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PARVEZI SECT SHOULD BE ANSWERED as RUSHDIE WAS
I don't really agree with Shoaib, that you are
wasting your time in
answering the Pervaizis. Your writings against
the Pervaizis are very
important, if only to set the record straight.
His argument could
probably be applied to Salman Rushdie, as well:
How many Muslims turned
away from Islam as a result of Rushdie's
writings? Probably very few.
How many even read Rushdie (I hear that for all
the
zionist
fanfare, he's
really quite a mediocre writer). Yet it was
important to answer his abuse
against Muhammad Rasullallah (s.a.w.)--and to be
on record for speaking
the truth against their scurrilous and spurious
garbage. It is
particularly important not to be silent, if, as
you allege, there is a
zionist connection in the attacks on
hadith.
--Sis. Nadrat, Baltimore, Maryland
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WHY WAS
BUSH
AT AUSCHWITZ?
About your article on Bush and Auschwitz, Bush
was
just visiting his Grandpa's old stomping grounds.
Bush, throught his partnership in Brown Brothers
Harriman Bank owned Sileasian Consolidated Coal
and
Steel Works which was located next to the
Auschwitz
slave labor camp in Poland. Silesian actually
executed
arms contracts for the Nazis and used the slave
labor
provided by Auschwitz. It was Prescott Bush who
supervised the procurement and management of this
slave labor. See the attachment for the full
story.
Your sister in Islam
Um Esma, New Orleans, Louisiana
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[From a sister in Florida.]
Weekly Planet: Pseudo-journalist Steven Emerson
Drops Lawsuit After Judge
Says He Must Offer Some Proof
TAMPA, Fla., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The following
statement was issued today
by the
Weekly Planet,
the alternative newspaper
in Tampa:
Controversial "journalist" Steven Emerson has
abandoned his four-year-old
libel suit against the Tampa, Florida, Weekly
Planet and former editor John Sugg.
Emerson's retreat, filed in Hillsborough County
(Tampa) Circuit Court May
16, came as he faced increasing pressure from the
Planet and a circuit judge to
back up some of his more outlandish claims with
public evidence.
"Emerson never had a case," Planet publisher Ben
Eason said.
Sugg, now senior editor of the Planet's sister
paper in Atlanta, said: "You
have to wonder about a guy who pursues a lawsuit
for four years and when he
finally has to put up a little proof of his
charges -- he runs away. I would
wonder if that proof ever existed."
In his lawsuit, filed first in Washington, D.C.
and then in Tampa, Emerson
claimed Sugg defamed him in a 1998 Weekly Planet
column. Sugg quoted a U.S.
Justice Department spokesman who disputed
Emerson's testimony before Congress
that federal counter-terrorism officials once
told Emerson of an assassination
plot against him and suggested that he might be
eligible for a witness
protection program. Sugg also quoted two
Associated Press reporters who described
Emerson's apparent attempt to pass off his own
work as a secret FBI document.
Emerson's lawsuit seemed designed mainly to
intimidate the Planet and other
independent news outlets from honest reporting.
"Sugg's stories were accurate
when he labeled Emerson a pseudo-journalist,"
newspaper attorney David M.
Snyder said. "No self-respecting reporter would
try to deter another journalist
from reporting a story. They would publish their
own views and try to win in
the marketplace of ideas, not in court."
Emerson promotes himself as an investigative
journalist with special
knowledge of radical Islamic terrorists. His
critics say his work reads more like
propaganda, tilted toward the interests of
Israel's
right wing.
Emerson's lawyers maneuvered to prolong the case
even as they dodged the
newspaper's attempts to force Emerson to provide
evidence to back his claim.
Finally, in February, Florida Circuit Court Judge
James D. Arnold ordered Emerson
to comply with the newspaper's demands for more
information. Another hearing
was scheduled that could have forced Emerson to
divulge information about his
personal and professional life. The hearing also
could have resulted in
Emerson being declared a public figure, limiting
his ability to use libel suits to
intimidate reporters in other cities as well. On
the eve of the hearing,
Emerson voluntarily withdrew the suit. Snyder
said the complaint is now too old to
be revived.
For information on the case, see:
http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2003-05-21/news.html
For background, see:
http://www.fair.org/extra/9901/emerson.html
SOURCE Weekly Planet
CO: CL Newspapers
ST: Florida
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COMMENT: STEVE EMERSON IS PROBABLY THE DIRTIEST
ZIONIST DOG SERVING THE MAJOR
MEDIA
AGAINST ISLAM and MUSLIMS.
IN A DISHONEST and TRASHY BOOK TITLED "American
Jihad",
he tries to tie
America's most loyal Muslims,
ISNA
and
CAIR,
to
"terrorism."
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