Sha'aban 8, 1425/ September 23, 2004 #94
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DESPERATE NEED: HURRICANES HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 900 PEOPLE IN HAITI,
and also destroyed parts of Grenada and Jamaica.
Please scroll down to end for
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
Brooklyn's call for help.
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YUSUF ISLAM [Cat Stevens] and IMPUTATIONS OF
TERRORISM!:
New Trend
condemns the abusive and crass way in which
America
treated Yusuf Islam. This gentleman is the most harmless of human beings
and has never taken a strong stand on any issue. HE IS THE KIND OF
PERSON AMERICA SHOULD GIVE A MEDAL TO. He has been rubbing his nose on
the ground condemning the
9.11
attacks and even donated to the 9.11 fund. Under the
Zionist
takeover, America's friends are being treated as enemies. Whoever is
running this country seems to have been blinded by the 9.11 attacks.
The Yusuf Islam debacle indicates more of utter failure of intelligence
and security chaos run amuck than hatred or bigotry [though bigotry did
emerge on
Fox's
Hannity joke of a show.] Next Shaikh Kabbani might be picked up!]
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Luci Murphy Sings For the
Martyrs
of Sabra-Shatilla
Acclaimed jazz musician and long-time community activist Luci Murphy just
returned from Lebanon, where she sang at a commemoration of the Sabra and
Shatilla massacres. Luci, who is of African-American heritage, but sings
in twelve languages, including
Arabic,
sees links between the struggles of
oppressed Black, Native American, and Latino people in this country with
the Palestinians. She is heard on "Sophie's Parlor," on D.C.'s
independent radio station, WPFW. The community may indeed be proud of
Luci's spirit of internationalism, in reminding the world of Ariel
Sharon's genocide against the Palestinian refugees at Sabra-Shatilla,
which continues today in the form of daily violence against
Palestinians.
--N. Siddique
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A Muslim Woman Responds to New Trend's note on Madonna
As Salaamu Alaikum,
Madonna's album sales and concerts are not yielding what they were
expected to yield. She get huge crowds but her shows cost a fortune to
produce. She is getting older and no one wants to see any woman
(approaching or over 40) without her clothes on in America. This is a
very sexist society that exploits women (the younger the better) and will
do all it can to discard all (if you have money or not) when you approach
40 (especially women).
Remember Cher, Tina and all the other divas (over 40) have retired. It
is Madonna's turn and it is obvious she is not ready to let go and move
on.
I hope she finds something to do that is constructive with her time and
talent. She has a child now and that girl needs to see something positive
from her Mom. Can you imagine having to explain the Sex Book (Madonna's
contribution to literature and photographic art) as a child to your
friends? "Wow, yo Mom's is a real freak!" Can you imagine the playground
talk she listens to daily when her Mom's name is mentioned (scary isn't
it)?
Since most of us (women) are not young or naive when we reach 40, the
powers that be don't have much use for you. So you get tossed out (if
you allow it) like smelly garbage. Madonna is fighting to stay on top
in her field. The youngs are out there in large numbers unfortunately
and in moving fast. Too bad they are using up a lot of important time
and money for the wrong thing. America's decadence, sexism, racism and
rampant moral corruption is its' downfall.
ma salaam
Hadayai Majeed
Just an observer.....
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NEWS FROM TENNESSEE
JAZAKUM ALLAHU KHAIRAN!!! Glad to see this stated in a public forum.
My husband was all but kicked out of a masjid for stating the same message
at a masjid in Tennessee Friday night in response to the Imam recruiting
people to vote after Maghrib prayer. Thanks for 'getting the word out'.
wasalaam alaikum
Sis. Lamyaa
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TINY
CHECHNIA
vs Huge
RUSSIA
[With thanks to Dr. Hoorie Siddique.]
[Item number 1. Here is what Russia has been hiding from the world.]
CHECHNYA
The Politics of Terror
A report by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF)
November 22, 2000
The war in Chechnya is not over. More than a year after the federal troops
first intervened, bombs, mines and bullets continue to kill civilians.
Despite the illusion of normalization upheld by the Russian authorities,
and the resignation of the international community, the violence against
civilians is ongoing, and has merely changed its appearance. Data from
Chechnya hospitals shows that the indiscriminate use of force is still
causing many civilian casualties.
The war, which caused hundred of thousands to flee, has entered a new
phase. After intensive bombing and massive destruction, the army, in the
"re-conquered" zones, has turned a more vicious form. It has installed a
state of terror, perpetrating acts of violence designed to humiliate
civilians: arbitrary executions and mopping-up operations, arrests and
disappearances, extortion, racketeering of cadavers...
