Irtidad of the Rulers has emboldened Israelis. They marched
through al-Aqsa & Insulted the Prophet, pbuh.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
This Friday crowds of Israeli Jews, protected by Israeli
military, desecrated masjid al-Aqsa, trashed Islam and
insulted the Prophet, pbuh.
As they marched, the Israelis chanted that they have the
support of Saudi Arabia and Morocco. [They already have the
support of UAE, Egypt and Jordan. Even Turkey has diplomatic
relations with Israel.]
With such a dire situation where the Prophet, pbuh, is
insulted in one of the holiest mosques of Islam, the global
Muslim Ummah should objectively look at its situation.
My understanding is that Muslims have neglected, totally
ignored, one of the central teachings of Islam and that is
SHOORA [mutual consultation and consent without
coercion].
Without free consent, there is no legality in Islam,
Ignorance of Shoora has turned Muslims into slaves. The
rulers are controlled by non-Muslim powers and the rulers
are presented in the western media as representatives of
their people.
There are four levels of shoora as taught in the Qur'an:
Mutual consultation and consent in all matters. As
Maulana Maudoodi pointed out, this includes family matters
and should include spouses and children.
At the micro level, even the weaning of a baby should be
by mutual consultation and consent.
Consultation with the believers even when the believers
have gone the wrong way, such as in the battle of Uhud. The
Prophet, pbuh, himself is ordered to consult with them.
Cooperation with oppressors is strictly forbidden. There
has to be sufficient scope for dissent.
Muslims, by and large, ignore all four levels. The enemies
commit terrible crimes against the Ummah and Muslims are
unable to respond. The rulers have paid "scholars" who can
teach in Arabic that we must cooperate with the rulers,
Dear Muslims, unite and seek Guidance from the Qur'an and
the authentic hadith.
References:
Those who hearken to their Lord and establish regular
prayer, who conduct their affairs by mutual consultation....
{The Quran 42:38}
If they both decide on weaning, by mutual consent and
after due consideration, there is no blame on them.
{2:233.}
... so pass over their faults and ask forgiveness for
them, and consult with them in their affairs... {3:159}
And incline not in the slightest to those who are
oppressors, or the Fire will seize you, and you have no
protectors other than Allah, nor shall you be helped. {11:
113}
Pakistan
JI comment
Both sides Misbehaved in Parliament.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE- JUNE 16: Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said
that parliament has failed to deliver because of non-serious
attitude of the PTI and two opposition parties.
Talking to party workers at Mansoora on Wednesday, he said
the culture of mutual respect had vanished from the politics
of Pakistan, widening further political divide among the
workers of different parties.
"The situation will bring a fascist culture and weaken the
already fragile democracy."
The political parties, he said, should introduce democracy
within their ranks and develop the culture of mutual respect
if they were sincere to strengthen democracy in the country.
He said the 220 million Pakistanis were the losing end and
they would be the ultimate victim of the non-seriousness of
the so-called public representatives.
The JI chief grilled the PTI for improving hike in petroleum
prices, warning the rulers to control the inflation or the
JI would launch protest campaign across the country. The
skyrocketing inflation and unemployment had worst impact on
the middle class and poor people which made over 90 percent
of the total population, he said, adding two percent elite
occupying the resources of the country were responsible for
the miseries of the masses.
The prime minister, he said, made the tall claims to bring
real change but so far he failed to bring reforms in any
sector. The ruling party, he said, deceived the masses in
the name of Madina state. He said it was the JI which would
transform Pakistan into Madina state as the three parties
had badly failed to deliver. He appealed to the masses to
vote for the JI in next election to put the country on
track. After coming to power, he vowed, the JI would
introduce reforms in health, education and other
sectors.
War News
Afghanistan
Latest
[June 19] Fighting rages as Taliban have captured districts
in six more provinces.
These provinces are Takhar, Faryab, Jawzjan, Samangan,
Farah and Paktia.
From Br. Nazir
"Terrorist groups Isis and Al Qaeda will "likely" pose a
threat to the United States homeland within two years of
troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, the Pentagon's top two
military leaders have said.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley agreed that the extremist
organisations could regroup in Afghanistan within two years,
or possibly faster, after the US leaves the country by the
20th anniversary of 9/11.
Mr Austin and Mr Milley gave the warning during a Senate
Appropriations Committee hearing on the 2022 Department of
Defense budget request. Senator Lindsey Graham asked the
pair to rate the likelihood of international terrorist
organisation regenerating in Afghanistan and posing a threat
to the US and its allies.
