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Zulqi'dah 11,1435/September 7, 2014 # 36
Think about this: Very Important
How to behave in the Crisis Times we are Living in
by [Imam] Badi Ali [North Carolina]
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Put your trust in Allah. Read sura Yasin 82. Sura
al-Baqarah:210. Read relevant hadith.
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Your alliance should be with Allah. It is important to be
clear about whom you are with and whom you are against. Do
not carry snakes with you. They will only bite you.
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Analyze events in accordance with our belief in Allah. Do
not look at things from negative viewpoints.
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Distance yourself from sin.
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Be with the jamaa, the vast majority of the Islamic
community. Unity is an obligation. Don't let the enemy
divide you. If they divide us into Shia and Sunni right now,
later they can divide us into Hanafi vs Hanbali, and so on.
Your Ummah is one Ummah.
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Seek knowledge about the brave righteous scholars like
Maudoodi and Syed Qutb.
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Be patient and persevere.
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Be responsible for yourself and those you care for.
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Be creative. Do not be lazy, easy going and set in your
ways.
Breaking News: September 6. Syria: Bashar Assad's air force
bombed the bakery in al-Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic
caliphate, killing 20 civilians, including children, and 6
fighters. This was the second raid. For reports on September
2 to 5,
scroll down
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Also, IS positions east of Aleppo were bombed today by
Assad's jets.
Outreach: Jamaat al-Muslimeen activity in Newark,
Delaware
Important Information on America and Islamic Uprisings
Globally given to 92
On September 5, after Juma' salaat at the main mosque in
Newark, Delaware, Jamaat literature was given to 92 Muslims,
mostly Arabs, Pakistanis/Bangladeshis and Africans.
The khutba was nice, mostly about the meaning of happiness
in Islam, rejecting the entertainment which people often
take for happiness.
The crowd has grown so much that there are two juma prayers.
The traffic was ably directed by a young African American
policewoman in 90 degree temperature. A lot of Muslims
thanked her, calling her "ma'am." Won't be a surprise if she
embraces Islam!
These were the Jamaat al-Muslimeen items distributed, in six
pages.
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Disrespect for women and open homosexuality are signs of
America's decay. [Br. Kaukab's khutba.]
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Imam Badi Ali's statement on Gaza: Palestine stood strong
but Arab rulers were shameless.
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List of 373 children in Gaza, with age of each, killed by
Israeli Jewish bombing. [Imam Badi.]
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Police atrocity in New York. [Sis. Aisha.]
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Libya was bombed by UAE jets sent though Egypt's tyrant
Sissi.
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Fighting in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria. Arrests in "Saudi"
Arabia.
Crusaders Unite Against Islamic Caliphate: September 5
NEWPORT, Wales (AP) - The U.S. and 10 of its key allies
agreed Friday that the Islamic State group is a significant
threat to NATO countries and that they will take on the
militants by squeezing their financial resources and going
after them with military might.
Total now about 1,000.
2 Sep 2014. President Barack Obama has authorized sending
350 more military personnel to Iraq to protect U.S.
facilities and personnel in Baghdad, the White House said
Tuesday night. The move comes at the recommendation of the
Defense Department
Looks like heavy rainstorms have hit the Pakistani political
stalemate. With 155 people dead, it is now a
catastrophe.
Special report on Pakistan from Dr. Khawaja. Daily
demonstrations in Islamabad.
Please scroll way down.
For reports from Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, India, Iran,
Kashmir, Egypt,
please scroll way down.
From Kaukab Siddique
Women and Islam: Men and women are equal in Islam. [al-Quran
9:71]. The standard of merit is TAQWA, or awareness of Allah
and Islamic conduct. [49:13] Obedience is to Allah alone
[33:1], not to the husband. Decisions should be arrived at
through Shoora [mutual consultation. [42:38] Check out
detailed evidence from my books: The Struggle of Muslim
Women and Liberation of Women Thru Islam. With that context,
please read this saddening report.
Our America
Violation of Islamic Laws & Sunnah Force women to seek help
from Secular American Courts.
How US Laws Protect Wives.
by Sis. Karin Friedemann [Boston, Massachussetts.]
When she married at 26, Aisha had no idea about her legal
rights as a female citizen of the United States. A first
generation American, she did know that Islamic law entitled
her to a dowry as well as maintenance by her husband, in
exchange for obeying him, keeping the household, and
allowing her womb to procreate. She knew she had to get his
permission to get a job. She married a man "fresh off the
boat." Knowing he had no savings and worked a menial job,
she asked him in lieu of money or jewelry, to promise her a
back massage every night. She also secretly hoped that might
also lead to nightly intimacy, and she was naturally willing
to return the favor. He agreed to this. He also agreed to a
small family only wedding, with each side inviting five
persons.
Much to her surprise, the night before her wedding, while
she was covered in henna, she received a phone call from her
fiancé alerting her to the fact that he had bowed to peer
pressure, stood on top of a table, and invited all his
friends to Aisha's parents' house for the wedding. Aisha did
not have time to invite all her friends on such short
notice, and her best friend stopped talking to her after she
didn't get the message.
