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1. America
the Beautiful in
Zionist
Grip: blind power, no Direction
Baltimore: 7 murdered in 5 days+ Christmas Scare was Hoax
2. New FBI raids Stun Pakistanis: Prof. Abdul Ghafoor Protests
3. Looking for Al-Qaida in Greensboro, NC !
4. Were you fooled by anti-Taliban Demonization? Read this.
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Health tips from
Hadith
of the Prophet (pbuh):
1. Make walking, jogging and exercise a part of your life style.
2. Reduce food intake. One third of the stomach should remain empty.
2a. Sit down calmly to eat in peace. Do not eat in a hurry. [Millions
around the world have little or no food.]
3. Pray five times a day. Link your future to Allah's guidance. Anxiety
and stress will go down dramatically.
4. Avoid processed foods and meats as much as possible. Processed beef
is a real 'no, no.'
5. Home cooking is the best. Keep the family together with healthy food
and prayer.
6. Whenever you see corruption (on TV, billboards, thoughtless humans),
seek Allah's forgiveness. Do not let the evil contaminate your soul.
Degradation
of women is an inherent part of the system in America. Purge yourself
of this evil with "astaghfirullah" repeated each time you see this
degradation..
[To be continued.]
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1. "The lightning all but snatches away their sight: every time there is a
flash of light, they walk therein and when the darkness returns, they stand
still. And if Allah willed, He could take away their ability to hear and see:
for Allah has power over all things." (The Qur'an 2:20)
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BALTIMORE, Maryland, 23 miles from Washington, DC: Seven people were murdered
in the first five days of the new year 2003. There have been NO ARRESTS in
any of the cases. This situation in a premier American city is not even
national news. American forces have not arrived in Baltimore to stop the
killing. Baltimore is only a little worse than most major cities in
America.
Drugs have been successfully introduced into the cities and the youth
of the new generation are left to kill each other.
In the meantime, the U.S. wants to liberate Iraq, a country thousands
of miles away which most Americans cannot place on a map.
AROUND CHRISTMAS, the FBI claimed that five Muslims (ostensibly
Pakistanis)
had slipped into the United States and could be potential or real
terrorists.
The WHOLE COUNTRY was urged to look out for these dangerous men.
It's not difficult to imagine the damage this story must have done to
Christian-Muslim relations on the most important Christian holiday. The
story
violated the rights of Pakistanis and Muslims in America by generating
a lookout for such people as suspicious characters.
Almost a week into the new year, the FBI shamelessly announced that the
whole story was bogus and had come from an accused criminal in Canada named
Hamdani whose first two names are those of Christians, not Muslims. This man,
we are told, had fabricated the story in exchange for a deal he was making
with authorities in
Canada.
The Christmas story was taken back by the FBI without an apology. The major
media mentioned the recantation in les than 20 seconds and then it was
business as usual.
Observers say that the distribution of such a story is certainly not the
style of security agencies who really are out to get the "bad guys." If
the FBI meant business, it should have gone after the purported
"terrorists" without alarming the whole country. Looking back into America's
history, "bad
guys" have been caught by good police work, not by widespread publicity
which simply creates insecurity, fear and suspicion.
The rights of American Muslims are certainly violated by the
dissemination of such bogus stories. Muslims would be within their
rights to file a class action suit against the FBI and the media which
distributed this story.
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2. NEW FBI RAIDS IN PAKISTAN. Stunning Violation of Pakistani's rights
in their own homes.
This time it was in Karachi. Pakistani media reported on January 10
that Musharref's security forces, guided by the FBI carried out an operation
in the Gulshane Ma'mar area. They broke into a home, C46-W2, and arrested 7
members of a family, including women and children. Among those arrested
is a two year old child. The operation, according to witnesses, was
supervised by
alleged FBI agents in a white colored car with number plate AAB-755.
The assault was carried out like a military attack. The attackers cut
off all phone lines to the entire Azizabad area before the attack and
sealed off the entire area so much so that worshipers going to the local
mosque for fajr prayers were prevented from doing so.
The building is a rented house belonging to Sabiha Shahid, a leader of
Jamaate Islami's women's wing who is a member of JI's central shoora.
She was on a tour of Sindh but her family members were arrested.
The government claims that those arrested include two "foreigners," a
term used by Musharref to label Islamic refugees in Pakistan. The
government
also claims that those arrested, resisted the police and exchanged
gunfire.
Jamaate Islami leader and parliamentarian, Prof. Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed
has condemned the raid and said that if there were any charges against the
people arrested, they should have been summoned to court. He is quoted as
follows:
"We don't know the whereabouts of her family members. We condemn
the raid. If such actions continued, it will trigger unrest in
the country," he said.
"I also demand that the family of Sabiha Shahid should
immediately be released. The arrested foreigners should be
produced before the court and should be given right to defend
themselves."
ANOTHER SEARCH FOR ISLAMIC DOCTORS:
Earlier, on January 9, the FBI led another raid in an attempt to arrest
two Islamic physicians. The raid failed because the two were not there.
