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Unusual Information
INDIA'S SURPRISE
INVOLVEMENT IN GAZA:
According to the Press Trust of India [August 12]
the biggest group of "immigrants" in Gaza, second in number only to the
Jews, were Indians. According to Avin Gangte from the Bnei Menashe community
[probably Indian Jews], they refused to leave Gaza when ordered by Israel and
were among those who defied eviction to the end. [Source: Express India,
Washington, DC., August 16]
Thus there is rapport not only between the
Indian and Israeli governments but between Indian Jews and Israel.
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Sad but True.
Israel Wants Peace? You
got to be Kidding!
Late on August 24, Israeli forces
entered the Palestinian town of Tulkarm and killed 5 Palestinians. Israel had
decided that these men were a threat to Israel. After making excuses for the
Israeli attack, a Jewish paper with a gentile front, the Baltimore Sun, of August 26 provided this information
about what actually happened:
" ... young Palestinians were sitting outdoors, eating
sunflower seeds and talking to a well-known militant leader when undercover
Israeli troops jumped out of a mercedes."
Thus we see the Israeli Jews sending a hit
squad into a Palestinian town and killing an opponent and four of his friends
who were sitting peacefully outside their home. Probably a collaborator was used
to spot the activist.
Under international law, Israel, an
occupying entity, has once more commited a serious crime. Also under
Islamic law, the Palestinians have the right to retaliate and to kill 5
Israelis, an eye for an eye. Previously, an Israeli got into an Arab bus and
killed 4 Palestinians before he was beaten to death. Later a Jew [settler]
killed 4 Palestinians on the West Bank without any provocation. One Jew was
stabbed to death in Jerusalem by a Palestinians. That makes it 13 to 2. Can the
Israelis expect a living nation to accept this ratio?
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen News [3 items]
Using Peaceful Means to Create Awareness
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 2123
Ahmed 'Abdel Sattar:
Sentencing Postponed
Egyptian-American dissident Ahmed 'Abdel
Sattar who was convicted on far fetched and absurd charges of "terrorism" is
facing life in prison. For the time being his sentencing has been postponed and
a new court date is not available yet.
This gives well wishers another
chance to write letters to the judge asking for leniency. The letters should be
sent to his attorney. [Email New Trend to get the attorney's address which
was published earlier.]
Ahmed's case is unique in the war
on terrorism. THERE IS NO WITNESS AGAINST HIM. It's all based on the
government's tapes of his phone conversations with opponents of the Hosni
Mubarak regime. Human rights groups agree unanimously that Mubarak, the dictator
of Egypt, also known as the Pharoah, practices arbitrary arrests, systematic
torture, violations of families and homes of opponents, attacks on
mosques, rape and murder.
There is no peaceful way of getting rid
of the tyrant of Egypt who is a close ally of Sharon, Bush and
Blair.
Ahmed used to talk to the
opponents of this murderous regime and tried to pass on the key points of the
conversations to the blind Shaikh, Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman, ONCE EVERY Four
to SIX MONTHS.
Ahmed has NEVER committted any
act of violence, yet is being treated as a terrorist because he opposes the
Pharoah.
Ahmed is one of America's leading
Muslims, humble yet very learned in both the Qur'an and the Hadith. The Zionists
hate his guts and the Egyptian dictator sees him as a threat owing to his
defense of the great Egyptian spiritual leader Dr. Omar 'Abdel
Rahman.
AHMED is a POLITICAL PRISONER IN THE TRUEST SENSE OF
THE WORD.
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SEIFULLAH CHAPMAN:
VIRGINIA's INNOCENT MUSLIM GIVEN LIFE IN PRISON for Allegedly OPPOSING
INDIA'S OCCUPATION OF KASHMIR
Seifullah is an innocent Muslim from Virginia who never opposed the U.S. in any
shape or form. He was once in the marines and that came to be counted against
him. He is diabetic and owing to neglect in prison, it has developed
further.
