Bismillah [IslamCity] Dua to pay off debts
Abu Vail Rahimahullahu narrates that a Mukatab (slave) came to Ali Radiyallahu 'anhu and said: I am unable to pay the agreed amount within the agreed period (to get myself freed from slavery), so help me. 'Ali Radiyallu 'anhu told him: Should I not teach you those words, which Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam taught me? If you are in debt equivalent to Mount Seer (of Yemen), Allah will discharge that debt for you. Say this: ALLAAHUMMAK-FINEE BI-H'ALAALIKA A'N H'ARAAMIKA WA AGHNINEE BI-FAZ'LIKA A'MMAN SIWAAK اللَّهُمَّ اكْفِنِي بِحَلَالِكَ عَنْ حَرَامِكَ وَأَغْنِنِي بِفَضْلِكَ عَمَّنْ سِوَاكْ O Allah, save me from haraam and make the halaal sufficient and by your boon/favour make me independent from others. (Tirmidhi) __ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] Questions to Hamas? IslamOnline Interview with Dr. Mousa Abu-Marzouq
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_Ccid=1216207954190pagename=Zone-English-Muslim_Affairs%2FMAELayout What Are Your Questions to Hamas? IslamOnline.net's Interview with Dr. Mousa Abu-Marzouq By Muslim Affairs Team Logo of Hamas What are Hamas' policies toward Israel? What are its policies toward Fatah? Is Hamas calling for peace or for wiping off Israel? Why has the movement targeted unarmed Israelis? How do they define resistance? Are Gaza's Palestinians held hostage in Hamas' hands? Is Hamas a terrorist organization? Send us your questions to Hamas before July 31, at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and we will be asking them to the deputy cheif of Hamas' political bureau, Dr. Mousa Abu Marzook, in an interview on August 2. Dr. Mousa Abu Marzook has played an active role in the movement shortly after its founding in the late 1980s. He became the first Hamas political bureau chief in 1992. The US-educated leader has published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, LA Times, the Guardian, and other media outlets. Send us your questions to Dr. Mousa Abu Marzook now: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: are u muslim?
--- In islamcity@yahoogroups.com, Media Critic wrote:
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'Trust in God, but tie your camel first' - The Holy Prophet (pbuh)
'Knowledge is better than wealth, you have to look after your wealth,
knowledge looks after you' - Imam Ali
*** (O Controller of the hearts make my heart steadfast in Your
religion).''
[At-Tirmidhi].
Answer: Yes, I am Muslim and my worldly things mean nothing to me
because they are only being used to accomplish my final goal and
destination! {{Maryam}}
Bismillah [IslamCity] Reminding u to read Soorat AlKAHF on Friday
Reminding u to read Soorat AlKAHF on Friday نذكركم بقراءة سورة الكهف كل يوم جمعة وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم : ( من قرأ سورة ( الكهف ) في يوم الجمعة أضاء له من النور ما بين الجمعتين ) [ صححه الألباني في صحيح الترغيب والترهيب / 736 ] .. وقال عليه الصلاة والسلام : ( من قرأ سورة ( الكهف ) ليلة الجمعة، أضاء له من النور ما بينه وبين البيت العتيق ) [ صححه الألباني في صحيح الترغيب والترهيب / 736 ] ..
Bismillah [IslamCity] Jummah Mubarak
As Salaamu Alaikum
Smooth roads never make good drivers, smooth seas never make good sailors,
clear skies never make good pilots, problem hassle free life never make a
strong person. Be strong enough to accept the challenges of life. Don't ask
life why me?, instead say try me!
Jummah Mubarak
PoEtEsS
Happiness is the key to the foundation of satisfaction, contentment and
acceptance…Zohra Moosa
***
{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom
(i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue
with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone
astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy
Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allah (believes in
His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I
am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if
Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of
camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, Whoever
calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who
follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all.
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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Re: Bismillah [IslamCity] Wake up Yah Muslimeen!
walekum salaam wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu
Seek scholarly guidance always.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:17 AM, MaryamAli wrote:
Salaam alaykum. I couldn't reply via the webpost, so am replying
here. Tis motivated me so much and was very gloriously written. I know that
there are many brothers who are wiling to 'wake up, but I see the need for
more sisters because there are not enough brothers who see the urgency. I
see it. I'm a sista and will gladly give up ever getting married for the
sake of Allah swt. Pray fro me. {{Maryam}}
--- On *Tue, 7/15/08, Aqsa Jihad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aqsa Jihad
[EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote:
From: Aqsa Jihad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aqsa Jihad Fisabeelillah*@
yahoo.com
Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Wake up Yah Muslimeen!
