Boycott Israel [IslamCity] THE VIRTUES AND RIGHTS OF MARRIAGE
The Virtues and Rights of Marriage 1. It is mentioned in a Hadîth that this world has been created to be utilised and that of all the things that are utilised in this world, there is nothing better than a pious woman. In other words, if a person is fortunate enough to get a pious wife, it will be a great blessing. It is also a mercy from Allah Ta'âlâ that she is actually a comfort for the husband and a means for his success in this world and in the hereafter. A person enjoys comfort from such a woman for his worldly needs and she also assists him in fulfilling his religious duties. 2. It is mentioned in a Hadîth that Rasûlullâh sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam said : Marriage is my way and my sunnah. The one who does not act upon my sunnah is not of me. That is, there is no relationship between him and me. This is actually a warning and a threat to the one who does not practice on the sunnah and a mention of Rasûlullâh's sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam anger on such a person. It is therefore necessary to be extremely cautious in this regard. Furthermore, how can a Muslim bear to have Rasûlullâh sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam displeased with him for even a moment. May Allah Ta'âlâ grant us death before that day comes when a Muslim is able to bear the displeasure of Allah and His Rasûl sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam. It is mentioned in a Hadîth that Rasûlullâh sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam said : Marry so that I can be proud (of your numbers) on the day of judgement over the other nations. In other words, Rasûlullâh sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam likes his ummah to be in large numbers and more than the other nations. If this happens, his ummah will be carrying out more good deeds, and in so doing he will receive more rewards and gain closer proximity to Allah Ta'âlâ. This is because whoever from his ummah does good deeds, does so through his teachings. Therefore, the more people who act on his teachings, the more reward he will receive for conveying those teachings. We also learn from this that whenever and however possible, we should undertake to carry out those tasks and actions that will take us closer to Allah Ta'âlâ, and that we should not display any laziness in this regard. It is mentioned in a Hadîth that on the day of judgement the people will be standing in 120 lines. Out of these, 40 lines of people will be from the other nations while 80 lines of people will be from the ummah of Rasûlullâh sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam. Glory be to Allah! How beloved Rasûlullâh sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam is to Him. The one who is able to (fulfil the rights of a wife) should marry. As for the one who does not have sufficient wealth (to fulfil the rights of a wife), he should fast. That is, he should fast so that there will be a decrease in his desires. Fasting is actually a means of curbing his desires. If a person does not have a very dire need for women, and instead has an average need, and he is able to pay for her basic necessities, then nikâh is sunnat-e-muakkadah for such a person. As for the person who has a very urgent need, nikâh will be fard upon him. This is because there is a fear that he will commit adultery and thereby get the sin of committing a harâm act. If a person has a very urgent need but is financially incapable of maintaining a wife, then such a person must fast abundantly. Later, when he has sufficient funds to maintain a wife, he must get married. 3. It is mentioned in a Hadith that children are the flowers of jannah. This means that the amount of joy and happiness one will experience on seeing the flowers of paradise, that same amount of joy and happiness is experienced when he looks at his children. And we know fully well that children can only be obtained through marriage. 4. It is mentioned in a Hadîth that when the status of a person is increased in jannah, he asks out of wonder : How did I receive all this? (That is, How did I receive such a high status when I hadn't carried out so many good deeds to deserve such a status?) It will be said to this person that this high status is on account of your children asking for forgiveness on your behalf. In other words, your children had asked for forgiveness on your behalf. In return for that, you have been accorded this status. 5. It is mentioned that the child who is born out of a miscarriage (i.e. it is born before the due date) will fight(wrangle) with its Creator when its parents are entered into jahannam. In other words, this child will go to extremes in interceding on behalf of its parents and will ask Allah Ta'âlâ to remove its parents from jahannam. Through His bounty, Allah Ta'ala will accept the intercession of this child and He will be soft and lenient towards it. It will be said to this child : O siqt (which means, miscarried foetus) who is quarrelling with its Lord! Enter your parents into jannah. So this child will draw its parents out of jahannam with its navel cord and enter both of them into jannah. We learn from this,
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The Faces of Tariq Ramadan
Integration YES But NOT at the Cost of Losing Our IDENTITY, Our Religious Beliefs, Our VALUE SYSTEMS Our WAY OF LIFE AB The Faces of Tariq Ramadan By STÉPHANIE GIRY Published: April 1, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/books/review/Giry.t.html?