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Sha'ban 7, 1426/September 11, 2005 #70
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On this anniversary of September 11, 2001, we honor the
Muslims of America victimized by George Bush though they
had nothing to do with 9.11. Please scroll way down to an
outstanding Islamic woman's article on this theme titled GOING HOME
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Two thoughts on this day:
THE HORROR, the HORROR! Nearly two hundred Islamic prisoners
still being held in Guantanamo Bay cages after 4 years are
on hunger strike, indefinitely. Seventeen of them have
been admitted to hospital as they were near death. They are
protesting the inhumanity of the way they are being treated:
No charges, no date of release or of trial, constant
psychological warfare and denial of religious rights.
Here in these cages earlier the Qur'an was desecrated.
DOES BUSH HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR?
On September 10 President Bush personally called and
congratulated dictator Hosni Mubarak for bringing democracy to Egypt!
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WAR NEWS: Massacre in Tal Afar
IRAQ: September 10: Al -Jazeera and others are reporting that
U.S. forces have smashed the town of Tal Afar near the
Syrian border. The U.S. used armored vehicles to smash their
way into homes. Reports indicate 141 people killed 200 wounded.
The U.S. says all were "insurgents. Human rights observers
see this as another human rights catastrophe as
details become available.
[Puppet Shi'ite "prime minister" Ja'afari of Iraq, appointed
by Ali Sistani, reportedly "ordered" the U.S. troops to carry
out this attack. More than 7,000 U.S. troops plus 1500
Shi'ite and Kurdish mercenaries were used in the attack.
The United Nations remains silent about this gross violation
of international law and ignores American troops smashing
their way into a Muslim town.]
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PROTEST GENERAL MUSHARRAF's VISIT to the U.S.:
He does not represent Pakistan
New Trend's Pakistan correspondents say that on September 9, 2005
the Pakistani people carried out a historic GENERAL STRIKE across
the country to condemn and reject the regime and policies of
General Musharraf. Something like this has not been seen before.
The strike call was given by the entire political spectrum:
the Islamic Coalition, MMA, the secularist Peoples Party, and
the middle-of-the-ground Muslim League [Nawaz Sharif] which
gave Pakistan its last elected Prime Minister.
Thus Musharraf's visit to America, our writers say, is
illegitimate as he is definitely not a representative of
Pakistan. His plans to speak to pro-Israel Jewish groups,
such as AJC, show that he is an enemy of Pakistan and Islam.
Islamic women leaders in Pakistan point out the suffering of
women under his regime, including the very recent execution
of two women in the city of Sanghar. Earlier, a woman rape
victim, Mai Mukhtaran's attackers were not given the Islamic
penalty. An army officer involved in the alleged rape of
Dr. Shazia has gone "scot free" as they say here. On what
basis is Musharraf presenting himself as supporter of
women's rights, these observers ask.
The September 9 general strike was a referendum against
Musharraf, although his ministers are busy denying the
success of the strike. Syed Munawwar Hasan, Secretary General
of Jamaate Islami, told the media flat out: Musharraf is a
liar who lies and breaks his word on an ongoing and consistent basis.
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen News. P.O. Box 10881, Baltimore, MD 21234.{ 3 items.}
1."IMPEACH BUSH" RALLY in New York hit by Police
New York City - This past Sunday, 09/04/2005, there was a protest
at the Union Square Station (Manhattan) calling for President
Bush's impeachment. There were scenes of police dragging
unarmed protesters and cracking skulls. Bush needs to be
impeached. The strange thing is that all of the democratic
dissenters have unanimously voted to give Bush everything
he's asked for and more. I 've never believed the democrats' lies.
With regard to Hurricane Katrina being a punishment from Allah,
I always understood Allah's wrath to come in the Afterlife.
However, I found out that the state of Louisiana is a very
big supplier of goods to Israel. I found this out at the
AIPAC web site itself. It is a shame that all of these people
had to die because of the evil-doings of their politicians.
A Louisiana native said that people critical of Hurricane
Katrina victims for staying put did not understand that
people in Louisiana have been hit by dozens of hurricanes
and usually waited them out. This coincides with the
heartbreaking eye witness account of what really happened
after Hurricane Katrina left the state. A levy break led to
all of those deaths and rescuers were turned away!
This makes me so angry. I can understand why the
Ayatollah Khomeini referred to the American government
as the "Great Satan!"
Insha'Allah, I plan to distribute as many copies of this report as I can!
