Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Poem Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam is a mercy to all of humankind, And to me, he is MY BELOVED!
POEM I learnt of a man who struggled so hard When his mission was difficult from the start. The story of someone who had morals, Spoke gently, kindness as he knew. Never fearing to say what is right, His conviction in ISLAM was true. The touch of his hand was as soft as silk To comfort the crying child. To mend his clothes, or do the chores, Never complaining, he always smiled. A living he made with his bare hands, The same that held his mighty sword. Every heart and soul he adored. His smell was always of musk, And cleanliness he kept at his best. He held the hands of his companions. Unashamed to play with small children. So modest, so humble, a perfect example, That even a stranger could recognize him. His eyes slept very little, For nights were precious, His prayers he treasured much greater. To wake and pray in the depths of night, Seeking forgiveness, and being nearness his Creator. His enemies admired his teachings, Uniting every religion, every clan. Till ISLAM came to every corner of the world, Yet, indeed, he was only one man. Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam is a mercy to all of humankind, And to me, he is MY BELOVED! Courtesy:http://www.radioislam.co.za/Newsletter/2007/March/Newsletter%20Wed%2014.03.07.htm ABDUL WAHID OSMAN BELAL - Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Timeline: al-Qaida.
*Timeline: al-Qaida.* *2004* The year begins with the broadcast of a message from al-Qaida's leader urging Muslims to rise up against US forces in Iraq. The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, says he believes Bin Laden is alive, and French police say their country has escaped a planned chemical or biological attack by an Islamist cell linked to al-Qaida. On March 11, the worst terrorist attack in Europe since the Lockerbie bombing kills 190 people and injures hundreds more in the Spanish capital, Madrid. The atrocity is initially blamed on the Basque nationalist group Eta but is later linked to Islamist militants. More than 20 people, most of them Moroccans, are arrested in the following weeks. Meanwhile, Washington orders the hunt for Bin Laden to be intensified along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the hope of capturing him before the US presidential election, in November. After claiming that its forces have cornered a senior al-Qaida figure in a remote tribal area, Pakistan admits its prey has escaped - probably via a mile-long tunnel running through the battlefield. A fresh attempt to wreak havoc with a bomb attack on Spanish trains is foiled in April after a bag containing explosives is discovered under a high-speed rail track 40 miles south of Madrid. In the same week, a group of suspected Islamist terrorists blow themselves up when their flat in the Spanish capital is raided by police. Among those who perish in western Europe's first suicide bombing is Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, the alleged ringleader and mastermind of the Madrid attack. *2003* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is captured at the beginning of March and tells his interrogators he has met the al-Qaida leader in recent weeks in Afghanistan, close to the border with Pakistan. Speculative reports that Bin Laden is also under arrest circulate over the next couple of weeks until they are drowned out by the sound of war in Iraq. In April, Britain's first convicted al-Qaida terrorists are jailed for 11 years each after being found guilty of helping to fund Bin Laden's terror network. Illegal immigrants Brahim Benmerzouga and Baghdad Meziane had raised thousands of pounds through credit card fraud for an international network of terrorists planning a jihad, or holy war, against the west. A week later, a tape handed to the Associated Press purporting to be from Bin Laden calls on citizens of Arab and Muslim governments that supported the US-led invasion to rise up against them. One month later, at least 75 people are killed in one week in suicide attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Casablanca, in Morocco. Britain, meanwhile, warns of an increased terrorist threat in east Africa. Western counter-terrorism experts speculate that lower-level al-Qaida operatives have further regrouped, and that many of the half of all top al-Qaida operatives ... either jailed or dead that President Bush boasted of have been replaced. In May, an al-Qaida spokesman tells a London-based Arabic magazine that the organisation has restructured itself and is planning spectacular attacks against the United States. In a tape broadcast on al-Jazeera, Ayman al-Zawahri - Bin Laden's second in command - criticises Arab countries for helping the US war in Iraq. The following month, Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5, warns it is only a matter of time before terrorists target a western city, adding that al-Qaida remains an organisation capable of deadly terrorist attacks. Ayman al-Zawahri returns in August with another taped message, this time warning America it would pay dearly if any of the al-Qaida suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are harmed. A few days later, another al-Qaida tape, broadcast on al-Arabiya television, has Afghan-based al-Qaida official Abdel Rahman al-Najdi claiming that Bin Laden and key ally Mullah Omar are still alive. One of Europe's most significant terrorism trials since September 11 concludes in October, when a disciple of Bin Laden is jailed for 10 years in Belgium for plotting a suicide bomb attack on a US military base. Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who spent several years as a professional footballer before being recruited to Bin Laden's cause, was convicted, with 17 other Islamist extremists, of terror-related offences. In November, a bombing kills at least 17 people in Saudi Arabia, prompting fears of a new wave of attacks by al-Qaida sympathisers throughout the Middle East. Later that month, al-Qaida claims responsibility for devastating suicide bomb attacks on the British consulate and HSBC bank headquarters in Istanbul. In Yemen, meanwhile, a senior al-Qaida suspect linked to the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole is captured. The arrest of Mohammed al-Ahdal results in the foiling of a plot to use a truck bomb to blow up the British embassy. *2002* It is not known whether Bin Laden is alive or dead. But terrorist attacks continue - in Tunisia,
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] 9-11 - Only the DELUDED or the PAID-OFF Still Believe AMATEUR Arab Pilots Did It
World's Genuine Axis of Evil Monster Israel Its Vampire Puppets Britain the United States. - John Kaminski Wed Sep 6, 2006 16:27 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=104298 9/11: 5 Years Later Only the Deluded or the Paid-off Still Believe Amateur Arab Pilots Did It By John Kaminski [EMAIL PROTECTED] The mindlock continues. The official cover up of the events of September 11, 2001 remains essentially intact five years after the mind-numbing orgy of destruction in New York and Washington. This momentous first foreign attack on American soil was staged by key players running the U.S. government on a higher level than the president, who has by now has been exposed as a sociopathic sock puppet. The guilt of the highest leaders in the U.S. has been demonstrated for all to see by their concealment of evidence, obstruction of investigations, and obvious lies explaining that day and the subsequent carnage that has been wreaked because of them. The brief amount of time that the towers took to fall proves the building cores were demolished. In five years and after billions of dollars spent fighting terror, the U.S. government has arrested no one for the crimes, and in fact has spent considerable effort covering up the evidence of treason and mass murder that has been unearthed by a worldwide army of outraged 9/11 researchers. My friend the Lone Eagle, an aircraft supply expert, notes that among all the air disasters in history, 9/11 was only the time that a crashed aircraft could not be identified by the serial numbers on its small replaceable parts, which are seldom destroyed in any crash. And it happened four times that day. Yet the government told us three steel framed skyscrapers collapsed due to fire. That also had never happened before. Ellen Mariani is the widow of a man who supposedly lost his life on Flight 175. She looked for relatives of other victims of that flight and after five years of searching, she has found no one. These are three of thousands of jarring clues that the American people are in a significant coma about this event. Both official government and mainstream media communications continue to reassure the public that the resulting war on terror continues, despite the facts that wars declared in its name have not only been unjust, but unsuccessful, and the entire American army is being poisoned in the bargain. Not a single Arab terrorist not heavily coached (if not outright invented) by the powers that be has ever been arrested and charged for any of these colossal crimes. The pre-9/11 investors who profited from their foreknowledge have all been identified as Israeli Jews. 9/11 was a hoax. You know it, and so do I. If you are an elected official and continue to deny 9/11 was a scam to make war a permanent revenue generator, then you should be preparing to go to jail. Then again, consider the penalty for treason and mass murder. How has 9/11 etched itself into our collective history? Trillions of dollars spent on security measures and foreign invasions, enriching only the richest corporations and impoverishing the rest of us. Hundreds of thousands of lives sacrificed to the maintenance of a scam. No foreign terrorists ever arrested for the greatest crime ever committed in America. The legacy of 9/11 includes arrest and detention without trial for thousands of innocent people. The creation of the concept of rendition, which transfers suspects to other countries who have no laws prohibiting torture, is probably the major achievement by the Bush administration in its hell bent dash to destroy the American republic, and subjugate it to the whims of the international bankers. It has become an America no one recognizes anymore. The principle feature of the 9/11 cover up was the willful destruction of evidence by our highest leaders, one of many capital crimes committed by hundreds of national figures who broke the law to cover up their crimes. Treason, mass murder, and obstruction of justice. That is the new official American mantra, for politicians to run from, and for citizens to keep repeating. Ive been repeating it for three years. http://www.worldnewsstand.net/03/John_Kaminski/17.htm http://www.serendipity.li/wot/arrest_bush_now.htm Now, five years after the Twin Towers were destroyed, a groundswell of interest spreads across the minds of Americans, who for so long have been terrified of even considering the prospect that their own government would stage a charade of this magnitude merely to increase their profit margins. Rumsfeld's Cipro stock, Cheney's Halliburton profits, the Bush family's joint bank account with the Queen of England but all these are chump change compared to the real profits that are harvested from the poisoned corpses scattered all across the Middle East, innocent corpses planted by the world's genuine
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] My comments on the book Rethinking Muslim Women And The Veil;;Challenging historical and modern stereotypes. by Catherine Bullock
Dear members, Assalamu Alaikum.I have recently read the book Rethinking Muslim Women And The Veil;;Challenging historical and modern stereotypes. This is a must read book by Catherine Bullock, presently editor of American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS). She took doctorate in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She accepted Islam when she was a doctoral candidate. The book has chapters on Hijab in colonial era, wearing Hijab in Toronto, Meanings of Hijab, critique of Mernissi's view of women and Hijab in Islam, apart from an introduction and conclusion. It has been published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). You can see a full review of the book in Number 4, Volume 19 of the above journal. In chapter 4 she rejects portrayal of women and hijab in colonized Morocco as standard or norm for Islam or women in Islam.Mernissi views Women as threat to social order, a peculiar view not supported by Islamic scholars of the past and the present. This is not the general view of the Quran or Sunnah. To give a view based on some selected verses or hadith against the over-all picture is not academic honesty. She has tried to get support from Gazzali but in most part she has mis-understood Gazzali. For instance Imam Gazzali has written that sexual desire contains evil which may destroy religion and and the world if not controlled or subjugated or restored to a state of equilibrium.Gazzali has spoken of desire of all, men and women but Mernissi made it desire of women and as such erred all the way because of wrong assumption. Mernissi,s view that woman is by definition a foe of men ,she distracts men from Taqwa and religion is false imputation. I read some writings of Mernissi before but I could not realize whether she is for or against Islam. Now I feel that she really wanted to subvert Islam. You may contact UK IIIT to get the book. Their e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catherine Bullock can be reached in[EMAIL PROTECTED] Shah Abdul Hannan
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Important New York Times article
