New Trend Magazine (www.newtrendmag.org)
[New Trend has interviewed three Islamic leaders to help our readers
understand the situation within Pakistan and Kashmir. The three are:
Syed
Munawar Hasan, Secretary General of Jamaate Islami Pakistan, Syed
Salahuddin,
leader of Hizbul Mujahideen and Head of Kashmir's Jihad Council and
Hafiz
Abdur Rauf, Lahore region leader of Markaz Dawa, previously known as
Lashkare
Taiba. We hope to translate and present this information in a day or
two.]
[The LATEST NEWS: May 30, 2002. A handwritten statement from Gulbuddin
Hikmatyar is being distributed in southern Afghanistan, calling on
the
people to prepare for Jihad against U.S. and British troops. Hikmatyar
was a
leader of the Jihad against the Soviet Union. U.S. media report that
the U.S.
has fired a missile at a home where Hikmatyar was reported to be
staying but
missed. Like the Israelis, the U.S. seems involved in attempting
assassination of Islamic jihad leaders:
Observers say this could backfire and could lead to an attempt on
Karzai's life.
After five months of no news, the family of Abdus Salam Zaeef has
received a
letter from him, delivered by the Red Cross. Zaeef was the Afghan
ambassador
to Pakistan kidnapped by the Musharref government and handed over to
the
Americans. It appears that he is being held at the American base
outside
Kandahar. The handing over of an Islamic ambassador to the forces of
the
unbelievers has never happened in Islamic history. This dastardly act
was a
"first" among many other acts of treachery committed by the Musharref
regime.]
[After six days of cross-border exchanges of fire in Kashmir, India
seems to
be weighing its opportunity to attack and grab a strategic wedge on the
border. India seems to sense that Musharref has successfully divided
the
Pakistani people. Bush is sending Rumsfeld to meet Musharref whose
Arafat-style role is now clear. BUSH HAS COME OUT CLEARLY URGING
MUSHARREF TO
STOP CROSS-BORDER "terrorism" in Indian-occupied Kashmir. As we
predicted,
step-by-step, the U.S. and India will try to stop ANY help going from
Pakistan to the beleagured people of Kashmir.]
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PAT BUCHANAN CHALLENGES ACCEPTED IDEAS ABOUT WHY THE "TERRORISTS"
ATTACKED
AMERICA (excerpted)
[A Christian speaks the truths fudged by Muslims like Hamza Yusuf and
Dr.
Hamid Algar.]
[We disagree with most of Pat Buchanan's ideas, especially his
racially
tinged diatribes against immigration. However, Buchanan has the moral
courage
to challenge the accepted "wisdom" on the 9/11 attacks. Read it
carefully:]
"Consider: While no Western nation has endured an act of terror
on the
scale of 9-11, all have known terror. Brits were ambushed by the Irish
in the
war of independence from 1919 to 1921. British civilians were blown up
by
Zionists in the King David Hotel in 1946. Settlers were murdered by Mau
Mau
in Kenya. French were massacred in movie theaters and cafes by the
Algerian
FLN until 1962. U.S. Marines were blown up in Beirut in 1983. From
Netanya to
Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, Israelis today die in terror attacks and suicide
bombings.
In all these atrocities, terror was a weapon of the weak and
stateless
against Western powers they could not defeat with arms. In each case,
terror
was used to expel an imperial power or drive out foreign troops. In
each case
but one, terror ended when the Western power went home.
The dynamiting of the King David Hotel convinced the British to
accelerate their departure from Palestine. Zionist terror ended. Mau
Mau
terror ended when the Brits left Kenya. When De Gaulle cut Algeria
loose, FLN
terror ended. When Reagan withdrew his Marines from Beirut,
anti-American
terror ended in Lebanon.
Lesson? The price of empire is terror. The price of occupation is
terror. The price of interventionism is terror. As Barry Goldwater used
to
say, it is as simple as that. When Israel departed Lebanon, Hezbollah's
attacks fell off almost to nothing. But as long as Israelis occupy the
West
Bank, which Prime Minister Barak conceded belongs at least 95 percent
to the
Palestinians, Israel will be hit by terror attacks.
Either Israel gets out, or it pays the price of staying in:
terrorism.
But this column is not about Israel -- it is about us. It is
about why
we are being told by our leaders, in tones of resignation and fatalism,
that
it is not a question of whether, but of when, the next act of
cataclysmic
terror occurs here, and why we must accept the possibility that a
nuclear
weapon will be exploded here.
But when Americans ask, "Why do they hate us?" and "Why do these
Islamic radicals on the other side of the earth want to come over here
and
commit hara-kiri killing us?" we get responses that ought not to
satisfy a
second-grader. They hate us, we are told, because we are democratic and
free
and good, and we have low tax rates.
Well that is no longer enough. Before, not after, the next terror
attack on this country, America's leaders should start telling the
truth:
Evil though they may be, Islamic killers are over here because we are
over
there. They are not trying to kill us because they dislike our domestic
politics, but because they detest our foreign policy.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. They did not
fly
into those twin towers to protest universal suffrage or to advance
self-determination for the Palestinian people. As Osama bin Laden said,
they
want us to stop propping up the Saudi regime they hate, and to get off
the
sacred Saudi soil on which sit the holiest shrines of Islam. They want
our
troops out of Saudi Arabia - and if we don't get out, they are coming
over
here to kill us any way they can."
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