"It has come as a surprise, therefore, that 'Village Voice', a well-known and established progressive New York newspaper has seen fit to repeatedly publish articles fuelling both anti-Arab and anti-Islamic prejudice."

:: Islamic intellectual history as guidance for Islam in the 21st century ::

"If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?"

- Bertrand Russell

"Many citizens of the world see an America that was slow to enter World War II, slow to respond to the atrocities Hitler and his minions enacted upon the European Jews, and quick to profiteer from arms and equipment sales to the "allies" during the early stages of that war."

"Intellectual warriors against Islam have taken heart from the Vatican’s direct attack on the concepts of Islam. It is an opportunity for them to give air to their agenda and promote their objectives of demonizing Islam."

"In due time the American people will come to understand the folly of such double standard, their complicity with their taxes and vetoes of Israel's flaunting of might upon millions of hapless civilians, their alienation from the rest of the world due to Israel's atrocities and the power of the elite Jewish lobby who've hijacked American values and civil liberties for the sake of Israel."

"International law and the historical precedent of many nations sanction the right of a people suffering from colonial oppression to take up arms in their freedom struggle. Why should it be different in the case of Palestinians?"

:: The text of a talk given by Arab Media Watch director Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi during a debate at the Jewish Centre in Cambridge on November 2, 2003 ::