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Zulq'idah 21, 1428, December 1, 2007. #92
Amazing report on 103 African children narrowly saved from
European slavery.
Scroll all the way down.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen [News] [2 items only]
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 21234
Outreach: Baltimore Muslims urged to Protest Rushdie,
Albright invited by Baltimore Jews: Jamaat Shoora
Resolutions on Imam Jamil, Iran-Iraq
November 30, 2007: After Juma' prayers, Jamaat al-Muslimeen
gave literature to 207 Muslims at Masjid Rahma, the big
immigrant Islamic center on the west side of Baltimore. The
community structure in this mosque is changing. The majority
are still Indo-Pakistanis but a large number of Africans are
visible. Most Arabs seem to have moved to a mosque on the
east side. There were a few African-Americans too.
The literature consisted of the resolutions of Jamaat
al-Muslimeen's National Islamic Shoora which expressed
opposition to the disrespect for women in the media, condemned
the glorification of adultery and homosexuality, urged the
release of Imam Jamil and other political prisoners, exposed
Zionist plans to attack Iran and demanded the withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Iraq and NATO forces from Afghanistan. The
Shoora also supported the rights of Haitian, Mexican and other
Central-South American immigrants.
The 4th page of the handout invited Muslims to speak out
against the Jewish community's invitation to honor Salman
Rushdie and Medeleine Albright, two of the biggest Islam
haters of our time. [Alhamdullilah the literature was well
received. The pro-government elements in this mosque appeared
to be quite helpless.]
SUDAN NO TEDDY BEAR!
U.S. Muslims Condemn Cultural Invasion of Sudan, Egypt,
all Muslim Lands by Britain and Zionists
Sudanese Masses Oppose Effort to Name a Toy after the Prophet
Muhammad [peace be on him]
Press Release: November 30, 2007: Jamaat al-Muslimeen USA
Ameer Dr. Kaukab Siddique [Maryland] and Shoora leader Imam
Badi Ali [North Carolina] have condemned the cultural invasion
of Sudan, Egypt, Jordan and other Muslim countries by Britain
[in particular] and Zionist/imperialist forces in general.
Islam does not allow the trivialization of religion. Giving a
toy the name of the leader of the Ummah, pbuh, is a
serious violation meant to take away the sacred and the holy
from religion. Here are important aspects of the violation:
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Imaging of the Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] is not allowed in Islam.
Imaging in the form of an animal is a clear insult.
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Consumerism aims at reducing the sacred and the holy to
commodities. Islam opposes such attempts.
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We can see in USA itself, the process of trivialization and
consumerism to which Jesus, pbuh, has been subjected by
Zionist/corporate forces. The Muslim world must not allow
such to happen to Islam.
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We can see in Egypt and Jordan, the corruption which has been
steadily introduced by Euro-American-Zionist interests. The
use of liquor and the disrespect for women has gone up
tremendously. In Egypt, more and more cases of rape are being
reported. Night clubs and uncontrolled "tourism" are
undermining the Islamic way of life.
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Israel is now ready to strike at Gaza. Demonstrations against
the "Annapolis Summit" by Palestinians in Ramallah, Nablus,
El-Khalil [Hebron] and other West Bank towns were put down
with great brutality by Mahmoud Abbas' security forces, the
way such are done in Egypt and Jordan. Looks like the
thuggish style of the Arab regimes has been successfully
transplanted into occupied Palestine.
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Preparations are underway for a quick strike against Iran,
being engineered by Israeli interests in the U.S.
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MEDIA FRENZY AGAINST SUDAN mislead Americans. Our analysis of
the major TV media is as follows:
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They did not report that the complaint against the British
teacher was placed by the PARENTS of the students whom she
"helped" to name a teddy bear as "Muhammad." [See AFP report
and Washington Times November 27.]
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The court did not try to give the British teacher any serious
punishment. Fifteen days in prison is a minor punishment for
an insult [or unintended slur] aimed at the most revered
person in Islam [pbuh]. In USA too, teaching of anti-American
ideas has had serious consequences. In New York, a school
principal in an ARABIC LANGUAGE school was forced to leave
and was replaced by a Jewish teacher, although she had not
insulted anyone's religion. In U.S. public schools, prayers
are not allowed. It is unimaginable that a U.S. teacher would
be allowed to teach students to trivialize their religion.
