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Rabi al-Awwal 14, 1434/ January 27, 2013 # 4
Br. Shamim Siddiqui's thoughtful comments on President
Obama's inaugural speech are given below.
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Spotlights on Apologies. Imam Badi wants us to think,
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Br. Solano [Texas] sends info on Vitamin D.
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An American Muslimah's Dream.
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It's A MUST READ.
Breaking News: Well done Malaysia. [With thanks to NT reader
Br. Rich.]
January 26: Malaysia' Prime Minster Najib Razak visited Gaza
and was greeted by Hamas Prime Minister Haniyyeh.
With his wife, foreign minister and a junior minister, Najib
entered Gaza from the Rafah crossing in Egypt. His comment
which has outraged Israel, western puppet Abbas and Israel
firsters in Europe:
"Israel's brutality in Gaza was heart-rending for the people
of Malaysia ... It was only apt for me to visit the
Palestinian enclave to express our support for their
struggle."
Breaking news #2:
January 25 and 26. There is chaos in Egypt as westernized
"liberals" and Hosni Mubarak's left overs attacked
government buildings in a futile attempt to topple the
mildly Islamic government of President Morsi. Five people
were killed in Suez in fighting with troops and many injured
in Alexandria, Cairo and other cities. Ikhwan's broadcasting
headaquarters were set on fire by the "liberals"
On January 26, the conflict of supporters of football teams
lead to 30 killed and 300 injured in Port Said. This mess
was created when a court, very open and transparent,
sentenced 21 persons to death for killing 74 people after a
football game a year back.Port Said is the city of the
accused. The whole city went on the rampage. Among the dead
are some police.
Obviously, after 30 years of de-politicization, many
Egyptians are more interested in football than in national
issues. Morsi is not charismatic enough to reach them.
Breaking news #3.
January 25, Mali. After a whole week of lumbering through
the desert, the French tank colum has "liberated" three
cities, leaving behind the corrupt military they support
against the Islamics. BBC is reporting atrocities being
committed by the puppets of France against the population
which supported the Islamics.
The mujahideen have suffered no losses and have withdrawn
intact, in conformity with guerrilla tactics when attacked
by an imperial army.
[Latest news: January 27 there: The mujahideen are back in
Konna which the French had "liberated."
Breaking News #4:
January 26: Syria: There are 71,000 Syrian refugees in one
camp in Jordan. They are still coming in but at night
because Assad's troops are firing at them, evn at fleeing
women and children.
Assad's troops have re-taken one district of Homs followed
by summary executions of Muslims supporting the resistance.
There is continuing fighting in the suburbs of Damascus.
Assad's Alawite death squads known as Shabiha are emerging
in areas where the Free Syrian Army is not strong and are
carrying out ghastly crimes against the public who oppose
Assad.
Turkey, Saudi and Qatar have withdrawn their financial
support from the FSA after it became clrear that the West is
not going to intervene. Iran and Hizbullah are openly
supporting the tyrant but the Islamics are not retreating
from major areas under their control.
"We love Jesus. We will never harm Christians or other
minorities."
First BBC interview with Al-Nusra, the mujahideen who are
now leading the Islamic resistance to the blood thirsty
tyrant Assad.
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Book notice by Kaukab Siddique
A Great Hadith Scholar during the first century of Islam
after Ali, r.a., and Muawiyyah, r.a.
"Have you ever felt sadness due to what Allah knows
concerning you?" [Imam Sufyan.]
Imam Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah by Salaahud-deen 'Ali
Abdul-Mawjood, translated into English by Abu Bakr ibn
Nasir, published by Darussalam in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.240
pages.
Ali, r.a., died in the year 40 of the Islamic hijri
calendar. Muawiyyah, r.a., died in the year 60. Only 47
years after that Sufyan was born in Kufa, Iraq. By that
time, study of the Qur'an and hadith had been organized and
established in every Muslim city. His father moved him to
Makkah where he could meet the scholars of hadith on a daily
basis.
Before he became a great scholar of hadith, Sufyan became an
erudite scholar of the Qur'an and could do tafseer
[interpretation] of the Qur'an. Thus the idea that hadith
appeared in the third century of the hijri calendar owing to
the efforts of Imam Bukhari has no basis.
The way in which Bukhari organized his collection, known as
the Sahih, made it extremely popular. However, the
authenticity of Hadith and its essential connection to the
Qur'an was never controversial before Bukhari. Imam Sufyan
lived during the era of the Ummayads and of the Abbasids all
of whom were kings and had absolute power. They wanted to
"buy" Islamic scholars and through them influence the
emphasis of Hadith. Why did they fail? Here is one example.
Sufyan had an interesting way of dealing with the demands of
the despots: He would politely refuse their offers of status
and appointment to high positions but he would not
antagonize them by refusing their gifts. He would take their
gifts and distribute them among the poor and the very needy.
Thus he considered the gifts of rulers as RIBA' which if
inherent to the situation one lives in should be given away
to those who are facing homelessness and starvation.
