Boycott Israel [IslamCity] pleased with Allah
Allah's Messenger (Sal-allahu-aleihi-wassallam) said that if any Muslim said three times evening and morning, "I am pleased with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad as Prophet," Allah would certainly please him on the Day of Resurrection. Narrated by Thawban (Razi Allah Ta'lah Anhu); Tirmidhi and Ahmad transmitted it. Hadith No. 2399 of Mishkat al-Masabih.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] 9/11 research
The Evidence Destroyed, Missing, and Surviving Evidence of the September 11th Attack Evidence about the September 11th attacks can be divided into three categories: destroyed, missing, and surviving. The missing category includes officially secret information, since the existence of secret evidence and what it indicates cannot be verified. A great deal of the evidence about the crimes of September 11th has either been destroyed or is unaccounted for. Indeed the event was and continues to be used to justify a campaign of secrecy never before seen in the United States, virtually eliminating public accountability of the very agencies who were entrusted to handle the evidence. A review of the evidence shows a strong pattern of destruction or suppression of evidence, and the blocking of effective investigations, by the authorities. This is evident whether one looks at the flights, the World Trade Center, or the Pentagon. Evidence Timeline While a full accounting of the destruction of evidence from the attack would fill a volume were it ever to be told, the significant releases of evidence are few enough to be easily chronicled. a.. March, 2002: Five frames of video from a Pentagon security camera were leaked, feeding the no-Boeing theory of the Pentagon attack. Signs of forgery suggest that the frames were actually bait, intended to derail independent inquiry with red herrings. b.. May, 2002: Publication of FEMA's World Trade Center Building Performance Study provided evidence of a systematic effort to conceal and misrepresent the construction of the Twin Towers, while at the same disclosing in its Appendix evidence suggestive of explosives. c.. November, 2002: Contents of suppressed audiotape of communications from Chief Oreo Palmer, a firefighter who reached the crash zone of the South Tower, were released. d.. August, 2003: Publication of the book Behind the Scenes: GROUND ZERO revealed New York City firefighter Nicholas DeMasi's account of the recovery of three of the four black boxes from the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers -- an account not acknowledged by the 9/11 Commission. e.. July 22, 2004: The Kean Commission published the 9/11 Commission Report , whose demonstrable falsehoods, omissions, contradictions, and changed timelines demonstrate a systematic cover-up. f.. August 12, 2005: New York Times announced the release of oral histories long suppressed by the New York City government. g.. June, 2005: NIST released the draft of its final report on the collapses of the Twin Towers. NIST's blatant evasion of its stated objective to "determine why and how WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapsed following the initial impacts of the aircraft" amounts to a de facto admission that the Towers did not collapse because of the impacts and fires. h.. May 16, 2006: The Department of Defense released videos from two Pentagon security cameras. i.. July, 2006: exhibits of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui were published. They include a diagram of the location of Pentagon attack victims, and copies passenger lists for and detailed accounts of phone calls from the four commandeered jetliners. j.. August 11, 2006: The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released full transcripts of the air traffic control recordings from the four flights commandered on 9/11/01. A set of eight NTSB documents were published by the National Security Archive on the gwu.edu website. 1 Â The transcripts include altitude profiles and ground track maps for all of the flights except United Flight 93. References 1. Government Releases Detailed Information on 9/11 Crashes, National Security Archive, 8/11/06 http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/evidence.html
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] ZIONISTS LOSE FAITH IN THEIR OWN LEADER
ZIONISTS LOSE FAITH IN THEIR OWN LEADER Olmert's popularity plunges Gulf Daily News 5th January 2007 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=166456&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29291 JERUSALEM: A year after Ariel Sharon's stroke abruptly propelled him into the prime minister's seat, Ehud Olmert finds himself badly out of favor and under a darkening cloud of scandal. Yesterday, the one-year anniversary of his unexpected rise to power, the Dahaf Research Institute released a poll showing that 77 per cent of the country thinks Olmert is not functioning well. Olmert long coveted the prime minister's seat. But the 61-year-old lawyer, with his acerbic tongue, was not popular with ordinary Israelis, or his political associates. Sharon's incapacitating January 4 stroke suddenly spun Olmert's political fortunes around. It landed Olmert, then vice prime minister, at Israel's helm, where he successfully won an election less than three months later. The job, however, has brought him more grief than glory. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=166456&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29291
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] UNITED STATES ATTACKS ANOTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY--my comments
