Where are you baby? My sweet yellow -jaundiced lemon-merengue 
whore.

White American, your ignorance is inversely proportional to your 
charm.

Fuck you, your mom and the camel you rode on! Fuck you all and 
leave my country! WAKE UP WHITE PEOPLE!

Hey shithead, the SS got its sorry ass kicked 60 years ago by 
AMERICANS. Hitler was NOT "aryan". You call yourself American? 
You're not worthy of such great honor. Go bite the curb.         
        
                                                              

Soon this page will be getting a revamp. It will 
become "Fish911". "What does Fish911 mean?" I hear you ask. It 
is an emergency line for fish of course. So all fish, please do 
post about whatever crisis you may be facing.

Hi Fish 911,

I'd like to report a suspicious terrorist who is sacrificing 
fish to his followers. He raves on and on about turning their 
water to wine and giving them bread. But worst of all, the damn 
predator keeps feeding them fish. I'd like to see his followers 
eat of his flesh and drink of his blood, then he'd know what 
it's like. He goes by the name of Jesus.

Fish.44

I feel that there is a terrorist/leftist conspiracy to 
discriminate against my fish. I find this incredibly offensive 
an sexist, demonstrating the innate hypocricies of the left, 
who rave about feminism and the sanctity of life. Just the 
other day, a man made my fish explode!!! Fortunately, it's 
better now and is no longer sore. Later, I found out that this 
guy was a leftist, and he said that right-wing men didn't 
understand enough about women to make fish explode.

NO more left wing Fish Explosion Terrorist attacks!!!!

Fish Marie.

I do not trust the above 3 posters, they are distinctly fishy!

Who, besides Israel, was offered a country in the 1947 U.N. 
Partition Plan?  Palestinain Arabs

Who accepted the U.N. Partition Plan? Israel

Who rejected the U.N Partition Plan?  Palestinian Arabs

Who attacked Israel the day after David Ben-Gurion read the 
Israeli Declaration of Independence at the Tel Aviv museum?
Iraq, Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria

Who, after a four week cease fire was coming to a close, 
accepted a permanent cease fire ordered by the U.N. (Security 
Council issued resolution 53) on July 7, 1948?  Israel

Who, after a four week cease fire was coming to a close, 
rejected a permanent cease fire ordered by the U.N. (Security 
Council issued resolution 53) on July 7, 1948?  Iraq, Egypt, 
Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria

Who gained even more land than the Partition plan had called for 
because of Iraq, Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria's 
stubborness?  Israel

Who got(or still is getting) their asses pounded in the Israeli 
War of Independance, Six Days War, Yom Kippur, and Israel's 
current war on terrorism? Palestinian Arabs and the countries of 
Iraq, Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria

Who holds military superiority in the Middle East?  Israel

What percentage of Palestinian Arabs support terrorism? 80%

Who do these attacks target? Civilians

What is the goal of these attacks? To develop a Palestinian 
country!

LOOK AT THE FIRST QUESTION!!!  THIS IS INSANE!!!  It is very 
interesting to take note of the fact that Palestinian Arabs 
never had a cry for a home before 1967.  The sudden longing for 
it came when they lost the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 1967 due 
to their own war-mongering.  It was only AFTER the Arab world 
realized that they could not defeat Israel militarily that sub-
human terrorists began their activities.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 
JUST LEARN SOME HISTORY ABOUT IT!!! THE PROBLEM IS THE ARABS 
CONTINUED FIXATION WITH DESTROYING ISRAEL!!

In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our 
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so 
silently

   
  
 

Israeli Nukes 

 

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai 
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? 
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the 
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion 
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated 
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a 
textile factory.

But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for 
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because 
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as 
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years 
Israel would not even allow any American government official to 
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken 
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities 
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time 
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some 
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).  

Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program: 

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis 
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.

1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 
under the authority of Defense Ministry.  Development of 
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.

1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann 
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear  cooperation agreement.

1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. 
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.

1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor 
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and  plutonium separation 
plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel 
Institute of Technology (Technion).

1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion 
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor 
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa 
begin.

1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol  cuts a deal with President 
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear 
test in Negev.

1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches 
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet 
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of 
having nuclear weapons.

1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment 
(laser method).

1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during 
Yom Kippur War.

1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear 
agreement forged.

1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected 
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S.  intervention.

1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA 
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion  signature.  

1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq. 

References: 

1.      Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story 
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 
0-915597-77-2.  

2.      Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University 
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.   

3.      Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, 
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the 
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma]. 

4.      Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium 
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, 
NY 1977.   

5.      Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The 
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper 
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. 
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA). 

6.      Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The 
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published 
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x. 

7.      Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear 
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq 
only and not a state like Israel? 
 
 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Furthermore, you are also among the BEST of people. This title 
comes to you from none other than our most beloved Rasulullah 
(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), as he declared in the following 
hadith: "The best among you is he who learns the Qur an and 
teaches it" (Tirmizi). 
 

In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our 
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so 
silently

   
  
 

Israeli Nukes 

 

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai 
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? 
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the 
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion 
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated 
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a 
textile factory.

But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for 
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because 
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as 
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years 
Israel would not even allow any American government official to 
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken 
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities 
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time 
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some 
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).  

Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program: 

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis 
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.

1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 
under the authority of Defense Ministry.  Development of 
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.

1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann 
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear  cooperation agreement.

1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. 
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.

1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor 
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and  plutonium separation 
plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel 
Institute of Technology (Technion).

1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion 
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor 
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa 
begin.

1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol  cuts a deal with President 
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear 
test in Negev.

1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches 
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet 
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of 
having nuclear weapons.

1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment 
(laser method).

1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during 
Yom Kippur War.

1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear 
agreement forged.

1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected 
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S.  intervention.

1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA 
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion  signature.  

1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq. 

References: 

1.      Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story 
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 
0-915597-77-2.  

2.      Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University 
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.   

3.      Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, 
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the 
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma]. 

4.      Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium 
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, 
NY 1977.   

5.      Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The 
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper 
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. 
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA). 

6.      Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The 
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published 
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x. 

7.      Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear 
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq 
only and not a state like Israel? 
 
 

NO! I refuse to add fish to my name! And you cant make me! The 
only fish I want anything to do with are the one's that somehow 
wind up at the end of my hook!

How my heart sinks whenever I hear of Hamas murdering little 
Israeli schoolchildren. To think that those subhuman Hamas could 
have had peace, but chose war, and murdered children by the 
busload, so the argument for "religious freedom" could be made.

The Palestinians will not meet a man face to face. It is far 
easier to bomb little children.

The answer is clear: Hamas and those who support them must die. 
They must be run through the slaughter house like the pigs they 
are. Hamas and their Palestinian supporters must be eviscerated 
and revealed to the world as the pork and bacon grease that they 
are inside. 

I am hungry this day.

Let us thank the good Lord for this meal we are about to recieve.

Amen.     
    
                              

Funny how you don't deny the history lesson I gave to your sorry 
ass, but rather try to make everyone feel bad for the 
terrorists.  You claim "In their world soldiers shooting 
children is not terror".  The reason for this is the way 
Palestinian terrorists conduct themselves.  When the Israeli 
military tracks them down...where do they go for?  The nearest 
building with civilians in it.  

Why would they do this?  Because it makes civilian caualties 
inevitable, which is politically unfavorable for Israel.  

I am sorrowful whenever ANY civilians are killed! But if you 
look at the reason why so many Palestinian civilians are killed, 
it is clear that it is caused by their own terrorists! Fuck, I 
don't understand how people can have sympathy for Palestinians. 
When 80% of Palestinians(according to the August edition of the 
C.Q. Researcher) support terrorism they shouldn't get any 
support! 

Careful, your ignorance is showing!

good one!! I have to go cry now

Fucking hell, White American is dumb...

If your reaction is to cry evry time you are faced with 
constructive criticism, you should seek urgent professional 
assistance. You can put your childhood traumas behind you with 
appropriate help.

Thanks, can you detect sarcasm is my last post...or maybe in the 
first word of this post!? And just how many childhood traumas 
have you forced onto innocent little altar boys, "Father"?

POD

FranceSucks.com believes that with friends like France......who 
needs enemies?

The axis of WEASELS have been exposed!

We Support the boycott of French products to put France in 
recession!


Chirac......You'll be kissing our ass after the war but you won't be 
selling nuclear reactors to Iraq EVER again!
You won't be selling parts to Iraq for their weapons and helicopters 
to KILL OUR TROOPS! You BASTARD!!!!
And American's don't need most of the $29 billion in CRAP we buy 
from you. 

Chirac, you are a back stabbing, grand standing, arrogant 
FROG.......YOU suck!!

Americans have never liked the French but we never knew 
why.....now we have a reason!

If it wasn't for America, you would be speaking German in Paris 
today! How many wars have you lost?

How soon these french forget!!

We won't forget this.....EVER!

America is so pissed.....they may boycott "French kissing"

Chirac.....YOU should be ashamed of yourself!! PRICK!

And for you frenchmen that have to hack our site to defend the 
indefensible. Fuck off assholes!

Now here are some more famous opinions on the French........

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from 
these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been 
governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain 

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French 
one behind me." --- General George S. Patton 

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your 
accordion." --- Norman Schwartzkopf

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about 
it." ---- Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means fail

FranceSucks.com believes that with friends like France......who 
needs enemies?

The axis of WEASELS have been exposed!

We Support the boycott of French products to put France in 
recession!


Chirac......You'll be kissing our ass after the war but you won't be 
selling nuclear reactors to Iraq EVER again!
You won't be selling parts to Iraq for their weapons and helicopters 
to KILL OUR TROOPS! You BASTARD!!!!
And American's don't need most of the $29 billion in CRAP we buy 
from you. 

Chirac, you are a back stabbing, grand standing, arrogant 
FROG.......YOU suck!!

Americans have never liked the French but we never knew 
why.....now we have a reason!

If it wasn't for America, you would be speaking German in Paris 
today! How many wars have you lost?

How soon these french forget!!

We won't forget this.....EVER!

America is so pissed.....they may boycott "French kissing"

Chirac.....YOU should be ashamed of yourself!! PRICK!

And for you frenchmen that have to hack our site to defend the 
indefensible. Fuck off assholes!

Now here are some more famous opinions on the French........

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from 
these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been 
governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain 

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French 
one behind me." --- General George S. Patton 

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your 
accordion." --- Norman Schwartzkopf

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about 
it." ---- Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques 
Chirac, President of France

"As far as France is concerned, you're right." ---Rush Limbaugh

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German 
Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." --- Regis Philbin 

"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed 
any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you 
can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is 
more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I 
don't know." --- P.J O'Rourke (1989)

"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of 
the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't 
have the face for it." ---John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona 

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? 
Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. 
He is French, people ---Conan O'Brien

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get 
Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the 
German out of France!" ---Jay Leno

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching 
into Paris under a German flag." ---David Letterman 

Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France!!

Face it folks, NOBODY wants war. But if it should come to that, it is 
time to stand tall and support the troops.
Anything less is unacceptable and those who participate in anti-war 
rhetoric that is based on POLITICS
HAVE BEEN and WILL BE giving aid and comfort to the enemy! 
France will have Hell to pay for selling out! 

Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple 
choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history. They 
actually happened! Do you remember?
In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and 
massacred by:
a. Olga Corbitt
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwartzeneger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in 
Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old 
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his 
wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy 
diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed 
by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles 
to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one 
crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted to a crash 
by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonny and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
----- 
Nope, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly 
fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer 
be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random 
searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper 
identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the 
President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal 
hips, and Medal of Honor winning former Governors.

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria 
Aldreds, Susan Sarandons, Jaque Chircac and others along with 
Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense feel doubly 
ashamed of themselves. As the writer of the award winning story 
Forest Gump so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does!

Totally Agree!  Maybe we could make our own 'Statue of Liberty' 
and give THIER'S back!!! Dont buy the wine, dont buy the cheese, 
change the name to 'Spiral Loaf Bread', Freedom Fries, or just 
Fries, buy AMERICAN clothes!, and for God's sake yes change the 
name to 'Wet sloppy AMERICAN kissing'! I would really like to 
know how the hell 'French' got put at the begining of most of 
these 'Saying's' anyway! Hell France didnt make the "French 
Frie" AMERICA did, in fact Mickey D's Did! Pull all our troops 
out of there and get them back home, and (I know this sounds 
morbid) but dig up our troops and rebury them here at HOME where 
they belong anyway! If they knew what was going on now they 
would be spinning in thier graves anyway! Those Soldiers need to 
be HOME anyway!!! WHERE THEY BELONG!!!! FUCK FRANCE!!  

Copying as I type! Lmao, Mr. Rodgers? Get the point anyway! :-)

Quit being so mean!

Marie, you are smart. You cute?

French fries weren't actually made in france. They were made in 
belgium.

Ha ha

It is MOST interesting that you start talking about "altar 
boys"; your obsession, not mine. It gives us some insight into 
YOUR past.

The traumas I was talking about was your rejection by your by 
your parents. You can let the hurts of the past go, with help.

Does that mean I can't French my girl?

Thou should not speak so of my fishy bretheren, on your hook 
indeed! You are a foul ethnic clenser of the seas, but I as Fish 
Messiah shall deliver my massive school to the promised seas. 
And FishGod will smite you with pestilence, drought and the 
death of your first born.

Fish Messiah (AKA Jesus)

"The traumas I was talking about was your rejection by your by 
your parents."

Nice grammar.  Does anyone need more proof on how the good 
reverend is a fucking idiot?

Also, where do you come up with this stuff? You randomly assume 
that I have an abusive history. You think I have an obsession 
with altar boys after I made ONE joke about your "playtime" with 
them (getting a little defensive, eh rev.?)...Your logic is 
crazy.

You also seem to be some sort of down-and-out psychiatrist.  You 
keep telling me to get "appropriate help" and that I can settle 
my past "with help"...It doesn't suprise anyone on this board 
that you have failed at your profession, and failed at life due 
to your nonsensical logic.

So, you are the grammar police now eh?  Another of your 
obsessions no doubt, as are psychatrists - you seem to have a 
fear of that profession. I am not, nor have ever purported to 
be, a psychiatrist OR psychologist, and I would not presume to 
treat you myself. Suggesting you get the professional advice you 
clearly need is simply a referal - call it pastoral advice if 
you like.

Your anger and spite are an indication you need urgent help. 
Type abuse to me on this page if you feel it helps you express 
your anger at your parents.

Of course, I am fallible like all humans and make typographical 
errors when in haste - if this makes you angry and lash out at 
about those whose professions and life experience you 
hypothesise.

Far from a failed life, I am highly succesful...for instance, 
every time a seek a (Pavlovian) response from you, I get one - 
that is a small success of course, albeir a small victory given 
your obvious psychological state.

I bet you agree with the premise that renamimg "French Fries" as 
Freedom Fries will really show those Frenchies something. It is 
a strategy any 3 year old would be proud of.

Come on, sa27 get into those insults to prove what a "winner" 
you are. I am waiting.

So, you are the grammar police now eh?  Another of your 
obsessions no doubt, as are psychatrists - you seem to have a 
fear of that profession. I am not, nor have ever purported to 
be, a psychiatrist OR psychologist, and I would not presume to 
treat you myself. Suggesting you get the professional advice you 
clearly need is simply a referal - call it pastoral advice if 
you like.

Your anger and spite are an indication you need urgent help. 
Type abuse to me on this page if you feel it helps you express 
your anger at your parents.

Of course, I am fallible like all humans and make typographical 
errors when in haste - this seems to make you angry and lash out 
at those whose professions and life experience you 
hypothesise.

Far from a failed life, I am highly succesful...for instance, 
every time a seek a (Pavlovian) response from you, I get one - 
that is a small success of course, albeir a small victory given 
your obvious psychological state.

I bet you agree with the premise that renamimg "French Fries" as 
Freedom Fries will really show those Frenchies something. It is 
a strategy any 3 year old would be proud of.

Come on, sa27 get into those insults to prove what a "winner" 
you are. I am waiting.

AMERICANS ARE JEALOUS OF MUSLIMS BECAUSE MUSLIMISMISTS ARE SO 
GREAT.

(This inane post should not be used as a distraction to SA27, 
who is deservedly getting picked on. HA HA SA27, we're all 
laughing at you!!!!!!!!!!)

Jealous of Muslims???? That will be the Fucking Day!! And WTF is 
a Muslimismists? I've NEVER seen that word before!! No more 
proof needed here, I know Father Phil is a bit whacked! 

In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our 
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so 
silently

   
  
 

Israeli Nukes 

 

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai 
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? 
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the 
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion 
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated 
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a 
textile factory.

But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for 
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because 
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as 
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years 
Israel would not even allow any American government official to 
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken 
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities 
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time 
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some 
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).  

Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program: 

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis 
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.

1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 
under the authority of Defense Ministry.  Development of 
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.

1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann 
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear  cooperation agreement.

1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. 
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.

1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor 
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and  plutonium separation 
plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel 
Institute of Technology (Technion).

1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion 
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor 
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa 
begin.

1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol  cuts a deal with President 
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear 
test in Negev.

1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches 
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet 
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of 
having nuclear weapons.

1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment 
(laser method).

1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during 
Yom Kippur War.

1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear 
agreement forged.

1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected 
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S.  intervention.

1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA 
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion  signature.  

1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq. 

References: 

1.      Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story 
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 
0-915597-77-2.  

2.      Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University 
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.   

3.      Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, 
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the 
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma]. 

4.      Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium 
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, 
NY 1977.   

5.      Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The 
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper 
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. 
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA). 

6.      Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The 
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published 
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x. 

7.      Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear 
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq 
only and not a state like Israel? 
 
 

In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our 
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so 
silently

   
  
 

Israeli Nukes 

 

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai 
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? 
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the 
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion 
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated 
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a 
textile factory.

But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for 
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because 
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as 
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years 
Israel would not even allow any American government official to 
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken 
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities 
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time 
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some 
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).  

Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program: 

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis 
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.

1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 
under the authority of Defense Ministry.  Development of 
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.

1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann 
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear  cooperation agreement.

1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. 
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.

1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor 
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and  plutonium separation 
plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel 
Institute of Technology (Technion).

1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion 
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor 
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa 
begin.

1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol  cuts a deal with President 
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear 
test in Negev.

1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches 
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet 
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of 
having nuclear weapons.

1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment 
(laser method).

1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during 
Yom Kippur War.

1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear 
agreement forged.

1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected 
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S.  intervention.

1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA 
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion  signature.  

1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq. 

References: 

1.      Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story 
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 
0-915597-77-2.  

2.      Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University 
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.   

3.      Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, 
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the 
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma]. 

4.      Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium 
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, 
NY 1977.   

5.      Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The 
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper 
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. 
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA). 

6.      Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The 
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published 
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x. 

7.      Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear 
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq 
only and not a state like Israel? 
 
 

In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our 
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so 
silently

   
  
 

Israeli Nukes 

 

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai 
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? 
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the 
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion 
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated 
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a 
textile factory.

But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for 
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because 
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as 
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years 
Israel would not even allow any American government official to 
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken 
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities 
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time 
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some 
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).  

Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program: 

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis 
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.

1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 
under the authority of Defense Ministry.  Development of 
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.

1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann 
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear  cooperation agreement.

1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. 
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.

1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor 
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and  plutonium separation 
plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel 
Institute of Technology (Technion).

1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion 
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor 
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa 
begin.

1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol  cuts a deal with President 
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear 
test in Negev.

1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches 
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet 
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of 
having nuclear weapons.

1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment 
(laser method).

1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during 
Yom Kippur War.

1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear 
agreement forged.

1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected 
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S.  intervention.

1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA 
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion  signature.  

1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq. 

References: 

1.      Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story 
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 
0-915597-77-2.  

2.      Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University 
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.   

3.      Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, 
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the 
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma]. 

4.      Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium 
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, 
NY 1977.   

5.      Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The 
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper 
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. 
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA). 

6.      Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The 
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published 
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x. 

7.      Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear 
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq 
only and not a state like Israel? 
 
 

In the burning streets of Bethlehem deserted and forlorn
Standing with our stones of freedom waiting
As prophetic swells of sirens ripped all silence from the air
We sang our freedom song and started throwing
Throwing at the soldiers, whose guns we do not fear
Throwing at the deadly tanks rumbling far and near
And at all the mindless money that put the soldiers here
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

In our citys raging violence, undauntedly we threw
Our faces fixed on armored cars approaching
F-16s echoing over bombed out neighborhoods
Steadfast we raised our stones and kept on throwing
Throwing at the Generals, War Criminals and Crooks
We throw at writers justifying murder in their books,
At racist settlers squatting on the land the soldiers took
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Five of us together, none more than twelve years old
We stood below the circling copters cracking
Defying evil elements of hatred laced in steel
Then Israeli hidden snipers started shooting
Shooting at our fathers, kneeling on the ground
Blindfolded with the rags of peace, their hands obscenely bound
While our mothers search for water they hear the bullets sound
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Throughout the Territories, the name of Palestine
Is ringing from the tongues of angry children
Denied a childs necessities, we claim our right to be
We claim our rights with every stone were throwing
Throwing at Americans who pay the Butchers bill,
Whose diplomats are Generals, theyre only trained to kill,
We throw at fat politicians whove never missed a meal
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

Bulldozers crush our olive trees, our homes, our terraces, our 
fields
To eliminate all trace of our existence
But as the cactus that we planted is reborn on stolen land
Our freedom grows with every stone were throwing
Throwing at the newspapers, whose Truth is bought and sold
At talking television heads who keep our tale from being told
Throwing at reporters who ignore us dying in the cold
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

None dare to call us heroes, none dare to find out why
We risk our lives to throw these stones at our oppressors
Instead they call us terrorists to justify their terror war
In their world soldiers shooting children is not terror
We're throwing at the bureaucrats in the United Nations Hall,
At world leaders doing nothing as the bombs of terror fall
Throwing at the whole wide world who refuse to hear our call
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying

The U.S.A. is waiting, watching from on high
Pretending that their hands are clean and guiltless
But they provide the weapons, they prevent the Peace
Apartheid is the goal they are pursuing
We're throwing at the hypocrites, the whole dishonest crew
At all those participating in what Israeli soldiers do
And American taxpayers, we throw our stones at you!
We sang and sent the stones of freedom flying.

