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Rabi' al-Thani 27, 1426/June 5, 2005 #44
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Muslim
Woman
in North Carolina Cries out for Help:
Husband refuses to recognize his
Islamic
marriage with her after impregnating her.
[Mr. McNally has assured
New Trend
that he has thoroughly researched the information provided here.
If Dr. Ibrahim Oudeh finds any of this incorrect, he is welcome
to write to New Trend and his letter will be published.]
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When is a marriage apparently not a marriage?
By Jim McNally
When is a marriage apparently not a marriage?
It's the kind of question brides shudder to think of,
religious leaders cry foul about, and the courts rarely
know how to answer.
But it is exactly this question that has wreaked havoc on the
life of H. K. and she wishes someone could sort it all out for her.
K. thought she had become Mrs. Ibrahim Oudeh on August 29, 2003.
Her friends gathered at the Masjid Ahlus Sunnah Mosque on
East Market street in Greensboro. She was outfitted in the
appropriate wedding attire. Her groom placed a ring on her
finger and the imam of the center, James Bass, decreed upon
them the titles of husband and wife.
But more importantly to K. than any of that was the fact that
all three of what Muslims call the Pillars of Marriage :
" freedom from obstacles; an offer of proposal;
an expression of acceptance " had been met.
K. and her betrothed had also satisfied the conditions of a
proper marriage contract, or what adherents of Islam refer to as a
nikaah.
The most important witness of K's marriage, therefore, was Allah.
None of that, however, amounted to legal marriage according to
the man K. still maintains she is married to.
That man, Dr. Ibrahim Oudeh, a physician and recent former mayor
of Dunn, North Carolina, in fact, became angry to the point of
indignation while answering questions regarding K's claim that
he was her husband and the father of the last of her seven children.
When asked whether or not he took part in an Islamic wedding
ceremony involving himself and K., Oudeh began screaming and
making threats.
"F**k the mosque, f**k Islam," said Oudeh, who then went on to
make similar remarks about the Muslim God, Allah, and the
faith's founder and most revered figure, Mohammed. Oudeh said
he was never married in a legally-binding ceremony, and that he
may not even be the father of K's one-year old son, despite the
fact that he is identified as such on the child's birth certificate
and that the boy has Oudeh's name.
This matter came to a head when K. learned recently that Oudeh
is engaged to another woman.
"It was shocking to me," said K, who is also a physician and who
was previously married to the father of her other six children.
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2 IMPORTANT ANNIVERSARIES:
by
Kaukab Siddique
The Passing Away of a great Spiritual Leader.
June 3, 1989. Imam Khomeini passed away. The leader of the
Islamic revolution in
Iran
changed the course of history in the Muslim world by bringing
about the overthrow of the bastion of
American
power.
Some of his greatest achievements:
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Transfer of power to the poor masses of Iran.
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Call for unity of Shias and Sunnis.
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Support for ALL Islamic movements.
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Distribution of oil income among Iranian workers,
bringing up wage levels for the poorest.
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Rejection of any recognition of Israel.
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Islam as the source of all law-making in Iran.
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Mass mobilization of Iranian women.
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Voting and democracy within Islam recognized as part of religion.
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Fatwa against Salman Rushdie after he wrote a book insulting
hazrat 'Ayesha, r.a. and the household of the Prophet, pbuh.
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Defeat of
Iraqi
invasion forces which were backed and funded
by the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Unfortunately, Iran today is far away from the concepts
articulated by Imam Khomeini. Most of the leadership cadres
of the Islamic revolution were decimated by U.S.-backed groups
of terrorists such as the MKO. The younger leadership which
emerged was more sectarian than Islamic. People like Rafsanjani
silenced revolutionaries like Montazeri and reversed some of the
steps forward in social change.
After Iraq was forced to retreat, the Iranians continued the war
and pushed into Iraq, losing thousands of lives in front of Basra.
The sectarian Iranian leadership refused to stop after the Iraqi
invaders had been pushed back. They called for the Shias of Iraq
to rise up, but the Shias were more nationalist than Islamic and
refused to budge.
The bitterness of the Iran-Iraq war has led to a narrowminded
Iranian foreign policy which coincides in some points with that
of the U.S. The Imam wanted Iranians to focus their opposition on
America. That focus has been lost.
The Iranian support for "elections" in Iraq [held under the shadow
of American tanks and helicopter gunships] and the recent visit by
the Iranian foreign minister to meet America's puppet rulers in
Baghdad show that hatred of Saddam has blinded Iran to the
realities of the world as it is today.
The Imam's support for Islam international was replaced by support
for the "northern alliance" in
Afghanistan,
for
Russia
in
Chechnia
and for
India
in
Kashmir.
Thus Iran no longer has an Islamic foreign policy. The Imam was
constantly plagued by U.S. attempts to infiltrate Iranian
leadership groups. Looks like it finally happened and Iranian
nationalism supplanted Islam.
However the masses of ordinary Iranians still love Imam Khomeini.
Hence there is potential for the re-emergence of Islamic power.