Sufyan was suffused with the spirit of the hadith of
Muhammad, pbuh, and studied hard to become an expert in jarh
wa tadil, that is the interrogation of hadith narrators to
search for their authenticity.
He died in the year 198 at the age of 91.
Lest we forget owing to sectarian attacks.
notes by Kaukab Siddique
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The European armies were destroyed at Yarmuk by Khalid
ibn al-Walid, r.a., the greatest general Islam has ever
known. It was the year 13 Hijri and a massive force of
200,000 European troops were attacking a small Islamic force
led by Khalid, r.a. The Muslims had 1000 sahaba, r.a., with
them and were ready for al-Jannah. The defeat of the
Europeans was so devastating that it changed the course of
human history for ever.
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The combined European naval fleets were destroyed by
Muawiyya, r.a., ibn Abi Sufyan, r.a., during the caliphate
of Usman, r.a. It was the year 31 Hijri and the Europeans
controlled the ocean. The Islamics had never fought a naval
battle but the Prophet had told a woman, Umm Haram, r.a.,
that Muslims would battle on the ocean and she would be
among them {see Sahih of Bukhari
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}. Muawiyya, r.a., persuaded
Usman, r.a., that the European control of the waves should
be challenged otherwise the Christians would continue
supplying their land armies. When the Islamic fleet was
ready, Muawiyyah, r.a, sent it to tackle the combined fleet
of the Europeans, 500 ships. It looked like the Muslims had
no chance but these were servants of Allah looking for
al-Jannah, The ENTIRE Christian fleet was destroyed.
Thereafter, there was no chance that the Europeans would
ever defeat the Islamics till the time of the crusades.
Women fighting for Islam during the era of Pure Islam
[Abu Sufyan, r.a., who had opposed the Prophet, pbuh, became
a mujahid for Islam and sacrificed all he had for Islam.]
At the battle of Yartmuk, 13 Hijri, the existence of the
entire Islamic army was in jeopardy because of the
overwhelming forces the Christians had brought to the
battlefield. The Christians were determined to win and had
brought their priests and crosses with them. The Muslims
prayed to Allah Almighty for help.
THe battle was intense. Abu Sufyan, r.a., was calling on the
Islamics to give their lives to Allah. Abu Sufyan's daughter
Juwairia [may Allah bless her] sword in hand, with a whole
group of Islamic women, plunged into the Europrean hordes
till she and all of the women with her were martyred.
Abu Sufyan, r.a., was himself seriously wounded, with an
arrow in his eye. Ikrima, the son of the arch enemy of
Islam, Abu Jahal, fought for Islam with heroic intensity
till he was martyred.
[Source: Tarikhe umam wa al muluk by Abi Jafar Muhammad
Jarir al-Tabari, died in hijtri 310.] Urdu translation.
{There was no Ummayad rule at that time which could have
influenced him. ]
It's a shame that great Muslims like Khalid, Muawiyya, Abu
Sufyan and others are being abused by Shi'ite sectarians
simply because they were Ummayads, They never harmed Ali,
r.a., or Hussain, r.a., but they are targeted by the Ithna
Ashari and Agha Khani sectarians on the Internet.
Journalist Reporting on Police Brutality is in a Baltimore
Prison
James MacArthur,the leading activist in Baltimore, Maryland
against police brutality has been arrested as we reported
earlier.. He used to observe police actions and comment on
them live on his broadcasts. After protests and appeals by
the Baltimore community of activists, we finally got a hand
written letter from him which he sent tp Nadrat Siddique
Letter from MacArthur (December 28, 2012)
via Nadrat Siddique on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 2:19pm
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This was postmarked January 3, 2012. I received it shortly
thereafter. Apologies for not posting it much earlier, but
it took me a few days to enter it into electronic format..
--Nadrat
James MacArthur #2335662
300 E. Madison Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
28 December 2012
Dear Sister Nadrat,
I want to thank you for all that you're doing for the cause
of freedom. My adversaries are relentless. They had no idea
there would be so many in my corner.
A passage from Scripture comes to mind. When Elisha the
Prophet and his young servant were literally surrounded by a
heavily armed enemy, the servant was afraid. After the
servant asked him, "What shall we do?" the Prophet reassured
him. "Do not be afraid for those who are with us are more
than those who are with them." (2 Kings 6:16)
By the way, my handwriting is not the greatest, so you'll
bear with me as I struggle to communicate via an archaic
method I have little practice in.
Also, be advised, while your letter is postmarked 17
December, I did not receive it till late last night, the
27th. Thank you so much for the gift. I will put it to good
use. I'm desperately out of basic supplies of paper, stamps
and envelopes. I really want to communicate with everyone
fighting to keep my case and my cause relevant. Spread my
address around.
One of the goals of my adversaries is to stretch things out
as much as possible in hopes of thinning out and making
weary my supporters. They are employing a whole host of
dirty tricks, this is not about justice.
I saw you on Fox 45, and you are 100% correct! This is about
retribution, plain and simple. There's a vendetta against
me. Well orchestrated tyranny.
