Boycott Israel [IslamCity] STATE DEPARTMENT ''YES'' PROGRAM TARGETS MUSLIM TEENS FOR DEBASEMENT
"He learned it was OK to pet the dog" Assalamu aleikum. U.S. government tax dollars are being used to bring Muslim youth from abroad for 10-month stretches in order to personally debase them here and separate them from our deen. Innocuously titled the "Youth Exchange and Study Program", the program brings talented Muslim youth to the US for brainwashing into western culture in the hope that they will become Manchurian candidates in the future. Here is an example: "Siik recalled a boy from Saudi Arabia who stayed in her home for three weeks before he was permanently placed with a family. She had recently bought a dog, a 1-year-old Australian Shepard, and the boy spent his time in Siik's home adjusting to having a dog around the house as a pet. In Islamic thought, dogs have been seen as impure animals, and contact with dogs is sometimes prohibited in legal tradition. "In orientation he learned it was OK to pet the dog, and he would try, but that would get the dog even more excited. It was pretty hysterical," Siik said. "Once he went to live with the new family though, he always asked me how the dog was doing." One wonders whether he is inquiring after the mutt --- or about Siik. At any rate, the program succeeded in getting him to have physical contact with an unclean animal being kept as a pet. Having as its object the obliteration of iman, participation in this "Yes" program is obviously haraam, and potential victims from Muslim lands need to be informed and warned about it, so as not to be misled by crafty propaganda about "initiatives to build understanding between the United States and the Muslim world." --- Area residents say YES to other cultures By KAITLYN HENNIGAN Nashua Telegraph Thursday, Jul. 26, 2007 http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/NEWS01/207260366/-1/XML15 To host a student If you are interested in hosting a YES program student in your home, contact Dolores Siik at 497-4702. For more information about PAX and the YES program, visit www.pax.org. Dolores Siik wants three local families to say, "YES" to participating in a new State Department initiative to build understanding between the United States and the Muslim world. Siik, a Goffstown resident, is the Youth Exchange and Study Program cluster leader in charge of interviewing families in Southern New Hampshire interested in hosting a foreign teenager. "We now live in a world where people need to understand each other and get along," she said. "Exchanges are a chance to make lifelong friends." YES is a federally funded exchange program aimed at building understanding and trust between citizens of the United States and citizens of predominantly-Muslim countries such as Malaysia, Iraq, Egypt, Ghana and Indonesia. The program was created in the aftermath of 9/11 by the U.S. State Department in recognition of the important role youth exchange can play in bridging gaps between cultures. In 2003, the first group of 53 YES students came to America from Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia. Last year, more than 300 participants were placed throughout the country. In her own home, Siik has hosted students from more than 35 different countries. She began hosting international students in 1971 when her own six children were still living at home. Now she has 10 grandchildren and three times that many host children living around the globe. In 1974, she began coordinating exchange programs for the Program of Academic Exchange (PAX), a nonprofit educational foundation. When the YES program was formed in 2003, the U.S. Department of State selected PAX to serve as the placement organization for participating students. Siik is now the coordinator for the YES program in New Hampshire. Siik recalled a boy from Saudi Arabia who stayed in her home for three weeks before he was permanently placed with a family. She had recently bought a dog, a 1-year-old Australian Shepard, and the boy spent his time in Siik's home adjusting to having a dog around the house as a pet. In Islamic thought, dogs have been seen as impure animals, and contact with dogs is sometimes prohibited in legal tradition. "In orientation he learned it was OK to pet the dog, and he would try, but that would get the dog even more excited. It was pretty hysterical," Siik said. "Once he went to live with the new family though, he always asked me how the dog was doing." Southern New Hampshire has been chosen as a host community for three foreign teenagers enrolled in YES, now in its third year in the state. The students arrive in August and will live with a local family for 10 months and attend the public high school. Siik said she has placed a boy from Iraq in a New Ipswich home, a girl from India in Hopkinton and a boy from Lebanon in Milford, but is still searching for three more families to house teenagers. There is no specific definition of what a host family is: single parents, young couples, widows or retirees are all welcome to apply. Siik said
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH EXPERIENCES ANOTHER ANTABUSE REACTION
DAJJAL BUSH EXPERIENCES ANOTHER ANTABUSE REACTION Assalamu aleikum. The drunkard who became the first criminal convict to be "elected" president of the US, has suffered a painful reaction after consuming so-called "non-alcohol" beer. Such beers actually do contain a small amount of alcohol, enough to trigger a physical reaction from the antabuse prescription that dajjal Bush is using to combat his alcoholism. Antabuse is for recovering alcoholic mental weaklings who don't have the willpower to stay the course; in other words, they lack the ability to see the mission accomplished. No wonder, then, that dajjal Bush's antabuse treatment is kept carefully under wraps. But the evidence has been out there for some time. Note the 2004 photos at: --- Bush's Weird Face http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/10/26/bushs-weird-face/ --- Details of antabuse can be found at: --- Disulfiram Brand Name: Antabuse http://concernedcounseling.com/medications/disulfiram.htm Disulfiram (Antabuse) plus even small amounts of alcohol produces flushing, throbbing in head and neck, throbbing headache, respiratory difficulty, nausea, copious vomiting, sweating, thirst, chest pain, palpitation, dyspnea, hyperventilation, tachycardia, hypotension, syncope, marked uneasiness, weakness, vertigo, blurred vision, and confusion. In severe reactions, there may be respiratory depression, cardiovascular collapse, arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, acute congestive heart failure, unconsciousness, convulsions, and death. The intensity of the reaction may vary with each individual but is generally proportional to the amount of disulfiram and alcohol ingested. In the sensitive individual, mild reactions may occur when the blood alcohol concentration is increased to as little as 5 to 10 mg/100 mL. At a concentration of 50 mg/100 mL symptoms are usually fully developed, and when the concentration reaches 125 to 150 mg/100 mL unconsciousness may occur. The duration of the reaction is variable, from 30 to 60 minutes in mild cases, up to several hours in more severe cases or as long as there is alcohol remaining in the blood. In severe reactions, supportive measures to restore blood pressure and treat shock should be instituted. Other measures such as the administration of oxygen or carbogen (95% oxygen, 5% carbon dioxide), massive i.v. doses of vitamin C (1 g), ephedrine sulfate, or antihistamines i.v. might be indicated. Potassium levels should be monitored particularly in patients on digitalis since hypokalemia has been reported. Disulfiram is slowly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and is slowly eliminated from the body. Ingestion of alcohol may produce unpleasant symptoms 1 or even 2 weeks after a patient has taken his last dose of disulfiram. Disulfiram (Antabuse) plus even small amounts of alcohol produces flushing, throbbing in head and neck, throbbing headache, respiratory difficulty, nausea, copious vomiting, sweating, thirst, chest pain, palpitation, dyspnea, hyperventilation, tachycardia, hypotension, syncope, marked uneasiness, weakness, vertigo, blurred vision, and confusion. In severe reactions, there may be respiratory depression, cardiovascular collapse, arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, acute congestive heart failure, unconsciousness, convulsions, and death. The intensity of the reaction may vary with each individual but is generally proportional to the amount of disulfiram and alcohol ingested. In the sensitive individual, mild reactions may occur when the blood alcohol concentration is increased to as little as 5 to 10 mg/100 mL. At a concentration of 50 mg/100 mL symptoms are usually fully developed, and when the concentration reaches 125 to 150 mg/100 mL unconsciousness may occur. The duration of the reaction is variable, from 30 to 60 minutes in mild cases, up to several hours in more severe cases or as long as there is alcohol remaining in the blood. In severe reactions, supportive measures to restore blood pressure and treat shock should be instituted. Other measures such as the administration of oxygen or carbogen (95% oxygen, 5% carbon dioxide), massive i.v. doses of vitamin C (1 g), ephedrine sulfate, or antihistamines i.v. might be indicated. Potassium levels should be monitored particularly in patients on digitalis since hypokalemia has been reported. Disulfiram is slowly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and is slowly eliminated from the body. Ingestion of alcohol may produce unpleasant symptoms 1 or even 2 weeks after a patient has taken his last dose of disulfiram. --- Bush rejoins G8 summit after battling stomach bug President returns from rest in time for closing lunch The Associated Press Friday, June 8, 2007 | 7:51 AM ET http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/08/bushg8-stomach-070608.html A stomach ailment forced U.S. President George W. Bush to miss some meetings at an international summit on Friday, but after resting in his room, he rejoined the gathering and prepared for talks i
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ALLAH (S.W.T.) AFFLICTS DAJJAL CRUSADER MINIONS WITH PESTILENCE
ALLAH (S.W.T.) AFFLICTS DAJJAL CRUSADER MINIONS WITH PESTILENCE Resilient infections plague military By JACKIE SPINNER Washington Post via Knoxville News May 27, 2007 http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_5557228,00.html WASHINGTON - Like most patients in the infectious disease ward at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Jon Harris has an "A" written next to his name on the white board by the nursing desk. The 23-year-old Army specialist had a leg amputated below the knee after a roadside bomb attack in Iraq. But the capital letter indicates another medical problem that increasingly worries military doctors - an infection from a resilient bug known as Acinetobacter. Harris, who arrived at Walter Reed on April 10, said he is convinced he picked up the infection when he fell to the ground in the attack. However, military doctors say they don't know exactly what's causing infections such as the one Harris has, and they are racing to find effective treatments. Four types of bacteria, they say, are causing severe and hard-to-treat infections for many troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan: Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus. The infections have occurred in more than 600 injured troops from the two war zones who have had an arm or leg amputated, doctors tracking the cases say, and in other troops with lesser wounds. Such infections also can occur among civilians with traumatic wounds or other health problems, doctors say, but the high rate of infection for injured troops is raising concerns. In response, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research awarded a $1.6 million grant in February to a University of Missouri research team to work with doctors at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C., and Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. The researchers' aim is to simulate the bomb blast wounds that seem especially vulnerable to the infections and to study how the infections respond to antibiotics. "The outbreak the military has described is very large," said Arjun Srinivasan, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has been working with the Army in its research. Army Col. Robert Kasper, a doctor with a combat support hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad, said military doctors in Iraq are cooperating with U.S. hospitals to identify the sources of the infections. The nature of the wounds sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan has complicated efforts to control the infections, doctors said. Darren Linkin, director of infection control at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, said that bomb blasts cause a large amount of tissue damage, making infections more likely to occur and harder to treat. http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_5557228,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] TALABANI FLEES IRAQ AS PHONY ''GOVERNMENT'' CRUMBLES
TALABANI FLEES IRAQ AS PHONY ''GOVERNMENT'' CRUMBLES Assalamu aleikum. Coming just after the phony "Iraqi Parliament" suspended operations "for two months", it's clear that the puppets are now fully on the run. The silly pretext upon which Talabani has fled Baghdad - to lose weight - is correct in this sense only: that Talabani is losing any remaining political weight that he has (not that he ever really had any at all). --- Iraq's president heads to U.S. to lose weight Reuters Sun May 20, 2007 http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSARM04962520070520 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tired and battling obesity, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to the United States on Sunday for rest and help in tackling his weight problem. Talabani, in his early 70s, left from the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya in northeastern Iraq for a trip that could take several weeks. His office denied local media reports that Talabani was suffering from any specific illness and said he was in general good health apart from his weight. It issued a statement quoting the president from a news conference on May 15. "I don't have any health problems except my obesity and I will treat it, God willing," the statement quoted Talabani as saying. "I will go ... to the United States of America to undergo general medical checks to reduce my weight." The former Kurdish rebel leader returned to his office in mid-March after two weeks in a Jordanian hospital, vowing that he was with Iraqis "until the final breath". Talabani flew to Jordan on a medically equipped U.S. military plane in February suffering from extreme fatigue and dehydration. His position as president is largely ceremonial but he is an influential figure at home and in Washington. On Saturday, the Washington Post newspaper reported that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq's biggest Shi'ite party in parliament, was in the United States undergoing treatment for lung cancer. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSARM04962520070520
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] NEW JERSEY ''TERRORISM'' CASE PROMPTLY BEGINS TO FALL APART
NEW JERSEY ''TERRORISM'' CASE PROMPTLY BEGINS TO FALL APART Assalamu aleikum. Sigh. The latest phony accusations of a terrorist sleeper cell are directed at several Muslims in New Jersey who, according to an FBI affidavit, were planning to take on Ft. Dix all by themselves. The "affidavit" isn't much of an affidavit at all, as it comes from a secondary source, not from the "Cooperating Witnesses" who made all the claims in the affidavit. And those "cooperating witnesses" are not even named, only numbered: CW1 and CW2. The affidavit, however, openly admits that CW-1 is an established liar who was caught lying in another case as recently as January 2006. See it right here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0508071ftdix2.html Of even more interest is the telephone number mentioned in the "affidavit", which is supposedly that of Serdar Tata: 856-520-4291 You can see that phone number listed right here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0508071ftdix11.html The problem is that there is no such assigned telephone number as any reverse lookup of both cellphones and landlines will independently show. So once again the public stands to be hoodwinked by yet another in a long series of phony planned "terrorist" attacks. And just in time for Dajjal Bush to use this one to press his demand for another $120 billion for his Iraqi genocide campaign on the ground of the need to "protect" Americans from "terrorists". This is all so very 2002. But even the American public is beginning to grow up and has long since tired of dajjal Bush's Chicken Little franchise. The most recent numbers from a Newsweek poll, show Bush has only a 28% approval rating. Grades like that usually get a kid expelled from school and Bush's occupation of the White House should end, too.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SMALLVILLE DESTROYED AS DAJJAL BUSH CONTINUES HIS FAKE PROPHETHOOD
SMALLVILLE DESTROYED AS DAJJAL BUSH CONTINUES HIS FAKE PROPHETHOOD Assalamu aleikum. Greensburg, USA has been destroyed. How long will the American people tolerate among themselves the dajjal Bush who through his pretended messengership of Allah (S.W.T.) has brought on this catastrophe along with so many others? Shocking photographs of the devastation: http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/ --- Translations of the Meaning of the Holy Qur'an relating to tornadoes: 67:16 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/067.qmt.html#067.017 067.017 YUSUFALI: Or do ye feel secure that He Who is in Heaven will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones), so that ye shall know how (terrible) was My warning? PICKTHAL: Or have ye taken security from Him Who is in the heaven that He will not let loose on you a hurricane? But ye shall know the manner of My warning. SHAKIR: Or are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not send down upon you a punishment? Then shall you know how was My warning. --- 17:66 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.068 YUSUFALI: Do ye then feel secure that He will not cause you to be swallowed up beneath the earth when ye are on land, or that He will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones) so that ye shall find no one to carry out your affairs for you? PICKTHAL: Feel ye then secure that He will not cause a slope of the land to engulf you, or send a sand-storm upon you, and then ye will find that ye have no protector? SHAKIR: What! Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send on you a tornado? Then you shall not find a protector for yourselves. --- 29:40 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/029.qmt.html#029.040 029.040 YUSUFALI: Each one of them We seized for his crime: of them, against some We sent a violent tornado (with showers of stones); some were caught by a (mighty) Blast; some We caused the earth to swallow up; and some We drowned (in the waters): It was not Allah Who injured (or oppressed) them:" They injured (and oppressed) their own souls. PICKTHAL: So We took each one in his sin; of them was he on whom We sent a hurricane, and of them was he who was overtaken by the (Awful) Cry, and of them was he whom We caused the earth to swallow, and of them was he whom We drowned. It was not for Allah to wrong them, but they wronged themselves. SHAKIR: So each We punished for his sin; of them was he on whom We sent down a violent storm, and of them was he whom the rumbling overtook, and of them was he whom We made to be swallowed up by the earth, and of them was he whom We drowned; and it did not beseem Allah that He should be unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own souls. --- 54:19-22 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/054.qmt.html#054.019 054.019 YUSUFALI: For We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster, PICKTHAL: Lo! We let loose on them a raging wind on a day of constant calamity, SHAKIR: Surely We sent on them a tornado in a day of bitter ill-luck 054.020 YUSUFALI: Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground). PICKTHAL: Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees. SHAKIR: Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up. 054.021 YUSUFALI: Yea, how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning! PICKTHAL: Then see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings! SHAKIR: How (great) was then My punishment and My warning! 054.022 YUSUFALI: But We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition? PICKTHAL: And in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth? SHAKIR: And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who will mind? --- 54:33-40 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/054.qmt.html#054.033 054.033 YUSUFALI: The people of Lut rejected (his) warning. PICKTHAL: The folk of Lot rejected warnings. SHAKIR: The people of Lut treated the warning. as a lie. 054.034 YUSUFALI: We sent against them a violent Tornado with showers of stones, (which destroyed them), except Lut's household: them We delivered by early Dawn,- PICKTHAL: Lo! We sent a storm of stones upon them (all) save the family of Lot, whom We rescued in the last watch of the night, SHAKIR: Surely We sent upon them a stonestorm, except Lut's followers; We saved them a little before daybreak, 054.035 YUSUFALI: As a Grace from Us: thus do We reward those who give thanks. PICKTHAL: As grace from Us. Thus We reward him who giveth thanks. SHAKIR: A favor from Us; thus do We reward him who gives thanks. 054.036 YUSUFALI: And (Lut) did warn them of Our Punishment, but they disputed about the Warning. PICKTHAL: And he indeed had warned them of Our blow, but they did doubt the warnings. SHAKIR: And certainly he warned them of Our violent seizure, but they obstinately disputed th
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] NEW ZIONAZI CHEMICAL WEAPON AMPUTATES VICTIMS WITH MICRO SHRAPNEL
NEW ZIONAZI CHEMICAL WEAPON AMPUTATES VICTIMS WITH MICRO SHRAPNEL Israel's lab in Palestine Mel Frykberg Al-Ahram Weekly 26 April - 2 May 2007 Issue No. 842 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/842/re3.htm Disturbing reports allege that Israel is using Gaza as a field to experiment its new lethal weapons, reports Mel Frykberg Doctors in Gaza have been reporting strange wounds on the bodies of innocent bystanders and those targeted by drones. These wounds consist of many small holes, often invisible to X-rays, and burns caused by heat so intense that many cases have required amputation because of the extensive burning. Habas Al-Wahid, head of the emergency centre at the Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza city told the journalists that the legs of the injured were sliced from their bodies "as if a saw was used to cut through the bone." But there was no evidence of ordinary metal shrapnel in or near the wounds. At Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Juma Saka said that on examination of the wounds, the doctors had found a powder on the victim's bodies and in their internal organs. Afterwards they removed the microscopic particles which turned out to be carbon and tungsten. "The powder was like microscopic shrapnel, and this is likely what caused the injuries," Saka said. Complicating the issue was the death of many patients several days afterwards, although they appeared to recover initially. Accusations that Israel is using Gaza and its inhabitants as a laboratory to test new military weapons, have been made from several quarters. "We don't know what it means -- new weapons or something added to a previous weapon," said Saied Joudda, deputy director at the Kamal Odwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. To back up their personal experiences, a group of doctors compiled extensive documentary evidence of the extent of the wounds, which occurred specifically in the legs. In other parts of the body, metallic fragments, bigger than the size of the small wounds, were found. "In our opinion, Israel has also used chemical weapons, such as numerous cases demonstrate, documented cases, with persons having extremely serious burns to their internal organs in the absence of external wounds," said Mouawia, a cardio-vascular surgeon and director-general of emergency services in Gaza. An investigating team of Italian journalists produced a documentary on Italian state television's satellite channel, RAI News 24, alleging that Israel used dense inert metal explosives (DIME) against Palestinian targets in July and August of last year. This followed journalists taking samples of the microscopic explosives from Gaza and having them tested in a laboratory in Italy. Carmela Vaccaio, a doctor at the University of Parma, examined samples sent by the Italian reporters from the Gaza Strip and found a high concentration of carbon, as well as copper, aluminium and tungsten, which she considered to be unusual materials. In her report she concluded, "these findings could be in line with the hypothesis that the weapon in question is DIME. The same investigating team also exposed the US military's use of white phosphorus against civilians during attacks on Falluja in Iraq. Similar accusations were made against Israel during the Lebanon war, when the Jewish state originally denied using phosphorous against Lebanese civilians. But several days later, following the explosive allegations of the Italian journalists and with overwhelming evidence, Israeli cabinet minister, Jacob Edery confirmed that the Israeli military had in fact made use of phosphorous shells. Israel is accused of dropping more than a million cluster bombs in the south of Lebanon just a few days before the ceasefire. Since then there have been several Lebanese deaths on a daily basis after people accidentally trod on unexploded shells. According to military experts, DIME is a carbon-encased missile that shatters on impact into minuscule splinters, at the same time setting off an explosive that shoots blades of energy-charged, heavy metal tungsten alloy (HMTA) powder, such as cobalt and nickel or iron, with a carbon fibre casing. It turns to dust on impact, as it loses inertia very quickly due to air resistance, burning and destroying through a very precise angulation everything within a four-metre range, as opposed to the shrapnel which results from the fragmentation of a metal casing. The designation of the metal as "inert" is due to the metal's non-involvement in the blast, rather than the metal being chemically or biologically inert. This technology is one of a new range of "low collateral damage" or LCD weapons designed to minimise the damage to nearby property, by confining its increased lethal effects to a restricted space. So it is "ideal for densely populated areas" and "helping the warfighter to prevent the loss of public support," according to its enthusiastic proponents. Israeli military spokesmen have refused to acknowledge or deny the use of DIM
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SHAHEED WALEED SHAALAN
SHAHEED WALEED SHAALAN Assalamu aleikum. Innaa lillaahi wa inna ilayhi raaji'uun (from Allah we all come and to Him is our return). " ... if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind." (Al-Maidah - 5:32) May Allah (S.W.T.) raise the shaheed Waleed Shaalan to a choice place in Jannah, near to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.). Ameen. Please note that 2 articles follow: *Waleed Shaalan *How Waleed Shaalan saves a classmate's life --- (1) Waleed Shaalan New York Times April 17, 2007 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/waleed_shaalan/index.html Did you know Waleed Shaalan? Share your thoughts and memories. http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/waleed-shaalan/#comments MSA National Memorial Fund for His Family http://www.msanational.org/finance/vt07donate.html Memorial Site Created by Friends (Registration Required) http://mcgill.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2362356308&ref=mf Waleed Shaalan, a 32-year-old graduate student, came to the United States from northern Egypt last year to study engineering. He lived among other Egyptian students in Blacksburg, Va., and was planning on bringing his wife and one-and-a-half-year-old son to America in May to live with him. He was gunned down on Monday while he was studying in Norris Hall, but witnesses say he died a hero. According to Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, Mr. Shaalan was in a classroom with another student when the gunman entered and opened fire. Mr. Shaalan was badly wounded and lay beside the other student, who was not shot but played dead, as the gunman returned two times searching for signs of life. Just as the gunman noticed the student, Mr. Shaalan made a move to distract him, at which point he was shot a second time and died. The student believed that Mr. Shaalan purposefully distracted the shooter to save him, Mr. Dymond said. "Waleed was bright, energetic and caring," Mr. Dymond said. "The reason we are in higher education is because there are students who are the bright light to the future. Waleed was one of them." Equally social and studious, Mr. Shaalan was active in the Muslim Student Association at Virginia Tech, and he especially enjoyed participating in the group's community activities. The Egyptian Consul has notified Mr.Shalaan's wife and parents, all of who live in Egypt. Mr. Shaalan's body will be flown back to his country in the near future, the vice consul, Mohamed Elghazawy, said. "This is a very emotional time for his entire family, but especially his mother and father," Mr. Elghazawy said. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/waleed_shaalan/index.html --- (2) For Immediate Release: How Waleed Shaalan saves a classmate's life The Muslim Student Association of Virginia Tech http://www.msavt.org/main/default.asp Story is narrated by Dr. Hesham Rakha, a professor in the Civil Engineering Department. At this time, we DO NOT have the name of Waleed's classmate who survived. "I would like to share with you some additional information that I received from a colleague in the CEE Dept. This colleague of mine is the supervisor of a graduate student who was with Waleed in the class and survived the massacre. I should mention that the description is graphical so I apologize in advance. The student mentions that Waleed saved his life and wants to convey this to Waleed's family. Apparently, the murderer came into Norris 206 and shot Dr. Loganathan and a number of students injuring Waleed. Waleed was sitting in the front row where he always sat. Everyone jumped to the floor after hearing the gun shots including the person narrating the story. The murderer then left Norris 206 to go to another classroom. The student that narrates the story was not shot but pretended to be dead and lay on the ground beside Waleed who at that time was only injured. The murderer then re-entered the classroom and was checking for alive victims. He had approached the person narrating the story who mentions that his heart was pounding out of fear. Waleed at that instant made a movement to distract the murderer's attention and was shot for the second time. At that time Waleed died and the murderer left the narrator to search for other victims." To Allah we belong and to Allah we will return. We ask Allah to forgive Waleed and all of his sins and grant him paradise. For Immediate Release: Brother Waleed Shaalan, a victim of the Virginia tech shootings. Waleed Shaalan, 32 years old, first stepped onto the Virginia Tech campus in August 2006. An international student originally from Zagazig, Egypt, with no family members in the United States, Waleed quickly became an essential member of the Blacksburg Muslim community. Among those mourning his death are his two roommates (Fahad Pasha and Irfan Waseem) to whom Waleed was their loving older brother, cook, academic and spiritual mentor. Waleed initially began his PhD program in Egyp
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] OPEN LETTER TO MEDIA HYPOCRITES FROM ISLAMIC COMMUNITY NET
OPEN LETTER TO MEDIA HYPOCRITES FROM ISLAMIC COMMUNITY NET Assalamu aleikum. Local Virginia news media: "gunman" Associated Press: "gunman" Reuters: "gunman" AFP: "shooter" Fox: "shooter" Dajjal Bush: "horrified" at "shooting" These are the terms dajjal Bush and his corporate media hacks are deploying for the maniac (or maniacs, there is some suggestion that at least two are involved) who today massacred at least 22 students at Virginia Tech University - and wounded at least 20 more. Search through all the articles below and you will find one term that is definitely missing: "TERRORIST". And even though the TERRORIST massacred over twenty people in a bloody college massacre of historic proportion, he won't actually be called a "TERRORIST" - not unless and until he (or they) turns out [may Allah (S.W.T.) forbid it] to be a Muslim. In that latter case, of course, he (or they) will THEN be called a "TERRORIST". Because according to the supine corporate media that subserves the regime of dajjal Bush, we Muslims are the only "TERRORISTS". No one else is, no matter how many they massacre, no matter how horrific the circumstances. Now, it's true that most TERRORISTS don't strike at college campuses. So, here's a clue to the corporate media hypocrites from Islamic Community Net about where to find TERRORISTS: http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/images/suspected-terrorist-button.jpg Please note that 5 articles follow: *22 dead in VT shootings (Virginia Daily Press hypocrites) *Gunman Kills 21 at Virginia Tech (Associated Press hypocrites) *At least 20 killed in Virginia Tech shooting: official (Reuters hypocrites) *Shooting on US campus leaves multiple victims (AFP hypocrites) *Police: At Least 21 Dead After Virginia Tech University Shooting (Fox hypocrites) --- (1) 22 dead in VT shootings VIDEO: Gunman dead after shootings at Ambler Johnston, Norris Hall BY MIKE HOLTZCLAW (757) 928-6479 April 16, 2007 http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-sou--virginiatechshoo0416apr16,0,97940.story?coll=dp-widget-news At least 22 Virginia Tech students are dead and many others have been injured in a pair of campus shootings this morning. Initial reports said there was only one fatality, but at a noon news conference campus officials announced that there were more than 20, and more than two dozen others injured. At the news conference, the officials also said the gunman himself was dead, though earlier reports had him in police custody. In TV news reports, witnesses described the gunman as a young Asian man. At least one local student, Denbigh Baptist graduate Matt Webster, was among those shot. According to family friends, Webster was shot in the arm while attending a class. The extent of his injuries was not known, but they are reportedly not life-threatening. The assaults took place in the West Amblin Johnston Hall dormitory and the Norris Hall classroom building. None of the victims or suspects has been identified by police. "Police have one shooter in custody, and as part of routine police procedure they continue to search for a second shooter," the university said in a written statement. The first shooting occurred at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a co-ed dormitory with 895 students. The second shooting was at Norris Hall a short time later. Steve Mehr, a Virginia Tech freshman from Tabb High School, said he knew something was wrong before he heard about the shooting. "I was walking home from my 9 o'clock class and hearing sirens everywhere," he said. "I had no idea what it was about, but people were running to their dorms and the buildings were locked down, so you had to have your key card to get in If that's happening, you know something's going on." Mehr described the campus as being in "a very hectic state." He said he has a friend on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston Hall, where the first shooting took place. As he spoke by phone from his fifth-floor dorm room in Pritchard Hall, he looked out the window and described heavily armed police officers on the grounds. At one point, he said he heard gunfire -- "a lot of gunfire" -- but he later said the officers appeared to be checking the area. Brenden Hill of Newport News, who graduated from Virginia Tech in December and still lives just off campus, was still waiting for more information on the shootings, which prompted university officials to lock down the campus. "The weather has been so bad out here that I don't know if a lot of students were out in the first place," Hill said. "The weird thing is that we've had some bomb threats the last couple of weeks, and everybody is a little frustrated with the Blacksburg Police Department. The campus police is usually pretty good about getting information out to us, but there's very limited information being distributed on this thing today." On Friday, a bomb threat on campus forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, and earlier this month the Torgerson Hall dormitory was evacuated after a b
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] HONESTY HAS A NAME: HELENA INDEPENDENT RECORD
HONESTY HAS A NAME: HELENA INDEPENDENT RECORD Assalamu aleikum. Of all the media in the United States, the only one with honesty to clearly mark yesterday's Virginia Tech slaughter as an act of terror is the Helena Independent Record of Montana. News editors usually retitle articles that are sent them by the major news services. While reprinting the Associated Press article by Adam Geller (below) the editor of the Helena Independent Record retitled the article as "Terror has a name: Cho Seung-Hui". So far, of all the thousands of corporate news outlets this is the only editor with the gumption to characterize the situation as it really is. --- - cartoon: Virginia Tech rampage (by Latuff) http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/04/17/virginiatechrampage.jpg - Terror has a name: Cho Seung-Hui By ADAM GELLER Associated Press via Helena Independent Record April 17, 2007 http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/04/17/national_top/000ashoot.txt BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university said Tuesday. Ballistics tests also show that one of the guns inside that building was used in another shooting two hours earlier, at a dorm, Virginia State Police said. Police identified the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior from South Korea who was in the English department at Virginia Tech and lived on campus. "It's certainly reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases," but authorities haven't made the link for sure, said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police. A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol. http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/04/17/national_top/000ashoot.txt
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] PORTENT: FOR 50 WOMEN THERE WILL BE ONLY 1 MAN
PORTENT: FOR 50 WOMEN THERE WILL BE ONLY 1 MAN Hadith: Narrated Anas: I will narrate to you a narration which nobody will narrate to you after me. I heard that from the Prophet. I heard the Prophet saying, "The Hour will not be established" or said: "From among the portents of the Hour is that the religious knowledge will be taken away (by the death of religious Scholars) and general ignorance (of religion) will appear; and the drinking of alcoholic drinks will be very common, and (open) illegal sexual intercourse will prevail, and men will decrease in number while women will increase so much so that, for fifty women there will only be one man to look after them." source: Punishment of Disbelievers at War with Allah and His Apostle Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 82: Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 82, Number 800i: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/082.sbt.html --- The prospect of all-female conception By Steve Connor, Science Editor Independent (UK) 13 April 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article262.ece Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from male bone-marrow tissue. The researchers said they had already produced early sperm cells from bone-marrow tissue taken from men. They believe the findings show that it may be possible to restore fertility to men who cannot naturally produce their own sperm. But the results also raise the prospect of being able to take bone-marrow tissue from women and coaxing the stem cells within the female tissue to develop into sperm cells, said Professor Karim Nayernia of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Creating sperm from women would mean they would only be able to produce daughters because the Y chromosome of male sperm would still be needed to produce sons. The latest research brings the prospect of female-only conception a step closer. "Theoretically is it possible," Professor Nayernia said. "The problem is whether the sperm cells are functional or not. I don't think there is an ethical barrier, so long as it's safe. We are in the process of applying for ethical approval. We are preparing now to apply to use the existing bone marrow stem cell bank here in Newcastle. We need permission from the patient who supplied the bone marrow, the ethics committee and the hospital itself." If sperm cells can be developed from female bone-marrow tissue they will be matured in the laboratory and tested for their ability to penetrate the outer "shell" of a hamster's egg - a standard fertility test for sperm. "We want to test the functionality of any male and female sperm that is made by this way," Professor Nayernia said. But he said there was no intention at this stage to produce female sperm that would be used to fertilise a human egg, a move that would require the approval of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. The immediate aim is to see if female bone marrow can be lured into developing into the stem cells that can make sperm cells. The ultimate aim is to discover if these secondary stem cells can then be made into other useful tissues of the body, he said. The latest findings, published in the journal Reproduction: Gamete Biology, show that male bone marrow can be used to make the early "spermatagonial" stem cells that normally mature into fully developed sperm cells. "Our next goal is to see if we can get the spermatagonial stem cells to progress to mature sperm in the laboratory and this should take around three to five years of experiments," Professor Nayernia said. Last year, Professor Nayernia led scientists at the University of Gottingen in Germany who became the first to produce viable artificial sperm from mouse embryonic stem cells, which were used to produce seven live offspring. His latest work on stem cells derived from human bone marrow suggests that it could be possible to develop the techniques to help men who cannot produce their own sperm naturally. "We're very excited about this discovery, particularly as our earlier work in mice suggests that we could develop this work even further," Professor Nayernia said. Whether the scientists will ever be able to develop the techniques to help real patients - male or female - will depend on future legislation that the Government is preparing as a replacement to the existing Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. A White Paper on genetics suggested that artificial gametes produced from the ordinary "somatic" tissue of the body may be banned from being used to fertilise human eggs by in vitro fertilisation. Making babies without men - a literary view LYSISTRATA Aristophanes (c. 411BC) After 21
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: Islamism Digest, Volume II : Issue III, March 2007
Assalamu aleikum. Please beware of the "Islamism Digest". Mahan Abedin was born in Iran but raised and educated in the United Kingdom. He is a regular contributor to Daniel Pipe's "Middle East Intelligence Bulletin" and for several years was editor of the CIA-founded Jamestown Foundation's "Terrorism Monitor". Mahan Abedin is now the "director of research" at the "Centre for the Study of Terrorism" Daniel Pipe's "Middle East Intelligence Bulletin" is organized by an outfit called the "United States Committee for a Free Lebanon" (USCFL). >From the USCFL mission statement: "... to educate the American public as to Lebanon's strategic and moral significance as an ally of the United States and an outpost of Western values in the Middle East." http://www.freelebanon.org/mission-f.htm The neocon Jamestown Foundation is briefly profiled at: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1507 It should be noted that Dick Cheney is a former member of the Jamestown Foundations's board of directors. Then-CIA Director William J. Casey was the backer behind the Jamestown Foundation's origin. --- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Islahonline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I am attaching the mailshot for the March 2007 edition of Islamism Digest, > the core publication of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism. This edition > carries a major research article on Islamism in the United Arab Emirates. > The paper is based on 50 interviews with Islamic activists in the Emirates. > > Sincerely, > Mahan Abedin > Director of Research > > Centre for the Study of Terrorism > Suite 607 Crown House > North Circular Road > NW10 7PN, London-UK > > > > > > > *** > > > > Islahonline >
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MR. BEAN'S HOLIDAY ENDS IN TEARS
MR. BEAN'S HOLIDAY ENDS IN TEARS Assalamu aleikum. Naval minions of the New World Order are always very "courageous" when it comes to launching ship-based cruise missiles on civilian targets hundreds of miles away - but they blubber like crybabies if someone calls them a name. The following should be disseminated as an inspiration worldwide to all mujahideen so that they know the true cowardice of the christian foe. - photo: Mr. Bean's Holiday http://thecia.com.au/reviews/b/images/bean-2-poster-0.jpg - --- About-turn on sailors' stories (EXCERPT) Julia May, London The Age (Australia) April 11, 2007 http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/aboutturn-on-sailors-stories/2007/04/10/1175971097962.html . . . photo: Sailor Arthur Batchelor with a family member at the Royal Marine base at Chivenor shows the relief of his release from Iran. Photo: AP http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/10/1104W_UK_SAILORS_wideweb__470x282,0.jpg . . . Operator mechanic Arthur Batchelor, 20, told the Daily Mirror that he had "cried like a baby" and had been mocked by his Iranian captors for looking like the British comedy character Mr Bean. http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/aboutturn-on-sailors-stories/2007/04/10/1175971097962.html --- Altogether now ... AWWW! POOR BABY!
