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{On January 23, 2002,
Dr. Kaukab Siddique
was interviewed by WBAI
radio, New
York, about the case of
Imam Jamil al-Amin.
Dr. Siddique focused on the
bogus
claims against the Imam and the injustices being imposed on him even
before
the trial, connecting them to vendetta against the Black movement and
the
ongoing oppression of genuine Islam in America.}
{Imam Badi Ali is hosting leaders of the November 10 Coalition in
Greensboro,
NC on February 10. Email us to get your invitation.)
1.3 Million Women Battered in U.S. Every Year (ABC News)
Israel referred to as "that sh--ty little country" by French Ambassador
Analysis of Concepts Meant to Trivialize Islamic Movements
"A woman is like a rib which will break if you try to straighten it (by
force). You can benefit from it even if it remains bent as it was
made."
(Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, Hadith collected by Bukhari)
{Br. Sulayman (John Walker) is being brought to trial in Alexandria,
Virginia. A sister from South Africa has written that if America's
Muslims
love him, they should demonstrate to let him know that he is not alone.
New
Trend urges readers to respond. Would you be willing to picket the
prison in
Alexandria and chant Islamic slogans?}
{Putting captured fighters in prison garb like criminals, hooding and
shackling them are all violations of international law. David Irving,
British
historian is right, that the treatment of Al-Qaeda by the U.S. is worse
than
that of Russians by Adolf Hitler's forces. German troops allowed U.S.
captives to wear their uniforms as you can see even in propaganda films
about
the Stalags made by Americans themselves.}
{Afghan ambassador ABDUS SALAAM ZAEEF has disappeared into the maw of
American gulag system. Betrayed by the treacherous ruler of Pakistan,
the
dastardly Musharref, the gentle and noble amabassador is a symbol of
todays
oppressed humanity.}
ABC TV NETWORK NEWS on January 24, 2002 put at 1.3 million the number
of
women battered in domestic violence in ONE YEAR in the U.S. BATTERING
is not
like a verbal encounter or slapping or minor physical abuse. This is
serious
violence which leaves marks on the body and often needs medical
treatment.
America's women are among the most oppressed in the world. The family
system
is becoming weaker and weaker and women often have no one to support
them
against male oppression.
The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the greatest liberator of women the world
has
ever known, was teaching a physically oriented male in that superb
metaphor
about the rib. (see Hadith above.) Physical force, he was teaching,
cannot
change anyone. It can only break or damage. Allah has made people in
distinct and often unique ways. We must accept them for what they are
in
their temperaments and complexities rather than trying to make them
into our
ego tripping image.
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Muslims are doing a good job of helping victims of domestic violence in
Atlanta. Contact : Haleem1@aol.com
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Can you imagine that the French ambassador to Britain, Daniel Bernard,
described Israel as that "sh--ty little country"? How refreshingly
true! The
report comes in William Buckley's archive for January 14, 2002 titled
"The
dinner party in London." The ambassador said that Israel is a "sh--ty
little
country" no larger than two French departments. He wondered "why should
the
world be in danger of World War III because of those people."
The remarks were reported by journalist Barbara Amiel whose husband
Conrad
(Lord) Black was the host of the party where the ambassador made these
remarks.
The Jews of course were outraged ("anti-semitism") and former mayor
Koch of
New York has even demanded (in NEWSDAY) that French goods be boycotted
till
the French ambassador is removed from his position.
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ATTEMPTS TO TRIVIALIZE ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS AND GROUPS:
It's commonplace "wisdom" among non-Muslim analysts and secularized
Muslims
that the MUJHIDEEN in the struggle against the Soviet Union were
"created" by
the CIA.
HAMAS, we are told by the same "analysts", was "created" by Israel to
outflank the PLO.
Then we have the story that the TALIBAN were "created" by the Pakistani
intelligence service, ISI.
And finally we are told that LASHKARE TAYBA and JAISH MUHAMMAD were
"created"
by the Pakistani army (and/or ISI) to outflank Jamaate Islami.
The immediate effect of this terminology is to trivialize the Islamic
movements which have actually faced and fought and suffered at the
hands of
the enemies of Islam.
