>From: "Ghayth Nur Kashif" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Ghayth Nur Kashif" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Fw: [muslims-n-georgia] Fw: Bulletin 04/05/2002 - In Memory of Sr. Suraida Saleh ! >Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:30:22 -0400 > >IslamiCity Bulettin >----- Original Message ----- To: Ghayth Nur Kashif > >Subject: [muslims-n-georgia] Fw: Bulletin 04/05/2002 - In Memory of Sr. Suraida Saleh ! > > >TO: US Press Recipients of this FWD >cc: private recipients. >Topic: Freedom of the Press and/or Press intimidation >Date: 04/07/02 >From: Imam G.N. Kashif >Strategicalliance Forum > >[Special request to private non-media recipients: Please share this FWD with your local media editors and respected columnists and reporters---it is imperative that the media not be intimidated. The media must keep to its standard of "fair and honest reporting," and it is crucial that the American people support them in maintaining their integrity, otherwise this valued constitutional principal of "freedom of the Press," will be exposed to the world as a "sham."] >_____________________ > > Dear Media recipients: > >Can you verify this story, and (with due respect) why is not the press (including your medium) reporting these kind of things,while the reporting (only of Israelis) is graphically highlighted by comparison? Do you accept that there is an obvious bias and/or "muzzle" on the press? It this being justified because Israel is the choice "favorite Allay" of the Administration? Will the standard of the press we abridged for the sake of this image war (in support of an allay) against a defenseless and "occupied" people? Why must the press be "dragged along" by the nose into this kind of "yellow" journalism? Why are not Journalists and Media executives "doing more" to maintain the integrity of the press? > >Will the press allow itself to be manipulated (and its freedoms curtailed) because the individual emotions (of the shock of WTC) is played upon like a harp, calling up the raw and naked side of the human personality. Media people, above all others, should protect themselves from such manipulation. > > This is just one such case, but the fact is that scores more "civilians" have been killed in Palestine by the Israeli belligerents? Why is justified by you media by commission and omissions? Can the writers and reporters report these things and keep their jobs? Will they be labeled unpatriotic? As a journalist, who pledge to report honestly and without bias, does this not bother you? Do you sleep well after being denied the right to report what you know to be taking place. What of your integrity? Does it count for anything, or does the pay-check, or secret racial or religious antipathy reign in the breast? >I think these are serious questions for the journalists. > >How much of this one-sided reporting is necessary to satisfy the acknowledged "Image war" of the administration? I am familiar with many of you and your excellent writings in the past (before this intimidation of the press), and have felt you have reported responsibly and with honor and dignity. Now our eyebrow is lifted. With honor, can you respond---I think you are due this for the sake of the profession. > >May G_d keep you well > >Imam Ghayth Nur Kashif >Masjidush Shura >3109 MLK Ave. SE >Washington, DC 20032 >202-574-8417 > >----- Original Message ----- >Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 6:56 PM >Subject: FW: Bulletin 04/05/2002 - In Memory of Sr. Suraida Saleh ! > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IslamiCity Bulletin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:27 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Bulletin 04/05/2002 - In Memory of Sr. Suraida Saleh ! > > > In The Name Of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful > > > IslamiCity Bulletin > April 5, 2002 > Muharram 21, 1423H > > In Memory of Sr. Suraida Saleh ! > Sponsors > > To Change your Subscription Click Here >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "... "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return". 2:156 > > A 21-year-old U.S. citizen, Suraida Saleh, is gunned down by Israeli soldiers in Ramullah on April 3, 2002; the United States State Department knows, but does nothing; her father buries her in the hospital parking lot because the hospital morgue is overflowing and under the state of siege no one can get to the cemetery! > Israeli soldiers on Friday shot and killed Suraida Saleh in Ramallah as she was holding her 9-month old baby in her lap. She and her husband were driving to safety at her father's house after hearing shooting near their home. Suraida Saleh was a Palestinian-American, born in George Washington Hospital, in Washington, D.C. > > From Ramallah, her father Farhan Mohammed Saleh, told Democracy Now (Pacifica Radio) that Israeli soldiers asked the husband to stop the car and started shooting. He said they shot Suraida in the head and chest, and she died immediately. After shooting the husband repeatedly, they let him go. He took the baby from his dead wife's lap and stumbled up the road to the home of his father-in-law, where he collapsed. > > With the Ramallah hospital morgue overflowing and Israeli soldiers preventing anyone from reaching the cemetery, Saleh said he was forced to bury his daughter in