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(Views not necessarily shared by editors)(Imam Badi Ali's report below)
Mullah Omar Evades Capture: Attack on Tora Bora Repulsed
Mullah Naqibullah Reported to be Openly Supporting Taliban
Ramadan Bombing: Westernized Muslims Pray/Fast as if nothing Happened
Cultural "bombing" Heats up: Movie called Kandahar to be shown
{War News: After the entire Taliban formation left Kandahar on December
7,
reports indicate that the legendary mullah left the city on December 8.
A
group of Arab mujahideen are providing cover to the retreating cadres
by
holding on to Kandahar airport, thus foiling an American attack in the
style
of the one on Iraqi troops at the end of the Gulf war.
After three days of heavy fighting and severe bombing of Tora Bora cave
area
by B-52s, the Arab mujahideen have repulsed the American-funded
mercenaries.
MSNBC conceded the defeat. Heraldo Rivera of MCNBCis filming the
bombing.
{Mullah Naqibullah, mujahideen hero from the Soviet era, is defying the
American-funded forces of Karzai, Bonn appointed "prime minister" of
Afghanistan, and shielded the Taliban from attack during their
withdrawal.}
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USA bombed Afghanistan DURING RAMADAN. Rich, westernized Muslims
remained
untouched. {From our Baltimore, Maryland reporter.}
We don't want to name that masjid which put up American flags after
9/11.
Every now and then, I go there to see how the rich Muslims are
behaving.
Looks like Bush's efforts to Americanize Islam and make it a form of
christianity are succeeding with these rich folks.
I was wondering what makes them so shamefully patriotic. One reason
seems to
be that the top people here are very rich Muslims from India. Because
they
see the terrible condition of Muslims in India, they think America is
paradise. But then there are these brainwashed Pakistanis too.....
(read on)
This time when I visited, it was Saturday. I could hardly believe what
I saw.
The masjid looked like a Church, with several hundred chairs placed in
the
prayer hall. And right there on the podium was a JEW exchanging views
on
belief systems with the Muslims. The Imam of the masjid, in all his
robes,
was sitting right in front of the Jew and seemed to have accepted the
games
of the rich Indian Muslims in charge.
This mosque went through an acrimonious debate once when women wanted
the
right to be in the main prayer hall behind the men. The Imam was the
main
opponent of their presence.
Now in this gathering (spirit of 9/11), there was completing mixing of
the
sexes on the chairs. Some non-Muslim visitors (male) were sitting next
to
Muslim women, and non-Muslim women were sitting next to Muslim men.
And of course, they were eating away! (These rich Muslims eat more in
Ramadan
than in any other month.)
I started questioning the functionaries of the mosque: Why have you
turned
this mosque into a church-like situation? I asked. They snickered.
Why can't the visitors sit on the carpet with Muslims, instead of on
chairs?
I asked. They snickered.
Why do you have to humiliate yourself to please the non-Muslims, I
asked? Now
they were silent and getting angry.
Outside in the lobby, I got a little sentimental and started talking
aloud
about Muslim blood flowing in Afghanistan and here we are partying
while our
people are bombed.
This is where a Pakistani came in and showed me how much he and others
in
this upscale mosque have been brainwashed. When he heard me talking of
the
blood of Muslims flowing in Ramadan, he said,(believe me): Don't you
remember
what you people did in New York? Muslims were killed in the towers!
(Did you notice that propaganda ploy: That's exactly what the CIA agent
said
to the American Taliban "Walker" before the prison massacre in Mazare
Sharif.)
I said: My friend, history did not begin on 9/11.
(He was a clean shaven man, not a hair on his face. Is that a part of
being
westernized? I too was like that for a long time. I never realized that
brainwashing begins with personal life. Remember Malcolm X's
self-criticism
about how he tried to make his hair look like a White man's?
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A deluge of propaganda is going on against the Taliban. A movie called
"Kandahar" is being released. It has a twisted kind of racism in it. A
Black
man pretends to be a Taliban and wears a big fake beard. (Thus the
propaganda
against the beard is part of cultural imperialism. I am beginning to
understand. I was very westernized without knowing it. That is slavery:
You
don't even know that you are a slave.)
