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Dr. NAHEED MORRILL, the
Pakistani
woman we
reported on earlier, from McLean,
Virginia, has been destroyed by the prejudiced
American post
9.11
justice
system. She has lost her children, her property
share and her medical
license. The Muslim community, particularly
Pakistanis, should rally to her
support. She needs help to be able to enter an
appeal against the judgement
handed down.
Please direct your questions to:
Asim Ghafoor, Esq.
Legal Defense Fund
202-497-2219, 202-298-6696, fax-202-318-4331
And send your financial support to:
Dr. Naheed Morrill
6509 Chesterfield Ave.
McLean, VA 22101
703-288-3045
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From the Editor's Diary
JUMA'
KHUTBA:
Br. Kaukab
gave the juma' khutba
and led juma' prayers at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore on March 28,
2003. The audience was largely
Arab, Indo-Pakistani and Malaysian. A number of
students came to the khateeb
and thanked him for the khutba. [Main points in
our next issue.]
NEW YORK CITY: The editor spent two days in this
multi-ethnic city. March 29
there was a powerful ANTI-WAR demonstration which
began from Time Square in
Manhattan and ended at Union Square. The core of
the march was a large
Islamic
Palestinian
group, though the call for
the march came from Ramsey
Clark's
A.N.S.W.E.R.
coalition.
The marchers carried pictures of
Iraqi
children hit in the ongoing
bombing of Basra, Baghdad and other cities as
well pictures of Palestinian
children killed by the
Zionist
Jews.
Tributes
were paid by several speakers
to RACHEL CORRIE, the sweet rose of America who
gave her life trying to save
a Palestinian home. She was crushed by the Jewish
thugs who were trying to
demolish it. It appears that Palestinians have
finally realized that
Israel
does not want peace and were chanting: From the
River to the Sea, Palestine,
Palestine. [The editor joined the protestors in
four rakats of zuhr prayers
combined with four of ‘Asr, prayed right there in
Union Square, a solid
phalanx of fearless young men and women.]
A few Zionist Jews had turned up for a
counter demonstration, carrying
American instead of Israeli flags, with some
provocative placards saying:
There is NO Palestine, etc. An orthodox Jew had
turned up to support the
Palestinians and to condemn Israel.
[After the rally, the editor met Sis. ‘AISHA,
Jamaat al-Muslimeen's
New York City representative, a young
African-American sister, a good example of
the new generation of Islam, astute and
uncompromising. Sis. Aisha is very
busy working on LISTS OF JEWISH and OTHER
BUSINESSES WHICH SUPPORT ISRAEL.
She also explained how the rich Jews are getting
the HOUSING LAWS changed in
Harlem to drive out the lower income
African-American population and to
"develop" the area for $3500/room apartments.]
[There were also conversations with
another, even younger, sister,
TABASSUM, who had been arrested on Thursday
during the "die-in" in Time
Square to protest the massacre in Iraq. Sis.
TABASSUM was mistreated by the
police because she wears a HIJAB or Islamic
headcovering. She was pushed
around very roughly when she was arrested. Later,
at the police station, she
refused to remove her hijab. She was threatened
with being kept at the
station even after the others had been released.
However, the other
protestors who had been arrested REFUSED TO BE
RELEASED IF SHE WAS NOT
RELEASED. Finally the police let her go at 2 AM.]
MEETING THE FAMILY OF AHMED ‘ABDEL SATTAR.
On March 30, the editor
visited the family of
Egyptian
POLITICAL PRISONER
Ahmed ‘Abdel Sattar in
their Staten Island apartment. His wife, Lisa, is
originally from
Chicago.
Alhamdulillah, a strict Muslimah, she clings to
her hijab, takes college
classes and keeps their FOUR CHILDREN in tune
with the norms of Islam. The
sister, a "White" Muslimah, has been given a lot
of run around by the prison
authorities in her visits to meet her husband in
prison. The authorities have
been TRYING TO BREAK HIM IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
but have failed. She says,
not only is his Islamic faith strong and vibrant,
he inspires her and the
children to be strong.
Ahmed was paralegal for
SHAIKH OMAR ‘ABDEL RAHMAN
and worked hard to
safeguard the Shaikh's rights in prison. Ahmed
has never broken a law, has
been a model citizen (worked for the post
office), provided for his family
and spent time to develop mosques and the local
Muslim community. His "fault"
was that he opposed the regime of Hosni
Mubarak,
the tyrant of Egypt. The
U.S. government, working with Mubarak, taped
Ahmed's phone calls and claims
that it has found calls which implicated him in
attempting to overthrow
Mubarak. [In this Zionist America, dictators are
defended while citizens are
oppressed.]
The editor noticed the economic squeeze
which Sis. Lisa and the four
young people are going through, living in a small
apartment with little
income coming in. Muslims should take care of the
families of political
prisoners while they are enduring this era of
oppression.
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Please write to: Ahmed ‘Abdel Sattar #53506-054,
MCC, 150 Park Row, New York,
NY 10007
Remember that he has not been convicted or even
brought to trial. ON APRIL 9,
HE WILL HAVE BEEN HELD FOR ONE YEAR.
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