Symbolic Rejection of Domestic Violemce.
by Hedaya Majeed [Atlanta, Georgia]
International Hijab and Kufi day is February 14, 2023. We
are asking people to wear something purple, take a selfie
and post a phrase about how Islam Does not Condone or Teach
Abuse.
International Purple Hijab and Kufi Day is not a
celebration. It is a commemoration. It is not a holiday. The
Baitul Salaam Network, Inc. is a 26-year-old organization
that was founded by survivors of domestic abuse and sexual
assault. Our mission is to assist the survivors of domestic
abuse and sexual assault rebuild their lives after the
attack and bring more awareness to our Islamic community
about domestic abuse and sexual assault.
Two Questions
Images of the Prophet, pbuh, and the Oldest University
by Br. Salahuddin [Denver, Colorado]
At Hamline University in Minnesota, an adjunct professor was
fired after he showed images of the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh,
and Muslim students protested. What should be our response
from Jamaat al-Muslimeen?
The university should state that it does not support the
display of such images because it violates the basic beliefs
of Muslims.
This imaging should not be done.
However, our study shows that the professor was acting out
of ignorance, not out of Islamophobia.
The professor must not be fired.
A professor should be invited to highlight positive
influences of Islam in the West, particularly our love and
feelings for Jesus, pbuh.
See the report by Prof. Darke about the amazing influences
of Syrian Islamic history visible in cathedrals and stained
glass windows of churches. [See previous issue, January 15,
of New Trend.]
Second question.
Which is the oldest Islamic university?
There are competing claims: Zaitouna in Tunis and
al-Qarawiyyn in Morocco.
Police Brutality in Memphis. Countrywide Protests.
People held signs at a protest in Times Square after footage
showing Tyre Nichols's fatal beating at the hands of
Memphis, Tenn., police officers was released on Friday
night. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
Protests unfolded across the U.S. on Friday night after body
camera footage and surveillance video showing Memphis,
Tenn., police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols were
released.
Nichols's family, the Memphis police chief and President
Biden called on protesters to remain peaceful in response to
the videos, which Biden said that after viewing left him
"outraged and deeply pained."
In Memphis, where Nichols - a 29-year-old Black man
who died on Jan. 10, three days after five officers tazed,
pepper-sprayed and assaulted him - around 100
protesters blocked the Interstate 55 bridge in both
directions, bringing semitrucks and other vehicles to a
halt.
Demonstrators filled New York City's Times Square, demanding
justice for Nichols, a FedEx driver and father of a
4-year-old son.
Correct Understanding of History frees us from Zionism.
The Holocaust Story.
Muslims Must Study Auschwitz to Counter Israel.
by Kaukab Siddique
Most Americans don't know that Auschwitz is in Poland, not
in Germany.
On January 27, 1945, the advancing legions of the Soviet
army captured Auschwitz without any resistance from the
Germans who had left as the Russians advanced.
The Soviets did not say anything dramatic about anything
horrible they had found in Auschwitz. David Irving says from
German documents that when Hitler was told that the Russians
had captured Auschwitz, he did not show any worry that
anything secret was now in enemy hands. He simply said:
yes.
Almost 3 and half months later, when both Hitler and his
notorious propaganda minister Goebbels were dead, the
Soviets announced that they had found unimaginable horrors
in Auschwitz and that 4,000,000 people, mostly Jews, had
been murdered there, many of them in gas chambers.
Later the Russians, knowing that they had overshot the mark,
brought the statistic down to 1,000, 000 murdered Jews. How
this magic figure was arrived at is not clear.
From expert Communist propagandists, the horrors of
Auschwitz went global and Israel has used them to win victim
status for itself.
For years this propaganda went unchallenged but during the
last 30 years, researchers and scholars have challenged the
Auschwitz horrors story. One would have to be totally
accepting of the Israeli propaganda if we refuse to study
the revisionist scholars. Solid and irrefutable research has
been done against the Auschwitz horror story.
We invite readers to study these scholars to get the other
side of the alleged holocaust:
Germar Rudolf
Faurisson
David Bradley
Mark Weber
Prof. Butz
David Irving
Zundel
For Muslims, this should be required reading. Israel's whole
stance is that Jews are victims and if America does not
support Israel, there may be another holocaust.