On the wedding day, in front of all these guests, the imam
asked her if she would accept this marriage for a dowry of
$1,200. She was astonished, since there had never been any
such discussion of money. But she was too shy to speak up in
front of the crowd. She assumed that her husband-to-be was
just too embarrassed to admit the real dowry promise, and so
had added this into the agreement as a cover-up.
However, the day after the wedding when she said with an
innocent smile, "Can I have my backrub now?" her husband
refused! He was astonished by her sense of entitlement.
"But you promised!" she insisted.
"Nobody gets married in exchange for backrubs." He told her
she was ridiculous.
She never received any $1,200 cash gift either.
A couple years into the marriage, her husband bought a
computer that they would both use and asked her to accept
that in lieu of the dowry.
In truth, he was not entirely irresponsible - he did
financially maintain her and the children with a generous
settlement after divorce. But his refusal to acknowledge
personal responsibility for a legally binding verbal
agreement cost him his marriage, because in doing so, he
insultingly treated his wife as chattel, as a
non-person.
What could Aisha have done differently to have avoided this
pitfall with an otherwise regarded as good man?
The second time she got married, she continued to be
lovingly humble and it turned out even much, much worse.
Ironically, her new mother-in-law didn't approve her to
invite one friend to her own wedding, since it was to be
family only.
By this time, Aisha was so isolated as a housewife and full
time mother that she had started to think of "the world
outside" as a scary place. But when the second husband's
mental abuse became to extreme that she realized he truly
didn't regard her as a person with legal rights, her fear
caused her to turn to the government for help. Approaching
the steps of the local health center, she started to relax
when strangers smiled at her and her children.
As a pregnant mother whose husband was unemployed, she
instantly qualified for medical insurance, food stamps, and
WIC. She was also placed on a waiting list for discounted
housing. As soon as she separated from her husband, all
these benefits transferred to her and gave her children a
safety net that her husband had never provided no matter
what his income. In both marriages, she had always thought
in terms of money being "her husband's money."
Even though her husband, after she tearfully begged him to
divorce her, had pronounced "talaq talaq talaq," he later
denied that he had given her a divorce. For the next five
years, he tormented her by stalking her, insisting she was
still his wife. He used an outdated stereotype of Islam to
justify treating her as a person without right of
personhood. Even the most basic right, the right to freely
decide if one chooses to agree to marriage.
Aisha learned to file motions in court. All of the legal
documents required to apply for child support, court order a
child care schedule, divorce, or even a restraining order,
can be downloaded from the local family and probate court to
print out.
Going to the courthouse was a daunting task at first. They
really don't make it easy. There are certain forms that need
to be filled out (including financial exemption from filing
fees and service fees - meaning when the sheriff serves him
with papers). There are many different lines she had to
stand in. But the courthouse employees are used to first
timers and politely advised her.
Women can get free legal advice from their local domestic
abuse hotline, and there should be an office at the
courthouse for guidance as to what forms to ask for. During
divorce, always focus your affidavit arguments to issues
regarding the children.
When it comes to domestic abuse situations, whether mental
or physical, do not bother with a lawyer unless you want to
negotiate with your spouse. In the event of a truly
unreasonable spouse, the quickest way to get it over with is
just to go in front of a judge. You can get divorced in a
few hearings. They have heard it all before. You just tell
them the truth and they will advise.
The scariest thing about standing up for yourself is having
to face your user spouting bald faced lies as well as half
truths designed to malign you and deprive you of your voice.
Do not look him in the eye. Look humbly at the judge. Pray
for God's justice and the life your children deserve to see
you lead, free of intimidation or devaluing of person.
Elder American Islamic Scholar Shamim Siddiqui responds to
my David Irving Article
Salam mohtaram Kaukab bhai
The facts given by you about the historian David Irving are
quite sufficient to keep the mouth of Jewish Lobby shut but
they are all "Be-Haya" [shameless] and never feel ashamed
of their misdeeds. In spite of my eye problem, i will try to
get through some of his monomental writings.The Muslim youth
must read them and equip their mental horizon with wisdom
and truth and not "fiction" that is being spread by Jewish
propagada machinery.
Alhamdulillah, my next book: "Global Islamic Movement - Why
& How?" is complete. Soon I will send its draft copy to you
and other brothers for study and comments towards
improvement, if any. It will bridge the gap for Muslims to
know what to do now and how in the context of our time.
Shukrun wa Jazakallah
Shamim Siddiqi [Long Island, New York]
The Greatest Historian of World War II
David Irving Spoke in Maryland: Scholar of Immense Knowledge
& Extensive Research ability
Why is he hated by Israel and international Jewry: You'll be
surprised!
by Kaukab Siddique
A few days back I had the honor of meeting David Irving, a
truly great scholar. Some idea of the immensity of Mr.
