Allah's Apostle said, "Not to wish to be the like except of
two men. A man whom Allah has given the (knowledge of the)
Qur'an and he recites it during the hours of night and day
and the one who wishes says: If I were given the same as
this (man) has been given, I would do what he does, and a
man whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the just
and right way, in which case the one who wishes says, 'If I
were given the same as he has been given, I would do what he
does.'"
Bukhari, Volume 9,
Book 90, Number 338
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
Feedback
Rejection of Support for Israel
by Shafeeqah V. Smith
[Atlanta, Georgia]
I am against the zionist powers-that-be that have crippled
the United States for years. This country was rigged to
always financially support the State of Israel, no matter
who is in the White House--Democrat, Republican,
non-Democrat, non-Republican. All members of Congress knew
this prior to taking their Congressional seats. This
includes the Muslim members.
I do not support anyone, regardless of beliefs, who backs
the brutalization and slaughter of Palestinians, not if they
think like our "good friend, the 'chosen person' ". He is a
snake who cannot be trusted.
Because of the zionist powers-that-be, U.S. foreign policy
has been screwed up for years. It's messy, complicated,
complex, and very, very flawed. I figure it would take a
Muslim president, a Muslim vice president, and a Muslim
Congress to break that stranglehold and tell NetanLieWho and
Israel: "NO MORE AID!! BACK OFF!" I'm waiting to read those
headlines.
It's up to Muslims to save the United States from the evil
clutches of Israel. We cannot demand or expect non-Muslims
to do that. If we talk the talk, we gotta walk the walk.
Shafeeqah V. Smith
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Great Africanist who unites African Diaspora
With thanks to Br. Abu Talib, Brooklyn, New York
[Excerpt from Amsterdam News.]
From far and wide, comrades of Don Rojas came with passages
of praise for the ailing journalist, who was defined by many
as a freedom fighter. Rojas, diagnosed with bone cancer and
undergoing debilitating treatment, must have felt some
comfort with the outpouring of love and genuine respect from
a coterie of renowned speakers Saturday evening, May 11, at
the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn.
Among those who ventured from abroad were Mirielle Fanon
Mendes-France, the daughter of the legendary Frantz Fanon;
Ambassador Inga Rhonda King from St. Vincent and the
Grenadines with a message from Prime Minister Dr. Ralph
Gonsalves; and Sir Hilary Beckles, vice chancellor and
president of the University of West Indies, and the keynote
speaker.
Beckles, with whom Rojas worked as the director of
communications at UWI, compared Rojas to Marcus Garvey,
given his extensive travel and connections with the African
diaspora. "Don has built bridges connecting the Caribbean,
Africa and the United States," he said. He cited him as an
indispensable colleague and a genius in the realm of
communication
Military Admits
Islamic State Resurgence
Source: Kurdistan24
by Laurie Myroie
May 9.
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan24) - The US-led Coalition against
the Islamic State, formally known as Combined Joint Task
Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), affirmed on
Tuesday that the terrorist organization remains a
significant threat.
Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika, the British Deputy Commander of
CJTF-OIR, explained in a press briefing from Baghdad that
although the Islamic State no longer controls territory, it
still has around 10,000 fighters in Iraq.
In Syria, the number is less, "below 10,000," Ghika said,
but in the "thousands."
Tuesday's CJTF-OIR press briefing was the first in five
months—since mid-December—just before US
President Donald Trump declared that the Islamic State had
been defeated.
Chrisianity on retreat vs LGBTq
May 13
A controversial bill intended to prevent the government from
penalizing a person or business for actions tied to their
religious belief has been quietly advanced in the Texas
Senate, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The proposal, often referred to as as the "Save Chick-fil-A"
bill, failed to clear the Texas House last week, but was
introduced to the Senate by state Sen. Bryan Hughes (R),
according to the newspaper.
Hughes said the bill would protect religious beliefs while
preventing the targeting of companies such as Chick-fil-A,
which was banned from San Antonio's airport in Texas after
reports of donations made to anti-LGBT causes by a charity
arm of the fast-food chain.
"We've heard disturbing stories about folks being punished
just because they choose to contribute to a religious
organization that shares their views or values," Hughes
said, according to the Dallas News.
KANO EMIRS OF VENGEANCE AND THEIR DISQUALIFICATION
By Abdulkabir Oyemomi
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano and former governor
of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) started frosty relationship
with the governor of Kano State Abdullah Ganduje when he
(Sanusi) openly backed the candidature of Abba-Kabir Yusuf
of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the build up to
March,9 governorship election in Kano State.
It shall be recalled that the election was declared
inconclusive after the first ballot which saw Kabir Yusuf
leading with 26,655 margin.
