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IMAM JAMIL PHOTO:
We have received an interesting
photo of
Imam Jamil al-Amin
when he led a procession in New York to support
the Muslims of Bosnia. Most
of his face is visible. The photo will be posted
on our web site in a few
days. The Imam of America always cared for
Muslims overseas. Muslims must
unite in his defense.
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STRANGE PAKISTANI NEWS: The Chief Of
Pakistan's
air force and a whole group
of other officers were killed when their plane
crashed near the
Afghan
frontier. According to the Pakistani government,
it was an accident.
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Israel's
America:
Muslim Professor, Sami
al-Arian, Arrested as Terrorist!
Bush
Supporter Did Not Realize that the
Zionists
had Taken Over
Ashcroft Strikes Blow at
Palestine:
Zakat
(Islamic charity) becomes
"racketeering"
[At the initiative of Imam Badi Ali, Greensboro,
North Carolina, JUSTICE FOR
SAMI AL-ARIAN Committee is being set up. Broad
support from all groups
interested in justice is being solicited. Write
to: badi323@aol.com.]
An American university professor is
arrested from his home in
Tampa, Florida and led away in manacles like a
criminal. Sami Al-Arian puts
on a brave face at this humilation as his family
watches in horror. That is
Israel's America where anyone can be arrested at
any time and branded as a
terrorist, labeled as a man of death and
destruction on the mass
media
and led away to solitary confinement.
In the afternoon of February 20, 2003,
America's top "justice" officer,
attorney general Ashcroft came on TV from
coast-to-coast and told millions of
Americans that Prof. Al-Arian is the leader of a
terrorist organization
called Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Read Ashcroft's statement: It's all about
Israel. Islamic Jihad did this
to Israel and did that to Israel, and as Al-Arian
is allegedly part of that
organization, then he must be tried for being a
terrorism organizer and
sentenced to life in prison! His associates too
have been arrested or will be
arrested.
Even in Ashcroft's hate laden words, Prof.
Al-Arian has done NOTHING
AGAINST AMERICA. Whatever he has done was against
Israel. MOST AMERICAN
MUSLIMS ARE ASKING: ARE WE LIVING IN AMERICA OR
IS THIS ISRAEL? The reality
is sinking in that the Zionists have taken over.
The life, goods and honor of
anyone opposed to Israel are now facing open
season with the Zionist hand
coming out of the sleeve of Ashcroft.
A new line of oppression was crossed on
February 20. ACADEMIC FREEDOM
and university tenure is no longer a protection
against a burgeoning police
state.
ZAKAT IS A FORM OF RACKETEERING! As it came
out in the case of Enam
Arnout, Ashcroft's people place charges of
"racketeering" on Muslims who want
to help the people of their countries if in any
way the Zakat (charity) helps
Islamic resistance or brings healing to the lives
of widows and orphans
resulting from the occupation of Palestine by the
Zionists (or from the
occupation of
Chechnia
by the Russians, as in the
case of Arnaut).
MEDIA BARRAGE FOLLOWS ASHCROFT'S CHARGES: Hardly
had the words of accusation
and hate left Ashcroft's mouth, the mass media,
controlled by the Zionists,
rushed in to condemn Prof. Al-Arian.
MSNBC
had Steve Emerson gloating over
the fate of the Muslim professor. At night
CNN
brought out the father of a
man killed in a Palestinian attack in occupied
Palestine, as if Prof.
Al-Arian had been convicted in the death of his
son!
WHAT CAN BE DONE: The Muslims of America face a
clear choice. They can either
be the slaves of a Zionist-controlled America,
shut their mouths, kiss Bush's
hand and forget about Islam except as a ritual of
prayer (not unlike the
churches where people sing all day about Jesus,
pbuh) without saying a word
about the takeover of America by the Zionist
Jews.
Or they can stand up for the truth, organize,
mobilize, reach out to the
people of America, and prepare to go to prison.
Future generations of Muslims
will either be inspired by what we do today as
dignified human beings, or
Islam will be a mere story, enshrined as a
minority religion in licensed
mosques.
