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Essay:anti-Israel bigotry: the Apartheid slur part2 (view source)
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Zanzibar - Tanzania which <i>was long ruled by Arab sultans, who imported slaves from the mainland to cultivate the spice trees,</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=Vw8HAQAAIAAJ&dq=Arab+sultans</ref> has, still, lingering Arab racism and apartheid.<ref>http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/09122001.htm</ref>
Zanzibar - Tanzania which <i>was long ruled by Arab sultans, who imported slaves from the mainland to cultivate the spice trees,</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=Vw8HAQAAIAAJ&dq=Arab+sultans</ref> has, still, lingering Arab racism and apartheid.<ref>http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/09122001.htm</ref>
<br>There's wide racial discrimination in Tanzania, especially, <i>Apartheid style of discrimination towards locals has been reported in various tourist hotels, mostly those owned by foreign investors inside wildlife parks.</i><ref>http://www.eturbonews.com/9064/racism-rears-ugly-head-tanzania-tourism</ref>
<br>There's wide racial discrimination in Tanzania, especially, <i>Apartheid style of discrimination towards locals has been reported in various tourist hotels, mostly those owned by foreign investors inside wildlife parks.</i><ref>http://www.eturbonews.com/9064/racism-rears-ugly-head-tanzania-tourism</ref>
=====North Africa=====
<font size=1>[Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco]</font>
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The Berbers are the original indigenous of N. Africa. Conquere by the later arrived Arabs.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=uU8UAQAAIAAJ&dq=berbers</ref> They suffer great discrimination.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=C_pAFwXXSZgC&pg=PA38</ref> "Berbers denounced apartheid" against them in Morocco.<ref>https://www.irr.org.uk/cgi-bin/news/open.pl?id=7581</ref><ref>http://cmamazigh.com/documents/ver-english.swf</ref> and in wider North Africa.<ref>http://www.zighenaym.com/cultural_apartheid_in_north_africa.html</ref>
The 'Amazigh Voice' louds "the cultural apartheid enforced by the North African states on the Amazigh people."<ref>http://www.tamazgha.org/uploads/4/2/2/3/422318/amazigh_voice_vol9_n1.pdf</ref> Amazigh activists published a (partial) "list of victims of the Moroccan style apartheid."<ref>http://www.tamazgha.org/1/category/news/5.html</ref>
AmazighWorld states the discrimination and violation of human rights in Morocco, "that the Moroccan State practice a policy of apartheid" in blocking and suppressing Amazigh's voices and culture.<ref>http://www.amazighworld.org/eng/human_rights/index_show.php?id=22</ref>
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An African writes about Arab racism:<blockquote>Though the population of most North African countries is mixed, it's no secret that in these countries there is a gradation of human valuation that corresponds directly to skin color, with the most privileged status being accorded those perceived rightly or wrongly as being of "pure" Arab stock while those with the darkest skin and curliest hair are located on the lowest rung of the social hierarchy. Arab racism is deeply embedded in the history of North Africa itself and in the Arabic language. The Arab conquest of North Africa and the subsequent conversion and marginalization of the original Berbers and Moors of North Africa and parts of the Sahel were undergirded by a racist ethos. Till this day, the descendants of the dark-skinned Moors, the Berbers, and other non-Arab peoples are confined to the fringes of North African and North-west African society--in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, etc.<ref>http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/moses-ebe-ochonu/arab-racism-against-black-afr.html</ref></blockquote>
====ISLAMIC APARTHEID: Iran, S. Arabia, Islamic-Palestine, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.====
Attention has been brought to Islamic Apartheid against non-Muslims, suffering wide systematic discrimination and subjugation to an inferior status.<ref>http://www.dhimmi.com/dhimmi_overview.htm</ref><ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=UDJvk_bv3YcC&pg=PA15</ref><ref>http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=2</ref> The <i>subjugation of non-Muslims to religious apartheid and second class citizenship in their own country</i>.<ref>http://globalpolitician.com/22793-islamism</ref><BR> Writing on "Islam's Apartheid," A. Imani: "Islamic societies shamelessly practice all the sanctioned injustices listed in the U.N. charter on apartheid."<ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5512/pub_detail.asp</ref>
<br>Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights' Dr. Keith Roderick's letter/Petition to the United Nations Against [Islamic] Religious Apartheid:<blockquote>
The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights is an umbrella coalition representing various organizations from the following communities: Arab-Christian, Armenian, Assyrian, Bahai, Buddhist, Copt, Hindu, Humanist Muslim, Ibo, Maronite, Nubian, secular intellectuals, Southern Filipino, Slavic-Christian, Southern Sudanese, Syriac, West African, and women's groups.
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We gather to demonstrate our determination to protest the treatment of religious and ethnic minorities, as well as women and moderate and secularized Muslims in Islamic lands. We are here also to cry out against the murderous ideology of radical Islamism, which, by dividing humankind into worthy Muslims and inferior "infidels" is wreaking havoc throughout the world.
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In the face of growing attacks and oppression of religious and ethnic minorities in Islamic lands, we respectfully make the following two demands upon the appropriate organs of the United Nations:
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1. We call upon you today to appoint a Special Rapporteur to investigate the status and conditions of non-Muslim minorities, women, and humanist, moderate Muslims in states ruled by Islamic majorities. Such a rappoteur must investigate the following conditions.
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Equality Under Law: What is the status, both in law and in practice, of these groups, and of individuals belonging to these groups? Do the laws in these nations discriminate against religious minorities? Do members of these groups have the same rights to assemble, speak, publish, and associate as those in the majority? Can members of these classes be elected to governmental and representative bodies? Is there a government policy of discriminating against the hiring of members of these classes? Does the government allow or encourage radical anti-minority organizations to abuse, threaten or otherwise oppress minority populations? Do the agencies that enforce the laws represent all groups in society?
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Religious rights and freedom: Do members of minority faiths have the right to practice their faiths freely? Do they have the right to proselytize? Do members of the majority faith have the right to choose another faith?
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Cultural equality: Are the rights and cultures of national, religious, and ethnic minorities respected?
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Teaching of hatred and contempt: What is the view of these classes promoted by the government and the general culture?
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2. We call upon the United Nations to condemn the ideology of Jihad-Islamism as a form of religious apartheid, which divides humankind into exalted Muslims and inferior "infidels."
