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| Abbas says he hopes US waiting to judge PA gov't |
| 2007-03-01 |
| Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview that he hoped the United States would give more time before deciding whether to accept or reject the new coalition government he is forming with his rival Hamas. Abbas told the Egyptian pro-government Al Mussawar weekly magazine in its March 2 editions that Washington has reservations about the power-sharing Palestinian government but it is waiting to make a final judgment until after it is formed. "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had announced after the meeting in Jerusalem that they (the US) would wait for the new government to be formed first, and on what bases this government is being formed. Thus the US is awaiting judgment and not offering an absolute rejection," the magazine quoted Abbas as saying. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 as a rascism factoid, in Sharia anyone who says that Mohammud was black might well be executed: ------------ Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun, said, "Anyone who says that the Prophet was black SHOULD BE KILLED." (Muhammad Messenger of Allah (Ash-Shifa of Qadi 'Iyad), Qadi 'Iyad Musa al-Yahsubi, translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley [Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K. 1991; third reprint, paperback], p. 375; capital emphasis ours) from http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Index/B/blackskin.html |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-03-01 09:45 |
| #4 Racism, dear Bruce from MS? The Arabs consider themselves to be as white as they think Americans are, and there are Muslims of all three races and most nationalities. On the other hand, a significant percentage of Americans aren't white at all -- for that matter, you've no idea newc's race, or even if he's an American. Or, for another matter, what religion newc subscribes to. Dangerous assumptions, those; a significant percentage of Rantburgers are non-Americans living outside the US, and an intersecting and significant percentage of Rantburgers are not Christian. Some of us are actually Muslims opposed to terrorism in the name of their religion. Logically, newc has a pretty good chance of being a black Muslim from Kenya... in Kenya, who considers everyone north of the Sahara to be white, and who is tired of the Islamist idiots ruining his chances to get a visa to for post-doc studies at Harvard. Do please work on avoiding stupid assumptions the next time you post, my dear. It makes you appear rather less than clever to the discerning eye. Oh, and we'll work on the peace-loving thingy another time, when you indicate the capability to do more than cram a few slogans into a two-clause sentence. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-01 08:07 |
| #3 GOD already judged you HOW can the U.S. ever hope to win 'hearts and minds' of peace-loving Middle East, when our own citizenry suffer from this obvious racism? |
| Posted by: Bruce from MS 2007-03-01 07:32 |
| #2 Nobody's judging anyone. Do you meaningfully recognize the state of Israel or not? No process here, it's all in your hands. Simple, really. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-03-01 04:29 |
| #1 GOD already judged you. You suck. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-03-01 01:09 |