Rabi' al-Awwal 21, 1425/ May 12, 2004 #57
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QUOTABLE QUOTE:
"We risk losing support for this war unless we quickly " deal with the
issue of abuse of prisoners in
Iraq.
[Senator McCain, May 7, 2004]
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From Br. Khalil Abdur-Rahman, North Carolina, International Representative
of
Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin.
YOU CAN HELP IMPROVE THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN.
Write polite but firm letters to:
Warden Hugh Smith
Georgia State Prison
2164 Hwy 147
Reidsville, GA 39499-9701
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BR. KHALIL ADDS:
It appears from a
CNN
report that the prison torture-and-abuse specialists
used by the
U.S.
in Iraq have been taken there after practise in the U.S. prison system.
They first did it to prisoners here and then were used in Iraq.
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WAR NEWS: [Based on U.S.
media
reports]
After more than a month of almost daily raids, murders, demolitions,
carried out by
Israeli
tank columns, the masses finally got good news.
On May 11, the Islamic resistance
blew up an Israeli armored vehicle
killing 6 Israeli troops.
IRAQ:
May 11: A U.S. convoy was attacked in the western desert,
while travelling from Jordan to Baghdad. All 21 vehicles were destroyed.
No figures on casualties are available.
May 11. In KERBALA, U.S. forces destroyed a MOSQUE and 4 other buildings
while fighting Moqtada al-Sadr's militia. At least 15 people killed.
May 11. U.S.
media
are showing pictures of an American contractor said to have been decapitated
by his captors said to be Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi and his militia.
[The killers in the video are hooded. The actual killing is not shown.]
May 10: The U.S. used jet fighters to bomb Sayyid Al-Sadr's offices in
Baghdad. At least 35 people are freported killed
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In about one month, a U.S. strike force operating in southern Afghanistan
has not been able to find any Taliban. The intiative seems to be in the
hands of the Taliban who are carrying out classic guerrilla warfare.
One Taliban attack gained publicity when they killed a famous U.S. football
player who had joined the Rangers.
On May 8, the newly arrived Marines were ambushed by the Taliban and lost
one killed and one wounded.
Earlier, May 6, the Taliban killed 10 Aghan troops working for the U.S.
The Taliban also claimed to have killed 5 U.S. troops but the U.S.
media
did not mention this.
On May 7, the Taliban killed two BRITISH contractors and their translator
in the eastern province of Nooristan
Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader has issued a statement urging the people to
unite against the Americans.
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May 7: The news came out that Ghazi Shahabuddin, operational commander of
Hizbul Mujahideen, died under torture while in
Indian
army custody on May 6. There was a COMPLETE STRIKE in Occupied Kashmir to
protest the murder. In the capital, Srinagar, thousands of people came out
after Juma' prayers to protest the Indian atrocity.
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KARACHI,
PAKISTAN:
SECTARIAN MURDERS
[From Pakistani Observer]
On May 7, a sectarian crime was committed aganst the Shia community:
It was a bomb attack on a mosque which killed 14 people.
The atrocity has been condemned categorically by all segments of Islamic
thought. The Jihad movement as well as Jamaate Islami have expressed an
urgent need to stop such crimes.
In previous years India was seen as playing the Shia-Sunni card to divide
Pakistanis. Now India and Pakistan are working together. An effort needs
to made to figure out where this intense hatred among Muslims is coming from.
Shias and Sunnis have differed for centuries but this kind of violence is
relatively new and has a tragic dimension.
New Trend
invites readers who might have specific insider information on this issue
to share it with us. Here are a few thoughts on this issue:
PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT'S ROLE:
The Musharref regime is closely allied to the U.S. Musharref has helped to
arrest 600 Islamic refugees suspected of Al-Qaida and Taliban links and
handed them over to the U.S. For some strange reason, the Musharref regime
is unable to trace and arrest those behind these bomb attacks on mosques.
NO ONE IS ARRESTED EVEN FOR ATTACKS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AMONG HUNDREDS OF
WITNESSES. This strange situation creates the impression that Musharref
permits these attacks to take place.
Musharref's regime has a SPECIAL INTEREST in creating the impression that
Islamists are fanatical, crazy and full of hate. These attacks are a great
help to him.
Musharref's intelligence forces, working with the FBI, have the ability to
identify closed-minded fanatics who would like to attack Shias. Once they
are identified and seem to be ready to attack, they are given full freedom
to attack.
