Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Sukayna, the barza woman
Salam Brothers & Sisters, I wish to thank you for sharing this exceedingly informative and inspiring article. What a delightful encounter with a most fascinating woman in the history of Islam. This is the kind of women the world of Islam needs today, intelligent, self-confident, highly educated, assertive, and above all courageous. This article should be a "must" reading for young Muslims, males and females alike. The future of Islam, whether in Muslim countries or anywhere else, will be all the more promising with such daring and intelligent Muslim women like Sukayna, may God Almighty bless her free spirit and enduring legacy. Please keep furnishing/enriching us with this kind of positive, highly relevant, motivational, and thoroughly inspiring stories from the infinitely rich and enchanting history of Islam. JAZAKUMU ALLAHU KHAIRAN. Ibrahim Hayani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assalam alaikum, Lisan al-Arab says, "A barza woman is one who does not hide her face and does not lower her head" And the dictionary adds that a barza woman is one who "is seen by people and hwo received visitors at home" - men, obviously. A barza woman is also a woman who has "sound judgment". A barz man or wman is someone "known for their aql (reasoning)". Who are they, these Muslim women who have resisted the `hijab'? The most famous was Sukayna, one of the great grand daughters of the Prophet through his daughter Fatima, the wife of Ali, the famous Ali, the ill-fated fourth orthodox caliph who abandonded power to Muawiya and was assassinated by the first Muslim political terrorist. His sons' fates were as tragic as his own, and Sukayna was present at the killing of her father at Karbala. That tragedy partly explains her revolt against political, oppressive, despotic Islam and against everything that hinders the individuals freedom - including the `hijab'. Sukayna was born in the year 49 of the Hijra (about 671 AD). She was celebrated for her beauty, for what the Arabs call beauty - an explosive mixture of physical attractiveness, critical intelligence, and caustic wit. The most powerful men debated with her; caliphs and princes proposed marriage to her, which she disdained for political reasons. Nevertheless, she ended up marrying five, some say six, husbands. She quarreled with some of them, made passionate declarations of love to others, brought one to court for infidelity, and never pledged Ta'a (obedience, the key principle of Muslim marriage) to any of them. In her marriage contracs she stipulated that she would not obey her husband, but would do as she pleased, and that she did not acknowledge that her husband had the right to practice polygamy. All this was the result of her interest in political affairs and poetry. She continued to receive visits from poets and, despite her several marriages, to attend attend the meetings of the Quraishi tribal council, the equivalent of the democratic municipal councils. [Isbahani, Aghani, vol 16 p 168-9] Her personality has fascinated the historians, who have devoted pages and pages, sometimes who biographies to her. Her character was deeply affected by history's harsh reality - particularly the killing of her father, Husayn ibn Ali, at Karbala, one of the most outrageous massacres in Muslim political history. Husayn was a man of peace who had declared to Muawiya in a written contract his decision to renounce the caliphate, provided he be allowed to live in safety with his family. A poet, he celebrated the women he adored: Rabab, his wife, and Sukayna, his daughter. After the death of Muawiya, when he refused to swear allegiance to Muawiya's son, Husayn was killed at Karbala in the midst of his family, including Sukayna. It happened on the day of Ashura (the Day of Atonement), Oct 10th 680 AD. All her life Sukayna harbored feelings of contempt, which she never hesitated to express, for the Umayyad dynasty and its bloody methods. She attacked the dynasty in the mosques and insulted its governors and representatives every time she had the opportunity, even arranging occasions for this purpose. [Isbahani, Aghani, vol 16 p 143] She made one of hre husbands sign a marriage contract that officially specified her right to nushuz, that rebellion against marital control that so tormented the fuqaha. She claimed the right to be nashiz, and paraded it, like her beauty and her talent, to assert the importance and vitality of women in the Arab tradition. Admiring and respectful, the historians delight in evoking her family dramas - for instance, the case that she brought against one of her husbands who had violated the rule of monogamy that she had imposed on him in the marriage contract. Dumbfounded by the conditions in the contract, the judge nevertheless was obliged to hear the case, with his own wife attending this trial of the century, and the caliph sending an emissary to keep him au courant (up to date) with the course of the trial. Sukayna died in Medina at the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Occupied Iraq - How the CRUSADER Lies to Put a Positive SPIN On Its Occupation
O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done. (Al-Qur'an, 49:6 (Al-Hujraat [The Private Apartments, The Inner Apartments]) Another Al Qaeda In Iraq Leader Killed Twice By U.S. War propaganda put down to "eagerness" http://www.infowars.net/articles/july2007/060707Killed.htm Steve Watson Friday, July 6, 2007 The U.S. military command in Iraq was forced to retract showpiece statements made this week that they had killed a high profile Al Qaeda leader due to the fact that they had already announced the killing one year ago. A military spokesman acknowledged the mistake after it was called to his attention by The Examiner. He said public affairs officers will be more careful in announcing significant kills. Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner announced to the media on Monday that Kamal Jalil Uthman, also known as Said Hamza, thought to be the chief of al Qaeda in Iraq military operations in Mosul, had been "recently eliminated" "He planned, coordinated and facilitated suicide bombings, and he facilitated the movement of more than a hundred foreign fighters through safe houses in the area." Bergner said. Yet reporters recognized the name and soon realised that the same person had been "eliminated" on a previous occasion. Rowan Scarborough reports: When The Examiner pointed out that Uthman's death had been announced twice, a command spokesman said in an e-mail, "You are correct that we did previously announce that we killed him. This was a roll up to show an overall effort against [al Qaeda in Iraq]. We can probably do a better job on saying 'previously announced' when we do long-term roll ups to show an overall effort." It has become clear that the military is disseminating propaganda in a blatant attempt to artificially inflate the success of what is in actual fact a total disaster. "Eagerness" to be successful does not excuse lying to the media about operations in Iraq. In addition, this is not the first time so called Al Qaeda in Iraq leading figures have been killed more than once. Like some kind of mythical god or deity, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the supposed former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was apparently killed no less than five times by coalition forces. He was first killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq, then he was killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, followed by a death during Operation Matador near the town of Qaim on the Syrian border, then he was killed, along with his mentor, Osama bin Laden, in the besieged city of Fallujah, and finally met his fifth demise in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad in the town of Hibhib near Baquba. Before al-Zarqawi met his final demise it also seemed as if he had magical powers that enabled him to escape multiple captures. Inquisitive questions into just how al-Zarqawi had managed such feats were answered last year when it was revealed via leaked internal military documents that al-Zarqawi was a neocon pet propaganda program. His role and actions had been consistently artificially magnified according to officers involved in the program. When some senior intelligence officers went public with fears that Zarqawi's role might have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, the Pentagon conveniently released a video showing al-Zarqawi wearing tennis shoes and fumbling with a U.S. M-249 squad automatic weapon, unable to operate the gun and appearing to be a total buffoon. Just months after that pictures of Zarqawi's dead body were widely broadcast and the operation was retired. In a previous propaganda ploy by the U.S. military command in Baghdad, it was revealed that Iraqi newspapers were paid to carry positive news about U.S. efforts in Iraq. The latest example of Al Qaeda in Iraq propaganda shows that the military is still desperately trying to placate a media and a population that is sick and tired of funding the globalist empirical operation in the middle east. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] United We Stand Free With DIGINITY. Divided We get ENSLAVED By The Zionist NEW WORLD ORDER. - Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The French Connections: PAUL KRUGMAN - U.S. Web Lag +
The French Connections: PAUL KRUGMAN - U.S. Web Lag + by PAUL KRUGMAN - THE NEW YORK TIMES Monday Jul 23rd, 2007 KRUGMAN: What happened to Americas Internet lead? Bad policy. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE WITH HYPERLINK AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST The French Connections By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: July 23, 2007 There was a time when everyone thought that the Europeans and the Japanese were better at business than we were. In the early 1990s airport bookstores were full of volumes with samurai warriors on their covers, promising to teach you the secrets of Japanese business success. Lester Thurows 1992 book, Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America, which spent more than six months on the Times best-seller list, predicted that Europe would win. Then it all changed, and American despondency turned into triumphalism. Partly this was because the Clinton boom contrasted so sharply with Europes slow growth and Japans decade-long slump. Above all, however, our new confidence reflected the rise of the Internet. Jacques Chirac complained that the Internet was an Anglo-Saxon network, and he had a point France, like most of Europe except Scandinavia, lagged far behind the U.S. when it came to getting online. What most Americans probably dont know is that over the last few years the situation has totally reversed. As the Internet has evolved in particular, as dial-up has given way to broadband connections using DSL, cable and other high-speed links its the United States that has fallen behind. . . Even more striking is the fact that our high speed connections are painfully slow by other countries standards. . . [H]ealth care isnt the only area in which the French, who can take a pragmatic approach because they arent prisoners of free-market ideology, simply do things better. --MORE-- http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/2007/07/op-ed-columnist-french-connections-paul.html Posted by CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS mparent Marc Parent CCNWON at 5:03 AM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: economy, France, GOP, internet, Markets, New York Times, News, PAUL KRUGMAN, Politics, Republicans CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWSWIRE - JULY 22, 2007 http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/2007/07/crimes-and-corruptions-of-new-world_23.html AND MORE http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 MARC PARENT, mparent, mparent, ccnwon CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 - Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Quran in Yahoo Messenger
- Original Message - From: umar farooq Assalamaliakum, hope you find this mail in good health & Eeman.. follow the below procedure & take advantage of it, In yahoo messenger. Add this "quran.kareem" in the add contact list. and once added then you can see that " quran.kareem" is online and then further you can click on the online quran kareem to send an instant msg.Try writing in the box just type" help "this will show you some examples of how to use this program. Yes it's a program that runs inside yahoo messenger.What a clever little Muslim who created this!Save that username! You can get translations to the Quran in Urdu as well as English. There are Hadith as well even the 40 Hadith. this has to offer because there is so much Mashallah!Spread the word too, Islam is not for you and me but for all humanity! Jazaak Allah khair [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