Former attorney general Ashcroft
wanted to prove that there were "terrorists" in America, so he arrested a group
of young men who used to play paintball and some of whom had visited Pakistan.
Among them was Seifullah.
Seifullah was convicted under the
Neutrality Act [for opposing a friend of the U.S., which is India], "material
support" for Lashkar-e-Taiba, and for possessing a gun.
Thus a man who has never opposed the
U.S. was given 60 years in prison [which in effect means a life sentence]. His
Egyptian wife has given us a copy of his final statement in prison. We hope to
publish excerpts from it in the near future.
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Jamaat al-Muslimeen's Difficult Task
Islamic Rights for
Muslim Women in America: Brief History.
From the Primitive
Jahiliyya of ISNA-ICNA to the "Made in America Islam" of Manji and Asra
Nomani.
by Kaukab Siddique,
Ph.D.
In 1978, Jamaat al-Muslimeen, an
organization of U.S. Muslims, introduced the teachings about women from the
Qur'an and the Hadith according to which Muslim men and women are equals:
Merit and superiority is based on TAQWA [Fear of Allah, God-conscious behavior,
awareness of Allah], not gender.
These teachings were rejected by
ISNA and ICNA, two immigrant groups linked at that time to the Muslim
Brotherhood [Ikhwan] and Jamaate Islami of Pakistan & India.
These groups were bent upon
keeping the "equality" idea out of the Muslim congregations they controlled with
their financial and organizational abilities. The more Jamaat al-Muslimeen
emphasized the idea, the more these groups reacted against it.
Hence a strange situation
developed: There was a pretense that Jamaat al-Muslimeen did not exist, although
our publications and books continued to make inroads in the general Muslim
population. The whole issue of women's rights was forced by my article "The
Example of Ayesha" published in 1980. No established Muslim company in
America would publish it. ['Ayesha, r.a., led men, some of the greatest men, in
the Battle of the Camel.] It finally appeared in my book Islam and Revolution,
published from Singapore in 1981.
Similar was the situation of much
of my [and our] writings on women's rights for 8 years till finally my
book The Struggle of
Muslim Women appeared in 1986. Till then it had been like samizdat,
photocopied, stapled and distributed.
It went through FOUR EDITIONS, one
edition published entirely by a Muslim sister, one issued from Bangladesh
and one from Singapore. ISNA and ICNA continued to pretend that the book
did not exist. Fortunately our paper New Trend
helped to sell it and just about every leader-type or activist Islamic woman in
America read it.
In 1992, a Bangla translation of the Struggle of Muslim Women was published from Dhaka
University. Earlier in 1990, my second book on the subject Liberation of Women Thru
Islam was published. Again, in an astonishing development, a Muslim woman
published an entire edition of this book. It was too late for ISNA and ICNA.
They had been bypassed. They tried damage control and set up various "women's
auxiliary" groups [kitchen affliates} to soothe their followers.
Thereafter we came across
our real opposition.
In Pakistan, for instance, westernized Pakistani groups were trying to prove
that women really are second class citizens in Islam. When they found our
publications, they had to resort to censorship of their own. It soon became
clear that they talked of women's rights because they thought Islam
really does NOT support such rights.
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
used "The Example of Ayesha" when she rose to popularity in the Punjab but she
was not interested in implementing Islam and soon became extremely
unpopular.
The first sign of the
emerging new problem was the publicity given by the Washington Post to Ms. TASLIMA NASRIN, a Bangladeshi
woman who attacked the Qur'an. When Nadrat Siddique from Jamaat
al-Muslimeen wrote to the Post to rebut Ms. Nasrin, her letter was not
published.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen was the first
in the U.S. to set up a masjid which was RUN BY A WOMAN [Ashira Na'im]. As it was
run strictly according to the Sunnah, it was ignored by the media. Jamaat
al-Muslimeen was the first in America to bring women into its decision-making
processes [Shoora]. This too was a problem for those who wanted to prove that
women are not equals of men in Islam.