Occupation takes our innocence, were sacrificed for greed
We're sacrificed for God and Gasoline
They shoot us cause we have the nerve to demand our liberty
Freedom is now all we have to live for
We're throwing for the future, for other children to be free
While Israel destroys our childhood with blind stupidity
We're throwing stones at all you cowards doing nothing so 
silently

   
  
 

Israeli Nukes 

 

Has the world forgotten the revelations made by Mordechai 
Vanunu, a former Israeli Nuclear Technician, in late 1986? 
Israel's nuclear program began in 1950's through the 
collaboration of French government with Israel (David Ben Gurion 
and Shimon Peres) to set up a Nuclear reactor and associated 
facilities in the Negev Desert, proclaimed in the beginning as a 
textile factory.

But the U-2 Spy Plane photographs unraveled this mystery, for 
which some people believe John F. Kennedy lost his life, because 
he was about to disclose the real nature of this facility as 
determined from those aerial photographs. Later for many years 
Israel would not even allow any American government official to 
visit that place. But Vanunu before leaving that place had taken 
photographs of forbidden areas that the British authorities 
conformed as genuine pictures and estimated around that time 
that Israel had more than two hundred nuclear warheads and some 
were thermo-nuclear devices (aka hydrogen bombs).  

Here are important dates in Israel's Nuclear Program: 

1949: Visit to Israel of French nuclear scientist Francis 
Perrin. Israel discovers uranium in the Negev desert.

1952: Creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) 
under the authority of Defense Ministry.  Development of 
Dostrovsky method for production of Heavy water.

1953: Department of Nuclear Physics established at the Weizmann 
Institute. French-Israeli nuclear  cooperation agreement.

1955: First discussion of nuclear cooperation with South Africa. 
Start of U.S.-Israeli nuclear cooperation.

1957: Secret agreement with France to build Dimona reactor 
(initially dubbed as textile factory) and  plutonium separation 
plant.

1958: Department of Nuclear Science established at the Israel 
Institute of Technology (Technion).

1960: Research reactor at Nahal Soreq goes on line. Ben Gurion 
tells Kenesset about the Dimona reactor. 1963: Dimona reactor 
goes on line. Regular shipments of uranium from South Africa 
begin.

1966: Levi Wshkol reorganizes Israel Atomic Energy Commission, 
Bergmann resigs as Chairman. Eshkol  cuts a deal with President 
Johnson and freezes Israeli unclear program. Israeli nuclear 
test in Negev.

1967: Degaulle severs ties with Israel. Moshe Dayan launches 
plans to accelerate Israel's nuclear program. 1968: Cabinet 
capitulates to Dayan's nuclear agenda. CIA suspects Israel of 
having nuclear weapons.

1972: Technological breakthroughs made in uranium enrichment 
(laser method).

1973: Golda Meier gives the order to arm nuclear warheads during 
Yom Kippur War.

1976: South African President Vorster visits Israel; new nuclear 
agreement forged.

1977: Israeli-South African test in in Kalahari desert detected 
by Soviet satellite and blocked by U.S.  intervention.

1979: Israeli-South African test off South Africa coast. VELA 
satellite (U.S.) records the explosion  signature.  

1982: President Reagan sells advanced computers to Iraq. 

References: 

1.      Gaffney, Mark, "DIMONA - The Third Temple? The Story 
Behind The Revelation," Amana Books, Brattleboro, VT 1989. ISBN 
0-915597-77-2.  

2.      Cohen, Avner, "Israel And The Bomb," Columbia University 
Press, New York, NY 1998. ISBN 0-231-10482-0.   

3.      Kohn, Howard, "Who Killed Karen Silkwood?" Summit Books, 
New York, NY 1981. ISBN 0-671-43654-6 (pbk) [discusses the 
missing uranium from Kerr-McGee Plant in Oklahoma]. 

4.      Landau, Eli, and Eisenberg, Dennis, "Operation Uranium 
Ship," Signet Book, New American Library, Time-Mirror, New York, 
NY 1977.   

5.      Cockburn, Andrew & Leslie, "Dangerous Liaison: The 
Inside Story of The U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship, " Harper 
Collins Publishers, New York, NY 1991. ISBN 0-06-016444-1. 
(discusses the missing Uranium from NUMEC plant in Apollo, PA). 

6.      Toscano, Louis, "Triple Cross: Israel, The Bomb & The 
Man Who Spilled The Secrets," A Birchlane Press Book, Published 
by Carol Publishing Group, New York, NY 1990. ISBN 1-55972-028-
x. 

7.      Hersh, Seymour M., "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear 
Arsenal and American Foreign Policy," Random House, New York, NY 
1991. ISBN 0-394-57006-5 

It's not only that Israel has a large stockpile of nuclear 
weapons, but she also possesses a large stockpile of Chemical 
and Biological weapons. Thus all PEACE-LOVING people must stress 
upon the United Nations Weapons Inspection regime that all 
efforts should be made to send inspectors to Israel as she poses 
the greatest threat to PEACE not only to the Middle East but the 
entire world. 

Why should the West be partial in this regards to disarm Iraq 
only and not a state like Israel? 
 
 

I never said Americans were jealous of Muslims, and I certainly 
do not think that. On the contrary, it is obvious that Americans 
could not care less about Muslims, or any other race, creed, or 
belief system.

Automatic spite against amyone who dares to have a different 
point of view is certainly rife on this bulletin board.

Marie, the man with the woman's name, is a classic example. Of 
course, we do not really know if he/she/it is really from the 
U.S. anyway...after all, Marie IS a FRENCH name.

Over to you Marie for more jibes, I cannot wait! Perhaps you can 
get sa27 to grammar check this posting - he/she/it is bound to 
find something to infuriate and trigger another pyschotic 
episode.

Wow...I didn't think it was possible, but you have outdone 
yourself! I really didn't think it was possible to make any less 
sense than your previous posts...I stand corrected.  You somehow 
manage to turn everything I say around into a theory that I hate 
my parents (And whats worse yet, you expect people to believe 
you).  Okay, I can see by your desperate plea, you want me to 
quit belittling you. I am so sorry. 

Anybody else find it ironic that the dear Father says: "Type 
abuse to me on this page if you feel it helps you express 
your anger at your parents." And yet in his VERY NEXT POST he 
makes a very poor attempt to type abuse:"Marie, the man with the 
woman's name, is a classic example. Of 
course, we do not really know if he/she/it is really from the 
U.S. anyway...after all, Marie IS a FRENCH name."

Bravo...again your genius is stunning

Perhaps YOU should be the one to reconcile with your parents 
according to YOUR VERY OWN theory? I am waiting for your attempt 
at a retort.

You are wrong, I love insulting you, you are such a soft target 
(just like the U.S. sees Iraq).

Every one of your angry responses earns me 10 points in the 
Office Pool.

Continue to berate me as it clearly fills some need in you. It 
certainly fulfills my need to be entertained by morons during a 
long night shift!

Come on sa27, give us a great big GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Whoooops, your pyschosis is showing. Keep them cards and letters 
coming baby!

Do you ever get confused about which persona you are currently 
using? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?

'hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm', that sounds familiar. 
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

he he

Please read  and forward , thanks .

Today was a beautiful day , what will the U.S. do about 
tomorrow ?


Today I was walking along the river and thinking about the 
world , as I was walking I looked up , the sky 

was so blue , it was a beautiful day , the sun was shining on a 
clear sky, birds were singing and flying from tree to tree , 
flowers were magnificent with all their wonderful colors , 
yellow, white , red , pink , purple... , the trees begin to 
blossom , small green leaves are coming up to say I'm here I'm 
still alive.

Small kids are coming back from school running after each other 
and playing on their way home. Girls are walking together and 
laughing , they are beautiful , they're making the world more 
beautiful and meaningful. 

It was a beautiful day , I felt alive , the world was so happy 
and peaceful .....but...

Will that gorgeous scene still be there tomorrow ?

Will the U.S. leave the world alone ?

Will the U.S. take its hands off the world ?

Why does the U.S. wants to destroy all that ?

Why the WHOLE world is on one side and the U.S. and Blair on the 
other ? What does that tell you?

Can the whole world be wrong and only Bush and his gang are the 
most wise people who will destroy the world in order to rebuild 
it ?

Can't anybody stop them ?

Where are you America ? where are your sweet kind people ? 

Are you ready for another Vietnam ?

What kind of threat does Iraq represent to you ? Simply NONE ...

Do you know where is Iraq on the map ? and how far is it from 
America ?

Why did America turned out to be oil and blood thirsty ?

Doesn't anyone care about the killing and murdering of millions 
of lives mostly children ?

Do you have kids ? 

Do you fear God ? 


I see tomorrow colored with only one color ... tomorrow will 
have the color of death , tomorrow 

will have one color ... RED 


Is there a chance you'll wake up ? 

Is there a chance you'll regain your conscience ?


P.S.

Others won't let go that easy. You'll be targeted everywhere , 
you'll be attacked everywhere , 

and you already are HATED all over the world.

You feel ashamed of being American , you feel ashamed to belong 
to that country ruled by idiots.

Those rulers who choose war will be safe somewhere , they'll be 
busy counting how much they gained from the war .

You will be there paying the price for them, a price that may 
cost you your life or the life of your loved ones.

America WAKE UP ...are you ready ...

Today will never come back... Tomorrow will never be the same... 
You are here , then you're responsible..



********************************************************

  This is a letter from an American friend...Please read..

 I have in my possession a diary entry written by my uncle, 
Lawrence P. Manley during WWII. He was in the First Division and 
I would put his writing somewhere after the battle of Aachen, 
Germany.  I quote as follows:  

'Today is our twenty-eighth month overseas and we are in 
Germany, our goal, after a long and bloody campaign through the 
wastes of North Africa and the heights of Sicily. Many nights I 
shivered with the cold and fear, my thoughts kept returning to 
this one theme: would I live to reach our goal, Germany. 
Fighting and dying in the drifting sands of Africa and barren 
heights seemed so vain for this was not truly enemy soil. Now we 
are on enemy soil and yet the reactions are not that which I had 
expected. After twenty-eight months I find the land makes little 
difference. The dying still die; the dead still stare; the 
wounded still suffer in silence or wail in nerve-testing 
sharpness; the blood still flows as freely; and the looks on my 
comrades faces now being formed  into permanant masks are still 
the same; the dirt and filth are present still; only the feeling 
of hopelessness has changed, it has grown more prominent. 
Everywhere one looks there is nothing but destruction and death, 
and even the weather adds to the morbid feeling.  the desroyed 
houses no longer present a pattern to cath the eye, but have 
become merely a monotomous repetition of rubble. It is 
particularly difficult to fight without a cause and yet after a 
period of twenty-eight months I have forgotten the ideals we 
once ventured forth to protect; after this period of dirt, blood 
and death I have no ideals. We are not living, we are merely 
existing. We are killers without hate; killing blindly and in 
turn being killed. We are men forgotten by those we charged 
forward like crusaders to protect; waiting wearily for the day 
when we too may no longer hear the roar of battle, but, to be 
free of this so-called civilized world."

A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War

By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com
March 17, 2003

George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 


Dear Governor Bush: 


So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day 
that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on 
the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. 
Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying 
and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm 
glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths 
I would like to share with you: 


1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and 
Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this 
one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America 
and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to 
kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have 
ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even 
threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans 
think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to 
our lives, then, believe it or not, we don't want to kill him! 
Funny how that works! 


2. The majority of Americans   the ones who never elected you   
are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what 
the real issues are that affect our daily lives   and none of 
them begin with I or end in Q. Here's what threatens us: two and 
a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market 
having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement 
funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars   
the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this 
go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve. 


3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to 
lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world 
is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among 
them. 


4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The 
Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against 
you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are 
an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you 
personally won't have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL 
while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place. 


5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of 
South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed 
forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send 
your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don 
their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of 
Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids 
for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? 
Well, hey, guess what   we don't think so either! 


6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal 
screw-ups. Yes, some of them can be pretty damn annoying. But 
have you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as 
America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in 
the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That our greatest 
thinkers and founding fathers   Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, 
etc.   spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts 
that lead to our Declaration of Independence and our 
Constitution? That it was France who gave us our Statue of 
Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of 
French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing 
what only a good friend can do   tell you the truth about 
yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank 
them for getting it right for once. You know, you really should 
have traveled more (like once) before you took over. Your 
ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has 
painted you into a corner you can't get out of. 


Well, cheer up   there IS good news. If you do go through with 
this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I'm 
guessing there aren't a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their 
lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you "win" the war, you 
will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves 
a winner   and who doesn't like to see a good ass-whoopin' every 
now and then (especially when it 's some third world ass!). So 
try your best to ride this victory all the way to next year's 
election. Of course, that's still a long ways away, so we'll all 
get to have a good hardy-har-har while we watch the economy sink 
even further down the toilet! 


But, hey, who knows   maybe you'll find Osama a few days before 
the election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope alive! 
Kill Iraqis   they got our oil!! 


Yours, 


Michael Moore 

www.michaelmoore.com

BUSH DECLARES HIS CRUSADE ON MUSLIMS!  

Just wait you guys! Your turn is not too far!



Most of the Muslim/Arab leaders have been lured into believing 
that they 
must buy armaments from West and these folks will also protect 
them. But it 
has been nearly forty-four years that they have not learnt a 
single lesson. 
The Arabs/Muslims have been made to fight with one another 
through "Virtual 
Reality Demons" created by the West, and by pretending to be 
their 
protectors and saviors. As James Schlesinger pointed out just 
tonight on 
PBS-TV's News Hour Program that Bush et al. planned 
a "sequential assault" 
to dominate the Middle East. Nine-eleven was merely used as an 
excuse and 
there are tell-tale signs that it was planned by the 
collaboration of local 
law enforcemnent/intelligence agencies who were at loggers-head 
with the 
folks in diplomatic community. Thus they collaborated with a 
common enemy to 
stage the WTC event, in which they deliberately lost their 
mastermind, John 
O' Neill, to eliminate any traces of any such collaborative 
effort (like 
Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald, who later died of a 
suspicious cancer).

Last year it was Afghanistan, this year it is Iraq, and Allah 
and Bush et 
al. only know who is next in there serial genocide of Muslim 
nations. Had 
the rulers not been fooled into establishing Gulf Cooperative 
Council after 
1991 Gulf War, Muslims wouldn't be seeing this day, when the 
enemies of 
Islam will kill another thousands of Muslims and deestry the 
resources of 
Muslims to keep us backward and dominated pretending to be the 
protectors 
and friends of Muslims, while the reality is that a few hundred 
Muslims are 
being tortured and incacerated against the International Law in 
Guntanamo 
Bay, Cuba, and Bagram Air Base in Kabul. If Muslim rulers or 
people think 
that this blood money earned to minmize their economic woes will 
help them, 
they must not forget that Allah will never forgive those who 
became 
instruments in handing over their brethren to foreigners to have 
them 
tortured and killed, annd where they will never receive proper 
justice till 
the cows come home. The personal greed harbored by foreign aid 
and the booty 
earned for delivering Muslim trophies will cause further 
degeneration of 
Muslims rather than uplift their economic and social condition.



Remember:

Brief about IRAQ:

* The previous Gulf War cost the Arabs almost $100 billion, and 
Saudi Arabi 
for the first time had to borrow money to meet domestic programs.

* More than 200, 000 Iraqi Soldiers were killed like wild 
turkeys.

More than 4,000 civilians were killed some with the most 
horrible bombs 
known as Bunker Busters in an Air Raid Shelter.

* 40 tons of Depleted Uranium debris was left after using DU 
munitions, 
affecting more than 500,000 people dying with Cancer. (Half life 
of 
Uranium-238 is 4.6 billion years)..

* Prior to sanctions the inflation rate stood at a level of 45 
% , and 
between August 1990 and January 1991, it rose to 1,000 %.

* GDP decreased from US$66 billion in 1989 to an incredible US 
$100-200 
billion.

* The cost of reconstruction was estimated to be $200 billion.

* Forty % of the schools were destroyed. Approximately 600 
bombs, rockets 
and artillery shells fired daily to pieces of unexploded 
ammunition are 
alleged still to lie in Iraq.

* Infant mortality rate increased by 100 % between 1990 and 1992.

* Iraq's water supply was deliberately contaminated causing 
severe hygiene 
problems and diseases.



Brief About Kuwait:

* In Kuwait City, 200 buildings including hotels, parliaments, 
the National 
Museum, libraries, the Emir's palace, hospitals, and government 
offices were 
set on fire.

* Kuwait paid US$22 billion to the allies for the war effort, in 
addition to 
more than $1million paid tid to Hill & Knowlton, to invent a lie 
to justify 
war.

Kuwaitis GDP fell from US$24.5 billion in 1989 to US$11.2 
billion in 1991 as 
a result of the war, before rising to US$21.74 billion in 1992.

Major Allied finacial to US and UK in US$million :

WANTED 

FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY



NAME: GEORGE W. BUSH

Charges against him:
AGGRESSING MUSLIM AND ARAB COUNTRIES
in compliance with instructions
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Asalaamu `Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu
 
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I pray that you are all well and in strength of eemaan and 
taqwaa.
 
Excerpts from an article entitled "Tribute to Mothers" written 
by an unknown author: quote - 
"Those of you who still have your mothers with you, this is 
something to ponder and to witness as your life unfolds. Those 
of you who, no longer have your mothers with you, this may be 
something that sparks a memory for you. Those of you who are 
mothers, this is something for you to think about as you move 
through life with your children. Those who have no children, 
this is something to think about when you encounter children 
along your life's passage - you know mothering is not relegated 
to a biological parent only!
 
Your Mother is the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the 
street, she's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered 
socks, she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well. 
Your Mother lives inside your laughter. And she's crystallized 
in every tear drop. She's the place you came from, your first 
home; and she's the map you follow with every step you take. 
She's your first love and your first heartbreak, and nothing on 
earth can  separate you.. Not time, not space...not even death! 
Your mother will always be more than a memory. She is a living 
presence. Your Mother is always with you." - unquote (courtesy: 
everymuslim.com)
 
To our beloved Mothers, may we never take you for granted.
 
Please find the following attachments pertaining to the subject 
of "Your Mother" which, 
inshaa'Allahu Ta'ala, I pray you will find beneficial:
 
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 Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the 
remembrance of Allah:
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Subject: [right-path] Today was a beautiful day , what will the 
U.S. do about tomorrow ?



Today was a beautiful day , what will the U.S. do about 
tomorrow ?


Today I was walking along the river and thinking about the 
world , as I was walking I looked up , the sky 

was so blue , it was a beautiful day , the sun was shining on a 
clear sky, birds were singing and flying from tree to tree , 
flowers were magnificent with all their wonderful colors , 
yellow, white , red , pink , purple... , the trees begin to 
blossom , small green leaves are coming up to say I'm here I'm 
still alive.

Small kids are coming back from school running after each other 
and playing on their way home. Girls are walking together and 
laughing , they are beautiful , they're making the world more 
beautiful and meaningful. 

It was a beautiful day , I felt alive , the world was so happy 
and peaceful .....but...

Will that gorgeous scene still be there tomorrow ?

Will the U.S. leave the world alone ?

Will the U.S. take its hands off the world ?

Why does the U.S. wants to destroy all that ?

Why the WHOLE world is on one side and the U.S. and Blair on the 
other ? What does that tell you?

Can the whole world be wrong and only Bush and his gang are the 
most wise people who will destroy the world in order to rebuild 
it ?

Can't anybody stop them ?

Where are you America ? where are your sweet kind people ? 

Are you ready for another Vietnam ?

What kind of threat does Iraq represent to you ? Simply NONE ...

Do you know where is Iraq on the map ? and how far is it from 
America ?

Why did America turned out to be oil and blood thirsty ?

Doesn't anyone care about the killing and murdering of millions 
of lives mostly children ?

Do you have kids ? 

Do you fear God ? 


I see tomorrow colored with only one color ... tomorrow will 
have the color of death , tomorrow 

will have one color ... RED 


Is there a chance you'll wake up ? 

Is there a chance you'll regain your conscience ?


P.S.

Others won't let go that easy. You'll be targeted everywhere , 
you'll be attacked everywhere , 

and you already are HATED all over the world.

You feel ashamed of being American , you feel ashamed to belong 
to that country ruled by idiots.

Those rulers who choose war will be safe somewhere , they'll be 
busy counting how much they gained from the war .

You will be there paying the price for them, a price that may 
cost you your life or the life of your loved ones.

America WAKE UP ...are you ready ...

Today will never come back... Tomorrow will never be the same... 
You are here , then you're responsible..

Blinded by White: Crime, Race and Denial in America

By Tim Wise


Imagine if you will the following: The place is a quiet, 
suburban 
community. The kind commonly referred to by its residents as 
a "nice 
place to live and raise children." It's a community known for 
civic 
pride, affluent families, and schools where the students score 
well 
above the national average on aptitude tests. It's also 93 
percent 
white.

Now imagine that at this community's high school, a handful of 
black 
students who say they feel like outcasts begin talking openly 
about 
how they hate everyone. They start dressing alike--perhaps 
wearing 
the same colors, or leather jackets, or black berets--and 
referring 
to themselves as the "dashiki posse."

Furthermore, they show off their gun collection in a video, 
which 
they produce for a class project. In this video, they act out 
the 
murders of dozens of their fellow students and teachers.

In addition to all this, the students are known to operate a 
website 
which espouses hatred and violence, and on this website they 
have 
been known to post what amounts to hit lists--letting everyone 
know 
who they hate most, and intend to kill first. One of the targets 
of 
their hatred discovers the list, tells his father, and the two 
of 
them inform police of the thinly veiled threat.

Let's imagine these black students are fond of a 
particularly "violent" form of music--say, gangsta' rap--and are 
known to paint viciously anti-white slogans and symbols on their 
clothing, and sing the praises of a particular black mass 
murderer--
say, Colin Ferguson.

Now, let us answer the following question: How long would it 
take, 
based on the above information, for school officials, teachers, 
and 
parents to make sure these kids were expelled from school and 
perhaps 
prosecuted? How long would it take for their families to be run 
out 
of town on a rail? Does anyone believe this scenario would have 
been 
met with apathy, cautious indifference, or even amusement?

Of course not. But that's exactly what happened in the real 
world 
when at this same school, in this same community, two white 
students 
from "good families" began dressing alike, saying they hated 
everyone, calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia," listening 
to "shock-rock" and the sometimes violent lyrics of white 
musical 
artists, showing off their guns and murder fantasies on film, 
operating a website which praised Hitler and advocated violence, 
painting swastikas on their clothes, and naming the people they 
wanted to kill over the Internet. Still seen as "basically 
normal 
kids" by their families, friends, and teachers, these two would 
be 
ignored. Ignored that is until last week, when they would go on 
a 
killing rampage reminiscent of the previous seven that have 
occurred 
at schools around the country in the past two years.

"No one really thought they'd do anything," said some of their 
classmates. "We thought it was all talk," said others. Of 
course. 
These were white kids, with BMW's, whose families make six 
figures or 
more. These are the beautiful people. They never do anything 
wrong.

