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God bless that Muslims have no power. If they had they would ruin the world. God will only give them power when they finally return to their spiritual path and get their dunja out of their hearts.

Socialists Need to Learn British Values

Finally someone has challenged the glorification laws - lets see what happens with this. Chances are jack-all, Galloway is rich enough to defend himself if charges are brought.

Lets see what happens if someone like Iqbal Sacranie even alluded to something like this. Or more realistically, Dr Azzam Tamimi. The dogs would be out not just for him but for all Muslims. What is amazing is that nobody is talking now about the problem with British Atheists or that British Socialists lack British values and need to integrate more or about British threats to British security.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/27/ngalloway27.xml

Creating a Climate of Fear

More scaremongering, more hysteria, more Islamophobia.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1781844,00.html

If someone can explain the following, I would be very grateful:

a) Why is it necessary to deploy over 500 police officers to arrest 8, perhaps 9 men, in the middle of the night while they are fast asleep? Mind you, it did take 50 to disarm Brian Haw of his placards about the same time of night. It does however explain why when there is a real need for police presence, as in the tragic stabbings in Tooting about a month ago, they are nowhere to be seen.

b) One of the accusations against Sanabel (put aside the links to "terrorism" in Iraq for a moment), which it denies, is that it has links to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which strives to overthrow that tinpot dictator Colonel Qadhafi. As is clearly evidenced from Sanabel's accounts available on the Charity Commission's website (http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/ScannedAccounts%5CEnds69%5C0001083469_AC_20050228_001_01_E_C.pdf), it is a relief organisation doing amazing work, may Allah protect them.

But even if it is true that Sanabel is assisting the LIFG, what is wrong with this? It is justifiable under international law, under natural law and lets be honest, the West will do it in a few years anyways, with far greater casualties and instability.

Here is yet another example of events around the world which have nothing to do with Britain, pose no threat whatsoever to the British public, the British government or British national security; yet, Britain feels obliged to persecute those suspected of sympathising with their just cause.

Why? Because an attack on one of these governments is an attack on them all. As Muslims, we should remind these governments that we live and die by a similar code.

WMD Dismantled in Parliament Square

So much for freedom of speech.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5007214.stm

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, about 0235 am, over 50 police officers were sent to disarm the latest threat to British national security, someone who British intelligence have been observing carefully for many years now. Upon arrival, the police were surprised by two of this terror mastermind's chief lieutenants who audaciously climbed on top of a metal container and began blowing whistles and waving banners. They were quickly subdued by London's finest. Indeed, such courage, as that of 50 police officers overpowering 3 of the greatest menaces to British society, has not been seen since 6 anti-terror squad officers fearlessly left unarmed defenceless Babar Ahmad with over 50 injuries on his body, 2 life-threatening.

So who was this evil wretch in the heart of London plotting to destroy Western civilization from within? How dare he openly publicise his hate-filled propaganda and brainwash susceptible impressionable young Muslims? Such a man should be banged up without charge, no questions asked. 90 days just to begin with.

The man in question was none other than 56-year old Brian Haw, a peace activist who has been continuously protesting outside the Houses of Parliament for almost 5 years. His WMD - numerous anti-war placards supplied to him by hundreds of sympathisers from all over the world. The government could just not tolerate one man telling them the very truth they try so hard to deny.

Dream Job Vacancy

VACANCY AT IHRC
Official Site

Campaign support worker / general administrative worker
Pro rata £12,000 per annum
Part-time: 2 / 3 days a week.

One year contract, with possibility of renewal. Beginning August 2006 (must be available for induction last week of July).

IHRC’s campaign section is expanding, with ever increasing demands for support on national and international campaigns covering issues as far a field as Guantanamo Bay, terrorism laws across the world from Britain to Australia, hijabbans, sectarian violence, prisoners of faith and miscarriages of justice.

IHRC is looking for a committed and enthusiastic worker, who is able to work in a pressurised environment, meet tight deadlines and provide administrative and logistical support to other team members at the IHRC office in London, UK.

Experience in the field of human rights work or activism is not required, but is highly desirable. Good writing and interpersonal and communication skills are required. Knowledge of Microsoft Office essential.

Job specifications:

To provide general administrative support to the campaigns co-ordinator, including taking notes of meetings, answering, returning and making phone calls, emails and letters under the co-ordinator’s supervision.

To provide logistical support on designated campaigns, including the writing of alerts, press releases and short reports and articles.
Liasing between the co-ordinator and the general public, press and other organisations. Promoting the campaigns work of IHRC at various events.
The successful applicant may need to work some unsocial hours.