To: eGroup For Muslims Around The World islamcity@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 7:56 AM
*In The Name Of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu*
www.alkhilafah. net/jihad. html http://www.alkhilafah.net/jihad.html
*Fight for Allah -Ar-Rahmaan( swt).*
*Sent By Hashir Tasleem Rehmani*
Muslims of the World, where does your Glory lie?
Once a sun upon the World, to shed light far and wide.
And not from your own talents was this crown placed high,
But from Ar-Rahmaan-The Most High, yet weve left our glory dead.
This is not of mourning those wonderful days,
When the Praise of Allah was heard and lived our Prophet's Ways,
But I wish to impress upon you the reason for our decline,
Love of Wealth, Fear of Death, now! we're underneath their feet.
He told us before, that holiest of men,
He told us many things with words that Allah sent,
But we left them on the shelf and failed to take them to heart,
And now we cry dark tears of blood as our muslim lands are torn apart.
None of us were anything before Islaam made us real!
Glorify Ar-Rahmaan-The Most High and celebrate the Steel!
Islaam is our steed which if we ride we surely win!
Give Praise to Allah, put trust in Him and keep away from sin!
Qur'an is our battle plan, Revelation our fort!
We draw our water from the well of Allah and His Prophet's words!
Fear Allah young mujahideen and on His words take heed,
The enemy has no ground to stand, but surely we have pure Tawheed!
Wake up Yah Muslimeen! this world will surely pass us by,
And what will all your riches earn the day ordained to die?
Seek comfort with Allah, and not the evanescent,
Raise high the Flag of Jihad beneath the dying crescent!
ALLAHU AKBAR!!!
*Allah knows best*
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*Surah Isra 17 verse 80 Say: O my Lord! let my entry be by the Gate of
Truth and Honor and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honor; and
grant me from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me).
Ameen
Transliteration :Wa qur rabbi adkhilni mudkhala sidqiw wa akhrijni mukhraja
sidqiw wa-j'al li mil ladunka sulta_nan nasira_(n).
Al-Tirmidhi HadithHadith 2482 Narrated by AbuHurayrah (May Allah be pleased
with him)
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) used to say, O Allah, grant me
benefit in what Thou hast taught me, teach me what will benefit me, and
increase my knowledge. Praise be to Allah in all circumstances. I seek
refuge in Allah from the state of those who go to Hell.
Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a tradition
whose isnad is gharib.
Ameen*
--
Surah Isra 17 verse 80 Say: O my Lord! let my entry be by the Gate of Truth
and Honor and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honor; and grant me
from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me).
Ameen
Transliteration :Wa qur rabbi adkhilni mudkhala sidqiw wa akhrijni mukhraja
sidqiw wa-j'al li mil ladunka sulta_nan nasira_(n).
Al-Tirmidhi HadithHadith 2482 Narrated by AbuHurayrah (May Allah be pleased
with him)
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) used to say, O Allah, grant me
benefit in what Thou hast taught me, teach me what will benefit me, and
increase my knowledge. Praise be to Allah in all circumstances. I seek
refuge in Allah from the state of those who go to Hell.
Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a tradition
whose isnad is gharib.
Ameen
Bismillah [IslamCity] Two-thirds of Egyptian men harass women?