On the positive side, The Struggle of Muslim Women was picked up by women in
Minister Farrakhan's movement, the Nation of Islam. One of the leader women in
the NOI declared in a heavily attended international Islamic conference that the
book which had influenced her the most, after the writings of her own leaders,
was The Struggle of Muslim Women.
More recently, Sis. Karen English, Secretary
General of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, organized a boycott of businesses which support
Israel, again a FIRST for the Muslims of America.
Earlier we published a whole list
of independent Muslim women who work for Islam without any connection to
the funded ISNA-ICNA groups and the openly pro-West Asra Nomani
types.
On the negative side, ISNA, ICNA
etc kept Jamaat al-Muslimeen strictly out of the many masjids they controlled.
Unable to get a bigger audience, activists of Jamaat al-Muslimeen started
breaking away and joining well-funded and established groups. Some of them
simply went off on an independent tangent. However, a HARD CORE remained in the
Jamaat.
In the meantime, the
FORCES of ZIONISM and IMPERIALISM had realized that a key weakness of the Muslims
is the failure of their leaders to deal with the oppression of women. Under the
pretense of attacking the Taliban as intractable oppressors of women, these
forces started a systematic campaign to enter Muslim societies worldwide in the
name of "liberation of women."
In America, these moves are
symbolized by Irshad Manji, a Canadian woman, who claims to be a Muslim [Agha
Khani], a supporter of homosexuality and of
Israel. Asra Nomani, who worked for the Pro-Zionist Wall Street Journal and was a buddy of Daniel Pearl,
an Israeli who was brutally killed in Pakistan, is the choice of America's
establishment as "woman leader."
People on the brink,
but more learned, like Dr.Amina Wadud, who were not treated well by established
Muslim organizations, were material to be utilized in the attempts to break
Islamic communities.
What made these women
dangerous for the Muslim communities was the tremendous coverage the U.S. [and
worldwide Zionist] media gave them unstintingly. They were glamorized by
the enemies of Islam as "saviors of Muslim womanhood."
As these women TALKED EQUALITY
and were LINKED to the ENEMIES of ISLAM, the entire authentic movement for
women's rights in Islam became suspect. Muslims now see this "pro-woman"
activity as linked to the agents of America, such as Hosni Mubarak, the dictator
of Egypt, and General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's coup leader.
In this new era of DAJJAL,
Muslim women working for their rights according to the Qur'an and the authentic
Hadith, will have to prove not only their Islamic integrity but also their
INDEPENDENCE from all U.S. government agencies as well as from connections to
secularist dictators and Zionist-funded and publicized groups.
There is need for
unity between all Islamic groups which accept Muslim men and women as each
other's AWLIYYA [The Qur'an 9:71] and which reject Zionist, Imperialist,
Kingly and dictatorial control of the Muslim world.
We must also learn to
respect the different stages of the struggle through which the Muslim world is
passing. From the Islamic viewpoint, it's wrong to think that the
issue in Afghanistan is the burqa and other local customs which hold women back.
The central issue is the expulsion of U.S. and NATO forces and the emergence of
an independent Afghanistan which will then give women their rights.
Similar is the situation in Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya and Iraq.
BOTH, Muslim men and women, must
be freed from foreign domination before internal oppression can be dealt with.
Hence we must respect women in Pakistan and Egypt who wear the NIQAB,
if they do it to please Allah and to oppose cultural imperialism [as opposed to
imposition by the husband or the family]. The state's imposition of restrictions
on women in Saudi and Iran is very different from the natural development of
Islamic women's movement.
