The case of Ayman al-Zawahiri.
How the Taliban defused Biden's Celebration.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
The Biden administration dramatically announced that on July
31 the leader of al-Qaida Islamic movement Ayman al-Zawahiri
had been killed in a US drone strike.
The American media provided
massive information to back up the Biden claim. According to
this publicity the Islamic leader used to appear for prayer
and meditation on the balcony of his home at a specific time
in the early morning and the US drone wiped him out like a
fly swatter smashes a fly. The US claimed that there were no
civilian casualties, not even his family.
[His first family was killed by the US 10 years back.[
To add to the gruesome story, the US added that two hellfire
missiles were used in the drone strike. How comfortable were
the Americans, we were told that the targeting could be done
from an office in America and the hellfire missile CHOPS UP
the target without an explosion. So chopping up is no
problem when the western media has cried out against 4
beheadings by ISIS.
Now notice the Taliban response.
The Taliban denounced the drone strike as a violation of
the Doha peace agreement.
For a week the Taliban did not mention the name of the
Islamic leader.
Then they said, they did not know he was in Kabul.
Then they said their committees were investigating the
American claim.
Then they told the Americans, if such a violation happens
again, there will be consequences.
The latest, August 6, is that people in 7 Afghan
provinces are protesting the American attack and claiming
that Biden is a liar.
New Trend's response:
Its quite possible that the Americans have killed Ayman
al-Zawahiri.
However, the Americans cannot celebrate because :
They don't have a body.
They don't have dna.
They don' have witnesses.
ISIS, Islamic State group, has growing support in
Afghanistan and are rivals of Taliban. They have not
mentioned that the leader of al-Qaida linked to Taliban has
been killed.
Remember last year when the US tried to strike ISIS , it
killed 10 civilians and was apologetic.
It's possible that the US did kill some people and the
bodies have been taken away.
Saif al-Fadl [Sword of Justice in Arabic] is next in line
to be the leader of al-Qaida, according to US researchers.
Perhaps after time passes and Biden cannot gain votes from
his drone strike, the next al-Qaida leader will be
announced.
If the leader has been killed, ground sighting was needed
and Pakistan's military might have played a role. The US had
put a $25 million bounty on his head and Pakistani generals
need the money.
Remember in the case of Osama bin Laden, Pakistan did not
oppose US use of its air space.
The treachery of the generals has infected this
military.
Latest
"Anti-US protesters held rallies across Afghanistan on
August 5 to denounce the recent US drone strike that
Washington says was aimed at killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman
al-Zawahiri.
The largest gatherings were reported in major cities, such
as Jalalabad, Kabul, and Mazar-i-Sharif.
Protest venues included mosques, government buildings, and
major roadways, in which hundreds of people attended.
Demonstrators also chanted slogans against Pakistan's
inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and urged the country not
to provide its airspace to carry out attacks against
Afghanistan."
Hot off the Presses.
Latest book by Kaukab Siddique
Return to Pakistan: Media Perspectives on Bush's Iraq and
Afghanistan Wars.
200 pages. $30.
The writer looks at the thought of outstanding Islamic
thinkers who provided the historic development of Islam in
modern times. Also included are interviews with the leaders
of the Red Mosque and the Women's Seminary in Islamabad.
Interview with Syed Munawar Hasan.
Specific reports on US bombing of Afghanistan.
Recent book
Hadith and Women by Kaukab Siddique
$10
Hadith is the greatest supporter of women's rights, second
only to the Qur'an.
Order both books from:
New Trend
P.O. Box 84, Oxford, Pa 19363, USA
Pakistan
Bold Statement on US Drone strike.
August 2. Amir Sirjul Haq condemned the US drone attack on
Afghan soil and called it foreign interference intoa
sovereign nation. He hoped Pakistani soil was not used to
carry out drone attack in Afghanistan.
He said Pakistan had clearly announced its policy for not
allowing use of its land and air against Afghanistan,
believing the government will stick to its stance.