"We moved from the city to get away from things like this." The 
statement rings in my ears with a burning familiarity. It's the 
same 
thing heard after Paduchah, Pearl, Fayetteville, Jonesboro, 
Edinboro, 
Springfield, and now Littleton. Some people never get it. Some 
people 
are so caught up in their race and class stereotypes about 
what "danger" looks like, they still insist "things like this 
just 
don't happen here."

Oh yeah? Well, where do they happen? I have yet to hear of one 
black 
or Latino kid in even one inner-city high school plotting, let 
alone 
carrying out mass murder. Just where does an urban-dweller go to 
build 30 bombs anyway? Where can they sit around sawing off 
shotguns 
without someone noticing? Christ, if these kids had been black 
they 
would have been followed around the hardware store for so long 
that 
they would never have been able to buy any pipes, let alone the 
other 
ingredients needed for the kind of explosives Klebold and Harris 
concocted.

So in light of what's happened, not only in Littleton, but in 
other "nice, quiet" suburbs all around the country lately, one 
must 
ask: just what were these folks trying to get away from in the 
cities? Must not have been violence. Must have been black and 
brown 
people (except, of course, for the handful that can afford to 
live 
among them in style), and poor folks generally. How sad. Once 
again, 
the racialization of crime and deviance has allowed us to let 
down 
our guard to the greatest threats to our safety: not people of 
color 
(if we're white), but our own white children, white parents, 
white 
neighbors, white husbands, white lovers, and white friends.

We have been so conditioned to see deviant and destructive 
behavior 
as a by-product of melanin or "defective" black culture, that 
commentators can, without any sense of irony continue to remark 
about 
how, well, remarkable it is when things like this happen.

It reminds me of something James Baldwin once said about the 
Holocaust--a much bigger paroxysm of white violence no doubt, 
but 
which nonetheless resonates here--"They did not know that they 
could 
act that way. But I doubt very much whether black people were 
astounded."

The white American myth of innocence, decency, morality, and the 
cowboys who never fired on an "injun" unless it was self-
defense, 
have all been laid bare for those willing to see. That people of 
color always knew the myths to be bullshit, while the dominant 
majority refused to listen and look at themselves only makes the 
situation more tragic. But not a damn bit more shocking. Of 
course, 
that the mass killers in the schoolyards have all been white as 
of 
late has gone without mention in the media. Oh sure, we hear 
about 
the similarities between the Columbine High tragedy and the 
others--
well, at least some of the similarities: all the shooters were 
boys; 
all the shooters used guns; all the shooters talked openly about 
violence; all the shooters played violent video games; all the 
shooters ate Cheerios at some point in the last ten years--you 
get 
the picture. In other words, the racial similarities between all 
these gun-lovin', trash-talking, dark-clothes wearing, `Doom'-
playin,' Cheerios-eatin,' Marilyn Manson-listenin' bundles of 
testosterone are irrelevant. While we can rest assured these 
kids 
would have been "raced" had they come from black "ghetto 
matriarchs" 
in the `hood, it seems as though no one can see the most obvious 
common characteristic among them: namely, their white skin. 
This, I 
guess, is what folks mean when they say they're color-blind: 
they can 
see color all right, it's white they have a problem with.

Typical, typical, typical. White folks go off, killing wholesale 
like 
there's a frickin' closeout on semi-automatic ammunition, and we 
get 
fifty "explanations" from the so-called experts who are called 
in by 
the media to make sense of it all. People of color do something 
horrific or commit random acts of retail violence and the whole 
world 
lines up to blame one of three things: their black families 
(particularly their black single mommas); their black DNA (as in 
the 
rantings of The Bell Curve); or their "defective" black culture 
and 
inverted value system. Whatever the case, their blackness never, 
and 
I mean never, gets overlooked.

Gang violence in the cities heats up and we've got U.S. News and 
World Report running a cover story entitled: "A Shocking Look at 
Blacks and Crime," and every nighttime news program running 
stories 
asking "what's wrong with the black family (as if there's only 
one); 
what's wrong with these people in the "ghetto underclass." But 
when 
Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer 
go out 
and do their thing, no one thinks to ask what it is about white 
folks 
that makes them cut babies out of their mothers' wombs, torture 
young 
men and bury them under the house, kill two dozen or more women 
for 
the hell of it, or consume human flesh. White deviants are 
afforded 
the privilege of individualization--"that's just crazy Charlie, 
ignore him, he's a potted plant"--while those of color get to 
represent the whole community and become exhibit A in David Duke 
and 
Charles Murray's eugenic fantasy. You say 90 percent of modern 
serial 
killers have been white? Well, isn't that puzzling. Next 
question.

You'll never even hear the term "white crime" uttered in polite 
conversation. White collar crime, maybe; but to suggest that the 
collar might not be the only thing lacking color, would be dogma 
non 
grata in mainstream discussion. "White-on-white violence?" What 
the 
hell is that? Never heard of it. Even in the wake of these 
massacres. 
Even as white folks are killing other white folks in Kosovo (and 
still other white folks are bombing them to get them to stop).

The media and politicians have done such a fine job making sure 
everyone knows who to fear (namely the dark and poor) that we 
forget 
how whites are disproportionately likely to engage in all kinds 
of 
destructive behavior, from drunk driving, to drug use as 
teenagers, 
to animal mutilation, to fratricide, to cutting corners on 
occupational safety standards and pollution control, which then 
result in the deaths of twice as many people as are murdered 
each 
year.

We forget that when it comes to violent crime, whites are four 
times 
more likely to be victimized by another white person than by a 
person 
of color, and that only sixteen-thousandths of 1 percent of the 
white 
community will be killed by a black person in a given year.

It all leads one to wonder: how many of the white families with 
kids 
at Columbine would have moved away, or at least taken their kids 
out 
of the school if, say, 50 or 100 black families had moved in and 
enrolled their children there? If other suburban communities and 
other white folks are any indication, the answer is quite a few. 
Study after study for 25 years has found that whites begin to 
leave 
an area and disenroll their kids from the local schools when the 
community becomes as little as 8 percent black. As the numbers 
get 
higher, the slow trickle becomes a mass exodus. Why? Well, to 
get 
away from crime, of course. I'm pretty sure this is the textbook 
definition of irony.

Even more hilarious is the tendency to act as if young white 
people 
were ever innocent, upstanding citizens compared to the rest of 
the 
country. Even as far back as 1966, a national survey of 15 to 
17 -
year-old whites found that "virtually all" had committed 
numerous 
criminal offenses, from breaking and entering, to minor property 
destruction, to armed robbery.

I've decided that's why all those shows like "Leave it To 
Beaver," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch" were so 
popular: 
not because many people actually lived like that, but because 
they 
didn't, and could escape into this unreal fantasy life via the 
television. After all, why watch a program that looks just like 
your 
daily routine? That would be boring. So just as with westerns 
that 
allowed (mostly white) kids to fantasize about a more exciting 
life, 
these wholesome family programs allowed (and still allow in 
syndication) mostly white viewers to ignore the dysfunction 
which is 
really all around them, and always has been, long before the 
first 
black kid set foot in their schools, and long before 
the "Godless" 
humanists bounced prayer from homeroom.

Unfortunately, I have no doubt this kind of thing will happen 
again. 
In fact, had it not been for a few folks informing on plots they 
knew 
about, we would already have added a Milwaukee suburb to the 
list of 
white teen angst killing fields, and a week after Columbine 
would 
have gotten a look at what kind of explosives Caucasians in 
Texas are 
capable of putting together. And still, according to my morning 
paper, less than half of all teens and their parents (mostly 
white if 
modern survey techniques are any guide) think their schools are 
at 
risk for this kind of violence.

Yeah, well, just keep telling yourself that. Keep 
watching "COPS" 
and "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol," and "America's Most 
Wanted," where most of the bad guys fit the more comfortable 
profile 
to which we've grown accustomed. I can hear the dialogue 
now: "Why 
look at how menacing the large Negro is honey! My, oh, my, we 
sure 
are glad we moved out here to Pleasantville. Me, my lovely wife, 
and 
our son. Speaking of whom, honey, where is Waldo anyway? I don't 
think I've seen him all week. Is he on that computer of his 
again? 
That scamp. Such a hard worker. Oh, and honey, what was that 
sawing 
sound coming from the garage last night?"

Please Be Extremely Careful Especially if using internet mail 
such as
Yahoo, Hotmail and so on. This information arrived this morning, 
from
Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who 
accesses
the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless email with 
a Power
Point presentation "Life is beautiful. pps" If you receive it DO 
NOT
OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it 
immediately. If you
open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: "It 
is too
late now, your life is no longer beautiful", subsequently you 
will LOSE
EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will 
gain access
to your name, e-mail and password. This is a new virus which 
started to
circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING 
POSSIBLE TO
STOP THIS VIRUS: AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the
antivirus Softs are not capable of destroying it. The virus has 
been
created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner"

Contact:
In Palestine: Michael - +972-2-277-4602
In US: Huwaida   202-494-0471 or 202-986-6160

March 16, 2003

STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF RACHEL CORRIE

In Rafah, Gaza Strip today Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American 
woman 
from Olympia, Washington, who was a volunteer with the 
International 
Solidarity Movement, was killed by the Israeli Army.  Rachel was 
standing 
in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her.  When 
the 
bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside she climbed up onto the 
mound 
of 
dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it wearing a 
fluorescent 
jacket to look directly at the driver who kept on advancing.  
The 
bulldozer 
continued to advance so that she was pulled und! er the pile of 
dirt 
and 
rubble.  After she had disappeared from view the driver kept 
advancing 
until the bulldozer was completely on top of her.  The driver 
did not 
lift the bulldozer blade and so she was crushed beneath it.  
Then the 
driver backed up - effectively running over her again.  The 
seven 
other 
ISM activists taking part in the action rushed to dig out her 
body.  
An 
ambulance rushed her to Al-Najar Hospital  where she died.

The Israeli Army consistently bulldozes Palestinian homes, 
particularly 
in Rafah, where over 100 homes have been demolished in the last 
two 
years.  The International Solidarity Movement - both Palestinian 
and 
international citizens - calls upon the international community 
to 
break the 
silence around Israel's grotesque human rights abuses.  
International 
civilians are in the Occupied Palestinian Territories attempting 
to 
protect ! Palestinian human rights and lives precisely because 
formal 
international bodies have refused to take action to do so.  
Dozens of 
Palestinian civilians are being systematically murdered weekly, 
and 
today, a 
beautiful, conscientious American defender of human rights was 
killed 
trying to protect the home of a Palestinian family.  


This murder, along with Israel's continued destruction of 
Palestinian 
homes must be strongly condemned by the United States and the 
United 
Nations and they must insist that Israel abide by international 
law 
and UN 
Resolutions.  The International Solidarity Movement also calls 
upon 
the 
United States government to conduct its own independent 
investigation 
into this incident and to take responsibility for the manner in 
which 
the Israeli government is using the $2.2 billion in military aid 
that 
we 
grant to Israel per year.  This money and US-made weaponry is 
daily ! 
being used by the Israeli military to harm innocent civilians.  
The 
bulldozer that killed Rachel Corrie was an American-made 
Caterpillar 
D-9 
bulldozer. 

The murder of Rachel Corrie was clearly NOT an accident.  
Eyewitnesses 
report that the bulldozer driver was able to see Rachel, and 
that 
they 
were shouting to the driver to stop.  The Israeli government and 
army 
continue to blame the victims of violence carried out by the 
Israeli 
Army for their own suffering.  Israel must be accountable for 
this 
criminal act and all criminal acts it is carrying out on a daily 
basis in the 
Occupied Palestinian Territories.

The International Solidarity Movement greatly mourns the loss of 
Rachel 
Corrie and extends its heartfelt condolences to her family and 
friends.  
We pledge to continue actively working for the ideals of freedom 
and 
justice that Rachel died for.

To: Hof@topica.com
From: "Michael A. Hoffman II" 
Subject: Rachel , a beautiful human being, killed by an Israeli
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:36:32 +0000

THE HOFFMAN WIRE
Dedicated to Freedom of the Press, Investigative Reporting and 
Revisionist History

MichaelII, Editor
http://www.hofm-info.com/news.html

Rachel Corrie, a beautiful human being, killed by an Israeli 
bulldozer

Editor's Note: Rachel Corrie, 23, is the American woman who was 
killed 
by an Israeli soldier operating a giant, D-9 armored bulldozer 
(paid for 
with your tax dollars). Congress, the president and the war-
Zionist 
media are all silent. Imagine if she had been killed by an 
Iraqi! Rachel 
was courageously protesting the savage Israeli practice of 
demolishing 
Palestinian homes by putting her life on the line. Prof. Steve 
Niva 
(below) puts her story into the context of other Israeli war 
crimes. 
Meanwhile, James Sanchez (seattl@world.at.net) is 
distributing photos of Rachel which he says are "fast 
disappearing from 
the web." Some of the photos evince a haunting beauty and a 
spiritual 
power. It is difficult to believe that so vibrant a young woman 
is dead. 
Truly our tour of duty in this world is short. Let us make the 
most of 
our lives, by doing our duty as God intends, like Rachel did. 
Pray that 
God will raise an army of Rachels! 

Also cf. http://el.net/v2/article1248.shtml

From Steve Niva:

I just wrote this article about Rachel's death in the hopes that 
people 
can understand the context in which she struggled and died. 
Please 
forward as you see fit. We knew her and she was an outstanding 
example 
of human courage and integrity. She will be greatly missed.

Rachel Corrie, Nuha Sweidan and Israeli War Crimes 

by Steve Niva
March 16, 2003 

The Israeli bulldozer that ran over and killed American peace 
activist 
Rachel Corrie, 23, in the Gaza Strip today had killed before. A 
few 
weeks ago, on March 3, an Israeli bulldozer killed a nine-month 
pregnant 
Palestinian woman, Nuha Sweidan, while destroying the house next 
door in 
a dilapidated Gaza refugee camp. Palestinian witnesses said that 
Mrs. 
Sweidan, 33, bled to death under the rubble as she cradled her 
18-month-old daughter. Her unborn baby also died. 

Rachel Corrie and Nuha Sweidan probably never met, but they will 
forever 
be linked as victims of Israel's 35-year occupation of 
Palestinian lands 
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

They are both victims of Israeli war crimes. The Geneva 
Conventions 
expressly prohibits attacks on civilian populations regardless 
of the 
motivation, even if in retaliation for attacks on its own 
civilians. To 
attack civilian populations intentionally is a war crime. Both 
Rachel 
Corrie and Nuha Sweidan were killed during military actions 
against a 
civilian population, in this case, during a house demolition. 

Since June 2002, the Israeli army has destroyed more than 150 
houses 
belonging to Palestinians allegedly involved in attacks, a 
policy human 
rights groups describe as collective punishment and which has 
drawn US 
criticism in the past.

This past month, Israel nearly set a record for killing 
Palestinians, 
mostly civilians, in a single month. According to the 
Palestinian 
Ministry of Health, Israeli assaults killed 82 Palestinians, of 
them 50 
in the Gaza Strip and 32 in the West Bank, wounding an 
additional 616 
persons. Israeli soldiers also killed several Palestinian 
children and 3 
medical staff as they sought to attend to wounded. Now, they 
have 
killed an American peace activist. In this same period, only six 
Israeli's were killed, all of them soldiers.

Why so many civilian casualties? 

These killings are the product of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel 
Sharon's 
escalation of Israeli Army assaults on Palestinian population 
centers 
following his re-election on January 28. Since that time, 
Israeli 
forces have largely focused their wrath on Gaza. They have 
conducted 
unprecedented armored military operations in Gaza city centers, 
pursued 
suspected militants deep into refugee camps and deployed 
bulldozers to 
destroy dozens of building and homes. This latter type of 
operation led 
to Rachel Corrie and Nuha Sweidan's deaths.

Israeli sympathizers may object that these assaults and 
civilians 
killings are justified in response to Palestinian suicide 
bombings but 
international law is clear that attacks on civilians are 
prohibited 
under any circumstance. 

Palestinian suicide bombings are clearly war crimes, even though 
some 
Palestinians claim they are justified in response to Israeli 
massacres 
and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. However, Israeli 
military assaults that systematically result in civilian deaths 
are also 
war crimes, regardless of their justification. Both are 
reprehensible 
and must be condemned.

Moreover, few independent observers accept that Israel's 
assaults on 
Palestinian civilian centers in the past two months correlate as 
responses to suicide bombs. These operations began nearly a 
month after 
the January 5 suicide bomb that killed over 20 Israeli's in Tel 
Aviv. 
The only other suicide bomb this year came on March 5, well 
after the 
Israeli campaign in Gaza was underway. Furthermore, in both 
cases the 
suicide bombers came from the West Bank, not Gaza.

The reality is that Rachel Corrie and Nuha Sweidan will also be 
forever 
linked as victims of the extremist Israeli leader Ariel Sharon's 
relentless war on Palestinians on behalf of Israeli settlements 
and his 
vision of a Greater Israel that seeks total control of all of 
historic 
Palestine.

The escalating assaults on Gaza over the past month indicate 
that 
Ariel Sharon is preparing the way for an invasion and reconquest 
of the 
Gaza Strip to complement his reconquest of the West Bank last 
April. 
With the West Bank now firmly under Israeli control, Gaza has 
become the 
sole remaining area of armed Palestinian resistance to Israel. 
It 
stands in the way of Sharon imposing a settlement on the 
Palestinians 
that will assign them small, disconnected Bantustans surrounded 
by 
hundreds of Israeli settlements. Ariel Sharon was the original 
architect of the massive expansion of settlements after 1978 and 
continues to be their main patron.

Sharon is well known for his cold, calculating, tactical acumen, 
both as 
a General and as a politician. He is also known as a ruthless 
fighter 
and has been accused of crimes against humanity for his role in 
the 
massacre of nearly a thousand Palestinian women, children and 
elderly 
people in Beirut in 1982. 

He is well aware of the sympathy Israel has received in response 
to the 
brutal suicide bomb attacks over the past few years. He knows 
that the 
world is focused on the impending war in Iraq. Thus, he has 
calculated 
that the time is right to set in motion the reoccupation of 
Gaza, even 
if it provokes further suicide bombings because he can use them 
as a 
pretext for even larger actions. 

Menachem Klein, an Israeli political scientist at Bar Ilan 
University 
near Tel Aviv, outlined the logic of Sharon's actions in a 
recent 
Christian Science Monitor article (13 Mar 2003). 

"These raids can be a kind of rehearsal, with the idea to arrest 
someone, but also to see how to get in and out, what tactics to 
use. A 
rehearsal on live people. And the thinking is that if the world 
gets 
used to these short-term reoccupations, it will digest the long-
term 
one."

Rachel Corrie, Nuha Sweidan, over a hundred Palestinians and 
scores of 
Israeli civilians are the victims of this live rehearsal. 

It is true that Palestinian suicide bombers have helped 
contribute to 
this cycle of violence through their own vicious acts. Indeed 
they have 
murdered women, children and innocent civilians as well. 

However, this is not a symmetrical conflict. Israel dominates 
the lives 
and land of over 3 million Palestinians through massive military 
assaults, imprisonment of thousands, torture and systematic 
starvation 
policies that have lead to a major humanitarian crisis in many 
areas of 
the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In fact, Rachel had been working 
with 
other members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) to 
defend a 
newly dug water well from Israeli attempts to destroy it before 
she was 
killed. 

Moreover, since his return to power two years ago, Ariel Sharon 
has 
systematically escalated Israeli military assaults and 
assassinations in 
search of a military solution, despite the waves of suicide 
bombings, in 
order to achieve a very clear set of political objectives. At 
the top 
of the list has been the destruction of any base of Palestinian 
political and military resistance to Israeli settlements and 
permanent 
control of the land Israel occupied in 1967. Gaza is his last 
objective.

There is no "balance" in this conflict. It is time to call 
Israel into 
account for its war crimes and time to stop Ariel Sharon from 
imposing 
his violent dream of Greater Israel on Palestinians. It is time 
to stop 
the needless deaths of Rachel Corrie, Nuha Sweidan and others, 
whether 
Palestinian or Israeli, or now, American.

*Steve Niva is a member of the faculty of Evergreen State 
College. He 
teaches international politics and Middle East studies. He met 
with 
Rachel Corrie before she left for Gaza in January.

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FAMILY UNITY DURING WAR TIME: Islam Forbids Domestic Violence
"Qur'an only" Concept Hurting Rights of Women
by Kaukab Siddique

    The violence which our power structure carries out all over 
the world 
often starts at home. More than 4,000,000 women are battered 
every year in 
the U.S. As an overflow of this culture of violence, numbers 
Muslim men too 
indulge in physical and psychological mistreatment of their 
wives. Some of 
these Muslims use a verse of the Qur'an to justify their 
behavior. This 
misunderstanding of the Qur'an is difficult to deal with owing 
to an 
important reason:
1. Attempts to interpret the Qur'an without the help of the 
Hadith.
2. Without the Hadith, one cannot know that the Qur'an's 
revelation was 
progressive, not static. It is a mistake to interpret the Qur'an 
without the 
concept of "abrogation" which the Hadith provides.
3. In all matters, the Prophet's (pbuh) interpretation of the 
Qur'an is 
FINAL. The Qur'an itself does not permit interpretation which 
ignores what 
the Prophet (pbuh) said about it.
4. THE PROPHET (pbuh) HAS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN ALL VIOLENCE 
AGAINST women in 
general and wives in particular.  As hazrat 'Ayesha (r.a.) 
reports: The 
messenger of Allah (pbuh) never raised his hand against a woman. 
5. Even rough behavior, without intent to do violence or to 
hurt, directed 
towards women, was forbidden by the Prophet (pbuh). As he told a 
reckless 
camel driver who was transporting women:"Be careful, Anjasha, 
these are 
vessels of glass which might break easily."

     Domestic violence is widespread. Fortunately, an Islamic 
program has 
been successfully initiated to help the victims of such violence 
in Atlanta. 
Great work is being done by BAITUL SALAAM. To send your help, by 
way of 
donations, gifts etc., contact: haleem1@aol.com
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A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE COMING BATTLE IN IRAQ
[by Br. Eric Mueller in Texas]

Dear Brother Kaukab,

as-Salam `alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuh!

I have enjoyed the two parts of your editorial
tremendously.

As regards the war on Iraq, I would like to observe
that we must not be discouraged if the Imperialists
seem to make spectacular troop advances in the first
days of fighting. Much of Iraq is open country and
with US air superiority, it would be stupid for the
Iraqis to try to hold on to that territory.