"I would assess it as medium. I would also say, Senator,
that it would take possibly two years for them to develop
that capability," Mr Austin replied."
Syria
Artillery, rockets, air strikes, ambushes.
June 19. western Hama province Assad regime rocket fire
killed a civil defense volunteer and injured three.
June 18. Fath al-Mubin Islamic group hit Assad military and
Assad militia in northwestern Hama province after Assad
forces fired 100 rockets.
Exchanges of fire are also reported from areas in Latakia
province.
Ahrar al-Sham Islamic group fired on regime controlled Salma
city, northern Latakia
In western Daraa province several shootings of men
collaborating with the Assad regime are reported.
In northern countryside of Deraa province, a mine was used
to blow up an Assad regime vehicle killing 2 Assad troops
and injuring 2.
June 18. SOHR reports an attack by Islamic State fighters in
the Juwaif area of al-Mayadeen desert [Deir ez Zor], in
which 2 of Iran-backed militia were killed and 8
injured.
Two of Assad's NDF militia were killed in a landmine
explosion near al-Mayadeen city. Their vehicle was
destroyed.
SOHR also notes IS ambushes on Assad forces in the eastern
al-Sukhna desert [eastern Homs province,] Casualties not
disclosed,
In the Baghouz area along the Euphrates river, American
helicopter force killed one ISIS fighter and captured
another.
Russian fighter jets launched 15 air strikes in the
al-Raqqah desert to stop IS advances.
June 17. A field commander and two of his soldiers,
organized in a Russian backed militia were found dead in the
al-Raqqah desert.
Iraq
June 19.Baghdad regime forces launched military operations
in Anbar province and several other provinces,
June 16, According to Iran info, ISIS blew up a strategic
line transmitting Iranian electricity to Diyala province in
Iraq.
Two drones laden with explosives flying over Baghdad were
shot down by regime forces,
News Within the U.S.
The Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated.
By Sis. Aisha
{jamaat al-Muslimeen}
There are the individuals who have received the COVID-19
vaccine versus those who refuse to get it.
This Plandemic cost people their incomes and sanity. Small
businesses have been impacted in the worst way by this
lockdown, while behemoths such as Target, Walmart, and
Amazon have remained open.
Locking people down by closing schools, select businesses,
and houses of worship has never been considered a potent
measure for fighting any disease. Lockdowns are certainly
not a proven remedy because they were never implemented
until China did it in January 2020! Medical experts were
never behind this move.
Recently, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia Republican)
apologized profusely for comparing the forced wearing of
masks in the House of Representatives to the Jews being
forced to wear yellow Stars of David during the Holocaust.
But, was she wrong in making such a comparison?
The House of Representatives physician, Btian Moynahan,
specifically waived COVID-19 restrictions for vaccinated
Representatives but, stated that those who were unvaccinated
had to contiue to follow social distancing while wearing
masks. Although she apologized, Rep. Greene was still
adamnat that imposing these COVID-19 restrictions was a
discriminatory practice. It should also be noted that Rep.
Brad Schnieder (Illinois Democrat) was about to introduce
legislation censuring Rep. Greene. The same censure used
against the late Dr. Khalid Muhammad for referring to Jews
as "bloodsuckers" during a Kean College speech back in
1993.
However, after Rep. Greene's apology and after a visit to
the Jewish Holocaust Museum, Rep. Schnieder decided to take
a wait and see approach.
The National Basketball Association has teams in the
playoffs, right now. After the first round of the playoffs
ended, it was announced that only vaccinated fans would be
allowed for advanced playoff rounds in some arenas. Now,
Indian University is requiring that its students and staff
get vaccinated before entering its campus. The Supreme court
ruled in the university's favor.
As these states lift the COVID-19 Plandemic restrictions
there seems to be a battle brewing between the vaccinated
and the unvaccinated.
On the ONPoint with Alex Pierson, a Canadian radio show, Dr.
Byram Bridle expressed serious concerns about the longterm
effects of the COVID-19 Vaccine. Dr. Bridle is a Canadian
immunologist who was given over $200,000 in government
grants to research the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), he was able to
acquire information about Pfizer's biodistribution study
from the Japanese regulatory agency.