Irving's scholarship can be gained by noting some of his
numerous books:
Hitler's War [1024 pages]
Churchill's War [Volume 2 alone is 1051 pages]
Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich [722 pages]
Hess: The Missing Years 1941-1945
Goring: A Biography
Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden
Nuremberg : The Last Battle
I have read his books over the years. They come up to the
highest standards of scholarship. What makes them slow
reading is that every fact he mentions is documented from
original sources.
The problem for Mr. Irving was that he would not include
anything in his books which could not be documented from
original sources. Jewish scholars soon found that he had not
included Auschwitz and the "holocaust" in his books.
Gradually international Jewry and Israel turned its full
fury against him and had his entry into various countries
made illegal.
His book on Goebbels was refused by the publisher in spite
of a written contract. The "Chosen People" would not allow
his books to be published or to be sold [with the exception
of Amazon from where it can be ordered but it is not
publicized].
He tried to stop the Jewish onslaught by developing a
support network around the world and especially in America.
Jewish gangsters or their supporters would harass the hotels
where he wanted to hold PRIVATE meetings. The result is that
Mr. Irving has to keep his meetinga secret till a day or so
before the meeting.
The media are infested with Jews and their Zionist
supporters. Mr. Irving is not allowed on to any major
newspaper, radio station, or TV station. An attempt has been
underway for decades to turn him into a non-person.
Is Mr. Irving a Nazi? Absolutely not!
Is he a supporter of Hitler? Not at all.
The problem is that he will not accept the propaganda of the
victors without authentication. Anyone who has read his
research on Churchill would have to give up the popular view
of the Second World War,
When the Zionists came up against me, they thought they
could "get me" because I respect Mr. Irving's writings. CBS
in Philadelphia wanted to interview me about my views on
Irving. I asked the would-be interviewer: Have you read ANY
book by Irving. He admitted that he had not. I told him: How
can you interview me about someone in your attack pose when
you have not read even one of his books!
This day, Mr. Irving was his old relaxed self, cracking wry
British jokes, speaking with great accuracy about the most
obscure but tragic events of the war. He certainly does not
hold back on criticism of German slaughter of Jews in Russia
[often with Ukrainian support]. What makes him dangerous,
from the Jewish viewpoint, is that he is able to document
the horrific crimes committed against Germany by the
victors. He is able to show Goebbels as a human being. He
could show that in Nuremberg, the victors were trying
Germans for crimes similar to the ones the victors
themselves had committed.
At the end of the meeting I embraced him [something which he
does not like because it is so un-British] and said to him:
May Allah be with you!
Our America: via Asqfish
More training of American Police by Israel:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lawyer-public-advocate-cps-roughed-suit-article-1.1926329
Top lawyer for city Public Advocate says NYPD cops roughed
her up during unwarranted arrest: suit
www.nydailynews.com
Chaumtoli Huq, 42, says in the suit filed late Tuesday in
Manhattan Federal Court that she was waiting for her
husband
Jewish Man Held in Assault Against MP George Galloway
The Jewish Chronicle (Britain)
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/122178/man-denies-street-atack-galloway
A Jewish man repeatedly punched George Galloway in the face
because he "was an enemy to Judaism," a court heard this
week. Former BBC manager Neil Masterson, 39, is alleged to
have shouted about the Holocaust and then assaulted Mr
Galloway as he posed for pictures with members of the public
in Golborne Road, west London. He is also accused of pushing
away another man who tried to stop the attack. Mr Galloway
was taken to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, for treatment
on Friday and kept in hospital overnight. The Respect MP for
Bradford West suffered bruising and swelling to his
face.
Our America: People are not told why someone becomes Famous.
Identities are hidden.
Joan Rivers and the Zionist Media
submitted 2 days ago by Antiochus88 [before Joan Rivers
passed away.]
The Zionist Supremacist media's coverage of the illness of
Jewish "comedian" Joan Rivers—which consists exclusively of
praise and celebrity endorsements, while ignoring her
hate-filled and pro-murder comments about
Palestinians—serves as yet another classic textbook case of
hypocrisy and racist Jewish tribalism.
Rivers, 81, who is, as this article was written, in a
medically induced coma after stopping breathing during
throat surgery, has long been a media darling and has been
widely promoted by the Jewish Supremacist controlled press
for four decades, despite her "humor" most often consisting
of vulgarities and insults.
The reason for her endless promotion is, of course, the fact
that she actually is Jewish, and was born with the name Joan
Alexandra Molinsky, the daughter of Russian Jewish
immigrants.
It was therefore no surprise to informed observers when
Molinsky spewed typical Jewish racist supremacist hate and
venom against the Palestinians at the height of the most
recent Israeli attack on the civilians of Gaza.
When asked about the Gaza Holocaust, Molinsky told a TV
interviewer that she did not feel bad because civilian
victims "deserve to be dead", that the ones killed had "very
low IQs."
"Good. Good. When you declare war, you declare war. They
started it. We now don't count who's dead. You're dead, you
deserve to be dead. Don't you dare make me feel bad about
that.
