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Media Amerika cadang serang Makkah dengan bom nukleur

Monday, March 18 @ 12:01:15 MYT Oleh Salman Al Munziri KAHERAH, 18 Mac (Hrkh) - Sebuah majalah terkenal di Amerika Syarikat menyeru negara-negara Barat agar melancarkan serangan ke atas Makkah dan Madinah dengan bom nuklear.
Seruan berkenaan dibuat oleh penulis majalah National Review, Rich Lowry untuk 'memberi pengajaran' kepada umat Islam.
Tulisan boleh dirujuk di dalam ruangan The Corner di laman web majalah tersebut, www.nationalreview.com.
Lowry memberikan cadangan itu sebagai jawapan kepada seolan-soalan pembaca mengenai kaedah yang sepatutnya dilakukan oleh Amerika Syarikat terhadap serangan ke atas Pusat Dagangan Dunia, New York tahun lalu.
Dalam pada itu, tulisan Lowry telah mendapat bantahan daripada umat Islam Amerika Syarikat. Majlis Hubungan Islam Amerika (Council on American-Islamic Relation - CAIR) menyeru umat Islam supaya menghubungi pejabat majalah berkenaan bagi membuat bantahan terhadap tulisan yang dianggap terlalu biadab itu.
CAIR boleh dihubungi menerusi www.cair-net.org/.
Bantahan kepada majalah berkenaan boleh dibuat menerusi alamat berikut:
Mr. Jonah Goldberg (Online Editor) National Review 215 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10016
TEL: 212-679-7330 FAX: 212-849-2835 E-MAIL: jonahemail@aol.com, richardlowry@hotmail.com,
Berikut adalah kenyataan penuh CAIR yang menyeru umat Islam supaya membuat bantahan:
(Washington, DC, 3/12/2002)
CAIR is calling on Muslims to contact the National Review and demand an apology for published statements by editor Rich Lowry who suggested that "nuking Mecca" would "send a signal" to Muslims. (National Review online, www.nationalreview.com, calls itself "America's premier conservative website.")
In an online forum called "The Corner," editor Rich Lowry wrote on March 7:
"Lots of sentiment for nuking Mecca. Moderates opt for something more along these lines: "Baghdad and Tehran would be the likeliest sites for a first strike. If we have clean enough bombs to assure a pinpoint damage area, Gaza City and Ramallah would also be on list. Damascus, Cairo, Algiers, Tripoli and Riyadh should be put on alert that any signs of support for the attacks in their cities will bring immediate annihilation..."
"This is a tough one, and I don't know quite what to think. Mecca seems extreme, of course, but then again few people would die and it would send a signal. Religions have suffered such catastrophic setbacks before...And, as a general matter, the time for seriousness-including figuring out what we would do in retaliation, so maybe it can have some slight deterrent effect--is now rather than after thousands and thousands more American casualties."
National Review writer Rod Dreher also took part in the discussion of an attack on Mecca. He wrote: "...I'd say Baghdad, Tehran and Riyadh should make the list, tout ensemble, and maybe even Damascus. As for Mecca, well, it would feel good, but we'd have every Muslim on the planet enraged unto ages of ages...
SEE:http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/2002_03_03_corner-archive.shtml. Use the "find on this page" function of your browser using the term "Mecca.
SEE ALSO: "National Review's editor suggests nuking Mecca. We're not kidding" By Jeremy Lott, The American Prospect, 3/11/2002 http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/03/lott-j-03-11.html
"These statements are a call to violence against Muslims and Islam. Inflammatory rhetoric suggesting mass murder and the destruction of religious sites is wildly irresponsible and beyond the bounds of reasoned debate. The National Review should apologize immediately and discipline Lowry and Dreher for their offensive remarks. Hate speech can never be justified or excused," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.
Awad added that these statements are part of a disturbing trend in which some commentators attack the faith of Islam under the cover of political debate. (Lowry now says his remarks were merely "sarcastic.") In a September column published on National Review, Ann Coulter wrote: "...We should invade their [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED: (As always, be firm, but POLITE. Hostile or threatening comments can and WILL be used to further defame the Muslim community and Islam.)
Contact the National Review to demand an apology for Lowry's and Dreher's offensive remarks.