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Zulqi'dah 26, 1433/October 13, 2012 # 46
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Outreach: October 5 and 12.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen articles by Imam Badi Ali and Dr. Kaukab
Siddique with photos of Pakistanis led by Jamate Islami,
rebutting the attacks on the Prophet, pbuh, reporting global
Islamic uprising in defense of our leader, Muhammad, pbuh,
and opposing war plans against Iran were distributed in
these area mosques after Juma'.
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Newark, Delaware: 50 Muslims, mostly Indo-Pakistani and
Arab.
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White Marsh, Maryland: 76 Muslims, mostly Arab and
African.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 25 Muslims, mostly Sufis from
various countries.
Outreach 2: Rebutting Neo-Con attack on Palestine: Ads in DC
subway trains.
Zionist subway trains' attack ads supporting "Israel" and
calling Palestinians "savages" are receiving a response from
a sister supporting Jamaat al-Muslimeen. Sis. Chekeisha
El-Amin is distributing a flyer rebutting the Israelis and
comparing their label of "savages" for Palestinians to the
slavery supporters who similarly labelled slaves from
Africa,
Top Islamic Leader bursts the bubble of regime propaganda
for Malala.
A Power wants military attack on N.Waziristan: Schools were
destroyed in Swat under Military Curfew.
by Shamsuddin Amjad [Lahore]
LAHORE, Oct. 12: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami Pakistan, Syed
Munawar Hasan, said that the power behind the attack on
Malala Yousufzai was the same as had been pressing Pakistan
to launch military operation in the North Waziristan.
Addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque here,
he likened the Malala attack to the fake video of whipping
of a Swat woman that became the basis for military operation
in Swat. He said the western media was projecting the Malala
incident in the same manner and even the US Secretary of
State Hilary Clinton had issued a statement on the
matter.
Syed Munawar Hasan said the attack on Malala was most
condemnable, but added that hundreds of innocent people were
being killed in drone attacks and bomb blasts but the media
generally ignored these.
The JI Ameer said that the civil and military high ups of
the country at their meeting on Thursday, seemed to have
worked out a new strategy to deal with terrorism and decided
to go ahead with a military operation in North Waziristan at
every cost. However, he said that before a new adventure,
the Army Chief should present balance sheet of the military
operations in the past to enable the nation know the gains
and the losses.
He also warned that the operation in North Waziristan would
not be like the one in South Waziristan as its losses and
consequences would be far more serious and widespread.
Syed Munawar Hasan said that in fact, the US and several
other powers were trying to destabilize and annihilate this
country achieved in the name of Islam, and the military
operations were a means to achieve the end by widening the
gulf between the masses and the armed forces of the
country.
He said the tribal people were patriotic and they had shown
great restraint so far. They had been forced to migrate
within the country three times but they had not uttered a
word against Pakistan. Therefore, they should not be pushed
to the wall.
The JI Ameer said that military operations never helped
settle an issue and matters were always decided through
negotiations.
He pointed out that there had been a military operation in
Karachi in the past but the elements against whom the
operation was carried out were in the government now.
Syed Munawar Hasan said that most of the schools demolished
in Swat had been destroyed during curfew but Interior
Minister Rehman Malik placed the responsibility on the
Taliban. The situation in the country could not be improved
by following the US agenda, he added.
Attack on Malala a false flag operation?: Shot at point
blank range but survived! It was in an area under strict
Paki military control.
Photo 1: Malala [left], father and mother [right] with US
government military officials. A clip from a 32 minute
documentary from NY Times of American agenda urging Pakistan
to find a way of attacking North Waziristan
Photo #2: Malala and her father with Richard Holbrooke,
President Obama's special representative, a hardcore Jewish
Zionist. At the back, Brigadier Martin Jones [right] and a
CIA operative in suit and tie [left]
Photo #3: A full scale meeting of Malala and her father
[circled] with the US ambassador and military and civil
officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/video/ 2012/10/09/world/asia/
100000001835296/class- dismissed.html
Army's Attack on Red Mosque & Women's Seminary [Jamia Hafsa]
Inspired Pak Taliban to fight back.
ARE TALIBAN REALLY BARBARIANS?
: Hussain Khan, Tokyo
A lot of one-sided and baseless stories are being circulated
against Taliban. The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
has also talked about the `mortal danger' of Taliban and
further expressed her exaggerated fear of Taliban taking
over Islamabad. Some people accuse Taliban of ¡°beheading
people, denying girls of schools, barring women from coming
out, and measuring beards of men and also burning schools
and music shops.¡± That is not the real face of Taliban. The
secular opponents of Sharia and the so called liberals are
misinforming and demonizing these matters and painting a
picture of Taliban as barbarians.