_r=1oref=slogin For some years now, the Swiss philosopher and Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan has been saying he wants to reconcile Islamic tradition with Western democracy, conservative religious values with liberal political ones. But not everyone finds him credible. And being the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, doesnt help. Skeptics say he is a radical in disguise a Janus-faced rhetorician who presents a moderates face to Western audiences and a reactionarys to Muslim ones. The government is taking no chances: it has twice denied him a visa to teach in the United States, ostensibly for giving about $800 to a charity later blacklisted by the government because of suspected ties with Hamas. (Ramadan is now a fellow at Oxford.) Ian Buruma concluded a recent profile of him in The New York Times Magazine with this uncertain endorsement: From what I understand of Ramadans enterprise, the values he espouses are neither secular, nor always liberal, but they are not part of a holy war against Western democracy either. His politics offer an alternative to violence, which, in the end, is reason enough to engage with him, critically, but without fear. Ramadan, meanwhile, continues to defend himself and his project. In his new book, In the Footsteps of the Prophet, a biography of Muhammad, he seeks to illustrate that Islam and Western democracy are inherently compatible by extracting lessons from the prophets life. Returning to the roots of Islam, he believes, makes the parallels clear. Ramadans Muhammad is a kind man and a wise leader. He is fair to his wives, openly affectionate with his daughters, generally good to women he lets them into the mosques. (Gentleness is one of Ramadans favorite words.) Muhammad knows when to encourage patience and faith in his followers and when to indulge their craving for rest and sex. He consults before making decisions, and wages war only when necessary. He is tolerant of non-Muslims and fair to his enemies. His faith is unflappable, but he is also a critical thinker: he uses reason to translate the word of God into a practicable ethics. If Muhammad is the embodiment of Islam, Islam is a religion of moderation, common sense, resilience and love. Some will challenge Ramadans understated, if not euphemistic, treatment of the Muslims conquest of the Arabian Peninsula and his claim that armed jihad is justified only in self-defense. But judging this avowedly interpretive biography by its historical accuracy or the quality of its Koranic interpretation is to miss the more relevant question: What does the book reveal about Ramadans political philosophy? Ramadans vision of Islam comes down to just a few universal principles. Everything else the cultures of Muslim countries, the politics often pursued in Islams name is historically contingent, and so up for negotiation. (Elsewhere, Ramadan has said, Arabic is the language of Islam, but Arabic culture is not the culture of Islam.) For just this reason, Islam can be a complement to modern democracies. Islam does not establish a closed universe of reference, Ramadan argues, but rather relies on a set of universal principles that can coincide with the fundamentals and values of other beliefs and religious traditions. In other words, In the Footsteps of the Prophet is a brief. But it is also an apologia for some of Ramadans most controversial positions. In 2003, he was criticized for calling for a moratorium on the stoning of adulterers rather than condemning the practice outright. He replied that while he personally opposed the sentence and the death penalty in general advocating a sweeping ban might have alienated hard-liners in majority-Muslim countries and delayed reform there. This claim seemed feeble to his detractors, but it was probably less sinister than it sounded. As this book suggests, Ramadans response wasnt a tacit endorsement of stoning so much as an expression of his view that each society must decide for itself how to put into practice the values of Islam. Likewise, his portrayal of those values as universal may shed a different light on his alleged bigotry. He was called an anti-Semite after he wrote an article in 2003 chiding French-Jewish intellectuals like Alain Finkielkraut, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Bernard Kouchner for reflexively backing the war in Iraq and Israels foreign policy. He didnt help his case by including on his list the sociologist Pierre-André Taguieff, who isnt Jewish. Yet even prejudice, if thats what accounted for the slip, neednt have
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] REF: Huge Rally for Turkish SICKularism
Congratulations to brother Alan Border for coming up with this name SICKularism Now Turkish SICKularism did it again and again. Please see the full article at: http://www.usislam.org/itsajoke/huge_rally_for_turkish_sickulari.htm Muslims in Texas were very proud to see Imam Dr. Yusuf Kavakci opens the Texas Senate Session after an invitation from Senator Florence Shapiro. We all thank and appreciate the action of Senator Shapiro. I know Imam Dr. Yusuf Kavakci, for over 20 years. He is the Imam of Islamic Association of North Texas (IANT), Dallas Central Mosque. http://www.iant.com/ He is an inspiration for many Muslims here. The family of Imam Dr. Yusuf Kavakci is also a model Muslim Family of the main stream Muslims everywhere on earth.. He is the father of Merve Safa Kavakci The great lady who was elected and went to the Turkish Parliament with Hijab. She was then booed and kicked out of the Parliament. Please look at the website of Merve Safa Kavakci. http://www.mervekavakci.net/ The Islamophobic Turkish SICKularism are trying to paralyze the rights of the Turkish Muslims. Abdullah Gul crime is that his wife wears Hijab. ! For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account Holy Quran 88:25-26) Dr. Yusuf Ziya Kavakci, The Islamic scholar.from Good Turkey http://www.iant.com/ Dr. Yusuf Ziya Kavakci was born on June 22, 1938 in Hendek, Sakarya, Turkey. At an early age (8-9 years) he accomplished memorizing whole Qur'an (Hifz al-Qur'an), graduated from Hasircilar Qur'anic School (Adapazari) with a training in Tajwid, Qira'ah, Arabic (Sarf and Nahw), Tafsir, Hadih, Fiqh, and allied Islamic Sciences. He passed national Exams for Waiz (Preacher and lecturer in Islamic Sciences) and Mufti (ordained and authorized to give Fatwa and religious verdict in Islamic field) and qualified for those jobs. He worked as Muadhdhin (Professional caller to prayer, Hirka-i Sharif Mosque), Imam (Kara Ahmed Pasha Mosque in Topkapi), and Waiz in the governorships Fatih and Beyoglu in Istanbul. Dr. Kavakci received a bachelor's degrees in Law from The College of Law of Istanbul University and also in Islamic Studies from the Institute of Higher Islamic Studies, got his Ph.D. in Islamic History and Culture from Faculty of Arts, Istanbul University. After working as Assistant Professor and as Associate Professor in the Institute of Islamic Research, Istanbul University, he helped to establish the first college of Islamic Studies in modern Turkey. The College of Islamic Studies is now a part of Ataturk University, Erzurum where