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UPDATE: Our most effective action as Americans is to join with our American Muslim brothers and sisters in a time of spiritual renewal and rebirth as we rediscover our theological union and commonality !
         AMERICA NEEDS GOD !   AMERICA NEEDS ISLAM
                   AND ALL OF OUR MANY FAITH TRADITIONS !

From: "rhett smith" <rhett.smith@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Help Change US Policy toward Middle East
  I am proposing an 'Emergency PRAY-IN' to be held immediately in San Antonio whereby Muslims and people of all religious faiths throughout Texas can join us as we pray to deliver our community from John Hagee and his 'ministry of Hate',   We would like for Americans everywhere to know that Texas is more than John Hagee country,...that our state of Texas is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious community, and we are so proud that Muslims and people of all faiths have immigrated to Texas!                      If you can take a moment to respond to this email.....
   It is so crucial now that 'neo-conservative' Congressmen not be allowed to continue their 'un-Holy War', with the help of John Hagee, in the Holy Land...
                            Thank You and God Bless You,
                              Rhett Smith


The following is a letter to the editor written by MAS President Dr.
Esam Omeish in response to President Bush comment about slamic
Fascism.? This letter was published in the Washington Post on Friday, August
18.

STEREOTYPES AND SENSE ON COUNTER TERRORISM

August 18, 2006

When he commented on the arrest of a handful of British Muslims accused
of plotting to blow up U.S.-bound civilian aircraft ["Plot to Bomb
U.S.-Bound Jets Is Foiled; Britain Arrests 24 Suspected Conspirators,"
front page, Aug. 11], President Bush said the case was "a stark reminder
that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." The president's use of
that term is misleading, unfortunate and unacceptable.

We, as peaceful and justice-loving Muslims, deeply resent the
implication that "fascism" is an integral part of our faith tradition, or that
it is condoned by those of us who practice the religion of Islam. In
fact, there is absolutely no evidence that supports the legitimacy of any
form of state-sponsored violence and injustice, either in our revealed
text, the holy Koran, or in the traditions of Islam.

Islam is constantly referred to by the news media as the theological
basis for terrorism and, now, fascism.

But the same media never associated the Catholic faith as a root cause
of Italian fascism under Benito Mussolini in the 1930s, or the Jewish
faith as a religious motivation for the violent, anti-Palestinian
conduct of many Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. Islam, alone
among the three major Abrahamic faiths, has been tarred with the brush of
legitimized extremism and violence in the name of God. This is an
association that has no basis in our faith, and it is an association that we
vigorously reject.

ESAM OMEISH

President
Muslim American Society
Falls Church

Click here to view the story online:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701542.html

UPDATE: Our most effective action as Americans is to join with our American Muslim brothers and sisters in a month of spiritual renewal and rebirth as we rediscover our theological union and commonality !

AMERICA NEEDS GOD ! AMERICA NEEDS ISLAM

AND ALL OF OUR MANY FAITH TRADITIONS !

From: "rhett smith" <rhett.smith@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: Help Change US Policy toward Middle East

It is so crucial now that 'neo-conservative' Congressmen not be allowed to continue their 'un-Holy War', with the help of John Hagee, in the Holy Land...

Thank You and God Bless You,

Rhett Smith

The following is a letter to the editor written by MAS President Dr.
Esam Omeish in response to President Bush comment about slamic
Fascism.? This letter was published in the Washington Post on Friday, August
18.

STEREOTYPES AND SENSE ON COUNTER TERRORISM

August 18, 2006

When he commented on the arrest of a handful of British Muslims accused
of plotting to blow up U.S.-bound civilian aircraft ["Plot to Bomb
U.S.-Bound Jets Is Foiled; Britain Arrests 24 Suspected Conspirators,"
front page, Aug. 11], President Bush said the case was "a stark reminder
that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." The president's use of
that term is misleading, unfortunate and unacceptable.

We, as peaceful and justice-loving Muslims, deeply resent the
implication that "fascism" is an integral part of our faith tradition, or that
it is condoned by those of us who practice the religion of Islam. In
fact, there is absolutely no evidence that supports the legitimacy of any
form of state-sponsored violence and injustice, either in our revealed
text, the holy Koran, or in the traditions of Islam.

Islam is constantly referred to by the news media as the theological
basis for terrorism and, now, fascism.

But the same media never associated the Catholic faith as a root cause
of Italian fascism under Benito Mussolini in the 1930s, or the Jewish
faith as a religious motivation for the violent, anti-Palestinian
conduct of many Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. Islam, alone
among the three major Abrahamic faiths, has been tarred with the brush of
legitimized extremism and violence in the name of God. This is an
association that has no basis in our faith, and it is an association that we
vigorously reject.

ESAM OMEISH

President
Muslim American Society
Falls Church

Click here to view the story online:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701542.html