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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
A dress indicating wealth, power, wastefulness,
frivolity is condemned by
Islam, which is the religion of the oppressed,
the poor and the downtrodden. Look
at how the Saudi rulers dress today. Their robes
show that they are the
people of hellfire:
"On judgement day, Allah Almighty will not even
look at a person who makes
his clothes hang to the ground in opulent
arrogance." (Prophet Muhammad,
Hadith,
Sahih of
Bukhari
and Muslim)
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IMPORTANT NEWS for May 29 and 30:
IN
IRAQ,
5
U.S.
troops have been killed and 9
wounded in a week by Fidayeen
organized by Saddam Hussain. It appears that a
U.S. helicopter was shot down.
Looks like resistance is continuing in Iraq. The
U.S. has announced that an
Iraqi civil administration under U.S. control has
been put off indefinitely. It
appears that support for President Saddam Hussain
is much wider than what the
U.S. had anticipated.
A British paper has published a photo of a
British soldier torturing Iraqis.
[The British press is much freer than the U.S.]
In IRAN, under pressure from Rumsfeld, the
Iranian foreign minister,
Kharrazi, came out openly against al-Qaida and
the Taliban. He claimed that Al-Qaida
and Taliban HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM and were
"perverts" and "fanatics." He
was addressing the so-called Organization of the
Islamic Conference in
Tehran. His views were then reiterated by
President Khatami. The OIC represents all
the corrupt rulers of the Muslim world. In its
final statement, the OIC tried
to placate Washington by putting the
"war on terrorism"
as its first priority.
It also made feeble criticism of America's
"unilateralism" but dared not even
mention the U.S. by name.
In
KASHMIR,
the
Indian
army's major offensive has
FIZZLED OUT. The
mujahideen
successfully evaded the thrust of the attack.
Mujahideen sources have denied
the Indian reports that the Indian army killed
100 or more mujahideen. These
sources say, the Indian army killed 65 civilians
and only 4 mujahideen.
In GEORGIA, USA,
Imam Jamil al-Amin
is being kept
under 23 hour lock down. HE
IS BEING DENIED VISITS by JOURNALISTS and his
attorneys. Even his wife, Sis.
Karima, is having a hard time visiting him. In
turn, a civil suit has been
filed against the Imam by the family of the
policeman killed in the alleged
shootout. The government is out to destroy
African-American and Islamic leadership
as epitomized in Imam Jamil. [Information
provided by Imam Khalil
Abdur-Rahman, North Carolina.]
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PAKISTANI
JIHAD LEADER urges Pakistanis to be
vigilant.
May 16: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Ameer of Jamaat
ad-Da'wa , warned
Pakistanis that America has begun its process to
"solve" the Kashmir issue according to
its will. Pakistan should be aware of the
U.S.-Indian moves. He chided
Pakistani rulers for issuing statements praising
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) during
Rabi' al-Awwal when they themselves are in
prostration before America. Hafiz (one
who has memorized the whole
Qur'an)
Saeed said:
Jihad will continue: none can
stop it and the mujahideen are not under the
orders of any government. He
called on Pakistanis to be aware that if
conspiracies against Kashmir succeed,
Pakistan itself could be in grave danger, because
the defense of Pakistan is
going on in Kashmir.
Hafiz Saeed was giving the Juma'
Khutba
at
Jami Masjid al-Qadisia in
Lahore to a large congregation of worshipers.
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from India
DALIT VOICE
publicizes 'The Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion'
DALIT VOICE (fortnightly) with its famous editor
V.T. Rajshekar is a must
read for people interested in the struggle of the
Black people of INDIA. Dalit
Voice radiates the power of truth and is bound to
change the thinking of those
who read it.
Rajshekar is a disciple of the Indian
philosopher Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar. In dealing with the false concepts of
brahminism,
zionism
and
imperialism,
Rajshekhar is like a hot knife cutting through
butter.
Dalit Voice, though critical of rich and
corrupt Muslim leaders, is
doing solid, scholarly work to bring Dalits and
Muslims closer to each other.
In the latest issue, June 1-15, 2003, there
is an article in which Dr.
Ambedkar quotes from Hindu holy book Rig Veda to
show that the idea that
Hindus never ate cows is false. Hence the cow is
not sacred.
For sample copy, send $2 [$75 for a year] to:
Dalit Voice, 109/7th Cross, Palace Lower
Orchards, Bangalore 560 003, India
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The strange world of Islam (or 'hislam') in
America
Siraj Wahhaj:
ISNA's
Man Claims he is Leader of
African-American Muslims!