Salaam,
Sis. 'Aisha
May Allah Reward You for Your Efforts
2. Hispanic Victims of the Hurricane
Latest reports indicate thousands of people of Hispanic
origin also suffered at the hands of Katrina though this
has not been publicized. To reach out to Muslims of
Hispanic origin who might need help, we publish this note
in Spanish from Br. Solano Perez:
Muchos musulmanes norteamericanos estan atrapados en la
ciudad de New Orleans (Nuevo Real) en el Estado de Luisiana.
El huracan le destruyo las mesquitas y todo lo que tenian.
Necesitan su ayuda. si pueden ayudar por favor ponganse en
contacto con el Dr. Kaukab Siddique a
butshikan@msn.com
lo mas pronto posible.
3. Bogus Case Against Jose Padilla, but court rules he can be
held Indefinitely! From "Dirty Bomb" the charge against him
changed to "presence in Afghanistan!"
On September 9, 2005 the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in Richmond, Virginia ruled unanimously that the government
can hold Jose Padilla indefinitely WITHOUT TRIAL. As Padilla
is a U.S. citizen, a Hispanic who embraced Islam, this
ruling deals a deadly blow to the rights of all U.S. citizens.
A brilliant Hispanic woman, Jenny Martinez, has been fighting
to get Padilla his legal rights. At 33 she has reached a level
of legal ability and fame which few attorneys at her age do.
Here we present excerpts from her interview with the
San Francisco Chronicle of August 28 which provide evidence
of the bogus nature of this case:
Q: Is habeas corpus as intrinsic a right as there is? Are
there levels of protection or levels of negotiation? Are
some rights more intrinsic to us than others?
A: Habeas corpus is so important it's one of the only
individual rights that the founding fathers included
in the Constitution itself, rather than in the amendments.
So as you know, the original Constitution was passed first,
and then the Bill of Rights was passed a few years later.
Habeas corpus isn't an amendment. It was so important
that the framers put it in Article 1 of the Constitution
itself. So, it is one of the most important rights and
has been recognized as such since the 1600s when in fighting
against the tyranny of the British monarchy it was
established in English law that there was a right to habeas corpus.
Q: You became involved in this case during the two-year
period during which Mr. Padilla was held without being
allowed to meet with his counsel?
A: Correct.
Q: But since joining his team you've been able to meet with him?
A: I have.
Q: How has he seemed?
A: I think you can imagine that anyone held in solitary
for that long -- it's going to have a harmful effect on
their mental state.
Q: What is the prosecution's reason for holding him?
A: They really keep switching their story. First it was the
"dirty bomb," then they backed off that and said no, it was
some plot involving natural gas and apartment buildings.
Now they're emphasizing neither of those things and saying
that it's because he was in Afghanistan at some point. And
that's the basis for holding him. So, they really do keep
changing their story. It highlights the unreliability of
whatever evidence that came through torture that they're
relying on. Which is why we need to have a trial. They
need to come forward and actually produce some concrete
proof, and then we can decide.
Q: Did torture play a role in his case?
A: According to New York Times reports -- and we cite this in
one of our briefs -- some of the people who allegedly
produced evidence under interrogation against him were
being "water-boarded," which means being held underwater
and being made to think they were going to drown at the
time that they gave information about him. Of course, the
government never told us that, but if you read the
New York Times it says so. But I have no idea.
Q: But if you're being held underwater are you likely to
tell the truth or whatever you think your captors want to hear?
A: Yes, that's precisely the problem. Our own military's
interrogation manuals have long recognized the things
that people say while being tortured are notoriously unreliable.
Q: And the latest rationale for his detention is that
he's visited Afghanistan?
A: They claim that he was in Afghanistan carrying a rifle,
after the U.S. invasion. And that that is a sufficient
basis upon which to hold him. That's the latest story.
Q: Is it possible that bringing Padilla to trial might
reveal secret information that could compromise the war on terror?
A: We have a Classified Information Protection Act that
allows the government to protect classified information
in criminal trials. And the convictions of other terror
suspects in recent months show that it's possible to
protect classified sources and put people on trial.
And a federal judge recently convicted some defendants
accused of providing support for terrorism, and the
judge said the case proves that our criminal justice
system works in these cases, that we don't need to
hold people without trial and throw our Constitution out the window.
Q: What has being defense counsel for the infamous
"dirty bomber" meant for your career?
A: It's taken quite a lot of time. I mean I can't believe
we're still fighting about this. The second circuit ruled
in our favor years ago. The Supreme Court remanded it on a
technical issue to a different court. The district court in
South Carolina ruled in our favor in February and said he
had to be charged with a crime. It's now August. They say
justice delayed is justice denied, and I think that's true in this case.
