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Rabi' al-Awwal 9, 1426/April 18, 2005 #29
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PERSONAL:
The editor of New Trend wishes to thank all those who expressed
their condolences on the passing away of his illustrious mother,
Mahmudah Begum Qureshi. Many of these expressions were not formal.
Thy expressed love, affection and tears for the editor in his moment
of loss. May Allah reward them all.
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FUNERAL PRAYERS IN ABSENTIA:
On April 15, ghaibana salatul janaza [funeral prayers in absentia]
were held for Mahmudah Begum Qureshi,
Br. Kaukab's
mother, at Masjid
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
in Baltimore.
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In LAHORE, PAKISTAN, ghaibana salatul janaza was held April 8
for Mahmudah Qureshi at a village near where her parents lived.
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WAR NEWS: From our
Media
Monitor
Daily news of fighting are coming out of Indian-occupied Kashmir.
India
is committing atrocities against the Kashmiri people in a
blatant attempt to terrorize them into submission. On April 11,
Indian forces opened fire on the home of Ghulam Qadir Shaikh,
imam of a mosque in the Kishtwara area of district Doda, killing
him in his room.
On April 14, 15 and 16 the Indian army
moved to crush Kashmiri resistance
and in the process killed two local commanders of
Hizbul Mujahideen and a local commander of Lashkare Taiba.
News of new fighting are coming in.
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On April 11, Taliban tried to kill a tribal general allied to the
U.S.
on the Gardez-Kabul highway. U.S. helicopter gunships and jet fighters
attacked the Taliban, killing at least 5 of them.
In another area of Khost province, Taliban mujahideen ambushed a unit
of the police force organized by the U.S. The police chief's brother
and 9 troops were killed. The Taliban destroyed 4 vehicles and took
away two others.
On April 17, in Kandahar, a Taliban cadre blew up FIVE oil tankers
which had brought fuel for U.S. forces from
Pakistan.
Three Pakistani drivers were wounded. The U.S. military conceded
the loss but on April 18 the U.S. propaganda unit claimed it was
an "accident."
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IRAQ
FABRICATED STORY of SHIAS TAKEN HOSTAGE COLLAPSES
On April 18, the U.S.
media
finally admitted that the story of Shias taken hostage by Sunnis
was false. It began on April 16, when the puppet "regime" installed
in Baghdad announced that "150 Shias had been taken hostage" in the
village of Medaen by "Sunni [Al-Qaeda] extremists."
All through April 17, the
Zionist
media kept pumping the story that Shias had been taken hostage
and a massacre was "imminent." However the number of hostages
was magically reduced to 100.
CIA
agent Allawi himself went on the air and declared the grave
danger of "sectarian war" owing to hostage taking.
The air out of this balloon went out when Islamic leader of the
Jihad,
Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi posted an Internet message, picked up by
al-Jazeerah, that the whole story was "fabricated" and was an
excuse for raids by the U.S. military.
Strangely enough, Zarqawi's message got on the news meter which
Fox News uses. Before it was removed, it flashed three times.
[Fox News meter is quite good because it reels out many items
from wire services which are usually censored by the U.S.
media.]
Sure enough, U.S. forces went into Medaen and soon had to concede
that they could find no hostages. Thus here we have the ugly truth:
Zarqawi turning out to be correct while Allawi once again proved
himself a liar.
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Lest We Forget
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"My baby died in my arms at a checkpoint"
Antisemitism or Fact?
Jews
drank Coffee as Muslim Baby Died at Birth.
Mother had to Deliver on the Ground like an Animal at
Israeli
Check Point.
Excerpted from The Independent [U.K.]
31 March 2005
IN AUGUST 2003, 29-year-old Rula Ashtiya was forced to give birth
on the ground, on a dirt road by a checkpoint, after Israeli soldiers
refused her passage. Her husband Daoud called the ambulance and was
told they should go to the Beit Furik checkpoint between their
village and the town of Nablus because the ambulance could not get past.
Rula said: "We took a taxi and got off before the checkpoint because
cars are not allowed near the checkpoint and we walked the rest of
the way; I was in pain. At the checkpoint there were several
soldiers; they were drinking coffee or tea and ignored us.