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] VIDEO: DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED
VIDEO: DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=341600202419569830&hl=en - Deir Yassin Remembered deiryassin.org 25 March 2007 http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage. Part of the struggle for self-determination by Palestinians has been to tell the truth about Palestinians as victims of Zionism. For too long their history has been denied, and this denial has only served to further oppress and deliberately dehumanize Palestinians in Israel, inside the occupied territories, and outside in their diaspora. Some progress has been made. Westerners now realize that Palestinians, as a people, do exist. And they have come to acknowledge that during the creation of the state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries. Deir Yassin Remembered seeks similar progress on behalf of the victims of the Deir Yassin Massacre http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] TRAITORS MUSHARRAF AND BHUTTO COMPETE FOR DAJJAL BUSH'S APPROVAL
TRAITORS MUSHARRAF AND BHUTTO COMPETE FOR DAJJAL BUSH'S APPROVAL As Musharraf's woes grow, enter an old rival, again By Somini Sengupta International Herald Tribune Friday, April 6, 2007 http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=5170824 NEW DELHI: As the Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, wrestles with swelling public disaffection over his rule, one of his key political rivals, Benazir Bhutto, has embarked on an international campaign to revive her political standing. In recent weeks, Bhutto, 53, a former prime minister and the leader of the Pakistan People's Party who has lived in exile since 1999, has stepped up her criticism of the Taliban who operate in the remote regions of the country. She has sought to marginalize Islamist political parties from an opposition party alliance that has emerged in anticipation of elections later this year. Seeking to assure Washington that she would be a staunch ally, she has suggested that as an elected leader, she would be more credible in selling antiterrorism efforts to the public than Musharraf, who has been criticized by Washington for a mixed record in combating the Taliban and Al Qaeda within Pakistan's borders. She has even brought her campaign here, to the capital of her nation's archrival: India. "I don't think our present regime has been able to dissociate my country's name with terrorism, and I believe a popular democratic government can," she said at a dinner attended by members of the Indian political and corporate elite here in the India's capital on a Saturday night in late March. In Washington, Bhutto has hired a lobbying firm to help sell that same message. In March, she wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post directed at the Washington establishment. In February, she spoke to the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Bhutto has lived in self-imposed exile as a result of a long litany of corruption charges that still hound her. Today she divides her time between London and Dubai, and appears ever more intent on preparing the ground for a return to Pakistan, though many obstacles remain. "Her strategy seems to be to try and persuade the international community that changes in the way Pakistan is governed changes that would eventually favor her are also good for the war against terror," said Husain Haqqani, a former adviser to Bhutto who is now director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University. For now at least, it seems unlikely that the Bush administration will heed Bhutto's argument. The White House remains committed to Musharraf, even through the latest protests against his administration protests that began ostensibly against his suspension of the chief justice, but have since come to represent growing frustration against military rule. Analysts in Washington and Islamabad point out that the White House remains skeptical of Bhutto's capacity, questioning her authority over Pakistan's military and intelligence services and troubled by charges that she and her husband illegally gained millions of dollars in deals with people who did business with the government when she was in power. (She successfully fought two money laundering cases in Pakistan, though she continues to face charges in a separate case in a court in Switzerland.) "I'm not sure if there's any amount of charm or orchestration on Benazir's part that will change this," Craig Cohen, deputy chief of staff at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said in an e-mail message. "Something major would have to happen in Pakistan for the Bush administration to give up on Musharraf." More to the point, Cohen said, there is little reason to believe that having Bhutto at the helm would fundamentally alter the hold of the military and the intelligence services on the state machinery. "Even after free elections, the military will still call the shots on national security issues," he said. "Firing the manager only gets you so far." How the Democrats in Washington will respond to Musharraf in the coming months is also uncertain. One hint came in early March, when four members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including its chairman, Joseph Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware and a candidate for president, wrote to the general, warning that without the return of the two key opposition leaders, Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, "it will be difficult for the international community to regard the 2007 elections as a true expression of democracy." Sharif's government was ousted by Musharraf during a coup in 1999. He was eventually pardoned and exiled to Saudi Arabia. Neither he nor Bhutto was permitted to take part in the last elections, in 2002. On occasion, Musharraf has said that Bhutto could return, if she were willing to face corruption charges. In a step that added to speculation that a deal on her return might be in the works, the government said Wednesday that it was abolishing the federal division that had been inves
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] COWARD OF OZ BANS BILAL PHILIPS AND YVONNE RIDLEY
COWARD OF OZ BANS BILAL PHILIPS AND YVONNE RIDLEY Assalamu aleikum. The first article below falsely claims that Bilal Philips "has been linked to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York." "Links" (i.e., McCarthyite "guilt by association") cannot be used as the basis for any legal decision. For more details about McCarthyism, see article "McCarthyism" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism The name of Bilal Philips, along with 171 others, was included in a classic McCarthyite "guilt by association" list set up by a US attorney. Not surprisingly, none of the people on the list were ever proved to have anything to do with the 1993 bombing. Please note that 2 articles follow: *Kick out British Muslim convert, says Labor *Muslim group rejects visa ban on sheikh --- (1) Kick out British Muslim convert, says Labor By staff reporters and wires April 05, 2007 NEWS.com.au with AAP - photo: A threat? ... Labor says British journalist and Muslim convert Yvonne Ridley should be kicked out of Australia if reports she has praised suicide bombers are accurate / Supplied http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5440084,00.jpg - BRITISH journalist and Muslim convert Yvonne Ridley should not be allowed into Australia if reports that she has praised suicide bombers are verified, Labor says. Ridley, who was a senior reporter for Britian's Sunday Express, converted to Islam three years after she was captured by the Taliban while on an undercover assignment for the newspaper in 2001. Her ordeal, in which she was imprisoned and interrogated by the Taliban, made headlines worldwide. Her own website says she is well-known for her outspoken views and defence of Islam. Sister Yvonne, as she is known now, also describes radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri as "quite sweet really" and says the Taliban have suffered an unfair press. Ridley is to be a speaker at the first annual Australian Islamic Conference in Melbourne this weekend. Opposition immigration spokesman Tony Burke said Ridley had praised the Chechen leader of the Beslan school massacre, Shamil Basayev, as a martyr and urged Muslims in Britain not to co-operate with police. She is also alleged to have described suicide bombings as "martyrdom operations". Mr Burke said the Government should have the comments investigated and kick Ridley out of the country if necessary. "If the quotes are accurate, her visa should be cancelled immediately," Mr Burke said. He questioned how Ms Ridley could have passed the character test required for a visa. Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said Ridley had been allowed to enter Australia because there was nothing to suggest she was a security risk. "In the case of Ms Ridley, she was judged not to be a threat to the national security of Australia," Mr Andrews said on ABC radio. "There is a vast distinction between allowing somebody into Australia whose views you may not like, and somebody who is a threat to national security." The immigration department decided this week not to allow another controversial figure, Sheik Bilal Philips, into Australia. Sheik Philips, who was to be the keynote speaker at the conference, has been linked to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21509985-1702,00.html --- (2) Muslim group rejects visa ban on sheikh Wednesday, 4 April 2007 ABC (Australia) http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200704/1889980.htm?melbourne Kevin Andrews maintains the sheikh is a national security risk. (File photo)ABC TV The Islamic community has questioned the Government's ban on Canadian Sheikh Bilal Philips, who was to speak at the first Australian Islamic Conference. Sheikh Philips was invited to attend the Melbourne event over the Easter weekend but his visa application has been refused on security grounds. The president of the Federation of Australian Muslim Students, Chaaban Omran, says the sheikh does not promote terrorism and the ban on him is unjustified. "He has written a number of very good books to do with Islam about character et cetera ... and it just seems ludicrous that you ban an individual but you don't actually ban his books," Mr Omran said. But Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews maintains the sheikh is a risk to national security. "This gentleman has a long history in relation to support for extremist Islamic positions and the security authorities, based on that and other evidence that they have available to them, made the assessment." http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200704/1889980.htm?melbourne
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] OH, SNAP!
OH, SNAP! Assalamu aleikum. For years we've been bombarded with propaganda denouncing the Darfur genocide of the Sudanese blacks by Sudanese Arabs. First, the propaganda lies: "The actions of President Bashir can only be rationally explained by the inference that he shared the specific intent to eliminate the targeted group by reason of its ethnic identity. Regardless of other possible motives or collateral benefits that the regime might have perceived, the policy of the regime, when stripped to its essentials is chillingly clear President Bashir supported attacks directed at the civilian population on a widespread and systematic basis and the evidence shows that his overarching policy was intended to eliminate non-Arab population of Darfur in whole or in part. The concerted use of governmental power to destroy all or part of the targeted group is a fundamental abdication of the central purpose of government itself. Hence, President Bashir is criminally liable for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity on both a moral and legal basis." "THE [self-appointed] INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS' TRIBUNAL FOR SUDAN" http://www.judgmentongenocide.com/judgmentnewton.html --- "his overarching policy was intended to eliminate non-Arab population of Darfur in whole or in part." --- In this struggle of Sudanese Arabs versus Sudanese blacks, the racist Arab Omar al-Bashir intends to "eliminate the non-Arab population". Yeah, that's right. Now see these: Official US Government State Department photo of the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir http://www.state.gov/cms_images/2005_1110_zoellick_sudan_600.jpg BBC photo of Omar al-Bashir http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/8/images/_84927_general_omar_al_bashir_150.jpg Voice of America photo of Omar al-Bashir http://www.voanews.com/english/images/ap_Omar_al-Bashir_sudan_195_eng_14sep06_0.jpg --- Islamic Community Net says: http://www.hhv.de/images/stuff/36098_02.jpg
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH'S DEATH SQUADS IN IRAQ
DAJJAL BUSH'S DEATH SQUADS IN IRAQ Silence of the Lambs? Proof of US orchestration of Death Squads Killings in Iraq A Cry to Raise Our Voices! by Max Fuller Global Research, March 14, 2007 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070314&articleId=5081 Testimony of Iraqi torture victim confirms the presence of US personnel at the infamous Jadiriyah bunker Probably everyone remembers the discovery of the Jadiriyah detention facility in November 2005. US troops were reported to have uncovered the prison in their hunt for a missing person, only to discover some 170 detainees in horrific conditions, many of them clearly the victims of obscene tortures. Although it was admitted that the facility belonged to the interior ministry and that the detainees were held by a secretive interior ministry force known as the Special Investigations Unit, the story was quickly shuffled away as yet another example of the work of Shiite militiamen, in this instance, as was the vogue at that time, the Badr Brigade[i]. Myriad promises were forthcoming both from the US and Iraqi governments that investigations would be rapidly carried out and better supervision would in future be applied to Iraqi-run detention facilities (for instance the Iraqi government assured the world that a ministerial level investigation would rapidly be carried out, while US officials promised a legal team to go through the detainees' files and a US embassy spokesman stated that Justice Department and FBI officers would provide technical assistance). Of course, given the scale of the abuse (flayings, burnings, drillings etc) and the proximity of the perpetrators to the Iraqi government (by dint of working for the Interior Ministry as well as by any possible Badr-SCIRI links) and to the US occupation which had, after all, established them (as numerous reports have amply documented, eg Knight Ridder, 9 May 2005), such investigations were grossly less than what was urgently required a full and public criminal investigation by independent international agencies. In the event, even these limited promises came to nothing, as the UN Human Rights Office in Iraq recently highlighted. What we have actually seen is neither investigation nor prosecutions, despite the fact that Jadiriyah lies at the heart of the state of fear that Iraq undeniably now is. In October last year I had the privilege to interview one of the victims of that terrible abuse, the distinguished former Professor of Pedagogy at Baghdad University Tareq Samarree, who had been seized from his home in March 2005 by plain-clothed interior ministry personnel without charge. Professor Samarree, who provided a horrific first-hand account of the torture that he had suffered as well as details of others who had died and of the disappearance of his son within the Iraqi detention system, never had sight of any hint of judicial process nor any access to the outside world. What made Professor Samarree's story most striking were the details of his release. Professor Samarree's physical condition was so bad when the American soldiers discovered the facility that he, along with around a dozen other detainees, was instantly taken to a local hospital. Here, he and his companions remained without access to lawyers, journalists, officials or even a telephone. In fact, it quickly became clear that these victims of torture were to be returned to Iraqi detention. Professor Samarree, another of whose sons lives in the United States, was fortunate to be able to persuade an American solider to take pity on him and assist him and two of his companions to escape. The last words the soldier said to Professor Samarree were `Run, run. Don't look back!' Within days Professor Samarree had arranged for himself and his family to flee the country. He is now in Europe, where he is claiming political asylum. The full details of Professor Samarree's story and a detailed account of the US-built Iraqi intelligence apparatus are contained in the article Ghosts of Jadiriyah, published by the BRussells Tribunal. It should be noted that the story was offered on the one-year anniversary of discovery of the Jadiryah facility to a range of mainstream media publications, including New Yorker, New Statesman, the Independent, The Big Issue, as well as to the radical left publication Z Mag. Of them all, only the New Statesmen and Z Mag were courteous enough even to reply to affirm their rejection. It seemed that Professor Samarree's remarkable story and any further interest in Jadiriyah were simply off the agenda. But Jadiriyah, with its ghosts and its horror, will not go away. On 7 February 2007 another former inmate from Jadiriyah, Abbas Z Abid, presented his sworn testimony at the international peace conference in Kuala Lumpur. Like Professor Samarree's, his description of the torture that he and others underwent is almost too harrowing to bear. What sets his testimony apart and completes our understanding of the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] 9/11 FIREFIGHTERS CONDEMN GHOULIANI
9/11 FIREFIGHTERS CONDEMN GHOULIANI Assalamu aleikum. In addition to the crimes of Ghouliani listed by 9/11 firefighters below, Ghouliani is best remembered by Muslims for his racial scapegoating and as the defender of the 1999 police martyrdom of Amadou Diallo on his doorstep in a hail of 41 bullets. --- Firefighters Union Letter On Rudy Giuliani IAFF Fire Fighting News March 8, 2007 http://www.firefightingnews.com/article-US.cfm?articleID=27125 On March 14, 2007, the IAFF will host the first bi-partisan Presidential Forum of the 2008 election cycle. No other union and very few organizations has the credibility and respect to attract top-tier candidates from both political parties. The lineup of speakers who have agreed to participate in our Forum is truly a testament to our great union and the reputation we have built as a powerful political force and a coveted endorsement. John Edwards, John McCain, Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Duncan Hunter and seven other candidates will make their case before the 1,000 delegates who will be attending the Forum and to our entire membership via same-day broadcast on our web site. Early on, the IAFF made a decision to invite all serious candidates from both political parties except one: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. We made this decision after considerable soul-searching and close consultation with our two New York City affiliates, the Uniformed Firefighters Association Local 94 and the Uniformed Fire Officers Association Local 854, as well as our former Local 94 President and current IAFF 1st District Vice President covering New York. The IAFF recognizes that Mayor Giuliani generally enjoys a favorable reputation as a result of his actions immediately after the tragedy of 9/11. As such, we want our affiliates and every one of our members to clearly understand the reason and rationale behind this very serious and sober decision. Many people consider Rudy Giuliani "America's Mayor," and many of our members who don't yet know the real story, may also have a positive view of him. This letter is intended to make all of our members aware of the egregious acts Mayor Giuliani committed against our members, our fallen on 9/11, and our New York City union officers following that horrific day. Rest assured, our exclusion of Mayor Giuliani is not about any particular contractual or policy issue or disagreement, nor is it based on his unfriendly relationship with our New York City affiliates prior to 9/11 which we will document and explain in additional correspondence later on during the campaign. In fact, we invited several candidates with whom we have had substantial disagreement on policy issues because we feel very strongly that our members have the right to hear from all candidates, not just those who tow the IAFF line. Regrettably, the situation with former Mayor Giuliani is very different. His actions post 9/11 rise to such an offensive and personal attack on our brother and sisterhood and directly on our union that the IAFF does not feel Rudy Giuliani deserves an audience of IAFF leaders and members at our own Presidential Forum. The disrespect that he exhibited to our 343 fallen FDNY brothers, their families and our New York City IAFF leadership in the wake of that tragic day has not been forgiven or forgotten. In November 2001, our members were continuing the painful, but necessary, task of searching Ground Zero for the remains of our fallen brothers and the thousands of innocent citizens that were killed, because precious few of those who died in the terrorist attacks had been recovered at that point. Prior to November 2001, 101 bodies or remains of fire fighters had been recovered. And those on the horrible pile at Ground Zero believed they had just found a spot in the rubble where they would find countless more that could be given proper burial. Nevertheless, Giuliani, with the full support of his Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, decided on November 2, 2001, to sharply reduce the number of those who could search for remains at any one time. There had been as many as 300 fire fighters at a time involved in search and recovery, but Giuliani cut that number to no more than 25 who could be there at once. In conjunction with the cut in fire fighters allowed to search, Giuliani also made a conscious decision to institute a "scoop-and-dump" operation to expedite the clean-up of Ground Zero in lieu of the more time-consuming, but respectful, process of removing debris piece by piece in hope of uncovering more remains. Mayor Giuliani's actions meant that fire fighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no closure for families, or be removed like garbage and deposited at the Fresh Kills Landfill. Our Local presidents at the time attempted to meet with the Mayor to stop this despicable treatment of those who perished, but he refused to even see them face-to-
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] TWO DAJJAL MASSACRES MARTYR 26 IN AFGHANISTAN
TWO DAJJAL MASSACRES MARTYR 26 IN AFGHANISTAN Assalamu aleikum. Innaa lillaahi wa inna ilayhi raaji'uun. Please note that 2 articles follow: *A NATO airstrike hit a house *16 Afghan civilians die in ambush --- (1) Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 5, 2007. A NATO airstrike hit a house during a firefight between Western troops and militants, killing nine Afghans who lived there, Afghan officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070305/481/rmx10203050857 --- (2) 16 Afghan civilians die in ambush By Rahim Faiez March 05 2007 at 07:48AM http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=vn20070305074047475C189397 Jalalabad - Sixteen Afghan civilians have died and 25 have been wounded in what a US military spokesperson says was a "complex" ambush in which a suicide car bomber and gunmen targeted a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan. Several Afghans who were wounded said they had been shot by American soldiers while fleeing the scene. It was not clear how many of the Afghan casualties had died or been wounded in the suicide blast and in the shooting. Also, the number of casualties given by Afghan officials was not as high as that given by the US-led coalition. A spokesperson for the US-led coalition said it was being investigated how many civilians died in the ambush and how many when its soldiers returned fire. But the Afghan interior ministry said the soldiers killed 10 civilians after the suicide blast, about 50km from here on the main road between Kabul and the border with Pakistan. A spokesperson for the US military said the suicide bomber hit the American convoy with an explosives-packed minivan and militants had opened fire from three directions. Coalition soldiers had returned fire, he said. A reporter saw about seven bullet-riddled vehicles, some of them smeared with blood. The US-led coalition said a coalition soldier had been wounded. Several hundred angry demonstrators gathered at the scene afterwards, blocking the road with rocks for several hours, and chanting "Death to America" and "Death to (President Hamid) Karzai", witnesses said. Mohammad Ishaq, 15, who was in the hospital here with two bullet wounds, said he and his father had pulled their vehicle over when they saw an American convoy approaching. "When we parked our vehicle, when they passed us, they opened fire on our vehicle," said Ishaq. He was wounded in the left arm and right ear. "It was a convoy of three American humvees. All three humvees were firing around," said Ishaq. Four of the dead were brought to the hospital here, its director, Ajmel Pardus, said. He said at least 22 people were injured. American soldiers at the scene deleted pictures taken by a freelance photographer working for Associated Press (AP) and video footage filmed by a freelancer working for AP Television News. Neither the photographer nor the cameraman had seen the suicide attack or the gunfire. It wasn't immediately known why the soldiers deleted the pictures and video footage and the US military did not comment on this. The American soldiers in the convoy are serving in the US-led coalition, not Nato's International Security Assistance Force. An official, who asked not to be named, said they were Marine special forces troops. Another coalition spokesperson, David Accetta, said the attack, carried out in a populated area, demonstrated the militants' "blatant disregard for human life". Nato officials have said repeatedly that suicide bombs aimed at international and Afghan forces claim the lives of far more civilians than soldiers. In a telephone call to AP, a man claiming to speak for Hezb-e-Islami, a group he said was linked with the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the bombing and identified the bomber as an Afghan named Haji Ihsanullah. Hezb-e-Islami is led by a renegade warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The purported spokesperson, who gave his name as Qari Sajjad, said the explosion "destroyed two vehicles, killing or injuring American soldiers". Sajjad said the attack was in revenge for "cruel acts" against Afghans by American soldiers. In southern Afghanistan on Saturday, two soldiers died in combat. Nato's International Security Assistance Force did not give their nationalities or say where the fighting took place. In London, the Ministry of Defence said the two soldiers were British and that they died in a rocket attack near the town of Sangin in Helmand province. This brought to 50 the number of British soldiers killed since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=vn20070305074047475C189397
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] TWO DAJJAL MASSACRES MARTYR 26 IN AFGHANISTAN
TWO DAJJAL MASSACRES MARTYR 26 IN AFGHANISTAN Assalamu aleikum. Innaa lillaahi wa inna ilayhi raaji'uun. Please note that 2 articles follow: *A NATO airstrike hit a house *16 Afghan civilians die in ambush --- (1) Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 5, 2007. A NATO airstrike hit a house during a firefight between Western troops and militants, killing nine Afghans who lived there, Afghan officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070305/481/rmx10203050857 --- (2) 16 Afghan civilians die in ambush By Rahim Faiez March 05 2007 at 07:48AM http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=vn20070305074047475C189397 Jalalabad - Sixteen Afghan civilians have died and 25 have been wounded in what a US military spokesperson says was a "complex" ambush in which a suicide car bomber and gunmen targeted a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan. Several Afghans who were wounded said they had been shot by American soldiers while fleeing the scene. It was not clear how many of the Afghan casualties had died or been wounded in the suicide blast and in the shooting. Also, the number of casualties given by Afghan officials was not as high as that given by the US-led coalition. A spokesperson for the US-led coalition said it was being investigated how many civilians died in the ambush and how many when its soldiers returned fire. But the Afghan interior ministry said the soldiers killed 10 civilians after the suicide blast, about 50km from here on the main road between Kabul and the border with Pakistan. A spokesperson for the US military said the suicide bomber hit the American convoy with an explosives-packed minivan and militants had opened fire from three directions. Coalition soldiers had returned fire, he said. A reporter saw about seven bullet-riddled vehicles, some of them smeared with blood. The US-led coalition said a coalition soldier had been wounded. Several hundred angry demonstrators gathered at the scene afterwards, blocking the road with rocks for several hours, and chanting "Death to America" and "Death to (President Hamid) Karzai", witnesses said. Mohammad Ishaq, 15, who was in the hospital here with two bullet wounds, said he and his father had pulled their vehicle over when they saw an American convoy approaching. "When we parked our vehicle, when they passed us, they opened fire on our vehicle," said Ishaq. He was wounded in the left arm and right ear. "It was a convoy of three American humvees. All three humvees were firing around," said Ishaq. Four of the dead were brought to the hospital here, its director, Ajmel Pardus, said. He said at least 22 people were injured. American soldiers at the scene deleted pictures taken by a freelance photographer working for Associated Press (AP) and video footage filmed by a freelancer working for AP Television News. Neither the photographer nor the cameraman had seen the suicide attack or the gunfire. It wasn't immediately known why the soldiers deleted the pictures and video footage and the US military did not comment on this. The American soldiers in the convoy are serving in the US-led coalition, not Nato's International Security Assistance Force. An official, who asked not to be named, said they were Marine special forces troops. Another coalition spokesperson, David Accetta, said the attack, carried out in a populated area, demonstrated the militants' "blatant disregard for human life". Nato officials have said repeatedly that suicide bombs aimed at international and Afghan forces claim the lives of far more civilians than soldiers. In a telephone call to AP, a man claiming to speak for Hezb-e-Islami, a group he said was linked with the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the bombing and identified the bomber as an Afghan named Haji Ihsanullah. Hezb-e-Islami is led by a renegade warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The purported spokesperson, who gave his name as Qari Sajjad, said the explosion "destroyed two vehicles, killing or injuring American soldiers". Sajjad said the attack was in revenge for "cruel acts" against Afghans by American soldiers. In southern Afghanistan on Saturday, two soldiers died in combat. Nato's International Security Assistance Force did not give their nationalities or say where the fighting took place. In London, the Ministry of Defence said the two soldiers were British and that they died in a rocket attack near the town of Sangin in Helmand province. This brought to 50 the number of British soldiers killed since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=vn20070305074047475C189397
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL APPROVES CANNIBAL RICE FRANKENFOOD
DAJJAL APPROVES CANNIBAL RICE FRANKENFOOD Human genes in your food? By SEAN POULTER 5th March 2007 Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=440302&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5 The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production. The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva. Its U.S. developers say they could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, a major killer in the Third World. The rice is a major step in so-called Frankenstein Foods, the first mingling of human-origin genes and those from plants. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has already signalled it plans to allow commercial cultivation. The rice's producers, California-based Ventria Bioscience, have been given preliminary approval to grow it on more than 3,000 acres in Kansas. The company plans to harvest the proteins and use them in drinks, desserts, yoghurts and muesli bars. The news provoked horror among GM critics and consumer groups on both sides of the Atlantic. GeneWatch UK, which monitors new GM foods, described it as "very disturbing". Researcher Becky Price warned: "There are huge, huge health risks and people should rightly be concerned about this." Friends of the Earth campaigner Clare Oxborrow said: "Using food crops and fields as glorified drug factories is a very worrying development. "If these pharmaceutical crops end up on consumers' plates, the consequences for our health could be devastating. "The biotech industry has already failed to prevent experimental GM rice contaminating the food chain. "The Government must urge the U.S. to ban the production of drugs in food crops. It must also introduce tough measures to prevent illegal GM crops contaminating our food and ensure that biotech companies are liable for any damage their products cause." In the U.S., the Union of Concerned Scientists, a policy advocacy group, warned: "It is unwise to produce drugs in plants outdoors. "There would be little control over the doses people might get exposed to, and some might be allergic to the proteins." The American Consumers Union and the Washingtonbased Centre for Food Safety also oppose Ventria's plans. As well as the contamination fears there are serious ethical concerns about such a fundamental interference with the building blocks of life. Yet there is no legal means for Britain and Europe to ban such products on ethical grounds. Imports would have to be accepted once they had gone through a scientific safety assessment. The development is what may people feared when, ten years ago, food scientists showed what was possible by inserting copies of fish genes from the flounder into tomatoes, to help them withstand frost. Ventria has produced three varieties of the rice, each with a different human-origin gene that makes the plants produce one of three human proteins. Two - lactoferrin and lysozyme - are bacteria-fighting compounds found in breast milk and saliva. The genes, cultivated and copied in a laboratory to produce a synthetic version, are carried into embryonic rice plants inside bacteria. Until now, plants with human-origin genes have been restricted to small test plots. Ventria originally planned to grow the rice in southern Missouri but the brewer Anheuser-Busch, a huge buyer of rice, threatened to boycott the state amid concern over contamination and consumer reaction. Now the USDA, saying the rice poses "virtually no risk". has given preliminary approval for it to be grown in Kansas, which has no commercial rice farms. Ventria will also use dedicated equipment, storage and processing facilities supposed to prevent seeds from mixing with other crops. The company says food products using the rice proteins could help save many of the two million children a year who die from diarrhoea and the resulting dehydration and complications. A recent study in Peru, sponsored by Ventria, showed that children with severe diarrhoea recovered a day and a half faster if the salty fluids they were prescribed included the proteins. The rice could also be a huge money-spinner in the Western world, with parents being told it will help their children get over unpleasant stomach bugs more quickly. Ventria chief executive Scott Deeter said last night: "We have a product here that can help children get better faster." He said any concerns about safety and contamination were "based on perception, not reality" given all the precautions the company was taking. Mr Deeter said production in plants was far cheaper than other methods, which should help make the therapy affordable in the developing world. He said: "Plants are phenomenal factories. Our raw materials are the sun, soil and water." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=440302&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] KENT STATE ISSUES STATEMENT ON JULIO PINO
KENT STATE ISSUES STATEMENT ON JULIO PINO Statement Regarding Associate Professor Julio Pino FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kent State University March 1, 2007 http://www.kent.edu/media/NewsReleases/StatementRegardingAssociateProfessorJulioPino.cfm Julio Pino, an associate professor of history at Kent State University, is being accused of authoring an anti-American Web site. This site has no connection to Kent State, and we object to having the university's name linked to it. When the issue came to our attention, we investigated the issue and found the following: n We have no evidence that this Web site is authored by Pino that is not his picture on the site, and it contains no reference to him or to Kent State. In any case, there is no connection between this site and the university. n No university servers or other resources have been used to create or maintain the site. n Further, there have been no complaints registered about Pino's classroom conduct or demeanor, by students or other instructors. n The opinions on the Web site do not represent the university. We do not speak for Pino nor defend any views he might have, and he does not speak for Kent State, his department or other faculty. n The university and Pino have been subjected to hate mail and threats, and we will continue to monitor the issue. n Regarding calls that Pino be summarily dismissed: As any employer, when deciding whether an employee should be terminated, we have a responsibility to follow proper processes as outlined by university procedures and protections under the law. The university has asked those blogs and other sources to refrain from writing or disseminating information that associates Kent State with this Web site. ### http://www.kent.edu/media/NewsReleases/StatementRegardingAssociateProfessorJulioPino.cfm
Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MALAYSIA DENIES MASJIDS TO MUSLIM CHINESE
Assalamu aleikum. It is good news that Kelantan is taking supportive action. Although on a national level it is probably only symbolic (see the numbers of Muslim Chinese in the top 3 states and KL below) insha'Allah it could be the initiative that begins the process elsewhere. Some additional information: Number of Malaysian Chinese Muslims by States: Selangor ranks No. 1 17,246 = 30% Sabah ranks No. 2 8,589 = 15% Kuala Lumpur ranks No. 3 7,991 = 14% Sarawak ranks No. 4 7,237 = 13% source: http://macma.bravepages.com/id12.html Contact telephone numbers for the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association are available at: source: http://macma.bravepages.com/id06.html For more about Malaysian Chinese Muslim issues: source: http://pub45.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=3790255856&cpv=1 Wasalaam. --- In islamcity@yahoogroups.com, syed dahij wrote: > > I had hoped not to be the one replying to this news, but the matter is rather political in nature for the Federal Government of Malaysia - they fear the erosion of support in the ballot box. It should be of interest to note that the Muslim Indian community in Kuala Lumpur boast of the Masjid India (Indian Mosque). In fact, there is also the Masjid Pakistan in Penang. But... > > Putting that aside, the State Government of Kelantan - a state in the northeast of the peninsular and ruled by the opposition party, PAS) - has given a parcel of land for the Muslim Chinese there to build their community center there. This community center would boast of a mosque and several other facilities. > > On a different note, the Kelantan State Government recently hosted the first Nisa' Games - all muslimat participants. In an effort to boost sport activities amongst the muslimat, the State Government invited Ruqaya Al-Ghasara to grace the opening ceremony as well as conduct a clinic. > > The Kelantan State Government too - insyAllah - will be producing and promoting muslimat sports wear. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MALAYSIA DENIES MASJIDS TO MUSLIM CHINESE > > Race comes to the fore in Malaysia mosque debate > By Jalil Hamid > Reuters > Sat Feb 17, 2007 > http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USKLR33216420070218 > > KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Chinese Malaysians who have embraced Islam > are testing the government over a mosque issue that analysts say > highlights a racial divide in the multi-ethnic country. > > Malaysia, which boasts of religious diversity and where just over half > of its population are Muslims of Malay descent, has spurned > applications by Chinese Muslims to open their first mosques, officials > said. > > The authorities argued that having separate mosques would segregate > Muslims and could anger the majority Malays, who by definition are > Muslims. > > Mohamad Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, a convert championing the cause of his > fellow 70,000-strong Chinese Muslims, said Malaysia must show that > Islam transcends race and culture. > > "We have to change the perception that Islam only belongs to a > particular race, for example the Malays and the Arabs," the > 42-year-old Islamic scholar told Reuters. > > "We have to show the universality of Islam by allowing Chinese > mosques," he said at the weekend. "The authorities have to do away > with the stereotypes." > > The issue goes to the heart of what Islam means in Malaysia, and shows > how race continues to shape life in Malaysia 50 years after > independence, analysts said. > > "There is fear that the Malay identity will be lost if Islam is > practiced in languages other than Malay," Canadian Muslim, Moaz Yusuf > Ahmad, wrote in the New Straits Times recently. > > Islam is the official religion in Malaysia, which currently heads the > world's largest grouping of Muslim nations, but other religions can be > practiced. > > Malays form just over half of Malaysia's 26 million people. The > sizeable Chinese and Indian minorities are mostly Christians, > Buddhists or Hindus. > > Malaysia has no shortage of mosques, many with Moorish-styled domes > and minarets. Mostly funded by the government, the mosques cater > almost entirely to the Malays and provide Friday sermons in the Malay > language. > > There is not a single mosque for Chinese Muslims, although Indian > Muslims are allowed to have their own mosques. > > CHINESE DESIGN > > Ridhuan, a vice-president of the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association, > said his association was proposing to build mosques that would reflect > Chinese design. > > "We would like to portray mosques that are based on Chinese > architectures," he said. "It's to show that we are still Chinese but > the mosques will be opened to all Muslims." > > The mosque issue is not the only problem, Ridhuan and other Muslims said. > > There is the popular notion that becoming a Muslim means "masuk > Melayu" (becoming a Malay), adopting the Malay culture at the expense >
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MARCH 12TH D.C. PROTEST AGAINST AIPAC
MARCH 12TH D.C. PROTEST AGAINST AIPAC
March 12 Protest: Congress Stand Up to AIPAC
DC Anti-Wr Network
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Call to Protest AIPAC's Annual Conference Issued 2/21/07
MONDAY, MARCH 12 - 6 to 8 PM DC Convention Center, Mount Vernon Place
between 7th & 9th Streets NW
CONGRESS, STAND UP TO AIPAC
Stop Funding Crimes Against Palestinians And Iraq and Iran Wars
DC Antiwar Network invites other peace and justice
organizations to endorse and/or participate in a peaceful "Congress
Stand Up to AIPAC" demonstration on Monday, March 12 from 6:00 to 8:00
pm. We will protest the "Gala Banquet" of the 2007 American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference being held at the
DC Convention Center.