German General Erwin Rommel in World War II said that
desert fighting was like fighting at sea -- you take
one point and then cross lots of open country before
the next place of resistance and the next battle. If
you look at the campaigns in North Africa during the
Second World War, you see that the German Afrika Korps
penetrated into Egypt twice and were driven back by
the British across most of Libya twice. That is how
fluid the fighting on such a battlefield is. And of
course Rommel and the British were fighting a
conventional war and were technologically about equal.

Iraq will be fighting very much an unconventional war.

So let no one be discouraged if we quickly hear that
the Americans have penetrated deep into the country. 
The real battle will still be in store for them.

Similarly just as the Americans had no hesitation in
1990 about trotting out the daughter of the Kuwaiti
ambassador to invent stories of "Iraqi atrocities"
that she "witnessed" even though she hadn't even been
in Kuwait recently, So today the Americans are certain
to bring up all sorts of people, probably many of them
already trained and rehearsed, to complain about
torture and abuse at the hands of the Iraqi regime.
The regime in Iraq has been the object of an unceasing
campaign for its overthrow for more than 12 years by
the richest, most powerful states on earth. The only
way that any government could stay in power in the
face of that intense pressure is with extremely tight
security. The Americans even admit to having tried to
get Saddam Husayn assassinated 12 times. So his need
to take strict security measures cannot be questioned
by any reasonable person.

And while we're on the subject of torture, how about
the treatment that the US troops give to those whom
they captured in Afghanistan? Stripping all their
clothes off, often in the presence of women, taping
them to boards, and leaving them naked for days, lying
in their own waste, with no medical care for injuries.
That was the fate of the American Muslim known as
John Walker Lindh. What of the Muslims who didn't
carry a US passport? Can we imagine that they were
given better treatment? Many of those who have been
arrested in the US speak of beatings as well -- and
most of the detainees in the US have NOT been
released.

Rest assured that CBS, FOX, WB, NBC, ABC, CNN and the
rest of them are not going to report how the Americans
treat the Iraqi prisoners, unless it is some sort of
sanitized report. So when they bring up "torture,"
think of the brothers in Guantanamo!

Today, 18 March 2003, President Saddam Husayn told his
cabinet: "This battle will be Iraq's last battle with
every dirty, arrogant power (kull mutajabbir la'eem)
for some period of time, and it will be the last
aggressive battle that America undertakes against the
world for some time too. Victory is assured for you,
in sha' Allah, and the collapse of falsehood
(al-Baatil). Your enemy is going to collapse, by the
help of God because he is in falshood (`ala baatil)."

It may appear to the imperialists that they can win a
win a quick victory, occupying land and even
stationing troops in cities. Even a half victory will
be hailed by the imperialists as some great triumph,
and they will crow about how powerful their weaponsare. But this 
will be 
deception -- an attempt to
deceive us and at the same time a real deception of
themselves.

In the 1920s the Iraqis met the British invaders with
an armed revolt every year on average, even though
they carried muskets against machine guns and even
though the British dropped poisoned gas from
airplanes. But all their technology in the end
couldn't preserve the British empire, and the same
fate is in store for the evil empire with its
headquarters in Washington!

Allahu Akbar! wa-l-yakhsa' al-khasi'oun!

God is Greatest, and may the despicable be driven off!

wa-s-salam!

Eric Mueller
Texas
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JOIN BOYCOTT OF COMPANY WHICH SUPPLIES BULLDOZERS TO ISRAEL
[Important Action in Memory of the sweet rose of America, Rachel 
Corrie]
[From Carolyn, in Florida]


Here's an action we can all easily do:

The number for the public relations office of Caterpillar is 309-
675-1000

If you have a moment, call and ask if they are proud to have 
been the 
supplier of the D-9 Bulldozer that killed the first American, 
but not the 
first civilian, in Palestine this week. Also ask them how long 
they plan to 
continue this murderous business partnership with the IDF, 
providing the 
occupation army with all the tools it needs to oppress a 
defenseless civilian 
population. 



Palestine Children's Relief Fund
www.pcrf.netl

"Our wounded hands are yet capable of extracting the wilting 
olive branch 
from the rubble of massacred groves..."
-Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet
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Candlelight vigil

In Memory of Peace Activist Rachel Corrie & Protest the War on 
Iraq
[From Badi Ali, Greensboro, N.C.]

Killing Israeli Style:

Rachel Corrie a Peace activist from Olympia, Washington died of 
injuries in 
Rafah Refugee Camp after being deliberately run over by an 
Israeli military 
Bulldozer trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes 
and property
in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Rachel joins more than 2,000 Palestinians who have been killed 
by Israeli
military machine and settlers since September 2000. Rachel will 
be missed
and always remember by all Palestinians for her courage and 
determination to 
defend human rights and to expose of the ugly face of Israeli 
occupation. 

War on Iraq is not the answer:

It's a fact, support for the war is a minority opinion 
throughout the world 
except in Israel and the USA. In the USA, polls show 54% support 
and 42% 
oppose the war and opposition is growing. 


Date: Friday March 21, 2003
Time: 7:00 PM
Place : Governmental Plaza Downtown Greensboro 

Sponsored by Islamic Center for Triad, Greensboro Peace 
Coalition and Not in 
Our Name Project

( Silence is complicity. We urge all peace loving people to 
immediately 
freeze all dealing with the apartheid state of Israel and 
condemn this 
atrocity and the thousands of others like it. )

Please come join us and bring your vigil candle 
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Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners
[Courtesy Afghanistan-sl list]
March 17, 2003

On March 6, the German television programme Panorama presented 
fresh evidence
implicating US troops in the massacre of Taliban prisoners 
during the 2001
war in Afghanistan. Shown on the ARD channel, the programme 
presented footage,
including interviews with two Afghan government ministers who 
confirmed the
presence of American troops during the transportation and 
killing of 
surrendered
Taliban prisoners.

A documentary film made by Scottish director Jamie Doran?shown 
in an 
uncompleted
form to members of the European Parliament and other selected 
audiences in
Europe last June?presented the first public charges of American 
involvement
in war crimes in Afghanistan.

Doran's film documents events following the November 21, 2001 
fall of Konduz,
the Taliban's last stronghold in northern Afghanistan. The film 
presents
a series of witnesses who testify that American military forces 
participated
in the armed assault and killing of several hundred Taliban 
prisoners in
the Qala-i-Janghi fortress. Witnesses also allege that, 
following the events
at Qala-i-Janghi, the American army command, together with 
troops of the
Northern Alliance, were complicit in the killing and disposal of 
a further
3,000 prisoners, out of a total of 8,000 who surrendered after 
the battle
of Konduz.

Hundreds of prisoners died of suffocation in the course of 
transportation
in closed containers to the prison of Shibarghan. The transport 
finally ended
in a stretch of desert known as Dasht-i-Leili, near Mazar-i-
Sharif, where
dead bodies were unloaded and several hundred prisoners who were 
still alive
were shot to death.

The US State Department has consistently denied any American 
involvement
in the massacre of prisoners in the desert near Mazar-i-Sharif 
by forces
loyal to the commander of the Northern Alliance, General Rashid 
Dostun. Dostun
was the closest ally of American forces in November 2001 when 
fighting in
Afghanistan reached its peak.

Following the showing of the rough cut of Doran's film the 
Pentagon issued
a June 13, 2002 statement denying US complicity in the torture 
and murder
of POWs. The US State Department followed suit with a formal 
denial one day
later.

In December of last year, Doran's completed film Massacre in 
Afghanistan?Did
the Americans Look On? was shown to German audiences. The film 
has already
been shown in Britain and Italy and has been bought for showing 
in a totalof 
11 other countries. The American media has blocked virtually all 
coverage
of the film and its allegations. The film was recently released, 
however,
on video?titled Afghan Massacre?Convoy of Death, available from 
Doran's 
production
company at www.acftv.net.

Prior to the German broadcast, a State Department spokesman, 
Larry Schwartz,
declared: "It is a mystery to us why a respected television 
channel is showing
a documentary in which the facts are completely wrong and which 
unfairly
depicts the US mission in Afghanistan." Following the December 
transmission,
State Department officials once again denied any involvement by 
US troops
in the killing of Taliban prisoners.

Now the allegations raised in Doran's film have been confirmed 
for the first
time by Afghan government officials. German reporters 
accompanied a small
team representing the German parliamentary committee for Human 
Rights to
Afghanistan on a trip to investigate the background to the 
events in 
Mazar-i-Sharif.
In the course of their research, the reporters were able to 
briefly interview
Rashid Dostun, who now occupies the post of joint Deputy Defence 
Minister
of Afghanistan.

In the interview, Dostun acknowledged that the killing of 
prisoners had taken
place. He was not prepared to be drawn out, however, on the role 
played by
US troops in these killings. Dostun shares the deputy post at 
the Afghan
Defence Ministry with another general, Atig ullah Barialei, who 
was much
more forthright and conceded that American troops were in 
attendance at this
massacre.

Barialei stated in an interview with Panorama reporters at the 
Defence 
Ministry
that, in his opinion, what had taken place in the desert was a 
war crime,
and he confirmed that "at all the incidents which took place, 
American troops
were present."

Barialei's charge was confirmed by Afghanistan's Interior 
Minister Taj 
Muhammed
Wardak. Wardak acknowledged that unarmed prisoners had been 
killed in an
operation that he called an "accident". Wardak went on to 
acknowledge that
US troops were present during both the transportation and 
killing of the
prisoners. Shortly after his interview with Panorama, Wardak 
resigned his
post as interior minister for reasons that remain unclear.

In a comment for the Panorama programme, Christa Nickels, 
representing the
German parliamentary committee for Human Rights, stated that she 
was convinced
beyond any doubt that a massacre of prisoners had taken place. 
The prisoners
had previously been disarmed, and their killing was in blatant 
violation
of international law. She added that the statements made by 
Afghan government
officials served to reinforce allegations that American Special 
Forces 
troopswere present during the killings.

The United Nations had agreed to organise a fullscale 
investigation of the
events at Mazar-i-Sharif this spring, but according to a 
representative of
Physicians for Human Rights interviewed in the Panorama 
documentary, there
is little chance of such a probe ever taking place. No agreement 
has been
reached with the government of Afghanistan for the protection of 
those who
would do the investigating, and the UN is displaying little 
willingness to
ensure on its own that suitable protection be made available.

Since Doran's film was completed, two of the eyewitnesses who 
testified on
camera to seeing US soldiers at the scene of the killings have 
themselves
been murdered. Other witnesses and co-workers of the filmmaker 
have received
death threats.

The Panorama documentary ends with recent footage of the desert 
where the
massacre took place. There are indications of digging suggesting 
that an
attempt is underway to destroy the evidence of a war crime. The 
film's 
narrator
warns that a forthcoming war in Iraq, with all its new attendant 
horrors,
could serve to finally distract all attention from the 
involvement of US
forces in the war crimes carried out at Mazar-i-Sharif.

To: Freeman.Melanie
Subject: Urgent Appeal on Iraq



March 17, 2003

Dear Friend of Human Rights Watch,

Would you consider making an emergency gift to help us launch an 
urgent
effort in Iraq to save civilian lives?  Human Rights Watch is 
preparing
to
send several teams of researchers to Iraq's borders and into 
Iraqi
Kurdistan.  If there is a war, Human Rights Watch will:

- Expose abuses of international humanitarian law and put 
pressure on
all
combatants, including the United States and its allies, to do 
everything
feasible to spare civilians;

- Demand immediate action -- such as troop deployment and 
threats of
prosecution-to stop any deliberate slaughter of civilians by 
Iraqi
government forces or reprisal executions by the Iraqi opposition;

- Seek protection and humanitarian assistance for all refugees 
and
people
displaced by the fighting;

- Insist on prosecution of the most serious human rights abusers,
whether or
not they ultimately side with the United States.

As you know from our work in Kosovo, Chechnya, and Afghanistan, 
Human
Rights
Watch plays a vital, life-saving role in wartime.  By uncovering 
abuses
as
they occur, and pressing the international community to curb them
immediately, Human Rights Watch can make a significant 
difference.  Our
real-time reporting, disseminated to the press and public in 
multiple
languages, can galvanize the policy decisions needed to protect
civilians.

But we cannot undertake this emergency work without your 
support.  Thank
you
for considering a gift to Human Rights Watch at this critical 
time.

Author Mike Duncan has counted 20 lies (below) that the 
antichrist made
in his speech last night to prepare the US population for his 
imminent
campaign of genocide in Iraq.

But he missed some. For example, the antichrist said: "For more 
than a
decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient 
and
honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war." 
Honorable?
Over a million Iraqi children are dead from that "honorable" 
effort that
denied them access to medical supplies and food through the UN 
(read: US)
sanctions. Several years ago, when the death toll was still 
around
500,000, Madeleine Albright boasted that half a million dead 
Iraqi
children was a small price to pay.

Connected to that is another lie: "Our good faith has not been 
returned."
What "good faith"? And another: "Peaceful efforts to disarm the 
Iraqi
regime have failed again and again." Only if one subscribes to 
Tom
Lehrer's dictum about the Marines "We'd rather kill them off by 
peaceful
means." ("Send the Marines", Tom Lehrer).

Here's a doozy: "The United States of America has the sovereign 
authority
to use force in assuring its own national security. That duty 
falls to
me, as Commander-in-Chief, by the oath I have sworn, by the oath 
I will
keep." The antichrist's oath requires him to defend and protect 
the
Constitution of the United States. And that very Constitution 
makes any
treaties the US makes into part of the Constitution and the 
supreme Law
of the Land:

" ... This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which 
shall be
made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall 
be made,
under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme 
Law of the
Land ... " - Article VI, US Constitution

The treaty that established the UN Charter, to which the US is a 
founding
signatory, bars any country, including the US, from attacking 
another
country except in accordance with a Security Council resolution. 
By
acting without Security Council authority, Bush is violating the 
US
Constitution. He is violating his oath of office and perjuring 
himself in
the process.

There are probably other lies to be uncovered in the antichrist's
presentation, but these in addition to those listed by Mike 
Duncan should
suffice to show the true character of the crack-smoking, 
alcoholic AWOL
antichrist in the White House.


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Lies, Damned Lies, and Ultimatums
Mike Duncan
Weekly Lowdown (Special Edition)
March 17, 2003
http://www.weeklylowdown.com/031703spec.shtml

I've decided to go through Bush's Monday address and count all 
the lies
in it. I lost count, you see, during the broadcast. This is from 
the text
the White House put out.

It is said that the best lies are mostly truth, so I'm just 
going to go
through every paragraph and say true or false. If false, I'll 
explain.

My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final 
days of
decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other 
nations
have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi 
regime
without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its 
weapons of
mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War 
in 1991.

True.

Since then, the world has engaged in 12 years of diplomacy. We 
have
passed more than a dozen resolutions in the United Nations 
Security
Council. We have sent hundreds of weapons inspectors to oversee 
the
disarmament of Iraq. Our good faith has not been returned.

True.

The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and 
advantage.
It has uniformly defied Security Council resolutions demanding 
full
disarmament. Over the years, U.N. weapon inspectors have been 
threatened
by Iraqi officials, electronically bugged, and systematically 
deceived.
Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime have failed again 
and again
-- because we are not dealing with peaceful men.

True.

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no 
doubt that
the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the 
most lethal
weapons ever devised. This regime has already used weapons of 
mass
destruction against Iraq's neighbors and against Iraq's people.

False. The most lethal weapons ever devised are hydrogen bombs, 
which we
possess, not Iraq. As America and the U.N. has failed to locate 
a single
WMD in Iraq, 'no doubt' is a lie.

The regime has a history of reckless aggression in the Middle 
East. It
has a deep hatred of America and our friends. And it has aided, 
trained
and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.

False. There is no evidence of an al-Qaida alliance with Saddam.

The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, 
nuclear
weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could 
fulfill
their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of 
thousands of
innocent people in our country, or any other.

False. This builds on the last lie. As Al-Qaida is not allied 
with Saddam
in any way, I can hardly see Saddam handing them a nuke. 
Especially since
he doesn't have one.

The United States and other nations did nothing to deserve or 
invite this
threat.

False. Bin Laden has been yelling for years that the U.S. has 
stationed
troops in and meddled with the affairs of Arabic countries. So, 
yes, the
threat is not deserved, but it was certainly invited.

But we will do everything to defeat it. Instead of drifting 
along toward
tragedy, we will set a course toward safety. Before the day of 
horror can
come, before it is too late to act, this danger will be removed.

False. What danger? Al-Qaida? But Al-Qaida isn't involved with 
Iraq.

The United States of America has the sovereign authority to use 
force in
assuring its own national security. That duty falls to me, as
Commander-in-Chief, by the oath I have sworn, by the oath I will 
keep.

True.

Recognizing the threat to our country, the United States 
Congress voted
overwhelmingly last year to support the use of force against 
Iraq.

True, unfortunately.

America tried to work with the United Nations to address this 
threat
because we wanted to resolve the issue peacefully.

False. A good part of your Cabinet has been clamoring to finish 
off
Saddam for years, Rumsfeld and Cheney in particular - they wrote 
a letter
to Clinton begging him to take Saddam out. And, of course, 
deposing a
nation's leader, dictator or not, is not a peaceful route.

We believe in the mission of the United Nations.

False. Otherwise you would submit to its authority.

One reason the U.N. was founded after the second world war was to
confront aggressive dictators, actively and early, before they 
can attack
the innocent and destroy the peace.

True.

In the case of Iraq, the Security Council did act, in the early 
1990s.
Under Resolutions 678 and 687 -- both still in effect -- the 
United
States and our allies are authorized to use force in ridding 
Iraq of
weapons of mass destruction.

True.

This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.

False. The U.N. has obviously changed its mind.

Last September, I went to the U.N. General Assembly and urged 
the nations
of the world to unite and bring an end to this danger. On 
November 8th,
the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, finding 
Iraq in
material breach of its obligations, and vowing serious 
consequences if
Iraq did not fully and immediately disarm.

True.

Today, no nation can possibly claim that Iraq has disarmed. And 
it will
not disarm so long as Saddam Hussein holds power.

False. Iraq has so claimed such. And no one has been able to 
disprove
them, so... you'd think the most powerful nation on earth could 
find at
least one of these things, if they were so prevalent.

For the last four-and-a-half months, the United States and our 
allies
have worked within the Security Council to enforce that Council's
long-standing demands. Yet, some permanent members of the 
Security
Council have publicly announced they will veto any resolution 
that
compels the disarmament of Iraq.

True.

These governments share our assessment of the danger, but not 
our resolve
to meet it.

False. This is perhaps the greatest lie in the entire speech, 
for it is
twofold. If France and Russia and others 'shared the 
assessment', why
would they not have the resolve? It's not like the war is 
losable. And as
for resolve, Bush is certainly resolved to invade Iraq, yep - 
not make
peace.

Many nations, however, do have the resolve and fortitude to act 
against
this threat to peace, and a broad coalition is now gathering to 
enforce
the just demands of the world.

False. Broad, my ass - you hear that, Bulgaria and Chile?

The United Nations Security Council has not lived up to its
responsibilities, so we will rise to ours.

False. You never brought up the vote, remember? You caved when 
it was
apparent that it would not pass. Rather, you failed to live up 
to your
responsibilities as a member of the United Nations and the 
Security
Council.

In recent days, some governments in the Middle East have been 
doing their
part. They have delivered public and private messages urging the 
dictator
to leave Iraq, so that disarmament can proceed peacefully. He 
has thus
far refused.

True.

All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. 
Saddam
Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their 
refusal to do
so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our 
choosing.
For their own safety, all foreign nationals -- including 
journalists and
inspectors -- should leave Iraq immediately.

True, unfortunately.

Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, 
and I
have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, 
it will be
directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not 
against
you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver 
the food
and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror 
and we
will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. 
In a free
Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your 
neighbors, no
more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more 
torture
chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day 
of your
liberation is near.

False. Given the condition of Afghanistan after 
being 'liberated' by
American troops, this is the second biggest lie in the speech. 
There are
still executions and torture and rapes in Afghanistan, along 
with Taliban
law and warlords. If the pattern follows in Iraq, only Baghdad 
itself
will see any of this 'liberation', while the rest of the country 
falls
into might-makes-right chaos.

It is too late for Saddam Hussein to remain in power. It is not 
too late
for the Iraqi military to act with honor and protect your 
country by
permitting the peaceful entry of coalition forces to eliminate 
weapons of
mass destruction. Our forces will give Iraqi military units clear
instructions on actions they can take to avoid being attacked and
destroyed. I urge every member of the Iraqi military and 
intelligence
services, if war comes, do not fight for a dying regime that is 
not worth
your own life.

False. This didn't happen very often in the Gulf War, and I 
don't expect
it to happen any more now. Over 100,000 Iraqi soldiers died 
then, many on
that infamous road to Basra. I don't recall them getting a 
chance to
surrender, despite being in full retreat.

And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen 
carefully to
this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your 
action. Do
not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the 
Iraqi
people.

False. It belongs to the U.S. now.

Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction 
against
anyone, including the Iraqi people. War crimes will be 
prosecuted. War
criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, "I 
was just
following orders."

True enough, especially if you torch an oil well.

Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation, the American people 
can know
that every measure has been taken to avoid war, and every 
measure will be
taken to win it. Americans understand the costs of conflict 
because we
have paid them in the past. War has no certainty, except the 
certainty of
sacrifice.

False. America has forgotten the lessons of Vietnam - otherwise 
public
opinion would be steadfast against this war.

Yet, the only way to reduce the harm and duration of war is to 
apply the
full force and might of our military, and we are prepared to do 
so. If
Saddam Hussein attempts to cling to power, he will remain a 
deadly foe
until the end. In desperation, he and terrorists groups might 
try to
conduct terrorist operations against the American people and our 
friends.
These attacks are not inevitable. They are, however, possible. 
And this
very fact underscores the reason we cannot live under the threat 
of
blackmail. The terrorist threat to America and the world will be
diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed.

False. It will give Al-Qaida and other groups all the 
recruitment and
reason they need to fight on. Plus, of course, taking out Saddam 
won't
harm Al-Qaida in the slightest, given there is no connection.

Our government is on heightened watch against these dangers. 
Just as we
are preparing to ensure victory in Iraq, we are taking further 
actions to
protect our homeland. In recent days, American authorities have 
expelled
from the country certain individuals with ties to Iraqi 
intelligence
services. Among other measures, I have directed additional 
security of
our airports, and increased Coast Guard patrols of major 
seaports. The
Department of Homeland Security is working closely with the 
nation's
governors to increase armed security at critical facilities 
across
America.

True - assuming you're talking about Al-Qaida,and not Iraq.