Dr. Kavakci worked as senior faculty. He chaired Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh and other departments and got full professorship in Islamic Law and worked as Dean of the College. His professorship in Islamic Law was the first such position in Turkey after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. He was educated in the traditional Ottoman way of Islamic Studies as well as in modern methods of teaching in today's universities. He is a board certified attorney in Turkey and practiced Law in Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and attended numerous International Conferences on Islam. He was involved in the activities of the Islamic Conference and was in charge of the Muslim Minority students sponsored by Islamic Development Bank in Turkey. Dr. Kavakci currently resides in Richardson, Texas. He is the resident Islamic Scholar and Spiritual Leader of the Muslim community affiliated with the Islamic Association of North Texas - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Checking on Darfur
Checking on Darfur Historic African American Press Delegation visits Sudan By Jehron Muhammad Akbar Muhammad, founder of Youth 4 Africa Foundation realized the importance of seizing this opportunity and contacted James Mtume, Co-Host of Open Line talk radio to solicit his help in organizing members of the African American Press to travel to the Sudan and visit Darfur. This event was a historical trip and the first of its kind for an African American press delegation to travel on a fact finding mission to support what the media in the west has been saying about Two months ago during a live feed to thousands who attended the Nation of Islams Annual Saviors Day Convention President of The Republic of Sudan, Omar El-Bashir extended a special invitation to those interested in visiting Sudan. The invitation was extended through Akbar Muhammad to give individuals the opportunity to ask hard questions about Genocide in the Sudan. The Sudanese government insists that the horror stories we hear in the media are lies and propaganda contrived by special interest groups in America. Sudan or dispute the lies that are being told to millions of Americans about the current crises in Sudan, especially Darfur. Through the efforts of Mr. Muhammad this press delegation met with Ministers of Government in Khartoum, visited IDP camps (internally displaced people) in Darfur, and talked with people in the marketplace, traveled to remote areas in Sudan to ask the pertinent questions. Both BET and TV-One had a one on one exclusive interview with President Omar El-Bashir. His Excellency encouraged the media to feel free to go anywhere in Sudan and talk to anyone. He assured them they would find nothing to support the atrocities that are being charged by the media in the west. It was not long ago that slavery in Sudan was a hot issue but the inability of the media to substantiate chattel slavery in Sudan was replaced by the issue of atrocities allegedly being committed with the backing of the Sudanese government in Darfur. This issue has been pitched to the American people with a special focus in the Black community about Arabs killing Black people. Could it be because Islam is the fasting growing religion in the world especially in the Black Community? According to several European publications and a small article found in the Washington Post, the issue of slavery in Sudan was more fraud than reality. So ridiculous was the perpetuators false campaign against Sudan, that the worlds oldest human rights organization Anti-Slavery International warned the United Nations Commission on Human Rights that: Unless accurately reported, the issue can become a tool for indiscriminate and wholly undeserved prejudice against Arabs and Muslims. (We) are worried that some media reports of slave markets, stocked by Arab slave traders which (we) consider distorted reality fuel such prejudice. Just as suddenly as the issue of slavery in Sudan appeared and then disappeared, the only distorted reality remaining was Arab and or Muslim atrocities against Black Africans. When we traveled in Sudan we found that the lightest Arab is darker than most African Americans and when we enquired about why theyre called Arab, were told simply some of us are Arab because we speak Arabic. So what is the truth concerning atrocities being committed in Darfur? This is a region that is 100 percent Muslims, where Idriss Deby, President of Chad and many Chadian citizens share the same tribal heritage of the people of Darfur. In addition this tribal group called Zagawa based in Chad and Darfur are members of cross border militia groups invading Darfur. So who are its perpetrators, and the facts remaining about the fairly recent implementation of a coalition government between the so-called Arab North and the Black African South and why so little has been reported? These and other questions were being asked by an African American press delegation that went to Sudan. The group according to Akbar Muhammad, leader of the press delegation and coordinator of the tour should report what is really happening in Darfur. If what they are saying is true about the government of Sudan then report it back to the American public and if what they are saying about Arabs killing Black Africans, raping their women, killing their children, pushing Black Africans off their land then by all means report that but if none of this is true then we should report what we find. The press delegation included several African American publications, including the Final Call, Philadelphia New Observer, Trumpet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, BET.com, TV-One and New Yorks KISS FM radio. James Mtume co-host of Open Line on 98.7 KISS-FM has already broadcast live from Sudan. According to Mtume, On Sunday we gave our first historic broadcast from Khartoum. Mtume
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Saudi-Egyptian Causeway to Link Two Continents
