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INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC SYMPOSIUM:
June 21, 2003
Greensboro, North Carolina
Host: Imam Badi Ali
Ameer: Kaukab Siddique
Secretary General: Sis. Motisola M. Abdallah
Distinguished Professor Abdul Alim Shabazz will
expound on
RACISM in AMERICA
and offer solutions to the problem.
A representative of
Imam Jamil al-Amin
is
expected.
Also, a representative who has just returned from
Iraq.
Representatives from New York and San Francisco
will bring information to
carry out an effective
BOYCOTT
of businesses
which support the murderous entity
known as
Israel.
To register: motisola_3@hotmail.com
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Thought of the Day:
Imam Jamil al-Amin is in solitary confinement in
a prison after being moved
to a bigoted little town. He has not given up or
compromised with his
oppressors. Why should we be fearful and afraid
of speaking the truth when the United
States is supposed to be based on freedom of
expression?
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Baltimore, Maryland: WBAL's RON SMITH SHOW
Sultaana Freeman: The Muslimah in Florida who
veils her face: up against
right wing propaganda
On June 6, 2003, Br. Siddique called the
Ron Smith show near 4PM to
protest Mr. Smith's attacks on Sis. Sultaana
Freeman, the woman in Florida who
refuses to remove her face veil for her driver's
license.
Ron Smith started shouting in the
interchange. Br. Siddique shouted
right back, at which Smith cut him off. Then
Smith spent the next half hour
trying to shoot down the points Br. Siddique
made. [Ron Smith is better than Rush
Limbaugh. Smith at least lets critics speak,
though very briefly, and indulges
in proving his point after the caller has been
removed. Limbaugh simply
doesn't let anyone on who would defend Islam or
criticize Israel.]
The interchange between Siddique and Ron Smith
was as follows in paraphrase:
Sid: It is Sultaana's religious right to wear the
face veil.
Sm: Driving is a privilege and Florida has
decided that she can't if her face
is covered.
Sid: She already has a driver's license and
identity can be checked without
removing the veil.
Sm: She should go back where she came from.
Sid: She is American. Like other Muslims in
America she is being persecuted.
[At this Smith blustered something in a loud
voice about Sultaana being a
person with a criminal record and removed
Siddique from the air. When Smith came
back on, he started character assassination of
Sultaana, referring to a web
site which claims she was involved in a foster
care case. Readers should be
aware that some Muslims still physically
discipline their children. This can land
them in criminal cases. That could have happened
to Sultaana.]
[Surely Smith knew that a case from the time when
Sultaana had recently
become Muslim is not relevant to her right to
wear a face veil. Looks like Smith's
bigotry came out. He only listens to Muslim
callers who agree with him. If
they disagree, he throws a tantrum.]
[One funny part of Smith's bigotry was his claim
that Sultaana can be seen
without her veil on the web site he quoted on air
and that she is not pretty!
That's a mark against her too. In other words,
Smith was lashing out at this
Muslim woman.]
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WAR NEWS: June 2-7
CHECHNYA:
A Muslim woman carried out a martyrdom
attack on Russian air force
personnel traveling in a bus in southern Russia.
The Russians have admitted 16
killed and 39 wounded
[Women
in the Islamic
movement are equals of men, often
doing better than the men. The Russians are
finding it difficult to claim
that Muslim women are excluded from Islamic
activities and are confined to the
kitchen, the usual western propaganda statement.]
The Chechen mujahideen launched a number of
conventional attacks too,
including one in which they engaged Russian
troops in a gun battle killing
seven.
KASHMIR:
Syed Salahuddin, leader of Hizbul
Mujahideen recently declared
terrorist by the
U.S.
has told
Pakistani
media
that the Jihad will continue and
Indian-U.S.
moves will not be able to stop it.
In occupied Kashmir, Lashkare Taiba launched
new raids on Indian forces,
including one dare devil attack in which ONE
MUJAHID engaged an entire Indian
unit and escaped after inflicting six casualties.
IRAQ:
EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, there were attacks on U.S.
troops, in Fallujah, Balad,
Baghdad and Tikrit. In each case the
mujahideen
melted away after inflicting
casualties on U.S. troops. In the latest attack
in Tikrit, the U.S. has
admitted one killed 4 wounded. [Attacks have
escalated after the emergence of
Mujahid Saddam's hand written letters invoking
the Holy Qur'an
in defiance of America.]
