Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Killing of Muslim councillor raises tension in Minuwangoda
*For your information...* -- Forwarded message -- From: institute lk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 23, 2007 6:47 AM Subject: Killing of Muslim councillor raises tension in Minuwangoda *Killing of Muslim councillor raises tension in Minuwangoda* [TamilNet, Thursday, 22 February 2007, 12:36 GMT] Additional troops and police have been deployed in Minuwangoda area in the western province to quell any racial disturbance following the killing of a former Muslim councillor of the Minuwangoda Pradesya Sabha Wednesday evening. Tension prevails in the area between two communities Sinhalese and Muslims, sources said. The victim has been identified as Mohamed Fazil aged 38 and a member of the main opposition United national Party (UNP), sources said. Minuwangoda Police have taken into custody a Sinhalese person Sooti Malli, sources said. Black flags were seen on houses and shops and business establishments were closed down as a mark of respect to the murdered local politician. A case is pending in courts in connection with the racial violence that took place two years ago between these communities in Minuwangoda, sources said. -- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QAhttp://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA21haWxfdGFnbGluZQRzbGsDbWFpbF90YWcx?link=asksid=396546091for great tips from Yahoo! Answershttp://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA21haWxfdGFnbGluZQRzbGsDbWFpbF90YWcx?link=asksid=396546091users.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MARCH 12TH D.C. PROTEST AGAINST AIPAC
MARCH 12TH D.C. PROTEST AGAINST AIPAC March 12 Protest: Congress Stand Up to AIPAC DC Anti-Wr Network http://dawndc.net/float.php?annc_id=478section_id=1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00PM to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00PM Call to Protest AIPAC's Annual Conference Issued 2/21/07 MONDAY, MARCH 12 - 6 to 8 PM DC Convention Center, Mount Vernon Place between 7th 9th Streets NW CONGRESS, STAND UP TO AIPAC Stop Funding Crimes Against Palestinians And Iraq and Iran Wars DC Antiwar Network invites other peace and justice organizations to endorse and/or participate in a peaceful Congress Stand Up to AIPAC demonstration on Monday, March 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. We will protest the Gala Banquet of the 2007 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference being held at the DC Convention Center. Dozens of congressional representatives and executive branch officials will attend the AIPAC banquet. Senate leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell and house leader Nancy Pelosi will speak. We encourage those inside and outside of D.C. who cannot attend to take other action: * call congressional representatives, especially Reid, McConnel and Pelosi, and ask them NOT to attend the AIPAC conference. * lobby congressional representatives in person or via phone on March 13th for Palestinian rights and/or against Iraq and Iran wars. On the afternoon of March 13th one thousand or more AIPAC conference goers will be lobbying congress in person against Palestinian rights and in support of war against Iran. To endorse this call and be listed in the press release e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] by noon March 8, 2007. Feel free to include a web page link, e-mail or phone contact for our web page http://dawndc.net OUR CONCERNS We protest AIPAC, a non-registered agent of the State of Israel, bribing and bullying American congressional representatives into supporting Israel, often in ways that ultimately harm Americans. Although AIPAC does not even represent a majority of American Jews, its massive network of allied political groups and committed supporters raise money and apply political muscle with two main goals: * AIPAC works to perpetuate Israel's illegal occupation and apartheid practices in the West Bank and Gaza, including the building of an apartheid wall which has been condemned as illegal by the International Court of Justice. It supports ongoing discriminatory practices, land confiscation and ethnic cleansing in both the occupied territories and Israel. AIPAC and its allies' propaganda efforts have misled most Americans into thinking the Palestinians merely are terrorists trying to destroy Israel, instead of being victims of 60 years of Israeli aggression who seek equal political rights, including to return to their illegally confiscated lands and homes. * AIPAC works to protect Israel's confiscated Palestinian lands by promoting U.S. dominance in the Middle East. AIPAC and its neoconservative and Christian Zionist allies promoted an illegal American war against Iraq. They now promote an Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran, even though the U.S. Department of Justice is prosecuting former AIPAC staffers for spying on the U.S. to gain information about Iran to relay to Israel. AIPAC supports Israeli threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities to force President Bush to do so. Any attack on Iran could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945, deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians, retaliations by Iran and Shiites in Iraq that could kill thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq, a cut off of oil supplies that could devastate the world economy, and escalation to regional or even world nuclear war. AIPAC's destructiveness has been highlighted in the last year by the writings of respected Professors Walt and Mearsheimer (The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy) and former President Jimmy Carter (Palestine: Peace Not Apatheid). Dozens of pundits, left, right and mainstream have echoed their analysis. AIPAC provides ideological propaganda and political muscle to promote wars that its military contractor allies need to profit from wars. These special interests undermine American democracy by making congressional representatives and the president more responsive to them than to American voters. Those who sign on to this call demand congress stand up to special interests like AIPAC, end U.S. support for illegal Israeli policies, end war on and occupation of Iraq and prevent any war against Iran. We support just reparations for aggrieved Palestinians and Lebanese for their economic and personal suffering over many decades. We predict that should either Israel or the U.S. initiate war against Iran, the various peace and justice movements, as well as Americans from a variety of groupings, will work to hold accountable those responsible for mass murder against innocent Arabs and Muslims,
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Can't kill Muslims without a good puppet...