Saudi-Egyptian Causeway to Link Two Continents P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News JEDDAH, 3 May 2007 - During his visit to the Kingdom's northern region next week, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah is expected to launch a number of important projects, including the long-awaited Saudi-Egyptian Causeway which will link the continents of Asia and Africa. The Saudi monarch, who is visiting the region for the first time since becoming king in 2005, will also open the project for the construction of Tabuk University. The first phase of the project will cost about SR1 billion ($375 million) and include 16 colleges. Informed sources said King Abdullah would lay the foundation stone for the 50-km causeway linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The causeway will be built in three years at a cost of $3 billion. It will link Ras Humaid in Tabuk with Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt and pass through Tiran Island. A consortium of Saudi, Egyptian and international companies will implement the project without causing financial liability to either government, the sources said. Tabuk Gov. Prince Fahd ibn Sultan previously discussed the feasibility of the project with Amr Al-Dabbagh, governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. The causeway has been the dream of most Egyptians since it was first proposed about 10 years ago, said Ali Masoud, an Egyptian journalist working in the Kingdom. He said the causeway would not only facilitate transport between the two countries but would also link the Asian and African continents. It will have a great socio-economic and political impact on the region, Masoud said. Many Saudi businessmen will support the project as it will facilitate transportation of goods, especially vegetables, between the two countries, Masoud said, adding that the project would help bring down vegetable prices in the Kingdom. He said the project would also strengthen relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the two most influential countries in the region. The causeway will benefit many countries in the Gulf and Africa and will bring about a dramatic change in transportation between the two continents, he explained. Fouad Abdul Aziz Khaleel, adviser to the Egyptian transport minister and chairman of the Arab Roads Administration, said the causeway could be completed within three years with the support of specialized international companies. Khaleel expressed the hope that companies involved in the project, developing the causeway on a build-operate-transfer basis, could recoup their investment within a decade of its completion. He said the causeway would reduce transportation time between the two countries to 20 minutes. It will also lessen the difficulties of workers traveling between the two continents, he added. The ferry tragedy that claimed hundreds of Egyptian and tens of Saudi lives in February last year revived interest in the causeway project. In a statement soon after the tragedy, Egyptian Transport Minister Muhammad Mansour said the implementation of the causeway project had become essential to avoid marine transport tragedies. Before the El-Salam ferry tragedy, 10 boats were operating between Dhuba and Safaga weekly. Now it has been reduced to two. Between 50,000 to 70,000 Egyptians go on the annual pilgrimage to Makkah and an estimated 1.2 million Egyptians work in the Arabian Peninsula, mainly as construction workers. The bridge will not be too long and the relatively shallow sea in that area allows for such construction, said Ibrahim Kamel, an Egyptian architect and businessman. With Kind Regards Mohammad Usman Jeddah SAUDI ARABIA IMPORTANT: This article is being circulated to inform our Muslim brothers and sisters as to the current affairs affecting the Muslims; circulation of this article should therefore not be misconstrued as anything but the sharing of such information. image001.gifimage002.gifimage003.gif
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] SMALLVILLE DESTROYED AS DAJJAL BUSH CONTINUES HIS FAKE PROPHETHOOD
SMALLVILLE DESTROYED AS DAJJAL BUSH CONTINUES HIS FAKE PROPHETHOOD Assalamu aleikum. Greensburg, USA has been destroyed. How long will the American people tolerate among themselves the dajjal Bush who through his pretended messengership of Allah (S.W.T.) has brought on this catastrophe along with so many others? Shocking photographs of the devastation: http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/ --- Translations of the Meaning of the Holy Qur'an relating to tornadoes: 67:16 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/067.qmt.html#067.017 067.017 YUSUFALI: Or do ye feel secure that He Who is in Heaven will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones), so that ye shall know how (terrible) was My warning? PICKTHAL: Or have ye taken security from Him Who is in the heaven that He will not let loose on you a hurricane? But ye shall know the manner of My warning. SHAKIR: Or are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not send down upon you a punishment? Then shall you know how was My warning. --- 17:66 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.068 YUSUFALI: Do ye then feel secure that He will not cause you to be swallowed up beneath the earth when ye are on land, or that He will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones) so that ye shall find no one to carry out your affairs for you? PICKTHAL: Feel ye then secure that He will not cause a slope of the land to engulf you, or send a sand-storm upon you, and then ye will find that ye have no protector? SHAKIR: What! Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send on you a tornado? Then you shall not find a protector for yourselves. --- 29:40 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/029.qmt.html#029.040 029.040 YUSUFALI: Each one of them We seized for his crime: of them, against some We sent a violent tornado (with showers of stones); some were caught by a (mighty) Blast; some We caused the earth to swallow up; and some We drowned (in the waters): It was not Allah Who injured (or oppressed) them: They injured (and oppressed) their own souls. PICKTHAL: So We took each one in his sin; of them was he on whom We sent a hurricane, and of them was he who was overtaken by the (Awful) Cry, and of them was he whom We caused the earth to swallow, and of them was he whom We drowned. It was not for Allah to wrong them, but they wronged themselves. SHAKIR: So each We punished for his sin; of them was he on whom We sent down a violent storm, and of them was he whom the rumbling overtook, and of them was he whom We made to be swallowed up by the earth, and of them was he whom We drowned; and it did not beseem Allah that He should be unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own souls. --- 54:19-22 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/054.qmt.html#054.019 054.019 YUSUFALI: For We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster, PICKTHAL: Lo! We let loose on them a raging wind on a day of constant calamity, SHAKIR: Surely We sent on them a tornado in a day of bitter ill-luck 054.020 YUSUFALI: Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground). PICKTHAL: Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees. SHAKIR: Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up. 054.021 YUSUFALI: Yea, how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning! PICKTHAL: Then see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings! SHAKIR: How (great) was then My punishment and My warning! 