Should enemies strike our country, they would be attempting to 
shift our
attention with panic and weaken our morale with fear. In this, 
they would
fail. No act of theirs can alter the course or shake the resolve 
of this
country. We are a peaceful people -- yet we're not a fragile 
people, and
we will not be intimidated by thugs and killers. If our enemies 
dare to
strike us, they and all who have aided them, will face fearful
consequences.

True - assuming you're talking about Al-Qaida, and not Iraq.

We are now acting because the risks of inaction would be far 
greater. In
one year, or five years, the power of Iraq to inflict harm on 
all free
nations would be multiplied many times over. With these 
capabilities,
Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies could choose the moment 
of deadly
conflict when they are strongest. We choose to meet that threat 
now,
where it arises, before it can appear suddenly in our skies and 
cities.

True enough for wild conjecture.

The cause of peace requires all free nations to recognize new and
undeniable realities. In the 20th century, some chose to appease
murderous dictators, whose threats were allowed to grow into 
genocide and
global war.

True.

In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and 
nuclear
terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a 
kind never
before seen on this earth.

False. Saddam is not Hitler, has no nukes, and has no ability to 
deliver
doubtful chemical weapons to America. And since America 
possesses all
these weapons already, don't pretend the effects haven't been 
seen, as we
tested them for years. Saddam never nuked a city full of innocent
civilians like we have.

Terrorists and terror states do not reveal these threats with 
fair
notice, in formal declarations -- and responding to such enemies 
only
after they have struck first is not self-defense, it is suicide.

False. Funny thing, that - the U.S. is still around after the 
invasion of
Poland and the raid on Pearl Harbor, to throw the WWII analogy 
back at
you. We struck back and won. You call that suicide?

The security of the world requires disarming Saddam Hussein now.

True, but what if he's already disarmed?

As we enforce the just demands of the world, we will also honor 
the
deepest commitments of our country.

False. Not in Afghanistan you didn't, so why should anyone in 
Iraq trust
your ass? Especially the Kurds, who learned the hard way not to 
trust
American presidents in 1991.

Unlike Saddam Hussein, we believe the Iraqi people are deserving 
and
capable of human liberty. And when the dictator has departed, 
they can
set an example to all the Middle East of a vital and peaceful and
self-governing nation.

True, hopefully.

The United States, with other countries, will work to advance 
liberty and
peace in that region. Our goal will not be achieved overnight, 
but it can
come over time.

True, especially given the pitiful rate Afghanistan is getting
assistance.

The power and appeal of human liberty is felt in every life and 
every
land. And the greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and
violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the 
pursuits of
peace.

Well, yeah.

That is the future we choose. Free nations have a duty to defend 
our
people by uniting against the violent. And tonight, as we have 
done
before, America and our allies accept that responsibility.

False. I'm not your 'we', and I don't accept jack, especially 
since what
you refer to as responsibility is really the responsibility of 
furthering
your own career.

That's 20 defections from truth, total. I'm sure someone even 
more
cynical than me could find more.

So, everybody who voted for this miserable excuse for a human 
being - are
you pleased with what you got? Is he really more truthful than 
Clinton?

http://www.weeklylowdown.com/031703spec.shtml


TRANSLATIONS OF THE MEANING BY HILALI/KHAN FROM THE HOLY QURAN 
OF SURAHS
1, 112, 113, AND 114 AND AYAT AL-QURSI


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Surah 1

Al-F tihah

1. In the Name of All h, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

2. All the praises and thanks be to All h, the Lord of 
the 'Alam n
(mankind, jinns and all that exists).

3. The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

4. The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of 
Recompense
(i.e. the Day of Resurrection)

5. You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for 
each and
everything).

6. Guide us to the Straight Way

7. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not 
(the way)
of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those 
who went
astray (such as the Christians).


---


Ayat al-Kursi

Surah 2

Al-Baqarah

In the Name of All h, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

255. All h! L  il ha illa Huwa (none has the right to be 
worshipped but
He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that 
exists.
Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatever 
is in
the heavens and whatever is on earth. Who is he that can 
intercede with
Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them 
(His
creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the 
Hereafter.
And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except 
that which
He wills. His Kurs  extends over the heavens and the earth, and 
He feels
no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most 
High, the
Most Great. [This Verse 2:255 is called Ayat-ul-Kurs .]


---


Surah 112

Al-Ikhl s or At-Tauh d

In the Name of All h, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

1. Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)): "He is All h, (the) One.

2. "All h-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all 
creatures need,
He neither eats nor drinks).

3. "He begets not, nor was He begotten;

4. "And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him."


---


Surah 113

Al-Falaq

In the Name of All h, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

1. Say: "I seek refuge with (All h) the Lord of the daybreak,

2. "From the evil of what He has created;

3. "And from the evil of the darkening (night) as it comes with 
its
darkness; (or the moon as it sets or goes away).

4. "And from the evil of the witchcrafts when they blow in the 
knots,

5. "And from the evil of the envier when he envies."


---


Surah 114

An-N s

In the Name of All h, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

1. Say: "I seek refuge with (All h) the Lord of mankind,

2. "The King of mankind,

3. "The Il h (God) of mankind,

4. "From the evil of the whisperer (devil who whispers evil in 
the hearts
of men) who withdraws (from his whispering in one's heart after 
one
remembers All h),

5. "Who whispers in the breasts of mankind,

6. "Of jinns and men."

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Midas Ears


By Israel Shamir


A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected 
boardrooms of 
newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers. 
It is the 
spectre of glasnost: the dark secret of Jewish power is out. 
Just recently it 
was 'third rail', touch-and-die, deadly dangerous to mention, 
certain end to 
a career. Just recently, Joe Public snapped his TV from an 
eminence with an 
Israeli passport to a member of a Jewish think-tank, and 
muttered to himself: 
Surely it is just a coincidence that so many important and 
largely unelected 
people in our country happen to belong to this small minority 
group. Surely 
it is just a coincidence that they belong to different parties 
but reach the 
same conclusions. Surely it is just a coincidence that ninety 
per cent of 
American foreign aid goes to their cousins in prosperous Tel 
Aviv. Surely it 
is just a coincidence that they run our newspapers, television, 
cinema, 
universities. Anyway, we are not allowed to notice this elephant 
in our 
sitting room.


Only rare desperados comment, as Edgar Steele did on 
Rense.com: "The silence 
in America concerning Jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The 
old adage has 
it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain who 
really runs 
things, one need determine only who is spoken about in whispers, 
if at all." 
Judged by this measure, the Jews rule supreme. Indeed, when I 
referred to 
'Jewish media lords' during a UNESCO conference in the summer of 
2001, the 
audience's hearts missed a beat.


The yet-unfought War on Iraq changed this. The American 
Ultimatum date was 
set on 17 March, the Jewish feast of Purim. Purim, 1991 saw 
destruction of 
Iraqi armies and death of 200,000 Iraqis. Too many coincidences 
for a purely 
American war. The Americans peeped into the bottomless abyss of 
World War 
Three and woke up from their generation-long stupor. Thus the 
first victim of 
the Iraqi War is not truth, but the strongest taboo in the West. 
A Democrat 
member of Congress, usually a most docile specimen, one James 
Moran, dared to 
tell his supporters: "If it were not for the strong support of 
the Jewish 
community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this."


He was immediately slapped by a Jewish overseer: "It is simply 
stunning to 
hear Representative Moran make such accusations", said National 
Jewish 
Democratic Council Executive Director, Ira N. Forman. "First, a 
number of the 
current leaders of the anti-war movement are Jewish, and Jewish 
organizations 
have clearly not been at the forefront among those groups 
actively and 
stridently supporting a war in Iraq". Forman had spoken, and the 
media 
reported and amplified his view, and Moran duly recanted, 
slapped. But he is 
not the only one.


The secret is out, and like the secret of King Midas and his 
long ears, it is 
being sung now from coast to coast, despite the frantic efforts 
of the 
organised Jewish community to clamp the lid back on the boiling 
cauldron. 
Kathleen and Bill Christison,[i] two ex-CIA experts, exposed the 
link between 
right-wing American Jews and the Bush Administration. Edward 
Said, the most 
celebrated American thinker of Palestinian origin, stated the 
cause: "An 
immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a 
small cabal of 
individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to 
public 
pressure."[ii]


He was seconded by courageous Herman, Neumann and Blankfort. 
These Americans 
of Jewish origin object to the un-elected, anti-democratic 
Jewish power as 
they would object to any disproportionate minority power. Their 
presence, as 
they were not afraid of the anti-Semitic label, was instrumental 
in turning 
the tide and saving the intimidated majority from its 
browbeating.


Edward Herman, the author of Manufacturing Consent (together 
with Noam 
Chomsky), wrote of "the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United 
States, which 
advances Israeli interests by pushing for U.S. aid and 
protection to Israel, 
and, currently, by pressing for a war against Iraq, which again 
will serve 
Israeli interests. This lobby has not only helped control media 
debate and 
made congress into `Israeli occupied territory', it has seen to 
it that 
numerous officials with 'dual loyalties' occupy strategic 
decision-making 
positions in the Bush administration." 


Jeffrey Blankfort, the Californian who defeated ADL in court and 
made Foxman 
pay heaps of dollars for his espionage against activists, took 
an important 
next step and rejected the views upheld by Noam Chomsky, Joel 
Beinin and 
Stephen Zunes, for these older radicals play down the crucial 
importance of  
Jewish power. Jeff Blankfort noticed the roots of the Rupture 
Evangelicals' 
meteoric rise in the US. This obscure sect would never have left 
its lair in 
remote Dixie, but for the Jewish media lords. Jeff noticed that 
when Black 
Entertainment Television was taken over by Viacom, whose owner, 
Sumner 
Redstone (n  Murray Rothstein), was recently described in the 
New York Times 
as the world's biggest media owner, he eliminated BET's news 
program and 
began running evangelical Christian infomercials for Israel. 
Blankfort's list 
of 'Jews in media'[iii]  enables an understanding of the secret 
of Jewish 
charm, and it can be compared with a similar extensive list by 
Prof. Kevin 
MacDonald of California State University.


The Iraqi War, and even more its linkage with Palestine, became 
the litmus 
test of Jewish power. Organised Jewry pushed for war and at the 
same time 
denied its involvement. Thus in New York City, the City Council 
rejected an 
anti-war resolution, and only 12 of its 51 members were for it. 
This is not 
strange for heavily Jewish New York. Indeed, a Democrat, Rep. 
Robert Jackson, 
said it in a most straightforward way: "New York City is the 
home away from 
home for most Jews; and many members of the Jewish community 
think [the war 
is] in the best interests of the state of Israel." According to 
Jackson, 
several of his council colleagues have been intimidated into 
silence by the 
pro-Israel crowd: "People are not talking about this." 


Jackson was certainly right, but a Jewish newspaper[iv] 
(surprisingly or not, 
all newspapers in the New York area are Jewish) condemned him 
for . racism: 
"[He claimed that] not only do the Jews run New York City, but 
they've cowed 
their opponents into silence. Jackson could as well call New 
York Hymietown."


This response is remarkable for its typically Jewish logic. 
First, the 
opponent's rational argument is perverted and distorted, then it 
is aligned 
with opprobrium; and at the last stage, the opponent is 
destroyed forever. 
That is one of the secrets of Jewish might: the Jews enter a 
dialogue 
berserk-like, with great vehemence, quite foreign to the 
Socratic style. 
While sane people are satisfied with quoting their opponent and 
fighting his 
arguments, madmen (for berserk is a temporarily-mad individual) 
go for the 
jugular.


David Mamet, the Jewish American playwright, provides a good 
example of this 
vehemence as he notices a "Volvo of old, the vehicle of my 
brethren, the 
congenitally liberal. It was festooned, as are its kind, with 
every sort of 
correct exhortation: Save James Bay, Honour Diversity, and so 
on. A most 
interesting bumper sticker read: Israel Out of the Settlements . 
a slogan 
which could best be translated as Hook-nosed Jews Die".


I wonder why Mamet stopped at this, for with equal adequacy the 
slogan can be 
translated as Torture Babies, Denounce America and Burn Apple 
Pie. Who cares 
for the form of the Jewish nose? Mel Brooks noticed long ago 
that Jewish 
girls have the cutest noses, made by the best plastic surgeons.


It is the racist Jewish policies in occupied Palestine that 
annoy good, 
'congenitally liberal' people. But if Mamet were honest, he 
would not be 
Mamet.


Now, Bill Keller of the NY Times read the Riot Act to the 
Americans. He 
kindly allows that 'most of the big Jewish organizations and 
many donors are 
backing the war' but insists that 'the idea that Israel's 
interests are 
driving one of the most momentous shifts in America's foreign 
policy is 
simple-minded and offensive'. Well, Keller is certainly being 
paid for his 
convictions by a Jewish media lord, and one of the nastiest, 
Arthur 
Sulzberger Jr, the owner of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a 
host of 
other publications. This undermines the possible veracity of 
Keller's words. 
Let something similar be written in a thoroughly non-Jewish 
newspaper! But 
alas, there are no important media outlets in the US that are 
not owned or 
controlled by Jews .


Surely a coincidence? Do not bet on it. A few days ago, in the 
Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem, an important all-Jewish conference on 
anti-Semitism 
took place under the auspicious aegis of the Sasson Centre. The 
talk given by 
the French Jewish historian Simcha Epstein dealt with pre-war 
France but 
pertained more immediately to America. This is what Epstein said:


"The pre-war anti-Semites said that the Jews of France organized 
a syndicate 
secretly bankrolling and subverting the press. And what did the 
Jews say at 
that time? They said: 'Of course not! No, it's a lie, of course 
not! We are 
not engaged in conspiracies!' And what did the historians and 
the Jewish 
historiography coming afterwards say? 'Of course not! It is anti-
Semitic 
drivel!' But we know now from Jewish sources that before the 
WWII the Jews of 
France secretly financed the press.


"Since the end of 19th century, there was a secret Jewish 
organization, well 
financed, which bought and bankrolled newspapers. Sometimes it 
took over 
existing newspapers, which suddenly became pro-Dreifus because 
they received 
Jewish subsidies. New papers were created especially by the 
Jews. Two very 
important papers of the period, one was called Les Droits de 
l'Homme, the 
Rights of Man, was financed by the Jews, and L'Humanit , which 
was the 
Socialist and then the Communist newspaper of France, was also 
financed by 
Jews. I say this on the authority Jewish sources of course.


"And this brings us to a dramatic dilemma of historiography. 
Saying this, 
saying what I said, is something horrible and unacceptable, 
because it means 
that the Jews organized a conspiracy and secretly bought the 
media, or part 
of the media. That was precisely what the anti-Semites said at 
that time, and 
what they still say today. And we know now from Jewish sources 
that the 
allegations were true, that there was a Jewish clandestine 
activity of 
bankrolling the press." End of quote.


Some people perceive every suggestion that Jews are able to act 
together as a 
mad conspiracy theory. Let them read and re-read this report by 
a Jewish 
historian made at a Jewish conference. If it is proven now 
beyond any 
reasonable doubt that the Jews of France secretly bought and 
subverted French 
media for many years in order to distort the national discourse 
and 
eventually push unprepared France into the horrible and unneeded 
World War 
Two, is it impossible to consider that the Jews of the US have 
secretly taken 
over their national media and are now pushing the US into a 
horrible and 
unneeded World War Three?


Actually there is no need for secrecy. One of the chief Zionist 
ideologists, 
Zeev Hefetz (ex-spokesman of PM Begin), wrote in an American 
daily: 
"Disarming Iraq is only a start in Middle East" as "the Arab and 
Iranian 
(sic!) cultures" are "irrational" and that nothing can be done, 
short of war, 
to "improve the collective mental health of Arab societies". [v]
Certainly 
this massive 'disarmament' will be carried out by American 
soldiers, though 
the commands will be given by the Jewish chicken-hawks roosting 
in Pentagon. 
As for reasons for the war, they were eloquently stated by a 
keynote speaker 
at a conference on anti-Semitism by Yehuda Bauer, the director 
of the 
Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad va-Shem in Jerusalem:


The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion, he said. They are 
a 
civilisation, and they have their civilising mission. They 
cannot tolerate 
the competing civilisation of Islam, as they could not tolerate 
Christendom 
or Communism. That is why the war with Islam is unavoidable.


But the war is avoidable. Even today, at minutes before H-hour, 
the war is 
avoidable. And if fire is unavoidable, let the Jewish advisers 
of President 
Bush be fired. Let this Purim see the great Exodus of 
the "Wolfowitz Cabal" 
from the Pentagon. Excluding the clinical possibility of his 
actual 
zombification, G W Bush should be able to understand that he has 
been misled 
by this powerful, un-elected minority. They cannot deliver what 
they 
promised. Moreover, their own days at the helm of the Republic 
are numbered. 
They over-estimated their abilities, and pushed too hard. As the 
frog of La 
Fontaine, they can blow up. Bush still can do a U-turn, and save 
himself and 
his country.


In a way, today's America reminds of Russia in 1986, at the 
beginning of 
glasnost. After the Soviet citizens were allowed to learn who 
rules them and 
how, the days of the Soviet regime were counted. Glasnost gave 
place to 
perestroika. Now, for the first time in a generation, Americans 
are allowed 
to see the men in power, the toxic combination of the Right-Wing 
Democrats of 
Lieberman, the Republican neo-liberals, the Neo-Cons and plain 
Con-men. The 
Iraqi War brought them forward and presented them in clear 
light. Now is the 
time to undo their hold.


It can't be postponed for the divisive presidency of G W Bush is 
perceived as 
the period of 'White' Protestant Anglo-Saxon rule, despite the 
prevalence of 
his Jewish advisers. All available contenders for the next 
elections - 
Lieberman, Kelly and even Kuchinich - claim their Jewish 
connections and 
declare their undivided loyalty to Jewry and to the state of 
Israel. In the 
present political setup of America, there will be no real 
alternative to 
Jewish ascendancy. If Bush flops, it will be construed by the 
media as a WASP 
flop. If he succeeds, it will be seen as success of his Jewish 
advisers.


That is why American patriot forces should not wait for the next 
elections, 
or for the end of war. They must act now, by calling the war 
off. They have 
an enemy, but he is not in Iraq. What is called for is a new 
American 
revolution, on a par with the New Deal and abolition of slavery, 
with 
de-monopolisation of the discourse; that is of media and 
universities, for 
starters. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Americans 
undid the 
mighty Standard Oil. They created new anti-monopoly laws and 
terminated the 
threat to democracy. This achievement could be repeated now. 

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[i] Kathleen and Bill Christison, `A Rose By Another Name: The 
Bush 
Administration's Dual Loyalties', Counterpunch, Dec. 13, 2002). 


[ii] http.org.eg2003.htm 


[iii] Here is enough sampling to indicate that it is not:


First of all, Sumner Redstone ( n  Murray Rothstein) owns $8 
billion dollars 
worth of Viacom, which gives him the controlling interest in 
CBS, Viacom, MTV 
worldwide (Brian Graden, president), and most recently he bought 
Black 
Entertainment Television and proceeded immediately to cut down 
its 
public-affairs programming. The president of CBS is Leslie 
Moonves, the great 
nephew of David Ben-Gurion. 


Michael Eisner is the major owner of Disney-Capitol Cities, 
which owns ABC. 
David Westin is the president of ABC News. Although it has lost 
viewers, 
Nightline host Ted Koppel is a strong supporter of Israel. Lloyd 
Braun is 
chair of ABC Entertainment. And there is the perennial Barbara 
Walters. 


Neil Shapiro is the president of NBC News. Jeffrey Zucker is the 
head of NBC 
Entertainment and Jack Myers has some important post there, as 
well. 


Although Rupert Murdoch of Fox is not Jewish, Mel Karamazin, the 
president of 
the corporation is, as is Peter Chernin, the second in command 
at Murdoch's 
News Corps. 


Sandy Grushow is chairman of Fox Entertainment, and Gail Berman 
is president. 
Murtdoch has received numerous awards from various Jewish 
charities. 


Jamie Kellner is chair and CEO of Turner Broadcasting. 


Walter Issacson is the News Director of CNN which also has Wolf 
Blitzer, host 
of Late Edition, Larry King of Larry King Live, Paula Zahn, and 
Andrea 
Koppel, Ted's daughter. 


Jordan Levin is chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment. 


Howard Stringer is chair of Sony Corp. of America. 


Robert Sillerman is the founder of Clear Channel Communications, 


Ivan Seidenberg is chair of Verizon Communications 


Terry Semel, former co-chair of Warners is CEO of Yahoo. 


Barry Diller, former owner of Universal Entertainment, is the 
chair of USA 
Interactive. 


Joel Klein is chair and CEO of Bertelsmann's American 
operations, the largest 
publishing conglomerate in the world.


Mort Zuckerman, the Chair of the Conference of Presidents of 
Major Jewish 
American Organizations, owns US News and World Report and the NY 
Daily News. 


Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. publishes the NY Times, the Boston Globe 
and a host of 
other publications. 


Marty Peretz publishes the New Republic, which is unabashedly 
pro-Israel, as 
is 


William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard. 


Donald Graham, Jr. is the chair and CEO of Newsweek and the 
Washington Post. 


Michael Ledeen, of Iran-Contra fame, edits National Review. 


Ron Rosenthal is the Managing Editor of the SF Chronicle and 
Phil Bronstein 
is the Executive Editor.


David Schneiderman owns the Village Voice and a number of 
other "alternative" 
weeklies.


Columnist William Safire, Tom Freidman, Charles Krauthammer, 
Richard Cohen, 
Jeff Jacoby, are among the most widely syndicated columnists. 


There are a number of widely syndicated talk show hosts such as 
Michael 
Savage (ABC) on more than 100 stations, Michael Medved, 124 
stations, and 
Dennis Prager who has an Israeli flag on his website. Others 
include Ron 
Owens, Ben Wattenberg, and former ZOA official Jon Rothman, all 
in San 
Francisco on ABC. 


In Hollywood, which was founded by Jews, there is of course, 
Stephen 
Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Kranzberg of Dreamworks, 
Eisner of 
Disney, Amy Pascal, chair of Columbia, and many, many more. 


For the intellectuals, we have NPR, with pundit Daniel Schorr 
and weekend 
hosts Scott Simon and Liane Hansen, Robert Segal, Susan 
Stanberg, Eric 
Weiner, Daniel Lev, Linda Gradstein (a well-known speaker at pro-
Israel 
events) covering Jerusalem, Mike Schuster (whose soft-ball 
interview with 
Ariel Sharon after Sabra and Shatila should have brought him 
before the court 
of Hamarabi). Brook Gladstein.


And that's just for starters. From the boss to the delivery it's 
an 
impressive list. While they certainly can't be put in the same 
box when it 
comes to Israel, they more or less guarantee that there will be 
limits to any 
criticism they may make of Israel".


