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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (254456)	5/12/2002 3:08:28 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Soviet Union was one of the most anti-semitic governments in history. Much of Israel is populated with refugees from the Soviet Union. Your desire to propagate hatred will never make you happy.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (254456)	5/13/2002 5:37:54 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Emile, I have seen a lot of stories / reports that the Bolshevik leadership during the Bolshevik revolution) being mainly Jewish, but later on Soviet Union, and the rest of the Communist countries became anti-semitic, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian. What I don't get is the break from one to the other. Have you seen any theories about this? Joe

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (254456)	5/13/2002 6:00:26 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This is how modern Islam deals with rape victims. It is not surprising that so many young Muslims seek death. msnbc.com Last month, 28-year-old Zafran Bibi was convicted of adultery and sentenced by a court of Islamic law to death by stoning. Her supporters say her only crime was to say she was raped. Though the case is being appealed, Bibi lives with her 7-month-old child on death row, forbidden from seeing family and, to the powers that be, guilty until proven innocent. BIBI LIVED in a village in the Kohat district of the Northwest Frontier Province in Pakistan ? part of this country of 130 million where, traditionally, honor is more precious than life. Before her arrest, Bibi?s life was already complicated. Her husband, Naimat Khan, was serving a sentence of life in prison for murder. During her husband?s absence, Bibi discovered that she had become pregnant. In her distress, she confided to her father-in-law that her husband?s brother, Jamal, repeatedly raped her and had impregnated her. Bibi?s father-in-law took her to a police station. Although she is illiterate, investigators asked her to sign a statement that she could not read. In the police report, her father-in-law identified the accused as Akmal Khan, a prominent figure in Bibi?s hometown. According to Bibi?s supporters, this was an attempt to save her brother-in-law and simultaneously extort money from the affluent Akmal Khan. COMMON FATE Bibi?s attorney, human rights lawyer Ansar Burney, said the young woman?s fate is common. ?In these areas, a woman is considered a commodity to be used. In the absence of her husband she is available to the use of other male members of the family.? Shabnam Shoaib, the director of the Islamabad Women?s Welfare Agency, said it is common in cases of rape ? especially where the victim is also pregnant ? for the woman?s ?character? to be questioned. The authorities presumed in Bibi?s case, as they have in others, that pregnancy indicates a woman is a ?habitual? offender and has had a series of adulterous affairs. It was with this logic that the police jailed Bibi and the courts ordered her executed. Seven months ago Bibi?s daughter, still unnamed, was born in a prison cell, where she now lives with her mother. ?If there is a hell on earth, it is the death cell in which Bibi and her baby are confined,? said Burney, her defense lawyer. ?There is only one very small barred window near the ceiling of the room. Virtually no concept of health regulations exists. There are up to nine inmates in a cell that can accommodate one.?