David Irving, top Scholar of World War II.
Here are a few of my comments about his top-of-the-line books.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
I remember I was honored to meet David Irving in a "by
invitation only" meeting when he visited Baltimore.
The old lion still roars but he has become very circumspect
about his understanding of the Jewish Holocaust story.
He still insists that the Auschwitz narrative is fake but
now he adds that Jews were killed in large numbers in Russia
when Hitler's armies invaded the Soviet Union.
Mr. Irving is looking back at his life and the tremendous
struggles he has won although he was hailed initially for
his thousand-page book HITLER'S WAR.
The book did not contain anything about the Holocaust. His
publisher questioned him and he stated very honestly that he
had not found any documentable evidence on it.
A blow against the victors of the war was Irving's
devastating research on the destruction of the south German
city of Dresden by the British and American air forces [not
unlike what happened in Syria and Iraq.]
His book on the attempt by Hitler's Deputy Hess to make
peace with the British empire is simply brilliant.
The more Mr. Irving wrote, the more he was furtively
isolated by international Jewry. He presented primary
research on the life of Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda
minister. There was no pro-Hitler or pro-Goebbels propaganda
in it, nothing but hard core documentation written in superb
English. To his chagrin Mr. Irving found that his publisher
refused to publish his book on Goebbels though he had a
signed contract. International Jewry had struck hard. The
publisher didn't care about breaking the contract.
Mr. Irving tried to break out of the isolation imposed on
him by his tormentors by taking one of them, a professor at
Emory University, Georgia, to court for defamation. He faced
an entire army of Jewish lawyers. Israel got involved to
make sure he would lose. The British judge found against him
although his point about lack of evidence on the Auschwitz
story could not be refuted.
The pro-Israel groups have made it physically impossible for
him to hold public meetings in America. His meetings in
Berkeley and Chicago were physically attacked. So now he has
to hold meetings with private announcements a couple of days
before they take place. He faces a vicious enemy. He was in
a state of shock when his daughter died and he received a
wreath from his enemies, implying that she deserved it!
Mr. Irving continues to move on owing to his vast circle of
friends in many parts of the world.
He is very popular in Hungary owing to his block buster of a
book about the Hungarian uprising against Communist/Russian
occupation. His meticulous research shows that the Hungarian
Communists who supported Russian intervention against the
working class uprising were Jews.[Simply a fact, not
anti-Semitism.]
He was imprisoned in Austria owing to ONE sentence he
expressed critical of the Holocaust. Censorship and
self-hatred is the rule in Germany and Austria.
However, his attempts to back pedal by saying that Jews were
slaughtered but that was in Russia by the SS against
Hitler's orders may now get him into trouble with critics of
the Holocaust.
I think Irving will be remembered more for his research on
Winston Churchill rather than for his views on Auschwitz. It
will be a while before people will read his inimitable
Churchill books.
People who hate Irving have not read his books. A move
against my job was made by the Zionist lobby in America when
some of their agents targeted me as an Irving supporter. CBS
invited me to discuss Irving on air. I asked the host: Have
you read any of his books? He said : no! but I have other
stuff. My answer: I have read his books and there is no
point in discussing Irving with someone who has not read
even one of his books. I can't educate you in half an hour
when your prejudice is your main point.
Pakistan
Latest Gwadar News
December 10.
A rally of historic proportions took place in Gwadur after
Friday prayers. In addition thousands of people came to
join the rally from Karachi and other areas but were blocked
by security forces.
The flood of protestors led by Maulana Hidayatullah
of Jamaate Islami condemned regime policies and demanded
rights of local people and fishermen. The rally was strong
on Islamic rights and condemned liquor, gambling and
curruption in general.
Women and children in their thousands continued the "sit in"
while the men rallied. Very disciplined and peaceful rally.
The government has arrested a Baloch leader who came to join
the rally.
Jamaate Islami leader Maulana Hidayatullah in front of the
rally could not be arrested as thousands blocked the
security forces.
