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DEBUNK the ZIONIST MEDIA: BUILD ISLAMIC-OPPRESSED PEOPLES' MEDIA

We need thousands of people to write critical letters against the lies propagated every day in the Zionist-controlled media of America (which have worldwide branches). There should be a stream of criticism against the liars and fabricators who control the major media. Even if these letters are not published, they can be distributed in local communities to enhance understanding.

Build independent media, like New Trend, which should support the causes of all oppressed people. There should be a network of "New Trends" (whatever their name) across the world, dependable for their honesty and courage.
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STAY AWAY FROM CONSPIRACY THEORIES

The Zionist Jews in America are successful because they are well-organized, systematic, involved in networking and well-funded. It has nothing to do with any dark conspiracies. These people, according to their crooked understanding, love Israel and want to enslave the whole world to help the Jewish adventure in the Middle East.

Among Muslims, there are a bunch of mentally defeated people who live on conspiracy theories. Such theories usually come from people who think the enemy is too strong and that the Muslims can do nothing. IRANIANS are the most active conspiracy theorists and most conspiracy theories floating around today originated in Al-Manar (Iran-backed) TV, Tehran Times and other Iranian and pro-Iranian affiliates. In Iran, we have a major state trying to subvert and infiltrate the Muslims of the world. Notice that like the U.S., the IRANIANS OPPOSEDED BOTH the TALIBAN and SADDAM. Both the U.S. and Iran are friends of Karzai, Musharraf and Vajpai. This is no conspiracy but an intersection of interests which go against the unity of the Ummah. If the Ummah unites, both American and Iranian interests suffer.

Conspiracy theories usually do not notice that the people they think are running the world, who can supposedly get way with anything, such as Mossad, the CIA, the FBI have been bungling and messing up for years.

In every issue, we must LOOK FOR EVIDENCE. If it is not readily available, do the research and study the issues. Go to origins. Don't quote what other irresponsible people have quoted.
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RIGHTS OF WOMEN and MINORITIES:

From both an ideological and tactical viewpoint, Muslims must ensure that the rights of women and minorities are safeguarded. The enemies of Islam can not defeat the Muslim world without dividing it from within. Last Christmas, under Musharraf's regime an attempt was made to attack Christians in Pakistan and the Islamic movement was going to be blamed for it. Fortunately the attempt failed.

There is also the issue of "honor killings" in Jordan and Pakistan which is being exploited by the Zionists. These atrocities do occur among some extremely backward segments of our society. We must not let puppets like Mubarak and Musharraf emerge as champions of "women's rights" in the West's efforts to discredit the Islamic movements.

[Read Achebe's book THINGS FALL APART, the story of a Nigerian village, which illustrates how European powers can, even in a cohesive society, take advantage of its inner contradictions to humiliate and destroy it.]
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FINALLY, STOP WAITING FOR JESUS, or the MAHDI or SALADIN to emerge from the heavens. "Each one of you is a ruler and each one of you is responsible ...." (Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, in Sahih Bukhari.)
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[Our veteran contributor, Ed Miller, is back with this blockbuster.]

ANARCHY, THE EPILOGUE TO GENOCIDE
By Edward Miller, San Rafael, California "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne, 1572-1631 "They made a wasteland and called it 'peace'" Tacitus (Roman historian 55-117AD)