[iv] NY Post 22.02.03


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Why the Devil is called Shaytan 


In the Arabic language, Shaytan is derived from Shatana, which 
means the far thing. Hence, the Shaytan has a different nature 
than mankind, and his sinful ways are far away from every type 
of righteousness. It was also said that Shaytan is derived from 
Shata, (literally `burned'), because it was created from fire. 
Some scholars said that both meanings are correct, although they 
state that the first meaning is more plausible. Further, 
Siybawayh (the renowned Arab linguistic) said, "The Arabs say, 
`So-and-so has Tashaytan,' when he commits the act of the 
devils. If Shaytan was derived from Shata, they would have said, 
Tashayyata (rather than Tashaytan).'' Hence, Shaytan is derived 
from the word that means, far away. This is why they call those 
who are rebellious (or mischievous) from among the Jinns and 
mankind a `Shaytan'. Allah said, [                                                         
                                                                              ] (And so We have 
appointed for every Prophet enemies   Shayatin (devils) among 
mankind and Jinn, inspiring one another with adorned speech as a 
delusion (or by way of deception)) (6:112). In addition, the 
Musnad by Imam Ahmad records that Abu Dharr said that the 
Messenger of Allah said,                                                                       
  


 (O Abu Dharr! Seek refuge with Allah from the devils of mankind 
and the Jinns.) Abu Dharr said, "I asked him , `Are there human 
devils' He said, (Yes.)'' Furthermore, it is recorded in Sahih 
Muslim that Abu Dharr said that the Messenger of Allah said, 


                                                                       


(The woman, the donkey and the black dog interrupt the prayer 
(if they pass in front of those who do not pray behind a Sutrah, 
i.e. a barrier).) Abu Dharr said, "I said, `What is the 
difference between the black dog and the red or yellow dog' He 
said,                                   (The black dog is a devil.).   Also, 
Ibn Jarir At-Tabari recorded that `Umar bin Al-Khattab once rode 
a Berthawn (huge camel) which started to proceed arrogantly. 
`Umar kept striking the animal, but the animal kept walking in 
an arrogant manner. `Umar dismounted the animal and said, "By 
Allah! You have carried me on a Shaytan. I did not come down 
from it until after I had felt something strange in my heart.'' 
This Hadith has an authentic chain of narrators. 

The Meaning of Ar-Rajim 


Ar-Rajim means, being expelled from all types of righteousness. 
Allah said, [                                                                              
               ] (And indeed We have adorned the nearest heaven with 
lamps, and We have made such lamps Rujuman (as missiles) to 
drive away the Shayatin (devils)) (67:5).  Allah also said, 


[                                                             -                                         - 
                                                                             -                          
        -                                                             ] 


(Verily, We have adorned the near heaven with the stars (for 
beauty). And to guard against every rebellious devil. They 
cannot listen to the higher group (angels) for they are pelted 
from every side. Outcast, and theirs is a constant (or painful) 
torment. Except such as snatch away something by stealing, and 
they are pursued by a flaming fire of piercing brightness) (37:6-
10). Further, Allah said, 


[                                                                         -                          
                   -                                                               ] 


(And indeed, We have put the big stars in the heaven and We 
beautified it for the beholders. And We have guarded it (near 
heaven) from every Shaytan Rajim (outcast Shaytan). Except him 
(devil) who steals the hearing then he is pursued by a clear 
flaming fire.) (15:16-18). 


There are several similar Ayat. It was also said that Rajim 
means, the person who throws or bombards things, because the 
devil throws doubts and evil thoughts in people's hearts. The 
first meaning is more popular and accurate. 
 

You are dreaming when you say Islam is the fastest
growing religion in the world.  Those are old
statistics.  Also you are certainly not being
realistic when you say women are turning to Islam. 
Remember the taliban?  You should get off the drugs
you are on and open your eyes! You can pretend or you
can accept the truth.  The truth is Islam is a way the
rulers the countries who practice Islam can control
the people.  Wake up please before it is too late. We
are in the end times.             Wh1b2g
--- fatima <fatima_xae@yahoo.com> wrote:
> At a time when Islam is faced with hostile media
> coverage particularly where the status of women in
> Islam is concerned, it may be quite surprising to
> learn that Islam is the fastest growing religion in
> the world, and even more ironic to discover that the
> majority of converts to Islam are WOMEN
> 
> The status of women is society is neither a new
> issue
> nor is it a fully settled one, and where Islam is
> mentioned, for many the term 'Muslim Women' prompts
> images of exhausted mothers chained to the stove,
> 'victims' suppressed in a life of indoctrination,
> frantic to be westernized and so on. Others will go
> to
> great lengths to explain how the hijaab is an
> obstacle, clouding the mind, and comment that female
> converts are either brainwashed, stupid or traitors
> to
> their sex. 
> 
> 
> In order to understand what Islam has established
> for
> woman, there is no need to deplore her plight in the
> pre-Islamic era or in the modern would of today.
> Islam
> has given woman rights and privileges which she has
> never enjoyed under other religious or
> constitutional
> systems. This can be understood when the matter is
> studied as a whole in a comparative manner, rather
> than partially. The rights and responsibilities of a
> woman are equal to those of a man but they are not
> necessarily identical with them. Equality and
> sameness
> are two quite different things. This difference is
> understandable because man and woman are not
> identical
> but they are created equals. With this distinction
> in
> mind, There is no problem. It is almost impossible
> to
> find even two identical men or women. 
> 
> It is not the tone of Islam that brands woman as the
> product of the devil or the seed of evil. Nor does
> the
> Qur'an place man as the dominant lord of woman who
> has
> no choice but to surrender to his dominance.
> 
>  Nor was it Islam that introduced the question of
> whether or not woman has any soul in her. Never in
> the
> history of Islam has any Muslim doubted the human
> status of woman or her possession of soul and other
> fine spiritual qualities. Unlike other popular
> beliefs, Islam does not blame Eve alone for the
> First
> Sin. The Qur'an makes it very clear that both Adam
> and
> Eve were tempted; that they both sinned; that God's
> pardon was granted to both after their repentance;
> and
> that God addressed them jointly. (2:35-36;7:19, 27;
> 20:117-123). 
> 
> In fact the Qur'an gives the impression that Adam
> was
> more to blame for that First Sin from which emerged
> prejudice against woman and suspicion of her deeds.
> But Islam does not justify such prejudice or
> suspicion
> because both Adam and Eve were equally in error, and
> if we are to blame Eve we should blame Adam as much
> or
> even more. 
> 
> The Qur'an states: "And it becomes not a believing
> man
> or a believing women, when Allah and His Messenger
> (Muhammad) have decided on an affair (for them),
> that
> they should (after that) claim any say in their
> affair; and whoso is rebellious to Allah and His
> Messenger, he verily goes astray in error manifest."

> 
> 
> Islam is a complete way of life. 
> 

Iraq Will Be Finished but Not Al-Qaeda

A Western commentator recently compared two upcoming events   
the capture of Osama Bin Laden and the toppling of Saddam 
Hussein. At first glance it would seem that the end of Bin Laden 
spells the end of his organization and the end of Saddam means 
the end of Iraq s Baath Party.

The author is correct in his assumption that it is easy to 
overthrow a regime by toppling its leader, and he confirms that 
the situation in Iraq will be difficult to contain. He is, 
however, incorrect in his belief that it would be so easy to be 
done with the extremist religious organization Al-Qaeda by 
simply capturing its leader. 

His error is in comparing between an administrative regime and 
an ideological one. The first is an apparatus so organized as to 
break apart once the head is removed. But the second is an 
ideological organization capable of rebirth even if its 
leadership is eliminated. This is what the Americans fail to 
understand when they propose to apply the same scalpel to all 
the problems in the region. 

They have undoubtedly achieved great successes in breaking apart 
Al-Qaeda s infrastructure in Afghanistan and are quite capable 
of bringing down the Iraqi regime. But they will not so easily 
eliminate the religious organization even if they succeed in 
getting rid of Bin Laden and other pillars of its structure. Al-
Qaeda is not a criminal organization along the lines of the 
mafia, whose members are easy to capture once the leadership is 
put out of work. It is an idea that exists in camps and villages 
as well as cities and palaces. 

Leaders of the movement   including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu 
Zubaida, Abdel Rahim Al-Nashiri, Ramzi bin Al-Sheiba, Al-
Hawasari, and hundreds of others   have been captured. But these 
are just seats waiting to be filled.

These organizations are like mind factories, capable of 
replacing what they have lost by arming others, and able to 
rebuild cells from scratch. Nor are their operations expensive. 
The destruction of the USS Cole in the port of Aden was achieved 
using a small boat and didn t cost more than $10,000; the Sept. 
11 attacks themselves weren t very costly.

Let us compare the results. The American government has 
described the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as dealing a 
deathblow to Al-Qaeda. But have we forgotten that they said 
exactly the same thing eight years ago when they captured his 
nephew Ramzi Yusuf, also in Pakistan? The American security 
forces thought that the 1993 explosion at the World Trade Center 
would mark the end of a dangerous secret organization   whose 
name they didn t know at the time. Yet it was that same building 
that Al-Qaeda returned to destroy on Sept. 11, 2001.

The secret of Al Qaeda is not in the mosques, Islamic centers, 
charitable organizations, youth camps or bank accounts, and not 
in Bin Laden and Bin Sheiba and others. Locations and tools can 
be changed. This is a battle of minds   a huge ideological 
battle in the region, which will take more than American 
military power to win.

You are REALLY out of your mind to say that the WTC
attacks were planned & executed by Americans
themselves!!

I thought you have at least a brain as big as a 'pea'.
But, it looks like you cannot even think!!!

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it.  Come on
brother, and accept that OSB ia a rotten apple.

KM
===


--- "Anw, MD"  wrote:
> With Allah's Name,the Most Merciful, the Most
> Compassionate
>
> It is a war?
>
>
>
> To,
> the Editor,
> Letters to the Editor,
>
> Dear Editor:
>
> The Mad cow boy Bush is declaring it a war on Iraq!!
> But is it a war? or is it an attack of a beast on a
> tiny helpless creature?
>
> Is Iraq preparing to attack USA?
> Is Iraq capable of attacking USA?
> Do you need 200,000 men strong USA army to kill just
> one Saddam?
> Iraq is complyig with all sorts of UNO inspectors
> etc.
>
> It is not a war.
> It is a simple brutal attack on a tiny country
> It is an act of open and necked aggression
> It is an outright Global Terrorism
>
> Now the people across the globe know that
> World Trade Center attacks were planned and executed
> by
> The USA and the Israeli Zionists to create an excuse
> to attack a tiny country Afghanisan
> And Anthrax bugs were spread to create confusion and
> scare
> in American people who have little time after
> working 8-5 and
> getting bogged dwon in sports and family problems
> etc.
>
> The USA is taken hostage by the Zionists and it is
> the duty of
> all patriotic USA citizens to liberate USA from
> claws of Zionism
> Bush is a mad cow boy who is dancing at the whip of
> Sharon
> Bsuh Fire is actaully ignited by Sharon.
>
> Blair is a doggy licking the shoes of Bush
>
> All other Western Heads of Sates are also Zinoist
> slaves and therefore
> support all necked aggressions and global terrorism.
>
> The world should know now that all Western Press bla
> bla against Islam  and
> Muslims is the handywork of the Zionists who have
> stolen the eyes and ears
> of common American.

Rachel's war 

This weekend 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie 
was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the 
Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a remarkable 
series of emails to her family, she explained why she was 
risking her life 


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 what's going on here when I sit 
down to write back to the United States. Something about the 
virtual portal into luxury. I don't 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 I'm 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 isn't 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 don't 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 can't 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. 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 I'm done. 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. Today, as I 
walked on top of the rubble where homes once stood, Egyptian 
soldiers called to me from the other side of the border, "Go! 
Go!" because a tank was coming. And then waving and "What's your 
name?". Something disturbing about this friendly curiosity. It 
reminded me of how much, to some degree, we are all kids curious 
about other kids. Egyptian kids shouting at strange women 
wandering into the path of tanks. Palestinian kids shot from the 
tanks when they peak out from behind walls to see what's going 
on. International kids standing in front of tanks with banners. 
Israeli kids in the tanks anonymously - occasionally shouting 
and also occasionally waving - many forced to be here, many just 
agressive - shooting into the houses as we wander away. 

I've been having trouble accessing news about the outside world 
here, but I hear an escalation of war on Iraq is inevitable. 
There is a great deal of concern here about the "reoccupation of 
Gaza". Gaza is reoccupied every day to various extents but I 
think the fear is that the tanks will enter all the streets and 
remain here instead of entering some of the streets and then 
withdrawing after some hours or days to observe and shoot from 
the edges of the communities. If people aren't already thinking 
about the consequences of this war for the people of the entire 
region then I hope you will start. 

My love to everyone. My love to my mom. My love to smooch. My 
love to fg and barnhair and sesamees and Lincoln School. My love 
to Olympia. 

Rachel 

February 20 2003


Mama, 

Now the Israeli army has actually dug up the road to Gaza, and 
both of the major checkpoints are closed. This means that 
Palestinians who want to go and register for their next quarter 
at university can't. People can't get to their jobs and those 
who are trapped on the other side can't get home; and 
internationals, who have a meeting tomorrow in the West Bank, 
won't make it. We could probably make it through if we made 
serious use of our international white person privilege, but 
that would also mean some risk of arrest and deportation, even 
though none of us has done anything illegal. 

The Gaza Strip is divided in thirds now. There is some talk 
about the "reoccupation of Gaza", but I seriously doubt this 
will happen, because I think it would be a geopolitically stupid 
move for Israel right now. I think the more likely thing is an 
increase in smaller below-the-international-outcry-radar 
incursions and possibly the oft-hinted "population transfer". 

I am staying put in Rafah for now, no plans to head north. I 
still feel like I'm relatively safe and think that my most 
likely risk in case of a larger-scale incursion is arrest. A 
move to reoccupy Gaza would generate a much larger outcry than 
Sharon's assassination-during-peace-negotiations/land grab 
strategy, which is working very well now to create settlements 
all over, slowly but surely eliminating any meaningful 
possibility for Palestinian self-determination. Know that I have 
a lot of very nice Palestinians looking after me. I have a small 
flu bug, and got some very nice lemony drinks to cure me. Also, 
the woman who keeps the key for the well where we still sleep 
keeps asking me about you. She doesn't speak a bit of English, 
but she asks about my mom pretty frequently - wants to make sure 
I'm calling you. 

Love to you and Dad and Sarah and Chris and everybody. 

Rachel 

February 27 2003


(To her mother) 

Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and 
bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes 
the adrenaline acts as an anesthetic for weeks and then in the 
evening or at night it just hits me again - a little bit of the 
reality of the situation. I am really scared for the people 
here. Yesterday, I watched a father lead his two tiny children, 
holding his hands, out into the sight of tanks and a sniper 
tower and bulldozers and Jeeps because he thought his house was 
going to be exploded. Jenny and I stayed in the house with 
several women and two small babies. It was our mistake in 
translation that caused him to think it was his house that was 
being exploded. In fact, the Israeli army was in the process of 
detonating an explosive in the ground nearby - one that appears 
to have been planted by Palestinian resistance. 

This is in the area where Sunday about 150 men were rounded up 
and contained outside the settlement with gunfire over their 
heads and around them, while tanks and bulldozers destroyed 25 
greenhouses - the livelihoods for 300 people. The explosive was 
right in front of the greenhouses - right in the point of entry 
for tanks that might come back again. I was terrified to think 
that this man felt it was less of a risk to walk out in view of 
the tanks with his kids than to stay in his house. I was really 
scared that they were all going to be shot and I tried to stand 
between them and the tank. This happens every day, but just this 
father walking out with his two little kids just looking very 
sad, just happened to get my attention more at this particular 
moment, probably because I felt it was our translation problems 
that made him leave. 

I thought a lot about what you said on the phone about 
Palestinian violence not helping the situation. Sixty thousand 
workers from Rafah worked in Israel two years ago. Now only 600 
can go to Israel for jobs. Of these 600, many have moved, 
because the three checkpoints between here and Ashkelon (the 
closest city in Israel) make what used to be a 40-minute drive, 
now a 12-hour or impassible journey. In addition, what Rafah 
identified in 1999 as sources of economic growth are all 
completely destroyed - the Gaza international airport (runways 
demolished, totally closed); the border for trade with Egypt 
(now with a giant Israeli sniper tower in the middle of the 
crossing); access to the ocean (completely cut off in the last 
two years by a checkpoint and the Gush Katif settlement). The 
count of homes destroyed in Rafah since the beginning of this 
intifada is up around 600, by and large people with no 
connection to the resistance but who happen to live along the 
border. I think it is maybe official now that Rafah is the 
poorest place in the world. There used to be a middle class 
here - recently. We also get reports that in the past, Gazan 
flower shipments to Europe were delayed for two weeks at the 
Erez crossing for security inspections. You can imagine the 
value of two-week-old cut flowers in the European market, so 
that market dried up. And then the bulldozers come and take out 
people's vegetable farms and gardens. What is left for people? 
Tell me if you can think of anything. I can't. 

If any of us had our lives and welfare completely strangled, 
lived with children in a shrinking place where we knew, because 
of previous experience, that soldiers and tanks and bulldozers 
could come for us at any moment and destroy all the greenhouses 
that we had been cultivating for however long, and did this 
while some of us were beaten and held captive with 149 other 
people for several hours - do you think we might try to use 
somewhat violent means to protect whatever fragments remained? I 
think about this especially when I see orchards and greenhouses 
and fruit trees destroyed - just years of care and cultivation. 
I think about you and how long it takes to make things grow and 
what a labour of love it is. I really think, in a similar 
situation, most people would defend themselves as best they 
could. I think Uncle Craig would. I think probably Grandma 
would. I think I would. 

You asked me about non-violent resistance. 

When that explosive detonated yesterday it broke all the windows 
in the family's house. I was in the process of being served tea 
and playing with the two small babies. I'm having a hard time 
right now. Just feel sick to my stomach a lot from being doted 
on all the time, very sweetly, by people who are facing doom. I 
know that from the United States, it all sounds like hyperbole. 
Honestly, a lot of the time the sheer kindness of the people 
here, coupled with the overwhelming evidence of the wilful 
destruction of their lives, makes it seem unreal to me. I really 
can't believe that something like this can happen in the world 
without a bigger outcry about it. It really hurts me, again, 
like it has hurt me in the past, to witness how awful we can 
allow the world to be. I felt after talking to you that maybe 
you didn't completely believe me. I think it's actually good if 
you don't, because I do believe pretty much above all else in 
the importance of independent critical thinking. And I also 
realise that with you I'm much less careful than usual about 
trying to source every assertion that I make. A lot of the 
reason for that is I know that you actually do go and do your 
own research. But it makes me worry about the job I'm doing. All 
of the situation that I tried to enumerate above - and a lot of 
other things - constitutes a somewhat gradual - often hidden, 
but nevertheless massive - removal and destruction of the 
ability of a particular group of people to survive. This is what 
I am seeing here. The assassinations, rocket attacks and 
shooting of children are atrocities - but in focusing on them 
I'm terrified of missing their context. The vast majority of 
people here - even if they had the economic means to escape, 
even if they actually wanted to give up resisting on their land 
and just leave (which appears to be maybe the less nefarious of 
Sharon's possible goals), can't leave. Because they can't even 
get into Israel to apply for visas, and because their 
destination countries won't let them in (both our country and 
Arab countries). So I think when all means of survival is cut 
off in a pen (Gaza) which people can't get out of, I think that 
qualifies as genocide. Even if they could get out, I think it 
would still qualify as genocide. Maybe you could look up the 
definition of genocide according to international law. I don't 
remember it right now. I'm going to get better at illustrating 
this, hopefully. I don't like to use those charged words. I 
think you know this about me. I really value words. I really try 
to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. 

Anyway, I'm rambling. Just want to write to my Mom and tell her 
that I'm witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I'm 
really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the 
goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good 
idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to 
making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing to do 
anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and 
have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also 
want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. 
Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality 
of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is 
not at all what I asked for when I came into this world. This is 
not at all what the people here asked for when they came into 
this world. This is not the world you and Dad wanted me to come 
into when you decided to have me. This is not what I meant when 
I looked at Capital Lake and said: "This is the wide world and 
I'm coming to it." I did not mean that I was coming into a world 
where I could live a comfortable life and possibly, with no 
effort at all, exist in complete unawareness of my participation 
in genocide. More big explosions somewhere in the distance 
outside. 

When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares 
and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel 
that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things 
I've ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli 
military should break with their racist tendency not to injure 
white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I 
am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly 
supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible. 

I love you and Dad. Sorry for the diatribe. OK, some strange men 
next to me just gave me some peas, so I need to eat and thank 
them. 

Rachel 

February 28 2003


(To her mother) 

Thanks, Mom, for your response to my email. It really helps me 
to get word from you, and from other people who care about me. 

After I wrote to you I went incommunicado from the affinity 
group for about 10 hours which I spent with a family on the 
front line in Hi Salam - who fixed me dinner - and have cable 
TV. The two front rooms of their house are unusable because 
gunshots have been fired through the walls, so the whole family -
 three kids and two parents - sleep in the parent's bedroom. I 
sleep on the floor next to the youngest daughter, Iman, and we 
all shared blankets. I helped the son with his English homework 
a little, and we all watched Pet Semetery, which is a horrifying 
movie. I think they all thought it was pretty funny how much 
trouble I had watching it. Friday is the holiday, and when I 
woke up they were watching Gummy Bears dubbed into Arabic. So I 
ate breakfast with them and sat there for a while and just 
enjoyed being in this big puddle of blankets with this family 
watching what for me seemed like Saturday morning cartoons. Then 
I walked some way to B'razil, which is where Nidal and Mansur 
and Grandmother and Rafat and all the rest of the big family 
that has really wholeheartedly adopted me live. (The other day, 
by the way, Grandmother gave me a pantomimed lecture in Arabic 
that involved a lot of blowing and pointing to her black shawl. 
I got Nidal to tell her that my mother would appreciate knowing 
that someone here was giving me a lecture about smoking turning 
my lungs black.) I met their sister-in-law, who is visiting from 
Nusserat camp, and played with her small baby. 