Of all the groups, there is probably more suspicion about CAIR, but when you ask people for cold hard facts, you get blank stares, said Michael Rolince, a retired F.B.I.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_bureau_of_investigation/index.html?inline=nyt-orgofficial who directed counterterrorism in the Washington field office from 2002 to 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14cair.html?themc=th -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - If you are not an intended recipient of this document, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. In fact it would be best all around for you to burn your computer then report to the nearest office of the Department of Homeland Security and turn yourself in as a potential danger to the moral fabric of America and a serious risk to the purity of apple pie.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Profile: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
*Womaniser, joker, scuba diver: the other face of al-Qaida's No 3* Terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna assesses the arrest of Bin Laden's playboy planner. · Dr Rohan Gunaratna is author of Inside al-Qaida: Global Network of Terror Monday March 3, 2003 The pre-dawn arrest in Rawalpindi of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaida's number three and its operations chief, is the most devastating blow yet to its capability to conduct terrorist attacks worldwide. His arrest will gravely diminish al-Qaida's ability to plan, prepare and execute largescale operations of the scope of September 11. Mohammed has been described as a meticulous organiser seeking retribution against the United States - but there is another side to the man who masterminded the trade centre attacks, and is considered the most feared terrorist in the world. He was born in Kuwait in 1965, but his parents were from Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Although Mohammed insists that he is a believer, he is not a strict Muslim, and while the September hijackers lived in cheap lodgings, he stayed in plush hotels. In contrast to the spartan lifestyle of Osama bin Laden and his followers, he was flamboyant, spent lavishly, and is known to joke with colleagues to ease the pressure on him and on them. In the Philippines he was a frequent visitor to Manila's red light district, including its karaoke bars and mirrored go-go clubs, where he introduced himself to women as a wealthy businessman from Qatar. Mohammed's womanising included phoning a dentist and telling her: Look out of the window and look up. What she saw was Mohammed and his nephew and protege Ramzi Ahmed Yousef waving from a helicopter hovering above her clinic and displaying a banner saying I love you. On another occasion the pair took a scuba diving course together at a local resort. Although he has been on the run since being identified as a terrorist in 1991, and despite being placed on nearly 100 watchlists and tracked by two dozen governments, he has managed to conduct operations across the world, and demonstrate an ability to function effectively over long periods of time under extreme pressure. As he did not directly conduct terrorist attacks, his identity remained elusive and his personality largely unknown to the intelligence community even after September 11. He is a highly experienced organiser of terrorist attacks across international borders, one of an elite group capable of such events; a group which would also include Imad Mugneyev, coordinator of the 1983 bombing of the US marine barracks and French paratrooper HQs in Lebanon, and Israeli targets in Argentina in 1992 and 1994, and Illich Ramirez Sanchez, alias Carlos the Jackal, organiser of the hostage taking of 11 oil ministers in Austria in 1975. In 1992, Mohammed developed a plan with his nephew Ramzi to bomb the World Trade Centre in New York, topple one tower on the other, and kill thousands of people. The operation killed six, injured over 1,000 and caused extensive damage. *Funded * In 1993, he funded an operation to assassinate Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister of Pakistan. Two years later he planned an attempt across the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries to destroy a dozen US airliners. During the 1990s he became head of al-Qaida's military committee. He has been involved in attacks in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Yemen, and planned another two dozen attacks worldwide. His roles varied according to the operation - directly participating in the bombing of a Philippines Airline flight from Cebu to Tokyo that killed a Japanese executive and injured others in 1994; and chairing the planning meetings for September 11 in Asia and Europe. He also wired money to the September 11 hijackers, and to his nephew Ramzi for Oplan Bojinka - a plan to destroy a dozen US airliners over the Pacific, assassinate President Clinton and Pope John Paul II, and ram commercial airliners into the CIA HQ and the Pentagon. Mohammed masterminded Holy Tuesday, the operation to strike at America's key landmarks on September 11, 2001, the single biggest terrorist attack the world has ever witnessed. There are several other operations in which he is said to have been involved, including the killings of two American officials in Karachi in 1995, and four US oil workers in Karachi in 1997. Although Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh of Jayash-e-Mohomad, an associate group of al-Qaida, was convicted for the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, the operation was also controlled by Mohammed. September 11 involved planning in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Germany, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Britain and the US. Mohammed's mastery of a complex set of operatives, assets and funding made him a big threat to the international system. He accepted with enthusiasm his specific responsibility: targeting the US along with its allies and friends. To meet that challenge he readily left behind the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Hidaya Foundation - Zakat Information (Part 3)
Hidaya Foundation - Zakat Information Page http://www.hidaya.org/zakat/ 9.0. Who is entitled to receive Zakat? There are eight groups of people on whom Zakat should be spent, as mentioned in the Quran: The alms are only for the Fuqara' (the poor), and Al-Masakin (the needy) and those employed to collect (the funds); and for to attract the hearts of those who have been inclined (towards Islam); and to free the captives; and for those in debt; and for Allah's Cause, and for the wayfarer (a traveler who is cut off from everything); a duty imposed by Allah. And Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise. [Al-Quran 9:60] They ask you as to what they should spend. Say: Whatever wealth you spend, it is for the parents and the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, and whatever good you do, Allah surely knows it. [Al-Quran 2:215] (Alms are) for the poor who are confined in the way of Allah-- they cannot go about in the land; the ignorant man thinks them to be rich on account of (their) abstaining (from begging); you can recognize them by their mark; they do not beg from men importunately; and whatever good thing you spend, surely Allah knows it. [Al-Quran 2:273] And give to the near of kin his due and (to) the needy and the wayfarer, and do not squander wastefully. [Al-Quran 17:26] 1. Fuqaraa: Those who own property in excess of basic necessities but below the value of Nisab. 2. Masakeen: Persons of extreme poverty who possess no wealth whatsoever. 3. Aamileen: (Zakat collector) Those persons who are appointed by an Islamic Head of State or Government to collect Zakat. It is not necessary that this be a needy person. 4. Muallafatul Quloob: Those poor and needy persons who are given Zakat with the intentions of solidifying their hearts because they maybe recently converted to Islam or to bring them closer to Islam. 5. Ar-Riqaab: slaves whose maters have agreed to set them free on a payment of a fixed amount. Zakat may be used to purchase their freedom. 6. Ibnus-Sabeel: A traveler, who, whilst wealthy at his residence, is stranded and in need of financial assistance. 7. Al Ghaarimeen: A person whose debts exceeds his assets and his net assets (after deducting his liabilities) is below the Nisab limit. To determine whether a person qualifies, his basic necessities of life (house, furniture, clothes, vehicle, etc.) will not be taken into account. It is conditional that the debts were not created for any un-Islamic or sinful purpose. 8. Fi Sabeelillah: Those who are away from home in the path of Allah. Those in Jihaad, those seeking knowledge or a stranded Haji may be assist with Zakat if they are in need. 9.1. Who cannot be given Zakat? 1. Zakat cannot be given to parents, grandfather, etc., or to one's children and grandchildren. A husband and wife cannot give Zakat to each other. 2. Zakat contributions cannot be given to such institutions or organizations who do not give the rightful recipients (Masaarif) possession of Zakat, but instead use Zakat funds for construction, investment or salaries. 3. Zakat cannot be given to non-Muslims. The same ruling applies to Waajib Sadaqah, i.e., Sadaqatul Fitr, Kaffarah, Ush'r and Naz'r. Naf'l Sadaqah could be given to non-Muslims. 4. If one cannot determine whether the recipient is needy or not, then it is better to make certain before giving him Zakat. If Zakat is given without inquiry and subsequently it is known that the recipient is wealthy the Zakat is not valid. It has to be given again. 5. Zakat will not be fulfilled by purchasing books for an institution, or land purchased for public utility and made Wak'f. 6. Zakat cannot be used for the Kaf'n of a deceased person who has no heirs, because at that time he/she cannot become the owner. 7. A dead person's debt cannot be paid from Zakat. 9.2. Miscellaneous 1. It is not permissible according to Shariah to give Zakat to a person who owns merchandise or wealth in excess of his needs to the value of Nisab nor is it permissible for such a person to accept Zakat. 2. A person that does not own an amount equal to the value of Nisab is known as Faqir. This person could be given Zakat and it is permissible for him to accept it. 3. If a person owns wealth which in value exceeds the amount of Nisab, but this wealth is not intended for business nor does he require it for his daily needs, such a person is regarded as well-to-do and should not be given Zakat. 4. The books of a scholar or tools of a tradesman are among his necessities, irrespective of their value. Besides these if he does not own wealth equal to Nisab, he could be given Zakat. 5. When giving Zakat, Sadaqah, etc., one's poor and needy relatives should be given preference. To avoid embarrassing them, it should be given to them without saying that it
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] September 11 'mastermind confesses'
*September 11 'mastermind confesses'* March 15, 2007 The alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has confessed to those and other al-Qa'eda attacks, according to the transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay released late last night. A statement said: I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z. Mohammed, a Pakistani, who was arrested in Rawalpindi in 2003, added: I was the operational director for Sheikh Osama bin Laden for the organising, planning, follow-up, and execution of the 9/11 operation. Hearings are being held into 14 of the most serious suspects held in Cuba. * What Mr Mohammed told the tribunal:* * ·* I was member of al-Qaida council *·* I was director for planning and execution of 9/11, fr om A to Z *·* I was commander for foreign ops *·* I was directly in charge ... of cell for biological weapons, and follow-up on dirty bomb ops on American soil *·* I was responsible for shoe bomber operation to down two US planes *·* I was responsible for Bali bombing *·* I was responsible for second wave attacks after 9/11: California; Chicago; Washington; Empire State, NY *·* I was responsible for operations to destroy American vessels in the Hormuz, Gibraltar, and Singapore *·* I was responsible for planning operation to destroy Panama canal *·* I was responsible for planning assassination of ex-US presidents, including Carter and Clinton *·* I was responsible for planning operation to destroy Heathrow, Canary Wharf and Big Ben *·* I shared responsibility for assassination attempt on John Paul II in Philippines *·* I was responsible for operation to assassinate President Musharraf ** *My comment:* This man admits but there are so many questions remaining unanswered and unsolved! Is it true and not a game? Is he free from any pressure? Guantanamo itself is a question and the US Govt is under suspicion from the beginning! *Arif Bhuiyan* UK -- Ends
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Good Internet Advice