Dozens of congressional representatives and executive branch
officials will attend the AIPAC banquet. Senate leaders Harry Reid and
Mitch McConnell and house leader Nancy Pelosi will speak. We encourage
those inside and outside of D.C. who cannot attend to take other action:
* call congressional representatives, especially Reid,
McConnel and Pelosi, and ask them NOT to attend the AIPAC conference.
* lobby congressional representatives in person or via phone
on March 13th for Palestinian rights and/or against Iraq and Iran
wars. On the afternoon of March 13th one thousand or more AIPAC
conference goers will be lobbying congress in person against
Palestinian rights and in support of war against Iran.
To endorse this call and be listed in the press release e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by noon March 8, 2007. Feel free to include a
web page link, e-mail or phone contact for our web page http://dawndc.net
OUR CONCERNS
We protest AIPAC, a non-registered agent of the State of
Israel, bribing and bullying American congressional representatives
into supporting Israel, often in ways that ultimately harm Americans.
Although AIPAC does not even represent a majority of American Jews,
its massive network of allied political groups and committed
supporters raise money and apply political muscle with two main goals:
* AIPAC works to perpetuate Israel's illegal occupation and
apartheid practices in the West Bank and Gaza, including the building
of an "apartheid" wall which has been condemned as illegal by the
International Court of Justice. It supports ongoing discriminatory
practices, land confiscation and ethnic cleansing in both the occupied
territories and Israel. AIPAC and its allies' propaganda efforts have
misled most Americans into thinking the Palestinians merely are
terrorists trying to destroy Israel, instead of being victims of 60
years of Israeli aggression who seek equal political rights, including
to return to their illegally confiscated lands and homes.
* AIPAC works to protect Israel's confiscated Palestinian
lands by promoting U.S. dominance in the Middle East. AIPAC and its
"neoconservative" and "Christian Zionist" allies promoted an illegal
American war against Iraq. They now promote an Israeli and/or U.S.
attack on Iran, even though the U.S. Department of Justice is
prosecuting former AIPAC staffers for spying on the U.S. to gain
information about Iran to relay to Israel. AIPAC supports Israeli
threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities to force President Bush to
do so. Any attack on Iran could lead to the first use of nuclear
weapons since 1945, deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent
Iranian civilians, retaliations by Iran and Shiites in Iraq that could
kill thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq, a cut off of oil supplies that
could devastate the world economy, and escalation to regional or even
world nuclear war.
AIPAC's destructiveness has been highlighted in the last year
by the writings of respected Professors Walt and Mearsheimer ("The
Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy") and former President Jimmy
Carter ("Palestine: Peace Not Apatheid"). Dozens of pundits, left,
right and mainstream have echoed their analysis. AIPAC provides
ideological propaganda and political muscle to promote wars that its
military contractor allies need to profit from wars. These special
interests undermine American democracy by making congressional
representatives and the president more responsive to them than to
American voters.
Those who sign on to this call demand congress stand up to
special interests like AIPAC, end U.S. support for illegal Israeli
policies, end war on and occupation of Iraq and prevent any war
against Iran. We support just reparations for aggrieved Palestinians
and Lebanese for their economic and personal suffering over many decades.
We predict that should either Israel or the U.S. initiate war
against Iran, the various peace and justice movements, as well as
Americans from a variety of groupings, will work to hold accountable
those responsible for mass murder against innocent Arabs an
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] HIDDEN APARTHEID: CASTE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIA'S ''UNTOUCHABLES''
HIDDEN APARTHEID: CASTE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIA'S ''UNTOUCHABLES'' Assalamu aleikum. Note: the entire 118 page, 662 kb PDF file of the Human Rights Watch Caste Discrimination against India's "Untouchables" report summarized below is available at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india0207/india0207webwcover.pdf A 12 page, 146 kb PDF summary of the Human Rights Watch Caste Discrimination against India's "Untouchables" report containing its recommendations is available at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india0207/india0207sumandrecsweb.pdf Insha'Allah, both of the above can be accessed indirectly via the url for the article below: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india0207/ --- Hidden Apartheid Caste Discrimination against India's "Untouchables" Human Rights Watch February 2007 http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india0207/ Hidden Apartheid was produced as a "shadow report" to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in advance of its February 2007 consideration of a report by the government of India. CERD is a body of independent experts responsible for monitoring states' compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. India ratified the Convention in 1968. The Convention guarantees rights of non-discrimination on the basis of "race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin." In 1996, CERD concluded that the plight of Dalits falls squarely under the prohibition of descent-based discrimination. As a state party to the Convention, India is obliged to submit periodic reports detailing its implementation of rights guaranteed under the Convention. During the review session CERD examines these reports and engages in constructive dialogue with the state party, addressing its concerns and offering recommendations in the form of "Concluding Observations." As part of this process, CERD uses supplementary or alternative information contained in non-governmental organization "shadow reports" to effectively evaluate states' reports. The India report being considered by CERD in February 2007 (the report was more than eight years overdue when it was submitted) covers more than a decade of India's compliance with the Convention (from 1996 to 2006) yet does not contain a single mention of abuses against Dalitsabuses that India's own governmental agencies have documented and verified. This report fills that gap and presents CERD members with information that we believe is essential to a fair assessment of India's record and, ultimately, to encouraging the government to live up to its treaty obligations. February 2007 Volume 19, No. 3 (C) http://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/india0207/
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] PARABLE OF THE SLEAZY AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
PARABLE OF THE SLEAZY AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE A DEATH WITH NO DIGNITY Paul Routledge Daily Mirror February 15, 2007 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/routledge/ I REALLY must get out more. Until I read the reports of her death, I had never heard of Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy model. Now, with three men vying for the title of father to her child, I suppose it will be impossible to avoid the poor woman. Ms Smith, below, widow of a nonagenarian billionaire, was found dead at the age of 39 in a Florida hotel room. One of her lawyers (note, "one" - how many did she need?) said it was "an unbelievable tragedy." No, it was not. Darfur is an unbelievable tragedy. Iraq is an unbelievable tragedy. The Holocaust was an unbelievable tragedy. Her death was the all too credible outcome of a life lived as a "celebrity", chiefly celebrated by taking off her clothes, either for the camera or for the stable of studs competing for her five-month- old baby's potential inheritance. This sordid lust for Dannielynn's £274 million fortune from the estate of deceased oilman J Howard Marshall is grotesque, even by the standards of avarice in the USA. Meanwhile, a coroner has ordered that Ms Smith's body be kept in the morgue while the paternity argument rages. It might be required for DNA testing. She can't even have a decent burial. Can there be a more potent parable of the sleazy American way of life than this saga of sex, corruption, money and lawyers? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/routledge/
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] AL AQSA: CALL FOR ARABS TO CUT ZIONIST TIES
AL AQSA: CALL FOR ARABS TO CUT ZIONIST TIES Palestinians want Arabs to cut Israel ties over dig Reuters By Mohammed Assadi Reuters Tue Feb 20, 2007 http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL2046161620070220 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian parliament urged Arab states on Tuesday to cut ties with Israel in protest at excavation work near Islam's third holiest site which has triggered Muslim protests. The Palestinian Legislative Council, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, also called on the United Nations Security Council to pressure Israel to safeguard Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem. The council said Arab states should "sever diplomatic and economic ties (with Israel) and not establish new ones" in response to the excavation near al-Aqsa mosque. Few Arab countries have formal ties with Israel. Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties with the Jewish state and have diplomatic relations, while some Gulf Arab states have lower level contacts. Israel says the work near al-Aqsa aims to salvage artifacts before construction of a pedestrian bridge leading up to a religious compound sacred to both Muslims and Jews. But the work has angered Arabs and Muslims who fear it could damage foundations of the 1,300-year-old mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War. SUMMIT MEETINGS The legislative council said Arab and Muslim leaders should take measures to protect sacred Muslim sites and called for urgent summit meetings of the Arab League and Organization of the Islamic Conference to pressure Israel. More than 30 people were wounded in clashes near al-Aqsa earlier this month between Israeli police and stone-throwing protesters angered by the excavation works. Muslim suspicion over Israeli actions intensified this week when Israeli Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yuval Baruch said storm and earthquake damage in 2004 had exposed remains at the site that could be from an ancient Muslim school. The director of the Waqf, a Jordanian-backed body that oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, said the fact the discovery was not announced at the time showed Israel wanted to "destroy the Islamic character of the city". Sheikh Raed Salah, an Israeli Arab campaigner who has led protests against the excavations, called for a new uprising to protest against what he called an "Israeli crime". "This program will include local and international activities. All of them are part of our attempt to stop this Israeli crime, which continues until now," Salah told Reuters. He called for protests in the Arab and Islamic world. Israel captured the Old City along with the rest of Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the area as its capital in a move not recognized internationally. Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USL2046161620070220
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] 150 CITIES TO MARCH ON THE PENTAGON 17TH MARCH
150 CITIES TO MARCH ON THE PENTAGON 17TH MARCH 150+ cities organizing for March on the Pentagon, March 17! ANSWER Coalition http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8336&news_iv_ctrl=3061 Over 150 cities are organizing buses, vans, car caravans and anti-war trains to bring people from across the country to March on the Pentagon in Washington DC on Saturday March 17! - Click for details about buses from across the U.S. http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_M17_transportation - The National Office of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has received an enormous response from people all around the country who are planning to travel to Washington DC to march on the Pentagon on the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq. Huge numbers will come from every major city on the East Coast, Midwest and South - New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte and elsewhere - and from many smaller cities. Gulfport, Mississippi; Muskogee, Oklahoma; and New Bedford, Massachusetts are just a few of the cities organizing for this demonstration. People will be driving from as far away as Denver, Colorado - a 26 hour drive to DC. Below are just some of the cities organizing transportation to be at the March on the Pentagon, March 17: Akron, OH Albany, NY Albuquerque, NM Amherst, MA Andover, MA Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Baltimore, MD Blacksburg, VA Boone, NC Boston, MA Burlington, VT Charleston SC Charlotte, NC Charlottesville, VA Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Columbia, SC Dallas, TX Danbury, CT Decatur, GA Denver, CO Des Moines, IA Detroit, MI El Paso, TX Fort Lauderdale, FL Ft. Myers, FL Ft. Wayne, IN Gainesville, FL Greenville, NC Gulfport, MS Harrisburg, PA Hartford, CT Hickory, NC Houston, TX Hudson Valley, NY Iowa City, IA Jacksonville, FL Kent, OH Lewisburg, WV Lexington, KY Linwood, NJ Little Rock, AR Logan, UT Louisville, KY Lynchburg, VA Macon, GA Madison, WI Miami, FL Minneapolis, MN Mobile, AL Montpelier, VT Mountain Home, AR Muskogee, OK Nashua, NH Nashville, TN New Bedford, MA New Britain, CT New Brunswick, NJ New Haven, CT New Orleans, LA New York City, NY Newark, DE Newton, NC Norfolk, VA Ogden, UT Oklahoma City, OK Oneonta, NY Orlando, FL Palm Beach County, FL Parkersburg, WV Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsfield, MA Plymouth, NH Portland, ME Portsmouth, NH Portsmouth, VA Providence, RI Raleigh, NC Reading, PA Richmond, VA Rochester, NY Rome GA Salisbury, CT San Antonio, TX Savannah, GA Schenectady, NY Scranton, PA Springfield, MA St. Louis, MO Stanford, KY Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg, FL Toledo, OH Trenton, NJ Tucson AZ Tuscaloosa, AL Wayne, NJ West Chester, PA Worcester, MA Yellow Springs, OH York, PA Until Wednesday: 30% Off NYC Bus Tickets! Tickets for buses from New York City can still be purchased now online at a 30% reduced price! Click for details on how you can purchase tickets for buses from New York City online, by phone or in person. http://www.pephost.org/site/Ecommerce?VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=1381&store_id=1861 Click on this link for details about buses from across the U.S. http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_M17_transportation If you are organizing transportation and are not yet listed, fill out the March 17 Transportation Form. http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=M17_organize More ways to get involved: * Donate http://www.pephost.org/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1121 * Download flyers and other promotional materials http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_M17flyers * Endorse http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=M17_endorse * Student organizing http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=M17_endorse Make sure you've read these important recent updates: * Soldiers, veterans, and soldiers' families sign antiwar letter for March on Pentagon http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8326 * Free Speech Victory! Permits Secured for Pentagon Protest http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8317 * Youth & Student organizing for March on Pentagon http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8315 Your donation is urgently needed for the March on the Pentagon Please make an urgently needed donation today. http://www.pephost.org/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1121 We must immediately raise funds to pay for the sound and stage at Constitutional Gardens and at the Pentagon and for the hundreds of thousands of flyers, stickers and posters that are being disseminated in nationwide outreach. Please make a much needed online donation, or click for information to write a check. http://www.pephost.org/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1121 All active news articles http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?cmd=listallarticles ANSWER Coalition 202-544-3389
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] WHAT DO CHRISTIANS DO FOR FUN?
WHAT DO CHRISTIANS DO FOR FUN? Priest jailed after nun's death in exorcism Ireland On Line 19/02/2007 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=173262820&p=y73z634xx A Romanian priest has been sentenced to 14 years in prison today after a nun died during an exorcism ritual. Sister Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, who was being treated for schizophrenia, said she believed the devil was talking to her. Daniel Petru Corogeanu, a monk who served as the priest for a secluded Holy Trinity convent in northeast Romania, and four other nuns, chained Cornici to a cross in an attempt at exorcism. She survived several days without food or water, but died of dehydration, exhaustion and suffocation. The court in the northeast city of Vaslui convicted Corogeanu and the four nuns of holding Cornici captive, resulting in her death. One of the nuns, Nicoleta Arcalianu, was sentenced to eight years in prison, and the other three Adina Cepraga, Elena Otel and Simona Bardanas received five-year sentences. Dozens of the priest's supporters packed the courtroom and prayed for him. Several burst into tears when the verdict was announced. The defendants' lawyers plan to appeal, saying the prison sentences are too harsh. http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=173262820&p=y73z634xx
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MALAYSIA DENIES MASJIDS TO MUSLIM CHINESE
MALAYSIA DENIES MASJIDS TO MUSLIM CHINESE Race comes to the fore in Malaysia mosque debate By Jalil Hamid Reuters Sat Feb 17, 2007 http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USKLR33216420070218 KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Chinese Malaysians who have embraced Islam are testing the government over a mosque issue that analysts say highlights a racial divide in the multi-ethnic country. Malaysia, which boasts of religious diversity and where just over half of its population are Muslims of Malay descent, has spurned applications by Chinese Muslims to open their first mosques, officials said. The authorities argued that having separate mosques would segregate Muslims and could anger the majority Malays, who by definition are Muslims. Mohamad Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, a convert championing the cause of his fellow 70,000-strong Chinese Muslims, said Malaysia must show that Islam transcends race and culture. "We have to change the perception that Islam only belongs to a particular race, for example the Malays and the Arabs," the 42-year-old Islamic scholar told Reuters. "We have to show the universality of Islam by allowing Chinese mosques," he said at the weekend. "The authorities have to do away with the stereotypes." The issue goes to the heart of what Islam means in Malaysia, and shows how race continues to shape life in Malaysia 50 years after independence, analysts said. "There is fear that the Malay identity will be lost if Islam is practiced in languages other than Malay," Canadian Muslim, Moaz Yusuf Ahmad, wrote in the New Straits Times recently. Islam is the official religion in Malaysia, which currently heads the world's largest grouping of Muslim nations, but other religions can be practiced. Malays form just over half of Malaysia's 26 million people. The sizeable Chinese and Indian minorities are mostly Christians, Buddhists or Hindus. Malaysia has no shortage of mosques, many with Moorish-styled domes and minarets. Mostly funded by the government, the mosques cater almost entirely to the Malays and provide Friday sermons in the Malay language. There is not a single mosque for Chinese Muslims, although Indian Muslims are allowed to have their own mosques. CHINESE DESIGN Ridhuan, a vice-president of the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association, said his association was proposing to build mosques that would reflect Chinese design. "We would like to portray mosques that are based on Chinese architectures," he said. "It's to show that we are still Chinese but the mosques will be opened to all Muslims." The mosque issue is not the only problem, Ridhuan and other Muslims said. There is the popular notion that becoming a Muslim means "masuk Melayu" (becoming a Malay), adopting the Malay culture at the expense of his or her Chinese identity, they said. The converts also have to take on Arabic names, such as Abdullah, and change identity cards to reflect their new religion. They also face deep-rooted prejudices, said Mohamad Asri Zainul Abidin, a young firebrand Muslim cleric who has came out in support of the Chinese mosque proposal despite the government's reservations. "Malays assume they are the only pure Muslims, although Chinese Muslims may have stronger faith," Asri, himself a Malay, said in a commentary published in the New Straits Times. Some Chinese Muslims have also been rebuked by Malays for celebrating Chinese New Year. Ridhuan, married to a Malay, also had a painful experience. "They (the Malays) want us to become a Malay. Three or four years after conversion, my father passed away. They didn't allow me to go back, they say if I go back, I will revert to become a Chinese but I defied them." http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USKLR33216420070218
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES MURDER BABIES IN INDIA
CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES MURDER BABIES IN INDIA Assalamu aleikum. Christian missionaries to India are deep in the blood of the children they have murdered at Ratlam Christian Hospital. Please note that 2 articles follow: *Govt for stringent action: Two held; more foetal remains *390 baby bones found: 2 held --- (1) Govt for stringent action: Two held; more foetal remains Agencies Central Chronicle Monday February 19, 2007 http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070219/1902001.htm Ashok Nagar/Ratlam, Feb 18: Promising action against those guilty of burying bones of children at a hospital in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi today said initial reports indicate at foeticide or infanticide. "It is not right to compare the incident with the one in Nithari where bones of missing children aged between one to 14 years were found. Moreover, the Uttar Pradesh police were aware of their missing status," he told reporters after dedicating to public a hospital here. The bones and skulls recovered at Ratlam Christian Hospital were of foetuses or very small children, he said adding an in-depth probe could lead to a conclusion, but initial reports indicate at foeticide or infanticide. The hospital was registered for sonography tests and has been submitting quarterly reports of the machine within stipulated time, Vishnoi said. The police were probing the matter and all documents were being examined, he said. More skeletal remains of infants were found wrapped in polythene today during excavation in a missionary hospital's premises in this district headquarters. After 391 bones were found yesterday, the administration ordered excavation with a JCB machine. Two persons were detained in connection with the recovery of remains of newborns and foetuses from a pit at a missionary hospital where more bones were found on Sunday, police said. A sweeper of the hospital and a doctor were held for questioning and a FIR was filed regarding the concealment of birth by secret disposal of bodies under section 318 of IPC, police said. Acting on inputs from sweeper Jagram, heavy machines were used to dig the area near the pit behind the operation theatre of Ratlam Christian Hospital, where 390 pieces of skull and bones of three to four newborns and foetuses were found on Saturday. As Bajrang Dal activists shouted slogans outside the hospital and demanded the arrest of those responsible, hospital gynaecologist Venu Gopalan was detained and taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation, they said. While the digging near the pit was in progress, hospital records were seized. Members of a committee comprising three doctors and two environment experts, which was formed by the district collector, chalked out methods for a probe into the incident. Police were deployed in strength at the hospital to avert any untoward incident. Meanwhile, the police took into custody two female doctors P William and Gopalan -- employed at the Ratlam Christian Hospital -- for questioning. A probe of hospital records, by DIG Varun Kapoor, revealed that abortion was carried out there recently. A case was lodged against the management of the hospital set up in 1903. ''The hospital was not properly disposing biomedical waste. A probe team is being formed including the civil surgeon,'' Collector J L Malpani told mediapersons at the site. Dr William, who is the sole permanent physician employed at the hospital, denied that prenatal diagnostic tests and abortion were carried out there. All other doctors are employed on adhoc basis. A local children's hospital incharge Dr R G Kaushal confirmed that the bones were of infants. http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070219/1902001.htm --- (2) 390 baby bones found: 2 held AFP 18/02/2007 22:26 - (SA) http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2071129,00.html Bhopal - Two people - one of them a hospital superintendent - were detained on Sunday, a day after police found 390 pieces of bones of newly born babies or foetuses in central India, officials said. The grisly recovery was made on Saturday from a pit near a Christian missionary hospital, said JL Malpani, a local administrator of Ratlam district. Ratlam police chief Satish Saxena said police conducted the search after a tip-off about illegal abortions being carried out at the hospital and the subsequent dumping of foetuses near it. "The skulls and bones have been sent for forensic tests," said Saxena. Police were probing whether this was a case of possible female foeticide, infanticide or illegal abortions, he added. Despite laws banning sex determination tests, the killing of female foetuses is still common in India where there is a strong preference for boys. "Though the skeletons are not intact, they appear to be of newborns or of aborted foetuses. It is difficult to ascertain their numbers or ages," Saxena said. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2071129,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ''MUSLIM'' GROUP HELPS KAFFIRS MAKE WAR ON NIQAB
''MUSLIM'' GROUP HELPS KAFFIRS MAKE WAR ON NIQAB Muslims to pay school's legal fight to uphold niqab ban By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Telegraph (UK) February 7, 2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/05/nveil05.xml - photo: Veiled woman: The niqab, which covers the whole face apart from the eyes http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/02/05/nveil05t.jpg - A Muslim group has offered to help fund a school's legal battle over its refusal to let a pupil wear the niqab in class. In an unprecedented move, the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (Meco) has written to the head teacher to say it is prepared to contribute to a fighting fund. Taj Hargey, Meco's chairman, said he was also willing to organise a campaign among Muslims nationally to resist "this largely Saudi-driven campaign to make the niqab a compulsory requirement for Muslim women". Dr Hargey's offer comes as the school, which cannot be identified because of a court order, faces the prospect of an expensive legal fight without any backing. Buckinghamshire county council, the local authority for the school, is unwilling to underwrite a challenge which it believes could cost as much as £500,000. A court on Thursday is due to decide whether the school's decision not to allow the pupil, aged 12, to wear the veil should go to a full judicial review. The school, which already allows girls to wear head scarves called hijabs, drew the line at the niqab, which covers the whole face except the eyes. It is insisting that the family accepts the uniform policy but the father has been given legal aid to fight a human rights case. advertisement Last year the law lords ruled that a school in Luton, Beds, was justified in barring Shabina Begum from wearing a jilbab, a long loose gown, to classes but it took a long and expensive legal fight. The judges made clear that their ruling applied only to the Luton case and it is unclear whether other courts will consider the judgment to have established case law. If the court allows the case to proceed, the school may be forced to back down, potentially rendering any policy on uniform unenforceable at any school threatened with legal action. The case is complicated because the girl's sisters were allowed to wear the niqab when a different head was in charge. A new policy has been introduced which the father is challenging. The girl has not been excluded, but has been out of school since early October. In his letter to the school, Dr Hargey said the father's insistence on his daughter wearing the niqab was a "non-Islamic imposition upon your institution". He added: "We are strongly committed to offering you our full and unequivocal support in banning face-masks at school. We trust that you will continue to resist any move to implement this kind of minority ethnic obsession, which has no foundation whatsoever in the transcendent sources of Islamic law." Dr Hargey said that since the school's dress code already allowed the option for Muslim girls to wear the hijab, there was no need for full-face covering. Paul Goodman, the Conservative MP for Wycombe, has pressed the county council to back the school. But although it says it supports the school's right to decide its own dress code, the council has not promised to fund a legal defence. Mr Goodman said: "My own view is that we don't want veils in our schools. Veils are a sign of separation." The school has sought to stay out of the wider cultural issues involved and has taken a stand for "educational and security reasons". The Department for Education is said to be watching the case closely because of the potential for wider implications if the school has to back down or loses a human rights case. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/05/nveil05.xml
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] KIRI DAVIS: A GIRL LIKE ME
KIRI DAVIS: A GIRL LIKE ME Assalamu aleikum. The following short internet film does not directly touch upon the efforts of Dajjal Bush and his coterie at ISNA and other sycophantic organisations to obtain the assimilation of Muslims into US culture, nor the analagous efforts of Poodle Blair and the Gizzard of Oz Howard to accomplish the same manipulation in their own Anglo Alliance countries. Yet it is an extraordinary lesson in how a dominant culture in western society imposes its own values on minorities, making a minority debase itself to the shocking point that the minority becomes ashamed of the very colour of their skin. Several years ago, just after 9/11, a PBS documentary aired glorifying Muslim assimilation into US life showing how the father of a teenage Muslimah forbade her to wear hijab, even though the girl knew it was a requirement of the deen. In that regard, the film "A Girl Like Me" is a powerful means of conveying strongly not only to young Muslimahs, but to their parents and to Muslims generally, the iron need to absolutely reject those values of western culture that conflict with Islam. Bootlickers must be thoroughly rejected and universally condemned for their arrogance in working to suppress Muslim religious culture and values. It is all the more remarkable that this film was produced by a teenage girl. Please note that 2 articles follow: *A Girl Like Me 7:08 min *ABOUT THE FILM --- A Girl Like Me 7:08 min Youth Documentary Winner of the Diversity Award Sponsored by Third Millennium Foundation Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves. WATCH THE FILM High Quality (slower loading time) A Girl Like Me http://www2.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/film/2_hi.mov - A Girl Like Me Low Quality (faster loading time) A Girl Like Me http://www2.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/film/2_lo.mov --- (2) ABOUT THE FILM A Girl Like Me 7:08 min Youth Documentary Kiri Davis, Director, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, Producer Winner of the Diversity Award Sponsored by Third Millennium Foundation More About A Girl Like Me from Director Kiri Davis http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/a_girl_like_me/ For my high-school literature class I was constructing an anthology with a wide range of different stories that I believed reflected the black girl's experience. For the different chapters, I conducted interviews with a variety of black girls in my high school, and a number of issues surfaced concerning the standards of beauty imposed on today's black girls and how this affects their self-image. I thought this topic would make an interesting film and so when I was accepted into the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking program, I set out to explore these issues. I also decided to would reconduct the "doll test" initially conducted by Dr. Kenneth Clark, which was used in the historic desegregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education. I thought that by including this experiment in my film, I would shed new light on how society affects black children today and how little has actually changed. With help from my mentor, Shola Lynch, and thanks to the honesty and openness of the girls I interviewed, I was able to complete my first documentary in the fall of 2005. I learned that giving the girls an opportunity to talk about these issues and their experiences helped us all to look deeper and examine the many things in society that affect us and shape who we are. http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/a_girl_like_me/
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] OZ TRIBES ROBBED OF VAST LAND TRACT
OZ TRIBES ROBBED OF VAST LAND TRACT Native title application rejected AAP February 05, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21172410-1702,00.html TWO thousand West Australian Aborigines have had their native title application for a vast tract of Goldfields land dismissed in the Federal Court today. The Wongatha land claim, an amalgamation of 21 previous claims, covers 160,000 square kilometres of northern Goldfields land where native title has not been extinguished by roads, towns, or freehold title. Federal Court Judge Kevin Lindgren, sitting in Kalgoorlie, made the decision today after hearing from about 90 witnesses during the hearings that began in 2002 and wound up two years later. The action began as a claim for 183,000sq km, one of the biggest in Australia. But it was reduced to its current size to accommodate a separate claim from the Pilki people of the Great Victoria Desert, to Wongatha's east. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21172410-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] HILLARY CLINTON UNCONDITIONALLY SUPPORTS AIPAC
HILLARY CLINTON UNCONDITIONALLY SUPPORTS AIPAC Assalamu aleikum. Note: The so-called "American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)" is a criminal zionist spy apparatus whose members have been indicted for spying for the zionist entity against the United States of America. See, for example: FBI Investigation of AIPAC Reportedly Has Been "Expanded" By Andrew I. Killgore Washington Report on Middle East Affairs December 2006 http://www.wrmea.com/archives/December_2006/0612019.html - photo: Senator Hillary Clinton,D-NY, speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) dinner, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh) http://apnews.myway.com/image/20070201/Clinton.sff_NYDG107_20070201221614.html?date=20070202&docid=D8N1LGV80 - --- Hillary Clinton calls Iran a threat to U.S., Israel Daily India February 2, 2007 http://www.dailyindia.com/show/110145.php/Hillary-Clinton-calls-Iran-a-threat-to-US-Israel New York, Feb.2 (ANI): New York Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has called ran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel's greatest threats. "No option can be taken off the table when dealing with that nation. U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Clinton said at a rally of Israeli supporters here. Clinton also spoke at a Manhattan dinner held by the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S., the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Clinton, the front-runner for her party's presidential nomination, called for dialogue with foes of the United States, saying Iran "uses its influence and its revenues in the region to support terrorist elements." "We need to use every tool at our disposal, including diplomatic and economic in addition to the threat and use of military force," she said. (ANI with inputs) http://www.dailyindia.com/show/110145.php/Hillary-Clinton-calls-Iran-a-threat-to-US-Israel
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ATTACK IMMINENT: MOSSAD PREPARES ANOTHER 9/11
ATTACK IMMINENT: MOSSAD PREPARES ANOTHER 9/11 Russia Orders US Embassy `Lockdown' After Disappearance Of Israeli Defense Minister Sorcha Faal January 25, 2007 http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index978.htm Russian Military Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that President Putin has ordered the immediate lockdown of all Russian Embassies in both the United States and Europe over fears of an `imminent' terrorist strike. According to these reports, the fears of the FSB were heightened after the disappearance of David Dahan who is the head of the Israeli Defense Ministry Mission to Europe, and who many in the World's Intelligence communities consider to be Israel's top spy running `rogue' agents in both the United States and Europe. These reports further detail the alarming tracing of the route, and agents, involved in the joint CIA-Georgian undercover operation which led to the recovery of nuclear-bomb-grade uranium being smuggled out of Russia, but, and according to these reports, was only a small portion of the full amount that has been declared missing. These latest fears come also at a time an Israeli attack upon Iran appears imminent, and as we can read as reported by the Independent Online News Service in their article titled "Israel raises nuclear stakes with Iran", and which says: "The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, dramatically raised the stakes in the international showdown with Iran last night, with a clear warning that his country was prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. "The Jewish people, with the scars of the Holocaust fresh on its body, cannot afford to allow itself to face threats of annihilation once again," Mr Olmert said in a speech to a high-level security conference in Herzliya. "No nation has the right even to consider its position. It is the obligation of every country to act against this will all its might." "We can stand up against nuclear threats and even prevent them," he said. Israeli military officials warned this week that Israel acting alone or in coordination with the US could launch preemptive military strikes against Iran before the end of this year." The American War Leader has likewise warned his citizens of the coming `epic battle' coming to their Nation in the Middle East, and to which the Iranian Leader has replied: "The United States is incapable of inflicting "serious damage" on Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, as a US Navy carrier group steamed toward Iran in what Washington has termed a warning. Speaking in an interview with Iranian state television, Ahmadinejad said that "wise" Americans would not let U.S. President George W. Bush attack Iran. "They (U.S.) are not really in a position to carry out this action (of attacking Iran). I believe there are many wise people in the United States who would not let it happen," he said." More ominously, perhaps, regarding these events are the reports from the United States Global Consciousness Project random number experiment that their `real time' results have `spiked' this week to their highest levels ever seen. This is significant because this experiment, apparently, `predicted' the terrorist strike upon the United States on September 11, 2001. As more is known about these events we will report them. [Ed. Note: The United States government actively seeks to find, and silence, any and all opinions about the United States except those coming from authorized government and/or affiliated sources, of which we are not one. No interviews are granted and very little personal information is given about our contributors to protect their safety.] http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index978.htm
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] BUY YOUR OWN MOONINITE LED DISPLAY BOARD AT E-BAY
BUY YOUR OWN MOONINITE LED DISPLAY BOARD AT E-BAY Assalamu aleikum. One of the two victims falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted by wimpy Boston bureaucrats faces deportation to Belarus. See Boston IMC article below. In the meantime, for your very own Mooninite LED Display Board of Terrorist Death, place your E-Bay bid (starts at $1,999) or "Buy It Now" for $5,000. - Official Mooninite LED Display Yes, it's real. http://cgi.ebay.com/Mooninites-Neon-LED-Sign-Boston-Bomb-Scare-Mooninite_W0QQitemZ220078185765QQihZ012QQcategoryZ1531QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - Mooninite terrorists or political prisoners? Suspect faces deportation to Belarus if convicted. by Amigo Del Reg Boston Indymedia Center 02 Feb 2007 http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/197705/index.php As the city scapegoats Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens to cover up its own inept mishandling and hyping up of small LED cartoon character signs as acts of terrorism, Berdovsky's fate hangs in the balance: he is a Belarusian citizen seeking political asylum in the United States. For the city's arrogant pride and ignorant over-reaction, he may face deportation, imprisonment and possibly torture in Belarus, a country well known for its human rights abuses. PLEASE FORWARD!!! One of the two men arrested by Boston cops for putting up the Mooninite signs is a Belasrusian citizen seeking political asylum in the United States who will be deported if he is convicted or has to admit any wrong doing in this matter! They shouldn't suffer because Boston's cops and politicians are dumbasses! Hell, fax the mayor's office pictures of the sign showing clearly that it was not a bomb... IF YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LITE-BRITE AND A BOMB, THEN YOU SHOULDN'T BE ON THE BOMB SQUAD! Please call the office of Boston's mayor Menino and demand that all charges be dropped against Peter and Sean! Thomas Menino, mayor 1 City Hall Plaza Boston, MA 02201 Telephone: 617.635.4500 Facsimile: 617.635.3496 Web Site: www.cityofboston.gov/mayor E-mail: Mayor (at) cityofboston.gov --- Mooninite terrorists or political prisoners? The absurd farce of Boston's "anti-terrorist" response to a guerrilla marketing campaign turns into authoritarian repression in effort to press felony terrorism charges against artists who hung lighted signs. Not only is the scapegoating of these men a ridiculous act meant to cover up the actions of inept and hyper-reactive Boston police agencies, but for one it is deadly serious: Peter Bordovsky is a Belarusian citizen on visa in the United States seeking asylum. A conviction or even an admission of wrong doing in a case linked to terrorism would lead to his deportation. For someone seeking asylum, that may also lead to his arrest, imprisonment and likely torture in Belarus, a country known for its blatant human rights abuses. 1-31-07 NEVER FORGET DROP ALL CHARGES! F*** THE POLICE STATE! Here's the low down from el Reg: Original URL: http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/02/mooninite_terrorists/ Mooninite terrorists brought to justice By Chris Nelson Published Friday 2nd February 2007 05:38 GMT Comment Neon beer sign enthusiasts beware: you're next. Two men have been arrested and arraigned for hanging the signs that started Wednesday's bomb scare in Boston. Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, have been charged with creating a hoax leading to public disorder and disorderly conduct by Boston's District Attorney. The hoax charge is a felony, the disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor. While charges formally came Thursday, the threatening signs had been hanging over the heads of Bostonians like little swords of Damocles for two or three weeks before anyone mistook them for al-Qaeda handiwork. City and state officials seem to want to continue unwittingly hitting this piñata of comedy. Boston mayor Thomas Menino at one point cited "corporate greed" as the culprit, while Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick took the ironic route of saying that Wednesday's events were "not funny". The only part of this debacle that lacks for humor is the manner in which blame is being assigned. While authorities are seeking remunerative compensation from Turner, so far no legal action has been taken against Turner or its advertising company for their enterprising guerrilla marketing campaign to promote the adult cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. In recent weeks, identical devices were placed in ten American cities. But only Boston went ballistic. Instead of owning up to the fact that this was a monumental mistake by Boston authorities, every public figure involved seems to want to take the most punitive measures possible, against the two easiest scapegoats. In no case is this more prescient than Berdovsky's: he is a Belarusian citizen on visa who is applying for asylum in the United States. Heavy price Under federal law, a non-citizen convicted of any crime of moral turpitude or aggravated felony in the Unite