The spike protein is found in COVID-19 or Coronavirus, which
gives the virus the ability to infect us. This is why the
spike protein is used in the COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Bridle
stated that, in theory, being injected with the spike
protein would allow the body to create its own proteins to
attack it and build immunity to it. But, the FOIA revealed
that the spike protein itself is a toxin.
This spike protein toxin is solely responsible for the
issues people have been experiencing with internal bleeding
or blood clotting. Normally, a traditional vaccine injection
is localized and stays in the area where the needle pierced
the skin. A very small amount of the vaccine dose is
released into the lymph node area to stimulate the immune
system. However, the COVID-19 vaccine gets into the blood
system and these toxic spike proteins are circulated
throughout the body!
The spike protein has been responsible for adversely
affecting the cardiovascular and reproductive system, as
well as the brain. Fatal cases of blood clotting have
occurred in the brain. Dr. Bridle's fear is that vaccinated
young people will grow up to become infertile since the
ovaries are one of the organs affected. Babies who have been
fed with breast milk contaminated with the spike protein
have experienced gastrointestinal bleeding.
Universities, employers, sports leagues, even family
members, are exhorting people to get the COVID-19 vaccine or
risk losing certain privileges. Preferential treatment has
been given to vaccinated individuals however, NBA player
Chris Paul's recent COVID-19 diagnosis sent shock waves
throughout the sports media. People believed that the
vaccine should have prevented him from contracting it.
But, Dr, Anthony Fauci of the Centers for Disease has stated
that vaccinated individuals can still get and give COVID-19
to other people. So, these preferential measures used to
favor the vaccinated and exclude the unvaccinated are just
dangerous mind games being played by COVID-19
profiteers.
(Sources: NBCNews.com & Mercola.com)
Opinion
Kashmir : Tragic History
Betrayal & Atrocities.
Indian Occupation army
BY GHULAM NABI FAI
June 11, 2021
If promises are made to be broken, then Kashmir may be
summoned to prove the treacherous proposition. Broken
promises haunt Kashmir's history, and explain its tragedy. I
will confine myself to the last century as a concession to
the shortness of life.
Under the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, Great Britain sold
Kashmir and its then 2 million people to a Sikh ruler, Gulab
Singh, like sheep and cattle. The strutting British Empire
valued Kashmiris every bit as much as it did the Irish then
undergoing the Potato famine, which many in New York condemn
as a British genocide. But that was of little solace to
their South Asian counterparts.
Kashmir was a princely state under Gulab Singh and his
successors, Ranbir Singh, Partap Singh, and Hari Singh. A
princely state was not directly ruled by the British raj
like India, but was subject only to British dictation over
matters of defense and foreign policy.
Maharaja Hari Singh, a Hindu, began his princely rule over
Kashmir in 1925. The people of the land were predominantly
Muslim, but lived a warm coexistence with Hindus, Buddhists,
and Sikhs. Their understanding of Islam had taught them
mutual respect, harmony, and ecumenism.
The Maharaja inherited a regime earmarked by brutal
repression of Muslims. Heavy taxation, discriminatory laws,
forced labor, and the absence of representation in services
and lack of educational facilities were chief grievances.
The slaughtering of a cow was a capital crime and mosques
were controlled by the state.
All dissent or political protest was brutally suppressed.
For instance, the Maharaja summarily drowned state silk
factory workers in 1924 for the audacity of demanding higher
wages than the likes of Oliver Twist. Muslims who petitioned
British Viceroy Lord Reading to correct or ameliorate their
grievances during his 1924 visit were sent into exile and
their properties confiscated. The British then appointed a
commission headed by B.J. Clancy to investigate the
grievances. It confirmed their authenticity, recommended
remedial measures, which were largely neglected by the
Maharaja.
A Kashmiri national movement was galvanized in 1931 when a
state factotum forbade the Imam to deliver a sermon before
the customary Friday prayer. Mr. Abdul Qadeer answered with
a fiery speech denouncing the Maharaja's anti-Islamic
injunctions. Muslims rallied to protest his arrest, and 22
were slaughtered when the police opened fire.
With the lapse of British paramountcy on August 15, 1947,
broken promises over Kashmir came not like single spies but
in battalions, to borrow from Hamlet. Princely states
enjoyed three options: accession to India, accession to
Pakistan, or independence. But the choice, according to
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and tacitly endorsed
by the British was to be made by popular referendum in cases
where the creed of the ruler varied from the religion of the
majority. That fundamental democratic principle had been
sternly applied by Nehru with military means in Hyderabad
and Junagadh where the rulers were Muslim but their
inhabitants largely Hindu. Kashmir presented a converse
case: the Maharaja was Hindu but the majority subscribed to
Islam.
