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Muharram 26, 1429, February 4, 2008
PROTEST RUSHDIE BEING HONORED in BALTIMORE. See you at the 
Meyerhoff, 1212 Cathedral street, Baltimore. February 26, 
7.30 to 8.30 PM
Re: Rushdie: Muslims in India remind us: Muslims are ONE 
UMMAH. They have been circulating our "Protest Rushdie" 
message big time. 
Scroll down 
to see why.
Our America:
Islam has its Own Agenda: Don't Get Excited by New 
Packaging of Democratic Party: Obama and Hillary Have 
Same Bottom Line [from New Trend's Think Tank.]
Muslim elites in America have a very natural desire to be 
part of the American power structure. At every opportunity 
they jump to proclaim their solidarity with American 
leadership, be it Democratic or Republican. The most 
simplistic of these Muslim elites live in Maryland itself. 
We'll present their example to illustrate the issue. An 
offshoot of the Islamic Society of Baltimore [ISB] has been 
formed with the holy name of Makkah Center. When Israel, 
Bush and Mahmoud Abbas held the Annapolis Summit to 
undermine the Islamic aspirations of Palestine, these 
"Makkah" people went and prayed with Jewish Rabbis for the 
success of the Summit.
More recently, Makkah Center, under the name of Allah, 
advertised job listings issued by the White House. [On each 
occasion, New Trend reprimanded "Makkah" but we were given 
unclear answers accusing us of having a hot temper.]
Now in their latest activity, "Makkah" and ISB [which are 
linked to, if not part of, ISNA and CAIR] have announced that 
ALL the major presidential candidates will speak on February 
9 at their Islamic Center in Baltimore. Remember that high 
level security clearance is required of Muslims for any of 
these candidates to enter an Islamic center.
[These violations of Islam by "Makkah" and ISB are so far 
fetched that some readers may not believe that any Muslim 
could fall this low. Fortunately, we have the info on 
Annapolis Summit prayer with Rabbis, the White House letter 
and the latest invitation to presidential candidates from 
"Makkah" and can email them to interested readers.]
Muslim elites often don't have he political gumption to 
realize that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party 
have clear cut party platforms and agendas within which the 
candidates work. Just because Obama and Hillary sound so 
eloquent and use such attractive rhetoric does not mean that 
they can go outside the Democratic Party program and agenda. 
Similarly, if McCain is against torture, does not mean that 
he will violate the Republican Party's support for war.
The Democrats:
- 
Support Israel 100% [both Obama and Clinton].
 - 
Support the war on Afghanistan and, if necessary, its 
extension into Pakistan.
 - 
Continuation of the war in Iraq until victory [with some 
variations in approach and time schedule]
 - 
Oppose reparations for Black Americans [for slavery] and 
Native Americans [for holocaust]. [Obama dare not 
say 'reparations.']
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Have not shown the slightest interest in the fate of Muslim 
political prisoners within the U.S. [be it Imam Jamil or Dr. 
Omar 'Abdel Rahman, Jose Padilla, though tortured, or 
Ahmed 'Abdel Sattar
or Dr. Ali al-Timimi. NINETY years for Masaud Khan, for a 
non-violent, pre-9.11 "crime" did not stir their 
conscience.] Guantanamo is a useful slogan for them. They 
have not done anything for the prisoners there in 7 years.
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Have bought the Zionist story of genocide in Darfur 100%.
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Have no program to stop the oil companies ripping off the 
American people. [Look at Exxon Mobil's 4 billion dollar, 
latest, profits].
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Have relationships with corrupt, despotic, based-on-torture, 
regimes, such as those in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, 
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan no different from those of Bush
 - 
Support homosexuality as the norm along with heterosexuality. 
{For decades, Zionists have worked to validate homosexuality 
within the Black community.]
 - 
Do not oppose adultery and fornication on TV and in movies. 
The moral framework is missing.
 
As Imam Jamil pointed out, one cannot change an oppressive 
power structure by becoming part of it. ISLAM HAS ITS OWN 
AGENDA. It is based on the Qur'an and the authentic Hadith. 
