Welcome to the New Islamic year 1443:
Year of Struggle and Victory, inshallah.
Negation of Nationalism, Racism, Zionism and
Imperialism.
See the key role of Asma, r.a. in the Hijra.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
The year 1443 will begin on August 9, inshallah.
The calendar begins from the migration of Prophet Muhammad,
pbuh, from Makkah to Madina, after intense persecution by
the pagans and their plan to kill him.
The calendar signals to Muslims that they must migrate if
the persecution and tyranny because intolerable. The whole
world belongs to Allah, the true believers can make their
home wherever they can.
The closest companion of the Prophet, pbuh, in the hijra or
migration was Abu Bakr, r.a. Their survival in the rugged
mount Thawr was was made possible by Asma, r.a. the daughter
of Abu Bakr, r.a.
The calendar itself was suggested by Umar ibn al-Khattab,
r.a. the second righteous Caliph, and it was accepted by the
entire Muslim community.
The Hijra is CENTRAL to Islam. Muhammad, pbuh, left his home
city, which had rejected Islam, and went to a city which had
accepted Islam. It is a symbolic but powerful negation of
nationalism. The Qur'an has promised a tremendous blessing
to those who do the Hijra. [3:195]
MUSLIMS of America should struggle to organize and mobilize
on the basis of the Qur'an and the authentic Hadith. Anyone
who cooperates with the oppressors must be rejected. Anyone
who talks of recognizing the terror entity known as "israel"
must be ostracized.
This year let us "surge" to free our leaders and our
innocents, by peaceful means, from prison, and to recognize
and support those of our leaders who are free. We have
powerful leaders, tested and tried, in Imam Jamil Abdullah
al-Amin, and Imam Musa from the African-American
communities. A pleasant surprise is that the immigrant
communities too have produced an outstanding leader in Imam
Badi Ali who comes up to Islamic standards.
Aafia Siddiqui must be released.
Among women too we have outstanding leaders so that the door
through which the minions of Imperialism and Zionism were
coming out has been closed.
Let us pray for the victory of Islam in Afghanistan, Syria,
Palestine, Kashmir, Egypt, China, Burma, Chechnya, Iraq,
Somalia, Mali and Nigeria.
Obviously it is a global struggle. With wisdom and unity,
the Ummah can solve the most serious problems.
Seek guidance from the Qur'an and authentic hadith.
Start with your home and local masjid.
Above all, let us pray for the defeat of Zionism and the
dismantling of the Jewish terror entity known as "Israel." A
meen.
A woman, Asma, r.a., played a key role in the hijra of
Muhammad, pbuh.
via Sis. Yasmin
Asma bint Abu Bakr ( R.A.) has a special position among the
early Muslims, her sacrifices for Islam are numerous. Asma (
R.A.) was the daughter of Abu Bakr and sister of Ummul
Momineen Ayesha (may Allah be pleased with them both). She
was the mother of Caliph Abdullah bin Zubair.
Her four generations were companions [sahaba]. She was the
18th person to enter into the fold of Islam. Asma ( R.A.)
supported Islam from her early age. She played a key role in
the migration of the Prophet (peace be upon him).
Asma (R.A.) was entrusted to carry food for Abu Bakr (R.A.)
and the Prophet (peace be upon him) who were hiding in Cave
'Thawr'. [ Jabal Thawr (جبل ثور) ]
The cave was about three miles away on a mountainous track.
She carried food daily for three days, though she was seven
months pregnant ! The last day when Asma (R.A.) prepared
their travel provisions and water skin there was no rope to
tie them. She tore her 'Nitaq' (waist belt) into two pieces
and tied the bag with one.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) saw it; he smiled and told
her...
"Indeed, Allah has given you, in exchange for this girdle,
two belts in Paradise."! And thus she was named as "Zu
Nataqain" (The Lady of Two Belts). She kept this honorable
title for her whole life.
After the two left Thawr cave, Abu Jahl came in searching
for them and slapped Asma (R.A.) so hard that blood oozed
from her ears. Bearing the pain with courage and tolerance,
she did not disclose the secret.
Pakistan
Hope and Help in the Rugged Thar Desert
Pravalli welfare Trust (21st years of service to humanity
Newsletter July 2021
Agriculture with Solar Pumps in Thar.
119 schemes were completed till 2020 and 54 more this year.
Thus total no of schemes completed so far has reached 173.
Out of these 115 were donated by Lady Fatima charitable
Trust. At times Thar Desert does not get rains for 2 to 3
years at a stretch. This cycle continues after every 2/3
years. People have to pass through great difficulties due to
draught that causes wide spread famine both for human and
animals. Solar pumps can fetch underground water and
irrigate two or more Acres of land to produce 40 Maunds
grain per acre, vegetables and fodder for animals. During
last season one man grew 200 Maunds of onion and others 100,
80 and 50 Maunds in addition to wheat. This not only
elevates the standard of living of the poor folk and
neglected population of the society but also directly
contributes to the GDP of the country. Pravalli Welfare
Trust is giving this facility to poor folks only. This will
encourage locals and other NGOs to do likewise and change
the life of poor
Rozgar scheme for widows & needy with Goats.
This year we distributed 248 goats among widows. Out of
these Lady Fatima charitable trust gave 200 goats with 200
child goats among 50 widows in in Feb. Each widow getting 8
goats (4 goats+4 child goats). This 8 Goats scheme is being
repeated by Lady Fatima charitable trust once more in coming
months. LFCT is our main donor in this program since last
many years who has always shown great understanding and
generosity of spirit. In total 1674 goats were given so far
under various schemes. It gave us great pleasure when a man
told us that a goat given to a widow about 6 years back has
14 goats from that one goat and the widow is financially
very sound now. Thanks to donors. Jazak Allah.
