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AFTER YOUSUF YEE, it is AHMAD HALABI!
Looks like the
U.S.
is studying the lives of Muslims who visited
Syria
or studied there. Both Yee and Halabi are being abused on the
media
with references to Syria. Senator Schumer (D) from N.Y. seems to be behind
these arrests of loyal American Muslims serving in the military. Schumer
has been advocating a clean sweep of Muslims serving in the prison system.
He was vociferous after the
Wall Street Journal
article on Imam Warithuddin Umar.
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
What should be our mission in life?
"....Free the slave ....."
[The Qur'an sura 90]
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Edward Said Passes Away: Scholarly Son of
Palestine
Saw Through "Peace" Deals
Could not Cope with Islam's Resurgence but Rebutted Attacks on Islam
Therefore!
Record on top of the first page:
I do not hate man
Nor do I encroach
But if I become hungry
The usurper's flesh will be my food
Beware - beware - of my hunger
and my anger
[Mahmoud Darwish, quoted by Edward Said in THE QUESTION of PALESTINE,
p.156.]
Scholar, speaker, thinker, struggler Edward Said, great son of Palestine
passed away on September 25, 2003 at the age of 67.
In books like The Question of Palestine, Covering Islam and Orientalism,
he tore asunder the fabric of distortions and fabrications
Israel
and International Jewry had unfurled around the world. His critique was
difficult to deal with because it combined passion with scientific
precision.
Edward Said's greatest contribution was that he was NEVER FOR ONE INSTANCE
fooled by the
Zionist-American
"peace" moves. He could see that these were meant to
legitimize Israel's occupation of Palestine and to create a subservient
Palestinian ghetto run by puppets and controlled by Israel.
Prof. Said was also very good at defending colonial-style attacks on Islam
coming out of the "orientalist" establishment. No one has been able to
answer his attack on the orientalists. HIS ONLY WEAKNESS WAS HIS INABILITY
TO SEE ISLAM as a revolutionary force. He was coming from a background of
strong Palestinian nationalism in which Islam was only one of several
national ingredients. That Islam would be a world-shaping force with its
own program and agenda was beyond his view of things.
New Trend joins the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim peoples in mourning the
loss of Edward Said. The modern world can best honor the man by rejecting,
opposing and defeating Israel, that colonial outpost of the Anglo-American
alliance.
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The $10 Billion-a-Week War
IRAQ:
BUSH
DOES NOT SEE THAT HE IS LIVING IN THE WRONG TIMES
War was not "liberation," U.S. is not Winning, and Islam is Resurgent in
Iraq
by Buut Shikan (Idol Breaker)
Analysts are puzzled by the failure of U.S. power and intelligence in Iraq.
President Bush and his ruling group seems to have been so mesmerized by it
own propaganda that it went into Iraq without any "thinking through" of the
issues. Probably Bush depended more on Israeli "intelligence" than on the
American
CIA
and now finds himself dead-ended.
[It is said that even The CIA OPPOSED THE WAR!]
Everything has gone wrong for Bush.
Look at the news on U.S. TV. On September 26, a U.S. soldier was killed
and two wounded in an Iraqi attack in KIRKUK. On September 25, eight U.S.
soldiers were wounded [one had his leg blown off] in an Iraqi attack in
Mosul. Those are certainly not in the "SUNNI TRIANGLE." That's way north
of the imagined "Sunni triangle." Thus even these tactical details of the
battle indicate that those advising Bush are wrong in just about
everything they have projected. Note the Bush mindset:
1. Saddam is unpopular. [The "statue toppling" photo opportunity was
staged to support this theory.] Iraqis are showing support for Saddam
today, even when their lives are in danger for saying so.
2. Iraqis will not fight. Saddam probably understood that the grossly
under armed Iraqi army could not face the American juggernaut in
conventional warfare. He seems to have planned the disappearance of the
Iraqi forces and their re-emergence as guerrilla forces well in advance.
[He also probably sensed that his conventional commanders would be bought
out and would surrender at the first opportunity.) IRAQIS SURE ARE
FIGHTING. [U.S. troop casualties, acknowledged by the U.S., stand at 306
killed and 1644 wounded.]
3. Shias will join the U.S. They did not. The only chance among Shias the
U.S. had was the
U.S.-Iran
alliance for which Baqir al-Hakim was brought up. He was blown away in a
ghastly bomb attack which also killed numerous innocent people. An intense
internal struggle is going on among Shias. [Journalist Fisk reports dozens
of dead and wounded every week in Najaf.]
4. LET'S BRING THE UN in. This did not work because a
martyrdom
operation blew up the UN HQ in Baghdad. UN staff are now retreating
following another bomb attack.
5. Let's bring in troops from
Pakistan
and other countries. Musharref, America's agent, is willing to do this but
right now he is unable to speak even in the Parliament in Islamabad where
members constantly chant: "Musharraf Go. No LFO!" [LFO is the arbitrary
amendment he made to the Pakistani Constitution to perpetuate his own
rule.] Bush has POLISH and
SPANISH
troops in Baghdad but these have been paid for by the U.S.
6. MUSLIMS HATE SADDAM and will not support him. This turned out to be
true only to the extent of Iran. BUSH PROBABLY DOES NOT KNOW that in 1996
Saddam stopped his oppression of Islamic forces in Iraq. His only
condition was that they should not try to topple him. Hence there is
STRONG, INDIGENOUS ISLAMIC support for Saddam today. [Islamic fighters
from other countries are able to operate in Iraq only because of
indigenous support.]
7. Two KURDISH anti-Islam groups, the PUK and the KDP were touted by
Israel as representatives of Kurds. It seemed in U.S.
media
that all Kurds were supporting the Americans. NOT SO! There were Kurds
in the Assembly set up by Saddam and after the Amnesty he declared,
numerous Kurds had joined his forces. Bush does blame the ANSAR al-ISLAM
for resisting U.S. power but he seems to be unaware that these are KURDS!
[Most Kurds, even those opposed to Saddam, do not support PUK and KDP.
PUK gets so much publicity because Jews from their area went and settled
in Israel.]
Kennedy is right. The war on Iraq was a fraud. It was, he says, a plot
cooked in Texas. He probably does not have the courage to say even now
that it was a plot cooked in Tel Aviv.
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