RE: Bismillah [IslamCity] Book: The Verdict-The Enchantress of Florence-Salman Rushdie
How dare you support a man who has written a book in which he degrades the Holy Prophet of Allah! Are our memories so short? This is the same man who had to go into hiding after a controversial book he wrote. He is the same as that cartoonist from Denmark who has degraded the Holy Prophet of Allah! How can you allow someone to promote his work on this forum? Where is you heads? I honestly thought this was a Pro-Islam forum, but I can see you allow any nonsense to be displayed on this forum. How can you be Pro-Islam if you allow this crap?!?!?!? He is a traitor to Islam and you have the nerve of promoting his work! HE IS A TRAITOR TO ISLAM!! HE MUST HANG BY HIS NECK UNTIL HE IS DEAD!!! From: islamcity@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arif Bhuiyan Sent: 29 March 2008 02:41 PM To: eGroup For Muslims Around The World Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Book: The Verdict-The Enchantress of Florence-Salman Rushdie Book of the week The Verdict The Enchantress of Florence. By Salman Rushdie The real uses of enchantment Salman Rushdie's sumptuous mixture of history and fable in The Enchantress of Florence is magnificent, says Ursula K Le Guin From the sea of stories our master fisherman has brought up two gleaming, intertwining prizes - a tale about three boys from Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and a story of Akbar, greatest of the Mughal emperors, who established both the wondrous and shortlived city Fatehpur Sikri and a wondrous and shortlived policy of religious tolerance. Both stories are about story itself, the power of history and fable, and why it is that we can seldom be sure which is which. Fabulous as his life was, Akbar was a historical figure, and one of the young Florentines is Niccolò Machiavelli, our byword for political realism. But Niccolò's friend Argalia flies off on the peacock wings of the novelist's invention to become the bosom friend of Akbar before returning to fight for a lost cause in Florence. Some characters are the inventions of other characters: Queen Jodha, and Qara Köz, the Enchantress, are Akbar's daydreams of the Perfect Wife, the Perfect Lover, brought into existence by tale-tellers and artists and Akbar's all-powerful desire and obsession. They are accepted by his people, such occurrences being normal at that time, before the real and the unreal were segregated forever and doomed to live apart under different monarchs and separate legal systems. This brilliant, fascinating, generous novel swarms with gorgeous young women both historical and imagined, beautiful queens and irresistible enchantresses, along with some whores and a few quarrelsome old wives - all stock figures, females perceived solely in relation to the male. Women are never treated unkindly by the author, but they have no autonomous being. The Enchantress herself, who turns everyone into puppets of her will, has no personality at all, and exists - literally - by pleasing men. Akbar calls her a woman who had forged her own life, beyond convention, by the force of her will alone, a woman like a king. But in fact she does nothing but sell herself to the highest bidder, and her power is an illusion permitted by him. In one marvellous scene Akbar's wife and mother come to show his imaginary wife Jodha how to release him from the Enchantress's spell, and in so doing are reconciled with Jodha in a moment of hilarious feminine solidarity - but the Enchantress materialises, Jodha vanishes, the women are defeated by the man's obsession. Indeed, the men in the book are as hormone-besotted as adolescents. All their derring-do, their battling for cities and empires, comes down to little more than a desire for a bed with a young woman in it. Machiavelli becomes a disappointed middle-aged lecher whose middle-aged wife waddles and quacks while he looks at her, of course, with loathing. But then suddenly, for a page or two, we slip into her soul; we feel her anger at his disloyalty, her hurt pride as a woman, her unchanged pride in his dark sceptical genius and her puzzlement at his failure to see how he lessens himself by scorning what he has that is treasurable and honourable. For that moment I glimpsed a very different book, almost a different author. Then it was back to the dazzling play of fancy and the powerful dreams of men. The swashbuckling Argalia's adventures, which links the Florentine and the Indian strands of the double tale, are full of Rushdian charm and extravagance (descending sometimes into facetiousness, as in the case of the four giant albino Swiss mercenaries named Otho, Botho, Clotho and D'Artagnan). But Argalia's exploits are less interesting than the misfortunes of Machiavelli or the mind of the Emperor Akbar. Rushdie's Akbar is imperial, intelligent and very likable, a marvellous spokesman for his author. Akbar tried to unite all India, all races, tribes, clans, faiths,
Bismillah [IslamCity] Reminding u to read Soorat AlKAHF on Friday
Reminding u to read Soorat AlKAHF on Friday نذكركم بقراءة سورة الكهف كل يوم جمعة وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم : ( من قرأ سورة ( الكهف ) في يوم الجمعة أضاء له من النور ما بين الجمعتين ) [ صححه الألباني في صحيح الترغيب والترهيب / 736 ] .. وقال عليه الصلاة والسلام : ( من قرأ سورة ( الكهف ) ليلة الجمعة، أضاء له من النور ما بينه وبين البيت العتيق ) [ صححه الألباني في صحيح الترغيب والترهيب / 736 ] ..