Applicants must send in their CV to IHRC, PO Box 598, Wembley, HA9 7XH, or email it to info@ihrc.org

Applicants need to also ensure that they have the names of two referees that IHRC can send a reference request to.

It is the applicants responsibility to ensure that all references are returned to IHRC by the deadline of 12th June 2006.

All applicants need to be available for interview in the week beginning 3rd July 2006.

Applicants short listed for interview will be notified by 23rd June 2006.
The job will be offered subject to an eight week trial period. Criminal records checks will be made.

(I'll take this down after 12th June)

How Lies Become News

From Islamophobia Watch:

Canada's National Post ran a false claiming that Iran was planning to oblige non-Muslims to wear badges to indicate their ethnicity so that they could be distinguished in public. Richard Seymour exposes the role of Amir Taheri of Benador Associates in propagating this lie.

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2006/05/latest-hitler-how-lies-become-news.html

See how this story was spread despite even a Jewish MP in the Iranian parliament rejecting it as a lie.

Boycott

"Alas, I am unable to accept your kind invitation, for reasons that you may not like. I have, along with many other British academics, signed the academic boycott of Israel, in the face of the brutal and illegal expansionism and the slow-motion ethnic cleansing being practiced by your government"

"[The boycott] is just a small contribution to the long-term raising of international consciousness which represents the only hope for an eventual just peace in the Middle East. In this respect, there is a parallel with the academic boycott of apartheid South Africa."

-Professor Richard Seaford,University of Exeter

Academic Boycott. Haretz

R4 Feedback

On BBC Reporting in Palestine. It's about 6mins.

Demonstrate for Palestine - 20 May 2006

US, EU and Israel - Stop starving the Palestinians Recognise
Palestinian Democracy
End Israel's occupation

Demonstrate Saturday 20 May

Assemble 12 noon, Embankment

Rally in Trafalgar Square

58 years after the Nakba, the expulsion of 805,000 Palestinians from their homeland, Palestinians demand their right to return to their homes in accord with UN Resolution 194, and the right to self-determination. Today, two-thirds of Palestinians are refugees.

The Palestinians are facing a humanitarian catastrophe. 64% of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories already live below the poverty line, and 40% of children in Gaza suffer from malnutrition. Join us in demanding an end to Palestinian suffering and for Israel to abide by international law.

United against Occupation - United for Justice


Organised by:

Palestinian Return Centre, Association of Palestinian Communities, British Muslim Initiative, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Just Peace UK, The Muslim Association of Britain.

Supported by:

Pax Christi, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Freedom and Justice for Samar and Jawad, War on Want, Arab Media Watch, NUJ, NUM, PCS, GMB, CWU, RMT, NATFHE, The 1990 Trust, UNISON, ICAHDUK, Muslim Council of Britain.

Minister Orders "Urgent Review" of University Islamic Courses

British Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell has come out and ordered an urgent review of university Islamic courses on claims that young Muslim students were being exposed to radical teachings.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-05/17/article01.shtml

What a load of rubbish! This is just more fuel again - I cannot think of one university in UK where they are going to teach you that it is good to blow things up. Honestly, where? Which university in Britain teaches this sort of thing. It is mindboggling that Dr Siddiqui will even give this legitimacy by conducting the review. A sheer waste of time and resources. Pure cosmetic solutions once again, the root problem being deliberately ignored.

He will also examine the nature of the spiritual advice which students are exposed to on campus.

So now we come to the root of the matter - the imams, the khateebs, the isocs. They cannot tolerate the fact that Muslim students do feel for their brothers and sisters, do hold a sense of justice and will speak out in the face of oppression. If the imam, khateeb or isoc encourages such behaviour, you can be sure it will be dubbed "extremist".

The minister also hit out at what he said demands by some Muslim students to dedicate prayer rooms in university libraries and re-arranging lectures to suit with the Friday prayers.

He claimed that such demands carried "big dangers", calling for an open debate on the issue.

"The alternative is that we drift into a position where some British Muslims begin to feel aggrieved because their expectations are not being met and no-one is commenting that those expectations are not appropriate for today's society.

"Pockets of discontent emerge, impressionable young people become vulnerable to extremists and Muslims become less integrated and more isolated."

So becuase of their intolerance and refusal to accommodate our religious beliefs, they blame us for not integrating and draw an amazingly illogical link between someone missing a lecture due to juma'ah prayers and becoming an "extremist".

Will be interesting to see where FOSIS stand on this or whether they will even issue a press release. In light of their new "radical middle way" ideology, I am pretty sure they will wholeheartedly welcome this report from their pay-masters.