I was also able to catch a snippet of you on TV during the
protest rally for my freedom. Nadrat, I just can't thank you
enough. You have clearly articulated the massive injustices
I'm currently being subjected to.
Tell your Dad I said hello. I think I briefly made eye
contact with him at the bail review hearing. Did I?
You should know, I'm deeply saddened by the complete lack of
justice or fairness given to me by the court today. But
truly, I'm not surprised. Not in the least bit. With the
kind of investigative work I've done, little surprises me
anymore.
I'm quite pleased you've appreciated the work I did with the
Baltimore Spectator. There's been a conspiracy for some time
now, and numerous attempts to kill the Baltimore Spectator.
In their eyes, I was becoming too popular, too powerful!
One day, God willing (inshallah), when this is all over, I
hope to be able to sit down and spend time with you and your
Dad. There's so much more I know that I never got the chance
to report on.
My dear sister Nadrat, I must beg of you to keep praying for
me. The protection of the Almighty is all I have. This
ordeal could take a while. A great evil has now taken over
our city and state officials, and my total destruction,
including physical death, is their ultimate intention. We
are merely in the preliminary phases. But I am not afraid.
Come what may, my soul is prepared.
There are good days and there are bad days for me in here.
With such little intellectual stimulation available (no
library, books, newspapers, etc), it's a tortured existence
for a thinking man. Please send clippings, photocopies, or
printouts of articles and news stories.
Continued communications with wonderful people like yourself
is part of my only link to sanity. A lifeline if you will.
So please do write back. Tell the others to write to me,
too, even if it's just a short note to say hi. I respond
back to every letter received.
As you may imagine, mentally I'm often drained and fatigued
by my circumstance, but on the flip side, I can feel my
stores of wisdom increasing daily. My mind is becoming
stronger stronger. God is so amazing, that for believers,
even when man plots to do us evil, God can convert it for
our good.
For now, I really don't have that much more to say. I want
to thank you and everyone else for such an awesome showing
of support in court today. It was amazing! And for the
ongoing and continued support you have shown.
By the Grace of God and through his strength, I shall endure
to the end.
Peace and love to you,
MacArthur
The Baltimore Spectator
Obama's Victims. We need names for Somali children.
http://droneswatch.org/2013/01/20/list-of-children-killed-bydrone-strikes-in-pakistan-and-yemen/
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and
Yemen
PAKISTAN Name | Age | Gender Noor Aziz | 8 | male Abdul
Wasit | 17 | male Noor Syed | 8 | male Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male Ayeesha | 3 | female Qari Alamzeb
| 14| male Shoaib | 8 | male Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 |
male Tariq Aziz | 16 | male Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male Maezol
Khan | 8 | female Nasir Khan | male Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male Azizul Wahab |
15 | male Fazal Wahab | 16 | male Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male Fazal Hakim | 19 | male Ilyas |
13 | male Sohail | 7 | male Asadullah | 9 | male khalilullah
| 9 | male Noor Mohammad | 8 | male Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male Mashooq Jan | 15 | male Nawab | 17 |
male Sultanat Khan | 16 | male Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male Noor
Mohammad | 15 | male Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male Qari
Alamzeb | 14 | male Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male Abdullah | 18 |
male Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male Yahya Khan | 16 |male Rahatullah |17
| male Mohammad Salim | 11 | male Shahjehan | 15 | male Gul
Sher Khan | 15 | male Bakht Muneer | 14 | male Numair | 14 |
male Mashooq Khan | 16 | male Ihsanullah | 16 | male Luqman
| 12 | male Jannatullah | 13 | male Ismail | 12 | male
Taseel Khan | 18 | male Zaheeruddin | 16 | male Qari Ishaq |
19 | male Jamshed Khan | 14 | male Alam Nabi | 11 | male
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male Rahmatullah | 14 | male Abdus
Samad | 17 | male Siraj | 16 | male Saeedullah | 17 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male Darvesh | 13 | male Ameer Said | 15
| male Shaukat | 14 | male Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Salman | 12 | male Fazal Wahab | 18 | male Baacha Rahman |
13 | male Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male Iftikhar | 17 | male
Inayatullah | 15 | male Mashooq Khan | 16 | male Ihsanullah
| 16 | male Luqman | 12 | male Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male Taseel Khan | 18 | male Zaheeruddin | 16
| male Qari Ishaq | 19 | male Jamshed Khan | 14 | male Alam
Nabi | 11 | male Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male Rahmatullah |
14 | male Abdus Samad | 17 | male Siraj | 16 | male
Saeedulah | 17 | male Abdul Waris | 16 | male Darvesh | 13 |
male Ameer Said | 15 | male Shaukat | 14 | male Inayatur
Rahman | 17 | male Adnan | 16 | male Najibullah | 13 | male
Naeemullah | 17 | male Hizbullah | 10 | male Kitab Gul | 12
| male Wilayat Khan | 11 | male Zabihullah | 16 | male
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male Shabir | 15 | male Qari Sharifullah
| 17 | male Shafiullah | 16 | male Nimatullah | 14 | male
Shakirullah | 16 | male Talha | 8 | male
YEMEN Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female Zayda Ali
Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 |
female Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female Ibrahim
Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male Asmaa Abdullah
Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem
Louqye | 4 | female Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3
| female Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female Hanaa Ali
Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye
| 4 | male Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female Maryam
Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female Shafiq Hussein Abdullah
Awad | 1 | female Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 |
female Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male Soumaya
Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female Shafika Mohammed Saleh
Mohammed | 4 | female Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 |
male Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male Daolah Nasser 10
years | 10 | female AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 |
male Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male Abdel-Rahman
al-Awlaki | 17 | male Nasser Salim | 19
Prof. Ghulam Azam wanted Peace
Petition to Save Bangla Islamic Leader from Execution by
pro-India Regime in Dhaka
Assalaamualaykum,
I urge you to please circulate and sign this petition save
this visionary pious Islamic leader to executed. The
Tribunal is tainted "The War Crimes Tribunal established by
the government to try Professor Azam and other political
dissenters has received criticism internationally for its
unfair practices. Despite repeated calls for proof of these
war crimes, no such evidence has been presented by the
current Bangladeshi government."