AFGHANISTAN:
Wire services, AFP,
AP
and
Reuters
have reported
attacks by Taliban ALMOST
EVERY DAY. The Karzai clique is on the retreat.
However, the forces of Kandahar governor, Gul
Agha, claim to have scored a
blow against the Taliban. In fighting which
started north of Spin Boldak, the
Taliban fired back at Agha's troops killing 7,
but then Agha sent in
reinforcements and killed numbers of the Taliban.
Agha dumped the bodies of 20 Taliban
across the border in Pakistan with the claim that
they were Pakistanis. However,
no one from Pakistan has claimed the bodies and
gradually the relatives of
the dead have started coming in from Afghanistan
to identify them. It appears to
have been a move to justify armed incursions into
Pakistan.
On June 7, the war came back to KABUL with
an attack on European
military forces stationed there. A European
military transport column was attacked
leading to 4 German troops and 2 Afghan
mercenaries killed. Another 34 were
wounded.
PALESTINE:
HAMAS has rejected the Sharon-Abbas plan. Israel
has closed the West Bank
again and even before the Hamas announcement had
sent in troops into
Jenin.
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GENERAL MUSHARRAF LOOKING FOR WAYS OF CLOSING
DOWN THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF
FRONTIER PROVINCE:
General Musharraf seems bent on stopping the
implementation of Islamic Law in
Frontier Province although it has been approved
by the Provincial Assembly.
He has made three moves:
1. He claims that by forcibly removing sign
boards depicting semi-nude women
and cigarettes, Islamic elements have shown that
law and order is breaking
down in the province.
2. Musharref got district administrators
(installed before the Islamic
victory) to come to him and tender their
resignatons saying that the Islamic
government is not doing things democratically.
3. Musharraf wants the supreme court (a court he
installed/ratified) to
disqualify elected representatives of Frontier
because he claims they don't have
degrees in western education.
[The question facing the Pakistani people is: how
much more damage will
Musharraf do to Pakistan's Islamic integrity
before the people kick him out.]
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Letter
[The writer insults Mujahid Saddam and advises
that Saddam should have merged
with Iran-Ed]
The Saddam letter is typical Arab crap. Blame
everybody but yourself.
If he was running a police state then he should
have tried to bribe his own
people to find out who is clean and who is not
ALA Stalin and his trials of
37
He says all his neighbors are bad. He calls on
Arabism but doesnt back away
from his invasion of Iran which was supported by
Uncle Sam. The war on Iran
killed millions of innocent muslims but he
doesn't take any responsiblity.
His mismanagement of Iraq got to such a point
that invaders could come and
the people couldn't care less.
Instead of continuing with these false nation
states he should have merged
or surrendered to Iran or merged with Turkey but
these Arab leaders will
never give up their throne until they are thrown
out.
It is better to have one large state with bad
leadership than to have many
states.
Rafe [Los Angeles]
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PRACTICAL WORK TO HELP VICTIMS OF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
400 Women Helped by Baitul Salaam in Atlanta
As Salaamu Alaikum,
The Baitul Salaam Network, Inc. invites you to
visit our website at
www.baitulsalaamnetwork.freehomepage.com
to get more details about us. We are a
national domestic violence
awareness organization that conducts educational
workshops, lectures and has a
speakers bureau. Our organization runs one of
the few 24/7 shelters for women
and children who have left abusive homes in the
Islamic community. A home
that is based on universal principles of peace
and harmony. Salat (daily
observance of worship) is established and a work
smart and hard ethic is the core of
our program. We house Muslim and non-Muslim
women and children (80% Muslim
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and a hand up to start their lives
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We need more financial support today. Our budget
is $125,000 per year to run
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Now we need more of you to open your hearts and
minds to giving to a cause
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tells us not to).
We ask that-
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This is small and most can do
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individuals give a minimum of $10 per month.
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Imams support by encouraging your communities to
put us on their
Eid Al Fitr
tax list every year. The sisters and children we
serve are truly in need.
Many due to political reasons, misunderstanding
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being faithful servants-PEACE!
Volunteerism can be money for us. We need a team
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A professional painter is needed to supervise the
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Please read this post carefully. Please send it
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If you have comments please contact us. We
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May Allah continue to bless all of you.
ma salaam
The Families of the Baitul Salaam Network, Inc.
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