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Muharram 24, 1426/March 5, 2005 #19
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TRUE SPIRITUALITY
New Trend
has received copies of a booklet from
Pakistan
titled Selected Beneficial Supplications From the
Qur'an
and the
Sunnah
compiled by Imam Muhammad Shuaib for free distribution to
U.S. Muslims.
Here is a du'a from the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, which sums up
a key aspect of spiritual development:
'O Allah! Make me patient, make me grateful, make me
insignificant in my own eyes and significant in the eyes
of the people." [p.34]
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IMPORTANT WAR NEWS WHICH MOST PEOPLE MISSED
[from our
media
monitor]
The U.S. has been informed by Karzai, the ruler of Kabul, that he
cannot rule
Afghanistan
without U.S. help and will need PERMANENT military bases in
Afghanistan to be able to survive. This fact came out in a
convoluted way after Arizona Senator John McCain's visit with
Karzai on February 22. After the visit McCain stated that the
U.S. will need to have "permanent military bases" in Afghanistan
to secure its "vital national security interests." Asked by
reporters to explain, he put it diplomatically that a "strategic
partnership" will be needed with Karzai for "many, many years."
In plain language, the "liberation" of Afghanistan has failed.
If the U.S. and NATO
[Germany
is to be the sacrificial lamb here]
withdraw, the Taliban will return. Mullah 'Umar has announced
a military offensive against the occupation forces as soon as
spring comes in. The green banners of
Islam
are rising in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen
News [4 items]
Change through peaceful means.
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 21234
Boycott
of Businesses which Support
Israel
Starbucks Coffee Going Down the Drain!
Thought the already well informed New Trend readers might be
interested in this item since you have launched your own
Boycott Israeli Goods campaign.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission and Innovative Minds,
supported by the UK-based charity Friends of
al-Aqsa,
the Muslim Assoication of Britain, the
Palestinian
Return Centre, and the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
have been in a series of talks with the charity Oxfam regarding
its agreement with the
pro-Zionist
multinational coffee chain Starbucks.
IHRC proudly announced last week that Oxfam will soon announce
that it will not be renewing its one-year contract with Starbucks,
which terminates in September.
In October 2004 it emerged that Starbucks had agreed to donated
100,000 stirling pounds to Oxfam's rural development programme
in the East Harare coffee growing region of Ethiopia.
(For reference see Innovative Minds webpage:
http://inminds.co.uk/boycott-oxfam.html
This is a tremendous victory for human rights campaigners who have
been calling for justice in Palestine.
Starbucks' chairman Howard Schultz is a well known pro-Zionist activist
whose own initiatives include helping student projects in America and
Israel give one-sided presentations on the Israeli view of the
Second Intifada.
Starbucks has also supported the occupations of
Iraq
and Afghanistan as well as promoted other Zionist initiatives.
Now would be a good opportunity to send messages of thanks and
solidarity to Babarbara Stocking, Director of Oxfam, Oxfam House,
274 Banbury Road, Oxford, England. OX2 7DZ.
Victory to the Intifada!
Sis. Yvonne Ridley
London, England
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Sis. Khalidah has accepted the responsibility for organizing
Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Atlanta. Big quantities of Jamaat
literature have been distributed in Atlanta in the last few
years. Now it is time to develop a grassroots Islamic movement
in this important city.
New Trend readers might remember that a few years back,
Sis. Khalidah, though in a very difficult situation, refused
to take off her Hijab and got hundreds of letters of support.
If you live in Atlanta and would like to to help the Jamaat,
or join the Jamaat, contact Sis. Khalidah through New Trend.
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News of
Imam Jamil
and Br. Masaud Khan
Br. Khalil Abdur Rahman, Imam Jamil al-Amin's personal representative,
has given New Trend the astonishing news [March 4] that Imam Jamil
was interviewed by a radio station in Atlanta. We'll have a disc
of the interview next week and will bring its contents to our readers.
Br. Masaud Khan, the Virginia innocent who was sentenced to an
obscene 99 years on absurd charges of involvement with paintball
and
Kashmiri
freedom fighters, is imprisoned in a place hidden away in the
mountains EIGHT hours drive from Maryland. Please write to him
at this address:
Masaud Khan #46810-083
U.S.P., Lee County, P.O. Box 305, Jonesville, VA 24263-0305
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Dr. Siddique
Writing Ramsey Clark's Biography.
Visit in New York to Inquire of
Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman's
Health.
