Sha'aban 3, 1425/ September 18, 2004 #92
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MUSLIMS RALLY TO SUPPORT
SUDAN:
FRIDAY PRAYERS at SUDANESE EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON, DC
September 17: Prominent Muslim activists of the Washington, D.C. area held
Jum'a prayers at the Embassy of Sudan in Washington, DC [2210 Massachussets
Avenue]. The Jum'a khutba was given by
Imam Musa
from Masjid al-Islam in
South East Washington, The Coordinator of the event was
Br. Hodari Abdul-Ali
who has taken a leading role in rallying Muslims against the
Zionist
media blitz aimed at demonizing Islamic Sudan. [Both are outstanding
African-American Muslim leaders.]
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
Baltimore representatives were among those who rallied right at the door of
the Sudan embassy.
A tense situation was created by police officers who behaved in a
provocative way during Imam Musa's
khutba.
One of the police went and stood behind the Imam and for a moment it seemed
that the police were going to arrest the entire prayer group. However
Br. Hodari Ali calmed the police down by showing them that written
permission had been obtained for the rally.
[Police have never behaved like this to misled non-Muslim African-American
individuals who have been protesting against Sudan at the embassy.]
Imam Musa gave a powerful khutba for MORE THAN ONE HOUR. He condemned the
moves against Sudan by Colin Powell and others. He ridiculed the claim of
"genocide" against Sudan. There is none such. Instead, he said, GENOCIDE IS
GOING ON IN
PALESTINE
and
IRAQ.
He urged African-Americans to realize that people like Pat Robertson and
Falwell who are supporting the moves against Sudan are no friends of
people of
African
descent.
Imam Musa dissected the propaganda being directed at Sudan in the context
of the crisis in Darfur. He pointed out that ALL the people involved in the
conflict are of various shades of Black. None of them are "light skinned"
Arabs
hunting dark skinned Africans, as the Zionist
media
have alleged.
The term "arab" is used in Darfur to define nomads as against farmers.
There are NO light skinned Arabs in Darfur, he pointed out.
Imam Musa expressed the history of
U.S.
oppression of Black people within America. He cited the murders of a whole
range of Black leaders at the hands of the U.S. government. This regime is
certainly no friend of Black people, be it in Sudan or in U.S.A., he said.
He also indicated how America supports people like Saddam and Noriega,
uses them, and gets rid of them. It is no one's friend.
[New Trend comment: We appeal to Imam Musa not to cover every possible
issue in his khutbas. Focus is important. Also, he has a tendency to drift
into conspiracy theories about
9.11,
comparing
Bush
with Hitler and 9.11 to the Reichstag fire. By and large, however,
the Muslim community needs Imam Musa to drive the fear of American
power out of their hearts.]
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CORRECTION on 9.11 Voices from the planes
One of our readers has been objecting to our report about cell phones used
by passengers on the hijacked planes. So, we double checked the 9.11
Commission report. The phone used by Betty Ong on American 11 was not a
cell but an "AT&T airphone" [p.5]
Other calls were made from seat phones. The kind of phones used in some of
the calls are not identified. One report does refer to cell phones and
could be an error.
On United 93, the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) picked up the sounds of
conflict on the plane.
There can be no doubt that the planes were hijacked. We hope that puts an
end to the "remote planes" theory.
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WAR NEWS
PAKISTAN:
Pakistanis Bring in Helicopters: Resist Attack by Islamic Fighters.
Musharraf’s General Uses Heavy Artillery in Random Shelling of Villages.
20,000 Flee Homes: Pakistan’s First Internal Refugees
Sporadic fighting continued in Southern Waziristan from September 12 to 16.
The Pakistani offensive has stalled but defeat was averted when the
Pakistanis brought in six helicopter gun ships and fought back the
Islamic fighters trying to engage them in hand to hand fighting.
A few more details are available about the Pakistani unit which surrendered
to the
mujahideen.
It appears Sana News and Silab Mahsud’s account in the daily Ausaf that 20
Pakistani troops were killed and 8 mujahideen martyred in this clash. As
many as 70 Pakistani troops were wounded. Of these 27 have been admitted
to a medical facility in Wana. Another 15 Pakistani troops were taken away
by the Islamic fighters as prisoners.
