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Pro-Government Muslims Rally In New York: Will
Use Financial Clout to Control
Communities
Imam Warith Deem Muhammad Handed "Honorary
Degree"
Muslim Version of
CNN
Coming up
One of our readers has written from New York
that New Trend should not
ignore the plans of pro-Government Muslims who
intend to continue their
activities based on big money to control and
"patriotize" America's Muslims.
She writes, self-proclaimed Muslim "leaders"
gathered at Madison Square
Gardens in New York on April 13 to rally the rich
and the powerful among
America's Muslims so as not to lose control of
America's oppressed Muslim
communities. It was supposed to be a gathering
about a so-called Internet
University but turned out to be a self-publicity
and mutual praise gathering.
The flavor of the gathering can be sensed
from its most important
gesture. The Muslim "leaders" gathered there
handed an "honorary degree" to
Imam Warith Deen Muhammad to honor him above all
who were gathered there.
This top honor for the most pro-government Muslim
"leader" in America shows
the direction these people intend to continue.
Among those who were key in
this gathering was Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a veteran
of
ISNA's
central committee
for many years who played a nefarious role in the
trial of
Shaikh Omar ‘Abdel Rahman.
Others were Dr. Sulayman Nyang and
Abdullah Idris Ali of ISNA. Dr. Muzammil Siddiqui,
notorious ISNA man, was
brought all the way from Los
Angeles (where he is popular in the most
Republican of LA's counties) to
bless the occasion.
America's Muslims will have to decide if
they are willing to let these
people speak in their name. Here are the
well-known characteristics of these
"leaders:" [We must remind our readers that there
are many good and innocent,
often naive, Muslims in the groups led by these
people.]
1. They regularly get invited to the White House for
Ramadan
and the two
Eids
and have top security clearance from the
FBI. [Imam Siraj Wahhaj was invited to bless Congress with
Qur'anic
verses.]
2. They have made it a policy NOT to condemn
any aggression by the U.S. be it against
Afghanistan
or
Iraq.
When the good
people in their
constituencies become restless, they issue weak
statement used for internal
consumption.
3. They recognize
Israel.
Not one of them has
the courage to tell the
government that Islam does not permit them to
recognize Israel.
4. While the Muslim ummah in America is
reeling and bleeding from the
blows aimed at innocent American Muslims, these
"leaders" continue their
banqueting style of high-priced "Islam",
frolicking in expensive hotels which
are an insult to the Sunnah of the Prophet
(pbuh).
5. Some of these "leaders" live on funds
provided by the Muslims to make
them "full time" leaders. Most people, sometimes
not even their followers,
know how much they make and from where does their
money come. Their salaries,
incomes, properties are unknown. THEIR FOLLOWERS
are NOT encouraged to know
anything about their incomes.
6. DICTATORSHIP and despotism is the hallmark
of these "leaders." Dissent
and criticism of leaders is unknown among them
and can be punishable.
7. Their PUBLICATIONS DO NOT PUBLISH any
issue which would question their
leadership. Thus CENSORSHIP is standard and
routine in ISNA,
ICNA,
WD
publications. Their magazines are basically
public relationing brochures. [If
any supporter of these groups has seen ANY
criticism of their leaders in
their publications, give us date of publication.
That would be a collector's
item.]
8. Women have a secondary and marginal role
in these groups, though since
the outburst of women's rights information coming
out of New Trend over the
years, they have started giving a token role to
women.
9. These groups seem to be working with the
FBI and the
CIA.
At last year's ISNA Convention, where many of these
leaders were present, the FBI had
a recruiting booth.
10. These groups have maintained COMPLETE
SILENCE over the suffering of
top Islamic leaders in U.S. prisons, evidently so
as not to disturb American
authorities. They have ignored all the top
leaders of Islam in America as
well as Islamic activists who are being
victimized such as:
1. Dr. Omar ‘Abdel Rahman
2. Imam Jamil al-Amin
3. Ahmed ‘Abdel Sattar
4. The Lackawanna Six
5. The Portland Four.
6. Victor Alvarez
7. Jose Padilla (Abdullah Mujahid)
8. Ujamaa
They have been lukewarm even about people
who were of them such as
Prof. Sami Al-Arian, the directors of Benevolence
and Global, etc.
[A top W.D. supporter in Atlanta said, on
hearing
Imam Jamil's
statement
that there was a government conspiracy against
him and that he was being
oppressed: "I am not oppressed and I see no
conspiracy."]
11. Many of these leaders, the likes of
Muzammil Siddiqui, etc.,
supported the BLOC VOTE for
Bush
and helped to
impose this tyranny on
Muslims. Instead of resigning and accepting the
fact that they are mentally
mediocre people, they continue the line that they
are "leaders."
[New Trend urges ISNA, ICNA and
WD's Muslim Journal
to publish this
report in their papers and then answer it point
by point.]
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MUSLIM "CNN" COMING UP: $280 Million Project:
[Bridges TV]
The rich and the powerful have seen how
U.S.
media
can brainwash
decent Americans. The same is going to be done to
Muslims. There is a need
to make American Muslims believe that in spite of
the worldwide oppression of
Muslims, they should be comfortable and integrate
and assimilate into the
framework provided by the power structure.
Bridges TV is a project coming from
Muzammil S. Hasan, the Vice
President of a bank in New York. The President is
Umar Amanat Bridges. It is
said to be a $280 million project. ISNA,
CAIR
and
IIIT are said to be
involved. The TV will cover all of America
starting the summer of 2004. It
will provide a bland diet of "permissible"
Americanized Islam.
[This is preliminary information. Readers
are urged to send us more.]
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