Water Supply Schemes.
In year 2021 we completed 270 more water supply schemes. A
total of 2196 schemes have been completed in the last 20
years. Most of these are Sind, mainly in Tharparkar desert
areas. Now we have moved to Balochistan where 136 schemes
were completed. Out of all these schemes 948 were given by
Relief and Rehab Inc. and 477 were donated by LFCT. Many
friends have donated schemes for Esal-e-Sawab of their
parents and loved ones. Jazak Allah. Donors are sent photos
of the schemes they sponsored on completion with their name
plate on the scheme.
You can Help widows by sending money directly to widows bank account.
Our adoption of a widow and her children for the education
program, الحمد
للہ has got a very good response. Till
today 120 adoptions are confirmed. Donors have started
sending money directly to the accounts of widows. Proposed
Monthly help can be Rs. 8,000 to Rs. 10,000 per month. Our
role is only indicating the deserving family and then we
will be out of it. You can directly talk to them and meet
them when you find time. Any friend desirous of this
arrangement should let us know. We will send all needed
particulars and we will be responsible for indicating the
really deserving families.
Roshan Thar.
In total 608 houses were electrified in Thar Desert areas
with the help of LFT, S L F, RRAI and other friends. There
are wide stretches where there is no electricity and no
roads in Thar. We launched ''Roshan Thar" scheme to provide
each house with three solar light bulbs. It will have
capacity to run a fan as well but the fan will be purchased
by the people themselves. We started this program by
providing this facility to widows and very poor
households.
Help to orphan girls for marriage.
Total no of girls helped so far has reached 678. We pay Rs.
30,000 to these orphan girls in North and Rs 15,000 in Thar/
Sind areas. Even this meager amount is sought by these poor
widows with lot of prayers for donors.
Distribution of Sewing Machines & wheel chairs.
Sewing Machines are given to widows and destitute to stich
clothes and earn for their families. Total no of sewing
machines distributed till now are 247
Tricycles and Wheel chairs.
178 Wheel chairs/ tricycles were also given to invalids till
to-date. These help invalid to go from one place to other
respectably instead of dragging themselves on ground.
Technical training for jobless young men.
Our two computer center are working in Hyderabad and Khipro
Sind. 20 young boys/ girls are getting training there in
course no 25 and 26. In all of our 24 courses completed so
far, 97 boys have been trained in AC/fridge repairs, 53 as
Electricians, 11 as Motor cycle mechanic, 51 in computer, 62
as plumbers and 40 as Auto Electricians. A total of 314
young boys and girls were given trade training to earn for
themselves and their families.
Education in desert areas of Sind.
There are many areas in Thar Desert and rural Sind where
children have no schools to go in 5/10 Km radius. At places
Govt. school buildings are available but teachers have not
been posted. Generation after generation are illiterate in
these areas. Total no of schools run by trust are 21, in
which 993 children are now studying. Now we have started one
school in Baluchistan as well. These are in five Tehsils of
Thar namely Islamkot, Nangar Parkar, Kaloi, Deplo, Chhachhro
and Khipro. Each school has 45 to 110 children. Cost of
school is Rs. 10,000 per month but donors should contribute
on yearly basis for ease of account keeping. We pay
Rs.10,000 to teacher. Photos of the all schools with banners
having names of Donors have been sent to them.
Establishment of Medical camps in hilly areas.
Due to epidemic camps are not held presently. Med Camp no
107 was held in village Dubran, District Abbottabad in Feb
in which 108 patients were given medical help. In total
9,925 patients were given free medical treatment since 2012.
These camps are arranged by one brother & his sister for the
Esal-e-Sawab of their parents. Jazak Allah
Child Care Center
Through the efforts of Mr S. Nazim Ali from USA, Two child
care centers have started working in Deplo, Thar and Second
in village Sain Dinu Malah, Jamshoro, Sind. 7th camp was
held there in May in which 99 patients were treated. Due
epidemic camps are not being held presently.
Trees Plantation
During Feb/ March we distributed 2750 trees among farmers in
in KPK and Thar Desert areas. 1500 more trees were planted
in June/July 2021 in Thar. This program will continue in
August. In total 16,644 fruit/ other trees were distributed
in last many years.
Training women in stitching of clothes.
In Five centers that we are running 50 girls are learning
stitching of clothes. In Thar/ Sind 166 girls completed
training in stitching clothes. Thanks to LFCT 4rth course
has started in these centers with 30 girls under training.
These centers are located in Mirpur khas, Tando Allah Yar
and Chhachhro. Two more centers are working in Rawalpindi.
21 women/ girls are under training there. Till now 380 have
completed training successfully.
Shoes/ jackets for bare footed children in Desert
areas.
285 pairs of chappal were distributed this year in Thar
schools. Total no given is 1276. In addition this year we
distributed 660 jacket were also distributed among
children.
Ramzan Package for widows and poor.
During Ramzan 2080 widows and some very poor disable people
were given Rs. 5000 each in Districts Skurdu in Galgit.
Khuzdar, Awaran and Jaffar abad in Balochistan. Abbottabad,
Haripur, Malakand & Takht Bhai in KPK. Rawalpindi, Rajan pur
and DG Khan of Punjab and 13 Tehsils of Sindh / Thar (
Islamkot, Mithi, Nangar Parkar, Kaloi, Deplo, Chhachro,
Mirpur Khas, Tando Allah Yar Khan, Tando Muhammad Khan,
Jhudo, Thatha, Badin, Khipro) were helped. 200 more were
helped with stores. Credit goes to all our donors who helped
us in this cause. Donors are sent photos of receiving widows
with their name written on a display card for their
satisfaction.