Nidal's English gets better every day. He's the one who calls 
me, "My sister". He started teaching Grandmother how to 
say, "Hello. How are you?" In English. You can always hear the 
tanks and bulldozers passing by, but all of these people are 
genuinely cheerful with each other, and with me. When I am with 
Palestinian friends I tend to be somewhat less horrified than 
when I am trying to act in a role of human rights observer, 
documenter, or direct-action resister. They are a good example 
of how to be in it for the long haul. I know that the situation 
gets to them - and may ultimately get them - on all kinds of 
levels, but I am nevertheless amazed at their strength in being 
able to defend such a large degree of their humanity - laughter, 
generosity, family-time - against the incredible horror 
occurring in their lives and against the constant presence of 
death. I felt much better after this morning. I spent a lot of 
time writing about the disappointment of discovering, somewhat 
first-hand, the degree of evil of which we are still capable. I 
should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of 
strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the 
direst of circumstances - which I also haven't seen before. I 
think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. 
Maybe, hopefully, someday you will. 

Rachel

Brothers & Sisters
Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuhoo
My sister has under gone a surgical operation and she is in the 
hospital since last two 
weeks, as recovery was zero, hence she has been operated again 
today.
I request to all brothers and sisters to please make Dua'a for 
recovery & health of my sister
may ALLAH (swt) shower His blessings on her. Aameen.
Jazakallah Khairan.
Sincerely 
Abdul Hameed Tareen 

QUESTION: As-Salaamu `Alaykum. I have heard the Hadith of 
Prophet Muhammed, peace and blessings be upon him, when he said 
that nations will haunt against us. Can we say that this thing 
is happening right now?   (United States)

ANSWER:

We would like to mention the Hadith you referred to in your 
question. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, 
said: "Nations are about to scheme against you in the same way 
as greedy eaters vie with one another on the dining-table.' One 
of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them all, asked: 'O 
Messenger of Allah! Will that relate to being few in numbers?' 
The Prophet said: 'No, but your huge number will be of little 
effectiveness, and (Allah) will cast Al-Wahan in your hearts. 
They said: O Messenger of Allah, what does Al-Wahan mean? He 
said, 'Your hearts are strongly attached to life luxuries and 
you feel strong aversion to death." (Reported by Ahmad and Abu-
Dawud) 

The previous Hadith is considered one of the miracles with which 
the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was aided. The 
Hadith refers to what will happen by the end of this world. In 
other words, it shows the extent of the moral decay that will 
affect the Muslim Ummah, and will encourage its enemies to haunt 
it, especially after neglecting Allah s Commands and ignoring 
His Prophet s teachings 

The miracles that Allah Almighty has granted His Prophets, peace 
and blessings be upon them all, to help in delivering their 
messages, are not only rules and regulations from which the 
Muslim Ummah can seek guidance regarding what is lawful and what 
is prohibited. Rather, They serve as a means of encouraging the 
Muslim to bear the sufferings and tribulations of life with 
patience and perseverance, keeping in mind that Allah will never 
forsake him. 

The words of the Hadith show that the state of weakness facing 
the Muslim Ummah nowadays is transitory. 

Unfortunately, the Muslim Ummah s hands are tied, finding 
themselves handicapped to put an end to the brutal massacres and 
mass killing of Muslims in many places of the world, in addition 
to gross violation of Muslim human rights. 

The main reason behind all this can easily be ascribed to 
forsaking the Islamic umbrella, which encompasses economy, mass 
media and education, as well as politics. 

Every member of Muslim Ummah has a share in this responsibility; 
it is a collective one. We are together in the same boat and we 
have to start rowing before it is too late. 

Stressing the fact that, despite the sorry state of affairs of 
Muslim Ummah now, there is a glimmer of hope lying in the 
future, we would like to cite for you the following fatwa issued 
by the eminent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: 

 Some scholars claim that the Doom is approaching and that the 
darkness looms large and there are troubles on the horizon. 
Actually, such premonitions bring benefits to none and make 
things get worse. This leads to the belief that there is no hope 
for a change or reform and that the coming days carry nothing 
but bad events. This is, in fact, a very wrong way of thinking 
and it is plainly a pessimistic approach to life. Muslims are to 
stick their mind to many glad tidings of the coming victory of 
Islam, and they should have faith in Allah that the coming days 
will be more bright and that there is light at the end of the 
tunnel. 

Thus, it is necessary for Muslims to derive from the following 
glad tidings glimpse of light to fill their hearts with and let 
despair vanish and fade away. Here are some of the glad tidings 
mentioned in the Qur an: 

1-Almighty Allah says:  He it is who hath sent His messenger 
with the guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He may cause 
it to prevail over all religion, however much the idolaters may 
be averse.  (At-Tawbah: 33) 

2-Almighty Allah also says:  Fain would they put out the light 
of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light 
however much the disbelievers are averse.  (As-Saff: 8) 

In these verses, Almighty Allah makes it clear that at the end 
sweeping victory and triumph will be for Islam and Allah s light 
will cover all corners of the globe. 

The Sunnah of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is 
also a record of many Hadiths that give glad tidings of the 
coming victory of Islam. Here, we would like to cite some of 
these Hadiths: 

1-In his Sahih, Imam Muslim recorded that Thawban quoted the 
Prophet, peace and blessings upon him, as saying:  Almighty 
Allah has gathered the earth for me so that I could see all its 
corners. My nation will rule over all that which Almighty Allah 
has gathered for me.  

2-Ibn Hibban quoted the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon 
him, as saying:  This matter (i.e. Islam) will spread to cover 
all area where there is night and day. Allah will never leave a 
house in a rural area or in urban community without its people 
being Muslims. Honor is for those who embrace it (i.e. Islam) 
while disbelievers are doomed to disgrace and humiliation.  

This Hadith, along with many others, give us glad tidings that 
the patch of the Muslim state will expand to cover the whole 
earth and that the strength of this state will grow and become 
obvious to all. This also denotes good news for the long-
cherished hope of revival of Muslims unity and rebirth of 
Islamic Caliphate. 

Also, there are many other glad tidings in the reality of being 
a Muslim, for any wise man knows that no falsehood is to remain 
forever. Life has its ups and downs and days has their own 
vicissitudes. After hardship comes ease and every cloud has a 
silver lining. The bitter reality of the Muslim nation will come 
to an end, and tomorrow will be definitely better than today. 

The emergence of the Islamic awakening has breathed in the 
Muslim nation a sense of confidence and hope in the future. 
Viewing this awakening as a threat, the enemies of Islam have 
tried their utmost to suppress it. However, it is Allah s will 
that the Muslim awakening will endure all tribulation without 
being affected. Such movement is worthy of leading the Muslim 
nation to utter victory once there are leaders who are rightly 
guided by Almighty Allah and filled with wisdom.  

We plea to Allah Almighty to guide the Muslim Ummah back to the 
right track. This is the only way we can find a place in the 
modern world where non-Islamic systems impose distorted 
ideologies in the name of civilization." 

What: Emergency vigil in honor of Rachel Corrie and the 1,900 
Palestinians
who have been killed by Israeli Soldiers and Settlers since 
September 2000

When: Monday March 17, 5:00PM

Where: The Israeli Consulate, 456 Montgomery St., San Francisco

Contact: Senan Khairie (650) 799-8472

Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American activist with the 
International
Solidarity Movement (ISM), was killed on March 16 when she was 
run over by
an Israeli bulldozer. Rachel was trying to stop the bulldozer 
from
demolishing the home of a Palestinian doctor in the Gaza Strip

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in the San 
Francisco Bay
Area (ADC-SF) expresses sorrow, anger and disgust at this cold-
blooded
murder, and calls on members of the Arab and Palestinian 
community and
their supporters to join members of the ISM in an emergency 
vigil to honor
the memory of Rachel.

ISM is a Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and 
International
activists working to raise awareness of the struggle for 
Palestinian
freedom and an end to Israeli occupation. ISM utilizes 
nonviolent,
direct-action methods of resistance to confront and challenge 
illegal
Israeli occupation forces and policies.

The confrontation between the ISM and the Israeli Army had been 
under way
for two hours when Rachel was run over. Rachel and the other 
activists had
clearly identified themselves as unarmed international peace 
activists
throughout the confrontation.

The Israeli Army is attempting to dishonor Rachel's memory by 
claiming
that she was killed accidentally when she ran in front of the 
bulldozer.
Eye-witnesses to the murder insist that this is totally untrue. 
Rachel was
sitting in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her. 
When the
bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside she climbed up onto the 
mound of
dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it wearing a 
fluorescent
jacket to look directly at the driver who kept on advancing. The 
bulldozer
continued to advance so that she was pulled under the pile of 
dirt and
rubble. After she had disappeared from view the driver kept 
advancing
until the bulldozer was completely on top of her. The driver did 
not lift
the bulldozer blade and so she was crushed beneath it. Then the 
driver
backed off and the seven other ISM activists taking part in the 
action
rushed to dig out her body. An ambulance rushed her to A-Najar 
hospital
where she died.

While this horrific incident might seem shocking, it is a daily 
reality
for Palestinians living under a brutal Israeli occupation that 
completely
dehumanizes them. It is further testament to the institutional 
terror and
indiscriminate killing that Israel practices every day. The 
incident
illustrates that the Israeli army is ready to kill international 
peace
activists to frighten others away. Israel can then continue to 
carry out
more crimes against Palestinians with impunity and without 
witness, a
matter that is particularly dangerous with the attention 
shifting to the
impending war on Iraq.

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Muhammad is a Human Being and a Messenger, and the God is One 

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 Say (O Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam):  I am only a man 
like you. It has been revealed to me that your Ilaah (God) is 
One Ilaah (God i.e. Allaah). So whoever hopes for the Meeting 
with his Lord, let him work righteousness and associate none as 
a partner in the worship of his Lord.   [Al-Kahf 18:110]

Allah says to His Messenger Muhammad , 


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(Say) to these idolators who reject your message to them, 


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(`I am only a man like you.) Whoever claims that I am lying, let 
him bring something like this that I have brought. For I did not 
know the Unseen, the matters of the past which you asked me 
about and I told you about, the story of the people of the Cave 
and of Dhul-Qarnayn, stories which are true -- I did not know 
any of this except for what Allah made known to me. And I tell 
you, 


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(that your God), Who calls you to worship Him, 


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(is One God), with no partner or associate.' 


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(So whoever hopes for the meeting with his Lord,) i.e., hopes 
for a good reward and recompense, 


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(let him work righteousness) meaning, in accordance with the 
prescribed laws of Allah, 


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(and associate none as a partner in the worship of his Lord.) 
This is what is meant by seeking the pleasure of Allah alone 
with no associate or partner. These are the two basic features 
of acceptable deeds: their intent is for the sake of Allah 
alone, and are done in accordance with the way of the Messenger 
of Allah . Imam Ahmad recorded that Mahmud bin Labid said that 
the Messenger of Allah said: 


                                                             


(What I fear the most for you is the small Shirk.) "They said: 
What is the small Shirk, O Messenger of Allah'' He said, 


                                                            
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(Showing off (Ar-Riya'). Allah will say on the Day of 
Resurrection, when the people are rewarded or punished for their 
deeds, "Go to the one for whom you were showing off in the world 
and see if you will find any reward with him.'') Imam Ahmad 
recorded that Abu Sa`id bin Abi Fadalah Al-Ansari, who was one 
of the Companions, said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah say, 


                                                         
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(Allah will gather the first and the last on the Day of 
Resurrection, the Day concerning which there is no doubt. A 
voice will call out, "Whoever used to associate anyone with 
Allah in the deeds which he did, let him seek his reward from 
someone other than Allah, for Allah is the least in need of any 
partner or associate.) It was also recorded by At-Tirmidhi and 
Ibn Majah. This is the end of the Tafsir of Surat Al-Kahf. 
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all that exists.
 

HYPOCRITES!
* It has been almost 12 years that American President Reagan 
first helped Saddam Hussein to fight a fierce war with Iran 
claiming the area of of Shatt-al-Arab as Iraqi territory to take 
the revenge with Iran for holding Americans as hostages for 444 
days soon after the Iranian revolution. America supplied not 
only all the weapons to both sides to fuel the war but also gave 
full logistical supoport to Iraq including Spy-satellite data 
about Iranian troop concentrations. 
* A U.S. Navy warship USS Vincennes shot down a civilian unarmed 
Airbus, killing all 290 persons aboard.
* U.S. Ambassador, April Gallaspie, gave a nod when Iraq 
expressed its desire to settle its dispute with Kuwait by 
invading that country, saying that "Washington had no problem, 
and considered this a problem between two Arab countries. 
* To demonize Saddam Hussein, U.S. made Kuwait pay more than one 
million dollars to Hill & Knowlton to invent a blatant lie by 
coaching the daughter of Kuwaiti Ambassador, Al Sabah, using a 
fake name Nariyah to tell a sobbing story of brutality commited 
by Iraqi troops by killing babies in a hospital.
* Allied forces killed more than 200,000 Iraqi troops, and more 
than 6,000 civilians. 
* Destroyed most of the infrastructures, purposely contaminated 
the water supplies in Iraq. 
* Used more than 40 tons of Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons to 
kill Iraqis with Cancer for next 20 billion years to come.
* US & UK impose NO-FLY Zones in Iraq to make life difficult for 
and encouraged Kurds and Shiites to revolt. 
* Twelve years of sanctions killed more than million children 
and adults. 
* UNSCOM inspectors were enouraged to spy under the pretext of 
finding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and Sanctions kept 
on dragging till new President Bush came into power, vowing 
to "take care of unfinished business" of getting rid of Saddam 
and capturing Iraq's Oil resources.
* First Bush announced to get rid of WMD's in Iraq. 
* Announcement were made after 9/11 that he was going to conduct 
CRUSADE to launch a war on Terrorism, and invaded Afghanistan, 
killing thousands of innocent people and occupying that country 
to establish military bases.
* After occupying Afghanistan, Bush announced his intent of 
Changing regime in Iraq, and slowly started building troops to 
acieve his aim.
* He manuevered like his father through the U.N. to pass a 
resolution 1441 to disarm Iraq or face the armed attack to be 
disarmed by U.S.
* UN inspectors were sent to disarm and to find any WMD's and 
report their finding, but Bush was not going listen to their 
reports because both UK and U.S. had made up their minds to 
invade Iraq and divide the booty by keeping occupation forces 
for more than two years.
* U.S. for the first time in the History ordered Saddam Hussein 
to go into exile within forty-eight hours, after which War will 
begin, going against the World opinion, and U.N. 
* U.S. tests first 20,000 pound bomb called MOAB (mother-of-all-
bomb) to be tested further in Iraq.
* Preparations of war are afoot to invade Iraq and occupy it for 
as long as necessary. 
Now let see whatr Quran says about HYPCRITES:
2:8. Of he people there are some who say : "We believe in Allah 
(God) and the Last Day"; but they do not (really) believe.
9. Willingly would they deceive Allah (God) and those who 
believe , but they only deceive themselves and realize (it) not!
10. In their hearts there is a disease; amnd Allah (God) has 
increased their disease, and grievous penalty they (incur), 
because they are false (to themselves).
11. When it is said to them: "Make not mischief on earth," they 
say: "Why, we only want want to make peace!"
12. Of a surety, they are the ones who make mischief, but they 
realize (it) not.
 
3: 69. It is the wish of a section of the People of the Book to 
lead you astray. But they shall lead astray (not you), but 
themselves, and they do not perceive! 
3: 118. O ye who believe! take not into your intimacy those 
outside your ranks, they will not fail to corrupt you. They only 
desire your ruin: rank hatred has already appeared from their 
mouths; what their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made 
plain to you the Signs if ye have wisdom.
3:149. O ye who believe! if ye obey the unbelievers, they will 
drive you back on your heels, and ye will turn back (from faith) 
to your own loss.
4:52. They are (men) whom Allah (God) hath cursed: and those 
whom Allah hath cursed, thou wilt find, have no one to help.
4:139. Yea, to those who take for friends Unbelievers rather 
than Believers: is it honour they seek among them? Nay, - All 
honour is with Allah (God).
4: 142. The Hypocrites -- they think they are over-reaching 
Allah (God), but He will over-reach them: when they stand up to 
prayer, they stand for prayer, they stand without earnestness, 
to be seen of men, but little do they hold Allah (God) in 
remembrance. 
4: 144. O ye who believe! take not for friends Unbelievers 
rather than Believers: do ye wish to offer Allah an open proof 
against yourselves?
4:145. The Hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire 
(Hell): no helper wilt thou find for them 
5:51. O ye who believe! take not Yehud and Nasara for your 
friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to 
each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for 
friendship) is of them. Verily Allah (God) guideth not peopler 
unjust. 
5:57. O ye who believe ! take not for friends and protectors 
those who take your religion for a mockery or sport -- whether 
among those who received the Scripture before you, or among 
those who reject faith; but fear ye Allah (God), if ye have 
Faith (indeed). 
5: 82. Strongest among men in enmity to the Believerswilt thou 
find the Yehud and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to the 
belivers wilt thou find who say: "We are Christians": because 
amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have 
renounced the world, and they are not arrogant.
Allah will not forgive those Rulers who disobey these rules of 
Allah (God) for the sake of personal glorification by 
subjugating Muslims under Non-Muslims.

QUESTION: As-Salaamu `Alaykum. I have heard the Hadith of 
Prophet Muhammed, peace and blessings be upon him, when he said 
that nations will haunt against us. Can we say that this thing 
is happening right now?   (Mohammed- United States)

ANSWER:

We would like to mention the Hadith you referred to in your 
question. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, 
said: "Nations are about to scheme against you in the same way 
as greedy eaters vie with one another on the dining-table.' One 
of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them all, asked: 'O 
Messenger of Allah! Will that relate to being few in numbers?' 
The Prophet said: 'No, but your huge number will be of little 
effectiveness, and (Allah) will cast Al-Wahan in your hearts. 
They said: O Messenger of Allah, what does Al-Wahan mean? He 
said, 'Your hearts are strongly attached to life luxuries and 
you feel strong aversion to death." (Reported by Ahmad and Abu-
Dawud) 

The previous Hadith is considered one of the miracles with which 
the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was aided. The 
Hadith refers to what will happen by the end of this world. In 
other words, it shows the extent of the moral decay that will 
affect the Muslim Ummah, and will encourage its enemies to haunt 
it, especially after neglecting Allah s Commands and ignoring 
His Prophet s teachings 

The miracles that Allah Almighty has granted His Prophets, peace 
and blessings be upon them all, to help in delivering their 
messages, are not only rules and regulations from which the 
Muslim Ummah can seek guidance regarding what is lawful and what 
is prohibited. Rather, They serve as a means of encouraging the 
Muslim to bear the sufferings and tribulations of life with 
patience and perseverance, keeping in mind that Allah will never 
forsake him. 

The words of the Hadith show that the state of weakness facing 
the Muslim Ummah nowadays is transitory. 

Unfortunately, the Muslim Ummah s hands are tied, finding 
themselves handicapped to put an end to the brutal massacres and 
mass killing of Muslims in many places of the world, in addition 
to gross violation of Muslim human rights. 

The main reason behind all this can easily be ascribed to 
forsaking the Islamic umbrella, which encompasses economy, mass 
media and education, as well as politics. 

Every member of Muslim Ummah has a share in this responsibility; 
it is a collective one. We are together in the same boat and we 
have to start rowing before it is too late. 

Stressing the fact that, despite the sorry state of affairs of 
Muslim Ummah now, there is a glimmer of hope lying in the 
future, we would like to cite for you the following fatwa issued 
by the eminent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: 

 Some scholars claim that the Doom is approaching and that the 
darkness looms large and there are troubles on the horizon. 
Actually, such premonitions bring benefits to none and make 
things get worse. This leads to the belief that there is no hope 
for a change or reform and that the coming days carry nothing 
but bad events. This is, in fact, a very wrong way of thinking 
and it is plainly a pessimistic approach to life. Muslims are to 
stick their mind to many glad tidings of the coming victory of 
Islam, and they should have faith in Allah that the coming days 
will be more bright and that there is light at the end of the 
tunnel. 

Thus, it is necessary for Muslims to derive from the following 
glad tidings glimpse of light to fill their hearts with and let 
despair vanish and fade away. Here are some of the glad tidings 
mentioned in the Qur an: 

1-Almighty Allah says:  He it is who hath sent His messenger 
with the guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He may cause 
it to prevail over all religion, however much the idolaters may 
be averse.  (At-Tawbah: 33) 

2-Almighty Allah also says:  Fain would they put out the light 
of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light 
however much the disbelievers are averse.  (As-Saff: 8) 

In these verses, Almighty Allah makes it clear that at the end 
sweeping victory and triumph will be for Islam and Allah s light 
will cover all corners of the globe. 

The Sunnah of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is 
also a record of many Hadiths that give glad tidings of the 
coming victory of Islam. Here, we would like to cite some of 
these Hadiths: 

1-In his Sahih, Imam Muslim recorded that Thawban quoted the 
Prophet, peace and blessings upon him, as saying:  Almighty 
Allah has gathered the earth for me so that I could see all its 
corners. My nation will rule over all that which Almighty Allah 
has gathered for me.  

2-Ibn Hibban quoted the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon 
him, as saying:  This matter (i.e. Islam) will spread to cover 
all area where there is night and day. Allah will never leave a 
house in a rural area or in urban community without its people 
being Muslims. Honor is for those who embrace it (i.e. Islam) 
while disbelievers are doomed to disgrace and humiliation.  

This Hadith, along with many others, give us glad tidings that 
the patch of the Muslim state will expand to cover the whole 
earth and that the strength of this state will grow and become 
obvious to all. This also denotes good news for the long-
cherished hope of revival of Muslims unity and rebirth of 
Islamic Caliphate. 

Also, there are many other glad tidings in the reality of being 
a Muslim, for any wise man knows that no falsehood is to remain 
forever. Life has its ups and downs and days has their own 
vicissitudes. After hardship comes ease and every cloud has a 
silver lining. The bitter reality of the Muslim nation will come 
to an end, and tomorrow will be definitely better than today. 

The emergence of the Islamic awakening has breathed in the 
Muslim nation a sense of confidence and hope in the future. 
Viewing this awakening as a threat, the enemies of Islam have 
tried their utmost to suppress it. However, it is Allah s will 
that the Muslim awakening will endure all tribulation without 
being affected. Such movement is worthy of leading the Muslim 
nation to utter victory once there are leaders who are rightly 
guided by Almighty Allah and filled with wisdom.  

We plea to Allah Almighty to guide the Muslim Ummah back to the 
right track. This is the only way we can find a place in the 
modern world where non-Islamic systems impose distorted 
ideologies in the name of civilization." 

Dear Members of the UN Security Council:
 
While the criminal superpower has pulled a fast one by not 
calling for a vote in the Council there is still something that 
can be done to keep it in check.
 
I suggest to the Council to convene the scheduled ministerial 
meeting and denounce the war in the strongest of language, 
accompanied with a vote in the General Assembly to levy 
sanctions on the United States and Great Britain for their 
warmongering under the cover of UN Resolution 377.
 