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] HOMELAND SECURITY - FIGHTING TERRORISM SINCE 1492
HOMELAND SECURITY - FIGHTING TERRORISM SINCE 1492 photo: Homeland Security - Fighting Terrorism Since 1492 http://www.fenixpromo.com/fighting_terrorism_since_1492.jpg - Fighting Terrorism Since 1492 Nickole Fox Critical Moment June - August 2004 http://criticalmoment.org/juneaugust2004/articles/fox.html Since the 9/11 attacks, there has been uproar of patriotism and fear in the minds of many Americans. To many, this is a new fear, a fear that stems from being powerless at the hands of the enemy, that we no longer have control over our own destinies, and that at any given moment the terrorists could come in and challenge our sovereignty. With this fear, founded or unfounded, we fight the enemy, we defend the land. However, this fear and resistance is far from new to many people in the United States. The indigenous Nations and people of this continent have been fighting to regain control of our destinies and for an end to terrorism on our communities and identities for many years. The beginning of terrorism in America for us, Native American People, was 1492. This terrorism has taken many forms throughout the last 500 years on this continent. From slavery and physical genocide to land theft and cultural genocide, colonial powers would stop at nothing to eliminate Native people, and to exploit the resources of this continent. The Allotment Act sectioned off Native communities and led to significant land loss to white farmers. During removal, thousands of Native people died while being taken away from their ancestral homelands, where their traditions are based. Smallpox blankets were just one of the many attempts to plague communities with deadly diseases. extermination allowed the federal government to renege on its treaty responsibilities to Native nations and to remove tribal rights to self-govern. Relocation policies promised economic opportunities in urban areas instead of supporting sovereignty by promoting economic self-sufficiency. Native American women have been sterilized against their will, a form of eugenics and population control. Currently, Uranium mines, weapons testing sites, and dumping contaminate our communities. By marginalizing the indigenous people of this nation through genocidal and assimilationist policy the United States has attempted to eradicate us through the destruction of our identities by killing us or "making us like them." Christian boarding schools were another one of the genocidal methods used. Assimilation policy sought to "Kill the Indian, save the man" and make Indian people hate everything Indian, including themselves. Children were often stolen from their families at very young ages to attend schools across the country, far from their families and communities. Christianizing practices taught Indian children that they were sinful and that their traditions were heathen. Native languages were forbidden; children who dared to speak their language were scolded, beaten or had pins stuck into their tongues. Sexual and physical abuse also plagued these Christian run government sanctioned boarding schools. The detrimental effects of boarding schools continue today; it is rare to find a Native person today whose family has not been affected by these schools. There is still much healing to be done. Native people also face problems of cultural appropriation, misappropriation, representation and misrepresentation: terrorism on our identities. Stereotypes haunt our daily lives. I can hardly watch television anymore without some stereotypical reference to Native Americans. Applebees has the lone Indian figure at its entrance; the party store down the street has a red-faced Indian with a nose larger than his entire face. Outkast ends the Grammy Awards with a performance that begins with a stolen Navajo song and a "red-face" performance, while Beyonce coins the phrase "Imagine me an Indian princess, dominate this" in her song "Baby Boy". Peter Pan makes a comeback, equating Indian people with fairies, pirates and mermaids. Even at the University of Michigan, an organization previously called "the Tribe of Michigamua" has, since 1902, based its organization on pseudo-Indian practices. This organization has given each member an "Indian Name" and had initiation practices that called for members to paint themselves red, to wear loin clothes and "duck walk" through the diag. Now, when someone tells me, my family or friends, "Oh, you don't look like a Native American,", "Do you live in a teepee?", "If your hair was black, I could see you as a Native American,", "I thought all Indians were dead", "you wanna go smoke the peace pipe?", I know what they are thinking and I know what is wrong with this country. Value is placed on being the stereotypical Indian in order to reinforce the symbolic death of Native Americans. If we are not real, the past and present of Native America is nothing but a fairy tale. However, Native American People are not a fairy tale; our past, present and future a
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] USAMA BIN LADEN BROTHER-IN-LAW MARTYRED BY INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
USAMA BIN LADEN BROTHER-IN-LAW MARTYRED BY INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES Bin Laden brother-in-law shot dead Reuters >From correspondents in Dubai January 31, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21148557-1702,00.html UNIDENTIFIED gunmen shot and killed a brother-in-law of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid on his home in Madagascar, his brother has said. Malek Khalifa told Dubai-based Al Arabiya television that the aim of the killers appeared to have been to rob his brother, Jamal Khalifa, who mined and traded precious stones in Madagascar. Mr Khalifa said a gang of 20 to 30 gunmen broke into his brother's bedroom, shot him dead "in cold blood" and stole his belongings. Arabiya said the businessman was staying at a precious stones mine he owned in Madagascar when he was killed. "We still don't have a complete picture of the incident," Mr Khalifa said from Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port of Jeddah. "I don't think it was politically motivated," he added. Jamal Khalifa was alleged to have helped finance the Islamist militant Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines. But Mr Khalifa denied his brother was involved in political activity, and said that apart from family ties, Jamal Khalifa had no links to bin Laden, who has been stripped of his Saudi citizenship. Mr Khalifa said the Saudi authorities had been informed of the killing. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21148557-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] LIGHT SENTENCE FOR OZ BIGOT WHO MARTYRED MUSLIM
LIGHT SENTENCE FOR OZ BIGOT WHO MARTYRED MUSLIM Bow and arrow murderer jailed for 16 years AAP January 31, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21147142-1702,00.html A MELBOURNE man who murdered an acquaintance with a bow and arrow after an argument about religion was jailed today for at least 16 years. Peter Timor Rattya, 42, shot Amer Alihromic through the chest with a bow and arrow at close range at a boarding house in Seddon, in Melbourne's west, on January 15, 2005. The Victorian Supreme Court was told that just before the shooting the pair had a disagreement about religion. Rattya pleaded not guilty to murder and initially said he shot Mr Alihromic, 26, in self-defence. However, a jury found him guilty. Today, Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth sentenced Rattya to 21 years' jail with a minimum term of 16 years. Justice Hollingworth described Mr Alihromic's murder as a "senseless act and a tragic waste of human life". She said Rattya's lack of concern for his victim was demonstrated when he delayed calling an ambulance until he had orchestrated his self-defence scenario. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21147142-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] WHY WE FIGHT
WHY WE FIGHT photo: Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" http://www.happyvideo.biz/doc-wwf6.jpg --- Wife poisoned man for breast implants Reuters >From correspondents in Los Angeles January 31, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21147019-1702,00.html A CALIFORNIA woman was convicted today of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in his $US250,000 ($323,000) life insurance policy and pay for breast implants and a party lifestyle. Cynthia Sommer, a 33-year-old mother of four, faces life in prison without parole for the 2002 death of her husband Todd, 23, at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, near San Diego. In a largely circumstantial case, prosecutors said Sommer had at first convinced people she was a widow grieving the loss of her husband, whose official cause of death was given as a heart attack. But prosecutors told the jury Sommer made four inquiries about money within five hours of her husband's death. In the next few weeks, she paid $US5400 for breast implants, had sex with three male Marines and a woman, hosted loud parties at her house and participated in a wet T-shirt and thong contest in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, they said. It was not clear how the poison was delivered but prosecutors said Sommer may have used the bait in retail ant traps. Tests in 2003 showed Todd Sommer had more than 1000 times the normal level of arsenic in his liver. Sommer, who was arrested in 2005, said she had her breasts enlarged to help herself feel better about her husband's death. She is engaged to a former Marine she met about two months after she was widowed. Sommer was found guilty of murder, murder for financial gain and murder by poison. Prosecutors had decided not to seek the death penalty. She will be sentenced in March. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21147019-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] POODLE HOSPITAL MARTYRS MUSLIM BABY
POODLE HOSPITAL MARTYRS MUSLIM BABY 'MY SON IS DEAD BECAUSE DOCTORS WERE TOO BUSY TO SEE HIM' BABY'S 4HR WAIT FOR TREATMENT By Emily Nash Daily Mirror 25 January 2007 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=%2Dmy-son-is-dead-because-doctors-were-too-busy-to-see-him%2D%26method=full%26objectid=18526470%26siteid=94762-name_page.html A GRIEVING father told yesterday how he watched his baby son die as hospital doctors were "too busy" to treat him. Despite being referred from another hospital as an emergency Ahil Islam, 13 months, was kept waiting for treatment for nearly FOUR HOURS. The tot, who had a fever after a minor burn, died from blood poisoning 30 minutes after going for tests. His father Zia, 37, told an inquest: "We were treated as though there was nothing wrong with him. "Every time a doctor came past, Ahil was getting progressively weaker. But nobody took notice of his deteriorating condition. "We were made to feel we were making a nuisance. One doctor told me they were all busy. "The only time I felt a sense of urgency was during resuscitation." Mr Islam told how Ahil scalded his neck, chest and arm with tea. The boy was first taken to Watford General's A&E unit. He was transferred to the burns unit at Mount Vernon Hospital, at Northwood, Middlesex, and discharged after treatment. Over the next two days he had a fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. As Ahil worsened, Zia and wife Nazmeen went back with him to Mount Vernon where he was kept in overnight. The following morning doctors decided he needed emergency treatment and he was sent back to Watford in an ambulance with flashing blue lights arriving at about 11am. After being kept waiting in an A&E corridor for 90 minutes, Ahil was seen by the Senior House Officer. The doctor said he might have a chest infection and sent him for X-rays. But by then, the child was slipping in and out of consciousness. In the next hour his breathing slowed. He went for tests at 2.15pm and died at 2.45. Mr Islam told an inquest at Hatfield: "When I arrived I asked why Ahil was in the waiting area. He was crying. "Before anyone could see him properly, he was suffering from extreme diarrhoea. As time progressed he got worse. My wife and I couldn't calm him down. We were getting desperate. Obviously I didn't do everything possible. I didn't shout at people and create a fuss to get someone to see him. "If I'd done that, we might not be sitting here today." Outside the hearing Mr Islam told how Nazmeen - also mum of Adil, six - was still stricken by Ahil's death. The IT consultant, of Watford, said: "Her whole life revolved around him. She wakes up in the middle of night, crying. It's very traumatic. "We were sitting in a modern hospital with medication in a cupboard not far away yet nothing was given to Ahil. Human beings make mistakes. But we want the people responsible for our son to be held accountable for what happened." Mount Vernon plastic surgeon Paul Cussons told the inquest: "Children can go from being unwell to mortally ill in a very short period of time." He said that by 8am of the day he died, Ahil would have had only a 50/50 chance of survival. He added: "It might have been substantially worse. Even if he'd been seen immediately he might not have survived." The hospital has admitted liability for the affair. The inquest continues. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=%2Dmy-son-is-dead-because-doctors-were-too-busy-to-see-him%2D%26method=full%26objectid=18526470%26siteid=94762-name_page.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MUJAHID BAGS BIGOT AND ''ARMENIAN GENOCIDE'' MYTH-MAKER
MUJAHID BAGS BIGOT AND ''ARMENIAN GENOCIDE'' MYTH-MAKER Assalamu aleikum. "The clean blood which will take the place of the poisoned blood emptied from the Turks belongs to the noble vein of the Armenians in Armenia." - Hrant Dink In addition to being a bigot, Dink was an admitted propagator of the "Armenian genocide" myth and his words above display his sick motivation. Please note that 2 articles follow: *Istanbul court: Journalist Hrant Dink's words conflict with Ataturk's *Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of "Aqos" newspaper published in Turkey in Armenian language, was killed --- (1) Istanbul court: Journalist Hrant Dink's words conflict with Ataturk's Hurriyet 20 Ekim 2005 http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/3411875_p.asp The six month jail sentence handed down to Armenian journalist Hrant Dink following an article he wrote for the bilingual Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper in Istanbul was confirmed in a 5 page statement released yesterday from Istanbul court which convicted him. Dink's article in the Agos newspaper included the line "The clean blood which will take the place of the poisoned blood emptied from the Turks belongs to the noble vein of the Armenians in Armenia." This line is also a play on a line from "Nutuk," a famous speech given by Ataturk. Nutuk: Freedom of thought and speech have their limits The 5 page statement from Sisli's 2nd Chamber Court, includes a passage from "Nutuk." This passage is one in which Ataturk attests that freedom of thought and speech are not limitless, and that everything has its own limits. A part of the decision from the Sisli Court is as follows: The defendant said Turkish blood was "poisoned" "Every part of these lands has been drenched in blood. Ataturk knew that this land had been saved by this blood, and thus told the youth of the country that the strength of the land was owed to this blood. The defendant, however, has expressed that this blood is "poisoned." This is disrespectful to Turkish ancestors, fallen soldiers, and the shared values of the people." The Hrant Dink case has caused concern among many viewers, especially in light of the newly started EU accession talks for Turkey, with more focus being given to the state of human rights in Turkey. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/3411875_p.asp --- (2) Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of "Aqos" newspaper published in Turkey in Armenian language, was killed Azeri-Press Information Agency 19 Jan. 2007 http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=19462 Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of "Aqos" newspaper published in Turkey in Armenian language, was killed, APA Turkey bureau reports. The incident happened today in front of the editorial office. Unknown persons fired on editor-in-chief for four times. Dink died in the site. Though Hrant Dink was known as the defender of Armenians, he criticized the approval of the law that demanded the punishment of those who deny false "Armenian genocide". /APA/ http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=19462
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] KHUTBAH: OPENING A NEW CHAPTER IN THE NEW YEAR
KHUTBAH: OPENING A NEW CHAPTER IN THE NEW YEAR Opening A New Chapter In The New Year Friday Sermon Islamic Religious Council of Singapore 19 January 2007 / 29 Zulhijjah 1427 http://www.muis.gov.sg/cms/uploadedFiles/PortalSG/Community/Khutbah/E07Jan19-Opening%20a%20New%20Chapter%20in%20the%20New%20Year.doc Dear brothers rahimakumullah, Let us be pious and righteous and achieve the true meaning of Taqwa. The kind of Taqwa that gets stronger as and when we follow the true teachings of Islam, by abstaining from all of which Allah has forbidden, and by performing all that He has commanded. Maasyiral Muslimin rahimakumullah, Today is the final day of 1427 Hijriyah. Tomorrow, we will be welcoming the new year of the Islamic Hijrah calendar; year 1428. Days seem to pass us by so quickly. Months and years change. We age and get older. And as we get older, the further away we get from out birthdates. The closer we get to our graves. Therefore, I call upon myself and to all my fellow brothers to not waste any more time and seek forgiveness from Allah s.w.t. Start doing more good deeds while refraining from the bad ones. Have a good preparation to face the long and lonely road of life after death, in your very own grave, in the `alam barzakh' and the field of mahsyar. Before we finally reach to the final destination of either heaven or hell. One day, some of the Prophets' companions saw the Prophet s.a.w. lying down and sleeping on a piece of rough mat. And when he woke up, the markings on his body from the rough mat that he slept on was visibly clear on his back. Some of the companions volunteered and offered to get a more comfortable place for the Prophet PBUH to sleep on. And this was what the Prophet s.a.w. had to say: "I am not longing for worldly pleasures. I am like a traveler, who is taking a short rest under a tree. And in a while, I shall be leaving this place to continue my journey." That was how the Prophet PBUH described our life here on earth, as a temporary stopover. Let us all take notice of this Hadith, and realize that we will not be here on earth forever. One day soon, we will all be leaving it. We shall return to our Creator, Allah s.w.t., all by ourselves, with no wealth or family. There will be no one and nothing to accompany us, except all of our own good deeds and rewards. So let us increase our efforts in performing more good deeds. And also, let us contribute more, so that all of these deeds will accompany us when we are alone in the darkness of our own grave. And may it accompany us all the way to heaven insyaAllah, aameen. My fellow respected brothers in Islam, In the midst of all our anxiety and excitement to increase our amal soleh, do not forget that the kind of amal soleh that brings us rewards are not only limited to the rituals that we usually know of, such as prayer, fasting, donating, reciting the holy Quran and many others. But, what are also considered as amal soleh are also those which are being done for the benefit of others. Let us listen and concentrate to the following Hadith: Which means: Whoever helps to solve the hardship of a fellow mu'min here on earth, Allah will help him release all of his hardships in the hereafter, and whoever simplifies a problem faced by a fellow mu'min, Allah shall help him simplify his matters in the hereafter, and whoever covers up the shame of a fellow Muslim, Allah will cover up all of his shames in the hereafter. Allah s.w.t will constantly help His slave, so long as the slave is constantly helping his fellow brother (Hadith narrated by Muslim) The Hadith that I just read is very clear in explaining to us the kinds of rewards which await those who contribute and lend a helping hand to their fellow brothers and to the community at large. Because Islam is not a religion which is merely based on rituals alone. Islam also is not a religion of individuality. It is in fact a way of life that is holistic and covers more than just rituals. It has been set by Allah s.w.t. as such so that humans may leave harmoniously together. Assisting those who are in need, with no preferences of religion or race, by overlooking such matters; and this includes the message that was in the Hadith I read earlier. This is the passion of contribution that is encouraged by Islam. And this passion to help and contribute would be much better if it is accompanied by pure values, great character and akhlaq. We have an excellent example in the form of our Beloved Prophet s.a.w. Allah s.w.t. says in the Holy Quran, surah al-Qalam, verse 4: Which means: Behold, indeed, you have a sublime character. Without a doubt, the Prophet PBUH should be a role model to all of us. And the command from Allah s.w.t. to follow and imitate the character and doings of our Prophet s.a.w. can be found in surah al-Ahzab, verse 21: Which means: Verily, in the Messenger of Allah you have a good example, for everyone who looks forward with hope to Allah and the Last Day
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH TO WORLD'S MALARIA KIDS: DROP DEAD
DAJJAL BUSH TO WORLD'S MALARIA KIDS: DROP DEAD >From the Executive Director's Desk... In the Fight to end Malaria Broken Promises Create Suffering Children By Rev. John L. McCullough, Executive Director and CEO, Church World Service Reuters 20 Dec 2006 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/284081/116664030933.htm December 20, 2006 As the Christmas season approaches, our thoughts turn to the birth of a special child and the tremendous impact that this one life has had on the world. What gifts and talents are being denied the world today when millions of children in developing countries do not live to see their fifth birthday? In this piece we examine one of the leading causes of those deaths - malaria - and how easy it could be to end this scourge. Biblical Reflection "What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' And he answered, 'I will not'; but later he changed his mind and went. The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Matthew 21: 28-31 Government budgets are one of the most tangible and telling expressions of a nation's values. Each new year -- as the president and Congress begin the process of deciding our nation's spending - our elected officials have an opportunity to make financial decisions that more authentically reflect who we are as a people and the vision and values we hold in common. Sometimes it is a question of how our elected officials choose to allocate funds. Sometimes it involves holding our officials accountable to financial promises made. This parable from Matthew came to mind as I think about how the U.S. government has dealt with malaria - one of the world's deadliest diseases, but also one of the most preventable, and one of the easiest and cheapest to treat. In June 2005, President George W. Bush launched his Presidential Malaria Initiative (PMI). He promised a U.S. contribution to global malaria efforts of $1.2 billion dollars spread over five years. However, the amount the President's Malaria Initiative actually spent this fiscal year on malaria was $30 million - far less than the $230 million that one might expect based on Mr. Bush's promise of 1.2 billion over five years. Furthermore, it turns out that the financial assumptions behind the PMI's $1.2 billion involve slowly rolling out a program - finding and spending most of the money in later years - after President Bush has already left office. Such a slow roll out may be the way to go for other diseases, but with malaria, immediate access to inexpensive commodities will successfully prevent and treat the disease. Moreover, the U.S. fair share of total malaria expenditures needed - which is estimated by the World Health Organization to be approximately 3.1 billion annually for prevention and treatment -- is roughly $1 billion per year. (The U.S. economy is about one-third of the total global economy). The Disease That Robs Us of Our Future Every year between 300 million and 500 million people are bitten by the Anopheles mosquito that carries the malaria parasite. More than one million people die from the disease each year - with the vast majority being children. In Africa, malaria is the leading cause of death for children under five. In fact, one African child dies every 30 seconds from it - some 800,000 a year. Those who survive a severe case of malaria may suffer from learning disabilities or other forms of brain damage. Additionally, pregnant women who contract the disease are at particular risk for anemia and giving birth to underweight babies, and children who suffer from malnutrition. These children are more likely to die from malaria because their bodies are already weaker. Malnutrition also makes it more difficult to diagnose the disease because it disguises its symptoms. Malaria is an economic justice issue for families and nations. Families living in extreme poverty cannot afford the simple measures like sleeping under bed nets or taking medicine to prevent or treat malaria. Furthermore, a family's status may become more precarious if an adult falls ill - losing income and/or precious time and energy for planting and cultivating food crops. Economists have noted that malaria is a major deterrent to development. It puts the brakes on growth. The World Health Organization points out that there is now a clear "prosperity gap" between countries with and without malaria - and the gap is growing bigger every year. In Africa, malaria related illness and death cost the continent's economy $12 billion per year. What Is Required In a world where problems and their solutions are often complex and expensive, malaria offers us the possibility of a relatively easy success. Bed nets from the World Health Organization cost $2- $5, yet, presently only 2 to 5 percent of African children sleep under them. ACT -
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] IS DAJJAL BUSH THE FATHER OF A SHREVEPORT CHIMPANZEE?
IS DAJJAL BUSH THE FATHER OF A SHREVEPORT CHIMPANZEE? Assalamu aleikum. For photos of the primate suspect: http://bushorchimp.com/ President George W. Bush discusses Social Security in Shreveport, La., Friday, March 11, 2005. "When people -- when a person owns something, they have a vital stake in the future of the country," said the President talking about personal savings accounts. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/social-security/photoessay/200503/11.html --- Baby chimpanzee arrives naturally at Chimp Haven Newborn comes despite males having had vasectomies By Teddy Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shreveport Times January 17, 2007 http://shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/NEWS01/301170001 - photos: Newborn Tracy with her mother, a wild-born chimpanzee in her late 40s named Teresa, and a chimpanzee named Rita at Chimp Haven in southwest Caddo. (Undated photo submitted by Chimp Haven) http://cmsimg.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=D9&Date=20070117&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=301170001&Ref=AR&MaxW=375 Map of Chimp Haven http://cmsimg.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=D9&Date=20070117&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=301170001&Ref=V1&MaxW=375 A closeup of newborn Tracy at her mother's breast. (Undated photo submitted by Chimp Haven) http://cmsimg.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=D9&Date=20070117&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=301170001&Ref=V2&MaxW=375 - Despite birth control steps taken among its residents, all retired, Chimp Haven is home to a newborn. Teresa, a wild-born chimpanzee in her late 40s, delivered a baby girl Jan. 8, Chimp Haven announced Tuesday, eight days after the birth. Mother and daughter, named Tracy, are alert and well. The father's identity is unknown. All male chimpanzees receive vasectomies before they arrive at the sanctuary in southwest Caddo. A Chimp Haven news release dated Tuesday says information for paternity testing is being gathered "to determine who the father is, so that we can address the vasectomy failure immediately." Local philanthropist and major donor William Robinson will provide costs for the care of Tracy, the 11th baby born to Teresa but her first in 13 years and her first since entering retirement in the sanctuary near Keithville. Upkeep costs average about $5,000 per year per resident. Tracy's arrival makes 90 chimps at the haven; she is the only one not in retirement. Chimp Haven officials were hesitant to release the information until they were "sure mom and baby were doing fine," said Rick DelaHaya, the organization's public relations manager. Had the birth or first week of life resulted in complications or death, DelaHaya said, Chimp Haven "probably would have" released that information. It is not unusual for females to have babies at Teresa's age, he said; behaviorists at Chimp Haven are aware of a female in captivity giving birth at age 60. Males can reproduce into their 50s, DelaHaya said. Also, unplanned pregnancies have happened at other retirement homes, despite the males having had vasectomies, he said. Chimp Haven personnel "suspected in late fall" that Teresa might be pregnant but were still "kind of surprised" by last week's birth, he said, "because of the age of Teresa ... plus the males all had vasectomies." A timeline of determining the father is uncertain but "they've narrowed it down to three or four of the seven males in that group because of their interest in the female," DelaHaya said. Blood and hair samples are being collected from the males and will be collected from the baby, he said. A special ceremony is not planned for the father once paternity is discovered, DelaHaya said when asked. "I think the ceremony will be that particular male having another procedure. Doesn't sound like much fun, but we do what we have to do." http://shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/NEWS01/301170001
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] TRAITOR MUSHARRAF DISAPPEARS HUNDREDS OF OPPONENTS
TRAITOR MUSHARRAF DISAPPEARS HUNDREDS OF OPPONENTS Relatives and rights group search for Pakistan's missing State agencies fall under suspicion By Salman Masood IHT Sunday, January 14, 2007 http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=4195692 - photo: Amina Masood Janjua, with her children, led a protest in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, against the disappearance of men like her husband, who is thought to be in government detention. The police stopped the rally and confiscated photos of the missing men. ( Faisal Mahmood/Reuters ) http://img.iht.com/images/2007/01/14/web.0114pakistan550.jpg - RAWALPINDI, Pakistan Amina Masood Janjua has been fighting for some word on the fate of her husband since he vanished from a bus station here in July 2005. In recent months, she and her two teenage sons and 11-year-old daughter have begun a campaign of court petitions, protests and news releases. More than 30 families of other missing men have joined her, all seeking to locate what they and human rights groups say are hundreds of people who have disappeared into the hands of the country's feared intelligence agencies in the last few years. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent group, estimates that 400 citizens have been abducted and been detained across the country since 2001. Amnesty International says many have been swept up in a campaign against people suspected of being extremists and terrorists. But some here also charge that the government is using the pretext of the war on terror to crack down on political opponents. In addition to some with ties to extremist groups, those missing include critics of the government, nationalists, journalists, scientists, researchers, and social and political workers, the groups say. Janjua says she has compiled a list of 115 missing persons and believes the list could grow as more families gain the courage to come out in the open. Pakistani officials deny any involvement in extrajudicial detentions or any knowledge of the men's whereabouts. This week a Supreme Court judge nonetheless ordered the government to speed up the process of finding 41 men listed as missing by Janjua and her supporters after the court took up their cases in an unprecedented decision in October. At the court hearing Jan. 8, the government acknowledged that it had located 25 of the 41 men listed by Janjua, "who are now free," according to Nasir Saeed Sheikh, the deputy attorney general, though it refused to say from where they had been released. Janjua and others said the men were held in detention centers and safe houses of military intelligence, though most of those freed were reluctant to talk about their experiences. Janjua said that only 18 persons had actually been freed. Her husband, Masood Ahmed Janjua, 45, an educator and businessman, was not among them. Sheikh told the court that, according to a report by the Interior Ministry, all intelligence agencies had denied detaining Janjua. I.A. Rahman, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said the government was using the cover of a war on terrorism to flout the law. "Unstable states like Pakistan are taking full advantage of 'war on terror,'" Rahman said. He said the government was using the anti-terror campaign to crack down on its opponents and critics, especially in Baluchistan, where government forces are fighting a nationalist insurrection. "It is correct that many of those arrested or detained were connected with Al Qaeda or extremist organizations," he said. "But a number of people have been taken into custody whose only crime seems to be that they are nationalists in Baluchistan or Sindh. In Baluchistan, there is no Al Qaeda activity," he said. In cases that are brought before a court, he noted, a government denial of detention basically finishes a habeas corpus petition. "It was only in the end of 2006 that the Supreme Court said the government must find out where are these people," he said. While many of those missing persons are alleged to have links to, or involvement in, extremist or terrorist activities, many among them are innocent, the relatives said. Majid Khan, 26, a computer engineer, disappeared from of Karachi, a southern port city, four years ago and is now in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, his wife, Rabiya Majid, said. "We don't why he was arrested," she said. Janjua, too, says she has no clue as to why her husband disappeared. The Janjua family lives in Rawalpindi, in the neighborhood of Westridge, a relatively well-off enclave inhabited mostly by active and retired military officers. Before his disappearance, Janjua's husband, who holds a bachelor's degree in marine engineering, was working as managing director of a private institute, the College of Information and Technology, here. He was also running a travel agency and involved in charity work, his wife said. "He had no links with any extremist organization," Janjua said, though she acknowledged that he worked "off and on" with Tablighi Jamaat. The
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ZOTOV: USAMA BIN LADEN REMAINS POPULAR
ZOTOV: USAMA BIN LADEN REMAINS POPULAR Assalamu aleikum. It should be noted that the Pravda article below falsely assumes that Usama bin Laden was somehow involved with 9/11. No doubt, dajjal Bush's propaganda has convinced many of that, even though no credible evidence has ever emerged in support of that position. The most likely 9/11 villains remain the zionist Mossad or Dajjal Bush and his cronies based both on evidence and on the answer to the question "Who benefits?" (cui bono). It is worth adding, however, that the Bush propaganda has ultimately backfired, with many now expressing support for 9/11 precisely because Bush attributed it to Usama bin Laden. --- Arabs' love for US pop music and junk food cannot change their hatred towards USA Georgy Zotov Translated by Guerman Grachev Pravda 15.01.2007 http://english.pravda.ru/print/world/asia/86421-Arabs_USA-0 Osama bin Laden enjoys popularity with both the poor and the rich in the Arab world "You've got to understand that those people are heroes. Street poets compose verses glorifying their courage. Those Muslims would long have been canonized if our governments hadn't sold out for the Americans," said a man dressed in white as he sipped at his coffee, which was served in a handmade silver cup. "Those martyrs sacrificed their lives for our happiness by launching a preemptive strike against America. The operation was an act of self-defense. Take a look at Iraq and Afghanistan: the infidels invaded those countries, spilling lots of blood of the innocent ones," added he. The conversation took place in a fancy restaurant in Doha, the capital of an oil-producing emirate of Qatar. I was speaking with a prosperous Saudi businessman who arrived in Doha to cut a deal with a U.S. company. The businessman was referring to the "heroes" who carried out a large-scale massacre in New York on September 11, 2001. The Saudi businessman did not look like a bloodthirsty extremist ready to detonate a bomb. On the contrary, he looked rather elegant in his custom-made clothes. He drummed his fingers studded with diamond rings on the table as he calmly spoke about his brother who had gone to Iraq to fight against the Americans about a month ago. His son wants to follow suit but he has no combat experience, and therefore he is going to join the army to become duly trained for the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. "Osama is well above all the saints for us" Poverty-stricken populations in countries of the Middle East are thought to be a breeding ground for Islamic terrorism. The underdeveloped nations of the Middle East are alleged to be full of envy at the West for its high standard of living. The poor would stop joining terrorist organizations and begin building democracy in Western style once they become rich, according to some analysts. Well, the theory holds water to a certain extent. I remember an angry crowd of Afghans in a refugee camp in Peshawar shouting at the top of their voices: "Osama bin Laden is our father! The Americans believe he is a murderer but we see him as a saint, he is well above all the saints for us! Osama is digging water wells for us, he is buying medicine for our women, and he is giving away food to our children. He is a real Muslim, and we're ready to die for him!" No matter how paradoxical it may appear, bin Laden's popularity in the richest states of the Gulf region is even higher Qatar is a tiny monarchy that is absolutely loaded. It has vast reserves of oil and gas and a population of about half the million people. There are four foreign workers for each Qatari; two million foreign nationals work as taxi drivers, road sweepers and construction workers. A workday lasts five hours; offices empty in the afternoon. Doha is a beautiful city with lots of fountains and carefully planted palms along the wide avenues. Shortly after the start of the Iraqi war, U.S. military stationed in Qatar were instructed to refrain from wearing uniform in the street. "It's best to look like regular tourists, without causing enmity of a local population," read the orders. The Americans had never enjoyed much popularity with the people of the wealthy emirate in the past. Lately the overall attitude toward the U.S. has become a downright hatred. The 9/11 hijackers are privately referred to as the Magnificent 19, a local pun on the Hollywood classic Magnificent Seven. Although the possession of the pictures of those people can land one in jail, many a citizen keep the pictures (featuring the hijackers with the WTO Towers on fire at the background) at home next to the Koran. "Mullah Omar has a penchant for the Hammer" "To say that only the poor fight for Islam is complete bull," said Muhammad, the owner of a shopping mall in Doha. "All of those nineteen heroes were born into very well-off families, they had everything in their lives yet they opted to die for the sake of the people. Lots of our businessmen, store proprietors and even military officers left
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ETHIOPIA'S STOOGES SHUT DOWN SOMALI MEDIA
ETHIOPIA'S STOOGES SHUT DOWN SOMALI MEDIA Deadly clashes in Mogadishu, govt silences broadcasters AFP Jan 15, 2007 http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/070115134710.uhllpktv.html Somali gunmen battled government and Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu's heaviest fighting since the ouster of hardline Islamists last month as the fledgling adminstration silenced four broadcasters for allegedly fomenting unrest. At least two people died Monday in a gunbattle between forces and rebels in southern Mogadishu, the Islamists' traditional stronghold, while a policeman was gunned down when a gang raided a cache of weapons he was guarding. The deaths underscored the scale of the task facing President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed's weak interim government, which was only able to supplant the Islamists with the aid of the Ethiopians. As many Somalis seethe at the presence of Ethiopian troops on their streets, Addis Adaba tried to explain its intervention to other African states and urge them to help make a planned peacekeeping force a reality. Witnesses said rockets and mortar shells were used in the overnight battle. "After the fighting, I saw two bodies, both of them men killed near a pasta factory," said Munina Ismail. "An explosive that was thrown at the vehicle left many casualties, but I do not know how many," said Mohamoud Aden, said another local resident in the area which has been the scene of a number of ambushes of troops in recent days. The exchanges dragged on for up to an hour before a joint force of government troops and Ethiopian soldiers brought the situation under control. In the second incident, gunmen raided a nearby police station in Huriwa neighbourhood, gunning down an officer and stealing three rifles. Ethiopian troops and tanks then arrived, sealing off the area and searching houses for weapons. Parliament approved the imposition of martial law at the weekend, giving the security forces wide-ranging powers. In a sign of the government's willingness to flex its muscles, it ordered the Qatar-based satellite television network Al-Jazeera and Mogadishu radio stations Shabelle Radio, Radio HornAfrik and Voice of the Koran radio off the air. The move drew immediate criticism but government spokesman Abduraman Dinari insisted the step was not aimed at curtailing freedom of speech. "Their coverage is instigating violence in Somalia," he told Mogadishu's Simba Radio, which was not hit by the order. "We are not undermining the freedom of expression, we are ensuring the security of the Somali people. Efforts by the government to assert its authority have been met with scepticism in a country without effective central authority since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre triggered incessant clashes between warlords. Residents said the overnight fighting was the heaviest since the Islamists, which had managed to restore order during six months in control in Mogadishu, fled on December 28. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi wants to pull out his troops but only Uganda has so far volunteered soldiers for a prospective 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force. Wary of becoming bogged down in a quagmire, Meles dispatched officials to 13 African states to seek support for the force and outline his reasons for the intervention. Leaders would be asked "to extend necessary support to make use of the good opportunity that would ensure peace and security in Somalia," said a government statement. The transitional government was formed in Kenya in 2004 but was only able to go to Mogadishu when the Ethiopians intervened. While the government claims the Islamists are a spent force, their fighters are believed to be regrouping in Mogadishu for a guerrilla war. Apart from the threat from the Islamists, the government also has to bring about a disarming of militias that has been agreed to by the warlords. Dinari said a mayor whose appointment was rejected by the warlords 18 months ago would now take up his post. "The president has appointed Adde Ali Hassan as the mayor of Mogadishu to try and overcome the security problem." http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/070115134710.uhllpktv.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] AMNESTY INT'L: U.S. AND PARTNERS IN CRIME MUST END TORTURE