Subject: Good Internet Advice GOOD INTERNET ADVICE The following procedure was reportedly written by a System Administrator for a corporate computer system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the introduction below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% of us DO NOT. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Here is how it happens: Every time you forward an e-mail, there is information left over from the people who received the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds. Now, all it takes to get a virus is if any of these addressees has a virus, it can now distributed to everyone receiving and opening the e-mail. Additional, the computer can Send that same virus to every E-mail address that is in your Address Book. In addition, some sap can take all of those addresses and sell them to a Spammer or just send junk mail to each of the them, in the hopes that you will go to a specific web site and he will then make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience is over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps but they do require discipline... Try the following if you haven't done it before: (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them. You MUST click the Forward button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don't click on Forward first, you won't be able to edit the message at all. Highlight them (Click and hold your mouse button down and drag over whatever you want to remove, then press the delete key or the enter key) and delete all addresses received with your mail, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second. You can also put ( ) around all the E-mail addresses, and it will become a Blind Copy. No one else can see who you've sent the e-mail to. (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send it to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see the BCC: option, click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say Undisclosed Recipients in the TO: Address field of the people who receive it. (3) Remove any FW : in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling. Make it look as if you are the Originator of the message. (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those emails where you have to open 10 different Forwards, before you can read the one page that actual has the information on it? By forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open the many e-mails just to see what you sent. You will also NOT be sending other peoples E - mail addresses along. This is really important. (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position! And asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: A completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. DO NOT put your email address on any petition. If you want to support the petition, Copy , Edit and Send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email addresses on a petition. And don't believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just isn't so! Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are: 1. The one that says something like, Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen. Or sometimes they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen. IT ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN! (We are still seeing some of the same emails that we circulated 10 years ago!) 2. Don't let the bad luck ones suck you in or scare you either (please help so and so); these should automatically get trashed if you don't know the individual personally. 3. Before you forward an 'Amber Alert', or a 'Virus Alert', or some of the other emails floating around
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Food as Medicine
Bismillsh, FYI Peace, Curtis Sharif Houaron Texas Food as Medicine HEADACHE? EAT FISH! Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches. So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain. HAVE FEVER? EAT YOGURT! Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season. Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily. TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA! Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invadingGreen tea is great for our immune system)! INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP?) HONEY! Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative. ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. (when I was young, my mother would make onion packs to place on our chest, helped the respiratory ailments and actually made us breathe better). ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!! Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system) UPSET STOMACH? BANANAS - GINGER! Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea. BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria. BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!! Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple. PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME? EAT CORNFLAKES Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue. MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS! Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc. COLDS? EAT GARLIC! Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.) COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!! A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy. BREAST CANCER? EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage Helps to maintain estrogen at healthy levels. LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!! A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables. ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE ALSO!!! Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers. DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES! Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment) CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO! Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!! Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too. BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!! The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar. Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E fiber. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange. Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack stroke. Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you..they're high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young.blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health fieldthey get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies) Orange: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer. Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are Vitamin C Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays) Guava Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion) __._,_.__ - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Taubah! (Repentance)
** ** ** * * *TAUBAH* *Allah Ta'ala says:* *O Believers.' Make taubah unto Allah Ta'ala a pure taubah. * *Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said:* *O people! Make taubah unto Allah. * *Muslim* *The Nature of Taubah* *Taubah (repentance) is the regret and sadness which arise in the heart when remembering a sin. For the validity of the taubah, shunning the sin, firmly resolving to abstain from it in future and controlling the nafs when it urges for the sin, are necessary.* *The meaning of taubah is to return and to return from the far side to the near side. It has a beginning and an end. The beginning (Ibtidaa) of taubah is the spreading of the rays of Noor-e-Ma'rifat (the Light of Divine Recognition) of the heart which thus realizes that the sin committed is a fatal poison which wroughts great spiritual disaster. This realization induces regret and fear which result in a true and sincere yearning to compensate for the sin. This yearning is to such a degree that shunning of the sin is immediate. Further, a firm resolve and intention are made to totally abstain from the sin in future. Along with this intention a full effort is made to compensate for the past shortcoming. When the result is this fruit of taubah pertaining to the past, present and future, then perfection of taubah has been acquired. This then is the end (Intihaa) of t aubah.* *The Need for Taubah* *It should be clear that taubah is Waajib (compulsory) upon every person because Allah Ta'ala addresses all Muslims in the Aayat:* *O Believers! Make taubah unto Allah, a pure taubah.* *Since the reality of taubah is to regard sin as a fatal poison and disaster for the life of the Hereafter, and to firmly resolve to shun sin this much of taubah is part of Imaan it being waajib and necessary are apparent to every Mu'min. Hence, Allah Ta'ala says:* *He who makes taubah after his transgression arid reforms, verily Allahturns towards him. * *Qur'aan * *The meaning of this Aayat is:* *Allah Ta'ala will forgive, have mercy upon and aid the person who after having sinned renders taubah according to the rule of the Shari'at and reforms his acts for the future, i.e. he abstains from all evil, practices in conformity with the Shari'at and remains firm on his taubah.* *THE WAY OF MAKING TAUBAH* *Taubah or repentance is to confess to Allah Ta'ala one's sins and to regret such commission. Resolve firmly to discharge all Huqooq-ul-Ibaad (rights of others) and other duties which are obligatory, but which have not been rendered. This intention should be immediately made and thereafter the actual fulfillment of such rights and duties put into motion. Alternatively, the pardon of those whose rights were usurped should be obtained. When a sin has been committed, immediately perform two Rak'ats Salaat with the intention of Taubah. One then has to offer repentance with both the tongue and heart. The taubah should be made fervently and vigorously. If one is unable to shed tears, then one's face should take on the appearance of a concerned and crying person while making taubah.* *For the purpose of making taubah, recall your sins and then offer repentance in profusion. However, do not meditate about the sins committed or do not make vigorous attempts in a bid to remember what sins had been committed, for this attitude will create a barrier between the repenter and Allah Ta'ala. This constitutes an obstacle in the path of love and progress. After having made a sincere taubah, if previous sins come to mind then renew the taubah. Do not be too much concerned about sins for which taubah has already been made.* *While making taubah there should be a degree of moderation in mentioning the sins. There is no need to recite a whole list of sins while making t aubah. Seek forgiveness for all sins in general. According to the Hadith Shareef one should say:* *And, I repent of even such sins which you are more aware of.* *I repent of such sins which l am aware of and of such sins which I am unaware.* *Pondering about sins is in actual fact destruction of time and diversion from the remembrance of Allah. However, one should make special taubah for sins which one recalls automatically. The real Goal is Allah Ta'ala and not the remembrance of sins neither the remembrance of acts of obedience. The purpose of remembering sins is to offer repentance. Hence, once taubah has been made, one should not deliberately and consciously ponder over sins thereby making such remembrance a definite purpose because this will engender the idea that Allah Ta'ala is displeased with one, and this is a dangerous idea.* *THE METHOD OF ACQUIRING TAUBAH* *Remember and reflect about the warnings sounded in the Qur'aan and Hadith in regard to sins. The pang of regret which enters the heart as a result of such reflection is in actual fact taubah.* http://www.islaam.org/Tasawwuf/Tasa_40.htm -- *-- Alahumma infa`ni bima `allamtani wa `allamni ma yanfa`uni!
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] First Saudi Tabloid Survives Closure Arrest
First Saudi Tabloid Survives Closure and Arrest By Andrew Hammond http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060724/lf_nm/media_saudi_tabloid_dc RIYADH (Reuters) - The fact that he still has a newspaper to edit is proof enough to Khalaf Alharbi that the ceiling of freedom in ultraconservative Saudi Arabia is rising. His mischievous tabloid Shams, Arabic for Sun, has endured suspension, the arrest of one of its journalists and the carping of Islamist hard-liners who say it embodies the Westernized future they fear Saudi Arabia will face if liberals get their way. But with a daily print-run of nearly 70,000, and recent permission to print inside the oil-producing kingdom instead of in neighboring Bahrain, Alharbi says the paper for young people aims to set a new standard after its first turbulent six months. Boldness is one of the basic tools of a journalist. You have to try to enter all the sensitive areas and you have to try to go over the line, he said in an interview. Fear of the free press is based on an illusion. Countries that have a free press have discovered that there's no problem, that the press can be responsible, because in the end the press is patriotic and loves its country. Shams, which is owned by a grandson of Crown Prince Sultan, has certainly put its money where its mouth is. Trying to break the mold of Saudi Arabia's sometimes drab print media, it avoided hiring experienced journalists. We preferred to have a team without previous journalistic experience. The rules of work on the other papers are a bit traditional, and we wanted to be different, Alharbi said. Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most conservative societies, an absolute monarchy which governs through a strict interpretation of sharia, Islamic law. When King Abdullah came to power last year, he promised progress on a range of political, social and economic reforms. The appearance of Saudi Arabia's first tabloid last December has been seen as another sign of slow, but inevitable, change. The paper has published sensational features about forced marriage for young girls, premarital relationships, unemployment among women, an official ban on school sports for girls and arbitrary detention by police. THE PROPHET CARTOONS And it managed to survive its most daring act of all -- publishing some of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that provoked a global outcry among Muslims earlier this year. The paper was shut down after running the caricatures, but the Ministry of Information, seen as a progressive force in Saudi Arabia under Minister Iyad Madani, allowed it to return a few weeks later, under its new editor Alharbi, a short-story author who had previously written in Gulf newspapers. We had the right permissions (to publish the cartoons) but it was a crisis and people were very excitable, so it would have been wiser not to have got into it, Alharbi said. The paper said at the time it had clerical approval to publish the cartoons so that the Saudi public could judge for itself how much of an insult they were to Islam. Two months later, one of the paper's journalists was arrested over an Internet article criticizing the puritanical school of Islam followed by Saudi clerics, known as Wahhabism. The journalist was later released. So far, Saudi Arabia's religious police have not challenged Shams directly, despite its criticism of the organization. We're not against them but we believe that their role needs some order and clarification. People have the right to know their rights, said Alharbi, who describes himself as a liberal. On Internet sites we're accused of being troublemakers, of being outside the boundaries of custom and tradition, of moving toward the way of the West or Westernization. Alharbi sees a domestic market for tabloids, a success in other Arab countries, because of Saudi Arabia's huge young population -- 60 percent of 17 million Saudis are thought to be under 21. The traditional crop of broadsheets, packed with text-heavy articles and semi-official communiqué about those in power, leave many cold. Major dailies claim print-runs of more than 200,000 copies, but the true figure could be half that. The biggest press market in the Middle East is Saudi Arabia, said Alharbi, referring to an expected Saudi gross domestic product in 2006 of at least $350 billion. It will take us a few years to grow but there's no limit. The market is big. The Internet, where Saudis express opinions that the country's conservative culture and closed political system cannot tolerate in public, presents one of the biggest challenges for Saudi Arabia's print media. The press is like your daily bread, you can't do without it. But the Internet has raised the bar of freedom, so papers have to try to push for more freedom too, Alharbi said. The Saudi press has