Muslims should focus on the Islamic agenda. [Dear Muslim, if 
you are being influenced by the media hype, concentrate on 
your 5 daily prayers. Try to understand the implications of 
"Allahu Akbar." Purify yourself by fasting. The Prophet, 
pbuh, used to fast on Monday and Tuesday. If you can't do 
both, try one only. The days are still short. Don't get 
excited about the forces of kufr, tughyan and 
nifaq: Go and clean the masjid, help your neighbors, 
spend time with parents and/or children. This Hadith of the 
Prophet, pbuh, might help you. These are commands from 
our leader:
"Feed the hungry, visit the sick, free the captives." 
[
Sahih Bukhari
.]
Phone Message: Obama Finds Being Muslim "Offensive"
Shaikh Tijani, the famous preacher who lives in 
Chicago, has recorded a message on our phone in which he 
makes this point: Obama was asked if he is Muslim. Obama said 
he is a Christian and has been going to church for 20 years. 
So far so good, but then Obama said, he finds being called 
Muslim "offensive." Thus Obama crossed the line and insulted 
Muslims. Don't vote for Obama.
Understanding Pakistan [Part 3]
See NT Jan. 10 & 13 for Pt. 
1
 & 
2
Tiny Secularist Minority Runs Pakistan: Divides & Rules 
Islamic Sects: Sees Resurgent Islam as Threat
by Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
Associate Professor of English & Mass Communication
Most Americans cannot know what Pakistanis want and what are 
the issues in Pakistan owing to the buffer provided by 
Pakistani secularists who feed U.S. media about the situation 
in Pakistan. The Christian Science Monitor [CSM] for 
instance, is one of the more non-propagandistic American 
newspapers when it comes to Muslims. When the Red 
Mosque/Jamia Hafsa situation was boiling over, a CSM 
journalist contacted me because she was interested in writing 
about Pakistani women and I have published books about the 
role of women in Islam. I asked her to find out what was 
happening in Islamabad and publish it to show that CSM was 
really serious about the rights of Muslim women. She had no 
idea what was happening in Islamabad. I asked: "Don't you 
have a representative in Islamabad? It is Pakistan's capital 
city." She replied that CSM did have a rep in Islamabad. I 
told her that if CSM has published nothing about the Red 
Mosque and doesn't even know what is happening in Islamabad, 
I can't give the CSM any credibility.
Thus, owing to secularist buffer, U.S. media could not tell 
Americans anything factual about the greatest hour of Islamic 
women in Pakistan who defied the power of General Musharraf's 
commandos and sacrificed themselves for the sake of Islam.
BACKGROUND to the GROWTH of SECULARIST MINORITY's POWER
The Muslims of India supported he idea of Pakistan as an 
Islamic homeland. When it came to voting, they voted for 
Pakistan in areas disputed by pro-Hindu Muslim groups in 
Frontier Province and in Bengal. Pakistan emerged as a 
sovereign state in 1947 but it could not turn the Islamic 
aspirations of the masses into reality owing to a number 
of reasons:
- 
The only organized groups in the new country were the 
bureaucracy and the military, both heavily secularized and 
outright British-colonialist in their outlook on life. In 
fact the military was "overseas" mopping up in fighting the 
British war against Germany and Japan.
 - 
At the local level, power in Pakistan was in the hands of 
feudal potentates and landlords who sent their most 
westernized sons to serve the bureaucracy and the military.
 - 
The great masses of people got their belief system from local 
mullas and preachers who were largely sectarian and 
non-revolutionary in their understanding of Islam. Most 
importantly, the religious leaders looked up to the 
secularized ruling groups and were willing to convey the 
rulers' "line" to the people. The idea of a religious leader 
standing up to the power structure was unthinkable.
 - 
Within that context, the secularized ruling class became very 
comfortable and its segments started squabbling with each 
other for bigger "share of the pie." A new development was 
the emergence of INDUSTRIALISTS who also hooked up with the 
feudals and the military. A GENERAL LOOTING of Pakistan 
resources and people ensued.
 
EMERGENCE of the ISLAMIC MOVEMENT
Pakistan would have been just another lack luster secularized 
"Muslim" state except for a man named Abul 'Ala Maudoodi who 
challenged the status quo. He said that Islam is a 
"COMPLETE WAY of LIFE." It gives guidance not only in matters 
of personal life [such as marriage, divorce, funerals, 
festivals and charity] but also in politics, law, state craft 
and international relations, in economics as well as in 
decision making.