Bismillah [IslamCity] Yet another reason to condemn Blair over Iraq
Yet another reason to condemn Blair over Iraq By Andreas Whittam Smith There was no analysis of British interest in joining the invasion. Now I understand why You need a big dose of cynicism to understand politics. Yet even though I regularly take my medicine, I was still deeply shocked by my colleague Steve Richards's recent account of the factors that propelled Mr Blair into the Iraq war. His article was published on these pages last Thursday. The decision was, Mr Richards wrote, part of a New Labour approach to politics. I quite see that we all come at problems with a particular mindset developed over the years. At the time I accepted the New Labour style in so far as I understood it, and I voted for Mr Blair in both 1997 and 2001. Steve Richards explained further: When there are highly controversial policy areas, Labour worries hugely that the Conservatives might be on the more popular side. It is determined always to keep Rupert Murdoch's newspapers on board. I am not so naive that I hadn't already come to see the justice of this observation. Recent memoirs by former ministers and Downing Street aides point in this direction. But just think what is described here: an inability to exercise leadership, a Labour government which spends its time in a perpetual funk. This a fraud on the electorate. When we elect a government, we assume that it will summon up a bit of courage from time to time. We don't choose it to do what the opposition would do or to take orders from a newspaper proprietor. Then Mr Richards goes on to describe the political setting for the decision to go to war. With a cautious New Labour timidity, he wrote, Mr Blair must have weighed up the domestic situation. If he had opposed the war, he would have been in alliance with President Jacques Chirac of France and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of Germany, while Mr Duncan Smith (Conservative leader) would be the one who supported the US. Mr Blair would have given up the space he had jealously protected as a new Labour leader. He would be back to the Neil Kinnock era, when a US President treated Labour leaders with disdain. He would lose The Sun, which would cheer for Britain's only war leader, Mr Duncan Smith. Now I take Mr Richards's account to be authoritative. Apart from anything else, it solves a puzzle that I had when the fateful decision was taken. Why did I hear no analysis, I often wondered, of the British interest in joining the American invasion? I didn't mean by this advantages that might accrue to the Anglo- American relationship, or to the Western Alliance, or the world at large, but rather what mattered solely for Britain. Why did the Prime Minister's speeches give no sign that such an exercise had been carried out, conducted coldly as it should have been, without sentiment? How could you put the lives of British forces at risk if you hadn't weighed the benefit for Britain alone, remembering always Lord Palmerston's injunction: Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests. What were the precisely calculated British interests for which our soldiers, sailors and aircrews were being asked to die? In the absence of a lead from the Government and in common with many other people I tried to work out the answer. If readers will forgive me for repeating myself, I wrote here in 2003, a month before the invasion, that we were faced with a genuinely difficult choice. Containment to enforce the UN resolutions on the one hand or invasion as an act of liberation on the other. I noted that the second course increased the possibility of terrorist attacks within Britain. Furthermore it represented American revenge for September 11, which was not our business, and it demanded from the US a commitment from which it had repeatedly walked away – to that of nation-building. My conclusion was that a prudent reading of British interests would favour a continuation of containment through the United Nations, not war. I didn't imagine at the time that Mr Blair was concerned only with party politics, even bringing into the balance, according to Mr Richards, that by staying close to the US he could never be accused of being anti-American and indiscriminately pro-European and that he would thus be better able to win a referendum on the Euro. That is what shocks me. It has been bad enough knowing that British troops have lost their lives in a futile endeavour (see what is going on in Basra at the moment) that was contrary to international law and based on information that turned out to be false. It was hard to bear the attempts to deceive the British people with the dodgy dossiers. And now, additional dishonour, it turns out that the whole policy was based, so far as Mr Blair was concerned, on securing electoral advantage. Oh, the shame of it. The Independent, Monday, 31 March 2008
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Bismillah [IslamCity] America pimps 6 year old Iraqi girls, 9 year olds in Afghanistan
