Kalau begini bisa digolongkan sebagai teroris nggak yaa??
apa sebaiknya kita berbaik sangka deengan kelompok yang disebut RSI
ini yah?
apa media massanya yang harus dicurigai karena memojokkan yah?
Donnie
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On 05 Jun 07, at 0:55, Sunny wrote:
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2611747.ece
>
> 'Wear a veil or we will behead you,' radicals tell TV women
> By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
> Published: 04 June 2007
> All 15 women presenters reported for work at the official Palestine
> Television station in Gaza yesterday, in defiance of death threats
> by a radical Islamic group that is believed to have links with al-
> Qa'ida. The Righteous Swords of Islam warned that it would strike
> the women with "an iron fist and swords" for refusing to wear a
> veil on camera.
>
> "It is disgraceful that the women working for the official
> Palestinian media are competing with each other to display their
> charms," it said in a leaflet distributed in Gaza at the weekend.
> "We will destroy their homes. We will blow up their work places. We
> have a lot of information about their addresses and we are
> following their movements."
>
> The fringe group threatened to "slaughter" the women for corrupting
> Palestinian morals. "The management and workers at Palestine TV
> should know," it warned, "that we are much closer to them than they
> think. If necessary, we will behead and slaughter to preserve the
> spirit and morals of our people."
>
> About half the women TV journalists wear the traditional hijab head
> covering, but all show their faces and wear makeup. They mounted a
> vigil yesterday outside the Gaza City office of the Palestinian
> President, Mahmoud Abbas, demanding protection and respect.
>
> Lana Shaheen, who heads the station's English-language programmes,
> told The Independent: "Of course we are afraid. Previously this
> group threatened Internet cafes and video shops, then burned them.
> We will protect ourselves."
>
> She insisted the women would continue working. "We will not
> change... our lives. We've worked through Israeli bombardments and
> attacks, just like the men. It's a national obligation."
>
> Mohammed al-Dahoudi, the director-general of Palestine TV, said
> they were taking the threats seriously. "In the current security
> chaos, everything can happen in Gaza. There is incitement from some
> groups against television. We will continue to work as usual, but
> we will take precautions. We have to be careful."
>
> He recalled previous attacks by Muslim radicals on local offices of
> the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV; another station, Voice of the
> Workers; and Palestine TV's own branch in Khan Yunis. In recent
> weeks, militants campaigning against Western influence have also
> vandalised an American school and a Christian bookshop. Bassam Eid,
> director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, accused
> the radicals of behaving like the Taliban in Afghanistan. "Gaza has
> become Hamasistan. They are trying to drag Palestinian society back
> to the dark ages."
>
> As the prospect of peace recedes and poverty spreads, Palestinians
> have become more traditional. Bars and cinemas have closed. Many
> educated, middle-class women now cover their heads, but hardly
> anyone, even in the villages, wears the niqab veil.
>
> * Despite a sharp decline in the number of rocket attacks from
> Gaza, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, vowed yesterday to
> continue military operations in Gaza and the West Bank. Four
> Israeli soldiers were wounded yesterday when Palestinian fighters
> fired mortars at the Erez passenger crossing between Gaza and
> Israel. Earlier, troops shot dead a Fatah gunman in the West bank
> town of Jenin.
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