In a supplementary election, however, Ganduje rode to
victory and was declared winner with a margin of 8,982
votes.
It was gathered by Pulse News that one of the reasons why
Ganduje almost lost the election was because Emir Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi never supported his second term bid and
therefore turned a section of Kano population against
him.
Returning to the office as the executive governor of Kano
State for the second term after all the election brouhaha,
Ganduje, in what appeared to be taming the loudmouth of the
Emir , hurriedly signed a bill submitted to him by the Kano
State House of Assembly- the bill seeks to reduce the
influence of Emir Sanusi and creates new first class
emirates and emirs in the Northwestern State.
With this bill becoming Law, Kano State now have five
emirates: Kano, Rano, Gaya,Karaye,and Bichi.
Another narration to the feud between Ganduje and Emir
Sanusi is the investigation of corruption against the emir.
This investigation is being carried out by the Kano State
Public Complaints Commission and Anti- Corruption
Commission. If the emir is found guilty of this
investigation, he would be deposed or removed as emir.
However, there appeared to be a soft landing in the Justice
System for Emir Sanusi as a High Court in Kano on 15th of
May ordered both Sanusi and Ganduje to maintain status quo
in respect of the Interim Order issued against the governor
on May 10.
It is also reported that the court , through the exparte
application by the applicant,restrained Ganduje and all
other respondents in the case from appointing or recognising
any purported emir.
The writer believes that the duo of Ganduje and Emir Sanusi
could have been Muslims enough by resigning to fate and
settle amicably as Muslims, especially in this blessed month
of Ramadan, rather than washing their dirty linens in
public.
Latest Revolutionary Khutba
What makes Islam different from other Religions? Why do we
ignore Ayesha, r.a?
Is Islam a charity or a transformational Mission?
On May 17, Br. Kaukab Siddique gave the juma khutba at
Masjid Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Baltimore, The masjid was
crowded owing to Ramadan, It's a small masjid, so an outline
of the khutba is given here for distribution on line
The sublime month of Ramadan is a great help towards
self-purification, leading towards compassion, seeking and
getting forgiveness, helping the poor and the needy,
increasing community strength, helping people of other
religions to understand Islam. Above all, we learn to Obey
Allah. The concept of the Oneness and Mercy of Allah becomes
real for us.
Many of these positive qualities are developed by other
religions too. So what makes Islam differewnt from and
better than other religions? Are we just an advanced branch
of Christianity?
Islam BEGINS with NEGATION of and opposition to ungodly
and oppressive powers. Our kalima, which makes us Muslims,
begins with LA or NO to all false gods and worldly powers.
We by our very faith are not allowed to cooperate with
oppressors, aggressors and dictators.
If we are willing to side with occupiers, tyrants, Zionists
and imperialists, we are Muslims only in name.
Look at the plight of the Muslim Ummah! In every country
there are Muslims who pray and fast but also cooperate with
the armies of global invaders and aggressors and dictators
planted by them. Thus our DEEN has become in the lives of
many people simply religion of prayer and fasting and
COOPERATION with oppressors.
Part 2
The anniversary of Ayesha, r.a., is coming on the 17th of
Ramadan. Hardly any of us remember it. We do know that in
his final days the Prophet, pbuh, asked that he be left with
Ayesha, r.a. He died in her lap after having taught the
Ummah at the Farewell Pilgrimage to give women their
rights.
What we know about Khadija, r.a., also comes through
narrations by Ayesha, r.a. Not only was she a leading
narrator of hadith but also a leader of men and women and
scholar of Qur'an and fiqh. She was a poet and a warrior and
at the Battle of Jamel she led some of the best men.
By ignoring Ayesha, r.a, we have cut our ummah into half
by giving women a secondary place in society, with no place
in the DECISION MAKING processes
In the battle of Uhud, when Muslims faced a serious
setback detailed in sura Ale Imran, the life of the prophet,
pbuh, himself was in danger. At that moment, Umma Ammara,
r.a., placed herself Iin front of him to stop the arrows
with her body. He, pbuh, urged Umm Ammara, r.a., to pick up
a shield dropped by a fleeing male, to defend herself. She
fought very well and dropped a giant of a horseman who had
come very near the prophet, pbuh, into a ditch. She herself
was seriously injured. [See Tabqat of Ibn Sa'ad for
details.].
Today when supremacist nuts are targeting hijabi women
when they are alone, our sisters need to follow the example
of Umm Ammara, r.a.
ra.
Many Muslim groups in America have become charity
collectors. Look at ICNA related groups.. They dare not
stand against this regime or any regime. All they do is
collect charity. They do this money collection to such an
extent that in somes masjids, right in the middle of the
khutba , they will start fund raising. And the crowds they
attract are also very satisfied because they can donate.
