Rabi' al-Thani 23, 1425/ June 13, 2004 #69
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Civil
Rights
MUSLIM
WOMAN
REFUSED TO TAKE CLOTHES OFF
[Sent by Br. Yusuf El-Fakhri in Manassas, Virginia.]
LINCOLN, Nebraska
(AP)
-- The
American Civil Liberties Union
filed a lawsuit against the city of Omaha on behalf of a Muslim woman who
says she was barred from accompanying her children to a city swimming pool
because she was fully clothed.
The lawsuit filed in Lincoln federal court Wednesday says Lubna Hussein took
her three children to the pool in June and August 2003 but was turned away
at the gate after she told employees she could not wear a bathing suit.
Hussein is required by her religious beliefs to keep her body covered in
public except for her face and hands.
She was told she could not be in the pool area in her street clothing, even
though she saw other people in the area who were not wearing bathing suits,
according to the lawsuit.
On one occasion, the lawsuit says, city workers told Hussein that her
children could enter but that she would have to remain outside and observe
them through a fence.
"The city cannot operate its pools in a way that discriminates," said Amy
Miller, legal director for ACLU Nebraska.
Omaha City Attorney Paul Kratz said he had not seen the lawsuit and declined
to immediately comment on its specifics. But he said the city has a policy
of not allowing people in street clothes inside pool areas.
The lawsuit says the city violated Hussein's equal protection rights and
other constitutional guarantees. It asks for a court order declaring the
pool policy unconstitutional, as well as unspecified damages for
humiliation, embarrassment and suffering.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey S. Smith
443-677-7084
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Pakistan Air Force in Action: Paratroopers Capture 3 Houses in Shakai:
35 Islamists, 18 Pakistani troops Killed:
Naik Muhammad Leads Islamic Resistance
by our Pakistan Observer
June 10, 11, 12: Under the personal supervision of General Musharraf,
President of Pakistan, the armed forces of Pakistan have launched an all
out offensive in South Waziristan, near the Afghan Frontier.
The Ahmadzai Pathans, known for their Islamic sense of honor, are resisting
the Pakistan army. The resistance is lead by Naik Muhammad, a Pakistani
supporter of the Taliban, who has given refuge to Islamic refugees from
Chechnia
and Uzbekistan.
The Pakistani assault began with bombing raids by 4 jet fighters of the
Pakistan Air Force [PAF] on three houses in Shakai village said to be
harboring Al-Qaida refugees. The bombing was followed by the landing of
paratroopers from 20 helicopters supported by another 16 helicopter
gunships which rocketed the surrounding areas.
The bombing was resumed on June 12.
Till now the Pakistani attack seems to have failed. At least 35 Islamists
were said to have been killed in the bombing but the government has
identified only seven of them as Uzbek Muslims, while it appears that the
remaining 28 were Pakistanis from the Ahmedzai tribe. One of the martyrs is
a Qari [reciter of the
Qur'an]
from Dera Ismail Khan.
The Pakistani advance halted after the mujahideen counterattacked , killing
13 Pakistani troops, from the regular army and the Frontier Corp.On June 12,
the mujahideen struck a Pakistani paramilitary force known as Waziristan
Scouts [reconnaissance unit], killing 5.
Pakistani bombing attacks could cause serious civilian casualties in the
Ahmedzai villages. One initial report states that Pakistani mortar fire
killed a little girl and injured 3 people in a home.
The Pakistani general, Shaukat Shah, in charge of public relations, has
warned the public not to think of Naik Muhammad as a hero: He is simply a
"terrorist,"
the general stated.
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INTENSE REVULSION AMONG PAKISTANI MASSES as MUSHARRAF'S SECOND OFFENSIVE IN
WAZIRISTAN UNFOLDS
[Exclusive to New Trend from Syed Munawwar Hasan, Secretary General of
Jamaate Islami Pakistan.]
June 13, 2004. In Lahore, Pakistan, Syed Hasan, told New Trend that
Pakistanis in general are disgusted and sickened by the Musharraf military
offensive against the Muslims of South Waziristan. Numerous protest
demonstrations against the military action have been held across the
country, in spite of the very hot weather.