Prof. ABDELHALEEM ASHQAR has been given 11 years in prison
for refusing to talk to a court about CRIMES HE DID
NOT COMMIT.
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On Friday, November 30, the Sudanese people, in their
thousands, came out to protest against the insult aimed at
Prophet Muhammad, pbuh. The media focused on ONE MAN in the
crowd who was carrying a cleaver. It was obvious, however,
from the video clips on CNN that ALL the other demonstrators
were unarmed.
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The media are projecting the bogus idea that in A MUSLIM
COUNTRY, the Muslim masses should not be demonstrating
against an insult aimed at the leader of the Ummah of Islam.
They are ignoring the fact that the international atmosphere
has been vitiated by the cartoons of the Prophet, pbuh,
published in Denmark, Norway and Germany. The world is now a
global village and Islam is ONE UMMAH. The Sudanese do not
ignore attacks on Islam.
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The MEDIA did not permit any Islamic scholar to speak on
behalf of the Sudanese people. U.S. Muslims like Br.
Hodari Ali, Sis. Ashira and others have been to
Sudan but they were not invited by CNN and others. Instead
Yahya Hendi, a person who knows little about Islam,
was made into a spokesman of U,S. Muslims. He claimed on CNN
[Nov. 29] that it's beneficial for Islam to name a teddy bear
after the Prophet, pbuh, to facilitate understanding of
Islam! CNN should know that all Muslims worth the name know
about the Prophet, pbuh, and naming a teddy bear does
not help.
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The corporate TV media also took the line that naming a toy
after the Prophet, pbuh, is no big deal because Muhammad is a
common name among Muslims. Such foggy thinking does not help
in understanding Islam or Sudan. People name their children
"Muhammad" because the Prophet, pbuh, is the most revered
person. The media's line is self-contradictory.
Peace in the world requires understanding and acceptance of
the Islamic way of life. Indoctrination of children to
trivialize Islam will be opposed by all aware Muslims. What
the Zionists have done to Jesus, pbuh, in America should not
be allowed to happen to Muhammad, pbuh, in Sudan.
Editorial note: While the imprisonment of a British woman for
15 days in Sudan became major news, the horrible slaughter of
an American woman by an Israeli professor at a prestigious
U.S. university hardly made it out of Philadelphia. The
American people are thus manipulated by the power structure.
New Trend Special Report
Jewish-Israeli Professor Smashed Wife to Death:
Taught at Prestigious University of Pennsylvania
Will Get Off with Light Sentence:
A Typical Case of Women's "Rights" in Jewish America
Prof Rafael Robb, an Israeli Jew, confessed on November 29
that he had murdered his wife Ellen while she was wrapping
Christmas presents. The corporate media skillfully buried the
story so that it was not transmitted in any recognizable way
outside Philadelphia. Here is a synopsis of the key points
the media, those few who reported it, either omitted entirely
or hid them so far down in the story that only a very patient
reader would find them.
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The media did not have the heart to report that Prof. Robb is
a foreigner, an Israeli Jew, who moved to America from the
"Promised Land." Amazingly, the local paper, Philadelphia
Inquirer, the only one which gave front page coverage owing
to its Philadelphia audience, left this fact out. One paper
sneakily conceded at the end of the story that Robb was a
"native of Israel." By contrast, an Israeli [left-wing] paper
Ha'aretz, stated the most important fact about the Jewish
professor in its headline. American media are more Israeli
than the Israelis.
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The professor, the prosecution and the defense seem to be in
conllusion. The acceptance of the confession means that the
professor will be sentenced only for "voluntary manslaughter,"
not for first degree murder! He may get as little as 4 to 5
years minus the year or so he has already served. Even the
maximim will be 20, which is very unliklly.
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[By cntrast, 4 African American girls are being charged with
FIRST DEGREE attempted murder, although they are pre-teens,
15-17, in an incident in Edgewood, Maryland. {latest issue of
Aegis bi-weekly}
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The professor claimed that he got carried away with anger
because his estranged wife's taking away his daughter on a
holiday would have meant the girl would miss her homework. So
he started hitting her with a press up steel bar. Amazingly,
the court admitted this plea. It ignored the fact that Robb
had been abusing and battering his wife for years. It
certainly does not look like a case of sudden new anger. {He
claims, she "pushed him." That too was accepted by the court!}
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The media too ignored the years of abuse inflicted on the
woman and claimed that the woman's family was happy that the
case did not go to a proper trial. This claim as the bizarre
as the "report" by the Washington Post that a woman in Kabul
was happy that her entire family was wiped out by the U.S.
air force because it "liberated" the Afghan people!
