Shawwal 6, 1425/ November 19, 2004 #114
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[Courtesy Br. Issa Smith, Washington, DC]
[This from America's Imam was distributed on Eid Day.]
Imam Jamil Al-Amin's
Eid Message: We Vote for Allah Five Times a Day: Comments on Elections,
War and Power Structure: Quotes the
Qur'an
&
Hadith
From Allah's slave, Jamil Al-Amin
To: The Muslim Ummah
As salaamu 'alaikum wa
Ramadan
Mubarak wa
Eid
Mubarak!
"O you who believe, fasting is prescribe to you as it was prescribed
to those before you that you may become God-conscious."
I began in the name of Allah, The Beneficient, The Compassionate. I
seek refuge in Allah from Misleading and from being misled and being
betrayed into ignorance by others. I ask Allah to guide my heart and
to guide my tongue. First, I would like to thank everyone who have
supported me and have kept me in their memory and duaas.
The Creator's way is circumscribed by Justice and clothed in Mercy.
Justice is a Master Virtue, no light matter, no civil rights issue,
just Truth and falsehood, no nicely calculated less or
more. Truth is a Trust; and falsehood is Treason.
Huey P. Long, former governor of Louisiana, was once asked if Fascism
would come to America; he said, "yes, Fascism will come to
America,
but it will be called Patriotism."
The Struggle aganist Fascism is in fact, a Global Struggle, and
Struggle is our Mantle. "Truth comes and falsehood is vanquished,
and falsehood by its nature is bound to perish."
The absence of Conscious Struggle based upon Truth, allows the Human to
be slaughtered by ideologies. To be successful in struggle, one must
have a consciousness and a discipline molded and shaped by a high
moral system which is favored by Allah. The Prophet (pbuh) said:
"If you imitate a people, then you are of that people."
There are no new answers for old problems. It is futile to invest in
a process that is not only corrupt but it is bankrupt. You can't vote
your way out of this situation. If voting could change the system,
it would be illegal. The Muslims vote five times a day for Allah, His
Messenger, and the Righteous leaders among them, and the Masaajid
are their polling places.
A society that kills its unborn and disrespects it old, can they be
called civilized? A gang who kills women and children in air raids
and missle attacks, are they really to be viewed as civilized? Does
the civilized define people who throw away food, while their neighbor
starve, as being of them? Western Society has the distinction of
giving graphic meaning to the statement of
"Coming from Barbarism to Decadence without going through Civilization."
"TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION IS WORSE THAN SLAUGHTER."
Blessed are those who struggle.
Oppression is worse than the grave.
Better to die for a Noble Cause
Than to live and die a slave.
In Peace Strong!
In Battle Strongest!!!
Allah's slave
Jamil Al-Amin
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WAR NEWS: From our
media
monitor
[Latest: Friday, November 19: U.S. troops, in 10 armored vehicles, with
Iraqi
renegades, raided the famous Abu Hanifa mosque in north west Baghdad
during Friday prayers, killed three Muslims and arrested 40. Source
MSNBC
TV 9.35 AM EDT and 10.03 EDT.]
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Day 11 in Fallujah: 'Pockets' of Resistance: U.S. Losses now:
51 Killed, 400 wounded
The U.S. military is in a hurry to declare victory. It's become an
embarrassment for the marines that with a force of 22,000 they could
not induce a poorly armed motley force of 1500
mujahideen
to surrender.
On November 14, the U.S. had announced that the 'back' of the
resistance had been broken.
However, 'pockets' of resistance emerged on November 15. The situation
became so serious that the U.S. once again launched air attacks and
artillery strikes against the 'pockets.'
On November 16, it appeared that the west side of the city, known as
Julan, was still in Islamic hands. The U.S. gave this curious
explanation for the situation that fighters who had been driven out
of the city had SWUM BACK ACROSS THE EUPHRATES RIVER!
New Trend
analysts are trying to figure that out: how could fighters swim back
without being detected by American helicopters? And if they did, where
they find their weapons, or did they swim across with machine guns held
high above the water [as in Hollywood movies]?
In November 17, the U.S. acknowledged [indirectly] that mujahideen were
still active in Fallujah by launching new air strikes in the city, which
implies that the resistance was too strong to be dislodged by the
marines themselves.