Monday, March 31, 2008America pimps 9 year olds in Afghanistanhttp://tinyurl.com/33xqp6 The Opium Brides of Afghanistan In the country's poppy-growing provinces, farmers are being forced to sell their daughters to pay loans. Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau NEWSWEEK Updated: 1:19 PM ET Mar 29, 2008 Khalida's father says she's 9or maybe 10. As much as Sayed Shah loves his 10 children, the functionally illiterate Afghan farmer can't keep track of all their birth dates. Khalida huddles at his side, trying to hide beneath her chador and headscarf. They both know the family can't keep her much longer. Khalida's father has spent much of his life raising opium, as men like him have been doing for decades in the stony hillsides of eastern Afghanistan and on the dusty southern plains. It's the only reliable cash crop most of those farmers ever had. Even so, Shah and his family barely got by: traffickers may prosper, but poor farmers like him only subsist. Now he's losing far more than money. I never imagined I'd have to pay for growing opium by giving up my daughter, says Shah. The family's heartbreak began when Shah borrowed $2,000 from a local trafficker, promising to repay the loan with 24 kilos of opium at harvest time. Late last spring, just before harvest, a government crop-eradication team appeared at the family's little plot of land in Laghman province and destroyed Shah's entire two and a half acres of poppies. Unable to meet his debt, Shah fled with his family to Jalalabad, the capital of neighboring Nangarhar province. The trafficker found them anyway and demanded his opium. So Shah took his case before a tribal council in Laghman and begged for leniency. Instead, the elders unanimously ruled that Shah would have to reimburse the trafficker by giving Khalida to him in marriage. Now the family can only wait for the 45-year-old drugrunner to come back for his prize. Khalida wanted to be a teacher someday, but that has become impossible. It's my fate, the child says. Afghans disparagingly call them loan bridesdaughters given in marriage by fathers who have no other way out of debt. The practice began with the dowry a bridegroom's family traditionally pays to the bride's father in tribal Pashtun society. These days the amount ranges from $3,000 or so in poorer places like Laghman and Nangarhar to $8,000 or more in Helmand, Afghanistan's No. 1 opium-growing province. For a desperate farmer, that bride price can be salvationbut at a cruel cost. Among the Pashtun, debt marriage puts a lasting stain on the honor of the bride and her family. It brings shame on the country, too. President Hamid Karzai recently told the nation: I call on the people [not to] give their daughters for money; they shouldn't give them to old men, and they shouldn't give them in forced marriages. --MORE-- Posted by CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS mparent Marc Parent CCNWON at 12:11 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: afghanistan, children http://tinyurl.com/33xqp6 America pimps 6 year old Iraqi girlshttp://tinyurl.com/2mnacq 6 year old Iraqi girls forced into prostitution As a result of the Iraqi invasion many Iraqi girls have fled the violence to Syria. In order to support their families many girls resort to prostitution. If this video doesn't make you oppose the War then you have no heart. Added: March 30, 2008 Posted by CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS mparent Marc Parent CCNWON at 11:58 AM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: children, iraq war, syria http://tinyurl.com/2mnacq MARC PARENT, mparent, mparent, ccnwon CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent-1.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 - Instant message from any web browser! Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA
Bismillah [IslamCity] Madho Lal Hussain of Lahore: Beyond Hindu and Muslim
Madho Lal Hussain of Lahore: Beyond Hindu and Muslim. By Yoginder Sikand from Pakistan Christian Post, Oct. 31, 2005 `Shah Hussain! Shahadat Paye O Jo Maran Mitran De Age (Shah Hussain! He [alone] attains martyrdom who dies at the feet of his beloved) Sufism has had a long and rich history in the Indian sub-continent. It is perhaps in Punjab, more than in any other part of this vast land, that Sufism has struck the deepest roots, producing many great exponents and exercising a pervasive influence on the minds of the ommon people. To this very day, the innumerable Sufis of this region are held in the highest esteem by millions of Muslims, Sikhs, Dalits and Hindus of the province and beyond. Shah Hussain is one such mystic who is still fondly remembered by millions of ordinary Punjabis four centuries after his death1. He was born in Lahore in 1539 A.D. into a family of the Dhatha Rajput tribe.2 This tribe had recently converted to Islam, hence the epithet Shah attached to his name.3 Even as a child Hussain showed a marked preference for red clothes, which explains why he was also called Lal (Persian for red) Hussain.4 Hussain`s strong mystical inclinations were apparent very early in his life. In childhood itself he managed to memorize the entire Qur`an under the guidance of his teacher, Shaikh Abu Bakr. Then, at the age of ten he was initiated into the Oadiriyah Sufi order by the renowned saint Bahlul Shah Daryai of Chiniot.5 For the next twenty-six years he lived under the strict supervision of his Pir (spiritual master), faithfully following all the rites and practices of orthodox Islam, and leading a life of great austerity. At the age of thirty-six an incident occurred that was to completely change Hussain`s life. One day while at a madrasa studying a tafsir (commentary) on the Our`an under the tutelage of Shaikh Sadullah of Lahore, he came across the Qur`anic verse: The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport. He asked the Shaikh to explain the verse and was told that it meant that the world should be shunned. Hussain refused to accept this