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Jamada al-thani 15, 1426/July 21, 2005 #55
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen News
[2 items]
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 21234
ONE SIDED STATEMENTS ON LONDON
Dr. Gamal Badawi, a long time loyalist of ISNA, a well known
pro-government Muslim organization, is rallying
Canadian
imams to issue statements supporting a one-sided position on the
London bombings of 7/7, ignoring the tragedies of
Palestine,
Iraq
and
Afghanistan.
Badawi is on the Board of CAIR's branch in Canada. BADAWI has
NO ISLAMIC COMPETENCE to issue statements on serious issues. In
the next
New Trend,
inshallah, we will provide evidence of Dr. Badawi's incompetence.
People who are known for their establishment views have no business
issuing statements in the name of
Islam.
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NEW LONDON "ATTACKS" COULD BE MOSSAD/BLAIR OPERATION:
According to
Imam Badi Ali,
leader of Muslims in North Carolina, the "incidents" in London
on July 21 seem to have the hallmarks of a Mossad operation
seemingly carried out with the cooperation of British intelligence.
Imam Ali says that all four of the attacks were duds and soon
after Tony Blair came on TV to give a bland statement about the
"incidents."
Looks like the British government is desperately looking for
excuses to deport Muslim preachers and to carry out fascist
control activities against Muslim congregations. This was very
different from 7/7 and only the Mossad/British could have carried
out this obvious scare attack which killed no one, Imam Ali concluded.
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REMEMBER:
ISRAEL
is the KEY TO THE WORLDWIDE CONFLICT: Wolfowitz is one of its men.
On July 15, Israel used its air force to attack unarmed Islamic
resistance men in Gaza. Observers see this as an act of cowardice
typical of the
Zionist
Jews who continue to occupy Palestine owing to support from the
U.S., UK, Australia and International Jewry. ISRAEL IS BEING
FORCED TO WITHDRAW FROM GAZA owing to the Islamic resistance.
Don't be fooled by the
media
hype.
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Sign of our Times
India's
Manmohan Singh Embraced by
Bush.
Fears Removal of Musharraf & Islamic Takeover.
It was an eerie sight earlier this week as the two biggest
occupiers of our time met and embraced in Washington. While
Bush is holding down Iraq, Afganistan and Palestine [thru Sharon],
most Americans don't know that India's Manmohan Singh has 700,000
occupation forces in the Muslim land of
Kashmir.
The two sealed a 10-year defense pact and placed "terrorism"
[a cover word for Islam] at the top of their agenda.
Later in an inteview with CNN, Manmohan Singh expressed his support
for Musharraf and his fear that if Musharraf is removed, power
would fall into the hands of the Islamic forces making
Pakistan
into a great danger.
[NEW TREND AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Loyal New Trend readers might
remember that more than two years back, and then again a year back,
New Trend's analysis was that India and USA are workng together
and using Musharraf to carry out their anti-Islam agenda.]
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KASHMIRIS RELEASE STATISTICS ON INDIAN ATROCITIES IN OCCUPIED KASHMIR:
On the arrival of India's leader in the U.S., the Hurriyet Conference,
a coalition grouping which opposes the Indian occupation of Kashmir
by peaceful means, released the following statistics for Indian
atrocities during the first 6 months of this year:
930 Kashmiri civilians killed by Indian forces, 852 injured.
Of those killed, 25 were tortured to death in Indian detention centers.
586 arrested and held without trial or show of cause.
63 homes demolished by Indian troops.
EIGHT Kashmiri women raped by Indian troops.
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Breaking news from Islamabad, Pakistan
Musharraf's Forces Attack Muslim Women's Medressa:
50 Young Women Hospitalized
July 21: General Musharraf's police forces acting on orders from
British Prime Minister Blair raided a number of mosques in the
capital city, Islamabad, and arrested leading preachers and
Islamic scholars who have been speaking against Bush and Blair.
The biggest attack by Busharraf's forces was on Islamabad's
biggest women's Islamic school [medressa] known as Jamia Hafsa
[after the daughter of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, r.a.].
Before breaking in, the police fired teargas shells into the school.
They tore the veil off the faces of some of the young women who
came out and manhandled others, breaking the leg of one and the
arm of another. More than 50 young women have been hospitalized.