Honest Statement on Condition of Masses.
August 5. In a country where 80 percent population lacked
access to even clean drinking water and where millions of
children were out of school due to poverty, there was no
limit in protocol culture and extravagances by ministers and
bureaucrats on state resources. Why the public was forced to
pay the cost of the free electricity and fuel facilities
available to ruling class, he questioned.
Sirajul Haq said the PTI, the PDM and the PPP destroyed the
country and damaged every institution. The ruling parties,
he said, stood badly exposed now, having nothing on their
credit except loot and plunder. He said the JI would
continue struggle for the rights of the people
News Within the U.S.
Two Pakistanis and an Afghan murdered in New Mexico
By Andrew Hay
(Reuters) - The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico's
largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and
they appear to have been targeted for their religion and
race, police said.
Two members of the same mosque were shot dead in Albuquerque
in the last ten days and there is a "strong possibility"
their deaths are connected to the November killing of an
Afghan immigrant, according to a city police official.
In all three cases victims were ambushed and shot without
warning, city police said.
"There's one strong commonality in all of our victims
— their race and religion," Albuquerque police Deputy
Commander Kyle Hartsock told a Thursday press briefing,
according to the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.
Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, a planning director for the
city of Española who came to the United States from
Pakistan, was shot dead on Monday outside his Albuquerque
apartment complex, police said.
That followed the murder of Aftab Hussein, 41, from
Albuquerque's large Afghan community, who was found dead of
gunshot wounds on July 26 near the city's international
district, police said.
The deaths are likely linked to the shooting of 62-year-old
Mohammad Ahmadi in a parking lot by a halal supermarket and
cafe on Nov.7, Hartstock said.
"We have never felt this much fear in [our] community,"
Tahir Gauba, a spokesman for the Islamic Center of New
Mexico, told the newspaper.
[Now a 4th murder has been uncovered.
Outreach
Person to Person
Catonsville, eastern Maryland
This is a Pakistani American mosque. Most of the proceedings
are in Urdu though they know English.
After prayers, a 6-page Jamaat al-Muslimeen document taken
from New Trend was given to 59 Pakistani Americans.
Main items in the 6-page document:
Fatwa against marriage with non-Muslims [by Dr. Kaukab
Siddique.]
Hadith on blessings of Sadaqa. [Sis. Yasmin]
Syria: Russian air strikes, ISIS raids, Turkish
artillery.SOHR]
JI wants rule of law in Pakistan. [Faisal Shasrif]
Negative effects of vaccines. [clg]
Rebuttal of holocaust myth [by Jurgen Graf]
War News
Syria
Stalemate
Here are latest samples of the conflict
An HTS member was killed in an attack with a guided missile
fired by Assad regime forces on Basoufan frontline in
north-west Aleppo countryside.
Four Assad regime soldiers were killed in an attack by ISIS
on their military post near Al-Syriatel tower at Al-Muhr
site, near Jahar area in the Syrian desert.
Assad artillery hi4 villages in Irbid province.
Turkish artillery hit SDF [pro-US[ position in north east
Syria.
In Latakia Islamic group Fath e Mubin hit Assad regime
troops and positions. Also in Hama countryside.
Several attacks in Deraa province on Assad regime Baathist
officials.
Ukraine
Islamic fighters who were oppressed in Crimea by Russia have
joined the fighting against the Russian invasion,
[Extensive article published by al-jazeera.]
Mali [West Africa]
Al-Qaida fighters attacked three regime army bases near
Bomako.
Heavy regime losses.
Invitation to Think
UK Enabling Modi's India
by Bhavani Kanjulakhsmi {August 1]
[Via Dr. Firoz Kamal]
On 9 May 2022, the community of Shaheen Bhagh, one of
Delhi's Muslim neighbourhoods, woke up to 200 policemen and
a battalion of armed militants lined up outside their doors.
