Le monde est-il différent après l'attentat de New-York ? Certainement, mais pas comme l'affirme les médias officiels sur nos antennes. En effet, pendant que les stars du Journal Télévisé spéculent sur les auteurs de l'attentat, des scènes de racisme contre les personnes de couleurs sont rapportées un peu partout aux USA et dans certains autres pays occidentaux. (ci-dessous, une dépêche de l'AP) Loin de vouloir pronostiquer sur l'affaire elle-même, il s'avère évident que nous assistons déjà actuellement à des manipulations médiatiques évidentes. La "Presse" accuse avant même le début de l'enquête. Les "spécialistes" frappent du poing sur la table, les autorités occidentales servent un discours guerriers à la population évidemment noyée sous les coups de boutoirs des "Breaking News" à sensation et à émotion de CNN et autres NBC. Plus que jamais, Indymedia à un rôle à jouer ! Don't hate the media, be the media ! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dépêche de presse de Associated Press ------------------------------------------------------------------- AP. 13 September 2001. Crowd in Ill. Protests at Mosque; Bus With Muslim Children Stoned. Combined reports. BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (US) and BRISBANE (Australia) -- Backlash hit several communities as federal officials said there was mounting evidence that radical Muslims planned and carried out the terror attacks in New York and Washington. Police turned back 300 marchers -- some waving American flags and shouting "USA! USA!" -- as they tried to march on a mosque in this southwest Chicago suburb late Wednesday. Three demonstrators were arrested, said Bridgeview Police Chief Charles Chigas. There were no injuries and demonstrators were kept blocks from the closed Muslim worship place. "I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have," said 19-year-old Colin Zaremba who marched with the group from Oak Lawn. In Chicago, a Molotov cocktail was tossed Wednesday at an Arab-American community center. No injuries were reported. In the suburb of Palos Heights, a man was charged with a felony hate crime for allegedly attacking a gas station attendant he believed was Arab with the blunt end of a machete, Police Sgt. Dave Delaney said. The attendant, who is Moroccan, did not seek treatment, Delaney said. "The terrorists who committed these horrible acts would like nothing better than to see us tear at the fiber of our democracy and to trample on the rights of other Americans," Gov. George Ryan said. In Huntington, N.Y., a 75-year-old man who was drunk tried to run over a Pakistani woman in the parking lot of a shopping mall, police said. The man, Adam Lang, then followed the woman into a store and threatened to kill her for "destroying my country." A man in a ski mask in Gary, Ind., fired a high-powered assault rifle at a gas station where Hassan Awdah, a U.S. citizen born in Yemen, was working Wednesday, the Post Tribune reported. Police were investigating it as a hate crime. "I lived in the Middle East for most of my life and have never seen anything like this," Awdah said. Tamara Alfson, an American working at the Kuwait Embassy in Washington, D.C., spent Wednesday counseling frightened Kuwaiti students attending schools across the United States. "Some of them have already been harassed. People have been quite awful to them," said Alfson, an academic adviser to roughly 150 students. Abu Nahidian, director of the Manassas Mosque in Virginia, said his congregation has been the target of insults and hate messages left on the office answering machine. "We have some recordings in our tapes that say, 'We hate you so-and-so Muslims and we hope you die,'" Nahidian said. A mosque in Lynnwood, Wash., was vandalized, and no one showed up for afternoon prayers at the Islamic Center of Spokane. In Dearborn, Mich., Issam Koussan told The Detroit News he bought large U.S. flags to fly in front of his home and outside his supermarket after men pulled into his parking lot and yelled threats and racial slurs at his customers. "I just feel I needed to show my loyalty to this country," Koussan said. Meanwhile in Australia, a school bus carrying Muslim children was stoned and vandals tried to set fire to a Lebanese church in apparent acts of retaliation for terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said Thursday. Queensland state Islamic Council chairman Sultan Deen said stones and bottles damaged the side of the bus Wednesday in the northeastern city of Brisbane. Nobody was injured. "The children are quite shaken up," Deen said. Deen said public outrage over the attacks had also led to abusive phone calls to mosques. "It is very disturbing. They are saying things like, 'You will be held responsible' and 'We'll get you,'" Deen said. In Sydney overnight, vandals attempted to set fire to the St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox church -- which has a Lebanese congregation -- and racist slurs and swastikas were scrawled on the walls of another Lebanese church, said police inspector Norm Russell. Meanwhile, pro-Islamic slogans were daubed on a building in Melbourne's central business district overnight, police said.