As American and British forces bludgeon their way across Iraq, trashing and killing at will, bombing public buildings, offices, telecommunications centers and whatever small concentrations of Saddam's forces threaten their progress, the Iraqi people are ignored, swept aside or killed. The death toll of citizens is now in the thousands, and Saddam's Guards wherever they have attempted to make a stand against an overwhelming firepower have been either destroyed by tank or helicopter fire or obliterated by bombs. Some brigades have already surrendered to either American or British forces. Most of the major cities have been overrun by the advancing invaders, though scattered pockets of resistance remain. Saddam's birthplace, Tikrit as I write, is suffering the fate of Iraq's other population centers. The anarchy resulting from this barbaric exercise in the preemptive destruction of a people as civilized if not more than their invaders, plays across the media screens of the world as disorganized crowds in the cities plunder at will. Wounded children with amputated limbs cry softly in crowded, dirty and poorly-equipped hospital wards where weary physicians have armed themselves to prevent street mobs from stealing hospital supplies and equipment. The blasted and burned-out skeletons of cars with the charred bodies of their occupants sprawl on the highways attesting to some Iraqi patriots' suicidal attacks on American tanks or armoured vehicles. Red Cross workers report seeing trucks carrying the bodies of "dismembered women and children" leaving Baghdad. The invaders seem utterly unable to control the pillaging of public buildings, stores and food establishments, or even hospitals and museums. Individual homeowners shown on the media complain the soldiers seized their few private firearms, leaving them prey to intruders. Lost forever to the world's classical scholars, archeologists, historians and students of art are 170,000 museum pieces from antiquity looted from Baghdad's National Museum. Classical scholars had personally traveled to Washington before the invasion to get assurance that these treasures would be protected. To no avail. The bubbleheads in our Capital allowed the door to be slammed shut on 7000 years of early human history.
Much of the uncontrolled pillaging in Iraq's cities seen on the media as anarchy spreads across that Nation's wasteland can be explained by the devastating poverty visited on Saddam's people, who, while recovering from an eight-year war with Iran were then subject to the devastation of "Desert Storm" The plan initiated by the first Bush administration, and followed throughout the Clinton years, was to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq and kill its people, using a combination of starvation and biological (call it bacteriological) warfare, Americans, for ten long years, have been missing one of the most egregious genocides in history. Since the Gulf War, almost two million Iraqis, mostly the elderly, children, and babies, have been slaughtered by a US-British-UN program designed to maim and kill. There were actually two Gulf Wars. One, to recall Saddam's troops from Kuwait, the second, to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, "bombing it back into the pre-industrial age," as General Schwarzkopf put it. The destruction of telecommunications, water supplies, sewage treatment plants, and oil facilities had nothing to do with Kuwait, but with the unspoken US-UN intent to destroy Iraq with those Apocalyptic weapons of mass destruction: war, famine, pestilence, and death. Noam Chomsky correctly called this "biological warfare." During the Gulf War the Pentagon stated it conducted 110,000 aerial sortees in 42 days, one every 30 seconds, unleashing 85,000 tons of bombs. Iraq was essentially defenseless, On March 3rd, 1991 the London Times reported allied intelligence estimated 200,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed., a number the Pentagon agreed with (Ramsey Clark America Online March 09, 2003 *) "Civilian casualties from the bombing were in the tens of thousands. Thousands died from direct bomb hits, but far more died from destruction of the facilities essential to human life. Within hours of the first bomb there was no electricity anywhere in Iraq. In the first two days, pipes distributing water ran dry throughout the country. By February 1991 Iraq's Minister of Health estimated 3000 civilians dead and another 25,000 were in hospitals and clinics. A quarter of a million more were sick without medicines or medical care. from drinking polluted water..
(ibid *)
On Sept. 17, 2000, Professor Thomas J. Nagy of George Washington University made public a seven page document he had obtained, prepared by the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The report, hidden by the government for ten years, outlined the Gulf Allies' plan to set the stage for a water-born genocide in that country. The report reads: "Iraq had gone to considerable trouble to provide pure water for its population... importing specialized equipment and purification chemicals... a shortage of pure drinking water... could lead to increased incidents, if not epidemics of disease... Full degradation of the water treatment system will probably take at least six months." The Agency's report "was circulated to all major Allied commands." This information identified not only bombing targets, but those specific chemicals and specialized water purification equipment which the US and British then added to their list of embargoed items, to be certain the genocide would succeed. As intended, Allied bombing destroyed dams, reservoirs, wrecking flood control, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Pumping stations were crippled as were 31 municipal water and sewage facilities. As raw sewage poured into the Tigris River, the Iraqis only remaining source of water, they died by the thousands. The allies dropped 88,500 tons of bombs, equivalent to seven Hiroshimas, rendering 1.8 million Iraqis homeless and killing over 150,000 Iraqi troops. The Fourth Geneva Convention which the US signed clearly states: "It is prohibited to attack or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population"... "including drinking water supplies and irrigation works." Professor Nagy intends to pursue, under International law, criminal indictments against those responsible. Added to the carnage of Dessert Storm, the US and British fired "anti-tank" shells containing depleted uranium, which disintegrates on contact to burn with intense heat, leaving free uranium 238 particles to blow about freely in the desert winds. Inhalation of this dust is already creating both a marked increase in childhood lymphomas, plus numerous birth deformities. Since the half-life of depleted uranium is 125,000 years, lethal radiation from our shells will continue killing the civilian population in Iraq for generations. Americans have