UNITED STATES ATTACK S ANOTHER MUSLIM COUNTRY The United States air force has raided southern Somalia and killed a number of people and livestock and property. The attack carried out by C-130 big bombers on the village is for alleged presence of an AlQaeda leader. For attacking a country the US does not require to abide by any international law or approval of United Nations, its own accusation is sufficient is for aggression. This is the conduct of a shameless superpower of to-day. US never learns lessons. It is embroiled in operations in Iraq, Afganistan and it is getting the beating it deserves there. Still it is threatening every day Iranian government, Syrian government and now has actually attacked Somalia. Before that its crony Etheopian government attacked Somalia with sixty thousand troops according to news reports. The United Nations is silent on American attack. The United Nations moves very fast when it serves American interest or Israeli interest. On the other hand America blocks all initiatives against its atrocities or atrocity of its crony states. We have seen recently how USA blocked all attempts in ceasefire in Lebanon when they thought Israel would be able to rout Hizbullah. When Israel failed to achieve its objective US agreed to a resolution. US failed in Somalia before, it will fail again, it will be more isolated from Somali people and the Muslim world.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Bangladeshis in east London: from secular politics to Islam
- Original Message - From: rosy awwal To: R Ahmed Delwar Hussain 7 - 7 - 2006 Who speaks for the mostly poor Bangladeshi community in east London? Delwar Hussain charts a long-term shift from secular leftism to Islamism – one in which British state policy has played a significant role. The connection between events in Bangladesh and the large Bangladeshi community in east London is intimate but not static. The influence of economic, political and generational change on the transformation of personal and public identities is profound. In particular, there has been a significant movement in recent years from alignment with secular politics as a vehicle of representation and empowerment towards Islamic-based organisation. An important element in this is that the British state has helped create and support this process through its funding policies and its application of a "multicultural" model of relating to and supporting community organisations in the area. To understand the context of this change, it is necessary to understand the trend of events in the Bangladeshi homeland itself. In 2001, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP) came to power in coalition with the vehemently Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami, which at the time of Bangladesh's liberation war in 1971 had fought to maintain the country as a province of Pakistan. "East Pakistan" (the forerunner of Bangladesh) shared a Muslim identity with "West" Pakistan – today the state of Pakistan proper – but most Bengalis wanted a secular society, rooted in Bengali culture rather than in Islam. Almost immediately after Jamaat's arrival in government, attacks against religious and ethnic minorities in Bangladesh began to be reported. A British peer and parliamentary human-rights representative, Eric (Lord) Avebury, said that "Bangladesh is an increasingly dangerous place for women, minority faiths and ethnic groups, opposition parties and secular organisations". He argued that at the root of these problems lies the "cancer of a maverick branch of Islamism" that aims to "transform the country into a Taliban-style dictatorship". Five years on, Bangladesh approaches an election scheduled for January 2007 with its politics bitterly divided between the Awami League ( AWL) and the BNP (see Liz Philipson, "Bangladesh's fraying democracy " (26 June 2006). The Jamaat openly advocates "Islamic revolution" and calls for the establishment of a worldwide Islamic khalifah (caliphate). This is the culmination of a process that began soon after independence with the assassination of Bangladesh's architect Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the seizure of power by the army. Bangladesh's new rulers sought legitimacy for their nationalistic vision by turning to religious parties. They removed secularism and socialism from the constitution, and declared Islam the state religion. This issue lies at the heart of the country's present predicament: the attempt to revive religion as an instrument to redefine the national identity. The war of liberation appeared to have resolved the problem, but the faultline persists. Jeremy Seabrook argues that it goes to the heart of the people's identity, "(setting) Bengali culture, language and tradition against the growth of a form of Islam not rooted in Bengal". Seabrook makes the important point that for centuries, the distinction between these two realities was not experienced as a problem or a division at all. The diaspora and the city These issues – Islamic and Bengali identity, religion and culture, political struggle and political power – are very much alive in London's Bangladeshi diaspora, centred in the Tower Hamlets area. At their forefront are organisations such as the East London Mosque (author of conspicuous and effective Islamist initiatives) and the Shadinata Trust (a secular body that seeks to increase awareness of Bengali culture and history among British Bangladeshis). The battle is an unequal one: the secular effort is faltering against the vibrancy and energy of the Islamists. One of the trust's primary objectives is to bring collaborators in the liberation war, some of whom live in Britain, to justice. For many young people in deprived Tower Hamlets, this is ancient history with no relevance to their lives: they regard Bangladeshi politics as distant and corrupt, and day-to-day issues of drugs, gangs and unemployment as far more relevant. The Islamists, by contrast, are sophisticated and up-to-date in their focus and appeal. The East London Mosque (and its affiliate, the London Muslim Centre [ LMC]) shares the ideology of the Jamaat-e-Islami. The mosque is no fringe organisation; it was at the centre of the campaign that helped elect the local Respect party candidate and vocal critic of Britain's New La
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] New Year Resolutions - A Muslim Perspective