interpretation and asserted, instead, that the words of the verse must be taken literally. He told his teacher that, in accordance with his understanding of this verse, he would spend the rest of his life in enjoyment.6 It was during this period of his life that Hussain met Madho, a Brahmin lad. The two men became so closely associated that in the popular mind the saint is most commonly known as Madho Lal Hussain, as if the two had been fused into one. The intensely close relationship that blossomed between them has been the subject of much speculation and controversy, starting in their very lifetime. John Subhan, an expert on Indian Sufism, writes that their contemporaries saw this intimate connection between a Hindu boy and a Muslim faqir of questionable character as a disgrace, though he himself sees this irresistible attraction between the two men in terms of fervent love.8 Like wise, the Punjabi historian Shafi Aquil speaks of the relationship between Madho and Hussayn as one of boundless love and for this employs language generally used to describe male-female relationships. Thus, he writes, Shah Hussayn was in love with Madho and Madho himself, too, desired him (Madho se Shah Hussayn ko pyar tho aur khud Madho bhi unko chahte the). He goes on to add that, Under no condition could Shah Hussayn bear to be separated from Madho.9 Nur Ahmad Chishti, author of the Sufi chronicle Tahqiqat-i-Chishti, suggests that some among the couple`s contemporaries saw their relationship as `improper`. He writes that Madho`s relatives, seeing him sleeping in the same bed with Lal Hussain, came to murder them both.10 However, as luck would have it, he adds,that the power of Hussain made them blind and, as they could not find the door, they returned. Lajwanti Ramkrishna, a recognized authority on the Punjabi Sufis, relates that many people had become suspicious of the un-natural [sic] relationship between the two. 11 Whatever the case might be, the story of the two lovers is a fascinating one that is unparalleled in the annals of Punjabi Sufism. The historical records give varying accounts of Hussain`s first encounter with Madho. The author of the Tahqiqat-i-Chishti writes that Hussain first saw Madho riding through the main market of Lahore on a majestic horse in a fashionable manner.12 So wonderstruck was he at Madho`s beauty that he then tried in vain to possess the lad for sixteen years, at the end of which he succeeded. Rizvi, an acclaimed authority on Indian Sufism, also writes that Hussain first saw Madho riding in the market and says that upon seeing him he felt instantly under the intoxication of a mystical trance. Thereafter, he adds, Hussain shifted to Shahdara, the suburb of Lahore where Madho lived and began following him like a household slave.13 Ramakrishna says that some
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Palestinians Need a Powerful Advocate
Linda Heard, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The concept of America as an honest broker in the Israel-Palestine conflict is
obsolete. The US was never an honest broker but it doesn't even bother
pretending any more. Dick Cheney recently told the Israeli premier, the US
commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable and warned the Palestinians that
violence against Israel would kill their hopes of a state. And while it's true
that the current administration will shortly be emptying their desks, the three
presidential hopefuls sound as though they're singing from the Bush
administration's hymn sheet.
Democratic front-runner Barack Obama had this to say on peace in the Middle
East: That effort begins with a clear and strong commitment to the security of
Israel - our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy.
That will always be my starting point.
His rival Hillary Clinton, who backs a US Embassy in Jerusalem, has said she
would cut off aid to Palestinians should they unilaterally declare an
independent state, while Republican nominee John McCain has characterized
Israel's enemies as evil.
I could list the candidates' regular junkets to Tel Aviv and pilgrimages to the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) but I won't bore you. You get
the point. Everybody with half a brain gets the point. So, in this case, why
are Palestinian leaders relying on the good offices of the US to get them a
state?
To give this premise context, say, you had a business partner who embezzled
your company and left you with nothing but debts. Would you hire his lawyer,
who also happened to be his best buddy, to represent you in court? Of course
not! And neither would you enlist your mother-in-law to save your crumbling
marriage if you had any sense.
Yet this is exactly what the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is doing. It
seems that on Washington's instructions he manipulated a breach with Hamas - as
we know from leaked State Department memos - and he's now asking Washington to
become more proactive as a broker. And, let's face it: They've had little
success at the job throughout the past decades. Any firm with their record of
failure would surely have been sacked an age ago.
Even if by some miracle the Annapolis meet actually produced the required goods
in the long run, a US-brokered Palestinian state would consist of nothing more
than crumbs from Israel's table, which I fear the beleaguered Palestinian
leadership would be pressured to accept as a better than nothing option.
Where does all this leave the Palestinian people? Precisely nowhere!