Thus we have these million dollar masjids which never dare
to speak against the policies of this regime or against
Israel, They have taken only half, or a quarter of Islam as
their religion, for which the Qur'an spoke against the
Jews.
Du'a: O Allah, give health to those of us who are not well,
jobs to those who are jobless, halal earnings to those who
have jobs. O Allah help us to focus on the Qur'an and the
hadith. Help Muslims who are in America's prisons to remain
strong and spiritual. Help us to help the children in the
inner cities and the children of Africa. Ameen
O Allah help the Ummah to liberate Palestine.
PAKISTAN
Government is Incompetent and sold out to IMF.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE, May 14; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has said that
the financial agreements of the country were being finalized
through non- elected people and added that the IMF deal
could have far reaching consequences.
Speaking at an Iftar dinner he hosted for the editors of
electronic and print media in an Islamabad hotel, he said
that the nation had rightfully rejected the IMF deal as they
thought it a new trap of slavery. He said that the hands of
the people signing the agreement were not clean either.
Sirajul Haq said that the IMF was the financial institution
of those dancing at the tunes of the US and had been
established to control the economy of the poor countries
without going to a war. He wondered for how long, the fate
of the nation would be decided by non elected people.
The JI chief said that the matter would not end with the IMF
deal as there was an apprehension that the country would
have to secure more loans to clear this loan by mortgaging
the state institutions and a day might come when even our
airports would also be mortgaged with the IMF.
Sirajul Haq said that practically it was a non elected
government. He further said that there could be threats to
the CPEC while these people were around. Besides, he said,
the country could lose some of its best friends.
The JI chief said the government had accepted most
humiliating terms of the IMF but had not opted the
respectable alternative system based on Zakat and Ushr.
He said that by burdening the country under heavy loans,
questions would be asked about the national security and a
stage might come when the nuclear programme of the country
would have to be pl aced under international control.
The JI chief said that the PPP, the PML(N) and the PTI were
all the same and the masses had tried them one by one. Under
their rule, the problems of the country and the nation had
increased.
He said the Jamaat e Islami was the only option for the
nation in such a situation. He said the past history of the
JI was clear and the whole nation acknowledged its honesty
and integrity of its leadership. .
He said the present government was highly incompetent and
was unable to handle the economic problems of the nation. He
said the rulers were admitting that they had done nothing to
recover the 375 billion dollars lying abroad.
War News
Syria
May 19, 2019.
Prisons. Chaos. Battles. Terror.
Since the uprising began in 2011, the Assad regime has put
around 128000 people in prison and most of them are probably
dead. Nearly 14,000 of them died under torture, In many
cases, the Assad regime has issued certificates of death.
However in most cases, the relatives of prisoners don't know
if the prisoners are dead or alive. [Syrian Network for
Human Rights.].
A United Nations panel that many of Assad's prisoners have
died owing to medical neglect and poor hygiene.
Nearly six million people have fled Syria to survive the
Assad regime.
Al-Suwaida province: There is chaos owing to the regime's
inability to control law and order. The Observatory is
reporting assassination,, kidnappings and thefts owing to
village-to-village conflict on a daily basis
Bombing and shelling of Islamic villages in Irbid province
and northern Hama province. Daily attacks by Russian jets,
Iranian artillery and Assad's helicopters are continuing.
Syrian observatory [SOHR] documents that in one month, April
20 to May 19, these random terror attacks have killed 213
civilians including 48 women and 45 children. The intent
seems to be to cause panic in the Muslim population.
May 19: As we go to the press, Assad's artillery is shelling
Khan Shaykhun trying to cause terror. Three civilians have
been killed..
To counter the attacks on civilians, mujahideen groups have
been firing at Shia supporters of the regime in western
Aleppo city, causing 25 civilian casualties.
May 18. The regime forces tried to advance into the Kirkat
area of northern Hama province but were beaten back by
mujahideen counterattack. In the intense battle, there were
heavy casualties on both sides.
Eastern bank of the Euphrates:
There is chaos and guerrilla fighting in the extended area
captured by SDF from the Islamic State which was bombed by
the US.
Another convoy of SDF reinforcements have arrived with truck
loads of arms and ammunition ostensibly suppled by
America.
On May 18, SDF troops raided 5 villages looking for ISIS
sleeper cells but could not find anyone. At night two SDF
were killed in the desert and a truck with supplies blown up
ostensibly by IS fighters.
IS is trying to infiltrate al-Raqqa which was once their
capital. Several big explosions have been heard and SDF
security agents were wounded.
Iraq [May 19]
Islamic State attack on Shia troops in Diyala province
killed 7 and wounded 26.