When paramountcy lapsed in Kashmir, the Maharaja's despotic
regime was tottering. An indigenous rebellion was in full
swing. Instead of submitting to a referendum, Maharaja's
vaulting and mean-spirited ambition prompted a plea to the
Indian army for intervention. Nehru responded with alacrity
on October 27, 1947, and intrigued to generate a bogus
instrument of Kashmiri accession to India to justify its
aggression. British scholar Alistair Lamb has persuasively
exposed the forgery, a first cousin to the Tzar's Protocols
of the Elders of Zion.
Indigenous Kashmiris fought Indian troops to a standstill.
Contemporaneously, India's head of state, Lord Mountbatten,
officially promised a Kashmiri plebiscite in plain language
over which only Mr. Pickwick might puzzle: "[I] n
consistence with their policy that in the case of any state
where the issue of accession has been the subject of
dispute, the question of accession should be decided in
accordance with the wishes of the people of the state. It is
my government's wish that as soon as law and order have been
restored in Kashmir and its soil cleared of the invaders,
the question of the state's accession should be settled by a
reference to the people."
India then raced to the United Nations Security Council on
January 1, 1948, and championed a pair of resolutions on
August 13, 1948 and January 5, 1949 that prescribed a
self-determination vote for Kashmiris on the heels of United
Nations supervised demilitarization. Pakistan eagerly
endorsed that solution to Kashmir's disputed territory.
India, however, was soon undeceived of its delusions over
Kashmir's political yearning. Recognizing that its people
would never freely vote accession to India, it contrived
excuse after excuse to frustrate a plebiscite. When the
United Nations proposed arbitration, a reference to the
World Court, or any other method of resolving minor
demilitarization quarrels, India nixed them all. After a few
years, it dropped all pretense of acceding to a referendum
by unilaterally proclaiming its annexation of Kashmir.
India's proclamation has never been accepted by the United
Nations, which continues to list Kashmir as disputed
territory and subject to the Security Council's
self-determination resolutions.
When Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United
Nations was asked to clarify the position of the UN on
Kashmir soon after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A by
the Government of India, he said on August 8, 2019, "The
position of the United Nations on this region is governed by
the Charter of the United Nations and applicable Security
Council resolutions."
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani, President, JKCHR is correct when he
said, "Indian action of 5 August 2019 in Kashmir has
consequences at home, in the neighbourhood and at the
international level. This action is a breach of the terms of
the Instrument of Accession and under the UN template on
Kashmir India has loaded upon itself a very grave offence
against the United Nations and the right of the people of
Jammu and Kashmir to self-determination".
Broken promises two, three, and four thus represent India's
reneging on its Kashmir plebiscite pledges made by Lord
Mountbatten, Prime Minister Nehru and Indian delegate to the
United Nations. Broken promise number five can be laid at
the feet of the Security Council which has never exerted any
moral or other clout to even nudge India towards compliance
with its resolutions. It seems that the Security Council has
honored India's indefensible defense of its Kashmir broken
promises because of its muscular military, nuclear and
economic profile and hegemony in South Asia.
Broken promises number six, seven, and eight came in 1966,
1972, and 1999. At Tashkent following the 1965
India-Pakistan war, promises were made by India to negotiate
seriously over Kashmiri sovereignty. But nothing was done.
At Simla, following a 1971 war over Bangladesh, India again
agreed to talk seriously about Kashmir. But again the
promise was honored in the breach, not the observance.
During a brief honeymoon between India and Pakistan at
Lahore in 1999, India once more promised genuine
negotiations over Kashmir, and once more betrayed its pledge
by instantly insisting that India's claim of sovereignty
over Kashmir would never be placed on the negotiating
table.
The train of broken promises over Kashmir might be forgiven
if the consequences were innocuous or inconsequential. But I
submit the opposite is the case. India exerts an iron-fisted
rule over Kashmir that would stir the heart of Genghis Khan.
With approximately 900,000 military and paramilitary troops
in the territory, gruesome human rights violations are
perpetrated with impunity on a scale that makes East Timor
under Suharto seem tea party. Every human rights group that
has surveyed the grim Kashmir landscape, including Human
Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the UN High
Commissioner on Human Rights, has been shocked and horrified
by the daily atrocities against the people of Kashmir. Ditto
for the annual human rights country reports of the U.S.