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Radical Jihad-Islamism is a supremacist, quasi-racist ideology that is now waging terrorist war worldwide against innocent men, women and children it labels "infidels." This ideology is supporting religious wars against non-Islamist Muslims and non-Muslim infidels worldwide. It is seeking to establish Apartheid-like regimes similar to those in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, to subjugate and control "infidels." It legitimizes and extends human rights abuses - including slavery - on a massive scale. It employs a global economic resource (oil) as a weapon against non-Muslim nations in the service of its goals. It is the duty of the United Nations, which came into being as a result of racist Nazism, to condemn and to combat any ideology which defines some part of the human race as inferior.
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Radical Jihad-Islamism must be condemned as a form of cultural, racial, religious and ethnic discrimination, and the United Nations should equate it with Colonialism and Imperialism. It should condemn its teaching to any community or school and it should call for a "corrective teaching" to seek to undo the hatred that it has engendered in peoples who have been taught the ideology. Further, the U.N. should condemn all current Jihad wars and call on nations waging such wars to cease violating the rights of ethnic and religious minorities and peoples. Finally, the U.N. should intervene to protect the rights and lives of religious and ethnic minorities and non-Islamist Muslims in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Sudan, and Syria....<ref>http://www.dhimmi.com/petition.htm</ref></blockquote>
J. T. Kuhner puts it "Shariah law - the legal basis of most Islamic states - is a form of religious apartheid, systematically classifying Christians and Jews as third-class citizens. Christophobia and anti-Semitism are rampant in the Muslim world." <ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/7/ban-koran-burning</ref>
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P. Chesler testifies: <i>As you know, I was once held captive in Afghanistan as the young bride of a very westernized Afghan Muslim man who I met at college. I therefore learned not to romanticize Third World countries, nor to confuse their tyrannical leaders with liberators. I also learned that Islamic religious and gender apartheid and jihad are indigenous to Muslim lands and not due to any European or American crimes.</i><ref>http://aina.org/news/20070227103253.htm</ref>
<br>In Arab-Islamic Africa, is noted for example the racial, and Islamic apartheid in Sudan.<ref>http://www.southsudan.net/Professor.htm</ref>
Especially in the Middle East, the Islamic system <i>operates a system of racial and religious apartheid,</i><ref>http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index3.htm</ref><br>
<i>The most primitive apartheid against non-Muslims is still openly practiced in some Arab countries.</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=gH9hRRmYCCoC&pg=PA157</ref><br>
A critic points out to the fact that Middle Easterners including the Palestinian <i>"Muslim Apartheid Targets Christians as well as Jews."</i><ref>http://www.factsandlogic.org/hotline_archive/flame_hotline_011111.html</ref><br><br>
<B>Saudi Arabia</B>'s Apartheid is one of the most noted, with its anti non-Muslim policies, or "Religious Apartheid" <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070113102856/http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/country/Saudi%20Arabia/religious%20apartheid%20in%20sa.htm</ref>
<ref>http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=8070_Apartheid_Mecca</ref><ref>http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/386</ref><ref>http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri052303.asp</ref> <i>often described as a "glaring example of religious apartheid,"</i><ref>http://www.hudson-ny.org/1120/what-about-the-arab-apartheid-part-ii</ref> for "the Kingdom's embedded rules of religious apartheid," its "systematic discrimination against Christians and Jews, treated either as second-class aliens with no right to worship or banned from stepping foot on Saudi soil altogether,<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-abraham-cooper/hypocrisy-on-parade-delta_b_886309.html</ref> as well as practicing gender apartheid.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=k3TjtIoM9uEC&pg=PA188</ref><br>
Colbert I. King wrote in the WashingtonPost (Dec. 22, 2001) "Saudi Arabia's Apartheid"
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...He said he and his wife were amused to read early press reports from Afghanistan about the oppression of women and religious minorities. 'Virtually everything described there was taking place in Saudi Arabia, with the exception that at least the Taliban permitted other religions to exist in their country. This is absolutely forbidden in Saudi Arabia.' .... One of the (still) untold stories, however, is the cooperation of U.S. and other Western companies in enforcing sexual apartheid in Saudi Arabia. McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, and other U.S. firms, for instance, maintain strictly segregated eating zones in their restaurants. The men's sections are typically lavish, comfortable and up to Western standards, whereas the women's or families' sections are often run-down, neglected...<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15193-2001Dec21?language=printer</ref></blockquote>
S. A. religious apartheid expands even within its own faith. "Only the practice of the Sunni form of Islam is permitted. No public expression of Christianity is allowed."<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=m5wLgC546hMC&pg=PA24523</ref><br>
<i>Washington-based Saudi Institute director, Ali Al- Ahmed, testified before the United States Congress (on October 6, 2004) at an International Relations hearing on religious freedom.</i>
Mr. Ahmed explained that S. Arabia<blockquote>does not allow religious freedom to its Muslim citizens, even to those who are Wahhabi. It practices a rigid form of control on the interpretation of Islam in every sphere of life... Saudi Arabia is a glaring example of religious apartheid. The religious institutions, judges, religious curriculums, and all religious instructions in the media must conform to the Wahhabi understanding of Islam, adhered to by less than 40% of the population. ... Religious apartheid...is the order of the day in Saudi Arabia. Christian and Jewish symbols are banned from public display.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=bqJjhalQ3wkC&pg=PA60</ref></blockquote>
See: '''[[#Egypt]]''' for its anti-Copt apartheid [Copts are both, an ethnic and a religious minority].
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<b>Jordan</b>'s Christian minority is subject to a system of religious discrimination imposed by Islamic courts that oppress this small and shrinking religious minority."<ref>http://www.dhimmi.com/victimsgallery.htm</ref><br>
See: [[#Jordan]] for its 'official' anti-Jewish apartheid.
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<b>Lebanon</b><br>
An election law desinged to be against Christians' votes, instituted in the 1990s,' have promped accusation of Lebanon's anti-Christian apartheid:
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The law also stipulated that every Lebanese citizen had to vote in the place where he lived before the civil war started in 1975. Yet approximately 80 percent of the more than 600,000 persons displaced by the war are Christians, according to the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in Lebanon. This put thousands of Christians at a serious disadvantage.