[A number of people have reported to New Trend, including
Prof. Salim Mansur Khalid. BBC Urdu language has reported in
detail. Hostile narratives have come from Daily Dawn]
JI Message [Excerpted]
Support "Give Gwadur its Right" Movement.
Kashmir vs India.
LAHORE: DEC 8:
"Balochistan is rich of natural resources but the people are
deprived of basic needs. The present and the former
governments have failed to address the demands of the
masses," said JI Emir Sirajul Haq while addressing a
consultative meeting of the party's central leadership at
Mansoorah on Wednesday.
Sirajul Haq, who reached Lahore on Tuesday night after
two-day visit of Gwadar and Turbat, said the JI fully
supported the "Give Gwadar its right movement." The local
residents of Gwadar, he said, were protesting for their
basic rights which were not illegal and unlawful. The
government, he stressed, must listen to their demands.
Sirajul Haq said the government failed to bring improvement
in overall law and order, expressing concern over rising
incidents of women and child abuses in the country. He
demanded effective laws and strict punishments to the
elements involved in inhuman criminal acts. He said
minorities living in Pakistan were most respectable and they
should be ensured equal rights according to the constitution
of Pakistan.
The meeting announced that JI would participate in the local
bodies and general elections under its own flag and
electoral symbol. The leaders rejected the PTI proposed
electoral reforms and electronic voting machines, saying the
ruling party had basically planned to rig the next elections
through EVM which would only bring disaster in future
politics.
The meeting expressed concern over continuous silence of
international community on the increasing human rights
abuses in Indian occupied Kashmir. It also expressed regret
over the government attitude towards Kashmir cause. The
Pakistani nation and the JI were standing shoulder to
shoulder with the struggle of Kashmiri people to get rid of
the Indian yoke.
War News
Pakistan
December 9.
TTP [Tehreeke Taliban e Pakistan] has ended its cease fire
with the Pakistan army.
TTP audio message says that during the cease fire Pakistani
army raided TTP strongholds throughout the tribal areas
killing and injuring scores of fighters. Pakistani generals
violate all Islamic values. In addition they use their
controlled media to claim that TTP is being run by
India.
Mali [West Africa]
December 8. Seven UN troops were killed and 3 seriously
injured in an EID attack in central Mali.
Al-Qaida is suspected.
[Turkey and others have condemned the attack]
Niger
December 5.
Twenty nine Nigerian troops operating in Niger were killed
in a militant ambush. Its a major setback for Nigeria.
Islamic State is suspected.Turkey has condemned the
attack.
Nigeria is part of a pro-Europe alliance against the Islamic
forces
which have taken over large parts of Niger and some of
Nigerian border territory.
Syria
Russian bombing. IS advances. Fath al-Mubin vs
Assad-Iranians
December 12. Assad regime fired 30 rockets at Syrian
opposition forces in western Aleppo province and southern
Idlib countryside,.
Islamic group Fath al-Mubin hit regime forces in
southeastern Idlib countryside border.
Clashes between Assad and Fath al-Mubeen are continuing in
Aleppo province.
Iran-backed troops led by Assad's brother Maher have
retreated from 4 check points west of Damascus and 3 from
eastern Ghouta.
December 11 .in al-Massareb desert, advancing ISIS cell
attacked Assad's 17th Division [which includes secularist
Palestinians] killing seven and injuring 17 [says SOHR] west
of Deir ez Zor. [behind Assad's lines].
ISIS also clashed with Assad militia known as NDF southwest
of Deir ez Zor in Jabal Bashari area.. No details.
In the Jisr al-Shaghour area a Russian jet bombed the home
of Chechen leader Muslim al-Checheni
killing the bodyguard and injuring his wife and daughters.
HTS wants sole control of the opposition area and forced the
family to leave Lattakia mountains where air strikes could
not reach them. [Three other civilian were killed 12 injured
in the air strike,]
In the countryside west of Aleppo, Assad forces and Islamic
group Fath al-Mubin exchanged heavy mortar and machine gun
fire.