Iraqi troops are raiding various areas looking for ISIS
fighters. A local commander has been captured in the Mosul
area.
Regime troops are raiding points along the border with Syria
and also near Iran.
Six IS fighters were killed in various regime air
strikes.
Niger/Mali
May 19: An alleged IS attack in the Malian city of Timbuktoo
killed one Nigerian soldier and wounded another. Nigerian
forces are supporting France.
In an attack in Tessalit, three troops from Chad were
injured.
May 16. In a major ambush in the Tongo Tongo area, 28
Nigerian troops were killed by the Islamic State.
A French expert says that the attack seems to be in respose
to the order by IS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to attack
French backed forces in the western Sahel. This area is near
the border with Mali.
Pakistan
May 8. A human bomber attacked elite police forces guarding
the famous Sufi shrine known as Data Darbar. Five ;police
officers and 5 civilians were killed and 26 injured. The
shrine itself was not the target and was not touched.
May 12: In Gawadur, the Pearl Continental hotel was attacked
by three Baluch separatists. A navy soldier and 4 others
were killed and 5 injured. The hotel was empty owing to
Ramadan. Troops killed the three assailants after an
extensive gun fight. [A billion dollar Chinese project is
going on in this port city. The security is tight.]
News Within the U.S.
Censorship & Nadrat's 14th Marathon:
Boston Globe urged to Publish letter on
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Would not Publish it.
"Almost immediately after running the 2019 Boston Marathon,
I wrote to the Boston Globe expressing my concerns about
political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. I received the
Globe's automated reply, with their stipulations that the
letter could not have been published elsewhere, and such, in
order for them to consider it for publication, and that if
it didn't appear within ten days, it likely had not been
selected for publication. It didn't. I was disappointed that
the Globe would not publish it, if only for the novelty of a
crazy Paki woman running yet another 26.2 miles in the name
of a political prisoner, but I was not at all surprised,
considering the paper's previous heavily slanted reporting
on Aafia's case. My (unpublished) letter read as
follows:"
letter@globe.com
Dear editor,
In the field of 26,632 people running the Boston Marathon on
Monday, I was one of very few (perhaps the only) Pakistani
women to take on the daunting course. A time-qualified
entrant, my current and penultimate marathon PRs are 3:41
(NCR Trail Marathon) and 3:42 (Baltimore Marathon), both set
within the last five years. At age 50, I am pleased to say
Boston 2019 was my 42nd marathon (my second time running
it).
I ran Boston to call attention to the plight of Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui, a Pakistani Muslim woman neuroscientist, degreed
by the prestigious M.I.T. Aafia once lived and studied in
the beautiful city of Boston.
Today she is imprisoned in Texas, having first been
kidnapped by authorities in Pakistan. This occurred during
the period when "secret renditions" were common in Pakistan,
her then place of residence. Aafia was tortured and likely
raped in prison in Pakistan and Afghanistan. After that, she
was brought to New York, and put on trial.
Previously very healthy and vibrant, the petite
neuroscientist was wheeled into court in a wheelchair by her
jailors. The court disallowed nearly all exculpatory
evidence which could have helped her, but allowed highly
conflicting and emotional (anti-Muslim) evidence to be
presented. Soon, Aafia was convicted and sent to FMC
Carswell.
The unspeakable injustice being done to this woman is the
reason I braved the pouring rain, and then the midday heat
to run my second Boston Marathon. It was one of the most
challenging of the 42 marathons I've run, and my finish time
did not remotely approach either my PR, or my qualifying
time. The only saving grace was that I did not resort to
walking, not even on Heart Break Hill.
My reason for running made it all worthwhile. Aafia, or
Behan Aafia (our sister Aafia), as we Pakistanis call her.
In Pakistan, there is near universal sentiment that she is
innocent and ought to be released.
My tee bore the words "Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, along with a
picture of her cherubic face in hijab. It drew occasional
question from fellow marathoners, and I was happy to share
her story as we tackled the hill after hill.
In a period when women's rights have finally and
appropriately gained center stage, why is the violation of
rights of this innocent Pakistani woman allowed to continue?
She has already endured 16 years of unjust imprisonment. I
urge women's rights organizations and movements,
politicians, humanitarians, and media to look into her case,
and to call for her immediate release.
Sincerely,
Ms. Nadrat Siddique
Invitation to Think
{Muslims are so often blind sided by western
propaganda, they don't know what was done
to Germany by the western powers.
The horrific Muslim suffering in Guantanamo had its
theoretical beginning in the
indictment and execution of German POWS.
Here is a well researched article from CODOH.]