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According to former army commander Michel Aoun, in exile in France, "The new law establishes the political persecution of Christians and constitutes a law of apartheid."<ref>http://www.strategicnetwork.org/index.php?loc=kb&view=v&id=396&fto=1286&</ref></blockquote>
<b>Arab-Palestinians</b><br>It has been noted that "the Palestinian leadership practices both Islamic gender and religious apartheid as well as terrorism."<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/the-flotilla-of-fools-sets-sail-to-gaza/</ref><br>
The <b>Palestinian Authority</b> has long been discriminating against Christians, their human rights abused,<ref>http://www.jcpa.org/text/Christian-Persecution-Weiner.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict/articles/Imra-1997-10-30.asp</ref> including land theft.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=Vd0wOTmd_PUC&pg=PA160</ref> There's a routine of Palestinian denial of religious freedom. "Religious persecution and discrimination of non-Moslems is common."<ref>http://www.aish.com/jw/me/48883277.html</ref> Especially <i>since the time the PA has assumed control over Christian areas in the West Bank, the basic human rights of Christians in these areas have been made increasingly vulnerable,</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=mcOfAAAAMAAJ&dq=drastic</ref> and the case of Beleaguered Christians of the Palestinian-Controlled Areas,<ref>http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm</ref> has worsened since Y. Arafat's Islamization of Bethlehem.<ref>http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2002JAN/jan8.htm</ref>
<br>Arab Christians under Palestinian Authority, live in 'daily fear' and fear of retribution prevents speaking out.<ref>http://www.crosswalk.com/1459762/</ref> However, some <i>Bethlehem Christians break silence on Muslim oppression...
After many years... the truth has been revealed. Christians are fleeing every Muslim-majority territory because of the apartheid discrimination encouraged by Muslim sharia law. Land theft works because the testimony of non-Muslims is weighed less in every sharia court in the world.</i><ref>http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2211-Bethlehem-Christians-Break-Silence-on-Muslim-Oppression.html</ref>
Some call Christians "Endangered Species" in the West Bank and Gaza, following reports on the "human rights of Christians in Palestinian society."<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/endangered-species-0</ref>
<br>The Palestinian Authority treatment of Christians has been categorized as apartheid.<ref>http://www.hudson-ny.org/1120/what-about-the-arab-apartheid-part-ii</ref><br>
There's wide gender apartheid in Arab-Palestine,<ref>http://www.askisrael.org/facts/qpt.asp?fid=9</ref> women are under constant violent attacks, linked to discriminatory laws and traditional practices.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/middleeast/07palestinians.html</ref>
<br>The Islamist Hamas de-facto regime in Gaza has been categorized as real apartheid, which "discriminates openly against women, gays, Christians. It permits no dissent, no free speech, and no freedom of religion."<ref>http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/03/by_alan_m_dershowitz_every.html</ref><br>
From "Public Diplomacy in the Fight against Radical Islam - Jerusalem Summit"<blockquote>
In addition to... rampant gender apartheid that prevails throughout most Muslim society, there is an additional variant of pernicious and pervasive persecution - on the basis of faith and creed. This discrimination against nearly all non-Muslim faiths is nothing less than what can - and must - be termed creed apartheid.</blockquote>
Pointing to the fact that while The fate of Christians under Palestinian administration has declined, Israel's Arab Christian population grew.
<blockquote>Indeed, under the Palestinian regime, Christians also have to face policies of discrimination and intimidation, which are reducing the Christian population at an alarming rate and obliterating signs and symbols of Judeo-Christian heritage in the Holy Land . Documented research on the persecution of Christians by the Palestinian Authority includes social and economic discrimination; boycott and extortion of Christian businesses; violations of real property rights; crimes against Christian women; incitement by Palestinian Authority against Christians; and failure of the Palestinian security forces to protect Christians.
<ref>http://www.jerusalemsummit.org/eng/public_diplomacy.php</ref></blockquote>
PA's 'Ahmadi' moderate Muslims, face threats, constant intimidation
Their plight's entails also how Palestinian court forcibly divorces 'apostates.'
The PA clerics' decision to label them apostates puts them in danger. As the penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. Hence, they're "encouraging the cold-blooded murder of Ahmadis."<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137789</ref>
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"Ahmadi believers living in PA-controlled areas have been beaten and have had their property destroyed... the apostate label means they can be stripped of their rights in court." An example was given of an Ahmadi Muslim from Shechem who was ordered to divorce his wife and give up his property.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110120/ml-palestinians-shunned-sect/</ref><ref>http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/palestinian-court-forcibly-divorces-apostates</ref>
A victim said: "It's like we are still living in the Middle Ages," that they "are deciding whether you are a believer or not. Whether you'll go to heaven or hell - and whether you are an apostate."<br />
Followers of the Islamic Ahmadi Community are shunned by many mainstream Muslims because they recognize a 19th-century cleric as their prophet. A central tenet of Islam is that the Muhammad was the last prophet sent by Allah. Case in point: "The Palestinian court forcibly divorced a Ahmadi couple by "canceling their marriage registration, because they were no longer considered Muslims... That means that the couple have no chance of ever legalizing their marriage in the West Bank."<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110120/ml-palestinians-shunned-sect/</ref><ref>http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/palestinian-court-forcibly-divorces-apostates</ref>
<br>The Ahmadis who are so badly persecuted in pakistan and in Arab-Palestine, enjoy [only] Israel's free and equal society.
A Haifa prof. testifies: "The relations between the Haifa Ahmadis and Jews (and Christians and Moslems and Druse and Bahais) is warm and cordial." Futhermore: "Because of the cordial relations between Jews and Ahmadis in Israel, numerous Islamofascist web sites denounce the Ahmadis as Zionist agents."<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2010/06/07/muslim-infidels/</ref>
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In the Islamic Republic of <b>Iran</b>, religious minorities: Christians,<ref>http://www.cswusa.com/Countries/Iran.htm</ref><ref>http://www.jubileecampaign.co.uk/world/ira1.htm</ref> Jewish, and Zoroastrian, in reality of life, are described by a Christian human-rights group as nothing short of "religious apartheid." This apartheid manifests itself in blatant inequities.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=FBO_yr7_ZE0C&pg=PT44</ref>
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In 2011, as Iranian Christian pastor, Yousef Nadarkhani's life was in jeopardy, facing imminent execution, advocate J. Sekulow explained: <blockquote>one Iranian pastor described the situation as an unwritten “Apartheid” system like that which once governed a South Africa segregated along racial lines.