December 10. Hasakeh province [eastern Syria]. Heavy
shelling in the Tel Tamr, area by Syrians supporting Turkey
killed two SDF who are supported by the US.
Eastern Deir ez Zor, , ISIS fired rpg shells at SDF
headquarters in al-Busayra city on the Euphrates. A clash
with machine guns followed.
SOHR reports 35 Russian air strikes in the al-Raqqa province
in attempts to stop ISIS infiltration. No details'
News Within the U.S.
Black is not Always Beautiful.
$100 million dollar gift from Bezos to Obama.
by Sis. Aisha
[Jamaat al-Muslimeen]
This is how bootlickers secretly sell their souls to the
devil in plain sight!
According to the Community Cop Show, Jeff Bezos just gave
$100 million to President Obama's Obama Foundation in the
name of late Congressman John Lewis. Co-host Michael Greys
said it was probably a kickback or payoff for Obama helping
Amazon in some way during his administration.
Corporate gifts are tools used to control black
organizations, "leaders," and politicians.
Co-host Noel Leader stated that black voters do not
understand that black politicians are the biggest traitors
to the black community He pointed out to viewers that many
of these black politicians oversee the poorest, crime-ridden
areas of this country yet, do nothing to improve them. These
same politicians are given corporate grants or cushy
corporate positions after leaving office.
Black politicians don't even defend each other. In the past,
members of the Black Congressional Caucus have been eager to
criticize Minister Louis Farrakhan and Dr. Khalid Muhammad
for challenging Zionism. However, when white congressional
members, Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert, made threatening and
insulting attacks against fellow members Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, none of these black
congressional members said much nor fervently challenged
these white congressional members.
A majority of these black politicians are Democratic Party
members. Some black voters begrudgingly vote Democrat but
that is because of poor leadership (and a defeatist
mentality), which has voters feeling they are stuck in the
same rut. They've been told that the only way to improve
one's community is to either vote or depend on corporate
grants (Great White Hope). These "actions" are traditional
moves, which the Qur'an discourages (2:170). It does not
help that masjids and black churches allow politicians to
campaign there.
The $100 million donation looks innocent but, it is a
sinister move. For instance, Bezos donated money to the
Obama Foundation in the name of a civil rights activist.
But, Michael Greys pointed out that if Bezos was so
vehemently in favor of civil rights why not allow his Amazon
employees to form a union? Unions protect the rights of
their workers. Jeff Bezos is notoriously miserly, which is
why he is the wealthiest man on Earth. According to Greys,
Bezos did everything in his power to stomp out any union
formation.
In addition to calling Bezos' donation a payoff, Greys said
that these same corporations who contribute to political
campaigns are the same corporations that control civil
rights organizations, such as the National Action Network,
Black Lives Matter, Congress for Racial Equality (CORE),
NAACP, & the Urban League. He accused the leaders of these
organizations of being millionaires as a result of these
donations because they are in the civil rights business.
The Black Lives Matter agenda has been to get white
corporations to contribute financially to black causes. The
great educator Booker T. Washington was dependent on
donations from white benefactors, such as segregationist
Andrew Carnegie, and he encouraged Mary McLeod Bethune to do
the same. He did not believe that black colleges would
survive without white financial support.
I learned from New Trend editor Dr. Kaukab Siddique to be
very selective with whom I accept monetary funds. At the
time, he explained to me that he had been offered "gifts"
from corrupt "Islamic" politicians overseas and refused
them. To date, I have never met anyone with such strong
convictions.
Allah warns us in the Qur'an against pleasing people
(2:120). The oppressor wants you to be "You" but, according
to his rules. He wants you to be Muslim but, according to
his rules, not according to Allah's Will.
(Sources: CommunityCop Youtube Channel)
News
Top Indian General & Cammando Unit KIlled. Was Planning to
Crush Kashmir.
[CBS]
New Delhi — India's top military commander, Chief of
Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat, was among 13 people
killed in a helicopter crash on December 8 afternoon in the
southern state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force said.