February 25, 2007 Christian Right Labors to Find '08 Candidate By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK New York Times WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 - A group of influential Christian conservatives and their allies emerged from a private meeting at a Florida resort this month dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn. The event was a meeting of the Council for National Policy, a secretive club whose few hundred members include Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Rev. Jerry Falwell of Liberty University and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Although little known outside the conservative movement, the council has become a pivotal stop for Republican presidential primary hopefuls, including George W. Bush on the eve of his 1999 primary campaign. But in a stark shift from the group's influence under President Bush, the group risks relegation to the margins. Many of the conservatives who attended the event, held at the beginning of the month at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Fla., said they were dismayed at the absence of a champion to carry their banner in the next election. Many conservatives have already declared their hostility to Senator John McCain of Arizona, despite his efforts to make amends for having once denounced Christian conservative leaders as agents of intolerance, and to former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, because of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights and his three marriages. Many were also suspicious of former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts; members have used the council as a conduit to distribute a dossier prepared by a Massachusetts conservative group about liberal elements of his record on abortion, stem cell research and gay rights. (Mr. Romney has worked to convince conservatives that his views have changed.) And some members of the council have raised doubts about lesser known candidates - Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Representative Duncan Hunter of California, who were invited to Amelia Island to address an elite audience of about 60 of its members, and Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, who spoke to the full council at its previous meeting, in October in Grand Rapids, Mich. Although each of the three had supporters, many conservatives expressed concerns about whether any of the candidates could unify their movement or raise enough money to overtake the front-runners, several participants in the meetings said. Finally, in a measure of their dissatisfaction, a delegation of prominent conservatives at Amelia Island tried to enlist as a candidate Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a guest speaker at the event. A charismatic politician with a clear conservative record, Mr. Sanford is almost unknown outside his home state and has done nothing to prepare for a presidential run. He firmly declined the group's entreaties, people involved in the recruiting effort said. A spokesman for Mr. Sanford said he would not comment. There is great anxiety, said Paul Weyrich, chairman of the Free Congress Foundation. There is no outstanding conservative, and they are all looking for that. Mr. Weyrich, a longtime member of the council, declined to discuss the group or its meetings. The council's bylaws forbid members from publicly disclosing its membership or activities, and participants agreed to discuss the Amelia Island meeting only on the condition of anonymity. For eight years and four elections, President Bush forged a singular alliance with Christian conservatives - including dispatching administration officials and even cabinet members to address council meetings - that put them at the center of the Republican Party. But in the aftermath of the stinging defeats in the midterm elections, and with discontent over the Iraq war weighing heavily on the public, some Christian conservatives worry that they may find themselves on the sidelines of the presidential race. Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Romney have worked hard to pitch themselves to Christian conservatives - Mr. McCain by delivering speeches at venues like Mr. Falwell's Liberty University or a recent abstinence-promotion event, Mr. Romney by leading the charge for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. But neither has won over many of the movement's leaders. The conservative concern may also be an ominous sign for the Republican Party about the morale of a core element of its political base. Conservatives warn that the 2008 election could shape up like 1996, when conservatives faced a lesser-of-two evils choice between a Republican they distrusted, former Senator Bob Dole, and a Democrat they disdained, President Bill Clinton. Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family later said in a speech to the council that he voted for a conservative third-party candidate that year rather than pull a lever for Mr. Dole. The Council for National Policy was founded 25 years ago by the Rev. Tim LaHaye as a forum for conservative Christians to strategize about turning the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Her main concern is the pleasure of her Lord...!
