Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"Umm Bakr and Abu Bakr have not seen their sons for more than seven years, without any communication at all. They are not permitted to write to them or receive a letter from them, no phone calls to them are allowed and the prisoners are not allowed to make calls - no communication of any kind with your five children."

"We hear that the U.S. is bringing “freedom” and “democracy” to Afghanistan, Iraq and next Iran. That is not true. Those people are hostages. Hostages of our troops and hostages of puppet regimes we put in place to control them."

"The Islamic Waqf does not have detailed information on the excavations, because the Israeli occupation authorities have barred access to Waqf engineers. We can, however, say for sure that exposing the foundations of the Aqsa Mosque by digging up the ground around it will place the Aqsa in grave danger."

"For Muslims, however, the fact that the Saudi government is so beholden to the US -- and perhaps to the Bush regime in particular, given the close business and other links between the Bush family and Aal-e Saud -- that they can be forced into such posturing is yet another sign of their irredeemable illegitimacy."

"This interest in the end times and the prophetic role of Israel has meant tens of millions of dollars of support every year from evangelical Christians in the US. This funds projects in Israel ranging from helping immigrants and planting
vines to promoting settlement expansion and decrying any plans for Jerusalem other than unilateral control by Israel."

"...there is always hope that the technocrat in Shaukat Aziz will prevail over his Cabinet colleagues to deliver on the promises made ad nauseam to the people of Pakistan by our rulers without really meaning to keep those promises."

"As long as the Sharon government, with the active encouragement of President Bush, goes on enlarging the settlements, building the Wall and all the other actions of annexation, there is no way to convince Palestinian public opinion to turn its back on violence."

"Who understands capitalism better here? Where can al-Qaida get a guaranteed 10,000+% return on their investment except with 4 MORE YEARS with a President who promises that this war will never be over?"

"A second Bush Administration promises to destroy the very fabric of American democracy and with it, the cohesion of American society."

"Why is it that the nation with the most formidable military arsenal in history is so insecure? Why have we been forced to convert the land of the free and the home of the brave into a paranoid garrison state? Did the terrorists target America for any special reasons other than some ideological obsession with ‘our decency and our values’?"

"...when ambitious men and women seize the levers of power attached to the world's biggest war-machine, one can expect only the worst."

"The Times is incapable of “rigorous” reporting on the Middle East, and because of that it is largely responsible for the anti-Arab / anti-Muslim stereotypes that pollute our culture."

"One does pray however that neither the Indians nor us throw anything at each other anymore."

"Direct damage incurred during military operations is only part of the story, however. According to a March 2004 study released by the Palestinian Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies and prepared by researchers Jamal Barghouth and Mohammed Jaradat, the separation wall being erected by Israel in the West Bank is set to undermine the cultural link between archeological sites in the West Bank and surrounding archeological areas."

"...the melting pot is a glorious and unique character of our homeland, so let’s do continue to embrace visitors and citizens-to-be but let us also remember that united as Americans we stand, and divided by special groups we fall."

"...Bush hired Americans of Color to discredit them in their own community, to use them do the dirty work, to pit themselves against each other and so on."

"Amazingly, people like Miller and Cheney still like to speak of Saddam Hussein's torture of his own people in such prisons, while completely failing to mention the absolutely unconscionable American torture of Iraqi detainees simply to "fish" for information on the insurgency."

"Unfortunately it is true that some in the Western media with an anti-Islamic agenda would take the Muslim condemnation of other Muslims for their own purposes."

"I wish Americans had the least spark of imagination and will to compare their almost delusional fears with the colossal human misery they have inflicted on the world."

"...it has become clear that Rove believes in nothing more than winning. But the news media should adhere to a different set of ethics."