BACKGROUND PROBLEMS:
The attacks on Shias indicate the existence of groups who consider the
Shias to be not only non-Muslims but enemies of
Islam.
This issue needs to be studied so that efforts can be made to improve the
situation.
IRAN'S
BLUNDERS HAVE HURT THE SHIAS: Shias are a small, 10 to 15% , segment of
Pakistani society, but are relatively affluent and well-placed in business,
the professions, the armed forces, the police and the bureaucracy. In Iran,
after Imam Khomeini became weak of health, the newly emerging lower level
clerics tried to use neighboring Pakistan's Shias as a pressure group to
gain support for Iran.
A big effort was made by Iran to DISTRIBUTE Shia literature in Pakistan
which attacked the holiest personalities of mainstream Islam. Then Iran
went further and started funding and arming Shia groups which grew bold
enough to attack and kill Sunni opponents.
In Pakistan, ISLAM is the bedrock of society and it is a SERIOUS BLUNDER to
attack and abuse the SAHABA (companions of the Prophet, pbuh). Shia
literature also attacked 'Ayesha Siddiqa, r.a., the Mother of the Believers.
For Pakistani Muslims, such attacks are less acceptable than abuse aimed at
one's own mother and father. Such abuse helped to spread the idea that
perhaps Shias are not Muslims and are enemies of Islam.
SPILLOVER OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN:
In Afghanistan, the Taliban movement had been opposed by Iran which provided
weaponry to the small Afghan Shia community known as the Hazarajat. The
bloodletting began with the Shia [Hazara] massacre of the Taliban in
Mazar-e-Sharif. [That was when the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan.]
Later, when the Americans invaded Afghanistan, the Hazaras armed by Iran
were part of the Northern Alliance. [Iran was among the first to recognize
the Karzai regime.]
Musharraf too has been using Hazara Shias to hunt the Taliban and to
mistreat them in his prisons. So there is a blood line in Afghanistan which
has resulted from the conflict there. It is not really sectarian because at
one time the Taliban and the Shias were allies.
A scientific effort needs to be made to study these issues so that sanity
may be restored in Pakistan. Condemnation itself is not enough.
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WASHINGTON, DC ACTIVIST Ms. Luci Murphy RECOMMENDS NEW TREND's REPORT ON
IMAM Jamil, IRAQI PRISONERS,
etc. [She wrote this note when she sent New Trend's report to her friends.]
Kaukab Siddique
is a very interesting Muslim scholar who teaches at Lincoln University.
Originally from Pakistan, he has embraced most of the revolutionary causes
including gender equity. I met him through his daughter Nadrat who was
involved with one of the Nicaragua solidarity groups in DC years ago.
She later went into debt to support prison solidarity work for the blind
sheikh mentioned in the article below.
Imam Jamil is good ole H. Rap Brown.
Luci
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature....
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
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POLITICAL PRISONER HAMMAD's FATHER WRITES
Dear Brother:
Reference your article dated May 8, 2004. With your permission I would
like to use your term "Virginia Innocents" from time to time. It is right
on the money in describing my son Hammad and the other Muslim Brothers
who are locked down in the Alexandria Detention Center.
King Lyon
(Father of Hammad Abdur-Raheem)
as-Salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah, wa-barakatuh!
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Perspective
The MYTHOLOGY and METHODOLOGY of Anti-SEMITISM
THE LEFT and the RIGHT are BOTH Anti-SEMITIC!
by our media monitor
Kenneth Timmerman was on
C-SPAN
late May 9, early May 10. Standing next to him as master of ceremonies was
Daniel Pipes, special adviser to President
Bush.
Timmerman has written a book about the plight of the Jews in our times!
Our Pakistani and other overseas readers might have a problem understanding
how the Jews in America use the fear of anti-semitism to gain support for
Israel and the war against Iraq and the Muslim world.
MYTHOLOGY
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According to Timmerman [and others like Derschowitz, Emerson, and the
ADL
group], many people hate Jews because they are Jews. They say this is a
form of racism, like that of the KKK for Black people.
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Like Hitler, anti-semitics are racists who want to hurt Jews.
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Why do "they" hate Jews? Because "they" are anti-semitic! [Circular
argument but if you don't accept it, you might be accused of anti-semitism
too.]