Two-thirds of Egyptian men harass women? By Cynthia Johnston Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday. The forms of harassment reported by Egyptian men, whose country attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, include touching or ogling women, shouting sexually explicit remarks, and exposing their genitals to women. Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all women in Egyptian society, often on a daily basis, said the report by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights. Egyptian women and female visitors frequently complain of persistent sexual harassment on Egyptian streets, despite the socially conservative nature of this traditional Muslim society. The behavior could have repercussions on Egypt's tourism industry, a major foreign income earner, with 98 percent of foreign women saying they had experienced harassment in the country, the survey said. The survey of more than 2,000 Egyptian men and women and 109 foreign women said the vast majority of Egyptians believed that sexual harassment in Egypt was on the rise, citing a worsening economic situation and a lack of awareness or religious values. It said 62 percent of Egyptian men reported perpetrating harassment, while 83 percent of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed. Nearly half of women said the abuse occurred daily. Only 2.4 percent of Egyptian women reported it to the police, with most saying they did not believe anyone would help. Some feared reporting harassment would hurt their reputations. The vast majority of women did nothing when confronted with sexual harassment, the survey said, adding that most Egyptian women believed the victim should remain silent. Some 53 percent of men blamed women for bringing on sexual harassment, saying they enjoyed it or were dressed in a way deemed indecent. Some women agreed. Out of Egyptian women and men interviewed, most believe that women who wear tight clothes deserve to be harassed, the survey said. It added most agreed women should be home by 8 p.m. The survey said most of the Egyptian women who told of being harassed said they were dressed conservatively, with the majority wearing the Islamic headscarf. The harassment took place on the streets or on public transport, as well as in tourist destinations and foreign educational institutions. (Writing by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Caroline Drees) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080717/od_nm/egypt_harassment_dc_1
Bismillah [IslamCity] usa: Email sparks debate on anti-Muslim racism
Email sparks debate on racism Sharmila Devi, Foreign Correspondent Arab American Heritage Week in New York is an example of efforts to change attitudes. Joe Tabacca for The National NEW YORK // The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out. What better way to start than at the highest level - through the president of the United States, one of their own. So reads an email widely distributed in the US from unknown senders as part of a smear campaign, satirised with mixed results by The New Yorker magazine last week, against Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee. The liberal weekly might have been making a joke when it pictured Mr Obama as a Muslim terrorist, his wife, Michelle, as an armed radical, and the US flag burning in the fireplace in the Oval Office. But some Americans actually appear to believe it, according to opinion polls. Nearly seven years after the September 11 attacks, American Muslims find themselves on the defensive in the face of the most extreme misconceptions, while community leaders say it will take at least another generation before discrimination disappears. Mr Obama slammed the bogus emails as an insult to American Muslims. He repeated that he was a Christian and was not raised in a Muslim home. You know, this is actually an insult against Muslim Americans, something that we don't spend a lot of time talking about. And sometimes I've been derelict in pointing that out, he said on CNN. There are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country, who are doing wonderful things. And for this to be used as sort of an insult or to raise suspicions about me, I think, is unfortunate. And it's not what America is all about. His remarks were welcomed by US Muslims. He's finally raised the issue of bigotry, said Salam al Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which aims to increase the political participation of US Muslims. I don't care what his religion is. Religion should not be a litmus test. We've seen an increase in political rhetoric that's exploiting people's fears, and it's very disturbing. An opinion poll conducted by the Pew Research Centre after the controversy over The New Yorker cartoon broke - and despite widespread media coverage pointing out Mr Obama's Christian beliefs - showed that 12 per cent still think he is a Muslim, up from 10 per cent in March. One-quarter said they did not know what Mr Obama's religious beliefs were, with 10 per cent saying they did not know enough about him but had heard different things about his religion. Democrats who believe he is a Muslim were significantly less likely to support him. It's a shame Obama has decided not to visit an Islamic institution or mosque because of all the perceptions about him, said Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at Political