Lawyer Appeals Turkish Hijab Ban

A Turkish lawyer, Aslan Alpaslan, today opened fire on a group of prominent judges, seriously wounding four and killing one. These were no ordinary judges and this was no ordinary murder. These were judges who abused their positions as upholders of justice to oppress Muslim sisters who chose to obey their Lord, their Creator, the King of Kings and not the democratic idols of today. These were judges who stripped our Turkish sisters of their protective garments in an attempt to portray Turkey as a civilized, modern, democratic nation.

Finally, one courageous lawyer, may Allah protect him, decided to take action and send at least one of the judges to face His Maker in the Ultimate Court of Appeal. The decision here will be final!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4989034.stm

Munafiqah MP Shamed into Resigning

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch munafiqah MP, is to resign after admitting she lied on her asylum application and the Dutch Immigration Ministry withdrew her Dutch citizenship. Just goes to show that no matter how much one attempts to integrate or assimilate into certain societies, going so far as to insult the Word of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), at the end of the day, you aint nothing but a dirty foreigner. By falsely claiming she had a forced marriage, Ms Ali even told a lie upon her parents who raised her and sacrificed all they had for her, showing the depth of shallowness in this woman, who should be thankful she is still alive in light of some of her actions.

However, it seems that for now, Ms Ali has found a new home - apparantly she is going to work for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, in Washington. Alas, that too will be temporary but if she carries on like this and doesnt repent, she shall definitely find herself a permanent home in the lowest depths of the Hellfire.

Full story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4986418.stm

More Crusaders Killed in Iraq

Will they ever learn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4772195.stm

The Islamic Emirate of the Comoros

He calls himself a moderate Muslim, his opponents call him an Islamic extremist, his followers call him the Ayatollah ... please give your respect to the new president of the Comoros Islands, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4772499.stm

Sleepwalking into a Police State

Seems the PM wants to now get rid of the one piece of legislation that puts some sort of check on his autoritarianism and persistent attempts to turn Britain into a police state.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1774399,00.html

Call a Spade a Spade: Israel Promotes Apartheid

The Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians continues through the apartheid policies of Israel. That this law, which prohibits West Bank residents from living with their spouses in what is now 'Israel', has been upeld by the Supreme Court is a damning indictment of the institutionalised apartheid in Israel. In a nutshell, any Israeli Arab who marries a Palestinian from the West Bank will have to move to the West Bank if he/she wishes to reside with their spouse. Is this what we call "the only democracy in the Middle East"??

"Israel's Supreme Court has upheld a controversial law barring West Bank Palestinians from living with their spouses and children in Israel itself. . ."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4769661.stm

Politician of the Week: Chris Davies MEP

This is just pure genius - letter to the Guardian by Chris Davies, Lib-Dem MEP who was forced to resign as head of the Lib-Dems in Europe for offending a Jewish constituent who called him a Jew-hater because of his criticism of Israel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1770440,00.html

Concern about Palestine has claimed another Liberal Democrat scalp (Lib Dem leader in Europe resigns following anti-Israel remark, May 5). Jenny Tonge lost her position a year or two ago for understanding the despair that motivates suicide bombers. Now my incautious words have cost me my job. The first lesson to be learned is simple: do not send emails when blind fury has overtaken anger.

The second is harder. Do not visit Palestine. Do not see the destruction of any hope of creating a viable independent state. Do not recognise the racist apartheid policies of the Israeli government. Do not despair at the fact that Britain and the EU allows Israel to break international law with impunity yet imposes collective punishment on Palestinans for having voted the "wrong" way.

Chris Davies MEP
Lib Dem, North West of England

For more info, see

http://www.chrisdaviesmep.org.uk/news/2006/May/mep_steps_down.htm

Le Pen convicted of inciting racial hatred

So why is he still at large? Funny, can't imagine a Muslim preacher found guilty of inciting racial hatred still being allowed roam the streets of Paris; in fact, can't imagine he would even be allowed remain in France.

Le Pen convicted of inciting race hatred

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=708932006

FRANCE'S highest court yesterday convicted the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen of inciting racial hatred for telling a newspaper in 2003 that Muslims would one day run France and strike fear into the hearts of the non-Muslim population.

The ruling by the Court of Cassation came just over two years after Le Pen was originally convicted in the same case. In February 2005, an appeals court confirmed the 2004 ruling against the president of the National Front party.

Le Pen was ordered to pay a 10,000 (£6,800) fine for his remarks in Le Monde and an additional 5,000 in damages and interest to the League of Human Rights, which had filed suit.

Le Pen's party blames Muslim immigrants for an array of social woes in France, which has western Europe's largest Muslim population. The National Front contends that Muslim immigrants are taking jobs from the French.