On September 13, Pakistan brought up reinforcements with helicopter cover
to save its cut off forces. They drove the Islamists back,; however one
military convoy was ambushed by the tribesmen . Eleven military trucks
were damaged but the troops held firm, killing two of the attackers while
losing three of their own.
The Pakistanis, unable to advance, started shooting up the entire area with
long range HEAVY ARTILLERY. Many civilian casualties are feared.
[Nawai Waqt has published the names of two children, 10 and 12, killed
in the shelling.] The Mahsud tribe has appealed to Pakistan to stop the
random firing. An estimated 20,000 of the Mahsud have left their homes to
escape the ongoing shelling. The Mahsud have also started releasing the
names of the people killed in the original Pakistani bombing which started
the latest flare up. All the names are Mahsud: No "foreigners."
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MUSHARRAF SENSES THAT BUSH WILL WIN:
Following the powerful Republican Convention in New York,
General Musharraf’s government has announced that he will not give
up his command of the army on December 31 as he had promised earlier.
Looks like the peaceful Islamic opposition took him at his word. He had
them fooled. The Frontier Assembly has condemned this announcement as a
violation of the Constitution [55 to 14]. On the other hand, the
Punjab Assembly has supported the General’s move. [The opposition walked
out.] [In the National Assembly, the appointees of the government have
foiled attempts to discuss the military offensive in southern Waziristan.]
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IRAQ
FALLUJAH is being BOMBED by the U.S. almost on a DAILY basis. In
the latest air raid, the U.S. is reported to have killed 40 people. Of
these THREE are claimed to be fighters of the organization run by
Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi.
[Fox News,
September 17.]
Hundreds have been killed in Fallujah [see New Trend's earlier reports]
during ongoing U.S. air raids. The purpose seems to be to "crack" Fallujah
before the U.S. elections.
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Montreal Perspectives
By Jalaluddin S. Hussain
PAKISTANIS MIGHT REQUIRE "GREEN CARD" WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRY!
U.S. Agents Do Not Need Any Permission!
Sorry, readers of my column, for the long silence. I returned from Pakistan
only on August 31, 2004. Inspite of the chaotic conditions prevailing in
the fields of education and health in general, and traffic on the roads of
Karachi, in particular, it was not bad at all. I definitely feel that
Pakistan will survive for a long time. The mere survival instinct of the
people of Pakistan and their ingenuity will help them in their survival bid.
Fighting
terrorism
on Uncle Sam's terms
On the political front, things might not seem very promising. However
rational and pragmatic General Pervez Musharraf may be, he seems to have
surrendered the country totally to the
CIA,
FBI and Uncle Sam! Whether it
is Wana, Gawadar or Pakistan's airports' security, the Americans have the
upper hand everywhere. It is sad!! However, in all fairness to the General,
it must be said that the politicians, the bureaucrats and the filthy rich
classes of Pakistan, have also contributed a lot towards the mess in which
Pakistan finds itself. With the exception of a few, who might be working
hard to bring normalcy and stability to the country, the people of Pakistan,
in general, seem to be too much involved in their day-to-day struggle for
survival, to care for the direction the country is turning.
Jasarat calling a yankee, a yankee
The daily
"Jasarat",
a Jamaat-e-Islami newspaper of Karachi, had very aptly
highlighted the helplessness of the Pakistani people. In its issue of July
25, 2004. It particularly mentions the "freedom of movement" of the American
security agents all over Pakistan, in the post 9/11 era. The relevant
passage, roughly translated from Urdu, is as follows: "The whole of Pakistan
is wide open for the American masters. Wherever they want to go they can
go. However, for the Pakistani political leaders many areas of Pakistan are
no-go areas, and there may be restrictions of movement imposed on certain
political leaders in the Sindh area and in the Waziristan tribal areas. Is
it that for the American security forces, Pakistan is wide open, but for the
Pakistanis themselves, a green card is required now? "
Pakistan's foreign policy pro-Western from the start
To me the logic, that if the Americans were not given free hand to quell
terrorism, the very existence of the country would have been in jeapordy,
does not hold much water. The fact of the matter is that Pakistan's
military establishment have been pro-American and pro-Western, right from
the very beginning. Have we forgotten the numerous defence pacts between the
USA and Pakistan, besides Pakistan's membership of SEATO, CENTO and Baghdad
Pact? It is really a cruel joke and understatement, if Pakistan is praised
today as a faithful "non-NATO ally"! Can Pakistanis forget that at one
time, immediately before the humiliating surrender by the Pakistan military,
on December 16, 1971, Pakistanis were hoping against hope for the American
Seventh Fleet!!