The women began to come out of their homes, assembling in
Dharnā (a peaceful sit-in demonstration). They knew
what was about to come. At 11.30am, a bulldozer arrived.
Slogans grew louder into a mass uproar as protesters
surrounded it. The demolition drive paused when several
women, including Congress leader Arfa Khanum, despite having
a fractured leg, leaped past the police and onto the
bulldozer.
For years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) has been trying to transform India into a
Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) regime. Hindutva extremists are
openly calling for the genocide of India's 200 million
Muslims to form a new Hindu state. The BJP has doggedly
pursued a regime to deprive Muslims of their rights, from
criminalising Hindu-Muslim marriages and erasing the
chapters on democracy and secularism from school textbooks,
to endorsing a propaganda film that depicts Muslims as
bloodthirsty traitors - not far from Nazi films like Jew
Süss.
This persecution of Muslims that started with lynchings and
incarcerations has expanded to include what has become the
'bulldozer politics' - the rumble of state-sponsored
bulldozers in Muslim-majority areas razing mosques, homes
and shops. Groups in saffron show up to cheer the
demolitions and wave Hindutva flags as hundreds of Muslim
families watch from behind the barricades as their
livelihoods disappear into clouds of dust and debris.
Given this context, it was especially grim to see Boris
Johnson sit in a JCB bulldozer during an April visit to
India, as he attended the inauguration of a new factory in
Gujarat, posing for cameras with the British company whose
same machines have been flattening Muslim homes.
That trip to India, where both leaders discussed a major
free trade agreement, and the subsequent reunion at the G7
summit last month (where Johnson accepted a hand-painted tea
set from Modi), have been seen by many exasperated Indian
Muslims as a provocative disregard for their experience.
Yet this betrayal is not new. Imperial Britain has always
been in the driving seat of the bulldozer, revealing the
UK's role in both setting and enabling violence against
Muslims in the country.
The scapegoating and punishment of Indian Muslims were
tactics first employed in the 19th century by the British
colonisers to ease conquest. After fabricating a monolithic
fantasy called 'the Indian culture', the British homogenised
'India' as 'Hindu'. "They [the Empire] appeased the majority
Hindus by promising to 'save' them from Muslims," explains
Nabiya Khan, an activist and poet from Delhi.
Lord Minto, the mastermind behind 'divide and rule' policy,
carefully orchestrated divisions within the Indian army on
the basis of religion to avoid a united uprising against the
British. He saw Hindu-Muslim unity in India as a danger to
the empire, so he branded Indian Muslims as 'invaders'. We
see this echoed centuries later as the BJP regime labels
Indian Muslims as "anti-national terrorists". Meanwhile, the
BJP regime uses colonial-era sedition laws to incarcerate
writers, journalists and activists to repress political
dissidence.
This legacy seeped even further into Indian society. "The
'masculine' British coloniser considered Hindu men 'too
feminine'," says Laila Kadiwal, a sociologist based in
London. "Today's Hindutva uses violence against Muslims as a
revenge to overcome this 'emasculation'." Hindutva
extremists regularly circulate fake news of Hindu women
being abducted and converted to Islam by Muslim men, known
as "Love Jihad". "[Hindutva] men's obsession with saving
Muslim women is also a direct replica of how the British
Empire wanted to 'save' the brown women," adds Sara Ather,
an Indian writer and activist.
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
'Muharram' is the first month
of the Hijri calendar and is one of the Four
sacred months concerning which...
ALLAH {Azza wa Jall } says in the 'Qur'an'...
'Surely the number of months with Allah is
Twelve months in Allah's ordinance since the day
when He created the heavens and the earth,
of these four being sacred;
that is the right reckoning;
therefore be not unjust to yourselves
regarding them'.
[Source: 'Qur'an' ~Surat At-Taubah ~ 9~ Verse # 36]
'Muharram' is one of the four sacred Months
out of twelve.
The others being...