The National Front leader is looking to run in next year's presidential election.
In the 2003 interview Le Pen urged the French to beware of "the day in France when we have 25 million Muslims, not five million" - the estimated population of Muslims in France today - because "it is they who will command".

Dear Dubya

A bit lengthy but worth a read - tocuhes upon issues of poverty, oppression, democracy, prisoners, war and peace, latin america, africa, security and tawhíd. Many references to Christianity.

Ahmedinijad letter to the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/09_05_06ahmadinejadletter.pdf

Letter to God

Murdered boy's pleading letter

9.07PM, Wed May 10 2006

A schoolboy killed in an arson attack wrote a secret letter to God weeks two thugs wrongly targeted his home.

Young Dean Pike died when two men poured lighter fluid through the letterbox and set it alight thinking the house belonged to someone else they had set out to target.

Terry Majinusz, 41, of North Bridge Street, Sunderland; Neil English, 42, of Chester Road, Sunderland and Trevor Gordon, 21, of Redmond Road, Sunderland, had all denied murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Majinusz and English were convicted of murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent but both cleared of attempted murder.

Gordon was cleared of all charges.

Dean's letter urged God to "change the awful things in life" and was only discovered on his computer after the tragedy.

It read: "Dear God, I'm sending this letter to say I am very happy with all the people in the world that don't go around killing other people for no reason.

"Also, I'm happy with all the sports you can do in the world like football, hockey, rugby and a lot of others. I'm even happy with the way I look apart from my glasses. But I'm not happy with the war in Iraq because it is not nice to kill another human being. I add that the way people bully other people that don't harm a fly.

For More http://www.itv.com/news/britain_223674.html

The Muslims America Loves

This has echoes of the 'Radical Middle Way' project (a.k.a. 'Operation Contest') currently being implemented in Britain.

The Muslims America Loves

by M. Shahid Alam

10/05/2006

Being a Muslim today--in the middle of America's 'war against global terrorism'--carries some new hazards. But it is not without its bright side for a few Muslims who are eager to profit from this war.

Muslims need little tutoring in the hazards they now face. Many tens of thousands are already dead in wars imposed by the United States--on Iraq and Afghanistan. The death toll is expected to climb, perhaps steeply, as these wars are carried to Iran, Syria or Pakistan. Iranians also face the prospect--perhaps, imminent--of incineration in nuclear strikes.

Death or dislocation in wars are not the only hazards that confront Muslims. In principle, any Muslim can also become the object of 'extraordinary renditions.' No matter where they happen to be, they could be kidnapped by the CIA, hooded, and transported to secret offshore US prisons, or delivered into the hands of US-friendly regimes with expertise in the fine arts of interrogation. No one knows how many Muslims have suffered this cruel fate--or how many of them are still alive.

By comparison, Muslims who are captured or bought, and imprisoned in Guantanamo as 'enemy combatants,' are lucky. After facing down several legal challenges to these detentions, the US now brings these prisoners before military review boards. Although many of them have been cleared of any terrorist connections, it is quite touching that the US is now refusing to release them--it says--because they could be tortured by their own governments. The prisoners can now thank the US for offering sanctuary.

In fairness, America's 'war against global terrorism' has also created a few hard-to-resist opportunities. The chief beneficiaries of the new US posture are the Muslim rulers eager to get the US more firmly behind the wars they have been waging against their own people. They are happy to torture Muslims 'rendered' to them by the CIA, and, periodically, they capture their own 'terrorists' and put them on flights to Guantanamo.

The 'war against global terrorism' is also a war of ideas. In order to defeat the 'terrorists' the US must win the hearts and minds of Muslims. This is where Muslims can help. The US needs a few 'good' Muslims to persuade the 'bad' ones to reform their religion, to learn to appreciate the inestimable benefits of Pax America and Pax Israelica.

In the heyday of the old colonialism, the white man did not need any help from the natives in putting down their religion and culture. Indeed, he preferred to do it himself. Then, the opinion of the natives carried little weight with the whites anyway. So why bother to recruit them to denounce their own people. As a result, Orientalists wrote countless tomes denigrating the cultures of the lesser breeds.

Today the West needs help in putting down the uppity natives--especially the Muslims. One reason for this is that with the death of the old colonialism, some natives have begun to talk for themselves. A few are even talking back at the Orientalists raising all sorts of uncomfortable questions. This hasn't been good: and something had to be done about it. In the 1970s the West began to patronize 'natives' who were deft at putting down their own people. Was the West losing its confidence?