054.022 YUSUFALI: But We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition? PICKTHAL: And in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth? SHAKIR: And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who will mind? --- 54:33-40 http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/054.qmt.html#054.033 054.033 YUSUFALI: The people of Lut rejected (his) warning. PICKTHAL: The folk of Lot rejected warnings. SHAKIR: The people of Lut treated the warning. as a lie. 054.034 YUSUFALI: We sent against them a violent Tornado with showers of stones, (which destroyed them), except Lut's household: them We delivered by early Dawn,- PICKTHAL: Lo! We sent a storm of stones upon them (all) save the family of Lot, whom We rescued in the last watch of the night, SHAKIR: Surely We sent upon them a stonestorm, except Lut's followers; We saved them a little before daybreak, 054.035 YUSUFALI: As a Grace from Us: thus do We reward those who give thanks. PICKTHAL: As grace from Us. Thus We reward him who giveth thanks. SHAKIR: A favor from Us; thus do We reward him who gives thanks. 054.036 YUSUFALI: And (Lut) did warn them of Our Punishment, but they disputed about the Warning. PICKTHAL: And he indeed had warned them of Our blow, but they did doubt the warnings. SHAKIR: And certainly he warned them of Our violent seizure, but they obstinately disputed
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Cairo Uni. Human Rights Committee Condemns Transferring Scientists to Military Court
Vision for E-Business | www.ikhwanweb.info - Original Message - From: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: website@ Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:12 AM Subject: |- mohebbollah recommends a topic to you.-| Recommendation of Topic at www.ikhwanweb.info Sender: mohebbollah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender Comment: sir it is most importent event in egyptimportant for ikhwan Title: URL: You can read the full topic HERE Topic: The Human Rights Committee in the Cairo University issued a statement that condemns referring Egyptian university scientists to military courts because they have a reformist project. The Text of the Statement: Countries and peoples all over the world give so much respect to their scientists and boasted of them front of other nations; pictures of scientists are put on currencies and their biographies are taught to pupils at schools. But, in Egypt honoring scientists takes a different shape: throwing them behind bars over various charges, the most prominent of which are charges of introducing reforms and thinking !! The regime has recently transferred a group of reformists to military courts. Do you know that more than 25 % of those referred to the latest military court are teaching staff members in Egyptian universities Why have these professors been arrested? Because they have an effective reformist role in the society and the professionals and university arenas; this made the regime attempt to excluded them from the society in this critical stage in the history of our nation, and to intimidate all university teaching staff members and the other reformist powers in the society. For What Are These professors Calling? They call for building the renaissance of the nation and its cultural project on : Keeping the nation's identity, original values and deep-rooted principles . The independence and freedom of the university and its professors and students . Providing free and fair elections that reflect the will of people . Providing a peaceful circulation of power . Respecting human rights and stopping exceptional measures. Providing judicial independence and integrity. Why have these professors been transferred to military court?, why are they denied their right to stand trial before their competent judge? The competent Court of Appeals acquitted them and ordered them immediately released; this made the dictatorial regime arrest them again and refer them to a military court. Finally: This is not a matter of arresting nine teaching staff members .. It is a matter of violated freedoms.. Violated human rights .. Disrespected court rulings and people whom the regime wants to silence.. A homeland that the regime wants to keep behind bars.. It is the issue of every Egyptian .. What shall we do? Human Rights Committee Cairo University It is worth mentioning that 25% of the reformists who are appearing before an incompetent military court over fake charges, are the teaching staff members in various Egyptian universities. They are: * Dr. Khaled Awda, geology professor at the Faculty of Science, Asyut University, leader of the Egyptian geologic group and deputy leader of th international geology group. * Dr. Mahmoud Ahmed Abu Zeid, a surgery professor at Cairo Faculty of Medicine, leader of a group of auditors at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. * Dr. Essam Abdul Alim Hashish, a communications professor at Cairo Faculty of Engineering, a member of the supreme council of the Engineers Syndicate and human rights activist. * Dr. Mohamed Ali Bishr, a professor at power engineering in Monofiya university, Secretary-General of the Engineers' Syndicate, chairman of the regional office of Secretary General of Engineering Associations Union of the Islamic Countries. * Dr. Mohamed Ali Baligh, ophthalmologist at the optical research institute, chairman of the social committee in the optical research institute. * Dr. Essam Abdul Mohsen Afifi, a biochemistry professor at Al-Azhar faculty of medicine, assistant treasurer in the Cairo Doctors' syndicate. * Dr. Salah Al Desouki Amer, anatomy professor at Al-Azhar faculty of medicine, member of the
