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Jamaat al-Muslimeen's Eid Greetings
From: Kaukab Siddique, Ameer
Motisola M. Abdallah, Secretary General
AFGHANISTAN,
IRAQ,
Palestine,
KASHMIR,
CHECHNYA,
SUDAN,
SOMALIA
Our Children died without benefit of TV coverage
on CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN,
MSNBC, FOX or even a report in NY TIMES
Dear Muslims
asalamu alaikum
On Eid ul-Adha, shed a tear for the children of
the ummah. These are not
politicians or components of any "axis of evil."
These are the victims of
evil emanating from the
American
power structure.
1. An estimated 60,000 Afghan civilians were
killed in the heroic air war
waged by the U.S. air force on the helpless
people of Afghanistan. Of these
4076 deaths have been documented. The rest remain
buried in the mud huts of a
nation devastated by 'daisy cutters', cruise
missiles, 5000-pounders and
bush
specials. (Happy
ramadan
and happy two eids from Bush.) The surviving
children of this assault will be traumatized
forever.
2. According to CONSERVATIVE U.N. estimates,
nearly a million children have
died in Iraq owing to sanctions and embargo
imposed by the U.S. and its
surrogates. These do not include the children of
tens of thousands of
civilians killed in the 42 days of bombing by the
U.S. and U.K. The slow
deaths of a million children occurred because of
pinpointed U.S. attacks on
water purification plants, pharmacuticals and
other health related facilities
and the embargo on anything which can have a
"dual use." (For documentation
of U.S. war crimes in Iraq, read
THE FIRE THIS TIME
by Ramsey Clark among other books.)
3. PALESTINE is an ongoing tragedy. THE CHILDREN
OF PALESTINE are being
traumatized every day by the
Zionist
Jews
who have the most sophisticated
military machine in the middle east. The Jews
have slaughtered hundreds of
Palestinian children FOR THROWING STONES AT THE
TANKS of the occupation army.
Entire Palestinian cities have become
concentration camps run by Jewish
Nazis.
4. There are 700,000 Indian troops in Kashmir
holding down the people by
brute force. Murder of civilians and rape of
Muslim women is an ongoing
"methodology" used by the Indian army to
subjugate and crush the people.
Think of what the children of Kashmir are
undergoing. Think of a son or a
daughter whose mother has been raped and whose
father has disappeared into an
Indian army torture camp.
5. CHECHNYA. The Russians are committing
genocide. Grozny is a city destroyed
house by house to put an end to Islamic
resistance. The CHECHENS DO NOT CRY
but they have children. When will TV even mention
this fact? Half a million
Chechen refugees are in outlying "republics."
6. In SUDAN a systematic attempt has been
underway to foster civil war in the
south to drain the resources of Sudan. Poverty
has been imposed on Sudan
owing to SIX years of sanctions which destroyed
the economy. The main source
of medicines in Sudan was wiped out in a U.S. air
strike. Again, children are
the main victims in Sudan.
7. The children of Somalia are being punished
because their fathers drove out
the U.S. military. The basic MONEY TRANSFER
system used by Somali immigrants
overseas has been shut down owing to the "war on
terrorism", thus shutting
off the 50 to a hundred dollars A MONTH which
thousands of Somali families
used to receive from their relatives overseas.
Do we see the children of our UMMAH dying on TV?
No. That would ruin the
entire crusade against "evil."
Do we see the parents of our dead or dying
children on TV? No. That would
help Americans to understand that their
government is committing crimes
against humanity.
EVER SEE A KASHMIRI OR CHECHEN CHILD ON TV? No.
That would help the American
people to see what the allies of the U.S. are
doing to humanity.
Have you ever seen SUDANESE or SOMALI children on
TV within their own Islamic
context? No. That would destroy the entire
missionary enterprise. (In any
case Black Africans don't matter to the American
power structure other than
as recipients of missionary activity.)
Dear readers! The poor Muslim masses, who pray,
go to Islamic schools, have
loved ones! (surprise?)
TV will not show these victims.
Let us not forget them on Eid.
{If you ever see one of our children on TV, let
us know. That will be
journalism history.}
{The WASHINGTON POST has even claimed that Afghan
families have forgiven
Americans for bombing and killing their children
because the bombing and the
'liberation' were more important than the death
of the children!}
Eid Mubarak!
O Allah Help us to Sacrifice our Egos and Comfort
Help us to be with the Oppressed and against the
Oppressors
(Abraham prayed):
"O my Lord! grant me a righteous (son)!" So We
gave him the good news of a
forbearing son. Then, when the son reached the
age of serious work with him,
he said: "O my son! I have seen a dream that I
offer thee in sacrifice: Now
see what is thy view! " (The son) said: "O my
father! Do as you are commanded
(by Allah). You will find me, if Allah so wills,
one of the steadfast." So
when they had both submitted (to Allah), and he
had laid him prostrate on his
forehead (for sacrifice), We called out to him,
"O Abraham! You have already
fulfilled the dream!"....... (The
Qur'an
37:100-105)
Behind the mighty pilgrimage (2 million people
every year) and the Festival
of Eid, is this soul-wrenching story of a father
and son willing to sacrifice
what was dearest to them at the command of Allah.
The sacrifices we carry out
on the days of Eid are symbolic of the inner
meaning of the story of Ibrahim
and Ismail (peace be on them). In the background
is also the story of our
mother Hajira, the
African
woman who would not
give up and was given the
miracle of Zam Zam which can be seen even today.
She was the founder of the
holiest city of Islam,
Makka.
(For details see the Sahih of Bukhari.)
WHAT HAVE WE GIVEN? What have we sacrificed?
Those are the questions we must answer today.
Look at what we have: life, time, energy,
knowledge, some wealth,
sensibility, some understanding. Also, we are
weak, used to comforts,
immersed in ego, separated by nationalities and
races. If we have not given
and have not even dreamed of submitting to
Allah's will like Ibrahim and
Ismail, let's begin today.
Here are some sacrifices which must be made.
1. False pride in self ("i am better than you")
2. Racial pride (my race is better)
3. National pride (my country, right or wrong)
4. Class and genealogy pride. (I am "upper
class", Syed, Shaikh, etc.)
5. Gender pride (male is superior to female)
6. Other (fill in the one which you know better)
Let's replace these with the true sense of
identity Allah gives us: I am a
human being created by Allah. I submit to Allah
alone and am therefore a
Muslim.
Once we have done this sacrifice, it's easy to
"distribute the meat", "feed
the hungry", stand up against wrong and be with
the oppressed.
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