The Russian forces have transformed Chechnya into a vast ghetto. In this
ghetto, every civilian is a suspect, and freedom of movement is denied.
Even the sick and wounded are prevented from passing through military
checkpoints. And each and every checkpoint is a "Russian roulette" which
puts their lives at stake.
In this ghetto, terror reigns. After having been subjected to months of
intensive bombardment, the people of Chechnya are today exposed to the
worst kind of violence. In the absence of a coherent international
response and of sanctions against the perpetrators of these crimes,
Chechen civilians, deprived of any kind of protection or recourse, are
trapped in a confrontation with soldiers whose impunity gives them free
rein to act as they please.
Confronted, on the field, with a terrorized population, and with needs
that humanitarian organizations cannot meet, Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to the
invitation of the Council of Europe, and has come here today to bear
witness to the unacceptable events now taking place in Chechnya. The
witness accounts - of medical personnel, residents, the sick and the
wounded - were gathered by our teams between August and November 2000,
during their relief work. Through their accounts of daily incidents,
the witnesses portray the unbearable reality of the Chechen people's
lives. They clearly describe the impossibility of dealing with medical
emergencies, the perils faced by those who dare to seek hospital care,
and the continuation of war...
[To be continued.]
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[Read this carefully. It shows how Jewish groups silence voices supporting
Iraqi
and Palestinian resistance under the label of "recruitment for terrorism."
Germany
is
Israel's
milk cow, slavishly allowing itself to be milked for World War II guilt.
Muslims must study World War II and read both sides of the story -
New Trend]
From:
aliabunimah@yahoogroups.com
Berlin bans
Islamic
conference which calls for resistance in Iraq
Agence France Presse
20 September 2004
BERLIN Sept 20-- An Islamic conference organised by a group
calling for resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq was on
Monday banned from taking place in Berlin by the regional
authorities.
The city's regional minister of the interior Ehrhart Koerting
said the aims of the conference stated by the organisers
overstepped the line of what was permissible in Germany.
The website of the "first Arab Islamic Congress in Europe",
planned to take place on October 1-3, carries the title "No to US
occupation of Iraq, no to Zionist occupation of Palestine".
Under the sub-heading "Stand up and perform resistance," the
organisers call for the "liberation of all the occupied
territories and countries in struggle against the
American-Zionist hegemony and occupation".
A
Lebanese
citizen who is one of the organisers was deported from
Germany on Saturday following an investigation into his
membership of 'questionable organisations'.
The man, Fadi Madi, said on arriving in Beirut that the United
States had put immense pressure on Germany to prevent the
conference taking place.
"The high command of US forces in Europe put pressure on Berlin
to attempt to have the conference cancelled," he said.
"We are accused of supporting the struggle of the Palestinian and
Iraqi people against the Israeli and American occupation. They
equate resistance with terrorism."
German Interior Minister Otto Schily had said he would do
everything possible to prevent the conference taking place.
And on Friday the government announced it would not provide visas
for anyone who gave attending the conference as the purpose of
their visit to Germany.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish organization known
primarily for its work in tracking down Nazi war criminals, which
said the real purpose of the Congress is to recruit suicide
bombers and raise funds welcomed the decision with "great
satisfaction".
"This is a message to Islamists and Jihadists that they will not
find it so easy to recruit young people to extremism and terror
if governments in Europe demonstrate the political will to
react," said a spokesman, Dr Shimon Samuels.
"It is a great victory for the forces of moderation.
"We know the company that Fadi Madi moved in and we know what
could have been the result of holding this conference."
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany and the Islamic Council
of Germany have distanced themselves from the event, saying they
had not been invited to attend and did not know the organisers.
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Letters
Democrats are Better on Guantanamo Bay Prisoners?
Regarding the facts about positions of Republican and Democrat, you did
not mention their attitudes towared Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Bush
has dug himself into a corner over this. But if democrats were elected
they would be in a better position to undo this travesty.
...shoaib
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Questions and Answers on
Hadith
SHOULD
WOMEN
BE RESTRICTED TO THEIR HOMES FOR OBLIGATORY PRAYERS?
Br. Adam Seedat of South Africa has sent us the following ruling from a
local association. Please read it carefully and then read the reply by
Dr. Kaukab Siddique
which follows it:
Sandton Islamic Association
94 Coleraine Drive
Duxberry
Sandton
Tel. 011 784 8196
Facilities for Females at the Sandton Jamaat Khana
Muhtaram, Assalamualaikum W.W.