"They were told to get out. They didn't get out. You don't
get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were
killed were the ones with low IQs."
Later she released a statement saying she stood by what she
had said.
There was, of course, no media condemnation for her
hate-filled outburst, even though the Israeli "forces"
killed hundreds of babies, children and non-combatants when
they attacked Gaza.
Now that she is seriously ill, the same media is full of
sympathetic stories on her illness, and even repeats all
manner of (mainly Jewish) celebrity endorsements (for
example, from Bette Midler, Courtney Love Cobain, and so on)
praying for her to recover.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) even went as far as
publishing a headline piece "Wishing Joan Rivers Speedy
Recovery" and wishing her a "refuah shlemah"—a Jewish prayer
for recovery in the name of God.
Consider for a second what these same media outlets'
coverage would have been had any other person made comments
in public to the effect that Jewish civilians "deserve to be
dead", and that the Jews killed had "very low IQs."
What would the media's reaction have been to anyone—say a
Palestinian—who declared about Jews in occupied Palestine
that "They were told to get out. They didn't get out. You
don't get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were
killed were the ones with low IQs."
This same media would have condemned any person making such
hateful remarks—and, if that same person had then fallen
seriously ill only a few weeks later, when discussing the
illness, the media would have most certainly dragged up and
replayed such hateful remarks.
Breaking News: Crusaders Unite Against Islamic Caliphate
[IS]
[Following items compiled by Citizens for Legitimate
Government {CLG} in Connecticut.]
Barack Obama and David Cameron seek coalition against Isis 3
Sept 2014 Barack Obama and David Cameron have vowed to use
the Nato summit starting in Wales on Thursday to engineer a
resilient military and political coalition, including key
countries in the Middle East, capable of squeezing out and
destroying Islamic State (Isis) in northern Iraq. British
officials also said the British prime minister was examining
every option to protect the British hostage threatened by
the jihadist group on Tuesday, in light of its murder of the
American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley in the
past month. "We will not be intimidated," Obama said in
Estonia on the way to the summit.
Islamic State guides Egyptian militants, expanding its
influence 5 Sept 2014 Islamic State, fighting to redraw the
map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt's most
dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilize
the biggest Arab nation. Confirmation that Islamic State ,
currently the most successful of the region's jihadi groups,
is extending its influence to Egypt will sound alarm bells
in Cairo, where the authorities are already facing a
security challenge from home-grown militants.
U.S. confirms death of al Shabaab leader Godane in Somalia
strike 5 Sept 2014 The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that
Ahmed Abdi Godane, a leader of the al Shabaab Islamist
group, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia this week,
calling it a "major symbolic and operational loss" for the
al Qaeda-affiliated militants.
Canadian no-fly list numbers must stay secret: government 3
Sept 2014 Federal security officials are resisting pressure
to reveal how many people are on Canada's no-fly list,
arguing the information could help terrorists plot a
catastrophic attack on an airliner. In newly filed court
documents, the government also contends that divulging the
figure might damage relations with key allies, especially
the United States. Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault
is challenging the government's refusal to disclose the data
to a Montreal journalist who requested it under the Access
to Information Act.
Breaking News: Iran and US Military Coordination vs Islamic
Caliphate [IS]
Iran's Supreme Leader has approved co-operation with the US
as part of the fight against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq,
sources have told BBC Persian.
Ayatollah Khamenei has authorised his top commander to
co-ordinate military operations with the US, Iraqi and
Kurdish forces, sources in Tehran say.
Iran has traditionally opposed US involvement in Iraq, an
Iranian ally.
However, Iran's foreign ministry officially denied it would
co-operate with the US against IS.
Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told Iran's Press TV
the report was not correct.
Tehran had been critical of the way Washington launched air
strikes on IS only after US interests came under threat, she
said.
A further indication that Iran may have approved
co-operation with the US comes from CNN's Christiane
Amanpour, who tweeted that Iraqi President Fuad Masum had
told her as much on Thursday.
Shia Iran sees the extremist Sunni IS group, which views
Shias as heretics, as a serious threat.
Last month US air strikes helped Iranian-backed Shia militia
and Kurdish forces break a two-month siege by Islamic State
of the Shia town of Amerli.
IS has taken over swathes of northern and western Iraq and
eastern Syria in recent months.
US forces began carrying out air strikes on IS positions in
August after they took over several cities in northern
Iraq.
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Analysis: Kasra Naji, BBC Persian
This new-found cooperation with US forces indicates a change
in Iran's policy in Iraq, albeit one borne out of
necessity.
In 2001, Iran cooperated with the US in Afghanistan by
arming and supporting the Northern Alliance which eventually
overthrew the Taliban government.
Now, there is a similar need to stop a threat, which Iran by
itself can only defeat by bringing in thousands of
troops.
Defeating Islamic State will remove the threat on Iran's
western borders and help stabilise Iran's two main allies in
the region, Iraq and Syria.