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No attempt was made by the prosecution to discuss the issue
of ISRAELIS living in the U.S. and the crimes they commit with
the connivance of the American Jewish community. Readers might
remember the case of the greatest Rabbi on the east coast of
the U.S., Neulander, who had his Jewish wife murdered by a
Jewish hit man and explained to the hit man that she deserved
to be killed because she was against Israel! [New Trend
published the report. A book about the case is also available.]
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No attempt was made to explore Prof. Robb's family in Israel
or the Synagogue he used to go to or the books he read which
incited him to commit such a dastardly deed. Remember, when
'Ahmed 'Abdel Sattar
,
the Egyptian-American opponent of the Mubarak regime, was
convicted, the prosecution brought up a copy of the
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion" which was found in his
home, among hundreds of other books, as "evidence" that he
was a terrorist-supporter!
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What does the murder say about the prestigious University of
Pennsylvania? Again, no discussion! Robb was a tenured
professor at U. Pen. [as it is lovingly called.] He taught
"Game Theory" and there are indications that his expertise
in this field led him to believe that he could get away with
the murder. First reports show that he claimed that a window
was broken by a intruder who came in and killed his wife.
However, an investigation showed that the window had been
broken from the inside. The steel bar, the murder weapon, has
disappeared and Robb confessed that he got rid of it in an
expert way.
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Shouldn't U.Pen be CLOSED DOWN for harboring a cold blooded
killer? Don't we hear a steady stream of demands from the
corporate media that Pakistani MEDRESSAS SHOULD BE CLOSED
DOWN because some "terrorists" came out of them?
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The murder was horrible in the extreme. The bloody details
are available on the original reports from the police blotter.
Only one writer had the courage to report in the TV channels
what Robb did, though very briefly, leaving out the graphic
details. [The reporter, incidentally, like the Haaretz, is
Jewish.] Here it is.
"Ellen was bludgeoned so badly investigators initially thought
she'd been blasted at close range with a shotgun or rifle. The
DA was prepared to introduce testimony from experts suggesting
this was an "enraged blitz attack" by someone who knew the
victim and was trying to "wipe her face off the map." ... He
[Robb] admitted staging evidence of a break-in at the house
and disposing of the weapon and bloody clothes in a dumpster
in Chinatown." [Rick Leventhal, Fox News.]
HOW TO SAVE DARFUR: by William Reed
[Published by special permission of the author to New Trend.
Published first in the Washington Times on November 23] [The
Save Darfur Coalition has spent $15 million but none of it on
the people. The "genocide" propaganda against Sudan is not
accepted by African nations The author notes the actiivities
of rebel groups which are obstructing peace- Editor]
The way to "save" the people of Darfur, Sudan is simple; help
bring about a lasting peace there. Attaining a comprehensive
peace for people in that region to return home and build their
homes and lives will require a change in the mentality and
approaches we employ toward the people and the issues there.
World leaders, such as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon are
trying to improve the terrifying humanitarian situation in
Darfur and eastern Chad and institute processes that will
allow the 2 million refugees to return home, receive stipends
and live productive lives. In contrast, Washington's
politicians continue practices that cuddle rebel combatants,
dodge peace talks and cling to demands that "a large and
robust" force of armed peacekeepers be placed in the region.
Instead of bellicose demands for "strong sanctions" and
Western interference against the government of Sudan, isn't
it time for us to cease hindering processes that could produce
peace? It's time that Americans concerned about the Darfur's
humanitarian situation be told the truth: there is a war
occurring there and peace can only occur when the
shooting stops?
People want peace for Darfur, Washington wants a more
pugnacious approach. To the chagrin of Save Darfur lobbyists,
a group of international elder statespersons that recently
visited in Darfur say activists must change tactics and begin
to "promote peace". The group included Nobel laureates former
United States President Jimmy Carter and South African
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, British tycoon Richard Branson, and
women and children's rights advocate and wife of Nelson
Mandela, Graca Machel. Carter said Washington's use of the
term genocide to describe situations in Darfur was "unhelpful".