Research Associates, which analyses right-wing networks. We need leadership by all religious leaders, who should get together and forcibly speak out against the prejudice we've seen. After the September 11 attacks, a plethora of Muslim and Arab groups in the United States expanded their activities, including grassroots outreach and interfaith dialogue, but with mixed effect on reducing ignorance. It came as little surprise to them when congressional leaders revealed to a journalist they did not know the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam and other key facts about the Middle East in late 2006. The Sunni are more radical than the Shia. Or vice versa. But I think it's the Sunnis who're more radical than the Shia, said Jo Ann Davis, a Republican who was on a congressional intelligence committee. Corey Saylor, who is often be found in Congress lobbying for Muslim civil liberties for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the legislature needs to improve their education but in general he was beginning to see a more nuanced understanding of Islam. There are people who lump Arabs, Muslims and even Sikhs all together, but a broader understanding is beginning to trickle down, he said. September 11 was a horrible introduction for many people. Arab American Heritage Week in New York takes place each July and is one example of efforts to change attitudes. The festival was proclaimed by Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor, five years ago, and groups representing diverse regions in the Arab world put on concerts, bazaars and film screenings across the city. Thousands of people wandered along Bond Street in downtown Manhattan two weeks ago and sampled an outdoor shisha cafe and Middle Eastern food while watching belly-dancing and live Arabic music. Children of Arab descent, and some adults, had different Arab national flags painted on their faces. The street festival was organised by the New York chapter of the Network of Arab American Professionals. It's a great gathering of people from lots of different places, a fun day for the family and a great way to educate
Bismillah [IslamCity] europe: Respect mobilises against racist Cologne conference
Respect mobilises against racist Cologne conference Respect is aiming to send at least 100 activists to join protests against an anti-Islam conference organised by Europe's fascists. At the recent anti-fascist march in London, it appealed for activists to come to Cologne. Thanks to George Bush's war on terror, Islamophobia is the acceptable face of racism. The fascists and far right across Europe have put attacks on Muslims at the centre of their propaganda. This September the European far right is set to gather in the German city of Cologne for an anti-Muslim hate-fest. Anti-racists, trade unions, survivors of the Holocaust, Muslim groups and others across Germany are calling on people to come to the city in protest. Respect is organising a large delegation to join this major protest, blockade and counter-conference over the weekend of 20 and 21 September. Nadir Ahmed, one of the organisers of the delegation, says, The BNP's Richard Barnbrook is due to be in Cologne alongside veteran fascists like Jean Marie Le Pen. Every far right party wants to get a boost from it. A huge counter protest, on the other hand, will lift Muslims and anti-racists across the continent. The fascists appear to have chosen this date because it is right in the middle of Ramadan, when Muslims are fasting, tend not to travel far, and spend a lot of time with friends and family. Well, for me and many Muslims going to Cologne to stop this Nuremberg rally for Islamophobia definitely comes under the category of essential travel and an obligation to act justly. I hope many brothers and sisters, Muslim and non-Muslim, join us. For details phone Nadir on 07951 058864. http://socialistresistance.org/2008/07/07/respect-mobilises-against-racist-cologne-conference/
Bismillah [IslamCity] Travelers to Saudi Arabia required to declare cash, jewelry
Travelers to Saudi Arabia required to declare cash, jewelry Travelers entering and exiting Saudi Arabia will be required to declare the amount of cash, jewelry and precious stones that they are carrying effective June 2, the Ministry of Finance said in a May 23 statement. Passengers entering or exiting the Kingdom via air, land and sea must declare cash, precious stones or jewelry exceeding SR 60,000 [$16,000] or the equivalent in foreign currency to customs officials. Travelers who fail to abide by the regulation will face penalties. http://www.saudiembassy.net/2007News/News/GovDetail.asp?cIndex=7180
Bismillah [IslamCity] Invitation to Meet Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Saheb Chairman, Hidayaa Shariah Board