Dachau's 800-Pound Kangaroo (Court)
John Wear
The Dachau trial began on November 15, 1945 and ended four
weeks later on December 13. All 40 of the defendants were
convicted, with 36 being sentenced to death by hanging.[1]
This article will examine whether the defendants at the
Dachau trial received a fair hearing.
Unjustness of the Dachau Trials
The Dachau tribunal was composed of eight senior U.S.
military officers with the rank of at least full colonel.
The president of the court, Brig. Gen. John M. Lentz, was
the former commanding general of the 3rd Army's 87th
Infantry Division.[2] These U.S. military officers, with no
formal legal training, were not qualified to objectively
review the evidence presented in the trial.
William Denson, the chief prosecuting attorney, used a legal
concept called "common design" for establishing that camp
personnel at Dachau were guilty of violating the laws and
usages of war. The Dachau tribunal accepted Denson's legal
concept of common design. In common design, Denson exploited
a legal concept broad enough to apply to everyone who had
worked in Dachau.[3] In essence, every Dachau defendant was
guilty unless proven innocent (a verdict most-unlikely to
ensue).
The rules of evidence used at the Dachau trial were also
atrociously lax. For example, hearsay evidence presented by
the prosecution was routinely allowed by the "judges." Such
testimony was permitted at the Dachau trials if it seemed
"relevant to a reasonable man." This departure from normal
Anglo-Saxon law was intended to compensate for the fact that
some potential eyewitnesses had died in captivity.[4]
False witnesses were used at most of the American-run
war-crimes trials at Dachau. Joseph Halow, a young U.S.
court reporter at the Dachau trials in 1947, described some
of the false witnesses at the Dachau trials:
[T]he major portion of the witnesses for the prosecution in
the concentration-camp cases were what came to be known as
"professional witnesses," and everyone working at Dachau
regarded them as such. "Professional," since they were paid
for each day they testified. In addition, they were provided
free housing and food, at a time when these were often
difficult to come by in Germany. Some of them stayed in
Dachau for months, testifying in every one of the
concentration-camp cases. In other words, these witnesses
made their living testifying for the prosecution. Usually,
they were former inmates from the camps, and their strong
hatred of the Germans should, at the very least, have called
their testimony into question.[5]
Stephen F. Pinter, an American lawyer who served as a U.S.
Army prosecuting attorney at the American-run trials of
Germans at Dachau, confirmed Halow's statement. In a 1960
affidavit Pinter said that "notoriously perjured witnesses"
were used to convict Germans of false and unfounded crimes.
Pinter stated, "Unfortunately, as a result of these
miscarriages of justice, many innocent persons were
convicted and some were executed."[6]
The use of false witnesses has also been acknowledged by
Johann Neuhäusler, who was an ecclesiastical resistance
fighter interned in two German concentration camps from 1941
to 1945. Neuhäusler stated that in some of the American-run
trials "many of the witnesses, perhaps 90%, were paid
professional witnesses with criminal records ranging from
robbery to homosexuality."[7]
Lt. Col. Douglas T. Bates, the chief defense attorney, was
also not permitted to fully cross-examine all of the
prosecution witnesses. For example, prosecution witness
Arthur Haulot, a 32-year-old journalist and former
lieutenant in the Belgian army, threatened to leave the
trial after being aggressively cross-examined by Bates. An
hour later, Bates and the other defense lawyers met with
Haulot outside of the courtroom. Bates put a friendly arm
around Haulot's shoulder and said: "We just want to thank
you. By speaking up, you got us properly scolded. We were
doing what we had to do, and frankly it disgusted us. You
won't be bothered like that again."[8]
Such a concession by the defense counsel could never have
occurred if the trial had taken place in a court in America.
However, at Dachau the defense attorneys were soldiers who
took seriously reprimands from their superior officers, who
were judges in the trial.[9]
Signed confessions by the defendants were often used to
obtain convictions at the Dachau trial. Evidence was
presented that many of the defendants in the Dachau trial
made their confessions under torture. For example, defendant
Johann Kick testified:
I was under arrest here in Dachau from sixth to 15th of May.
During this time I was beaten all day and night. I had to
stand at attention for hours. I had to kneel down on pointed
objects. I had to stand under a lamp for hours and look into
the light, at which time I was also beaten and kicked. As a
result of this treatment my arm was paralyzed for about 10
weeks.[10]
Kick testified that as a result of these beatings, he signed
the confession presented to him by U.S. Lt. Paul Guth.[11]
Kick's report regarding his torture, however, made no
difference to the eight U.S. military officers who presided
as judges in the trial.