He said: "There is a legal definition of genocide and Darfur
does not meet that legal standard… I don't think it qualifies
to be called genocide."
Through the powerful Save Darfur Coalition lobby's practices,
Washington is sole world capital claiming that "genocide" is
occurring in the ongoing war. Washington politicians and
lobbyists cite "genocide is occurring in Darfur" with
regularity in Congress, political forums and even on the
Presidential campaign circuit. Using the term as an issue
that crosses all religious, race, class, and political
boundaries Save Darfur activists have captured Americans'
attention, but like "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" we
are along in those proclamations. Although they live right
next door, no African leader labels events in Darfur as
"genocide" and an UN-appointed commission of inquiry said it
found "no genocide".
The Save Darfur Coalition spent $15 million in 2006 and none
of that money went to aid any groups or people on the ground
in Darfur. They say they help the people of Darfur by
"utilizing media outreach, public education, targeted
coalition building and grass roots mobilization to pressure
policymakers and other decision-makers in the U.S. and abroad
to help people of Darfur". Their agenda toward the Darfur
issue is U.S. interference, anti-Chinese involvement, and
downplaying the efforts and suggestions made by countries in
the African Union (AU). The movement's current activities do
not illustrate it as having as its abiding goal being focused
on helping people on the ground in Darfur.
The conflicts in Darfur, and the region, stretch back to the
1950s. Many Americans forget that the countries in Africa
were artificially made by imperialists with no regard to
ethnicity or cultural heritage. Subtle racism is now at play
when in our self-absorbed beliefs we think that we understand
their problems despite realistic facts that we don't know
their histories, or dispositions. Earnest activists and
advocates now need to address "alternative" means in order to
save Darfur.
Peace talks on Darfur continue to stall. Negotiations between
the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels to have occurred in
late October have now been postponed until December. United
Nations and African Union envoys complained that bringing the
rebels together was akin to "herding cats." Though they
started the fighting that has spawn the Darfur disaster,
there are more than a dozen splinter rebel factions and the
main rebel chiefs say they boycotted the talks because the
U.N. and AU mediators had invited lesser groups.
South African President Thabo Mbeki recently urged the world
to stand tough against rebels in Sudan who refuse to take
part in peace talks. He said "The international community
should take firm action against anybody who willfully absents
themselves from these negotiations, choosing to engage in
violent actions against the innocent people of Darfur".
The Save Darfur "solution" for Sudan and Darfur is one much of
Africa resents. We need to cease acting like an imperial
master, imposing neo-colonialist controls from the West, and
instead enable the AU to decide and implement their own
solutions. People concerned about saving Darfur need to help
the AU become a more dominant presence and authority in
establishing peacemaking processes.
(William Reed is President of the Black Press Foundation, on
the Advisory Board of the World Media Association and
co-founder of the Give Peace A Chance Coalition, GPAC)
Al-Awda Statement On Annapolis Conference
With the US-sponsored international conference in Annapolis
MD, Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition,
reiterates once again that a just and lasting peace can only
be achieved with the return of all Palestinians to their
original homes, towns, and villages, with full restitution of
all of their confiscated and destroyed property, and
compensation. The Palestinian Arab people, regardless of their
religious affiliation, are indigenous to Palestine. Therefore,
they are entitled to live anywhere in their homeland Palestine
which encompasses present-day "Israel", the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. No agreement, negotiations or parties which purport to
trade away these rights or any other inalienable rights can
have any legal basis and cannot bind or compel the Palestinian
people to end the struggle for the fulfillment of all of
their rights.
The definition of Israel as a "Jewish state", granting
exclusive rights to citizenship and land to any Jew from
anywhere in the world, while denying the indigenous
inhabitants of Palestine their fundamental rights, is part and
parcel of the racism inherent in the colonialist Zionist
ideology which underlies the policies and laws of the settler
state of "Israel". Any sacrifice of any part of our land and
culture will represent a blow to the entire Arab peoples and
the lands of West Asia and Africa.
The US government subsidizes Israel's injustices with billions
of dollars annually. Any Palestinian and other Arab
participating in accommodation with the Zionist and US regimes
in order to promote normalization and put an end to the
Palestinian liberation struggle, stand exposed naked before
the world as traitors to our people.