A major change can be made IF MUSLIMS BREAK
OUT OF THE ORGANIZATIONS
which are supporting the government. People like
the
ISNA-types
(Muzammil
Siddiqui, etc) who had an FBI stall in their last
convention, and Imam Warith
Deen Muhammad, need to clarify their position. Do
they believe in the
Qur'an
and the authentic teachings of the Prophet
(pbuh)? If so, and we hope that
they do, then why the silence about the tyranny
of Bush?
Why this silence, as Sis. Karen English asked?
Remember that Prof. Al-Arian
supported the movement to vote for Bush. Nothing
will come of such
kow-towing. The Zionists have taken over and the
MUSLIMS MUST STAND UP and
defy tyranny. Do not wait for people to be picked
up one at a time.
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Warith Deen Muhammad's bewildering Silence on
atrocities against Muslims
[The editor of Imam W.D. Muhammad's paper,
"Muslim Journal," Sis. Ayesha,
blasted Br. Kaukab Siddique for writing a poem
about her Imam. She called Br.
Kaukab names like "Abu Lahab." Actually the
powerful poem was written by Sis.
Karen English. Here is Sis. Karen English's reply
to Sis. Ayesha.]
[More letters to follow.]
Dear Sr. Ayesha:
The purpose of this letter is to clear up a
misunderstanding. I am the
author of the poem written to Imam Warith Deen
Mohammed, not
Brother Kaukab Siddique.
I wrote that poem because of profound
sadness and dismay
concerning his most bewildering silence about the
growing war on Islam and
all the wrongs currently being committed against
Muslims.
I cannot compartmentalize myself and think
because I'm
African
American,
these things have nothing to do with me. I
cannot think that I am not that
grandmother who goes out to buy an
Eid
gift and
is gunned down or the little
girl who's shot in her window. I am every Muslim
who bows down to Allah
beseeching Him for succour. I am the Muslim who
has to live under apartheid
in Palestine (a system kept in place by our tax
dollars). Sister, have a
heart. You would want someone to speak out for
you. We shouldn't be so
arrogant and smug that we don't take attacks on
Islam ---in this country and
in the world---personally.
My poem was inspired by frustration and pain. I
could quote
hadith
and
verses from the Qur'an that support my sentiments
but I'm sure you know them,
already.
If you feel the need to blast someone, blast me,
the author of the poem.
"and give me no respite! Behold, I have placed my
trust in Allah who is my
Sustainer and your Sustainer, too, for there is
no living creature which He
does not hold by its forelock." 11:55-56
Your sister-in-Islam,
Karen English
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BARRED MUSLIM CHAPLAIN TO ADDRESS MEDIA
Warith Deen Umar, the retired New York State
Department of Corrections
Chaplain who was recently barred from entry to
state prisons, and fired from
his job as a Muslim Chaplain in the federal
prison system, will address the
media on issues surrounding the controversial
statements attributed to him in
a recent edition of the
Wall Street Journal.
Umar was the focus of a February 5, 2003 article
entitled How a Muslim
Chaplain Spread Extremism to an Inmate Flock, by
WSJ staff reporter Paul
Barrett. The debarred chaplain was quoted as
saying amongst other things,
that the
(Sept. 11th)
hijackers should be
honored as
martyrs,
The Quran does
not condemn terrorism against oppressors of
Muslims, even if innocent people
die, and that African American prisoners who
convert to Islam are natural
candidates for terrorism attacks.
Umar has declared of the reports that they were
wrong, false, a
misrepresentation of the truth, and a patchwork
of lies, half-truths, twisted
facts, and mis-quotes.
He has retained a lawyer, and will announce legal
action to be taken in
response to his disbarment from correctional
facilities. Further, he will
address various statements attributed to him, and
state forthrightly his
condemnation of the Sept. 11th attacks, in quote
from an unpublished book
written by him, which he claims to have given to
reporter Barrett.
Umar claims that the WSJ writer and editors took
license in using statements
out of context from that book, mis-quoted him in
a way so as to cast a
menacing image of Islam.
Monday February 24, 2003
PLACE: THE MANHATTAN MASJID
12 WARREN STREET (BETWEEN BROADWAY & CHURCH ST.)
MANHATTAN
TIME: 10 A.M.
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