Protestors gather outside the Israeli consulate in Toronto, Canada; Aug. 12, 2006.
1."We have nothing to fear from anyone on this living planet. Fear is the greatest impediment to the achievement of peace. We have nothing to fear from people who are different from us, from people who live in other countries, even from the people who run our government.... We can speak truth to power, we can allow our humanity always to come before our nationality, we can refuse to let fear invade our lives and to goad us on to destroy the lives of others."
-- Jean Rohe, Why I Spoke Up, 20 May 2006.
2. "Of the over one thousand British Muslims arrested under anti-terrorist legislation, only twelve per cent are ever charged with anything. That is simply harrassment of Muslims on an appalling scale. Of those charged, 80% are acquitted. Most of the very few - just over two per cent of arrests - who are convicted, are not convicted of anything to do terrorism, but of some minor offence the Police happened upon while trawling through the wreck of the lives they had shattered".
-- Amb. Craig Murray, The UK Terror plot: What's Really Going On?, 15 Aug 2006.
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