Rawat's wife, two other senior military officers, five
commandos and five Air Force personnel were all killed in
the crash.
Another senior military officer was being treated in a
hospital for severe burns.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Rawat, the first person
ever to hold the role commanding all of India's military
branches, as "an outstanding soldier," and said his death
had "saddened me deeply."
Invitation to Think
1971 Tragedy of East Pakistan.
Not Defeat but betrayal from Both Sides.
by Dr. Firoz Kamal
There was a huge betrayal of East Pakistan in 1971. It is a
shame that the Pakistan Army -built with the money from both
of its eastern and western wings worked only to protect West
Pakistan. East Pakistan was left as a sitting duck only to
be engulfed by a hungry wolf like India in collaboration
with the separatist Bengali nationalists. Since the
dismemberment of Pakistan was not mandated by any
plebiscite, it was an obligation of the federal government
to defend its eastern wing. But the government in Islamabad
deliberately refused to discharge the duty. There are sound
reasons to believe that it was betrayal.
In fact the ground was created with the full perfection for
an easy surrender of the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan to
the invading Indian Army. The fighters of Gaza strip could
encounter the Israeli carpet bombing for more than 50 days
in 2008 Israeli war but the Pakistan Army collapsed in 13
days. What cowardice! The dismemberment of Pakistan was
indeed planned in Islamabad, and India worked only as a
midwife.
Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi - the commander of the eastern wing of
the Pakistan Army who surrendered to the Indian Army writes
in his book "The Betrayal of East Pakistan'" that the
Pakistan Army in March 1971 had only 14 thousands soldiers
in a land of 75 million of East Pakistan. Later on it was
increased to only 45 thousand to face an Indian Army of
about a half million and more than a hundred thousand
Bengali insurgents. The Pakistan Air Force had only one
squadron of outdated US sabre jets to face the most advanced
version of the Soviet fighter jets. On the first day of the
war, the Pakistan Air Force in East Pakistan was fully
destroyed.
One can look at Indian preparation for the defence of the
occupied territory of Kashmir. India has deployed six
hundreds thousands of troops in Kashmir - a land of only 8
million. Therefore, what Pakistan did in 1971 was sheer
neglect of the defence of East Pakistan by its central
government .The East Pakistani Muslims will never forgive
the West Pakistanis for this criminal betrayal. In the
creation of Pakistan, the Bengali Muslims were in the
frontline. Bengal was the birthplace as well as the bastion
of Muslim League. But they were betrayed in a bad way. Allah
Subhana Wa Ta'ala will never forgive the West Pakistanis for
such a disservice to Muslims and Islam. They already
suffered the historic disgrace of being defeated by the
Hindutva Hindus and by the shameful captivity of 97 thousand
West Pakistanis in Indian prisons as POWs. Probably much
more remains for the punishment of the great betrayal.
The Hindus could never get such a victory against Muslims in
thousands of years of their history if there was no such
blatant betrayal by the Pakistan government against its own
people. Muslims never met such a disgraceful defeat at the
hands of idolaters in their entire history. A retired Indian
General H.S. Panag wrote on February 04, 2021 in the Print
-an online Indian newspaper to explain how easily the Indian
Army got the victory in 1971.
Gen. Panag claims that by all yardsticks, the 1971
Bangladesh war was India's greatest feat of arms and ranks
high among the all-time great military campaigns in the
annals of history. He says that it was the continuation of
nine years of military reforms in leadership, training and
equipment after the catastrophic defeat in 1962 war against
China.
In 1971, India started war preparation after the political
turmoil in East Pakistan in early March. India supported the
insurgents since then and started the full war on December
3.
It appears that India's intense war preparation remained out
of Pakistan Army's radar. The poor war preparation of the
Pakistan Army reveals that. The alcoholic and womanising
generals were not in a mood to defend Pakistan. Moreover the
central government in Islamabad was not interested in
defending East Pakistan from the day one of the creation of
Pakistan. Their only worry was to defend West Pakistan. So
the military enforcement, the cantonment building
initiatives and the modern weapon installation were based
only in West Pakistan.