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Even an explicit "Apartheid" system would be preferable for providing regularity, that pastor said. But at present, Iranian Christians "don't know when they are going to start these waves of arrests."<ref>http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/iranian-pastors-life-still-in-jeopardy/</ref></blockquote>
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<blockquote>Iran's "Constitution makes it clear . . . that Christians have the right to accept their faith," but Christian face "a religious apartheid because the tendency is not to respect the rights of minorities, minorities are not considered citizens, it is worse than apartheid because in apartheid it was written that we have apartheid, but in Iran it is not written . . . but legally we are in apartheid."
<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/religious-right-now/post/working-to-save-the-life-of-a-christian-pastor-in-iran/2011/09/30/gIQApnLd9K_blog.html</ref></blockquote>
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As testified in the U.S. Congress (2004):<blockquote>
In Iran, those who believe in the Baha'i faith are forcibly repressed by the Iranian Government. They are denied the right to assemble and elect their religious officials, their property is confiscated and they are denied basic civil and legal rights. More than 200 Baha'is have been killed in Iran since 1989. Christians and Jews likewise face persecution in Iran, including discrimination, imprisonment, and death.
One Christian human rights groups describes the treatment of Christians and Jews as "Religious apartheid."<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=m5wLgC546hMC&pg=PA24523</ref></blockquote>
It has a record of suppressing human rights and persecution of religious minorities.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/world/slot1_081006.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin</ref> The Bahai have also been subject to religious persecution.<ref>http://www.bahai.org/article-1-8-3-7.html</ref><ref>http://www.bahai.org.au/scripts/WebObjects.exe/BNO.woa/wa/pages?page=28/64/EscalatingpersecutioninIran1</ref> It's armed wing in Lebanon, the Hezbollah used Christians as human shields.<ref>http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=2926M=</ref>
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Even in "moderate" '''Turkey''' non Muslims are listed as Foreigners<ref>http://www.bianet.org/english/politics/83696-state-regards-own-citizens-as-foreigners</ref> Non-Muslims remain second-class.<ref>http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-13948.html</ref>
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<b>Yemen</b>'s northern rebels al-Houthi, invoked jihad against Christians and Jews (in 2010),<ref>http://www.warsintheworld.com/?page=static1262443731,</ref> and were involved in hijacking Christian girls.<ref>http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10010071.htm</ref> They appear to be influenced by Iran.<ref>http://twocircles.net/2011may25/arab_awakening_turning_darker.html</ref> Houthi's Followers' are charged with "cruel apartheid against Yemeni Jews in Sa'ada," senseless harassment and persecution.<ref>http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=1185</ref> As a whole, Husayn al-Huthi's lectures mercilessly denigrate Jewish, Christian, and Zionist "conspiracies."</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=CNQJmdjcyS0C&pg=PA119</ref> In 2011, the UN berated "Yemeni rebels for recruiting child soldiers."<ref>http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/un-berates-yemeni-rebels-for-recruiting-child-soldiers</ref>
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Asian Islamic Apartheid:<br>
Entails religious discrimination and racist policies, actions.<br>
<b>Indonesia</b> has a long bloody history of persecution of Christians, and ethnic cleansing the Chinese.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=cNUEAQAAIAAJ&dq=chinese</ref>
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Activists for minorities' human rights speak out on the plight of Chinese today. The SBKRI (Surat Bukti Kewarganegaraan Republik Indonesia) or the Proof of Indonesian Citizenship is a form of apartheid ( segregation) or state racial discrimination.<ref>http://centerforminoritygenderandhumanrights.org/archives/2009/08/13/human-rights-and-the-chinese-in-indonesia/</ref>
Author writes about "Social apartheid In Indonesia," <i>social control and efforts to intervene in civil society can be detected in the operation of surveillance systems, such as the obligation to have an identity card (KTP). A KTP requires a birth certificate.</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=hvLxxB-3WEcC&pg=PA475</ref>
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Its apartheid and horrific ethnic cleansing [punishable by death] of the West Papuans were revealed. "It was like apartheid. Indonesia's transmigration policy has resulted in thousands of Indonesians being shipped over to West Papua," says documentary.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/8119922/West-Papuan-rebels-struggle-for-freedom.html</ref>
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The "Social Science Research Network," via Indonesian Institute of Sciences, published (in 2006): "Beyond a Formal Legal Property System: Property Rights on Land, Land Apartheid and Development in Indonesia."
It brings the attention to the facts such as:<blockquote>The main causes of rural poverty, include: no access to land, due to land apartheid or State's excessive control over land; they have no other skill except to farm, which is unattainable since they have no land; and they definitely have no capital. Take Indonesia as an example. Research has shown that more than 75% of the poor in Indonesia are living in the rural areas, and more than 60% of the Indonesian poor work in the rural agricultural sector...<br>
Land Apartheid in Indonesia: Investment and Corruption<br>
The New Order government of Indonesia under the former President Soeharto (1966-1998), was the longest ruling regime in Indonesian history. It imposed many influential policies. In general, the impact of the New Order economic development 20 has shifted the subsistent economy from an agricultural to a modern economy, characterized by the increase in trade, industry and services. Trade liberalization in the globalization era, in the 1980s and 1990s, has resulted in individuals or groups of people having dominant roles in the Indonesian economy, nationally or locally. As a consequence, land distribution has never been equal.<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=926636</ref></blockquote>
<b>Malaysia</b> is described as among <i>'deeply divided societies,'</i> for its sharp racial/ethnic preference.
<ref>http://www.jstor.org/stable/3876172</ref><ref>http://www.economist.com/node/13961677?story_id=13961677</ref> One of Indonesia's leading economists put it <i>50 years of ethnic apartheid.</i><ref>http://www.insideindonesia.org/edition-95/learning-from-malaysias-mistakes</ref>
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Some spoke out (April 2011) against resurging racial supremacy, 'Knocking Malaysia Back To Days Of Apartheid With "1Melayu 1Bumiputera"' On the fate of anyone who is not 'pure' ethnically Malaysian.<ref>http://www.malaysianmirror.com/media-buzz-detail/4-letters/52985-knocking-</ref>
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<b>Pakistan</b> has been described: <i>the land of religious apartheid and jackboot justice</i> in a report to the UN committee against racial discrimination, by "Asian Centre for Human Rights"
Noted is: "The practice and patterns of discrimination against "non-Muslims," as <i>Pakistan is all about appeasing the majority Muslims at the costs of the religious minorities. The religious minorities like the Ahmadis, Christians and Hindus.</i><ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=4mvaAAAAMAAJ&dq=non-muslims</ref><br>
UN body accused <i>Pakistani govt of 'religious apartheid.</i><ref>http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C08%5C09%5Cstory_9-8-2007_pg7_60</ref><br>
Author S. Malik<blockquote>
Pakistan has laws, supported by its Constitution and endorsed by its courts that forbid non-Muslim citizens from seeking nation's top jobs, such as, president, prime minister, head of the Senate, army chief, etc.