Mr. Padilla has now been held for more than three years
without charge. It's hard for him to understand why the
case is taking so long to work its way to resolution. And
it's hard for us to understand that as well: Why the
government, this far down the road, is persisting in
not charging him with a crime. Even if when they initially
detained him they didn't have enough evidence, you would
think that in the intervening three years they would have
been able to accumulate enough evidence to charge him
with something. If what they say is true, then he's
committed any number of crimes.
Q: I understand some of your team has gotten some threatening letters.
A: I've gotten a little bit of hate mail, but to be honest
I've gotten far more e-mail and letters that are supportive,
that say, "This is wrong, they shouldn't be doing this to
an American citizen, this is not the American way." I
would say the number of favorable comments have
outweighed the number of unfavorable by 20 to 1.
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Answering the Jewish Claims Against Dr. Siddique
Editor
Daily Local News
250 N. Bradford Ave.,
West Chester, PA 19382
Subject: Michael Crist's report titled "Muslim professor draws ire" Aug.28.
Dear Editor
At Lincoln University, where I have taught English, Journalism
and World Literature for 20 years, I steadily try to get
students to look at things "in context" and to look at both
sides of an issue. I have always believed that discussion,
debate, communication can lead to understanding and peace.
If the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Anti-Defamation League,
Rabbi Eric Rosin of Kesher Israel in West Chester and other
supporters of Israel had any corrections to make in my
writings, they could have simply written to my Internet
magazine New Trend. We give the right of reply to opponents
unlike publications controlled by Zionist interests. The
only civilized way to differ with opponents is through
persuasion, argument and evidence.
Instead these Jewish groups approached my employers,
Lincoln University, and tried to get them to violate my
First Amendment rights although Lincoln has nothing to do
with my web site. Such tactics speak of bankruptcy of
intellectual ability and a sense of arrogant power which
amounts to saying "how dare you criticize us."
It is true that Jews suffered tremendously in World War II
as did many others, including millions of German civilians
who suffered after Hitler's fall simply because they were
Germans. We can blame Hitler for much that happened, but
we also need to critique our ally Stalin to whom we handed
over all of Eastern Europe in our desire to defeat Hitler.
Hitler did persecute the Jews but did he order their
total destruction as a people and that too through the
orrors of "gas chambers" in Auschwitz and other camps?
There is no order from Hitler available to carry out any
such ultimate crime. If the Simon Wiesenthal Center can
provide any evidence of such an order from Hitler, I will
be quite happy to publish it.
Few Americans know that Auschwitz is in Poland, not Germany.
The camp was captured by the Soviets in January 1945 but the
Communists, allies of the Jews, did not begin the story of
"gas chambers" and other horrors in Auschwitz till after the
overthrow of Hitler in May 1945.
The war ended 60 years back. Today's problem is the occupation
of Palestine by Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian
people, an entire nation uprooted from its homes and forced
to live in squalid refugee camps. The U.S. gives billions of
dollars to Israel, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine
is supported by the majority of American Jews. Within that
context, discussion of the themes used by American Jews to
elicit sympathy and dollars for Israel is natural for people
who think. This has nothing to do with anti-semitism.
I noticed with amusement that you asked the Council on
American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] to comment on my writings.
It's like asking O'Reilly to comment on Malcolm X. CAIR is
not an Islamic group. It's a public relations organization
which tries to spread the propaganda of the Bush administration
among America's Muslims and received funds from Saudi Arabia.
My writings about the culture, religion and politics of Islam
are internationally known and acclaimed. The CAIR lady you
talked to is unknown even in the mosques of Philadelphia
where my writings have reached thousands of people.
My point is simply this: Humanity is one family: If we bomb
the people of Afghanistan and Iraq and keep supporting
Israel in its murder of hundreds of Palestinian children,
and then complain if Muslims carry out or attempt to carry out
attacks in western cities, we will never have peace.
Our blind support for Israel, making parasites out of
settlers living on stolen land, while our cities in America
decay and our homeless grow in numbers, calls for criticism
and review of American policies.
I once again invite Rabbi Rosin, as well as Jewish thought
control groups, to come up with evidence for their claims.
They won't be able to stop me from writing truthfully
because I follow not only Moses but also Jesus and Muhammad
[may God bless them all].