State Department.
To hide its human rights inferno in Kashmir, India prohibits
world parliamentarians, international broadcasts or
unchaperoned international electronic media. With no
heart-clutching pictures in the living rooms of the United
States and the European Union, no moral clamor has arisen to
do something to relieve the horrors of millions of
Kashmiris. But griping at the unfairness of the world is as
otiose as shouting at the weather.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai is the Secretary general,
Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum. He can be
reached at:
1-202-607-6435
or
gnfai2003@yahoo.com
Invitation to Think
Around the Net
by Br. Nazir
ATLANTA: The Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization in the US
said it stands with the Palestinians during their ongoing
conflict with Israel.
Over the past two weeks, Israel's military has pounded Gaza
with airstrikes while the Palestinian enclave's ruling Hamas
militants have unleashed cross-border rocket attacks.
BLM tweeted its support Tuesday for the Palestinian people
stating that it is committed to advocating for "Palestinian
Liberation." The BLM twitter account has more than 1 million
followers.
The social media post read: "Black Lives Matter stands in
solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to
ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to
advocate for Palestinian liberation."
The tweet from the organization — accredited for
mobilizing millions of African Americans and their
supporters in the US to stand up against police brutality
and violations of their civil rights — carries a lot
of weight within the US political system and other
progressive circles.
Since fighting began on May 10, Palestinian medical
officials said that 223 people have been killed and more
than 1,600 injured in aerial bombardments. Roads, buildings
and other infrastructure in Gaza have been destroyed as the
already dire humanitarian situation has been worsened in the
impoverished coastal strip.
Israel has reported 12 deaths, including two children, as a
result of Hamas rocket attacks.
Bruce Wilson, a leader of the BLM movement in South
Carolina, told Arab News that his organization will always
support the Palestinian people in their struggle to be free
and to resist the Israeli occupation of their land.
Wilson, who heads the Greenville, SC chapter of BLM, drew
similarities between the struggle of African Americans in
the US and the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
"When I see a black man being killed by the police in
America and a Palestinian being killed by Israeli bombs, I
have to have empathy," he said. "I would fight for a
Palestinian child just as hard I would fight for a black man
in America."
Wilson said black people and Palestinians are waging the
same struggle to be free and to achieve justice for their
causes. He and other members of Greenville BLM participated
with local members of the Palestinian and Arab American
community in a protest against the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
Chicago-based Salim Muwakkil participated in the US civil
rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He told Arab News
that while there are differences in the historical nuances
and specifics of the circumstances between black people in
the US and Palestinians in Palestine and other disputed
land, ultimately they are very similar.
"A settler colonialism movement led by European Ashkenazi
invaded that part of the world and displaced indigenous
people," said Muwakkil, who is an editor at In These Times
Magazine and a radio talk show host.
"This is very similar to the pattern of Anglo-settler
colonialism that settled the so-called new world and
imported enslaved Africans and reduced them to a bottom
cast."
He said African Americans have linked the Palestinian
struggle with theirs since the early days of the black
liberation movement, which was propelled by the Black
Panther Party and Malcolm X.
Muwakkil said there was a very strong identification and
support for the struggle of the Palestinian people among the
African American community even back then.
"The leaders of the struggle of the black people in America
were very much attuned to and supportive of the struggle of
the Palestinian people," he said. "So I am not surprised and
I understand why the BLM movement today identifies itself
with the struggle of the Palestinians."
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
Allah Alone is Sufficient
'Alhamduli'Allahi Rabbil-Aalameen
wa-Salaatu wa-Salaamu 'alaa
Ashrafil-Anbiyaa-e-wal-Mursaleen~
'Amma Baa'd'...
********************************************************
'Assalaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu'
[Source~ 'QUR'AN' ~ Surat 'Āli 'Imrān (Family of
Imran) 3 ~ A # 173]
Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with him) said...
When Prophet Ibraheem (Alaihis Salaam)
was thrown into the fire, he said:
"Allah Alone is sufficient for us, and HE is the Best
Disposer of affairs."
So did PROPHET Muhammad
(Sal-lal-laahu-Alaihi-wa-Sallam),
when he was told...