Based on such false accusations the war is being carried out
by the US in Afghanistan and in Pakistan aided by the
Pakistan army. A vast number of innocent civilians are being
daly killed by the army which cannot locate the true
militants and therefore treats all civilians as militants.
It also resulted in a huge number of civilian exodus from
their homes to safe areas. No power in the world history has
ever succeeded in killing only the real militants in any
guerilla type of war. Always innocent civilians are killed
much more than a few real militants. The killing of such
innocents provides more recruits to the resistance
movements. Such a war could not be won either by the US and
Nato forces or by the Pakistan army. Despite 8 years of
high-technology war of a Super-power like the US, Obama
admits, "we are not winning in Afghanistan" against the
ill-equipped Taliban. It was for the same reason that
Musharraf had to make a deal with the so called "terrorists"
after huge losses of Pakistan army. The same reason
compelled the Pakistan army and the secular provincial ANP
government of NWFP to conclude a Peace Agreement with the
Taliban after 18 months of fighting an unsuccessful guerilla
war against them.
As regards the accusation about girls education, Taliban
deny it both in speech as well as through the practical
execution of their policies. They had to close some schools,
both of boys and girls as well, in Afghanistan due to lack
of funds. But false propaganda is carried out against them
as if they closed girls schools only. An anti-Taliban report
in the New York Times of February 14, 1996 says, "It is a
world where there has been a systematic drive to push women
back into purdah, the traditional Muslim arrangement that
prevents them from seeing any men outside their immediate
families. Under Taliban decrees, women have been forbidden
to work outside their homes, except in hospitals and
clinics, and then only if they work exclusively with women
and girls." For the Westerners and the secular Muslims,
purdah may be equal to pushing back women into illiteracy or
it may be regarded as something discouraging women from
education. In Islam, Purdah is basically to prevent the free
mixing of sexes, which is the root cause of several social
evils of a modern society, leading to rape, divorce, illicit
relationships, birth of children outside the wedlock and so
on. But it is not an impediment to women's education. Many
highly-educated Muslim women today are contributing to
society with Hijab. Even in the above anti-Taliban report,
it is admitted that the women were allowed to work in
hospitals and clinics. If Taliban would have abandoned
women's education and prevented them from going to schools,
from where they brought women to work in hospitals and
clinics? It indicates as to how false are the reports that
Taliban are against the education of girls and women!
No doubt, they have blasted some of the girls¡¯ schools in
Swat, as they were fighting against the Pakistan army which
had made these schools its operational bases for attacks on
Taliban. Now after the peace agreement, all girls schools
are functioning as usual. Maulana Sufi Mohammad has not
spoken anything against girls¡¯ education. Secularists have
made it their propaganda agenda to create hatred against
Sharia. The number of girls' schools destroyed by Taliban is
quoted but the readers are not informed that these schools
were operational bases of the army, which was attacking and
killing them.
Taliban are blamed for usurping women's rights. Better to
ask about it to a British woman journalist, Yvonne Ridley,
who was arrested by Taliban, while on assignment with the
London¡¯s Sunday Express in 2001. After her release from the
Taliban prison, she converted to Islam. What kind of
impression incidents of this nature create about Taliban? Do
the barbarian behave like this? Will a Western educated
lady, a well-informed journalist by profession, convert to
the religion of the barbarians after remaining as their
prisoner for several days? She is now working for a Muslim
Television station in London covering herself with Islamic
decency and Hijab. She is a renowned British journalist. She
now works for the Iranian-based 24-hour English language
news channel Press TV, where she fronts her own London-based
current affairs show, The Agenda.
There is no Taliban rule now. After visiting Afghanistan in
November, 2008, she has written about the present situation,
"The only winners emerging from Afghanistan these days are
the drug barons who preside over the world¡¯s largest heroin
trade and the pimps who control the Chinese prostitutes
operating from the scores of bordellos and brothels which
have emerged since the US military occupation.. .So there
you have it ¨C Afghanistan a country in the grip of reckless
soldiers, slappers and smack."
