and
"Radio Islams Uppslagsverk", ("The Encyclopedia of Radio
Islam") .
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The Radio Islam´s abbc.net-domain containes 17
different homepages withe one common slogan:
No hate, no
violence.
Race? Only one Human
race.
Radio Islam, was created as a reaction to today's
realities in the Middle East in general, and the
Palestinian tragedy specifically.
The conflict in Palestine is not between Semites and
anti-Semites, but between occupation and the resistance
against this occupation, between right and wrong, justice
and injustice.
It concerns the people living in the Middle east but
the rest ofd the world in involved too, as we have seen
in many circumstances.
Our conviction is that we, in this issue, are fighting
for justice. And one shouldn't forget that Arabs are also
Semites.
The homepage of Radio Islam is now available in ten
(10) different languages. We have the same messages and
contents in each of these languages
The complaints are not spontaneous but are just a part
of a political campaign trying to circumvent and destroy
free speech.
The aim is to to shut down our homepage.
Do these complaints contain any specific quotes from
the document or any translation of those passages that
they have found offending?
We believe we can justify and provide evidence for
everything we have written.
If anything wrong may be found in our texts, then, of
course, we are quite prepared to aknowlege a mistake and
correct it in due time.
For our part we say with
firmness:
1 )There is no "incitement of violence" in the
homepages of Radio Islam.
2) On our homepage, which is outspokenly anti-racist,
there can be found nothing that can be considered racist
or xenophobic.
3) Concerning the document "The Encyclopedia of Radio
Islam":
The purpose of this "Encyclopedia" is to provide a
kind of short dictionary of various public persons,
debaters, politicians, subjects, events, ideologies and
organizations that are of current interest in the debate
on the Middle East and are being treated in the home
page. That certain persons mentioned are Jews is
significant in the same meaning as if they had been
Palestines and has nothing to do with racism.
Without Judaism no Zionism, without
Zionism no Israel, and Israel is an occupant.
Those who support Israel take a politcal position to
the question.
Persons mentioned have been selected, scrutinized or
criticized not because of their ethnic origin but because
of their ideological and political activities.
a)The Encyclopedia of Radio Islam constitutes a kind
of index in alphabetical order to subjects mentioned in
the material published in Radio Islam's homepage, with
links to these specific subjects. (For instance anyone
seeing the name Roger Garaudy in the encyclopedia , can
be linked from the encyclopedia to material published by
this French writer).
b)The Encyclopedia is not "a list of persons", Jews or
non-Jews, but a kind of short dictionary which will
contain all the subjects; facts, events, organizations,
persons involved in the Middle East debate or in some way
connected to the conflict in Palestine, definitions, even
newspapers are mentioned there.
c) Persons mentioned in this encyclopedia have been
chosen not because of their ethnical origin, but because
of their political ideology and POLITICAL position
regarding the Palestine question, as POLITICAL actors, i.
e. , in this encyclopedia, you'll find both Jews and
non-Jews, Zionists and anti-Zionists.
d)What we do have in the English section of Radio
Islam's homepages is a list of Jews working in the
Clinton administration - the document called
"Clinton´s List". But they are mentioned there not
because they are Jews, but they are mentioned there
because we believe that the Jewish lobby in the US has
created a concentration of power which we believe is
troublesome to the democracy of that country and
dangerous for the peace in the Middle East.
But there is no way this listing of politically active
Zionists can be considered as "an incitement to violence"
against these persons.
It is a political analysis which has been made by many
observers, including Israeli newspapers.
e)The inspiration for creating "The Encyclopedia of
Radio Islam" has been the thorough Palestinian
masterpiece "The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question"
as well as the leading Jewish source - "The Encyclopaedia
Judaica".
f)If our political opponents are of a different view,
they should have to prove their point by giving precise
examples, like correct translated quotes from the
documents, for instance.
Just the fact that they don't agree with our political
views should not allow them to deprive us of our human
right of freedom of speech.
