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Dr. Kaukab Siddique
was interviewed on February
28, 2003 for ONE HOUR by
South Africa's Islamic Radio coming out of
Durban, South Africa. Hosted by
Abu Bakr Dawjee, veteran radio talk show host,
the program has a large
audience in South Africa. The interview went
through the entire gamut of the
situation of Muslims in America under Attorney
General Ashcroft's new
regulations. See main points in our next issue.
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Shylock's Pound of Flesh: Palestinian thrown out of
Israeli
Hospital Dies of injuries
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THIRTEEN YEAR OLD
PALESTINIAN
KILLED BY ISRAELI ARTILLERY
UPDATE
For Israeli officials,
Palestinian lives don't count
27 February 2003
A Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli forces
during an invasion of
Qalqilya two weeks ago died yesterday after an
Israeli hospital that had
been treating him abandoned him at a checkpoint
during one of the worst
storms to hit the region in decades.
Fathi Abu Jabara, 62, died of a pulmonary
embolism in Rafidiyah Hospital in
Nablus 18 hours after Kfar Sava's Meir Hospital
insisted on transferring him
because his family was slow in making payments to
the hospital.
According to Abu Jabara's son Hussam, Abu Jabara
was shot in the thigh while
on his way to visit his sister during the first
day of the
Eid al Adha.
Although the bullet entered his thigh, it
traveled to his abdomen, causing
severe damage to internal organs. He was left to
bleed in the street for an
hour before Israeli forces allowed an ambulance
to take him to hospital.
Due to the severity of his injuries, he was
transferred to Meir Hospital in
Israel, where he underwent major surgery.
The family paid a portion of their bill
immediately, but asked for time to
collect the rest of the bill, which totaled close
to 40,000 shekels.
On Tuesday, they suddenly received a call from
checkpoint authorities
notifying them that they must pick up their
father from the checkpoint on
the Green Line. A Palestinian Red Crescent
Society ambulance managed to get
to the checkpoint two hours later to pick him up,
after desperately and
fruitlessly trying to ascertain which hospital
Meir Hospital had coordinated
the transfer with.
"If Israeli soldiers accidentally injure someone,
it should be their
responsibility to treat that person. Therefore,
we were completely shocked
when we realized that the hospital had just
thrown him out in sub-zero
temperatures -- we would do anything to help our
father and we would have
tried to get this sum from friends and relatives,
but we just needed more
time," said Hussam. "And now it's too late."
Additionally, Ala Jaodat Abu Sharkh, 23, died the
day before yesterday from
wounds sustained in an attack 10 days ago. He was
shot in the head by
Israelis when they invaded a building in Nablus;
three Palestinians were
killed in the same attack.
Ahmad Khalil abu Aylwan, 13, from Rafah, was also
killed the day before
yesterday when Israelis shelled the area from a
nearby settlement. According
to witnesses, the shelling was random and Ahmad
was hit by shrapnel all over
his body. Another 10 Palestinians were injured in
the attack.
For more information contact: The Palestine
Monitor
+972 (0)2 298 5372 or +972 (0)59 387 087
http://www.palestinemonitor.org
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ONE
AFGHAN
MUJAHID AGAINST EIGHT MUSHARREF POLICE
U.S.
Consulate Guards Attacked: SHOT with their
OWN GUN.
[America should be grateful for the services
General Musharref of
Pakistan
is rendering to the defense of America. Musharref's
forces have suffered no
losses in the defense of Kashmir against
India,
but in the defense of
America, they are sacrificing themselves. Is it
not a shame that Musharref
has received only $1 billion from the
Bush
administration? Is it not time for
Bush to recognize the sacrifices of Musharref's
forces? – From our Pakistan
correspondent.]
KARACHI, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A gunman killed at
least two police officers and
wounded six other people outside the U.S.
consulate in the southern Pakistani
city of Karachi on Friday, police said.
"Two police officers were killed and six were
wounded in an attack outside
the U.S. consulate," Deputy Inspector General of
Police Tariq Jamil told
Reuters. "The attacker was arrested."
A witness said the attacker snatched a gun from a
policeman and started
firing at a police post outside the consulate.
An official at the consulate told Reuters that
the attack happened at about
1:30 p.m. (0630 GMT).
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The gunman has now been identified as an Afghan
and condemned by the
Pakistani Interior Minister as an "enemy of
Pakistan." Also, the police is
trying to make changes in the first incident
report which reflects badly on
its capabilities -----Our Pakistan monitor
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Montreal Perspectives
By Jalaluddin S. Hussain, our long time
representative in Montreal
U.S. Losing Respect in
Canada
+
New York Times
Losing Touch with Reality
Montreal's one and only English newspaper, true
to its pro-American and
Zionist
stance, has done it again. The February
27, 2003, Thursday edition
truly reflects its bias for Uncle Sam and Uncle
Sharon! Some sample headings
and highlights of the cover page are as follows:
- Bush lays out vision of peaceful Mideast
- Liberal MP apologizes for damning Yankees
- "In Focus" photograph showing Sharon's new
cabinet members and mentioning
Benjamin Netanyahu being promoted to the
all-important Finance portfolio.