Stay blessed and we pray to Allah to shower His blessings on
all the donors and their families. Ameen!
Col Mushtaq Ahmad (R)
www.pravalli.org
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
(''Pravalli'' is pothohari language word, spoken around
Islamabad, meaning ''brotherhood'')
These works are being done through donation. My contribution
is almost nil. I am only a facilitator. Allah's blessings be
on donors. We do not have trust office/ transport or
employees to ensure that max of donations reach the
needy.
Warm regards,
Col (R) Mushtaq Ahmad
War News
Afghanistan
Four rapid Taliban Victories indicate Kabul regime is
desperate.
American B-52 bombers reportedly caused heavy losses.
On Friday, August 6, Taliban captured Zanjan, a provincial
capital near Iran.
On August 7, Taliban captured Shebergan, in the northwest.
This was the stronghold of notorious war criminal Dostum.
On August 8, Taliban captured the strategic northern capital
of Kunduz and the city of Sar e Pul.
Advances on Herat and Lashkargah were stopped when USA used
its biggest bombers, B-52s. Details are not available but
reports indicate American bombing killed scores of people.
The Kabul regime says it is mobilizing to re-take the lost cities.
Mozambique [East Africa]
BBC is reporting that the arrival of large forces from
Rawanda, South Africa and Botswana has overwhelmed Islamic
militants led by ISIS. However details are lacking.
South Lebanon
On August 6, Lebanese hizbullah fired a barrage of rockets
at Israel after Israel provocations and intrusions into
Lebanese air space.
This is the first Hizbullah response to Israel since the war
of 2oo6.
Iran
New Trend welcomes Raisi, the newly elected President of
Iran. We urge Iran to stop fighting Islamic forces in Syria
and focus on Israel. The Zionist entity has attacked Iranian
weapons supplies and structures in Syria more than 20 times
with no Iranian response.
Iraq
The Baghdad regime is controlling information about the
conflict. Only these tit bits have come out.
In the Kirkuk area, ISIS raiders killed two federal police
officers and wounded two. One ISIS member was killed in the
clash, Baghdad regime reported.
In another raid near Baghdad a regime soldier was
killed.
Near Mosul IS kidaped 5 people and injured 3.
Syria
Report on Torture in Assad's Prisons.
Uzbek Volunteers Arrive.
August 6, First clash between Assad troops [Iranians?] and a
jihad group from Uzbekistan at Maarat un Nauman [the Idlib
border] killed 6 Assad troops and 4 Uzbeks.
In the mountain area, a Muslim sniper killed an Assad soldier.
August 8, Assad regime opened heavy artillery fire in Sahl
a-Ghab area of in NW Hama province killing 4 children and
wounding one. A Turkish military post also came under
Assad's artillery fire. [SOHR news]. Opposition responded
with rocket fire.
On the border of southern Idlib province, Assad's troops and
mujahedine exchanged machine gun fire. Russian air strikes
are reported.
A civilian from al-Raqqah province died of torture in
Assad's prison after 5 years of detention. SOHR has recorded
more than 104,000 who have been executed in Assad's persons
since 2013. Of these 47492 died under torture including 339
children. [Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.]
August 7. In Deraa province, the people are denouncing the
regime of Assad. The regime has surrounded the city of Deraa
and is firing into the city.
Advances by the regime
were thwarted by the resistance using machine guns. Russia
wants cease fire but regime is ignoring cease fire.
Syrians supporting Turkey in north east of Manbig, [Aleppo
province] are firing at Assad's military with heavy
weapons.
Deir ez-Zor-Palmyra road: a regime militia man was killed in
an ISIS ambush. SOHR reports IS using IEDs to attack Assad's
check points.
A drone in the western Aleppo regime controlled area burned
and crashed.
Russian bombing of IS positions continues. No details.
Life within the United States
Investigating New York Governor Cuomo
by Sis. Aisha
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
This past week, New York Attorney General Letitia James
concluded her investigation of sexual harassment claims
against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a 165-page report.
Over 179 people had been interviewed and 70,000 pieces of
evidence examined, including viewing the texts of these
women sent to family and friends. The attorney general
concluded that Governor Cuomo did indeed sexually harass 11
women. The report also accused the Cuomo administration of
being a "hostile work environment."
In response to this report, Governor Cuomo immediately
released a videotaped denial of all these accusations. It
was very Clinton-esque. One of these accusations is criminal
with a female aide saying Cuomo groped her. Also, a new
claim has been revealed where a female state trooper,
assigned to Governor Andrew Cuomo, said he touched her
inappropriately.
Governor Cuomo has previously released videos of himself
greeting people with a kiss on the cheek, forehead, and
hand, which is customary in Latin culture. He has stated
that people may have misunderstood his intentions.
Now, powerful Democrats, such as President Biden, Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi, as well NY Assembly Speaker Carl
Heastie are calling for Governor Cuomo to resign. If he
refuses, then the NY State Assembly (legislators) can
impeach him.
Corrupt politicians going after corrupt politicians is a
very hypocritical move. A move that has been unsuccessful
when it involves sexual harassment of women. Many male
politicians engage in this sort of this behavior. It comes
with the territory of being male. Cuomo just happens to be a
powerful New York politician, which would make removing him
from his job more difficult than if he were an average guy.
But, it can be done!
The question is when will it be done? A few of these
assembly members have some sort of relationship with Cuomo.