Attempt to Side-Step Leadership of Imam Jamil
al-Amin
Siraj Helped
Jewish
Judge Convict
Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman
New Trend has received a magazine titled
Grassroots published under the
patronage of Siraj Wahhaj who has formed a new
organization called MANA
(Muslim Alliance in North America). The
publication, with Siraj Wahhaj's picture in
multicolor on the cover raises a number of
questions:
1. Siraj Wahhaj, imam of a mosque in New York, is
one of the stars of ISNA
(Islamic Society of North America). ISNA happens
to have a track record of
support for the U.S. government. It has always,
without fail, gone along with even
the most atrocious anti-Islam policies of White
House, under both Clinton and
Bush.
Siraj has always been loyal to ISNA's
anti-Islam policies. He went to
the bloodthirsty Congress of the United States to
bless it with his Islamic
prayers before the Congress declared its support
for Gulf War I.
As New Trend quoted once before, Siraj stated
loudly, in public, that
"ISNA is on the Sunnah path." (Astaghfirullah!)
At the 2002 ISNA Convention in
Washington DC, which was publicized by the
Zionist
media
as an example of how
happy Muslims are in America, ISNA OPENED ITSELF
TO RECRUITMENT BY THE FBI.
Siraj Wahhaj and his MANA friends went along with
the ISNA decision with no public
protest.
In his own publication, Grassroots, dated
Spring 2003, Siraj declares
clearly: "I am still on the Shura of ISNA. I will
still be working officially
with ISNA ..." (p.3)
[NAFS or self-worship is one of Siraj's key
problems. In this issue of
Grassroots, his own publication, his photo is
published on PAGE 1 (smiling and
gesturing), PAGE 3, (speaking in serious mood),
PAGE 4 (smiling broadly with three
associates), PAGE 6 (shaking hands with Imam W.D.
Muhammad), PAGE 7
(charismatic picture placed between the minarets
of a mosque).
2. Siraj Wahhaj's paper provides a flimsy excuse
for the emergence of this
"new leadership." It claims that the purpose is
to serve the needs of
"indigenous" Muslims. What more can Siraj Wahhaj
do what Imam W. D. Muhammad and
Minister Farrakhan are not already doing for
"indigenous" Muslims? It's indeed a poor
excuse. In any case, an organization meant for
ONE RACE's needs certainly
cannot be called an Islamic organization based on
the Qur'an and the Sunnah. It
is a racial organization of which many already
exist.
[The "leadership" listed in the paper also
indicates that it is an ALL MALE
group.]
Readers might wonder why New Trend is
concerned about Siraj Wahhaj. He
has the right to set up an organization, however
one sided it might be, and
after all it's not our task to notice every group
which takes the name of Islam
in a false way, hiding its racial orientation
behind an Islamic label. There
are two reasons for our taking notice:
A. The Imam of America, Jamil Abdullah al-Amin is
in a U.S. prison. For Siraj
Wahhaj to come up and claim leadership of the
Muslims while Imam Jamil is
suffering daily torment in prison is truly
shameful. This is certainly not the
time to go into the game of "leadership." Siraj
should have been sitting outside
the prison where the Imam is being held and
protesting. He should have been
taking risks and putting himself on the line
confronting the power structure
which is holding the Imam. Is Siraj Wahhaj
thinking that Imam Jamil's
imprisonment has created an opportunity for him
to become "leader?" It's not an absurd
question about a man who has his photo on 5 pages
in a 20 page paper.
SIRAJ WAHHAJ's ROLE IN THE IMPRISONMENT OF SHAIKH
OMAR 'ABDEL RAHMAN:
B. Grassroots implies on page 12 that Shaikh
Omar 'Abdel Rahman was a
"terrorist." It defends Siraj from being
associated with the Shaikh. Readers
might remember that at the time of the Shaikh's
arrest 172 Muslims from the New
York, New Jersey area were put on a list by the
U.S. attorney as "unindicted
co-conspirators." Among them was Siraj. No one
ever bothered him him but Siraj
has been scared stiff ever since. So much so that
the incident is included in
Grassroots in a misleading article titled: "The
Assault on Imam Siraj."
There never has been any such "assault"
other than a few stupid
comments by Daniel Pipes.
What Grassroots leaves out is Siraj's role
in the CONVICTION and
SENTENCING of one of the greatest Islamic
scholars of our times, Dr. Omar 'Abdel
Rahman.
During the trial, Siraj Wahhaj was called
by the Muslim side as a
defense witness. He claimed first that he hardly
knew anything about the Shaikh and
then he SHOCKED the DEFENSE (whose witness he
was) by claiming that the
Shaikh supported bank robberies! The Defense
attorney quickly let Siraj go but the
damage had been done.
Michael Mukasey, the Zionist Jew who was the
judge in Shaikh Omar's
case, duly noticed Siraj's statement, and when he
announced the Shaikh's sentence,
he included SPECIFICALLY the point Siraj had made
as very significant coming
from a defense witness.
[New Trend has the transcript of Siraj Wahhaj's
statement in court and can
send photocopies to interested readers.]
MUSLIMS BEWARE! ISNA is branching out into
African-American communities
through Siraj Wahhaj and his friends.
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