AMNESTY INT'L: U.S. AND PARTNERS IN CRIME MUST END TORTURE Assalamu aleikum. "It is time the US and its partners in crime ended this web of secrecy and abuse." --- Hold trials or set free detainees JOSEF ROY BENEDICT, Executive director, Amnesty International, Malaysia New Straits Times 15 Jan 2007 http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Monday/Letters/20070115084404/Article/index_html ON the fifth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre on Jan 11 this year, Amnesty International called on the United States to close the prison camp once and for all. We also called for all detainees to be given a fair trial without further delay or be released. No individual can be placed outside the protection of the rule of law and no government can hold itself above the rule of law. The US government must end this travesty of justice. Equally, it is not enough for world leaders to express concern over Guantanamo but carry on business as usual with the US. The international community must actively press the US to close Guantanamo and restore respect for international law. Guantanamo has come to symbolise the hollowness of the US government's promise that respect for human dignity and the rule of law would lie at the heart of its response to the attacks of Sept 11, 2001. Torture, humiliation, discrimination, bypassing of the courts and disregard for treaty obligations, with almost total impunity, are all now among the entries in the Guantanamo log book. The first of more than 750 detainees of 45 nationalities arrived at the base on Jan 11, 2002. Detainees have included children as young as 13, people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and scores of individuals handed over to the US from Pakistan or Afghanistan. Five years on, nearly 400 people are being held in Guantanamo. None has been tried. None has appeared in court. All are unlawfully held. None of them knows for how long they will be there, itself a form of psychological abuse in addition to the physical abuse meted out to detainees. The CIA is known to have operated an interrogation facility at Guantanamo, although the agency's activities remain shrouded in secrecy. Amnesty International has raised allegations with the US authorities that agents of other countries, including China and Libya, have been in the base and participated in the ill-treatment. Some of the detainees have been held in CIA-run secret prisons in other parts of the world before being transported to Guantanamo. Guantanamo is a central hub in the web of secret prison sites run by the US, with the complicity of other governments, in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere. It is time the US and its partners in crime ended this web of secrecy and abuse. http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Monday/Letters/20070115084404/Article/index_html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAILY MIRROR PLANTS FAKE BOMB ON 1/5 KILOTON MUNITION TRAIN
DAILY MIRROR PLANTS FAKE BOMB ON 1/5 KILOTON MUNITION TRAIN EXCLUSIVE: MIRROR EXPOSES APPALLING AMMO SECURITY By Tom Parry Daily Mirror 15 January 2007 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=exclusive%2D-mirror-exposes-appalling-ammo-security%26method=full%26objectid=18470907%26siteid=94762-name_page.html - photo: "This train is loaded with 200 tonnes of artillery shells, bullets, grenades and mortars, and I've just planted a BOMB' " A MIRROR journalist holds a fake bomb as he stands by an unguarded train filled with Army explosives - exposing a horrifying security blunder. http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/m2/jan2007/3/1/256F9282-A9D6-67B2-366D5C7F5B39B1CE.jpg - Mirror exposes appalling ammo security The MoD train, containing up to 200 tons of artillery shells, bullets, grenades and mortars for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, was in a supposedly high-security yard plastered with "keep out" signs. But undercover reporter Tom Parry and photographer Roger Allen were able to walk off the mainline platform at Didcot Parkway station, Oxfordshire, and wander over to the train as it waited in sidings. Neither man had ID papers but merely wore rail worker-style orange overalls and hard hats - easily available at any hardware store. Entrance to the yard is meant to be strictly restricted by a security gate which can only be opened by using an access code that is frequently changed. Parry and Allen bypassed the system by strolling off the platform, crossing the main rail line which is virtually unused in the early hours and strolling into the yard with their fake detonator. Several contractors and drivers were milling around - but they barely glanced at the Mirror pair. The train, which had stopped en route to a Royal Navy transport ship in Marchwood, Hants, was left exposed for more than an hour. During that time Parry and Allen were not questioned once about who there were or why they hanging around the train. A railway source said: "It is breathtakingly easy to get close to the ammo trains, a walk across the tracks from the platform and you're there. People would assume it is the most closely-guarded train in the land but in fact it's just like any other freight train. "If someone wanted to sabotage it or hold up the military supply line, they wouldn't need to overpower anyone." MPs yesterday said the Mirror's investigation had shown the ammo trains were scandalously vulnerable. Lib Dem Shadow Defence Secretary Mick Harvey said: "This is a mess-up of mind-boggling proportions. It is an utter scandal that the supply chain for munitions is open to attack by anyone half-organised. The government must act immediately to ensure the trains are secured." Tory Homeland Security spokesman Patrick Mercer said: "The government has got to realise that it must take transport security and ammunition security much more seriously." Defence expert Mike Yardley said: "It is good that the Daily Mirror has called attention to this. There is always the possibility someone using an improvised explosive device could ignite one of these containers. This is an obvious terror target." The revelation comes less than six months after the Mirror told how trains carrying deadly nuclear waste to Sellafield were at risk of terrorist attack after being left similarly unguarded at stations. A steady flow of military vehicles, tanks and back-up supplies passes through Didcot. The cargo our team targeted on Friday originated at Scotland's Glen Douglas military depot. Glen Douglas is NATO's largest weapons base in Europe, with a 40,000 square metre storage capacity for explosives. It is used by the armed forces to stock ammunition during major conflicts and is also home to Trident nuclear submarines. The train paused at Carlisle then Wigan, Warrington, Crewe and Walsall. It pulled into Didcot on time at 4.26am. After leaving the yard the train was scheduled to go through Reading, Basingstoke and Winchester. A bomb timed to explode in any of these densely-populated areas could cause unimaginable carnage. In June 1944 Soham, Cambs, was devastated when fire on an ammunition train detonated two five ton bombs. Two men died. A year later, an ammo wagon exploded near Bootle, Merseyside, leaving a 45ft deep crater. English, Welsh and Scottish Railway, the freight company contracted to the MOD, now faces an inquiry over the security lapse. The MoD said: "We have already taken up this issue with EWS." A company spokesman added: "EWS will conduct a review of its operational arrangements and security procedures. If sensible enhancements can be made, these will be implemented." [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=exclusive%2D-mirror-exposes-appalling-ammo-security%26method=full%26objectid=18470907%26siteid=94762-name_page.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] IRAN: US, UK & ZIONISTS = AXIS OF EVIL
IRAN: US, UK & ZIONISTS = AXIS OF EVIL Iran Guard says U.S., Britain, Israel "axis of evil" Reuters Sun Jan 14, 2007 http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-01-14T185042Z_01_BLA466529_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-USA.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-3 TEHRAN (Reuters) - The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday the United States, Britain and Israel were an "axis of evil" trying to drive a wedge between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims. President Bush originally labeled Iran, North Korea and Iraq -- before U.S. troops invaded -- as part of an "axis of evil". Washington accuses Iran of backing terrorism and trying to build atomic bombs, charges Tehran denies. "America, Britain and the Zionist regime (Israel) are an axis of evil against the Islamic world and the whole of humanity," Guards Commander-in-Chief Yahya Rahim Safavi was quoted as saying by Iran's student news agency ISNA. "They are trying to make enmity among Islamic countries and to make divisions among Shi'ites and Sunnis," he said. Reuters Pictures Photo Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow He was echoing comments by other Iranian officials who have accused Washington of stoking sectarian tensions in Iraq where the majority of Iraqis are Shi'ite Muslims, like most Iranians. Washington blames Iran for fuelling violence in Iraq. "Our powerful country does not worry about American and Zionist regime threats and in case of any kind of attack by intruders, we are able to defeat them," he added. A British newspaper this month said Israel had drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities -- the part of Iran's nuclear program that most worries the West -- using tactical nuclear weapons. Israel would not comment on the story, which touched on its assumed atomic arsenal. The United States has said it wants to resolve Iran's nuclear dispute with West diplomatically, but has refused to rule out using force if diplomacy fails. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-01-14T185042Z_01_BLA466529_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-USA.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-3
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ABANDON WORTHLESS U.S. DOLLAR
CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ABANDON WORTHLESS U.S. DOLLAR Assalamu aleikum. "The rising role of the euro comes amid growing issuance by debt-laden European governments. However, the main factor is a rise in euro-denominated issuance by companies and financial institutions." --- Euro displaces dollar in bond markets By David Oakley and Gillian Tett in London The Financial Times January 14, 2007 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/572b41a6-a414-11db-bec4-779e2340.html The euro has displaced the US dollar as the world's pre-eminent currency in international bond markets, having outstripped the dollar-denominated market for the second year in a row. The data consolidate news last month that the value of euro notes in circulation had overtaken the dollar for the first time. Outstanding debt issued in the euro was worth the equivalent of $4,836bn at the end of 2006 compared with $3,892bn for the dollar, according to International Capital Market Association data. Outstanding euro-denominated debt accounts for 45 per cent of the global market, compared with 37 per cent for the dollar. New issuance last year accounted for 49 per cent of the global total. That represents a startling turnabout from the pattern seen in recent decades, when the US bond market dwarfed its European rival: as recently as 2002, outstanding euro-denominated issuance represented just 27 per cent of the global pie, compared with 51 per cent for the dollar. The rising role of the euro comes amid growing issuance by debt-laden European governments. However, the main factor is a rise in euro-denominated issuance by companies and financial institutions. One factor driving this is that European companies are moving away from their traditional reliance on bank loans and embracing the capital markets to a greater degree. Another is that the creation of the single currency in 1999 has permitted development of a deeper and more liquid market, consolidated by a growing eurozone. This has made it more attractive for issuers around the world to raise funds in the euro market. And, more recently, the trend among some Asian and Middle Eastern countries to diversify their assets away from the dollar has further boosted this trend. René Karsenti, executive president of ICMA, said: "It is the stable interest rates in Europe that have helped and the fact that [the euro] has strengthened and shown resilience." Since the start of 2003, the European Central Bank's main interest rate has fluctuated only 1.5 percentage points, ranging from a low of 2 per cent in the middle of that year to 3.5 per cent, its rate today. In comparison, the Fed funds rate, the main US interest rate, has fluctuated 4.25 percentage points, ranging from 1 per cent in the middle of 2003 to 5.25 per cent, its level today. The euro has also risen to trade around $1.30 against the dollar, from around parity three years ago. Sterling issuance has grown in the past three years, reinforcing its attraction as a niche currency among some investors. The yen, in comparison, has fallen out of favour. Overall, international capital markets have doubled in size in terms of bond issuance during the past six years. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/572b41a6-a414-11db-bec4-779e2340.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] JOHN HOWARD AN EMBARRASSMENT TO ALL AUSTRALIANS
JOHN HOWARD AN EMBARRASSMENT TO ALL AUSTRALIANS Assalamu aleikum. Recently, 10,000 voters of Australia's FHM magazine designated Little Johnny Howard, a descendant of criminal convicts, as Australia's #1 embarrassment. Now Howard is trying to deflect his personal degradation onto Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, who made the following statement: "The Anglo-Saxons arrived in Australia in shackles. We (Muslims) came as free people. We bought our own tickets. We are entitled to Australia more than they are," he said. - Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, in an interview on Egyptian television White Australians originated with the convictions for serious crimes of their morally degenerate ancestors in the UK. Serious crimes in the 18th and 19th centuries were punished by "transportation beyond the seas" (exile) from the UK to the convict colonies of Australia. This is not the first time someone has had to point this out. In 1993, when then Australian prime minister Paul Keating called then Malaysian prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamed a "recalcitrant" (Ozspeak for an unreformable naughty schoolboy) for failing to knuckle under to America-Oz backed APEC, the response from the Malaysian media clarified the reason for Keating's uncouth attack as originating in the background of Keating's nation of convicts and the resulting Australian lack of upbringing. - For more information: The degenerate whites of Australia can learn more about their debased criminal ancestry using the following url: http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/list.html Please note that 4 articles follow: *Egyptian Australian cleric scorns white western supremacist mythology here, courts big talkies *Pacific leaders accuse Australia of bullying *Defence force 'forced to recruit overseas' *Al-Hilali 'an embarassment' to Muslims - (1) Egyptian Australian cleric scorns white western supremacist mythology here, courts big talkies Sydney Alternative Media Friday, 12 January 2007 http://sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1620045 Mood: caffeinated Topic: big media Stay tuned for the usual foetid hysteria over a talk show interview last night in Egypt by the Mufti of Lakemba Mosque in Sydney while on holidays there, the night of George W Bush's big Iraq war speech. He is `a fool, mad, divisive, intolerant, a bad representative of Muslim Australians, and should be encouraged to stay overseas'. This last one from the Premier of NSW no less who well knows he is a citizen of Australia based in his own electorate of Lakemba. How's that for so called free speech, constructive deportation. For the record here is my view after a long slog gardening and just checking the major daily press and ABC tv news/7.30 Report. Speaking of which 7.30 failed miserably in their duty to report the serious news being more fallout on Iraq war speech by George Bush, preferring to go with the Hilali confected outrage. First Hilali is no fool. He surely knew his talk show interview would play back home in Oz. Second the docile indeed submissive presentation of Walid Ali (e.g. on 7.30 Report, a favoured media spokersperson for Muslims based in Melbourne) and similar suggested a proverbial Uncle Tom response to Hilali. Walid Ali having already 'sold out' to the big western corporate law firm down there (speaking as an ex sell out corporate lawyer myself) Walid is at risk of appearing a careerist appeaser of white supremacist status quo in Australia. Not that I blame this eloquent very bright fellow for cringing at the swingeing comments of Hilali which make life so much more difficult for Islamic loyalists: He's not here to make your life any more comfortable Mr Walid Ali, of that you can be sure. On the other hand Muslim leaders should also keep in mind that it was in Sydney in February 2003, and not Melbourne for a change, that between 250 and 500K peace marchers confronted Howard's thinly disguised white supremacist foreign (and domestic) policy. This was the peace and anti war march Howard infamously referred to as "a mob" including this writer at a peace and environment info stall under the banner "The Bush worth saving". Third there is no doubt Hilali's uncompromising views will cause trouble for younger generations of more assimilated Muslim Australians who want diplomacy, harmony and cooperation. But that still doesn't negate what Hilali has to say as awkward as it is. What we are seeing is a highly political man who rejects USA imperial foreign policy, who is old and doesn't care about who he offends amongst his enemies, especially as he is getting too tired for his demanding job now. But what he does care about is growing the Muslim pie here in Australia. He is not going to lose any votes within Islam from the existing believers no matter how troubled they feel about his style, they are rusted on faithful, but he will get some new fans. Those getting hysterical don't give Hilali near enough credit for his PR cunning. 14 days out
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH DEMANDS MUSLIM GRATITUDE FOR IRAQ !
DAJJAL BUSH DEMANDS MUSLIM GRATITUDE FOR IRAQ ! Assalamu aleikum. "I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude and I believe most Iraqi's express that." - Dajjal Bush, in his "60 Minutes" interview to be broadcast Sunday, January 14, 2007 (8-9 p.m., US Eastern/Pacific time zones) Herewith, Islamic Community Net (we're the cowboy) expresses our "huge debt of gratitude" to dajjal Bush, the "bring 'em on" antichrist of our age: http://assinthegrass2002.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/asskick.jpg Insha'Allah dajjal Bush will someday be arrested, tried, convicted and executed for his crusader genocide against Muslims the world over, including the over 600,000 shaheed in Iraq.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] KHUTBAH: IBADAH PRODUCES HONOURABLE VALUES
KHUTBAH: IBADAH PRODUCES HONOURABLE VALUES Assalamu aleikum. Note: The source url of the following khutbah is an MS WORD document. Loading may take several minutes if accessing the source url. --- IBADAH PRODUCES HONOURABLE VALUES Khutbah Jumaat Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura 12 Jan 2007 / 22 Zulhijjah 1427 http://www.muis.gov.sg/cms/uploadedFiles/PortalSG/Community/Khutbah/E07Jan12%20-%20Ibadah%20Produces%20Honourable%20Values.doc My Blessed Brothers, Let us submit to Allah S.W.T. Do we have full and complete faith in Him? Have we truly acknowledged His Greatness through His creations? Have we taught our children to glorify Him? Hopefully, with our continuous effort to strengthen our Iman and Taqwa, Allah S.W.T will increase our knowledge, knowledge that will benefit us both in this world and the world hereafter. Allah S.W.T. says surah Al-Anfal, verse 29: Meaning: " O you who have attained to faith! If you remain conscious of God. He will endow you with a standard by which to discern the true from the false, and will efface your bad deeds, and will forgive you your sins: for God is limitless in His great bounty!" My Brothers, One of the factors that makes Islam special and unique is Ibadah. Allah S.W.T says: Meaning: " And [tell them that] I have not created the Jinn and men to any end other than that they may [know and] worship Me" (Surah Az-Zariat : 56) >From the earlier mentioned Revelation, it is a clear indication that our purpose of living in this world is to worship Him or to serve Him completely. In the matters of Ibadah, the ibadah of Rasulullah S.A.W. himself was so strong that it was reported by Sayidatina Aisha R.A. that Rasulullah's S.A.W. own feet were swollen due to his long and extended prayers during the night. But is this the meaning of Ibadah that is recommended? Does ibadah only covers the prayers, fasting, zikir and other ritual deeds? My Brothers, The meaning and the acts of worship is vast, it includes our speech, our behaviour, in fact, every single thing that crosses our mind and heart, each of them is regarded as acts of worship to Allah, as long as they are carried out for Allah S.W.T In that sense, Ibadah in Islam, is not only carried out when we are at the mosque, ibadah in Islam is not limited to prayers, fasting, paying the alms, performing pilgrimage and under such similar acts. In fact, our entire lives are to worship to Allah and for that reason we are created. But to make our lives an act of worship, we have to ensure the ritual acts of worship that we perform produce good values; values that will benefit ourselves and the community. As an example, the prayers of Rasulullah S.A.W. He was very focused and proper but at the same time, He was also mindful of the congregation that followed Him. In fact He hastens his prayers when he heard the cries of a child for fear of burdening the mother. Witness the compassion that shone through the act of worship of the Prophet S.A.W. My Beloved Brothers, So what are the values that need to be observed in our daily acts of worship? What are the values that need to be imbued in ourselves as worshippers? First: While performing Ibadah, Islam taught us to be mindful of others, or the needs of the congregation more than our own needs. Let's take the example of prayers, Islam encourage the Ummah to perform the solat in congregations. Not only does it give us an immeasurable amount of rewards but there is also an implicit purpose. Through solat in congregations, relationships are forged. In fact, praying in congregations teaches us the importance of putting into consideration on the need of others. Second, in performing all forms of worship, we must make wise judgments. We must choose the ibadah of utmost importance from the lesser important ones. For example, ibadah that is (fard) compulsory from the ibadah that is sunnah, ibadah that benefits the society from the ibadah that will only benefit ourself. For example in life, if we owe a specific amount of money, we must hasten to settle our debt first, only then we can perform our sadakah. If we have performed the haj and the umrah several times it is more important with the money that we have, to provide assistance in the development of the Islamic Institutions that require funds. Third, the acts of worship that we perform should make us individuals who love knowledge. As Ibadah will not produce any results if it is not propagated by knowledge. In fact, the degree of those of faith with knowledge are exalted by Allah .S.W.T. Allah's S.W.T. says in the Surah Al-Mujaadalah verse 11 : Which means: "O you who have attained to faith! When you are told, "Make room for one another in your collective life", do make room: [and in return,] God will make room for you [in His grace]. And whenever you are told, "Rise up [for a good deed]", do rise up; [and] God will exalt by [many] degrees those of you who have attained to faith and, [above all,] such as have been v
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] GOOGLE MAPS HELP MUJAHIDEEN BAG POODLE MINIONS
GOOGLE MAPS HELP MUJAHIDEEN BAG POODLE MINIONS Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops' By Thomas Harding in Basra Telegraph (UK) 13/01/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/wgoogle13.xml - photo: Royal Green Jackets provide `top cover' from their Bulldog armoured vehicle outside Basra Palace http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/01/13/wgoogle13.jpg - Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources. Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google. The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory blocks and where lightly armoured Land Rovers are parked. Written on the back of one set of photographs taken of the Shatt al Arab Hotel, headquarters for the 1,000 men of the Staffordshire Regiment battle group, officers found the camp's precise longitude and latitude. advertisement "This is evidence as far as we are concerned for planning terrorist attacks," said an intelligence officer with the Royal Green Jackets battle group. "Who would otherwise have Google Earth imagery of one of our bases? "We are concerned that they use them to plan attacks. We have never had proof that they have deliberately targeted any area of the camp using these images but presumably they are of great use to them. "We believe they use Google Earth to identify the most vulnerable areas such as tents." One soldier has been killed in the past six months following a mortar attack and there have been several injuries. Since the maps were found intelligence chiefs have been keeping track of where rounds land to see if the insurgents are using them to pinpoint weakly protected areas. The British camps experience mortar and rocket attacks on a daily basis. Salvos are fired from up to four miles away and are increasingly accurate. Yesterday three rounds were fired into Basra Palace at a block close to where The Daily Telegraph was staying. No one was injured. Intelligence sources also believe that the insurgents are receiving more training and weaponry from Iran to improve their fighting skills. But the British are gathering more intelligence on mortar crews and launching several "strike operations" to detain the operators. Anyone with the internet can sign up to Google Earth and by simply typing in the name of a location they can receive very detailed imagery down to identifying types of vehicles. The company is one of several internet outlets that buy aerial imagery, usually taken by aircraft but sometimes by satellite, from governments or mapping companies. It is unclear how old the maps are but it is believed the Basra images were made within the past two years. Major Charlie Burbridge, the British military spokesman in Iraq, said: "We take the security of our bases very seriously and we constantly review the means to provide secure accommodation for our soldiers. "There is a constant threat of reconnaissance missions to access our bases and using these internet images is just another method of how this is conducted." A Google spokesman said the information could be used for "good and bad" and was available to the public in many forms. "Of course we are always ready to listen to governments' requests," he said. "We have opened channels with the military in Iraq but we are not prepared to discuss what we have discussed with them. But we do listen and we are sensitive to requests." There have also been reports that the images are being sold to rogue militias in the market place in Basra. The British security services are concerned that terrorists will be able to examine in detail sensitive infrastructure such as electricity stations, military basis, and their own headquarters in London. Soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets based at the Basra Palace base said they had considered suing Google Earth if they were injured by mortar rounds that had been directed on the camp by the aerial footage. "Even if they did blank out the areas where we are based it is a bit after the horse has bolted as the terrorist now have the maps and know exactly where we eat, sleep and go to the toilet," one soldier said. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/wgoogle13.xml
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ATTACKERS FIRE ROCKET AT EMBASSY OF A DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORIST
ATTACKERS FIRE ROCKET AT EMBASSY OF A DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORIST Attackers fire rocket at U.S. embassy in Athens By Karolos Grohmann Reuters January 12, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070112/ts_nm/greece_explosion_dc_10 ATHENS (Reuters) - Suspected leftist guerrillas fired a rocket at the U.S. embassy in Athens on Friday but no one was hurt in the blast, police and government officials said. In the most serious attack against the mission in 10 years, the small rocket launched from across the street shattered windows and woke up nearby residents in the central Athens area at 5:58 AM (0358 GMT). "There are one or two anonymous phone calls which claim that the Revolutionary Struggle was behind the attack," Public Order Minister Byron Polydoras told reporters outside the embassy. "Most likely, it is an act by local perpetrators." The leftist guerrilla group has emerged as the most serious domestic threat since the dismantling of the deadly November 17 group in 2002. It claimed an assassination attempt against Greece's culture minister in May and a bomb at the Economy Ministry which wounded two people and damaged buildings 13 months ago. "I am treating this as a very serious attack," U.S. ambassador to Athens, Charles Ries, told reporters outside the mission. "The embassy was attacked in a senseless act of violence. There were no injuries." Police said the 2.65 mm, east European-made rocket landed inside a toilet on the third floor, slightly damaging the glass facade and ceiling. No launcher has been found. ATTACK CONDEMNED "It was a huge explosion, the ground shook. I woke up and rushed to the balcony to see what happened," a local resident, who was not identified, told Greek TV. Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyanni rushed to the embassy, often the target of Greek protests and demonstrations, to meet Ries and condemn the attack. "Such acts have cost us dearly in the past," she told reporters. "The government will do everything in its power so they are not repeated." In February 1996, November 17 claimed responsibility for a rocket attack at the back of the compound, which caused minor damage to three diplomatic cars and some surrounding buildings. Once Greece's biggest security threat, the group was dismantled two years before the Athens 2004 Olympics. It had staged hundreds of bombings, shootings and rocket attacks, and killed U.S. and other foreign diplomats in Greece. Dozens of police cars surrounded the embassy and hundreds of police cordoned off roads in the area, including a boulevard in front of the mission. Police helicopters hovered overhead. The heavily guarded embassy building, surrounded by a 3-metre-high (9-feet-high) steel fence, has guards posted at every entrance and at street corners around it. In November last year, Greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators marching to the embassy, chanting slogans including "Bush the butcher, out of Iraq" and "The USA is the real terrorist." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070112/ts_nm/greece_explosion_dc_10
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: US MASSACRES IN SOMALIA
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: US MASSACRES IN SOMALIA US massacres in Somalia Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY Pravda 10.01.2007 http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/10-01-2007/86313-usmassacressolamia-0 Terrorist attacks by US military aircraft against civilians and livestock in Somalia. After the Afghan wedding slaughters and the massacre of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, innocent citizens in Somalia, grazing their sheep, become the latest victims of Washington's murderous foreign policy. No doubt winning hearts and minds again through shock and awe tactics, the US of A, true to form, managed to massacre what eye witnesses describe as large numbers of civilians and livestock with its precision weaponry this week in Somalia in a series of attacks which began on Monday. A small boy was reportedly murdered in such attacks, along with three civilians, at Hayi on Monday evening, while a Somali Government official spoke of "a lot of casualties", which were "mostly" Islamic fighters. These attacks have been confirmed by the Pentagon although subsequent attacks, reported by Somali authorities, have been refuted. Yet on Tuesday numerous eye witnesses spoke of assaults by helicopter gunships against civilian targets near Afmadow, in which 31 people were killed, including a newly-wed couple. A Somali defence spokesperson was quoted by AP as stating that these helicopters were American, although other eye witnesses said they did not have clear markings. Ostensibly aiming at Al Qaeda terrorists in the Banka Jiira area of southern Somalia, the US military aircraft, from their safe haven tens of thousands of feet up in the sky, deployed weaponry which may have hit their targets but also destroyed large swathes of territory on the ground. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/10-01-2007/86313-usmassacressolamia-0
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] FRESH MEAT FOR IRAQ
FRESH MEAT FOR IRAQ Assalamu aleikum. As Col. Oliver North recently put it so well in Human Events magazine: "Sending more U. S. combat troops is simply sending more targets." --- Bush to address US on new Iraq strategy Mark Tran and agencies Guardian Unlimited Wednesday January 10, 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1987118,00.html The first wave of additional US troops is set to arrive in Iraq at the end of the month, it was reported today, with George Bush scheduled to lay out his "new strategy" for the conflict in a televised address tonight. The president's address comes amid growing public disillusionment with his handling of the war. Most Americans oppose sending more troops, with widespread scepticism about their ability to improve the situation. Reports in the US media said the first reinforcements - around 3,500 troops - would come from the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, now in Kuwait. Congressional leaders briefed by Mr Bush said up to 20,000 extra troops would be sent to Baghdad and the western province of Anbar in an attempt to tackle the increasing insurgency. The US president is also considering turning responsibility for security in all 18 provinces over to the Iraqis by November. Only three provinces are currently under Iraqi government control. Troop increases would come in phases during the next few months, combined with "benchmarks" for the Iraqi government focusing on reconciliation between Shia and Sunni Muslims. The new plan also calls for up to $1bn (£500m) in economic aid for public works projects. In sending more troops to Iraq, Mr Bush has turned his back on the recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. The ISG report, released last month, recommended a withdrawal of most combat troops by the start of 2008 and the start of a diplomatic initiative involving holding talks with Iran and Syria. The president is also pushing ahead with military escalation despite the Republican losses in the November midterm elections that handed over control of Congress to the Democrats. The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has not asked for more US troops. In a November meeting with Mr Bush, Mr Maliki presented plans to lower the US military profile in Baghdad and increase his government's own security efforts. However, Mr Bush has concluded that more troops are vital to efforts to quell sectarian strife in Baghdad and buy time for political reconciliation and other reforms. Tonight, the president is expected to tell the US public that "we have to go up before we go down". Yesterday, he warned House Democrats that US credibility would be shattered if it withdrew its troops, forcing close ally Saudi Arabia to look elsewhere for protection and potentially destabilising Egypt, the Washington Post said. Democrats in both the House and the Senate said they would actively oppose the Bush plan. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said the chamber would debate and vote next week on a resolution opposing any increase in US troop strength in Iraq. However, to avoid accusations that they are pulling the rug from under US troops, Democrats are unlikely to go along with a plan, proposed by Senator Ted Kennedy, to withhold funding for a troop increase. Critics say the revamped US strategy, which puts an emphasis on counter-insurgency tactics, requires many more troops than envisaged, claiming a temporary increase of 20,000 or even 30,000 troops would be insufficient. In all, the US army has around 500,000 troops and the Marines around 180,000, but because of training requirements and commitments elsewhere, only a portion of those forces are available for Iraq. One analyst, TX Hammes, a retired Marine colonel who has written a book on insurgencies, described the proposed troop increase as a "dribble" rather than a surge. "If it's only 20,000 or 30,000 ... it won't work," Col Hammes told USA Today. "If we're serious about winning, we've got to talk 300,000 [total] armed coalition forces over a minimum of four years. Otherwise, don't commit more troops." The US currently has around 132,000 troops in Iraq and has suffered 3,000 military deaths since the 2003 invasion. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1987118,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] REPORT: MESHAAL BETRAYS ISLAM AND THE MUSLIMS
REPORT: MESHAAL BETRAYS ISLAM AND THE MUSLIMS Hamas leader Meshaal acknowledges Israel exists By Sean Maguire and Khaled Oweis Reuters Wed Jan 10, 2007 http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-10T171329Z_01_L10415075_RTRUKOC_0_US-PALESTINIANS-MESHAAL.xml DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Hamas acknowledges the existence of Israel but formal recognition by the group will only be considered when a Palestinian state has been created, the movement's leader Khaled Meshaal said on Wednesday. Softening a previous refusal to accept the Jewish state's existence, Meshaal said Israel was a "reality." "There will remain a state called Israel, this is a matter of fact," Meshaal said in an interview in the Syrian capital, where he lives in exile. "The problem is not that there is an entity called Israel," said Meshaal. "The problem is that the Palestinian state is non-existent." Israel and Western governments have put financial sanctions on the Hamas-led Palestinian government for refusing to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept past peace accords. The embargo has hit the Palestinian economy hard. Meshaal said Hamas would defy the Western conditions and refuse to consider formal recognition of the Jewish state until a Palestinian state was established. Changing the Hamas charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, was also a matter for the future, he said. "The distant future will have its own circumstances and positions could be determined then," he said in a wide-ranging interview. Meshaal said Hamas backed Arab demands that a Palestinian state should include Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem and that Israel should accept the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes lost in a 1967 war and before. "As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land," said Meshaal. "This is a reality but I won't deal with it in terms of recognizing or admitting it," he added. (Writing by Sean Maguire, Damascus newsroom) http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-10T171329Z_01_L10415075_RTRUKOC_0_US-PALESTINIANS-MESHAAL.xml
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ZIONISTS LOSE FAITH IN THEIR OWN LEADER
ZIONISTS LOSE FAITH IN THEIR OWN LEADER Olmert's popularity plunges Gulf Daily News 5th January 2007 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=166456&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29291 JERUSALEM: A year after Ariel Sharon's stroke abruptly propelled him into the prime minister's seat, Ehud Olmert finds himself badly out of favor and under a darkening cloud of scandal. Yesterday, the one-year anniversary of his unexpected rise to power, the Dahaf Research Institute released a poll showing that 77 per cent of the country thinks Olmert is not functioning well. Olmert long coveted the prime minister's seat. But the 61-year-old lawyer, with his acerbic tongue, was not popular with ordinary Israelis, or his political associates. Sharon's incapacitating January 4 stroke suddenly spun Olmert's political fortunes around. It landed Olmert, then vice prime minister, at Israel's helm, where he successfully won an election less than three months later. The job, however, has brought him more grief than glory. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=166456&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29291
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH MASSACRES ENTIRE SOMALI VILLAGE
DAJJAL BUSH MASSACRES ENTIRE SOMALI VILLAGE U.S. strikes at al Qaeda in Somalia, "many dead" By Guled Mohamed Reuters Tue Jan 9, 2007 http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-09T104805Z_01_L09770013_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOMALIA-CONFLICT.xml MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A U.S. attack plane killed many people with barrages of gunfire in a remote Somali village occupied by Islamists thought to be hiding at least one al Qaeda suspect, a Somali government source said on Tuesday. In the first known direct U.S. military intervention in Somalia since a failed peacekeeping mission that ended in 1994, an AC-130 plane rained gunfire on the desolate southern village of Hayo near the Kenyan border late on Monday. "I understand there are so many dead bodies and animals in the village," the senior source told Reuters. The U.S. Navy also confirmed it had moved the aircraft carrier Eisenhower to the Somali coast -- Africa's longest -- to beef up a naval cordon it had already put there as the Islamists sought refuge in the remote southern tip. "They are, with other ships, making sure that terrorists are not able to use the sea as a means of transport," said Charlie Brown, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which is based in the Gulf state of Bahrain. U.S. intelligence believes Abu Talha al-Sudani, identified in grand jury testimony against Osama bin Laden as an explosives expert from Sudan, is the leader of east Africa's al Qaeda cell and has been in and out of Somalia for over a decade. "The Americans are saying an al Qaeda member heading operations in east Africa is among the Islamists there," the source said. He did not know the man's name or whether he died. U.S., Ethiopian and Kenyan intelligence officials say some Islamists have provided shelter to a handful of al Qaeda members, including suspects in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and a 2002 hotel bombing on the Kenyan coast. Besides al-Sudani, Washington has named Comorian Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan among the al Qaeda members in Somalia. The Washington Post, quoting unnamed military sources, said al-Sudani was one target of the raid. 'PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON' Ethiopian and Somali troops have chased al-Sudani since he was leading Islamist fighters near Buur Hakaba, close to the government base Baidoa, in the early days of a war which began around Christmas, Somali government officials told Reuters. Hayo is in the southern tip of Somalia between Afmadow and Doble, areas where Ethiopian and Somali troops chased the Islamists' last remnants after ending their six-month rule of Mogadishu and most of southern Somalia in a two-week offensive. Though many have suspected an American hand in the Somali conflict, this attack is the first solid evidence of it and is in line with previous U.S. attacks targeting al Qaeda members. An unmanned Predator drone flown from the U.S. Horn of Africa counter-terrorism base in Djibouti killed an al Qaeda suspect in Yemen in 2002, and the AC-130 was almost certainly flown from there by the elite Special Operations Command. The AC-130 is a propeller-driven converted cargo plane derived from the AC-47 gunships flown in Vietnam that were known as "Puff the Magic Dragon". It has sophisticated sensors that allow it to pinpoint targets with heavy automatic cannon fire. The lumbering, 29 meter (95 foot) long plane can fire 1,800 rounds a minute from a Gatling gun and has in its arsenal a 105mm howitzer -- ordinarily a crew-fired ground artillery cannon that has to be towed by a truck. The Islamists deny any al Qaeda links, saying the accusation has been invented to justify intervention in Somalia. DISASTROUS INTERVENTION Born out of sharia courts, the Islamists took Mogadishu and much of the south in June and threatened just weeks ago to overrun Baidoa, then the only town the government controlled. Ethiopian troops with armor and air power, along with government forces, quickly pushed the Islamists from Baidoa, forced them out of their stronghold, Mogadishu, and caused them to scatter to Somalia's desolate southern edges. Hundreds of Islamist fighters are now hiding in the bushland there, while Kenya's military is trying to seal its lengthy border to prevent them escaping. Mindful of a disastrous intervention in the early 1990s -- related in the book and film "Black Hawk Down" -- Washington had until Monday not overtly involved its forces in the war. But it did receive a setback when CIA was found in April to have paid despised Mogadishu warlords to help fight the Islamists on counter-terrorism grounds, only for them to lose the city to disciplined Islamist fighters in June. The presence of troops from traditionally Christian Ethiopia has stirred both nationalist and religious fervor in mainly Muslim Somalia, with a series of protests and small attacks on Ethiopian troops in recent days. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, who on Mond
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] PATRICK BUCHANAN: WHO IS PLANNING OUR NEXT WAR?
