Ramadan
25, 1425/ November 9, 2004 #110
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ISLAM
IN A NUTSHELL
"Actions Shall be judged according to Intentions."
[Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, first
Hadith
in
Sahih of Bukhari,
narrated by 'Umar, r.a.]
The most important aspect of Islam is TAQWA which has been translated as:
God-consciousness or Awareness of God or Fear of Allah
A major purpose of fasting and prayer is to develop this awareness {taqwa}.
Islam creates this awareness through THREE stages of development:
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Purity of Faith [Aqeeda]
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Good Actions ['Amal]
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Good motivation [niyyah]
The Muslim must have direct contact with God through prayers and
supplications. No priesthood is needed.
The Muslim must be socially aware and SPEND of his/her wealth, time,
intellect to help others and create a just and balanced community
and society, hopefully leading on to a better world.
Why do we do what we do? Islam is very strong on this issue of
MOTIVATION. We must learn to do good for the sake of acceptance by
God, not for financial profit or ego. Hence GOOD DEEDS must be done
without publicity.
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT SELF-RESTRAINT.
We must follow God's teachings in the way we live, the way we earn
our living and even in the food we eat. INTOXICANTS and foods which
harm the body are forbidden in the
Qur'an.
When we eat, we must share.
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Editorial:
New Trend
Urges All decent People to Speak out against the Crucifixion of Fallujah
FREEDOM, ISLAM, SELF-DETERMINATION Under
U.S.
ASSAULT in FALLUJAH
"ALLAHU AKBAR" Comes the Call from Mosques as 1500 Mujahids Face
15,000 U.S. Best troops
November 8: In one of the most shameful episodes in
Bush's
occupation of
Iraq,
15,000 U.S.
Marines and 4th Infantry Division, with units of Iraqi renegades, tried
to punch their way into Fallujah with massive artillery and air support.
On Day 1, the Americans captured about 4 blocks of Fallujah town starting
with the hospital. There was an interesting reason for the capture of
the hospital: It used to report the stream of civilian casualties,
mostly women and children, American air attacks have caused in Fallujah.
Nearly 100,000 civilians are still in the doomed city.
America's own best traditions do not allow for the brutalization of a
small town in Iraq. Iraqis have no weaponry which would match
America's vast arsenal. How can any decent American be proud of this
shameful spectacle of the massing of an American legion against
lightly armed militias sustained only by their faith and improvised
explosive devices.
Language itself under the tyranny of George W. Bush has lapsed into
Orwellian double speak when Iraqis defending their homes, their city,
their mosques against heavily armed barbarians from America are dubbed
"insurgents, " while Muslims who have come in from other countries
to help their Iraqi family are labeled "terrorists" and "foreign
fighters." In fact the only forces which are foreigners in Iraq are
the Americans, the British and their European and Australian allies.
After all there are definitions of international behavior which the
Bush Administration theoretically accepts. The U.S. has ABSOLUTELY NO
BUSINESS BEING IN IRAQ. It does not have even the FIG LEAF of United
Nations' support, its own creature which initiated
"Israel."
Even the loyal Kofi Annan does not see U.S. military adventure in Iraq
as legitimate.
FALLUJAH UNDER ISLAM is an excellent example of democracy. The people
rose up and took Fallujah and drove out the American occupation forces.
It's a peoples' city, organized street by street under peoples' rule,
fighting for its independence and self-determination. The tragedy
which the U.S. is imposing on the valiant people of Fallujah is no
less than what Israel did in
Jenin
and Hafez Assad in Hamah.
Bush and Blair must be the only two people in the world who believe
that Allawi is the leader of Iraq! and is "permitting" them to attack
Fallujah. Independent observers agree that Allawi is the scum of the
earth, a dirty agent of the
CIA
who was so verminous that Saddam kicked him out of his secret service:
Allawi then begged the CIA to use his service.
Ya Allah! What filthy curs Bush, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have honored
as "leaders" of Iraq": Traitors who come dime a dozen are presented
as the "Iraqi government." George W. should not forget that more than
47 million Americans voted against him. He certainly does not have
a mandate from Americans to continue his dastardly crimes in Iraq.
New Trend urges all decent people, in particular the
Muslims of America
and the Muslims of the world, to condemn in the clearest terms this
assault by the American juggernaut on Fallujah.
The 1500
mujahideen
in Fallujah are fighting back against 15,000 American elite troops.
These Iraqis seem determined to free themselves of American tyranny
whatever the cost. There can be no doubt, as the Adhan ["Allah Akbar,"
"Allahu Akbar,"] lilts across the eerie battlefield, even as
U.S. heavy artillery lashes out and the U.S. air force drops 500
pound bombs, that Iraq will be finally victorious and Iraq will be,
finally, Islamic.