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U.S. Prison: People
Treated Like Dogs: North Carolina
[Excerpts]
Inmates say they were put on leash http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/12480248.htm The Alexander Correctional Institution has been ordered to stop using a leash-like tether on its inmates until the device is tested and evaluated by the state. The maximum security prison in Taylorsville has been using the nylon tether on some inmates since about the time it opened last year. .The director of prisons didn't know the tether was being used until the Observer inquired this week, after receiving letters from two inmates who said they were put on a "dog leash." Alexander Correctional, about 65 miles northwest of Charlotte, houses 959 inmates who are serving long sentences or convicted of violent crimes. Administrator Reggie Weisner said the tether was used when moving inmates considered especially dangerous to the showers or recreation area. Acree said 57 inmates are in that category. The tether is about 2 1/2 feet long and made of nylon webbing with a loop handle at one end and a clip at the other. Weisner said corrections officers attached the clip to the waist chain on inmates who would also have their legs shackled and their arms handcuffed behind their back. The officers, he said, would always walk behind the inmate allowing them to hold the tether loop instead of putting hands on the inmate. A man serving a life sentence for murder wrote in his letter that inmates who want to shower "have to wear a dog leash around a chain as if we are really dogs or animals." ------------------------
IMPORTANT NEWS [From New Trend's Media Monitor]
Bangladesh: WOLFOWITZ
VISIT, MYSTERIOUS BOMBINGS, INDIAN INTRUSIONS on LONG BORDER
Bangladesh has one of the
largest numbers of Muslims in the world. The Islamic movement has emerged there
in a variety of ways. The government is nationalist, in coalition with the a
very moderate Jamaate Islami and others. The opposition is pro-India and led by
Mujibur Rahman's daughter, the politician who along with Bhutto and General
Yahya brought about the breakup of united Pakistan.
On August 17, 2005 there were a series of
small bomb blasts across the country, more than a 100, with no specific targets,
which killed two people and injured more than 50. The effect was to create a
"terrorism" alert in Bangladesh.
New Trend notes that around that time,
notorious American Jew and warmonger Paul Wolfowitz
visited Bangladesh and met in private with pro-India Awami League
leader Shaikh Hasina. According to Dhaka newspapers, he discussed Bangladesh's
"next government" with Hasina.
Observers say Wolfowitz is very concerned
about the increasing Bangladeshi partcipation in the Jihad in Afghanistan,
Kashmir, Iraq and Chechnia. An estimated 200 Bangladeshi Muslim volunteers have
given their lives in the Jihad while another 500 have been wounded, reports
say.
After the bombings, Awami League called for
a general strike in the country which met with limited success. However, the
strike pressured the government to focus on a medressa group Jamaatul Mujahideen
Bangladesh and its two leaders, Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai, as alleged
perpetrators of the attacks.
The government arrested 123 Islamic
students, mostly from medressas, and by August 26 had broken a few of them to
"confess" to the bombings.
New Trend analysts say that the
pattern of the attacks indicates that it could not have come from Islamic
elements and was devoid of any specific targets.
On Bangladesh's borders, India is
creating pressure by creating border incidents. On August 19, Indian troops
fired on Bangladeshi border guards on the northern Rajshahi border trying
to stop Indian attempts to create erosion on the banks of the Mahananda river.
The Bangladeshis fired back and the firing went on for two hours.
On August 21, Indian troops opened fire on
the Kushtia-Daulatpur border killing a Muslim civilian Azizul Haque. A visitor
from India named Biswanath was wounded.
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PAKISTAN:
MUSHARREF
OVERSEES LOCAL ELECTIONS and DECLARES VICTORY AGAINST "EXTREMISTS"
Local elections in
Pakistan have resulted in serious charges of rigging and ballot box stuffing,
particularly in Karachi and Punjab. The Musharref government seems to have been
intent on using the results of the local elections to proclaim victory against
the "extremists" which is his term for the Islamic elements.
Media reports say
that in Karachi, the Musharref government is allied to the gangster organization
known as MQM. At the conclusion of voting at various places in Karachi, the
pollsters were strong armed out of the booths and replaced by MQM men who
proclaimed MQM's victory.
On August 26, after
Friday prayers rallies were held at mosques across Karachi by the Islamic
coalition MQM to protest the election fraud.
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