During about 6 years of their rule in Afghanistan between
1994 to 2001, Taliban rightly claim to have established law
and order, cleansed the society from all kinds of crimes,
completely eradicated the production and the sale of drugs,
as admitted and appreciated by the UN as well. As regards
the emergence of Taliban in 1994, the same New York Times
report of February 14, 1996 says, "Only a year ago, the rise
of the Taliban was greeted with widespread enthusiasm in
areas of the country that they now control. Their sudden
emergence as a political and military force, from a base in
the southern city of Kandahar, was propelled by their pledge
to "cleanse" Afghanistan of the killing, rape and pillage
that became endemic under the cover of the civil war that
ensued after Soviet troops were withdrawn in 1989.......Out
of the anarchy that followed the Soviet retreat from
Afghanistan in 1989 emerged numerous competing factions,
many of them still fighting with weapons that had been
supplied covertly by the United States. Divided by tribal
origins, personalities or strictness of their
interpretations of Islam, the factions have battled for
control ever since. A new and stringently fundamentalist
faction, the Taliban, arose in Sept. 1994, in protest
against the abduction and rape of a group of Afghan women
and teenage girls by local warlords who had gained power in
the fight against the Soviets. Invoking the memory of
forebears who fought the British, the Taliban pledged to rid
Afghanistan of the warlords, whom they described as
"parasites" masquerading as Muslims. Within four months,
they controlled a third of Afghanistan. Since then, their
fortunes have varied. Herat, the key city in western
Afghanistan, fell in Sept. 1995." How one can call such
people barbarians who have emerged to unite their country
against the competing factions, to protest against the
abduction and rape of Afghan girls and to rid Afghanistan of
the warlords, who were regarded as "parasites" masquerading
as Muslims? How the people emerging for such lofty ideals
can suddenly become terrorists and criminals, as they are
presented in this color by the anti-Islam secular media?
The same New York Times report, which is basically
anti-Taliban, ridicules the Taliban punishments in the
following words, "The new Afghanistan is a world where
murderers and "enemies" of the Taliban are hanged from
cranes and the barrels of tank cannon, where the execution
of others found guilty of killing consists of being shot in
the back with rifles by their victims' fathers, and where
convicted thieves are subjected to surgical amputations of
their hands and arms.......After the anarchy of recent
years, many Afghans have welcomed the harsh punishments
meted out by the Taliban to some violent criminals, while
others have been horrified... ..According to reports
published in Pakistan, there were public executions carried
out in the eastern Afghanistan city of Khost a few days
ago." The Taliban punishments are described in a ridiculous
style, but one has to see the character and face of Taliban
in it. This shows that Afghans have welcomed these harsh
punishments as they have got rid of anarchy and lived in
peace. Justice was meted out promptly. It further
illustrates, how strict Taliban had been against all kinds
of crimes. As a result they have eradicated crime in
Afghanistan during their 6-year rule. What is ridiculous is
the propaganda against them that such people have now turned
to become barbarians and criminals themselves against whom
they had been giving such severe punishments. This kind of
baseless propaganda against them cannot hold ground for
long.
No civilized government in 21st century could be successful
so far to achieve such fantastic results in prevention of
crime and maintaining law and order in their respective
countries. Neither America, nor Europe, nor Japan, nor any
other country, except Saudi Arabia, can claim their success
in prevention of crime, homicide, rape, drugs, fraud and
what not. the late King Faisal once replied to a questioner
in the US that the crimes committed in New York in one day
are much more than all the crimes in Saudi Arabia in more
than ten years. Every year the rate of crime is on a
constant increase in every so-called civilized country
today.
In maintaining law and order in society, Taliban deserve to
be ranked as No.1 in the world. In view of these big
achievements of Taliban government, it is better to forgive
some of their extreme measures about beard etc., which are
extraordinarily insignificant in nature and do not deserve
to be demonized by our secularized or liberal
intellectuals.
As regards the beheadings by Taliban, there are reports in
some Western newspapers that Taliban have beheaded some of
the criminals who were pretending as Taliban commanders in
their ranks. The secularists are falsely propagating that
such beheadings were those of the innocent civilians.
American spies and CIA informers are inviting Drone attacks
to their own people. Since 2006 these attacks have killed
only 12 militants. An article about Drone attacks in
Pakistan published in a US web site, Council on Foreign
Relations on March 20, 2009 by Greg Bruno states,
¡°¡.Center for American Progress counts as many as 543
people killed by U.S. since 2006; only twelve were top
al-Qaeda operatives.¡± These 543 innocent civilians were
killed because of American informers in the Taliban ranks or
in the civilian population. These CIA spies are the real
murderers of innocent civilians. Do such spies and
informers, who are the real murderers, not deserve the
punishment of beheadings?