Many have just signed the petition "Bangladeshi President
Zillur Rahman: Requesting for 91-year old Professor Ghulam
Azam not to be executed " and wanted to see if you could
help by adding your name.
Our goal is to reach 500 signatures and we need more
support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/bangladeshi-president-zillurrahman-requesting-for-91-year-old-professor-ghulam-azam-not-o-be-executed?share_id=ygdIGPIitr.
Professor Ghulam Azam was imprisoned by the government of
Bangladesh for his alleged involvement in war crimes during
the Bangladeshi Independence War in 1971. The War Crimes
Tribunal established by the government to try Professor Azam
and other
political dissenters has received criticism internationally
for its unfair practices. Despite repeated calls for proof
of these war crimes, no such evidence has been presented by
the current Bangladeshi government. Therefore, it is
suspected that the reasons his imprisonment are politically
motivated as he openly dissents to the actions of the
current ruling party in Bangladesh. Recently, the execution
of the 91-year old Professor was scheduled for March 26,
2013.
Despite deadly protests in the country as well as
international intervention from various leaders such as the
president of Turkey, the Bangladeshi government refuses to
halt the execution. We urge the Bangladeshi government to
end the unjust imprisonment and impending execution of the
Professor and other prisoners. Without proper evidence and a
fair trial according to international standards, such an
action is a human rights' violation and will only cause
further strife in the political climate of Bangladesh.
Syria:
Emerging Jihad Movement, al-Nusra, has the Peoples' Trust.
First BBC Interview
The beneficiaries of this [indiscipline in the anti-Assad
free Syrian Army, FSA, ] are the hardline Islamists,
especially Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front.
They have now taken over distribution of flour to bakeries
in rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
None of the FSA brigades - all accusing each other of
looting - trusted anyone else, the officer told me.
The Nusra Front is outside the FSA and has a reputation for
discipline and honesty. It is also a jihadi group behind
most of the suicide bombings in Syria and as such is on a US
blacklist of terrorist organisations.
Nusra Front
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Aims to establish Islamist state in Syria
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Leader - Abu Mohammad al-Julani
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5,000 official members (approx.), supported by thousands of
others
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Apparently has members inside government and military
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Big guerrilla attacks on rural government targets; lower
level urban attacks
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Uses car bombings, suicide attacks, targets media facilities
and personalities
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Policy of silence
It announced itself to the world one year ago in an internet
video that claimed several recent car bombings.
A masked man on the video declared: "We are Syrian
mujahedeen, back from various jihad fronts to restore God's
rule on the Earth and avenge the Syrians' violated honour
and spilled blood."
He went on: "Every free and noble man must take up arms,
even if he has to sell his furniture to do so... Oh people
of manliness! Jabhat al-Nusra has taken upon itself to be
the Muslim nation's weapon in this land."
The Nusra Front is a feared and a secretive organisation but
after long negotiation we were able to speak to an emir, or
senior commander.
As you might expect, the emir, Abu Lokman, set out a vision
of Syria as an Islamic state ruled under Sharia.
This was not a fight for democracy.
"In the name of God, praise is to God and peace upon our
Prophet Muhammad," he began, "the people in Syria are
religious by nature."
"They like Islam. People here are fed up with socialist and
secular regimes. They are all looking forward to an Islamic
state. It is impossible there could be anything else in
Syria."
Teaspoon of explosives
Abu Lokman was in his thirties and had been a student before
being arrested by the regime in 2008.
He was active on jihadi internet forums and joined Jabhat
al-Nusra while it was still a secret organisation, six
months before the video announcing its existence.
Abu Lokman said the West was afraid of Islamists' long
beards
He wore a ski-mask for our interview, a necessary precaution
against the regime's spies, he explained.
Outside his office were bearded fighters, including two in
Yemeni dress, carrying traditional curved knives along with
their Kalashnikovs and wearing the short dish-dasha of the
pious.
A bag of explosives was delivered, a sample sent by a
dealer. It was white powder - probably ground-up fertiliser
and diesel. It was tested by setting a teaspoonful on fire.