None of the revisionist scholars say that the Jews did not
suffer but so did others. Every German city was burned down,
literally incinerated. Poles suffered horribly as did the
Russians.
The war ended 70 years back. Germany has paid BILLIONS in
reparations to Israel but International Jewry continues to
squeeze the holocaust milk cow for its continuing funding of
Israel.
War News
[We report the war news without taking sides.]
Syria
Deraa province
In January, 15 Assad troops and supporters have been killed
versus 4 ISIS killed.
January 29. Two SDF [pro-US] killed in northern Deir ez Zor
by ISIS raiders
17 SDF have been killed this month.
Southeastern Homs province, ISIS raiders on motor bikes shot
6 Lebanese hizbullah soldiers.
A Turkish drone mistakenly killed a supporter of Turkey.
Reports of chaos, crimes, smuggling, drugs are reported
from areas occupied by Assad.
Nigeria
KEYAMO SUES ATIKU:
Internal Squabbling.
by Kabir Oyemomi
Mr Festus Keyamo has instituted a criminal matter against
the presidential candidate of People's Democratic Party
(PDP), the main opposition party to APC , Alh Atiku Abubakar
for criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public
fund, among others.
Mr Festus Keyamo who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN)
and a serving Minister for Labour and Employment is the
spokesman of the ruling All Progressive Congress ( APC)'s
campaign council for Bola Ahmed Tinubu .
Premium Times News has it that Mr Keyamo had on 16th of
January issued a 72 hours ultimatum to the Code of Conduct
Bureau(CCB), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other
related Offences(ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) to arrest and prosecute the opposition
leader over the offences of money laundering, breach of code
of conduct for public officers, conspiracy, and criminal
breach of trust and misappropriation.
With the expiration of the ultimatum and without any action
taken by the anti- corruption agencies by 19 of January, Mr
Keyamo headed straight to Federal High Court in Abuja on
20th, seeking an order compelling Atiku to surrender
himself.
Mr Keyamo said Atiku has particularly not made information
available to the agencies in respect of a certain bank
account belonging to a company name Marine Float and other
accounts of two undisclosed companies. The accounts were
allegedly used a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPVs) to secretly
divert and misappropriate public funds between 1999 and 2007
when Atiku served as the vice president of Federal Republic
of Nigeria.
Keyamo is relying heavily on the claim of a whistle blower
by the name of Mr Achimugu who went public and gave graphic
accounts of certain events that transpired between him and
Atiku Abubakar capturing how the SPVs were used to commit
financial fraud
Guidance from Sis. Yasmin
Salaam `Alaikum'
'Over 1.5 billion Muslims hurt': Reaction to Quran
desecration in Sweden.
Türkiye, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia lead Muslim world's outrage
after Sweden allows notorious habitual offender Rasmus
Paludan to burn copy of Holy Quran under "freedom of
expression" guise.
Muslim world has erupted in anger and alarm after Sweden
allowed a far-right racist politician Rasmus Paludan to burn
a copy of the Muslim Holy book Quran in front of the Turkish
embassy building in Stockholm.
Here are some of the first reactions:
Türkiye
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack
on our holy book, the Quran, in Sweden today (21 January),
despite our repeated warnings earlier," a Turkish Foreign
Ministry statement said.
Calling the act "an outright hate crime," the ministry said:
"Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and
insults our sacred values, under the guise of freedom of
expression is completely unacceptable."
"This despicable act is yet another example of the alarming
level that Islamophobia and, racist and discriminatory
movements have reached in Europe."
Pakistan
"This senseless and provocative Islamophobic act hurts the
religious sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims around
the world," said a statement from the Pakistani Foreign
Ministry.
Such actions are "not covered under any legitimate
expression of the right to freedom of expression or opinion,
which carries responsibilities under international human
rights law, such as the obligation not to carry out hate
speech and incite people to violence."
"Pakistan's concerns are being conveyed to the authorities
in Sweden.
We urge them to be mindful of the sentiments of the people
of Pakistan and the Muslims worldwide and take steps to
prevent Islamophobic acts," the statement added.
Kuwait
The incident "hurts Muslims' sentiments across the world and
marks serious provocation," Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh
Salem Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah said in statements cited by
the state news agency KUNA.
