To whom it may concern at Salam worldwide:
First of all, I would like to thank you and congratulate you on the this paper and its apparent success so far, keep up the good work. Second, I would like to say I do have issue with the bias or the slant your paper does take on many political, foreign affairs and cultural issues. Your articles are very bluntly "pro-war" and "pro-interventionist" as far as Afghanistan or Iraq or even Iran are concerned. It is very anti-Palestinian and anti-Syrian and very much "pro-Israeli". At time it feels that many people do get really dehumanized in you paper. All I'm asking for is a little balance, for example try putting Roberk Fisk's articles side by side with the people you are already publishing, or people with different points of view so the reading audience could decide for themselves, unless you have a personal agenda with your newspaper.
I would also have to say that you should treat George Bush Jr. and people at the American Enterprise Institute with a little caution, just because they are paying lip service support to the student movement in Iran doesn't mean we must jump on their bandwagon and worship them like god, as you have been interviewing American Enterprise Institute or comparing George Bush Jr. to Martin Luther King. I think if he was alive he would have taken that as an insult right now. All I'm saying is please treat these people with caution, because these are not good guys for all intents and purposes, they are dangerous people with dangerous agendas who have nothing but unadulterated corporate conglomerate power in mind.
If you would like to discuss that with me further I would be more than happy to share my views with you about why I presented the view that I did. But I'll leave you with this, George Bush Jr. whom you praise so much has arbitrarily pulled out of international treaties, has violated the U.S. constitution, the UN charter, international law, the Geneva conventions, and conveniently decides which treaties apply to America at which times. His recent attempt to undermine the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Counsel is very alarming, and I will leave you with this note: He will get elected next year, after his election he will wage wars against Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Libya and any other country that is not willing go along with the IMF, World Bank, WTO, NAFTA, or the FTAA.
He will try to topple the democratically elected governments of Lula Disilva in Brazil and Chavez in Venezuela to name a few. The country will run record spending deficits, the economy will go into a deflationary recession, race riots will pop up again, ( in case you didn't know, two have already occurred in Michigan and Cincinnati), the dollar would collapse, and to divert people’s attention he would engage in more wars and more chaos, and yes voter turn out will be low in the next election. In the mid term election the climate will be very favorable for the Republican Party to Stomp on the Democrats, and he will create the environment which will allow him to back into a Republican dominated Congress and demand that he should have another 4 years in office because only he can handle the emergency crisis situation the country is in and that it was the Islamic Terrorist who put he nation in the Crisis it is in. Congress will grant him that right to run again and he will get elected for a third term, this guy will not give up the power that he has used a "judicial Coup" to obtain that easily and he will do anything to retain it.
I was trying not to have a long email but it ended up being very long, I apologize for that, and I don't mean to cause any offense and anger to you or the staff at Salam Worldwide, but I just wanted to express my view and share my concern that your paper should be more balanced in its perspective as it relates to politics, foreign affairs, and culture.
Thank you for reading my email and I look forward to your response.
Hooman, Encino, CA
P.S.: I hope I turn out to be completely wrong about the prediction I made in this email, but I know the people of this country pretty well, especially its white population. Take care and keep up the good work.