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DOES GALLUP POLL BOTHER YOU? |
 Gallup poll reveals an extensive report on Muslim demographics, family, religion, health & well being, economic conditions & employment, politics & civic engagement and more. While most of the data is intriguing, one is troublesome - i.e. the Muslim youth. It reports that the "Muslim Americans age 18 to 29 in particular reported discontent with their jobs and communities. On average, Muslim American youth were unhappier, angrier and less optimistic than their peers of other religious groups, according to the report. Only 78 percent of young Muslims reported having smiled or laughed the day before, while nearly 90 percent of Protestants, Catholics and Jews of the same age said they had."
if you wish to ask them where did they find the unhappy, angry & less optimistic youth. |
| CASH FOR TRASH |
Prof. Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist & professor of economics at Princeton University calls the Treasury's financial plan as "cash for trash" & that "zombie ideas have won." Peter Laarman, Executive Director of Progressives Christian Uniting writes in a Washington Post op-ed that "Why are President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner so bloody deferential to the financial gangs of New York, the same Wall Street thugs whose reckless greed drove the invention and build up of the toxic bank assets in the first place? That is the question faith leaders should be asking. After all, the religious community has a whole lot of skin in this game." Another report, "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America," exposes the financial sector whose more than $5 billion helped buy political influence in Washington leading to the current financial collapse. Here are some common sense ideas to deal with the economic crisis. |
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RED CROSS CONFIRMS TORTURE |
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 Former President Bush "lied" says Mark Danner professor of journalism at UC Berkeley commenting on the recent Red Cross report that confirms US torturing in dark sites. People of faith and conscience can do their part:
1. Support Senator Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee who says - "We need to get to the bottom of what happened - and why - so we make sure it never happens again.
2. Sign & Support - A Commission of Inquiry
3. Avail educational materials for greater awareness about torture. |
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AMERICAN MUSLIM'S CASE POSES A TEST |
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 One day last July, Naji Hamdan was summoned to the U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. He drove two hours through the desert heat from Dubai to answer questions from FBI agents who had arrived from Los Angeles, where Hamdan had gone to school, started a family, built a successful auto-parts business and become a U.S. citizen. Click here to read more ...Take action for justice.
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| GALLOWAY FROM GAZA TO ANAHEIM |
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 British Parliamentarian, George Galloway comes to Anaheim from Gaza. Click here for reservations to his program on April 7th.
Two Angelenas offer their eye witness testimony from Gaza on April 1st. |