Take Benefit of Five Before Five, Your Youth Before Your Old Age, Your Health Before Your Sickness, Your Wealth Before Your Poverty, Your Free Time Before Your Preoccupation, & Your Life Before Your Death. [Prophet Muhammad (saws)] New Years Resolutions Every year, as Muslims, we try our hardest to be patient, eat well, pray regularly and make positive life changes during Ramadan. However, as the year progresses it often seems that we forget those promises to ourselves. Although it is not the Muslim new year, 2002 is a good time for Muslims to renew the resolutions they made during Ramadan. A list of resolutions should be written down so one can refer to them throughout the year. They should include spiritual, as well as physical and mental practices, for Allah encompasses all of our lives and not just the hours in which we pray. The following is a list of resolutions I often give consulting clients who ask me what they should do to better their spiritual, physical and mental lives: 1-Exercise: When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close [to them]: I respond to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me: That they may walk in the right way, (Quran 2:186) As I perform more iridology readings and consultations, I am struck with the vitality I see in one certain group of people. This group includes smokers, people who eat junk food, people who have a family history of disease and people who have stressful lives. So what do they all have in common? Exercise! Their enthusiasm for joining a health club, swimming and sports teams, or their dedication to walking once a day, or taking a Tai Chi or Yoga class on a regular basis, has more than made up for their lack of dedication in other health areas. I do not recommend eating badly or smoking, for doing so will eventually catch up to you, but if you could change just ONE thing in your life it should be to exercise. Keep in mind that exercise can even be as simple as praying five times a day. Many people have compared the benefits of the Muslim prayer with those of yoga. 2. Drink Water: We made water essential for every life, (Quran 21:30) Very few people drink the doctor-recommended eight to ten cups of water a day. Most people drink only three cups of water a day or less. Even worse, many people cancel out what they do drink by drinking coffee, green tea or sodas which cause dehydration in the body. One can solve many health problems simply by drinking eight to ten glasses a day. 3. Give up Bad Habits: The Prophet said, "Allah has forbidden you ( 1 ) to be undutiful to your mothers (2) to withhold (what you should give) or (3) demand (what you do not deserve), and (4) to bury your daughters alive. And Allah has disliked that (A) you talk too much about others (B), ask too many questions (in religion), or (C) waste your property, (Bukhari: Volume 8, Book 73, Number 6). Everyone seems to have a bad habit that harms his or her health. Drinking, smoking and overeating are the most popular. However, there are many other bad habits that are unhealthy as well, such as: drinking excess coffee or colas, eating junk food, harboring bad feelings for people, yelling, gossiping, stealing, lying, cheating, watching too much TV, gambling, and many others. Keep in mind that any activity that is forbidden in Islam is unhealthy. Also keep in mind that any activity that starts to become and addiction (such as television, coffee, a friend and even your job) is also unhealthy. Make a pledge to yourself to identify your addictions and stop them (in the case of alcohol or smoking) or at least reduce them to a healthier level (in the case of indulgent socializing, work and television). 4. Be Positive: Give Glad tidings to those who exercise patience when struck with adversity and say, indeed we belong to God and to him is our return such ones receive blessings and Mercy of their lord, and such are the guided ones, (Quran 2:155). Start cultivating a positive attitude. There is a mountain of physical and medical evidence now to support that a positive attitude can work miracles. One reason could be that a positive attitude influences the thymus gland, which in turn strengthens the immune system. 5. Start Using Tonic Foods: Ye people, eat of what is on earth, lawful and wholesome, (Quran 2:168). Even if the rest of your diet is miserable, the addition of some simple "super foods" can supercharge it. Add some alfalfa sprouts to your salads often, use raw honey on your crackers or bread in the morning, eat sesame (found in Zaatar), sunflower and flax seeds regularly and start snacking on sheets of dried seaweed. All of the foods mentioned above contain a dense concentration of nutrients and serve the body in the same way v
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] How spicy foods can kill cancers
How spicy foods can kill cancers Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 16:18 GMT VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS Researchers say eating spicy food daily offers protection from cancer Scientists have discovered the key to the ability of spicy foods to kill cancer cells. They found capsaicin, an ingredient of jalapeno peppers, triggers cancer cell death by attacking mitochondria - the cells' energy-generating boiler rooms. Capsaicin in some peppers, attacks cancer cells' mitochondria The research raises the possibility that other cancer drugs could be developed to target mitochondria. The Nottingham University study features in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. The study showed that the family of molecules to which capsaicin belongs, the vanilloids, bind to proteins in the cancer cell mitochondria to trigger apoptosis, or cell death, without harming surrounding healthy cells. "We believe that we have in effect discovered a fundamental 'Achilles heel' for all cancers." Dr Timothy Bates Capsaicin was tested on cultures of human lung cancer cells and on pancreatic cancers. Lead researcher Dr Timothy Bates said: "As these compounds attack the very heart of the tumour cells, we believe that we have in effect discovered a fundamental 'Achilles heel' for all cancers. "The biochemistry of the mitochondria in cancer cells is very different from that in normal cells. "This is an innate selective vulnerability of cancer cells." He said a dose of capsaicin that could cause a cancer cell to enter apoptosis, would not have the same effect on a normal cell. "Cancer Research UK recommends reducing your risk of cancer by eating a healthy, balanced diet, with plenty of vegetables and fruit." Josephine Querido Potential Drugs The fact that capsaicin and other vanilloids are already commonly found in the diet proves they are safe to eat. This could make development of a drug containing them a much quicker and cheaper process. Dr Bates said: "Capsaicin, for example, is already found in treatments for muscle strain and psoriasis - which