In his interview with the Indian American journal India
Abroad in February, 2004 Lt. Gen. Niazi said: "I was given a
clear order from Gen. Yahya Khan -the President of Pakistan
to surrender, because West Pakistan was in danger." The poor
war preparation in East Pakistan with mere 45 thousands
soldiers and one squadron fighter jet indeed ratified Lt.
Gen. Niazi's claim.
Pakistan thus could add the most shameful and the ugliest
chapter in Muslims' history. So the disgraceful defeat in
1971 owes not only to the betrayal of the Indian agent like
Shaikh Mujibur Rahman but also to the betrayal of the West
Pakistani civil and military leaders. Thus Pakistan proves
to be a country of betrayal against Islam and its Muslim
population. Pakistan is the only country in the world that
was created in the name of Islam and to protect Muslims'
lives and honour. The Pakistan Army showed its skill only to
repeatedly occupy its own country and kill its own people.
11/12/2021
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin
Imam al-Ghazzali 's thoughts. .'
[Imam Ghazzali was of the Shafai'i school, lived 1058-1111
ce]
Greatest thinker of Iran
'As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa- Barakatuhu.'
* Do Not Grieve At My Death * {!}
{Al-Ghazalee (R)} said...
"Say to my friends, when they look upon me Dead.
Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow...
Do not believe that this corpse is myself !
In the name of Allah, I tell you, it is not I...
I am a Spirit and this is nothing but Flesh {!}
It was my abode and my garment for a time.
I am a Pearl which has left its Shell.
I am a Bird, and this body was my Cage...{!}
I have now flown forth and it is left as a token.
All praise be to Allah,Who has now
set me free [from the shackles of life]
Think not that death is death... No...{!}
It is the beginning of a New Life {!}
The Qur'an, in the last Verse of the Surat Kahf
has expressed death as a meeting with Allàh and says:
"So whoever desires to meet his Lord, he should do good
deeds and not associate anyone in the worship of his
Lord."
(Source~ Qur'an Surat 'Kahf'~ 18: A #110)
A Little Note:
There are many Metaphors used in this
passage of Al-Ghazalee's (R) so words have been inserted in
square brackets for ease of reading and to remove any
misinterpretation or confusion which may arise..... !
'In Shaa Allah'.
~My 'Salaams' to all ~
~ Y a s m i n ~
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.}
**************************************************
' 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)]
********************************************
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'}
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by Abu Huraira, r.a.:
The Prophet said,
"Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in
his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So
you should not be extremists, but try to be near to
perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be
rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings,
the nights."
Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, #38
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
Unexpected Truth from an Unexpected Source.
According to Trump, Netanyahu's congratulatory message to
Biden came "very early. Like earlier than most. I haven't
spoken to him since. F**k him."
Trump claimed that had it not been for him and his decision
to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Israel would
likely have been destroyed by now.
"The decision to back out of the deal was because of my
relations with Israel - not with Bibi. Those were my
feelings towards Israel," he said.
"I'll tell you what," he continued. "Had I not come along, I
think Israel was going to be destroyed...You want to know
the truth? I think Israel would have been destroyed maybe by
now."
Mentioning the Golan Heights and his decision to recognize
Israel's sovereignty over the Golan, Trump said that he
played a major role in helping Netanyahu politically.
"Take the Golan for example ... That was a big deal," he
said. "People say that was a $10 billion gift. I did it
right before the election, which helped him a lot... he
would have lost the election if it wasn't for me. So he
tied. He went up a lot after I did it. He went up 10 points
or 15 points after I [recognized the] Golan Heights."
Trump said he was "personally disappointed" in Netanyahu.
"To do a tape to Joe Biden talking about their great, great
friendship ... "They didn't have a friendship, because if
they did, they wouldn't have done the Iran deal. And guess
what? Now they're going to do it again. And if they do it
again, Israel is in very grave danger," he argued.