*From the Book, An IDEAL MUSLIMAH! * (*The True Islamic Personality of the Muslim Woman as Defined in the Qur'an and Sunnah) * * - Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Hashimi.* ** *Chapter:1 - A Muslim Woman with her Lord (Allah)!...* *continuation - 13...* *Her main concern is the pleasure of Allah! * The true Muslim woman always seeks to earn the pleasure of Allah (SWT) in everything she does. So she measures everything against this precise standard, and will retain or discard any practice accordingly. Whenever there is a conflict between what pleases Allah (SWT), and what pleases other people, she chooses what pleases Allah (SWT), with no hesitation or argument, even if it will angeother people. She does this because she knows, with her deep understanding of Islam and her own common sense, that pleasing the people is a goal that can never be achieved, and it will only bring about the wrath of Allah (SWT). The Prophet (PBUH) said: Whoever seeks the pleasure of Allah (SWT) at the risk of displeasing the people, Allah (SWT) will take care of him and protect him from them. But whoever seeks the pleasure of the people at the risk of displeasing Allah (SWT), Allah (SWT) will abandon him to the care of the people. 98 By weighing up her deeds in this precise fashion, the Straight Path will be clearly signposted for the Muslim woman. She will know what she is allowed to do and what she should avoid; her unfailing standard is the pleasure of Allah (SWT). Thus the life of the Muslim women will be free from ridiculous contradiction which have ensnared so many of those who have deviated from the guidance of Allah (SWT). There are women whom one sees praying perfectly, but in many instances they follow their own desires and deviate from the right path. In social gatherings they involve themselves in gossip and backbiting, criticising people, plotting against anybody they dislike, and putting words in their mouths so as to discredit them. These people are suffering from weakness of faith and a failure to understand the true reality of this holistic religion which Allah (SWT) revealed to guide mankind in all aspects of life, both public and private, so that people might seek the pleasure of Allah (SWT) by obeying His commands and emulating the behaviour of the Prophet (PBUH). There are also women who obey Allah (SWT) in some matters, but disobey Him in others, acting according to their own whims and desires. Such people are, as it were, half-Muslims, and the split personality of those who have deviated from the guidance of Islam is one of the most dangerous psychological and spiritual disorders facing modern man. *will be continued Insha Allaah!...* *Pls forward to all...very useful to everyone...* *regards,* *Fayaz Ahmed.* *India.*
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Muslim Mother Child Die After Childbirth at Mutur Hospital
*For Your information...* -- Forwarded message -- From: Irfan Islaam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 22, 2007 9:45 PM Subject: Muslim Mother Child Die After Childbirth at Mutur Hospita To: irfanislaam [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Very Often the Sermons Given at Jummah Prayers Are An Absolute Waste of Time. The Imams Always Seem to Concentrate On the Basics of Islam NEVER Seem to Look Beyond That. It Seems That They Are Completely OUT of Touch of the Ground Realities That the Muslims Are Facing in the Country.* *Mother and Child Die After Childbirth* ** *Monday ,12 February 2007**( Posted : **02:02**:55GMT) * * http://www.muslimguardian.com/portal/page?_pageid=35,54475_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL * ** *A mother and child had died after childbirth in an incident where the pregnant mother had been first rushed to the **Muthur** **Hospital** on **Saturday 10th February 2007** but due to lack of facilities she was directed to go to the Trincomalee hospital. Reports say that despite her condition the lady had to be taken to Trincomalee in the discomfort and delay of the regular ferry that plies between Mutur and Trincomalee twice a day. * ** *The child which was born after reaching the hospital had died the same night and the mother had died the next day, Sunday morning It is also said that the Trincomalee hospital had called on Saturday for blood to be donated as the patient was said to be bleeding excessively but a suitable donor could get to the Trincomalee hospital only by the next available ferry on the next day.. * ** *Several questions have arisen due to this incident. Knowing very well the difficulty in getting the patient to Trincomalee. why the Muthur hospital did not provide its ambulance ? Did the Trincomalee hospital give the urgently needed blood transfusion as per the normal practice in such emergencies ?. are among the questions being asked by the civilians in Muthur. There is a strong feeling among them that the exhaustion suffered by the patient, the delay in providing proper medical care had caused the deaths.* ** This incident comes in the wake of recent public complaints on the status of the services provided by the Muthur hospital and the bleak future faced by the civilians who had already suffered immense hardship due to the on going ethnic conflict.and the displacements. Maternal mortality, wherever it may occur is a serious matter that is taken note of by world organizations *Readers Comments* Discrimination by Tamils are very widespread in Trincomalee. Education departments, hospitals are famous for discriminating Muslims. I have no surprise the led the mother to die without give needed blood. *Abdul Hameed* ** Tamil officials in trinco are more cruel to Muslim people than their LTTE terrorists. They know no one will know or question them when they ill treat Muslims. Selffish Muslim politicians are generally incapable of tackling well organized tamil discrimination. *Anwar* ** These discriminations are very