Common Design
The prosecution used the legal device of common design to
establish that (wartime) camp personnel at Dachau were
guilty of violating the laws and usages of war. Defense
attorney Douglas Bates in his closing statement challenged
the court's use of common design. Bates said:
The most talked-of phrase has been "common design." Let us
be honest and admit that common design found its way into
the judgment for the simple expedient of trying 40
defendants in one mass trial instead of having to try one
each in 40 trials. Where is the common design? Conspicuous
by its absence, established for the purpose of trapping some
defendants against whom there was a shortage of
proof—by arguing, for example, that if Schoep was a
guard in the camp, then he was equally responsible for
everything that went on. There are guards at each gate of
this American post today. Is it not far-fetched to say they
are responsible for crimes that may be committed within the
confines of this large area? If every one of the defendants
is guilty of participating in that large common design, then
it becomes necessary to hold responsible every member of the
Nazi Party and every citizen of Germany who contributed to
the waging of total war—and I submit that can't be
done.
I read this in Life magazine today: "Justice cannot be
measured quantitatively. If the whole of Germany is guilty
of murder, no doubt it would be just to exterminate the
German people. The real problem is to know who is guilty of
what." Perhaps the prosecution has arrived at a solution as
to how an entire people can be indicted as an acting part of
a mythical common design.
And a new definition of murder has been introduced along
with common design. This new principle of law says, "I am
given food and told to feed these people. The food is
inadequate. I feed them with it, and they die of starvation.
I am guilty of murder." Germany was fighting a war she had
lost six months before. All internal business had completely
broken down. I presume people like Filleboeck and Wetzel
should have reenacted the miracle at Galilee, where five
loaves and fishes fed a multitude.
There has been a lot of impressive law read by the chief
counsel, and it is good law—Miller, Wharton. The sad
thing is that little of it is applicable to the facts in
this case. Perhaps we have not been diligent enough in
seeking applicable law. Some think the prosecution has found
applicable law in the Rules of Land Warfare on the doctrine
of superior orders. We have no intention of arguing that
executions by the German Reich were due process.
Nevertheless, we contend that executions were the result of
law of the then recognized regime in Germany and that
members of the firing squad were simple soldiers acting in
the same capacity as in any military organization in the
world....
If law cloaks a bloodbath in Germany, the idea of law will
be the real victim. Lynch law, of which we have known a good
deal in America, often gets the right man. But its aftermath
is a contempt for the law, a contempt that breeds more
criminals. It is far, far better that some guilty men escape
than that the idea of law be endangered. In the long run,
the idea of law is our best defense against Nazism in all
its forms
In closing, I ask permission to paraphrase a great
statesman. Never in the history of judicial procedure has so
much punishment been asked against so many on so little
proof.[12]
Despite its injustice, William Denson refused to acknowledge
that the legal concept of common design should not apply in
this case. Denson stated: "I do not want the court to feel
that it is necessary to establish individual acts of
misconduct to show guilt or innocence. If he participated in
this common design, as evidence has shown, it is sufficient
to establish his guilt."[13]
The Case of Dr. Schilling
The injustice and hypocrisy of the Dachau trial is
illustrated by the case of Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling
(pictured at his execution). Malaria experiments at Dachau
were performed by Dr. Schilling, who was an internationally
famous parasitologist. Dr. Schilling was ordered by Heinrich
Himmler in 1936 to conduct medical research at Dachau for
the specific purpose of immunizing individuals against
malaria. The medical supervisor at Dachau would select the
people to be inoculated and then send this list of people to
Berlin to be approved by a higher authority. Those who were
chosen were then turned over to Dr. Schilling to conduct the
medical experimentation.[14]
Dr. Schilling acknowledged in court that he had performed
malaria experiments on inmates in Dachau. When asked why
these experiments had not been performed on animals, Dr.
Schilling replied:
I have been asked hundreds of times why I do not work with
animals. The simple answer is that malaria of the human
being cannot be transmitted to animals. Even highly
developed apes and chimpanzees are not receivers of malaria.
That is a recognized principle of malaria
experiments.[15]
William Denson stated that Dr. Schilling was "nothing more
than a common murderer" whose medical experimentation could
not be compared to that performed in the United
States.[16]
However, evidence in the later Doctors' trial in Nuremberg
showed that doctors in the United States performed medical
experiments on prison inmates and conscientious objectors
during the war. The evidence showed that large-scale malaria
experiments were performed on 800 American prisoners, many
of them black, from federal penitentiaries in Atlanta and
state penitentiaries in Illinois and New Jersey. U.S.
doctors conducted human experiments with malaria tropica,
one of the most dangerous of the malaria strains, to aid the
U.S. war effort in Southeast Asia.[17]
Although Dr. Schilling's malaria experiments were no
more-dangerous or illegal than the malaria experiments
performed by U.S. doctors, Dr. Schilling had to pay for his
malaria experiments by being hanged to death while his wife
watched.[18] The U.S. doctors who performed malaria
experiments on humans were never charged with any crime.
