GOOD NEWS FROM OHIO ...

This story (Cincinnati--http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051223/NEWS01/512230402)

Friday, December 23, 2005

Faiths Gather in Prayer

By Eileen Kelley
Enquirer staff writer

Abdel Siyam of Clifton (back) greets Nasser Z. Sumra of Florence during a peace vigil at the Islamic Association of Cincinnati mosque in Clifton Heights. More than 300 people attended the service Thursday night, which included prayers and words of encouragement from people of many faiths in response to the bombings there Tuesday night.

CLIFTON HEIGHTS - They vowed to go about their daily lives and not let the bombs - detonated just 46 hours earlier - shatter their faith in God and their community.

Thursday evening, strangers of all ages and religions joined Muslims gathered at the Islamic Association of Cincinnati in a show of unity among people, regardless of their faith.

Just before the day's last call to prayer, 38 male Muslims entered the first floor of the Clifton mosque and prayed. Within 15 minutes after the prayers were said, an additional 300 men and women joined the Muslims in the mosque for an interfaith prayer vigil.

The turnout was well beyond what anyone expected - only 60 seats had been set aside.

"It is very heartwarming here, my brothers and sisters," Mohammad Shamma, chairman of the Islamic Association of Cincinnati, said near the start of the one-hour vigil, which included prayers and words of encouragement and support from Buddhists, Christians and Jews.

On Tuesday night, two pipe bombs left outside two doors to the mosque blew out windows and a door and knocked out heavy masonry within the foundation.

No one was injured and no arrests have been made, but the shock from the attack has been difficult to shake, many at the vigil said.

Just before Thursday's 7:30 p.m. prayers, Saleha Hansbhai, 24, of West Chester, stood outside a boarded-up door to the mosque and bowed her head.

She wanted to cry, she said.

"I've heard of this happening around the world and in other countries, and then it affected me. But now that it has happened here, now it is just so very close to home. ... I'm really taken aback by this. It's really very sad. I just keep thinking, who could have the heart to do this?"

The FBI is investigating the bombings as a possible hate crime or act of terrorism. Agents were guarded about the details of their investigation Thursday and would say only that the public and other law enforcement agencies are providing tips. Fragments from the two bombs have been analyzed, FBI agent Michael Brooks said.

The FBI on Thursday added $15,000 to the reward pool, bringing it up to $20,000; the Council on American-Islamic Relations put up the first $5,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the bombers.

The FBI has sent out a call to the Muslim community, asking them to be extra vigilant and to report anything suspicious. Reports also have been sent out nationwide.

"We cannot stop what we are doing," said Amtiaz Ahmad, who worships at the mosque. "One of the things that help you get past this is to continue to go about our daily lives."

Still, the bombings have sent shivers throughout the Muslim community, here and nationwide.

"Everyone around has noticed," said Inayat Malik, president of the Islamic Education Council. "And we are thankful to our creator that we are living in a city where hate doesn't get any refuge."

Jennifer Edwards contributed to this report. E-mail ekelley@enquirer.com 

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Senator Barbara Boxer Speaks Out for 9/11 Truth
http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2005/12/204489.shtml

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