PATRICK BUCHANAN: WHO IS PLANNING OUR NEXT WAR? Who Is Planning Our Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan Antiwar.com January 9, 2007 http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10290 As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day. Will I leave here as the man who launched failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost thousands of U.S. dead, to no avail? Or can I yet enter history as the Churchillian statesman who used U.S. power to save America and Israel from the mortal threat of atomic weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs? Which legacy would Bush prefer? Or Cheney? As Americans await Bush's address announcing a "surge" of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, we may be missing the larger picture. The War Party is turning its attention from Iraq to Iran. Nor is it simply an analysis of the character of George Bush that causes one to so conclude. Tehran is now two weeks into a 60-day deadline to answer a Security Council resolution directing it to cease enriching uranium. While the sanctions are mild, the resolution passed unanimously and gives Bush the U.N. cover he used to wage war on Iraq. If Iran defies the United Nations, Bush will demand further sanctions. Up the escalator we go. Moreover, a second U.S. carrier battle group is heading for the Gulf. More interesting, the new CentCom commander, replacing Gen. John Abizaid, is no soldier, but Adm. William J. Fallon, commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific. What Fallon does not know about securing streets, he does know about taking out targets from the air and keeping sea lanes open in a time of war. Bush may be sending signals, but the Israelis are preparing for war. The London Sunday Times reports that Israeli pilots have been making the 2,000-mile run to Gibraltar to train for strikes with bunker-busting nuclear bombs on Iran's heavy water plant at Arak, the uranium hexaflouride facility at Isfahan and the centrifuge cascade at Natanz. Israel angrily denies the report. But, on Dec. 30, retired Gen. Oded Tira, who headed up all Israeli artillery units, burst into print with this admonition: "As an American air strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help (Bush) pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and U.S. newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure." "Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran," writes Tira. Thus, Israel and its U.S. lobbying arm "must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate action by Bush against Iran." "The Americans must act," Tira concludes. "If they don't, we'll do it ourselves ... (and) we must immediately start preparing for an Iranian response to an attack." According to UPI editor-at-large Arnaud De Borchgrave, Tira's line tracks the New Year's Day message of Likud superhawk "Bibi" Netanyahu, the former prime minister. Said Netanyahu, Israel "must immediately launch an intense, international public relations front first and foremost on the U.S. The goal being to encourage President Bush to live up to specific pledges he would not allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. We must make clear to the (U.S.) government, the Congress and the American public that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the U.S. and the entire world, not only Israel." Israel's war, says Bibi, must be sold as America's war. We are thus forewarned. A propaganda campaign, using Israeli agents and their neocon auxiliaries and sympathizers, who stampeded us into war in Iraq, is being prepared to stampede us into war on Iran. We are to be convinced that Iran, with no air force or navy to speak of, an economy not 2 percent of ours, which has not started a single war since the revolution, 27 years ago, is about to give to terrorists, to use on us, a nuclear bomb it may be 10 years away from even being able to build. Will Congress be duped again into giving Bush a blank check for war? Or will this new Congress summon the courage to take the war option out of Bush's hands, to decide itself, for the nation, when, where and whether America should ever go to war against Iran? Every presidential candidate should be asked: Does President Bush have the authority to attack Iran without specific congressional authorization? And would you support giving him that authority? Needed today are courageous men and women of both parties who will introduce and pass a congressional resolution stating, "In the absence of a direct Iranian attack on U.S. forces or personnel, or an imminent threat of such an attack, President Bush has no authority to launch a pre-emptive strike or a preventive war on Iran." If we are going to war, let us do it constitutionally, for once, and not leave it up solely to George W. Bush and Brother Cheney. http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH CONGRATULATES ETHIOPIA ON ITS GENOCIDE IN SOMALIA
DAJJAL BUSH CONGRATULATES ETHIOPIA ON ITS GENOCIDE IN SOMALIA Assalamu aleikum. For details of Ethiopia's ongoing AIDS crisis, see: http://www.ethpress.gov.et/Herald/article.asp?categoryid=79&categoryName=The+Battle+Against+AIDS --- Ethiopia playing crucial role in ensuring peace, stability in Somalia: Frazier Ethiopian Herald January 6, 2007 http://www.ethpress.gov.et/Herald/articleDetail.asp?articleid=59647 ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia in collaboration with the Federal Transitional Government (FTG) of Somalia has been playing a crucial role in ensuring peace and stability in Somalia, Jendayi E. Frazier, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs said. Frazier made the statement during talks with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi here at the Premier's Office yesterday. Frazier said that the United States and the international community are stunned by the swift counter-offensive of the Ethiopian Defence Forces which crushed the extremist group of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in Somalia in a matter of days. After the talks, Frazier told journalists that the people and government of Ethiopia are making remarkable contributions to ensuring peace and stability in Somalia. Frazier said the Ethiopian Defence Forces have been doing exemplary deeds in peacekeeping missions in Burundi and other African countries. The United States would continue providing training and other assistance to the Ethiopian Defence Forces as per the Ethio-US bilateral cooperation, while it would also provide humanitarian and emergency relief to the TFG and the people of that country. A conference would be held in Nairobi, Kenya soon to confer on ways that could bring about dependable peace and stability in Somalia, she said, adding USA would work together with the Ethiopian government in efforts geared toward bringing about lasting peace and stability in Somalia. Prime Minister Meles said that Ethiopia has successfully reversed the threat posed by the extremist group of the UIC in Somalia and the Defence Forces have been finalizing their mission at present. Meles told Frazier that a new government representing all the people of Somalia should be established in that country based on the Charter of the TFG, a senior Foreign Ministry official, who attended the talks said. The two sides have also suggested that an international peacekeeping force be deployed in Somalia soon, the official said. http://www.ethpress.gov.et/Herald/articleDetail.asp?articleid=59647
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] EID KHUTBAH: ROLE OF ISLAM IN MODERN LIFE
EID KHUTBAH: ROLE OF ISLAM IN MODERN LIFE Islamic Religious Council of Singapore AidilAdha Sermon 31 December 2006 / 10 Zulhijjah 1427 Role Of Islam in Modern Life http://www.muis.gov.sg/cms/uploadedFiles/PortalSG/Community/Khutbah/E06Dec31%20-%20AIDLADHA%20SERMON1427pic.doc Allah is The Greatest. Allah is the Most Exalted. All praises be to You O Allah. You made us the Ummah of Your greatest Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). We are thankful to You for this gift O Allah. With this gift, we have Islam, Iman and Ihsan in our hearts. Please help us to remain steadfast to worship only You, to strive for Your word and religion. Please make us firm on the path of following the footsteps of Your Beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Respected Brothers and Sisters, Alhamdulillah, we meet today in glorification and praising of Allah the Al-Mighty. We say the takbir, tahmid and tahlil to Him, to express our gratitude for all His bounties. For our brothers and sisters performing the Haj to the Holy Land, may Allah reward their accepted Haj with His pleasure and paradise, Amin. At this instance, let us be reminded of the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim and his son, Prophet Isma'il (peace be upon them). Imagine the confidence and strength of the faith of Prophet Ibrahim in carrying out the orders of Allah, that he should sacrifice his beloved son. Let us think of the sincerity of his son, Prophet Isma'il, when he replied in calmness that the order of Allah shall be carried out, even if that means he shall be sacrificed. Allah records this in Surah As-Saffat (102): Which means : And when he (the son) attained the age of working with him (the father), he said: O my son! surely I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice you; consider then what you think about this. He said: O my father! do what you are commanded; if Allah please, you will find me of the patient ones. At this moment, think of the sacrifices of our most beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), his family and companions. Our Prophet and his companions lived up to the ideals of Islam in all forms and at all times. They put into practice Islamic teachings, principles and values, such that Islam became the source of mercy and blessings to the entire world. On this day, let us think of the moment our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) stood before thousands of Muslims at the plains of Arafah, in his last great meeting with them. This event was known as the Hajjatul Wada' or "The Departing Hajj". The Prophet spoke to his ummah with an everlasting reminder. It is a reminder, which awakens us from a limited understanding of our religion. It is a wasiyah that calls on us to strive to improve our lives. It is a khutbah or sermon which tells us to be true ambassadors of Islam, where faith, knowledge and compassion run in our blood. My Dearest Brothers and Sisters, The Prophet stresses on the importance of maintaining good human relations. He says: Which means: "O Mankind, listen and understand my words. A Muslim is a brother to another Muslim. Thus, it is forbidden for one to benefit from the riches of his brother, except if it was given to him out of consent and pleasure. Do not be unjust. O Allah Be witness that I have conveyed this message." The Prophet (peace be upon him) speaks on equality of mankind and its importance. He says: Which means: " O Mankind! Indeed, your Lord is One. Your father is one. All of you come from (Prophet) Adam, and (Prophet) Adam is created from clay. The most honoured among you is one who is most conscious of Allah. None is superior to another, not an Arab over a non-Arab, except with taqwa (God-consciousness). O Allah be witness that I have conveyed this message." Our beloved Prophet (peace be upon him) reminds us to observe the rights of women, and to place them at their rightful position. He says: Which means: "Fear Allah in matters pertaining to women. Treat your women with due care and fairness. O Allah be witness that I have conveyed this message." Dearest Brothers and Sisters, Such is the Prophet's reminder on the roles of Islam and Iman. Islam has a very wide and profound role. The objective of Islam is to bring goodness and prosperity to mankind. To do this, Islam is always plugged into the real world. It is not a religion with ideals that are divorced or separated from the real world. Today, we are all aware of our fast-changing world. The world is more open. Information and human flow occur with immense speeds and with no barriers. Our generation today, and more so of the future, will be exposed to diverse new lifestyles. Economic strength is also a critical pillar to development. Thus, financial well-being and planning become ever more important in our lives. At the global level, poverty still exists. Climate change and global warming, largely triggered by pollution caused by human beings, affects human life tremendously. How do we continue to understand and pract
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SOMALI DAJJAL BUSH STOOGES DEMAND ANSCHLUSS WITH ETHIOPIA
SOMALI DAJJAL BUSH STOOGES DEMAND ANSCHLUSS WITH ETHIOPIA Somali senior Islamist accuses Aideed of irresponsibility Aweys Osman Yusuf Shabelle Wed, Jan, 03 2007 http://www.shabelle.net/news/ne1988.htm Mogadishu 03, Jan.07 ( Sh.M.Network) -The fleeing Islamist spokesperson, Abdirahim Ali Mudey, who spoke to Shabelle Radio in Mogadishu, said they did not need the amnesty extended to them by the Somali government. Islamists' whereabouts Sheikh Abdirahim Muddey Mudey told Shabelle Radio by the Phone that Islamists senior officials were in Somalia and being defended by their tribesmen. "We did not go beyond our country. We will keep fighting until all Ethiopian troops leave our country", he said. Asked if they would give up their ambition of fighting and join the Somali government, he said they were ready to talk with government officials if the Ethiopian troops leave Somalia. Mudey refused to say where exactly they are in the country, he simply said, "I can not say where we are but we are in Somalia and we are not afraid any more", he said, adding that senior Islamists like Sheik sharif and Sheik Aweys are also in the country. He criticized Hussein Aideed, Smalia's internal affairs minister, for urging the Somali people to accept that Somalia and Ethiopia should be combined as one nation and be united with one passport. "I heard the news that Aideed said Somalia and Ethiopia should be one country. That is irresponsibility of him and his remarks disappoint many Somali citizens", he said. Islamists fled their last stronghold on mid night January 1st after Ethiopian and government troops supported by tanks and MIG fighter jets entered the port city of Kismayu and chased the remnants of Islamists in the area. Mudey said, "If the world thinks we are dead, they should know we are alive and will continue the jihad against the infidels in our country". He said they would never yield to forgiveness of the transitional government. Peacekeepers Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni will meet with Ethiopian premier Males Zenawi over the peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Uganda was the first country that pledged it would send contingents of its military forces to Somalia as peacekeepers. United Nations Security Council approved peacekeepers to be deployed in Somalia in mid November last year. Ethiopian premier, who spoke in Addis Ababa yesterday, said the Ethiopian troops in Somalia would be withdrawn in a few weeks. http://www.shabelle.net/news/ne1988.htm
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] POODLE MINION: ''I JUST WISH THE BLOODY TALIBAN WOULD STOP SHOOTING AT US. IT'S
POODLE MINION: ''I JUST WISH THE BLOODY TALIBAN WOULD STOP SHOOTING AT US. IT'S JUST NOT FAIR'' Assalamu aleikum. - "I found myself lying in a ditch laughing hysterically as the RPGs flew overhead. Every time I stood up another whizzed by. Afghan soldiers near me laughed too, until one was shot in the head." - "Our one demand of the British is for them to leave our land. We want this message to be conveyed to Tony Blair - it's easy to occupy Afghanistan, but it's difficult to remain here for long. God willing, like the Russians before them, the Americans and British will fail." - Sean's Dispatches films Fighting The Taliban and meeting the Taliban, Ch 4 Monday, 8pm, Thursday 11pm. A full version of this article appears in January's GQ magazine. --- CHASING THE TALIBAN UNDER FIRE WITH OUR TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN'S HELL-HOLE Sean Langan In Helmand, Afghanistan Sunday Mirror 7 January 2007 http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=chasing-the-taliban%26method=full%26objectid=18411543%26siteid=62484-name_page.html FIVE years after they launched their War on Terror, Tony Blair and President Bush are back to square one, waging a daily war against the same old enemy the Taliban in the country where it all began - Afghanistan. SEAN LANGAN joined British troops on the frontline in Helmand Province then risked death by firing squad to talk to Taliban commanders and a would-be suicide bomber aged just 14... 'THE click and soft fizz of a trip flare igniting woke me with a start. Figures darting quickly through the trees were running straight towards me. Any moment now, I thought, the air would erupt in a volcanic outburst of tracer fire and grenade explosions as the 300 Taliban camped outside the town launched their final attack Then nothing happened. Instead there was only silence, interrupted with a whispered, "It's all right, mate... just a dog. Go back to sleep." It was supposed to be only a one-day operation when 17 British troops along with 100 Afghan soldiers and police fought their way into the gateway town of Garmser in Helmand Province. Now it was day six and we were still pinned down, running low on rations and ammunition and sleeping with our boots on I lost all sense of time that week in Garmser. But how do you measure time - in the few seconds between the distant thump of a mortar being fired and the moment it explodes or the eternity it takes for a morphine jab to dull a dying man's pain and silence his screams? I had followed our troops into battle in an Afghan policeman's car - a nice way to travel, until I realised it was also a magnet for every Taliban mortar, bullet and rocket-propelled grenade. The air was filled with a sound like Chinese fire crackers, as the bullets flew past our ears. It was a miracle no British soldiers were killed. The fighting was so intense I was sure I would die, and twice I thought I had. Captain Tim Illingworth could only watch as an RPG round landed by his feet, but failed to explode. Two Afghan soldiers by his side weren't so lucky, both killed by direct fire. By the first afternoon we had become so accustomed to the sound of battle that we stopped for tea. "What a lovely day for war," smiled Aaron, one of the soldiers. Captain Paddy Williams calmly radioed HQ. "Situation critical, over. Our attack has ground to a halt, over. We're coming under mortar fire, over. I found myself lying in a ditch laughing hysterically as the RPGs flew overhead. Every time I stood up another whizzed by. Afghan soldiers near me laughed too, until one was shot in the head. Bombardier Sam New from 7 Para called in an air strike from the top of his jeep as bullets flew in. He kept on talking until one sliced through the cord on his handset. One bullet whizzed so close to my head it knocked me off my feet. I was up on a canal ridge, which soon became the frontline with Taliban dug in along trees either side of the canal, and in the wheatfields further south. I barely had the nerve to lift my head, but two British soldiers were calmly going about their business as though this was just another day at the office. Two were changing a tyre that had been shot out, while a medic, Anthony Cowley, was tending to the wounded. "I just wish the bloody Taliban would stop shooting at us," said Sgt Major Johnston, as his Jeep took incoming fire from three sides. "It's just not fair." There were so many Afghan army casualties I helped out, holding up bloodied limbs as the medics put in IV drips It was only after the injured were taken out by helicopter that the stench of blood hit me - a nauseating smell of wrought iron, and I threw up. I burned my clothes on the fire that night before going to bed. A record number of air strikes were called in for a battle in Afghanistan - 57 in all -as the British and Americans dropped everything they could on the Taliban. But that still wasn't enough to dislodge the dug-in Taliban, and by day three, having suffered heavy casualties, the Afg
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MURDOCH RAG: ZIONAZIS PLOT NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST IRAN
MURDOCH RAG: ZIONAZIS PLOT NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST IRAN Assalamu aleikum. The following article comes from the same Faux News people who reluctantly withdrew O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It", so the reported zionazi paper tiger threat against Iran should be taken with a grain of salt. While it would certainly be true to form for the zionazis to nuke Iran, the article itself may simply be a psyop plant to terrorize Iran out of its energy program. Even the article below admits "Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack." --- Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington The Sunday Times January 07, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-2535310-524,00.html ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters", according to several Israeli military sources. The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb. Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open "tunnels" into the targets. "Mini-nukes" would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout. "As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished," said one of the sources. The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad's assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years. Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said. Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack. Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world. Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in Iran's nuclear programme: # Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment # A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels # A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran's nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a "second Holocaust". The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that "Israel must be wiped off the map". Robert Gates, the new US defence secretary, has described military action against Iran as a "last resort", leading Israeli officials to conclude that it will be left to them to strike. Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets. Three possible routes have been mapped out, including one over Turkey. Air force squadrons based at Hatzerim in the Negev desert and Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, have trained to use Israel's tactical nuclear weapons on the mission. The preparations have been overseen by Major General Eliezer Shkedi, commander of the Israeli air force. Sources close to the Pentagon said the United States was highly unlikely to give approval for tactical nuclear weapons to be used. One source said Israel would have to seek approval "after the event", as it did when it crippled Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak with airstrikes in 1981. Scientists have calculated that although contamination from the bunker-busters could be limited, tons of radioactive uranium compounds would be released. The Israelis believe that Iran's retaliation would be constrained by fear of a second strike if it were to launch its Shehab-3 ballistic missiles at Israel. However, American
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] HINDOOS SACRIFICE THEIR SONS
HINDOOS SACRIFICE THEIR SONS Couple 'sacrificed sons to gods' >From correspondents in Bhubaneswar AAP January 04, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21010740-1702,00.html A COUPLE in eastern India have been arrested for allegedly sacrificing their young sons to please the gods. "It seems like a case of child sacrifice attached to tantric rituals," police superintendent Ravi Kant said in eastern Orissa state, where the incident happened. Police said it had collected evidence of occult practices from the couple's house. Residents of the area told police that the couple had been advised by a tantric practitioner that they should offer their sons, aged 7 and 9, to please the gods for luck and prosperity. The couple denied the charges on local television, saying the boys died of illness and their bodies were kept in the house in the hope that they would come alive. Police are searching for the occult practitioner. Human sacrifices are reported occasionally in rural India where many people put faith in occult practices to ward off evil or gain prosperity. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21010740-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SHAMEFUL PLANS OF THE TRAITORS TO ISLAM AND SOMALIA
SHAMEFUL PLANS OF THE TRAITORS TO ISLAM AND SOMALIA Assalamu aleikum. Dajjal-backed international prostitute Hussein Aideed has decreed that Somalia shall "unite" with his murderous christian Ethiopian masters. The Somali military is to submit to Ethiopian rule; the border is to be eliminated for the benefit of Ethipia; and Somalis are to be issued Ethiopian passports. --- Ethio-Somalia border to be eliminated: Minister Garowe Online News Jan 2, 2007 http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_6835.shtml MOGADISHU, Somalia Jan 2 (Garowe Online) - The interior minister of Somalia's interim government said Monday that the international border between Somalia and neighboring Ethiopia will be eliminated and the two independent nations united as one. Hussein Aideed, the interior minister, made the comments in Mogadishu while speaking to local clan elders about the government's plans for the new future. "The two countries [Somalia and Ethiopia] are brothers and share a similar political agenda," Aideed said, adding that citizens in the two countries would also use a single passport for international travel. Aideed said Ethiopia is the only country that willingly stepped in to combat "terrorists" in Somalia, a direct reference to the Islamic Courts movement that was recently routed from Somali capital Mogadishu. Furthermore, Aideed stated that more than 2 million Somali refugees currently reside in Ethiopia and that the Ethiopian government has always provided them humanitarian assistance under the principles of brotherhood. He said the two countries would also join their military forces into one and unite their economic efforts for further development. Aideed accused the Speaker of the interim Somali parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, of taking money in the sum of $3 million from the European Union in the name of the Somali people and government. Speaker Sharif has been outside of Somalia since the joint Ethio-Somali military force began a successful campaign to dislodge Islamist fighters from southern Somalia regions. Somali clan elders listening to Aideed's comments were dissatisfied and angered by the idea of joining Somalia and Ethiopia as one country, according to witnesses at the scene. http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_6835.shtml
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH TRIES TO CONJURE UP HIS DEAD MINIONS TO DO MORE OF HIS BIDDING
DAJJAL BUSH TRIES TO CONJURE UP HIS DEAD MINIONS TO DO MORE OF HIS BIDDING US Army asks deceased to re-enlist Reuters January 06, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21019561-1702,00.html The US Army has said that it will apologise to the families of deceased and wounded officers that it mistakenly encouraged to re-enlist via letters sent out in late December. About 75 families of deceased officers and 200 families of wounded officers received such letters sent to more than 5100 officers between Dec. 26 and 28, the Army said. "Unfortunately, the database used to address those letters contained names of officers who were killed in action or wounded," the Army said. "Army personnel officials are contacting those officers' families now to personally apologise for erroneously sending the letters." The names of the soldiers had been removed from the database, but an earlier version of the list was mistakenly used. The Army said it was taking steps to ensure this mistake did not happen again. On Thursday, a US soldier was killed in western Baghdad, bringing the total to 3006 the number of US soldiers killed so far since the US-led invasion in March 2003. The United States has 132,000 troops in Iraq and President George W. Bush plans to unveil a new Iraq strategy as early as next Wednesday that could include a short-term increase of up to 20,000 US troops in the country. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21019561-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] IBM PERSECUTES MUSLIM PATENTS-AWARD ENGINEER
IBM PERSECUTES MUSLIM PATENTS-AWARD ENGINEER IBM Worker Says He Was Fired For Being A Muslim By Paul McDougall TechWeb January 5, 2007 http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801403 A Muslim electronics engineer who developed five patents for IBM claims the computer maker fired him because of his religion and that managers at the company mocked him for refusing to eat during the Ramadan fast and once told him to ignore Islamic law and clean a knife that had been used to cut pork. Mahmoud Mousa, who calls himself a "Jordanian Muslim American," was employed at IBM's microelectronics plant in Burlington, Vt., from June 2003 to December 2005, when he was fired because of his religious beliefs, according to a lawsuit Mousa filed last month in U.S. District Court in New York. Mousa says IBM's stated reason for the firing -- that he had failed to show up for work -- "was a pretext to mask the motivating factor behind his termination -- discrimination on the basis of his religion and/or national origin," according the suit. Mousa claims that he was subject to discrimination and anti-Islamic comments and behavior from two different managers while working at IBM's Burlington operations. On one occasion, a manager of non-Muslim, Indian origin criticized Mousa for taking time out for Friday prayers, asking him "Why are you doing this?", according to court records. He also claims colleagues mocked him for refusing to eat pizza during his Ramadan fast and asked him to clean off a knife used to cut pork during a company picnic. Strict Islamic law forbids Muslims from touching pork. Mousa also claims his $68,000 salary was considerably lower than salaries paid to co-workers with similar accomplishments. Mousa obtained five patents for IBM while at the company, including one for a means to create connections between vertically stacked circuits on computer chips, according to a search of a Web site that tracks patent filings. He was fired in late December, 2005 for "abandoning his job," despite having received formal approval for a leave of absence from IBM's human resources department, Mousa claims. He is seeking unspecified damages from IBM. A spokesman for IBM declined to comment on the case, citing company policy regarding lawsuits. On its Web site, IBM says it is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801403
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ABUBAKAR ARMAN: THE MAKING OF ANOTHER IRAQ
ABUBAKAR ARMAN: THE MAKING OF ANOTHER IRAQ Assalamu aleikum. Caveat: The following article significantly errs in failing to attribute Dajjal Bush's criminal actions in Somalia to his ongoing worldwide crusader war against Islam and the Muslims. The writer speculatively attributes the Bush Regime's war against Somalia to flawed "politicized intelligence" rather than to the customary dajjal hoax motivated by actual malice. And several other comments are false or misleading such as the ICU "legislated morality to the point of social suffocation." And the article's author is shocked that "More alarmingly, the courts threatened to call for a worldwide jihad against any invading troops." Well, duh. What were they supposed to do - meekly submit and ask "Master, may I please have another?" But with its many faults the article is otherwise a useful backgrounder, which is why Islamic Community Net presents it. --- The Making of Another Iraq Abukar Arman Foreign Policy In Focus January 3, 2007 http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3864 A new front in the "global war on terror" has emerged with its center in war-torn Somalia. The target of the new front, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), both brought back normalcy to seemingly untamable southern Somalia and anxiously legislated morality to the point of social suffocation. According to the U.S. State Department, its greatest sin was its purported link to al-Qaida. The military action to crush these "Islamic extremists" is already underway. Washington-supported Ethiopian troops carried out a preemptive attack against Somalia at the end of December. Ethiopian tanks roared all the way to the capital Mogadishu and then on to Kismayo near the Kenyan border. The invasion proved easier than expected. The comparatively more powerful Ethiopian army teamed up with a militia loyal to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to achieve their objective of regime change with an ease ominously reminiscent of the entry into Baghdad of the "coalition of the willing." With Ethiopian troops now in charge of Mogadishu, the political situation in Somalia has escalated dangerously. Militias are once again lining up according to clan loyalties. Ruthless warlords are resuming their pre-ICU roles, already setting up the infamous roadblocks, returning to banditry, and even carrying out vindictive assassinations. "My suspicion is that this is just another face of the conflictclan versus clan; warlords versus warlords; ICU versus TFGand the final chapter is not written yet," says Abdi Kusow, one of the leading Somali intellectuals in the diaspora. The presence of foreign troops has profoundly changed the political dynamics in Somalia. A grassroots-driven, wrathful nationalism will intensify, with ramifications beyond the Somali geographical boundaries. Indeed, unless the current trend is immediately reversed, the conflict will likely set the entire Horn of Africa on fire, spark an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, and widen the divide between the West and the Islamic world. A Flawed Resolution Until recently, the Islamic Courts controlled all but a small area of Somalia. The federal government, with the support of the Ethiopian troops, maintained control over the southwestern town of Baidoa. Then, in early December, Washington pushed a controversial resolution through the UN Security Council. The resolution authorized military intervention and the partial lifting of the arms embargo imposed on Somalia before the largest humanitarian mission in modern history (Operation Restore Hope) was undertaken 14 years ago. Many of Washington's closest allies, including Britain, refused to cosponsor the resolution for its partiality and polarizing nature. The decision was also poorly timed, since the Khartoum peace talks between Somalia's two major contending forces, the ICU and the TFG, was scheduled to resume the following week. The ICU claimed that the resolution essentially ushered in Ethiopia through the back door by, among other things, failing to address the Ethiopian troops already present in the country since they first intervened in July. The UN resolution opened up the flow of arms and money to the regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who perpetuated Somalia's political hemorrhage for the past sixteen years through the financing, training, and arming of one faction against another. The resolution not only gave the estimated 8,000 troops who had been operating in Somalia the legitimacy to continue arming and "protecting" one side of the parties in conflict (TFG) but to take action against any group that "threatens the stability of the region," a phrase euphemistically understood to mean "Islamists." After the passage of the resolution, Ethiopia used Washington's preemptive war doctrine to widen its intervention. This intervention into Somali internal affairs also discredited the moderates for whom such foreign preconditions were a kiss of death. By taking on the ICU in order to f
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] GWYNNE DYER: A NEW WAR IN AFRICA
GWYNNE DYER: A NEW WAR IN AFRICA A New War in Africa GWYNNE DYER Namibian Friday, January 5, 2007 http://www.namibian.com.na/2007/January/columns/076BD7072A.html "THE Ethiopians now are advancing, but that is not the end," Omar Idris, a senior official of Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), told the BBC Wednesday last week. "We know what happened in Iraq, the experience of the Americans... I think this is very, very early to say that the Islamic Court forces were defeated." The war is starting in Somalia, but it may end up being fought in Ethiopia and Eritrea, too. Together, the three countries contain almost a hundred million of the poorest people on the planet. The next day, the Ethiopian army took Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, and the UIC, the closest thing to a government that Somalia has had since the country collapsed into anarchy fifteen years ago, retreated south towards the border with Kenya. Ethiopia has tanks, jet fighters and the tacit support of the United States; the UIC has only light weapons and the support of Somalis who distrust Ethiopians (i.e. almost all of them). So the UIC will probably win in the end, but it will take a long guerrilla war. This is a war founded on a misconception and driven by paranoid fantasies. The misconception was the US government's belief that the Islamic Courts, local religious authorities backed by merchants in Mogadishu who wanted someone to curb the warlords, punish thieves, and enforce contracts, were just a cover for al-Qaeda. So the US instead backed the warlords who were making Somalis' lives a misery. American support is the kiss of death in Somalia, so the warlords were finally dislodged in Mogadishu last June by an uprising led by the UIC and supported by most of the population. The warlords fled to an American ship offshore, their clansmen went to ground, and the UIC rapidly took control of most of southern Somalia, bringing order for the first time since 1991. Washington's principal instrument in this enterprise was Ethiopia, Somalia's giant neighbour to the west. Ethiopia's 75 million people outnumber Somalis by more than seven-to-one - but although the Christians of the highlands have always dominated Ethiopia, almost half of its people are Muslims, like the Somalis. In Ethiopia's sparsely populated eastern desert, the Ogaden, most of the people are not only Muslim but ethnically Somali. This is where the paranoid fantasies kick in. Most of Ethiopia's Muslims are too busy scratching a living to challenge the Christian near-monopoly of power in their country, but the last thing Ethiopia's rulers want to see is an Islamic regime next-door in Somalia. To make matters worse, the Ethiopians suspected that their enemies, the Eritreans, were sending troops and arms to help the Islamic Courts regime in Somalia. Ethiopia has fought and won two wars with Somalia over the Ogaden, in 1964 and 1977 (back when Somalia had a government and an army). It fought a bitter border war in 1998-2000 with Eritrea, a breakaway province that won its independence in 1993. (Ethiopia has rejected the decision of an independent panel on the border, and that war is just waiting to start again.) So over the past year, Ethiopia's paranoid fantasies have come together with Washington's. The official American position, stated last week by Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, is that the UIC is now "controlled by al-Qaeda cell individuals. The top layer of the Court are extremists. They are terrorists." Even US diplomats in the region privately reject this assertion. Ethiopia accuses the UIC of "threatening Ethiopian sovereignty," which merely means that senior UIC members make the same claims about the Somali-Ethiopian border that all Somali nationalists of every party have always made. No UIC troops have even approached that border - but just after the UIC took control of Mogadishu in June, Ethiopia started sending troops into Somalia. The Ethiopians said they were there to support the so-called "transitional government" of Somalia, a body led by Abdullahi Yusuf, a Somali warlord who is a long-standing ally of Addis Ababa. But the "transitional government," which emerged from UN-backed talks between Somali factions in 2004, lacked popular support and never controlled much except the town of Baidoa, near the Ethiopian border. In early December, Islamic Court troops moved on Baidoa with the declared intention of driving the Ethiopian troops out. On 24 December, Ethiopia responded with the offensive that has now taken Mogadishu. With overwhelming material superiority and US-supplied satellite surveillance data, the Ethiopians have won an easy victory, and already the warlords who used to dominate the capital are reasserting their control under the shelter of the "transitional government." But this is just the start of a long guerrilla war that will sap the strength of the Ethiopian army, a Christian-led force back
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] CHRISTIANS BURN 3 ''WITCHES''
CHRISTIANS BURN 3 ''WITCHES'' Witch-accused women burned >From correspondents in Jakarta Agence France-Presse January 08, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21031082-1702,00.html THREE women accused of being witches were killed and burned along with their house in East Timor. The three women, aged 70, 50 and about 25, were killed on Saturday evening in Liquica, about 40km west of the capital Dili. "The three women were killed before they were burned along with their house," Liquica district police investigation unit head Geraldo Soares said. "They are Bui-dau, 70, Flora, 50, and another (unidentified) woman about 25 years old," he said from the crime scene. Mr Soares said they had been accused of being witches and were attacked by unknown people. United Nations police were also investigating the murders. "A forensic team has been dispatched to conduct further analysis at the crime scene," UNPOL spokeswomen Monica Rodrigues said in Dili. There were spates of arson attacks during unrest in 2006 but this is believed to be the first involving witchcraft accusations in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. Unrest in April and May last year led to the deaths of at least 37 people and forced about 15 per cent of East Timor's population to flee their homes. Stability has largely returned to the fledgling nation following the arrival of foreign peacekeepers at Dili's request and the installation of a new government in July headed by Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21031082-1702,00.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DR. M: PROSECUTE DAJJAL AND HIS POODLE AS WAR CRIMINALS
DR. M: PROSECUTE DAJJAL AND HIS POODLE AS WAR CRIMINALS Bush, Blair worse than Saddam, says Malaysia ex-PM Reuters Mon Jan 8, 2007 http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-08T090242Z_01_KLR136316_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-SADDAM-MAHATHIR.xml PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are war criminals with more Iraqi blood on their hands than Saddam Hussein, former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday. Mahathir, one of the developing world's most strident and veteran critics of the West, launched a shrill attack on Bush and Blair, telling reporters at his Malaysian peace foundation that Bush should face the same "sham" justice as Saddam. Saddam, ousted by U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, was hanged nine days ago for crimes against humanity for killing Shi'ites. Guards filmed and taunted Saddam on the gallows. "He (Bush) should resign straight away and be tried by the same kangaroo court," Mahathir told a news conference called to promote a peace conference he is hosting in Malaysia next month. The conference, "Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War," will be accompanied by an exhibition on Western war crimes, including atrocities in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Vietnam and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, according to organizers. It will also contain an interactive exhibit on torture in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and the Guantanamo Bay interrogation camp at a U.S. base in Cuba. Mahathir also branded Blair a war criminal. Blair backed the 2003 invasion with thousands of British troops. "He is a culprit," the 81-year-old said. "He is as much a war criminal as he accuses Saddam of being a war criminal. The number of people he kills or causes to be killed is very many more than the number of people that Saddam caused to be killed." Saddam is accused of killing thousands of Shi'ites and Kurds in massacres inside Iraq, as well as starting an eight-year war with Iran that killed hundreds of thousands. Since the 2003 invasion, up to about 6,400 Iraqi military personnel and up to about 58,500 Iraqi civilians have been killed by military action, as well as more than 3,000 U.S.-led coalition personnel, according to some unofficial estimates. Mahathir is no stranger to controversy. The Malaysian premier and Bush crossed swords in 2003 over Mahathir's remarks that Jews controlled the world. Mahathir has long been a critic of Western democracies, which he says offer too much freedom, including allowing homosexuality and same-sex marriages. http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-08T090242Z_01_KLR136316_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-SADDAM-MAHATHIR.xml