Zul-Qa'dah,
Zul-Hijjah,
and Rajab.
These four months have been sacred
since the creation of universe.
ALLAH {Azza wa Jall } says in the 'Qur'an'...
'Muharram' is a sacred month because Allah made it
sacred along with three other months and told us
about it in the 'Qur'an'.
*PROPHET* ﷺ
informed us about the Four sacred months
in the following narration...
'The year is of Twelve months, out of which
Four {4} months are sacred.
Three {3} are in succession---
/ ~Dhul - Qa'dah.
/~ Dhul-Hijjah.
/~Muharram.
/~Rajab.
[Source: Bukhari Vol~ 004, Book # 054, Hadith # 419]
'Ashura'~ [meaning tenth in Arabic]
The 10th of Muharram.
Fasting on the 10th Muharram 'Ashura'
was obligatory on the Muslims before the fasts
of 'Ramadan' were made obligatory.
Narrated by the Mother of the Believers Aisha
(Allah be pleased with her) ---
The people used to fast on 'Ashura'
{the tenth (10th)day of the month of 'Muharram'}
before the fasting of 'Ramadan' was made obligatory.
and on that day the 'Kaaba' used to be
covered with a cover.
When Allah made the fasting of the month
of 'Ramadan' compulsory.
*PROPHET* {may peace be upon him} said...
'Whoever wishes to fast (on the day of 'Ashura')
may do so and whoever wishes to leave it can do so'.
[ Source: 'Bukhari' Vol 02, Book 026, Hadith # 662. ]
Abu Qatada al-Ansari (Allah be pleased with him) reported
that...
The Messenger of Allah {peace be upon him}
was asked about fasting on the day of
'Ashura' {10th of Muharram}
whereupon he said...
It expiates the sins of the preceding year...{!}
{Source~ Muslim: Book 06: Hadith # 2603}
Six Children and 4 Women among 31 Palestinians killed in Israeli Air Strikes
Türkiye on Sunday condemned attempts by hundreds of Israeli
settlers to force their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa
Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, as well as
ongoing Israeli attacks that have caused the deaths of
Palestinian civilians.
In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said recent
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, which began on Friday,
had resulted in the deaths of many civilians, including
children.
It added that on Sunday, "fanatical Jewish groups,"
including Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir, stormed the
Al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection.
The ministry "strongly condemned" the Israeli attacks on
civilians, as well as the attempts to pray at the Al-Aqsa
Mosque, calling them "provocative actions" that openly
violate the status quo of the flashpoint area in occupied
East Jerusalem.
It underlined that such actions would further fuel tensions
in the region, calling on Tel Aviv not to allow such actions
aimed at status and spirituality of the Al-Aqsa Mosque
complex.
Israeli warplanes continued airstrikes in the Gaza Strip for
the third day on Sunday, for what the army said was to
prevent an "imminent threat of attacks" by the Islamic Jihad
group.
At least 31 Palestinians have been killed, including six
children and four women, and over 275 others injured in the
Israeli offensive, according to the Palestinian Health
Ministry.
Two top comanders were killed.
The attacks came amid rising tensions across Palestinian
territories following the detention of Bassam al-Saadi, a
senior leader of Islamic Jihad, in an Israeli raid in the
occupied West Bank city of Jenin early this week.
The Israeli army said the Gaza offensive may last for a
week. But the head of Israel's domestic intelligence service
Shin Bet on Sunday recommended ending the Gaza offensive,
saying the onslaught achieved its goals by dealing a heavy
blow to the Islamic Jihad group.
['About a hundred Israeli properties were damaged by IsIamic
Jihad rocket fire but the Israelis got enough time to hide
undergrounfd and were not hurt.]
Karbala and Husayn, r.a.
In the year 61 of the hijri calendar, on the 10the of
Muharram, [680 CE] Husayn, r.a, the grandson of the Prophet,
pbuh, was martyred near the Euphrates river at a place known
as Karbala.