also forgotten that on Dec. 16, 1998, while sexual McCarthyism played out on the floor of Congress, President Clinton again ordered Patriot and Tomahawk missiles to hail down on Baghdad. Operation "Desert Fox" (called "OPERATION MONICA" in the Mideast) created extensive damage, killed over 25 civilians, and targeted one of the few oil refineries still able to function. To interrupt the impeachment process, Clinton, before he set the attack in motion, had carefully crafted Chief UN Inspector Butler's report to make certain it appeared Saddam was interfering with the UNSCOM Team. By 1998, Rick McDowell, whose "Voices in the Wilderness" group had visited Iraq many times since 1991, reported, "As of 1995, over a million Iraqis have died, 576,000 of them children, and three million risk acute starvation... More children have died... than the total of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan." McDowell noted the Oil for Food program was a failure since reparations to Kuwait, paying for UNSCOM and support for the Kurds ate up over 40 percent, leaving less than 25 cents/person/day for the Iraqis. McDowell said UN Security Council sanction which embargo pipes, pumps, filters, chlorine, ambulance tires, and everything necessary to produce potable water represent a "war of collective punishment." Some Americans may recall that in October 1998, Denis J. Halliday, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Chief of UNSCOM's "Oil for Food" resigned in disgust over the US-British interference with his program in an "all-out effort to starve to death as many Iraqis as possible." He added: "We see the member states... of the Security Council manipulating the organization for their own national interests." Halliday reported UN sanctions had reduced a once-proud civilization to third world status, resulting in crime, prostitution, beggary, family breakdown and corruption. He said Iraqis "were selling their belongings for food." Under Saddam Hussein, Halliday noted: "Iraq experienced the best civilization in the Mideast with universal medical care, the finest hospitals, free university education and overseas grants for graduate students....I went to Iraq to administer the largest humanitarian challenge in history I didn't realize the level of complicity in the suffering. It is to the point of madness. One day we will be called into account." Halliday, Ex-Attorney Ramsey Clark and others have reported mass starvation, waterborn diseases previously unknown in Iraq: diarrhea, cholera, strep, hepatitis, typhoid and polio (which had been eradicated). Animal plagues such as Hoof-and-mouth-disease for which the US forbids the importation of the vaccine to control this disease, kills one Iraqi source of protein. Screwworm, introduced by our CIA, killed off much of the sheep and goat population on which the people largely depended. No need to fire plaque-bearing missiles into a country when you have already contaminated the drinking water with sewage, and, with a strict embargo, forbidden the import of every single item necessary to clean it up. Right up to Bush's ongoing invasion of Saddam's country the US and Britain have pursued this devastation despite rising world criticism. Their north and south overflights, (never authorized by tdhe UN), and bombing missions were still murdering Saddam's people (over 2000 killed since 1998), and wrecking any attempts by the Iraqis to rebuild their economy. Iraq's out-of-date antiaircraft batteries never reached high-flying US-British planes, so bombing in retaliation "because their radar locked on" was but another cheap US-Brit excuse for killing. To pursue this mayhem, the US had simply ignored their fellow members in the Security Council where Russia, China and France, amongst others, frequently asked US to quit the sanctions and normalize trade. Even ex-UNSCOM officer Scott Ritter called bypassing the Security Council while pursuing a campaign to remove Saddam: "A failing and contradictory US policy." Back in Aug. 1999, France's Interior Minister stated his government "will not support a policy which victimizes innocent Iraqi citizens." The French government noted when UN's Butler, on Clinton's order, tossed out UNSCOM inspectors, "they had tracked down and destroyed all the existing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons capacity they were every going to find." UN expert and author Phyllis Bennis reported the Security Council "prevented UNSCOM from making its findings public. Such organizations as Voices-In-The-Wilderness group, Amnesty International, the International Red Cross, and the Red Crescent as well as the Russian, French, Chinese and other UN Security-Council members, have all decried our genocide in Iraq. The campaign by the media to cover-up this genocide has never ceased... Hans von Spondek, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, who took over Halliday's position and likewise resigned in protest over the genocide, in an interview May 6, 2000, stated: "in Boston to meet with the editor of the Boston Globe (owned by the NY Times ), I was told not to refer, even, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or the UN Charter, because they have no meaning in that paper." (The Boston Globe is owned by the NY Times). Von Spondek reported the death rate for children had tripled since 1991, and even much-needed electricity was often lacking in Baghdad. The UN had allowed only $112 million for repairs whereas the system rehabilitation minimum was over $7.1 billion. Saddam's people, once the best-educated in the Mideast on a 1989 $2.1 billion school budget, with sanctions struggled with $229 million. The literacy rate fell from over 90 percent to barely 60 percent. Computers can't be imported, as the UN fears "military use." Forty-four Congressmen sent Clinton a letter demanding the sanctions be lifted, to no avail As I write OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM is grinding down as tanks and armoured vehicles move through Tikrit without significant resistance. The American military machine running on a $400 billion budget, as was anticipated, overwhelmed Iraq's obsolete army whose budget was $1.9 billion. Saddam's air cover had never been replaced since the Gulf War, and under UN sanctions he was not allowed enough money to provide even simple maintenance for his antiquated military machine. The US media as in the Gulf War, has continuously exaggerated Saddam's military strength for a compliant and ignorant US audience. Our "brave fighters" have, to date, not faced significant military resistance. Saddam's Republcan Guard were completely unable to defend themselves, though several thousand bravely offered their lives in this useless exercise. Iraqi ex-patriots returning to defend their country, along with uncounted mujahadeen from Muslim countries, have managed to inflict occasional damage to the US/Brit forces, delaying the Pentagon's timetable.

What will be done to lift Iraq out of this Washington-produced humanitarian morass is anyone's guess. Anti-War protestors still march in the the streets of capitals around the world. The estimated costs to return Iraq to its pre-Gulf War status run between $300-$400 billion. Robert Ebel, Director of the energy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says that even if Iraq gets its oil production up to the $18 Billion/year pre-war level, "That's not going to go very far." Bush promised to rebuild and democratize Iraq, but if Afghanistan is an example this will be another abject failure. Even the streets in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital are not safe at night. There is anarchy throughout that country though our CIA is still bribing tribal leaders to reduce internecine warfare. The Afghans still lack clean water and sewage facilities, transportation, postal, banking and health systems and a police force. Only a fraction of the promised international monies have surfaced and recently, two close political appointees of the West's chosen president, Karsai, have been murdered.. Can we expect Bush to keep any of his promises to Iraq aside from refurbishing their oil industry for western interests?

.." winning a war is one thing. Succeeding in the ideological and economic project that lies behind this whole war is another. The "real" story for America's mastery over the Arab world starts now".
Robert Fisk ( April 10th THE INDEPENDENT)

Edward W. Miller,MD
15 April, 2003
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PENTAGON MUSLIMS: The Most Confused People in the World!

"Yet here we find that there are Muslims, or so they claim to be, working at the very nerve center of the planning and execution of the rape of the Muslim world!!!"

[From Br. Eric Mueller, Texas]

I just found this story about Muslims who are working in the Pentagon being upset that Franklin Graham has been invited to speak there even though he has called Islam an "evil religion."

I would add that not only has Graham done that, but he is one of the missionaries whose organizations are planning to impose themselves on the Iraqi people under the shadow of American tanks, thanks to the help and support of the Pentagon.

So obviously he is obnoxious.

But I would like to know on WHAT BASIS are MUSLIMS working in the PENTAGON?

Are they slaves who have been CHAINED there?

Setting aside the acknowledgement by the majority of Muslim scholars that fighting against naked aggression and invasion of a Muslim country is JIHAD and therefore an obligation on all who are needed to wage it, around the world Muslim scholars have said that it is at least haram to HELP the invaders.

Yet here we find that there are Muslims, or so they claim to be, working at the very nerve center of the planning and execution of the rape of the Muslim world!!!

They claim to have Islamic prayer services in the Pentagon. What in the world are they doing at those jum`ah prayers? Do they call on Allah to bless the invaders and murderers of the Muslims there? Astaghfir Allah!

Ibrahim Hooper says that inviting Graham sends the wrong message.

No, it sends precisely the correct message from the Pentagon. They are CRUSADERS! That's what they ARE! We should not be shocked that they express all the hate and prejudice of Crusaders. Why should we want to cover up what they are? Why should we pretend that they are something benign and pleasant?

Of course we should not be shocked that Crusaders want to listen to Franklin Graham.

But we have a right to be shocked at finding Muslims inside the Pentagon helping the Crusaders as they seek to murder our people and stamp out our heritage! They should be forced to sit and listen to Graham denounce Islam so that they can come face to face with what they are doing.

wa-s-salam!

Eric Mueller
Texas
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Pentagon Muslims Angered by Rev. Graham Invitation

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Muslims at the Pentagon are incensed by what they say is an insensitive invitation to evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham, who has called Islam an "evil religion," to preach on Good Friday at the Defense Department.

In letters to the Pentagon chaplain's office this week, Muslim office workers complained strongly about Graham's plans to lead prayers on Friday, one of the most religious days in the Christian calendar.

The letters urged officials to find a "more inclusive and honorable" religious leader to take his place.

A spokesman for Graham, son of the Rev. Billy Graham and head of a Minneapolis-based evangelist association in his father's name, confirmed on Tuesday he would attend Friday's service, where prayers were likely to focus on U.S. military action in Iraq -- a largely Muslim country.
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