Pakistan's non-Muslim citizens are not listed along with Muslim names, lest the Muslim names get denigrated. They cannot vote for a candidate from their own constituency. They must vote only for non-Muslim candidates running against a few seats reserved in the legislature for the country's all non-Msulims...
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It is a perverted system that has its genesis in bigotry and hatred of non- Muslims. It is apartheid, Pakistani style. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=R3lk2QOy6YUC&pg=PT6</ref></blockquote>
Under "Apartheid in Pakistan," the <i>WashingtonPost</i> wrote about the official discrimnatory status and rights that exist in Pakistan: "The separate electorate system for Muslims and non-Muslims remained in place even after Pakistan returned to a democratic form of government." And even about Shia VS Ahmadi: "the systematic persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan... religio-political apartheid directed at Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan." The official discrimnatory status and rights that exist in Pakistan.<ref>http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2011/01/apartheid_in_pakistan.html</ref><br>
In 2010, Agenzia Fides reported that Christians are being "treated like Animals in Pakistan," the persecution of Christians is worsening along with the growing Islamization of Pakistan. The representative of the Pakistani Bishops' Conference called on the United States <i>to raise the issue of human rights violations against Christians</i>
"In Pakistan, Christians suffer and see their lives in danger every day. In some areas, believers are treated like animals, in slavery or subjected to harassment, violence, and forced conversions," he said.<ref>http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=26353&lan=eng</ref><br><br>
Regarding Islamic '''Gender Apartheid,''' in the words of a writer/activist: <i>Islam has been the largest practitioner of both religious and gender "apartheid" known to humankind.</i><ref>http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Palestinization+lesbian+activism/4480785/story.html</ref> Across the Arab world, Arab women are victims of Islamic gender apartheid.<ref>http://europenews.dk/en/node/19365</ref><ref>http://www.aina.org/news/20100521005202.htm</ref> Among those that stand out are: Iran,<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142698</ref> and Saudi Arabia, the <i>tyrannical kingdom practices gender apartheid to an extreme,</i> in contrast with Israel which is so well equal and mixed.<ref>http://www.hudson-ny.org/1096/lets-have-a-real-apartheid-education-week</ref>
====PALESTINE ARAB ISLAMIC APARTHEID====
Exposing the 'real Apartheid,' a writer wrote in: "The Real Apartheid State"
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The "Palestine" envisaged by the UN is an apartheid state in the making. Israel Apartheid Week is the time to publicize that fact.
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During Israel Apartheid Week, orchestrated on campuses around the globe, the time has come to go on the attack, and to put the shoe on the other foot.
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In 1948, Apartheid laws institutionalized racial discrimination in South Africa & denied human rights to 25 million
The time has come to go on the attack, and to put the shoe on the other foot.
Black citizens of South Africa.
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In 1948, the Arab League of Nations applied the Apartheid model to Palestine, and declared that Jews must be denied rights as citizens of Israel, while declaring a total state of war to eradicate the new Jewish entity, a war that continues today.<br>
In 1948, at the directive of the Arab League of Nations, Jordan devastated the vestiges of Jewish life from Judea and Samaria, and burned all schules in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
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In 1948, member states of the Arab League of Nations began to strip the human rights of Jews and to expel entire Jewish communities who had resided in their midst for centuries
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In the mid 1960's, The Arab League of Nations spawned the PLO to organize local residents to continue the war to deny Jewish rights the right to live as free citizens in the land of Israel - well before Israel took over Judea, Samaria, and the Old City of Jerusalem in the defensive war waged by Israel in 1967.
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And since its inception in 1994, the newly constituted Palestinian Authority, created by the PLO, has prepared the rudiments of a Palestinian State, modeled on the rules of Apartheid and institutionalized discrimination:
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1. The right of Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendents to return to Arab villages lost in 1948 will be protected by the new Palestinian state.
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2. While 20% of Israel's citizens are Arabs, not one Jew will be allowed to live in a Palestinian State
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3. Anyone who sells land to a Jew will be liable to the death penalty in the Palestinian State
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4. Those who murder Jews are honored on all official Palestinian media outlets.
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5. Palestinian Authority maps prepared for the Palestinian State depict all of Palestine under Palestinian rule
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6. PA maps of Jerusalem for the Palestinian State once again delete the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem
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7. Recent PA documents claim all of Jerusalem for the future Palestinian State.
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8. The right of Jewish access to Jewish holy places is to be denied in the new Palestinian State.
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9. The Draft Palestinian State Constitution denies juridical status to any religion except for Islam.
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10. No system which protects human rights or civil liberties will exist in a Palestinian State
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If that is not a formula for a totalitarian apartheid state of Palestine, then what is?
