Bismillah [IslamCity] A list of VIDEO!!!
bismillah ir rahman ir raheem asalamualik wa rahma tullahi wabaraka tuhu, i just gathered these for something i am doing, i thought it would be nice sharing with you all as well. insha-allah. very beneficial lectures clips from* albaseerah.org PAST seminar, insha-allah don't miss the current one, that is going on AIAT.* -akh akram's page --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQSuWpMAAA --> seek ilm --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7Rp-tN69Y --> shaykh sad - Q&A --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjoEJzUgAUs --> seek ilm --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC80OeAueTo --> seek ilm --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT2t8W2L4PI --> an advice --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6yJBG7-hk --> mufti trans --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5UXZh79wlQ --> mufti trans --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_PbWAGU-Wk --> mufti --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItIk9F6Iaf4 --> shaykh sad - QA!!? --umm mujab page --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ilYlAQk7I --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtaGDLKnhss --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diXfBZ55Z2s --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkfhs4rtTrY -= - UIK - sample lectures - =- -= UIK - interview of students - --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f9-JcUCnjY --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCiLcQVn5hw --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DwlrJEOQEk --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODHxeJdTgTA -=--- -- Nasreen As-Thuriayaa As-Salafiyah New York - Brooklyn
Bismillah [IslamCity] Importance and power of boycott - Dutch Businesses to Sue Wilders
Dutch Businesses to Sue Wilders THE HAGUE - Fearing a Muslim boycott, major Dutch businesses are threatening to sue far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders over his documentary portraying the Noble Qur'an as inciting violence. "If they (Muslims) decide to boycott Dutch businesses, it will harm Dutch exports," Bernard Wientjes, the chairman of the Dutch employers' organization VNO-NCW, told the newspaper Het Financieel Dagblad, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Companies like Shell, Philips and Unilever are easily recognizable as Dutch companies." Wilders, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party, released his anti-Qur'an film on a video-sharing website on Thursday, March 27. A Counter Movie Against Wilders' In Opposition to Anti-Qur'an Film The film intersperses images of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and the Madrid train bombings in 2004 with verses from the Qur'an. The documentary also featured a Danish cartoon of a man said to be Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) with a bomb protruding from his turban. "I don't know if Wilders is rich, or well-insured, but in the case of a boycott, we would look to see if we could make him bear responsibility," said Wientjes. Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has already threatened legal action against the far-right politician for using the cartoon in his film without permission. Dutch-Moroccan rapper Salah Edin has also vowed to sue Wilders for using his picture to portray the killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh over his anti-Islam film "Submission". Effective The anti-Qur'an film has already sparked mounting calls in the Muslim world for boycotting Dutch products. "If Muslims unite, it will be easy to take action," said former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. "If we boycott Dutch products, they will have to close down their businesses. "If the world's 1.3 billion Muslims unite and say they won't buy, then it (the boycott) will be effective," he said. Nearly 30 Jordanian newspapers, radio stations and websites have launched a bid for boycotting Dutch businesses. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has warned it could be "months" before the consequences of the film were known. Muslims worldwide boycotted Danish products during the 2005 Prophet cartoon crisis, causing Danish companies nearly $1.5 million a day in losses. Denmark's leading dairy company Arla Foods, one of the hardest hit, issued at the time a strong condemnation of the cartoon and appealed to Arabs and Muslims to end their boycott of its products. http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1203758509173&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout - Forwarded message -- Fitna - Schism (The Bible version of Fitna) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpiccERJaFk Fitna the movie (what about the bible) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_T45M0gVs&feature=related Fitna movie Dutch MP Geert Wilder anti-Islam -Video response http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2uITx6QCs&feature=related The Bible version of Fitna: http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?s=dd64de59518d6fbecabab762b636492b&t=31339 http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30439
Bismillah [IslamCity] The Taliban blowback