There are pictures of them at ribbon-cutting ceremonies and
even Assembly Speaker Heastie took his time when it came to
taking support away from the governor. A major difference
with these circumstances is that these are not women
Governor Cuomo had affairs with and none of them welcomed
his advances. Based on the report, Governor Cuomo took
liberties with these women.
It is very difficult for women to be taken seriously by
their male bosses or colleagues. One woman, who came
forward, former staff member Ana Liss, was told to wear high
heels and that the governor liked blondes. She said she felt
like an ornament. She also stated that just like her the
careers of many of these accusers have suffered.
There is a penalty White women have paid ever since they
experienced their first taste of freedom outside of the home
during World War II. It was then that White women, in
particular, were called on to take over their men's jobs in
the factories and even in sports (remember the movie, "A
League of Their Own?"). But, when the war was over and men
started coming back home to return to those same factory
jobs, women refused to leave them. White men have always
been resentful of this empowering move. One such display of
their resentment was the classic Hollywood film noir
"Mildred Pierce," starring Joan Crawford, which warned
viewers about the dangers of being a confident working
mother.
Being a career woman comes with a price. Although she may be
in a better position to handle it, even being an
entrepreneur does not completely shield the working woman
from male chauvinist oppression.
(Source: NPR.org: "New York's Attorney General Releases
Report On Cuomo Harassment Probe," 8/4/21 )
Guidance From Sis. Yasmin
*SEVEN QUALITIES LOVED BY ALLAH
{AZZA WA JAL}* ~
Tawbah (Repentance)
"For Allah loves those who turn to Him constantly
(in repentance)"
[Source~ Qur'an~ 2:222]
Tahara (Purification)
"Allah loves those who keep themselves pure
and clean."
[Source~ Qur'an~ 2:222]
Ihsan (Goodness & Perfection)
"For Allah loves those who do good (to others)"
[Source~ Qur'an~ 3:134]
Sabr (Patience)
"And Allah Loves those who are firm and steadfast
(As-Sabirin (the patient))."
[Source~ Qur'an~ 3:146]
Tawakkul (Trust in Allah)
"For Allah loves those who put their trust
(in Him)."
[Source~ Qur'an~ 3:159]
Adl (Justice)
"For Allah loves those who act justly."
[Source~ Qur'an~ 5:42]
"For Allah loves those who are fair (and just)."
[Source~ Qur'an~ 49:9]
Taqwa (Piety)
"For Allah loves the righteous (the pious)."
[Source~ Qur'an~ 9:4]
~MY 'SALAAMS' TO ALL~
~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
Honour"
{'Qur'an'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27}
I Want to Die With my Forehead on the Ground!
The Sunnah in my Heart, Allah on my Mind,
Qur'an on my Tongue, and Tears in my Eyes!
{'In Shaa Allah' ~'Aameen'~ }
' Son of Adam! You are nothing but a number of days,
whenever each day passes then part of you has Gone.
{Al-Hasan Al-Basree (R)}
Today is the second anniversary of the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution.
Kashmir and the World's Conscience
By Waheeduddin Ahmed Ph.D.
"Kashmir in a Cage", an Op Ed article written by Mohammed
Hanif, that appeared in the New York Times of August 8,
2019, is an excellent analysis of the issue. Not many
Pakistanis have articulated the case so eloquently. Also,
the paper's editorial under the heading "India Tempts Fate
in Kashmir" is deserving of appreciation. With a couple of
exceptions, no such journalistic clarity is manifest in the
so-called friendly (Islamic) countries. On the contrary,
they have demonstrated a worrisome bias towards India's
narrative that Kashmir is its internal matter. If their
morality deserts them in such a clear cut case of dishonesty
and deceit, quite similar to the plight of Palestinians,
then all moral values go out of the window. They may as well
return to the times of jahiliyyah. However, it is incumbent
upon us to take this phenomenon seriously because this
perfidy is the harbinger of the tectonic shift that is
occurring in all basic international relations. Trump, Sisi,
MBS, MBZ, Orban, Matteo Salvini, Narendra Modi and others
are not accidents of history but logical progression of
history.
Groupings of countries do not occur at random. They occur on
the basis of commonalities, such as, geography, language,
culture and religion. Most importantly however, they are
goal oriented. NATO, SEATO, CENTO and Warsaw Pact all had
certain goals in mind. The organization of Non-aligned
nations formed in Bandung in 1955 had goals. The Arab League
had a goal of defeating aggressive plans of Israel. In 1974,
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, using his immense charisma and
political acumen, held a summit of the leaders of the
Islamic countries in Lahore. The goal was to cement
solidarity between Muslim countries to safeguard their
common interests.
So, are those goals in focus today? Hardly! The Soviet Union
has been dissolved. Nato is a charade, used now for
gangsterism such as to kill Qaddafi. The Arab League is a
wanderer in the wilderness trying to find a definition for
who is Arab. Moreover, the member states have decided that
Israel is invincible, so if you cannot fight him join him
for some material gains. We have recurring feasts of
sacrifices; the Palestinians are healthy sacrificial lambs.
As for the Islamic solidarity, it is by far an oft repeated
empty slogan. The solidarity, if there was any, is melting
and yielding ground to liquidity. The concept of Ummah,
which the Qur'an introduced in the Seventh century, is being
buried in its birthplace after one and a half millennia.
Islam sits lightly in the capitals of Arab countries now,
especially those inhabited by the casino princes. So,
welcome to the tectonic shift!
