New Trend Magazine
{commentary and analysis by BUT SHIKAN (Idol Breaker)}
BLOC VOTE FOR BUSH WAS A STRATEGIC BLUNDER
Time to reject all "terrorist" labels and join the Ummah
Say: "I do warn you according to revelation" but the deaf will not hear
the
call, even when they are warned! (The Qur'an 21:45)
"The (Last) Hour will not be established till my community conforms to
(unIslamic) behavior like previous nations did, foot by foot, step by
step."
Someone asked: O messenger of Allah, like the Persians and the Romans?
He
replied: Surely, like them. (Hadith of Muhammad, pbuh, from Abu
Huraira,ra,
collected by Imam Bukhari.)
Observers of the Bush administration's behavior pattern after his
election agree that its policies have two broad interlinked aspects:
1. Support for Israel.
2. Opposition to Islam and all independence-oriented Muslims groups and
nations.
There is no inconsistency in this pattern:
1. Bombing raids on Iraq and continuing sanctions on Iraq.
2. Tightening of sanctions on Afghanistan.
3. Use of F-16s by Israel against defenseless Palesinians without
significant
negative comment from the U.S.
4. Support for Israeli assassination of Islamists with CIA boss Tenet
specifically designated to monitor Arafat's efforts on this front.
5. Growing U.S. support for SPLA's efforts to destabilize Sudan.
6. Support for Algeria's regime against the Islamic movement.
7. CHECHNYA WAS COMPLETELY LEFT OUT OF DISCUSSIONS between Bush and
Putin.
Russia is free to commit genocide in Chechnya.
8. Growing U.S-Israeli-Indian collusion.
9. Pakistani President pushed into talks with bloodthirsty Indian
government
in an attempt to sidestep the freedom movement in Kashmir.
10. Arrests of Egyptian Islamists in Bosnia at behest of IFOR and
Egypt's
Hosni Mubarak.
11. Moves against Albanians in support of Macedonia.
The immigrant Muslim communities were misled by self-appointed
'leaders' who called for a bloc vote in support of Bush. Previously
these
groups were known as bootlickers of Clinton and Albright. When they saw
Americans disgusted with Clinton and chances of a Bush win, they
decided to
switch their bootlicking to the Republicans. Their behavior has swung
between
that of knaves and fools. Unfortunately they are able to influence
entire
immigrant communities owing to their financial resources and the dream
many
immigrants have of alliance with the American ruling class.
The Bloc vote not only was a strategic blunder because it misread
the
deep Bush support for Israel, but also because it undermined unity
between
African-American and immigrant Muslims (which was already fragile).
The time has come for CAIR, AMC etc who called for bloc vote to
apologize and disband. Those Muslims who care for the future of the
ummah
should ask:
1. Does anyone know the salaries of CAIR/AMC etc Directors? (Do inform
the
ummah.)
2. Do you know that these people have security clearance with the FBI
and
thus can legitimately be called agents of the U.S. government? Why
don't they
tell the ummah how they got their top security clearance?
3. Where did CAIR/AMC get the money to set up offices in areas of
Washington
which are expensive even for the Jews? Who are their wealthy
supporters?
Does the Muslim ummah know that:
1. These organizations (AMC/CAIR) supported the Jews in the case of
Shaikh
Omar Abdel Rahman? (We have documentary evidence which can be mailed to
interested readers.)
2. CAIR behaved in a treacherous way at a key point in the case of Imam
Jamil
al-Amin. (Since then it has carried out PR exercises to repair the
damage.)
3. CAIR called for cooperation with the FBI. (CAIR should tell us how
often
its people have met the FBI people.) (We can mail out the text to you.)
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The Islamic way out for CAIR/AMC is to withdraw all communion with the
White
House/Congress/Pentagon/FBI, do public TAWBAH and ask for the ummah's
forgiveness for misleading it.
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One dirty trick the Clinton administration played on the Muslims of
America,
which the Bush adminstration has continued to play, was to declare ALL
ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS WHICH BELIEVE IN JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL as 'TERRORIST.'
CAIR
and AMC etc fell for it.
Under U.S. law itself, such labelling is unacceptable. No organization
or
person can be declared a terrorist until brought to trial and proven
beyond a
reasonable doubt to be terrorist.
The Muslims self-declared 'leaders' led the immigrant community into
this
trap that today Israel can commit any crime against Muslims and its
actions
are justified by the US as actions against terrorists. The following
Islamic
movements, all authentic expressions of the Islamic resistance, have
two
things in common: All are anti-Israel and ALL are listed as terrorists
by the
USA and Israel:
1. Al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya (Egypt) led by Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman.
2. Taliban (led by Mullah Omar)
3. Al-Qaida (led by Osama bin Laden)
4. Hamas
5. Islamic Jihad
6. Hizbut Tahrir (especially in Uzbekistan)
7. Hizbullah
8. FIS (Algeria)
9. Harakat al-Ansar (Kashmir)
10. Lashkare Taiba (Pakistan) (not yet listed but the Jews are
clamoring for
it)
11. Sudan's National Islamic Front and Sudan's government
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America's Muslims can become a national force if they UNITE to bring
about
FREEDOM for IMAM JAMIL al-AMIN. (National rallies are planned, reports
Imam
Khalil Abdur Rahman, in Atlanta, in mid-September.)
The World's Muslims should unite to free Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman and all
political prisoners in USA.
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The best site for reporting on IMAM JAMIL Al-AMIN:
www.NewTrendMag.org
Click on java frames, click on NEWS, go to IMAM JAMIL. You'll find
original,
Islamic reporting, not copied from Atlanta Constitution paper, from DAY
ONE
of the Imam's arrest.
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New Trend urges sisters to join Jamaat al-Muslimeen to become partners
in the
decision-making processes of the Islamic work being done. TAQWA, not
gender,
is the standard for Islamic leadership.
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LISTEN TO HISTORIC SPEECHES BY IMAM WARITHUDDIN UMAR, BR. JIHAD ABDUL
MUMIT,
IMAM ALI SIDDIQUI and others on video. Set of three videos available
for $30
from: New Trend, POB 356, Kingsville, MD 21087
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IMAM JAMIL IS INNOCENT. Audio tape of interview conducted by Br. Bilal
Sunni
Ali. Very inspiring. Available from same address for $3 only.
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