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Iran's Nuke Guarantee Should Be Accepted--Asia post, Dhaka, editorial dated 15.3.07
Iran's Nuke Guarantee Should Be Accepted AFP has reported from Tehran that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday said Iran was prepared to offer necessary guarantees on its nuclear programme if the issue is withdrawn from the UN Security Council. Mottaki said in a speech to the international Conference on Disarmament here that Iran was prepared to make efforts to build confidence in this regard.Let me seize this opportunity, and in order to show our readiness to resolve the issue, underline that if the five plus one countries refer back Iran's nuclear issues from the Security Council to the IAEA, my country will be prepared to offer necessary guarantees in order to create confidence regarding non-diversion of its nuclear programme, he said. Iran also said that the threat of further UN sanctions over its nuclear programme, would hurt neither the controversial atomic drive nor the country's economy. The adoption of another resolution is unwelcome but is not worrying, government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters. It will not affect our work and will not concern our people. Elham reaffirmed the government's oft-repeated insistence that Tehran has no intention of suspending sensitive uranium enrichment activities, the key demand of the UN Security Council over its atomic programme. The issue of suspension is completely ruled out and cannot be brought up. They (the other side) have themselves given up on this, he said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, angrily brushed off warnings from within Iran that a second Security Council resolution against Tehran would put the country in an increasingly risky situation. Those who say that this country is in a critical situation just think they are politicians, Ahmadinejad told the government daily Iran in a typically combative interview. Which part of our country is in a critical condition? he asked in the interview. An Iranian government spokesman reiterated earlier Tuesday that Iran had no intention of suspending uranium enrichment, the key demand of the Security Council over its atomic programme. The guarantee given by Iran clearly means guarantees regarding its declared position many times re-iterated that it will not produce nuclear weapons.If the US and the UN permanent members are serious about maintaining peace they should accept the Iranian offer. They should now discuss with Iran the mechanism of guarantees proposed by Iran. There is no point for security council members to submit to US pressure as US foreign policy objectives are too well-known to all the world. We hope the world powers will consider the proposal seriously. The members of the non-aligned movement the OIC members should put pressure in this regard. (Asia post, Dhaka, editorial dated 15.3.07)
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] To Kill a Mocking Tongue
To Kill a Mocking Tongue By: Sheikh Muhammad Alshareef Al-Ma'roor ibn Suwayd narrates that he once saw Abu Dharr radi Allaahu anhu wearing a beautiful shawl. His slave standing next to him was wearing a shawl exactly like it, warm and beautiful.Ma'roor said to Abu Dharr, Perhaps you could take the shawl of your servant and give him another (less expensive) one. Never, said Abu Dharr, for I once had a servant whose mother was not Arab and I cussed him and his mother. That servant went to the Messenger of Allah sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam complaining of the words I had said. When Rasul Allaah sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam saw me he commented, O AbuDharr, you are a man who still has Jahilliyyah (Pre-Islamic Ignorance) in him.' Because of these painful words, Abu Dharr may Allah be pleased with him -would always dress his servants in the exact same garments that he would wear. Dear brothers and sisters, Allah is disobeyed most with our tongues. There is a sin that sweeps amongst us, a sin that many take lightly, a sin that is laughed at, a sin that could very well pull someone to Hellfire: It is the sin of insulting others. Read carefully this following verse. It is a commandment of Allah that begins with a call to those who claim to have Eemaan. Allah ta'ala says in the Qur'an (49/11): O you who believe let not one group of people make fun of another, perhaps the (one's being made fun of) are better then them. And let not women make fun of other women perhaps the (woman being made fun of) is better then them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by (offensive) nicknames. Wretched is the name (i.e. mention) of disobedience after (one's) faith. And whoever does not repent then it is those who are the Dhaalimoon (the wrongdoers). Perhaps the one that is being made fun of is more beloved to Allah. SubhaanAllah, let us remember this if we ever try to make fun of someone, perhaps Allah loves them and does not love us. Didn't the Mushrikeen make fun of RasulAllah sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam and we know Allah loved him and not them. Didn't the Munaafiqeen make fun of the Sahaabah and we know Allah loved the Sahaabah and not them. Rasul Allah sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam said, Verily a person will speak words from those that Allah hates, paying no heed to what he is saying, and with those words he will plummet in to hellfire. Bukhari There are different reasons why a person would want to insult, make fun of and ridicule other community members: Firstly: They have weak Eemaan and their fear of Allah is poor. This is one of the major reasons. Secondly: They spend a lot of their time in gatherings that bring no benefit.Thirdly: They themselves may want others to praise them. Sadly, when there is a student or a community member that insults others, often it is they that want to be the cool' one. How can they be cool' if they are doing something that Allah and His Messenger hate? Fourthly: They forget the punishment for those that make fun of others. Imam Al-Bayhaqee narrates in Shu'ab al-Eemaan, that Rasul Allah sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam said, Verily those people that make fun of people for them a gate of Jannah will be opened. It will be said to them: Come (and enter). That person will come with all their anguish and depression but when he gets close, the gate will be closed in his face. Then another gate (to Jannah) will be opened and it will be said: Come (and enter). So that person comes with all his anguish and depression. But when he gets close, the gate will be closed in his face. This will keep happening to him until it gets to the point where it will be said: Come (and enter), and he will not come from the despair of ever entering paradise. Fifthly: Those that make fun of others may do so out of love for the Kuffaar and a love to imitate them. How many times do we see the comedians mocking people and everyone laughing? Indeed, mocking others and insulting them is a characteristic of Jaahiliyyah and kufr, and it is never a characteristic of a believer. Allah ta'ala shows us in Surah Al-Mutaffifeen (83/29) how this characteristic of laughing at others is a characteristic of the Kuffaar: Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed. The seriousness of this sin varies in accordance to the subject being insulted: On the highest level of seriousness is to make fun of Allah or His Ayaat or His Messenger sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam. A group of Munaafiqeen started joking one day about their Qurr'aa, i.e. the Companions of Allah's Messenger. They described in ridiculing terms that they were large in stomachs, having lying tongues and being cowardly. Allah ta'ala tells us in the Qur'an (9/65-66): And if you ask them, they will surely say, We were only
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Palestine Lives! 3rd Annual Conference, March 31, Hamilton
SPHR McMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: SPHR McMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:49:51 -0500 Subject: Palestine Lives! 3rd Annual Conference McMaster Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights proudly presents: PALESTINE LIVES Third Annual Conference A converging point for information and discussion on the current context of the Palestinian struggle. WHEN: SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2007 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM WHERE: Council Chambers Room 111, Gilmour Hall MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON ON $25 Suggested Donation Includes Refreshments Lunch Please RSVP! How you can help: Please forward this information to your contacts. Also, we are looking for people in different cities who would be willing to distribute the flyer at education and community location, Arab stores and anywhere else relevant. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , 905-296-3551 Susan's English as a Second Language Blog http://suzansesl.blogspot.com - Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Inside the mind of Osama Bin Laden
*The gift of hindsight* Peter Bergen on getting inside the mind of Bin Laden (Paperback writer) *Saturday September 7, 2002 * I quit my job at CNN in the autumn of 1999, to start working full time on a book about Osama bin Laden. I had become interested in the mysterious multimillionaire Saudi after I met him in eastern Afghanistan in 1997, and spent most of the next four years trying to understand the man. Finally, at the end of August last year, I gave my manuscript to my publisher. Having worked for more than a decade in the news business there were many things I did not understand about publishing, not least the seemingly geological time scale on which publishers work. When I handed in the manuscript, my editor told me that they would be publishing the book in 10 months. I found this somewhat surprising. As I told my agent, A lot of things can change in 10 months. I had a strong hunch that Bin Laden was planning another attack against an American target and that it would happen long before the slated publication date of my book. The clearest signal was a two-hour al-Qaida propaganda videotape then circulating around the Middle East. I had acquired a copy of the tape three weeks before the Trade Centre attacks and had it translated. It was an eye-opener. It was the most wide-ranging distillation of Bin Laden's views, and predicted additional anti-American actions. One of my sources told me: These threats on the videotape are genuine. Bin Laden's followers are making preparations against more than one American target. I was so sure that an al-Qaida attack was in the offing that I wrote a letter on August 17 to a reporter at the New York Times. I began it: I think there is a major story to be told wrapping around the new Bin Laden videotape and the various threats against US facilities... and [which] responsibly suggest that an al-Qaida attack is in the works. On the morning of September 11 2001, I watched in horror as the planes struck the World Trade Centre. A day or so later my editor called to talk about the book. We both agreed that the old publication date made no sense. We needed to get it out as soon as possible. And there was also the small matter of recalibrating the tone and content. In the interests of attracting readers to a tome about the hitherto largely obscure phe nomenon of al-Qaida I had included a good number of travelogue scenes. Much of those would have to be cut, as levity had little place in an exegesis of a mass murderer and his organisation. And my previous conclusions about al-Qaida were simply wrong. In the old version of the book I had written: In past years the likelihood that a US citizen will die at the hands of a terrorist has actually receded. An American... is more likely to be killed by a dog, or a bolt of lightning, than by an act of terrorism. Get me Rewrite! -- Ends
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Check out West Bank Sites on Private Land, Data Shows - New York Times
-- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mar 14, 2007 1:49 PM Subject: Check out West Bank Sites on Private Land, Data Shows - New York Times To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] West Bank Sites on Private Land, Data Shows - New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/world/middleeast/14israel.html [image: The New York Times] http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=gotopage=www.nytimes.com/printer-friendlypos=Position1camp=foxsearch2007-emailtools01d-nyt5-511276ad=FRI_ITILMW_88x31_7sec.gifgoto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/ithinkilovemywife/ -- March 14, 2007 West Bank Sites on Private Land, Data Shows By STEVEN ERLANGERhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/steven_erlanger/index.html?inline=nyt-per JERUSALEM, March 13 — An up-to-date Israeli government register shows that 32.4 percent of the property held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is private, according to the advocacy group that sued the government to obtain the data. The group, Peace Now, prepared an earlier report in November, also provided to The New York Times, based on a 2004 version of the Israeli government database that had been provided by an official who wanted the information published. Those figures showed that 38.8 percent of the land on which Israeli settlements were built was listed as private Palestinian land. The data shows a pattern of illegal seizure of private land that the Israeli government has been reluctant to acknowledge or to prosecute, according to the Peace Now report. Israelhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/israel/index.html?inline=nyt-geohas long asserted that it fully respects Palestinian private property in the West Bank and takes land there only legally or, for security reasons, temporarily. That large sections of those settlements are now confirmed by official data to be privately held land is bound to create embarrassment for Israel and further complicate the already distant prospect of a negotiated peace. The new data, updated to the end of 2006, was provided officially by the Israeli government's Civil Administration, which governs civilian activities in the territories, in response to a lawsuit brought by Peace Now and the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel in 2005. When the courts refused the request, the groups filed an appeal, and the earlier data was leaked to Peace Now. In January, the court ordered the Civil Administration to provide the data, in the form of digitized map information. The information will be published Wednesday, and a copy was provided to The Times. Some differences between the new data and the old data complicate the picture. The old data distinguished between private Jewish land, private Palestinian land, state land and so-called survey land, which is considered of unclear ownership. The new data, provided by the government, makes a distinction only between private land and other land. But in the earlier data, the amount of private Jewish land was small, only 1.26 percent of the area of the settlements. The second major difference involves the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, which looks like a suburb of Jerusalem, with a mall and a multiplex and an Ace Hardware store. The Israeli government has said that it will never give up the three main settlement blocks— Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion and Ariel — inside the West Bank and within the security barrier that Israel built. Information about them is thus extremely delicate, and that was one reason that the government refused earlier requests to provide the data. The earlier data showed Maale Adumim containing 86 percent private Palestinian land, which seemed very high to its residents. According to the new data, however, only 0.54 percent of the settlement is listed as private land. The single case of Maale Adumim represents much of the difference in the total percentage of private land between the old and new data. Without the new Maale Adumim data, the difference between the old and new data is about one percentage point. In settlements west of the separation barrier, which Israel intends to keep and which include Maale Adumim, the amount of private land is 24 percent, compared with 41.4 percent in the earlier data. In settlements that Israel would presumably give up in any peace settlement, the percentage of private land is 40 percent, higher than the earlier data, which was 36.4 percent. In the two other main settlement blocs that Israel intends to keep, Ariel is now listed as 31.4 percent private, compared with 35.1 percent before. Gush Etzion is listed now as 19 percent private, compared with 25.1 percent before. In Givat Zeev, a settlement that Israel also intends to keep, the old data showed that the settlement contained 44.3 percent private land; the new data shows the figure to be 49.6 percent. Dror Etkes of Peace Now, which put together the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: Bollywood declares war against ISLAM
jessica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salaam alaikum, i only watched about half of this before i wanted to vomit from the lies, and the half that i watched shows the hindus dressed as muslims committing the crimes that the hindus have committed against muslims. google bombay riots. i know alot of people are indian and pakistani muslims who watch bollywood flicks the same as alot of americans and western muslims along with non western muslims watch hollywood flicks. hollywood isnt that much different when they use muslims as the villians in their movies. its all brainwashing the public to believe lies and make our religion like we are cavemen barberic animals astaghfirallah. inshaallah pass this around and boycott. - jessica Bollywood declares war against ISLAM As-salaamu A'laykum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakaatuh Dear brother sisters Bollywood has launched multiple vicious attacks against Islam and Muslims which are still continuing to this very day, and it is with these very films that we lead ourselves and our families astray. What is even more shameful is the fact that we help fund these ugly attacks against us and Islam as well. May Allah guide us all, ameen. Judge for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJHnGM7riE was salaam - Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. - Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Big Brother Is Watching You NOW On The Internet
Unilateral Actions Have NOT Resolved Conflicts But Have Made Them Worse. This is Very Dangerous. Nobody Feels Secure Any More Because Nobody Can Hide Behind International Law. What is an Unipolar World? No Matter How We Beautify This Term It Means ONE Single Centre of Power, ONE Single Centre of Force, One Single Master. People Are Always Teaching Us DEMOCRACY, But the People Who Teach Us Democracy Don't Want to LEARN It Themselves. Vladimir Putin Big Brother Is Watching NOW You On The Internet http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/197 GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OF INTERNET TRAFFIC by ATT and National Security Agency This is the web link for ABC's nightline story. Copy this article, and save it before it disappears! http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/whistleblower_h.html The day of George Orwell's telescreen has finally arrived. Big Brother Is Watching NOW You On The Internet ABC just ran a story of whistleblower, Mark Klein, ATT technician, regarding GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE OF INTERNET TRAFFIC by ATT and National Security Agency. At a San Francisco switching center Mr. Klein collected over 120 pages of technical documents showing how NSA installed splitters which would allow of both domestic and international internet communications to be copied. Mr. Klein's story by (LA Times reporter, Joe Menn,) was killed at the request of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden The New York Times did publish it, and Newline ran it on March 6th. Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story March 06, 2007 10:53 AM Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report: Whistle-blower ATT technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged government surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only by U.S. intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles Times. In his first broadcast interview, which can be seen tonight on World News and Nightline, Klein describes how he stumbled across secret NSA rooms being installed at an ATT switching center in San Francisco and later heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle. You needed an ordinary key and the code to punch into a key pad on the door, and the only person who had both of those things was the one guy cleared by the NSA, Klein says of the secret room at the ATT center in San Francisco. The NSA is the National Security Agency, the country's most secretive intelligence agency, charged with intercepting communications overseas. Klein says he collected 120 pages of technical documents left around the San Francisco office showing how the NSA was installing splitters that would allow it to copy both domestic and international Internet traffic moving through ATT connections with 16 other trunk lines. It's gobs and gobs of information going across the Internet, Klein says. President Bush has acknowledged he authorized the NSA to intercept the communications of people with known links to terrorist organizations into or out of the United States, but that we're not trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans. Intelligence experts say the NSA has the means to filter out suspect communications with sophisticated machines that spot key words, names, addresses or patterns. Eventually, Klein says he decided to take his documents to the Los Angeles Times, to blow the whistle on what he calls an illegal and Orwellian project. But after working for two months with LA Times reporter Joe Menn, Klein says he was told the story had been killed at the request of then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and then- director of the NSA Gen. Michael Hayden. The Los Angeles Times' decision was made by the paper's editor at the time, Dean Baquet, now the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. Baquet confirmed to ABCNews.com he talked with Negroponte and Hayden but says government pressure played no role in my decision not to run the story. Baquet says he and managing editor Doug Frantz decided we did not have a story, that we could not figure out what was going on based on Klein's highly technical documents. The reporter, Menn, declined to comment, but Baquet says he knows Joe disagreed and was very disappointed. Klein says he then took his ATT documents to The New York Times, which published its exclusive account last April. Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/us/29nsa.html? ei=5088en=e5ab04af3266d144ex=1303963200partner=rssn As the new Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, Baquet now oversees the reporters who have broken most of the major stories involving the government surveillance program, often over objections from the government. After The New York Times story appeared, Klein filed an affidavit in a lawsuit against ATT brought by a
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Islamica March-April 2007 Issue
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Freedom of speech row as talk on Islamic extremists is banned
*Freedom of speech row as talk on Islamic extremists is banned* By Sean O'Neill John Steele March 15, 2007 The University of Leeds was accused of infringing free speech last night when it cancelled a lecture on Islamic anti-Semitism by a German academic. Matthias Köntzel arrived at the university yesterday morning to begin a three-day programme of lectures and seminars, but was told that it had been called off on security grounds. Dr Köntzel, a political scientist who has lectured around the world on the antiSemitic ideology of Islamist groups, said there were concerns that he would be attacked. He said that he was outraged that his meetings had been cancelled and had yet to receive an explanation. *** *What he wrote* AntiSemitism based on the notion of a Jewish world conspiracy is not rooted in Islamic tradition but, rather, in European ideological models. The decisive transfer of this ideology to the Muslim world took place between 1937 and 1945 under the impact of Nazi propaganda . . . Although Islamism is an independent, antiSemitic, antimodern mass movement, its main early promoters, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Mufti and the Qassamites in Palestine, were supported financially and ideologically by agencies of the German National Socialist Government. - *Jewish Political Studies Review,* spring 2005 *** The university, which acted after complaints from Muslim students, denied that it was interfering with the academic freedom of Dr Köntzel, and said that proper arrangements for stewarding the meeting had not been made. The lecture, entitled Hitler's Legacy: Islamic antiSemitism in the Middle East, was organised by the university's German department and publicised three weeks ago. A large attendance had been expected. Dr Köntzel, a former adviser to the German Green Party, said: I have been told that it has had to be cancelled for security reasons. It seems there were concerns that there could be violence against my person. I have lectured in lots of countries on this subject. I gave the same talk at Yale University recently, and this is the first time I have been invited to lecture in the UK. Nothing like this has ever happened before – this is censorship. It is a controversial area but I am accustomed to debate. I value the integrity of academic debate and I feel that it really is in danger here. This is a very important subject and if you cannot address it on university property, then what is a university for? Dr Köntzel, a research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said that he had been shown two e-mails that had been received, which objected to his lecture. One, apparently written by a student, said: As a Muslim and an Arab this has come to me as a great shock. The only intention that you have for doing this is to increase hatred as I clearly regard it as an open racist attack. Ahmed Sawalem, president of the university's student Islamic Society, confirmed that he had contacted the office of Professor Michael Arthur, the Vice-Chancellor, to register an official complaint. The title of the talk is provocative and I have searched the internet to read his writings and they are not very pleasant, Mr Sawalem said. We are not opposed to freedom of expression. We just sent a complaint, we did not ask for the talk to be cancelled. The university authorities contacted the German department on Tuesday and asked for a change in the title. The department agreed to relabel the talk as The Nazi Legacy: the export of antiSemitism to the Middle East. Yesterday morning, the head of the German department, Professor Stuart Taberner, was called to a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor's staff and the head of security. After the meeting, Dr Köntzel's lecture and workshops were cancelled. Annette Seidel Arpaci, an academic in the German department, said: This is an academic talk by a scholar, it is not a political rally. The sudden cancellation is a sell-out of academic freedom, especially freedom of speech, at the University of Leeds. A spokes-woman for the university said that it valued freedom of speech and added that the cancellation of the meeting had been a bureaucratic issue. The decision to cancel the meeting has nothing to do with academic freedom, freedom of speech, antiSemitism or Islam-ophobia, and those claiming that is the case are making mischief, she said. -- Ends