"A great army of the Pagans had gathered against him, so
fear them". But this warning only increased him and the
Muslims in Faith and they said:
"Allah Alone is sufficient for us and He is the Best
Disposer of affairs for us".
[Source~ S. Al-Bukhari].
When Prophet Ibraheem (Alaihis Salaam) was thrown in the
Fire by those who thought that they had power over all
things, he made a supplication the effect of which made the
world sit up and watch in amazement...{!}
The Result of which was the Fire getting cool...{!}
It could not burn even a hair of Prophet Ibraheem (Alaihias
Salaam)...{!}
This is the effect of saying:
' Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel '.
Allah alone is Sufficient for us, and what an Excellent
Guardian He is...
He is the Best Disposer of affairs...{!}
In a seemingly overpowering situation,
PROPHET Muhammad, [Sal-lal-laahu-Alaihi-wa-Sallam]
and his great companions declared that...
Allah is Sufficient for Help and Solace and that
He is the Best Disposer of affairs for us!
O Allah! help us to overcome all satanic Temptations.
O Allah! guide us un to the Straight Path.
O Allah! Make us live as Muslims and take our souls in the
state of 'Imaan'.
You are our Protector.
Save us from the torment of the Hell-fire... {!}
Allah Humma Aameen. Aameen. Aameen.
*Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel,
Ni'mal Maula Wa Ni'man Naseer*
~ MY 'SALAAMS' TO ALL ~
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~ Y a s m i n ~
"All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide {Forever}
the Face of thy LORD, full of Majesty, Bounty and Honor"
{'Qur'an'- Surat Al-Rahman-55.A # 26-27 }
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Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice,
my Living and my Dying are for ALLAH, Lord of the
Worlds'.
{'Qur'an'~Surat Al-'An'am -# 6-162.}
Hadith
"One who frees a Muslim man, each bone of his body will be
freed for each bone of the slave, from the fire of hell, and
one who frees two Muslim women from slavery, his body parts
and bones will be freed from the fire of hell for their
bones and body parts."
[Hadith of Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, in Sunan of Ibn Maja,
narrated by Kaab bin Murra, r.a., chapter on slavery.]
White Marsh, Maryland
June 18.
Editor of New Trend Accosted and insulted.
This Friday, New Trend's editor Dr. Kaukab Siddique attended
juma'ah services at a mosque in a Baltimore suburb.
Afterwards, he offered complimentary copies of New Trend to
members of the congregation, while standing outside in the
considerable heat in the mosque parking lot.
New Trend is one of the oldest continuously published
Islamic papers in North America. Since its inception in
1977, it has supported the Palestinian liberation struggle,
opposed dictatorships across the Arab and Muslim world,
supported the right of Muslims to free themselves from
occupation and oppression; and championed freedom for
political prisoners like Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Imam Jamil
Al-Amin, Ziyad Yaghi, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, and the innocents
held at Guantanamo Bay.
The mosque administrators, with complete disregard for adaab
(Islamic etiquette), accosted Dr. Siddique, accusing him of
distributing "terrorist literature" (with scarcely a glance
at what he was distributing). He responded to them that they
ought not use the terminology of the oppressor.
Then, the accusations became even more baseless and bizarre.
Surrounding Dr. Siddique, several mosque board members
repeatedly called him a liar (it was not clear what he was
ostensibly lying about), an "old man," a "rascal,"and
possibly an Ahmadiyya. (The last charge was particularly
ludicrous, and illustrated that the mosque administrators
had not read North America's oldest Islamic paper, which has
consistently and vociferously opposed the Ahmadiyyas.)
The relatively young (but old and sold at heart) men finally
dismissed the New Trend editor with a wave of their hand,
their hubris in full display. In a further attempt at
intimidation and suppression of free speech, they
photographed the license plate of the vehicle in which he
was traveling.
A video of the incident can be seen here:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3012022405789020id=100009438707580
The ugly incident revealed the nature of the majority of
U.S. mosques: Khutbas almost never discuss issues of concern
to the Muslim community, whether about political prisoners
or police shootings in the U.S., or about the bombing of
innocents in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, or other Muslim
countries by the U.S. and its allies. Attempts are
frequently made to cultivate an "American Islam," in direct
contravention to the original Islamic teachings on
internationalism and Islamic brotherhood/sisterhood. Mosque
board members behave like egomaniacs, their advanced
degrees, wealth, and position giving them the illusion of
superiority over other Muslims.
