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  • The problem in Britain is not too much multiculturalism but too little
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Racism is the terrorists’ greatest recruitment tool
    by Naomi Klein
    Hussein Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London’s failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that they prepared for the attacks by watching "films on the war in Iraq", La Repubblica reported. "Especially those where women and children were being killed and exterminated by British and American soldiers ... of widows, mothers and daughters that cry."
    It has become an article of (…)

  • The Higher Calling of the Low Road
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    It is the 21st Century and the cover of Time Magazine has pictures of a chimpanzee and God under the bold headline, "Evolution Wars". I turn on the television and a non-descript talking head is promoting the bizarre idea that tax cuts for the rich lead to increased tax revenue. I flip the channel and an effeminate man is lisping about how he prayed away the gay.
    How did such weird and scientifically bankrupt ideas find their way into mainstream culture?
    The answer is at (…)

  • RESPONSE ACTION PLANNED AGAINST "EX-GAY" FILM
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    **To Take Part In The Action Click Here ** NEWS ADVISORY RESPONSE ACTION PLANNED AGAINST "EX-GAY" FILM
    In response to an initiative underway aimed against the spirit of National Coming Out Day, members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community and their allies are encouraged to organize nationwide screenings of a new documentary film that shines light on some of the personal stories behind the "ex-gay" debate. Author and activist Wayne Besen, filmmaker Tom Murray, former (…)

  • Phoenix Diocese bans politicians who support abortion, gay rights
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PHOENIX - Politicians who support issues like abortion and gay rights have been banned from speaking at Catholic churches in the Phoenix Diocese.
    So far, Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano has been the only one affected by the edict from Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted.
    Napolitano was forbidden to speak last year at a Catholic church in Scottsdale at an event opposing Proposition 200, a ballot measure that restricted the rights of undocumented immigrants. The event was moved to another (…)

  • Hate crimes jump by 600% since 7/7
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Vijay Dutt, London
    Hate crimes in Britain have soared by 600 per cent causing the fear of a race divide in multicultural British society. Scotland Yard figures show there was 269 religious hate crimes, motivated by animosity towards Muslims since July 7 compared with 40 in the same period last year. A direct outcome of the two bomb attacks on London Transport system, such hate offences have jumped by nearly 600% in the capital.
    Most were verbal abuses or minor assaults, but it also (…)

  • Campus Antiwar Statement on Self-Determination and Unity in the Antiwar Movement
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 29, 2005
    As students organizing against the war on campuses across the United States, we stand in support of full self-determination throughout the Middle East, including the self-determination of Iraqis and of Palestinians. As our generation is asked to sacrifice our consciences and our lives for the sake of U.S. empire-building, we are committed to opposing that empire-building in its entirety.
    In the Middle East today, illegal occupations exist not only in Iraq, but also in (…)

  • LOVE IN ACTION CO-FOUNDER: "MY MINISTRY SHATTERS LIVES"
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LOVE IN ACTION CO-FOUNDER: "MY MINISTRY SHATTERS LIVES"
    by Wayne Besen
    CO-FOUNDER OF MINISTRY THAT RUNS TEEN ’EX-GAY’ BOOT CAMP SAYS GROUP SHATTERS LIVES AND CAN CAUSE SUICIDE
    Love In Action Co-Founder John Evans Unveils Powerful Letter Rebuking ’Ex-Gay’ Ministries
    NEW YORK - Author Wayne Besen released an explosive letter today by Love In Action’s co-Founder and former ex-gay John Evans, which rebukes gay conversion groups saying that they "shattered lives". The group he started has (…)

  • From Iran to the USA: Time to End the Death Penalty!
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Vincent Fischer
    “Religious killing shows man at his most depraved; for in this act he destroys the beauty of his dream by pretending to divine power” (My Brother Death, Sulzberger, Carl).
    Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were hanged publicly on July 19, 2005 in the city of Mashhad, Iran. http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/07/2999.shtml
    The photographs are nauseating. Looking at the pictures of the condemned teenagers, it is easy to fall into despair. In the remaining (…)

  • Charge of “Anti-Semitism” Used to Provoke Immigration of French Jews to Israel
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Charge of “Anti-Semitism” Used to Provoke Immigration of French Jews to Israel
    By Samah Jabr - October 2004 JUST 10 DAYS after he called on France’s 600,000 Jewish citizens to move to Israel “immediately” to escape what he called “the spread of the wildest anti-Semitism,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon welcomed the first 200 French Jewish immigrants to arrive in Israel. The official controlled fury with which Paris greeted his call soon was smoothed over with conciliatory gestures on both (…)

  • Zach Vs. Pat
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Zach Vs. Pat
    by Wayne Besen
    In May, 16-year old Zach told his fundamentalist Christian parents that he is gay. Horrified by the news, they vowed to fix him by sending him to an "ex-gay" boot camp in Memphis to be reprogrammed. Like a modern day message in a bottle, Zach used his Internet blog to send an SOS. Miraculously, his desperate plea for help washed up on the shores of sanity and circulated in cyberspace at warp speed.
    "I told my parents I was gay," he wrote. "This didn’t go (…)