Addressing his decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran
nuclear deal in 2018, Trump said: "The decision to back out
of the deal was because of my relations with Israel - not
with Bibi. Those were my feelings towards Israel."
"I'll tell you what," he continued. "Had I not come along, I
think Israel was going to be destroyed...You want to know
the truth? I think Israel would have been destroyed, maybe
by now." the former president concluded.
[Source: WIN]
From Imam Badi Ali
{North Carolina]
.As-slamu alaikum,
"يَا
أَيُّهَا
الَّذِين¤ آمَنُواْ
اسْتَعِي¦ُواْ
بِالصَّب¨رِ
وَالصَّل›َةِ إِنَّ
اللّهَ
مَعَ
الصَّابِ›ِينَ"
"O you who believe! Seek help through patience and the
prayer. Indeed, Allah (is) with the patient." (2:153)
Sins take you away from Allah. Salah takes you back to
Allah.
Salah is very important: Fajr, Dhur, Asr, Maghrib, Isha =
Recipe for success
Remember...
After every hardship comes ease.
No difficulty will last.
No pain will remain forever.
Allah's help comes.
Oh Allah, open a way for me to be patient and to maintain my
salah in a timely manner, so that I can fulfill my
obligation to You.
Ameen.
December 9.
Broad based Tribunal Affirms China is Subjecting Muslims to Genocide
Courtesy The Guardian
excerpted
The UK-based Uyghur Tribunal comprises lawyers, academics
and businesspeople. It has no government backing or powers
to sanction or punish China, but its organisers hope the
process of publicly laying out evidence will compel
international action to tackle alleged abuses against the
Uyghurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group.
The tribunal's report says crimes including torture and the
systematic suppression of births have occurred. Chairman
Nice said China's treatment of the Uyghurs amounted under
the Geneva conventions to an intent to destroy all or part
of a group physically or biologically, a judgment he said
largely rested on the suppression of births.
In response to the findings, a cross-party group of British
MPs urged the Foreign Office to re-examine its refusal to
join the Biden administration and declare a genocide in
Xinjiang.
Nice said that although some Uyghurs had been killed in
detention, there was no evidence of mass killings.
Those detained were instead largely freed after
reindoctrination, Nice said, as part of a central government
plan, ordered at the very highest levels, to reintegrate
Xinjiang province and break up every aspect of Uyghur
culture.
"Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs - with some estimates well
in excess of a million - have been detained by PRC [People's
Republic of China] authorities without any, or any remotely
sufficient reason, and subjected to acts of unconscionable
cruelty, depravity and inhumanity," the tribunal's report
says.
"Sometimes up to 50 have been detained in a cell of 22 sq
metres."
The report says there is evidence that detainees have been
confined in containers up to their neck in cold water,
shackled by heavy metal chains and immobilised for months on
end. It says some of the detained have been subjected to
extreme sexual violence, including gang rapes and
penetration with electric shock rods and iron bars. Women
were raped by men paying to be allowed into the detention
centre for the purpose, the report says.
The extreme intrusive capacity of the Chinese state,
including mass coerced labour assignments, intense
monitoring and face surveillance, means parts of Xinjiang
have become a form of open prison, the report says.
The tribunal found evidence of enforced abortions, the
removal of wombs against women's will, the killing of babies
immediately after birth and mass enforced sterilisation
through the insertion of IUD devices that were only
removable by surgical means.
"Across the 29 counties with indigenous-majority populations
for which we have 2019 or 2020 data, the birthrate has
fallen by 58.5% from the 2011-15 baseline average," the
report says. "In those counties that are over 90%
indigenous, the birthrate fell at an even greater rate,
showing a 66.3% decrease in 2019-20."
Hundreds of thousands Uyghur children have been taken from
their families and placed in Han-ran boarding schools,
burial grounds have been bulldozed or built over, mosques
destroyed, and religious practice banned, it adds.
