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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10642)	12/12/2005 10:08:26 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 32591

He has not been given the Nobel PEACE Prize (yet).

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10642)	12/12/2005 10:15:15 AM
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Armed gangs on rampage [Muslims in Sydney Australia] Sydney Morning Herald ^ \| December 13, 2005 \| By Malcolm Brown, Les Kennedy, Jared Wormald and Robert Wainwright SYDNEY erupted in a second night of racial violence last night as Middle Eastern mobs stabbed a woman, assaulted others and smashed shops around Cronulla, while up to 600 young men - armed with guns and crowbars - prepared for a battle. In a terrifying escalation of the conflict, up to 70 cars from Hurstville invaded Cronulla and Brighton-le-Sands to launch revenge attacks, following the vicious attacks by Cronulla locals on people of Middle Eastern appearance on Sunday. Twenty carloads of men arrived at Cronulla by about 10.30pm, smashing shops, and cars in Elouera Road, and threatening people who got in their way. They reportedly stabbed a woman at Carringbah, but her condition was unknown. About 11.30pm a group of about 100 Cronulla locals surrounded a car carrying men of Middle Eastern appearance, but police cleared the crowd and let the car escape. Hours earlier, about 200 men had assembled outside Lakemba Mosque - some armed with Glock pistols - and dozens more gathered at Campsie. They were preparing to travel to Maroubra Beach, where up to 300 locals, many armed with crowbars, waited for an arranged fight, according to "Bra Boys" at the beach. But some young Muslims said they had gathered to protect the mosque because of a threatened attack on it by a gang from the southern beaches. Following Sunday's riot at Cronulla beach - when local mobs had bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance - police confiscated iron bars and other weapons at Maroubra last night and blocked roads around the mosque. About 20 police cars surrounded the mosque, where four men showed their pistols and ammunition to a news crew, and boasted that others were carrying arms. At 10.45pm, on the Kingsway at Caringbah, about 12 cars sped by, followed by another vehicle that stopped. Four men got out and began attacking patrons of Antonio's Pizzeria. They knocked a woman unconscious on the footpath and smashed the window of a denture clinic. Thai-born Suchada Goodier, 44, owner of a Thai restaurant on the Kingsway, said she was walking on the street when she was attacked. The group then started bashing her car. "What have I done?" she said. "I have done nothing." In Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands, a young woman was sitting in a car when men approached and opened the door to her vehicle and put a hand up her dress, saying: "We are going to rape you, you Aussie sluts." [snip]

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10642)	12/12/2005 10:22:15 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 32591

Suicide bomb film opens Dubai film festival [Puke Level Orange] Reuters ^ \| Dec. 11, 2005 \| Andrew Hammond DUBAI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Hollywood and Arab stars converged on the Gulf Arab city of Dubai on Sunday for a festival of world film that opened with a movie about why Palestinians carry out suicide bombings. The cast of "Paradise Now" were feted at the opening ceremony along with U.S. box-office pulls such as Morgan Freeman and Matrix star Laurence Fishburne, Arab stars Adel Imam and Leila Elwi and French-Algerian rai singer Faudel. Now in its second year, the Dubai International Film Festival has set itself the ambitious goal of being a "cultural bridge" between the West and the Arab world. "It's an extremely important subject for us in the Middle East," said Egyptian comedy actor Hany Ramzy. "Our role in Arab cinema is to do films that give the West an idea of what we are all about." "Paradise Now", which has been well-received in the United States and Israel, suggests the random violence of suicide bombings arises from Israeli occupation and not from just Islamic fundamentalism. Ali Suliman, who plays one of two youths who become suicide bombers, said he hoped the film would change attitudes in the United States, Israel's key ally, who the Arab world accuses of being biased against the Palestinians. "That's what we hope for and that's what's happening," Suliman said. The festival allows new filmmakers to try out movies on ethnically mixed audiences in this cosmopolitan city, which often presents itself as a Manhattan of the Middle East. Fishburne, who trod the red carpet with one arm in a sling, seemed taken with the city's mix of desert, tropics and modern architecture in the religiously conservative Gulf region. "I wouldn't miss being here for the world," he told reporters. Controversial film "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World", directed by U.S. comedian Albert Brooks, gets its world premiere at the festival on Thursday. The film pokes fun at American ignorance of the Muslim world, but its eye-catching title caused Sony to pass up the chance to distribute it, Brooks has said, fearing reprisals from Muslims in the West or the Islamic world. Brooks plays a comedian sent by the U.S. State Department to India and Pakistan to find out what makes Muslims laugh, so everyone can get along better in the post-9/11 world. The film is set for U.S. release in January by Warner Independent, the art-house unit of Warner Brothers. Art-house and challenging cinema are rarely seen in Dubai, where Hollywood crowd-pleasers do a roaring trade among the city's 1.5 million population of Europeans, Africans and Asians.