PETA
exhibit in Montreal annoys Zionists!
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is an animal rights
activists orgaqnization. In the second week of September 2004, they
organized an exhibit of photographs at Phillips Square, in downtown
Montreal. The exhibit conveyed a stark message on behalf of the animals, who
were being cruelly treated by the society at large. One of the photographs,
which showed the Jewish Holocaust victims and the chickens, facing each other, in
the cages, have understandably enraged the Zionists of
Canada.
One, Jonathan Ross of Vancouver, has seriously questioned the holding of
Phillips' Square exhibit, in his letter to daily, The Gazette, of September
11, 2004. He asks: How can, using the death of 6 million Jews as an
analogy against eating meat, be considered the best way to honour the memory
of those who died? It may be mentioned that the organizer of this
controversial exhibit itself, is one of the survirors of the Holocaust!.
Another letter, in the same issue of The Gazette, gives an entirely
different perspective. Deepak Awasti of Montreal has a different opinion
and thinks that: "If we truly rule over animals we are bound to respect them
to ensure their well-being. If an animal's soul is equal to a human soul ,
as many East Asian and aboriginal traditions hold, then either we must
honour their sacrifice (for human beings) or refrain altogether from killing
them, for our consumption. To do anything less would be inhuman."
While I fully respect the memory of the
German
Holocaust victims, I must
express my extreme anger at many Zionists of Montreal who have made a big
fuss about this two-day Exhibit!
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AFTER THE NEWS
New Yorkers Were Not Excited About the Republican Convention: Policeman Ran Over People with Motor Bike and Got Beaten Up
by Aisha Shaheed
[Jamaat al-Muslimeen New York City]
It was held on at Madison Square Garden.
Average New Yorkers, such as myself, avoided that area like the plague. The
news channels even commented on how city subways looked like ghost towns
during the peak of rush hour! I know I took the subway to work earlier than
usual and avoided the west side when I went home.
There was a lot of police presence throught the 5 boroughs of New York City,
not just in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden! There were cops
directing traffic in Harlem, which is 70 blocks away from Madison Square
Garden! The next day, I didn't see these traffic cops. The greatest
annoyance was on 42nd street. The traffic cops purposely tied up traffic to
keep that 10 block radius around the Garden clear! When traffic is not
being directed, it goes a lot smoother. I jumped off of the bus earlier
than I needed to and walked up the street to see what the hold up was. The
only hold up was the traffic cop!
There was heavy police presence in the subways, too. At certain stops, a
policeman would poke his/her head inside the train car and then give the
conductor the "okay" to leave the station.
The big news was that on Monday (08/30/2004), an undercover cop ran his
motocycle into a crowd of protestors. The protestors pulled him off of his
motorcycle and pummeled him! This was caught on amateur video. Initial
reports merely stated that an undercover cop was beaten unconscious and that
there were no arrests. This was odd because the film showed uniformed
policemen dispersing people and pulling the "attackers" off of this cop and
sending them on their way. They could have arrested people at the time of
the fight. Once the "victim" had been identified as an undercover
policeman, that is when they started looking for "perpetrators" to arrest.
This is what really happened, I think: The police did not know that the man
getting beaten was one of their own! That is why they weren't arresting
people. They thought it was a skirmish between a few people and an
obnoxious motorist. The next day, news stations showed this undercover cop
running his motorcycle over people. Now, the police say that this
undercover cop was responding to the cries of his fellow uniformed police
officers in need of assistance. Nonsense!
No uniformd police officers were harmed. Over 1000 protesters had been
arrested and but none for assault: only civil disobedience. Some argue that
even protestors, who followed orders, were arrested to satisfy some quota.
Many assault cases involving undercover policemen have been dismissed simply
because they did not identify themselves as being policemen and show their
badge. His own brethren didn't even know who he was, which is why they did
not come to his aid so eagerly. They arrested an African-American, Jamal
Holliday, for the pummeling. I am praying for him because it looked like
self-defense. Should he have a good defense attorney, he/she could poke
holes in the police version of this story.
