Israel/Palestine

Mosby

(16,328 posts) Thu Feb 27, 2014, 01:54 PM Feb 2014

Hamas: Teaching Human Rights is Against Palestinian, Islamic Culture

Palestinian schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip have been denied the opportunity to learn about human rights after the Hamas government determined that such a subject "dangerously contravenes Palestinian and Islamic culture."

Hamas's announcement came in response to an attempt by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to include a course on human rights in schools run by the agency in the Gaza Strip.

The UNRWA bid drew strong condemnations from the Hamas government, whose representatives accused the international agency of seeking to "brainwash" Palestinian children.

Mutasame al-Minawi, a senior official with the Hamas-run Ministry of Education, explained that the main reason why his government was opposed to the human rights subject being taught in Palestinian schools is because it "ignores the nakba [catastrophe] of the Palestinian people, seeks to scrap the right of return for Palestinian refugees [to Israel] and promotes the culture of peaceful resistance and submission as a way of restoring our rights."

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4192/human-rights-palestinian-islamic-culture

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Hamas: Teaching Human Rights is Against Palestinian, Islamic Culture (Original Post) Mosby Feb 2014 OP

Islamic culture is against human rights? aquart Feb 2014 #1

Lots of right wing bullshit being posted here today. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2014 #2

A lot of "shoot the messenger" logical fallacies thrown around DU today. Mosby Feb 2014 #5

Bullshit. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2014 #6

I have used this source for a while Mosby Feb 2014 #7

Alan Dershowitz is a neocon in democrat clothing. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2014 #8

Dershowitz endorsed and voted for Obama. Mosby Feb 2014 #9

Torture isn't liberal. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2014 #10

The President of the Gatestone Institute is a bigot. ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2014 #3

I wonder how some schools.. stillcool Feb 2014 #4

aquart

(69,014 posts)

1. Islamic culture is against human rights?

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 01:58 PM

Feb 2014

Go back and read the Koran, creeps.

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,869 posts)

2. Lots of right wing bullshit being posted here today.

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 01:59 PM

Feb 2014

The Gatestone Institute, formerly Stonegate Institute and Hudson New York, is a think tank based in New York City. The organization is chaired by John R. Bolton

More information on your Gatesone Institute......

Gatestone Institute, a spin-off of the Hudson Institute where right-wingers (along with Alan Dershowitz) champion hawkish, often "pro-Israel" policies and, not infrequently, rattle off Islamophobic blogposts. (Rhode also serves as a board member of the Islamophobic film production group, Clarion Fund.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/12/militarist-islamophobe-with-militarist-name-attacks-muslims-for-militarist-names.html

Could you Israel at any cost supporters at least try to hide your right wing bias?

Mosby

(16,328 posts)

5. A lot of "shoot the messenger" logical fallacies thrown around DU today.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:24 PM

Feb 2014

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,869 posts)

6. Bullshit.

Reply to Mosby (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:27 PM

Feb 2014

Don't give me that "just the messenger" nonsense. You would be freaking out if someone posted a link to David Duke or Stormfront to back up their anti Israel sentiment (and rightfully so).

You posted a link to a right-wing think tank hoping no one would notice, well someone did notice. Pity for you.

Mosby

(16,328 posts)

7. I have used this source for a while

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:42 PM

Feb 2014

I follow Khaled Abu Toameh, a reporter/writer in Israel, and have posted articles from him in the past using this source. His stuff is only available on a couple sites.

This essay I posted recently was written by a prominent Democrat:

Ten reasons why the BDS movement is immoral and hinders peace

1. The BDS movement immorally imposes the entire blame for the continuing Israeli occupation and settlement policy on the Israelis. It refuses to acknowledge the historical reality that on at least three occasions, Israel offered to end the occupation and on all three occasions, the Palestinian leadership, supported by its people, refused to accept these offers. In 1967, I played a small role in drafting UN Security Council Resolution 242 that set out the formula for ending the occupation in exchange for recognition of Israel's right to exist in peace. Israel accepted that Resolution, while the Palestinians, along with all the Arab nations, gathered in Khartoum and issued their three famous "nos:" No peace, no negotiation, no recognition. There were no efforts to boycott, sanction or divest from these Arab naysayers. In 2000-2001, Israel's liberal Prime Minister Ehud Barak, along with American President Bill Clinton, offered the Palestinians statehood, and the end of the occupation. Yasser Arafat rejected this offer—a rejection that many Arab leaders considered a crime against the Palestinian people. In 2007, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians an even better deal, an offer to which they failed to respond. There were no BDS threats against those who rejected Israel's peace offers. Now there are ongoing peace negotiations in which both parties are making offers and imposing conditions. Under these circumstances, it is immoral to impose blame only on Israel and to direct a BDS movement only against the nation state of the Jewish people, that has thrice offered to end the occupation in exchange for peace.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113457865

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,869 posts)

8. Alan Dershowitz is a neocon in democrat clothing.

Reply to Mosby (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:51 PM

Feb 2014

He lost my respect when he advocated for torture. He hasn't been a liberal in many years.

Mosby

(16,328 posts)

9. Dershowitz endorsed and voted for Obama.

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 03:39 PM

Feb 2014

Your engaging in character assassination because he doesn't meet your definition of a Liberal/Progressive.

You got any comment about the content of the OP?

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,869 posts)

10. Torture isn't liberal.

Reply to Mosby (Reply #9)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 03:57 PM

Feb 2014

Neither is defending George Zimmerman. Neither is working for a right wing think tank. He voted for Obama but rails against his appointees.

You're way too transparent. Try a little harder. Or at least defend Israel from the left (if that's possible anymore).

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,869 posts)

3. The President of the Gatestone Institute is a bigot.

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:04 PM

Feb 2014

Philanthropist Nina Rosenwald has used her millions to cement the alliance between the pro-Israel lobby and the Islamophobic fringe.

http://www.thenation.com/article/168374/sugar-mama-anti-muslim-hate#

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

4. I wonder how some schools..

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:09 PM

Feb 2014

In this country do at teaching human rights...for some.

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