At that time, Islam was so weak in Pakistan that the Qadiyani 
["Ahmeddi"] claimants were openly proclaiming that there can 
be a Prophet after Muhammad, pbuh. Pakistani elites openly 
scoffed at the idea that there is such a thing as an "Islamic 
Constitution" [the title of one of Maudoodi's books] or an 
"Islamic State" [another of his writings]. When people 
started supporting Maudoodi, the government summarily 
arrested him and sentenced him to death! [Fortunately, the 
legal system temporarily fell through and he was released.]
Jamaate Islami, organized by Maudoodi, fought for decades, 
peacefully and within the law, against governmental 
oppression. My purpose is not, at this point, to chronicle 
the history of this struggle. Suffice it to say that Maudoodi 
and Jamaate Islami earned the undying hatred of Pakistan's 
power elites.
Most people don't know that the successful counter to 
Maudoodi and the Islamic movement came not from the secular 
elites but from the sectarian, low brow religious preachers 
who, as before, served the rulers. Numerous books were 
financed and published against Maudoodi by narrow minded 
religious scholars. His greatest book, 
khilafat-o-mulukat [Caliphate and Kingship] stirred up 
all the small minded mullas and maulvies against him. Many 
Jamaate Islami people too did not understand the book and did 
not realize that Maudoodi was saying that governments run 
by MUSLIMS cannot be considered Islamic if they do not follow 
the guidelines of the Caliphate [the 4 rightly guided 
Caliphs]. He also taught that ARMED UPRISING against 
MUSLIM rulers is quite legitimate provided that there are 
chances of its success.
Thus Maudoodi was challenging the Saudi version of Islam in 
which prayers and maintenance of the holy places give a 
certificate of Islamic legitimacy to the rulers. He did not 
openly criticize the Saudis but the inference was clear. By 
that time, the SAUDIS had INFILTRATED Jamaate Islami itself. 
They were alarmed at Khlafat-o-Mulukiat. They financed 
a new series of books against Maudoodi which claimed that he 
had "insulted the sahaba, r.a." because he had, in a 
scholarly style and with full documentation, shown that 
Usman, r.a., the third Caliph, though greater than any Muslim 
today, had slipped below the standards set by Abu Bakr, r.a., 
and 'Umar, r.a.
RED MOSQUE and Jamia Hafsa suffered the same fate as 
Maudoodi: The inside story of the medressas' response to the 
tragedy in Islamabad has gradually seeped out. The maulvis 
did not take any decisive steps against Musharraf's attack. 
Indications are that some of the maulvies were in touch with 
General Musharraf and okayed the attack. Never before has 
a prominent mosque in a major Pakistani city been attacked by 
the Pakistan army so brazenly and in broad daylight. Mortars, 
heavy machine guns and light artillery were used against a 
group which had only a handful of rifles for self-defense. 
The maulvies were of the view that the Islamic 
revolutionaries in the mosque were of a too much more 
progressive Islamic school of thought. The maulvies were also 
distressed by the leading role women in hijab had taken in 
the struggle. Umm Hasan knew more Islam than many of the 
maulvies. [See her interview with New Trend.]
Thus Musharraf had the backing of religious conservatives who 
have become so secularized that though they pray and fast, 
they do not realize that governments which claim to be 
Muslims but are linked to oppressor regimes are Islamically 
liable to be overthrown. These men often have big beards and 
large turbans but they are willing to cooperate with 
the oppressors.
Thus the enclaves of secularists have become so influential, 
with U.S.-British-Israeli and sometimes Indian backing that 
they can secularize the decision-making of medressas and 
leaders seen as "Islamic."
[To be continued, inshallah.]
Lynne Stewart Thanks those who Rallied to her Support
To All My Friends, Comrades, Supporters:
A Warm Embrace and an Emotional Thank You.
For the Wonderful Rally at St. Mary's Church on Monday Night 
January 28. The sight of all of you (This IS what democracy 
looks like!) The Fiery and Kind Words of the Speakers. The 
Knowledge that the Next Day we would Face this hateful enemy, 
Together. This gives me more energy and stamina and courage 
than anything else.
