Philip's posts with tag: multiculturalism
January 16, '08
 MK Sarsur to Abbas: How Can You Shake Olmert’s Hand?
(IsraelNN.com) MK Ibrahim Sarsur (Ra’am Ta’al), the head of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement, sent a letter to Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday sharply criticizing Abbas’s willingness to meet with Israeli and United States leaders. “I do not understand how one shakes the hands of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his wife, and the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as our people in Gaza are being slaughtered,” Sarsur wrote.
Sarsur spoke on Tuesday at a conference in Baka el-Jarbiya and discussed the situation in Gaza. The “Israeli aggression” seen in Gaza was not new, he said, “but gained a new dimension following the visit from the head of the international axis of evil, George Bush.” Bush gave Israel a “green light” to operate in Gaza and to build in Judea and Samaria, Sarsur said.
[Zionsake: That is for you Israeli democracy that allows hostile enemies of Israel to be Members of Knesset - MPs. It's of course, part of the drive towards multiculturalism vs. being a Jewish State.]
[Zionsake: - What would king Josiah have said?! (2Kings 23:19)]
Melchior Bill Would Allocate Funds for New Muslim Authority December 26, '07  (IsraelNN.com) Labor Knesset Member Michael Melchior has proposed a bill to fund a government entity that would be established to preserve Muslim mosques and cemeteries that were abandoned in 1948. "As an Israeli rabbi and one who often deals with the standing of Jews abroad I cannot tolerate what is happening here," Melchior said in an interview with Haaretz. "We must correct this, as is right for a democracy and in line with Jewish values." The proposal, to be presented at the annual conference of Melchior's nonprofit Citizens' Accord Forum, will be accompanied by a list of sites that need significant rehabilitation, including a mosque in Tiberias and another near Herzliya. Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar was reported to be supporting the measure, which would include an allocation of NIS 8 million annually. Arab MK Seeks to Outlaw Public Cursing of Mohammed
December 19, '07
 (IsraelNN.com) United Arab List Knesset Member Ibrahim Sarsur plans to introduce legislation that would outlaw cursing Mohammed in public. Sarsur, an Islamist, said he was prompted to propose the law after Jewish soccer fans ridiculed Mohammed, considered a prophet in Islam, as a means of provoking their Arab opponents. Cursing Mohammed in public and making offensive anti-Islamist remarks would be punishable by a three year jail term and a $25,000 fine if the law were to be passed.
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