Our beloved brother
Imam Badi Ali is undergoing serious health
deterioration.
He has been admitted to ICU In Greensboro, NC.
No visitation allowed.
Please pray for his complete recovery.
Pakistan
Sit-in Protests Across Pakistan
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE: Feb 09:Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said the
anti-poor government of the PTI will not be provided any
chance now, vowing to speed up the sit-in movement in coming
days.
Presiding over the meeting of JI MajliseAamla at Mansoorah
on Wednesday, he said the JI will march towards Islamabad
after holding 100 sit-ins in different cities.
"The 101th sit-in of the JI in Islamabad will prove last
nail in the coffin of the government."
The meeting discussed the ongoing political situation,
Gwadar and Sindh local government issues. It expressed
concern over the government failure to fight the case of
Kashmir and showed full solidarity with the Palestine
freedom movement.
Sirajul Haq said the history and Pakistani nation will never
forget those who deceived the people of Kashmir, adding the
incumbent and the former rulers never showed seriousness to
the Kashmir cause. He said the PTI made complete surrender
before the Modi government on Kashmir.
The JI chief demanded the government bring down the prices
of food items, petrol and medicines by at least 50 percent.
He also called for the removal of the governor of the state
bank who was working on IMF agenda. He said the government
must take measures to eliminate interest-based economy which
was the main reason behind the plight of people.
The meeting decided the JI will contest election under its
own flag and electoral symbol. Sirajul Haq said the
manifesto of the JI was "corruption free Islamic Pakistan."
He said the three parties (the PTI, the PML-N and the PPP)
ruled over country for years but failed to provide any
relief to the masses. The JI, he added, was the only option
left with the masses now. He said the people should test the
JI in the polls to lay foundation of welfare Islamic state.
He said the PTI slogan of Madina state proved a failure. The
government, he added, could not check the corruption and it
failed to control inflation and unemployment.
MajliseAamla appealed to the Supreme Court to take action on
the JI petition on Panama leaks and Pandora papers.
War News
Syria
Major General killed.
SOHR report.
Feb. 13. Tribesmen with weapons have cut the road in Busayra
city demanding release of detainees, [Deir ez Zor
province.]
Feb 12: Near Ain Aissa Turkish rocket fire killed two SDF
soldiers and wounded one.
Assad air strikes in southern Idlib killed 6 civilians
including two children.
Feb 11. ISIS attack on Assad affiliated militia killed 5
soldiers in Deir Ez Zor. In a second IS attack 4 Assad
affiliates were killed.
Exchanges of heavy fire are reported from western Aleppo
province, northwest Hama and northe lattakia between Assad
forces and Islamic groups,
ISIS attacks in Deir ez zor province killed 9 Kurdish
militia. Russian air strikes on ISIS advancing in Hama and
Raqqa provinces killed 9 IS and wounded 22.
Feb. 10 Eastern Homs province, An ISIS ambush killed an
Assad major general and 2 of his troops. Various Assad
troops injured.
Iraq
Several battles with IS are reported but no details. Regime
is reporting air strikes against IS.
Three regime soldiers are reported killed in Anbar
province,
News Within the U.S.
Within the United States
Looks like Ben & Jerry Ice Cream's boycott of Israeli
Settlements is winning.
{New York Post's language]
Ben & Jerry's will work to find a "new arrangement" this
year for selling its ice cream in Israel after the
Vermont-based company announced it would no longer sell its
products in the occupied Palestinian territories, its
corporate parent said Thursday.
"Our absolute focus right now is to figure out what the new
arrangement will be for Ben & Jerry's," Unilever CEO Alan
Jope told Reuters.
It was the first time Jope addressed his subsidiary's future
plans for Israel since the controversial boycott of Jewish
settlements was announced in July.
Ben & Jerry's announcement sparked a backlash, with several
states, including New York and New Jersey, pulling their
investments from Unilever in protest.
Jope, who said last year that Unilever could not interfere
with the decision made by Ben & Jerry's autonomous board,
indirectly criticized the ice cream maker Thursday.
"On subjects where Unilever brands don't have the expertise
or credibility, we think it's best that they stay out of the
debate," he said.
