The Muslim News newspaper latest issue includes interview with a Musilm survivor of 7
27 July 2005
Latest issue of The Muslim News (Friday, 29 July) focuses on the 7/11
and aftermath. It includes exclusive interview with one of the Muslim
survivors, views from Leeds, some of the hundreds of supportive emails
from non-Muslims, emails from Muslims on the London bombings, four
articles debating on terrorism, Islamophobic attacks.
Some of the stories:
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2033
Editorial
Perversions
Within hours of the 7/7 bombings, Prime Minister, Tony Blair,
tactlessly declared they were carried out in the name of Islam. Later he
continued to give their claimed cause a religious dimension even though he
refined his terminology, by labelling the culprits as Islamist
extremist terrorists with an evil ideology that was duly replicated by
the
media. As feared, the unwarranted and repeated demonisation of Muslims,
even though the use of such scurrilous terms as jihadis, had the
expected attacks against the Muslim community, with many mosques attacked,
one person killed, and many physically attacked, among hundreds of
Islamophobic incidents. The focus of the Governments response was to blame
the twisted teaching of Islam and put the entire onus on Britains 1.8
million Muslims to defeat such an evil. Like the response by US
President, George W Bush, to 9/11, there were echoes of a crusade against
Islam, albeit more subtle.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2027
Lucky to be alive
In an exclusive interview with the Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J
Versi, Mustafa Khan, one of the many Muslims injured in the 7/7
terrorist attacks, discusses his experience on the fatal day. He was sharing a
carriage with the bomber.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2026
Six Muslims among 52 victims
By Elham Asaad Buaras
Shahera Akther Islam, was among 52 people killed in the bomb attacks
but her faith and age made her an icon of the London bombings. Her
smiling face was featured in tabloids and broadsheet alike.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2028
Profiles of July 7 London bombers
On Thursday July 7, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30,
Hasib Mir Hussain 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19, became Britains first
suspected suicide bombers, killing 52 London
commuters (6 of whom were
Muslim) and injuring 700.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2029
No evidence
By Shenaz Kermalli in Leeds
Doubts over the guilt of Khan, Tanweer and Hussain are commonplace
among the Muslim community in Leeds and Dewsbury, the small mill town some
nine miles away where Khan had lived over the last five months.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2032
Feelings of denial and dismay emerge from bombers hometowns
By Shenaz Kermalli in Leeds
The Hamara Youth Centre in Leeds has been exploited as a front for the
education, radicalisation and recruitment of youth Muslims, say its
members.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2030
Letters - Some of the hundreds of supportive emails The Muslim News has
received from non-Muslims since 7/7
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2031
Muslim response to London bombings
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2051
Muslim Organisations response to London bombings
Muslims condemned the terrorist attacks on London on July 7, within an
hour of their occurrence.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2053
Scholars condemn London bombings
By Ahmed J Versi
Thirty Muslim leaders and scholars, from Sunni and Shia communities,
condemned the terrorist attacks in London, saying the perpetrators
violated the Quran by killing innocent civilians and that no one should
consider them martyrs. But they stopped short of condemning all suicide
bombings. The meeting, which took place in Islamic Cultural Centre,
London, on July 15, was held by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2052
UK ulama condemn terror bombing
In the name of Allah, the all-Merciful, the most Compassionate
A special meeting of imams (leaders) and ulama (scholars) held at the
Islamic Cultural Centre, Regents
Park, London on 15th July 2005 endorsed
the following declaration
DEBATE ON TERRORISM:
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2038
Terrorism for beginners: Lesson One. Again
By Abdelwahab El-Affendi
As I was recovering from the shock of the recent London atrocities, I
was reminded of comments I had written over twenty years ago in my
regular column in the (London-based) monthly magazine, Arabia under the
title Terrorism for Beginners. The comment was a reflection on the
curious parasitical nature of terrorism as a style of action which can only
hope to succeed by first admitting its dependence on its opponents being
civilised as ethically scrupulous. A terrorist who holds hostages and
uses them to blackmail his adversaries starts by admitting that his
enemies care about innocent
lives, but must be convinced that he does not.
In this regard, terrorism can only succeed politically by losing
morally. Terrorism thus becomes a defensible moral proposition only if and
when general moral standards sink very low indeed.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2039
No, we shall not be intimidated
By Dr Azzam Tamimi
The Muslims of Britain should never allow what happened to their
brothers and sisters in America to happen to them. No Muslim, apart from
those that may be found guilty by a court of law of lending support to the
perpetrators of the London July 7 attacks, should be pointed a finger
at. To claim that the Muslim community could have prevented the attacks
is to indict us all and associate us with an activity that not even the
closest of associates, whether relatives or
friends, to the
perpetrators, knew about.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2041
Holding fast
By S Sayyid
Muslims in Britain like Muslims in other Western countries have both
benefited and struggled by having to live in environments, which are at
best indifferent and at worst hostile to Islam.