What it really is all about, is the recent decision by
the US Supreme Court to let freedom of speech rule over
the Internet.
This decision was met with anger by the jewish ruling
circles in many European countries.
The tragic reality is this; freedom of speech is
almost non-existent in many European countries.
We hope that censorship will not prevail over the
content of our or any other homepages.
It is the situation in the Middle East that is very
much inflamed - the parties concerned in the debate and
the conflict only reflect the real polarization.
To the Palestinians and Muslims the Zionists appear to
be the Nazis of today.
To the victims of Zionism this
ideology is not experienced as something positive, but
rather as a symbol of evil.
We removed the Encyclopediain from our homepage in
order to avoid all misunderstanding.
We are a group of young people, who have got to know
each other through Internet, and we have decided to use
our freedom of speech by engaging ourselves in the
Palestine question and the struggle against Jewish
racism.
Webmaster
A PLOT
against Radio
Islam
By cunning and any other means Israel constantly tries
to divert attention from the Jewish occupation of
Palestine and from the dominance exerted by Jewish power
over the western states. A group of militant Zionists at
Stockholm University have thus "revealed" - in an opinion
poll financed by Jewish organizations in Sweden - that 34
% of Swedish junior high school students doubt that the
Holocaust has really taken place.
The result of the poll, which has been made a great
feature of in Jewish-controlled media, caused panic in
ruling circles. In the Swedish parliament immediate
measures were demanded from the government, and in an
emotionally tinged pronouncement the prime minister
Göran Persson expressed his indignation and worry
about the fact that only 66 % of the junior high school
students acknowledged the existence of the Holocaust.
Since one of the more important goals of the
educational system and the media is to make people
believe in the story of the Holocaust and to achieve the
one hundred percentage of believers demanded by the
Jewish power, Göran Persson has promised to take
quick steps to intensify the brainwashing of the junior
high school students and citizens in general, and to shut
the mouth of everybody, who spreads doubt about the
reality of the Holocaust. The Swedish prime minister has
also promised to distribute a video cassette about the
Holocaust to the parents of all junior high school
students, so that the former take their responsibility to
educate their children in a Zionist spirit.
It should be no secret that the speeches of the
Swedish prime minister are usually written by the strong
man of the government, the Jew Leif Pagrotsky! Göran
Persson's statement before the parliament struck the note
for the media. The day after the meeting of the
parliament the pro-Zionist Swedish newspaper Dagen wrote
that "The Association of survivors fråm the
Holocaust" has decided to stop Radio Islam and erect a
big monument in memory of the Holocaust in front of the
synagogue in Stockholm. In an interview in the same
number of the newspaper the leader of the association,
Jakob Ringart, declared it to be "a scandal that Ahmed
Rami is allowed to continue denying the Holocaust in
radio broadcasts on Swedish soil."
In an interview the same day in Swedish radio and TV
one of the leaders of the Jewish lobby declared that the
result of the poll was the fruit of broadcasts for years
from Radio Islam, and that only Ahmed Rami can be happy
about it today. Exactly a week after the pronouncement of
the prime minister the Swedish attorney general decided
to initiate legal proceedings against Radio Islam's home
page on Internet. To the media it was given to understand
that the whole dossier about this "affair" was to be
classified as secret.
Since this legal action has been completely covered up
and the attorney general refuses to give a statement, the
Swedish television turned to a professor of law at
Stockholm University. In his opinion "Ahmed Rami may be
found guilty of disrespect for the Jewish people, even if
his home page on Interbet is based in America.. As a
Swedish citizen he is to be judged according to Swedish
law."
The day after the decision to initiate legal
proceedings against Radio Islam's home page on Internet
Ahmed Rami received a bill concerning the broadcastings
from Radio Islam, which sends 35 hours a week in various
languages (among other things information from the
persecuted Canadian history revisionist Ernst
Zündel). According to the bill, Radio Islam is
requested to pay 6000 Swedish crowns for the costs of the
broadcasting at a tariff of 65 crowns for a quarter of an
hour (there is a common sender for all the stations).