The Islamic coalition, MMA, called for protest rallies on Friday.
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SEE MORE ON PAKISTAN BELOW
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War News by our
Media
Monitor [with brief analysis]
IRAQ: Is it a Shia-Sunni War?
During the 19 days of July 2005 for which the U.S. has listed
losses, 27 U.S. troops were killed in action in Iraq. Number
of wounded was not given. U.S. TV did not cover any of this
fighting. Three British troops were also killed as well as a
couple of Poles and Italians.
U.S. media have tried to convey the impression that the
Islamic resistance is targeting Shias and that a Shia-Sunni
war is developing in Iraq. Analysis of the U.S. media's
reports, however, shows that the targets have been only
Shias who support the U.S. as well as Sunnis and Kurds
who support the U.S. This fact was brought home on July 19
when the resistance killed two Sunnis who had joined the
U.S. sponsored writing of a "constitution" for the puppet
government in Baghdad.
Reports indicate that commandos from the Shi'a community trained in
Iran
are carrying out targeted killing and torture against Sunnis
aimed at bringing about the Shia-Sunni war reported by the U.S.
TV outlets. Baltimore's Sun paper published, on its inside pages,
a photo of Sunnis protesting after the Iran-trained
commandos suffocated ten people to death by putting them
into storage bins.
Islamic leader Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi is evidently
directing a steady stream of
martyrdom
operators at the "state structure" of quisling Iraqis being set
up by the U.S. Some of these bombers miss their targets and
hit civilians. Most horrifyingly, U.S. media heavily publicized
the case of the bomber who was so keen to kill U.S. troops
distributing candy to a crowd that he attacked anyway, killed
a U.S. trooper, wounded several U.S. troops but also killed a
number of civilians, including 7 children.
The Iraqi response to this horror came out a few days later.
The Iraqis say that that U.S. troops should not distribute candy
in a war zone and they see it as a way of using children as
human shields.
The U.S. claims to have killed 150 "insurgents" in and around
Baghdad and captured 130 in 14 days but there is no way to
verify whether they were innocent civilians or fighters.
Most observers agree that the Islamic forces are now ascendant
in Iraq. The U.S. is relying on Ali Sistani and pro-Iran groups
to create a semblance of "Free Iraq." Iran is working
hand-in-glove with the U.S. These efforts are being nullified
by the influence of Moqtada al-Sadr.
While Ali Sistani, who hailed the elections organized under
U.S. military cover, has gone to the extent of calling attacks
on pro-U.S. forces as "genocidal war," Al-Sadr's view is different.
Al-Sadr put it quite differently in these words:
"The occupation itself is a problem. Iraq not being independent
is the problem. And the other problems stem from that -
from sectarianism to civil war, the entire American presence
causes this." [The Baltimore Sun: July 19]
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PAKISTAN [From our Pakistan Observer]
BRITISH AGENTS DIRECT RAIDS against ISLAMIC SCHOOLS: DOZENS ARRESTED
The U.S. and British governments ordered General Musharraf to go
after Islamic schools when the determination was made that
Tanweer and other alleged bombers in the London attacks had
allegedly studied in or visited Islamic schools in Pakistan.
The raids began on July 16 in Lahore and were continuing on July 20.
Musharraf's regime claims that the raids are being carried out
by Pakistani special forces but Pakistani Urdu language newspapers
have eyewitnesses that British officers were directing the raids.
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Musharraf's Troops Carry out Mini-Massacre
July 18. According to Pakistani news reports verified
independently, General Musharraf's troops killed 10 Muslim
children, 5 women and 2 men in an attack south of Miran Shah
in North Waziristan [Frontier Province] bordering Afghanistan.
These reports indicate that Pakistani troops surrounded two mini
vans and opened fire killing the 17 passengers. The only survivors
were two women and a child who were wounded and whom the
Pakistanis arrested.
The victims were all Muslim refugees from Kazakhstan.
The Musharraf government considers all such refugees as "foreigners"
and members of Al-Qaida.
Almost the entire U.S. media ignored this massacre of 17 people,
mostly children and women. A few papers did report it but only
published the propaganda version put out by General Musharraf's
publicity officer General Shaukat who claimed that Pakistan had
killed "17 militants" and had lost one soldier in the "clash."