Your letter dd. 26 July 2004 refers.
The following principles should be kept in mind in as far as providing
facilities for females to perform Salaah at the Jamaat Khana:
A resident female should perform her Salaah at her residence.
The Hadeeth states: "The Salaah of a female in the inner quarters of her
house is better than her Salaah in the outer quarters of her house and
her Salaah in her room is better than her Salaah in her inner quarters".
[Abu Dawood]
Sayyidatuna Ayesha Radhiallahu 'Anha states: "Had Rasoolullah Sallallahu
'Alaihi Wasallam seen what the ladies have introduced after him, he would
have definitely prohibited them (from performing Salaah in the Masjid)
like how the ladies of the Bani Israel were prohibited".
[Muslim]
[Mirqaat Vol. 3 Pg. 67]
A non-resident female visiting a Muslim home in the area should read her
Salaah at the residence of that Muslim.
A non-resident female that is passing through the area or a traveler may
read her Salaah at the Jamaat Khana. This could be done in a manner that
she enters through the female section at the back whilst ensuring that
there is no opportunity for her to intermingle with the male Musallees.
Thus, the female facilities as contemplated by the Jamaat are adequate
enough for ensuring such privacy for a female Musallee.
AND ALLAH KNOWS BEST
Was-Salaam
______
Z. M. Pandor
for Darul Ifta
Jamiatul Ulama Tvl.
18 Jumaadal Ukhraa 1425
6 August 2004
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Reply by Dr. Kaukab Siddique
Authentic Hadith Make Role of Women in Mosques Equal to that of Men and
Essential to the Islamic Functioning of the Mosques.
Jamiatul Ulama's Darul Ifta has carried out a serious violation of the
rules by which Islamic texts are to be read.
Let's look first at the Hadith Darul Ifta has quoted:
'The Hadeeth states: "The Salaah of a female in the inner quarters of
her house is better than her Salaah in the outer quarters of her house
and her Salaah in her room is better than her Salaah in her inner
quarters". [Abu Dawood]'
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Darul Ifta's ruling is incorrect even on the basis of the Hadith quoted
above. This Hadith is not saying that women should NOT pray in the mosque.
"Better" is a recommendation, not a command.
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Darul Ifta has not told us the COMPLETE TEXT of this Hadith. Nor has
Darul Ifta told us that the Hadith was not about ALL women but about
ONE WOMAN only.
The woman, referred to in a number of Hadith, was Umm Humaid (r.a.) a
very poor woman who did not have the clothes to go to the Masjid and
lived far away from the Masjid.
The complete text of what the Prophet (pbuh) told her is given in the
Musnad of Imam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal [vol.6, p.371] as follows:
" Abdullah ibn Suwaid Ansari narrates from his mother's sister Umm Humaid
(r.a), wife of Abu Humaid as-Saadi, that she said to the Prophet, pbuh, :
'O messenger of Allah, I want to pray with you when you are leading the
prayer.' He (pbuh) replied: " I know you want to pray behind me but
your prayer inside you house is better than praying in its outer quarters,
and your prayer in your room is better than praying in the front of the
house, and your prayer in your house is better than prayer in your
neighborhood mosque, and your prayer in your neighborhood
mosque is better than prayer in my mosque ....."
Those words of the Prophet (pbuh) do NOT say that she cannot or should
not pray in any of the areas mentioned. It simply gives her choices.
It meant that by praying in her room, Umm Humaid (r.a.) would get the
reward which others got from praying even in the sacred mosque
of the Prophet (pbuh).
Similarly, Abu Huraira, r.a., narrates that the Prophet, pbuh, permitted
a blind man to pray in his home but then added that if the Adhan can be
heard there, then respond to it. {Sahih Muslim, Sunan of Nasai , kitabus
salat. [In those days, the Adhan did not carry very far owing
to lack of PA system.]
This teaching was meant to bless and help ONE woman. It was NOT MEANT TO
DENY WOMEN THEIR
RIGHT
TO PRAY IN THE MOSQUE.
How do we know? Numerous authentic Hadith point out the NORM and the
GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE rules about women's right to the mosque. In fact
Imam Bukhari
and Imam Muslim did not accept Darul Ifta's quoted Hadith into their
canon because it is of very limited application and can easily be
misunderstood.
Does Umm Humaid's hadith mean that for ALL women, the easy way out,
staying at home, is acceptable? There is an absurdity here which boggles
the mind. It would mean that the women taking the trouble to go to the
mosque would get LESS reward than the one who stayed at home.