Daoud spoke to them in Hebrew; I was in pain and felt I was going
to give birth there and then; I told Daoud, who translated what
I said to the soldiers but they did not let us pass.
"I was lying on the ground and I crawled behind a concrete block
by the checkpoint to have some privacy and gave birth there in
the dust, like an animal. I held the baby in my arms and she
moved a little but after a few minutes she died in my arms".
Her weeping husband cut the umbilical chord with a stone.
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Opium of The People
Critique:
W. D. Muhammad's Views on the Deceased Pope: Unislamic & Uninformed.
Such a religion is Acceptable to
Bush
& the Zionist Power Structure.
Crumbling in America, Catholicism tries to take over
Africa.
by Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
An emailer named Curtis Sharif, apparently an ardent supporter of
W.D. Muhammad, has distributed among Muslim audiences, the views
of Mr. Muhammad as follows:
"Interview with Imam W.D.Mohammed
"Jo-Ellen: What is your impression of this Pope's life and work?
What was the significance of his papacy for
Muslims in the United States
and other places?"
"What I saw in Pope John Paul is goodness, his service to the
Catholic Church, and also I saw that he had Christ's nature,
he was living Christ's nature, and serving all people,
not only Catholics, but trying to reach all people,
to influence them to have a better life and at the same time
knocking on the door of the conscience of world leaders to get
them to recognize their obligations to do more for people who
are suffering all over the world. This endeared me and I shared
this with my people and it endeared us to JP. "
"We can't think of his suffering without thinking of the great
contribution that he made for so many years. God was merciful to
us and to him to keep him alive for so long and to keep him
serving us, serving our interests for so long. The interests
of the people, whether they were Catholic, Christians or not,
were served very well by JP and we pray for God's blessing on
the Catholic Church."
We must begin by noting that these are not formal condolences
being offered to the Catholic church. This is supposed to be
W.D. Muhammad's assessment of the Pope from an Islamic viewpoint.
Hence it must be taken seriously because it both unIslamic and
uninformed.
I have no problem with Catholics and I count some of them
among my friends. I am against conflict between Catholics and
Muslims. However, as a Muslim, I must be honest and write with
awareness of Allah in my soul. This task is not easy as the
media have been carrying on a non-stop propaganda blitz in
support of the Pope for several weeks.
From a purely Islamic viewpoint, W.D. Muhammad's praise of the
Pope amounts to acceptance of SHIRK [associating others with Allah].
W. D. claims that the Pope had "Christ's nature, he was living
Christ's nature." For the Catholics, Christ was in some sense
God, which is SHIRK. If W.D. thinks Christ was God, then this is
downright SHIRK. If W.D. thinks, like a Muslim should, that
Jesus, pbuh, was a Messenger of Allah, then to claim that the
Pope had the NATURE of a Prophet puts W.D. outside the domain
of Islam. Muhammad, pbuh, was the seal of the Prophets and
Messengers, and no one can have the nature of either of them.
SHIRK is totally unacceptable in Islam. The idea that the Pope
is the representative of Allah [or God] or earth comes under this
teaching of the Qur'an:
"They take their rabbis and their priests to be lords beside Allah.
And (they take as their Lord) Christ the son of Mary, yet they
were commanded to worship but One God: There is no god but He.
Praise and glory to Him. (Far is He) from having the partners
they associate (with Him).
[The Qur'an, 9:31]
The Good the Pope Did:
It is true that the Pope did some good. He expressed unhappiness
at the war on Iraq and was distressed by the suffering of prisoners
in Abu Ghraib.
However, this "good" was only of a symbolic nature. The Pope did not
take ANY specific steps to stop the invasion of Iraq. Even ordinary
Muslims know that it is HARAM [forbidden] in Allah's Law to fight
as part of an army of oppression and aggression. The Pope did not
urge Catholics to leave the U.S. army. He did not call for the
resignation of George Bush or the removal of the generals in charge
of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. His entire priesthood likewise
did not go beyond symbolic gestures. And these symbolic gestures
now seem meant only to have been aimed at creating a profile of
high morality for the Pope, not to stop the war.