Mosque administrators also frequently display overtly
misogynistic behaviors towards the women in their
congregation (if there are any; not surprisingly, at this
mosque, there were exactly four women attendees, myself
included). It is common for female members of the
congregation to be relegated to servile roles in the mosque,
and to be physically placed in backrooms where they cannot
see, hear, or interact with the imam, or with the board
members who wield authority over happenings at the mosque.
Perhaps most shamefully, such mosques welcome
representatives of the Democratic and Republican parties to
pitch to the congregations, distribute party literature, and
much else, never mind that both parties have killed, bombed,
and maimed millions of Muslims.
But, to a representative of an Islamic newspaper, an elder
with a decades-long history in the Islamic struggle, and who
studied directly under Maulana Maudoodi (RA), they behave
with unbelievable arrogance and outright rudeness. And
surely Allah (AWJ) is the Knower of all things.
‐‐Nadrat Siddique
Editor's note
Indo-Pak immigrants in USA behave as if they have landed in
paradise. The Black community has never treated me like
this.
Self-criticism: I should improve my health. I should take
some brothers with me before making myself vulnerable to
petty insults.
These big mosques try very hard to conceal their links with
the power structure from their audiences. They concentrate
on collecting funds so they can keep enlarging their
buildings. Innocent Muslims have no choice and have to go to
these "white delephant" mosques to pray. As the crowds
increase, the bosses of these mosques think they are
successful.
There is no forum for dissent in these mosques.,
[The address of the mosque is:
Masjid Noor, Ebenezer road, White Marsh, Maryland]
Du'a and Message
from Imam Badi Ali
June 18
As-slamu alaikum,
Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) said:
Give glad tidings, and do not scare people away. Make things
easy, and do not make things difficult"
(Abu Dawud).
Be positive and optimistic all the time.
In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means you have
1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good
things and good people will be drawn to you.
Oh Allah, make me extremely positive, and make me extremely
optimistic, and make me grateful to you. Ameen.
June 16
Who is your best friend?
As-slamu alaikum,
The Prophet (pbuh) said, "A man is upon the religion of his
best friend, so let one of you look at whom he
befriends."
(Sunan al-Tirmidhi)
عَنْ
أَبِي
هُرَيْرََ أَنَّ
النَّبِي¤ّ صلى الله
عليه وسلم
قَالَ
"الرَّجُلs عَلَى
دِينِ
خَلِيلِه¦
فَلْيَنْ˜ُرْ
أَحَدُكُ¥ْ مَنْ
يُخَالِل¥"
سنن
الترمذي
So choose your friends carefully and the friends of your
children carefully. And guard them because true friends are
like diamonds - precious but rare. Fake friends are like
pebbles - found everywhere!
Understand that sometimes being with your best friend is all
the therapy you need.
Ya Allah, place us among Your righteous and obedient
servants who seek forgiveness. Ameen.
Arab Media Equating Hamas and Israel
[Mid East Monitor]
Some Arab media outlets publish articles equating Hamas with
Israel. In fact, some of these texts make you feel as if
Hamas is Israel and that Israel is the righteous party.
If we examine what's written by Arab writers and supported
by Arab regimes, whose agendas are open normalisation, we
will find that many of the writings are simplistic, with
superficial inclinations, unaware of the nature of the
situation in Palestine or Gaza, or of the nature of the
confrontation with Zionism. These writers have the freedom
to write, of course, but they live in a world created by
their imagination, completely isolated from the situation on
the ground in the Palestinian, Arab and international
reality.
Simplifying the history of the conflict with Zionism and
making it superficial can turn, intentionally or
unintentionally, into service to Zionism. The racism that
characterises the speeches and language of Benjamin
Netanyahu and Israel's leaders is what characterises some
Arab writers today. They are certainly free to write, but
deception in presenting the enemy's rhetoric will not help
because it will soon be exposed. Take, for example, how
recent events around Al-Aqsa, Gaza and the rest of Palestine
have exposed the fragility of the enemy's rhetoric and
status. In some cases, I advise the reader to do an
experiment: to erase the name of the Arab writer and the
Arabic newspaper in which the article was written, and then
read the article impartially. You will find that what you're
reading is identical to the statements of the Israeli
right-wing. Certainly, there is something wrong when you
find that expressions written by Arab writers about the
resistance and Hamas are equal and identical with those
issued by Israel and the Israeli right-wing. This raises a
lot of questions, to say the least.