It burned very nicely.
I asked: How do you justify suicide bombings which might
kill civilians?
"It's not just us who use suicide bombings; many other
factions of the FSA do.
"The regime plants car bombs among civilians and accuses us
of doing it to destroy our reputation... God forbid we take
any civilian lives, whether Muslims or non-Muslims,
Christians or others."
The United States calls you a terrorist group, I said.
"The West is afraid of our long beards - even though the
Jews grow their beards, too.
"Muslims are portrayed in the West as savages. The West is
conspiring against us
"When the US placed us on their list of terrorists, it did
us no harm, it elevated our reputation. The Syrian people
hate the American government. Thanks be to God, we consider
this a medal of honour."
Are you al-Qaeda, I asked.
"We both use the same language, the same terminology as we
are all Arabic speakers. But there is no connection [between
Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Qaeda] - we are Syrians."
What if the US and others wanted to bomb the regime?
"We are not campaigning for or against this. Of course, if
they destroy the regime's military posts, that is in our
favour. But we don't want an intervention because we are the
people of this country and we are able to defend our own
country."
'Non-sectarian'
This was the first broadcast interview by a member of Jabhat
al-Nusra's leadership.
The emir was being cautious.
This was a Syrian fight, not part of a wider jihad. They had
no hostile intent to any other states - as long as they did
not support the regime.
There would be no sectarian attacks against Syria's
minorities. Christians, especially, had nothing to fear.
"Our religion allows us to marry Christians, eat your food
and live amongst you.
"We have many fatwas telling us not to exploit the
Christians' blood and possessions. Christ is our prophet too
- how much do you love Christ? I love him more than you
do."
As the emir was being interviewed, a trail of supplicants
came and went
When not attending to military matters, the emir dealt with
a variety of requests.
A trail of supplicants came and went.
It was clear how important the group had become to daily
life here.
A man had run out of cooking gas. Another complained his
sons would not support him in his old age.
A widow begged for help in getting her inheritance from her
dead husband's family. A man asked for help in freeing his
cousin, arrested by an FSA brigade.
The man detained was a tribal elder accused of having had a
"loyalty tent", where before the revolution people would
chat under a framed picture of the president.
His family said they had been told the price of his release
would be several million Syrian pounds (tens of thousands of
UK pounds or US dollars).
We heard many such stories of people arrested - kidnapped
might be a better term - based on flimsy claims of a
connection to the regime.
Demands for money often followed. Raising a voice in protest
could invite the deadly allegation of being a Shabiha, a
member of the brutal regime militia.
Sharia court
The atmosphere in Aleppo has a touch of Paris in 1944: the
mistrust and the score settling, the finger-pointing at
collaborators, real or imagined.
In our block of flats, if people spot a car full of FSA
fighters coming to arrest someone, they swarm onto the
street to try to stop them.
We heard about a man whose new car was seized at an FSA
checkpoint.
He complained to the Nusra Front. The FSA brigade concerned
brought witnesses who swore he was a Shabiha and he was
thrown into jail.
He was later freed - and his car returned - after the Nusra
Front assigned the case to Aleppo's new Sharia court.
The Sharia court is being set up by the Nusra Front along
with three of the more Islamist brigades of the FSA.
It is supposed to be an alternative to the secular justice
system formerly run by the Syrian state and to operate in
parallel with it.
But its influence can already be felt widely.
Difficult problems, which cannot otherwise be solved, are
sent over to the court.
An FSA official had been too nervous to grant us a permit to
film at the bakery, for instance.
"Often people in bread queues start chanting slogans against
the FSA," he'd said.
He directed us instead to the Sharia court, which provided
the necessary piece of paper.
All of this is happening as the battle for Aleppo
continues.
The day after we left, an air strike hit a block of flats in
the area where we had been staying, leaving some 26 people
buried under the rubble.
But the war seems more distant, the bombing and shelling an
occasional interruption rather than a constant thump,
gripping the stomach in a permanent spasm of fear.
The regime's forces are bottled up in a few bases; the areas
of "liberated" territory expanding.
Taste of ashes
The FSA always suspected that Aleppo's heart was never
really in the revolution.
Many in Aleppo support the FSA but others turn to hardline
groups
Now the shopkeepers, farmers and small businessmen of the
countryside are in charge in large parts of the city.
They are discovering that victory has a taste of ashes.
"Free Aleppo" has eight-hour bread queues, power cuts,
children scavenging for rubbish to burn and trees in the
parks all cut down for firewood.
Some people here - many in fact - still support the FSA, but
amid the chaos and shortages, and the problems of the FSA's
own making, others are turning to hardline groups such as
the Nusra Front, attracted by their reputation for
discipline and honesty, bravery and piety.
They will undoubtedly have a big say in Syria's future.
What does this mean for Western governments debating whether
to intervene?
Taking tea in a neighbour's shop, I met a 30-year-old Nusra
Front fighter called Abdullah.
"The Nusra Front is the son of al-Qaeda," he told me.
"We are this close," he went on, rubbing his two index
fingers together.