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Hitler killed SIX million Jews. [How do we know that is true? If you raise
that question, you may well be accused of anti-semitism. The "correct"
answer is: because the Jews say so.]
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Hitler taught that ALL Jews should be killed. [And you dare not ask for
proof or ask why, otherwise you might lose your job.] Also, to gain Black
support, we must say that Hitler was the worst enemy of
Africans.
[Here we dare not say that ALL Africa was enslaved by the BRITISH, the
FRENCH, the ITALIANS, the BELGIANS and the SPANISH. There was only ONE
German colony. Which Africans did Hitler enslave? I am about to lose my job,
so I better stop.]
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If anyone opposes the Jews, there is grave and imminent danger that one
might start behaving like Hitler.
METHODOLOGY
Timmerman's methdology is interesting in that it manipulates information to
create a sense of threat. A Muslim group in Washington is following a
similar methodology. Hopefully this report will help Muslims to stay away
from following in the footsteps of the Jews.
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Timmerman collects EVERY incident which seems to be against Jews and makes
it part of a seeming pattern to create the impression that people hate the
Jewish race.
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For instance, if a stupid teenager draws a swastika on a Jewish synagogue,
it will go into Timmerman's list to "prove" the looming danger of
anti-semitism.
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The
Arabs
oppose Israel: Israel is full of
Jews,
so the Arabs must be anti-semitic and they hate Jews because they are Jews!
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FRANCE PLAYS A LARGE PART in Timmerman's proof of "anti-semitism ascendant."
In France, there is a LARGE North African [Arab, Muslim] population.
Owing to Israeli repression in Palestine, there have been incidents against
Jews in France. Timmerman claims that a synagogue was actually set on fire.
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[Timmerman does NOT tell his audience that ISRAEL HAS DESTROYED HUNDREDS OF
MOSQUES IN PALESTINE, of which New Trend received documentation of 130
destroyed mosques.]
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After the alleged fire at the synagogue in France, PRESIDENT CHIRAC did not
turn up to condole. That's the proof, says, Timmerman, that CHIRAC is
ANTI-SEMITIC! [Vandalism of places of worship is commonplace in European
countries and the USA. In fact, dozens of Black churches in the U.S. were
set afire and the President never turned up to condole.]
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WHY IS THE LEFT TURNING AGAINST ISRAEL? For Timmerman, there is a simple
explanation: THE LEFT TOO HAS BECOME ANTI-SEMITIC! That may be why Jewish
leaders, like Sharon, are being criticized in anti-war demonstrations !
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Even the
New York Times
is becoming anti-semitic. It sometimes publishes reports of Israeli atrocities.
[Actually, the NYT is a staunchly pro-Israeli paper. However, Israeli
atrocities happen almost EVERY DAY and the NYT, for the sake of its own
credibility, has to publish, however cautiously, at least some of the news
of Israeli attacks.]
I would like to give some good advice to Timmerman and to his friend,
Islam hater Daniel Pipes, which my sociology professor once gave me:
ALL BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED BEHAVIOR. No one is inherently against Jews,
who lived peacefully as a tiny minority in Palestine under Muslim rule
for hundreds of hears. ISRAEL took PALESTINE by FORCE. What was taken
by force, will be re-taken by force. There is no hatred of Jews involved.
At one time the
Crusaders
took Palestine and held it for a hundred years till Saladin (Salahuddin)
threw them out. They also took
Egypt
but were defeated by Sultan Baybars. Similarly the Jewish colonists will
be driven out.
It is not anti-semitic to note that even the most idiotic book written by a
Jew will get published in America and will even be introduced by an adviser
to the President. By contrast, the
books of a great historian like
David Irving
are barred from all
book chains like Borders and Barnes & Noble
because he honestly could not find any evidence of gas chambers at Auschwitz
or of the claim that the Nazis killed six million Jews. Compared with
Timmerman and Pipes, David Irving is a giant of scholarship who meticulously
documents all that he writes from ORIGINAL SOURCES.
Irving is NEVER invited to C-Span. Why? Because a Jew named Lamb decides
which books will be introduced on C-Span. Is that view anti-semitic or a
fact?
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EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF a
MARTYR
IN FALLUJAH
I want to share this extraordinary story with you that
has just been translated from the Islamic news website
Mafkarat al-Islam
(www.islammemo.cc)
I should mention
that the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in
al-Fallujah was there literally on the front lines
with the Resistance fighters during the siege - the
only news source so close to the action. His reports
were vivid and detailed. Here is his latest.
wa-s-salam!