Radio Islam began sending on the 3rd of March 1987 and
has never before been requested to pay for the
transmissions except for the use of a telephone line
connecting the studio with the sender! The chairman of
the board of directors of this sender is an active member
of a Zionist organization, and the signer of the bill
(also a Zionist) is a member of a gay organization, which
in its publications has repeatedly attacked Radio
Islam.
These legal and financial persecutions of Radio Islam
and its home page on Internet are not only directed
against the person Ahmed Rami, who has already served a
sentence of six months in jail for the expression of his
views, but against the freedom of us all. Yesterday it
was Zündel, today it is Rami. Who will be the next
tomorrow?
It is high time to pass to concrete acts of solidarity
across the geographical, ideological and religious
boundaries. The powers of evil are acting on a global
level in a total war to lay our planet under Jewish
dominion. After showing their real face in Palestine they
constantly advance their positions for the purpose of
turning the whole world into a single large prison,
guarded by a Jewish oligarchy!
Our civilization can only survive in a climate of
freedom of thought and respect for fundamental human
rights. All religions, ideologies and political systems
should not deny an opposition the right to exist. The
totalitarian Zionism of today is the only ideology that
systematically wants to make the very existence of an
opposition a criminal offence! Before we can coexist, we
must first be able to exist. That right is denied those
who are opposed to the Jewish domination. This fanaticism
and obscurantism is a serious threat against our
civilization and against world peace. Each one of us
should do something concrete to defend freedom!
The "Jewish Defense
League"´s
propaganda and
terrorism
against Radio Islam and against
Internet:
[The
following text is from the Homepage of the jewish
terrorist and racist organisation " Jewish Defense League
"]:
"
Silence "Radio
Islam"
The following message is
self-explanatory and requires your immediate assistance
to put an end to one of the most vicious anti-Jewish
sites on the Internet:
I am member of a group of
Jewish
Defense
League fighting
against what is called "Radio Islam." This began as a
radio station in Stockholm, Sweden, broadcasting material
of hatred against the Jewish people. The founder of Radio
Islam is a Moroccan who came to Sweden in 1973 as a
political refugee. Rami was convicted and thrown in jail
for six months for defaming the Jewish people, but that
didn't stop him. Others took his place legally and it's
an ongoing battle.
Rami soon discovered the
possibilities that Internet gave him. He started a site
with the same name as the radio station, "Radio Islam"
(http://abbc.net). At first, this site was hosted by
Swedish servers. He went ISP (Internet service provider)
to ISP but was quickly thrown out when the server owners
discovered who was behind and what material was
offered.
So in summer of this
year, Rami moved to a U.S. server.
We wrote to his american
Provider ( ISP ) several times. They finally moved to
remove the list of named Jews Radio Islam´s home
pagee. Everything else -- lists of Jewish convicted
criminals, all the traditional fabricated "proof" to deny
the Holocaust and so much more -- remains intact. A truly
sickening site.
We made an e-mail
denouncement to Atlanta Police Department of the
antisemitic defamation housed on Radio Islam, but have
received no reaction whatsoever from there.
We tried to write about
this in the Provider's discussion forum but we were
immediately censored!
After lengthy
"investigation" was conducted (we had thought a few
minutes would be enough) we received the following
e-mail:
Subject:
abbc.net
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997
14:23:55 -0500
This is to inform you that our
investigation of abbc.net is finished. Let me first say
that we pride ourselves on the fact that we provide
anyone who wishes to publish information on the Internet
an opportunity to do so, as long as the site remains
within our fair and reasonable guidelines. After lengthy
deliberation on this subject, our determination is that
although this site may be bothersome or offensive to
some, it is primarily sharing an opinion. Certainly with
the list of names added to the site, it would seem to be
aimed at providing an object on which to direct the
feelings stirred by the rest of the site. Consequently,
the decision we have made is that, as long as the list of
names singling out individuals is removed and the rest of
the site is reviewed such that any descriptions similar
to those in the "encyclopedia" are removed, the site may
remain active on our server. Please understand that the
opinions expressed in the site are not necessarily those
ofour Company, its management or staff. We apologize for
any problems this situation may have caused.