The global conflict of today is not between the military
powers capable of launching nuclear warheads across nations
but commercial juggernauts who can launch trade vessels
across oceans. The USA and China fit the definition. China
today is not an ideological monolith but a giant commercial
enterprise, working tirelessly to gain new markets and
outlets for its goods and building transportation lines. It
is no longer interested in barren and frozen lands like in
1962 but in naval bases and in political landscapes that can
yield benefits. So, if it cold-shoulders Pakistan in the
case of Kashmir, don't be surprised. If you have been rudely
awakened from your dreams, don't keep rubbing your eyes
forever. Get up, gather your wits, reorient and rearrange as
the smart ones are doing. The fittest will survive in this
world of Darwinian competition.
In view of these hard facts, how can we step into the
future? Honestly, the future does not seem to be so
deterministic as the philosopher's dream. In order to be
clear about it, we have to dispel the smog of the present,
which nullifies logical arguments. Ibn Khaldun's philosophy
of history or Hegelian dialectics fail to provide clear
answers. When Samuel Huntington wrote: "Clash of
Civilizations", we all criticized him but he was right,
except that his choice of the word "civilization" was
perhaps inappropriate. Let me remind you that a clash has
already occurred, which resulted in the destruction of many
established political entities in the Middle East and North
Africa, a region which has been the core of the Islamic
civilization for many centuries. It now lies in ruins.
Clashes may occur in various modes. One such mode is
prejudicial viewpoint, which is being played out in Europe
and America today. Such a clash feeds on the ignorance of a
class of people, a class, of which there is no dearth in the
West. Ignorance is a pestilence which spreads due to
misinformation and miseducation, a process which is now
facilitated by the electronic media. It claims lives, like
millions who died due to the great plague in medieval
Europe. Plague does not discriminate between intellectual
and nonintellectual victims, so neither does cognitive
dissonance, the blockade of truth by the conscious mind.
The great industrial civilizations, which nurture scientists
and artists, if inflected by such disease, lose their
resilience and become antithetical to reason. The specter of
worldwide amnesia of enlightenment on the part of the
enlightened, is a terrifying prospect. Germany was full of
scientists, inventors, philosophers and artists in the first
half of the Twentieth century. It took only the rise of
National Socialism to knock Germany out of enlightenment.
The Right is rising again in Europe, America and India and a
new brand of Fascism is revealing itself. The voices of
caution and cognition are mute, making it possible for
history to repeat itself. Logical progression of history is
being falsified.
Narendra Modi is not one who is making history; he is a
symptom of a disease. There is a god in the Hindu pantheon
with a human body and an elephantine head. When Modi
declares that the god was the handiwork of Indian surgeons
who performed "plastic surgery" (what he meant was body
transplant) to produce this creature, millions of scientists
and students graduating in science from India's prestigious
universities kept silent, giving credence to such Hindutva
absurdity. Antiscience has carried the day in India to the
utter shame of millions of bright scientists. The rape of
Kashmir is a landmark in international criminality. The
political pundits and righteousness preachers are hiding
their faces in saffron.
In summation, I would have to say that Kashmir was a test
case. Do ethics and morality still matter? Does humanity
have a future? Shall the Hindu men from the Indian state of
Haryana be given license to kidnap Kashmiri girls, as they
are promising to do --- they have a shortage of women due to
the abortion of female fetuses? Are you prepared to
sacrifice your Christianity, your Judaism, your Ahimsa and
your Nirvana at the altar of your Islamophobia? The big
question is: can the possibility of nuclear war between
India and Pakistan be ignored?
August 12, 2019
Biggest Myths of the Second World War.
Demolition of the Biggest Idol of our Times.
Commandant of Auschwitz by Carlo Mattogno and Rudolf Hoss.
394 pages. Translated by Germar Rudolf. Castle Hill
Publishers, P.O. Box 243, Uckfield, TN22 9AW, Great Britain.
November 2017. [Contains copies of original confessions and
documents.]
It's a very systematic book and step by step it destroys the
biggest idol of Zionism. The globally distributed story of
millions gassed at Auschwitz is based on the stories told by
the Commandant of this notorious concentration camp, Rudolf
Hoss.
The Commandant was traced and captured by the British after
the defeat of Germany. The British subjected him to ongoing
torture starting with taking all his clothes off in bitter
winter weather. His wife and children were also arrested and
threatened with deportation to Siberia. The Russians and the
British were working together. The Russians had been issuing
smear propaganda about Auschwitz even before Hoss was
captured.
Once Hoss realized that he had no future and he had to
cooperate with his captors if he wanted at least to save his
family. Confessions were written for him and he had no
choice but to sign them. He signed all kinds of confessions,
including some in English which he could not understand.
Some he was forced to write himself.
The book produces all of Hoss's confessions without
comments. The confessions themselves are enough for any
intelligent reader to see that they are bogus. Hoss
repeatedly took blame for all that had supposedly happened
at Auschwitz. He ended up with taking the blame for the
deaths of more than TWO MILLION people.
Once his captors saw that he would "confess" to anything
they wanted, they fed him more and more atrocity propaganda,
all of which he regurgitated as part of his own knowledge.
Emboldened by their success in terrorizing the Commandant,
his captors kept adding to what he "knew". They even claimed
that he had met Germany's top leaders including Eichmann and
even Himmler who plotted the destruction of the entire
Jewish population [though these meetings never happened[.
As if not satisfied with this success, the captors brought
him into the post-war trials of some other German leaders
who were to be punished by the guilt of association with him.
The author has done a great job of presenting Hoss's entire
book of crimes in his own words. The numbers are big enough
to destroy any conventional rational response.
The author then carries out a scientific study which shows
that Hoss's entire book of confessions was nothing but
fabrication. One of the most enlightening scenes is the
document in which the gardener at Auschwitz is brought in to
confront Hoss and is shocked to hear Hoss proclaiming his
guilt and complete responsibility for the deaths of more
than two million people plus 700 Russian POWs.