Invitation Meet Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Saheb Chairman, Hidayaa Shariah Board Assalamualaikum! Here is an opportunity to meet Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Saheb, Chairman, Hidayaa Shariah Board! The Hidayaa Shariah Board is functioning under the chairmanship of eminent Islamic Scholar, Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Saheb. Currently, Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Saheb holds the following esteemed responsibilities at various levels in India and abroad General Secretary, Islamic Fiqh Academy, India Founder Member, All India Muslim Personal Law Board Director, Al Mahad-ul-Aali Al Islami, Hyderabad Gen. Secretary, Deeni Madaris Board, A.P. Member, General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions, Bahrain Gen. Secretary, Majlis Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nobuwat, A.P. Member of Literary Committee, Dairatul-Ma-Arif al Osmania President, Jamia Ayeshah Niswan, Hyderabad Chairman, Darul Uloom Sabilul Falah Jalley, Darbhanga (Bihar) Editor Quarterly, Bahs-O-Nazar, Delhi Columnist, Munsif Daily, Hyderabad It is a great pleasure in inviting you to a session on ‘Shariah-compliance in Indian Stock Market’ by Moulana Saheb. Please note the following details and mark your calendar for the program at Tolichowki, Hyderabad, India. City: Hyderabad (India) On: Wed, 30-Jul-2008 07.15 pm – 08.00 pm (Opportunities in Indian Stock Market) 08.00 pm – 08.30 pm (Shariah-compliance in Indian Stock Market) 08.30 pm – 09.00 pm (Question Hour Relationship Building) Venue: 8-1-21/169, S.K.Enclave (Ground Floor), Opp: Reliance Fresh, Surya Nagar Colony, Tolichowki, Hyderabad 58 For more details, please contact +91-98494 73470 (Riaz) or +91-93913 98455 (Ahmed Siddiq) Hidayaa? Hidayaa endeavours to bring to you the best of Indian stocks and the trading practices which are Shariah-compliant all under one roof. Hidayaa, a novel concept of investing in stocks, is a pioneering effort of corporate member of NSE, BSE CDSL viz., Saaketa Consultants Limited having professionals with an experience of over a decade in the stock advisory and trading services. Services Hidayaa, the innovative concept offers the following stock related services · Stock trading on NSE, BSE o Trade Online o Trade on Telephone o Trade in Person · IPO (Primary Market Issue) · Stock Research Recommendations · Demat Services (Dematerialization of share certificates) PS. Parties interested in Business Partnership with Hidayaa, please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call +91-98494 73470 (Riaz) or +91-93913 98455 (Ahmed Siddiq) Wassalam, Syed, Abdul Najeeb Hidayaa (A Shariah-compliant Investment Concept), Saaketa Consultants Ltd. (Member: NSE, BSE CDSL), 8-1-21/169,S.K Enclave (Ground floor) Opp-Reliance Fresh, Surya Nagar Colony, Tolichowki, Hyderabad , India 500 008 Website: www.hidayaa.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Off: +91-40-40-2356-4113, 40-6680-1063 Mob: +91-998-986-8323
Bismillah [IslamCity] Patrick Seale - Wrong on Afghanistan
Dear editor, Assalamu Alaikum.Please publish it Shah abdul Hannan - Original Message - From: R Ahmed Subject: Patrick Seale - Wrong on Afghanistan Wrong on Afghanistan Patrick Seale Middle East Online 25/7/08 The history of Afghanistan's past occupiers, and a variety of current experts on the region, speak against Obama's policy of a future American - and, therefore, NATO - increase in military action in that country, says Patrick Seale. On his foreign travels this week, Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, pledged to switch the focus of America's military effort from Iraq to Afghanistan -- the central front, in his estimation, of the war on terror. U.S. combat troops would be withdrawn from Iraq within 16 months of his taking office, but thousands more, he promised, would be sent to fight in Afghanistan, and be ready to cross the border into Pakistan's tribal areas to root out jihadist sanctuaries there. This commitment -- and the explicit threat to expand the war -- is almost certainly a grave mistake. Costly in men and treasure, it is unlikely to be successful and threatens to be hugely damaging not only to American interests in the Muslim world and Central Asia, but also to Afghanistan itself, to Pakistan and to Indo-Pakistan relations. No doubt, Obama senses that the American public yearns for some sort of victory against Al-Qaeda, the elusive terrorist group that dared strike at America's heartland on 9/11. Losing is not an option when it comes to Al-Qaeda. he told CBS. He wants to look tough on security issues, where his rival John McCain seems to have an edge. But this is the old thinking from a view of doubtful validity -- accepted as gospel by many Western politicians -- that Western security depends on locating the ageing Osama bin Laden in some remote mountain fastness, and destroying him. This is to mistake the nature of the threat to Western societies. Far more dangerous than Al-Qaeda is the mass of angry tribesmen and city-dwellers in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, in Pakistan's Baluchistan, in the tribal agencies of North and South Waziristan, in and around the teeming city of Peshawar, and even further afield in neighbouring Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. These men, and many of their co-religionaries in the wider Muslim world, are angry because of America's war on terror. For many of them, it has meant the presence of an infidel army in Muslim lands, the vast disruption of their traditional way of life, the killing of their wives and children by U.S. air strikes, the flourishing of cruel and greedy warlords in outlying Afghan areas, and the rule in Kabul of President Hamid Karzai -- seen as a Western puppet presiding over a corrupt and ineffective regime. To pursue the battle against Al-Qaeda by military means is to awaken these powerful tribal and Muslim resentments -- as well as to threaten the already precarious stability of Pakistan, a Muslim nuclear power of 165 million people locked in a dangerous confrontation with India in both Kashmir and Afghanistan. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser, is a rare American voice to say (in an interview with the Financial Times on 21 July) that putting more troops into Afghanistan is not the entire solution. we run the risk that our military presence will gradually turn the Afghan population entirely against us. Gérard Chaliand, a French counter-terrorist expert, goes further still. Victory is impossible in Afghanistan, he declared (in an interview with Le Monde, 22 July) Today, one must attempt to negotiate. There is no other way. The insurgency is not led by Al-Qaeda on by foreign fighters. It is a Pashtun matter [the majority tribe in Afghanistan, with another 15 million members in Pakistan]. The Pashtuns are fighting first of all for themselves. Marc Sagemen, a leading American expert on Muslim extremism, argues in his book, Leaderless Jihad, that free-lance radicals are more of a threat to Western interests than Al-Qaeda itself which, he claims, has already been neutralised operationally. Another important book which denounces America's obsession with destroying Al-Qaeda is Ahmad Rashid's Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He argues that the neo-con obsession with Al-Qaeda has blinded the United States to the impact of the war on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir, leading in turn to the powerful resurgence of the Taliban on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border. It is surely the greatest folly for NATO to declare -- and seemingly to believe -- that its survival as an alliance, and indeed its very raison d'être, depends on victory in the Afghan theatre -- a war that is virtually unwinnable. Not the least of the problems is the underlying tension in Afghanistan between India and Pakistan, greatly exacerbated by this month's suicide car bomb outside
Bismillah [IslamCity] Writers Freedom : What Should Be Islamic Stance --Asia Post , Dhaka, editorial dated 26.7.08
- Writers Freedom : What Should Be Islamic Stance Recently there was a debatein the Middle East about the issue and extent of freedom of writers and what is view about it of Islamist movement there. The Lebanese Menassat news agency imputed that Brotherhood has called for prosecution of feminist writer Nawal Saadawi on charges of blasphemy and contempt for religion. The brotherhood denied this and said that the news agency made serious error in translation which will encourage false allegations by opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood that it adopts a hard-line stance against freedoms of thought and expression. Brotherhood in its statement said that prosecuting writers contradicts with the Muslim Brotherhood ideology which has always been staunch supporter of freedom of thought and expression We promote freedom of thought, said MB Secretary General Mahmoud Ezzat, and never in the history of the Muslim Brotherhood we prosecuted or called for the prosecution of writers. But is important that writers and thinkers use their talents in a way that respects the creeds and beliefs of others; in another word seek to reconcile between principles of freedom and the respect to the rights of others, so that one’s opinion will not be a violation of the other’s freedom of belief, he told Ikhwanweb.com. This is a touchy issue and Brotherhood has done well in explaining its position. Brotherhood is a major Islamic movement on a global basis and we hope this will be a guideline for all other Islamic movements. It is a different matter that any government has right under law to proscribe a seditious or blasphemous book.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Women job seekers warned of bogus ads
These women should be very very careful!!! These kind of job offerings are common in other countries where they offer something like this in another country when the women go there then they force them into prostitution. Women job seekers warned of bogus ads Arab News JEDDAH: The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has warned against false job advertisements that aim at luring women into immorality. It said that those involved in such practices would be punished. Saudi authorities will not show any leniency toward people who publish such false advertisements to seduce women; they will be dealt with strongly, said Ahmed bin Qassim Al-Ghamdi, director general of the commission's office in Makkah. Mohammed Al-Ghamdi, director of licenses at the Information Ministry, said newspapers should ensure the authenticity of advertisements before publishing them. If we receive any complaint, the person involved will be held responsible in accordance with the law, he told Al-Madinah daily recently. The advertisements in question often offer attractive salaries and benefits to women job seekers who do not have any experience or qualifications, the paper said. The employers will say that applicants will be given necessary training. Some women job seekers said when they contacted the advertisers, they were told that the employers were seeking pretty, forward-looking women who would not object to mingling with men. Hajar Mahmoud, who was lured by one such advertisements, said working with such people would have disastrous consequences. Tahani Al-Harbi, another Saudi woman, talked about her experience when she applied for a secretarial job. When I contacted them for the job, I was told the applicant should be open-minded, mature and beautiful, she said. Khaled Al-Zahrani, an advertisement executive, said there were strict conditions to accepting advertisements related to women, such as the person placing the ad should come to the advertising office and provide personal information. This will help us determine whether the advertisement is a sham or not, he said. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1section=0article=112110d=25m=7y=2008pix=kingdom.jpgcategory=Kingdom