When they fight back, which as an occupied people is their right under
international law, they are labeled terrorist. When they organize peaceful
demonstrations nobody takes any notice. When they invoke a slew of UN
resolutions passed in their favor, all they get are yawns from the
international community in return. Israel has killed thousands, imprisoned tens
of thousands and is incarcerating 1.5 million Palestinians in the world's
largest open-air jail Gaza yet, as far as Washington is
Bismillah [IslamCity] Rachel�s Email from Palestine
This is in continuation to my posting on Rachel Corrie last week. Rachel was crushed to death by the Israeli military bulldozer near Gaza on March 16, 2003, trying to prevent the Palastinian homes being demolished by armored Israeli bulldozers. Here is one of her email from Palastine, which was sent on 7th Feb. 2003, but still relevant. - Abhiyya There is also need for constant nighttime presence at a well on the outskirts of Rafah since the Israeli army destroyed the two largest wells. According to the municipal water office the wells destroyed last week provided half of Rafahs water supply. Many of the communities have requested internationals to be present at night to attempt to shield houses from further demolition. After about ten p.m. it is very difficult to move at night because the Israeli army treats anyone in the streets as resistance and shoots at them. Rachels Email from Palestine February 7 2003 Hi friends and family, and others, I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. It is most difficult for me to think about whats going on here when I sit down to write back to the United States. Something about the virtual portal into luxury. I dont know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls and the towers of an occupying army surveying them constantly from the near horizons. I think, although Im not entirely sure, that even the smallest of these children understand that life is not like this everywhere. An eight-year-old was shot and killed by an Israeli tank two days before I got here, and many of the children murmur his name to me - Ali - or point at the posters of him on the walls. The children also love to get me to practice my limited Arabic by asking me, Kaif Sharon? Kaif Bush? and they laugh when I say, Bush Majnoon, Sharon Majnoon back in my limited arabic. (How is Sharon? How is Bush? Bush is crazy. Sharon is crazy.) Of course this isnt quite what I believe, and some of the adults who have the English correct me: Bush mish Majnoon Bush is a businessman. Today I tried to learn to say, Bush is a tool, but I dont think it translated quite right. But anyway, there are eight-year-olds here much more aware of the workings of the global power structure than I was just a few years ago. Nevertheless, no amount of reading, attendance at conferences, documentary viewing and word of mouth could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here. You just cant imagine it unless you see it - and even then you are always well aware that your experience of it is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen, and with the fact that I have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and the fact, of course, that I have the option of leaving. Nobody in my family has been shot, driving in their car, by a rocket launcher from a tower at the end of a major street in my hometown. I have a home. I am allowed to go see the ocean. Ostensibly it is still quite difficult for me to be held for months or years on end without a trial (this because I am a white US citizen, as opposed to so many others). When I leave for school or work I can be relatively certain that there will not be a heavily armed soldier waiting halfway between Mud Bay and downtown Olympia at a checkpoint with the power to decide whether I can go about my business, and whether I can get home again when Im done. So, if I feel outrage at arriving and entering briefly and incompletely into the world in which these children exist, I wonder conversely about how it would be for them to arrive in my world. They know that children in the United States dont usually have their parents shot and they know they sometimes get to see the ocean. But once you have seen the ocean and lived in a silent place, where water is taken for granted and not stolen in the night by bulldozers, and once you have spent an evening when you havent wondered if the walls of your home might suddenly fall inward waking you from your sleep, and once youve met people who have never lost anyoneonce you have experienced the reality of a world that isnt surrounded by murderous towers, tanks, armed settlements and now a giant metal wall, I wonder if you can forgive the world for all the years of your childhood spent existingjust existingin resistance to the constant stranglehold of the worlds fourth largest militarybacked by the worlds only superpowerin its attempt to erase you from your home. That is something I wonder about these children. I wonder what would happen if they really knew. As an afterthought to all this rambling, I am in Rafah: a city of about 140,000 people, approximately 60% of whom are refugees - many of whom are twice or three times refugees. Rafah existed prior to 1948, but
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Thought for the day
As Salaamu Alaikum
Love All
Love can never be exclusive. The sun does not choose to shine on some flowers
in the garden and not others. Love is inclusive and has many faces - caring,
listening, sharing from the heart, just accepting someone for what they are
right now, are all acts of love, as long as you seek nothing in return. It all
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warts and all. It's not that you will stay that way for ever - but you might,
if you don't accept. The secret key to the greatest door called love is
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Anon
PoEtEsS
Prayer, wisdom, knowledge and faith are the best gifts that I have……Zohra
Moosa
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom
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with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Essential of Islam: translated by shaykkh abdul aziz ahmed
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Bismillah [IslamCity] The Guardian: The Chinese burden? by Brandon O'Neill