<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9335</ref>
<ref>http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=3918&q=1</ref></blockquote>
The AJC asks:<blockquote>which state-Israel or the proposed Palestinian state-more resembles the bone- chilling bigotry of apartheid? While (as Israeli human rights organizations have documented and the Israeli Supreme Court has addressed) there are indeed instances of discrimination against Arabs in Israeli society, Arabs are citizens of Israel with the right to vote and participate in its democracy, and are even elected to the Knesset (Israel's parliament). Israel is one of the few countries in the world where Arabs are allowed to vote, and one of the fewer still where Arab women have this right. Where is the Palestinian willingness to extend similar political rights and protections to Jews who live in settlements that will one day be part of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza (in areas such as Hebron and Shechem [Nablus] where Jews have lived throughout history until they were forced out-many in 1948-only to return after 1967)?<ref>http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=838459&ct=1102827</ref></blockquote>
From 'Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East':<blockquote>
The nineteen years of Arab rule of East Jerusalem [1948-1967] and the attendant desecration of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries as well as the inaccessibility of Jewish holy sites during that period has taught Israelis to seriously distrust promises on that score. Mahmoud Abbas' recent statement that no Israelis would be permitted to stay on Palestinian land proves that not much has changed in the Palestinian view of the relationship. It's Palestine that would be a racist, apartheid state, not Israel which has a 20% Arab citizenship and Arab Members of the Knesset, as well as Arab members of the cabinet.<ref>http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3800</ref></blockquote>
In 2004, as Arab Palestinians pushed the international community to force Israel to evacuate Jews, a writer asked "Creating a Palestinian Apartheid State?" clarifying: "Why does the Palestinian "Peace Plan" call for the expulsion of so many Jews from their homes?"<ref>http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4043.html</ref> Stan Goodenough
(2004): "the establishment of racist, anti-Jewish areas" intended to "be the judenrein State of Palestine."<ref>http://www.jnewswire.com/article/119</ref>
Under title "Judenrein palestine," R. Neuwirth wrote: <blockquote>The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, are a litmus test of Arab intentions. Why can't Jews live in their historic homeland if there really is peace? After all, there are 1.2 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel in the one Jewish country in the world, while there are only a handful of Jews living in any of the 22 Arab countries. In fact, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, not only is it illegal for Jews to be citizens, they are not even allowed to live there.
Therefore, instead of Israel being the "apartheid state" in the region, it is the Arab world that is not only apartheid, but also racist and religiously exclusive.<ref>http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1073431322.php</ref></blockquote>
C. Morse wrote about the plan "supporting the racist and apartheid idea of expelling 200000 Jews from the disputed territories leaving the area Judenrein."<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=OvV69F3yLukC&pg=PA74</ref>
In Y.Z. Bloom's words: "Anyone who asserts that it is illegal for a Jew to live in Judea and Samaria just because he is a Jew, is no better than an advocate of apartheid." (referring to such policies like the Jordanians', Arab-Palestinians', etc.)<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=tlCHQ6LU988C&pg=PA106</ref>
Writing in YNet, Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi "Endorsing Palestinian apartheid" asked: "Why does world accept notion of Palestinian state free of Jews?" and decries on "accepting the morality of establishing an apartheid, racist, Palestinian state which openly and proudly states its intention of being Judenrein."<ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3739588,00.html</ref>
A native of S. Africa defines the Arab-Palestinian regime, "racist, apartheid, Judenrein policy of the PA."<ref>http://israeldefender.com/?paged=10</ref>
Author David Solway:<blockquote>
We must also bear in mind that Palestinians living in Israel will naturally keep their Israeli citizenship, but the new Palestine would be effectively judenrein, or Jew-free (another reason why Palestine would not be a genuine democracy but a racist and apartheid state)...<ref> http://books.google.com/books?id=DYXmAAAAIAAJ&q=judenrein</ref></blockquote>
The Palestinian Authority's prohibition to sell land to non-Muslims<ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=mcOfAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sennott</ref> created an uproar, and charging of Apartheid practiced by Arab Palestinian leadership/regime<ref>http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=205378</ref><ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/exclusives.html</ref><ref>http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275571.html</ref><ref>http://www.viciousbabushka.com/2009/04/who-is-the-apartheid-state.html</ref> came about with surfacing -again- of Arab-Palestinian "Death penalty for those who sell land to Jews."<ref>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPTalkback%2FCommonFrame&tbId=1238345346389&tbNum=51&type=Show</ref> It was branded racist and resembling real apartheid.<ref>http://www.afsi.org/MEDIA/newsLinks/shockers/9.htm</ref>
In 1996, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mufti, Ikremah Sabri, issued a fatwa (religious decree), banning the sale of Arab and Muslim property to Jews. Anyone who violated the order was to be killed. Since then, there have been multiple murders and torture the Mufti also forbade Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim cemetery.<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/exclusives.html</ref><ref>http://christianactionforisrael.org/medigest/jul97/hitsquad.html</ref>
Palestinian Authority's mufti in Jerusalem, Ikremah Sabri, has barred all Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim cemetery.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498874080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</ref>
In 2004, Palestinian who allegedly sold land to Jews killed, as PA Mufti of Jerusalem issued a 'fatwa' (religious decree) several years earlier prohibiting Palestinians from selling land to Jews.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097136933331</ref> In 2006 there was a publicized case where a Fatah gunman murdered
a Jericho man over home sale.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20060415154636/http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498851964&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</ref>
From JPost's C. Glick (2006): <blockquote>Since 1994, dozens of Arab Israelis and PA residents have been murdered on suspicion of selling land to Jews. Abu al-Hawa's murder - like those that preceded it - tells us several important things about Palestinian society. It tells us that like the PA today, any successor Palestinian state will be a racist, apartheid state where laws will be promulgated based solely on race and religious origin. Jews will be denied all basic human rights and Arabs who peacefully coexist with Jews will be accused of treason and made targets for murder.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070815223617/http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498874080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</ref><ref>http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2006/04/why-is-muhammad-abu-alhawa-dea.php</ref></blockquote>
In 2009, Palestinian Authority military court sentenced a Hevron Arab to death by hanging for the "crime" of selling land to Jews in Judea and Samaria.<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131090</ref> As critics phrased it: "US-Funded Racist Apartheid Government Will Execute Man Who Sold Land To Enemy Religion."<ref>http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275571.html</ref>
In 2010, PA affirmed death penalty for land sales to Jews.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=188604</ref>
In an article titled: "A Wrong Turn in East Jerusalem," Charles Bybelezer wrote (July, 2011) of real life cases, what happens to a Jew that accidently gets into the Arab "Palestinian" area of East Jerusalem, the raw danger of lynching is imminent. That is Jerusalem we are talking about, the historic capital of Jews:<blockquote>
Prior to 1967, the year Israel liberated Jerusalem from Jordanian apartheid-rule, Jews were not permitted to enter into their illegally occupied biblical capital. Jordan's "No Jews Allowed" policy meant that no Jew had prayed at Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall - the last standing remnant of King Solomon's temple - during the previous twenty years.