The teachings of Islam do not make a distinction between men and women
when it comes to the response to Adhan. The prayer together is obligatory
on ALL if they can make it to the masjid:
"Malik ibn Huwarith Laithi, r.a., narrates that the messenger of Allah,
pbuh, said: When the time for prayer comes, then say the Adhan and the
Iqamah, and the elder among you should lead."
[Sahih Muslim and Bukhari.
Sunan of Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasai, ibn Maja, kitabus
salat in each case.]
Ibn Maja collected a Hadith which comes up to the standards of Bukhari,
as follows:
"Ibn Abbas, r.a., narrates that the messenger of Allah, pbuh, said that
a person who hears the adhan and does not respond to it without cause,
such a one's prayer does not take place."
[Sunan of Ibn Maja, vol.1, p.137]
Obviously these are general applications and cannot be construed IN ANY WAY
to leave women out.
Finally, what is the NORM of Islam about women praying in the masjid?
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First, the Prophet (pbuh) had to teach Muslims to get rid of the leftover
idea of the pagan era that women were sources of corruption in holy places.
[Before Islam, the pagans used to walk around the Ka'aba NAKED.] So the
Prophet, pbuh, gave FLAT OUT COMMANDS, rejecting the idea that women
should be stopped from going to the masjid. He said:
" Do not stop the maid servants of Allah from the mosques of Allah."
[Sahih Muslim, kitabus salat, Muwatta of Imam Malik.]
"When the wife of one of you asks about going to the mosque, do not try
to stop her."
[Sahih of Bukhari, kitab-un-nikah.]
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Then the best of men, pbuh, took it further and said:
" Do not stop women from going to the masjid AT NIGHT."
[Sahih Muslim and Bukhari, Sunan of Abu Dawood and
Tirmidhi, kitabus salat in each book]
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The norm is published even in the Hadith collected by Imam Abu Hanifa.
[It is indeed great hypocrisy that today those who claim to be Hanafis
deny women the right which their Imam recognized]:
"The Prophet (pbuh) permitted women to go forth and take part in Fajr
and 'Isha Salat."
[Musnad of Imam Abu Hanifa.
Darul Ifta has also quoted this narration:
Sayyidatuna Ayesha Radhiallahu 'Anha states: "Had Rasoolullah Sallallahu
'Alaihi Wasallam seen what the ladies have introduced after him, he would
have definitely prohibited them (from performing Salaah in the Masjid)
like how the ladies of the Bani Israel were prohibited".
[Muslim]
Darul Ifta did not realize that this is NOT a Hadith of the Prophet (pbuh).
Even hazrat 'Ayesha, r.a., cannot take away what the Prophet (pbuh) has
permitted. What the Prophet (pbuh) has permitted is FOR ALL TIMES to come.
If we start claiming that such and such new development cancels the
Prophet's (pbuh) ruling, that would uproot and destroy the entire
DEEN of Islam.
Hazrat 'Ayesha's (r.a.) words should be seen as admonition, to set
standards, not to prohibit what the Prophet (pbuh) permitted. The Prophet
(pbuh) set standards and restrictions too. There are rules about going to
the Masjid for men and women. For instance, for women, are these two
restrictions: The following Hadith shows the norm [note the word
"when," not "if"] and the standard of piety:
"The messenger of Allah, pbuh, said: WHEN you women come to participate in
the 'ISHA salat [in congregation], you should not put on perfume."
[Muwatta of Imam Malik]
"The messenger of Allah, pbuh, said, do not stop the maid servants of
Allah from going to the mosques of Allah, (but) when they go forth
they should not be wearing all their finery."
[Sunan of Abu Dawood.]
Darul Ifta hid the fact that hazrat 'Ayesha herself used to be in the
masjid and she even gave adhan and Iqama and led women in prayer.
May Allah have mercy on Darul Ifta.
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THE CHALLENGE OF HUGO CHAVEZ
By William Loren Katz
[by special permission of the author]
To the sputtering fury of a Bush
administration that has repeatedly
conspired with Venezuela's elite to drive
Hugo Chavez from power, the Black Indian
President of this oil-rich nation has recently
scored a decisive 59% victory
over a recall effort.
Chavez now sits more comfortably than ever
atop a fourth of the world oil
supplies -- equal to that of Iraq -- and he
supplies a fifth of US oil needs.
In addition, he is current leader of the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries, or OPEC. George W. Bush would prefer
his friends in Saudi Arabia
rather than Chavez set global oil prices.
