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"martus" |
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15 Apr 2004 11:24:14 PM |
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Dark force trying to destroy inmates! |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The nation's first faith-based prison for women
opened in a Tampa-area detention center Wednesday, nearly five months
after a similar program began for men.
About 300 female prisoners will be confined at the Hillsborough
Correctional Institution (search), all volunteers who agreed to
participate in a program combining vocational classes with worship.
Alia Faraj, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jeb Bush (search), said the new
state prison creates "an environment that allows and encourages
personal growth, self-reflection and character development."
To avoid legal challenges, no state money will be used for religious
instruction. Volunteers will provide religious services and materials.
Any religion may be represented at the prison, and no prisoner will be
required to participate in religious activities, officials said.
"We need to bring humanity back into these people, to humanize them
again, and faith is just one way of doing that," said Diane Conti, a
volunteer who will offer inmates a course on Buddhism.
The women's prison is modeled after a program that opened last year at
the Lawtey Correctional Institution (search) in north Florida.
Critics are threatening legal action, insisting the state is giving
preferential treatment to inmates who participate in religious
services.
"It's incredibly irresponsible to open a second facility when so many
constitutional and practical questions remain about the first
facility," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for
Separation of Church and State (search).
The group has sought records of how the state is funding the programs
and may sue.
Unlike the men's prison, where most prisoners were already at the
institution when it was converted to a faith-based facility, inmates
at the women's program are transferring from another prison. Lynn said
the state must have paid for those transfers.
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Are these people who are trying to stop this free will growth in God
scared that they will be all alone in Hell?
Prison is about correction of bad behaviours not a place where people
are sent for a period of time to earn a Masters in it, so anything
positive done should be encourage particulary if the inmates want to
participate in it willing.
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| Title: Is Hamas at war with Israel or not? |
18 Apr 2004 12:27:57 PM |
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Hamas Vows to Avenge Israel's Killing of Rantissi
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian mourners cried
for vengeance Sunday for Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, slain by
Israeli missiles even as the Jewish state plans to quit the group's
Gaza stronghold.
In secret, Hamas named a new official to replace 56-year-old Rantissi
-- the second leader of the militant Muslim group to be assassinated
by Israel in less than a month. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin died in a previous
missile attack on March 22.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon praised the army for Saturday's
helicopter strike on the firebrand Rantissi, Hamas's political leader
in Gaza, and pledged his country would continue to "fight terror."
Sharon told his cabinet the killing was part of a dual strategy to
unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, occupied by Israel since the 1967
Middle East war, while striking militants. Key ministers pledged
support for the plan after the meeting.
Rantissi's body was carried aloft on a stretcher draped in a green
Hamas flag. Mourners kissed his shrapnel-sliced face and others tossed
flower petals onto the body. Fists shook at the sky in anger as four
Israeli warplanes roared overhead.
"The blood of Yassin and Rantissi will not be wasted. Their blood will
force the eruption of new volcanoes," one militant cried. Thousands
took up the refrain of revenge, chanting: "We will sacrifice our souls
and blood for Rantissi."
Rantissi, an Egyptian-trained pediatrician who was outspoken in
support of violence against Israel, died when two missiles slammed
into his car hours after a suicide bomber killed an Israeli soldier at
northern Gaza's Erez crossing.
Rantissi was buried Sunday in Gaza's Martyrs' Cemetery.
Hamas has so far failed to carry out the kind of massive attack it had
promised to avenge Yassin's death.
Faced with an Israeli threat to wipe out all its leaders, Hamas said
it had named Rantissi's successor but would keep his identity secret.
Palestinian sources speculated the new leader was either Mahmoud
al-Zahar or Ismail Haniyah.
Zahar said reaction for Rantissi and Yassin would come.
"The Israelis are hiding, they are keeping off the streets. We will
retaliate when the time is right," he said.
Rantissi's killing stoked Palestinian anger already high over
President Bush's statement last week backing Sharon's pullout plan --
which would also let Israel keep some West Bank land Palestinians want
for an eventual state.
WIDESPREAD PROTESTS
Protests against Rantissi's assassination erupted across the West Bank
in scenes that recalled the start of an uprising more than 3-1/2 years
ago. Israeli troops used teargas and rubber bullets to drive back
stone-throwers.
"It is no doubt a crime," Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie told
reporters. "Unfortunately the Israelis feel they are supported by the
United States administration."
Qurie wrote to world leaders Sunday urging them to restart Middle East
peace talks, accusing the United States of breaking international law
by making "concessions" in the name of the Palestinians.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) criticized
Rantissi's killing, saying it could lead to more violence in the
Middle East. The European Union (news - web sites) and Russia also
condemned it.
The United Nations (news - web sites), the EU, Russia and the United
States form a "Quartet" of brokers who have charted a "road map" to a
Middle East peace. But some European officials feel Bush's statement
last week sidelined the other group members.
The United States denied giving Israel the green light to go after
Rantissi but refrained from condemning the assassination.
In his first public comments on the killing, Sharon said: "The policy
is an effort on the one hand to progress on the diplomatic process and
on the other to harm the terror organizations and those who lead
them."
Rantissi was viewed as particularly hard-line in a group that has
killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and is sworn to
Israel's destruction.
Israel killed Rantissi three days after Sharon won Bush's backing at
the White House for his plan to withdraw from Gaza and four Jewish
settlements in the West Bank by the end of 2005.
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Think I am having a bit of trouble understanding whats going on over
there.
Didn't Hammas declare war on Israel many years ago and sent numerous
suicide bombers and soldiers to kill as many men women and children of
Israel as they possible could?
If Hammas is killing Israelies then why do they seek international
condemnation of Israel' actions in this war Hammas is fighting because
that all we hear in the media from this group is kill, kill, kill ?
Is it only proper and right that only Israelies are allowed to die and
the Israelies are not allowed to do anything in this war otherwise
they have to suffer the wrath of the international community.
If places were reversed how quickly these nations would show
themselves to be the hypicrites that they are!
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