common in Tamils side as well as government side. There are huge amount of discrimination in most the government Hospitals from VOG consultant to nurses. If really interested to about this (any of the women right organisation) they can visit to any Muslim mother who gave a birth to her forth or beyond child unless the consultant is a Muslim VOG. Those Consultants stipulate conditions while entering to the hospital itself. If any of the women right organization interested to know how your rights are violated just carry out a survey. Such survey will indicate horrible things than this or equal to this in general circumstances *Abu Rashid*,*Kandy* *Muthur born muslim doctors* Where are you all? Isn't better if you all work for some times in your own areas before you are sold (males) for big dowries. You use the resources of your area to become a doctor and forget the ladder? We cannot change the minds of Non-Muslims interns of discriminatory attitudes. We have to survive with them. Why we our selves should find a solution rather than blaming others. *F. **Azmi*,*Sri Lanka* ANOTHER BABY MURDERED IN TRINCO HOSPITAL AGAIN MUSLIM BABY AND MUSLIM COMMUNITY SYSTEMATICALY CLEANCING BY NEW WAY OF TERROSIM OF LTTE QAAFIRS PLEASE PUBLISH MY COMMENTS ALSO DONT COPY IT ON YOUR NAMES WE WILL BRING THOSE MUNAFIQEEN MUTUR DR.`S UNDER OUR DICIPLINE SYSTEM OF PUNISHING THEM NEVER TO FORGET DR. DIGREE IS ONLY FOR DOWRY YOU DONT BLAME THOSE QAAFIRS BLAME CRUEL MUSLIM BORN MUNAFIQEEN. WHO LIKE MORE WELTHY AND MONEY DURING THEIR OWN STYLE TIME FOR PUBLIC SERVICE.HUMANITY MUST BE LEARNED FROM WESTENERS AND WHITES.SUCHAS HUMANITARIAN ORG.SO WHY A DR. TAKING OATH ON HIS JOB TO HELP ANYTIME ANY ANY SITUATION TO SAVE THE LIVES.BUT THEY USE THOSE DR. PROFESSON TO MARRY TO GOOD LOOKING FEMALE AND ROB HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY, HOUSE, LAND, BUSINESS PLACES. WHEN A HUMAN DIEING SLOWLY NEED HELP THESE DOGS NEVER CARE AND ALSO HUMILIATE PATIENTS AT GOV. HOSPITALS AND SHOUTS AND ATTACK THEM AS WELL SO WE
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The Islamic Library (English) - A Set of 7 Books
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] A Secret History
Detox RECONSIDERATION A Secret History By CARLA POWER Published: February 25, 2007 For Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the stock image of an Islamic scholar is a gray-bearded man. Women tend to be seen as the subjects of Islamic law rather than its shapers. And while some opportunities for religious education do exist for women — the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo has a women’s college, for example, and there are girls’ madrasas and female study groups in mosques and private homes — cultural barriers prevent most women in the Islamic world from pursuing such studies. Recent findings by a scholar at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies in Britain, however, may help lower those barriers and challenge prevalent notions of women’s roles within Islamic society. Mohammad Akram Nadwi, a 43-year-old Sunni alim, or religious scholar, has rediscovered a long-lost tradition of Muslim women teaching the Koran, transmitting hadith (deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) and even making Islamic law as jurists. Akram embarked eight years ago on a single-volume biographical dictionary of female hadith scholars, a project that took him trawling through biographical dictionaries, classical texts, madrasa chronicles and letters for relevant citations. “I thought I’d find maybe 20 or 30 women,” he says.. To date, he has found 8,000 of them, dating back 1,400 years, and his dictionary now fills 40 volumes. It’s so long that his usual publishers, in Damascus and Beirut, have balked at the project, though an English translation of his preface — itself almost 400 pages long — will come out in England this summer. (Akram has talked with Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to the United States, about the possibility of publishing the entire work through his Riyadh-based foundation.) The dictionary’s diverse entries include a 10th-century Baghdad-born jurist who traveled through Syria and Egypt, teaching other women; a female scholar — or muhaddithat — in 12th-century Egypt whose male students marveled at her mastery of a “camel load” of texts; and a 15th-century woman who taught hadith at the Prophet’s grave in Medina, one of the most important spots in Islam. One seventh-century Medina woman who reached the academic rank of jurist issued key fatwas on hajj rituals and commerce; another female jurist living in medieval Aleppo not only issued fatwas but also advised her far more famous husband on how to issue his. Not all of these women scholars were previously unknown. Many Muslims acknowledge that Islam has its learned women, particularly in the field of hadith, starting with the Prophet’s wife Aisha. And several Western academics have written on women’s religious education. About a century ago, the Hungarian Orientalist Ignaz Goldziher estimated that about 15 percent of medieval hadith scholars were women. But Akram’s dictionary is groundbreaking in its scope. Indeed, read today, when many Muslim women still don’t dare pray in mosques, let alone lecture leaders in them, Akram’s entry for someone like Umm al-Darda, a prominent jurist in seventh-century Damascus, is startling. As a young woman, al-Darda used to sit with male scholars in the mosque, talking shop. “I’ve tried to worship Allah in every way,” she wrote, “but I’ve never found a better one than sitting around, debating other scholars.” She went on to teach hadith and fiqh, or law, at the mosque, and even lectured in the men’s section; her students included the caliph of Damascus. She shocked her contemporaries by praying shoulder to shoulder with men — a nearly unknown practice, even now — and issuing a fatwa, still cited by modern scholars, that allowed