According to Syed Hasan, it is a disaster for Pakistan that the Pakistani
army is fighting the Pakistani people, and General Musharraf is directly
responsible for this situation. This assault, said Hasan, is being carried
out at the behest of the
Bush
administration.
Musharraf does not have any support for the use of the military in this
anti-Pakistan action, Hasan said. The General has totally ignored the
elected representatives of the tribal areas in the decision to use the
military, Hasan pointed out. The ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES are VEHEMENTLY
opposing the action.
Discussing the situation in Karachi, Syed Hasan says the terrorism in that
city is connected to the ethnic organization known as MQM. This is a small,
fascist, organization composed of street thugs and killers, supported by the
Musharraf regime. MQM is the only group supporting Musharraf's actions,
Syed Hasan concluded.
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Occupied
Kashmir
INDIAN
SHELLING DESTROYS MOSQUE, KILLING IMAM
[News reports]
June 8. At the village of Bogand, the Kilgam area of Kashmir, Indian forces
demolished a mosque killing its Imam Muhammad Yunus Butt, a Hafiz of the
Qur'an. The Indian army claimed that mujahideen were hiding in the mosque,
but on June 10, when the rubble was cleared, only the imam's body was found.
His funeral prayers were led by Syed Ali Gailani, leader of the political
opposition group Hurriyet Conference. Large numbers of people participated
in the prayer and protested against the atrocity.
Villagers say that during the Indian army siege of the village, a 7 year old
girl, Bisma Jan, became seriously ill, but Indian troops would not let her
be evacuated and she died.
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GERALDO RIVERA'S
AFGHANISTAN:
FOX TV's PROPAGANDA EXERCISE RAISES QUESTIONS
[From New Trend's
Media
Monitor]
On June 12,
Fox TV
featured Geraldo Rivera speaking for almost an hour from Kandahar,
Afghanistan. At the same time, FOX TV claimed that U.S. marines have killed
80 [Eighty!] Taliban for a loss of only 2 injured.
No evidence for this claim of victory was available in Geraldo's program.
The program showed wide ranging shots of various American military camps in
southern Afghanistan. However, NOT ONE TALIBAN WAS SHOWN, DEAD OR ALIVE.
Nor could Geraldo find EVEN ONE American soldier who had engaged in a fight
with the Taliban.
By contrast, one scene showed a U.S. military CAMP UNDER TALIBAN ROCKET FIRE
and the clear escape of the attackers. At another point, the viewers were
told that the Taliban had killed 6 policemen [ostensibly to force schools
to close down].
Taking Geraldo's report at face value, there is no evidence that the
U.S.
has scored any success against the Taliban. [By mistake, Geraldo admitted
that five weeks back there was a SUCCESSFUL Taliban against U.S. troops in
KANDAHAR itself. He gave no details and only expressed happiness that
Kandahar had not witnessed such an attack for 5 weeks.]
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Egyptian
Islamist dies in custody
Thursday 10 June 2004, 9:57 Makka Time, 6:57 GMT
A member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood died on Wednesday while in police
custody, a spokesman for the movement said.
"Engineer Akram Zoheiry ... died Wednesday morning," Abdel
Moneim Mahmud, an official in the Muslim Brotherhood
media
department, said, giving no further details of his death.
Though the movement - founded in 1928 in Ismailiya, Egypt, by Hasan al-Banna
- is officially banned, some of the Muslim Brotherhood's activities are
tolerated by the Egyptian government.
Zoheiry was one of 54 people arrested on 16 May accused of having organised
protests against Israel's assassinations of Shaikh Ahmad Yassin, founding
leader of the Palestinian Islamic resisting movement Hamas, and his
successor Abd Al-Aziz al-Rantisi.
Custody deaths
Last week, the
Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights
issued a report charging that at least 15 Egyptians had died while in police
custody between April 2003 and April 2004.
The organisation said it had "strong suspicions that the 15 deaths resulted
from torture and abuse at Egyptian police stations".
The figure represented only a fraction of the problem, the statement said,
referring to reports of hundreds of other cases of torture across the
country.
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