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ARREST OF TALIBAN LEADERS was a "Mis-report."
On July 18, Musharraf's regime announced that 5 Taliban leaders
had been arrested in raids in and near Peshawar and that one
of the refugees was Mullah Omar's deputy. On July 19, it turned
out that the report was false and those arrested were ordinary people.
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Islamic Leader Wounded, Son murdered in Karachi
[From our Karachi reporter.]
On July 17, Maulana Ahmad Madani, the organizer of a large
Islamic school called Jamia Mahmudiah, was gunned down by
assassins along with his 24 year old son Abdur Rasheed. He
survived but his son passed away.
Hundreds of demonstrators came out into the streets to protest.
There are reports that MQM, a group of gangsters in the pay of
the Musharraf regime, was behind the attack.
[Altaf Husain, the leader of MQM, known for his terroristic
activities against Islamic opponents, lives under British
protection in London, England.]
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MUSHARRAF MOVES TO GAG ISLAMIC Newspapers, CONFISCATES HUGE NUMBERS
OF BOOKS
In response to Tony Blair's claim that Islamic publications are
spreading the ideas of Jihad among Pakistanis, Musharraf struck
hard on July 19 and 20. In Rawalpindi, a Jihad paper, Al-Qalam,
was closed down. In Karachi, the regime sealed the offices of 4
pro-Jihad newspapers, Zarbe Momin, Friday Special, Wujood and Zarbe Islam.
During the police raids [directed by British agents] Musharraf's
men damaged the newspaper offices and beat up journalists. People
are gradually coming out to protest these attacks.
In raids on Islamic schools in four cities in Punjab and other
parts of Pakistan, the Musharraf shock troops, heavily armed,
confiscated hundreds of thousands of Islamic books.
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New Trend comment: These attempts to suppress the ideas of Islam
and Jihad show that Musharraf and Blair have lost the battle of ideas.
These ideas are now too widespread to be censored.
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AFGHANISTAN [by our media monitor]
17 Civilians, Mostly Women, Children Killed in U.S. Air Attack
New Trend takes our readers back to the downing of U.S. Chinook
helicopter by the Taliban following the helicopter's attempt to
bring reinforcements to a U.S. Special Forces recce unit.
In response to the successful Taliban attacks, the U.S. air force
bombed the entire area of Kunar province where the Taliban had hit.
The Taliban escaped but the U.S. air force struck a house in the
village of Chachal killing a large number of civilians.
The Karzai-appointed "Governor" of Kunar felt that he must speak
otherwise his being an agent of America would be too clear. He
claimed that "only" 17 civilians were killed in the U.S. attack.
Karzai himself showed "disapproval" of the attack.
The U.S. first said it had to hit the "compound" because Al-Qaida
was in it regardless of civilians but later said it was "sorry"
and would investigate.
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U.S. Admits Setback as Taliban Mount New Attacks:
The U.S. is sending another 800 elite troops to Afghanistan
in tacit admission of the fact that the existing force of 18,000
U.S. troops is unable to defeat the Taliban.
In an astonishing development, 4 ARAB MUSLIMS [al-Qaida], escaped
from the main U.S.-Karzai prison at Bagram outside Kabul which is
notorious for its torture of prisoners. This is the first escape
in the history of Bagram and indicates that Taliban special forces
are infiltrating near to Kabul itself.
In Paktia province, Taliban used a mine to blow up a Karzai army
truck, killing 5 troops and 3 Afghan agents working for
U.S. intelligence.
In Khost province [district Ghani Khel] the Taliban managed to
plant a mine just before a U.S. Special Forces unit passed,
killing an American soldier and a Karzai soldier and wounding 4.
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KASHMIR: INDIAN TROOPS SUFFER BLOW
After three straight weeks of atrocities by Indian troops against
civilians in occupied Kashmir, things changed on July 20. MSNBC
reported that an Indian army truck was blown up in an area of
Srinagar which is supposed to be safe for Hindus and Indian generals.
India admitted that 5 Indian troops were killed and 15 wounded in
the attack.
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July 20.
Russia
media admitted that in a mujahidin attack in the district of
Namanskof, 40 miles from Grozny, 12 Russian police officers were killed.'
