Jamaat al-Muslimeen International Press Release
Assad's death: A Crack in the Anti-Islamic Alliance
Remember the Martyrs of Hamah (1982): Free Syrian Political Prisoners
Many of our readers are either physically or struggle-wise too
young to remember the horrendous crimes of Syria's President (deceased
June 10, 2000) Hafez al-Assad. Hence it's also difficult for them to
understand why his death should be considered a sign from Allah that the victory
of Islam is coming:
THINK OF THIS ONE FACT: With one of the biggest armies in the
middle-east, Assad's Syria DID NOT FIRE EVEN ONE SHOT AT ISRAEL IN THE
LAST 27 Years, although it was technically in a state of war with Israel!
The trick he played with his people was: "we are at war with Israel:
Israel may attack at any time. So civil liberties have to be suspended."
Assad was a symbol of the tragedy of our Muslim nation worldwide. We
are indeed a people whose blood and honor were made cheap by killers
like him who were foisted on the Muslim world by the two superpowers (one of
whom is now thankfully defunct and the other wallowing in corruption).
Background: Assad and his tiny Alawite clan were given weapons and
firepower by the French and the European powers. In the atmosphere of
intrigue in Syria, the Alawites became stronger and stronger and
finally took over. They were European in their thinking and Syrian only in name.
Assad and the Ba'ath Party (taught by a Christian Arab) started a
campaign of Arab nationalism to break down the bonds of Islam. Many
Syrians (like people in other Arab countries) were fooled by slogans of Arabism
and Arab unity.
Through this subterfuge of "nationalism" a tiny sect, the Alawites,
took over a mainstream Muslim country.
THE COUNTERPOINT CAME FROM THE IKHWAN al-MUSLIMOON. Hafez al-Assad
tried to crush them by force, but they responded to his force with
their own militancy and force (often not well-thought out.)
After a series of clashes between the Alawites and the Ikhwan, there
was an Islamic uprising in the city of Hamah in February 1982. The
Islamists did not realize how ruthless Assad was and the vast amounts of weaponry
he had received from the USSR.
Assad not only crushed the Islamic uprising, HE TURNED ON THE WHOLE
CITY OF HAMAH and levelled it with artillery and tank assaults.
Thousands of civilians were killed, often execution style after being arrested.
ASSAD's biographer Patrick Seale writes with great satisfaction about how
Assad's forces turned mosques and homes into rubble. LATER THE REGIME BUILT
CASINOS AND HOTELS ON THE SITES OF THE MOSQUES.
MUSLIM INATTENTION TO MEDIA: The Ikhwan did not realize that without
media, you can't get support. Assad sealed off Hamah from the rest off
Syria and then his controlled media told the rest of the country that the
Israelis were "behind" the "disturbances" in Hamah!
DID YOU WATCH CNN TODAY?: Some of the dead dictator's tricks were put
on display by his followers. A few hundred of his followers (he kept
large numbers of agents and thugs on his payroll) started chanting Islamic
slogans, to create confusion and disinformation.
Yet his security forces were ready. They knew the people might not
be buying the disinformation. There were absolutely no spontaneous
demonstrations of sorrow by the masses. Only his cronies were crying.
(Almost comparable to the situation when the traitor Sadat of Egypt was
executed by the martyr Khalid al-Islambouli.)
IN THE NAME OF DECENCY: If the situation in the middle east is to be
saved from major upheavals in the future, the decent thing to do is to:
RELEASE THE THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM PRISONERS IN ASSAD'S DUNGEONS. These include
hundreds of ISLAMIC WOMEN. (Where are the defenders of WOMEN's RIGHTS?)
These Muslimas have suffered for decades.
UNDERSTANDING THE REAL TYRANNY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD: Look at the
Syrian propaganda film clips being shown on CNN (Assad PRAYING Sunni-style in
a mosque, with alert security agents "praying" behind him; Assad being
kissed a by a girl crying at the great honor to her, etc.) What these pictures
show is a RULING CLIQUE STEEPED IN THE WESTERN WAY OF LIFE. They all dress
with suit and tie: their women wear skirts with sleeveless shirts.
THIS RULING CLIQUE, with all its suits and ties, shaven faces,
HAS COMMITTED SOME OF THE MOST HORRENDOUS CRIMES against humanity.
Torture of men and families (in each other's presence) is their starting point in
"interrogation."
If you look at the western media, you see/read/hear of the "Islamic
fundamentalists" as the problem, as the "terrorists", violators of
international law, enemies of women, (opposed to education, look at
their long beards!). Something is obviously missing here.
MASSACRES OF PALESTINIANS: Assad's list of crimes is long and
sickening, but at least the massacres of the Palestinians (Tel al-Zaatar,
etc) should be mentioned here. Look at the traitor Arafat: he has
announced three days of mourning for Assad, totally forgetting the slaughter of
the Palestinians by the ruthless tyrant.
King Hussein of Jordan provided a quiet border to Israel for decades.
The sons of Islam seeking to fight Israel found that Israel's frontline
of defense was King Hussain's army.
The same was true of Syria's frontline. His propaganda was so clever
that Muslims did not notice that even when Israeli planes raided Hizbullah
targets in the Bekaa valley and lazily monitored Beirut, the Syrian
anti aircraft batteries never fired a shot!
THE GULF WAR: Assad's pretense that he was a stalwart of Arab
nationalism was blown when he joined the American forces in the war on
Iraq. The UN embargo on Iraq is strictly enforced by Syria.
CLINTON'S SUPPORT FOR "DEMOCRACY" and Syria: Tyranny has become so
much a part of Syria's daily life that there was no problem "amending
the Syrian Constitution" so that Assad's son Bashar could become the new
"king."
In the sad messages sent out by Clinton and Albright on Assad's death,
there is absolutely no recognition of THIS MEDIEVAL REGIME where a son
becomes king after the father dies.
This terrible crime is being committed against a progressive Muslim
nation which has produced countless men of learning (most of them
forced into exile by the regime.)
A SIGN FROM ALLAH: We consider it a sign from Allah that just at the
point when a great fraud was being perpetrated against the Muslim world
by Israel and Syria's dictator in the name of "peace", the dictator kicked
the bucket.
The future belongs to Islam. Although the voices of our Syrian family
are still choked by the elaborate secret police and intelligence
agencies of the regime, the crack is clearly showing.
Allahu Akbar wa lillahil Hamd!
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Free Imam Jamil al-Amin. Free all political prisoners
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FREE THE ISLAMIC WOMEN IMPRISONED IN ASSAD's DUNGEONS
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