Iran can also avoid large numbers of boots on the ground, as
long as Iraqi Shia militias, loyal to Iran's Ayatollah
Khamenei, stand ready to take up the banner and fight.
Iran's change of heart will no doubt be welcomed in
Washington and London, where a joint strategy is taking
shape towards creating a broad alliance of international and
regional players to deal with the IS threat.
Sources say Ayatollah Khamenei has sanctioned Gen Qasem
Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force - an elite
overseas unit of the Revolutionary Guards - to work with
forces fighting IS, including the US.
Breaking News : Afghanistan
Taliban attack Afghan intelligence office [September 4]
Taliban insurgents detonated truck bombs and fired
rocket-propelled grenades outside the office of
Afghanistan's spy agency and a police compound in the
central town of Ghazni on Thursday, killing 18 people, the
provincial governor said.
More than 150 people were wounded in the attack, the biggest
in recent weeks, as Afghanistan's leadership grapples with a
political crisis and a security vacuum as most foreign
troops prepare to leave the country. (Reuters)
Breaking News: Syria: Heavy fighting. More than 200 people
killed in ONE day. #1
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September: 5:
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Assad regime's jets bombed Raqqa, the capital
of ISIS, killing 16 Islamic fighters who had come from
overseas.
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September: 4:
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Assad's bombed a town in Deir Ez-Zor province
trying to hit ISIS and killed 4 children, 3 women and a man.
People demonstrated against ISIS blaming it for the bombing
by Assad.
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September: 3 to 5 :
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In the provinces of Damascus, Quneitra,
Dera, Hama, Aleppo and Latakia, there were clashes between
Assad's forces, Shi'ite militias and Hizbullah on one side
and al-Nusra Front and various other groups on the other
side. Assad lost 37 troops in Aleppo province.
Civilian casualties occurred in various numbers as Assad's
jet planes bombed areas in opposition control. Damascus came
under fire and Assad jet fighters struck mujahideen
positions very close to Damascus to stop the Islamic
advance. Hizbullah re-captured a village on the outskirts of
Damascus.
Breaking News: Syria #2
Russian supplied Jet Shot down by IS.
IS militants vow to 'de-throne' Putin over Syria support
AFP
September 3, 2014 6:51 PM
Moscow (AFP) - Islamic State militants have issued a threat
to President Vladimir Putin, vowing to oust him and
"liberate" the volatile North Caucasus over his support of
the Syrian regime.
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The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia demanded that
access to the address, which was posted on YouTube on
Tuesday and features what jihadists say is a
Russian-supplied fighter jet, be blocked.
"This is a message to you, oh Vladimir Putin, these are the
jets that you have sent to Bashar, we will send them to you,
God willing, remember that," said one fighter in Arabic,
according to Russian-language captions provided in the
video.
"And we will liberate Chechnya and the entire Caucasus, God
willing," said the militant. "The Islamic State is and will
be and it is expanding God willing."
"Your throne has already teetered, it is under threat and
will fall when we come to you because Allah is truly on our
side," said the fighter. "We are already on our way God
willing."
In the same video, several fighters, some dressed in
traditional Muslim robes, threaten Syrian leader Bashar
al-Assad from atop the fighter jet.
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"This is Russian equipment," says a voice, speaking in
accented Russian, as the camera cuts to a close-up of the
plane's cabin.
The Prosecutor's Office said it requested that investigators
open a criminal probe into the video.
The Kremlin fought two wars with separatists in Chechnya
over the past 20 years. The unrest has since engulfed the
entire North Caucasus including Dagestan and Ingushetia
where attacks on authorities are a regular occurence.
The Kremlin, whose attention over past months has focused on
the Ukraine crisis, is one of the main backers of the Assad
regime, providing it with diplomatic and military support in
its fight against rebels.
The Islamic State, a Sunni extremist group, has gained
prominence in recent months, declaring an Islamic
"caliphate" in regions under its control in Iraq and
Syria.
The militants stirred a global outcry last month when they
beheaded US journalist James Foley. The fighters said on
Tuesday they had beheaded a second US journalist, Steven
Sotloff.
Breaking News:September 4. [BBC report]
Qaeda chief Zawahiri launches al-Qaeda in South Asia
Offers Support for Muslims in Kashmir, Bangladesh, Burma,
Gujarat and Assam.
India shows serious concern.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a videoed
message the creation of an Indian branch of his militant
group to "raise the flag of jihad" across South Asia.
In the 55-minute video posted online, Zawahiri pledged
renewed loyalty to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Correspondents say his stated allegiance is an apparent snub
to Islamic State (IS) militants.
IS is challenging al-Qaeda to lead worldwide Islamist
militancy.
Announcing the formation of "al-Qaeda in the Indian
Subcontinent" using a mixture of his native Arabic and Urdu
widely spoken in Pakistan, Zawahiri appeared eager to regain
some of the limelight, correspondents say.
"[Al-Qaeda] is an entity that was formed to promulgate the
call of the reviving imam, Sheikh Osama Bin Laden. May Allah
have mercy upon him," Zawahiri said.
