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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diamonddrago" data-source="post: 8474406" data-attributes="member: 243828"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />i don't think they will hold mass marriages like that in Islam....this must be some other event....<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/oo.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":oo:" title="Oo    :oo:" data-shortname=":oo:" />"In July of last year, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group,  organized a mass wedding celebration for hundreds of couples in the Gaza  Strip. The happy adult grooms, immaculately dressed in black suits and  colourful ties, received $500 each from Hamas, no small sum in the  besieged territory. It might have been a joyous event if not for the fact that the brides  were “pre-pubescent girls, dressed in white gowns and adorned with  garish make-up,” according to the article written by author and  journalist Paul L. Williams, and republished by rightwing pundit David  Horowitz’s Frontpage Magazine, who regularly appears on mainstream news  networks such as Fox and CNN. The photos show young girls holding hands with the grooms, and the  article goes on to explain how pedophilia is inherent to Islam. It would have been a sordid tale were it not for the fact that the  article is a hoax. The married couples were, in fact, consenting adults,  but this did not stop the story from being widely disseminated via a  vast network of Web-based publications, blogs and mailing lists, and  hundreds of readers left online comments. The Internet is considered by many to be an information Wild West,  where anyone can publish stories, often anonymously, and no matter how  derogatory their opinions may be. False stories and hateful opinions  about Muslims abound on the Internet and have begun to appear  prominently in the mainstream discourse, say American Muslims and groups  that monitor the media. Many worry that what one sociologist has termed  “respectable racism” is having a corrosive effect on American society,  and that hate expressed online has real-world implications. Rightwing  extremist ideology is now the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat  in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland  Security. “Islamaphobia has moved to the mainstream in the years following the  9/11 attacks,” said Ibrahim Hooper, the National Communications Director  for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), based in  Washington, D.C. “Things that would have been completely outside the  pale, like a letter to the editor saying that Islam is intrinsically  evil, that would have never been published before 9/11. Now it’s  published almost on a daily basis.” Public figures such as politicians and pundits have used their status  in society to confer a certain degree of respectability to racist  discourse, according to Canadian sociologist Rachad Antonius. He  believes the negative connotations attached to being Arab in mainstream  culture have made it acceptable to publically stereotype or disparage  Arabs. [...] The children holding the hands of the grooms at the celebration in  Gaza were not their brides, as he alleged, but their relatives. This was  confirmed by other news sources such as Sky News, a sister channel of  Fox News. It was also not the first mass wedding to be organized by  Hamas in Gaza, where the legal marrying age is 18 or 16 with parental  permission if Egyptian Sharia law is followed. Taghreed El-Khodary, who writes for the New York Times, covered a similar wedding for the paper on Oct. 30, 2008. “These kids on the stage are the nieces or sisters of the grooms,”  she said in an email, referring to the young girls in white dresses. “It  is a mass wedding in conservative Gaza; hence brides are sitting with  their families. It’s a symbolic party to give credit to Hamas or  whatever institution is funding it.” Williams and Horowitz did not respond to emailed inquiries about the article and requests for interviews. Muslim groups and media watchdogs say that this is not a simple  question of free speech, noting that people with radical views about  Christianity, Judaism or Israel are not given prominent platforms on  mainstream networks as is Horowitz. “It’s a double standard,” said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on  American-Islamic Relations. “The media wouldn’t bring on anti-Semites,  neo-Nazis, overt racists, but they will bring on these Muslim-bashers or  anti-Arab individuals. They shouldn’t bring on anti-Semites or  neo-Nazis, and I don’t think they should have on these Muslim-haters  either.” Norman Finkelstein, an American political scientist and author, has  written extensively on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is fiercely  critical of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, and his books have  generated controversy as well as received praise from prominent  historians and public intellectuals. Yet he has never been invited to  appear on a mainstream American network. “I have never been on American television (not even the cable  networks) and the only national radio program I have been on is  Democracy Now!” he wrote in an email. “To my mind, the interesting fact  is that not even liberal radio programs and moderators would have me on.  It is for example unthinkable that I would be on a National Public  Radio program. It’s the usual stuff: career and funding.” Conservative groups are waging a war of ideas online with players  such as David Horowitz’ “Frontpage Magazine” and Williams’ “The Last  Crusade” supplementing rightwing materials that are widely diffused via  blogs, chat rooms, mailing lists and other Web publications. This  network has facilitated the free flow of ideas, and created virtual  havens in which people vent their collective disillusionment or rage.  But the connections made there have shifted from the virtual to the real  world."SOURCE > <a href="http://gimmetruth.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/analysis-child-marriage-lie-in-gaza-debunked-raises-serious-issues-of-racism/" target="_blank">http://gimmetruth.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/analysis-child-marriage-lie-in-gaza-debunked-raises-serious-issues-of-racism/</a></blockquote>

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