And on Tuesday, that "prestigious" Court, the 2d Circuit 
Court of Appeals of the USA, saw all of you–--filling the 
ceremonial court room (about 300) and the overflow TV room 
and those who were turned away; refusing to allow this 
gangster government to criminalize me. Impossible to 
calculate the effect but as Judge Calabrese said, "This case 
is like no other case". It isn't and the support that 
sustains me is the difference. Thank you Thank you . AN 
INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL !!!!!! LOVE STRUGGLE
Lynne Stewart
Jamaat al-Muslimeen alone Represented Muslims at Lynne 
Stewart-Ahmed 'Abdel Sattar Appeal
by Br. Abu Talib [Brooklyn, NY]
New York has tens of thousands of Muslims but when it comes 
to this most important court case, none of them were there. 
Only Jamaat was there. We spoke to activist attorney Warren 
[the only Muslim there outside the Jamaat], distributed 
Jamaat literature and gave out information on the situation 
of Shi'a Muslims in Trinidad.
The defense witnesses did a great job. Later, Sis. Lynne was 
on WBAI radio defending herself against 
government misinformation.
The socialist and Africanist organizations were well 
represented along with anti-war people from A.N.S.W.E.R. The 
court was packed with left wing activists.
As usual Siraj Wahhaj was missing though he claims to be a 
Muslim leader. Considering his treacherous role in helping to 
put the Blind Shaikh in prison for life, one would expect him 
to make amends by coming to the hearing for the Shaikh's long 
suffering attorney, Lynne Stewart. Siraj Wahhaj did his job 
for the government and now he is nowhere to be seen.
Dissing Medeleine Albright: The Inside Story of the 
Baltimore, Maryland, Rally at the Meyerhoff on Jan. 29
Salaams/Greetings all,
A quick report back from the Madeleine Albright 
protest:
We started picketing right at 7:30 PM (no CPT!) and 
continued until almost 9:00 PM. Thankfully, the rain 
missed us entirely, and our (non-waterproof) protest 
signs didn't melt down.
The protest was religiously, ethnically, and 
politically very diverse, with participation from:
Muslims; Quakers; atheists; Pledge of Resistance 
members; students from UMBC's Solidarity Coalition; 
longtime community activists from Masjid Jamaat 
al-Muslimeen (including the mosque administrator, who 
was frail following a surgery, but protested with us, 
cane and all!); Caucasians; Blacks; Asians; a jazz 
musician; and a fighting Irishman. Two bruthas even 
drove all the way down from Philly to attend 
the protest.
So, we were able to reach most of the paying guests 
($300/ticket to hear a war criminal!) via megaphone 
and leafletting, as well as a large number of 
passersby with information on Albright, and her 
support for the murderous sanctions policy.
The protest was orderly and disciplined, no wrangling 
with authorities. Thanks again to everyone who helped 
and supported the action in so many different ways!
Peace,
Nadrat
Momin Khawaja: Canada's Victim: A Letter to Canadian Prime 
Minister Harper: We Urge readers to send similar letters
Dear Sir,
In 2004, a Canadian news outlet published a story "Canada's 
Shame' to disclose the arrest and violations of human rights 
of Khawaja family by the Intelligence Agencies under the 
Liberal Government of Mr. Paul Martin. At the time, it was 
hard to think so but now four years later, we believe that it 
happened in reality and has placed a black scar on Canadian 
law and justice system. Fair or foul, it was done under the 
dictates of President Bush's declaration of war on Muslims – 
"war on terrorism." Canada seems to have ignored the lessons 
of modern history. Canada followed the American lead in 
sending its citizens of Japanese origin to forced interment 
camps during the Second World War. If Canada had the publicly 
entrusted leadership at the time, it should have refused to 
follow the American War Plan and not to arrest its own 
citizens of Islamic religion who were not involved in any 
unlawful activities. We are seriously concerned:
(1) In 2004, the Khawaja family of Ottawa (Orleans) was 
arrested and tortured on false accusations manufactured by 
the Intelligence Agencies of Canada like the case of Maher 
Arar who was imprisoned.
(2) For 4 years, Momin Khawaja remained in Canadian jail 
without a trial. Why should he be punished without being 
guilty of any crimes except that he is a Muslim?
(3) All persons held in Canada (according to the Amnesty 
International and Human Rights Watch), have been identified 
as people of Arab or Islamic origin. Is it not strange for 
Canada to do so?
