Shawwal 2, 1425/ November 15, 2004 #113
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen
News [5 items]
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 21234.
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Shocking Increase in Numbers of Women Prisoners in
USA:
There are now 101,179 women in U.S. prisons. This is an increase of
48% since 1995 and 3.6% since 2002. Of these, the largest number,
13,487 women are in prison in Texas, with California coming in number
2 with 10,656.
The total number of males in prison is 1,368,866. [2003 figures.]
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MARYLAND
Welcome Change in Message Coming out of Masjid Rahma, Baltimore
November 14, 2004. Record numbers Muslims prayed
Eid ul Fitr
prayers at Masjid Rahma on the west side of Baltimore. Three prayer
gatherings were held to avoid congestion in parking.
There were almost 800 people in the early morning gathering, more than
1200 in the second gathering and nearly 1500 in the third gathering.
The terrible atrocities committed by the U.S. in Fallujah during the
month of
Ramadan,
in particular during the night of Lailatul Qadr, have had a chilling
effect on the
Muslims of America.
In Baltimore, the ongoing rape of
Iraq
by America seems to have disillusioned even the Muslim leadership.
The Muslims who gather in Masjid Rahma are very loyal to the U.S. and
New Trend
has had occasion to criticize their leaders for being more pro-government
than being
pro-Islam.
But on Eid ul-Fitr, a new tone and a new message was heard.
The President of the community spoke before the prayers and warned
Muslims that testing times are ahead. Their faith and their patience
will be tried and they should prepare to sacrifice their comforts to
help their community, he said.
The Imam who gave the
khutba
had the amazing courage to criticize president
Bush
in his Khutba [very unusual at Masjid Rahma]. He reminded the President
that 57 million Americans voted against him, more than any opposition
votes in past elections, and he should not think that he has a mandate
to do what he wills.
New Trend readers might remember that recently we published the Lancet
magazine report which says that 100,000 Iraqi civilians, mostly women
and children, have been killed in U.S. air attacks. To our amazement,
the Imam of Masjid Rahma reiterated the death statistics from the Lancet
report and expressed his horror. He urged the Muslims to look inwards,
purify themselves, strengthen their faiths and provide for the weaker
sections of the community.
The Muslims now know that all those propaganda moves coming from Bush,
that this is not a war against Islam, were meant only to fool and divide
the Muslims. The chill of disillusionment is wafting its way through
even the most pro-government Muslim communities.
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NORTH CAROLINA
November 13. Greensboro:
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
reports that 68 year old Afaf Saudi, who was brutalized by police,
has been discharged from prison. Owing to the efforts of
Imam Badi Ali
and others, the case of Ms. Afaf was covered by all the local TV and
radio stations. The mayor of the city visited her in hospital.
The local peace activists are urging the government to discipline the
police and sensitize it to:
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The
rights
of the elderly. The police should not handcuff the weak and
the elderly as it does others.
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The rights of Muslim
women.
It is an outrage for a Muslim woman to be roughed up by male policemen.
Even third world countries have female police for women.
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The police must apologize to the woman in
Arabic
and French. [And other demands.]
New Trend notes: The Greensboro case has shown that
CAIR
and other funded organizations are redundant. When a local incident
happens, the local community should rally and help the victim.
Long distance control by heavily funded groups is not needed.
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BROOKLYN, New York
RESTARTING the
BOYCOTT
OF
ZIONIST
BUSINESSES CAMPAIGN:
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Brooklyn reports that on November 14, the BOYCOTT
campaign was taken to the large Eid gathering at the Masjid Ahlul Bayt
[Shia] mosque in Brookyln and was well received.
To join this campaign, write to JAM's Director of Boycott at:
PRADIA2@aol.com
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PENNSYLVANIA
Women in Muslim Countries: Studied in Four Categories
Dr. Kaukab Siddique
spoke to the Arabic Club on the rights of Muslim women. Most of the
audience was non-Muslim. The meeting was organized by a professor
from Tunisia. Dr. Siddique made the following points:
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For purposes of study, women in the Muslim world can be listed in four
categories, though some of them may overlap:
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Culture-oriented, male dominated women [the great majority].
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Westernized women, a very small minority.
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Islamic women [largely middle class] a sizable group often found in
universities.
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Radical Islamic women [very anti-western] a small but growing group.