The Chinese burden? Brendan O'Neill April 1, 2008 5:00 PM http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brendan_oneill/2008/04/the_chinese_burden.html As the Beijing Olympics approach, a sweeping left/right consensus has emerged in the west: that China's interventions in Africa are deeply problematic. Western officials, commentators and activists accuse China of raping Africa, plundering its resources, creating even greater inequalities between rich and poor, and cosying up to genocidal maniacs. On the right, magazines likes the Economist describe the Chinese as the new colonialists; on the left (well, ostensibly the left), human rights advocates slate China for funding genocide in Darfur. Others claim that by doing business with dodgy African regimes, China is undermining the west's attempts to encourage good governance on the once dark continent. This China-bashing dresses itself in radical lingo. Campaigners like to fantasise that they are taking a stand against Chinese colonialism. In truth, there is an imperialistic bent to these criticisms of China for its record in Africa: the aim is not to liberate Africans from outside interference, but rather to preserve Africa as the playground of western do-gooders rather than Chinese businessmen. Western observers are disturbed by Chinese meddling in Africa because it undercuts their own self-styled role as the heroic saviours of the African savage. Save Darfur activists now campaign almost exclusively around attacking China for funding the genocide. Their campaigning comes across as both nasty and naïve. Sunday's New York Times Magazine carried a revealing article about a new group, Dream for Darfur, which is promoting the idea that Beijing 2008 will be the Genocide Olympics. One supporter of Dream for Darfur told the NYT: Darfur is singular. China is the reason Darfur is happening. Such a statement is mind-bogglingly simple-minded. Darfur is anything but singular. As Jonathan Steele argued on Cif recently, There are around a dozen different rebel groups currently fighting the [Khartoum] government. To put the blame on only one party [China] makes no moral or political sense. Yet, as the NYT reporter pointed out, For those on board with Dream for Darfur, connecting the dots between the summer games and hundreds of thousands of African corpses is not much more complicated than saying China is the reason Darfur is happening. Dream for Darfur called in Ben Cohen from the ice-cream maker Ben and Jerry's (the mind boggles) to wage a jihad against China's cute, cartoonish Olympic mascots: Beibei the fish, Jingjing the giant panda, and other big-haired symbols of modern China. Dream for Darfur told Cohen to keep his message short. The message here isn't hard: genocide bad; China helping, it advised. So Cohen is devising an anti-mascot campaign with the message: Looks cute - supports genocide. That sums up the cartoonish politics of the wristband-wearing, latte-drinking, self-serving Save Darfur activists in New York and elsewhere. It seems clear that bashing China over its relations with Khartoum is not based on any serious political assessment of what is happening in Sudan and Darfur; indeed, it overlooks the fact that few serious international organisations describe the conflict as a genocide, and that, even though things are still dire in Darfur, they're not as bad as they were during the intense conflict period of 2003-2005. Instead, this is about humiliating China out of Sudan so that the west can take its rightful position as the hector-in-chief of the Khartoum government. Apparently only white, well-educated, celebrity-connected westerners have a right to determine what should happen in Sudan. As one commentator puts it: Sudan's government feels it can ignore western revulsion at genocide because [thanks to China] it has no need of western money ... China, along with Sudan's other Arab and Asian partners, feels free to trample on basic standards of decency. Those indecent Chinese - how dare they block the righteous path of western revulsion against an African regime? Human Rights Watch is even more explicit. It recently complained that China's growing foreign aid programme creates new options for [African] dictators who were previously dependent on those who insisted on human rights progress. In short, Chinese deal-making with African states has undermined the army of western officials, NGOs and conflict-resolution experts who believe that only they should have free rein to tell Africans how to behave. Attacking China for its support of Khartoum is not a liberationist or pro-African demand; rather it is underpinned by western protectionism, a desire to keep Africa as The White Man's Burden rather than allowing it to become The Yellow Man's Burden. Indeed, some of the China-bashing over Africa is premised on what we might term double racism: first
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Real Terrorism, Genocide, Hatred and Racism in the Bible!
Real Terrorism, Genocide, Hatred and Racism in the Bible! #This is a response to Geert Wilders - an anti-Muslim racist, ignorant and blind believer of the Bible! Terrorism and Genocide on innocent people: Jesus says: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a sword. [Matthew 10:34] Jesus says: Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division. [Luke 12:51-2] Jesus says: But those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. [Luke 19:27] Jesus says: I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [Matthew 10:35-6] Jesus says: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. [John 15:6] Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women. [Ezekiel 9:5-6] Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. [1 Samuel 15:3] They fought against Midian; as the LORD commanded Moses, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. [Numbers 31:7, 17-18] Slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. [Exodus 32:27] Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. [Isaiah 13:16] And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. [Numbers 31:7] And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. [Judges 15:8] Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. [Deuteronomy 13:15] And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. [Numbers 1:51] But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. [Deuteronomy 20:17] Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands? [1 Samuel 29:5] Jesus says: And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priests, and smote off his ear. [Matthew 26:51] Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God. [Deuteronomy 13:8-10] And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. [1 Chronicles 20:3] But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. [Deuteronomy 20:14] And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. [Deuteronomy 2:34-35] All non-Jews and non-Christians must be stoned to death: And he should go and worship other gods and bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens, .and you must stone such one with stones and such one must die. [Deuteronomy 17:3-5] All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman. [2 Chronicles 15:13] Hatred and racism: Jesus says: If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. [Luke 14:26] Jesus says: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs (non-Jews), neither cast ye your pearls before swine (non-Jews). [Matthew 7:6] Jesus says: I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and