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Punishing a Woman for Adultery
O Prophet! When believing women come to thee to take the oath of fealty to thee, that they will not associate in worship any other thing whatever with Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in any just matter,- then do thou receive their fealty, and pray to Allah for the forgiveness (of their sins): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Al-Qur'an, 60:12 - Al-Mumtahina [She that is to be Examined, Examining Her]) Punishing the Mother the Baby http://ourdialogue.com/answers/articles.php?action=showshowarticle=1932 Question As a new Muslim I am confused about the severity of some Islamic punishments. One question that I could not have an answer for concerns the punishment of an adulteress, where the only proof is her being pregnant. Is the child considered innocent? If so, why should that child suffer the mothers punishment? Answer The severe punishments you are uneasy about are known as Hudood, which means that they are mandatory, determined by God, and cannot be reduced by anyone when the offense is proven according to Islamic requirements. These requirements are very strict and hard to obtain, which means that the punishments themselves are very rarely used. Their purpose is deterrence. Moreover, they are very small in number. Scholars differ as to which offences carry such mandatory punishments, with the highest number put at 7 only, while others saying that they are only 4. This last view is perhaps the more accurate number, making the mandatory punishments applicable only in cases of theft, adultery, false accusation of adultery against women without producing four witnesses in support, and making war against the Muslim State. When these punishments are applied in a community, they work wonders in achieving security for people, property, and reputation. To discuss this subject in detail requires much larger space than a newspaper could allocate. What you need is to look at this issue in specialized books, or to discuss them with a scholar. The case you have cited is a point in favor of Islamic law. Islam does not permit that children should be punished for the sins of their parents. If a woman has been proved to commit adultery through voluntary confession or having four witnesses stating that they have seen the offence being committed, the punishment is applied. If it is suspected that she is pregnant, the punishment is delayed until she has given birth and the child is weaned. This is what the Prophet, peace be upon him, did with a woman who confessed her offence. He first tried to make her withdraw her confession, as required by Islam. When she insisted, he delayed her punishment until the child was weaned and she came to him carrying the child eating normal food and asking for the punishment to be inflicted on her. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] First They Came for the EXTREMIST, FUNDAMENTALIST MODERATE Muslims. And I DIDNT Speak Out Because I Wasn't An Extremist, Fundamentalist or a Moderate Muslim. Then FINALLY They Came for Me the NON-PRACTICING Muslim And NO Muslims Were Left to Speak Out for ME. - It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Status of women in Islam By Anwar Abbas Friday feature Courtesy:http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/16/ed.htm
March 16, 2007 Friday Safar 26, 1428 Status of women in Islam By Anwar Abbas Friday feature HALF of the population of the world consists of women. It is, therefore, necessary that any religion or social theory that stands for the good of mankind should also be concerned with the welfare, the rights and progress of women. This is an issue, which throughout history has bristled with emotional complexes, traditional taboos and other complications. Historically, the status of woman has undergone many changes. She has been mans helpmate without whom his life would never have been complete. She has been a plaything, an object of decoration and a beast of burden carrying mans load of work and sorrow on her back. She has participated in all kinds of important activities ranging from administration to technical work, to poetry and mysteries. Some ecclesiastics have debated whether woman has a soul and have sometimes come to the conclusion that she has not! She has been a fighter for her rights and has gained many rights denied to her in the past the right to vote, the right to own property, the right to equal wages with men for equal work and the right to divorce. In some cultures, the status of woman was better recognized at one time, or at least in one direction, and then there was a regression. Sometimes, within the same state or region, the position of women has differed enormously. Economic factors, technical advances, social theories and religion have influenced it. Sometimes there has been a great gap, greater than in the case of men between the theoretical rights enshrined in personal law or constitution and those accorded in practice. The right to share in property has been denied to women by hidebound men of feudal and semi-feudal societies. Generally speaking, the status of women before the advent of Islam was not enviable, either in Arabia or outside. While there were occasional exceptions due to the personal status or the ability of individual women, in many of the older cultures they were generally looked down upon and treated as inferior beings. There is reason to believe that in the great Greek civilization, woman was treated as a slave. In her childhood she was the slave of her parents; in her youth and old age the slave of her husband, and as a widow, of her sons. Plato did hold that women should be treated as equals but this had no impact on her everyday life. In the Roman civilization too, she had a low status under the law. The father and the husband had full control over their daughters and wives. They could even turn them out of the house with no redress. The father could marry her daughter to any one he liked and could also annul the marriage (sounds familiar in present day Pakistan?). The husband could in some cases even kill his wife, without the law taking any cognizance of the crime. Even in Jewish and Christian religions as they developed later, woman was supposed to be a source of pollution and the history of monks is full of painful incidents of how they not only looked down upon women but even considered it sinful to look at their mothers faces. There is of course nothing in the religion of Jesus Christ which countenances such an approach but this does show what travail and shame woman had to pass through in history. In the Manu Smriti, likewise, woman is regarded as entirely and helplessly dependent on man. She is not to do anything independently. She is not even expected to perform acts of worship for her highest duty is to be of service to her husband (Pati parmeshwar), which would ensure her salvation. A widow was not allowed to remarry and must spend her life in sorrow without adequate fulfilment and the normal enjoyment of life. This applied equally to child widows. (When director Deepa Mehta wanted to show the horrors of a Hindu widows life in her film Water, rabid Hindu zealots prevented the shooting of the film anywhere in India. She had to go to Sri Lanka for filming). There are also other deprecatory references to women as addicted to telling lies, deceit, hypocrisy, stupidity, greed and lack of loyalty.Arabs during the age of ignorance often indulged in infanticide of girls. To many of them, women were not companions who could participate fully in the life of their husbands. They were mere objects of pleasure or slaves to carry out their commands. Unlimited polygamy was common and wives could be discarded at will without any restraints. When a man died, his wife or wives became the property of his brothers or his sons and stepsons. Women had no right to own personal property and no safeguards against maltreatment by their men folk. There were some exceptional women like Bibi Khadija, a well-to-do widow whom the prophet married, who carried on trade transactions. There were only a few poets among the womenfolk. With the advent of Islam,
Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Freedom of speech row as talk on Islamic extremists is banned
Germany, which has been seeking to atone for one holocaust by enabling Israel
to commit anotehr holocaust, has no right to lecture the world on Islamic
anti-Semitism. Besides, there is no such a thing as Islamic anti-Semitism since
hundreds of millions of Muslims are Semites. BUt Yes, Muslims are against
Judeo-Nazism just as the world is against Aryan Nazism.
Khalid
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Freedom of speech row as talk on Islamic extremists is banned
By Sean O'Neill John Steele
March 15, 2007
The University of Leeds was accused of infringing free speech last night when
it cancelled a lecture on Islamic anti-Semitism by a German academic.
Matthias Köntzel arrived at the university yesterday morning to begin a
three-day programme of lectures and seminars, but was told that it had been
called off on security grounds. Dr Köntzel, a political scientist who has
lectured around the world on the antiSemitic ideology of Islamist groups, said
there were concerns that he would be attacked. He said that he was outraged
that his meetings had been cancelled and had yet to receive an explanation.
***
What he wrote
AntiSemitism based on the notion of a Jewish world conspiracy is not rooted
in Islamic tradition but, rather, in European ideological models. The decisive
transfer of this ideology to the Muslim world took place between 1937 and 1945
under the impact of Nazi propaganda . . . Although Islamism is an independent,
antiSemitic, antimodern mass movement, its main early promoters, the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt and the Mufti and the Qassamites in Palestine, were
supported financially and ideologically by agencies of the German National
Socialist Government. - Jewish Political Studies Review, spring 2005
***
The university, which acted after complaints from Muslim students, denied
that it was interfering with the academic freedom of Dr Köntzel, and said that
proper arrangements for stewarding the meeting had not been made. The lecture,
entitled Hitler's Legacy: Islamic antiSemitism in the Middle East, was
organised by the university's German department and publicised three weeks ago.
A large attendance had been expected. Dr Köntzel, a former adviser to the
German Green Party, said: I have been told that it has had to be cancelled for
security reasons. It seems there were concerns that there could be violence
against my person.
I have lectured in lots of countries on this subject. I gave the same talk
at Yale University recently, and this is the first time I have been invited to
lecture in the UK. Nothing like this has ever happened before – this is
censorship. It is a controversial area but I am accustomed to debate. I value
the integrity of academic debate and I feel that it really is in danger here.
This is a very important subject and if you cannot address it on university
property, then what is a university for? Dr Köntzel, a research associate at
the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said that he had been shown two e-mails that
had been received, which objected to his lecture.
One, apparently written by a student, said: As a Muslim and an Arab this has
come to me as a great shock. The only intention that you have for doing this is
to increase hatred as I clearly regard it as an open racist attack. Ahmed
Sawalem, president of the university's student Islamic Society, confirmed that
he had contacted the office of Professor Michael Arthur, the Vice-Chancellor,
to register an official complaint. The title of the talk is provocative and I
have searched the internet to read his writings and they are not very
pleasant, Mr Sawalem said. We are not opposed to freedom of expression. We
just sent a complaint, we did not ask for the talk to be cancelled.
The university authorities contacted the German department on Tuesday and
asked for a change in the title. The department agreed to relabel the talk as
The Nazi Legacy: the export of antiSemitism to the Middle East. Yesterday
morning, the head of the German department, Professor Stuart Taberner, was
called to a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor's staff and the head of security.
After the meeting, Dr Köntzel's lecture and workshops were cancelled. Annette
Seidel Arpaci, an academic in the German department, said: This is an academic
talk by a scholar, it is not a political rally. The sudden cancellation is a
sell-out of academic freedom, especially freedom of speech, at the University
of Leeds. A spokes-woman for the university said that it valued freedom of
speech and added that the cancellation of the meeting had been a bureaucratic
issue.