On the back page again, there are headings like:
- Letters warn of cyanide attack against US
interests (datelined New
Zealand!)
- Saudi Arabia shooting a random act. (In fact
the Saudi masses are angry at
the Saudi family and government and this is
showing.)
Talking about naked American aggression as Bush's
"vision" is simply
preposterous!. In his speech to the American
Enterprise Institute, a
conservative think-tank, George Bush, the
almost un-elected President of
USA said: "From Morocco to Bahrain and beyond,
nations are taking genuine
steps toward political reform." He continued in
this senseless vein and line
of thinking and said: "A new regime in
Iraq
would serve as dramatic and
inspiring example of freedom to other nations of
the region." Was he
referring to the many sheikhs, the kings and
despots of the region, who are
allied to America in this blatant act of
pre-emptive aggression and that too
right under the very nose of the Security Council
of United Nations? One
wonders where those nations are gone who day in
and day out talked about
human rights, like China and India?
Damn Americans, Liberal MP vents frustration
The other news item highlighted above is about
the outspoken Liberal MP
Carolyn Parrish. In a well attended meeting of
politicians and
newsmen/newswomen, Parrish was heard saying:
"Damn Americans, I hate those
bastards". This Mississauga Centre MP is opposed
to military action, not
sanctioned by the United Nations. After the
Canadian Prime Minister's
communication aide, who was heard saying publicly
a few months ago and had to
resign for what she truly believed that, Bush was
a moron, Parrish's comment
truly reflects and represents the general
frustration of the Canadian people.
Americans in Iraq are for long haul
If we can read between the lines of what General
Eric Shinseki told a
congressional committee hearing this week, we can
very well understand that
Uncle Sam will be staying there for the long
haul. Listen to what the General
said: "It takes significant ground force presence
to maintain a safe and
secure environment, to ensure that people are
fed, that water is distributed
- all the normal responsibilities that go along
with administering a
situation like this."
Bush has also stressed the need to stay in Iraq
after any military action. It
seems President Bush will personally supervise
the elimination of Iraqi
regime's torture chambers. But has he forgotten
the tortures being meted out
to the innocents in Guantanamo Camps and
thousands of other Muslims,
undergoing cruelties right in the USA, thanks to
the repressive provisions of
Homeland Security provisions.
New York Times on Iraq: not much sense
The New York Times' marathon editorial of
February 23, 2003 is titled: "Power
and leadership : The real meaning of Iraq." When
power and arrogance is gone
into the heads of the American leadership, it is
ridiculous to suggest, as
the editorial does, that "more discussion is the
only road that will get the
world to the right outcome." When Bush and his
oilmen and oil woman Ms. Rice,
are determined to get possession of high quality
and abundant Iraqi oil,
there is really no time left for any meaningful
discussion. Although the
Security Council can recommend for more time for
Inspectors, to do their job
in Iraq , USA and UK are hell-bent on
"pre-emptive" aggression.
The NYT editorial reflects in the end: "It is
whether we (the American
people) further split the world into squabbling
camps , united only by their
jealousy of our power, or use our influence to
unite around a shared vision
of progress of human rights and mutual
responsibility."
If Afghanistan is the recent example to go by,
America and the "un-elected"
President Bush will not be able to achieve
anything. What the world will see
is that an ancient Iraqi civilization and a
highly educated Iraqi nation will
be completely decimated and pushed back to the
stone age, right before the
very eyes of the world! The wise men at New York
Times should know better!!
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[Can you believe this: Such a massive march was
not reported in the U.S. NOT
ONE WORD! The white power structure is saying
loud and clear:
Africans
don't matter.]
SUDAN
SPEAKS: 500,000+ express the Voice of
Islamic Africa against U.S. War
on Iraq
KHARTOUM, Feb 26 (AFP) -- More than 100,000
Sudanese of both sexes took to
the streets of the Sudanese capital Wednesday to
condemn a planned US-led
strike on Iraq.
Government and opposition parties, trade unions,
professional associations,
students, women's and youth organisations took
part in the demonstration
which was called by the Popular Organisation for
Solidarity with Iraq.
Gathering at Martyrs Square in front of the
Republican Palace and flooding
into the streets leading to the square, the
protesters carried placards and
chanted slogans against the United States.
They also criticised Arab allies of Washington,
shouting "Shame upon you,
Arabs of the dollar" and burned a US flag in
front of the United Nations
offices here.
Chief organiser Fathi Khalil, head of the
Sudanese bar association, who
addressed the gathering before handing in a
message of protest to the UN,
said more than half a million people had turned
out, making it the biggest
rally here in a decade.
Tens of thousands were bussed into the capital
from outlying suburbs and
villages.