Dr. Kaukab Siddique visited Ramsey Clark, leader of the anti-war
movement in America, in his New York law offices to inquire of
the health of Africa's foremost Islamic teacher and guide
Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman [also known as "the blind Shaikh."]
Ramsey Clark gave the good news that the Shaikh is fighting
back against the oppression he has been subjected to. His
spirit remains unbroken. Even his health has rebounded owing
to his protest fasts against his isolation. The U.S. government
wants to bury alive this vibrant spirit of human freedom and has failed.
During the conversation, Dr. Siddique asked Ramsey Clark for
his consent to let him write his biography. The elderly leader,
a unique human being by any standards, agreed without reservations.
Readers who might have
any information about the life of Ramsey Clark,
published or unpublished, are urged to write to Dr. Siddique at:
ksidd37398@aol.com
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Zionist Power Structure Fishing for Angry Muslim
Women.
After Taslima Nasrin and Irshad Manji, will it be Amina Abdul Wadud?
[Who are the Islamic women whom the
Media
Ignore?]
New Trend Special Report
The fishing expedition began much before
9.11
and it was for both men and women with Muslim names. The media
discovered Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin but the strong
Muslim rebuttal worldwide did not allow others to follow the
example of these two.
After 9.11, the justification for the attack on Afghanistan
included the propaganda gambit that the Taliban oppress women
[though this too started in Clinton's time with Hillary in the lead].
The tremendous anti-American wave in the Muslim world made it
difficult for more Taslima Nasrins to step forward
[even Tehmina Durrani was not complaining about Islam but
about the feudal system though it was presented otherwise in the
West]. In America it has been
different. The pressure on Muslim women in America is great.
However, their faith is great too and except for a couple of
cases in condemnation of the Taliban, Muslim women did not
accept the bait of quick fame and "promotion."
The first break for the Zionist power structure came in the shape
of Irshad Manji who is said to have claimed both
homosexuality and support for Israel.
O'Reilly of
Fox TV,
who supports death and destruction for the Islamic world, claimed
that Manji was an "expert on Islam" somewhat like Emerson is an
"expert on terrorism" for
MSNBC.
Lo and behold, the Jewish power structure decided to "honor" Manji.
Last year the Simon Wiesenthal Center, built by a man who
has made a business of creating financial conduits for Israel under
the smoke screen of the Holocaust tragedy, formally gave an award to Manji.
The latest case is that of Dr. Amina Abdul Wadud.
America's Muslims hailed her as a fighter for women's
rights.
Her work is summed up in one book which though refreshing in
its initiative is defective in its scholarship. She was picked
up soon as an "expert" on the rights of Muslim women. She quickly
gave up her earlier nervousness about joining an opportunist,
pro-government group like
ISNA
and moved on quickly to speaking engagements across the continent.
Her success seems to have gone to her head. At a recent gathering in
Canada
[February 11, report distributed by Tarek Fatah] she claimed that
she has the right to reject those aspects of the Qur'an
which she considers uncivilized,
such as the cutting off of the hand for stealing.
[Interpretation and application of deterrent Islamic punishments
have always been seen by Muslims as contextual and not absolute.
They are applicable only within an Islamic State. However
Dr. Abdul Wadud was not talking of interpretation but of her
absolute right to reject the Qur'an and still be considered Muslim.]
In the same speech, she claimed that she supports homosexual rights
and "gay marriages," which of course is Haram in Islam and no Muslim
has the right to turn Haram into "okay."
When the Muslim crowd listening to her starting booing, she claimed
that she was being booed because her audience saw her as a "nigger"
[her term]. She reportedly claimed that her audience's behavior
was such because they were
"Arabs"
and had previously supported her because they thought she was
"South Asian." She had uncovered her head to be able to make
this bizarre claim.
Thus she played right into the Zionist divide-and-rule game of pitting Arab against
African
[ref: the propaganda about
Sudan].
Dr. Amina Abdul Wadud's claim is quite preposterous in view of
the fact that everyone knows she is African-American. She has
always been honored by Muslim audiences for her authentic
efforts to follow the Islamic way. No real Muslim would dishonor
a woman because she is African-American. The opposition to her
at the Feb. 11 meeting was for her
opposition to the Qur'an and support for homosexuality.
It had nothing to do with her race. She deliberately played
up this divisive factor.