Adopting the rhetoric of the enemy is not new. In Vietnam,
at the height of its liberation, and in Algeria, at the
height of its battle, voices that were closer to the voice
of the enemy have always emerged. These voices focused on
reducing people's confidence in themselves and in the causes
for which they fought. These attitudes reflect a view that
despises the masses and their rights and glorifies power,
identification with the West and authoritarian colonialism.
Frantz Fanon wrote a valuable book that has become a classic
in the analysis of this phenomenon - Black Skin, White
Masks. If we use the same analogy with the Arab situation,
we will find Arab skin dipped in Israeli masks.
This school of thought identifies with Israel and Israeli
technology and science, but it overlooks Israeli racism,
ethnic cleansing and apartheid prevailing in its laws and
structure. It even overlooks the injustice that Israel
spreads, blaming Arabs and Palestinians for the occupation
and settlement. Striving to reverse historical and current
facts will not succeed in fooling the Arab nation and its
people.
Hamas is a political and liberation movement that emerged in
1988, during the second Intifada. It has evolved and changed
over time, to become the expression of the methodology of
armed struggle in the Palestinian arena. The armed struggle
methodology did not come from nothing, but was the result of
the daily Israeli violence against the Palestinian people,
which has been ongoing since the Nakba of 1948. Al-Qassam
Brigades represents a national military force for Palestine,
and its youth are historical fighters. The young men who
joined Al-Qassam Brigades joined because of its ability to
inflict pain on the enemy, and not because of the Islamist
ideology of Hamas.
Demonising Hamas, which aims to obliterate its positives and
magnify its mistakes, is an intentional act stemming from
the Israeli intelligence and foreign services. Thus, it is
not by chance that some Arabs who widely believe in
normalisation would adopt the same Zionist Israeli visions
of demonising Hamas. But this will not work, as Hamas is a
resistance group, and it was able in a few weeks during the
battle of the "Sword of Jerusalem" to break the demonisation
that a group of Arabs worked to create.
Hamas is a product of the Israeli occupation and the Nakba.
It suffices to mention that 90 per cent of Gaza's population
are Palestinian refugees, and that Hamas has expressed the
refugees' desire to return to their homeland. In light of
the Palestinian Authority's pursuit of negotiating over
lands that are increasingly disappearing, it is only natural
for Hamas to fill the void with the aim of resisting the
enemy and establishing new balances in the face of
Zionism.
The campaign to demonise Hamas is a campaign to portray
Israel as a peaceful state, while, in reality, it is a
violent, racist and apartheid state that was established
through the theft of Palestinian land. The Hebrew University
in the heart of West Jerusalem was founded on lands stolen
from the Palestinians, and so was the University of Haifa
and several other Jewish universities. Abuse has its limits,
and Arabs are more aware nowadays. Despite all kinds of
demonisation, Egypt has recently realised the necessity of
coming to an understanding with Hamas and dealing with it as
a resistance movement capable of influencing the balance of
powers.
US-Iran Deal
Could have Serious Consequences for Sunni Muslims in Syria
and Iraq whom Iran is Attacking.
[via Dr. T]
June 14. RT
Iran's Foreign Ministry says it has finally reached a deal
with the US, meaning all the sanctions imposed on the
country's industrial sectors, including energy, will be
removed.
A breakthrough in Vienna will bring much-anticipated relief
to the Iranian oil sector, which has been officially cut
from the global energy market.
"Some minute technical, political, legal, and practical
issues remain,"
Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the ministry said, adding
"No task was impossible for the negotiators, and there's no
impasse."
US reports it has imported sanctioned oil from Iran, a first
after 30 years of sanctions
Severe sectoral sanctions against Iran were introduced by
the Trump administration, which was seeking to restrain the
Iranian oil trade as part of its "maximum pressure campaign"
to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions. Washington
threatened any country buying crude from Iran with secondary
sanctions.
Apart from the ban on crude exports, US sanctions included
restrictions on Iran's petrochemicals, shipping, insurance,
banking, car manufacturing, and construction sectors, along
with prohibition on dollar transactions. Moreover, the US
had imposed individual sanctions against Tehran officials -
these were lifted last week.
The landmark accord should result in the dropping of
penalties that once removed over two million barrels per day
(bpd) of Iranian crude from international markets, pushing
the nation's output below two million bpd - the lowest since
the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war in the early 1980s.
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