He had worked in a woman's clothes shop before the
revolution. And after the revolution?
"No more dresses," he said. He would take the jihad to
Somalia, Mali, Jordan, Iraq, "wherever there are
Muslims".
Western governments, then, face a dilemma.
If arms are allowed to reach the Syrian rebels, they could
end up in the hands of radical Islamists.
But if moderates in the uprising are not identified and
supported, power will flow to the best organised and most
disciplined fighters. At the moment, those are the
jihadists.
Spotlights on Apologies.
Imam Badi Ali, National Shoora leader, urges Muslims to
think & Change their lives
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There is no PERFECT moment to apologize. As
soon as you realize the need to do so, apologize.
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Don't justify yourself.
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I am one of those people who apologize. I even apologize
on behalf of others.
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If you have a brother or a friend who sacrifices for
God, apologize to him. Don't let him go.
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Apology is an act of honesty.
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Apology is an act of humbleness.
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Apology is an act of generosity.
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Apology is an act of compassion.
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Apology is an act of forgiveness.
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Do what you can. Leave it to Allah. If someone doesn't
accept your apology, It's okay. It's their right not to
accept.
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Do apologize sincerely. You will feel good.
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Apologizing does not make us inferior. It shows that we
are seeking forgiveness,.
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If you don't apologize, that's a weakness in you.
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An apology might help.
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An apology is like a lovely fragrance or perfume.
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An apology is a good way to have the last word.
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Arabs and Muslims are not good at apologizing. Their
ego prevents them.
An American Muslimah's dream
by Sis. Sherry Garris [Virginia]
In my search for news stories about attacks against Muslims
in the US I was dumb founded to find nothing since the piece
I reported on about attacks in Queens. Most of the stories
before that were in August and September 2012 and were
related to attacks during the Ramadan. And, there were only
a few. Everyday you hear something about Muslim extremists
this and Muslim extremists that.
As a child I believed we lived in a world where all human
beings deserved to have a decent life. And, that I lived in
a country where that was possible because "We the People"
had the right to pursue our dreams of happiness. Then, of
course, I grew up with my eyes wide open only to be
disillusioned by the fact that only certain people with the
financial and political power had that right. Boy was that a
rude awakening!
I still believe we as human beings deserve the same rights.
We just don't see that equality as a reality. I dream with
all my heart and believe in my mind, no matter how futile it
may seem at times, in those rights for all. And, in the
responsibility we as individuals have to come together to
make a difference, a real change, in our human condition.
They can't enslave us if we don't allow it!
Anything newsworthy with regards to Muslims being involved
in Social Activism and Charitable Contributions seems to be
only happening in other countries if you search the media.
Where are all the stories about what we as Muslims
contribute in this country? I know they are out there. But,
with the Zionist controlling the media it's not likely that
we will see anything mainstream!
I have an idea, well a dream or wish. I hope to be able to
drive across the country and film a documentary about the
lives of Muslims in the US. How we live! The good things we
share, as well as, what we endure as Muslims in this
country. Not unlike the strangers that came before us. I
want to shine a light as bright as the sun to truly
enlighten the ignorant as to who we really are.
I find myself saying, all too often, to simply explain our
human connection these words. We pray to the same God; Allah
in english means God. Many people don't know that. We don't
eat pork because God says not too because it is unclean or
unhealthy for us. This is said in the Torah, the Injeel
(Scriptures) and the Quran. And, we pray 5 times a day.
That's not a bad thing. And, I smile! :) If they don't
understand that hijab is a protection for women and not an
enslavement. And, that it identifies us as Muslim women.
Then how can they let down their guard to be open to
learning and understanding who we are?
It saddens my heart that the beauty of Islam is not seen!
And, that so many judge based on fear and ignorance
(ignorance is simply not knowing). We have to be the ones to
bring change through honest communication as human beings.
People are more open to learn if they can connect in some
way as human beings first. It was easy for me to revert.
I've always had an open mind towards all aspects of life.
And, I was searching endlessly my whole life for the truth.
I know what I have found. I am truly blessed. We need to
help others to see the truth. As Allah has guided us in
light He will guide us to teach others. Ameen!!! Ummah is a
community. We are not alone. And, with Allah we shall never
be alone!!!
Vitamin D
[With thanks to Br. Solano [Texas]
Editor's Note: Dr. Lee Hieb is a new columnist with WND last
week. Check out her archive, so you don't
miss her first, eye-opening column!
No one said it better than Michael Crichton - who, in
addition to being a best selling author, was also a
physician. During a lecture at Cal Tech, he
said, "Let's be clear: The work of science
has nothing whatever to do with consensus.
Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the
contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to
be right. ... The greatest scientists in history
are great precisely because they broke with the
consensus." The medical community [AMA, Big
Pharma, Cancer "Industry" , etc.] has always been subject
to "group-think," but in recent decades we
have become the leaders. Numerous
physician-scientists have been ostracized, defrocked,
de-licensed and in some cases driven to self-destruction
by a medical community that has embraced
consensus in science.