The decision to
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Third Texas Muslims Legislative Day April 4, 2007 Austin, Texas
Mustafaa Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ASA Memfis, Please announce at Jumah today. ASA. Mustafaa 3rd Texas Muslims Legislative Day 3rd Texas Muslims Legislative Day [http://freeandjust.org/res/Default/patriotism.jpg]- - FIRST Muslim Imam to open the TX House of Representatives - FIRST Friday Jumma Khutba inside the Texas State Capitol Don't miss the next milestone event for the Texas Muslim community! On April 4, 2007, the first Muslim Imam will open the Texas Senate with an Islamic prayer to be broadcast live over the State Legislature's website! The Chair of the Texas Education Committee, Senator Florence Shapiro along with Texas's Lt Governor Dewhurst will welcome Imam Yusuf Kavakci and the Texas Muslim community on this monumental occasion. Imam Dr. Yusuf Kavakci has been serving the Dallas-Ft. Worth Muslim community for nearly 20 years. With the help of the Texas Muslim community and our coalition partner CAIR-Texas, the Freedom and Justice Foundation (FJ) would like to show our support and gratitude to Imam Kavakci by bringing the largest group of Muslims to ever congregate in the Senate Gallery at the State Capitol! Let's show Austin that Texas Muslims are a proud bunch! Wednesday April 4, 2007, Texas State Capitol -Join the Lt. Governor in welcoming Imam Yusuf Kavakci as he opens the State Senate with an Islamic prayer (sponsored by the State's Senior Jewish senator, Florence Shapiro) at 11:00 AM Sharp! -Broadcast LIVE ONLINE on the TX Legislature's website -Attendees will include Texas's largest faith-based organizations, collectively representing more than 11.8 million Texans (Texas Impact, BGCT's Christian Life Commission, Texas Conference of Churches, Texas Islamic Council) -Learn about the Texas Immigrant Detention Center where the majority of inmates are innocent children. -Change the way the immigration process works -Presentation by Commissioner Anwar Khalifa, Texas's highest Muslim Political Appointee (appointed by Governor Perry to the Texas Commission on Human Rights) -Lobby your state legislators. They work for YOU! Don't Be Late!!! LogoIn partnership with CAIR-Texas, bus transportation from Dallas-Ft. Worth and the Greater Houston area is provided. Make sure you reserve your seat today to show our state officials how the Muslim voice in state public policy matters. For more information, please contact the Regional Coordinators: In Dallas-Ft. Worth: Contact Saadia Ahmed- FJ Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 214-893-3485 Buses will be departing from the following locations: Dallas-Ft. Worth Region: Islamic Association of North Texas: 6:45 a.m. Sharp! http://www.iant.com/ Islamic Center of Irving: 7:30 a.m. Sharp! http://www.irvingmasjid.org/ In the Greater Houston area: Contact Shariq Abdul Ghani - Director of CAIR-Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 713-838-2247 Buses will be departing from the following central Houston location: Greater Houston Region: ISGH - Main Center: 7:00 a.m. Sharp! http://isgh.org/main_center.cfm Reserve your space by sending an email with your name, address, e-mail address, and phone number to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will promptly respond with confirmation and further guidance to help set up meetings with your State Representative and State Senator while at the State Capitol. The Freedom and Justice Foundation (FJ) 2950 W. Commerce St Dallas, Texas 75212 972-365-8214 The Freedom and Justice Foundation (FJ) is an independent, statewide 501c3 educational non-profit founded in November 2002 to enhance the organized Texas Muslim community's public policy voice and Interfaith Community Relations. FJ coordinates a subsidiary statewide membership body of Islamic Centers(Mosques/Masajid) called the Texas Islamic Council (TIC) with member congregations spanning from Tyler to El Paso and Dallas-Fort Worth down to Austin and Houston. Though recently founded, FJ has quickly grown its representative strength through its individual and congregational membership to 75,000 thus making it the largest single representative body for Texas Muslims. - - No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. - Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Controversy over constitutional amendments proposed by President Mubarak, reports Gamal Essam El-Din, has centred on civil liberties being under threat
Dear members, Assalamu Alaikum. Please see the developments regarding constitutional amendment in Egypt.Saad El-Katatni, the Brotherhood's spokesman in the assembly, said the Brotherhood would boycott this coming Sunday and Monday's parliamentary debate on the 34-article initiative. The Brothers cannot accept to be an eyewitness to a constitutional crime. Shah Abdul Hannan. Before the vote Controversy over constitutional amendments proposed by President Mubarak, reports Gamal Essam El-Din, has centred on civil liberties being under threat Following almost three months of intensive debate, next Monday the People's Assembly will put President Hosni Mubarak's 26 December constitutional initiative -- that 34 articles be amended -- to a final vote. The new draft, finalised by a special nine-member parliamentary sub-committee last week, was approved by the parliament's upper house (the consultative Shura Council) last Tuesday and approved by the Constitutional Affairs Committee (ALCAC) of the People's Assembly on the same day. While Muslim Brotherhood MPs as well as leftist-leaning independent deputies boycotted the ALCAC meeting, only three of a total of 43 committee members rejected the draft. They were Wafd Party leader Mahmoud Abaza and independent MPs Kamal Ahmed and Mohamed El-Omda. El-Omda's insistence on taking President Mubarak to task for the new draft of Article 179 triggered a storm of protest from National Democratic Party (NDP) MPs. The draft gives the president of the republic sweeping powers to combat terrorism. It was not only El-Omda, however, who cried foul over the 34 proposed constitutional amendments. At a press conference on Monday at the Wafd Party headquarters in Dokki, a coalition of the liberal Wafd, the Muslim Brotherhood, the leftist Tagammu Party, the Nasserist Karama movement, and independent MPs joined forces to declare a united front against the drafts. A statement released by the coalition singled out amendments to articles 88 and 179 as threatening civil liberties. The statement read: The new draft of Article 88 eliminates full judicial supervision over elections and brings us back to the days before the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) regarding this article. In June 2000, the SCC ruled that a correct interpretation of Article 88 establishes as obligatory that the government place elections under full judicial supervision (or a judge for every ballot box) and that to achieve this end, elections should not be conducted in one day. The coalition's statement also emphasised that the proposed amendment of Article 179 grants the president powers striping individuals of the guarantees secured by articles 41, 44 and 45, and opens the door to a police state in Egypt. Articles 41, 44 and 45 state that, the law shall protect the inviolability of the private life of citizens and that correspondence, wires, telephone calls and other means of communication shall have their own sanctity and secrecy and may not be confiscated except by a judicial warrant and for a definite period in accordance with the provisions of the law. People's Assembly Speaker, Ahmed Fathi Sorour, indicated that the new draft of 179 would also authorise the president to refer civilians implicated in terrorist acts to military tribunals. Opposition forces, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, are up in arms. Saad El-Katatni, the Brotherhood's spokesman in the assembly, said the Brotherhood would boycott this coming Sunday and Monday's parliamentary debate on the 34-article initiative. The Brothers cannot accept to be an eyewitness to a constitutional crime, El-Katatni said. Hamdeen Sabahi, leader of the Karama movement and MP for the Delta Governorate of Kafr Al-Sheikh, said more than 100 opposition and independent MPs have decided to boycott the final discussion of the 34-article amendments. We will organise a protest picket in front of the parliament, wearing a 'No to amendments' banner. The Wafd and Tagammu parties, however, said the decision of whether to boycott Sunday and Monday's parliamentary sessions rested with party top executive bodies. Rifaat El-Said, leader of the Tagammu Party, said Mubarak's initiative has become like a suit tailored to fit the measures of one specific person. Other political forces also lined up against the amendments in their present form. Ahmed Kamal Abul-Magd, deputy chairman of the National Council for Human Rights, said the way the amendments were drafted resembled the attempt of transplanting into the body of a dying man a liver, a kidney and a heart. Zakaria Abdel-Aziz, chairman of the Judges Club, an independent professional association, said
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Protest Amana's Sale of Illegal Israeli Settlements
ADC Action Alert: Protest Amana's Sale of Illegal Israeli Settlements Washington, DC | March 15, 2007| Amana, The Settler Movement, an organization which describes itself as part of the settlement arm of Gush Emunim, is trying to convince Orthodox Jewish Americans to buy settlements (which are illegal under International law) in Israel. In addition to violating US anti-discrimination and civil rights laws, these events promote discrimination, endorse apartheid, and the illegal sale of Palestinian occupied land. Under the guise of a real estate fair, they claim that the purchase of an illegal settlement is a zero risk venture. They also allege, Your investment is insured, protected and 100% legal. These fairs are not open to the general public, only to members of the US Jewish community. What they fail to mention is that, one third of these illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank are built on privately owned land, as reported by official Israeli statistics. Without regard to land ownership or international law, Amana has already sold eight homes in the illegal settlements. Ranging in price from $93,000 to $165,000 the settlement homes are then rented to settlers for $250-400 per month. They have already held one such fair in Teaneck, New Jersey, and now other fairs are planned the in Boca Raton and Surfside/North Miami Beach, Florida on Sunday, March 18. Ten illegal settlements will be represented, making Palestinian land available to Jewish-Americans, but not to Palestinians, Palestinian-Americans, or non-Jewish Americans. EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 18 The first event begins at 9:30 AM at Chabad of Boca Raton, on 17950 Military Trail in Boca Raton, Florida. The next event, also in Boca Raton, will begin at 12:00 PM at Boca Tov Cafe (Dairy Cholov Yisroel), at 21065 Powerline Road. Later that afternoon, in Surfside/North Miami Beach, at 4:00 PM, the Shul of Bal Harbour, will host a settler real estate fair at 9540 Collins Avenue. TAKE ACTION! Please contact the following public officials to express your outrage at this event. This event promotes discrimination, endorses apartheid and the illegal sale of Palestinian occupied land, in addition to violating anti-discrimination and civil rights laws. Included below is are talking points and a sample letter. TALKING POINTS: 1) The advertisement and sale in Florida communities of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories may violate Florida, federal and international law, including Florida Civil Rights Law, Fair Housing Act, sections 760.23 and 760.25 and the Federal Fair Housing Act. 2) Pursuant to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory, states are prohibited from transferring civilians from the occupying power's territory into the occupied territory, and from creating permanent changes in the occupied territory that are not for the benefit of the occupied population. There exists broad international consensus that all Israeli settlements in the West Bank including those in East Jerusalem - violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and are, therefore, illegal according to international law. Any sales of settlements are presumably illegal. 3) The illegality of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has been affirmed by the UN Security Council in Resolution 465, the International Court of Justice, the world's highest legal body, in article 120 of its July 9, 2004 advisory opinion (http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/imwp/imwpframe.htm ), and by several major human rights organizations worldwide. Not only did the US government repeatedly affirm this position throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but the Israeli Supreme Court has acknowledged de facto its validity by ruling that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are under belligerent occupation in 1979, 2002 and 2004. 4) The possibility that the rental and sale of Israeli settlements at these events in Boca Raton and Surfside/North Miami Beach, Florida may also contradict US government foreign policy as outlined in the United States Government's Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict which, in Phase I, requires Israel to freeze all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements). http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20062.htm SAMPLE LETTER I am writing with great concern about the proposed sales of Israeli settlements (settlements are illegal under International law) by Amana in Boca Raton and Surfside/North Miami Beach in Florida. If these illegal West Bank settlements are being sold in Florida exclusively to people of the Jewish faith, and not to members of other religious and ethnic groups, including Palestinians, or if the advertisement of such sale expresses, directly or indirectly any discrimination against other religious or ethnic groups, such sales or advertisements may
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SHUKR : (Gratitude)
* * ** ** *SHUKR* *Allah Ta'ala* says: *Be grateful unto Me.* *Rasulullah* Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said: *If happiness reaches him (the believer), he is grateful.* *THE NATURE OF SHUKR* Accepting that all benefit is from the True Benefactor (*Mun'im-e- Haqeeqee*), the effect of which is to be happy with the Benefactor and be ever ready to render obedience to Him, is the meaning of *Shukr*. The meaning of *Shukr *envisages: Acceptance of the fact that all benefit is from *Allah*, the True Benefactor (*Mun'im -e-Haqeeqee*). This acceptance induces: 1. Happiness with the Benefactor. 2. Eagerness to execute the commands of the Benefactor and to abstain from his prohibitions. One should consider all benefit, goodness and pleasant conditions as the bounties of *Allah* and regard these to be in greater measure than what one really deserves. Praise is to be offered to *Allah* and His bounties should not be employed in evil and sin. His favours should be used in obtaining His Pleasure. This is the true meaning of *Shukr*. This conception of *Shukr* will be comprehended only when one has realized the purpose underlying creation and the functions of the various aspects of creation. For instance, the eye is a *Ni'mat* of *Allah Ta'ala*. Its *shukr*is to employ it correctly--to employ it in only lawful avenues, e.g. making *Tilaawat of the Qur'aan Majeed*, *acquiring knowledge*, *studying the wonderful creation of Allah so as to gain lesson and realize the greatness and Splendour of Allah Ta'ala*, etc. The *shukr* of the eye further demands that it be restrained from glancing at and viewing objects which *Allah Ta'ala* has prohibited. Similarly, the ear is a *Ni'mat*. Its shukr is to employ it correctly, e.g. in listening to the *Zikr* of *Allah*, to such talks which remind one of the *Aakhirat*, and to prevent it from listening to evil, nonsensical and futile talk. The tongue is a *Ni'mat*. Its shukr is to employ it in *Zikr*, in expressing hamd, thanaa and shukr of *Allah*, and to restrain it from complaining in adversity and from all evil generally. It is highly inappropriate and sinful for such a worthless slave as man to complain about any condition which *Allah Ta'ala*, the True King, has imposed on him. A word of shukr emanating from the tongue is recorded as an act of obedience. Mere expression of shukr with the tongue unaccompanied by the true state of *shukr* of the heart is only lip-service. It is essential that along with verbal expression of *shukr*, the heart should value and honour the *Ni'mat*of The Benefactor. Mere verbal *shukr* will be like the outer-casing, like the outer-covering which is its external form. The rooh (soul and essence) of *shukr* is that the honour and appreciation of the *Mun'im* (Benefactor) and the *Ni'mat* (the bounty) are ingrained in the heart. The *initial* stage of *shukr* is at the intellectual level. In other words, it is the correct understanding of the true meaning of shukr and the realization of the honour of the Benefactor. The *final* stage of *shukr* is the manifestation of its effect on one's body, movements and all states. In short, all the beliefs, acts of worship, mundane acts, moral and social life of the shaakir (the one who is truly grateful to *Allah*) will be in conformity with the *Shari'at*. *ACQUIRING SHUKR* *Shukr* is acquired by contemplating the bounties of *Allah Ta'ala*. Every Ni'mat is to be related to Him. By degrees such meditation will imbue the * Love* of *Allah* in the heart, the result of which will be the attainment of the perfect stage of *Shukr*. -- *-- O Allaah, place light in my heart, light in my tongue, light in my hearing, light in my sight, light behind me, light in front of me, light on my right, light on my left, light above me and light below me; place light in my sinew, in my flesh, in my blood, in my hair and in my skin; place light in my soul and make light abundant for me; make me light and grant me light. * Alahumma infa`ni bima `allamtani wa `allamni ma yanfa`uni! OH ALLAH! Make useful for me what You taught me and teach me knowledge that will be useful to me! Please take a moment to forgive me for all mistakes and make du`a' for me if you have received anything of benefit. Jazak Allahu khairan !!! Wassalam Safoora*
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] KSM Confessed To Attacking Bank Founded After His Arrest!