On November 18, the U.S. declared once again that the resistance in
Fallujah was at an end and, once again, its "back" had been broken.
However, the same evening,
NBC
News reported that U.S. forces were still fighting "pockets" of
resistance in Fallujah.
These 4 days of fighting have not been easy for the U.S. It's losses
are now reported [source:
NPR]
as 51 killed and 400 wounded, which indicates that 13 U.S. troops
were killed and 125 wounded in the 4 days after the first claim that
the 'back' of the resistance had been broken.
The U.S. is sticking to its claim that 1200 "insurgents" have been
killed which is contradicted by
Arab
sources which say only 200 mujahideen have been killed. Observers say
that 1000 may be the civilians killed in the fierce U.S. bombardment
who are also being counted as "insurgents."
The Islamic strategy seems to have been to withdraw the main Islamic
formations before the U.S. attack and leave only die hard fidayeen
units behind, working in groups of 2 or 4 or at the most 6, to keep
the Americans busy.
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New Trend Analysts say: It's a Great Victory for
Islam
THE NATURE OF THE CONFLICT IN FALLUJAH:
Urban Guerrillas Challenge the Best of America's forces
The forces are unevenly matched. In fact there is no comparison in
numbers or weaponry.
22,000 U.S. troops with 2,000 Iraqi mercenaries attacked an Islamic
volunteer force of about 1,500.
The U.S. juggernaut was preceded by air strikes and heavy artillery
shelling. Finally when the American forces advanced, they were led by
hundreds of tanks whose armor is impenetrable for the weapons the
mujahideen possess.
The Islamic fighters were armed with rifles, machine guns, rpgs and a
few mortars.
The main resource of the guerrilla fighter is the civilian population.
Popular resistance cannot survive without the people's support. However,
over a month before the assault, the U.S. air force carried out daily
air attacks on Fallujah under the pretext of trying to hit
Abu Musa'ab al-Zarqawi, the Islamic leader from Jordan, a country in
which 91% of the people oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The air
attacks left more than 300 civilians killed and more than 3000 wounded.
The most important impact of the air campaign was most of the population
of Fallujah evacuated the city when it became apparent that a large
American force was going to smash its way in. Thus the fighters were
left without their support base.
The following factors made the battle into a victory for Islam:
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NOT ONE OF THE MUJAHIDEEN SURRENDERED though some were captured when
they were wounded or ran out of ammunition. This is the new Islamic
reality: A tiny Islamic force is faced with OVERWHELMING AMERICAN FIRE
POWER and decides to fight it out.
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The mujahideen fought hard and inflicted 451 casualties on a well
protected American force.
["Pockets" of resistance are continuing the battle.]
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The Imams of the city's many mosques, even under U.S. air attacks,
continued to rally the fighters with calls of "Allahu Akbar." This
appears to have been the major reason why the U.S. shelled and bombed
mosques and then sent its troops into the mosques to desecrate and
vandalize them.
[Even Muslims previously pro-U.S. now admit that this is a war against
Islam, and has nothing to do with the "liberation" of Iraq.]
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The U.S. military clearly identified the PEOPLE of Fallujah as its
enemies and went house to house in an orgy of destruction, pillage
and murder. Every Iraqi male was seen as an "insurgent."
This is a clear defeat for the U.S. as it has destroyed all its
pretensions that it had a "higher"
mission in Iraq, and that "Saddam was bad and we are good."
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Fallujah has become a rallying cry for Muslims all over the world.
The shame of thousands of Iraqis in Saddam's army surrendering before
the U.S. forces in the Gulf War has been erased.
WIDESPREAD ATROCITIES:
New Trend's sources say that the U.S. behavior in Fallujah has been
revealed only to some extent by the U.S.
media.
However, even this little which has come out indicates the desire to
destroy an entire city.
NBC's picture of an atrocity IN A MOSQUE gives some idea of what has
been going on. The video shows a U.S. marine marching into a mosque.
He sees two Iraqis, just about dead, unarmed lying on the floor of the
mosque. He looks at one of them, an old man, and screams: "He's f...ing
faking dead." Then he shoots the old man in the head and says: "Now
he's dead!"
Immediately after the video appeared on
Al-Jazeerah,
the U.S. TV system went into high gear to DEFEND the atrocity.