In essence, "We don't care about your data; we all
agree you are wrong." I once had a paper
rejected from a major spine journal with a one
line denouement: "Everyone knows you can't do that."
With time, ultimately, truth prevails, and
renegade but correct physicians are vindicated -
but not in time to save those patients who die
from the mistaken consensus. Today, this
"group-think" is depriving people from some of the best
and cheapest medical treatment available -
supplementation with adequate Vitamin D3. [MM:
That's the point exactly: Poisonous MEDs
make Trillion for Big Pharma!!!]
Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with childhood
rickets - a bone disorder - for over a hundred years.
And it has been known since the 1970s that those
living on the equator, regardless of particular
locale, have lower rates of multiple sclerosis,
colon cancer and depression. But more recently,
many astute observers have discovered that low
Vitamin D leads to many other disorders, including cardiac
arrhythmia, breast cancer, adult fractures,
dementia, heart attack risk and even diabetes.
Most recently, studies have demonstrated that
higher levels of Vitamin D improve longevity and
are beneficial at preventing influenza - even
better [SIC!!!!!!!!] than vaccination
[LOL!!!!!!!!] . Studies showing beneficial
effects of high vitamin D levels are quite
convincing. They not only show a correlation between
low Vitamin D blood levels and the problem, but show
improvement in the disease or prevention of the
condition when levels are raised up through
supplementation. As an example, it has been
shown in the laboratory that heart muscle does
not contract well unless adequate Vitamin D is
present. An Italian population study showed that low Vitamin
D was proportional to atherosclerotic plaques
(clogging of the arteries). Furthermore, a
Japanese study of dialysis patients demonstrated
that correcting Vitamin D deficiency
significantly lowered death from heart attacks and heart
disease in general. These are only a few
of the rapidly expanding body of literature
supporting the role of Vitamin D in multiple
disease prevention. But to achieve the positive effects seen
in many diseases, blood levels need to be in the
range of 50 to 100 ng/dl, not the 20 ng/dl that
laboratories report as the lowest range of
"normal" (how labs determine "normal" is
the subject of another column). Specifically in the case of
breast cancer, if one achieves blood levels above
55 ng/dl, the risk of breast cancer is diminished
85 percent. It is the observation of many, many
practicing clinicians that 1) most patients test
in the low 20s, and 2) 400 iu of Vitamin D a day
- the government recommended [LOL!!!!!!!!] daily
allowance doesn't raise the levels at all. Studies of
equatorial inhabitants demonstrate that some of the
longest-lived people on the planet obtain
30,000-40,000 iu of Vitamin D (specifically D3) a day
from the sunlight - Nature's
source of the vitamin. Given that, it is not
suprising that supplementing 10,000 iu a day
of Vitamin D3 has been shown to have NO adverse effects. As
an Orthopaedic Surgeon, I deal with bone
disorders daily, and have long been interested in
this topic. I quit testing for Vitamin D levels in untreated
people after every one of my patients tested in
the low 20s. I only tested my husband because he
was convinced that golfing in Arizona 18 holes,
six days a week would raise his level. It did not
- his level was 22 ng/dl. As a final fact, D3
supplementation is cheap. For less than $12 a
month you can easily take 10,000 iu of Vitamin D3 a day.
Now, given all this, what would you do?
I, for one take 10,000 units of Vitamin D3 a
day. I have done so for over 7 years, and my
levels of 55 ng/dl are barely in the optimal range of
50-100ng/dl. I recommend the same to all my patients.
But I must warn them that the government, via
the Institute of Medicine and the FDA,
disagree and believe people should take only
600-800 iu a day.
And state
medical boards, which are now populated by many
non-physicians, sanction physicians who step out of this
approved "consensus" - what they call "standard
of care." According to them, if you are not
doing what 90 percent of your colleagues are
doing, you are by definition wrong. And they can
punish you, even to the extent of taking away
your license. So, regardless of progress in
science, if 90 percent of doctors are
recommending an inadequate dose of Vitamin D,
your doctor MUST give you this wrong advice. To be a
scientific leader in this new world order is to
be wrong. If the phone company had this
philosophy, we would still be tied to land line rotary
dials. Science and medicine are not a vote.
As Dr. Crichton pointed out, voting is for
politicians. Science requires freedom to consider
the alternatives, and in medicine, the freedom to
make our own choices - not have government bureaucrats or
theInstitute of Medicine make them for us.
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,
THE SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA
[A LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE AGENDA]
[Shamim A Siddiqi, NY]
"Barack Hussain Obama" is the elected second term's
President of the United States of America and deserves
our appreciation, congratulations and support to complete
his term successfully as he has embarked upon to
accomplish his agenda from the very outset. The tone and the
contents of his address foretells his vigorous attitude to
pursue it. The question, however, arises: how he will do
it when a lot of self-created and self-sustained, both
domestic and foreign impediments will be constantly
causing stumbling blocks in his reach out plan.