He called on the international community "to shoulder
responsibility by stopping such unacceptable acts and
denouncing all forms of hatred and extremism and bringing
the perpetrators to accountability."
Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia calls for spreading the values of dialogue,
tolerance, and coexistence, and rejects hatred and
extremism," the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a
statement.
UAE
The United Arab Emirates said it was against "all practices
aimed at destabilising security and stability in
contravention of human and moral values and principles".
Qatar
Qatar condemned the Swedish authorities' permission to burn the
Holy Quran and call on the international community to
shoulder its responsibilities to reject hatred and
violence.
Iran
Calling it an attempt to stoke hatred and violence against
Muslims, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said
some European countries under the false pretext of
advocating freedom of speech "allow extremist and radical
elements to spread hatred against Islamic sanctities and
values".
Kanaani said despite the strong emphasis on human rights in
Islam, Europeans continue to "institutionalise anti-Islamism
and Islamophobia" in their societies.
He added that the desecration of the Quran is a "clear
example of spreading hatred and fuelling violence against
Muslims", which has "nothing to do with freedom of speech
and thought".
Jordan
Jordan "condemned the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran in
the Swedish capital Stockholm, stressing the Kingdom's
rejection of this act that fuels hatred."
It emphasised the necessity to spread the culture of peace
and acceptance of the other and "condemning extremism is a
collective responsibility."
Egypt
Egypt expressed its strong condemnation of the disgraceful
act that provokes the feelings of hundreds of millions of
Muslims around the world.
Egypt warned of the dangers of the spread of such acts that
offend religions and fuel hate speech and violence, calling
for upholding the values of tolerance and peaceful
coexistence and preventing offense to all religions and
their sanctities through such extremist practices that
contradict the values of respect for religion.
Organization of Islamic Cooperation
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation bloc said the
"provocative action... targets Muslims, insults their sacred
values, and serves as further example of the alarming level
reached by Islamophobia" and asked Sweden to punish those
behind a "hate crime".
Muslims in USA have gradually fallen into America's racial
pattern. Like Christian groupings, we have mosques mostly
immigrant, mostly Black, mostly Pakistani, mostly controlled
by Indians, Nigerians, Ethiopians, Arab, Senegalese,
etc.
So it came as a shock that the horrific murder of a Black
man in Memphis was carried out by five Black police
officers.
Naive Americans don't know that the power structure uses
Black, white, Native American and Mexican to carry out its
horrendous activities.
Few, if any, know that America's wars in Africa are carried
out by a Black man named Loyd Austin. He retired after
becoming a 4 star general. He is now Secretary of Defense.
He led military campaigns for decades before he was given
the position to crush the Muslims of Africa.
His latest is that two days back he sent special forces to
kill an Islamic commander and 10 Somalians with hlm who had
taken refuge in some caves.
The commander's name is Bilal [named after a famous
Companion of the Prophet, pbuh.]
His last name is Sudani, which means he is proud of being
Black.
Why kill Somalis? What right do we have to go into Somalia
to kill?
We Muslims should not become blind followers of oppressors.
We should not oppose anyone's race but oppose the evil they
do, be they Black or White.
[Thank you Sis. Amira.]
Palestine Counters Israeli Attack on Jenin with one in
Occupied Jerusalem.
On Thursday, January 26, Israeli forces invaded Jenin
refugee camp and killed nine Palestinians in what became
called by residents of the camp 'a massacre.' Later that
day, 22-year-old Yousef Abedalkarim Muhsein became the 10th
Palestinian killed when he was shot by Israeli forces in
Al-Ram, near Ramallah.
On Friday, Palestinians responded.
Throughout Friday, Palestinians across historic Palestine
rose in protests. These confrontations were driven by the
massacre in Jenin specifically, and the routine provocations
from Israeli settlers, intelligence, and armed forces
engaged in the illegal annexation of the little which
remains of the West Bank.
The day culminated with five armed shooting operations
carried out across the West Bank Friday night, including one
in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov in occupied East
Jerusalem, which resulted in the death of at least seven
Israeli settlers.