He urged the "umma", or Muslim nation, to "wage jihad
against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its
sovereignty and to revive its caliphate".
Zawahiri said "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" would be
good news for Muslims in Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh and in
the Indian states of Assam, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir,
where they would be rescued from injustice and
oppression.
Analysis, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
Zawahiri (right) - photographed here with Osama Bin Laden in
2001 - is eager to carry on the policies of his
predecessor
It was always going to be a challenge for Osama Bin Laden's
successor to match his iconic status and maintain al-Qaeda
as the most powerful jihadist group in the world.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the nominal leader of al-Qaeda, is a
63-year-old former Egyptian eye surgeon said to be long on
words and short on charm.
For over a decade he has dodged drone strikes and hit squads
by hiding out in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But apart from issuing occasionally long-winded treatises
and videos, his critics say he has allowed al-Qaeda to
wither while Islamic State (IS) has grown into
A spokesperson for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) told the Associated Press news agency that the
statement was "a matter of serious concern".
"But there is nothing to worry about. We have a strong
government at the federal level," the spokesperson said.
Breaking News: Nigerian Air Force bombed its own troops.
Boko Haram overruns Nigerian town; scores killed
By Reuters
September 2.
The military has extended Maiduguri's nightly curfew to 7pm
until 6am — it previously started at 10pm — to fight
infiltration by insurgents, Nigerian defence headquarters
said. — File photo
MAIDUGURI: Boko Haram insurgents overran most of a
north-eastern Nigerian town on Tuesday after hours of
fighting that killed scores and displaced thousands of
residents, security sources said.
The Islamists launched an attack on the town of Bama, 70km
from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, on Monday.
They were initially repelled but came back in greater
numbers overnight, the sources and witnesses said.
Nigerian defence spokesman did not respond to a request for
comment.
The sources said there were heavy casualties on both sides
and one said at least 5,000 people fled the town.
In a bungled air strike, several Nigerian troops were killed
at the Bama armoury by a war plane targeting the insurgents,
a soldier on the ground said.
Two months after Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria
declared the area they seized as an Islamic 'caliphate',
Boko Haram has also for the first time explicitly laid claim
to territory it says it controls in parts of northeast
Nigeria.
They captured the remote hilly farming town of Gwoza, along
the Cameroon border, during fighting last month. The group's
leader Abubakar Shekau in a video declared it a "Muslim
territory" that would be ruled by Islamic law.
Mr Shekau's forces have killed thousands and displaced
hundreds of thousands since launching an uprising in 2009 to
revive a 'caliphate' in religiously mixed Nigeria. They are
the biggest security threat to Africa's top oil
producer.
"When we started hearing gunshots, everybody was confused.
There was firing from different directions. We just ran to
the outskirts of town," Bukar Auwalu, a trader who fled with
his wife, three children and brother, said by phone.
"There were military helicopters and a fighter jet. We slept
in the bush on the outskirts of town. We can't go back."
Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said 9,000 people fleeing
violence in Nigeria's northeast had arrived in Cameroon's
Far North region in the past 10 days.
"Even upon arrival in Cameroon, they are not necessarily out
of harm's way. On Sunday, insurgents attacked Kerawa town
inside Cameroon, forcing refugees and some local residents
to flee further inland," he said in a briefing note from
Geneva.
Another 2,000 had crossed into Niger, which is already
hosting some 50,000 refugees from fighting since May 2013.
Some 645,000 people are internally displaced in Nigeria, she
said.
Cameroon state radio said on Tuesday it had killed 40 Boko
Haram insurgents during an attempted incursion by the
militants the previous day.
Because of Bama's proximity to Maiduguri, a metropolis and
home to an army base, security officials are worried there
is now little to keep Boko Haram from gaining access to a
city that was also the birthplace of their movement.
The military has extended Maiduguri's nightly curfew to 7pm
until 6am — it previously started at 10pm — to fight
infiltration by insurgents, Nigerian defence headquarters
said.
The insurgents have also been in control of a small town
called Gamboru Ngala, on the shores of Lake Chad to the
north, which they seized in August which potentially opens
up two fronts for an attack on Maiduguri.
"Boko Haram is beginning to operate like a conventional
army, a major change from... before July, when it focused on
carrying out short-lived hit-and-run assaults," the Nigeria
Security Network's Andrew Noakes said in a report on
Tuesday.
"If Maiduguri falls, it will be a symbolic and strategic
victory unparalleled so far in the conflict."
Pakistan: [Islamabad under siege.]
20,000 Protestors Challenge the Government of Nawaz Sharif:
Imran Khan & Qadri in the Lead.
by Dr. Mehboob Khawaja [Canada]
The nation's capital is under siege for over two weeks.
People want political change and justice to their grievances
that is nowhere to be seen. The demonstrators are not hired
agitators but real people standing for hard core moral
principles and democratic values. Islamabad depicts chaos,
extreme insecurity and frightening trend of political
mismanagement and failed governance. PM Sharif was already
on a life support system of his own making. Now, the oxygen
tank is fast running out of the life maintaining system.