women to pray in the same position as men. It’s after the 16th century that citations of women scholars dwindle. Some historians venture that this is because Islamic education grew more formal, excluding women as it became increasingly oriented toward establishing careers in the courts and mosques. (Strangely enough, Akram found that this kind of exclusion also helped women become better scholars. Because they didn’t hold official posts, they had little reason to invent or embellish prophetic traditions.) Akram’s work has led to accusations that he is championing free mixing between men and women, but he says that is not so. He maintains that women students should sit at a discreet distance from their male classmates or co-worshipers, or be separated by a curtain. (The practice has parallels in Orthodox Judaism.) The Muslim women who taught men “are part of our history,” he says. “It doesn’t mean you have to follow them. It’s up to people to decide.”
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Smithsonian Exhibit: Muslim in pre-Antebellum America 1800's
Bismillah, FYI Peace, Curtis Sharif Michael Saahir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following press release was taken from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Visit http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/pakistan/h05072701.html. press releases Exhibit Explores Muslim Life In 18th-19th Century America 07/27/2005 (Museum studies lives of early African-American Muslims) By Mercedes L. Suarez and Aviva Altmann Washington File Staff Writers Washington -- The Clara Mohammad School sits in a shabby storefront in Anacostia, a predominantly African-American neighborhood on the southern edge of the nations capital. Its windows advertising Quran classes are a testament to the legacy of Islam among African Americans in the United States. Just up the road is the Smithsonians Anacostia Museum for African-American History and Culture, which has opened the exhibit Forgotten Roots: African-American Muslims in Early America. Small paper documents like letters, pages from diaries, and deeds of sale come together to create vignettes of Muslim individuals enslaved and free who were known for their passion for freedom, their pioneering spirit, and their steadfast faith, curator Amir Muhammad said of the show. The exhibit is the first part of a multiyear initiative to document family and community life among African-American Muslims, beginning with the first Muslims in the United States and moving to the present. Some of the first Muslims came to America as enslaved Africans, and the exhibit profiles several of them through drawings, texts, books and documents. The exhibit focuses on the presence and contributions of African-American Muslims in the 18th and 19th centuries with pieces gathered from university collections, census records, newspaper archives, state historical societies and private collections. An 1828 sketch depicts Abdur Rahman Ibrahima ibn Sori, an African enslaved in Guinea and brought to Natchez, Mississippi, whose story was later told in Terry Alfords Prince of the Slaves. Sori wrote a letter to his family describing his enslavement, and that letter eventually found its way to Mississippi Senator Thomas Reed and then to the U.S. consulate in Morocco. The sultan of Morocco petitioned then-Secretary of State Henry Clay and President John Quincy Adams to free Sori, a request that eventually was granted. Sori later traveled to Washington where he was able to meet President Adams. One display case contains an 1853 edition of the Quran that bears the inscription only book saved from the University of Alabama Library which was destroyed by fire during the Civil War. Another display case contains a Bible written in Arabic dating from 1811. The Bible was a gift to slave Omar Ibn Sayyid (1770-1864) from his master, James Owens of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Sayyid, an Islamic scholar from what is now Senegal, is prominently featured in the exhibit. As a literate man, he was one of the few educated slaves when he was imprisoned in North and South Carolina. He wrote many texts to educate other Muslims in the area. Fourteen of his writings still exist. On display in Anacostia is an ambrotype image of Sayyid from 1850 and a copy of Bismillah, This is How You Pray, his guide for Muslim ritual prayer, which he observed devoutly. Sayyid also wrote an autobiography in Arabic in 1831 that depicts early Muslim life in America. Yarrow Marmood (1736-1844), a Muslim slave who gained his freedom and became a profitable landowner and businessman in Washington, and Muhammad Ali bin Said (1833-1882), a Muslim who came to the United States of his own free will and settled in Detroit in 1861, are two other individuals profiled in the exhibit. The exhibit also looks at the contributions of early Muslim women like Margaret Mohammit Hagan, originally from Madagascar, who established a dress-making business on F Street in Washington and practiced medical electricity, an early health science. On August 11, the museum will host a discussion on Muslim American Women, with several guest speakers. In conjunction with the exhibit, curator Muhammad and a group of historians will host an Islamic Heritage Day at the Anacostia Museum on July 30. The all-day celebration will feature music, painting, poetry, calligraphy and a marketplace with crafts and foods. Muhammad, who is founder of Collections and Stories of American Muslims Inc., said he hopes the exhibit will paint the big picture and the little details of this fascinating tale of Americas first black Muslims. The exhibit continues through October 16, and subsequent exhibitions in the museums program will examine what it means to be of African descent, Muslim and American. - Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] She understands the true meaning of being a servant of her Lord...!