After a while Hoss took off on his own and no more had to be
tutored. He was handed over to the Polish authorities and
there he simply accepted responsibility for the entire
German criminality known as the :"holocaust."
The process of demolition of the entire idol of the Israeli
theory of victimhood is very detailed. Unless there is
someone on the Israeli side who can answer this blockbuster
critique of established stories of horror, this is the
beginning of the end of the myths which have been
perpetuated worldwide.
Despite all his cooperation in the service of his
oppressors, he was hanged after he had been drained of all
his stories.
[After this translation, Germar Rudolf has published a huge
critique of the myth which is even more scientific and
detailed than this one. Unless this is answered, Israel's
mythology is on the way to its demise.]
Some People Love the Editor of New Trend.
Br. Shaikh Hyder lives in Toronto, Canada.
He is a veteran supporter of Jamaat al-Muslimeen and in
particular helps the orphans of Mali and Ghana [via Br. Abu
Talib].
Very recently, he travelled all the way to Baltimore and
prayed with Br. Kaukab. In spite of his age, he is
physically strong and determined to continue with his
staunch faith in Allah and His Prophet, pbuh.
Although his family were very worried about his ability to
travel in these hot days when travel even by plane is
exhausting, he made it.
Although our masjid is very small, he was happy to see the
brotherhood-sisterhood in the masjid.
May Allah bless him and give him continuing health and long
life.
The Rohingya Muslims: the victims of the worst war crimes
Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal
{Excerpted]
In terms of stipulated war-objective, the success of the
Myanmar Army is huge. They could get a quick success only by
committing horrendous war crimes. Their war was purely
genocidal. Because of electronic social media, crimes were
visible all over the world. The enemy of the Myanmar Army
wasn't a foreign power. The military objective of the war
wasn't to liberate any land from any enemy occupation. The
declared enemy is an unarmed people of Myanmar called
Rohingya Muslims. And the war objective was to cause
genocidal cleansing of the Muslim people from their
traditional homeland called Arakan -later on, named as
Rakhine state.
The Army has left no political, social, educational,
economic, and not even a survival space for the Rohingya
Muslims in Myanmar. For saving a life, they had no other
option but to make a desperate move to migrate to Bangladesh
amidst extreme hardships. They even used ramshackle rafts
made of plastic cans to cross a big river. Most of the
Rohingya villages are burnt down, the homes are destroyed,
the farmlands and businesses are occupied. Therefore, even
if the Myanmar government is compelled to take them back by
international pressure, there remains no infrastructure or
emotional element in Arakan to give them shelter or a sense
of comfort for returning back to their motherland. They only
survive with a huge open wound in their traumatized psyche.
The sharp memory of being killed, gang-raped, and brutally
tortured by the Army personnel will survive through ages.
How the Rohingya women can ever forget the pain of being
raped day and night by the Buddhist sex predators at their
wish. It is not a political or racial problem, rather an
awful moral problem of the Myanmar government and the Army.
They have shown no moral ability to acknowledge such ugliest
crime as crime, let alone condemn it. No amount of political
negotiation can remove this huge ugly scar from the
traumatized psyche of the Rohingya Muslims.
The Rohingya people who are now labeled as the enemy of
Myanmar are the people who were recognized as the sons of
the soil and legal citizens for centuries. Even in the
recent past, they took part in politics and became members
of the parliament. They participated in the liberation
movement against the colonial rule of the British. Such a
historic status of the Muslims of Arakan was annulled 35
years ago in1982 by a military dictator. Thus they were made
stateless. By any definition, it is itself a horrendous
crime against humanity. Although such a politically and
racially motivated annulment of citizenship of the Rohingya
Muslims created the whole backdrop of the ongoing genocidal
war, the UNO and other world powers showed little moral and
humanitarian responsibility to put the necessary pressure on
the Myanmar government to undo it. As a result, the whole
Arakan -once peaceful land of a historic Muslim state, is
the site of rampant war crimes against the local Muslims.
stal borders, which is much longer than that of Myanmar
itself. Before the initiation of ethnic cleansing, the
Rohingya Muslims were in majority in Arakan. Prior to the
Burmese invasion in the eighteenth century, the forefathers
of these Rohingya Muslim people had a Muslim sultanate
there. The state even extended to the south-eastern part of
Bangladesh. Chittagong -the largest port city of Bangladesh
was part of it. In the fifteenth and sixteenth century AD,
the Bengali language got a huge boost in the royal palace of
Arakan. Most of the noted contemporary Bengali poets were
related to its royal court. In the whole history of Arakan,
even in the history of Myanmar, there doesn't exist a single
mention that the Rohingya Muslims were the foreign
intruders. They are known as the son of the soil. On the
contrary, the Burmese Buddhists -known as the Rakhine
minority in Arakan, are immigrants from the central Buddhist
heartland of Myanmar.
Building border on ethnic or linguistic lines is a very
recent phenomenon in human history. Such a barrier didn't
exist in South Asia even 100 years ago. Therefore, a man
from Yangon in Myanmar could easily travel to Kolkata in
India or Dhaka in Bangladesh without any barrier and could
build a house or open a business there. It was also true for
a man journeying in the opposite direction. Hence, one can
easily find ethnic, linguistic, or religious linkage or
continuity spread over all the south Asian countries. And
Myanmar is not an exception. Bangladesh itself is a
multi-ethnic and multi-religious country with millions of
people having ethnic and religious linkage with the people
of various states of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran,
Central Asia, Arab, Turkey, and Myanmar. Hence, one can
easily discover trans-border ethnic, linguistic, or
religious continuity spread over Bangladesh and its
neighbors. Such linkage is also true for the people living
in Myanmar. It is a process of slow social diffusion that
takes place through ages. It is indeed the part of human
history that caused such a mix-up of people of different
races, languages, and religions through centuries.