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
There's NO Business Like SHOAH Business. [Shoah is the Hebrew Term for the Holocaust]. An Old Saying Among the More Cynical Elements of the Jewish Community Hitler's Jewish Soldiers The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military Bryan Mark Rigg http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html New in Paperback: September 2004 528 pages, 95 photographs, 6 x 9 Modern War Studies Paper ISBN 0-7006-1358-7, $16.95 Also available in cloth: ISBN 0-7006-1178-9, $29.95 As featured on NBC-TV's Dateline (first aired Sunday, June 9, 2002) WINNER OF THE 2003 COLBY AWARD William E. Colby Military Writers Symposium Also of interest by author Bryan Mark Rigg: Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Click here to learn more about the author's speaking tour. On the murderous road to racial purity Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Mark Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military. Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or partial-Jews (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought--perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals. As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the race of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers. The process of investigation and removal, however, was marred by a highly inconsistent application of Nazi law. Numerous exemptions were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these exemption orders.) But as the war dragged on, Nazi politics came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmacht's growing manpower needs, closing legal loopholes and making it virtually impossible for these soldiers to escape the fate of millions of other victims of the Third Reich. Based on a deep and wide-ranging research in archival and secondary sources, as well as extensive interviews with more than four hundred Mischlinge and their relatives, Rigg's study breaks truly new ground in a crowded field and shows from yet another angle the extremely flawed, dishonest, demeaning, and tragic essence of Hitler's rule. Side and front photographs of half-Jew Anton Mayer, similar to those that often accompanied a Mischling's application for exemption. To see more photographs from the book, click here Through videotaped interviews, painstaking attention to personnel files, and banal documents not normally consulted by historians, and spurred by a keen sense of personal mission, Rigg has turned up an unexplored and confounding chapter in the history of the Holocaust. The extent of his findings has surprised scholars.--Warren Hoge, New York Times The revelation that Germans of Jewish blood, knowing the Nazi regime for what it was, served Hitler as uniformed members of his armed forces must come as a profound shock. It will surprise even professional historians of the Nazi years. --John Keegan, author of The Face of Battle and The Second World War Startling and unexpected, Rigg's study conclusively demonstrates the degree of flexibility in German policy toward the Mischlinge, the extent of Hitler's involvement, and, most importantly, that not all who served in the armed forces were anti-Semitic, even as their service aided the killing process.--Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust Rigg's extensive knowledge and the preliminary conclusions drawn from his research impressed me greatly. I firmly believe that his in-depth treatment of the subject of German soldiers of Jewish descent in the Wehrmacht will lead to new perspectives on this portion of 20th century German military history.--Helmut Schmidt, Former Chancellor of Germany An impressively researched work with important implications for hotly debated questions. Rigg
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Did Jesus BAPTIZED?
*Jose Murekan [EMAIL PROTECTED] send:* ** *Did Jesus BAPTIZED? * *Historically 'NO'! * Baptism is one of the fundamental aspects in Christianity. It is a spiritual process which makes a person 'Christian', that means if a person is not baptized then he/she is not a Christian even if that person was born in the church by both very active Christian parents, let say even both parents are priests. In one word, no one is born a Christian, therefore whoever wishes to be Christian has to join the faith, that means that person has to be converted. The conversion is made through water baptism therefore baptism and conversion go hand in hand, to be precise baptism and conversion is one and the same thing. According to church's doctrine, if anyone dies before being baptized (even if that person is a child of both active Christian parents) can't be buried by church. Simply because that person or a child is considered as a sinner, full of sins inherited from our father Adam and mother Eve. We may conclude here that if there is no baptism then there is no Christianity because whoever not baptized is not a Christian. The Christian scholars are telling us that Jesus was baptized therefore it is mandatory for them to go through this spiritual process. The scholars don't go empty handed in proving and spreading this state of affair to millions around the world. The verse in which they frequently quote to authenticate their belief is to be found in the Gospel according to St Matthew, which reads; THEN JESUS CAME FROM GALILEE TO THE JORDAN TO JORN, TO BE BAPTIZED BY HIM Matthew 3: 17. It's a common belief among the believers of Christian faith that Jesus was baptized by someone known as John the son of Zechariah generally acknowledged as 'John the Baptist', around the banks of river Jordan in the year believed by many to be 30 AD. This date can't be proven though however we take it for granted as another dogma. The original manuscripts of the new testament was written in Latin and Greek, the biblical internal evidence shows that the Romans didn't know even how Jesus look alike that's why the day they went to catch him in the garden of Gethsemane they had to take Judas Iscariot with them, Judas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. In order to avoid unnecessary confusion, every single point I am going to raise will be supported by a scriptural evidence, a verse from the bible. Since there is a distinct difference between a prove and explanation