RE: Bismillah [IslamCity] Please visit http://iqrasisters.wordpress.com/ IQRA-Quran Study Circle for Sisters
Assalam mualaikum, Dear Bros and Sis, Can you please let me know how to get in touch with this group? I cannot Click on the word schedule (which is suppposed to be on the right side of the page)as it is NOT to be found! Please help me. Jazakallah. Sister Nur To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:13:19 +Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Please visit http://iqrasisters.wordpress.com/ IQRA-Quran Study Circle for Sisters Options Disable Get Free Shots IQRA - Quraan study circle for sisters on Paltalk SCHEDULE update July 4, 2008 at 8:26 am (Uncategorized) Assalamu ‘alaykum, alhamdulilaahi Rabbi al’aalameen (All praise is due to Allah the Lord of the worlds)! We have a set schedule, please visit the page “SCHEDULE” on the right. Fi amanilah,wasalaam P.s.: Do not forget, du’aa is for free! Permalink No Comments Welcome! June 29, 2008 at 10:46 pm (Uncategorized) (Add new tag) Assalamu ‘ alaykum, Welcome to this webpage made to inform sisters who are interested in learning the recitation of the Quraan and/or learning the basics of the Arabic language. Muslim paltalk members have opened a voiceroom on Paltalk, providing a safe and comfortable environment for Muslim sisters only, to learn recitation of the Quraan. The room has just opened, please be patient with us, and make du’a (supplication) that Allah may purify our intentions, and make this beneficial. Aameen. See this link for the rooms page (copy and paste in your broswer) - http://chat.paltalk.com/g2/group/1177694119/ For more information about the classes, the rules, how to join Paltalk and more, check out the “pages” on this page on the right. Updates, and more info coming soon! !--[if gte mso 9] Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9] ![endif]-- _ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vistamkt=en-USform=QBRE
Bismillah [IslamCity] GRP-MILF Peace Talks collapse
--- On Sat, 26/7/08, CBCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: CBCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CBCSmain] July 26, 2008- GRP-MILF Peace Talks collapse To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, 26 July, 2008, 9:46 AM July 26, 2008- GRP-MILF Peace Talks collapse GRP-MILF Peace Talks: GRP-MILF talks end in impasse: August 5 MOA signing cancelled http://www.mindanew s.com/index. php?option= com_contenttask=viewid=4799Itemid=190 Philippine peace talks 'collapse' http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ asia-pacific/ 2008/07/20087251 85432390101. html Gov't-MILF talks on Moro homeland collapse http://www.abs- cbnnews.com/ topofthehour. aspx?StoryId= 126393 More work needed on MILF peace pact, says Malacañang http://www.manilati mes.net/national /2008/july/ 26/yehey/ top_stories/ 20080726top6. html Dureza: More work needed on MILF peace deal http://www.abs- cbnnews.com/ storypage. aspx?StoryId= 126371 Bangsamoro Juridical Entity should not be used to divide the people of Mindanao By Amirah Ali Lidasan http://www.mindanao examiner. com/news. php?news_ id=2008072500141 7 Young Muslims talk peace amid conflict http://www.manilati mes.net/national /2008/july/ 25/yehey/ moro/20080725mor o1.html ARMM Elections: Holding ARMM polls won’t jeopardize ancestral domain pact http://newsinfo. inquirer. net/topstories/ topstories/ view/20080725- 150708/Holding- ARMM-polls- wont-jeopardize- ancestral- domain-pact Mock polls in ARMM continue despite possible poll postponement http://www.abs- cbnnews.com/ storypage. aspx?StoryId= 126328 Mindanao lawmakers file bill to postpone ARMM polls http://www.abs- cbnnews.com/ storypage. aspx?StoryId= 126261 Bill filed to reset polls in Mindanao http://www.manilast andardtoday. com/?page= politics4_ july25_2008 More oppose postponement of ARMM polls http://www.manilati mes.net/national /2008/july/ 26/yehey/ prov/20080726pro 1.html Don’t postpone ARMM election http://www.manilati mes.net/national /2008/july/ 26/yehey/ opinion/mainopi. html 278 villages in hotspots list in ARMM polls http://www.mindanew s.com/index. php?option= com_contenttask=viewid=4803Itemid=292 ARMM Gov Ampatuan: wait and see http://www.mindanew s.com/index. php?option= com_contenttask=viewid=4802Itemid=291 US shies away from ARMM polls debate http://www.manilati mes.net/national /2008/july/ 26/yehey/ top_stories/ 20080726top3. html Weighing the ARMM polls postponement http://blogs. inquirer. net/philippineel ections/2008/ 07/23/weighing- the-armm- polls-postponeme nt/ The 2008 ARMM elections: In search of Yusop Tan! http://www.manilati mes.net/national /2008/july/ 25/yehey/ moro/20080725mor o4.html Frustrations over ARMM polls? http://www.mb. com.ph/OPED20080 726130764. html Digos Blast: Digos blast victim dies in hospital http://www.sunstar. com.ph/static/ net/2008/ 07/26/digos. blast.victim. dies.in.hospital .html Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society KFI Compound, Doña Pilar Street, Poblacion IV 9600 Cotabato City, Philippines Telefax No.: +63 (064) 421-5420 Website: www.cbcsi.org E-mail: secretariat@ cbcsi.org Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] The US Puts Up a Huge Expensive Embassy on the RUINS of Iraq