The demand for 'native' Orientalists was strong. The pay for such turncoats was good too. Soon a whole crop of native Orientalists arrived on the scene. Perhaps, the most distinguished members of this coterie include Nirad Chaudhuri, V. S. Naipaul, Fouad Ajami and Salman Rushdi. They are some of the best loved natives in the West.

Then there came the 'war against global terrorism' creating an instant boom in the market for Orientalists of Muslim vintage. The West now demanded Muslims who would diagnose their own problems as the West wanted to see them--as the unavoidable failings of their religion and culture. The West now demanded Muslims who would range themselves against their own people--who would denounce the just struggles of their own people as moral aberrations, as symptoms of a sick society.

So far these boom conditions have not evoked a copious supply of Muslim Orientalists. Irshad Manji has made herself the most visible na-tive Orientalist by cravenly playing to Western and Zionist demands for demonizing Muslims and Palestinians. I can think of a few others, but they have little to recommend themselves other than their mediocrity. This must be a bit disappointing for those who had pinned their hopes on using Muslim defectors to win the battle for Muslim hearts and minds.

There are some indications that this disappointment is turning to desperation. On March 11 the New York Times published a front page story on Dr. Wafa Sultan, "a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims." Deep anger and despair at fellow Muslims? Are these the new qualifications for Muslims to gain visibility in America's most prestigious newspaper?

If the only Muslims that the United States can recruit in its battle for ideas are at best mediocrities or worse--nobodies--what chance is there that it can win the battle for Muslim hearts and minds? The short answer is: very little. Muslims are not helpless children. You cannot molest them and then expect to mollify them with trifles and protestations of pure intentions. That may have worked for a while. It will not work for ever.

Muslims are too large and too dense a mass to be moved by wars. Military might could not break the spirit of Palestinians, Afghans, Bosnians, Chechens, Lebanese, Moros and Iraqis. What chance is there that wars will be more effective if applied against larger masses of Muslims?
The United States cannot expect to change Muslims unless it first thinks seriously about changing its policies towards Muslims. Americans must stop deluding themselves. Muslims do not hate their freedom: they only want that freedom for themselves. The United States and Israel seek to build their power over a mass of prostrate Muslim bodies. Stop doing that and then you will have a chance to win Muslim hearts and minds.

M. Shahid Alam is professor economics at a university in Boston. He may be reached at alqalam02760@yahoo.com.

SOURCE: Counterpunch.org

Be Afraid

700 potential Al-Qaeda members at large in Britain since 9-11 - they dont seem very active if you ask me; only one attack in 4 years and that wasnt even them!! And what exactly is a potential al-Qaeda member? It seems any Muslim could be a potential al-Qaeda member so they have really miscalculated - should be 1.6 million potential al-Qaeda members in Britain. Even more worrying is the fact that there are almost 30 million men in Britain, i.e. 30 million potential male rapists at large. Be afraid, be very afraid.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article363121.ece

Pot, Kettle, Black?

US criticises new UN rights body

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4756665.stm

Goldsmith forgets he's in a Greenhouse

Well well, the Attorney General Mr Goldsmith is happy to condemn the US for Guantanamo yet proudly boasts of his own country's benevolent policies of control orders, secret intelligence, deportations with almost certainty of torture, and laws on "glorifying terror".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4759317.stm

Milestones

Maktabah's latest publication, Milestones by ash-shaheed Sayyid Qutb, is available now at an unbelievably low price - only £5. If this was for Milestones alone, it would have been a great offer but the appendices themselves are priceless. They include essays on Qutb, articles (interview with contemporaries of Qutb, fatwas on Qutb, and more), and even books such as Imam Hasan al-Banna's Kitab ul Jihad and Imam ibn Nuhaas's 'Mashari al-Ashwaq ila Masari al-Ushaaq' (the subject of the audio collection, Ibn al Akwa).

As sister Yvonne Ridley mentioned at a conference over the weekend in Blackburn, "Tony Blair does not want you to read this book so he is making it a crime to read it. He would much rather have you listen to Sami Yusuf and Hamza Yusuf".

Buy it now.

http://maktabah.net/ViewProduct.asp?ProductID=728


Milestones

By Sayyid Qutb

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New edition of the famous book by Syed Qutb which led to his execution Islam stands for change. It seeks to change the individual and the society. This change covers every aspect of human life: form personal morality to business economics and politics. It is only natural that Islam should be fought b those who want to keep the status quo. This is the way it has always been throughout history: Adam to Nuh, Ibrahrim, Musa, Isa, and Muahmmad (peace be upon them). It will happen to anyone who wants to stand up and proclaim the true message of Islam to the world.