The political aspect of her speech which led to the Islamic
protest is evident from this quote from Tarek Fatah's report:
"When Amina Wadud referred to the 9/11 tragedy and the fact
that some Muslims deemed it Islamic to crash planes into
buildings and kill innocent people, a section of the crowd
interrupted her. "What about Israel killing Palestinians,"
they yelled. One middle-aged heckler said, "She is a
CIA
agent."
New Trend was apprehensive about the report of her speech because
we have always respected her and because the report was distributed
by Tarek Fatah, a person who is interested in opposing Islam.
So we emailed the entire report to her and asked her if anything
in it was misreported. She had no correction to make.
ISLAMIC WOMEN in AMERICA WHOM THE ZIONISTS Never Mention with respect:
In the last 25 years, a whole galaxy of outstanding Islamic
women have emerged in America.
Here are some of them who reached leadership positions and made
[or are making] important contributions to their communities and
to Islam in America in its entirety by helping both men and women.
They were not recognized by the major
media
because of three reasons:
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They adhere firmly to the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
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They oppose U.S. government policies.
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They want Muslim men and women, as well as Muslim racial groups,
to unite instead of being divided.
Here is the honor roll of Muslim leader women who totally
outclass Irshad Manji, Amina Abdul Wadud and Taslima Nasrin
but have been treated by the media as if they don't exist.
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Karima Al-Amin.
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Zakiyyah Muhammad.
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Jaleelah Siddiqui.
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Hawwa Kurter.
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Nisa'a Ameen
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Fatimah Abdullah.
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Maryam Tetreault.
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Ashira Na'im
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Nadrat Siddique
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Hadayai Majeed.
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Karen English.
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Holly al-Dahir.
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Bilquis Muhammad
and many others.
The Zionist power structure is quite subtle in its approach to
Muslim women. It builds on genuine wrongs done to Muslim women by
male-oriented interpretations of Islam and tries to make the
claim that to be "progressive" women should take some aspects
of Islam and patch them into western ideologies. There is intense
pressure against the "hijab." There is the idea that the Muslim
woman's biggest enemy is the Muslim man [not the Zionist
oppressors who are trying to enslave all Muslims].
It is true that the Muslim male is often mentally colonized.
Gradually the Qur'an and the Hadith are liberating him.
Before that happens, the western forces want to jump in and
start an internal conflict within the Muslims. Thus the attempt
is to divert the Muslims from the external assault and get them
involved in their internal contradictions.
Genuine change can come only from within the Islamic context
rooted in the origins of Islamic textual purity. Inshallah,
Muslim women will reject the attempt to impose a western
agenda on Muslims.
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Letter
Response To W.D.'s imam Ghayth Kashif's Attack on New Trend:
W.D.'s People are adept at censoring criticism: Islamic
leaders are never like W.D.
As-salaam alaikom.
[Ref: New Trend #17.]
I laughed so hard after reading the comments of this person,
Ghayth Kashif. Yeah, I can definitely see why YOU [New Trend's Editor]
might have an inferiority complex, in light of his brilliant scholarship!
To charges of shirk (committed by WD), Kashif shrieks "Mommy, he
emailed me!" To a Shaheed-e-Islam
[Malcolm X],
he says Hon. Elijah is better than you.
Especially sad is Kashif's endorsement of the attempts at
censorship of the NT editor. Censorship and blacklisting dissident
viewpoints does not help improve the quality of the Islamic
leadership; rather it ensures that we get stuck with leaders
like, um, GNK--in other words who have little to say about any issue.
Maybe he'd better start reading--he seems to have forgotten a
few basics about leadership in Islam, and what makes it
different from other faiths:
that the leader is not (astagfirullah) God, is not almost
like God, and is not an intermediary to God; in fact, if he/she
is a true Islamic leader, he/she would, like the Rasool (SAW)
himself and Hazrat Umar (RA) WELCOME criticism. Wow, now I can
understand why that lonely little mosque on
Clara Barton Parkway was mostly empty when I went there!
Nadrat Siddique
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[Editor note: We have no personal problem with "imam" W.D. Muhammad,
or Ghayth Kashif or Plemon al-Amin. The problem is that this group
treats W.D. by implication and by references to Elijah Muhammad as
if he is the son of a Prophet.
W.D. himself claims that there can
definitely be messengers after Muhammad, pbuh. And he and all of
them support the U.S. government which is making war on Islam,
all of which is kufr. Not a word about Fallujah out of this
group. They get excited only when W.D. is criticized.]
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