Something not reported by the "liberal" media, *60 million* Muslims sign Anti-Terror petition

[ck4829]

Of course, the tag team assault of right wingers saying "When will moderate Muslims stand up?" and the media's silence of progressive and liberal Muslims will continue.

"A movement launched by a NGO to tell the world that all Muslims and Pakistanis are not terrorists is set to become the biggest anti-terror campaign ever, with four million people signing up for it in just four days.

Big names from Pakistan's entertainment industry joined hands earlier this week with the Yeh Hum Naheen Foundation, a Karachi based non-profit body, to urge Pakistanis to sign a petition against terrorism.

The number of petitioners, which stood at 22,400 on July 14, has now crossed 4,100,000 rpt 4,100,000. Over two million signatures were collected within Pakistan and the rest from abroad.

"We had set a target of one million signatures for the opening day…although I was confident that we will achieve the target, I was overwhelmed by the response of all segments of people in the country," said Waseem Mahmood, the London-based brain behind the Foundation."

http://alienistheworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/four-million-pakistanis-sign-anti.html

According to the BBC, they've reached the 60 million mark.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7560071.stm

Will we see this in our media, and what will the Ann Coulter/Michael Savage faction of the Right Wing have to say about it? Well, besides nothing.

[Stuart G]

1. There is no such thing as the "liberal media" nt

[annabanana]

2. BIG K&R for something that ought to be in the headlines. . . .n/t

[LeftishBrit]

3. Good for them!

And yes, I doubt that the RW will pick up on it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. MSM is not interested in showing Muslims as humans

their whole game is to show Muslims as the new bogeymen. Scary scary Muslims!!!!! They are all terrorists!!!!!! :sarcasm:

What gets me are the small town Americans who buy this garbage. There are many small towns who have Muslim doctors and surgeons. The local heart surgeon where I live is an Egyptian Muslim. When the idiots go on about "sending all the Muslims back to where they came from" I ask them if they really want to get rid of Dr. Ali, the man who has saved countless lives in the area. They sort of stop and give me the "stupid look", which tells me that they haven't been thinking.

[barbtries]

5. they'll probably say something along the lines of

"oh, yeah, they want you to think they're no danger to you - don't believe it." and then all the rest of their usual racist hatemongering. i seriously doubt they would grow up long enough to say, hey here's a good thing.