Nawaz Sharif has lost sense of direction and political
maturity to see the mirror and to resign from the powerhouse
gained by rigging the 2013 elections. Undoubtedly, Sharif
lives in a matrix of lies. He does not have the courage to
encounter a truthful statement. Informed Pakistani masses
can tell the difference between the truth and a lie. The
millions Freedom March to Islamabad is self-evident of this
public awareness. According to the DAWN news media report of
1st September, 3 political activists were killed and 450
demonstrators wounded by the police action. In a
knowledge-based 21st century age of reason and people's
rights, the people are met by brutal force to change their
thinking and motives for political change. A reality check
filters out the truth that Pakistan's democracy faces
formidable turbulent challenges even at its infancy without
moving forward. When elections were held in May 2013, it
signaled a glimpse of a proactive change-making impulse away
from the four military coups' previously consumed precious
time and opportunities to bulldoze the imperatives of
systematic political change to take roots on its own.
Conscientious new generations of educated and intelligent
Pakistanis look for hope and are desperate to evolve a
system of institutionalized political change to ensure
protection of human rights, freedom and dignity and respect
for law and justice and a sustainable future. Not so, the
traditional elite comprising of the old feudal lords and
most being the by-products of military coups are tantamount
to dispel any signs of freedom and human dignity out of the
box. At stake is the integrity of Pakistan and its future
under the old echelons of the few thugs and political
conspirators. Those who sabotaged the political change
process include the Bhuttos, Zardari, Sharif and few
infamous Generals producing the junk history. The so called
politicians have stolen few adhesive labels from the
contemporary history to claim political parties: The Muslim
League (N), The Muslim League (Q) The Muslim League ( H),
The PPP, The National Awami Party, The MQM and lot more.
Analyzing critically, these turn out to be just titles,
names and fake images carved out by individuals and small
vested interest groups who could not find a place in
people's thoughts and inspiration for the good of Pakistan.
Across the Pakistani public mind, they are no more than
transitory migrating birds that come to grab political
powers through intrigues and backdoor conspiracies and in
some case with foreign powers keen to make Pakistan a
satellite for their own strategic priorities. All rational
calculations point out to a new people's spirit and movement
demanding peaceful political manifestation for the good of
the country.
Pakistani nation faces many critical perils in its search
for a peaceful democratic future.
It is challenging to talk about the current perils that the
society faces with unknown serious implications for its
future-making, as often prevalent political wickedness will
try to silence the truth tellers to bring the real issues to
public mind and stance. Those who assume power via
intrigues, political corruption would not relinquish it
without a powerful jolt from the masses. Miss Bhutto, Nawaz
Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari were no angels or moral
political characters but essentially the by-products of most
corrupted illegitimate democratic system of governance in
Pakistan. It would be hard for historian to find a rationale
and justification for the time and opportunities these
individuals took to undermine the political future of
Pakistan. Enriched with egoistic political imagination of
their own, they dreamed of glory and triumph at the cost of
ruthlessness, corruption, degeneration and viciousness. The
present and future generations are captives of their
favorite perversions and political insanity.
No wonder, why Islamabad is under continuing siege by the
political activists - one group is led by the new generation
activist Imran Khan, the former captain of Pakistani cricket
team. The other by a religious scholar Dr. Tahir -ul -Qadri,
whose Lahore Minhaj ul-Quran Center was brutally attacked by
the police resulting in massacres of many peaceful
participants and wounding hundred of others for no obvious
reason. It is hard to imagine how rationality could overcome
insanity being perpetuated by the Sharif brethren at
provincial and national levels over the Pakistani nation.
None appear to signal the scenarios of peaceful
transformation of serious issues into workable solutions.
Lacking political imagination and legitimacy, Sharif
brethrens have used power to deal with sensitive issues of
public communication and result-oriented political dialogue.
Political failure and corruption allegations are nothing new
to the profile of Nawaz Sharif. He was twice dismissed as
Prime Minister on corruption charges. Do the Pakistani
electorates know the value of their vote at the ballot box
when and if they had opted for Sharif to be the next
political leader?
Vengeful and paranoid, Nawaz Sharif is eager to maintain the
Muslim League (N) powerhouse even though he is alleged to
have rigged the outcome of the 2013 national elections. Some
of his close party associates appear resentful of police
actions against the demonstrators. The news media reports
cite two members of the Pakistan Election Commission
confirming Imran Khan's allegations that last year elections
were rigged by Sharif. This is a critical problem in need of
legal discourse and justice. The endless political lies and
deceptions by the ruling elite have created a delusional
culture of governance in Islamabad. It is woeful how
publicly known thugs, crime riddled people have come to
facilitate political governance over almost half of a
century in Pakistan. They overwhelmingly dominate the
political thinking for elections, buy and sell people's
interests, support institutionalized system of corruption,
uneducated people lacking moral and intellectual values
assume power- the known political imperatives turned beliefs
into talking points and emotional crutches - making masses
stand firm against the odds of being fired at or getting
killed. Reports indicate that Sharif has brought-in special
police units from Punjab replacing the Islamabad security
apparatus to ensure swift action against the demonstrators.