In recent times we have the example of ash-shaheed Sayyid Qutb. He was imprisoned, tortured and eventually executed. He was no ordinary Muslim, a man of impeccable Islamic credentials, he made an immense contribution to Islamic and political thought at a time when the Muslim world was still mesmerised by such western notions as nationalism, the nation-state and the fathers of nations. Nationalist rhetoric laced with socialist slogans was the vogue. It was in this atmosphere that an-shaheed Sayyid Qutb bravely raised his voice – indeed his pen – against the false ideologies and in one clean sweep denounced them as a modern-day jahiliyyah (the primitive savagery of pre-Islamic days). He knew it was inevitable that the forces of jahiliyyah would seek to silence him and yet he, unlike others, courageously stood firm and was ready to sacrifice everything in the pursuit of seeking Allah’s pleasure. He writes ‘indeed our words will remain lifeless barren devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon out word will suddenly spring to life and live on amongst'

‘….We heard that the death sentence….on Imam Shaheed Sayyid Qutb…..had been carried out….Such a great loss. Sayyid Qutb….a man who held fast to his religion, trusting in Allah’s victory. Read Milestones to find out why Sayyid (Qutb) was executed.’ - Zainab al-Ghazali

Criminalising dissent in the 'war on terror'

Excellent piece from IRR here on the implications of the new glorification laws.

http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/may/ak000006.html

Even to claim that British foreign policy is to blame for terrorism today is to glorify terrorism - Tony Blair's own words at the UN Security Council.

Very useful article

For God and Country

Interesting article from Sunday Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2155558.html

Seems they went around interviewing the City Circle crowd. Some of it is good, some bad. I particularly like the bit about the Muslim scout group in Birmingham.

"Downstairs, in two or more draughty, dusty rooms, the scouts are separated by gender. The boys, Omar, Abu Bakr, Haaris and others, are rehearsing a play they will be staging to raise money for a Palestinian scout troop. Haaris is playing an angel sent by Allah to help three suffering men; he returns to see if they have cherished or abused his gifts. The tale turns on mercy and retribution, praise or bitter chastisement, the dichotomies of rigorous faith that are a mere memory in secular society. They may pledge their allegiance to Allah and “the country in which I am now living”, but watching them transports you to a more innocent era: they are like children rather than mini-me consumers; cheeky but not rude, biddable; when a leader tells them, quite severely, to pay attention to the play and only laugh at the funny bits, they do just that. Who teaches British kids of their class how to behave in a theatre?"

Racism, Poverty and Israel

The treatment of Arabs living in Israel

RENEW YOUR PASSPORT NOW

Thanks to Rolled-Up Trousers and Saracen for bringing to our attention the following.

Renew your passports this month - an act that would keep you off the government's upcoming biometric database for 10 years.

http://www.renewforfreedom.org/

Saudi Sheikh discusses impending Muslim victory over US

Very interesting ...

In a lecture that touched on the meaning of jihad, a leading Saudi cleric, Sheikh Nasser bin Suleiman Al-Omar, declared the United States is collapsing and Muslims must patiently await their ultimate victory.

The Sheikh said in remarks broadcast on Al-Jazeera April 19, "The Islamic nation now faces a great phase of jihad," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Referring to sacred Muslim writings that accompany the Quran, the sheikh said, "Whoever is familiar with the Sunnah and the Hadith knows that a battle against the enemies of Allah awaits on the horizon, in which the Muslims will be victorious. This is confirmed by the reliable hadiths, as well as by reality."

http://www.kavkazcenter.net/eng/content/2006/05/05/4658.shtml

9/11

Loose Change 911:Movie

Christian Terrorists Killed in Afghanistan, Iraq

Over the last few days, there has been good news from jihad-zones around the world where the oppressed continue their struggle against foreign occupation.


On Friday 5 May, 10 US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when their Chinook helicopter was shot down east of Kabul. 2 Italian soldiers were also killed by a roadside bomb the same day

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4979546.stm

The same day, 3 US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the Babil province of Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4977120.stm

Today, Saturday 6 May, it appears that 4 British soldiers may be dead after their helicopter was shot down in the "friendly" city of Basra in Southern Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4979950.stm

For the many Muslims also killed at the hands of these invaders, may Allah accept them as shuhadaa and grant them jannatul firdaus.

Another Humiliated Home Secretary

So Charles Clarke's reign of terror is over - the man who made it his mission as Home Secretary to outdo the Islamophobic policies of his predecessor Mr Blunkett, has been sacked. Blunkett brought in internment for foreign Muslims; Clarke introduced control orders and house arrest for ALL Muslims. Blunkett made it a crime to support oppressed Muslims abroad. Clarke made it a crime to even discuss oppressed Muslims abroad.