The Taliban blowback The US enlisted the help of the mujahideen to fight the Soviet army in 1980s Afghanistan. But Pakistan, too, began fostering Islamist extremism. Now, Declan Walsh reports, it is suffering the violent consequences. By Duncan Walsh Two recent films feature Pakistan's lawless North-West Frontier province. The first is Charlie Wilson's War, a glossy Hollywood tale about how a cocaine-sniffing, skirt-chasing congressman helped goad the CIA into a massive covert war against Soviet-occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s. In one scene Tom Hanks, who plays Wilson, and Julia Roberts, his flinty southern belle, bring a powerful Washington politician named Doc Long to a squalid refugee camp near Peshawar in neighbouring Pakistan. Moved by the plight of the Afghan refugees, Long promises he will send weapons to fight the infidel communists. "This is good against evil. And I want you to know that America is always going to be on the side of the good," the pudgy white man declares to the turbaned crowd of Afghan exiles. "Allahu Akbar!" they yell. Long punches the air in return. "Allahu Akbar!" he shouts. The second film is far from glossy; in fact it is a non-fiction production. Shot in Mohmand, a tribal area in Pakistan's borderlands near the Afghan refugee camps created by that conflict in the 80s, Revenge is a straight-to-DVD job. It sells for the equivalent of 40p in the bazaars of Peshawar and its budget is evident in the wobbly camerawork and harsh lighting. But the action is all too real. In the climactic scene, a Taliban gang parades six men, accused of theft and betrayal, before a crowd of perhaps 5,000 tribesmen. The prisoners are badly beaten, naked to the waist and smeared with their own blood. They are shoved before the central figure - a man in traditional shalwar kameez and basketball boots, brandishing a knife as long as his forearm. Amid much ballyhooing, he beheads the prisoners, one by one. The camera spares no detail. The head-chopping Talib clamps his hand over his victims' mouths as he hacks at their necks; fellow fighters clamour to take photos with their mobile phones; blood squirts on to the soil. But only one sound is audible. "Allahu Akbar!" the crowd cries. "Allahu Akbar!" The film exemplifies the fundamentalist fury sweeping Pakistan's frontier region, a fury that has swelled to alarming proportions. Across the North-West Frontier province that abuts Afghanistan, self-proclaimed Taliban forces - a hotchpotch of religious diehards, foreign fugitives, angry tribals and village thugs - are imposing their influence at gunpoint. Girls' schools have closed, movie and music stores have been torched and barbers who dare to shave beards have shuttered their pokey little stalls. Perceived enemies are kidnapped or, in some cases, beheaded. Even more worrying, the violence is spilling into other parts of Pakistan. A cascade of suicide attacks and bombs have rocked the main cities. Recent victims have included a three-star general stalled in traffic, FBI agents at a pizza joint and the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, killed as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi. In one of the largest attacks, a massive car bomb gutted a seven-storey police headquarters in Lahore. For days afterwards terrified city residents streamed past to gawp at the awesome destruction. "It looks like we've been attacked by an enemy country," said Muhammad Umar, a municipal clerk, staring at the sagging mess. The bloodshed has stalled in recent weeks as a new, civilian-led government takes control. But few expect the calm to last. Many Pakistanis blame America. Since 2001 the Pentagon has given the Pakistani army more than £5bn to fight militants in the tribal badlands. But for many Pakistanis this is "America's war" - a fight inadvertently started by Charlie Wilson. Throughout the 80s the US used Islam as a weapon against the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan, funnelling billions of dollars in weapons to the mujahideen fighters. The struggle became a cause celebre across the Muslim world, sucking in disaffected young men like Osama Bin Laden. After the Soviet forces crawled home in 1989, Wilson and the CIA largely forgot about their jihadi creation until the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in September 2001, when the realisation came painfully late. Pakistanis make this argument forcefully and frequently (though usually omitting to mention that their more respected ally, Saudi Arabia, paid for half of the anti-Soviet jihadi budget). But the 80s jihad also spawned a home-grown malignancy - one that now poses a powerful threat. Recognising the jihadis' skill with a Kalashnikov and dedication to God, Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) gave them a fresh assignment in the 1990s: Kashmir. Led by Afghan veterans, fighters were secretly trained, armed and funded by the ISI to fight Indian soldiers in Kashmir. The best were lat
Bismillah [IslamCity] Islam, the new Israel
Muslims who complain the most over Israel's immunity to criticism are the same ones who complain the most about Islam's lack of immunity. Wrong speech is countered by correct speech, not by shutting it up. By Hazem Bata, April 14, 2008 And condemnation won't hurt A writer once said, "I disagree with your opinion, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." I agree with this philosophy, even having seen Geert Wilders film, Fitna. And while I disagree with many of his conclusions in the film, as a Muslim secure in my faith, I will defend his right to express himself and to be critical of my religion and my fellow Muslims. There is a sentiment popular among Muslims that Islam should be immune from criticism, constructive or otherwise - especially when it comes from non-Muslims. This sentiment is often the result of misplaced pride and the fact that, currently, Muslims have little else to be proud of. Regardless of the reasons, this defensive sentiment still comes as a shock to me. There has never been a religion, belief, philosophy, perspective or idea that has been immune from criticism. Looking back at history, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Marxism, capitalism, globalism, communism, socialism and every other "ism" has been subject to scrutiny and public debate. Why should Islam be any different? One should already expect that such scrutiny will often come from those who do not believe in the ideology they are criticizing (in this case, from non-Muslims). Why, then, are Muslims so sensitive to investigation of Islam when it comes from non-Muslims (or even other Muslims)? Nothing is immune from criticism, constructive or