Taliban have not become insane to carry out beheadings of
innocent people. They had solid proofs and reliable evidence
against those criminals who deserved beheadings. To blame
Taliban for every act of inhuman crime or violence is the
result of mischievous misinformation which is intentionally
carried out by the secular enemies of Sharia.
Our central and provincial governments have been blaming
Indian agencies and professional criminals for most of the
inhuman and criminal activities as they occurred in
Baluchistan, in Lahore against Sri Lankan cricket team, and
in Malakand Division. Why our 6th sense cannot separate
criminal activity from the lofty mission of Sharia
implementation goal of Taliban Jihad. Why should all
criminals be regarded as Taliban?
Pakistan government has accused India, Afghanistan and
Russia for the disturbances in Baluchistan. A news item in
the daily DAWN (April 24, 2009) states, "At a closed-door
Senate session on Thursday, Interior Adviser Rehman Malik
presented a bleak picture of the security situation in the
country and showed what he called evidence of the
involvement of India, Afghanistan and Russia in terrorist
activities. It is the first time Pakistan has blamed these
countries and cited evidences which, it is believed, will be
shared with the international community, particularly the
United States, which has expressed concern over growing
militancy in the country. Following a harsh statement by
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US special envoy Richard
Holbrooke telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday
and conveyed a similar message. During the Senate briefing,
the adviser said that all major incidents of terrorism and
suicide attacks were linked to India and Afghanistan, adding
that terrorists were being trained by them in those
countries and in North Waziristan and being sent to the
settled areas."
The Governor of the provincial government of NWFP, Owais
Ahmed Ghani has blamed criminal elements, not Taliban, for
the "terrorism" in Swat valley. He has accused the enemies
of its agreement with the Swat Taliban, which was concluded
with the help of the mediating role of Maulana Sufi
Mohammad. Such groups are trying to dislodge the peace and
the improved law and order situation in Swat after the
agreement. For this purpose, they have adopted such mean and
false methods as showing a fake film of a girl being beaten
by lashes to ridicule Sharia and Islamic punishments.
Provincial government has categorically denied about the
flogging incident. It has called this fake film incident and
other criminal activities in Malakand Division as an attempt
to create an atmosphere against the Nizam-e Adl
regulation.
In a news item published in DAWN, (April 27, 2009), Governor
Owais Ahmed Ghani has said, ¡°The enforcement of Nizam-i-Adl
was demand of the entire population of the Malakand division
and the government has enforced the law in line with their
cherished desire. Sincere efforts are under way for its
implementation and the system will definitely get practical
shape,¡± he said. If it was 'a demand of the entire
population of the Malakand division' as the governor Owais
says, then why the fulfillment of such a democratic demand
is dubbed as a surrender to Taliban at gunpoint? Its
opponents have raised false alaram and unnecessary hue and
cry as if it is an act of caving in to the violence of a few
miscreants.
The governor, in the same statement, made it clear that
"........certain miscreants were bent upon attacking the
police force, kidnapping of citizens, thefts and looting and
damaging the public and private properties.. ......The
governor mentioned certain incidents of terrorism in
Malakand division, particularly the killing of a former
district nazim of Lower Dir, Alamzeb Khan, and District
Police Officer Khurshid Khan along with their colleagues.
Besides, he said, police officers and jawans were also
martyred, in an attack on mobile van of the force at
Malakand University. Such kind of criminal and subversive
activities, the governor said, were intolerable and
therefore, police and the Frontier Corps launched a joint
action against the elements, who were not deserving any
sympathy. Mr Ghani appealed to the religious scholars,
political leaders and general public to create a congenial
atmosphere for implementation of Nizam-i-Adl and play their
positive role to curb the activities of anti-Nazim-i- Adl
elements." Taliban are accused of all criminal activities in
Malakand Division but the provincial government puts the
blame on criminal elements and not on the Taliban.
Rather it is requesting the Taliban to cooperate with the
provential goverment to subdue the miscreants. Accordingly,
Swat Taliban have successfully negotiated with the Bunir
Taliban to vacate the city and not to display the arms.
Bunir Taliban agreed to it and vacated the city. But
unfortunately Pakistan army was mobilized next day
unnecessarily to kill the Taliban in Lower Dir and Bunir.