Yet their fate is similar - publicly shamed and humiliated, their credibility in tatters and their power removed.

Time and time again, we have seen the enemies of Allah humiliated in this world and what the aakhirah holds for them if they die upon their kufr, Allah knows best.

The new Home Secretary John Reid is someone who recently called for the Geneva Conventions to be done away with becuase we face a new threat. The future does not seem too bright for Muslims in UK but Mr Reid needs to step carefully, or face the same fate of his predecessor.

Latest Threat to Israeli security is 5 years old

Another 5 Palestinians murdered today by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) but I was sent a story today which was even more shocking. IOF ARRESTED and DETAINED a 5 year old boy for 6 and a half hours, for allegedly throwing stones.

http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=486&CategoryId=1

May Allah strengthen young Samer so that in future he can throw something at the IOF which will have a far more destructive effect.

Moussaoui

"She said I destroyed a life and she lost a husband," Moussaoui said.

"Maybe one day she can think about how many people the CIA has destroyed ... You have a hypocrisy beyond belief. Your humanity is a selective humanity. Only you suffer."

- Moussaoui, 911 Trial.

The full story

The Power of the Imam

Seems the Prison Service are beginning to realise the power of salah, and in particular, the power of the imam of the salah.

The Battle for Influence will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, 4 May at 2000 BST. This particular story discusses the effect Khalid al Fawwaz had on Muslim prisoners when he lead the salah in Woodhill.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4970696.stm

Former inmate Raja Mouib said: "When he used to do the prayers he used to get hold of you... the kind of things he would say, the way he prayed, it was like he put everything into it. He had that strong kind of effect that got hold of you."

In response, the Prison Service has now appointed its own imam.

Seems that they have realised that it is not just the khutbah but the salah itself which is such a powerful weapon.

Made in Palestine

http://zaytoun.org/

Plant a Tree in Palestine

Pop Culture in Islam

Sorry to continue this debate but this article by sister Yvonne is brilliant. Be warned, she does mention SY by name.

Pop Culture in the Name of Islam

YVONNE RIDLEY

Monday, April 24, 2006

I FEEL very uncomfortable about the pop culture which is growing around some so-called Nasheed artists. Of course I use the term 'Nasheed artists' very lightly. Islamic 'boy bands' and Muslim 'popsters' would probably be more appropriate.

Eminent scholars throughout history have often opined that music is haram, and I don't recall reading anything about the Sahaba whooping it up to the sound of music. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for people letting off steam, but in a dignified manner and one which is appropriate to their surroundings.

The reason I am expressing concern is that just a few days ago at a venue in Central London, sisters went wild in the aisles as some form of pop-mania swept through the concert venue. And I'm not just talking about silly, little girls who don't know any better; I am talking about sisters in their 20's, 30's and 40's, who squealed, shouted, swayed and danced. Even the security guys who looked more like pipe cleaners than bulldozers were left looking dazed and confused as they tried to stop hijabi sisters from standing on their chairs. Of course the stage groupies did not help at all as they waved and encouraged the largely female Muslim crowd to "get up and sing along." (They're called 'Fluffers' in lap-dancing circles!)

The source of all this adulation was British-born Sami Yusuf, who is so proud of his claret-colored passport that he wants us all to wave the Union Jacks. I'm amazed he didn't encourage his fans to sing "Land of Hope and Glory." Brother Sami asked his audience to cheer if they were proud to be British ,and when they responded loudly, he said he couldn't hear them and asked them to cheer again.

How can anyone be proud to be British? Britain is the third most hated country in the world. The Union Jack is drenched in the blood of our brothers and sisters across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Our history is steeped in the blood of colonialism, rooted in slavery, brutality, torture, and oppression. And we haven't had a decent game of soccer since we lifted the World Cup in 1966.

Apparently Sami also said one of the selling points of Brand UK was having Muslims in the Metropolitan Police Force! Astafur'Allah! Dude, these are the same cops who have a shoot-to-kill policy and would have gunned down a Muslim last year if they could tell the difference between a Bangladeshi and a Brazilian. This is the same police force that has raided more than 3000 Muslim homes in Britain since 9/11. What sort of life is there on Planet Sami, I wonder? If he is so proud to be British, why is he living in the great Middle Eastern democracy of Egypt?

Apparently the sort of hysteria Sami helped encourage is also in America, and if it is happening on both sides of the Atlantic, then it must be creeping around the globe and poisoning the masses. Islamic boy bands like 786 and Mecca 2 Medina are also the subject of the sort of female adulation you expect to see on American Pop Idol or the X-Factor. Surely Islamic events should be promoting restrained and more sedate behavior.