raises the question of whether an adapted topical treatment could be used to treat certain types of skin cancer. "It's also possible that cancer patients or those at risk of developing cancer could be advised to eat a diet which is richer in spicy foods to help treat or prevent the disease." However, Josephine Querido, cancer information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "This research does not suggest that eating vast quantities of chilli pepper will help prevent or treat cancer. "The experiments showed that pepper extracts killed cancer cells grown in the laboratory, but these have not yet been tested to see if they are safe and effective in humans." Cancer Research UK recommends reducing the risk of cancer by eating a healthy, balanced diet, with plenty of vegetables and fruit. Dr Bates added that the mitochondria in cancer cells could also be targeted by other compounds. He said the investigation and development of anti-mitochondrial drugs for cancer chemotherapy was likely to be "extremely significant" in the fight against cancer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm SEE ALSO Pepper 'kills prostate cancer' 15 Mar 06 | Health Could chilli peppers relieve pain? 30 Jun 06 | Health Secrets of how cells die revealed 10 Apr 04 | Health DDN video_text.gif Description: GIF image <> o.gif Description: GIF image
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] mafatih al-janna
Mafâtih al-janna shahadatu an lâ ilâha illallâh. "The keys to Paradise are the witnessing that there is no god but Allah." Ahmad related it from Mu`adh and Haythami said in Majma` al-zawa'id.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Saying "Ya Ali Madad" is Shirk
In a message dated 1/9/2007 5:19:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Saying "Ya Ali Madad" is Shirk Note: This Artical has not written to hurt someone rather my Ain is to provide True Aqeeda of Islam, And if i hurt you so i apologize in Advance! The Shia are guilty of committing Shirk by giving characteristics of Allah to their Imams. The Shia even pray to their Imams and invoke their names by saying "Ya Ali" or "Ya Hussain" or "Ya Nabi!" They then proceed to make du’a asking for whatever they want. The famous Shia saying "Ya Ali Madad" means "O Ali, help us!" According to the very basic principles of Islam, this is Shirk (associating partners with Allah). What power does Ali (r.a) have to grant our requests? What power does Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) have to grant our requests? Indeed, nobody save Allah has the power to grant our requests. It is not permissible to ask Allah by the virtue of anyone, not even by the virtue of the Prophets or Messengers or Awliyaa’ or righteous people. No one can compel Allah to do anything. It is not permissible to ask Him in any way except by His Names and Attributes, as Allah says: "And (all) the Most Beautiful Names belong to Allah, so call on Him…" (Quran, 7:180) And yet we see the Shia saying things like "Naad-e-Ali" which means "call on Ali!" We should only call on Allah. Ali (r.a) will tell these deviant Shia to stop calling him as he has no power, but rather to call Allah for help. In the same manner will Prophet Isa (Pbuh) repudiate the Christians for calling on him as opposed to Allah. With regard to saying to the occupant of a grave, "O So and so, help me," this is obviously Shirk, because it is a supplication to someone other than Allah. Asking by the virtue of someone is a means to Shirk, and calling upon a created being is Shirk in worship. How can a Muslim seek assistance from any other than Allah Almighty? Despite the fact that every Muslim must repeat the following words from the Quran in his prayer (salat) at least seventeen times a day: "You alone do we worship, and Your aid alone we seek." (Quran, 1:5) We see the Shia saying things like "Ya Ali" and "Ya Mehdi" when they are distressed and need help. They will say "Ya Ali Madad!" These people cry out these names in times of distress. In true Islam, however, we should only say "Ya Allah!" Calling out anyone else’s name for help is Shirk, because we believe only Allah can help us! This is the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH), as well as the way of Ali (r.a). Allah Almighty says clearly in the Quran: "And invoke not, besides Allah, [anyone since that] will neither profit you, nor hurt you, but if (in case) you did so, you shall certainly be one of the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers). And if Allah should afflict you with harm, then there is none to remove it but He; and if He intends good to you there is none to repel His grace." (Quran, 10:106-107) Humans, no matter their status, cannot help anyone or harm anyone. Only Allah Almighty can cause harm and only He can bring benefit to us. Allah Almighty says in the Quran: "Say [O Muhammad]: ‘I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allah wills’" (Quran, 7:188) If the Prophet (PBUH) could not even have power of good or harm over himself, then how can we say that he has such powers over others? If the Prophet (PBUH) himself declares that he cannot bring good or harm, then why are we asking him? Islam is a fiercely monothiestic faith, and rejects all forms of intermediaries with Allah. Intermediaries are none other than idols. The pagans believe that their idols are intermediaries, and they invoke them to ask God for help through them. So too do the Christians believe in Jesus as an intermediary to God. And so have the Imams become an intermediary and idols for the Shia. How often do we hear the Shia say: "Ya Ali, give us [such and such]" or "Ya Hussain, rescue us!" The Shia even go to the graves of their Imams, crying and rubbing their tombs; it is not unusual to see a Shia kissing the grave of his Imam and invoking the deceased Imam’s name in du’a. The Shia cry to their idols, kiss them, and invoke them. Then after doing all of this, the same Shia will say unashamedly about the Imam whose tomb they just cried to: "I do not worship him." This fact is embodied in their dictum: "Call upon Ali, the revealer of wonders." When these same people are asked if they worship Ali (r.a), they categorically deny this, despite the fact that they call upon his name (and their Imams) appealing for aid in obtaining their most demanding needs. This is exactly what modern day Hindus do. They worship idols, but if we ask them, they will look at us straight in the eye and say that they are monothiests. They claim that they aren’t worshipping the idols, and that the idols are just intermediaries to God. O Shia, come to the Call of Islam