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The USA is a super power and as such it has her
predominant interest in every corner of this globe,
especially in the under-developed countries and the Muslim
world which is not seeing eye to eye to her vital interests
and takes her policies and program as impediment to their
respective progress, uplift and championing the ideology
that they believe as correct, honest, practical and
homogeneous to human progress. However, the USA abhors it
and takes it as repugnant to her foreign and national
interests. This is the crux of the problem that President
Obama is likely to face at every step of his onward march
for four years.
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The obstacles and hindrances in his path can be divided
into two segments:
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NATIONAL - HOME FRONT: These are the political
obstructions that will be created often and on by his
rival Republican Party who holds majority in the Congress
at least for the next two years. They are bent upon to
oppose his liberal agenda: the Welfare projects, the
Medicare and medicate, unemployment benefits and many more
items on the debit side of the budget while making every
effort to curtail down the Deficit and National Debt that
run into trillions of dollars - a hard nut to crack when
the GOP is not willing at all to increase the income side
of the Budget to meet the gap. President Obama has to
fight and gain by inches, if possible, to meet his ideals of
a Welfare State and maintaining the grandeur of the mighty
America that he is dreaming to attain for the generations
to come.
Unfortunately, the team of talents that he is collecting
around him are mostly pro-Israel and or are the remnants of
Bush regime. How far they will be helpful to implement his
radical agenda within next two years seems a practical
impossibility with the sword of deficit financing hanging
at his head always. His plans may be very ambitious at home
but the deficit financing and GOP's constant opposition
will derail his "Quick March" direction as frequently as
feasible, leave him rubbing his hands in despair, perhaps
life long. At the end it all may turn into rhetoric and
succumbed into non-fulfilled agenda of an ambitious "Obama"
whom white supremacists that couldn't defeat at poles
out-casted him in Congress and tumbled him down to gallows
of history as "unsuccessful black President" who once came
to power by "chance". That is the apparent agenda of the GOP
in the background.
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THE INTERNATIONAL - FOREIGN FRONT:
President Obama very intelligently concentrated his entire
agenda on national front and avoided to touch even the few
foreign spots that have been and are the sheet anchor of
USA's foreign policy for decades.
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ISRAEI: The peace process has been left in a limbo. The
PM of Israel is not going to give up his policy of
settlement of "imported" Jews from Europe and abroad for
settlement in the occupied lands of Palestine which
president Obama opposes tooth and nail. After obtaining the
status of non-voting state in the UNO by the Palestinians,
the position of each faction has turned into an open
obstinacy. Obama left it to the vagaries of time and fate
and the whims of Arab States supporting the cause of
Palestine.
The on-going general elections in Israel will simply bring
the hard liners in powers and is likely to make the
situation worst. President Obama cannot take a hard stand
as the home front's Israeli lobby will create problems for
the President at home. So better let it go as it is dosing
unwept and unsung.
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Al-Qaida: The old policy of its total destruction by all
possible means will continue as unabated. Rather it is
being accelerated in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Sahara
Desert manifold. After getting Osama bin Laden killed in
Abbottabad, President Obama has become more courageous to
finish al-Qaida. However, it seems impossible till the
bleeding spots in the Muslim lands are cured by the USA
who is sustaining them by supporting the oppressive
regimes and thus, denying justice to the suffering
humanity.
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Kashmir: India has got the tacit approval of the USA to
continue her occupancy of Kashmir, deny the promised
Plebiscite under the auspices of the UNO and deny the human
rights to its suffering humanity for decades together. The
People of Kashmir will be left suffering along with the
issue of Kashmir as the "sleeping bomb in the heart of the
Subcontinent.
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The Arab World: Gulf Sates and Sheikhdoms will have
the protective shield of America supremacy and continue
their oppressive regimes for four years more as President
Obama will maintain the status co undisturbed. The Arab
Spring is not going to disturb this equilibrium. It has
already lost its tempo. The issue of Iran will remain
alive as unsolved for years together as the USA is in no
mood to open another war front in the ME and invite its own
death knell.
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North Korea & China: NK will remain like a nuisance
as it cannot do any harm to mighty America. President
Obama knows it very well. Japan, China and South
Korea will take care of North as it is in their
jurisdiction. Friendship with growing China will however
continue to grow unabated as it is in the best interest of
the USA as her trade partner and maintaining peace in
Pacific.
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CONCLUSION: From the above discussion it is clear that why
President Obama concentrated at Home Front and left the
rest of the world to run its affairs for a few years more
till he is able to arrange his own house in order. That
seems an intelligent working andshows he has full grip on
the progress of the socio, economic and political affairs
of the world before him.
However, he is to be very conscious of his people at hand.
He is to deal with them with justice and fair play. The
poor, the needy and the oppressed, the unemployed, the
under-employed, the immigrants and the minorities need him
more than anyone in this country. If he upholds their
cause, make them to feel respectable equal Citizens of this
country without any distinction of color, race and
religion ethnicity, only then he will be able to
re-discover America afresh and will be remembered in
history as its savior.
Shamim Siddiqi
6 Plant Lane, Westbury, NY-11590
#516-333-4222
Website: WWW.dawahinamericas.com
January 23, 2013
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