This was the time and opportunity for REASON and political
dialogue and not for flying bullets, public beating and
crushing the will and spirit of the people for political
change. Pakistani politics tells clearly being a house of
liars and self-egomaniac people and Sharif is doomed
failure. The Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif has
cautioned the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resolve the
issues by peaceful means. It is hard to imagine that Nawaz
Sharif is a man of any principles to leave the office under
moral scrutiny or logical persuasion unless pushed out by
force.
Pakistan's enemies are within not elsewhere. Nawaz Sharif
(The Muslim League (N) is a stolen name and reference from
the Pakistan freedom movement and his associates are mostly
nameless and shapeless political characters. They enjoy life
on public time and money and depleting monetary resources.
Across the nation, trade and commerce are at a standstill.
Common people have been deprived of their livelihood by
massive public demonstrations and sitting-in at Islamabad.
Law and justice are terribly ruptured by the political
meddling of the few and their self-geared priorities.
Pakistan's freedom, integrity and economic lifelines are
being undermined by the ruling elite. They have no sense of
time and history how the future will happen in a logical and
peaceful manner of co-existence between the rulers and the
ruled. Pakistan's worst enemies are those who are unable to
listen to voices of reason and peaceful activism for change.
Even if Sharif calls the joint house of the parliaments,
ordinary people know well that Sharif must go. Democracy
without people is not a democracy but autocracy and absolute
authoritarianism in full swing shedding public blood and
destructions to maintain neo-colonial law and order. The use
of security forces and power against the people will not
resolve the problems - the absolute power, a draconian
strategy to dispel the notion of freedom. It is shameful for
a functional democracy if any and as harmful in short terms
as deadly and anti-freedom in long terms for the
sustainability of a free nation. The ruling elite and the
people live in a conflicting time zone being unable to
understand the meaning and essence of the Pakistan Freedom
Movement. Pakistan faces multiple chronic problems which
could undermine its future. What is the cure to the current
problems? There is no magic pill to deal with all critical
situations except a comprehensive new approach for 'Anew
Pakistan' originating out of the corrupt box to imagine
political change and institutionalized developmental future.
The masses have experienced tormenting pains and
hopelessness for too long. Nawaz Sharif is not a leader of
any vision, or proactive leadership traits. His political
past and present is a burden on the moral and intellectual
conscience of informed Pakistanis. Nawaz Sharif must go. The
allegations of election rigging must be investigated. It
will provide a logical breathing space for a planned and
workable remedy to a highly critical political crisis and
for a sustainable Change goal - if a new Government of
National Unity is formed under a non-partisan and non
political leader of moral and intellectual integrity for a
period of two years; a New Constitution is framed with new
public institutions under leadership of new generation
educated people and then a new election could give meaning
and clarity to the purpose of democracy and to transform the
ideals of a progressive legitimate functional democracy. In
"Pakistan: Anatomy of Turbulent 68th Independence Day" (The
Cyrano's Journal Today, USA: August 14, 2014), this author
offered the following plausible solution to the current
crisis and a foresight to safeguard the political future of
Pakistan:
All the monsters of history are to be found among the
absolute leaders exercising absolute power in disregard of
the interests of people. The milestones appear clear and the
message well articulated by the masses that Sharif must go.
He is not a leader with any rational political imagination
to envisage any plan for political change and
nation-building........Moral and intellectual corruption and
gangsterism is the order of Pakistani politics operated by
the few families. Sharif and his associates have stolen
millions to buy real estates in UK and elsewhere. So did
Asif ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto and Musharaf too. All enjoy
records of dismissal on corruption allegations and
charges..... The ideals of the Pakistan Freedom Movement
must be revisited and incorporated into the making of the
future. To undo the darkened past and reshape the turbulent
present, Pakistan desperately needs educated people of new
generation and ideas, equipped with visionary and proactive
ideals to rebuild public institutions and essential
political capacity to safeguard the national integrity,
survival and future as a Muslim Nation moving forward to
pursue progressive political change and social and economic
development infrastructures for the deprived people. The
nation is boxed in by most cruel, incompetent and
unproductive politicians. Its agriculture heartlands are
increasingly becoming barren, business is destroyed, trades,
commerce and social lifelines are ruined by the bogus War on
Terrorism, public trust is crippled and creativity for
change is crushed by ruthless authoritarian rulers. The
masses are fed up with daily sectarian killings and
political bloodbaths. None of the politicians seem to have
standing to regain societal trust and restore normalcy to
public law and order. Pakistan urgently needs a savior, not
Sharif or the few Generals. The solution must come from the
thinking people of the new educated generation - the
intelligent Pakistanis to facilitate hope and optimism for a
sustainable future of the beleaguered nation.
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