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Response to Imam Muhammad's Muslim Journal Editor: The Issue is Not Personal
The Issue is: Do you Have the Courage to Stand up for the Truth?
As salaamu alaikum Sister Ayesha [Editor of the Muslim Journal]:
Your letter of attack on
Dr. Kaukab Siddique
regarding a poem for Imam W.D. Muhammad was misdirected. One of the skills
of an editor is paying attention to detail. You rushed to attack an
important and courageous scholar like Dr. Siddique over a poem that
clearly named someone else as the author. A Muslim woman who admires
Imam WD Muhammad wrote that poem addressing the serious issues facing
Muslims in America.
In your rush to attack a fearless leader such as Dr. Siddique, you wrote
a typical ad-hominem response that so many Muslims find easy to cop these
days. You founded it safer to attack Siddique's character rather than
answer the contention or issued raised in Sister Karen's poem.
Dr. Siddique is not trying to push anyone into a rage as you state in
your letter. No one has disputed the contributions that Imam WD Muhammad
has made to Islam. However, with Muslim leadership comes the courage to
fight for Islam when it is under attack. Islam is under attack in
America.
More Muslims should follow the guidance from our Lord and find the courage
to address the serious issues facing us. The
Bush
adminstration would not find it so easy to drop more bombs on thousands
of innocent Muslims babies and families if we did.
As Salaamu Alaikum,
Sister Motisola Malikha Abdallah
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Thursday, Feb. 20th: National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab, and
South Asian Immigrants!
The post-September 11th
climate of fear and suspicion has given rise to some ugly after-effects,
one of the worst of which being a virulent new form of racial and ethnic
profiling that targets Muslim, Arab, and South Asian immigrants. Many
communities here in NC have already been affected by the resulting
repression. Last year a
Pakistani
man living in North Carolina named Abdul Farid was deported for the crime
of making a mistake on a loan application. Not long after a Greensboro
man, Mekki Hameed Mekki, originally from the
Sudan,
was arrested because he knows how to fly airplanes. He was found guilty
of minor visa violations and is being held in Winston-Salem. Recently NCs
own Rep. Howard Coble said that he supported the Japanese internment camps
used by the US in WWII, and implied that camps for Arabs, Muslims, and
South Asians today would be a good idea. These events and others have sent
waves of intimidation through North Carolinas immigrant communities, yet
they have also resulted in increased opposition to these and other
repressive policies. People all over the country will be speaking out on
Feb. 20th! Add your voice to the growing numbers in opposition to growing
US police state repression!
Join us for a rally and speakout on Feb. 20th from 12-2pm at the Federal
Bldg in Winston-Salem (Main St. btw. 2nd and 3rd Streets). Stand with our
immigrant brothers and sisters! Friday, Feb. 21st: Oppose
Racist
and
Anti-Muslim INS Registrations!
There's something very wrong here. The United States government is
currently detaining and strip searching masses of people of Middle
Eastern descent who voluntarily showed up on the first registration
deadline to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service in
Los Angeles earlier this week. This response to the community's
willingness to cooperate with authorities was obviously not designed to
encourage further compliance with the post 9/11 law requiring such
registration. We believe it was designed to actually discourage further
cooperation from the community with the government, thus ultimately giving
the government wider latitude in its ongoing trampling of constitutional
and civil rights. Henceforth, when thousands of people don't cooperate in
any given initiative out of well-founded fear and mistrust of the
Bush-Ashcroft regime, detention camps can be set up all over the country.
From the Arab-American News, Dearborn, Michigan, 12/21/2002
The deadline for adult Pakistani and Saudi Arabian males is Feb 21st. Let
your government know that you oppose racial profiling in all its forms!
On Friday, Feb. 21st at 10 am, be at the Charlotte INS office to stand in
solidarity with those who are registering. (Charlotte INS: 210 E.
Woodlawn Rd.-take I-85 to the Billy Graham Expwy-this turns into Woodlawn
after crossing I-77)
For more info call 336.272.215
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Prof. Sami al-Arian Arrested for his Support of
Palestine:
Zionists
In Full Control of USA
Early in the morning of February 20, 2003, Prof. Sami Al-Arian, a tenured
professor at the University of South Florida, was arrested from his home
in Tampa, Florida. No charges were announced against him. [These would
come later in the day.]
For years, the U.S. government, under Zionist influence, has been trying
to do harm to Prof. Al-Arian because he is a supporter of the Palestinian
struggle. He was first "tried" on TV when OREILLY of
Fox News
played his game of "guilt by association."
His university seems to have played along with the Zionists with claims
that all the negative publicity he was getting was harming fund raising
activity (which is probably a round about way of saying that funds from
pro-Zionist sources are being used as black mail).
[Editorial comment: The process of censorship is well underway to silence all Islamic voices of dissent. The government wants Islam only to be represented by ISNA-types. Inshallah, a new generation of Islamic leaders will step forward to thwart the silence being imposed. That can't happen without the defeat of the old sold-out leadership which has fragmented and Tomized (from Tom) the Muslim community.]