Thank you.
Bob Hendren, Vice President,
Operations
To this we
answered:
Mr. Bob
Hendren,
We are in receipt of your
announcement about the future of Radio Islam on your
company. We note with pleasure that you have instructed
Ahmed Rami to clean the site "such that any descriptions
similar to those in the 'encyclopedia' are removed". The
"list of names" have been removed but the site is still
plagued with similar "descriptions" of Jewish people.
Also, the whole site is constructed in such a manner that
the legitimate question of Palestine is used as an excuse
to attack and defame people just because of their
origin.
As an example, Rami has
listed major crimes or scandals where Jews have been
involved. He had one page about "Jewish diseases" (seems
to have been shut down) etc. Fair? Of course not - this
is a subtile structure used to defame but try to avoid
legal problems.
An ISP of course has no
obligation to provide space to anyone. So it is up to the
provider to shape the profile of its site. Ahmed Rami has
been thrown out of several ISP in Sweden because ISP in
this country do not want to house racists and
antisemitists. In this country, or in Germany for
example, he would never find an ISP. So, the ISP is not
an innocent lamb who can sit back seeing the bucks
rolling in with bothering. He HAS to choose. Some ISP
throw out porno, most throw racism out. Those who accept
the trash and hatred should of course be exposed so that
people, before choosing ISP, or prolonging their present
contract, know that paying to such an ISP is supporting
the housing of e.g. racist defamation.
You state about Rami's
site that "it is primarily sharing an opinion." Well,
racism is an opinion, isn't it, but a very evil one,
generally not accepted. I guess it would hard for you to
house antinegro sites in English, because that would hurt
you. After all, the black community is very big. In this
case, after the lists of names being dropped, are mainly
dead. Those who died in Nazi extermination camps. You
will find a huge material on Radio Islam denying the
Holocaust. That is legal I guess, but housing that, you
ACTIVELY promote the lies defaming all the Nazi victims.
It is a decision you make and an IMPORTANT
one. In Germany you would
probably be thrown into jail for housing holocaust
denials. In the US
nothing will happen except that people
like us will
VIGOROUSLY mobilize against
you. That is moral
obligation and our right as it is probably your right to
house material that defames the Nazi victims.
Our aim will now be
to hurt you financially and rally people in the
U.S.
to join
us.
You could have
stood up for decency but you chose the buck. OK, so let
us hope we can take that buck from you. Maybe then you
will change your decision. This is not said in any
threatening manner, or with the intention to be rude,
quite the contrary. But we all have to act according to
our own morals even if that brings us into involuntary
conflicts.
Finally, please
rest assured that not only your site has been singled out
for our future campaigns. There are some other similar
sites in the Swedish language in the U.S. and we will
treat them equally.
We stand up for an
Internet without any censorship. That is precisely one of
the reasons we act. If the ISPs, like you, do not
colaborate to keep Internet decent, we, the jewish
surfing community, has to do it. Otherwise states will
soon use material like the one you are housing as an
excuse to clamp down on the Internet freedom. With tragic
consequences.
Håkan Gustavsson
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We urge everybody to to
write to Radio Islam, radioislam@hotmail.com,
and tell Ahmed Rami and the other maniacs what you think
about their site. If you flood them with mail, so much
the better.Write to the american Provider and tell them
what you feel about their decision to house material
defaming the Jewish people on his site. Make him
understand that a boycott will be set in motion (that is
our intention) if the material of hatred against Jews is
not removed from their server.
Thank You.
Sincerely
yours,
Håkan Gustavsson
haakan@col.se"