(4) Dr. Khawaja, father of Momin Khawaja, is a political 
scholar and has spoken and written against the "war on 
terrorism", and was arrested in a foreign country at the 
direct instructions of the Canadian Intelligence Agencies on 
allegations of terrorism. But the Canadian Security Minister 
Ms. Ann McClellan denied the knowledge of this incident or 
ever asking a foreign Government to arrest its own citizen 
on bogus accusations. It is clear now that the Canadian 
Liberal Minister lied to the public. Does a political 
Minister ever lie to the public?
Beyond any doubts, the Canadian Government actions have 
chastised its own citizens under falsified allegations. It is 
the time that the new Progressive Conservative Government of 
Canada should take corrective action. We ask that Momin 
Khawaja be freed and that the Khawaja family be compensated 
for the unlawful and cruel treatment carried out on the 
behest of the then Canadian Liberal Government.
Thank you very much for your utmost human consideration.
Sincerely,
New Trend Magazine
India's Gujarat Shame : Justice Delayed in Mass Rape of Women
VERDICT ON BILKIS BANO' CASE: Muslim Woman Fought for 5 
Years in Court
( by K Hamza, Kerala, India) [Exclusive to New Trend]
Bilkis Bano, a barely educated Muslim woman in Gujarat, the 
Indian State, bravely fought a legal battle against heavy 
odds for six years of trial and the judiciary has eventually 
delivered justice to her. Special judge U.D. Salvi of the 
Sessions court in Bombay on January 21, sentenced 11 persons 
to life imprisonment on charges of conspiracy, rioting with 
deadly weapons, causing disappearance of evidence and 
unlawful assembly.
Bilkis Bano, then six months pregnant, was gang raped by 
marauding Hindu fanatics during the Gujarat riots on 
March 3, 2002..She was also a witness to the killing of 14 
members of her family, who took shelter in a field where the 
hooligans raped four women and killed Bano's 
three-year-daughter by smashing her on the ground.
The horrendous episode did not end there. When Bilkis 
regained her consciousness next day, she rushed to the 
nearest local police station to lodge a complaint. The police 
did not take the case seriously since the Chief Minister 
Narendra Modi's government has been following Hindtv, Hindu 
nationalist ideology, in which secularism or cardinal 
democratic moorings have no role, but Hindu majority 
communalism is vital.. Modi has been playing the communal 
card to continue in power. In the 2002 riots, there are still 
innumerable cases pending for lack of First Information 
Reports from the Police. Even today, Muslim victims have no 
courage to approach the Police to lodge complaints against 
Hindu offenders due to fear of backlash from them.
The Supreme Court allowed the case to be heard outside 
Gujarat just because of the fact that justice would not 
be obtained under Modi's government. Earlier the case was 
heard at a court in Ahamedabad, Gujarat. The trial was 
shifted to Bombay owing to the fear that the witnesses would 
be hurt. Although Bilkis has won the legal battle, she is not 
fully satisfied in the verdict since five policemen and two 
Doctors, who had done the postmortem of the dead hiding the 
truth, were acquitted for lack of evidence. Their acquittal 
does not sound fair. Bilki's case is a mere tip of the 
iceberg while comparing the volume of crimes perpetrated 
against Muslims in Gujarat during the 2002 carnage.
No doubt, the landmark judgment in the case has reinforced 
public faith in the country's judicial system. The Supreme 
Court had entrusted the case to the Central Bureau of 
Investigation. " I stand vindicated. The judgment does not 
mean the end of hatred in the State. But it does not mean 
that somewhere justice can prevail. The judgment is a victory 
not only for me but for all innocent Muslims who were 
massacred and the women whose bodies were violated only 
because, like me, they were Muslims", Bilkis said at a press 
conference. She is afraid of going back to Gujarat where the 
corrupt officials, who embolden, encourage and protect the 
criminals to destroy entire Muslim community, still remained 
free and unblemished under Narendra Modi who came to power 
again as the Chief Minister in the recently held 
general elections.
Admittedly, Bilki's case has become a symbol of the communal 
carnage in Gujarat. She deserves a national award for her 
dare devilry resolve and dauntless spirit throughout the 
ordeal she encountered during the last six years.
Letter: Why are India's Muslims Fired up about Baltimore 
Jamaat's Protest on Rushdie's Visit
Incidentally, Rushdie visited Mumbai two weeks back and there 
was a series of protest meetings. Rushdie was house guest of 
Godrej, a Parsi industrialist, with consumer products from 
locks to soaps to frozen chicken. Ulama Council proposed 
boycott of Godrej products if he and his socialite wife does 
not submit an apology. Your news circulated among others, to 
Indian Media was to inform them that even in the US Rushdie 
is a persona non grata.