otherwise, including Islam. All of the prophets, and the messages they conveyed, were subject to every type of scrutiny and humiliation (in many cases, far worse than what we are experiencing now). However, their response was not to silence and condemn the opposition, but to teach it. If we are so concerned about the honor of our religion, we should try practicing it in response. Ironically, the most striking example of this do-not-criticize sentiment in the non-Muslim world involves Israel. At least in the United States, Israel has achieved a level of sanctity so high that it is beyond reproach. If you criticize Israel, rightly or wrongly, you are branded an anti-Semite. No politician can dare object to it. No mainstream pundit can openly condemn it. Surprisingly, the Muslims who complain the most over Israel's immunity to criticism are the same ones who complain the most about Islam's lack of immunity. In the last couple minutes of his film, Mr. Wilder concludes that, among other things, Islam is intolerant, undermines freedom and seeks to destroy Western civilization. Other than his conclusions in the film, there is actually very little for a Muslim (or anyone else) to object to. Most of the film consists of quotes from the Koran, actual footage of various Muslim clerics and militant groups spewing hatred or beheading people, actual photos of Muslims committing atrocities, and actual newspaper or magazine headlines highlighting such footage and photos. In all honesty, most of the film is closer to being a documentary than hate speech. Where the film fails, however, is that the quotes from the Koran are not given any context whatsoever. And admittedly, if one were to interpret such quotes literally, and without context, it would be very easy for a non-Muslim (and evidently for Muslims too) to conclude that Islam promotes violence. These quotes are then overlapped with the footage and photos of Muslims promoting or engaging in violence. The insinuation is that such promotion and engagement is simply in furtherance of the quoted verses. This conclusion, while incorrect, is to be expected. The fact of the matter is that there are many Muslims who engage in violence as a form of protest or problem-solving, who violate human rights, and who openly hate and call for the murder of kuffar. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that non-Muslims will combine a superficial interpretation of these verses with the atrocities committed by some Muslims and conclude that Islam and its followers are violent. In fact, I would be surprised if they came to any other conclusion. I do not fear or condemn non-Muslims scrutinizing Islam. In fact, I encourage it. It is only through this process of scrutiny and understanding that one can appreciate Islam (or anything else for that matter). What I do condemn, however, is an incomplete and biased analysis that fails to interpret holy verses in context of the surrounding verses, and in context of the circumstances to which they respond, and in context of the greater Koran, and in context of the teachings and example of the Prophet. What is necessary now is an orchestrated, substantive and effective response to the film. A response that expla
Bismillah [IslamCity] "The Lies".....an ultra-short-poem which does not even ryme
the lies brought the invasion & the invasion brought the occupation & the occupation brought the colonisation & the colonisation brought the Oil & Oil brought power and wealth (to the USA,exclusively) so what has happened to the announced , Freedom and Democracy for Iraq ?? Raja Chemayel hopefully not short-sighted 16Th of April 2008 - Yahoo! for Good helps you make a difference
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Islamic World Calls for Boycott of Dutch Products
Islamic World Calls for Boycott of Dutch Products to Protest Wilders' Film Sarah Abdullah, Arab News http://www.arabnews .com/?page= 4§ion=0&article=108927&d=14&m=4&y=2008 JEDDAH, 14 April 2008 â Following the release of the 15-minute film "Fitna," which was launched via the Internet on March 27, created by Dutch MP Geert Wilders', Muslim leaders and Islamic scholars have called for the immediate boycott of Dutch products worldwide. In the movie, Wilders links terrorism with verses of the Qur'an and described Islam's holy book as, "fascist literature, which calls on Muslims to perpetrate acts of violence." The movie also begins and ends with the infamous cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that was originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten in 2005 and later in other dailies in other countries. The Jeddah-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expressed his concerns on the dangerous implications of "Islamophobic actions," such as the film and the cartoons. He called such forms of expression a "widespread insult to the sentiment of Muslims of the world," adding that the movie was "a reprehensible act of incitement and intolerance against peaceful inter-religious and inter-communal cohabitation that challenges the global agenda for peace and development." Angered reactions did not only come from within Saudi Arabia but also other Islamic countries, including Jordan, which has recently began a national campaign to push for taking Wilders to court. Furthermore, just last week, Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed urged Malaysia and the Muslim world to launch a boycott of Dutch products, saying that the impact of such consumer actions by the world's 1.3 billion Muslims would lead to the Netherlands having to "close shop" and added that a boycott would be a productive way of putting pressure on the Dutch government to ban the screening of the film altogether. Arab News tried for several days to speak to Ambassador Nicholaas Beets at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Riyadh to get an official reaction on the film and to inquire about the course of action that would be taken if Saudi Arabia decides to go ahead with a boycott but was met with no comment. However a reliable source from within the embassy spoke to Arab News saying, "The ambassador has been attending meetings with top embassy officials to come to an agreement and a course of action before releasing a formal statement," the source said. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who leads the world's largest Muslim country, which also allows freedom of religion, said he had forbidden the entry of the anti-Islamic film into his country because the film would destroy the harmonious relations among people of different backgrounds. "I have banned the entry and distribution of the film and have asked the Dutch prime minister to withdraw the film from all distribution channels," Yudhoyono told thousands attending a service to mark the Prophet's birthday. He also said Wilders would be banned from entering Indonesia . Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Hadded Adel was quoted by Iranian press TV as saying that the Muslim world should boycott trade with any country that allows insults to Islam and that sacrilege of Islamic sanctities is the worst kind of cultural onslaught and violation of human rights. Last week, Iran also summoned Dutch Ambassador Radinck van Vollenhoven to protest at the film which, for his part voiced sorrow over the film's release stating that it had been condemned by the Dutch government. Still others expressing outrage over the film include the Muslim nations of Syria, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as well as top officials such as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who said that the film was "offensively anti-Islamic" while adding that there is "no justification for hateful speech or incitement to violence." But what do the Dutch really think about the film despite the government's efforts to distance themselves from Wilders? According to a poll of 1,200 persons, conducted in the Netherlands by well-known pollster Maurice de Hond, one-third of the Dutch population had seen the film in its entirety or in part a day after the film was posted on the Internet. The poll found that 20 percent thought it was good that Wilders made and released the film while 25 percent said they thought it would have been better that Wilders did not make and release the film. The same poll found 48 percent of the Dutch were indifferent regarding the subject. Bernard Wientjes, head of the Netherlands Employer's Organization, has suggested that Dutch businessmen sue Wilders for financial damages should the film result in monetary losses due to any boycotting. The BBC also reported that Kurt Westergaard, the artist who painted the controversial cartoon, is suing W
Bismillah [IslamCity] update - Importance and power of boycott - Dutch Businesses to Sue Wilders
updated links include the right videos and the wrong links removed. - Forwarded message -- Fitna - Schism (The Bible version of Fitna) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpiccERJaFk Fitna the movie (what about the bible) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_T45M0gVs&feature=related The Bible version of Fitna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpiccERJaFk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvxGiYC-Py0&feature=related Dutch Businesses to Sue Wilders THE HAGUE - Fearing a Muslim boycott, major Dutch businesses are threatening to sue far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders over his documentary portraying the Noble Qur'an as inciting violence. "If they (Muslims) decide to boycott Dutch businesses, it will harm Dutch exports," Bernard Wientjes, the chairman of the Dutch employers' organization VNO-NCW, told the newspaper Het Financieel Dagblad, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "Companies like Shell, Philips and Unilever are easily recognizable as Dutch companies." Wilders, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party, released his anti-Qur'an film on a video-sharing website on Thursday, March 27. The film intersperses images of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and the Madrid train bombings in 2004 with verses from the Qur'an. The documentary also featured a Danish cartoon of a man said to be Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) with a bomb protruding from his turban. "I don't know if Wilders is rich, or well-insured, but in the case of a boycott, we would look to see if we could make him bear responsibility," said Wientjes. Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has already threatened legal action against the far-right politician for using the cartoon in his film without permission. Dutch-Moroccan rapper Salah Edin has also vowed to sue Wilders for using his picture to portray the killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh over his anti-Islam film "Submission". Effective The anti-Qur'an film has already sparked mounting calls in the Muslim world for boycotting Dutch products. "If Muslims unite, it will be easy to take action," said former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. "If we boycott Dutch products, they will have to close down their businesses. "If the world's 1.3 billion Muslims unite and say they won't buy, then it (the boycott) will be effective," he said. Nearly 30 Jordanian newspapers, radio stations and websites have launched a bid for boycotting Dutch businesses. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has warned it could be "months" before the consequences of the film were known. Muslims worldwide boycotted Danish products during the 2005 Prophet cartoon crisis, causing Danish companies nearly $1.5 million a day in losses. Denmark's leading dairy company Arla Foods, one of the hardest hit, issued at the time a strong condemnation of the cartoon and appealed to Arabs and Muslims to end their boycott of its products. http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1203758509173&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