Until all Palestinians exercise their right to return and self
determination, Al-Awda calls on all its members and supporters
to redouble their efforts, working for and demanding:
1. An end to all US political, military and economic aid
to "Israel"
2. The divestment of all public and private entities from all
Zionist corporations, and American corporations with
subsidiaries operating within "Israel"
3. An end to the investment of Labor Union members' pension
funds in "Israel"
4. The boycott of all "Israeli" products
The 60 year commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba will take
place in May 2008. Al-Awda's 6th Annual International
Convention will take place in Anaheim, California, May 16-18,
2008. The convention will be dedicated to renewing our
struggle to return and to reclaim our land no matter what
deals are made in Annapolis.
Until Return
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW:
http://al-awda.org
Africa and the World
By Akbar Muhammad
AN ATTEMPT FOILED
103 BLACK YOUNG CHILDREN WERE TO BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY
I've just returned from Sudan where I have learned more of the
horrifying details about a modern day French Slave Trade of
children in Africa. An NGO called Zoe's Ark was busted trying
to transport 103 children from Chad and Darfur. They were in
the process of kidnapping these children and taking them to
France to be sold into slavery at the cost of $3,400 per child.
These modern day slave traders were operating under the
deceptive pretense that these children were orphans and their
parents were killed in the Darfur conflict.
Both the European and American press have avoided using the
"S" word, Slavery in their reporting by downplaying the act as
"child trafficking" instead of calling it what it is: pure and
simple Slavery. The reports are that these children were
headed to France, Belgium and even as far away as America.
The French and Belgium governments have been fighting a
growing number of pedophile rings for years and America is not
far behind.
Zoe's Ark conspiracy was reported to the Chadian authority by
a hired driver who overheard a disturbing conversation between
the children. As part of the cover up when transporting these
children, these modern day slave traders placed bandages and
intravenous into some of the children's arms to make it appear
that they were in need of medical treatment. Because of the
report given by the driver, the Chadian authorities were able
to intervene before the slave traders could put the children
on a chartered plane from Spain called GIRjet headed for
France. The Chadian and Sudanese investigation have revealed
that many of the parents of these children were still alive;
some parents believed that their children were going to attend
school somewhere in Chad and other parents have yet to be
identified.
A Sudanese humanitarian group is circulating a poster with the
pictures of all 103 children (21 girls and 82 boys) in an
attempt to find the missing parents or relatives. When I
looked at the pictures of these young kids all under 10 years
old, I knew there was more to this story than meets the eye
and there were a host of burning questions that needed to be
answered.
Let me start by asking where is "Save Darfur" on this tragedy.
A full page ad in the New York Times paid for by the "Save
Darfur Coalition" reads "Will the Peace Keepers find them
before the Janjaweed do?" The ad shows children who are of
the same age of those 103 children from Darfur. The "Save
Darfur" Coalition should be challenged to run an ad that reads
"Will the Peace keepers find them before the French Slave
Traders do".
The next troublesome area in this investigation is reminiscent
of the slave trade in the Western Hemisphere. Review of the
tapes that were confiscated by the Chadian officials reveal
that the staff of Zoe's Ark attempted to change the names of
the children and give them European names in place of their
African names. Anyone who saw Roots remember the scene when
the slave owner beat Kunta Kinte until he denied his name and
accepted "Toby." We can identify these 103 children but how
many more were taken before Zoe's Ark was busted. How could
Zoe's Ark bring 103 children into France without a passport,
travel documents or refuge cards; were Immigration and Customs
involved in this conspiracy?
Further and more puzzling is the French President, Nicolas
Sarkovy decision to personally fly to Chad and pressure the
Chadian President, Idriss Deby to release all seventeen
involved in the intrigue. News reports indicate that he was
able to get some freed while others remain to face charges.
To receive a copy of the 103 children or to send comments
or questions email
Africanliteracy@msn.com
The writer is well known for his Islamic efforts in Africa and
was very prominent at Minister Louis Farrakhan's
Farewell Speech.
For Pakistani and South Asian readers: "Save Darfur" is a
coalition of Jewish and Christian evangelist organizations
working to instigate the Bush administration's military
intervention against Sudan. It has succeeded in getting
sanctions imposed on that African nation. CAIR is a "Muslim"
clique which wanted to join the Zionist "Darfur Coalition"
rally, was denied permission and showed sorrow for being left
off the bandwagon of propaganda against Islamic Sudan.
2007-12-02 Sun 07:15:49 cst
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