He did not make any attempt to stop the war. A man following Jesus,
pbuh, would have arrived personally in Iraq and refused to leave
till the invading army withdrew. Jesus, pbuh, was willing to
face DEATH itself in _expression of the truth. The Pope came
nowhere proving that he was a true follower of Jesus, pbuh.
SUPPORT for ISRAEL : FAILURE by the CHURCH's OWN STANDARD:
By the standards of the Catholic church itself, John Paul was a failure.
He surrendered to Israel and recognized the criminal entity as a
legitimate state. Previously, the Papacy had refused to recognize
Israel and had been quite frank in its opposition to Israel's
occupation of Jerusalem. This Pope blurred the line.
The Pope claimed to be a friend of Muslims, went to a mosque and
kissed the Qur'an. However, this claim is unacceptable to any
thinking Muslim when we see that he legitimized the worst enemy
of Islam, the thug-entity known as Israel.
ENDORSED HOLOCAUST STORY.
The Pope went all the way in his support for Israel. He visited
Israel and paid homage at the holocaust museum, Yad Vashem,
which is the biggest draw for funds going to Israel from
around the world.
This support for the holocaust story ignored the fact that
SIX MILLION GERMANS, civilians, mostly women and children,
were killed or allowed to die of cold and starvation by the
victorious allies AFTER the fall of Hitler. Germans are human too.
It also ignored the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of German civilians
killed in the holocaust of German cities carried out by the allied
air forces.
By giving sanctity to the holocaust story, the Pope ignored the
historic reality of the Jewish role as tools of Stalinist
tyranny which left millions dead in the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania,
Estonia and Poland. The NKVD's records [available after the USSR collapsed]
show that the torture police of the Soviet Union was run by Jews.
Surely the Jews suffered much under Hitler but so did so many other nations under tyrannies other than those of Hitler.
CRUMBLING CATHOLICISM in the USA and the Invasion of Africa by the Church.
The Catholic Church has suffered devastating blows in America at the
hands of its own priests who have been uncovered as predators and
child molestors. The moral structure of the church has been undermined.
Some of the charges against priests were exaggerated by the
Zionist media which saw the church as competitor of the Jewish
lobby. The Church was unable to counter the Zionist moves. Even
when news came out that the Rabbi of the biggest Jewish congregations
on the East Coast of the U.S. had had his wife assassinated by a
Jewish hit man on the plea that she was opposed to Israel, the
Church's supporters in the media failed to call for an
investigation of synagogues in America.
American Catholics practice birth control. The Pope was
opposed to it. The Pope opposed divorce. Most Catholics are
in favor of it, like other Americans. The Pope opposed homosexuality.
Many American catholics ignored his views.
Abortion is another battlefield where the church under John
Paul failed. The church goes to extremes, even opposing abortion
in cases of rape, incest and grave damage to the health of the woman.
Faced with total failure in America, the Catholic church
started pumping resources into Africa. It's organizational
network is being used to bring Africans into Catholicism, preying
on the suffering and economic needs of the African people.
The Pope did not make amends for the carnage wrought by
Catholic armies from Italy in
Ethiopia
[under Benito Mussolini] and in Libya. The church is being
projected in Africa as a moral force which it is yet to prove
itself to be.
CENTRAL AMERICA: REJECTION of LIBERATION THEOLOGY
When the Pope John Paul learned that priests in Central America
were re-interpreting Christian doctrine to preach armed resistance
to the blood curdling dictatorships supported by the U.S., the
Pope RUSHED in PERSON to the region. In the most impassioned
language he ever used, he condemned the teaching of "liberation
theology."
Thus there can be no doubt that the Pope was the ardent supporter
of the STATUS QUO. No wonder George Bush, the Zionist Media, and
the Power Structure around the world were so happy with him.
His version of Catholicism is exactly the kind of religion the
people in power love. Marx correctly called this kind of religion
"the opium of the people."
Thus when W.D. Muhammad refers to the blessings of John Paul and
the Catholic Church, it's evident that he is not merely being
polite: W. D. has no idea what he is talking about.
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