[IslamCity] you HAVE to READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:29:14 -0800

Asalaamu Alaikoum wa ramatuh Allahi wa barakatuh,
I am writing this to suggest that ALL of you please read the following book!!!!  Usually, it takes me a while to finish a book, but I couldn't put this one down!!!!  I finished it in only 5 days!!!!  I couldn't stop reading!!!!!!!
Seriously, you HAVE to read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   You won't be able to put it down!  May Allah SWT bless James Yee, our dear brother in Islam. Ameen.
wasalaam,
Andrea
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FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
JAMES YEE, FORMER US ARMY MUSLIM CHAPLAIN AT GUANTANAMO BAY
 
What do you believe in?
James Yee believed in God and America and one of those got him thrown in jail.
 
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James Yee, a third-generation Chinese-American and a 1990 graduate of West Point, served in the U.S. Army for 14 years, including a tour in Saudi Arabia during the aftermath of the first Gulf War. His spiritual conversion to Islam in 1991 guided his travels to Damascus, Syria, where he studied for four years and married. He twice traveled to Mecca to make the Hajj, the sacred Muslim pilgrimage.
In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a frequent government spokesman, helping to educate soldiers about Islam and build understanding throughout the military.
 
Subsequently, Chaplain Yee was selected to serve as the Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, where nearly 700 detainees captured in the war on terror were being held as "unlawful combatants."
 
In September 2003, after serving at Guantanamo for ten months in a role that gave him unrestricted access to the detainees' abuse--and after receiving numerous awards for his service there--Chaplain Yee was secretly arrested in Florida on his way to meet his wife and daughter for a routine two-week leave. He was locked away in a navy prison, put in solitary confinement, and subject to much of the same treatment that had been imposed on the Guantanamo detainees.
 
Wrongfully accused of spying, and aiding the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Yee spent 76 excruciating days in solitary confinement and was threatened with the death penalty.
After the U.S. government determined it had made a grave mistake in its original allegations, it vindictively charged him with adultery and computer pornography.
 
In the end all criminal charges were dropped and Chaplain Yee's record wiped clean. But his reputation was tarnished, and what has been a promising military career was left in ruins.
 
Depicting a journey of faith and service, Chaplain Yee's For God and Country is the story of a pioneering officer in the U.S. Army, who became a victim of the post-September 11 paranoia that gripped a starkly fearful nation. And it poses a fundamental question: If our country cannot be loyal to even the most patriotic Americans, can it remain loyal to itself?

http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586483692


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Salaam (Peace be upon you), Andrea (Saleema)   "To God belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth. Whether you show what is in your own selves or conceal it, God will call you to account for it. Then He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills, for God is Able to do all things."  (Qur'an 2:284).



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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)

{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)  also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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