My question is this: Will all of this police presence disappear now that
the Republicans have left.
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Almost every day,
Israel's
Jewish troops enter Palestinian towns and kill activists, fighters,
opponents and children. The
media,
controlled by Jews, do not describe the atrocities and rarely report them.
By contrast, any Palestinian counterattack, in which Palestinians,
being unarmed, have to use themselves as weapons, are publicized repeatedly
as "terrorism."
Here is one day, almost the norm now, in Palestine.
Children killed by Israeli fire
From correspondents in Gaza City
05aug04
THREE Palestinians, including two children, were shot dead and nearly 20
wounded early today as Israel stepped up a deadly campaign to end militants in
the northern Gaza Strip.
As Israel bolstered its forces in the northern town of Jabaliya,
nine-year-old Mohammed Hisham Salem died after being hit by a bullet in the
chest, Palestinian medical sources said.
Family members identified him as a son of a senior member of the radical
Islamic Jihad movement and said he was from Beit Lahiya, just north of
Jabaliya.
Minutes earlier, 17-year-old Wael Abul Jedyan also died after being hit in
the chest by an Israeli bullet when soldiers opened fire from a tank.
Earlier in the day, Kassem al-Mutawaq, 18, was also shot dead by soldiers
manning tanks inside the centre of Jabaliya, witnesses said.
Hospital sources said a total of 25 Palestinians had been wounded during the
Jabaliya raid. Twenty were suffering from gunshot wounds, seven of whom were
said to be in serious condition.
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Letter
from Ms. Carolyn in Florida
Gaza "Withdrawal" Meant to Enrich
Jews
at U.S. Expense.
[Near miss by Hurricane: A Message from God?]
The following blurb was in
"Investor's Business Daily"
today, and I quote, "The head of Israeli military intelligence said
Iran
may be able to develop nuclear weapons without outside help within six
months." Gee, does that mean that Israel might have a potential enemy
that could drop a bomb on it? Just why would anyone want to harm Israel
in the Middle East?
Second article out of the
"Village Sun"
today, entitled "Jewish settlers to be given cash advances-Israeli Cabinet
approves plan". "Israeli Cabinet ministers approved cash advances Tuesday
of up to $115,000 to Jewish settlers willing to leave their home in the
Gaza Strip and West Bank-the first concrete step toward carrying out
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's contentious pullout plan." The article says
that 8,500 settlers will be pulled from their homes. Work out the dollars
on that and guess who is going to pay this tab? The article goes on to say,
"Tuesday's 0-1 vote endorsed guidelines that would pay uprooted families a
total of
$200,000 to $350,000,
depending on the size of their homes and how long they had lived there,
according to data presented to the ministers. In the meantime, cash
advances of up to one-third of the final compensation package will be
offered from reserve funds, a senior official said on condition of
anonymity. He said the funds could be available "within days."
Dr. Siddique,
I am sure that I heard that the U.S. was going to be paying for this along
with the new homes in the Occupied Territories. Have you heard anything
about who is going to pay this bill? Do you think it would do any good to
call our Congressmen to confirm this? I want to know for absolute sure
who is paying for all of this.
Hurricane Ivan missed us-thank goodness. We are just getting our house
back in order. All outdoor furniture is now back outside. Our house is
starting to look normal again. But on the horizon is Hurricane Jean.
I am beginning to think that God is punishing us for all of the
mass murders our military is committing.
I wouldn't blame Him if that is the case, but a big earthquake in Israel
wouldn't be too bad either, if that is the case.
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Some Good News
Man Who Revealed Israel's Nuclear Secrets Honored
Fri., Sept. 17, 2004 ("The Village Sun" Florida)
New York
Yoko Ono has awarded peace grants to journalist Seymour Hersh and Israeli
nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, men she says epitomize her late
husband John Lennon's song, "Gimme Some Truth." Hersh and Vanunu will each
receive a $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace, according to a statement
Thursday by Ono's publicist, Elliot Mintz.
Ono said the 2004 honorees are "People who have spoken out for the benefit
of the human race by overcoming extreme personal difficulties and, in doing
so, have allowed the truth to prevail."
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