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
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What Stops Americans from Knowing the Realities of Islam:
A Specific Example.
by Bashir Syed
I wish PBS had put the transcripts of this program
on the web like other programs. But, anyway as I
understand PBS will telcast it again on Sunday,
September 11, 2005, and I encourage others to watch this
program and send you their feedback.I am an expert in
short hand but I manage to jot down important aspects
being projected by the is program.
Let me first go over the cast of particpants and their peculiarities:
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Thomas Friedman (TF), B. A. Brandies University, and M.A. Oxford,
New York Times, Foreign Affairs Columnist, with Pro-Israel Bias.
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Dr. Bernard Lewis, Professor, Princeton University, Orientalist,
author of "Roots of Muslim Rage," and more than twenty books
related to Islam (his books project a skewed Orientalist
image of Islam, not approved by real Islamic scholars of
Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt, or even a non-Muslim like
late Prof. Edward Said of Columbia University, because of
his personal biases ).
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Fawaz A. Gerges, London School of Economics & D.Phil (Cambridge),
Prof. Sara Lawrence College (although he hails from Middle East,
he gained TV visibility after 9/11 on PBS, and his views about
Muslims are skewed being a non-Muslim).
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Saad-EDDin Ibrahim, Prof. of Political Sociology, American Univ
at Cairo, Egypt, is a Human Rights activist who spent three
years in jail for speaking against Husni Mubarak.
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islamic Center of New Mexico, founder
of ASMA, and author of "What's Right With Islam: A new Vision
for Muslims & The West."
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Farid Zakaria, Editor NewsWeek International, an Americanized-Indian,
Republican, and former member CFR.(Secularist)
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Irshad Manji, Member of Ismail Sect, A Muslim Refusenik,
Author of The Trouble With Islam, an out-of-the-closet Lesbian.
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Kenan Makiya, Fellow at Havard University's Center for
Middle-east Studies, author of "Republic of Fear, and
"Cruelty and Silence, an Iraqi political activist.
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Michael Doran, Assistant Professor at Princeton University,
and Member of CFR New York, anti-Saudi, and anti -Wahabi
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Roya Baranmoud, a Secular Iranian woman of unknown background.
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Another Iranian woman, whose name was not displayed, an
unknown but secular woman.
The Program was slanted and disjointed to convey incoherent
thoughts. Muslim men and women with the exception of one
(Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf) were either secular or opponents
of Islamic way of life. Thus the program did not serve any
useful purpose other than leaving the viewers in a confused
state of mind, with anti-Islamic slant blaming Islam for
hostility towards West based on imagined extremist and
inaccurate understanding of Islamic teachings.
In my personal opinion it did not serve the purpose for
which this was planned.
The program, was funded by Smith Richard Foundation,
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, and others.
It was produced by KUNHARDT production with WETA--TV.
Bashir A. Syed is a retired Aerospace Physicist
and Member: APS, AAPT, IEEE, UCS, ASES, ISES, and
New York Academy of Sciences, and a Fulbright Scholar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Connie Hassan" chassan@weta.com
To: "Bashir A. Syed" bsyed@worldnet.att.net
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Road to 9/11 - Program
Dear Mr. Syed:
Thank you for taking the time to share your views and concerns with WETA.
I will send your comments on to the producers of the program for review.
Connie Hassan
Audience Services Coordinator
WETA TV 26 * 90.9FM
2775 S. Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22206
chassan@weta.com
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LETTER:
Reader thought we Were Referring to New Orleans
[Re: Why Allah sent Katrina?]
Dear Siddique,
I must say I was distressed re your article, "What drew
Allah's wrath in the form of Katrina?" explaining it as
partially New Orleans' acceptance of adultery, gambling,
homosexuality . . . I can understand that sexual diseases
might result from this, but not a flood.
I think there were very scientific reasons for this flood.
The Corps of Engineers built dams upstream of the
Mississippi, and even altered its course in some instances.
I don't understand the environmental issues completely,
but not allowing nature to take its course is the basis of the problem.
Why would Allah want to inflict his wrath on mostly
poor and black people?
If, hopefully, this incident somehow contributes to the
shortening of the war in Iraq, that would be something
good coming out of it. Otherwise, we are all going to
suffer for it in one way or the other.
Best wishes,
Doris R.
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Ed Note: We have received several such letters. Please go back
and re-read the article. It was referring to the destruction
of the entertainment industry in Mississippi and Alabama as
well as the military installations there. By contrast,
New Orleans suffered owing to human incompetence
and institutional racism.