*New **U.S.** Embassy Rises in **Iraq*** *Conspicuously huge and self-contained but deemed inadequate for a disaster scenario, the compound is already taking fire.* *By Alexandra Zavis, Times Staff Writer **July 24, 2007** * * http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-embassy24jul24,0,7085179.story?page=1coll=la-home-world * BAGHDAD — Huge, expensive and dogged by controversy, the new U.S. Embassy compound nearing completion here epitomizes to many Iraqis the worst of the U.S. tenure in Iraq. *It**'**s all for them, all of Iraq**'**s resources, water, electricity, security, said Raid Kadhim Kareem, who has watched the buildings go up at a floodlighted site bristling with construction cranes from his post guarding an abandoned home on the other side of the Tigris River. It**'**s as if it* *'**s their country, and we are guests staying here.* *Despite its brash scale and nearly $600-million cost, the compound designed to accommodate more than 1,000 people is not big enough, and may not be safe enough if a major military pullout leaves the country engulfed in a heightened civil war, **U.S.** planners now say.* Militants have fired shells into the compound in the fortified Green Zone, where more than 85 rocket and mortar strikes have killed at least 16 people since February, according to a United Nations report last month. Five more people died in fierce barrages this month. Having the 'heavily fortified Green Zone' doesn't matter one iota when it comes to rocket and mortar attacks, said one senior military officer. *Like much U.S. planning in Iraq, the embassy was conceived nearly three years ago on rosy assumptions that stability was around the corner, and that the military effort would gradually draw down, leaving behind a vast array of civilian experts who would remain intimately engaged in Iraqi state-building. The result is what some analysts are describing as a $592-million anachronism.* It really is sort of betwixt and between, said Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations who advises the Defense Department. It's bigger than it should be if you really expect Iraq to stabilize. It's not as big as it needs to be to be the nerve center of an ongoing war effort. *In a stunning security breach, architectural plans for the compound were briefly posted on the Internet in May. If the government of **Iraq**collapses and becomes transparently just one party in a civil war, you **'**ve got **Ft.** **Apache** in the middle of Indian country, but the Indians have mortars now, Biddle said.* *When completed in September, the compound will have the amenities of a small town, with six apartment buildings, a palm-fringed swimming pool, a gym, fast-food outlets, a barbershop and beauty salon, and a commissary stocked with the comforts of home. It is designed to be entirely self-sufficient, boasting its own power plant, wells and wastewater treatment system, according to a December 2005 report for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Plans are also being drawn up to build short-term housing for several hundred additional people on a currently unused portion of the site, said Patrick F. Kennedy, the State Department**'**s management policy chief, who traveled to Iraq in May to review embassy staffing. How much the housing will add to the price tag has not been determined.* The project echoes another mega-embassy where diplomats, spies and army brass met for drinks and golf dates in a slice of America amid the escalating chaos in Somalia. That compound, which dwarfed even the Baghdad facility, was dismantled by looters after the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. *The magnitude of the new compound, with nearly the same acreage as **Vatican City**, has convinced many Iraqis that the **United States** harbors long-term ambitions here, even as domestic pressure mounts to start bringing the troops home. They**'**re not leaving **Iraq** for a long time, said Hashim Hamad Ali, another guard, who called the compound a symbol of oppression and injustice.* The compound was designed to accommodate career diplomats, representatives of almost every major U.S. government agency and their security personnel. But U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it had been assumed that the military presence would have diminished by now, so little room was included for them, which could make coordination between the civilian and military aspects of the U.S. mission difficult. The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, and hundreds of headquarters staff work out of the current embassy. Adding pressure on the available space is the unusually high number of non-Iraqi workers doing temporary jobs that would be handled by local nationals at other embassies, officials here said. All of those workers need to be housed. Just as the military is surging, the State Department is surging too, said Kennedy of the State Department.