the hospital parking lot alongside dozens of other Palestinians. > > Suraida's father, Farhan Mohammed Saleh, wept as he said: "I took her out of the hospital refrigerator [morgue] with my own hands, and my wife and my older son with me, we took her outside and put her in the ground, just temporary." > > On Tuesday, April 3rd, Democracy Now! spoke to the Office of Consular Affairs at the State Department. The office said the State Department was aware that Suraida Saleh was a U.S. citizen, but did not plan to release a statement or take any action. Farhan Mohammed Saleh said that the State Department has done nothing. > > As he spoke, you could hear his grandson crying in the background. "[My grandson] is with me now. He is 9 months old, I don't know what's going to happen with him without his mother. You know, he's crying all the time, that's what makes me suffer." > > Details of Sureida's death were obtained by American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice. They emailed, called and faxed major media for two days and no single mainstream media institution picked up the story. > > The following is a partial transcript of the interview that Amy Goodman [AG], host of the radio and television show Democracy Now!, did with Farhan Mohammed Saleh (FMS) in Ramullah. > > (Click Here To Listen To The Radio Interview) > > Farhan Mohammed Saleh [FMS]: ...some of the neighbors, when they hear the shooting and saw her in the car, they call the ambulance... she stayed in the refrigerator [hospital morgue] from Friday morning up to yesterday evening [5 days]. ... I took her out of the hospital refrigerator with my own hands, and my wife and my older son with me, we took her outside and put her in the ground, just temporary, somewhere in the hospital, until they can take her to the cemetery. > Amy Goodman [AG]: You buried your daughter in the parking lot? > FMS: Yes, yes, she was with 2 more women, the men were buried separately. It is a temporary cemetery they make... > AG: How many other people are buried in the parking lot? > FMS: About 25 or 27 people. Three women were yesterday, and about 23 or 24 men. > AG: Why couldn't you get to the cemetery? > FMS: Nobody can go to the cemetery, there was shooting going everywhere. They just give 1 or 2 hours to the people to see their dead. We passed from the side of the tanks and the soldiers, and we was scared... [my grandson] is with me now. He is 9 months old, I don't know what's going to happen with him without his mother. You know, he's crying all the time, that's what makes me suffer. [Crying of baby in the background] > AG: Has the US embassy come to see you? > FMS: Nobody, nobody up to now. My other daughter in Brooklyn, she called the Department of State in the U.S. and gave them all the information and they called the American Embassy in Jerusalem, and gave them my phone number. They called me Friday or Saturday, and I told them what's happening, and they say they are going to come and nobody came. And they called me Sunday morning and say they're going to come and nobody showed up, up to now. I called 2 or 3 times and I talked with some people working and nobody has shown up to now, nobody has seen me up to now. I don't know what I'm going to do with the baby now. [He begins to weep.] > > It's a bad situation, a bad situation we have really, we just ask God to help her. It's killing people everywhere, in the streets, in the houses. They broke down the houses, the buildings, they get inside the houses and the apartments and they kill people and break down everything. That's barbarism. That's the situation we have. I don't know where are the human rights? The US and all the world, they're calling for human rights - where are the human rights? Civilian people, they're killing everywhere, in the streets and the houses and the apartments. Some buildings have 10 to 15 apartments, they get inside the apartments and houses and are killing everywhere, > AG: Farhan Mohammed Saleh, we're going to try to get more comment from the US State Department. > FMS: They going to help me the kids, to make his life, I don't know what they're going to do, [the son-in-law] a very poor little guy, he wasn't not working from the time when they were married. > AG: He's in the hospital now? > FMS: When I go to the hospital, I took him with me. He saw her before the burial, and the doctor said go with me. He's with me now. > AG: Farhan Mohammed Saleh, thank you for being with > us, and we will check back with you. > FMS: I appreciate your call, thank you very much. > > Click Here & Post Your Comments. > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To Change your Subscription Click Here > www.9278.com > THE LEADER IN PRE-PAID > PHONE CARDS > > > WHAT'S NEW > > PALMTOP QURAN > (AL MUHAFFIZ) > > > VIDEO SELECTION > > THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES - PAINFUL MEMORIES RECALLED FROM OCT. 2000 > > > AUDIO SELECTION > > MURDER OF > A 21 YEAR OLD MOTHER > SURAIDA SALEH > IN RAMALLAH > BY > ISRAELI MILITARY > APRIL 2002 > > > TOP 5 PRODUCTS > > > Crystal Tower > > > Al Bayan Software (Hadith of Muslim & Bukhari) > > > DISPATCHES FROM PALESTINE > > > Islamic Encyclopedia CD > > > Palmtop Quran - Complete Quran in Audio, Arabic Text, English Translation, Hadith & More > > > > > > Yahoo! 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