Muslims in India are exhorting Indian government to block 
entry for Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen, doyen of Jews and 
Indian communists, who are deliberately inviting these 
hateful characters to instigate and provoke and humiliate 
Indian Muslims, showing up how helpless 150 million Muslims 
are in India.
Pray for our deliverance from the evil forces of Brahmins 
and Jews.
Regards
Ghulam Muhammed Siddiqui 
Mumbai.
BOSNIA VIOLATES OWN CITIZENS' HUMAN RIGHTS BY REVOKING 
THEIR CITIZENSHIP IN a Political Process
By Tarik Borogovac, NCRBH
Imad al-Husseini is a Bosnian citizen of Syrian background 
awaiting deportation from Bosnia and Herzegovina, possibly 
back to Syria, where he could be tortured or executed. His 
large beard gets much air time these days in the media in 
Bosnia and the neighboring countries. Namely, he is the 
media's poster terrorist. It is constantly speculated that he 
is a war criminal and even implied that he is somehow 
connected to al-Qaeda or Osama bin-Laden himself. Finally, it 
is always noted that he was a soldier in the Bosnian army 
during the war in the early 1990's.
Yet, the most interesting thing about Imad al-Husseini is 
that he is completely uninteresting to any agency of any 
government that is pursuing terrorism or war crimes. The U.S. 
never asked to have him. Bosnia always handed over anyone the 
U.S. asked for, without requiring any answers. For example, 
in 2002 it gave up six Bosnian citizens, all of Algerian 
background, who have been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay ever 
since, without formal charges. Al-Husseini would have been in 
Guantanamo Bay if the U.S. had ever asked for him. The War 
Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia at the Hague did not 
ask for al-Husseini either as a possible perpetrator of a war 
crime during the Bosnian war, despite wild speculation from 
the media. Even the Bosnian courts have not charged him with 
anything, except a domestic disturbance.
Without any charge against him, we have to assume that he is 
merely a victim of a human rights violation. Namely, 
according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 
article 15.2 "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his 
nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality". 
What is meant by this clause is that since citizenship is the 
basis for realization of various rights, (residence status, 
property, employment, etc.) cases that put in question 
citizenship should be treated in an authorized court, and on 
an individual basis, with some "due process". In Bosnia, 
there is actually a commission, appointed and led by 
politicians, that is tasked with taking citizenship away from 
large numbers of Bosnian citizens, in a process called 
"citizenship review". This commission originally took away 
al-Husseini's Bosnian citizenship. He sued, and a Bosnian 
court ordered the reinstatement of his citizenship, on 
grounds that the commission disregarded documentation about 
his military service, and which proved that his citizenship 
was legal and valid. Amazingly, two days after the court's 
decision his Bosnian citizenship was taken away again by 
another purely political body -- the Council of Ministers of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, i.e. the government -- which 
explained that his removal is "of vital national interest". 
That is truly arbitrary.
Again we come back to the question: why is this guy so 
important to go to such lengths to strip him of his 
citizenship so arbitrarily, and to portray him as such a 
terrorist, but not important enough to charge him with 
anything, or arrest him while he lived in Bosnia all those 
long years up to now? Well, he is only important as an 
example for others. In al-Husseini's case, the politicians 
are clearly putting their arbitrary commission above the 
courts, and sending a message that any other court challenges 
to its decisions are futile. But they have to justify such a 
drastic move somehow, so through back channels they name him 
as a terrorist or war criminal in the media.
The commission for review of citizenship is reviewing 
citizenships of thousands of individuals in a very short time 
span. In the round that ended just a few days ago, they 
announced 661 names of individuals that had their 
citizenships revoked. Most of the names are Arabic, but a 
great number are Bosnian, and a few are western. Even if we 
cannot say for sure that al-Husseini has not in some way been 
connected to a terror ring, we can definitely be sure that 
not all of those men and women are terrorists. It has been 
well publicized that when some of them are forced to leave 
the country, they will leave their own children and spouses 
behind. Does not marrying Bosnian spouses and having Bosnian 
children entitle them to citizenship?
