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Montreal Perspectives
By Jalaluddin S. Hussain
Azores Declaration - A slap on the UN face!
The Azores Declaration of the three leaders -
George Bush,
Anthony Blair and
Asnar - March 17, 2003, can be considered a feat
of "arrogance par
excellence". In his press conference Uncle Sam
came out in true colors and
implied that UN was irrelevant. His declaration
in other words declared:
"either you are with us or you all arel enemy of the
American
people".
Most probably days after New Trend readers read
this column, thousands and
thousands of the innocent Iraqi children, women
and old people will have been
killed, thanks to "precision" bombs and missiles!
Is there someone out there
to stop Uncle Same and Uncle (Union) Jack from
unnecessary death and
destruction. Shameless are also those heads of
Muslim countries like
Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar who have
made the aggression of
Iraq,
at the hands of USA/UK governments possible!
The mother of all demonstrations: 200,000 people
and counting!
On March 16, this writer also participated in the
well-organized and mammoth
demonstration , which started from the corner of
Guy Street and Rene Levesque
on the West side of downtown Montreal to St.
Denis and Rene Levesque on the
East side. This sea of demonstrators according to
a modest estimate of police
authorities was not less than 200,000! The
Montreal downtown area has never
witnessed such a huge but orderly demonstrate in
decades. The repeated chant
of the demonstrators , which comprised of young
and old alike, was : "No war
in Iraq" "Give peace a chance".
MONTREAL: CITY OF ACTIVISTS
Montreal is becoming a city of activists and
organized demonstrations. Since
the last more than six months, inspite of the
cold and bitter weather, record
number of people have come out on the streets and
expressed their extreme
anger against the high-handed policies of the
United States of America - the
sole super-power of the world. On March 15, 2003
there were in fact two
demonstrations - the first one mentioned above
and the other one was on the
7th International Day against police brutality,
which originated from the
McKenzie King Park in the Cote Des Neiges area,
in downtown Montreal This
latter demonstration was organized by the
Indigenous Solidarity Movement
(ISM), Coalition opposed to police brutality and
Quebec public Interest
Research Group.
Dick Cheney mischief: "No Muslims= No Terrorists"
A few weeks ago, Dick Cheney, Vice President of
the United States of
America, spoke at a conference, during which
flagrantly anti-Muslim
propaganda was being sold. For example, stickers
were distributed with the
message "No Muslims = No Terrorists" Again, the
word Islam in the sticker,
had a symbol of swastika instead of "s". It may
be mentioned that McGill
campus has also its share of paranoid actions,
bordering on racism and
hatred, as a consequence of
11 September WTC
tragedy. For example, as a
direct consequence of a prevalent anti-Muslim
hatred, a hijab-wearing
obstetrician gynecologist resident was attacked
by a male and a Muslim
student’s car was spray-painted: "Arab, go home"
Again, during the Fall
semester, the McGill Daily, an otherwise
respected student newspaper,
published an offensive article establishing a
link between McGill Muslim
Students’ Axssociation and Al-Qaeda.
Screening of "Muhammad: legacy of a Prophet"
In order to sensitize the McGill community to
Islam a famous PBS documentry
entitled: Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet was
sreened. Operating out of a
secular framework the film screening was intended
to promote tolerance of the
religious convictions held by a significant
proportion ( 1.2 billion) of
world’s population who find themselves target of
heightened racial profiling.
By presenting Islam in a contemporary and
historical context, the intention
of this screening was to make a modest attempt to
reverse the spread of
Islamophobia, fueled largely by ignorance. This
screening event at the
McGill campus was endorsed by: McGill Chaplaincy
Service, QPIRG-McGill,
McGill Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement,
McGill Students Association,
First People’s House, Social Awareness Club and
McGill Arab Student s
Association. Inspite of the inclement weather on
that day more than 50
students showed up to watch the documentary
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