Separate and Unequal
Apartheid \ ə-pärt’hīt’, -hāt’\ n.
A policy of segregation and social and economic discrimination by one group over another group. Separation.
[Afrikaans : Dutch apart, separate (from French à part, apart; see apart) + Dutch -heid, -hood.]
Apartheid is a Dutch Afrikaaner word that describes the institutionalized racist and segregated system that existed in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Under Apartheid, a system of legalized racial segregation and discrimination existed where the minority white population, which held all legal, political and administrative power, suppressed the human and civil rights of the majority black population.
Israeli police raid Al Aqsa compound
The American Muslims for Palestine, a national grassroots education organization, denounces in the harshest possible terms the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound by members of the Israeli military on Sunday.
The Al Aqsa Mosque Compound, also known as Haram al-Sharif or the Noble Sanctuary, houses Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. More than 200 Israeli forces and police stormed the compound early Sunday, injuring at least 20 Palestinians who were among those protecting Al Aqsa from Jewish threats of takeover during the Jewish holiday of Purim, according to published reports. Soldiers used rubber-coated bullets and tear gas against the Palestinians. A 40-year-old woman, Fatima Al-Barsi, suffered a broken leg when Israeli soldiers attacked her as she was trying to enter the mosque, according to Maan News Agency.
AMP condemns Israeli requisition of Islamic holy sites
(PALOS HILLS, IL 02/25/10) – In its latest move to illegally annex more Palestinian land, Israel this week announced it was adding two Islamic shrines to its historic registry list.
Under the guise of ‘protecting’ historic religious sites, Israel on Monday announced officials were adding al-Haram al-Ibrahimi in al-Khalil (Hebron) and Bilal ibn Ribah in Bethlehem to the registry of historic places. The Israeli government calls these sites the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb, respectively. The bodies of the ProphetsIbrahim, Yacub and Isaak are believed to be buried in the al-Ibrahimi mosque.
AMP chairman wins prestigious campus award
Dr. Hatem Bazian, chairman and cofounder of the American Muslims for Palestine, has received the prestigious William Sloane Coffin Award for exhibiting “moral courage in the face of injustice,” at the University of California, Berkeley.
The award honors recipients for their moral leadership tied to the campus community, in honor of Coffin, who died in 2006. Coffin, chaplain at Yale University (1958-75), was a respected moral voice and leader on...
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