Bismillah [IslamCity] The Guardian: Why blame China? by Jonathan Steele
Why blame China? Jonathan Steele February 14, 2008 12:30 PM http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_steele/2008/02/why_blame_china.html The excitement over Steven Spielberg's withdrawal of support for the Beijing Olympics has helped to re-focus attention on Darfur. That is all to the good, especially if it leads his fellow-protesters to look more clearly at what is actually happening there and what moral responsibility China really has in allegedly failing to stop the war in Darfur. Brian Brivati wrote on this blog yesterday that China is the key, but is that really the case? Wars always have at least two sides, and in the Darfur case that is an underestimate. There are around a dozen different rebel groups currently fighting the government. To put the blame on only one party makes no moral or political sense. The best way to stop the fighting and the humanitarian emergency that flows from it is to have an organised ceasefire and hold talks. This is what the Sudanese government did last October on the eve of the peace conference that the UN and the African Union held in Libya. Only a minority of the rebel groups reciprocated the ceasefire offer or attended the conference. They preferred to go on fighting, in part because they feel the one-sided approach of much of the outside world, with its exclusive pressure on the Khartoum government, helps their cause. The point is slowly being accepted by many of the so-called Darfur support groups. Compared with three years ago, when the campaign started, their statements now show a greater willingness to recognise the rebels' negative role in attacking aid workers, stealing humanitarian supplies, and raiding government-held villages and towns. The latest atrocity in early February when Khartoum-backed militias burnt down two towns in Western Darfur was provoked by attacks by the Justice and Equality Movement, one of the main groups which rejects peace talks. The pattern is depressingly familiar from almost every counterinsurgency campaign in history - rebel raids, which produce a government over-reaction. But who is to blame? If the rebels went to the peace table, there would have been no impulse for the government to respond with force. The support groups still seem not to appreciate that the humanitarian situation has changed. Claims of genocide were never accepted by the UN, but the events that gave rise to them occurred in 2003 and 2004. Today's Darfur is still appalling but not so bloody a place. In any case, the death rates of those years are heavily disputed, as is their cause. The victims of hunger and disease exacerbated by forced displacement are one-sidedly, and often deliberately, described by lobby groups as having been killed by government forces or their militias, as though they were executed. Subsequent years have seen a huge deployment to Darfur of UN and other international aid agencies. They eliminated starvation and massively reduced death from disease. Displacement in overcrowded camps is no longterm solution and people need confidence and security to go home. But the need to bring in a more powerful UN peacekeeping force to help to ensure that should not obscure the fact that the humanitarian effort has already been one of the UN's most successful interventions anywhere. Getting governments to fulfil their promises of troops for the new hybrid UN/AU force in Darfur, trying to obtain more helicopters, and building the peacekeepers' bases more quickly are important tasks. But, however well-equipped its force is, the UN cannot impose peace. That can only be done through a ceasefire and political talks. As Ban Ki-moon rightly said last week, the deployment of Unamid will only be as effective as the political process it is mandated to support. How does China relate to this? It helped to pass the UN resolution to set up Unamid. It has contributed several hundred military engineers to Unamid. What more can it realistically do? The idea that it can pressure Khartoum to stop the killing, as Brivati wrote yesterday, is too simple. The killing is more likely to stop when the rebels come to the peace table that the AU and the UN (with China's help) have laid out for them. - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Two Articles: U.S. Treasury Views on UAE investments
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U.S. Treasury fears Islamic strings on investmentscomment by Jerry Gordon Looks like the Treasury has woken up to the possible that the mushrooming petro-dollar driven Gulf Emirates will be creating Islamic standards for Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and trading markets. In this World Net Daily article, Jerome Corsi discusses the implication of a letter sent to the US Treasury and several European financial authorities by Abu Dhabi. The implication is that the giant Gulf Emirtate SWFs may take advantage of the current credit crisis in the US and major workd capital markets to insinuate Sharia compliance. He noted: Since the beginning of the year, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, two of thelargest United Arab Emirate states, have been in discussions with the U.S.Treasury, offering reassurances that their investments in U.S. banks andsecurity firms would not impose restrictions usually dictated by Islamic law, commonly know as sharia. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Abu Dhabi sent lastweek a three-page letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and otherWestern finance officials spelling out a set of principles that will guide Abu Dhabiâs investing philosophy. The letter marks the first time Abu Dhabi has responded to Treasury requests for reassurance the Islamic states will not use investments in U.S. financial firms to seek political advantage. The Wall Street Journal reported the letter was also sent to thefinance ministers of the other Group of Seven industrialized nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission. On Monday, Dubai announced the launch of the Investment Corporationof Dubai, a new multi-billion dollar sovereign wealth fund positioned to make investments in the global economy. by Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily, March 18, 2008 The U.S. Treasury is struggling with how to handle any political or Islamic ramifications as Persian Gulf sovereign wealth funds look to make substantial investments in capital-poor American banks and securities firms. The crisis in mortgage-backed securities has created a need for new capital to enter financial markets after major financial institutions such as Bear Stearns and Carlyle Capital Corp. failed over the weekend. The crisis is an opportunity for sovereign wealth funds that have prospered as the price of oil has soared over $110 a barrel. WND previously reported sovereign wealth funds in six Persian Gulf countries, including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, have now amassed $1.7 trillion, positioning them for attempts to control major banks and securities firms in the U.S. The question is whether political strings will come with the investment from the Islamic oil-rich states. Since the beginning of the year, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, two of the largest United Arab Emirate states, have been in discussions with the U.S. Treasury, offering reassurances that their investments in U.S. banks and security firms would not impose restrictions usually dictated by Islamic law, commonly know as sharia. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Abu Dhabi sent last week a three-page letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other Western finance officials spelling out a set of principles that will guide Abu Dhabiâs investing philosophy. The letter marks the first time Abu Dhabi has responded to Treasury requests for reassurance the Islamic states will not use investments in U.S. financial firms to seek political advantage. The Wall Street Journal reported the letter was also sent to the finance ministers of the other Group of Seven industrialized nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission. On Monday, Dubai announced the launch of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, a new multi-billion dollar sovereign wealth fund positioned to make investments in the global economy. According to the Telegraph of London, the fund will be chaired by Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the emirateâs ruler, but it will be operated separately from Dubai Holdings and Dubai International Capital. Still, the new fund will be backed by state money, not just the personal wealth of the Maktoum family. Paulson and Dubai are trying to avoid the repeat of a controversy that developed in 2006 when Dubai Ports World sought to acquire Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation, the London-based ports management firm that conducted operations at some 22 U.S. ports. Still, despite the enthusiasm for foreign capital, the Treasuryâs effort to work with the Islamic sovereign wealth funds demonstrates, savvy investors in Dubai and Abu Dhabi are likely
Bismillah [IslamCity] Paltalk room OF Maasjid Al Faarooq NYC Live
as-Salaamu`alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuh, We are pleased to announce, walhamdulillaah, the formation of Maasjid Al Farooq's new *Paltalk room - Maasjid Al Faarooq NYC Live located in the Religions and Spirituality/Islam Section and our TelelinkAccess Number HAS CHANGED* Wednesday's telelink number for April 2, 2008 ONLY Important Matters class @ 9:30PM EDT will be : 1-605-475-6300 (#14513) and Friday's telelink number for April 5, 2008 for The Sisters Class @ 9:30 PM EDT is: 1-309-946-5000 (#14513) AFTER FRIDAY APRIL 5, 2008 the following access number will be used for all telelinks! 1-309-946-5000 (#14513) for the Current Classes held on-site nightly, please note the times and schedules as they exist at this time and we hope that you will join us bi'itnillaah ta'ala as follows. Additionally, those who are locally within the area of Maasjid Al Farooq, in Brooklyn, they are urged to attend there as well. On-Site classes are held at their location @ 522 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 see Direction Map in the link at the bottom of this page please. Currently we are offering 4 Different Series of Lectures in shaa'Allaah. Two times per week the room is held via Telelink access only and that is Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:30 PM EST. Six Times per week, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturday and twice on Sunday classes are held in the Paltalk Room, at 7:15 pm approximately (following Maghrib Salat) and an additional session (Session #4)is held on Sunday following ASR Salat at approximately 4:45PM EST) We sincerely look forward inshaAllaah to your joining us for this beneficial study program: Series #1:The Prophet's Prayer Described SERIES MONDAYS/THURSDAYS/SATURDAYS/SUNDAYS 7:30pm @ Paltalk's Maasjid Al Faarooq LIVE NYC Room and on-site @ MAASJID LOCATION. Series #2:The Important Matters SERIES TUESDAYS 7:30PM@ Paltalk's Maasjid Al Faarooq LIVE NYC Room and on-site @ MAASJID LOCATION delivered by Abu Yusuf Khaleefah Series #2:The Important Matters SERIES continues... 9:30PM VIA TELELINK PLEASE CALL 1-309-946-5000 EXT. 14513 delivered by Abu Yusuf Khaleefah (DIFFERENT NUMBER FOR APRIL 2ND CLASS ONLY PLEASE READ ALERT ABOVE NORMAL CLASS SCHEDULE) Series #3:Sister's Classes #1-Aqeedah, #2-Natural Blood of Women FRIDAYS 9:30PM VIA TELELINK PLEASE CALL1-309-946-5000 EXT. 14513 delivered by Abu Yusuf Khaleefah Series #4:The Fundamental Principles and Hadeeth Study Series SUNDAYS* (THIS IS THE FIRST OF TWO CLASSES HELD ON SUNDAY SEE PROPEHT'S PRAYER SERIES ABOVE) 4:45 PM (AFTER ASR SALAT) @ Paltalk's Maasjid Al Faarooq LIVE NYC Room and on-site @ MAASJID LOCATION delivered by Abu Yusuf Khaleefah MAASJID AL FAAROOQ 552 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-855-9474 -- Nasreen As-Thuriayaa As-Salafiyah
Bismillah [IslamCity] Peace TV
I have notice that from when the month of rabe-ul-awal started 'peace tv' is OFF on several cable systems in Karachi... maybe its my doubt... i have other things in mind... khair... need feedback... from other parts of Pakistan n else... that is it due to some technical reason or else??! - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Re:SAUDI ARABIA...Interview on 05.04.2008
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