The same job was successfully carried out earlier by the
Swat Taliban. But the alarming statement of Hillary Clinton,
devoid of appreciation of ground realities, forced the
Pakistan army to show its muscle by killing a few hundred
citizens of its own country for the pleasure of the US
policy-makers. Such pressures by the US are
counter-productive and costing unneccessary civilian life
and disrupting thie peaceful livelihood, as they had to
migrate in thousands to safe places.
No doubt the real Taliban are also taking a few extremist
measures. But we have to separate criminal activities from
the pious mission of Taliban to establish Sharia courts for
swift justice. Despite all false accusations and several
years in jail in Afghanistan as Taliban, Maulana Sufi
Mohammad and Swat Taliban have achieved success in their
struggle and Jihad to establish Sharia in Swat. Sharia was
already enforced in Swat state for over 110 years before its
forced accession and assimilation in Pakistan by a secular
military dictator Gen. Yahya Khan. Sky would not have
fallen, if the people of Swat demanded to revert to a system
of Sharia courts, with which they had been familiar for the
last 110 years.
We should look to the other side of the coin as well and
find out the causes as to why Taliban movement has emerged
in Pakistan and why it is becoming more and more popular and
powerful day by day?
It was an Afghanistan phenomenon earlier. In addition to our
secular military dictators, American Drone missile attacks
have generated it in Pakistan. America has brought the
Afghan war into Pakistan in the name that it has become a
sanctuary of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders of
Afghanistan.
The secular military dictators, like Yahya Khan and Pervaiz
Musharraf, have forced Pakistan to detract from its ideology
against the democratic wishes of its people. As a result, a
violent Taliban movement has sprung up in Pakistan to resist
it, since there was no way out for the democratic forces to
assert themselves under militaristic dictatorial regimes.
Such dictators in collusion with the U.S. have sown the
seeds of violence in Pakistan. They have thus motivated
Taliban to resist them through violent methods. In the
absence of democracy, they had left only the door of
violence open for the lovers of Pakistan ideology.
Patriotic and sincere Muslims are facing this tragic
situation, as no government has taken any serious step in
Pakistan for Islamizing our country during the last 60 years
of its existence. Had the government moved in the direction
of its 1973 Constitution, which was a reflection of people's
democratic wish to frame and implement laws according to
Quran and Sunnah, Taliban movement would not have taken root
in our society.
Whatever small beginning was initiated by the late Gen.
Zia-ul Haq in this direction, another secular military
dictator, Gen. Musharraf, reversed it. Hudood Laws of 1979,
based on Sharia and on the consensus of all eminent Ulama
and Muslim Jurists of that time, were abrogated after 29
years of their peaceful and successful implementation. There
was no public outcry or agitation in Pakistan against these
Islamic Laws during the 29 years of their enforcement. This
anti-Islamic measure compounded with the massacre of
innocent Lal Mosque students by Musharraf government have
fueled and pushed the Taliban movement in our country to its
extreme.
In addition to the frustration all true Muslims in Pakistan
feel against the secular character of all our governments,
aerial missile attacks by American Drones have provided
Taliban with unlimited suicide bombers to recruit against
these attacks to take a revenge. Instead of forcefully
resisting it, Pakistan government is simply paying lip
service and appears to be a US partner and a complicit in
favor of these attacks. Taliban have therefore targeted
Police, army and other symbols of government administration
to take the revenge of Lal Mosque massacre and the Drone
attacks killing hundreds of civilians. Western news agencies
like AP have mentioned in their dispatches that the
terrorist activities of Taliban have increased tremendously
after the Lal Mosque massacre of innocent students by the
Musharraf regime. A US counter-terrorism report (DAWN May
01, 2009) says, "The coordination, sophistication, and
frequency of suicide bombings that increased sharply in
2007, continued to grow in Pakistan in 2008. By November 30,
there were already 57 recorded suicide attacks in Pakistan,
in comparison to 45 reported attacks in 2007. These attacks
will be constantly increasing as long the US would try to
force its will upon the government and the people of
Pakistan against the interests and the wishes of our
countrymen.
Peace would return to Pakistan and all violence will come to
a halt, if US missile attacks through unmanned Drones are
stopped immediately and Swat-like peace agreements are not
demonized as surrender to Taliban. Rather such agreements
should be concluded in all those tribal areas where Taliban
are active. Afghnistan Taliban regard themselves as 'freedom
fighters' against the colonization of their country by
foreign forces. They were not even aware of 9/11 planning
and had made no contribution in these events. Pakistan
Taliban will be silenced with the stoppage of Drone missile
attacks and the implementation of Sharia in their desired
area
Letter: Reader protested to Newsweek which allowed Islam
hater Hirsi Ali to write on the global Islamic uprising
against the abuse of the Prophet, pbuh, by Jewish-Coptic
attackers. Newsweek ignored this.