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Today, in East Jerusalem, controlled by Arab Palestinians and determined to be, according to Western powers, the capital of "Palestine," the situation is worse. Under Jordanian authority, Jews were banned from Jerusalem; under Palestinian rule, Jews are welcome, so that they may be summarily executed upon arrival.</blockquote>
And tells the shocking story of a young man that went astray, when his faulty GPS by-mistake navigated him into the Arab area, how his life was immediately threatened. As he was attacked by dozens of 'ordinary' Arabs throwing rocks and cement blocks into his car, he was rescued by a Mr. Darwish (who rushed him out of the Arab village -altogether- fearing his family's safety from the attackers), a civil servant, who, as a result, paid dearly for his political career and labeled a "traitor," for rescuing the innocent Jew<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/04/a-wrong-turn-in-east-jerusalem/</ref>
At the horrindes demand by Arab-Palestinian leaders to drive out all Jews from land it sees as part of a future state, Ynet decried "PA's fallacious premises":
<i>If Israel – which permits its Arab citizens (citizens!) to elect representatives to the Knesset and provides them with full health care and other rights – is "racist" for insisting that the nation must be recognized as having a Jewish character, what, precisely does this make the PA – which seeks to totally drive out every Jew from the land it envisions to be part of a future state?
How long will this intolerable inequity of demands fail to be noted by those who are promoting that "two-state solution"?</i><ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3703694,00.html</ref>
Another writer decried: "Beware Palestinian apartheid," as the Arab-Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas seeks to adopt <i>racist policy based on ethnic cleansing of Jews.</i><ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3929819,00.html</ref>
A writer laments (2011) that: "the price of creating a Muslim Palestinian state is the expulsion - the ethnic cleansing - of all Jews from its proposed territory. In other words, it is even worse for the Jews as a new Arab state called Palestine will be judenrein - the forcible removal of Jewish villages and their inhabitants. And this unthinkable outrage of ethnic cleansing, racism and Arab apartheid will be sanctioned by President Obama and the immoral United Nations under cover of the misnamed peace process."<ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9258/pub_detail.asp</ref>
R. Daniel M. Zucker wrote about free Israel VS apartheid Palestine in an article (July 5, 2011) titled "Palestine vs. Israel: Pinning the 'Apartheid' Label on the Right Donkey"
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In recent years, Palestinian propagandists and their international supporters have attempted to brand Israel with the label of "apartheid," the despicable South African policy of racial discrimination that reduced the African non-white population to a decidedly inferior position akin to chattel. In many international circles, this political charlatanism has succeeded in giving the Middle East's one and only democracy a black eye. However, the reality is quite the opposite of what the Palestinians peddle to a very gullible world.
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In Israel, contrary to the Palestinians' fictional portrait of the Jewish state, not only are Arabs citizens with equal rights and protections under the law, but Arabic is an official second language. And many Arabs serve in a variety of positions in the government, including Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament) Majalli Wahabi of the Kadimah Party, as well as officers in the armed forces like Lieutenant Hesham Aborea and police such as Deputy Inspector-General Jamal Hakroush, deputy commander of the traffic division. Arabs are free to live anywhere in Israel, although most choose to live within their own ethnic, cultural, and religious communities. Arab students are welcome in the nation's universities and colleges and serve as professionals in all areas of the national life.
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By contrast, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stated that no Jews will be permitted to live in a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Christian Arab community has shrunk drastically in the last eighteen years since the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority took over in the West Bank -- to the point where today, Beit Jalla, once a Christian town outside Jerusalem, is without a Christian population, and Bethlehem, once the most Christian of cities in the Holy Land, is now peopled with a Muslim majority. So, too, do Palestinian Christians face a determined campaign of forced conversion to Islam by the Hamas government of Gaza, which permits only one Jew to reside in Gaza: the five-year captive kidnapped Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit.
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So if the term "apartheid" still refers to unequal treatment under the law, forced segregation, or outright exclusion on religious, racial, or ethnic grounds, then it's the Palestinian donkey that should be pinned with the "apartheid" label. Palestine -- where the president and the prime minister hold their offices without benefit of popular national elections, where non-Arabs are prohibited from owning land, and where the sale of land to a Jew is a capital crime.
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Of course, the Palestinian BDS movement doesn't want the world to pay attention to any of these facts, and its international supporters will conveniently ignore the evidence, but anyone with a modicum of intelligence and a reasonably open mind will want to seek a Palestinian response to my charges.</blockquote>
And concludes with a call to the leadership of 'Palestinian apartheid': <i>Nabil Sha'ath and Saeb Erekat: the world is awaiting your response, lo sema-hát (if you please), Inshallah.</i><ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/palestine_vs_israel_pinning_the_apartheid_label_on_the_right_donkey.html</ref></blockquote>
V. Sharpe calls the attention to: <i>What is also overlooked is that Hamas and Fatah demand that all Jews be ethnically cleansed from, and driven out of, their Jewish towns and villages within Judea and Samaria. In other words, Apartheid: Arab style.</i><ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9452/pub_detail.asp</ref>
Israel's Prime Minister B. Netanyahu in his address to the United Nations (on Sep. 23, 2011)
<blockquote>The Jewish state of Israel will always protect the rights of all its minorities, including the more than 1 million Arab citizens of Israel. I wish I could say the same thing about a future Palestinian state, for as Palestinian officials made clear the other day — in fact, I think they made it right here in New York - they said the Palestinian state won't allow any Jews in it. They'll be Jew-free - Judenrein. That's ethnic cleansing. There are laws today in Ramallah that make the selling of land to Jews punishable by death. That's racism. And you know which laws this evokes.<ref>http://www.aish.com/jw/me/Netanyahus_Speech_at_the_UN.html</ref></blockquote>
Another wave of outrage at "Palestinian" official apartheid and judenrein (ethnic cleansing) nature, came about in Sep. 2011, when Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ambassador to the U.S., Maen Areikat openly declared that a "Palestine" State should be free of Jews. <i>Elliott Abrams, a former US National Security Council official, said in response that according to such plans, Palestine will be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews.</i> Justfiably, Israel's minsiter Y. Edelstein said: "After an unending de-legitimization campaign and attempts to brand Israel an apartheid state, it appears it is the Palestinians who seek apartheid."<ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4122473,00.html</ref> The shocking surprising part was also, that he didn't even realize the [real Apartheid] gravity<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/judenrein-palestine_593537.html</ref> of his (statement and) stand. Israeli foreign minsiter called for embassies to <i>protest PA Apartheid State</i><ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147927</ref>. (The notorious anti-Israel "Israeli" paper Haaretz sanitized <i>Areikat's No Jews Remark.</i><ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/257718_Haaretz_Headline_Sanitizes_Are</ref>) Areikat's declaration means of course: <i>It would not just an "apartheid" state - it would be a state whose very basis would be the ethnic cleansing of every single Jewish man, woman and child...</i><ref>http://europenews.dk/en/node/4732</ref>