Most people forget that without the efforts on the ground, no amount of
money
or weapons pumped in by "agencies" can make a movement real enough for
people
to sacrifice their lives for it.
Few people remember that the Jihad against the Soviets went on for six
months
without any help coming in from outside. Only gradually the Americans
realized that the resistance was at mass level and would continue
regardless
of cost. Then the Americans decided to send in JUST ENOUGH HELP to
bleed the
Soviets. The CIA never believed that the Afghans could actually win,
and the
stingers were brought in only in the final stage when the Soviets had
already
decided that they could take it no longer and were planning to withdraw
unilaterally. The mujahideen were definitely not a creation of the CIA
as the
Iranians and Americans like to assume.
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HAMAS has shown such tremendous motivation at ground level that it is
absurd
to attempt to link it to any Israeli plan. Of course, when new forces
emerge,
the existing forces try to use or manipulate them. That does not mean
that
HAMAS was "created" by anyone. It is simply a manifestation of the
Islamic
will which today is worldwide.
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LASHKARE TAYBA and JAISH MUHAMMAD are jihadist groups in Pakistan which
have
achieved support across the country. Jihad is not a concept which any
secret
non-Islamic agency can teach. The jihad orientation of these groups is
much
higher than that of the fat and lazy Pakistani officers' corp. Just as
segments of Pakistani society, cut across class lines, support these
groups,
similarly some in the army at some point or the other supported them or
at
least looked away and did not try to stop them before Musharref
decided to
ensure that America will save him from the crunch.
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The biggest smear campaign has been going on against the TALIBAN and
this has
been effective owing to the total non-existence of Taliban's own
information
and publicity at the international level. We are told repeatedly and ad
nauseum that the Taliban were "created" by the Pakistani intelligence
service
ISI. Few people have tried to find out what are the facts about this
claim.
In an enlightening article by Ikram Sehgal, published in a small
Urdu
language magazine in Karachi, Pakistan titled Wujood there is valuable
information which undermines the ISI "creation" theory.
Ikram Sehgal gives specific names of ISI chiefs who were
"pro-Islam" but
these had all been removed from the ISI by 1995. The TALIBAN came into
power
in 1996. During the victories and successful years of the Taliban,
1996-2000,
the ISI tried to take credit for the Taliban's work and the denials of
the
Taliban were ignored.Sehgal writes:
"(Gen.) Hamid Gul was retired before his time by army chief Asif
Nawaz.
Then Asif Nawaz died and Waheed Kakar was appointed army chief. He sent
home
both Lt. General Asad Durrani and Lt. Gen. Javed Nasir who were accused
of
having violated chain of command regulations. Gen Kakar appointed Lt.
Gen.
Javed Ashraf Qazi (the current minister of communications) to take
charge of
ISI. He was given the responsibility to purge the ISI of pro-Islam
elements
and to rein in the Kashmiri mujahideen."...."All the veterans of the
Afghan
war were sent back to the army (from the ISI) and many were retired. BY
1995,
THE ISI HAD BEEN COMPLETELY PURGED. .... The new appointees had never
worked
on Afghanistan and had no knowledge or experience of Afghanistan war."
The writer goes on to debunk the theory that ISI has special
powers and
that it has made an autnomous "empire" of its own within the Pakistani
establishment.
Sehgal's article is important because it pokes a hole into the
theories
about the ISI's power and "creation" of the Taliban and jihadist
groups. New
Trend's understanding is that these theories about the ISI have been
circulated on a big scale by India-oriented journalists, some of them
Pakistanis, who are bitterly anti-Islam and want to discredit the
achievements of the Islamic movement.
{Within the United States too the theory of "blow back" was
manufactured
by the groups alienated from Islam to describe the struggle led by
Shaikh
Omar Abdel Rahman. Many innocent Muslims actually believed dictator
Hosni
Mubarak's propaganda that the CIA was in some way responsible for the
movement led by Shaikh Omar! Egypt's dictator
Mubarak himself is the
biggest
tool of the CIA.}
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