Addressed to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the
memorandum said the
Sudanese people denounced "the genocidal war by
American and British forces
now being gathered in the region for aggression
on the brotherly people of
Iraq and for occupying the state of Iraq using
the latest and most
destructive weapons, including nuclear."
It called the argument that Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction
"unconvincing" while no reference was being made
to such weapons possessed by
Israel and North Korea.
The memorandum called on the UN General
Secretariat and Security Council to
"rid the United Nations of American hegemony and
live up to its
responsibility stipulated by the UN Charter
towards such barbaric threats
that violate the international charter and
jeopardise world peace and
security."
It also called upon the UN to implement all
resolution previously taken
against Israel.
Uniformed police were out in force to maintain
order along the route and
outside the UN offices, but the demonstration
dispersed peacefully.
[Courtesy Sudan Society.]
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Muslim Journal's Editor Gets a Point-by-point
Reply to Abusive Comment on Dr. Siddique
It is HARAM to call a Muslim Abu Lahab
[Earlier, we published two comments on Imam W.D.
Muhammad's paper Muslim
Journal's editorial comment on Dr. Kaukab
Siddique. The comment appeared in
Islam-n-Muslims discussion list and was answered
first by Sis. Motisola
Abdallah, a noted Islamic activist from Atlanta,
and then by Sis. Karen
English, from California, the writer of the poem
on W.D. Muhammad..]
[The following is a comment by Sis. Amatullah,
which appeared also in
Islam-n-Muslims. The statements in regular type
are by the editor of Muslim
Journal, Sis. Ayesha Mustafaa and those in bold
type are responses by Sis.
Amatullah, published as is, including the
original regular and bold type.
Quotation marks have been added to Sis.
Amatullah's comments in case the bold
type does not show on other lists.]
Dear SIs. Hadayai, Mr. Kaukab Siddiqui is abusive
in his treatment of Imam W.
Deen Mohammed ....
"My comments
Sister, That was a poem written by a female. A
question and reflection. What
is it about that, that is abusive to anyone? The
poem is talking about the
atrocities that is happening to the Muslims all
over the world. How can that
be abusive to "The Imam" The Question was why is
The Imam being so silent?
This is a question that a lot of people are
asking"
and the spirit in which he intended his poem to
be taken in was to slap all
Muslims who support Imam Mohammed in the face.
"Sister Only Allah knows ones' intentions. You
seem to be taking this out of
context and there is hostility in your words and
expressions.
The poem has nothing to do with the supporters of
the Imam."
I saw earlier an email from him where he accuses
Precious Muhammad of
worshipping Imam Mohammed. I am appauled at Mr.
Siddiqui's ardacity to berate
Imam Mohammed over the internet and then accuse
us of personality worship
when we confront him on it. He is the likes of
Abu Lahab and an enemy to
peace.
"Sister these are very strong words and not
becoming of a servant of Allah. I
think we have to be careful when we call Muslims
the likes of Abu Lahab
What's wrong with the sister writing a poem
asking the Imam a question?"
He has no good intentions and wants to see
hostilies and scarves flying off;
he wants to push people into a rage. He is the
aid of the devil and can't
stand the idea that we can make a life for
ourselves here in this country -
especially without his help.
"Again, Sister these are some very strong words.
It is HARAM to falsely
accuse someone of something we have no knowledge
of. If he is guilty of that
then that's on him but if he is not it falls back
on you. So please for your
own sake don't accuse people of things that you
have no knowledge of."
He stays here yet he foams at the mouth at
everything that is American. Why
does he stay here? What is his purpose? Who does
he lead? He certainly is no
example of Prophet Muhammed,
"Nor is your example a good example of the
Prophet (SAW). It sounds as if you
are talking about a mad animal here.
I wonder would you be saying all of these things
if you knew Allah was seeing
and hearing you......Everything is real sister
everything. So be careful very
careful when you speak of others in a foul way.
This was a matter of a
question ....a poem.....by a sister...about the
Muslim world today.....no
need to become bent out of shape"
when all he can create is animosity. Please pass
this on to the Mr. Siddique,
who is abusing that very good name - Where would
the Muslim world be full of
people like him? In hell.
"As salaamu alaikum Dearest Sister, You are an
intelligent woman. Apparently,
you are a journalist it seems. My intent here is
not to take sides or to
anger you but to just speak to you woman to
woman....Sister to
sister.....Life is too short and the world is in
too much turmoil for us as
Muslims to be on edge with other. I realize these
are stressful times. But
fear Allah and try not to read into things in a
negative way. There is no
need here for you to be on the defense. I don't
think the Imam would have
read all of that into that poem. People ask
questions all the time........ no
harm in that. It's better to ask questions than
to assume.
I pray that Allah (SWT) will forgive me if I am
wrong. However, if I'm right
I pray that Allah will bless both you and me.
inshallah. Sincerely,
A concerned sister trying to keep things real
Wa salaam"
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