Do we blame the out-of-control sisters? Or do we blame the organizers for allowing this sort of excessive behavior which demeans Islam? Or do we blame the artists themselves?

Abu Ali and Abu Abdul Malik, struggling for their Deen, would certainly not try to whip up this sort of hysteria. Neither would the anonymous heroic Nasheed artists who sing for freedom; check out Idhrib Ya Asad Fallujah, and you will know exactly what I mean.

Fallujah is now synonymous with the sort of heroic resistance that elevated the Palestinians of Jenin to the ranks of the resistance written about in the Paris Communeand the Siege of Leningrad. The US military has banned the playing of any Nasheeds about Fallujah because of the power and the passion it evokes.

If those Nasheeds had sisters running in the streets whooping and dancing, however, the Nasheeds may be encouraged because of haram activity surrounding them.

Quite frankly, I really don't know how anyone in the Ummah can really let go and scream and shout with joy at pleasure domes when there is so much brutality and suffering going on in the world today.

The rivers of blood flow freely from the veins of our brothers and sisters from across the Muslim world. Screaming and shouting the names of musical heroes drown out the screams coming from the dungeons of Uzbekistan where brothers and sisters are boiled alive in vats of water.

How many will jump up and down and wave their arms in the air, shouting wildly for justice for our kin in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, and Iraq? There are many more killing fields as well across the Asian and Arab world. Will you climb on theater chairs and express your rage over Guantanamo Bay and other gulags where our brothers and sisters are being tortured, raped, sodomized, beaten, and burned?

Or will you just switch off this concerned sister and switch on to the likes of Sami Yusuf because he can sell you a pipe dream with his soothing words and melodic voice?

Oh, Muslims, wake up! The Ummah is not bleeding; it is hemorrhaging.Listen not to what is haram. Listen to the pain of your global family.

The Muslim Reformation

Did anyone catch Dispatches on Channel 4 tonight? Tariq Ramadan was doing a special programme on ijtihad in Europe called 'The Muslim Reformation'. Details below.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/reformation.html

I just caught the last 15 mins where he went ot Germany and met sisters re-interpreting teh Qur'an for themselves because most traditional interpretations were done according to the male psyche, and then a visit to Baker Street mosque where a sister was demanding men and women be allowed pray in the same space, and finally a trip to Pakistan where Mr Ramadan seemed nay impressed. Anyone catch teh rest to put all this in context?

Happy Bloody* Birthday

- From the Haretz Newspaper
- I wonder which type of trees it is they are planting. Interesting article on IslamOnline

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* Literally, not in the profane sense.

Ratko Mladic: A Man on the Walk

Oh my God, wonders never cease - it seems that the EU has taken a stand for once in its life, it seems the gloves have finally come off. After yet another deadline to hand over "the most wanted man in Europe" expired, the EU are set to get tough. Before we see what action they are taking, just a quick recap as to who Ratko Mladic is.

• He was the chief of the Bosnian Serb army responsible for the genocide and ethnic cleansing of thousands of Bosnians Muslims and Croats in the early 90s.
• His forces killed at least 8000 Muslim men and children at the "UN-protected" enclave of Srebrenica in 1995 "in order to kill, terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population".
• He is responsible for the unlawful confinement, murder, rape and inhumane treatment of the civilian population in Bosnia-Hercegovina. In many instances, women and girls were repeatedly raped. Food rations and medical care in the prisons were inadequate.
• He is responsible for shelling Sarajevo and of using 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995, and the destruction of property and places of worship.

Yet, for over a decade, this man, resposible for more deaths than AQ are accused of, has been living opnely in Serbia, visiting public places, eating in expensive restaurants and even attending football matches. He went somewhat into hiding since Milosevic got arrested but hasnt gone into his cave yet, so to speak.

Now, the EU has had enough. So what are they going to do? Economic Sanctions? You got to be kidding me - thats reserved for Muslims who use democracy to elect Islamic parties into power. No, the EU have taken the gloves off and said it will stop talks on closer ties with Serbia if Mladic is not arrested.

I am sure Mr Mladic is shaking in his boots - not so much a man on the run, as a man on the walk.

A Day without Muslims

Now here's an idea - imagine trying to pull this off here in Britain? It would really bring the country to a standstill - a Day without Muslims. Of course, just as the Hispanics have their own sell-outs, we too would have our "We are Britian" brigade encouraging people to go to work, school, etc and join the demos afterwards. But just imagine if we could pull this off ...

US faces 'day without immigrants '
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/22E6CF1B-E32D-4482-9C63-9EE067BF793C.htm