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FALLUJAH During RAMADAN 1425
[A poem by Ale Yasir]
O Muslims of America! Like you, we fast during the Day.
At Night we Watch your Shaitan's F-16s Light up the Horizons.
Our Mosques are packed with Young People
Their beards are still green
They want to live, to die, for Allah, for Iraq under Islam.
We hear the Adhan: It is Peaceful, Reminding us of Paradise
We say to the Americans: Go back to your families.
This is not your land. Take Allawi with you.
Don't we have the right to Fast, to Pray in Peace?
Do you, sons of Bush, know nothing sacred?
You bomb homes, hospitals, schools.
You desecrate mosques, burn the Qur'an, shred the Hadith of the blessed Messenger.
Are you not Afraid that the Cries of the Oppressed will Rise up to Heaven?
You break into our homes and "body search" our Maidens who fast and pray!
Have you no Shame? Have you no God?
You had to bomb us in Ramadan? You had to drown out our Adhan with Artillery?
You will never win.
Listen! we are Muslims, the followers of Muhammad (p).
You will never win.
Listen! we have the Qur'an.
You will never win.
Listen! we love Paradise.
The Houris are Waiting for us. Shame and Hellfire is waiting for you.
You will never win. We are the people of Fallujah!
We pray and fast in this blessed Ramadan.
Your big guns speak, your rockets smash our homes.
Yet we pray and fast and WE FIGHT BACK.
Ramadan 1425: The month in which the tyrants drowned decency in blood.
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LOCAL NEWS: New Trend report
White Supremacy/Islamophobia in Action
68 Year Old
Egyptian
Woman, Mrs. Afaf Saudi, Diabetic,
Disabled, Handcuffed for "resisting arrest."
Greensboro, North Carolina: November 6. Sami Helmi's mother, Afaf, is
68 years old. Today she went shopping at Walmart and forgot her purse
at the checkout counter. When she decided to buy a gift, she
remembered her purse was at the counter. The Walmart lady at the
counter handed back her purse. When she opened it, she found that
instead of $170, only $20 were in it and $150 were missing.
She complained to the Walmart employee and then to the manager
[her English is not good]. They both laughed at her and joked
together about her. She was in her Islamic dress, all wrapped her
except her face. She kept asking for her money back.
She wouldn't leave, and told them to call the police. The police
officer, however, joined the Walmart employees in laughing at her.
The police told her to leave. She said she wanted her money back.
The police then ARRESTED HER for TRESPASSING on Walmart property!
As she is disabled, the police had to take her away in a wheel chair.
The Walmart employees helped the police to tie her to the wheel chair.
Then the police put HANDCUFFS on the 68 year old and booked her for
RESISTING ARREST.
From the wheel chair, she was taken out and fell down because her
feet were tied. Then she was stuffed by force into the police car.
On the way, her diaberic condition started affecting her and she
pleaded for water. She felt faint and begged them to take her to
hospital, which they finally did. The hospital people were shocked
to see her handcuffed and her arms were bleeding. She was examined by
the doctor who found that her shoulder was broken and her rib damaged
when she was stuffed into the police car.
The police have given her three tickets, trespassing, resisting
arrest and attacking police [because her shoes slid off when she was
in the chair and touched the police].
Till November 8, she was still in hospital.
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For protests by human
rights
activists, read this press release.
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For Immediate Release, Nov 8, 2004
For more information call Scott Trent, 336-558-8066
or
Badi Ali,
336-988-0818
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality and the
Islamic Center of the Triad stand together in strongly condemning
the vicious attack on Mrs. Afaf Saudi on Saturday, November 6th, 2004.
There is no possible justification for the brute force that was used
in the arrest of Mrs. Saudi that resulted in her multiple injuries,
including a fractured arm and bruised ribs.
Mrs. Saudi, who is sixty-eight years old and in very poor physical
health, was reportedly hog-tied and tossed like an animal into a
police cruiser after having been violently detained by a Greensboro
police officer at the Wal-Mart on Battleground Ave. We know that
there is no possible justification for this type of treatment by the
police. We are also aware that police brutality and killings have
increased dramatically in recent years, and that since
September 11th, 2001 a vicious new form of racial profiling has been
put into effect against
Arab,
Muslim, and South Asian immigrants. We will not stand idly by as
this epidemic of police brutality and expanded racial profiling
spirals violently out of control.
The October 22nd Coalition and the Islamic Center of the Triad stand
together in firm solidarity, and call on the entire community to
speak out in condemnation of this brutal attack on Mrs. Saudi. We
require at the very minimum an apology to Mrs. Saudi in Arabic or
French (the two languages she speaks), and a clear statement on how
the officers involved will be disciplined.
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