Bosnian politicians often use manipulations of citizenship to 
eliminate individual citizens or whole groups of citizens 
whom they consider to be undesirable. Years ago, Prof. 
Francis Boyle, the lawyer for Bosnia who sued Serbia and 
Montenegro at the International Court of Justice for 
committing and aiding aggression and genocide in Bosnia, had 
his citizenship simply erased - probably in retaliation for 
starting that lawsuit. Another example, as we have explained 
previously in this newsletter, is that the Bosnian law on 
citizenship represents a continuation of ethnic cleansing. 
Namely, those Bosnians who also took citizenship in one of 
many other countries will lose their Bosnian citizenship in 
2011. Due to agreements with the Serbia-Montenegro union and 
Croatia, the law excludes those countries, and their citizens 
can have dual citizenship with Bosnia. Consequently, the law 
disproportionately affects the Bosniak population, which was 
the primary target of the ethnic cleansing (genocide) 
campaign carried out by followers of war criminals Milosevic, 
Karadzic and Mladic in order to create a "Republic of the 
Serbs" in Bosnia. Namely, Bosniak refugees primarily settled 
in third countries, such as the U.S.A., Australia, Canada, 
etc. In a few short years they will automatically be denied 
their Bosnian citizenship only because they accepted 
citizenship of the host country.
We conclude with the story of how al-Husseini and other 
volunteers became Bosnian citizens at all. When the Republic 
of Bosnia and Herzegovina (RBiH) declared its independence 
from Yugoslavia, it was a secular state with an 
overwhelmingly secular populace. The state hastily formed an 
Army of the RBiH to defend itself from Serb extremist 
militias, aided by the Yugoslav National Army, who were 
brutalizing the population as part of their aforementioned 
ethnic cleansing campaign. The U.N., led by the U.S. 
president Bush, Sr., put an embargo on Serbia and Montenegro 
(rump Yugoslavia) for aggression. A number of foreign men, 
mostly Muslim, volunteered to fight for Bosnia. Although they 
were not numerous enough to seriously affect the outcome of 
the war, if they helped at all in that desperate situation, 
they were very welcome, and for that all Bosnians should be 
grateful. Most of those volunteers earned the citizenship 
that was given to them.
Yet, at the time Serbian propaganda needed to turn the 
world's perception of the war from one waged between an 
aggressor state and victim state, to a religious conflict 
between Christian and Muslim armies. The Arab fighters were a 
great asset to Serbia in that respect, although not by their 
own fault. Namely, the presence of any number of Arab 
volunteer soldiers is not proof that the Army of RBiH was a 
Muslim militia. Instead, the large numbers of Serb and Croat 
soldiers in the ARBiH categorically prove that it was not a 
"Muslim militia". Among them we can list heroes and 
commanders at highest levels, including Dragan Vikic, general 
Jovan Divjak, general Zeljko Knez, general Stjepan Siber and 
the current Croat member of the BiH Presidency Zeljko Komsic. 
Nonetheless, the propaganda using the Arab fighters was very 
effective, especially since the President of Bosnia at the 
time Alija Izetbegovic went along with it and constantly 
tried to show off the "Islamic" nature of the ARBiH, even by 
taking a group of soldiers on a pilgrimage to Mecca, to be 
photographed while praying. This was a misrepresentation of 
the secular ARBiH, and it is our opinion that Izetbegovic 
created it intentionally to help the Serb propaganda machine. 
Ironically, for this, the Arab fighters loved him the most, 
because to them he was the only "true Muslim" among their 
Bosnian commanders. In the Bosnian media, al-Husseini still 
invokes the name of Alija Izetbegovic in this context.
Alija Izetbegovic later illegally (in violation of the 
constitution of RBiH) put his name on the Dayton agreement to 
partition the country, creating the ethnically clean 
"Republic of the Serbs" (RS). The Serb politicians, and 
others who work for them, still use the same tactic of 
labeling Bosniaks as "Islamic terrorists". Long-bearded 
Arabs, such as al-Husseini, serve as "proof of the radical 
Islam danger in Bosnia" in the court of public opinion, even 
if they cannot be charged with anything in a real court. They 
hope to distract the U.S. and Europe enough from focusing on 
the real war criminals -- the perpetrators of genocide who 
created the "Republic of the Serbs".
2008-02-06 Wed 05:10:55 cst
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