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The Qur'an's Hijrah Concept which we forgot
GOING HOME:
U.S. Muslims Who Never Wronged America Were Humiliated,
their Religion Put in the Dirt.
by Anisa Abd el Fattah
Muslims living in the West might remember how we used to
criticize the "backhomians." These were the Muslims who had
immigrated to the West from the Muslim World, mostly to work
and to send money back home, or to get an education, yet
never hoped, or even wanted to stay. It was always their
desire, and their fervent hope to return home. Remember
their dreams? They could talk about a dirt road and a
single community telephone that everyone shared at the
post office, and bring tears to your eyes. They made us
all nostalgic for simpler times, simpler challenges, and
most of all, a feeling of family and home. They made us
dream of Muslim communities in Muslim countries where
we fit in, and where no one dared to call the prophet
Muhammad "a terrorist" or to call Islam a "terrorist organization."
They made us dream of places where you can hear the adhan
called to remind you to pray, and where celebrations like
the Eid ul Fitr brought families together over good food,
and everyone gets new clothes, new shoes, sweets, and prayers.
They made us forget about the brutal politics, the disappearances,
the poor economies, and the third world status of the Muslim
countries, perhaps attempting to remind us that life is a trade-off.
We used to laugh at them, yet today we miss them. Maybe we
should all become backhomians. Maybe the test was to go there,
or to stay, and take up the struggle for reform. Maybe the
test was to choose between here and there. Or maybe the test
is to return, and to restore the Muslim world, rather than
to be here like beggars, begging for fair treatment, begging for rights,
begging for justice, from a people who love no one, not even themselves.
Their justice is for sale, but only to people who look like them,
and pray like them, and hate like them, and kill innocents, like
them. People who walk in lockstep to the mantra of "more money"
and who worship that Golden Calf.
Reading and listening to the latest theories on Muslim terrorism,
assimilation and multiculturalism will turn you into a backhomian,
especially if you live in the US. The Muslim community in the US
is one of the most highly educated and financially affluent
communities in the United States. Among Muslims the crime rate
is near zero. Divorce, runaway children, drug abuse, unwed
parenting and many of the other societal plagues that are so
prevalent in the greater society, have touched our families
only slightly. We recognize that any experience with these
misfortunes is serious, and no one wishes them upon anyone,
even upon the people who hate Islam and Muslims.
The point is that Muslims have been good for the United States,
and we are, according to the statistics, better citizens than
most, yet we are being subjected to a type of public humiliation
here in the United States that is better suited for another
type of people. It should be very interesting to historians
that Muslims did not come to the US and create gangs, or
organized crime. We did not bring prostitution, and sell your
children drugs. We did not create gambling, and contract
killing, and fear and intimidation rackets that corrupted
your major institutions. We came and simply said, "There is
only One God," and set off a firestorm of hate, envy and
resentment that found justification in the World Trade
Center bombing, and the attacks of 9/11.
The hijrah or migration of the prophets and their communities
is a common theme in religious history and literature. It seems
to be a part of the Divine methodology that each era is
distinguished by a mass migration of believing people from
a place where they are hated, and persecuted for their
profession of belief in the One God. Noah migrated, Abraham
migrated, and Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and all of the other
prophets of monotheism migrated, even if not to very far
away places. In these instances of migration, their treasure
that enriched and empowered the societies that accepted them
and gave them asylum was of course their skills, but most of
all, it was their faith, and their prayers.
All of the societies that the faithful abandoned ultimately failed.
It may be time for Muslims in the West to rethink the choices
we have made. Perhaps it's time for us to plan our own hijrah.
Somewhere in the world there is a society that will give
sanctuary to 8 million well educated and affluent, law
abiding people who believe in One God, and desire only
to worship Him, in peace.
I ask forgiveness from the backhomians. Perhaps if we had
listened to them more closely, we would have understood that
they were warning us of a price to be paid that would be too
high. They were warning us of a high price, for something of
so little value when it is compared to peace, and the freedom
to worship God, and to live, as we believe, and the hope of
salvation on the Day of Judgement. It is of so little value
when compared to our children's right to live in societies
where they are free to be who they are, and who they want
to be. The backhomians were reminding us perhaps of God's
warning to be careful not sell the eternal home, for
temporary status and wealth that leads to hellfire, because
hell is the ultimate self imposed injustice for people of
potential and faith, and who have choice.
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Anisa Abd el Fattah is the Founder and Chairwoman of the
National Association of Muslim American Women. She has
participated in Muslim community work for the better part
of the last twenty years serving the community and variuos
Muslim organizations in different capacities. She also served
as the Executive Director for the Center for Public Policy
Research, and as editor of the Middle East Affairs Journal.
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