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Zionism - Ruin and Dead
If Hitler Was Responsible for the Massacre of Six Million Jews During World War II, Then Give the Jews a Part of Germany as their Homeland & NOT Palestine. It Will Be Ideally Suited Since Most of the Modern Day Jews Have Their ROOTS in Europe. Will the Western World Do This - AB Zionism: Ruin and Dead Neil Berry, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66760&d=11&m=7&y=2005 Charged with being anti-Semitic, critics of Israel commonly counter that it is not Jews they are attacking but Zionism. Yet for accused and accuser alike this is often as far as the debate goes. Clinging fast to their prejudices, they are apt to retreat into hostile silence. The result is that while Israel is seldom missing from news bulletins, the ideology that inspired it eludes proper examination. Rarely is it acknowledged in the West what a powerful force Zionism remains that quite apart from being the abiding inspiration of the Jewish state, it has for some years played no small part in shaping US foreign policy. Over the coming weeks the consequences of Zionism are likely to become more starkly evident than usual as some of its most uncompromising adherents, extremists among the Jewish settlers of Gaza, furiously resist the efforts of the Israel Defense Force to evict them from land which they are convinced they were biblically destined to inherit. As battle rages, there will be special reason to reflect on the tenacity of this fateful ethno-religious movement. The taboo that bedevils discussion of Zionism has been a source of unease to the British literary academic Jacqueline Rose. In 2003, Rose gave a series of lectures on the subject at Princeton University lectures which have now been published in Britain under the title, The Question of Zion. A Jew with an anguished conscience, Rose well knew that she was subjecting Zionism to critical appraisal in the midst of an institution much patronized by American Jews, a college of higher education where many are loath to accept that Israel is other than the innocent party in the Middle East conflict. Where, she was bluntly asked, was her critique of Arab nationalism, of Arab hostility toward Israel? It was bold of Rose, a friend of the great champion of the Palestinian people, the late Edward Said, to anatomize Zionism in so unsympathetic a milieu. Nor did she fight shy of tackling thorny issues such as why Israel so persistently (and so aggressively) denies its own capacity for aggression. At the outset, she recalls the staggeringly crass remark made by Prime Minister Golda Meir during the 1973 Yom Kippur War that Israel was innocent of all blame for the military conflicts in which it got involved. Rose feels that it is a matter of urgent necessity to make sense of Zionist blindness, the blindness that extends from Israeli politicians to embattled settlers in the occupied territories who are eminently capable of inviting visitors to admire the landscape even as they drive them along heavily fortified settler roads which have been built over Palestinian territory as part of a concerted Israeli effort to efface the very existence of the Palestinian people. Believing that Zionism sprang from the legitimate desire of a victimized race for a homeland, Rose is nevertheless quick to acknowledge that Israel was founded on a historic act of injustice to the Palestinian people, and she confesses to being horrified by the violence that Israel has committed in the name of the Jewish people. The purpose of The Question of Zion is to uncover the roots of Israels pathology. A devotee of that characteristically Jewish field of inquiry, psychoanalysis, she believes that the path to salvation lies in self-knowledge. Her chief preoccupation is to clarify whether the brutality and urge to conquest that have marked Israels brief history were inherent in the Zionist project; or whether the story of Zionism might have been different if only the warnings of wiser heads, of Jewish humanists like Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt, had been heeded. Rose points out that a neglected yet profoundly influential strand of Zionism positively thrives on catastrophe. Her book opens with an arresting discussion of the seventeenth century mystical messiah, Shabtai Zvi, whose self-appointed mission was to return the Jews to Palestine and who was apparently prepared to stop at nothing in his pursuit of this goal. One day in 1665, this sinister manic-depressive (who was to convert to Islam) smashed down the door of the Portuguese synagogue in Smyrna, preached a blasphemous sermon and arrogated to himself the right to apportion kingdoms to the men and women of his congregation. Investing the Ten Tribes of Israel with absolute unchallengeable might, he declared that none are able to stand up against them. The relevance of all this to what
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] War on Muslims - CRUSADER Strikes Targets pf Al-Qaida in Somalia
Can We CATEGORISE Us As INNOCENT Civilians When the Victims of Our Govts Policies (Military Occupations, Supporting Military Occupations, Propping Up Inhuman Regimes, Imposing Our Values etc) Retaliate Against Us. - AB US Strike Targets Al-Qaida in Somalia http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_re_af/us_somalia WASHINGTON - The U.S. military launched a strike against several suspected members of al-Qaida in Somalia, a government official said Monday night. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the operation's sensitivity, said at least one AC-130 gunship was used in the attack. CNN, NBC and CBS first reported the military action. CitingPentagon officials, CBS said the targets included the senior al-Qaida leader in East Africa and an al-Qaida operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The same operatives are also believed responsible for a 2002 attack on Israeli tourists in Kenya and an attempt to shoot down an Israeli aircraft the same day, NBC News reported. The 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed more than 250 people. The 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya killed 15. The White House on Monday night would not confirm the incident. Air Force Lt. Col. Todd Vician, a Defense Department spokesman, said he could neither confirm nor deny the reports of an airstrike. There was no confirmation that the Air Force had killed either of the al-Qaida targets. Air Force AC-130 gunships are heavily armed aircraft with elaborate sensors that can go after discreet targets day or night. They are operated by the Special Operations Command and have been used heavily against the Taliban in Afghanistan. U.S. Navy vessels have been deployed off the coast of Somalia to make sure al-Qaida or allied jihadists don't escape the country, the State Department said last Wednesday. Somalia's effective central government fell in 1991, when clan-based warlords overthrew a military dictator and then turned on each other. The government was formed two years ago with the help of theUnited Nations, but has been weakened by internal rifts. Soldiers loyal to Somalia's U.N.-backed government and Ethiopia's military late last month drove out a radical Islamic group that had been in control of the country for six months. The U.S. has believed for years that a group of al-Qaida operatives has been hiding in Somalia. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] "For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account." (Holy Quran 88:25-26) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] DAJJAL BUSH MASSACRES ENTIRE SOMALI VILLAGE
DAJJAL BUSH MASSACRES ENTIRE SOMALI VILLAGE U.S. strikes at al Qaeda in Somalia, "many dead" By Guled Mohamed Reuters Tue Jan 9, 2007 http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-09T104805Z_01_L09770013_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOMALIA-CONFLICT.xml MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A U.S. attack plane killed many people with barrages of gunfire in a remote Somali village occupied by Islamists thought to be hiding at least one al Qaeda suspect, a Somali government source said on Tuesday. In the first known direct U.S. military intervention in Somalia since a failed peacekeeping mission that ended in 1994, an AC-130 plane rained gunfire on the desolate southern village of Hayo near the Kenyan border late on Monday. "I understand there are so many dead bodies and animals in the village," the senior source told Reuters. The U.S. Navy also confirmed it had moved the aircraft carrier Eisenhower to the Somali coast -- Africa's longest -- to beef up a naval cordon it had already put there as the Islamists sought refuge in the remote southern tip. "They are, with other ships, making sure that terrorists are not able to use the sea as a means of transport," said Charlie Brown, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which is based in the Gulf state of Bahrain. U.S. intelligence believes Abu Talha al-Sudani, identified in grand jury testimony against Osama bin Laden as an explosives expert from Sudan, is the leader of east Africa's al Qaeda cell and has been in and out of Somalia for over a decade. "The Americans are saying an al Qaeda member heading operations in east Africa is among the Islamists there," the source said. He did not know the man's name or whether he died. U.S., Ethiopian and Kenyan intelligence officials say some Islamists have provided shelter to a handful of al Qaeda members, including suspects in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and a 2002 hotel bombing on the Kenyan coast. Besides al-Sudani, Washington has named Comorian Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan among the al Qaeda members in Somalia. The Washington Post, quoting unnamed military sources, said al-Sudani was one target of the raid. 'PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON' Ethiopian and Somali troops have chased al-Sudani since he was leading Islamist fighters near Buur Hakaba, close to the government base Baidoa, in the early days of a war which began around Christmas, Somali government officials told Reuters. Hayo is in the southern tip of Somalia between Afmadow and Doble, areas where Ethiopian and Somali troops chased the Islamists' last remnants after ending their six-month rule of Mogadishu and most of southern Somalia in a two-week offensive. Though many have suspected an American hand in the Somali conflict, this attack is the first solid evidence of it and is in line with previous U.S. attacks targeting al Qaeda members. An unmanned Predator drone flown from the U.S. Horn of Africa counter-terrorism base in Djibouti killed an al Qaeda suspect in Yemen in 2002, and the AC-130 was almost certainly flown from there by the elite Special Operations Command. The AC-130 is a propeller-driven converted cargo plane derived from the AC-47 gunships flown in Vietnam that were known as "Puff the Magic Dragon". It has sophisticated sensors that allow it to pinpoint targets with heavy automatic cannon fire. The lumbering, 29 meter (95 foot) long plane can fire 1,800 rounds a minute from a Gatling gun and has in its arsenal a 105mm howitzer -- ordinarily a crew-fired ground artillery cannon that has to be towed by a truck. The Islamists deny any al Qaeda links, saying the accusation has been invented to justify intervention in Somalia. DISASTROUS INTERVENTION Born out of sharia courts, the Islamists took Mogadishu and much of the south in June and threatened just weeks ago to overrun Baidoa, then the only town the government controlled. Ethiopian troops with armor and air power, along with government forces, quickly pushed the Islamists from Baidoa, forced them out of their stronghold, Mogadishu, and caused them to scatter to Somalia's desolate southern edges. Hundreds of Islamist fighters are now hiding in the bushland there, while Kenya's military is trying to seal its lengthy border to prevent them escaping. Mindful of a disastrous intervention in the early 1990s -- related in the book and film "Black Hawk Down" -- Washington had until Monday not overtly involved its forces in the war. But it did receive a setback when CIA was found in April to have paid despised Mogadishu warlords to help fight the Islamists on counter-terrorism grounds, only for them to lose the city to disciplined Islamist fighters in June. The presence of troops from traditionally Christian Ethiopia has stirred both nationalist and religious fervor in mainly Muslim Somalia, with a series of protests and small attacks on Ethiopian troops in recent days. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, who on Mond