This raid, again carried out by a big security unit, was in Shah Faisal
town on a
house called Bostane Rafi'. Number C-19. The targets were Dr. Akmal Waheed
and Dr. Arshad Waheed. They are said to have set up medical relief camps for
the injured people of Afghanistan during U.S. bombing raids. Akmal is
former
president of the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMS) and member of
the National Institute of Cardiologists. Their relief organization was
known as "Al-Khidmat" and they are said to be supporters of Jamaate Islami.
The security forces left after two-hour long search. Witnesses claim
that they saw FBI agents with the raiding party in a white Toyota
Corolla number AEF 745.
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3. SEARCHING IN GREENSBORO for AL-QAEDA!
According to a NEWSWEEK ARTICLE, all kinds of suspicions and fears are
being generated by attempts to find Al-Qaeda connections in the Triad
area of North Carolina. It seems to be the same old story of suspicions and
allegations. However, there was a brief reference to the Islamic
viewpoint in this article.
NEWSWEEK
quoted Imam Badi Ali as follows:
"One area Muslim who says he was recently visited by FBI agents accuses the
bureau of unfairly targeting the Triads 10,000-strong Islamic community
as a supposed rallying point for Muslim opposition to the repressive
policies of
the U.S. administration. [We] are easy scapegoats for all these problems,
says Badi Ali, the Palestinian president of a Greensboro mosque called
The Islamic Center of the Triad. We are becoming the usual suspects in all
searches, and I feel like we are living in a Third World country where
the secret police can interrogate and arrest us and build a case based on
secret evidence."
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WERE YOU FOOLED BY THE DEMONIZATION OF THE TALIBAN?
[Ms. Carolyn has sent us this article from
Asia Week,
published in October 2001.)
Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura works with leprosy patients and refugees in
Afghanistan
and Pakistan. It's a job that keeps him in touch with the
raw reality of life in that troubled country. And he says that from what
he has seen, the Taliban are being wrongly portrayed internationally.
"There's something wrong with the media reports," he says. "This talk
of the Taliban being vicious and disliked doesn't fit with reality."
Nakamura says the fundamentalists have wide support from the population,
particularly in rural areas. "Otherwise, how can they rule 95% of the
country with only 15,000 soldiers?"
Villagers around Nakamura's Peshawar base hospital and 10 clinics in both
north-western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan were pleased to see peace
established under Taliban rule, he says. The Pushtun people, who make up
two-thirds of the Afghan population, can accept strict Muslim codes
because they have lived by them all their lives, he says. Women are not
deprived of education or jobs, as far as he can see. In fact, half the
local doctors at his clinics are women.
So why are the people of the capital, Kabul, reportedly hoping to see
the Taliban overthrown? "The Taliban may act differently there," he
told me when we met recently in Tokyo. "They're obliged to fix the corrupt
urban life. The people most vocal in criticizing the Taliban are
upper-class Afghans who have been deprived of their privileges."
Nakamura's words reminded me of news footage I have seen several times
since the attacks on
New York and Washington. Shot by French journalists in Afghanistan, it
showed Afghan women speaking critically of the Taliban. Significantly,
they are dressed in shiny silk-like costumes, with large rings on their
fingers.
Nakamura, 55, says the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance are not the freedom
fighters some journalists describe them as. Villagers are frightened of
them because they are more violent and cruel than the Taliban, he says.
They execute innocent people in horrific ways, though not in public as the
Taliban do as a warning to others.
Nakamura works for Peshawarkai Medical Services, a Japanese aid agency
based in Fukuoka City that has been operating in the Peshawar district for
17 years. He first visited the area as an alpinist when he was still a
medical school student in Fukuoka. Shocked by the lack of medical care in
the area, particularly for leprosy patients, he volunteered to work at a
local hospital in l984. He says: "I spent most of my time not in straight
medical work but in trying to understand my patients, their lifestyles and
values -- what makes them weep or what matters most for them.
"Luckily, I can eat anything and sleep anywhere," he grins.
Nakamura has seen foreigners visiting Afghanistan and returning home to
criticise the Muslim culture -- from a Western perspective. These people
may be "heroes or heroines in London or New York," he says, "but they
contribute nothing to the welfare of Afghans." As for suggestions the
Taliban have cut the country off from the world, Nakamura says the Afghans
are perhaps better informed than the Japanese, as they listen daily to BBC
radio in their own language.
The doctor's greatest concern is the fate of millions of starving refugees
in and around Afghanistan. Over one million of them are suffering from
hunger, he says, while up to 40% are bordering on starvation. He thinks
10% could die during the winter. Nakamura and his staff stopped focusing
exclusively on leprosy in the l980s as they had so many refugees to deal
with, many suffering from malaria, diarrhoea, infections and fever.
Severe draught in recent years created hundreds of thousands of refugees.
And now the American bombing and the fear of an invasion has brought more.
His aid agency helps to dig wells not only to provide water but also for
irrigation for farms, so that the refugees can return to their villages.
Back home in Japan temporarily and thinking of his base area in Pakistan
and Afghanistan, Nakamura says: "It's all like a mirage far off in the
desert." He fondly recalls the red-brown soil of Afghanistan fields, the
villagers sharing their joy about water from newly dug wells, and the
friendly faces of Taliban soldiers helping villagers. "I have one simple
question," he says. "What are the big powers trying to defend by
attacking this ailing, tiny country?" It's a good question.
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