Muharram 22, 1425/March 14, 2004 #34
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
Pakistanis
who wanted to liberate
Kashmir
will now have to liberate Pakistan first!
General Musharraf has clamped a ban on an Islamic peace movement which
was going to enter the frontier area adjacent to
Afghanistan.
Islamic leaders WHO FORMED THE GOVERNMENT in FRONTIER PROVINCE
have had a ban order placed on their movement in the area.
The peaceful Islamic movement in Pakistan, the MMA coalition,
is facing failure because it is peaceful.
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
IMAM WARITHUDDIN 'UMAR will be speaking at Lincoln University,
Pennsylvania, on March 18.
Imam 'Umar has made history by suing the flagship of the
Zionist
establishment, the
Wall Street Journal,
for defamation and lies published about him in a front page article.
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REMINDER:
The families of the Virginia Innocents who were recently convicted in
botched cases of guilt by association, need community support.
Many of them have small children.
Donate to:
Jamaat al-Muslimeen,
POB 10881, Baltimore, MD 21234
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DEAR READERS: The Virginia Innocents were opposed to
India's
oppression of Muslims in KASHMIR.
Are you still supporting India,
watching Indian movies and not noticing the moves of Hindu supporters
of the Zionists?
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ANNOUNCEMENT
SHOORA [national consultative committee] of
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
will meet in Greensboro, NC, on April 10.
JAM is a legal,
peaceful group of volunteers which works for the
rights
of Muslim prisoners, for the rights of
women
and children, and to oppose
media
bias against oppressed people.
It organizes
boycott
of businesses which support
Israel.
The central representatives are:
Sis. Karen English [California]
Br. Roberto Solano [Texas]
Imam Badi Ali [North Carolina]
Dr. Abdul 'Alim Shabazz [Pennsylvania]
Sis. Aisha Shaheed [New York City]
Br. Abu Talib [Brooklyn, New York]
Br. Kaukab Siddique [Maryland]
and others.
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Mosque in Texas Vandalized: Police Says not Hate Crime
by Roberto Solano, Texas
Lubbock, Texas is a nice community.
Muslims live in peace in that city
except that the local muslim mosque was vandalized last weekend.
The police reacted promptly and apprehended four persons.
They were boys ranging in age from 13 to 15.
Their names were withheld since they are minors but they were charged with
juvenile delinquency for burglary.
The "mosqe's spiritual leader" as Assistant Police Chief
Thomas Esparza calls him, estimated the damages to be
about $1,800. But he was relieved to learn that teenagers
were responsible for the vandalism and not adults or
organized crime or done by a group that has bias against
Muslims. Most of the stolen
Qur'an
and other goods were found in several nearby trash bins.
Contributions to repair the damages can be sent to the
Imam Mohamed El_Moctar in Lubbock, Texas.
Now it is up to the muslims organizations in the US and
Texas to educate parents so that there will be no other
acts of disrespect for a religious place of worship.
The cost of transportation etc for the people that will
come to give the seminars should be paid by the
local community.
The police obtained statements from the young criminals
to the effect that their intent was to destroy property and
hurt feelings.
It is no longer being investigated as a federal "hate crime"
which carries a heavier penalty.
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British Convert [revert] to
Islam
Speaks out
PROSTITUTES and PSYCHOLOGICAL/ Physical WARFARE Used on Islamic Prisoners
to Break their Faith and Humanity
MY HELL IN CAMP X-RAY
Daily Mirror UK
-- WORLD EXCLUSIVE Mar 12 2004 By Rosa Prince and Gary Jones
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=14042696_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-MY%2DHELL%2DIN%2DCAMP%2DX%2DRAY-name_page.html
A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its
full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to
degrade Muslim inmates.
Jamal al-Harith, 37, who arrived home three days ago after two years of
confinement, is the first detainee to lift the lid on the US regime in
Cuba's Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta.
The father-of-three, from Manchester, told how he was assaulted with
fists, feet and batons after refusing a mystery injection.
He said detainees were shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and
leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin.
Their "cells" were wire cages with concrete floors and open to the
elements - giving no privacy or protection from the rats, snakes and
scorpions loose around the American base.
He claims punishment beatings were handed out by guards known as the
Extreme Reaction Force. They waded into inmates in full riot-gear,
raining blows on them.
Prisoners faced psychological torture and mind-games in attempts to make
them confess to acts they had never committed. Even petty breaches of
rules brought severe punishment.
Medical treatment was sparse and brutal and amputations of limbs were
more drastic than required, claimed Jamal.
A diet of foul water and food up to 10 years out-of-date left inmates
malnourished.
But Jamal's most shocking disclosure centred on the use of vice girls
to torment the most religiously devout detainees.
Prisoners who had never seen an "unveiled" woman before would be forced
to watch as the hookers touched their own naked bodies.
The men would return distraught. One said an American girl had
smeared menstrual blood across his face in an act of humiliation.
Jamal said: "I knew of this happening about 10 times. It always seemed
to be those who were very young or known to be particularly religious
who would be taken away.
"I would joke with the other British lads, 'Bring them to us - we'll
have them'. It made us laugh. But the Americans obviously knew we
wouldn't be shocked by seeing Western women, so they didn't bother.
"It was a profoundly disturbing experience for these men. They would
refuse to speak about what had happened. It would take perhaps four
weeks for them to tell a friend - and we would shout it out around
the whole block."
Jamal added: "The whole point of Guantanamo was to get to you
psychologically. The beatings were not as nearly as bad as the
psychological torture - bruises heal after a week - but the other
stuff stays with you."
He was talking from a secret location after being reunited with
his family. The website designer, a convert to Islam, had gone to
Pakistan in October 2001, a few weeks after September 11, to study
Muslim culture.
He accidentally strayed into Afghanistan - believing he was being
driven to
Turkey -
and was arrested as a spy, perhaps because of his British passport.
He was held in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and fell into US hands.
Now Jamal bears the scars of Guantanamo. He stoops into a hunch as
he walks because the shackles that bound him were too short.
As a punishment, inmates would be confined so tightly they would be
forced to lie in a ball for hours. During lengthy interrogation, they
would be tethered to a metal ring on the floor.
Jamal said: "Sometimes you would be chained up on the floor with your
hands and feet actually bound together. One of my friends told me he
was kept like that for 15 hours once.
"Recreation meant your legs were untied and you walked up and down a
strip of gravel. In Camp X-Ray you only got five minutes but in Delta
you walked for around 15 minutes."
Jamal said victims of the Extreme Reaction Force were paraded in front
of cells. "It was a horrible sight and it was a frequent sight."
He said one unit used force-feeding to end a hunger strike by 70 per
cent of the 600 inmates. The strike started after a guard deliberately
kicked a copy of the Koran.
Rice and beans was the usual diet and the water was "filthy".
Jamal added: "In Camp X-Ray it was yellow and in Delta it was black -
the colour of Coca-Cola.
"We had it piped through with a tap in each 'cage' but they would
often turn the water off as punishment.
"They would shut off the water before prayers so we couldn't wash
ourselves according to our religion.
"The food was terrible as well, up to 10 years out-of-date.
They would open a hatch and shove it through a section at a time.
"We had porridge and something they called 'like-milk', which was
disgusting and 'like-tea' and a piece of fruit. The fruit had been
frozen and pounded with chemicals. An apple might look red but there
was waxy white stuff all over it and inside it would be black and brown.
"They would play tricks on people by denying them things - you might be
the only person on your block who didn't get any bread. I prided myself
on never asking them for anything. I would not beg." Jamal said they were
told they had no rights. "They actually said that - 'You have no rights
here'. After a while, we stopped asking for human rights - we wanted
animal rights. In Camp X-Ray my cage was right next to a kennel housing
an Alsatian dog.
"He had a wooden house with air conditioning and green grass to
exercise on. I said to the guards, 'I want his rights' and they
replied, 'That dog is member of the US army'.
"You would be punished for anything - for having six packets of salt
in your cell rather than five, for hanging your towel through the cage
if it wasn't wet, even for having your spoon and things lined up in the
wrong order."
Being forced to use a bucket as a toilet in view of other inmates
and guards was particularly embarrassing. Jamal said: "I never got
used to it - we would all put our towels and clothes around us.
"But the Military Police up in the tower would see us and would shout
to each other.
"We were only allowed a shower once a week at the beginning and none
at all in solitary confinement.
"This was very tough because you are supposed to be clean when you pray.
"Gradually the number of showers rose to three a week. They were always
cold.
"You would be chained by two MPs while you were still in the cage
before being taken off for what they called 'rec and shower'.
"You could sometimes see the guards tampering with the shower
heads to make water squirt all over the inmate's clothes if he
had put them up to protect his privacy."
Inmates were issued with "comfort items" - known as CIs - like
shampoo, towels, a washcloth and boxer shorts. CIs would be removed
as a punishment.
Jamal defiantly refused "treats", such as watching a James Bond film
in a room dubbed The Love Shack by inmates.
He added: "Some people were given pizzas, ice-cream and McDonald's,
but they didn't offer them to me. I guess they knew bribery would work
with some and not with others."
To pass the time, inmates would chat to each other, pray, read the
Koran and sing Islamic songs. In Camp X-Ray, they were given Mills
and Boon-style romance novels in Arabic, which they refused to read.
Describing medical treatment, Jamal said he knew of 11 men who had
legs amputated and two who lost toes and fingers. He was told that
the Americans had removed far more tissue than was necessary.
HE added: "The man in the cell next to me had frostbite in two
fingers and two toes. He also had it in his big toe, but they didn't
treat that for a year by which time they had to cut off much more than
was needed.
"All the men who had lost limbs complained they would chop them off
high up and not bother to try to save as much as possible."
Jamal added that he didn't have close friends in Guantanamo, saying:
"When I did meet the other Brits, we would reminisce about home -
particularly the food.
"We were all obsessed with Scottish Highland Shortbread - we wanted
some so much.
"One of the Brits told me he was asked why he was a Muslim, because
he ought to be praying to the Queen."
Jamal, who is divorced with daughters aged three and eight and a son
of five, is convinced his refusal to succumb to mind-games gave him
the will to come through.
He said: "It was very, very hard at times, but I tried to think
about nothing but survival.
"I kept my thoughts from home as much as possible because it would
drive me crazy.
"About a year into my time, I had a dream. A voice said, 'You will
here for two years'.
"In my dream I said, 'Two years! You're joking'. But when I woke up,
I was calmer because at least that meant I would be getting out one day.
"I was sent to Guantanamo on February 11, 2002 and left on March 9, 2004,
so I was there for just over two years, just like the voice in the dream
said."
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One in a series of
Revolutionary Khutbas
America's Muslims caught Between Secularism and Sufiism.
What Does Islam Say about Organization & Movement?
Jews
Should be Happy, the Qur'an Saved them from anti-semitism in Muslim Countries.
During 2004,
Dr. Kaukab Siddique
has given 7 khutbas and led prayers in Pennsylvania, Maryland and
North Carolina. Here are the main points from a khutba he gave at
Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore.
Texts: "O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and those
charged with authority from among you. If ye differ in anything ,
refer it to Allah and His messenger, if ye do believe in Allah and
the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final determination."
[The Qur'an 4:59]
"When three people go fourth, they should make one of themselves their
leader." [Prophet Muhammad, p, Hadith narrated by Abu Huraira, r.a.,
in Abu Dawud's Sunan.]
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Muslims are required by Islam to be organized and to be involved in the issues which shape society.
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Islamic organization is based on mutual consultation and consent which the Qur'an terms "Shoora." A chapter of the Qur'an is titled "Shoora" and it obligates Muslims to carry out all their activities by mutual consultation and consent.
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Thru the process of Shoora, Islamic leadership emerges which takes the Qur'an and the Example of Muhammad, pbuh, as its guidance in ALL matters. *Obedience to such authentic Islamic leadership is obligatory.
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In America, Muslims have gone far from Islam. They have either become so secularized that they voted for Bush, want to become Republicans and Democrats, wait to be invited to the White House, pray, wear hijab/beard and go to support the satan in Washington or ..
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They are Sufis and have nothing to say about politics. Sufiism too has become a plague in America, encouraging Muslims to stay away from issues related to the struggle of the American people. They say they are inwardly purifying themselves, but they actually let Satan have full sway in the issues relevant to socio-economic-political change. Their piety is such that they are silent when thousands are bombed and killed in Afghanistan/
Iraq.