Prayer as protest
At dawn hours on Friday, the holiest day of the week for
Muslim worshippers, tens of thousands of Palestinians in
Jerusalem and hundreds in Hebron performed dawn prayers at
Al-Aqsa mosque and the Ibrahimi mosque, respectively.
"There is a danger," Jalal Abu-Khater, a writer from
Jerusalem tells Mondoweiss. "We feel Al-Aqsa is being taken
over and this isn't in our head," he emphasized. "This is
very real, where we're losing our last place of sovereignty
in Jerusalem."
The act of collective prayer in these specific areas has
become a defiant act of resistance amid the continued
settler invasions and police violence witnessed in the
Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City and
settler-military attacks in Hebron's Old City where more
than 800 settlers live protected by Israeli forces.
In Jerusalem, Palestinians rose in chants in support of
Jenin and the resistance from Gaza in light of the continued
repression and targeting of Palestinians.
"Being frequently present there in this place allows us to
remain attached to it," Abu Khater explained. "It's a common
place for many people in the world, but it's a personal
space for us in Jerusalem."
Indeed, on January 3 of this year, the extremist right-wing
Minister of Interior, Itamar Ben-Gvir, entered Al-Aqsa
compound in a provocation attempt that mirrored the former
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's entry to the compound
in September of 2000. Sharon's entry sparked the second
Palestinian uprising.
Today, Nafeesa Khuwais, a Palestinian elder known in the Old
City as a guardian of Al-Aqsa, was arrested and escorted out
by a group of armed border police. In Arabic, the civilians
which remain in the Aqsa compound in order to protect it and
maintain Palestinian presence in the holy place of worship
are known as Murabiteen, which means the guardians who
station against aggression.
In a similar effort, Palestinians in Hebron are often denied
entry to the Ibrahimi mosque. This became policy after the
1994 massacre by the Israeli-American settler, Baruch
Goldstein who- with the support of the Israeli military-
entered the mosque at dawn prayers and opened fire on
worshippers, killing 29 Palestinians. Goldstein is still
celebrated by settlers in Hebron in an annual ceremony.
Last year was a record year for settler violence and
Palestinian displacement. At dawn on Friday, however, the
streets of Hebron's Old city were full of Palestinians who
shared food and bread, bringing life to the streets which-
once vibrant- have become a ghost town.
"Going to pray there is a political act in and of itself,
and that's why it's important," Abu Khater elaborated.
Demonstrations across Palestine
Friday morning and afternoon were full of protests and
confrontations against Israeli violence and persistent
settler expansion.
In the West Bank, Yousef Abedalkarim Muhsein's funeral
procession moved from Ramallah hospital compound on Friday
morning, headed towards his town of Al-Ram where he was
buried. Videos of the final farewell to Muhsein show his
friends and community members throwing themselves over his
body as they prepare to lay him to rest.
Confrontations ensued in Al-Ram following the funeral, with
youth hurling stones at Israeli forces who threw teargas,
live ammunition, and stun grenades at demonstrators. Israeli
soldiers also prevented journalists from covering the
demonstrations and Muhsein's funeral procession.
More protests occurred near military stations, settlements,
and checkpoints in villages and towns around Jericho,
Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Hebron, and Jerusalem, where
Israeli armed forces responded with force.
"From Kufr Nima to Jenin, we are a united people which does
not die," the chants echoed in the small village of Kufr
Nima, 13 km northwest of Ramallah. Across the
demonstrations, various factional flags were carried,
signaling the continued growth of unification across the
country.
On Friday evening, Palestinian citizens of Israel in Umm
el-Fahem and Haifa also organized protests against the
massacre in Jenin. "Raise your voice," protestors chanted in
Haifa, "raise, raise again, the sound of the chants," they
continued as Israeli police attempted to break apart the
group.
Two Palestinians were arrested in Umm el-Fahem and at least
three in Haifa, according to local news sources.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip also denounced the massacre
in Jenin and joined in protests which broke out late
Thursday evening. Dozens of Palestinians protested near the
imposed Israeli border near Khan Younis city, south of the
strip, while hundreds of Palestinians in Al-Bureij refugee
camp in central Gaza, also joined protests and burned tires.
[Excerpted]
Mariam Barghouti
Mariam Barghouti is the Senior Palestine Correspondent for
Mondoweiss.