*From the Book, An IDEAL MUSLIMAH! * (*The True Islamic Personality of the Muslim Woman as Defined in the Qur'an and Sunnah) * * - Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Hashimi.* ** *Chapter:1 - A Muslim Woman with her Lord (Allah)!...* *continuation - 14...* ** *She understands the true meaning of **being a servant of Allah!* The true Muslim woman has the firm belief that she has been created to serve an important purpose in life, which Allah (SWT) has defined in the Qur'an: ( *I have only created jinns and men, that they may serve Me.) *(Qur'an 51:56) Life, for the true Muslim woman, is not to be spent solely on daily chores or enjoyment of the good things of this world; life is an important mission, in which every believer must take on the responsibility of living in such a way that he or she will be a true and sincere worshipper of Allah (SWT). This can only be achieved by checking one's intention, in all one's deeds, to ensure that they are done for the sake of Allah (SWT) and to please Him. According to Islam, all deeds are tied to the intentions behind them, as the Prophet (PBUH) said: *Actions are but by intention, and every man shall have but that which he intended. Thus he whose migration was for Allah (SWT) and His Messenger, his migration was for Allah (SWT) and His Messenger; and he whose migration was to achieve some worldly benefit or to take some woman in marriage, his migration was for that which he intended. *99 Hence the Muslim woman may be in a continuous state of worship, which may encompass all of her deeds, so long as she checks her intentions and ensures that she is carrying out her mission in life, as Allah (SWT) wants her to do. So she may be in a state of worship when she treats her parents with kindness and respect, when she is a good wife to her husband, when she takes care of her children's upbringing and education, when she goes about her domestic chores, when she upholds the ties of kinship, etc., so long as she does all this in obedience to the commands of Allah (SWT), and with the intention of serving and worshipping Him. *will be continued Insha Allaah!...* *Pls forward to all...very useful to everyone...* *regards,* *Fayaz Ahmed.* *India.*
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Vanilla Ice Cream - General motors - (An Interesting Story)...!
*Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General motors! (An Interesting Story) * Never underestimate your Clients' Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem! This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. Please read on. The Pontiac Division of General Motors received a complaint: 'This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem. You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice cream, when I start back from the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind? The Pontiac President was understandably sceptical about the letter, but sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine neighbourhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn't start. The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start. Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive back and forth etc. In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavour. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavour, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavours were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the flavour. Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn't start when it took less time. Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream The engineer quickly came up with the answer: vapour lock. It was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavours allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour lock to dissipate. *Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution, with cool thinking. * *Don't just say it is IMPOSSIBLE without putting a sincere effort. Observe the word IMPOSSIBLE carefully.* *Looking closer you will see, I'M POSSIBLE. * *What really matters is your a t t i t u d e and your perception*. http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/01/23/car-allergic-to-vanilla-ice-cream/ regards, *Fayaz Ahmed.* *India.*
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] University admissions and LTTE racism
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 University admissions and LTTE racism The news that no new Sinhala and Muslim undergraduates would be admitted to the three universities in the North-East, out of security considerations, comes as a shock to those championing closer links among the regions of the country and national integration. Out of the thousands of Sinhala and Muslim students who have qualified for university entrance, none would be absorbed into the universities in the North-East, thus defeating all hopes of promoting closer, positive interaction among the young of our communities. This is a setback for national unity and is not promotive of the worthy aim of forging a common, Lankan identity. We are not pointing an accusing finger at the University Grants Commission, under whose purview university admissions occur. The UGC's position is acceptable that from a security point of view Sinhala and Muslim admissions to the universities concerned are not possible. After all it is the LTTE which is nurturing the ethnic scourge in Sri Lanka and the group enjoys the terrible notoriety of cleansing the North-East ethnically, with all the brute force at their command. It is no secret that neither Sinhalese nor Muslims could be found in areas beyond Vavuniya. Such are the stupefying results of LTTE ethnic cleansing. So, it does not come as a surprise that the higher educational authorities are anxious over the safety of Sinhala and Muslim students. After all, the former are responsible for the well-being of the latter. However, it speaks volumes for the impartiality