New Trend Magazine
(Opinion and Analysis)
{Views expressed are not necessarily shared 100% by New Trend}
Distinguished Professor Urges Support for release of Imam Jamil al-Amin
Saudi Monarchy, ex-King Zahir Shah, Pakistani coup leader support Bush
Was America the Target? Reader says: Public being brainwashed by TV
"O ye who believe! If any from among you turn back from his faith, soon will
Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him,- humble with
the believers, mighty against the rejectors, fighting in the way of Allah,
and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault. That is the Grace
of Allah, which He will bestow on whom He pleases. And Allah encompasses all,
and He knows all things." (The Qur'an 5:54)
1. IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN's CASE: Distinguished professor of Math, Dr. Abdul Alim
Shabazz read our posting on Imam Jamil's eloquent statement from prison. Dr.
Shabazz is concerned that the government is involved in steady postponement
of the trial of an innocent man, an eminent Imam of the Islamic faith. The
Muslim community, he says, must rally together and call for the release of
Imam Jamil. The government has a long record of attempts to get Imam Jamil.
It should not be allowed to get away with its attempts to railroad him.
{A new effort needs to be made to protest the ongoing imprisonment of the
Imam.}
{The national rally should be rescheduled and Muslims should take a stand.}
2. BUSH DIPPING INTO THE TRASH CAN OF HISTORY TO FIND SUPPORT FOR HIS
IMPERIALISTIC ATTEMPTS TO TOPPLE THE TALIBAN. (From our Afghanistan observer.)
A. The Saudi monarchy has broken relations with Afghanistan. The U.S. media
are touting this as a victory and as a proof that Osama is not Islamic! Such
antics must be making the whole Muslim world laugh. Who does not know that:
i. Monarchy is HARAM (forbidden by the Qur'an). Allah alone is king and
caliphate/shoora alone makes a government Islamic.
ii. Osama and Mulla Umar are known all over the world as living examples of
the Prophet's Sunnah (pbuh).
iii. The Saudis had already broken ties with Afghanistan because it gave
refuge to Osama. The new "final" break was a mere formality. The existence of
Osama is a living challenge to the Saudi claim of Islamic legitimacy.
B. The State Department today announced that it has contacted ex-KING ZAHIR
SHAH of Afghanistan. This often-tried ploy of the enemies of Islam to bring
back the old fool who was overthrown in 1973 indicates the hollowness of
Bush's claims to superior high ground in his war against Islam. The man with
NO SUPPORT in Afghanistan is America's man. (There is 'democracy' for Bush's
intended slaves.)
C. MUSHARRAF of PAKISTAN is being touted as a representative of that country.
Here is a nondescript military officer who has imposed himself on the
Pakistani people and proclaimed himself President. The promises he makes to
America are not the paper they are written on because he has no legitimacy by
any standards of consensus and consent.
{America's grasping at these straws gives the impression that the new
imperialistic design is seriously flawed. This giant will do much damage but
will finally have to realize that the world of Islam is NOT represented by
its rulers and is NOT willing to be enslaved. Now we have an Islamic version
of PEOPLES POWER where the people speak for themselves, not through rulers.
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3. A non-MUSLIM FRIEND TODAY SAID SOME THINGS which are worth noting. He
said: The public is being brainwashed by the 24-hour TV propaganda that there
was an attack on America. He says: It was not an indiscriminate attack on all
America or all Americans. It was a precision attack on its power structure
and its affiliates:
i. THE POOR WERE NOT ATTACKED.
ii. MIDDLE AMERICA WAS NOT ATTACKED.
iii. AFRICAN-AMERICAN CENTERS WERE NOT ATTACKED.
iv. MUSLIM Centers WERE NOT ATTACKED.
v. HISPANIC POPULATIONS WERE NOT THE TARGET.
and so on.
We need to analyze the losses incurred. While our hearts bleed at the
suffering of the innocent (this man was quite genuine in his sorrow) in this
attack, the fact remains, he asserts, that the attack was aimed precisely at
the real power structure of America which is responsible for Israel and the
destruction of the lands in the East.
{We said to the speaker: You'll get us into trouble! He said: Be honest about
this and it will liberate your conspiracy theory people from their
inferiority complex.}
{We said: May Allah have mercy on us! Already we have had to close down one
of our web sites.}
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2001-11-07 Wed 12:47ct