Jamaat al-Muslimeen International Press Release
AWARD NAMED AFTER NON-COMPROMISING JIHAD LEADER
Will Recognize and Honor True Islamic Scholars
"Be patient and endure, o family of Yasir, for Paradise
awaits you." (Hadith, Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, extolling the oppressed strugglers.)
Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman, hafize Qur'an, erudite teacher of
Bukhari's Sahih, Ph.D in research on Jihad, spiritual leader of Egypt's
al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya spent Eid al-Adha in prison in solitary
confinement.
Alone, cut off from the whole world, unable to speak even to his
captors, he
refused to compromise:
1. No compromise with Israel. No recognition of the Zionist terrorist
state.
2. No compromise with dictatorship and tyranny.
3. Enlightened approach to Islam based on the wisdom of the Qur'an and
the
authentic Hadith.
There are very few scholars who have been placed in such a severe test
and
yet refused to bow down before oppression.
Such scholars should be recognized, identified and honored.
We have named the award after this great mujahid-scholar who has spent
his
life against oppression.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen would like to give the SOAR Award to 10 scholars
before
the year 1422 ends. Each award will have a stipend of $1000 with it.
The
awards will go to those scholar-mujahideen who have not been recognized
on an
international level as yet.
The COMMITTEE TO FREE SHAIKH OMAR 'ABDEL RAHMAN will carry out shoora
to
decide whom to select for the awards.
We need Muslims, mosques, individuals to donate for these awards. An
honor
list of people donating for the awards will be published.
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MUSLIMS OF THE WORLD: IT IS YOUR TASK TO FREE SHAIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN.
Write
to the American embassy nearest to you, and demand that the Shaikh be
freed.
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SEND THIS BRIEF MESSAGE TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT by email:
WE DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF SHAIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN, LEADER OF
EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT, al-GAmaa al-ISLAMIYYA, who is imprisoned in
Rochester, Minnesota.
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The email address of the Attorney General is: web@usdoj.gov
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