India
India's Oppressed Muslims and the Occupation of Kashmir
[Excerpted]
by Dr. Firoz Kamal
India is the home of the highest number of the poorest
people in the world. The average life span, infant
mortality, child mortality, per capita income and GDP growth
are inferior to that of Bangladesh. The Hindu caste system
makes social and religious disintegration and exclusion
obligatory. Hence it makes the inclusion of people of
different religions, colours, and ethnicity in its political
fabric impossible. This is why more than 200 million Muslims
and 200 million Dalits stay excluded from the hierarchy of
power and politics. India was united only three times in its
whole history; that too by the non-Hindu rulers. They are
the Buddhist ruler Ashoka, the various Muslim rulers and the
British colonialists. In the name of religion, they follow
the ancient ignorance like idol worshipping cow worshipping,
snake worshipping, etc. Surprisingly, such primitive
ignorance has become a matter of huge hubris in the Hindu
psyche. Since they find no real glory to celebrate, they
have made it a euphoric sport to harm, kill, lynch,
humiliate and rape Muslims. In such a toxic milieu of
anti-Muslim hatred, the anti-Muslim riots, exclusion of the
Muslims from government jobs, eliminating them from
politics, annulment of their citizenship rights and pushing
back the Muslims into a neighbouring country like Bangladesh
enjoy huge popularity among the Hindu majority. The Indian
war on Muslims gets fuel from such an ideological cum
political build-up.
Two war fronts
In its war on Muslims, India has two frontiers of
hostilities. One is on the border against Pakistan. The
other one is the internal war against Muslims living inside
India. The Hindutva Hindus don't feel happy to give Muslims
survival rights inside India. Such a mindset gets loudly
expressed in the popular Hindutva slogan in the streets.
They shout with rancour that the Indian Muslims have only
two destinations: either to Pakistan or to kabaristan
(graveyard). The current Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
government of India pursues such a Hindutva policy of
Muslims' exclusion officially. The National Citizenship
Registration (NCR) is in fact a ploy to exclude millions of
Muslims as foreign infiltrators -blamed to be from
Bangladesh. However, the Indian government doesn't give any
factual basis. Since the socio-economic condition of
Bangladesh is better than India, infiltration of
Bangladeshis into India is baseless rhetoric only to serve
the political agenda of the Hindutva elements.
Nevertheless, the project like sending Muslims to kabaristan
(graveyard) gets executed through frequent genocidal
massacres in the form of anti-Muslim riots. Even many Indian
politicians told in public that such whole massacres in
daylight can only happen with direct government patronage.
In 2002, such a massacre went on for about a week in the
capital of Gujrat under Narendra Modi's direct watch. The
following few examples of massacres can give some glimpses
on how the task of sending Muslims to kabaristan (graveyard)
gets executed in India. These are the Hyderabad genocide in
1948, the Gujrat riot in 1969, the Moradabad massacre in
1980, the Nellie genocide in 1983, the Gujrat riot in 1985,
the Hashimpura massacre in 1987, the Bhagalpur massacre in
Bihar in 1989, the Bombay riot in 1992, the Gujrat genocide
in 2002, the Malagao bombing in 2006, the Muzaffarnagar riot
in 2013, the Assam massacre in 2014, and the Delhi riot in
2020. These are only a few of thousands of anti-Muslim
riots.
The Indian wars of occupation
The Hindutva Hindus believe in undivided India. Hence they
exploit every opportunity to grab new land to expand their
border. The Hindutva forces are divided into two brands: the
hardcore one called RSS-BJP-Bishwa Hindu Parisad axis and
the softcore one that includes Indian National Congress and
other Hindu dominated political parties. The occupation of
Kashmir, genocide in Hyderabad, demolition of Babri Mosque
and many genocidal massacres took place under the so-called
softcore Hindutva parties like Congress.
The people were not given the right to join Pakistan or stay
independent. India also annexed Nagaland. Whereas Nagaland
was never a part of India except for a brief period of the
British occupation. India also occupied Sikkim, and it was
done through political horse-trading and trickery.
The genocide in Kashmir
India's occupation of Kashmir is indeed a part of its
constant war on Muslims and to expand its border. In
Kashmir, the genocidal massacre, rape and torture is
continuing since 1947. What happened to Muslims in Jammu in
1947 is catastrophic. It was a pure genocide. The Jammu
region of Kashmir had a Muslim majority population before
the massacre of 1947. The ruling Hindu Maharaja took a
policy of Muslim cleansing of the state and started it from
the southern district of Jammu. The RSS terrorists and Sikhs
conducted the genocide with the Maharaja's patronage. After
the Muslim cleansing, Jammu becomes a Hindu majority
district. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi separated
the Hindu majority Jammu from Kashmir and made it a federal
territory.
China
For once a Moral Move from China.
The lesbian-Homo scene in Friends [American Comedy]
Deleted
China's censors have deleted multiple scenes and altered
reference about a recurring lesbian character in the 1990s
US television sitcom Friends, which has sparked outrage
among the popular show's large audience on the mainland.
That has practically buried the lesbian identity of
recurring character Carol Willick in the first season of
Friends, which major Chinese streaming video providers
including iQiyi, Tencent Video, Youku and Bilibili started
airing online on Friday. The Willick character initially
appeared in the show's second episode.
Although one mention of the word "lesbian" was left uncut in
the second episode of the show, the Chinese subtitles
blatantly omitted it in translation. A scene of two male
protagonists kissing on New Year's Eve in episode 10 of the
show was also deleted.