infowars.com KSM Confessed To Attacking Bank Founded After His Arrest Fallacy of testimony exposed as story blows up in Pentagon's face Prison Planet | March 16, 2007 Paul Joseph Watson Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's alleged confession testimony has been thoroughly discredited after it emerged that one of the targets he identified, the Plaza Bank, was not founded until 2006, four years after the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind's arrest. In his confession, KSM claims, I was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing for the New (or Second) Wave of attacks against the following skyscrapers after 9/11: ...Plaza Bank, Washington state. KSM was arrested in March 2003. According to the Plaza Bank's website , the organization was founded in early 2006, making it impossible for KSM to have even known of the bank's existence before 2003, never mind plotted against it. Skepticism about the legitimacy of KSM's confession has gushed forth from all quarters, leaving the credibility of the Pentagon and the process of military tribunals in ruins and provoking additional questions about why the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind admitted to involvement in such a vast range of plots. After media commentators across the spectrum, from Time Magazine to Matt Lauer and even Rosie O'Donnell were openly cynical of the accuracy of KSM's testimony, officials speaking on condition of anonymity admitted that the claims were exaggerated, but still insist KSM's responsibility for 9/11, from A to Z is genuine. Former CIA field officer Robert Baer also expressed his doubts , questioning What the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession. On the face of it, KSM, as he is known inside the government, comes across as boasting, at times mentally unstable. It's also clear he is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated, writes Baer. The facet of the Pearl murder and why the establishment would want to shut the lid on the whole affair by pinning the blame on KSM is interesting in the context that in September 2006, Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf fingered Omar Sheikh as Pearl's assassin, adding that he was an MI6 agent working for British Intelligence . In the transcript of his alleged confession, KSM cryptically discusses CIA and Mossad involvement in the Pearl execution but the text is heavily redacted. KSM's claim that he ran the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is also highly suspect because it also conveniently sweeps under the carpet the fact that it was the FBI who provided the terror cell with the bomb materials through their informant and ordered the bombing to go ahead. In addition, KSM was a known CIA asset in the eighties and was used as a go between during the CIA-funded Afghan jihad against the occupying Soviets. It is well established that before his mysterious arrest as the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 plot, Mohammed was granted a visa to enter the US just six weeks before the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York. Other questions that have arisen concerning the testimony revolve around KSM's Americanized use of the English language, including the term A to Z, which many see as a form of slang that benefits tabloid headlines more than it does the vernacular of radical Muslim extremists. A CNN online poll shows that a massive 74% disbelieve all of the claims made by KSM and BBC respondents were equally cynical. Think Progress makes the point that KSM's comments on torture and any potential reference to the fact that he was tortured himself are redacted in the transcript. The upshot of all this is that the much vaunted KSM confession, which seems to have been intentionally inflated so the book could be closed on a number of nebulous plots cited by the Bush administration as justification for its policies, has blown up in the establishment's face and only succeeded in detracting credibility from the government's official 9/11 story and the mythical war on terror. - ratcat writes: The confessions and the tapes are propaganda - no credible sources. Torture is not an acceptable or credible method of obtaining facts. This used to recognized (pre-Bush) by the courts. Strive as in a race to achieve the goal of excellence in all that you do. For real insights visit: http://www.geocities.com/mewatch99/ Regards, Nashid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Google to erase information on billions of internet searches!
*Google to erase information on billions of internet searches! *Thursday March 15, 2007 Google has unveiled plans to stop holding search records that can be linked to individuals for more than two years, in an effort to shed its Big Brother reputation. The internet giant had previously kept billions of search records for an unspecified period, widely thought to be indefinitely, building up a huge database of private information for unclear internal purposes. Peter Fleischer, Google's European privacy counsel, said that the search giant would now anonymise data more than 18 to 24 months old, with the exact date depending on international legal requirements. When anyone searches on Google, the company retains the searcher's internet address, the search term and the time of the search. Internet addresses can easily be linked to a household, meaning that any breach of security could be damaging. Last year, AOL published details of 23 million searches made by 650,000 people over a three-month period. The data included searches made by a Florida man, who on April 16 typed in My cheating wife followed by I want to make my wife suffer followed by Kill my wifes [sic] mistress. Google's decision was taken, said Mr Fleischer, in response to feedback we had from the privacy stakeholder community — code for criticism of the company's lack of a clear data protection policy by European regulators and campaigners. The information retained will still be available to police if required. Google believes that holding the data for up to two years will be enough for any law enforcement requests. We are not aware of any obligations to hand over data older than that covered by this policy, Mr Fleischer said. Google did an estimated 3.3 billion searches in the US alone in January, according to comScore, the internet data provider. On a global basis the search figure could easily top 10 billion in that period, demon-strating the vastness of the company's information repository. -- Ends
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Ottoman Ethics Charity Stones...
The below is from Brother Ali.
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Selam Aleykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatahu,
I found these passages through my readings and
thought, Insh'Allah Rahman, it may be of some benefit.
It was written by an independent scholar
living in Turkey, named Henry Bayman, compiled from
two of his books, The Secret of Islam: Love and Law
in the Religion of Ethics, and The Black Pearl, and
gives some insight into an aspect of life in the
Ottoman Empire:
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{ In the past, Islamic societies exhibited concern
for social and ecological issues because this was
built in to the very fabric of their religion. The
Ottomans, for example, had practices of a resoundingly
ecological nature, long before ecology was ever heard
of in the West. The quintessence of ecology was, of
course, expressed in the Koran:
BismillahirRahmanirRahim -Eat, drink, but do not
waste. (7: 31) As we all know, the earths resources
will provide for every one, as long as they
are not squandered mindlessly.
The green choice, is primarily and ethical choice;
the science of ecology may tell us that the
destruction of the environment will lead to the
destruction of humanity, but it does not tell us why
such self-destruction is wrong or bad.
In accordance with the Islamic precept, to show
compassion and tolerance toward not only human beings
but all Gods creatures, the Ottomans saw to it that
hungry wolves in the wild were fed carrion.
This not only protected villages from being raided,
but prevented the predator from entering the
endangered species list, because according to their
conception, every living being is precious. The
means for this was a unique institution they called,
the foundation. Thus, the Ottomans had
foundations for the preservation of birds, cats,
mongrels, wildlife, et al. - a delicate ecological
sensibility informed all their actions.
Looking at all the funds and foundations devoted to
preservation in the West today, one cannot help but
remember their predecessors in a less
ecology-conscious age.
People in Turkey are not ordinarily told about such
things, and I learned of them only by coincidence
later in life. If a people themselves
dont know their own heritage, others may well be
excused for their lack of knowledge in this regard.
One of the areas Ottoman culture excelled was security
against poverty. What I am about to tell you may sound
like a fairy tale today, yet it
is the truth, and provides a graphic example of
Benedicts syphon system. The Ottomans had stone
pillars, approximately the size of a human,
which I am informed are still to be found in certain
parts of Istanbul.
(They are said to exist all the way from Central Asia
to the Balkans.)
The purpose these stones served was not as mysterious
as that of the monoliths at Stonehenge, but it may
turn out to be more exciting by far in social terms.
They were called Charity Stones (sadaka tashi) . A
rich person who wanted to make a donation would reach
up to a niche at the top of the stone, where he would
deposit his gift.
Later on, a needy person would come along,reach up,
take what was enough for his needs, and leave the rest
of the money where it was so that another one in need
may find solace. The purpose of this device was to
preserve the anonymity of the poor, thereby saving
them from shame and loss of face. No one was reduced
to begging.
As a saying of the Holy Prophet (ASWS) goes, one of
those who Allahs shade will cover, on the day where
there is no shade but His shade, will be one who gives
sadaqa and conceals it so that his left hand does not
know what his right hand gives. So, this method also
saves the rich from ostentation, pride, and inflated
ego.
Does that sound too good to be true? Were there not,
you may ask, any thieves? Well, it was either that, or
the theives themselves - unlikely as this may seem,
would also be making donations. If they had thieves
these were the kind they had - the Robin Hood kind.
Likewise, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan,
Suleiman the Magnificent, it is related that soldiers
on the march, when they entered a vineyard and ate
grapes, used to hang a bag of money at the location of
the grapes they had just plucked.
If all this sounds unbelievable, it is still a great
consolation to learn that the descendants of such
ancestors still preserve the meaning of the charity
stones as a sort of atavism. What they accomplished as
a matter of course, we cannot even dream of today. The
equivalent in this day and age would be an open bank
account; but can you imagine the deposits not being
stolen before the poor and needy got to them?
The essence of Ottoman ethics was this: Treat every
human as if s/he were a jewel. This means that a
person should be handled delicately, as a
being of infinite worth. You will not find this stated
in history books, which seldom do justice to this
aspect of Ottoman life, but such was
in fact the ideal - and more often then not -
