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Your letters - posted July 1, 2007 (Part 2)

Posted in Q & A on Jul 01, 2007

Friends and Foes: This is the last of my three-part series celebrating Arab free-thinkers. Now more than ever, they need our support. Read the letter below, as well as the other two parts of this series, and then post messages of solidarity for them on Project Ijtihad’s MySpace page. Champions of individual liberty and freedom of conscience have to know they’re not alone. But the only way they will if is if we show them.

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“I’m an Iraqi agnostic that lives in the UAE. I was part of an online community where everybody was free to share his ideas. Until I started talking about the Israeli-Arab conflict. I said that Arabs were making a lot of massacres, as well as the other side. I was insulted and kicked out. After that, a lot of users asked me make another free Arab forum. The forum is now in the design phase. I have a handful of thinkers, believers and non-believers. I am now looking for Arab Israelis who can give their side. I grant full freedom of speech, providing that everything is supplied with evidence. Looking forward your help, Irshad.” - The Free ArabNOTE: Irshad put The Free Arab in touch with with another Arab dissident, who wrote this to him:

• “In agreement with what you said, here are only some examples of Arab/Muslim atrocities committed against our own which we are too proud to admit:
• Pakistan’s General Yahya Khan slaughtering Bengali Muslims in 1971.
• Iraq’s Saddam Hussein slaughtering the Kurds and Iranians using chemical weapons.
• The Taliban slaughtering Shi’a Hazaras, committing war crimes comparable to the Serbs killing the Bosnians.
• Jordan’s King Hussein and Pakistan’s General Zia ul Haq slaughtering Palestinians during Black September.
• Syria’s President Hafez al-Assad slaughtering 40,000 Muslims and leveling the city of Hama.
• The Amman bombings of November 2005 when Zarqawi even proudly claimed responsibility for the attacks.
• On-going ethnic cleansing in Darfur…