and neutrality of the Lankan State that our Tamil citizens, irrespective of status, could reside and carry on their livelihoods anywhere in Sri Lanka. Tamil students freely pursue their educational careers anywhere in Sri Lanka, including the Southern Province. This telling fact blows the foundation off the LTTE charge that Tamil citizens are victimized on all fronts. On the contrary, they are always safe with the State but would have to brace of terror and brutal handling whenever they interact with the Tigers. These are salient facts for the world community. It is the LTTE which is sowing the evil seeds of ethnic chauvinism in Sri Lanka and for this reason the LTTE needs to be constantly hounded by all forces of civilization and outlawed. The differences in the way the State and the LTTE treat the students of this country, among other things, should lend credence to this policy approach to the Tigers. However, it is a matter for regret that Sinhala and Muslim students cannot pursue a higher education in the three universities in the North-East. If they could have done so, these universities would have been glowing examples of ethnic solidarity and brotherhood. After all, ethnic strongholds and enclaves should never be encouraged along with the mentality that goes along with it. The State, meanwhile, should do everything within its power, to highlight the virulence of the LTTE's ethnic chauvinism. The world cannot tolerate such scourges, lest it encourages division. http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/02/21/main_Editorial.asp .
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Sinhala Translation of Quran required
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Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Celebrating birthdays/Women allowed to visit Muslim graveyards/What if they have to pass through non-Muslim graves.
AA please see attach a event not to be missed insha Allah From: Ibrahim Hayani Reply-To: islamcity@yahoogroups.com To: eGroup For Muslims Around The World islamcity@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Celebrating birthdays/Women allowed to visit Muslim graveyards/What if they have to pass through non-Muslim graves. Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:26:36 -0500 Dear Brothers Sisters: Why do some Muslims try to make our Islamic faith so strict and even against joy and happiness? I am referring here to the rather naive view that just because birthdays were not celebrated during the early days of Islam, then celebrating birthdays is totally not allowed. This kind of thinking is not only illogical, it can be destructive too. Is there anything wrong with a person, a family, or a community organizing a birthday party in order to enjoy the occasion and, in the process, strengthen personal and social bonds? Why do some Muslim try to push Islam into these silly losing battles? Do I need to remind those brothers and sisters who seem to find a so-called BID'A everywhere in today's Muslim life that prior to the introduction of air travel the Hajj (pilgrimage) used to take months because pilgrims used animals, including camels, as means of transportation. According to their twisted logic, traveling by air to perform the Hajj should be considered a BID'A too. It is about time that Muslims begin to take themselves, and their infinitely cosmopolitan and inclusive faith, more seriously. If anything, Islam expects, indeed demands, its adherents to celebrate and enjoy life with all its beauty (without excessive indulgence of course). Celebrating birthdays should be viewed positively by all Muslims because it is a manifestation of our thanksgiving to the Almighty God for the gift of life. Salaam, Ibrahim Hayani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asslam Alkum , Dear Shaid Khan it is totally not allowed to celebrate birthday , because no one at prophit Mouhammad (SAW) , even at Sahaba period were celebrate such thing, Also in hadith come which meaning is that The person who is likeing the other non muslim commuity( tradition or any thing related to their religon)that person is from those non muslim commuity hence the celebration is to imitate non-Muslims in their habits and traditions.. thus it is forbidden to celebrate birthday. Also Justify ur Fatwa about women to visit graveyards is allowed provided that they do not wail ??? Name the name of Scholars , Hadith , Quran Reference plz , becoz in hadith it is not allowed for woman to visit the graveyard totally. Fi Aman Allah Farooque Shahid Khan@yahoo.com wrote: Celebrating birthdays/Women allowed to visit Muslim graveyards/What if they have to pass through non-Muslim graves. Q. Is it forbidden to celebrate birthdays? Are women allowed to visit Muslim graveyards? What if they have to pass through non-Muslim graves to reach there? A. It is not forbidden to celebrate birthdays, of children or adults. What is forbidden is to imitate non-Muslims in their habits and traditions. If the celebration is intended as copying the way of life of non-Muslims, it is forbidden. If it is intended only as an occasion to express joy and happiness, and may be an informal way of understanding, it is appropriate. Visiting graveyards is recommended as a way to remind us of death and the Hereafter. This is something both men and women need in equal measure. Hence, scholars say that it is perfectly permissible for women to visit graveyards, provided that they do not wail. If it is necessary to go through a Christian graveyard in order to reach the Muslim part that is appropriate. A Muslim should show respect when he passes through a non-Muslim graveyard. A funeral passed by the Prophet, peace be upon him, and he stood up. He was told that it was the funeral of a Jew. He answered: Was he not a human being? Compiled from various sources. Permission is granted to circulate among private individuals and groups, to post on Internet sites and to publish in full text and subject title in not-for-profit publications. Note that an English translation of the Qur'an is an interpretation of the Qur'an, and does not have the perfect status as the Qur'an in its original Arabic form. Here's a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ _ Rate your skiving credentials with our Slack-o-meter http://www.slack-o-meter.com Title: IR_EOI07_General_HTML From: * Islamic Relief UK Events* [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:07 PMTo:
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] S e l f A p p r a i s a l
Self Appraisal... A little boy went into a store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits. The store owner observed and listened to the conversation. The boy asked, Maam, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn? The woman replied, I already have someone to cut my lawn. I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now. replied the boy. The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn . The little boy was even more perseverant and said, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of Palm beach, Florida. Again the woman answered in the negative. With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver. The store owner, who was listening to this conversation, walked over to the boy and said, Son I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job. The little boy replied, No thanks, I was just checking my performance on the job I already have. I am the one who is working for the lady I was talking to! Courtesy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *regards,* ** *Fayaz Ahmed* *India.*
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman, Sunday Telegraph America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime is accused of repressing minority rights and culture In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions. The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime. In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials. Such incidents have been carried out by the Kurds in the west, the Azeris in the north-west, the Ahwazi Arabs in the south-west, and the Baluchis in the south-east. Non-Persians make up nearly 40 per cent of Iran's 69 million population, with around 16 million Azeris, seven million Kurds, five million Ahwazis and one million Baluchis. Most Baluchis live over the border in Pakistan. Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now no great secret, according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington who spoke anonymously to The Sunday Telegraph. His claims were backed by Fred Burton, a former US state department counter-terrorism agent, who said: The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime. Although Washington officially denies involvement in such activity, Teheran has long claimed to detect the hand of both America and Britain in attacks by guerrilla groups on its internal security forces. Last Monday, Iran publicly hanged a man, Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi, for his involvement in a bomb attack that killed 11 Revolutionary Guards in the city of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchistan. An unnamed local official told the semi-official Fars news agency that weapons used in the attack were British and US-made. Yesterday, Iranian forces also claimed to have killed 17 rebels described as mercenary elements in clashes near the Turkish border, which is a stronghold of the Pejak, a Kurdish militant party linked to Turkey's outlawed PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party. John Pike, the head of the influential Global Security think tank in Washington, said: The activities of the ethnic groups have hotted up over the last two years and it would be a scandal if that was not at least in part the result of CIA activity. Such a policy is fraught with risk, however. Many of the groups share little common cause with Washington other than their opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose regime they accuse of stepping up repression of minority rights and culture. The Baluchistan-based Brigade of God group, which last year kidnapped and killed eight Iranian soldiers, is a volatile Sunni organisation that many fear could easily turn against Washington after taking its money. A row has also broken out in Washington over whether to unleash the military wing of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group with a long and bloody history of armed opposition to the Iranian regime. The group is currently listed by the US state department as terrorist organisation, but Mr Pike said: A faction in the Defence Department wants to unleash them. They could never overthrow the current Iranian regime but they might cause a lot of damage. At present, none of the opposition groups are much more than irritants to Teheran, but US analysts believe that they could become emboldened if the regime was attacked by America or Israel. Such a prospect began to look more likely last week, as the UN Security Council deadline passed for Iran to stop its uranium enrichment programme, and a second American aircraft carrier joined the build up of US naval power off Iran's southern coastal waters. The US has also moved six heavy bombers from a British base on the Pacific island of Diego Garcia to the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which could allow them to carry out strikes on Iran without seeking permission from Downing Street. While Tony Blair reiterated last week that Britain still wanted a diplomatic solution to the crisis, US Vice-President Dick Cheney yesterday insisted that military force was a real possibility. It would be a serious mistake if a nation like Iran were to become a nuclear power, Mr Cheney warned during a visit to Australia. All options are still on the table. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus