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The culture-oriented women dress conservatively outside the home. Their
behavior is largely linked to their desire to fit into a patriarchal
society where the father, uncle and brother are dominant and feudalism
survives in various forms. These are the women whose rights are often
violated by men. However, Islam does play a role in their lives and
safeguards them from any blatant violations of their rights as long
as 20they stay within male dominance.
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The westernized women are on the wave length of London, Paris and
New York. They are alienated from their communities and consider
the violators of women's rights as representatives of Islam. They
cannot influence Muslim societies but are valuable to western critics
of Islam.
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Owing to the efforts of Islamic movements [which exist in just about
every Muslim country] large numbers of educated Muslim women are
embracing Islam as their choice. They study the
Qur'an
and the
Hadith.
They wear modest clothes, ranging from very strict to
easy-going-but-decent. The head scarf or ample dopatta easily
distinguishes these women from other women.
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The Radical Islamic women are small in numbers but are steadily gaining
support. They can sometimes draw directly from the cultural-Muslim and
even the westernized segments of the female population as well as from
the Islamic segment. The Radicals are anti-American and Jihad-oriented.
Sometimes they carry weapons. They are easily distinguishable from
other women by their face veils which they wear as a choice. [Many
cultural Muslim women also cover their faces and this can confuse
outside observers.]
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In every Islamic struggle, be it in Kashmir, Palestine, Pakistan, Chechnia, Sudan, Nigeria or
Iraq, Muslim women are siding, in growing numbers, and with greater determination than ever before, with the forces of Islam.
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban uprising is supported by women who urge their sons to join the
Jihad. No jihad can happen without the support of women.
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[JAM news ends here]
Letter
on "Kerry Swamped ... [New Trend #109]
A Few Words from a man New Trend respects:
"As-salaamu 'alaykum!
Al-hamdulillah! Once again, an excellent edition."
Jihad Abdul-Mumit
Richmond, Virginia
[Former Black Panther leader.]
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WAR NEWS: [From our
media
monitor]
FALLUJAH: BITTER FIGHTING ON EID DAY. HEART RENDING PHOTO OF MOSQUE
Fighting in Fallujah continues on Day 8. The fighting was surprisingly
heavy on Eid Day. The U.S. admitted another 16 of its best troops killed
and 100 wounded raising the U.S. death toll to 38 killed and 275
seriously wounded.
The U.S. is using deceptive language to report the fact that Fallujah's
few defenders are difficult to crush. Note the language used after
SEVEN days:
'A U.S. officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Fallujah was
"occupied but not subdued." '
[Associated Press]
U.S. forces are carrying out a policy of desecration of mosques in
Fallujah. The previous excuse that snipers were using mosques has been
discarded. New Trend has received a photo of U.S. troops resting in full
military gear on the beautiful rugs of a mosque in Fallujah. Some of
them are swaggering around. Some are squatting near the Mimbar, some
are chatting with each other. Others are half asleep or lounging. It's
a good number of troops in the mosque.
[New Trend will post the photo of the U.S. troops in the mosque on our
web site:
www.newtrendmag.org]
Every day the U.S. declares that it has captured Fallujah but then
announces that more fighting is required.
Meantime the renegade Allawi puppet regime declares every day that
another 500 "insurgents" have been killed. Thus the Allawi propaganda
machine, which
Fox News
loves, misleads the American people by seemingly fabricated claims.
First it announced that "hundreds" of "insurgents" have been killed.
Then on Day 3, it announced that 500 have been killed. On Day 4, this
was increased to 1000, and to 1500 on Day 5, and now on Day 7 it is
said to be 2000 with another 200 captured.
Our observers say that these figures are bogus. Careful estimates are
that 150 of the mujahideen have been martyred and 25 captured when their
ammunition ran out. Another 200 may die of their wounds. The U.S. has
also "captured" 50 civilians. At least an estimated 300 civilians have
been killed in the U.S. attack and more than a 1000 wounded. These do
not include many other civilians who may be found in the rubble later.
The figure of 150 mujahideen killed is probably correct when one
considers a story published in the
New York Times
according to which U.S. troops, using the most powerful machine guns
and scope rifles, could not kill ONE MUJAHID for FIVE hours. He kept
an entire U.S. marine unit at bay with his rifle and FINALLY ESCAPED ON
A BIKE!
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