He and his family were surrounded by a big force sent by a
warlord known as Ibn Ziyad.
Husayn refused to surrender to the overwhelming force which
wanted to terrorize him to accept the despotisam of Ibn
Ziyad.
Husayn, r.a., went down fighting to the end. All male
members of his family were also killed.
He is a symbol of resistance to tyranny and corruption.
The Muslim world went into mental trauma that a beloved
grandson of the Prophet, pbuh, could
be killed despite his decency and piety.. .
MonkeyPox
Male to Male Emergency
BBC
Cases of the virus have topped 6,600 in the US, according to
health officials
The US government has declared the monkeypox outbreak a
public health emergency following a spike in cases.
The decision will speed up the distribution of vaccines,
treatments and federal resources to curb the spread of the
virus.
It comes less than a fortnight after the World Health
Organization (WHO) issued its highest emergency alert
following a worldwide surge in cases.
Cases have topped 6,600 in the US, according to health
officials.
A quarter of these cases have appeared in the state of New
York, which declared its own state of emergency over the
disease last week.
The two states with the next highest caseloads - California
and Illinois - declared states of emergency earlier this
week
More than 26,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide this
year, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) shows.
Some public health experts have expressed concern the
emergency declaration could further stigmatise the disease.
Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak has been
largely concentrated among men who have sex with men.
But it is not purely a sexually transmitted infection (STI),
and can also be passed on by close contact with an infected
person.
Amazing Outreach through Facebook..
The July 31 issue of New Trend reached 290,244 Muslims
including 2900 women.
Main articles:
Islamic new year & role of sahaba, r.a [khutba by Dr. K.
Siddique]
Why is the case of Imam Jamil so Important?
by Mauri Saalakhan
[Intro to the book]
The Imprisonment of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: Is It a
Government Conspiracy?
Mauri' Saalakhan
Independently Published, May 24, 2020 - African American
political activists - 168 pages
In the opening days of the trial of Imam Jamil Abdullah
Al-Amin (the former H. Rap Brown), the late Coretta Scott
King, founder of the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King Center
for Nonviolent Social Change, released a statement that read
in part: "For justice to be faithfully served there must be
no rush to judgment and the defense must be allowed to
present all of its evidence, just as the prosecution must
uphold the highest standards in meeting the burden of
proof."
Unfortunately, there was a rush to judgment, with
exculpatory evidence favoring the accused deliberately left
out of the judicial process. As a result, someone who many
believe to be an innocent man has now marked 20 years of
unjust imprisonment. Among those who question the legitimacy
of Al-Amin's conviction and life sentence is another "civil
rights icon" who testified as a character witness on behalf
of the accused during the sentencing phase of his trial.
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations (and mayor of
Atlanta, GA), Andrew Young, recently spoke of "a case that
weighs heavy on my heart because I really think he was
wrongfully convicted. I'm talking about Jamil Al-Amin, H.
Rap Brown."
The Imprisonment of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin examines the
history of this controversial figure - from his days as a
young firebrand during the 1960s, to the transformative work
on himself and the communities he served in later years as a
Muslim cleric. Through such voices as Karima Al-Amin, Esq.;
Dr. Harry Edwards (principle founder of the 1968 Olympic
Project for Human Rights); well-known and accomplished
academic, Dr. Cornel West; respected Muslim cleric, Imam
Khalid Griggs, and others, we get a glimpse into the man who
came to symbolize one of the most turbulent decades in
American history, and the power of faith-based revolutionary
transformation.
Through the pages of this book we also get a glimpse into
the years of unwarranted surveillance of Imam Al-Amin's
lawful activities, leading up to the tragedy of March 16,
2002 - a still controversial tragedy that resulted in the
death of one sheriff's deputy and the serious injury of
another - as we seek to explore the provocative question: Is
the imprisonment of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin the result
of a never-ending government conspiracy?