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58th Anniversary of the Destruction of Dresden: 100,000 German Civilians
were Killed
Prototype of Bombing of
Iraq
and
Afghanistan:
Killed More than Hiroshima bombing
Why is Hiroshima Discussed and not Dresden?
Dresden was a city of culture, dotted with beautiful old churches, museums,
libraries and gardens. It was an open, undefended city without any
military formations or industries. In a deliberate act of genocide, the
British air force, the RAF, systematically bombed the city on Valentine's
Day, February 14, 1945.
In his powerful book APOCALYPSE 1945:THE DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN, David
Irving provides British air force strike maps to show that the bombing
deliberately aimed at the maximum infliction of death on the civilian
population. No attempt was made to hot economic targets, such as the
railway line. It was naked terrorism aimed at the civilian population.
The bombing was organized by wave after wave of British aircraft that it
created a fire storm leading to the death by suffocation of civilians who
hit in underground cellars.
Thousands of children prepared to celebrate Valentine's Day were killed,
their bodies piled up like a doll factory in disarray.
After the British night bombing, the Americans finished off the city with
daylight raids.
COUNTING THE DEAD: It was difficult to come to correct counts of the
German dead. The Germans meticulously prepared lists of city dwellers but
could not list the huge number of refugees who had come in to escape from
the Soviet armies which were only 70 miles away at that time. Irving
looked into all the collateral damage and computed that there were
probably as many as 100,000 dead, not 30,000 as the British were willing
to concede. Thus the losses at Dresden were higher than those at
Hiroshima.
IRAQ: During the so-called Gulf War, the Americans and the British bombed
Iraq with huge tonnages of explosives. Till now (12 years later) the U.S.
media
have conceded only 3,000 Iraqi civilians killed. Impartial observers,
however, indicate that anywhere between 30,000 and
100,000. [In the Amyriah shelter in Baghdad, in ONE incident, 400 Iraqi
women and children were killed.]
However, the bombing of Iraq was done in such a way that the Iraqi system
of water pumping and sewage disposal was destroyed. After that, sanctions
were imposed so that the systems which required imports of spare parts
could not be repaired, nor could medicines be imported. Over 12 years,
2,000,000 Iraqis died of disease and lack of medicines and spare parts.
AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban are a small guerrilla force which can operate
only with the support of the people. To destroy the Taliban regime, the
U.S. launched terror bombing raids across Afghanistan, from north to south,
from west to east. The Taliban were defenseless, their guns unable to
reach anywhere near B-52s and B1s and F-16s which sowed death and
destruction in the villages of the dirt poor country.
The methodology used was as follows: On receiving a report that an
Al-Qaida member was praying Taraweeh prayers in a mosque during
Ramadan,
the mosque was bombed by the U.S., wiping out the entire congregation.
This methodology could also be seen after the "war" when a wedding party
was bombed on the basis of a rumor that the Taliban were nearby.
Pakistani media put the number of dead in U.S. bombing of Afghanistan at
60,000. Even the
New York Times
and
National Public Radio
admitted that the number of civilian Afghans killed in the U.S. bombing
have to number in the "thousands." An American scholar has put togerther a
list of incidents which document the number of civilian dead at 3076. Most
Afghan losses have not been documented.
COUNTING the VICTIMS: Dresden was only one of many German cities which
were destroyed by the British and the U.S. How many German civilians were
killed? It didn't matter. The more the better. German civilians were
linked to the image of Hitler. It was okay to kill them. Similar is the
situation in Iraq. Civilians can be killed and then Saddam can be blamed
for using them as "human shields."
Of the dead in Afghanistan, Rumsfeld is reported to have said that he
wasn't counting how many died.
Of the million (at that time) children dead in Iraq, Albright said: It was
worth it.
By contrast, Spann, a
CIA
agent killed in Afghanistan, received more publicity than all the dead
civilians of Afghanistan combined.
WHY HIROSHIMA PUBLICITY BUT NOTHING ABOUT DRESDEN?
Over the years, the U.S. media has started mentioning the horror of the
bombing of Hiroshima. Question arises, why is Dresden still taboo? The
answer lies in the Zionist process of the milking of Germany. If Germans
could be seen as victims and hence human beings, that could put a dent in
the
Israeli
fund raising in the name of the Holocaust. [That problem does not arise
with Japan, so Hiroshima can be discussed.]
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IMAM WARITHUDDIN 'UMAR was scapegoated by the
Wall Street Journal.
Not only was his job link terminated, the jobs of all Islamic chaplains
were put in jeopardy owing to attacks by Senator Schumer and Governor
Pataki. We published Imam 'Umar's response. In our next issue we'll
discuss the issue further, with reference to a letter he has addressed to
Muslim chaplains.
[Please do not confuse Imam Warithuddin 'Umar with Imam Warith Deen
Muhammad of the Muslim Journal.]
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