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SOMALIS CONDEMN CHRISTIAN ETHIOPIAN OPPRESSORS TO THEIR FACES
SOMALIS CONDEMN CHRISTIAN ETHIOPIAN OPPRESSORS TO THEIR FACES Somalis stage anti-Ethiopian protests By Sahal Abdulle and Guled Mohamed Reuters Sat Jan 6, 2007 http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-06T090601Z_01_L06728849_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOMALIA-CONFLICT.xml MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Hundreds of angry Somalis took to the streets of Mogadishu on Saturday to protest against the presence of Ethiopian troops who had helped the government drive out Islamists, witnesses said. Ethiopian soldiers shot in the air to disperse the crowd, a Reuters witness said. One resident said a protester was wounded. Holding sticks and stones and shouting "Down with Ethiopia", crowds of people marched through central Mogadishu, burned tires and threw stones near stalls selling jars of fuel. "There is a big demonstration, people are burning tires, the whole of K4 area has been engulfed by smoke," one resident, who declined to be named, said, referring to the central area. "I can hear sporadic shooting. People are demonstrating against the presence of Ethiopian troops as well as the government's decision to disarm them by force." Somalia's interim government, which is seeking to install itself in Mogadishu after driving out Islamists with the help of Ethiopian forces, gave Mogadishu residents three days till Thursday to hand in their weapons or be disarmed by force. Despite the deadline, few weapons have been handed in. The Islamists took control of much of southern Somalia in June but have now been forced into hiding after being routed from their strongholds by Ethiopian military defending Somalia's interim government in two weeks of full-scale warfare. They have vowed to fight on, melting into the hills in Somalia's remote southern tip where Ethiopian and government forces are hunting hundreds of their fighters. Nairobi has sent troops to seal its frontier, blocking entry to Somali refugees fleeing the conflict. Many fear the Islamists, who fled a last stronghold on New Year's Day, will mount a holy war against largely Christian Ethiopia. The protests come just days after an ambush killed at least one Ethiopian soldier in south Somalia and a hand grenade was thrown at Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu. Any Ethiopian presence in Somalia was sure to provoke a response from the general population. Somalis traditionally view the military giant across their border as a rival. Several times, from 1992 to 1998, Ethiopia sent troops into Somalia to attack radical Islamic movements, wary they could stir trouble in the Somali regions on its side of the border. AL QAEDA CALL TO WEAPONS Western and African diplomats had called on Friday for the urgent deployment of peacekeepers in Somalia as al Qaeda's deputy leader urged defeated Islamists to launch an Iraq-style insurgency against Ethiopian forces there. "You must ambush, mine, raid and (carry out) martyrdom campaigns so that you can wipe them out," Ayman al-Zawahri, deputy to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said in his message. Al-Zawahri's message, posted on a Web site used by militant Islamist groups, is likely to reinforce Washington's belief that the Somalia Islamic Courts Council is linked to and even run by an al Qaeda cell, a charge the Islamists have denied. Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Al Jazeera television on Friday his troops would leave within two weeks. Experts fear the interim government -- already facing worsening security in Mogadishu -- will flounder without its protection. The government wants a foreign peacekeeping force, approved by the United Nations before the war, to be deployed. Uganda says it is ready to send troops as soon as its parliament approves the plan. Within hours of the Islamists leaving Mogadishu, militiamen loyal to warlords ousted in June reappeared at checkpoints in the city where they used to rob and terrorize civilians. Their return showed how easily Mogadishu could slide back into the anarchy known since the 1991 ouster of a dictator. http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-06T090601Z_01_L06728849_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOMALIA-CONFLICT.xml
Re: Boycott Israel [IslamCity] EID MESSAGE FROM MUFTI EBRAHIM DESAI
Assalamu aleikum - to the Muslims. An uninformed post claiming that Ibrahim (A.S.) was not ordered to sacrifice his son was made by a member of a false religion, Muhammad Latif Chaudhery of Lahore, an adherent of the "submitter" religion which rejects the Sunnah of Rasulullah (S.A.W.). You will find him enrolled in the false submitter religion at: http://www.free-minds.org/members/pakistan.htm The home page of the above un-Islamic website utters the strange ideology and promotes some of the many falsehoods of the bizarre "submitter" religion. Ironically (but quite naturally) those unbelievers' rejection of the Sunnah of Rasulullah (S.A.W.) necessarily forces the "submitters" into intellectual black holes from which they must make a variety of arguments against the plain text of the very Holy Qur'an itself, such as Chaudhery's attack on the meaning of hajj. Not surprisingly, the particular non-issue that Chaudhery tries to invent here in his post below (his absurd claim that Ibrahim A.S. was never ordered to slaughter his son) is fully rejected by the Holy Qur'an. Following are translations of the meaning of the Holy Qur'an into English by 3 legitimate scholars of deen that clarify that Ibrahim A.S. was indeed ordered to slaughter his son. Only a COMPLETE IDIOT like Chaudhery would conclude from this following text that Ibrahim A.S. was "not" ordered to slaughter his son: Translations of the meaning of the Holy Qur'an: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/037.qmt.html#037.100 037.100 YUSUFALI: "O my Lord! Grant me a righteous (son)!" PICKTHAL: My Lord! Vouchsafe me of the righteous. SHAKIR: My Lord! grant me of the doers of good deeds. 037.101 YUSUFALI: So We gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear. PICKTHAL: So We gave him tidings of a gentle son. SHAKIR: So We gave him the good news of a boy, possessing forbearance. 037.102 YUSUFALI: Then, when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him, he said: "O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: Now see what is thy view!" (The son) said: "O my father! Do as thou art commanded: thou will find me, if Allah so wills one practising Patience and Constancy!" PICKTHAL: And when (his son) was old enough to walk with him, (Abraham) said: O my dear son, I have seen in a dream that I must sacrifice thee. So look, what thinkest thou? He said: O my father! Do that which thou art commanded. Allah willing, thou shalt find me of the steadfast. SHAKIR: And when he attained to working with him, he said: O my son! surely I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice you; consider then what you see. He said: O my father! do what you are commanded; if Allah please, you will find me of the patient ones. 037.103 YUSUFALI: So when they had both submitted their wills (to Allah), and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (for sacrifice), PICKTHAL: Then, when they had both surrendered (to Allah), and he had flung him down upon his face, SHAKIR: So when they both submitted and he threw him down upon his forehead, 037.104 YUSUFALI: We called out to him "O Abraham! PICKTHAL: We called unto him: O Abraham! SHAKIR: And We called out to him saying: O Ibrahim! 037.105 YUSUFALI: "Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!" - thus indeed do We reward those who do right. PICKTHAL: Thou hast already fulfilled the vision. Lo! thus do We reward the good. SHAKIR: You have indeed shown the truth of the vision; surely thus do We reward the doers of good: 037.106 YUSUFALI: For this was obviously a trial- PICKTHAL: Lo! that verily was a clear test. SHAKIR: Most surely this is a manifest trial. 037.107 YUSUFALI: And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: PICKTHAL: Then We ransomed him with a tremendous victim. SHAKIR: And We ransomed him with a Feat sacrifice. 037.108 YUSUFALI: And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times: PICKTHAL: And We left for him among the later folk (the salutation): SHAKIR: And We perpetuated (praise) to him among the later generations. 037.109 YUSUFALI: "Peace and salutation to Abraham!" PICKTHAL: Peace be unto Abraham! SHAKIR: Peace be on Ibrahim. 037.110 YUSUFALI: Thus indeed do We reward those who do right. PICKTHAL: Thus do We reward the good. SHAKIR: Thus do We reward the doers of good. 037.111 YUSUFALI: For he was one of our believing Servants. PICKTHAL: Lo! he is one of Our believing slaves. SHAKIR: Surely he was one of Our believing servants. --- In islamcity@yahoogroups.com, "Muhammad Latif Chaudhery" wrote: > > Dear Saba Khan > I am sorry to intervene but your exposition needs a bit of reconsideration. Hadrat Ibraheem (pbuh) was never ordered to slaughter his Son. It was Allah's plan to ban slaughtering of human beings in vouge. Thanks to Ibraheem (pbuh) at whose hand the slaughtering of human beings in the name of God came to an end. > > Muhammad Latif Chaudhery > > - Original Message - > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: eGroup For Muslims Around T
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: American Professor Natana DeLong-Bas: 'I Do Not Find Any Evidence that Would
Assalamu aleikum. There is indeed no credible evidence supporting the weird conspiracy theory of George Bush that Usama bin Laden organized 911. Based on substantial existing evidence, the most likely 911 perpetrator remains the zionist intelligence agency called the MOSSAD (official motto: "By deception shalt thou wage war") with a secondary possibility that 911 was an inside job like Hitler's Reichstag Fire run by dajjal Bush and Cheney themselves. MEMRI (the source that was cited in the article below) is an Islamophobic zionist hatesite established by a former head of "Israeli" intelligence to spread lies about Islam and the Muslims using MEMRI's worthless mistranslations of Muslims and their spin machine as their weapon. MEMRI has fooled many people with its claim to be an "independent" translator, but their translations as well as their conclusions are unreliable and can safely be disregarded. Please be aware of this and do not promote their hatesite, their blogs, etc. "During the Clinton administration neoconservatives promoted their views from a strong interlocking network of think tanks - such as the American Enterpise Institute (AEI), Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), Hudson Institute, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Middle East Forum, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Center for Security Policy (CSP) - which have had great influence in the media and staff Republican administrations. Some of these organizations were originally set up by mainline conservatives and taken over by neoconservatives;14 others were established by neoconservatives, with some of them having a direct Israeli connection. For example, Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence was a co-founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri). And these various organizations have been closely connected. For example, the other co-founder of Memri, Meyrav Wurmser, was a member of the Hudson Institute, while her husband, David Wurser, headed the Middle East studies department of AEI. Richard Perle was both a 'resident fellow' at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a trustee of the Hudson Institute." -excerpted from "Know more than what your TV shows" --- In islamcity@yahoogroups.com, Abdul Wahid Osman Belal wrote: > > VISIT THE NEW MEMRI BLOG AT www.thememriblog.org > > Special Dispatch-Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project > January 3, 2007 > No. 1406 > > American Professor Natana DeLong-Bas: 'I Do Not Find Any Evidence that Would Make Me Agree that Osama bin Laden Was Behind the Attack on the Twin Towers' > > To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD140607 . > > > On December 21, 2006, the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an interview with Dr. Natana DeLong-Bas, who taught this year in the Department of Theology at Boston College and in the Department of Near East and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University(1). In the interview, she said that Wahhabism is not extremism and that the Muslim Brotherhood and Sayyed Qutb have nothing to do with jihadism. Dr. DeLong-Bas also indicated that there may be a Western conspiracy against the Arab and Islamic world, and said that she knows of no evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks. > > In 2004, DeLong-Bas published her doctoral dissertation in book form under the title Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad. This book, published by the Oxford University Press, has been highly recommended by the Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C.(2) > > According to the book's jacket, "Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon monotheism in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial treaty relations." > > Dr. Natana DeLong-Bas is a contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, The Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, and The Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. > > The following are excerpts from the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat interview:(3) > > > "The Extremists in Saudi Arabia are a Mixture of a Number of Elements, and Their Extremism Does Not Stem From the Islamic Religion" > > Q: "To begin with, why did you choose to discuss Sheikh Muhammad bin 'Abd Al-Wahhab in your doctoral dissertation?" > > Dr. Natana DeLong-Bas: "We hear a lot of talk in the U.S. about 'Wahabbi Islam' and 'the Wahhabis,' but only in a negative way that depicts them as extremist terrorists and gunmen. [Even] before 9/11, Americans would speak about everyone who opposed the positions of the American government - whether we talk of Chechnya, Indonesia, or Palestine - as 'Wahhabis.' This was the main reason I chose to discuss Sheikh Muhammad bin 'Abd Al-Wahhab, because I had a strong desire to know the meaning of the term 'Wahhabi Islam', and I could not find a
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] M.I.T. PLACES CONTENTS OF 1,800 COURSES ONLINE FOR FREE
M.I.T. PLACES CONTENTS OF 1,800 COURSES ONLINE FOR FREE Assalamu aleikum. The course materials of over 1,800 MIT courses are accessible free of charge at: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html --- How to go to M.I.T. for free Online 'intellectual philanthropy' attracts students from every nation on earth. By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? It's all free of charge. By Gregory M. Lamb Christian Science Monitor Thursday, 01/04/07 http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p13s02-legn.html The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse knowledge far beyond the ivy-clad walls of elite campuses to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to learn. Intended as an act of "intellectual philanthropy," OpenCourseWare (OCW) provides free access to course materials such as syllabi, video or audio lectures, notes, homework assignments, illustrations, and so on. So far, by giving away their content, the universities aren't discouraging students from enrolling as students. Instead, the online materials appear to be only whetting appetites for more. "We believe strongly that education can be best advanced when knowledge is shared openly and freely," says Anne Margulies, executive director of the OCW program at MIT. "MIT is using the power of the Internet to give away all of the educational materials created here." The MIT site ( http://ocw.mit.edu ), along with companion sites that translate the material into other languages, now average about 1.4 million visits per month from learners "in every single country on the planet," Ms. Margulies says. Those include Iraq, Darfur, "even Antarctica," she says. "We hear from [the online students] all the time with inspirational stories about how they are using these materials to change their lives. They're really, really motivated." So-called "distance learning" over the Internet isn't new. Students have been able to pay for online courses at many institutions, either to receive credit or simply as a noncredit adult-learning experience. Many universities also offer free podcasts (audio or sometimes video material delivered via the Internet). But the sheer volume and variety of the educational materials being released by MIT and its OCW collaborators is nothing less than stunning. For example, each of the 29 courses that Tufts University in Medford, Mass., has put online so far is "literally the size of a textbook," says Mary Lee, associate provost and point person for the OCW effort there. The material provides much more than "a skeleton of a course," she says. Visitors to Tufts' OCW course on "Wildlife Medicine" call it is the most comprehensive website on that topic in the world, Dr. Lee says. What OCW is not, its supporters agree, is a substitute for attending a university. For one thing, OCW learners aren't able to receive feedback from a professor - or to discuss the course with fellow students. A college education is "really the total package of students interacting with other students, forming networks, interacting with faculty, and that whole environment of being associated with the school," says James Yager, a senior associate dean at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He oversees the OCW program there. His school of public health now offers nearly 40 of its most popular courses for free via OCW. The school's goal is to put 90 to 100 of its 200 or so core courses online within the next year or so. In November, learners from places such as Taiwan, Britain, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands logged some 80,000 page views of OCW course material, Dr. Yager says. MIT's initiative began with the idea of giving faculty at other universities access to how professors at MIT approached teaching a subject. But after the OCW project went online, the school quickly realized it had two other huge constituencies: students at other colleges, who wanted to augment what they were learning, and "self learners," those not pursuing a formal education but interested in increasing their knowledge. Along with course content, MIT also wanted to showcase its teaching methods. Many schools follow a traditional model, teaching the theory first, then allowing students to practice what they've learned. MIT has a "practice, theory, practice" way of teaching, Margulies says, that aims to get students engaged and energized immediately - before delving much into theory. Younes Attaourti, a physics professor in Marrakesh, Morocco, stumbled upon MIT's OCW site while surfing the Net. He's used the materials as the basis for courses he's taught on statistical physics and quantu
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: Incredible India Has Killed 10 mln Girls in 20 Years - Minister
INDIA'S 6-YEAR-OLD TEMPLE PROSTITUTES Assalamu aleikum. The fate of many of the baby girls who survive the mass hindoo slaughter of abortion and infancticide is also pitiable: "Thousands of untouchable female children (between 6 and 8 years) are forced to become maidens of God (Devadasis, Jogins, a Hindu religious practice in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka State, Maharashtra, Orissa State, to mention only a few). They are taken from their families, never to see them again. They are later raped by the temple priest and finally auctioned secretly into prostitution and ultimately die from AIDS. It is estimated by NGOs that 5,000 to 15,000 girls are auctioned secretly every year." Note: The numbers [217] - [224] in the first article refer to footnotes that appear below the article. Please note that 2 articles follow: *The Devadasi System: Ritualized Prostitution (1999) *Sacrificing life to serve the goddess --- (1) The Devadasi System: Ritualized Prostitution [217] Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/india/India994-09.htm#P1695_354939 The practice of devadasi, in which a girl, usually before reaching the age of puberty, is ceremoniously dedicated or married to a deity or to a temple, continues in several southern states including Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Literally meaning "female servant of god," devadasis usually belong to the Dalit community. Once dedicated, the girl is unable to marry, forced to become a prostitute for upper-caste community members, and eventually auctioned into an urban brothel. The age-old practice continues to legitimize the sexual violence and discrimination that have come to characterize the intersection between caste and gender. The patrons of the devadasis are generally from the higher castes because those from the devadasis own castes are too poor to afford to [pay] for the rituals_ In many cases a patron kept many girls and the number of girls used to be a yard stick of the status of that man. This system of patronage has given way to [a system of] commercial prostitution in the populated big cities. [218] Activists involved in the Dalit women's movement explain that the nexus between caste and forced prostitution is quite strong and that the devadasi system is no exception. Most Indian girls and women in India's urban brothels come from lower-caste, tribal, or minority communities. Like other forms of violence against women, ritualized prostitution, activists believe, is a system "designed to kill whatever vestiges of self-respect the untouchable castes have in order to subjugate them and keep them underprivileged." [219] By keeping Dalit women as prostitutes, and by tying prostitution to bondage in rural areas, upper-caste men reinforce their declaration of social and economic superiority over the lower castes. According to the Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace, a Canada-based NGO: Thousands of untouchable female children (between 6 and 8 years) are forced to become maidens of God (Devadasis, Jogins, a Hindu religious practice in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka State, Maharashtra, Orissa State, to mention only a few). They are taken from their families, never to see them again. They are later raped by the temple priest and finally auctioned secretly into prostitution and ultimately die from AIDS. It is estimated by NGOs that 5,000 to 15,000 girls are auctioned secretly every year. [220] In an interview with Human Rights Watch, the head of an NGO active in Karnataka explained that in her state the girl is offered to the Goddess Yellamma in a village ceremony: Earlier it was for priests, but now it is for high-caste men. They used to live in the temples_ now anyone can use them including lorry drivers_ Dreadlocked hair is taken as a sign from the Goddess Yellamma that the girl is meant to be a devadasi. In a festival, a marriage ceremony takes place between the girl and god. The eldest lady of the devadasi community ties the mangal sutra [marriage necklace]. In some ceremonies the girl wasparaded almost naked. The girl is then given some money but still works in the fields. She lives separately in the village and is used by all the men, including Dalit men. [221] In 1992 the Karnataka state government passed the Karnataka Devadasi (Prohibition of Dedication) Act and called for the rehabilitation of devadasi women. Like many laws aimed at protecting women and lower castes, the act suffers from a lack of enforcement. Moreover, the police themselves have been known to use devadasis. As the Karnataka activist explained, the law works to the disadvantage of women because it criminalizes their actions and not the actions of their patrons. Police will even go so far as to demand sex as a bribe: "They will threaten to file charges under the act if the woman says no." [222] Their perceived status in society, as women who are supposed to serve men sexually, also makes it more difficult for devadasis to approach the police for help: "When a devadasi is raped, it
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] IMAGES OF CRUSADER GENOCIDE AT ISHAQI
IMAGES OF CRUSADER GENOCIDE AT ISHAQI Assalamu aleikum. First the New World Order shot them dead. Then the antichrist Bush regime blew up their homes with bombs to hide the evidence. May Allah (S.W.T.) bless and reward the shaheed. Innaa lillaahi wa inna ilayhi raaji'uun. - Images from the US crime against Ishaqi innocent people http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28901 - Another US crime in Ashaqi Roads to Iraq December 8, 2006 http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/12/08/another-us-crime-in-ashaqi/ Eyewitnesses say that the US occupation forces committed a crime against innocent people in Ishaqi. The occupation forces besieged the homes of brothers Mohammed Hussein Jalmood and Mahmoud Hussein Jalmood, opened fire on members of the two families in the early hours today, to cover up the crime they air bombed the houses. People of the area who rushed to the crime scene and removed the bodies from the rubble found that all victims had been shot at close range, which confirms that they were mass executed. About 32 martyrs were targeted by the American forces intentionally among them 6 children and 8 women. http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/12/08/another-us-crime-in-ashaqi/
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Re: CHRISTIAN FUNDIES ACCIDENTALLY FURNISH LIST OF GOOD COMPANIES
Assalamu aleikum. JazakAllahair for your concern, but no, it is not fake. None of the companies recommended by Islamic Community Net in response to christian targeting are listed by the Boycott Israel Campaign. If you have additional information showing company linkages to the zionist foe, please post it here and insha'Allah the recommendation for each such company will be revoked. For general details of the Boycott Israel Campaign: http://www.inminds.co.uk/ - For your information: from the Boycott Israel Campaign FAQ http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-faq.html 2. Are you boycotting all Jews? Certainly not! The boycott is not directed at any religious or ethnic group, but rather it is directed at those companies that are supporting the racist occupation of Palestine. A quick glance at the boycott list will testify to this. We do not discriminate between the supporters of Israel - if a Muslim company is caught collaborating with Israel we will boycott it just as vigorously as any other company. http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-faq.html - - To view the Boycott Israel Campaign list of boycotted companies: link: http://www.inminds.com/boycott-leaflet.html printable MS Word document: http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-brochure.doc Wasalaam. Islamic Community Net --- In islamcity@yahoogroups.com, "jav6hay" wrote: > > THIS IS ALL FAKE !!! these all companies are jewish-christians based > multi-national companies > > > > --- In islamcity@yahoogroups.com, "islamiccommunitynet" wrote: > > > > CHRISTIAN FUNDIES ACCIDENTALLY FURNISH LIST OF GOOD COMPANIES > > > > Assalamu aleikum. > > > > The following list is actually a HATE list compiled by Islamophobic > > and antisemitic christian fundamentalist extremists. It's being > > circulated by christian fanatics and is supposed to embarrass the > > named companies. > > > > Instead, Muslims should REWARD the companies below by striving to > make > > any necessary purchases from them and not from supporters of the > > christian fanatics. > > > > This christian hate list, along another list of those companies > that > > openly pander to the christian fundamentalist mentality can be > found > > at the christian hatesite: > > http://lc.org/helpsavechristmas/naughty_nice2006.pdf > > > > Simple rule of thumb: boycott the christian "nice" companies and > > consider purchases from the christian "naughty" companies. > > > > > > --- > > > > > > ISLAMIC COMMUNITY NET RECOMMENDS FOR MUSLIMS: > > > > Banana Republic Web site has "Holiday Gift Guide" with no > mention of > > any Christmas. > > > > Best Buy Web site says "Unique gifts for the season," "Holiday > gift > > ideas." Spokesperson said they consider the use of "Merry > Christmas" > > to be disrespectful. > > > > Eddie Bauer Customer service would not recognize Christmas, they > > "don't want to offend Jews, those who celebrate Kwanza and those > who > > have no religious preference." > > > > Gap "Holiday Survival Guide" no mention of Christmas. > > > > Lowe's In 2005, Lowe's stated they would modify their ads and no > > longer say things such as "Holiday trees", however, their Web site > has > > Holiday gift cards and Holiday Living department (that only > contains > > Christmas-related items.) Employees can say "Merry Christmas" in > > response to employees. > > > > Old Navy Web site has "Holiday Gift Guide," "Holiday gift boxes" > but > > no Christmas. > > > > Petsmart Has a Holiday Shop, and Luv-a-pet ornaments, photos with > > Santa, but no Christmas. > > > > Rite Aid Advertises "holiday savings" with all Christmas > products, > > employees told to say "Happy Holidays." One employee says, "These > > retailers are profiting from the traditions of giving that have > > developed out of Christianity but refuse to acknowledge the faith > that > > feeds them." > > > > Schnucks Grocery Stores (MO, IL) Have "Happy Holidays" banners > but > > no mention of Christmas anywhere. > > > > Staples Web site advertises "Department of Unexpected Gifts." > Sell > > "Hanukkah" cards and "religious" cards. Never says Christmas. > > >
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] CHRISTIAN FUNDIES ACCIDENTALLY FURNISH LIST OF GOOD COMPANIES
CHRISTIAN FUNDIES ACCIDENTALLY FURNISH LIST OF GOOD COMPANIES Assalamu aleikum. The following list is actually a HATE list compiled by Islamophobic and antisemitic christian fundamentalist extremists. It's being circulated by christian fanatics and is supposed to embarrass the named companies. Instead, Muslims should REWARD the companies below by striving to make any necessary purchases from them and not from supporters of the christian fanatics. This christian hate list, along another list of those companies that openly pander to the christian fundamentalist mentality can be found at the christian hatesite: http://lc.org/helpsavechristmas/naughty_nice2006.pdf Simple rule of thumb: boycott the christian "nice" companies and consider purchases from the christian "naughty" companies. --- ISLAMIC COMMUNITY NET RECOMMENDS FOR MUSLIMS: Banana Republic Web site has "Holiday Gift Guide" with no mention of any Christmas. Best Buy Web site says "Unique gifts for the season," "Holiday gift ideas." Spokesperson said they consider the use of "Merry Christmas" to be disrespectful. Eddie Bauer Customer service would not recognize Christmas, they "don't want to offend Jews, those who celebrate Kwanza and those who have no religious preference." Gap "Holiday Survival Guide" no mention of Christmas. Lowe's In 2005, Lowe's stated they would modify their ads and no longer say things such as "Holiday trees", however, their Web site has Holiday gift cards and Holiday Living department (that only contains Christmas-related items.) Employees can say "Merry Christmas" in response to employees. Old Navy Web site has "Holiday Gift Guide," "Holiday gift boxes" but no Christmas. Petsmart Has a Holiday Shop, and Luv-a-pet ornaments, photos with Santa, but no Christmas. Rite Aid Advertises "holiday savings" with all Christmas products, employees told to say "Happy Holidays." One employee says, "These retailers are profiting from the traditions of giving that have developed out of Christianity but refuse to acknowledge the faith that feeds them." Schnucks Grocery Stores (MO, IL) Have "Happy Holidays" banners but no mention of Christmas anywhere. Staples Web site advertises "Department of Unexpected Gifts." Sell "Hanukkah" cards and "religious" cards. Never says Christmas.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ZIONAZIS BRING THE WAR IN PALESTINE TO THE USA
ZIONAZIS BRING THE WAR IN PALESTINE TO THE USA Assalamu aleikum. "Jews rule this country! ... you Muslim scumbag, you have f---ed up this country. You don't have the right to live here. Go back to your country ... Muslim m-f-r. You m-f-g Muslim terrorists. Go back to your country ... terrorist mother-[expletive,] you [expletive] our country. Why are you here? Go back to your country and never [expletive] with the Jews" Please note that 4 articles follow: *Muslim beating: Five Orthodox teens charged in bias attack *Orthodox Jewish Teens Charged In Hate Crime *Brooklyn attack victim speaks out: Police are calling it a vicious hate crime *5 Jewish Brooklyn Teens Charged In Hate Crime --- (1) Muslim beating Five Orthodox teens charged in bias attack BY KERRY BURKE and NANCIE L. KATZ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS November 3, 2006 http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/467935p-393648c.html - photo: Umbar Islam shows the bloodstained jacket that was worn by his son Shahid Amber, 24, when he was allegedly attacked by gang of Orthodox Jewish teens because he is a Muslim. http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/733-beating03.JPG - Five Orthodox Jewish teens have been slammed with hate-crime charges in the brutal beating of a Pakistani immigrant in Brooklyn. "They hit me in the face with brass knuckles four or five times while somebody held my hands," said the victim, Shahid Amber, 24, a gas station attendant. "Then they all beat and kicked me. They were screaming 'Muslim m-f-r. You m-f-g Muslim terrorists. Go back to your country.' " Amber, who was eating ice cream outside a Midwood Dunkin' Donuts when the gang attacked on Sunday, needed 15 stitches on his broken nose and reconstructive surgery. Witnesses who called 911 said that 10-12 youths jumped him, a source said. Amber said the attack began after one of the group asked if he were Muslim and he answered yes. Amber's father, Umbar Islam, 56, described a brutal assault by boys in long black jackets, black pants and black hats. "They punched and broke his nose. They ripped his jacket. He was covered in blood. They said, 'Jews rule this country!' " Islam said. "These people are crazy. In his life, he's never fought. He doesn't know how to fight." Yitzi Horowitz, 15, David Brach, 15, Yossi Friedman, 17, Shulomi Bitton, 16, and Benjamin Wasserman, 16, all of Borough Park, were charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon. Horowitz and Brach were freed on their own recognizance. The other three were ordered to pay $5,000 cash bond and are due back in court today. Bitton's mother, Irit Bitton, said last night that her son was innocent. "My son was just standing over there and he did not touch anybody," she said. "He's a sensitive boy. He wouldn't even kill a fly. I believe my son 100%." She also denied he was biased. "We have clean hearts," she said. Amber, who has lived in the U.S. for seven years, said, "I respect all religions . . . I love this country. It has given me everything. I would defend this country with my blood. "These guys just break my heart." With Alison Gendar http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/467935p-393648c.html --- (2) Orthodox Jewish Teens Charged In Hate Crime http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=64002 Five Jewish teenagers are expected to appear in court Friday in connection with the beating of a Muslim man in Brooklyn. The suspects were arrested Sunday after police say they shouted racial slurs before punching Shahid Amber with brass knuckles and breaking his nose outside an area Dunkin' Donuts. According to a court document obtained by NY1, the teens also shouted "...terrorist mother-[expletive,] you [expletive] our country. Why are you here? Go back to your country and never [expletive] with the Jews." The District Attorney classified the assault as a hate crime, and three of the five suspects are being tried as adults. "The man was attacked by these people who identified him as a Muslim and claimed that was the reason they attacked him and that's of tremendous concern to us because he wasn't attacked just as an individual, but as a member of the Muslim community," said Joel Levy of the Anti-Defamation League. "We have to send out a message cohesively that this, we are not going to tolerate," said Mohammad Razvi of the Council of People Organization. "We have been building a coalition in this community since after 9/11 and prior to as well we are all Brooklyn and we have been able to meet with and work with different leaders in the community and make sure that this sort of stuff just doesn't hang," said Rabbi Bob Kaplan of Jewish Community Relations. But, according to Ari Murkoff, who owns a nearby restaurant on Avenue A, this was not a hate crime and he said he did not hear any racial slurs. "I saw a bunch of teenagers having an argument and one tried to have bravado and tried to call each other names and it escalated fro
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE CONVENTION NOVEMBER 23-25
AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR PALESTINE CONVENTION NOVEMBER 23-25
Assalamu aleikum.
American Muslims for Palestine convention flyer (PDF)
Nov. 23-25, 2006
Rosemont, IL
http://www.ampalestine.org/Flyers/AMP_Convention.jpg
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American Muslims for Palestine website:
http://www.ampalestine.org
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(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
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{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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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] HATE-BASED, VIOLENT, EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN VIDEO GAME
HATE-BASED, VIOLENT, EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN VIDEO GAME To be released in time for Christmas 2006, to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance http://www.religioustolerance.org/hatevgame.htm Quotations: "The game adheres to the medium's brutal conventions." Los Angeles Times. "Gives a whole new sinister flavor to the old hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers', that's for sure." "BlueStocking," post to the TruthDig blog. "Is this paramilitary mission simulator for children anything other than prejudice and bigotry using religion as an organizing tool to get people in a violent frame of mind? The dialogue includes people saying, "Praise the Lord," as they blow infidels away.The Scriptures say, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.' (Proverbs 22:6) The Scriptures do not say, 'Train up a child in the way he should blow away the people of God as well as infidels: and when he is old enough, he will go out and do some killing'." Jonathan Hutson. 1 Overview: A new video game called "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" was first shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles during 2006-MAY. The Los Angeles Times commented: " 'Eternal Forces' is part of a new wave of religious games coming out at a time when the mainstream industry faces increasing criticism that its products celebrate misogynistic mayhem." 2 >From the descriptions of the game on the Internet, it seems that this game's creators have replaced the hatred of women found in secular games with hatred of religions other than Evangelical Christianity, while keeping the killing and extreme violence intact. Reviews of the game: "Eternal Forces" is based on the runaway best selling book series "Left Behind" by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Both the game and books follow dispensational beliefs -- a subset of pre-millennial theology. This is a belief system that is a relatively recent development in Christianity. It was declared a heresy by the early Christian movement, but was resurrected in the early 19th century and is now very popular among Evangelical Christians. Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, believes that the game may be a financial success. He said: "The reason that I think this game has a chance is that it's not particularly preachy. I will say some of the dialogue is pretty lame people saying, 'Praise the Lord' after they blow away the bad guys. I think they're overdoing it a bit. But the message is OK." Jack Thompson, an attorney, author, and critic of video game violence is concerned about the level of carnage in the game. He said: "We're going to push this game at Christian kids to let them know there's a cool shooter game out there. Because of the Christian context, somehow it's OK? It's not OK. The context is irrelevant. It's a mass-killing game." He also commented: "It's absurd. You can be the Christians blowing away the infidels, and if that doesn't hit your hot button, you can be the Antichrist blowing away all the Christians." Thompson has severed his ties with Tyndale House in a dispute over this game. A. Larry Ross, president of a Christian public relations firm that helped to market Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" and three "Left Behind" movies commented on the game, apparently without having seen it. He said: "There's an audience here. In addition to the youth audience that's the primary target there are parents who are concerned about what their children are exposed to and are encouraged by products that are biblically based. I would assume, if there is violence, it's the cosmic struggle of good versus evil, not gratuitous violence." 2 The game's plot: The game is based on the assumption that God had separated babies and the saved -- individuals who have repented of their sin and trusted Jesus as Lord and Savior -- from the Earth. In a process called the Rapture, the saved miraculously rise through the air to meet Jesus Christ. They abandon trains, planes, automobiles, jobs, fields, sidewalks, homes, etc. That leaves only confused unbelievers "left behind" on earth. Some would be nominal Christians who were not saved before the rapture. Others would be Muslims, Hindus, most Mormons, most Roman Catholics, followers of all of the other religions in the world, secularists, Atheists, Agnostics, etc. The "good side" is represented by the "Tribulation Force." These are often spouses, family members, and relatives of the saved Christians who had been raptured, have left the Earth, and are now with Jesus. According to the most common Evangelical Christian interpretation of key biblical passages, everyone left behind on earth must endure seven years of tribulation -- violent, horrendous evil which will cause the death of one third of the population of Earth in the greatest Holocaust the world has ever seen. On the other side -- the bad guys -- are the infidels: the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE MUSLIMS
FOR THOSE WHO PERSECUTE MUSLIMS
Assalamu aleikum.