CNN
and MSNBC defended the murder quite skillfully, but on
FOX TV,
O'Reilly, known for his
racism
and jingoism, went into a patriotic frenzy and declared that the
video actually "exonerates" and justifies what the soldier did. The
poor soldier was in danger, according to O'Reilly. Buchanan, another
racist, came on MSNBC and declared that reporters, even though
"embedded" with and controlled by the military should simply be
banned from the war zone. Gone are the days of the stories of
"victory" and "liberation" when the American army was plunging
towards Baghdad and media people were in high demand.
[Now that the NBC video is being looked at carefully, it appears
that there are other Iraqis lying dead on the mosque floor. Probably
the brave marines had killed a number of unarmed people before the
central hero of the story, O'Reilly's poster boy, finally shot the
old man.]
[Note 2: NONE of the U.S.
media
had the moral courage to discuss the fact that all these
killings were carried out in a mosque.]
[Note 3: The brainwashing process in America has become so advanced
that no atrocities are acknowledged unless they appear on a video,
and then they are controverted. Without the Internet, most Americans
would have no idea what their heroes are up to.]
MOSUL Back and Forth
The fighting in Mosul ebbs and flows every day. The mujahideen
successfully diverted more than 1200 U.S. troops from Fallujah to Mosul.
When the U.S. forces entered the city, the mujahideen withdrew, and
then started raiding the Americans the next day.
Popular uprisings in Ramadi, Samarrah, Beigi, Bakubah and other Sunni
Muslim towns are keeping American troops engaged.
SISTANI WAITS FOR AMERICA'S SUPPORT
[In the meantime, Ali Sistani is supporting U.S. organized "elections:
while heavy fighting continues in major population centers. He was
quite untouched by the American siege of Najaf itself and brought
about the retreat of Moqteda al-Sadr. Sistani is said to be the symbol
of
Iranian-U.S.
cooperation. He claims that 60% of the Iraqi people are Shias though
there is no proof of such a majority. Sources say that the Shia and
Sunni Arabs are 40% each while 18% are Kurds and 2% other nationalities.]
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IMPORTANT
PAKISTANI
NEWS:
Abdullah Mahsud Breaks out of Pak Army Trap:
November 17: In an interview with the daily Ummat of Karachi, Islamic
fighter Abdullah Mahsud pointed out that Pakistan army's Corp
Commander Lt. General Safdar Hussain had assured him that the army
would negotiate with him. However, when he went back to his village,
the Pakistani troops surrounded his village. He broke out of the
encirclement and no longer trusts the army. He said, all this is
being done by Musharraf in obedience to America. He vowed to fight to
the end.
[Earlier a Pakistani mujahideen hero Naik Muhammad was similarly tricked
by the Pakistan army and then killed in a missile strike while he was
using his satellite phone.]
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Jihad Leader Says: Attacks on Shia and Other Places of Worship are Haram
[Forbidden] by Islamic Law
Speaking in Karachi on November 3, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, leader of
Pakistan's biggest Jihad movement, Jamaat ad-Da'wa [basically involved
in liberation of Kashmir],
condemned attacks on places of worship in Pakistan. He said that
attacks on Shia Imam Bargahs, Sunni mosques and all places of worship
are strictly forbidden [Haram] under Islamic Law.
Hafiz Saeed said that these attacks are NOT being carried out by
Al-Qaida nor by anyone in the Jihad movement but are the work of the
enemies of Islam coming in from outside.
He hailed the struggle of the Muslims of Iraq. Against
India,
he said the Jihad will continue regardless of the multi billion
Rupee fence India has placed on the control line.
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KASHMIR:
FIGHTING ERUPTS as INDIAN PM Visits Occupied NATION
On November 17, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Srinagar,
the capital of Occupied Kashmir. Just before his arrival, two mujahideen
fought a three hour gun battle with an Indian army unit before they
were killed [near the Stadium where Singh was to speak].
Earlier gun men opened fire on police in in Zeena pura killing three
policemen. In Budrawa, government agents set fire to a Muslm's house.
The house owner's wife and two relatives were killed in the fire.
In Srinagar, as well as in other towns, there was a COMPLETE general
strike to protest the visit of the Indian Prime Minister at the call
of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference. All educational, business,
and both private and government institutions remained closed.
Heavily armed Indian army units are patrolling the streets.
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