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Letter
Advice About London Bombing: If You didn't Do it, Don't Apologize!
bismillāh al-rahmān al-rahīm
In responding to the bombings of 7/7, we, being the people of
faith (imān), must ensure that our words and actions are guided
by the sources of our faith. Otherwise, we will be possessing
merely the name 'Muslim' but not 'being' Muslim. In this short
article, I put forth a few guided responses.
I begin by recalling a story in which the Messenger of Allāh peace
be upon him came upon two young men debating about destiny (qadar).
Each time one of them cited a verse, the other responded with
another verse to prove his point. The face of the Prophet peace be
upon him changed when he saw this and he became angered, "Is it
this you were sent to do?? Establish what you have been commanded
and avoid what you have been prohibited."
Let us now look at some of the commands Allāh has ordained upon us
that relate to the bombings and ask, 'Are we acting upon them?'
Firstly, Allāh says, "If a profligate comes to you with news,
investigate it, lest you do harm to people without knowledge, then
you will wake up one day and regret it." I never saw evidence that
these young Asian boys committed the bombings. Have you? It is my
right to say that I find it hard to believe a suicide bomber so
intent on Paradise would spend his last night playing cricket.
I have not heard that any Muslims were given a professional
investigative report based on hard facts. Yet some people simply
tag along, judging other Muslims based on tabloid headlines. These
are the same tabloids that report to you which celebrity is
sleeping with which. Is this your source of information!?
Subhān Allāh, if one of us tells another, 'The sunna is this.'
We respond, 'What is your evidence (dalīl)?' But when the white
establishment says something, we believe it because of our
inferiority complex. It is our legal right to have our own
opinion. How reassuring it is to know that if a lie is reported
about me, a good portion of Muslims will believe it. Fear Allāh.
In the Afterlife, He may ask you to present the basis of that
judgment. I do not say defend Muslims at all costs. The bombing
was wrong, but I say make judgments that are based on facts.
A second issue : Allāh says, "Act, for Allāh will see your actions."
I advise brothers and sisters to limit their behavior to actions
that have practical results. Talking about opinions and philosophies
and conspiracies are tempting, however, do not overdo it. Most
talking is useless "except whoever commands to good, or charity,
or reconciling between people." Limit your speech to this. Are
you commanded to find out who did what? I only fear that this
takes over our time and energy. Moreover, I am not commanded
to determine who did the bombing. Every time an incident as
this occurs, we are robbed of our time and energy by the
question "who did it." Instead, look at what you are commanded
to do about it.
Here is one: "Be patient and exhort to patience and be firm." Now
is a time when many Muslims are made to feel horrible for who they
are. We should then exhort one another to patience. This life is
so brief; anyone of us may leave it tomorrow and finally be
finished with the stress and propaganda that burdens us. We
should especially focus our attention on the youth and children.
If you are in your twenties, know that teenagers look up to you
even if your peers do not. If you are a teenager, know that children
look up to you. So reach out to them and organize activities for
them, distracting and relieving them of the feelings they have
but cannot express. Hold meetings with them in which they can
state how they feel and give them hope in Allāh's rewards for
patience and endurance. Our medicine is to constantly remember:
the future is bright---because it is in Allāh's Hands.
Also, contemplate the words, "be firm." If we reflected upon how
handsome and good our Prophet was peace be upon him, our pride
would be intact. However, we have weakened a little bit in this
regard and some of us have become ashamed to be Muslim. You do
not need to apologize for the bombings, since you did not do it.
As comedian Preacher Moss said, "If you didn't do it, act like
you didn't do it." Most of us do not apologize for the things we
did do, so why all of a sudden, do we get like this? We all fall
into inconsistency sometimes; it is okay, but only as long as we
are trying to get out of it. Nor do you have to condemn them more
than once. Anyway, your condemnation will not bring the victims
back to life, so it is not worth much.
Let us do as the Prophet did, peace be upon him. They called him
mad, possessed, and divisive, but he did not go around saying, "I
am not mad! I am innocent! Forgive me for receiving the revelation!"
Instead, he continued calling people to Allāh; that was his job. Let
us be like him. Whatever your job is in life, stick to it and do
not be distracted.
wa salla allāhū alā sayyidina muhammadin
wal-hamdūlillāhi rabb al-ālamīn.
Shadee Elmasry
Assistant Lecturer
University of London
[Ph.D Candidate]
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