Hence, such an ethnic linkage should not be used to commit
"push-in", forced eviction, or genocide against any people.
Only the people with extreme racism and pathological hatred
against people of other religions or races can deny such
sociological reality. Awfully, the ultranationalist civil
and military elite of Myanmar have proven to be infected
with such toxic moral disease of racism cum radical
nationalism. To make the situation much worse, they have
powerful patrons like China, Russia, and India to support
their crime. As a result, the UN, the International Criminal
Court, and other international bodies fail to bring the
terrible war criminals to justice. Therefore, the war
criminals are let loose to do all the worst crimes on earth.
And the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar continue to suffer. The
western leaders thought that keeping a blind eye on the
Myanmar government was necessary to help Aung San Suu Kyi's
elected government to get strength. But such opportunity was
not allowed to the democratically elected government in
Palestine and Egypt. They didn't need to commit any
genocidal crime to get toppled by the west-sponsored
military junta. However, Aung Sun Suu Kyi's government now
stands deposed and she herself is now in jail. Despite her
advocacy for the military criminals in the Internationa
Criminal Court, also became a victim of the Myanmar
military. Friendship with wolves only can cause disaster;
Aung Sun Suu Kyi proved that.
Aung San Suu Kyi -while in power showed her gross cognitive
inability to see even the most robust crimes of the Army. On
2 November 2017, after more than a month of the initiation
of the massive crime, she could take some time to visit
Arakan. Strangely, visible evidence of war crimes of the
Myanmar Army like mass murder, torture and rape, arson and
wholesale destruction of villages, and forcible expulsion
from their home appeared to her as the bipartisan quarrel
between the Rohingya Muslims and the local Rakhine
Buddhists. As if, the Rohingya Muslims are the equal partner
of the same crime. As if, the Rohingya Muslims'
participation has caused similar mass murder, torture and
rape, arson and wholesale destruction of villages and
expulsion from their home on the local Buddhists, too.
Islamophobia is the cause
Because of the politically motivated Islamophobia and the
extreme form of hatred against the Muslims, the Myanmar
government, the Buddhist monks, and the ultra-nationalist
Burmese political elites wants to roll back the whole march
of history and want to give a fabricated narrative with
their sick ultranationalist motive. For that, they are not
only inventing new lies but also committing appalling
crimes. They have already demonstrated by their action that
they want to destroy all the elements of existing Islamic
history, legacies, icons, and the Muslim institutions of
Arakan. They are committed to giving Arakan a new identity
and want to make it a land exclusively for the Buddhist
Rakhine tribe. Therefore, the genocidal cleansing of the
Rohingya Muslims has been so fundamental to their political
objective. To start the process decisively, they needed to
put a new name for the old state of Arakan. Hence, it is
renamed as Rakhine state after the name of the minority
Buddhist Rakhine tribe. In order to attain full
Bhuddhistisation of Muslim Arakan, they started genocidal
cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims. This is why, along with
dismantling the mosques and the Islamic schools, ethnic
cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims became the central piece
of their military operation.
A new Israel
The Myanmar government, the ultranationalist civil and
military elites, and the Buddhist monks are not ready to
accept the Rohingya Muslims as part of Myanmar. They label
them illegal Bengali infiltrators from Bangladesh. As if
Arakan -now Rakhine state was a land without any inhabitants
in the past. What could be the worst fabrication of history
than this? A lie always gives birth to evils. Thus lies can
cause catastrophic crimes on earth. Such lies have always
been manufactured and used by war criminals to ignite a war
against others only to support their criminal motives. That
has exactly happened in the case of the current war against
the Rohingya Muslims.
Myanmar has become a new Israel in South East Asia. It is
bizarre and extremely inhuman that the whole ethnic group of
Rohingya Muslims should lose their citizenship and meet the
genocidal cleansing because of their ethnicity, skin color,
language, and religious belief. The annulment of citizenship
of the Rohingya Muslims was indeed an expression of a robust
apartheid agenda of the Myanmar government. It was done only
to invent the necessary pretext to portray these
artificially made stateless people as the infiltrators from
Bangladesh -thereby justifying their forced eviction.
In order to promote blatant lies, the Myanmar government is
ignoring some basic historical facts. It is well known that
before the annulment of citizenship of the Rohingya Muslims
by the military rulers in 1982, the same Rohingya people
used to be elected as the member of the parliament. They
served in the government offices and even in the Army. The
Rohingya children used to get admission in schools,
colleges, and universities and enjoy other civic rights. But
when the racially motivated Army grabbed the power,
everything changed. By mass scale annulment of citizenship
of more than a million of its known citizens, the Myanmar
government has indeed made a pretext for the annihilation of
a people with a dissimilar race, religion, and language from
the Buddhist majority. So far, no country in the world has
made its own known citizens stateless in such a huge number.
Myanmar is a country impregnated with many old insurgency
wars. Many ethnic tribes want independence from Myanmar. It
is worth noting that despite separatist war by many ethnic
and linguistic entities for many decades, the citizenship of
those insurgents has never been annulled. There is no proof
that the Rohingya Muslims did any war against the state of
Myanmar. But the government is behaving differently with the
Rohingya Muslims. Not only they were deprived of
citizenship, rather a genocidal war has been imposed on
them. The war has caused torture, death, rape, arson, and
eviction of more than 900,000 unarmed people.