Verdict
It took the Dachau tribunal only 90 minutes to convict all
40 defendants. Joshua Greene writes: "Even if history looked
back and judged his work charitably, Denson might have
imagined one hour and 30 minutes to be a shockingly short
time in which to determine the fate of 40 men."[19]
William Denson had no doubt that the U.S. Army tribunal
would find the German defendants guilty of war crimes.[20]
The 90 minutes it took to convict the 40 defendants was also
probably not a surprise to Denson. In fact, in the later
Mauthausen trial in which Denson was the lead prosecutor,
the American military tribunal took only 90 minutes to find
all 61 defendants guilty.[21]
Historian Tomaz Jardim writes concerning these verdicts:
"Given the brevity of deliberations, it is clear that the
judges spent no significant amount of time reviewing the
evidence, examining legal precedent, or evaluating the
issues surrounding the common-design charge that defense
counsel had raised. In all likelihood, the judges had begun
deliberations with their minds made up."[22]
Conclusion
Benjamin Ferencz acknowledges the injustice of the Dachau
trial:
I was there for the liberation, as a sergeant in the Third
Army, General Patton's Army, and my task was to collect camp
records and witness testimony, which became the basis for
prosecutions...But the Dachau trials were utterly
contemptible. There was nothing resembling the rule of law.
More like court-martials...It was not my idea of a judicial
process. I mean, I was a young, idealistic Harvard law
graduate.[23]
Ferencz states that nobody including himself protested
against such procedures in the Dachau trials.[24]
The defendants did not receive a fair and impartial hearing
in the Dachau trial. The use of interrogation methods
designed to produce false confessions, lax rules of evidence
and procedure, the presumption that the defendants were
guilty unless proven innocent, American military judges with
little or no legal training, unreliable eyewitness
testimony, the nonexistence of an appeals process, and the
inability of defense counsel to aggressively cross-examine
some of the prosecution witnesses ensured the conviction of
all of the defendants in the Dachau trial.
Endnotes
Jaworski, Leon, Confession and Avoidance: A Memoir,
Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979, p. 115.
Greene, Joshua M., Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an
American Prosecutor, New York: Broadway Books, 2003, p. 41.
Ibid., pp. 42-43.
Ibid., pp. 47-48.
Halow, Joseph, Innocent at
Dachau, Newport Beach, Cal.: Institute for Historical
Review, 1992, p. 61.
Sworn and notarized statement by
Stephen F. Pinter, Feb. 9, 1960. Facsimile in Erich Kern,
ed., Verheimlichte Dokumente, Munich: 1988, p. 429.
Frei, Norbert, Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The
Politics of Amnesty and Integration, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2002, pp. 110-111.
Greene, Joshua M.,
Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, New
York: Broadway Books, 2003, pp. 55-57.
Ibid., p. 57.
Ibid., p. 77.
Ibid.
Ibid. pp.
113-115.
Ibid., p. 112.
McCallum, John Dennis,
Crime Doctor, Mercer Island, Wash.: The Writing Works, Inc.,
1978, pp. 64-65.
Greene, Joshua M., Justice at
Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, New York:
Broadway Books, 2003, p. 88.
Ibid., p. 112.
Schmidt, Ulf, Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor, New York:
Continuum Books, 2007, p. 376.
McCallum, John Dennis,
Crime Doctor, Mercer Island, Wash.: The Writing Works, Inc.,
1978, pp. 66-67.
Greene, Joshua M., Justice at
Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, New York:
Broadway Books, 2003, p. 115.
Ibid., p. 116.
Ibid., p. 221.
Jardim, Tomaz, The Mauthausen Trial,
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012, pp.
180-181.
Stuart, Heikelina Verrijn and Simons,
Marlise, The Prosecutor and the Judge, Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press, 2009, p. 17.
Ibid
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
'Assalaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu' *Virtues Of The Month Of Ramadhaan*
*PROPHET*~[Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam]~ said
First Khutbah.
'O Muslims... Fear Allaah and Obey Him !~ I give you glad
tidings as the
month of 'Ramadaan' is approaching ,
This is the month in which the 'Qur'aan' was revealed as a
guidance for
mankind, as well as a clarification and differentiation
between truth and
falsehood ! During this month, the Gates of Mercy are
opened
and the gates of hell are sealed. Satan and all other Jinn
are chained
during this blessed month... !
Rewards for good deeds performed in this month are
multiplied,
sins forgiven and supplications responded to and
answered.
It is the month of Perseverance, Mercy, Compassion and
Charity.
~Salmaan Al-Faarisi ~ [may Allaah be pleased with him]
reported that..