=====Arab Islamic apartheid against Christians Vs the only free State -in the region- Israel=====
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Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where the Christian population is thriving instead of disappearing. Between 1948 and 1998, Israel's Christians grew fourfold, from 34,000
to 130,000.</i><ref>http://www.sayyestopeace.org/Hot%20Topics.asp</ref>
Eli E. Hertz: "Only in Israel Does Freedom of Religion Flourish." He quotes:
"Moslems have enjoyed, under Israeli control, the very freedom which Jews were denied during Jordanian occupation." Judge, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, 1968, He elaborates:
"In Israel, both Jews and non-Jews are free to practice their faiths freely and openly on individual and institutional levels. That contrasts sharply with neighboring Arab states, where intolerance is the norm and the number of non-Muslims is constantly shrinking. The Palestinian Authority's conduct - including the destruction of Jewish sites and violations of the holiness and neutrality of Christian ones - raises serious doubts as to whether the PA can be a trusted custodian of sacred sites in the Holy Land - Jewish or Christian."<ref>http://www.mythsandfacts.org/media/user/documents/freedom-of-religion.pdf</ref>
Philadelphia Daily News' C. M. Flowers wrote (at the heels of the so-called "Arab spring," Sep. 2011): "The very real persecution of Christians in the Arab world"
<blockquote>If the "Arab Spring" bathed the Middle East in some much-needed sunlight, there's at least one group that sees ominous clouds on the not-so-distant horizon. That would be the region's embattled and apprehensive Christians, who've lived a kind of double life for many decades.
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While nominally citizens of the countries they inhabit, most non-Muslims, the majority of whom are Christian, are treated as second-class members of society because so many governments in that part of the world adhere to sharia, and anyone familiar with the Islamic legal system knows that it codifies discrimination.
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For example, while Christians are free (and in some cases pressured) to convert to Islam, Muslims are barred from converting to Christianity. In a notorious case now in the headlines, Yusuf Naderkhani, a Christian pastor, has been sentenced to death in Iran for refusing to renounce his faith, to which he'd converted as a teen.
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...an Egyptian Christian who petitioned the government to allow his daughters to receive a Christian education was forced into hiding after receiving death threats when his request was made public.
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So Christians in the Middle East can be forgiven if they don't embrace the Arab Spring with as much fervor as their Muslim brothers and sisters because - to put it bluntly - the devil they know is at least more predictable than the devil they don't - which is, without a doubt, Islamic fundamentalism.
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And in many parts of the Middle East, that's the only form of Islam there is, despite what you hear from organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations.</blockquote>
She goes on in explaining how Christians are effected when Arab-Islamic countries under "secular" tyrants are toppled.
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While Christians were as oppressed as the next citizen in countries when secular tyrants like Hosni Mubarak, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein ruled the roost, at least they weren't prey to the sectarian hostility rampant in other places such as Iran and Afghanistan, hotbeds of jihadism.
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It's true that Egyptian Christians were always treated poorly by the government, but so was the Islamic Brotherhood, which was crushed into submission by the iron will of Mubarak and his military junta. Christians were merely as persecuted - or as tolerated - as any other group that the government didn't like.
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But now, as the tyrants topple like dominoes, Christians have good reason to worry that they will be unique and tragic victims of this Arab awakening.
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To its great and unexpected credit, the New York Times actually publicized that fear this week in a front-page, above-the-fold article about Syrian Christians who are ambivalent about the campaign to overthrow Hafez al-Assad.
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The reason for this ambivalence is simple: Like Mubarak and Hussein, Assad continues the proud tradition of secular despotism, persecuting those who wear the cross, the hijab and the kippah with equal fervor. Those who say religion is the root of all evil in an attempt to maintain the devout wall between church and state conveniently overlook secular societies such as Syria and Baathist Iraq that terrorized their citizens in a religious vacuum.
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However, they would be right about one thing: Godless regimes generally treat all victims equally, whereas those founded on a specific creed play favorites. And while it's hard to find very many nations where Christianity is the official state religion, and fewer still where they persecute nonbelievers, <font color=red>there's really only one country in the Middle East that provides equal rights to all its citizens, of whatever creed: Israel.</font>
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In fact, if you speak to Israeli Arabs, they will tell you that, while they may disagree with government policy in Palestine, they're not afraid to bow toward Mecca in the streets of Jerusalem, or attend Christian services in Bethlehem. In short, they're not forced to live their faith in the shadows.
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That's clearly not the case in much of the Arab world, and Syrian Christians know it. So do their Lebanese Maronite friends, who've spent the last decade watching with increasing anxiety as Hezbollah and its Islamist members have infiltrated Beirut, making it difficult even... be seen going into a Catholic church...<ref>http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-30/news/30229162_1_christian-pastor-egyptian-christian-syrian-christians</ref></blockquote>
====ARAB-ISLAMIC BIGOTRY [ANTI-SEMITISM] IN THE WEST====
As the ''Wall Street Journal'' points out (2009): "Europe Reimports Jew Hatred." Police arrests Muslims targeting Jews. That <i>The Islamist variation of Jew hatred is now being reimported to Europe.</i><ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123180033807075069.html</ref>
Even such liberal outlets as the BBC were forced to admit to the [new] anti-Semitism in Europe. <i>Part of the problem is the Middle East situation, which is not as simple to understand as people like to think. For example, in Arabic you don't talk about Israelis you talk about "the Jew" or "Yahud".</i><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3234264.stm</ref>
That Anti-Semitism 'on rise in Europe' (2004), with increased anti-Jewish attacks.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3586543.stm</ref><ref>http://vimeo.com/17483894</ref>
====Notes====
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[[Essay:anti-Israel_bigotry:_the_Apartheid_slur|Anti-Israel bigotry: the Apartheid slur - Main]]
=====North Africa=====
=====North Africa=====
<font size=1>[Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco]</font>
<font size=1>[Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco]</font>