Eric Mueller
Texas
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Gulf donor buys piece of martyr's shirt for $80,000 to
go towards a hospital in al-Fallujah.
Saturday, 18 Rabi' al-Awwal 1425 H, 8 May 2004,
1:56pm,
Mecca
time.
In a unique deal, a businessman from a Gulf state has
purchased a piece of clothing from one of the martyrs
of al-Fallujah for $80,000 - the money to go to
building a hospital in the heroic Iraqi city.
The piece of clothing brought tears to the eyes of
those present when one of the doctors who had been
working in al-Fallujah presented it. It exuded a
mysterious and extremely beautiful fragrance similar
to musk, but more pleasant. Let us allow the doctor
to tell us the story of that strange night - a night
that was to repeat itself time and again, day after
day during the siege of al-Fallujah.
The doctor says, "On one of the nights of the unjust
siege of the city of al-Fallujah, when I was in the
makeshift hospital in the heroic city, we could hear
the sound of the hated clusterbombs exploding and the
whine of the American aggressor aircraft as they
violated the peace of the city. Minarets of the
city's many mosques broadcast calls of Allahu akbar!
(God is greatest!) and prayers to try to instill some
sense of calm and reassurance in everybody.
"The medical team in the city and those who came to
help them out from various parts of Iraq, as well as
those townspeople who had volunteered to save the
wounded were racing against time to save the lives of
all those wounded who could be saved. And there were
many who kept pouring in to the hospital. It was in
that situation that the body of a youth was brought in
by his companions on their shoulders.
"They brought him in a little car because all the
ambulances were blown up and set afire if they tried
to get to the front lines. They put their friend's
body on the examination table. At first he appeared
to be alive - he had a broad smile spread across his
face, bright and broad as the full moon.
"I was thinking, what do you suppose he is seeing or
hearing, such that an _expression of such happiness and
content would spread across his face? He looks like a
bridegroom on his wedding night. Has he seen the
beauties of paradise? Has he seen his place in
heaven? It was as if I could hear him say, 'if only
my people could know how my Lord has forgiven me and
made me one of the honored ones.'
[al-Qur'an,
36:26-27]
"He was a slender young man of about 20 years of age
wearing simple clothing. Blood was oozing from a
small wound in the neck. I examined him and found no
other wound. His body was soft and warm as if he were
asleep, but there was no pulse and no breathing.
"Suddenly there diffused throughout the hospital a
beautiful fragrance. I've never smelled anything more
beautiful in my whole life. I was certain that it was
the smell of musk. His clothing and body and even his
pure blood were giving off the aroma.
"Everyone in the hospital gathered around. Everyone
shouted 'Allahu akbar!' aloud. Cries of 'Allahu
akbar!' and of 'There is no god but God!' resounded
throughout the whole place when people saw the
miracles that had occurred to this living martyr.
Miracles that the Messenger of God [Muhammad], peace
and blessings be upon him, told us about and that we
read about in the biographies of the Prophet and his
Companions. But actually witnessing this miracle and
in actual circumstances aroused in us the spirit of
jihad and the desire to seek martyrdom. It gave us an
energizing boost of faith - something we were in great
need of in those circumstances.
"Everyone there took a small piece of his aromatic
shirt to demonstrate the details of what had happened
to those who had not had the chance of attending the
'wedding night' of that martyr. For we didn't want to
be so egotistical as to see these events and miracles
and not allow others to feel and learn from those
lessons on jihad and martyrdom.
"In my turn I obtained a small piece of the shirt and
brought it with me to the country in which I reside.
I wanted to show it to the largest possible number of
Muslims. I consider it a trust laid upon me, that I
must tell everyone far and near about it. The
fragrance of musk still exudes from the cloth even
though more than three weeks have passed since the
event. One businessman from a Gulf country saw the
piece of cloth and set its price at $80,000 so that
the money could go to building a hospital in
al-Fallujah."
The doctor concluded his story saying, "Now I am
certain that God's wisdom was behind my going there,
so that I could see what I saw and tell all the
brothers and sisters about it, so that His aim could
be attained. It was so that we could revive the
obligation of jihad - the jihad of the person, or
jihad with money - something that many of our enemies
today want us to abandon so that we might sit by
humbly, weak, and subordinate on earth."
Arabic original at:
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=31943
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