Nice said the tribunal would have been unnecessary if an
international court had been asked by fearful governments to
investigate the allegations, adding there was an obligation
to know the falsity or truth of fellow human suffering and
breaches of international human law.
He insisted the tribunal had been determined to apply
universal standards, act on the basis of proof beyond
reasonable doubt and make every effort not to be
ill-disposed to communism or the Chinese Communist
party.
The tribunal received no cooperation from the Chinese state,
and instead some of its members have been subject to
sanctions by the Chinese state, leading to their withdrawal
from the process.
Mutulu Shakur
Black Panther Icon dying in Prison after 30 Years.
[Courtesy The Intercept]
MUTULU SHAKUR WAS not sentenced to die in prison, but die in
prison he may. The 71-year-old icon of Black liberation
struggle has been incarcerated for over three decades. The
rules governing his 1988 sentencing set his presumed release
date for 2016. Yet, despite an impeccable institutional
record, he has been denied release by the federal parole
commission nine times. He remains behind bars, while an
incurable cancer is now spreading through his bone
marrow.
Reforms and policy shifts in certain state parole systems,
including New York's, have seen the long overdue release of
a number of aging former Black Panthers like Herman Bell and
Jalil Muntaqim in recent years. Held in the federal system,
however, longtime prisoners like Shakur face further layers
of institutional intransigence and procedural arcana.
Shakur, the stepfather of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, was
convicted of racketeering conspiracy charges alongside a
number of Black liberationists and leftist allies for his
involvement in the 1981 robbery of a Brink's armored truck
during which a guard and two police officers were
killed.
He was also convicted for aiding in the prison escape of
Assata Shakur.
"He has been praised by current and former Bureau of Prisons
staff, and BOP's own assessment tools establish that he
poses absolutely no risk."
A member of the Black nationalist organization Republic of
New Afrika who worked closely with Black Panther Party
members and New Left activists, Shakur was at the forefront
of liberatory struggle. As a renowned acupuncturist, he was
a central figure in the movement to bring holistic health
care and self-determination to Black residents in the Bronx
in the 1970s, blighted as the New York City borough was by
police violence, poverty, and heroin addiction.
That landed Shakur in the crosshairs of the federal
government's malicious COINTELPRO campaign to decimate
racial and social justice movements.
Yet the demand for his release now has nothing to do with
the political underpinnings of his arrest, trial, and
conviction. If any party is displaying ideological excesses,
it is the federal justice system apparently acting against
its own standards in the case of a Black liberation
elder.
"Dr. Shakur is a 71-year-old man who has been imprisoned for
over 35 years, undergoing treatment for bone marrow cancer,"
Shakur's attorney, Brad Thomson of People's Law Office, told
me. "He has been praised by current and former Bureau of
Prisons staff, and BOP's own assessment tools establish that
he poses absolutely no risk, should he be released."
SHAKUR IS AGING and ill. He has served his extensive prison
time and has accepted full responsibility for his actions.
Like other long-imprisoned Black liberation elders,
including Mumia Abu-Jamal and Sundiata Acoli, the alleged
grounds for Shakur's continued incarceration are without
merit, even according to the purported logics of our brutal
criminal legal system. The Department of Justice's own risk
assessment tool categorizes Shakur at the absolute lowest
risk of recidivism; the rates of reoffending for people in
his age group are already vanishingly small.
New Trend Web Site
Steady Improvement
New Trend's web site received
98,084 hits in November 2021
Thank you Br. Rich.
There are also three translations of the Qur'an plus
Sahih Bukhari in English.
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bukhari.htm
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Boycott list vs Israel is there along with pictures of Jenin
city which Israel destroyed.
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boycott.htm
]
Also Dr. Siddique's interview with Ken Meyercord in Fairfax,
Va, answering attacks on Islamic resistance.
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civildiscordshow.htm
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[For separate outreach via facebook please see below.]
New Trend's
December 5 issue reached
83,695 Muslims via facebook
including 10,043 women.