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Big brother UK TV show
BIG BROTHER By Sajid Iqbal Big Brother, a programme where 13 people chosen from thousands of applicants, are asked to live in a house where there are hidden cameras placed throughout the house covering their every move... and I mean every move if you know what I mean. Every week one guy or girl is evicted by the television viewers, who are given tasks to carry out and then are judged on their success as well as their behaviour, personality and deeds. The successful person at the end of the show is rewarded £100,000. Well, you're probably thinking what's this got to do with anything? Let me shock you by saying that our life in this world is just like the telly show Big Brother - no fatwa's please, let me explain! Our house is this world - the dunya. Our hidden camera is none other than God Almighty, the creator of the universe who watches our every single move. Allah (swt) gives our tasks in His book, the Qur'an and by His Messenger, Muhammad (saw). The Creator judges us on our deeds and actions and our prize at the end of the show is Paradise and eternal life. Now what do you make of that then? Not bad eh I know you're shaking your head and saying the blokes lost it but just think about it for a moment and it'll make sense to you trust me. The term 'Big Brother is always watching you' has a very important meaning for Muslims. OK, check this out - the idea that 'Big Brother is always watching you' should become clear: You're cruising down the road in your Subaru ( or your Nissan Micra if you were honest) and you approach the lights. You think I ain't stopping and all of a sudden you see a cop car from a distance. So what do you do? Slam your brakes, put your seat belt on and hope the coppers say nowt. Its true innit unless you get a buzz out of being fined and visiting the nick! You see we follow the law because we know we are being watched, and if we break the law we will be punished. Another example: will you ever light up a spliff or chat up a girl/guy in front of your parents, older brother or your local molbi (imam).You must be joking! Why? Because you know a higher authority is watching you, so you have to do 'the right thing' otherwise you will be punished big time. Now, to get to the point- if we 'do the right thing' or follow the law of the land only to please the higher authorities in this world then why not 'do the right thing and obey the law of Allah' - the Creator of the Universe, who is the highest authority and is always watching you? You see whether we are playing football, watching the telly, in the town center, at uni or college, at work, in the mosque or in the nightclub our every action is watched and recorded. So next time you decide to link up with your undercover girl/boyfriend somewhere that you know that your dad, the local Imam and that big mouth auntie down the road wont see you, always remember that 'Big Brother' - the All-Seeing- is ALWAYS watching you, there is no place on Earth where you can go where you wont get clocked by Him. 'Big Brother' is always watching us so isn't it about time we faced the facts and sorted ourselves out to save our self from the embarrassment in this world and the hereafter. A couple of things might be on your mind. You're thinking: 'OK I know Allah(swt) watches our actions but still I can't stop myself from doing what I do, even though I know its wrong. So, what do I do?'. Fair point. To know something is wrong or haram doesn't take a genius but to stop yourself from committing sin and haram acts is the hardest thing ever. But you see that is the trick. That is the test. The test of life - pass this and you're buzzing. What we need is taqwa - the fear of God. The only way we can do good in this world and have a good hereafter is if we fear Allah (swt). The Prophet (saw) said in his final sermon : Fear your Lord, pray your five prayers, fast the month of Ramadan, pay your Zakah, and obey your leaders, in doing so, you will enter your Lords Paradise.(Tirmidhi) For the rest of the article please visit http://www.7cgen.com/index.php?showtopic=6962 - Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. Do it now...
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] cease-fire
IDF will ensure cease-fire goes up in flames By Gideon Levy Here is the forecast: In a few days, there will be a targeted killing operation. The military correspondents will recite: "He was one of the senior operatives of Hamas (or Islamic Jihad), and was responsible for producing and smuggling large amounts of armaments." In response, a barrage of Qassams will fall on Sderot. One of the residents might be injured. In the process of the targeted killing operation, some passersby might also be killed; the correspondents will then recite: "They were armed." Several days later, there might be a terror attack. The leaders of the right-wing parties and the Labor Party will be interviewed on television and will recite: "Abu Mazen has once again demonstrated that he is incapable and unwilling to fight terror. There is no one to talk to." Public Security Minister Avi Dichter will propose turning Beit Hanun into a ghost town. Eli Yishai will suggest bombing from the air. The next day, Qassams will fall again, and the IDF will enter the northern Gaza Strip. The cease-fire will go up in flames. This is not a bold wager. This is almost the exact series of events that occurred in previous cease-fires. What was is what will be. There are plenty of examples. In January 2002, after several months of quiet, the Tanzim activist Raed Karmi was assassinated in Tul Karm. Dichter, who was then the head of the Shin Bet, pushed for this action, of course. Immediately afterwards, Fatah began its suicide bombing attacks. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795406.html Thank out Creator for those like Gideon Levy.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] PATRICK BUCHANAN: WHO IS PLANNING OUR NEXT WAR?
