South Asia

"The economy will not magically improve and the violence will not suddenly subside. To the contrary, the economy will get worse before it gets better, millions of bitter people made even more hateful by the disgusting and violence-inciting campaign conducted by the McCain-Rovian gang of political cutthroats will blame the new president for their plight."

"Human worth as maximized by dollars: too big to fail. Human worth as affirmed by humanistic values: too small to matter."

"It’s enough that Israel is now the Fourth Reich, a term aptly selected after Israeli deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai warned Palestinians in Gaza of a holocaust. Humanitarian goods and medical supplies are not allowed in; Palestinian university students cannot get visas to pursue their education abroad; Jewish settlers regularly stone Palestinian children on their way to school; and on and on."

“All Muslims are considered terrorists until proven innocent,” said Haroon Saley wryly. His comment rings true when one considers the numerous wrongful arrests and harassment of South African Muslims abroad. We can expect more Islamophobic incidents such as these unless the issue is taken seriously by the government and Muslim leaders of this country."

"...Arab Americans' deep dissatisfaction with the domestic and foreign policy performance of the Bush Administration is resulting in a shift in identification away from the GOP and toward the Democratic Party. For Arab Americans this trend began earlier, starting in 2002, spurred by the discomfort with the Administration's behavior in the post post-9/11 era. The combination of profiling, negative references toward Islam, and abuses of civil liberties took a toll."

"The net result is an education system that is failing every student, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Generations of students are being graduated who know very little about their fellow citizens of other faiths; and if they gain any information at all about Islam as a world religion, or about its history, civilization and culture during the entire course of their formal education -- that information is most likely to be false."

"My fellow Americans, if we do not value the lives, dreams and culture of our fellow humans in Africa, Asia, Latin America, how can we expect the rest of the world to value us in return? If we project our fears and insecurities upon the world, don’t we risk it being flung back in our faces? No, the road to a better world and hence a better America is not through warfare but through compassion, respect and understanding."

Since Harper is such a threat to our civil liberties and national sovereignty voting against him is more important than voting for someone else, and this election proves it.