Prophet ~[Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam] gave a speech on
the last day of
'Sha'baan', and said... ' O people, You are being
approached by a great
and blessed month. A month which contains a Night that is
better than
One Thousand [1000] months ! Allaah made fasting within it
an obligation,
and made praying on that night an optional act of
worship.
he who performs any righteous voluntary act within it, will
be rewarded like
one who does an obligatory act at any time other than
during
'Ramadaan'...{!} 'he who performs an obligatory act of
worship within it
will be rewarded like he who performs Seventy~[70] acts of
worship at any
time outside this month ... ! ['Alhamdullilah' !]
It is the month of Perseverance -and perseverance is
rewarded with
'Jannah'~{Paradise}! It is the month of Compassion, in
which the
sustenance of a believer increases !
'he who feeds a fasting person within this month has his
sins forgiven and
he will be protected and released from the hell fire, he
also gets the
reward of that person's fasting without decreasing the
reward of the
fasting person.'
Then the companions... [may Allaah be pleased with them]
said..
'O messenger of Allaah ! not all of us can find the extra
food needed to
feed another fasting person'.
So the Prophet [Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam]
responded:
'Allaah will give you the reward of feeding a fasting person
even if you
were to give him just a sip of milk, a date, or a sip of
water...'{!}
he who feeds a fasting person until he is full, Allaah will
make him drink
out of my river, a sip of which will never allow him to be
thirsty until he
enters 'Jannah'! Then he continued...
'This is the month the beginning of which is Mercy, the
middle part is
Forgiveness... and the last part of it is Release from
Hellfire.'
(Source: Al-Bayhaqi)..
'So, pay attention, may Allaah be merciful to you all' Pay
attention
O believers, to the speech of the Prophet {Sallallaahu
'Alaihi wa Sallam }
in which he gave glad tidings of the month of 'Ramadaan' to
his
companions and informed them of its virtues and how the
reward of
righteous deeds performed therein is multiplied.
Indeed, it is a great and blessed month...! The Prophet
[Sallallaahu 'Alaihi
wa Sallam ] said.. referring to the month of
'Ramadaan'~
'Never has a better month arrived for the believers and
never has a worse
month come to pass for the hypocrites..'
(Source: Ahmad)
Abu Hurayrah, [may Allaah be pleased with him] narrated
that...
Prophet [Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam] said...
"All the (rewards of the) deeds of the son of Adam are for
him, (he is
aware that) the reward of performing them will be multiplied
by ten (10)
to seven-hundred (700) times...! Allaah{Azza Wa Jall} has
said:
'Except for fasting, as it is for Me. I shall reward
it....!
(i.e. I will decide what the reward will be) This is
because the fasting
person leaves his desires, food and drink purely for My
sake.'
The fasting person has two [2] times of great pleasure:
once when he
breaks his fast and the other when he meets his Lord !
The smell emanating from the mouth of a fasting person is
better in the scale of Allaah than the smell of Musk".
(Source: Ahmad)
The Prophet ~[Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam] referred to
'Ramadaan' as
the 'month of perseverance' due to the necessity of
perseverance and
patience during this month. Due to this, as well as the
suffering from the
pain of hunger, thirst and weakness of the body due to
fasting, 'Abdullaah
Ibn'Umar [may Allaah be pleased with him] reported that~
Prophet [Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam]said...
'No one knows the reward of fasting except Allaah'.
(Source: Al-Bayhaqi)
The reward for righteous deeds varies due to different
reasons, for
example, due to the sanctity of specific places such as
Makkah and
Madeenah. The Prophet ~[Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam]
said:
'Praying in my 'Masjid' is one thousand times [1000] greater
(in reward)
than prayer elsewhere - except for Al-Masjid Al-Haraam' [in
'Makkah']
[Source: S. Bukhaari]
Among the virtues of this blessed month is that the reward
for good deeds
is multiplied by up to seven hundred times, for those who
purify their
intentions and perform their actions purely for the sake of
Allaah - !
such as those who spend in charity from their wealth,
provided that their
wealth comes from lawful means. {Allaah only accepts
charity which is
from 'Halaal' (lawful) means...!}
The Prophet [Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam] said ..
'Allaah accepts charity with His Right Hand and then
increases it in reward
for the person giving it, just like one of you raises his
colt, until the reward
for it becomes the size of a mountain'.
(Source: Bukhaari & Muslim)
Anas ibn Maalik, [may Allaah be pleased with him]narrated
that
The Prophet [Sallallaahu 'Alaihi wa Sallam] said ...
'Charity extinguishes the anger of the Lord and
protects the giver of it from an evil end'.
(Source: Tirmithi)
~MY 'SALAAMS' TO ALL~
Y a s m i n.