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The Islam of Muhammad (pbuh) must be studied to understand the Way we must follow. It teaches NO COMPROMISE with kufr and tughyan. Muhammad (pbuh) did not come to accept dominance of society by the forces of materialism and commercialism.
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So, we must have politics in Islam, but it must be the politics of Muhammad, sal Allahu alaihi wassalam. An Islam which has no organized effort to oppose oppression, Zionism and Imperialism is not Islam at all.
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Even if three Muslims travel together, they must be organized with a leader. Today millions of Muslims are united against Israel, but they are disorganized and Israel has survived. Countless millions protested the Jew who set fire to Masjid al-Aqsa many years back, but then they went home and Israel still exists to continue its criminal course of genocide against the
Palestinians.
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We as Muslims DO NOT HATE JEWS. I am a semite myself and cannot be anti-semitic. The Jews should be happy that the Qur'an teaches that, Jesus, pbuh, was NOT crucified. Hence there is no blood guilt of Jews in Islam.
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We are against the Jews for their behavior, for their occupation of Palestine, for their control of the media, of the wealth of America, for their abuse of Islam, for their criminal activities in support of aggression in Iraq, Kashmir,
Sudan.
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Nation after nation in the Muslim world will rise and sacrifice, inshallah, until Israel is defeated and driven out of Palestine.
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THERE IS NO NEED TO VOTE REPUBLICAN or DEMOCRAT, or NADER. Islam is not part of this corrupt system. Allah has sent us to be WITNESSES TO THE TRUTH, not to become part of this corrupt system.
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The example of the Prophet (pbuh) teaches us that we can influence, and even shape, society without becoming part of it. In AMERICA, we can use the media, we can organize, we can reach out personally, we can teach by example, we can demonstrate, WE CAN CREATE OUR OWN
MEDIA.
Islam must not become part of a left wing culture which endorses homosexuality and atheism or a right wing culture which supports war and
racism.
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For previous revolutionary khutbas, go to: www.newtrendmag.org click on java frames, click on NEWS, go to
REVOLUTIONARY KHUTBAS.
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INACCURATE, MISLEADING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BLIND SHAIKH,
Dr. OMAR 'ABDEL RAHMAN
TO: Brian Lamb
booktv@c-span.org
C-Span Book TV
#650, 400 N. Capital st., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Ref: Book titled "INVASION: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals and other Foreign Menaces to our Shores" by Michelle Malkin
Dear Mr. Lamb:
You re-aired your extensive interview with Michelle Malkin on
February 21, 2004. Usually you come prepared with at least some research
on the authors you interview, but in this case you had either not done
your reading or you permitted very damaging, false, statements made by
Ms. Malkin to go unchallenged.
Here are a few of Ms. Malkin's fabrications:
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She claimed that Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman was the "mastermind" of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. In fact he was NEVER tried for that bombing. His was a "conspiracy" trial which BEGAN after the Trade Center case ended and AFTER the defendants in that case had been sentenced.
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She claimed that the Shaikh was an "al-Qaida operative." How did she dream that up? There is absolutely no evidence of that, even by association.
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She thinks the Shaikh obtained U.S. citizenship (!) and probably still has it. What were you thinking of, Mr. Lamb! Anyone who has any idea of the Shaikh's case would know that he never had U.S. citizenship.
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For her own purposes, Malkin said that the Shaikh was "anti-American." In fact the Shaikh thought so highly of America that he took refuge here. He did not realize that the U.S. government was in bed with the dictator of
Egypt.
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Ms. Malkin also made wild allegations about Muslim charities in America which have been banned, such as Benevolence and Global. She considers them so dangerous that she is demanding that the TEMPORARY WORKERS the charities might have hired should also be investigated. Looks like again she did not read the cases.
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The charities were banned on frivolous charges. No evidence of funding of terrorism was uncovered.
Mr. Lamb, this is not the first anti-Islam author you have brought to C-Span. Is there a pattern here? I am afraid your prejudice against Islam is beginning to show. YOU ALLOWED Ms. Malkin's puerile "the sky is falling" stories to go on without the slightest attempt to elucidate any evidence from her.
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
Associate Professor of English
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