At the Official Barack Obama Blog Site: We Are All Palestinians
Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:12:04 am PDT
Today’s episode of the ongoing lunacy and anti-Americanism at the official Barack Obama blog site features a piece by Ulf Erlingsson, PhD, pleading for people to support convicted Islamic Jihad kingpin Sami Al-Arian: my.barackobama.com | Ulf Erlingsson’s Blog: We are all Palestinians.
We are all Palestinians
By Ulf Erlingsson, PhD - Apr 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am EDT
Comments | Mail to a Friend | Report Objectionable ContentWhen one people is oppressed, all of us are oppressed. What you do to any one of these you do to me, Jesus said. So we are all Palestinians. This is about a prisoner in America fighting for the Palestinians:
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
April 29, 2008Dr. Al-Arian Suspends Hunger Strike After 8 Weeks
VIRGINIA — Yesterday, on the 57th day of his hunger strike, Dr. Sami
Al-Arian suspended his fast, at the urging of his family, friends and
supporters. Dr. Al-Arian, who has lost more than 40 pounds, began the
hunger strike on March 3 to protest continued harassment and abuse of
power by the Justice Department. Early last week, as his blood pressure
and blood sugar reached dangerously low levels, Dr. Al-Arian collapsed
and lost consciousness at his cell in Hampton Roads Regional Jail and
was then examined by a doctor. Dr. Al-Arian drank no water for the
first 18 days of his fast. During his hunger strike, he was moved to
five different facilities a half dozen times.Dr. Al-Arian was supposed to have been released on April 7. Since
April 14, he has been in total segregation, and living under harsh
conditions. He is not allowed any visitors and is given only two phone
calls a month. Though officials at Hampton Roads Regional Jail told Dr.
Al-Arian his conditions would improve and he would be moved into the
general population as soon as he began eating again, this has proven to
be a lie. Dr. Al-Arian remains in segregation although he has been
cleared medically. Please see the Action Alert below to demand that he
be treated humanely.“Today Dr. Sami Al-Arian is an internationally recognized political
prisoner in America Over the last two decades, his legendry struggle
for the independence of Palestine has included five years of
incarceration, which continues, and two extended hunger strikes for
sixty days and fifty-seven days, respectively,” said Dr. Agha Saeed,
chair of the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections.
“Just as Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X symbolized the struggle
for human rights in the fifties and sixties, Dr. Sami Al Arian has come
to symbolize the current struggle for human rights. I am one of those
who had beseeched him to end his hunger strike and I am personally
indebted to him for accepting our request.”“Sami Al-Arian has put his own life on the line for human dignity,
freedom, justice and peace,” said Muhammad Salim Akhtar, chairman of
American Muslim Alliance Midwest Region. “His resilience at the cost of
his own physical and mental suffering has become a source of strength
for people of conscience and high morals to unite across borders.”
Also see:
my.barackobama.com | Ulf Erlingsson’s Blog: Jesus was Palestinian.
