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With the Name of Allah, The Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer Muslim News Center Digest for: Wednesday, 2 Jumada al-Awal 1421 / 2 August 2000 To read the entire stories and to read future stories daily as they are posted, point your web browser to: http://www.oneummah.net/news/ --------------------------------- Jordanian Islamists call for the return of Hamas leaders --------------------------------- Posted Tuesday August 1, 2000 - 05:46:39 PM EDT Doha - Jordanian Islamic leadership has called for the return of the four Hamas deported leaders to Jordan and for an end to that crisis in the interest of both Hamas and Jordan. --------------------------------- 50-50 chance of a West-Iraq deal --------------------------------- Posted Wednesday, August 2, 2000 by oneummah: LONDON: Saddam Hussein began the Gulf War ten years ago today (Wednesday) when he launched his forces across the desert into Kuwait. Officially, the war ended seven months later. Yet last week British and US planes were in action over northern and southern Iraq, as they have been for the past year and were the year before that. --------------------------------- Al-Hayat: Clinton Affronting 1.2bn Muslims --------------------------------- Posted Monday July 31, 2000 - 09:45:40 PM EDT Tehran - The U.S. President Bill Clinton has affronted 1.2 billion Muslims of the world, said the Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat. Clinton has in fact reminded the forgetful Muslims that he is their real enemy, it said adding, the U.S. tries to impose it economic, political, and military domination over the Middle East through Israel. The apex of Clinton's shamelessness was his stupid statement about paying compensations to Israel for the return of the Palestinian refugees, it added. --------------------------------- China continues executions of Uigur Muslims, West is happy to turn a blind eye --------------------------------- Posted Monday July 31, 2000 - 03:46:19 PM EDT China executed three more Muslims in Urumqi, the capital of East Turkestan (officially Xinjiang province), early last month, after a kangaroo court found them guilty of "separatist and terrorist crimes". At least 20 Muslims have now been executed on similar charges since the end of March. Three other Muslims were also executed on the same day for non-political crimes, but they may also have been Muslim mujahideen involved in Chinese-occupied East Turkestan's struggle for freedom from China. --------------------------------- Islamic.com opens office in Kuala Lumpur --------------------------------- Posted Sunday, July 30, 2000 by oneummah: London, Rabi Akhar 28/July 30 (IINA) - The London-based Islamic.com company has opened a regional office in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. The company uses the Internet in carrying out its activities concerning Islamic financing, and its Website carries all the details in that respect. --------------------------------- Russia/Muslims in Karilia --------------------------------- Posted Saturday, July 29, 2000 by oneummah: Moscow, Rabi Akhar 27/July 29 (IINA) - There is a community of 6,000 Muslims living in the Republic of Karilia within the Russian Federation, situated adjacent to Finland, in the northernmost part of Russia. The total population of the republic is 772,000. --------------------------------- Russian, Chechen talks --------------------------------- Posted Friday, July 28, 2000 by oneummah: MOSCOW, July 28: Russia is negotiating with Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov over the nine-month conflict in the breakaway republic - but only to negotiate his surrender, senior Kremlin officials said on Friday. "Negotiations are going on not just with Maskhadov, but with all those who want peace," said General Viktor Kazantsev, President Vladimir Putin's personal envoy to the north Caucasus region. --------------------------------- Conference on Abdul-Wahhab in Britain --------------------------------- Posted Thursday, July 27, 2000 by oneummah: Birmingham, Rabi Akhar 24/July 26 (IINA) - A conference will be held next month (Jumad Awwal) in this British city, and theme of the conference would be “Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab and His Reformist Call and Its Influence in the World.” --------------------------------- Gaza readies the flags of freedom --------------------------------- Posted Monday, July 24, 2000 by oneummah: GAZA CITY: Tairif Abu Dayya has had a hectic month. In his Palestine Liberation Organisation shop in Gaza City, amid dozens of inflatable Yasser Arafat dolls dangling from the ceiling, he and his family have been hurriedly sewing 3,000 flags. --------------------------------- IAP-Net: Mufti of Palestine says Palestinians must have religious and political sovereignty on Jerusalem --------------------------------- Posted Monday, July 24, 2000 by oneummah: Occupied Jerusalem July 24/00- The Mufti of al-Qods and the Whole of Palestine, Ikrema Sabri, has rejected a reported Israeli proposal to grant Muslims "religious sovereignty" over Jerusalem. --------------------------------- Mayor Vetoes Plan To Buy Out Muslims --------------------------------- Posted Friday, July 21, 2000 by oneummah: PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) -- The mayor vetoed a measure to pay a Muslim group $200,000 to drop plans to convert a church into a mosque, calling the proposal ``fiscally irresponsible.'' --------------------------------- CAIR-NET: Minnesota County Approves Interest-Free Real Estate Contracts --------------------------------- Posted Friday, July 21, 2000 by oneummah: (MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 7/21/2000) The Hennepin County (Minn.) Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved a real estate contract that permits interest-free purchase of tax-forfeited properties. The initiative was sponsored by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group. (Islamic beliefs prohibit dealing in interest.) --------------------------------- Senegal/Report on Religious Sects --------------------------------- Posted Thursday, July 20, 2000 by oneummah: Dakar, Rabi Akhar 17/July 19 (IINA) - There are four very influential religious sects in Senegal, whose influence covers the political, economic and social life of the country. These are the Maridi, Tijani, Ilahi, and Qadiri, but this report will first focus on the Maridi sect, because of its effect on the economic life of the people. _____________________________ The Muslim News Center http://www.oneummah.net/news/ A Member of One Ummah Network _____________________________