Just as nazi fuhrer Adolf Hitler ended up shooting himself to death in
despair over the collapse of his "Third Reich", so a German priest has
done the same in despair at the face of the growth of Islam and the
Muslims.
---
Priest burns himself to death over Islam
>From David Crossland in Berlin
The Times
November 03, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2434625,00.html
A retired priest committed suicide by setting himself on fire in a
German monastery in protest at the spread of Islam and the Protestant
Church's inability to contain it.
Roland Weisselberg, 73, poured a can of petrol over his head and set
light to himself in the grounds of the Augustine monastery in the
eastern city of Erfurt, where Martin Luther spent six years as a monk
at the beginning of the 16th century.
Witnesses said that Weisselberg climbed into a building site next to
the monastery church, where a Reformation Day service was being held.
He shouted "Jesus and Oskar" before the flames engulfed him. The
latter name was an apparent reference to Oskar Brüsewitz, a priest who
burnt himself in 1976 in protest against the Communist regime in East
Germany. Monastery staff tried to put out the flames and Weisselberg
was still conscious as a nun prayed with him before he was taken to
hospital. He died a day later, on Wednesday.
Media reports said that he had tried to kill himself inside the church
but changed his mind when he found the side door was locked.
The Provost of Erfurt, Elfriede Begrich, told reporters that
Weisselberg's widow had said that he killed himself because he was
alarmed at the spread of Islam and the Church's stance on the issue.
She described Weisselberg as an erudite man who had addressed
repeatedly the Church's position on Islam in meetings over the past
three to four years. He had written to her, urging her to take the
matter more seriously, she said.
The Protestant Bishop of Saxony, Axel Noack, said the suicide had
shocked the community and that he hoped it would not hurt relations
between Christians and Muslims.
"We in the East are still among ourselves when we discuss Islam," said
Bishop Noack, adding that there were not many Muslims in the area.
Relations with Muslims have been a matter of intense debate in Germany
in recent months, stoked by the cancellation of a Mozart opera in
Berlin amid fears that it could provoke Muslim violence, and a speech
by the Pope in September in which he quoted from a medieval text
linking the spread of the Islamic faith to violence.
The Berlin Deutsche Oper has said that it will stage the opera, which
has a scene showing the severed heads of the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus
and Buddha.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2434625,00.html
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{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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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MUSLIM SHOW TRIAL VICTIM FACES DEPORTATION AFTER DAJJAL LOSES CASE
MUSLIM SHOW TRIAL VICTIM FACES DEPORTATION AFTER DAJJAL LOSES CASE Pakistani could be deported as immigration case dropped By Bruce Finley Denver Post 11/03/2006 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4594521 A federal judge let the government drop all charges against a man jailed for more than two years after the FBI targeted him as a possible terrorist, clearing the way for Haroon Rashid to be deported to the Pakistan- Afghanistan borderlands. The decision Thursday in Denver by U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock dismayed Rashid's U.S.-citizen relatives. "Three years they've been dragging him. Now my family will be destroyed. Why didn't they drop the charges before?" said Saima Saima, his wife. Attorneys for Rashid appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to block the deportation. And a national Muslim advocacy group launched a campaign to keep the Pakistani immigrant in Denver with his four children. Federal authorities also are prosecuting other members of Rashid's family, raising questions about who would care for the children in the future. "The government made a mistake. And now this family has to pay the price? There's something un-American about that," said Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. The government's initial terrorism case against Rashid evaporated two years ago, but prosecutors pursued lesser immigration charges. U.S. Attorney Troy Eid had motioned for Babcock to dismiss those charges for the purpose of having Rashid deported. Babcock rejected an effort by defense attorney Jeff Pagliuca to force federal prosecutors to take Rashid to trial. He ordered Rashid moved from federal prison to the custody of immigration officials. He'll be deported "when it is most convenient," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said. Rashid, who came to the country legally, faces deportation because he was convicted in 2003 of assaulting a gang member who hassled his family. At the time, he was out on bond during the FBI investigation. He received a 401-day sentence - most of it suspended - in the assault case. His court-appointed attorney filed no appeal. Eid said federal agents had first investigated Rashid as a possible terrorist because "there was evidence" that, during a visit in 2001 and 2002 to his hometown of Quetta, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, he made statements indicating he might try to obtain weapons and fight U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. And now, because of the assault conviction, Rashid "has no right to be in the United States. Thus he will be deported," Eid said. The appeal to the Supreme Court, filed Wednesday by attorney Andrew Reid, argues that a conviction for misdemeanor assault does not meet the aggravated-felony standard necessary under U.S. immigration law to justify deportation. This challenges a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in August that a misdemeanor could count for deportation purposes. That's "an excessive and abusive application of immigration law," Reid said. "The government is running rampant over the Constitution." Members of the Denver Muslim community have set up a legal-defense fund. Leaders of the Washington, D.C.-based Muslim American Society plan a legal-advocacy campaign. After charging 441 detainees in terrorism-related cases as part of its war on terrorism, the government often has come up empty and is using lesser charges to have detainees deported. Federal authorities have stated openly that they'll use any tool possible in prosecuting suspected terrorists. Rashid's case drew national attention in 2002 when then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft cited it at a news conference among several priority terrorism cases around the country. Now the government's handing of the case "is really a tragedy for these people. They should never have filed this case," Pagliuca said, accusing Denver-based federal agents of "picking the most available Pakistanis" in the charged atmosphere after Sept. 11, 2001. Other members of Rashid's family still face immigration charges that could land them in jail for up to five years. Prosecutors contend they lied and conspired to bring a relative into the country illegally. Outside the courthouse Thursday, Abdul Qayyum, 64, Rashid's father-in- law, had tears in his eyes, holding one of Rashid's children. "Who is going to take care of these kids? Me? I'm an old guy." Family members "never had any problem with the laws in this country until after 9/11," said cousin Irfan Kamran, 36. "And who's going to suffer now? These kids. They are American kids. ... I pray for this country, that the situation will be better for everyone." http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4594521 Pakistani could be deported as immigration case dropped By Bruce Finley Denver Post 11/03/2006 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4594521 A federal judge let the government drop all charges ag
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] PHOENIX ZIONISTS GET MUSLIM EDITOR EXPELLED FROM HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
PHOENIX ZIONISTS GET MUSLIM EDITOR EXPELLED FROM HUMAN RELATIONS
COMMISSION
Ex-human relations appointee intolerant of Israel, Phoenix says
MONICA ALONZO-DUNSMOOR
The Arizona Republic
10.25.2006
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/30382.php
Tensions in the Middle East are manifesting themselves on a Phoenix
commission that is supposed to foster unity among people.
Phoenix City Council members last week removed Marwan Ahmad, a
Palestinian and Muslim, from the Human Relations Commission after more
than five years of service, saying he was promoting messages of
intolerance against Israel, the Jewish community and at least one
member of the Islamic community.
Mayor Phil Gordon didn't give a specific reason why Ahmad was ousted.
Ahmad's monthly newspaper, Muslim Voice, has come under fire.
In the newspaper, Ahmad depicted a member of the Islamic community as
a dog in an editorial cartoon.
Ahmad also publishes the Multicultural Yellow Pages, which excludes
references to the area's Jewish cultural institutions and replaces
Israel with the name Palestine on a Middle East map.
He omits area codes, airlines and restaurants associated with Israel.
Bill Straus, Arizona regional director of the Anti-Defamation League,
called the book "one of our community's most glaring examples of
cultural division."
Ahmad said the City Council violated his freedom of speech and is
mixing local and international politics.
The City Council is "under the influence of the pro-Israel groups, and
they're putting Israeli interests before the city's interests," he said.
Gordon defended the action to remove Ahmad, saying the decision had
nothing to do with religion and free speech.
Gordon said the commission's mission is to advocate and promote
respect and understanding among all groups, but Ahmad delivers a
"message of intolerance."
Ahmad was appointed to the commission in 2001 by then-Phoenix Mayor
Skip Rimsza and reappointed by Gordon in 2004. He was removed with
about eight months remaining on his three-year term.
Sabahudin Ceman, the imam minister from the Islamic Center of North
Phoenix, replaced Ahmad on the commission.
Ahmad said he was not notified of the pending council vote, nor was he
informed about the City Council decision after the unanimous vote
Wednesday to remove him.
City officials mailed him a letter Friday.
Some in the Muslim community are calling for an apology from the City
Council and demanding that Ahmad be reinstated on the commission.
Neither is likely to happen.
"I'm sorry that some individuals feel an apology is needed," Gordon
said. "But as the mayor . . . I believe none is due, and I've taken
appropriate action."
Gordon said "anyone who preaches divisiveness" can't be allowed on a
city commission because it gives the perception that he is
representing the city with those views.
Mohammed Riyad, a member of American Moderate Muslims for Public
Awareness, said groups are prepared to conduct demonstrations,
strikes, counterelection campaigns and file lawsuits if they don't get
relief.
While critics of the council decision concede that Ceman, Ahmad's
replacement on the board, is a "good man," they consider Ahmad's
removal an affront to Muslims.
Gordon said he plans soon to meet with representatives of the Muslim
community.
Abdur-Rahim Shamsiddeen, resident imam of the Jewel of Al-Islam
Masjid, said Ahmad "cannot attack people and then sit on a commission
that deals with human beings, all human beings." If Ahmad believes he
was wronged, he can sue, Shamsiddeen said.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/30382.php
***
{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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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN: LIBERATING THE SOUL
IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN: LIBERATING THE SOUL Imam Jamil Al-Amin: Liberating the Soul Wisdom from within prison walls From: Allah's Slave Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin New Trend Mag Ramadan 28,1427/October 22, 2006 http://www.newtrendmag.org/ntma1077.htm [With thanks to Br. Nadim Ali, Atlanta, and Imam Khalil Abdur Rahman, Greensboro, NC.] I begin in the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. I bear witness that there is only One God, Worthy of All Praise and Worship, and He is Allah. I pray that Allah's Peace and Blessings be upon the Prophet of Allah, Muhammad son of Abdullah, and peace be unto his family and those who follow him. I seek Allah's Protection from Satan the Rejected. I ask Allah to guide my heart and my tongue. I seek Allah's Protection from misleading and from being mislead, from betraying and being betrayed into ignorance by others. As-Salamu Alaykum, O You who Believe: Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala (the Exalted and Glorified), has revealed: "If there were, in the Heavens and the Earth, other gods besides Allah, there would have been confusion in both! But glory to Allah, The Lord of The Throne; (High is He) above what they attribute to Him! He cannot be questioned for His doings, but they will be questioned (for theirs). Or have they taken for worship (other) gods besides Him? Say, ?Bring your convincing proof: this is the Message of those with me and the Message of those before me. But most of them know not the Truth, and they turn away (Qur'an 21:22-24). Belief (faith) is as much an integral part of the human makeup as the intellect (mind) and physique (body); it is the bridge between action and non-action, resistance and passivity, struggle and acquiescence: the difference among mankind is the quality of belief as it is assessed by his Creator. Belief, in any lesser or more quantity may assume any given value or set of values. Values based upon the incorrect belief (disbelief) are incapable of producing the moral incentives to bring about human ascension, which is necessary for a true revolutionary progression. Yet, every offspring of Adam, alaihi salaam, is coded before being brought into this life with belief DNA: "And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam" from their loins"their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], ?Am I not your Lord?" They said, ?Yes, we have testified. [This]"lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, 'Indeed, we were of this unaware.' [lest] you say, ?It was only that our fathers associated [others in worship] with Allah before , and we were but descendants after them. Then would You destroy us for what the falsifiers havedone? "And thus do We [explain in] detail the verses, and perhaps they will return" (7:172-174). The Atheist belief is that he does not believe: disbelief is still belief. Western Philosophical Materialism by definition is Atheistic. A philosopher is one who kicks up dust and then complains that he cannot see. Greco-Roman philosophy and sciences evolve from a math that is predicated without the concept of zero. Any science of discipline (be it philosophy or math) without the concept of zero as a fundamental building block in its inception is consigned to error. Without the understanding of zero, there can be no concept of ad-infinitum (infinity). It can only deal with beginning and ending, Alpha to Omega, no insight (belief) in that without beginning and without end (True Divinity). This is why manmade -isms are unmindful of the "fear" of the day, "When the female (infant) buried alive shall be asked, for what sin was she killed?" (81: 8-9). Their religion (belief system) may make dollars, but it doesn't make sense. These isms (ideas) will be unsuccessful, in bringing about the true evolution of man (revolution), as disbelief has always been. O you who Believe: You are the best of people, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah" (3:110). Islam is a consciousness of the Will and Plan of Allah (swt) and a joyful submission to that Will and Plan. True commitment demands consistency. This is firmness of purpose. Allah (swt) says, "We have created man in the embrace of hardship (90:4). He (swt) has created man for toil and struggle," and conscious struggle is an inescapable part of reality. Truth and falsehood will always be in conflict, and truth must always win in the end, for it is as Allah (swt) Wills. Allah (swt) has willed His Truth to triumph through those who believe in Him. Truth is a trust, falsehood is a treason. Every claim must and will be tested; faith is a claim. Our faith is a bedrock of conscious struggle and must be tested. Reality cannot be learned by the intellect alone; it must be comprehended by the total personality, by the imagination as well as the mind, a human revolution. To be healthy, our life must be molded and shaped by a High Moral System, which can have no basis except that which is Favored by our Creator.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ISNA'S BID TO INTRODUCE UNIVERSAL ISLAMIC CALENDAR FAILS
ISNA'S BID TO INTRODUCE UNIVERSAL ISLAMIC CALENDAR FAILS ISNA's bid to introduce universal Islamic calendar fails By Abdus Sattar Ghazali Al-Jazeerah October 23, 2006 http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/October/23%20o/ISNA's%20bid%20to%20introduce%20universal%20Islamic%20calendar%20fails%20By%20Abdus%20Sattar%20Ghazali.htm An attempt by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to introduce a universal Islamic or Hijra calendar failed as most of the Muslim Islamic centers and mosques in America and Canada ignored its dates for the beginning and end of the month of Ramadhan. In August last, ISNA announced a five year Hijra calendar to unite the global Muslim ummah and to get a designated Eid holiday from the government. The five year pre-determined Islamic calendar is based solely on astronomical calculations. ISNA has ruled that the actual sighting of the moon which has been practiced by the majority of Muslims in the 1427 year history of Islam since Hijra has to be disregarded. The ISNA calendar was also rejected by a number of prominent North American Muslim groups including: The Hilal Sighting Committee of North America, the Islamic Shariah Council, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a member of the Islamic Shura Council of North America and Imam Warith Deen Mohammad, leader of the African American Muslims. About 30 percent of Muslims in America belong to the African American community. In Canada , the Hilal Committee of Metropolitan Toronto and Vicinity, which represents 75 Masjids and Islamic organizations, announced the sighting of new moon after receiving witnesses. Besides giving traditional arguments for moon sighting, the critiques pointed out that for the ISNA calendar, the new Islamic Lunar month begins at sunset of the day when the conjunction occurs before 12:00 Noon GMT. If this calculation is used than for the 12 month period from this Rajab 1427 to Jumada al-Thani 1428, the new moon (crescent) cannot be seen for at least five months (Rajab, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhul Qa'adah, and Rabi al-Thani) in North America. In other words, the followers of the ISNA calendar will be obliged to begin the Islamic month one day earlier, including Ramadan 1427. Some scholars say that the ISNA calendar is nothing but an imitation of the the Jewish community which abandoned the traditional moon sighting to calculate their lunar calendar and adopted the calculated calendar since the 4th century AD. The Fiqah Council of North America , which originally suggested the calendar that was endorsed by the ISNA, argues that the new moon is just a sign of timings. "Criterions of visibility are not agreed upon even by the Muslim astronomers and scholars." A research paper issued by ISNA to support its Hijra calendar argues that GMT is an arbitrary convention accepted by the international community to facilitate the timings and dates and that it has no Islamic implications what so ever. On the other hand, Mecca, being the sanctuary of all the Muslims, enjoys a lot more significance than the GMT, therefore, Muslims should take Mecca as the Islamic convention to determine Muslim months, it said adding that the new month will start when the new Moon is born before Sunset in Mecca and stays in the horizon after the Sunset even if for a small amount of time. The whole Muslim world would have the beginning of the new Month within 24 hours from the birth of the new Moon in Mecca" said the paper written by Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah, a renowned American Muslim scholar. Syed Khalid Shaukat, national coordinator, and moon sighting consultant to ISNA, expressing his disappointment over the issue, says: "In the present era of scientific and technological advancement, three decades after man landed on the moon, some Muslims are still avoiding the use of scientific knowledge for making an Islamic calendar and get over with the feuds and having to wait till midnight for a confirmation of moon sighting." Shaukat stressed that "Today, Muslims have expertise and access to technology to understand the calculations of when and where the sighting occurs. Recorded data shows how the science of moon sighting is compared with the actual observations. The results show that calculations of sighting and observations have matched every month since 1993. Calculations of moon sighting and actual sighting are not two different things for an Islamic Calendar when it was found that they both match." However, with the introduction of ISNA hijra calendar, the moon sighting debate has become more complex in North America and as usual the month of Ramadhan did not begin on the same day and Eid-ul-Fitr was also celebrated on two days i.e. Oct. 23rd and Oct. 24th. It is not clear what will be the impact of ISNA calendar in the long term but at the present moment its attempt to unite the global Muslim Ummah or at least the Muslim community in North America fired back. It may be recalled out that a similar H
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ISNA MOON CALCULATION "EID" HOAX GOES SOUTH
ISNA MOON CALCULATION "EID" HOAX GOES SOUTH
"The Moon is so far south that, when one day old on the 23rd, it sets
before the Sun; the two-day-old Moon is equally impossible to see.
These are the lowest, hardest-to-see crescent Moons in 18 years."
source:
The Old Farmer's Almanac 2006
"Sky Watch"
October - The Tenth Month
p. 118
online at:
http://www.almanac.com/astronomy/moon/index.php
***
{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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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ISNA PROCLAIMS EID ON DAY WHEN MOON CANNOT BE SEEN ANYWHERE IN NORTH AMERICA
ISNA PROCLAIMS EID ON DAY WHEN MOON CANNOT BE SEEN ANYWHERE IN NORTH
AMERICA
Assalamu aleikum.
The isnaic religious cult has falsely declared Monday to be Eid,
together with the Bahais and other false religions. Do not be misled
by any of them.
Here is the text of the isnaites emailed "announcement":
-
Eid-ul-Fitr Announcement
In the Name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful
According to the calculation criteria for determining the Islamic
Lunar dates adopted by the Fiqh Council of North America, Eid Ul-Fitr
for the year 1427 is on the first day of Shawwal Monday, October 23, 2006.
Eid Mubarak!
-
But the chief moon adviser of the isnaites themselves, Khalid Shaukat,
has posted a moon visibility curve graph on his website proving that
on the night of Sunday October 22nd, the moon CANNOT be seen ANYWHERE
AT ALL in North America!
http://moonsighting.com/visibilitycurves/1427shw.gif
Anyone who follows the demented "moon calculation" dictates of the
isnaic religion in preference to the Qur'an and Hadith of the holy
deen of Allah (S.W.T.) - ISLAM - joins the isnaites in their apostasy
from Islam.
Don't join isnaism, the bahais, yahudis or any other religion with
their phony moon "calculation" ideologies that are promoted by the
Bush Regime's neocon US State Department in order to undermine our deen.
For information on those US State Department efforts, see:
http://grenoble.indymedia.org/index.php?page=article&filtre=0&droiteA=0&numpageA=1&id=3467
Do not obey Bush and his worshippers in the isnaic cult. Hold instead
firmly to the ROPE OF ALLAH (S.W.T.) - the Holy Qur'an, and obey the
Sunnah of Rasulullah (S.A.W.) as ordered by the Holy Qur'an.
Allah (S.W.T.) says (translation of the meaning):
---
"They ask you concerning the Crescents (new moons). Say, 'They
(indicate) the fixed seasons for mankind and for pilgrimage'"
(al-Baqarah 2:189)
---
Note closely and well that the Qur'an does *NOT* say "They ask you
concerning the clocks. Say 'They indicate the astronomical time of the
new moons". Doing so would be turning the direct order of Allah
(S.W.T.) completely around.
So ... as your final remaining task for Ramadan and insha'Allah to
receive reward from Allah (S.W.T.) ASSIST your locality to search for
the moon Monday and Tuesday nights. In most of the US the moon of
Shawwal 1427 should be searched on those nights.
The exception is San Diego, California, which actually did physically
sight the moon one day before it became visible to the rest of the US
(one full day after the phony calculations of the isnaite religion and
also one full day after the discredited reports of a "moonsighting" in
Denton, Texas). In San Diego, thirty days will be completed when their
fast ends Monday evening and their Eid should be Tuesday, as the moon
cannot be physically sighted anywhere in the US, including San Diego,
on Sunday night.
Other than San Diego, if insha'Allah the moon is actually physically
sighted in a locality on Monday evening, then, like San Diego, that
locality also celebrates Eid on Tuesday.
There is no such thing as a "national" moonsighting that follows
artificial political national state "boundaries", so if the moon is
not actually seen in a particular locality on Monday night, then
thirty days of Ramadan are insha'Allah completed by that locality
Tuesday night and Eid insha'Allah is Wednesday for those localities
which did not find it Monday night.
To all those who are grateful to Allah (S.W.T.) for the deen of Islam
which He has provided us through His Holy Qur'an and through the
Sunnah of Rasulullah (S.A.W.): May you and your locality have a
blessed Eid in the unity of obedience to our shared deen of Islam on
Tuesday or Wednesday as the case may be.
Wa salaam.
***
{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]
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] CALIFORNIA BIGOT GUNS DOWN MUSLIMAH MOTHER OF 6 IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
CALIFORNIA BIGOT GUNS DOWN MUSLIMAH MOTHER OF 6 IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Assalamu aleikum. "A trust fund has been established to help support Ansari's husband of 17 years, Ahmad, and her six children. Deposits can be made into account No. 55041477 at any Fremont Bank location." Fremont Bank http://www.fremontbank.com/about/contact.htm General Contacts General Information (510) 792-2300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 359-BANK (2265) - Toll-free 1-800-359-2265 - --- Shooting stuns community By Eleni Economides Inside Bay Area 10/21/2006 http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_4528704 FREMONT On the sidewalk where Alia Ansari was slain in broad daylight, family members and community residents gathered Friday evening for an impromptu vigil. "This is dedicated to Alia Ansari, who lost her life yesterday in a tragic incident," said Hassan Ansari, Alia's youngest brother, as he choked back tears. "She has six kids and a loving husband, and all her family here will miss her very much." About 20 family and friends stood in silence, weeping and staring at the sidewalk where Ansari died as they lighted candles near a growing pile of flowers, balloons and stuffed animals. Ansari, 38, was shot and killed about 2:40 p.m. Thursday as she was walking hand-in-hand with her 3-year-old daughter to pick up her other children from nearby Glenmoor Elementary School, police said. Her charcoal Toyota minivan sat parked outside her apartment Friday. Apparently it had overheated a few days before. Her husband is a mechanic but had been working as many as 12 hours a day and hadn't got around to fixing it, relatives said. Although the exact sequence of events in Thursday's shooting is still unclear, witnesses say a gunman shot Ansari once at point-blank range before fleeing in a small black Toyota or BMW with a spoiler. Fremont police have detained a 27-year-old "person of interest" in the crime but have not released further details of the investigation. Inside Ansari's home, a small, sparsely decorated, two-bedroom Glenmoor Drive apartment, the wailing and crying of women echoed as male family members stood outside, quietly grieving. Solemn visitors approached Ansari's family, most of whom emigrated to Fremont from Afghanistan, and offered condolences. "This is so hard to grasp she was such a harmless person," said Ali Ansari, Alia Ansari's first cousin. "We are in shock. I mean, why could this happen to someone so innocent? She was a sister to all of us a caring mother and a humble and respectful person. It's hard to believe this could have been anybody. It hurts us all." Only the oldest children knew what really happened to their mother. "I don't know how the 3-year-old is processing it," said Amin Ansari. "She thinks her mom is in the hospital and coming home soon." Because Ansari was wearing the hijab traditional Muslim head scarf at the time of her slaying, some of her family members speculated that the crime could be racially motivated. "I know she was wearing her hijab and she had no problems before with anybody," Hamoyon Ansari said the day of the slaying. He went on to say that there would be no other reason that someone "would do this." Because of the speculation, the Council for American-Islamic Relations partnered with the Islamic Society of the East Bay to hold a news conference at the Fremont mosque to address the situation. "We call on the police to investigate this issue thoroughly and on a timely basis, and to determine whether this was a hate crime or not, especially in light of the actual circumstance of the crime, and in the light of the current political climate," said CAIR's civil rights coordinator, Abdul Rahman Hamamsy, in a statement. Safaa Ibrahim, president of CAIR's San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, expressed concern about what the slaying means for the safety of the community as a whole. "This was a simple woman, and we absolutely hope this is not (a hate crime)," Ibrahim said. "We hope that justice is brought to ensure peace and security not just for the Muslim community, but for many others that live here and also come from a diverse ethnic background," Ibrahim said. Rona Murtaza Popal, president of the Afghan Women's Association in Fremont, said she is waiting to find out the motive before drawing any conclusions. Any statement, she said, would be speculation. "If it's a hate crime, then it's going to affect the whole community," Popal said. "Right now we're fighting against terrorism and against the killing of innocent people. It's terrible." She added that after suffering through decades of war, many Afghans have experienced threats of violence in Afghanistan and they hope violence has not followed them here. Ansari immigrated with her parents and seven siblings in the late 1980s, during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She had lived in the Glenmoor Drive apartment for about five years. Amal Dastagirzada, a distant relative of Ansari, said word
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SIGNIFICANCE OF EID-UL-FITR
SIGNIFICANCE OF EID-UL-FITR Assalamu aleikum. ICN note: Several typographical errors in which Eid was misspelled as "Lid" in the original article have been corrected by ICN in the article below. --- Significance Of Eid-ul-Fitr By Chief Inspector Alhaji Muhammad Alidu Daily Graphic (Ghana) (10/19/2006) http://www.graphicghana.info/article.asp?artid=14097 "EID" means recurring happiness or festivity. The Eid prayer is very important for all Muslims. It has the merits of the five daily prayers as ordained by God for Muslims. It also has the effects of the weekly convention known as `Jumu'ah' and the characteristics of the annual reunions between Muslims. Eid-ul-Fitr (the festival of fast breaking) falls on the first day of Shawwal, the tenth month of the Islamic year, following the month of Ramadan in which the Holy Quran was revealed and which is the month of fasting. The Islamic Eids are unique in every way. To them there can be no similarity in any other religion or any other socio-political system. Beside the highly spiritual and moral characteristics of Eid-ul-Fitr, it has matchless qualities as follows: Eid-ul-Fitr is a wholesome celebration of a remarkable achievement of the individual Muslim in the service of God. It comes after an entire month of "absolute" fasting during the days of Ramadan. It is a thanksgiving day when Muslims assemble in a brotherly and joyful atmosphere to offer their gratitude to God for helping them to fulfil their spiritual obligation prior to Eid. This form of thanksgiving is not confined to spiritual devotion and verbal expressions. It goes far beyond that to manifest itself in a handsome shape of social and humanitarian spirit. Muslims who have completed the fasting of Ramadan express their thanks to God by distributing alms among the poor and needy on Eid-ul-Fitr. This, as well as oblations, constitutes a major part of the Eids highlights. This Islamic form of thanksgiving is a wholesome combination which can only be found in Islam. Eid-ul-Fitr is a day of remembrance. Even in their most joyful times Muslims make a fresh start of the day by a plural session of worship to God. They pray to Him and glorify His name to demonstrate their remembrance of His favours. Also, they remember the deceased in prayer for their souls, the needy by extending a hand of help, those grieving by showing them sympathy and consolation, the sick by cheerful visits and utterances of good wishes, the absentees by cordial greetings and sincere wishes. Thus the meaning of remembrance of the day transcends all limits and of far-reaching dimensions of human life. Eid-ul-Fitr is a day of victory; the individual who succeeds in securing his spiritual rights and growth receives the Eid with a victorious spirit. The individual who faithfully observes the duties, which are associated with Eid, is a triumphant one. He proves that he holds a strong command of his desires, exercises sound self-control and enjoys the taste of disciplinary life. And once a person acquires these qualities he has achieved his greatest victory, because the person who knows how to control himself and is disciplined in his desires is free from sin and wrong, from fear and cowardice, from vice and indecency, from jealousy and greed, from humiliation and all other causes of enslavement. So when he receives the `Eid', which marks the achievement of this freedom, he is in fact celebrating his victory, and the Eid thus becomes a day of victory. Eid-ul-Fitr is a harvest day. All good workers in the service of God, all the faithful believers reap the fruit of their good deeds on the day, as God grants His mercy and blessings abundantly. The Islamic society, on the other hand, collects the due subscriptions to religious brotherhood and social responsibility, in which subscriptions are paid in the form of mutual love, sympathy and concern. Every member of the Islamic society will be reaping some fruits or collecting some revenue in one way or another. God gives infinitely, especially to those who are sincerely concerned with the general welfare of their fellow believers. Eid is a day of forgiveness when Muslims assemble in the congregation of the day they all whole-heartedly pray for forgiveness and strength of faith. And God has assured those who approach Him with sincerity of His mercy and forgiveness. In that pure assembly and highly spiritual congregation any true Muslim would feel ashamed of himself before God if he holds any enmity or ill feelings towards his brethren. A true Muslim would be deeply impressed by this brotherly and spiritual assembly and would overcome his ill feelings if he had been exposed to any. Consequently he would find himself moving along with others responding to the spirit of the day to purify his heart and soul. Eid is a day of peace when a Muslim establishes peace within his heart by obeying the law of God and leading a disciplined life; he has certainly concluded a most inv
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SPECIAL HAJJ ALERT
SPECIAL HAJJ ALERT
Assalamu aleikum.
Hajj 1427 (December 2006) is the FINAL Saudi calculated hajj season
until October 2012 that will correlate to the possibility of an actual
moonsighting for 1 Dhul-Hijjah.
Insha'Allah this year the moon in Makkah may actually be visible on
the same night of the Saudi calculation (the night of December 21 -
making the daytime of December 22, 2006 the first day of Dhul-Hijjah)
under perfect conditions. For the visibility curve for Dhul-Hijjah
1427 and an explanation of the chart, see p. 34 at the following adobe
acrobat file: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/islam/1427/1427g.pdf
Note well that the POSSIBILITY of an actual moonsighting does NOT
guarantee that there actually will be one. Clouds or other obstacles
may prevent the Makkah Dhul-Hijjah moonsighting in December 2006. But
this coming Hajj season is the only one that actually might correspond
to the Saudi moon calculations until 2012 - and an actual moonsighting
then, too, is not guaranteed either.
This is all the fault of the Saudi's moon calculation fitnah, which
posits idiotic notions that can actually result in a "new moon" being
calculated even BEFORE the astronomical "new moon"! For a detailed
analysis, see:
The Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/islam/ummalqura.htm
If moonsighting according to Qur'an and Sunnah were the guide,
insha'Allah all hajj seasons would always be correct.
For the intervening years (2007 - 2011) the Saudi moon calculations
for the day of 1 Dhul-Hijjah *CANNOT* coincide with ANY actual
moonsighting in Makkah. The dates for all Hajj-related activities are
therefore off by at least one day in the years 2007-2011. Consider
hajj for 1427 (December 2006) or be prepared to wait for the next
possible actual hajj in October 2012.
***
{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)
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] WESTERN MEDIA LIED ABOUT VEILED UK MUSLIMAH
WESTERN MEDIA LIED ABOUT VEILED UK MUSLIMAH
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I DO TAKE OFF MY VEIL WITH KIDS.. BUT NOT A MAN
says Aishah Azmi - the woman suspended from school for covering face
By Jake Morris
Daily Mirror
14 October 2006
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=i-do-take-off-my-veil-with-kids%2D%2D-but-not-a-man%26method=full%26objectid=17930182%26siteid=94762-name_page.html
AXED Muslim teacher Aishah Azmi yesterday denied education chiefs'
claims that she refused to remove her veil for her pupils.
Speaking for the first time since the Mirror told of her suspension,
Mrs Azmi said she only insisted on covering her face for male teachers.
She added: "This is not about whether or not I wear my veil in front
of the children. They are before puberty and so there is no problem
with them seeing me unveiled.
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"My first question when I came to the school was 'Can I work with a
female member of staff and if not can I wear my veil?' I was told I
could wear it so long as it didn't stop me carrying out my job."
Mrs Azmi, 24, had been working as a classroom support assistant with
11-year-olds at Headfield Church of England school in Thornhill Lees,
near Dewsbury, West Yorks, since September until she was suspended in
February.
SHE took Kirklees Council to an employment tribunal and it will rule
on her case in a fortnight. She said: "When I was with a female
teacher I taught quite happily at the school without my veil on.
"I was also quite happy not to wear it when I was on playground or
library duty as I knew there would be no male members of staff around.
"The only thing I insisted on was that I was allowed to wear it when I
was with a male colleague, as my religion clearly forbids that."
Mrs Azmi, who is married to a doctor and has a two-year-old daughter,
denied claims that pupils found her hard to understand while wearing
the niqab. She said: "Just because you can not see someone's lips it
doesn't mean you can't learn."
She added: "I was approached by the headmaster and told I had to
remove my veil and that I basically had very little choice about it.
"It's not true that there had been complaints. The kids are mostly
Muslim anyway and most of their mothers wear the veil anyway so they
would never, ever have a problem."
Cardiff-born Mrs Azmi, who speaks Urdu, Punjabi and Gujarati, helps
children with English and maths. She said: "I was employed as an
ethnic minority achievement support assistant.
"What I would do is to step in when one of the children had difficulty
grasping a complicated concept. I don't understand why they say there
were complaints when I have not heard about any at all." But she said
the situation got so bad that she went off sick in January.
Mrs Azmi, who has three A-levels and hopes to re-start her university
course, said: "Things became very stressful. At least twice a week the
head would ask me to take it off.
"I felt I was under a lot of pressure to take it off or resign. No
alternative was offered. I was told disciplinary action was inevitable."
HER mother and sisters all wear the veil. Mrs Azmi said: "It gives me
a lot of self respect and self dignity. I can express anything I like,
how I like, without any chance of distortion."
She added: "I don't think it's divisive, especially when Britain
prides itself on being multi-cultural.
"To not let people wear it excludes young Muslim girls. My outlook is
everybody is equal."
Mrs Azmi said: "I have not come this far just to fight for myself.
There are so many women who wear the veil and love to teach.
"All I want to do is to be able to teach the children. I loved
teaching there at the beginning."
Kirklees Council said: "We don't comment publicly on anything to do
with individual employees."
Several parents yesterday backed Mrs Azmi. Wasim Ahmed, 37, said: "It
is too much to suspend her. The authorities must talk to her."
Sara Hill, 32, said: "Muslim ladies have their faith after all and we
should respect that. I wouldn't have gone as far as suspending her."
But mum-of-four Leone Fox, 44, said: "She could surely take off the
veil while she is teaching."
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{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 blessin