Dear Newsweek
I am voicing outrage over your cover story "Muslim Rage." It
was about a very important and disturbing topic. However,
instead of informing your readers on the true source of
Muslim rage, you wasted ink and space in your magazine on an
article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali who is a self-described apostate
from Islam and who makes no secret of her hatred of Islam
and Muslims.
There were so many informed, educated writers who could have
written a much better article, yet you chose her for your
cover story because she had hatred and animosity for
Muslims. It seems that criticiziing Islam and Muslims is
more important to you than reporting the truth.
Mahair Sibay [Oxen Hill, Maryland]
Letter: Reader is convinced the Taliban did it.
I disagree with your reporting regarding the shooting of
Malalal. You say it could be done by the Pakistani
government which is very corrupt. I agree that the Pakistani
government is very corrupt but the Taliban spokesman had
already declare that it was the Taliban that shot her and
her friend also. They also indicated that they would shoot
her again.
If this is a lie and the Western Media is misrepresenting
the Taliban, then the Taliban should distance themselves
from the shooting. Until then, I have to go that the Taliban
were behind it. If that is the case, then whatever atrocity
the USA or Pakistan did, does not absolve Taliban from blame
in shooting two unarmed girls in the face because they
wanted their schools to open. If Taliban has a problem with
the statement, then they should discuss it openly and not
just go on a shooting rampage, shooting their own people
Saad Husain [Detroit]
Letter: Comments on our Hadith Article, Dirty deals between
US & Pakistan, & Malala story
Mohtram Kaukab Bhai, Shukrun wa Jazakallah for quoting the
beautiful Ahadith of Rasulullah (S) about the care and
concern for children and mothers. He (S) was always very
kind to the oppressed and the weak class of the society.
Even cattle and animals used to approach him (S) and he (S)
used to attend their grievances.
Equally, you have rightly exposed the inherent game of
Pakistan corrupt military Junta. In fact, there is a
"secret" contract between Mr 10 % and the top military
hierarchy of Pakistan to "export" the innocents to the third
criminal Uncle Sam in exchange for "dirty" [not mighty]
Dollars. Both are thus pulling on well. Only the poor
Pakistan and its poverty stricken people are suffering.
Judiciary is crying for justice and the abducted people but
who cares? The corrupt politicians and Military Junta are
playing jointly this dirty game angling ceaselessly in this
polluted water. You have correctly given the reference of
the tragedy of Masjid Hafsa but, unfortunately, it has now
become a frozen disaster of Pakistan.
The Evils is ruling over the world and the Haq stands
captivated in inaction and lethargies of its advocates.
"Fataberu ya Ulul Absar" [Al-Hashr]
.
Shamim Siddiqi [New York]
WWW.dawahinamericas.com
Letter: Reader accuses New Trend of being one sided
My main issue with New Trend has been the complete lack of
any kind of application of universal moral principles to
what events it praises and what events it condemns. You
justify Boku Haram's attacks against civilian Christians
(Black Africans, mind you, not colonists from Europe) by
saying they are settlers like those in Palestine. But you
then (rightfully) condemn the attacks against Muslims of
Bangladeshi origin in eastern India, despite the fact that
those people are also settlers who are being attacked by
indigenous people. If it is okay when Muslims commit an act,
it is okay when non-Muslims commit it. On the other hand, if
we (rightfully) condemn non-Muslims when they attack
civilian populations, attack people for expressing their
opinions (as the tyrants of the Arab world did to Islamists,
Leftists, women's rights activists, etc.), engage in
practices of collective punishment, and otherwise oppress
people, we must also condemn it when Muslims do it, whether
the targets are non-Muslims (such as Buddhists in
Bangladesh) or Muslims whom you happen to disagree with
(such as people who speak out against the Taliban/the
stupidity of Blasphemy laws/the dangers of religious
fundamentalism/mistreatment of minorities/etc.). What
irritates me is not just the approbation for acts of
violence that anyone in their right mind would shrink from
in disgust, but the whiplash-inducing speed with which you
jump to (rightfully) condemning non-Muslims for the same or
similar crimes.
Abu Mahmoud [Baltimore, Maryland]
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and Zionist media either do not cover or distort.
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