Outreach
Person to Person
Newark Delaware
On February 11'
A six page Jamaat al-Muslimeen document from New Trend was
given to 20 Muslims after juma' salat.
It includes:
Sis.Yasmin's hadith message.
Rules for Islamic marriage.
Rebuttal of shia story about Ghadir Khum
Ji supports Kashmir
Syria: isis resurgent
New Covid variant
Israel's best Arab "Friend"
{Imagine what must be happening to the religious
Prisoners.}
[Excerpted from BBC]
A leading activist who was released from prison in Egypt
last month has told the BBC that during his time in
detention he saw first-hand a system where torture was used
to make people inform on each other.
Ramy Shaath has long been a significant voice in the secular
opposition to the Egyptian authorities, past and present. A
dual Egyptian-Palestinian national, the 50-year-old has also
been a key figure in the Egyptian branch of the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for a
complete boycott of Israel over its treatment of the
Palestinians.
Mr Shaath was detained by the Egyptian authorities in July
2019. He was accused of aiding a terrorist organisation, but
no formal charges were ever made against him.
He believes that his opposition to moves towards the
normalisation of ties between Israel and several Arab states
was the final straw that prompted his arrest.
His conditions in jail were bleak - sharing a cell crammed
with dozens of other prisoners.
But he ruefully concedes that he had it better than many
others.
"In my case, I was not tortured. But being blindfolded,
handcuffed and attached to a wall for three days - for me
that's torture. In Egyptian terms, though, this is actually
VIP treatment."
HUMAN rights groups say there are thousands of political
prisoners in Egyptian prison, something the government
denies
Now reunited with his French wife Celine Lebrun in Paris -
and having had to give up his Egyptian nationality as a
condition of his release - Ramy Shaath is recovering from
his ordeal, but his mind is still with those he left behind
in jail.
He tells the BBC that one of the things that most shocked
him during his detention was the influx of prisoners with
little or no political involvement.
He says many of those he met in jail were questioned under
duress simply to provide more names for more arrests -
however flimsy the basis.
He describes the interrogators' technique: "Just tell us
names... about anything. If you're caught in a Facebook
group, tell us names of others in the group. If you're at a
demonstration, just tell us names."
'Gangster tactics'
In two and a half years, he himself was only interrogated
once, for 45 minutes, and it had nothing to do with the
charges he was facing. He says the aim of such detention is
simply punishment for being an activist.
He says the situation was never as desperate under the rule
of former President Hosni Mubarak - who was toppled by the
2011 uprising in which Mr Shaath played a role.
• Egypt's revolution: I saw the unimaginable happen
"We never reached this level of fear and arbitrary detention
and torture... We've never seen confiscation of judiciary to
this level."
"In Mubarak's time, there was an effort to keep a certain
level of independence in the judiciary... I have seen lots
of families thrown in jail, just as a measure of reprisal
against their loved ones. It's gangster tactics, not state
tactics."
Among many such cases, he cites the story of a father
detained for more than two years after his nine-year-old son
sang a song that he did not know was seen as anti-government
at his school, which then denounced him.
"In some cases." he says, "when people are tortured, they
are scared to talk about their friends who are actually
interested in politics or the public sphere. They just give
any names of other friends who have nothing to do with
politics or activism... just so that when the security
forces check them, they are OK. Although they can still be
arrested and thrown in jail."
West 'could do more'
He believes that the West has considerable leverage over
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, a regional ally, and could
do more to curb human rights abuses.
For his part, Mr Sisi has previously denied that there are
any political prisoners in Egypt, dismissing widespread
reports that there are tens of thousands in jail.
Hadith Message from Sis. Yasmin
'Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala
Rasulillah'.
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'As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu'.
'Ikhlaas' and 'Tawheed' are a Tree in the Heart {!}
"Ikhlaas and Tawheed are a Tree in the Heart {!}
Its Branches are Good Actions... {!}
Its Fruits are a Good Life in this World...
and eternal comfort in the Hereafter {!}
and just like in Paradise the fruits whose supply
is not cut off, nor are they out of reach,
likewise are the fruits of 'Tawheed' and 'Ikhlaas'
in this world."
An action done without 'Ikhlaas' and 'Tawheed'
and without following the Prophet
{SalAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam}
is like a traveler whose sock becomes
filled with sand,
which weighs him down, and has no benefit."
"Allah loves from His slave that he beautifies his
Tongue with the Truth,
and his Heart with 'Ikhlaas' and love,
turning Repentantly with reliance upon Allah."
{'In Shaa Allah'~ 'Aameen'}
{Source~ Ibn al-Qayyim (R) - 'al-Fawaid'}
My 'Salaams' To All.
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~Y a s m i n~
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"Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah"
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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)}