PATRICK BUCHANAN: WHO IS PLANNING OUR NEXT WAR? Who Is Planning Our Next War? by Patrick J. Buchanan Antiwar.com January 9, 2007 http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10290 As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day. Will I leave here as the man who launched failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost thousands of U.S. dead, to no avail? Or can I yet enter history as the Churchillian statesman who used U.S. power to save America and Israel from the mortal threat of atomic weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs? Which legacy would Bush prefer? Or Cheney? As Americans await Bush's address announcing a "surge" of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, we may be missing the larger picture. The War Party is turning its attention from Iraq to Iran. Nor is it simply an analysis of the character of George Bush that causes one to so conclude. Tehran is now two weeks into a 60-day deadline to answer a Security Council resolution directing it to cease enriching uranium. While the sanctions are mild, the resolution passed unanimously and gives Bush the U.N. cover he used to wage war on Iraq. If Iran defies the United Nations, Bush will demand further sanctions. Up the escalator we go. Moreover, a second U.S. carrier battle group is heading for the Gulf. More interesting, the new CentCom commander, replacing Gen. John Abizaid, is no soldier, but Adm. William J. Fallon, commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific. What Fallon does not know about securing streets, he does know about taking out targets from the air and keeping sea lanes open in a time of war. Bush may be sending signals, but the Israelis are preparing for war. The London Sunday Times reports that Israeli pilots have been making the 2,000-mile run to Gibraltar to train for strikes with bunker-busting nuclear bombs on Iran's heavy water plant at Arak, the uranium hexaflouride facility at Isfahan and the centrifuge cascade at Natanz. Israel angrily denies the report. But, on Dec. 30, retired Gen. Oded Tira, who headed up all Israeli artillery units, burst into print with this admonition: "As an American air strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help (Bush) pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and U.S. newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure." "Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran," writes Tira. Thus, Israel and its U.S. lobbying arm "must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate action by Bush against Iran." "The Americans must act," Tira concludes. "If they don't, we'll do it ourselves ... (and) we must immediately start preparing for an Iranian response to an attack." According to UPI editor-at-large Arnaud De Borchgrave, Tira's line tracks the New Year's Day message of Likud superhawk "Bibi" Netanyahu, the former prime minister. Said Netanyahu, Israel "must immediately launch an intense, international public relations front first and foremost on the U.S. The goal being to encourage President Bush to live up to specific pledges he would not allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. We must make clear to the (U.S.) government, the Congress and the American public that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the U.S. and the entire world, not only Israel." Israel's war, says Bibi, must be sold as America's war. We are thus forewarned. A propaganda campaign, using Israeli agents and their neocon auxiliaries and sympathizers, who stampeded us into war in Iraq, is being prepared to stampede us into war on Iran. We are to be convinced that Iran, with no air force or navy to speak of, an economy not 2 percent of ours, which has not started a single war since the revolution, 27 years ago, is about to give to terrorists, to use on us, a nuclear bomb it may be 10 years away from even being able to build. Will Congress be duped again into giving Bush a blank check for war? Or will this new Congress summon the courage to take the war option out of Bush's hands, to decide itself, for the nation, when, where and whether America should ever go to war against Iran? Every presidential candidate should be asked: Does President Bush have the authority to attack Iran without specific congressional authorization? And would you support giving him that authority? Needed today are courageous men and women of both parties who will introduce and pass a congressional resolution stating, "In the absence of a direct Iranian attack on U.S. forces or personnel, or an imminent threat of such an attack, President Bush has no authority to launch a pre-emptive strike or a preventive war on Iran." If we are going to war, let us do it constitutionally, for once, and not leave it up solely to George W. Bush and Brother Cheney. http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The most fortunate
as`adu al-nasi bi shafa`ati yawma al-qiyama man qala La ilaha illallah khalisan mukhlisan min qalbihi. Abu Hurayra inquired from the Prophet: "O Messenger of Allah, who will be the most fortunate of people to receive your intercession on the Day of Resurrection?" The Prophet replied: "O Abu Hurayra, I knew, because of your love of what I say, that no one other than you would ask me of this hadith. The most fortunate of people to receive my intercession on the Day of Resurrection are those who said: la ilaha illallah purely and sincerely from the heart." Narrated by Bukhari from Abu Hurayra.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Scattering of dust
Assalam alaikum, Allah Almighty says, "And among His signs is that He created you (Adam) from dust,and then, behold, you are human beings scattered everywhere" [Quran 30:20] Commenting on this hadith the Prophet Muhammad said, 'Allah created Adam from a handful which He picked up from throughout the earth, so the sons of Adam came forth accordingly, red and white and back, and in between evil and good, and those in between evil and good' [Ahmad 4/400] The diversity in which we have been created, different people in different parts of the world does not mean we seclude ourselves from our neighbours. Rather it means we ought to interact with one another, find beauty in one another and happiness with one another. In fact it is not only a Mercy from Allah that we are different but a blessing from Allah that we are different for as human beings we crave variety, change and challenge in our lives,if everything was too similar, too stagnant, the human mind would become bored, the notion of adventure would disappear and a veil of sadness would fall upon us all. And Allah Almighty reminds us that people have been created with free will, some good, some bad, and some indifferent in between. But Allah Almighty send us something of a reminder when Allah says: "The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind" [Quran 40:537] The arrogance by which some people assume that they are better than others, purely on the grounds of race comes apart. This verse reminds us of the facts of this universe, the facts of this creation, that in the grand scheme of things, we as people are not necessarily insignificant, but we are just a small part of this creation. Anytime anyone feels a degree of superiority over someone else they ought to remember this verse for, for those who ponder and understand, it is indeed humbling. Of course people do better one another in terms of piety. Some refer to it as God-consciousness, others simply living your life for the sake of God. This certainly doesn't refer to sitting around praying all day as that was simply not the example of the Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace - for he was not only active in every sphere of his life, particularly the social sphere in establishing and retaining good relations but he was humble enough to engage in everyday duties right down to fixing his own shoes when they became damaged. Prophet Muhammad once said that the heart is like a feather in the desert, the wind keeps turning its direction [Tirmidhi 103]. One day we, people, will return to being dust so let us remember to encourage one another to do good, forgive one another our faults, help one another achieve their goals and bring one another happiness, even if only a smile. "...So blessed is Allah, the Best of creators" [Quran 23:14] Fi amanillah, wa salam, f