In Myanmar, the Rohingya Muslims are portrayed as the enemy
of the majority Buddhists. They are labeled as the
infiltrators from neighboring Bangladesh and projected as
the existential threat for the Buddhist people of Myanmar.
Thus, they created the fabricated justification for a war of
ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.
The story didn't end there. They launched a hateful
propaganda campaign to make people support the Army-run war
against the Rohingya Muslims. The racist monks are also
taken as partners in such toxic propaganda. Even Aung San
Suu Kyi's party "League for Democracy" also became a part of
it. The Army's genocidal war aimed at ethnic cleansing of
the whole population of the Rohingya Muslims from their
birthplace. The war could cause the fastest-growing refugees
in human history; more than half a million were evicted only
in 3 weeks. Thus the Myanmar Army could cause a man-made
disaster of catastrophic proportions. It is worth noting
that after the dismissal of Aung Sun Suu Kyi's civilian
government, hundreds of thousands of her supporters
protested in the streets. But there was no protest on the
streets while the worst genocidal crimes were being done
against the Rohingya Muslims. This shows how racism,
nationalism, and Islamophobia lethally damage the moral
fabric of the common men and women. As a result, the people
then lose the ethical instinct to condemn even the worst
evil on the earth.
The Army and other Islamophobes called the war against the
Rohingya Muslims a legitimate campaign to free Myanmar from
illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh. The enforced
delegitimization of citizenship of the Rohingya Muslims is
being used not only to use it as a ploy to justify the
cancellation of all political, economic, educational, job,
and health care entitlement of the Rohingya Muslims but also
to launch a war on them. Thus, even the survival right of
the Rohingya Muslims on the soil of their birth is taken away.
The geopolitics and the ideological congruity
Hypocrisy and trickery have always been parts of the
imperialists' policy against Muslims. Justice, morality, and
human rights have no space in their politics. The
imperialist-led UNO promised a plebiscite for deciding the
fate of Kashmir -whether to go to Pakistan or India or stay
independent. But that didn't happen. The UNO and all the
western and the eastern powers promised the right of return
to the evicted Palestinians to their ancestral homes. But
that didn't happen either. The Palestinians still live in
concentration camps. These are ghettos in the occupied West
Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. On their cleansed lands,
the Israeli government built luxurious apartments for Jewish
immigrants from different parts of the world. Thus the
foreign Jews are being enticed to settle in Palestine. Those
who decide the fate of world politics pay blind eyes to such
an awful show of obvious crimes. The same calamitous crime
is being perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslims.
Arakan -the Rakhine state has enormous economic and
geopolitical strategic importance. The ruling Burmese
nationalist majority planned to confiscate 1.2 million
hectares of land of Rakhine state. They need this land to
build Special Economic Zones (SPZ) for Japanese, Chinese,
Indian, and other multinational companies. They need land to
build a deep seaport for China and another deep seaport for
India. Till January 2017, China's investment in Myanmar
reached $18.53 billion and considers Myanmar an important
tool in its One Belt, One Road initiative. China, India, and
Russia also find strong ideological congruity to support the
Myanmar Army. The Russians have their Muslim Caucasus, China
has its Xin Xiang and India has its Kashmir to practice
similar crimes against the native Muslims.
The Myanmar government needs a huge area of empty land to
build barracks for the Army and the other security forces to
ensure security to these economic establishments. Hence they
needed to ethnically cleanse the originally settled Rohingya
Muslims from the land. To show the justification of the
crime, they needed to do another crime. In 1982, they
deprived the Rohingya Muslims of their nationality right.
Now they are telling the world that the Myanmar Army is
evicting the foreigners who have no legality to stay in
Myanmar. Whereas they have manufactured such illegality only
for the political, racial, and economic interests. Now they
have given the evicted people a new tag of identity called
refugees.
This is why the perpetrators of genocidal crimes in Myanmar
don't stand alone either. They have powerful patrons to
appreciate their crimes. China, India, Russia, and Japan
stand firmly on their side. Hence no one on the earth dare
prosecute their crimes.
No ray of light in the tunnel
The Bangladesh government works on its own plan. The
government is using all of its diplomatic channels to
persuade the Myanmar government to take back the Rohingya
refugees. But Bangladesh possesses little diplomatic muscle
to influence the policy of the arrogant Myanmar Army. The
UNO, the USA, the EU, and other world powers also failed to
make any influence. A plan doesn't work if it doesn't
possess enough political will and power of leverage. As a
result, about a million Rohingya refugees still suffer in
horrific refugee camps in Bangladesh.
In 1992, the Bangladesh government achieved some success
with the collaboration of the UNO to persuade the Myanmar
government to take back some of the refugees. But that
didn't help them to return back to their own ancestral
homes. They are kept in prison-like concentration camps made
for the displaced people. Their lands, homesteads, and
business establishments still stay occupied by the Army, the
Police, and other state institutions.
The restoration of citizenship of the Rohingya Muslims is
the key to solve the problem. Only then they will be
entitled to enjoy basic human rights and other legal
entitlement. Otherwise, the mere return to Myanmar will not
solve the problem. They will enter from a refugee camp in
Bangladesh to another prison-like refugee camp in Myanmar.
It is the grotesque failure of the UNO and other big players
that didn't go further to pressurize the Myanmar government
to restore the citizenship right of the Rohingya people. As
a result, the statement stays. China still stands firmly
behind the Myanmar Army. So the suffering of the Rohingya
people continues. They don't see any ray of light in the
long dark tunnel.
India
From Dr. T.
The evil of Hindutva and false claims of secularism iand
democracy in Hindutva India.