US attacks on Chavez caricature him as a
tyrant in the class of Saddam
Hussein, or a Marxist, or an anti-American
clone of Castro. Actually, his
populist uprising springs from multicultural
roots that pre-date the foreign
invasion of the Americas that began in 1492,
and that has military and political
dimensions.
Like four-fifths of Venezuelans, Chavez was
born of poor Black and Indian
parents. Since the days of Columbus descendants
of the Spanish conquistadores
who monopolized the governing councils of the
Americas, have denied
indiginous people a say in their future. Chavez
represents a strong challenge to this.
Chavez is not only proud of his biracial
legacy, but has begun to use oil
revenues to help the poor of all colors improve
their education and economic
standing. He also flatly rejects Bush
administration efforts to isolate Cuba,
counts Castro a friend, and has repeatedly
accused the US of meddling in his
country and around the world.
Chavez rules a country where three percent
of the population, mostly of
white European descent, own 77% of the land. In
recent decades millions of
hungry peasants have drifted into Caracas and
other cities, and live in barrios of
cardboard shacks and open sewers. Chavez has
begun to transfer fields from
giant unused or abandoned haciendas to peasant
hands, and as landlords have
responded with howls of alarm, he has promised
further distributions.
But he has repeatedly held out an olive
branch to his foes. He recently
stated, "All this stuff about Chavez and his
hordes coming to sweep away the
rich, it's a lie. We have no plan to hurt you.
All your rights are guaranteed,
you who have large properties or luxury farms
or cars."
Chavez has begun to target the foreign oil
giants who keep about 84% of
Venezuela's oil profits. To attack the
problems of his people in health,
illiteracy and poverty, he has demanded 30%.
In 1998 and 2000 Chavez won the Presidency
by majorities Republicans and
Democrats here can only dream about. In 2002 he
defeated a two-day coup
attempt engineered by his local elite in
alliance with US interests, and in the
recent recall vote, more than 70% of voters
turned out. Chavez's strength rests
with his poorest citizens who have mobilized
behind a broader agenda than his,
one which includes participatory democracy and
elevating the status of women.
Using rising oil revenues, Chavez has
brought education to almost a
million children who never sat in a classroom.
And with 10,000 Cuban doctors, a
gift from Fidel Castro, he has opened 11,000
medical clinics primarily in barrios.
Over the centuries South Americans have
endured a crop of caudillos, or
military dictators. Many who began office
sounding a radical note were
overthrown by the CIA or other foreign
governments. Others remained in power by
listening to American ambassadors. Though it is
too early to tell, this former
paratrooper seems to spring from an earlier age
when Africans and Indians united to
fight the European invaders who first marched
ashore, and then continued the
struggle for self-determination by political
means.
For inspiration Chavez can reach back to
the misty dawn of these earliest
foreign incursions when his heroic Black Indian
ancestors first rose to
battle. Africans and Indians built maroon
colonies based on economic
self-sufficiency and resistance to the foreign
advance, and some lasted for generations. By
the early 19th century, the struggle to remove
colonial domination picked up
steam. In 1819 Simon Bolivar, of African and
Indian lineage and the victorious
revolutionary leader of South America, became
the first elected President of
Venezuela. Vicente Guerrero, a General in the
Mexican Revolution helped
liberate his country from Spain. Though the
ruling elite denounced him as a
"triple-blooded outsider," in 1829 he
became Mexico's first Black Indian President,
wrote its constitution, emancipated its slaves,
ended racial discrimination and
banished the death penalty.
Though his white foes also denounce Chavez
as a racial outsider, the
faces of his millions of supporters refute the
claim. He continues to triumph at
the polls, speak truth to power, and use oil
revenues to meet his peoples'
needs. He appears unconcerned that he has
excited the fury of the Goliath to the
north, and appears to relish his David role.
Time will tell if Chavez's programs and
supporters can protect him from
the machinations of his US enemies allied with
his foes at home. Venezuelians
have begun their own cultural revolution, and
though it undergirds Chavez's
political and economic advances, it may take
some different directions.
Hugo Chavez and his people may yet write
another chapter in the audacious
book begun by Simon Bolivar, Vicente Guerrero
and millions of other Africans
and Indians of the Americas.
________________
Copyright 2004 by William Loren Katz, author of
forty books, including
BLACK INDIANS: A HIDDEN HERITAGE
[Atheneum] from
which this essay is adapted. His
Black Indian website is: WILLIAMLKATZ.COM
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