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Operation Blue Star:
When India's Army Desecrated the Golden Temple of the Sikhs in Amritsar
June 4 to 6, 1984 is the anniversary of the desecration of the
holiest temple of the Sikhs located in Amritsar, eastern Punjab.
The Sikhs wanted to secede from India and form their own
independent country called Khalistan. Led by a heroic leader
of legendary charisma, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwalle, the Sikhs
almost did it.
The Indian army squashed the Khalistan movement by going into
the holiest temple of the Sikhs. Thousands of men, women and
children were killed by the Indian army. The holy book of the
Sikhs, Guru Granth Sahib, was desecrated.
Thereafter, till today, India has maintained a reign of terror
in Punjab. As in their treatment of Muslims in Kashmir, Indian
forces killed several thousand Sikh activists and claimed they
had been killed in "armed encounters" with the Indian army. Tens
of thousands of Sikhs were arrested and tortured.
According to Sikh leaders in America, more than 52,000 Sikhs are
in Indian prisons even now.
[Following the desecration of the temple, Hindu India also moved
against Muslims and destroyed the historic Babari mosque which
was part of India's Muslim heritage. Thus the process developed
which New Trend calls the DESTRUCTION of the SACRED in our times.
Israel
destroyed 135 mosques in occupied
Palestine.
The Serbs destroyed dozens of beautiful historic mosques in Bosnia.
The U.S. has destroyed almost all the mosques in Fallujah.
The mosque of Imam Abu Hanifa as well as the mausoleum of
Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, both in Baghdad, were hit by U.S. artillery.]
[Finally, now we have the desecration of the
Qur'an
itself.]
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Response to THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX:
Something fishy in the Rwanda "genocide" story when the tiny
Tutsi minority, supposedly the victims, are in power.
Thank you for highlighting the truth about genocide in
neighboring Rwanda. Please let me add the following
outstanding observations: -
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The difference between Tutsi and Hutu is a class and ethnic one.
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Tutsi can simply be identified by the nose.
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Tutsi are superior to Hutu.
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Hutu are peasants and pastoralists
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Tutsi are non-Bantu and originated from
Ethiopia.
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Hutu originated from West
Africa.
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Tutsi are tall because of the protein-rich food they eat.
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Hutu are short because they eat less rich protein food.
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They have the same culture, speak the same language and live on
the same hills (prefectures).
These are two main tribes, which have different and conflicting
interests. Early European explorers and administrators came up
with the "Hamitic hypothesis": that the Batutsi were a superior
non-Bantu race who came from Ethiopia and conquered indigenous
agriculturalists (Bahutu) and forest dwellers (Batwa). They
were classified by the colonialists as separate races, one
"Hamitic" and superior and the other "Bantu" and inferior.
Belgian rule was harsh by any standards. Force was integral to
the process of exploitation: forced labour, forced cultivation
and forced afferestation.
Mahmoud Sserunjogi
Kampala, Uganda
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Playing with Words about the desecration of the Qur'an.
It was not "flushed down." It was thrown into the Toilet.
by New Trend's
media
monitor
The
Bush
admnistration is categorically denying that the Qur'an was
"flushed down the toilet" in Guantanamo Bay. Most analysts have
not noticed the steady repetition of these exact words: it was
"not flushed down the toilet."
The fact is that the original reports which came out from a
British Muslim prisoner and other prisoners did NOT say that
the Qur'an was "flushed down the toilet." As New Trend's report
indicated at that time, the charge was that it was THROWN INTO the toilet.
Have you ever tried to flush a book down a toilet, let alone
[God forbid] a book as thick as the Qur'an? It can't be done:
it's a physical impossibility.
These games with words are simply going to hurt the
Bush administration's cause in the Muslim world
[whatever is left of it] even more than the actual item in Newsweek.
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LATEST ADMISSION on Qur'an: URINATION, STOMPING. Also ACCUSING
THE MUSLIMS of DOING IT THEMSELVES!
from our
Media
Monitor
On June 3, the Bush administration came up with new admissions with
the claim that the situation is now well under control, so let's get
on with life.
A guard, we are told, urinated through an air hole on to a Muslim
inmate who was reading the Qur'an. The guard was later removed from
duty. Also, another guard stood on the Qur'an [by mistake?]
while others mishandled the Qur'an and still others made the
Book of Allah wet by throwing "water balloons" on it or into the cells.
The icing on the cake is the claim that the Muslim inmates
themselves desecrated the Qur'an, tore out its pages and even
flushed it down the toilet! It's difficult to understand what
the Bush administration hopes to gain by manufacturing these stories.
These latest claims seem to be aimed at sedating the American
public into thinking that nothing serious happened and in fact
the Muslim prisoners were worse than the Americans in desecrating
the Qur'an.
MSNBC complained that the government had deliberately put out
the new story AFTER 7 PM on Friday so that it would not get on
the prime time evening news which have the largest American
audience. MSNBC, which is a cable show, was able to pick it
up because it airs news at 8 PM. The rest got it on Saturday,
June 4, thus percolating it down slowly to the American people.
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