all you have to do is to open your copy of the bible if you have one and cross check those verses mentioned in here. In due case if you are doubtful about this pamphlet then you are doubtful about authenticity of the bible. This pamphlet, by the way, is no way serves to disprove the Christian faith. The real purpose is to bridge the gape of our differences and bring us together in common terms. According to the bible Jesus and John the Baptist didn't meet each other in their natural lives. That means John the Baptist didn't baptize Jesus. Jesus himself didn't baptize anyone and he even said conversion that has to go through baptism will send people involved to hell. To prove my case and arguments I will provide you with some axiomatic, irrefutable, concrete and tangible evidences extracted only from and within the covers of different versions of Bible accepted by all Christians of all churches and denominations. I strongly restrict myself from quoting any Christian scholar, Bible preacher or any other known authorities rather than of the Holy Bible. By the way all in brackets in verses are my words and all references elaborated herein are extracted from RSV of 1971 and NIV of 1995 for your further references. Now let us separate the wheat from the chuffs *ESCAPE AND RETURN TO JERUSALEM* **Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, during the reign of King Herod. The wise men from East went to Bethlehem to pay their respect to the newly born child (Jesus) whom they called the King of the Jews. When this good news reached King Herod's office, he was very disturbed. He sent his wise men to Bethlehem to see the newly born boy (Jesus) and scrutinize people's reaction towards him. Unfortunately they did not go back to him according to the scriptures. Somehow Herod then, planned to kill the boy Jesus. When Herod's wise men left Bethlehem God Almighty sent down an angel to Joseph in dream, When they had gone, an angel of Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, 'get up' he said 'take the child (Jesus) and his mother (Mary) and escape to Egypt . Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him Matthew 2:13 Joseph woke up took the boy Jesus and his mother Mary and left for Egypt at same night to avoid the murder of the child Jesus in the hands of the cruel children killer Herod the King. Then it was Herod's birthday. His stepdaughter danced very well and pleased Herod so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask. With the advise
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Moses and the sorcerors
Assalam alaikum, Allah Almighty says: And when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, `Cast down what you want to cast'. Then when they cast Moses said, `What you have done is nothing but sorcery, and Allah will make it of no effect. Verily, Allah does not let the efforts of the evildoers succeed.' And Allah will establish and make apparent the truth by Allah's Words, even though the evildoers hate it. [Yunus (10): v80-82] These verses of the Quran are amongst those which show that magic, sorcery, and its lesser cousin, simply trickery, are real. But what Prophet Moses, upon whom be peace, shows us is that while such things are real, Allah Almighty can destroy the magic, making it of no effect, for, as Allah Almighty says, Allah does not let the efforts of the evildoers succeed. Allah Almighty reminds us to ask for Allah's help when we feel we are being affected by those with an evil intention: Say, `My Lord, I seek refuge with You from the prodding of the devils, and I seek refuge in You, my Lord, from their presence. And I seek refuge with You so that they do not come near me'' [Muminoon (23): v97] In Allah we put our trust. Oh Lord, do not make us a trial for the people who do wrong. And protect us from those who reject You [Yunus (10): v85] Magic is done through the help of the jinn either by bad jinn who offer their services or by good/ innocent jinn who are trapped by the spell of the sorcerer. Those who are trapped and cannot escape, their similitude is like the one who does an injustice out of ignorance, and Allah knows best. And those who are evil through and through, Allah Almighty sends them, and the ones who sent them, a reminder in the Quran: Every soul (from mankind and the jinn) will taste death. In this life Allah will test us with evil and with good, and to Allah will we all return [Anbiya (21): v35] So let us remember: To Allah belongs what is in the heavens and on earth, and Allah is the best Guardian [Nisa (4): v132] And may Allah Almighty have mercy on us all, forgive and free those innocent jinn who have been caught in the charms of the evil sorcerers; forgive and guide those jinn and sorcerers who intentionally do wrong, or destroy those jinn and sorcerers who intentionally do wrong - and indeed Allah Almighty is the Most just, and besides Allah there is None who has authority, amen. fi amanillah, wa salam, f
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Journey to Islam : Testimony of Yahya Donald W. Flood
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Good Manners
Good Manners 1. Imam Maalik (R.A.) reports that it had been related to him that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: I have been sent down by Allah to evolve moral virtues to highest perfection. (This Tradition had been mentioned by Imam Maalik (R.A.), in the same form as above, in Mowatta, without giving the name of the narrator, while Imam Ahmad has related it on the authority of Abu Hurairah (R.A.) in his Musnad). Commentary: It tells that moral reform and development of good manners were among the chief objects of the Apostleship of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) and formed an important part of the sanctification set forth in the Quran as his special duty. 2.It is related by Abdullah bin Amr(R.A.) that Rasulullah ( Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: Nearest to me among you are those who have better manners.(Bukhari) Commentary: In Hazrat Jabir's (R.A) account of the above Tradition, quoted in Tirmizi, it is stated that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: On the Day of Judgement, nearest to me, among you, will be those who display the best of manners. These show how essential good morals and desirable manners are for gaining the affection of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) and his propinquity on the Day of Resurrection. - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] NEW JERSEY ''TERRORISM'' CASE PROMPTLY BEGINS TO FALL APART