The benefits have come from the fact that being a Muslim in a
non-Muslim society requires a greater commitment to Islam, for one is constantly
going against the grain. One has to choose to be Muslim again and
again. The pressure to moderate ones faith, dilute ones beliefs, forget
ones history is insistent and constant, a kind of white noise that is
always there threatening to drown out the adhan in our hearts.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2042
Important to influence policy in aftermath of 7/7
By Salma Yaqoob
A fortnight ago, I attended a peace vigil in Birmingham city centre to
commemorate the victims of the London bombings. At the end of the event
at which the references to remembering all victims of terrorism,
whether individual or state sponsored, received the warmest applause, a local
Muslim commented to me: We cant be seen to be saying such things, we
have to be seen to be apolitical or we come across as insensitive. I
understand the mindset behind those comments. There is a fear that as
Muslims, our Britishness would be questioned should we attempt to
contextualise the London bombings within the broader framework of our
foreign policy and we would suffer an even greater backlash. This fear has
guided the approach of practically all the Muslim leaders
who have been
in the media spotlight since the murderous events of 7/7.
ISLAMOPHOBIC ATTACKS:
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2043
Attack on student and mosque
By Elham Asaad Buaras
Kent Police are investigating criminal damage at a mosque and a violent
attack on an Arab student in the wake of the London bombings.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2044
Mosque vandalised
By Ruhana Ali
A mosque was vandalised in Norwich city centre days after religious and
political leaders appealed to the British public not to associate July
7 bombings in London with the wider Muslim community.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2045
Muslim woman attacked on Edgware Road
By Ruhana Ali
An Islamophobic incident near Edgware Road underground station, where
one of the bombs exploded, left a 42-year-old Muslim mother very
distressed.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2048
Muslim computer engineer spat at
By Elham Asaad Buaras
A 28-year-old Muslim woman was subjected to Islamophobic assault and
verbal abuse 12 days after the London terror bombings.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2050
Islamophobic
graffiti
By Ahmed J Versi
Graffiti was scribbled in a communal area in a private block of flats
in Bow, east London on July 9.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2040
Muslim killed in Nottingham
By Abdul Adil
A Pakistani visitor to London was killed in the aftermath of the London
bombing in Nottingham on July 10.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2055
Arson attack on mosque
By Elham Asaad Buaras and Abdul Adil
An arson attack was carried out on Wirral Islamic Cultural Centre,
Shahjalal Mosque, in Birkenhead, just two days after the London bombings.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2047
Four mosques attacked
By Ahmed J Versi
Four mosques have been targeted since the terrorist bombings in London
on July 7.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2060
Israeli convicted of shooting Briton
By Elham Asaad Buaras
A military court on June 27, convicted a former Israeli soldier of
manslaughter in the shooting death of a young British activist, the first
time an Israeli soldier has been found guilty of killing a foreign
citizen during four years of violence.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2062
Palestinian
prisoners face torture, inhuman treatment and detention
without trial
By Romany Kenza
At a meeting held in the House of Commons in December 2004, Jaber
Wishah, Deputy Director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human
Rights, described the torture he suffered during his interrogation by
Israeli interrogators: Having been deprived of sleep for 2 or 3 days, a tin
bucket was placed on my head. I was made to stand still. My
interrogator then turned on a shower above my head and the water slowly dripped
out. I was left by my interrogator and watched by a guard for several
hours. You feel like you are losing you mind. After several hours my
interrogator returned to mock me: Was I having fun? Enjoying being clean
for once? In such circumstances, whilst others are having similar things
done to them in nearby rooms, the stress becomes unbearable. Many
prisoners crack and begin hallucinating.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2063
Remembering the genocide of Bosnian Muslims
By Fazeelat Saleem
July 11, marked ten years since the bloody massacre of thousands of
Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. On July 11, 1995, Christian
Serb forces overran Srebrenica, slaughtering over 8,000 young Muslim men
and boys, despite the town being declared a designated U.N. safe zone
in the Yugoslav war. The Dutch U.N troops stood by as the genocide took
place in their presence.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2061
Memorial Room for Battery Factory at Potocari
By Suzanne Bardgett
It was Lord Ashdowns visit to the Holocaust Exhibition at Londons
Imperial War Museum, which first set the making of the Srebrenica Memorial
Room in motion. Although it was clearly too soon after the event for
anything like a historical museum to be established at Potocari, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, there could surely be some kind of museum-style
explanation of what happened there in 1995.
The cemetery at Potocari, Bosnia, - set up in 2000 and formally
dedicated by President Clinton in 2003 - has, with successive mass burials,
been fully established as the place where memory of the massacre is
preserved. Each anniversary, several hundred newly identified bodies are
buried there and the televised pictures of grieving families weeping by
freshly dug graves have come to symbolise the continuing trauma
experienced by the thousands of Bosnian Muslim families.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2057
Underneath which rivers flow: The Islamic Garden
According to the Quran, Paradise is a beautiful garden with water
flowing underneath (Jannah tajri min tahtiha al-anhar) and shade-giving
trees.
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