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MUSLIMS IN AMERICA ARE BEING ENCOURAGED TO BE SNITCHES. Imam Badi Ali
has
sent this report from Greensboro, North Carolina:
{IMPRISONED FOR 2and Half MONTHS BECAUSE SOMEONE SAID HE HELPS
TALIBAN.}
Abdul Farid faces federal charges Monday
12-8-01
By MOLLY MCGINN, Staff Writer
News & Record
HIGH POINT -- Ten days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Abdul
Farid and
Benaras Khan clashed over who should be the new imam at the Community
Mosque
just outside city limits.
Tempers flared and someone called 911. When Davidson County Sheriff's
deputies arrived, someone told them Farid, who is Pakastani, had been
sending
money to the Taliban. The FBI was contacted, he was interviewed and
then
arrested while the FBI investigated further.
Farid, a resident of High Point who has lived in the United States for
more
than a decade, became one of the hundreds of people nationwide caught
up in
the FBI's dragnet following the terrorist attacks.
No evidence linking him to terrorists has been found, but he was
charged with
making false statements on a loan application at a High Point bank. His
trial
begins Monday in U.S. District Court in Greensboro.
The government has identified about a hundred people it charged as part
of
the Sept. 11 investigation. Most are immigration-related charges and
other
federal counts unrelated to terrorism.The government won't release the
identities of more than 500 others, mostly Muslim men, who are simply
being
detained.
In the wake of the attacks, the Bush administration has increased the
FBI's
power to question hundreds of foreign nationals without legal
representation
and detain them without charges. The FBI says it needs such broad
powers to
investigate possible cells of terrorism here but has said little about
the
guidelines it is using.
The tactics, including the monitoring of discussions between suspects
and
their lawyers and plans to try terrorist cases in secret tribunals,
have come
under intense criticism in recent days.
But only those who violate federal law are getting arrested, said Lynne
Klauer, a lawyer in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Greensboro.
"They're going to investigate and make an arrest where they feel it's
supported by evidence," she said.
But that's not a good enough answer for human rights groups, who ask:
Who is
the FBI arresting and why?
On Wednesday, 18 groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Attorney
General
seeking more information on the hundreds of Middle Easterners being
detained.
"It's the same thing as driving while black or arguing while Middle
Eastern,"
said Raleigh Bailey, director of the Center for New North Carolinians
at
UNCG.
Farid, 51, entered the country illegally from Canada in 1989, according
to an
FBI affidavit. He lived alone in High Point and speaks Urdu, the
national
language in Pakistan. He has lived in the Dunrovin Manor apartments on
Long
Street for at least a year and a half.
Others who live there said they know Farid but declined to say much
about
him. One of his neighbors, Sarah Edwards, said Farid brought her a
housewarming present -- a biscuit -- when she moved into her apartment.
Kahn,
who argued with Farid, said he is a "gentle man, a man you can trust."
During the disagreement at the West Lexington Avenue mosque Sept. 21,
Kahn
took a rock and hit Farid on the head. In the scuffle, Kahn complained
of
chest pains, and at 1:55 p.m., someone called 911.
When deputies arrived to investigate, one man told them Farid had been
sending money to the Taliban. Friends said the man made the accusation
simply
because he didn't like Farid. But the information was enough for
deputies to
contact the FBI.
Farid told the FBI he had never sent money to Pakistan, according to
the
agency. But agents found receipts for money totaling $8,997 sent to
several
people in that country. Farid was arrested for lying in a federal
investigation.
No evidence apparently was found linking Farid to the Taliban. Farid
and
friends at the mosque say the money was intended for his son, Afghan
refugees
and other charity. Giving money to the poor is one of the five pillars
of
Islam faith.
But as a result of the FBI's investigation into Farid, he was charged
with
making false statements on a loan application. On the application, he
claimed
to work at a blind company, as friends also have said, but authorities
say he
is unemployed.
Farid was indicted Oct. 29 and pleaded not guilty Nov. 5. He is being
held in
jail, and his lawyer, public defender Bill Ingram, was out of town and
could
not be reached for comment.
Farid's trial Monday will focus narrowly on the charge against him,
said
Klauer.
The FBI declined to comment on Farid's case.
"Come to the trial on Monday," said Thomas J. Brereton, the
Greensboro-based
FBI agent who interviewed Farid, "and some of those questions will be
answered.
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