NEW JERSEY ''TERRORISM'' CASE PROMPTLY BEGINS TO FALL APART Assalamu aleikum. Sigh. The latest phony accusations of a terrorist sleeper cell are directed at several Muslims in New Jersey who, according to an FBI affidavit, were planning to take on Ft. Dix all by themselves. The affidavit isn't much of an affidavit at all, as it comes from a secondary source, not from the Cooperating Witnesses who made all the claims in the affidavit. And those cooperating witnesses are not even named, only numbered: CW1 and CW2. The affidavit, however, openly admits that CW-1 is an established liar who was caught lying in another case as recently as January 2006. See it right here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0508071ftdix2.html Of even more interest is the telephone number mentioned in the affidavit, which is supposedly that of Serdar Tata: 856-520-4291 You can see that phone number listed right here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0508071ftdix11.html The problem is that there is no such assigned telephone number as any reverse lookup of both cellphones and landlines will independently show. So once again the public stands to be hoodwinked by yet another in a long series of phony planned terrorist attacks. And just in time for Dajjal Bush to use this one to press his demand for another $120 billion for his Iraqi genocide campaign on the ground of the need to protect Americans from terrorists. This is all so very 2002. But even the American public is beginning to grow up and has long since tired of dajjal Bush's Chicken Little franchise. The most recent numbers from a Newsweek poll, show Bush has only a 28% approval rating. Grades like that usually get a kid expelled from school and Bush's occupation of the White House should end, too.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
This is an edited transcript of an interview that took place in September 2006. Q: Linden MacIntyre: What are the roots of Muslim rage? A: Hamza Yusuf: If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation. Arabs in particular are extremely proud people. If you look at what happened in Lebanon recently, the Arabs kind of raised their head-- they think it's a big victory, the fact that their whole country was destroyed and over a thousand people were killed, many of them children. Why is it a victory? Because they fought back. That's all. OK, you can crush us into the Earth, but you're not going to get us to submit. And I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity. Q: Where do they see the proof of the humiliation? A: It's everywhere. You don't think it's humiliating to have a foreign force come into your land? You see, Muslims don't have this nation state idea. There's a tribe called Bani Tamin. It's one of the biggest tribes in Saudi Arabia and in Iraq, and they're intermarried. The West doesn't seem to understand that. The Moroccans feel the Iraqi pain as their own. It's one pain. So when you see some American soldier banging down a door and coming into a house with all these women in utter fear who've done nothing, that's humiliation, and it's going to enrage people. And what are we doing there? There are no weapons of mass destruction. They were never a threat to us. You know, Shakespeare wrote a play called Julius Caesar, and it was all about the danger of pre-emptive strikes. Brutus is convinced by Cassius to kill Caesar. Why? Because Caesar's ambitious, because he might declare himself king. And the end of that play, everybody dies; it's just disaster. That's the tragedy of pre-emptive strikes. Q: What goes through your mind when you hear about all these roundups of young Muslims who are supposedly plotting things in London and in Toronto? A: We keep being told about these roundups, and in the end, they're more aspirational than operational. I'd love to have been in the meeting when they thought that one up. It seems to me that they're just a lot of bumbling fools out there. Q: On which side of the equation? A: On both sides. I mean, that's part of the problem. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and I think that's really what we're dealing with here, incompetence. Both sides have been incredibly ineffective at achieving their goals-- at least their stated goals. Q: I'm trying to get a measure of just how concerned people should really be though. A: Listen, hurricanes are a much greater threat to us right now. Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together. Yeah, there's nuclear weapons are out there and that certainly is a concern. That's the job of these intelligence people to stop that, right? But stop making us all live in fear and telling us about orange and red levels. All that nonsense just simply has to stop. We need to calm down and think at a deeper level. People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear. The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective. A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is. If that's your interest, democracy can't survive. You also have corporate interests here. We have an arms industry in the West that is our No. 1 industry. It's bigger than anything-- automobiles, everything. Now if you don't have reasons to build weapons, where do all those contracts go? Q: Your job is to recruit young people into a more constructive project. A: Well, I'm not a recruiter . Q: You are definitely an influence. A: I've got my own personal projects, like my school and my seminary. But at this point in my life, I'm actually just trying to put some balance out there because I feel that there's an incredible amount of disequilibrium in the way people are acting and the way they're thinking. There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong. How do you racially profile terrorists when 90percent of the world falls into that? Mexicans look like Arabs, for God's sake, and anybody can change their name. I mean Abdullah can change his name to Eduardo. It's not going to be difficult, if they're clever. So how do you profile people? Q: Six years ago, there were probably the same number of disenchanted young people in chat rooms and coffee houses complaining and
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