As you are all aware Resolution 377 calls for 'uniting for 
peace' and postulates that if, because of the lack of unanimity 
of the permanent members of the Security Council (France, China, 
Russia, Britain, United States), the Council cannot maintain 
international peace where there is a "threat to the peace, 
breach of the peace or act of aggression," the General 
Assembly "shall consider the matter immediately...." The 
language of Uniting for Peace would also allow its use even if 
the Security Council approved the use of force against Iraq.  It 
can also be employed "if the Security Council...fails to 
exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of 
international peace and security..." 
 
For the sake of all the innocent civilians in Iraq, who will be 
decimated with the chemical, biological and nuclear bombs of the 
United States and Britain, as well as for the sake of all 
humanity, I beg you to make use of UN Resolution 377 and to 
denounce the United States attack on Iraq as an illegal, 
unwarranted,unjustified, unprovoked, inhumane attack which 
violates universal law, international law, UN Charter, UN 
Resolutions, the Geneva Convention (and anything else that may 
come to mind).
 
The Council has the obligation to speak the truth and to take 
measures against rouge nations (even if they are a superpower) 
for the sake of humanity.  America and Britain are acting as 
criminal states and they should be held accountable for their 
war crimes against the Iraqi people.  I remind you that America 
has been the ONLY nation ever to deploy an atomic bomb.  It 
seeks to disarm everyone of the very weapons that they so 
proudly and unhesitatingly devastate others with.  Now is the 
time to abandon the Nuclear anti-proliferation nonsense and arm 
the world to the teeth in order to protect the sovereignty of 
nations and the safety of peoples worldwide.  Now is the time to 
tell George Bush to go to hell with his bogus war on terrorism 
and to declare him the #1 terrorist in the world.  I continue to 
urge you to boycott America, pull out your investments from Wall 
Street, refuse imports from America and to not hesitate filing a 
complaint in Belgium against America, Britain and Israel.  
Declare George W. Bush, Tony Blair and Sharon the war criminals 
that they are and make sure that justice is done. 
 
I ask you to not assist America in the reconstruction of Iraq.  
Let bankrupt America deal with that problem by itself.  I ask 
you to let the Muslim Mujahideen do what they need to do without 
interfering.  Bush's ego has unleashed the rage of the Muslims 
and Arabs and there is no reason why you should be caught in the 
middle.  Any nation that supports America is in for a huge 
punishment so be wise and stay out of harms way.  You have no 
reason to help America anymore because Bush has made it very 
clear that he wants all of you to kiss his backside.  Didn't you 
notice how he was sure to let you see him playing with the dogs 
on the Whitehouse grounds and how he bent over.  Take a hint 
gentlemen.  Body language speaks volumes, but while Mr. Bush 
showed all of us his backside, subconsciously wanting us to kiss 
it, it is appropriate for all of us to give his derrier the boot 
rather than the kiss.  Superpower or not, nuclear bombs or not, 
a criminal is a criminal and the world should not be terrorized 
by a self-proclaimed messianic fanatic who sees occupation as 
liberation of a people.  The nations of the world must take a 
stand against Bush, Blair, Sharon, Howard and others who are 
setting back the history of mankind hundreds of years and seek 
to enslave humanity.
 
I thank the Council for staying strong in the face of the 
biggest crisis in world history to date.  I encourage you to 
stay grounded and to unite yourselves against the regime in 
Washington that seeks to destroy humanity by leaning on UN 
Resolution 377 by using force to stop the occupation of Iraq and 
to prevent the birth of unchecked anarchy in the world. The 
terrorist is America not Al-Qaeda or any of our Islamic 
resistance forces.  Join us or leave us alone to do what must be 
done. Do not continue the farce of America's bogus war on 
terrorism which is nothing but a veil to set up bases and 
position military forces in every nation that it will ultimately 
use to destroy every nation with.
 
May God bless and guide you to the best of actions and 
decisions, and may HE grant you victory over the tyrannt of our 
times.  One superpower cannot fight against the whole world and 
win.
 

Posted 3/17/2003 11:33 PM  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
War is not in U.S. interest 
By Justin Raimondo

President Bush hasn't done a good job of selling this war 
because he has tried to sell us a pig in a poke. But when the 
truth comes out, as it will, Americans are going to start asking 
the following questions:

Where does it end? Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has laid 
out the road map, with Iran, Libya and Syria next on the 
list: "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of 
weapons mass destruction," he told visiting U.S. 
congressmen, "and a successful American move in Iraq as a model 
will make that easier to achieve." 
Undersecretary of State John Bolton agrees. Last month, he said 
in meetings with Israeli officials that "it will be necessary to 
deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterward."

Sharon told the congressmen that "the American action is of 
vital importance"   which begs the question, vital to whom?

How does this war serve America's vital interests? The president 
says Iraq "threatens its neighbors," but only one of those 
neighbors wants war. As Patrick Buchanan succinctly put it: "For 
whose benefit are these endless wars in a region that holds 
nothing vital to America save oil, which the Arabs must sell us 
to survive? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations 
between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one 
party. Israel, Sharon, Likud." 
Our troops will be fighting a proxy war in Iraq, and beyond, not 
to protect U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, but to make the 
world safe for Israel. When the dead are buried, let the 
following be inscribed on their tombstones: They died for Ariel 
Sharon.

When does it end? President Bush has said that American troops 
will stay in Iraq "as long as necessary and not a day longer"   
a statement that obfuscates but doesn't elucidate. The American 
public thinks we are going to go in, get Saddam and come 
marching triumphantly home. The truth is that, as Army chief of 
staff Gen. Eric Shinseki has testified, we are entering into an 
open-ended commitment that will involve stationing "several 
hundred thousand" troops in Iraq indefinitely. 
What are the costs? After White House economic adviser Larry 
Lindsey gave an estimate of up to $200 billion, he was fired. 
Initial costs are estimated by Pentagon officials at $60 billion 
to $95 billion, but that's just a warm-up. The Congressional 
Budget Office says the first month of combat will cost $10 
billion, and $8 billion for each month thereafter. Having 
alienated our longtime allies, the U.S. is going bear these 
costs alone. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disdains 
estimates as "not a useful exercise." He's right, because it is 
likely that war will spread throughout the Middle East. 

Justin Raimondo is editorial director of Antiwar.com and author 
of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the 
Conservative Movement.
 

Mon- Mar 17 2003
 Campaigns 
 


IT WAS PALESTINE, CHECHNYA, KASHIMIR, AFGHANISTAN YESTERDAY, AND 
IRAQ TODAY ....WHICH COUNTRY WILL THEY TAKE NEXT?
 

Will you let them ?

In the past few months, MPAC has joined forces and voice with 
others to stop the Zionists force a war on 24 million Iraqis. 
Despite being underfunded and under-staffed our volunteers have 
fought a tough war- researching, sensitising, exposing, writing, 
making all sorts of contacts in the media...   we believe we 
lost.

So what do we do now ?

Give up and throw the towel in?
Go to the Mosque and ask Allah to do the job for us?
Tell ourselves it was pointless anyway and we might as well go 
home?
Fight on....Jihad is FARD and victory is certain insha Allah. We 
cannot give up on our brothers?
If you chose number 4 we would like to ask you to ponder very 
seriously on the possible implications of these events for the 
Muslims of tomorrow. Why should Iraqi civilians be obliterated 
in order to save them? In the 1st Gulf War alone, bombs 
equivalent to seven Hiroshimas were dropped by America and its 
allies on these people and independent reports disclosed that in 
the last two days before the ceasefire, American armoured 
bulldozers were ruthlessly deployed, mostly at night, burying 
Iraqis alive in their trenches, including the wounded. Again, 
this will be different from the sanitised images of the effects 
of a 'star war technology', of 'smart bombs' (less than 7% of 
all the bombs used in the 1st Gulf War were actually 'smart' as 
Pentagon later admitted) destroying vital Iraqi targets. Do you 
remember the bombing of Al-Amiriya bunker in Baghdad in which 
between 300 and 400 women and children died? America still 
maintains that the bunker was being used as a military facility 
or the 'price was worth it'. Iraq has now ceased to be a human 
community but a 'guilty party' and a target for extraordinary 
weapons. The question remains: why is this war of choice forced 
on the innocent civilians of Iraq that have been misruled by a 
Western-imposed tyrant and a dictator- children, widows, old and 
young men and women: a field worker in Iraq once reported an 
equivalent of the death of a child every six minutes! 

This is definately not going to be a war, but a one-sided blood-
letting that will result in thesame massacre, and sanitised tv 
images, as witnessed during the 1st Gulf War. In all of these, 
what has been the roles of the innocent Iraqis 'brothers and 
sisters' in the region especially. The leaders of these 
countries will provide military bases to support the attack, and 
allow the aggressors to convert their territories, as Saudi 
Arabia did in the 1st Gulf War, to the British-invented 'pool'. 
Pool is the technical term for Press Conferences, i.e arena for 
dispensing propaganda, such as the entertaining videotapes 
showing allied forces in pinpoint bombing. Almighty Allah has 
placed on these leaders certain obligations and He makes them 
accountable to Him directly. Besides, we are a Ummah with a 
tradition, established more than one thousand years ago, that 
stands against injustice even in the face of wicked and 
oppressive leaders. Almighty Allah will surely bring 
these 'friends and allies' of the world's tyrants to justice. 
With a house ununited and disorganised, Muslim leaders and 
organisations have utterly failed to prevent murder, ethnic 
cleansing and abuses. We are divided by ideologies and petty 
differencies. Lining up behind 'kaffirs' to protest to stop the 
war and yet failing, Depleted Uranium will still be used to 
devastate the future generations of Iraq- DU has a radioactive 
half-life of 125,000 years and munitions made of this element 
was used for the first time in Iraq in the 1st Gulf War.

 Over the 12 years since U.S first attacked Iraq, more than 1.4 
million Iraqis have died as a result of sanctions, and during 
the same period, the Saudis have contracted more than thirty 
billion dollars' worth of American tanks, missiles, and fighter 
aircrafts- every day, the Pentagon disburses an average of 10 
million dollars to contractors at work on a Saudi shopping list. 
With this regime of sanctions and weird association, the source 
of real weapon of mass destruction is proven, if unreported.

Saddam is reported to have declared that he was born and will 
die in Iraq, with the threat of military assaults and attacks 
close by, who would have imagine that a Bush will ultimately 
make Saddam, a reknown villian, a hero.

If you think you have what it takes to stuggle for Allah without 
giving up, even in the lowest times, when everything seems 
bleak...we want you to fund us or join our teams and make a 
positive difference around the world.

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The looming illegal attack on Iraq has captured the attention of 
the entire world. While a handful of western leaders try to move 
forward in their pledge for war, all the rest of us have become 
occupied in anti war activity and rightly so. However, in the 
process we have unknowingly forgotten that a very real crisis 
still exist in Palestine, and is in fact getting much worse. 

In just six days 30 Palestinians have been killed, a fact of 
which most of us are unaware. However Independent's Justin 
Huggler talks of something much more disturbing that is 
occurring, the "lottery" of punishment. Here Palestinians are 
given the choice of how they should be "punished". Many accounts 
have been given of examples of this "lottery torture" a young 
teenage boy explains:

"I refused. He said, 'I'll shoot you if you don't take it.' I 
had to read it out. It said, 'Break your hand.' They had a big 
stick, like the shaft of an axe. I saw blood on it. They hit me 
three times on the left hand. I had terrible pain.'


So clearly the problem hasn't disappeared with the arrival of 
the Iraq crisis, and still requires the attention of us Muslims 
anywhere we live! Unfortunately the injustice is being pushed 
aside by most of us. Chris McGreal of the Guardian also has 
helped us acknowledge the growing problem, he writes that the UN 
Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa had their plea for  60m to feed 
1.1million people rejected, Western countries have turned away 
while the warehouses will be empty within weeks. Unrwa predicts 
a rupture in the food distribution, with malnutrition levels of 
22% among children already; this could have very serious 
consequences for the future. The UN says Gaza is one of the most 
crowded places on earth and rapidly becoming one of the poorest. 
More than 30% of children suffer from anaemia. While Palestinian 
children starved Israeli troops destroyed a vegetable market 
just last week in the name of dismantling the "infrastructure of 
terror" Are they trying to dismantle terrorist weapons hidden in 
cucumbers and potatoes???

Unrwa says it needs $94m but only has a weak offer of just $1.5m 
from Switzerland. I would like to ask where the great, 
humanitarian, justice defending USA is at this point and how 
much aid, if any have they given, after all they are so very 
quick in handing out military aid to Israel aren't they?

OK. So we've told you what the situation is. You must be anxious 
to know what you can do to help right? Well, as always there is 
so much you can do and inshallah we have no doubt that you wont 
think twice about helping our starving or malnourished brothers 
and sisters.

  Firstly, you could start by reading these excellent articles 
yourself, and even writing in to the newspapers to congratulate 
these journalists on writing them. Read the articles at: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,893017,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?
story=377302

  Secondly, write in to your local media- why is it that we dont 
get to read articles like these in the Nigerian media- with all 
those millions of educated Muslims out there who believe that 
they truly care for the Palestanian children only by feeling 
passionatly for them when they hear about their murders. Voice 
your view on what you want the media and government to do to 
help the plight of the Palestinians. Write in well researched 
and factual articles and also you can make use of the question 
page. Take the Foreign News editor of your favourite newspaper 
to task and ask him to account for bias and unbalance in 
coverage- if this is the case. You can also contact  your  local 
political representatives and demand for government official 
position as well as their explanation for silence. If ordianry 
Rastafarians could do this much for the black during the 
terrible apartheid time in S/Africa, will you not do it for the 
people you call your brothers and sisters?  
Thirdly, join and fund MPAC and take an active part in this 
Jihad. Our account manager has and will privide full details on 
how you can get involved by giving your time or making a 
financial contribution. Email nigeriampac@yahoo.com
  And finally donate! MPAC will insha Allah provide easy link, 
through our Relief Project Managers, for relief efforts to be 
channeled to Muslim crises areas through reputable Islamic 
relief organisations. Alhamdulillahi we have had brothers 
volunteered to oversee this business for the Muslims in need 
worldwide, and arrangements are still on to consolidate the 
structures to make this work efficiently. In the interim, there 
are many reliable Muslim charities that let you decide where 
your money will be spent, here are just a few links:  
 

Posted 3/17/2003 11:33 PM  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
War is not in U.S. interest 
By Justin Raimondo

President Bush hasn't done a good job of selling this war 
because he has tried to sell us a pig in a poke. But when the 
truth comes out, as it will, Americans are going to start asking 
the following questions:

Where does it end? Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has laid 
out the road map, with Iran, Libya and Syria next on the 
list: "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of 
weapons mass destruction," he told visiting U.S. 
congressmen, "and a successful American move in Iraq as a model 
will make that easier to achieve." 
Undersecretary of State John Bolton agrees. Last month, he said 
in meetings with Israeli officials that "it will be necessary to 
deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterward."

Sharon told the congressmen that "the American action is of 
vital importance"   which begs the question, vital to whom?

How does this war serve America's vital interests? The president 
says Iraq "threatens its neighbors," but only one of those 
neighbors wants war. As Patrick Buchanan succinctly put it: "For 
whose benefit are these endless wars in a region that holds 
nothing vital to America save oil, which the Arabs must sell us 
to survive? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations 
between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one 
party. Israel, Sharon, Likud." 
Our troops will be fighting a proxy war in Iraq, and beyond, not 
to protect U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, but to make the 
world safe for Israel. When the dead are buried, let the 
following be inscribed on their tombstones: They died for Ariel 
Sharon.

When does it end? President Bush has said that American troops 
will stay in Iraq "as long as necessary and not a day longer"   
a statement that obfuscates but doesn't elucidate. The American 
public thinks we are going to go in, get Saddam and come 
marching triumphantly home. The truth is that, as Army chief of 
staff Gen. Eric Shinseki has testified, we are entering into an 
open-ended commitment that will involve stationing "several 
hundred thousand" troops in Iraq indefinitely. 
What are the costs? After White House economic adviser Larry 
Lindsey gave an estimate of up to $200 billion, he was fired. 
Initial costs are estimated by Pentagon officials at $60 billion 
to $95 billion, but that's just a warm-up. The Congressional 
Budget Office says the first month of combat will cost $10 
billion, and $8 billion for each month thereafter. Having 
alienated our longtime allies, the U.S. is going bear these 
costs alone. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disdains 
estimates as "not a useful exercise." He's right, because it is 
likely that war will spread throughout the Middle East. 

Justin Raimondo is editorial director of Antiwar.com and author 
of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the 
Conservative Movement.
 

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
            The Canadian Islamic Congress Friday Bulletin
Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - Muharram 15, 1423 Year:6 Vol:6 Issue:33
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                       *** Special ***

1. WAGING PEACE, ONE DOLLAR AT A TIME, The Globe And Mail
2. GIVE INSPECTORS SIX MORE MONTHS, The Hamilton Spectator
3. SMEARING MUSLIMS, The Toronto Star
4. REPORT ON ANTI-ISLAM MEDIA 'BIAS' NOMINATED FOR NATIONAL 
AWARD,
The Ottawa Citizen
5. ISLAMIC GROUP RUNNING FOR ANTI- RACISM AWARD, The KW Record

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1. WAGING PEACE, ONE DOLLAR AT A TIME
[By Mohamed Elmasry, The Globe And Mail,March 18, 2003]
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While preparing my federal income tax return, I decided to 
overpay my
taxes by $1. Am I crazy? Not at all.

I hope our government will use my extra dollar (and those of  
many other
Canadians too, I hope) to recruit a new kind of army, a vital 
force of
Canadian diplomats to "wage peace" on my behalf wherever our 
world is
racked with conflict.

Just imagine: An army of young Canadians, inspired by the likes 
of our
late Nobel laureate Lester B. Pearson, working year round for 
peace,
ready to be dispatched at any moment to engage warring parties in
mediation and negotiation.

How different the world might be now, if Canada's UN ambassador 
Paul
Heinbecker had been working on the Iraq file long ago, instead of
reacting to Washington's headlong march to Baghdad with our too-
little-
too-late diplomacy?

As Washington puts its final touches on long-laid plans for 
invading
Iraq, people all over the world, including Americans themselves, 
are just
as intent upon waging peace. And I believe that, war or no war, 
the peace
brokers have already won.

That is, the people have won. They claimed their majority and, 
working
from the grassroots up, they spoke their principles loud and 
clear. The
first voices were heard by others, and they in turn spoke up -- 
people of
religious faith, and people of  no faith at all --  to join in a 
common
cause. They've all said a resounding "NO" to war.

Ex-statesmen like former American president and social activist 
Jimmy
Carter joined the chorus, along with spiritual leaders like Pope 
John
Paul II, people of arts and letters like Canada's Margaret 
Atwood, and
millions of others. All have borne witness to the power of peace.

Now countless voices in the U.S., the U.K. and Spain -- the 
three nations
whose leaders seem most intent on attacking first and 
negotiating later
-- are saying to the world that the coming war is not being 
waged in
their names.

Such a groundswell of public will has never happened in modern 
history --
not before the First or Second World Wars, not before Korea, not 
before
Vietnam -- all without a single declared shot being fired.

We are in fact witnessing a historic standoff. One superpower, 
armed with
the most expensive killing machines money can buy, faces millions
(perhaps billions) of people whose only power lies in their 
ethical
solidarity; people-power against a powerful, arrogant aggressor. 
Yes, the
people may lose the battle for Iraq, but they will not lose the 
war.

Why? Because never before have the warmongers felt so 
frustrated, so
isolated, and so universally unpopular. Having lost most of 
their public
support, they are on the defensive; and their war hasn't even 
officially
started yet. If they push blindly ahead and actually launch 
hostilities,
they will most likely lose their jobs as well -- by being voted 
out of
office by those same "ordinary" folks whose collective voices 
for peace
have clearly caught them by surprise.

If anyone still doubts the impact of peace-waging in these 
interesting
times, consider the message of Dr. Robert Muller, former 
assistant
secretary general of  the United Nations.

The charismatic 80-year-old said recently in San 
Francisco, "Never before
in the history of the world has there been a global, visible, 
public,
viable, open dialogue and conversation about the very legitimacy 
of
war... Yes, the aggressor is angry and upset and spending a 
billion
dollars a day preparing to attack. But not one shot has been 
fired. Not
one life has been lost. There is no war. It's all a 
conversation."

This coming war will not be waged only against Iraq; it will be 
waged
against the will and the morals of people, most people, the 
world over.
Certainly France, Germany, Russia, and China will benefit 
economically
from peace more than from war, but this time they speak for the 
majority
of their own citizens who are for peace. They did not threaten 
military
action to stop the war. All they did was to threaten the use of 
their
legitimate powers in the U.N. Security Council to say "no." And 
that has
infuriated both Washington and London, who have become used to 
having
their own way for so long.

Now, imagine once again: What if Canada had spent more on 
building a
first-class army of trained diplomats to wage peace than it 
spends on
weapons? The Americans do not need our small, polite army to 
invade Iraq,
but they are in dire need of respected third-party professionals 
to help
them solve the world's problems by non-military means.

So I hope more Canadians can be enticed to wage peace, one 
dollar at a
time, and that Ottawa will get the message. Please don't send my 
dollar
back.

[Mohamed Elmasry, professor of computer engineering at the 
University of
Waterloo is national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress. 
He can
be reached at np@canadianislamiccongress.com]

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2. GIVE INSPECTORS SIX MORE MONTHS, LETTER TO THE EDITOR,
The Hamilton Spectator, March 11, 2003
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In his report to the UN Security Council Mohamed El- Baradei 
stressed that
U.S. and British allegations stating Iraq has attempted to 
import uranium
are "not authentic" and therefore "unfounded" -- a position 
completely
consistent with his assertion just last October that:
"We neutralized Iraq's nuclear program. We confiscated its 
weapon- usable
material. We destroyed, removed, or rendered harmless all its 
facilities
and equipment relevant to nuclear weapons production. And while 
we did not
claim absolute certainty, we were confident that we had not 
missed any
significant component of Iraq's nuclear program."

For his part, Hans Blix noted that Iraq's methodical, if not 
rapid,
destruction of Samoud 2 missiles is a "substantial measure of
disarmament." While Iraqi actions so far do not 
constitute "immediate
cooperation," they are nevertheless "welcome." Even with 
proactive
Iraqi cooperation, Blix cautioned, disarmament will 
take "months." He
also said that no underground facilities for mass-producing 
chemical or
biological weapons have been discovered.

Conclusion: Iraq does not have nuclear weapons, much less an 
operational
nuclear program. Furthermore, whatever chemical or biological 
weapons and
delivery systems it may have, good progress has been achieved in
disarmament and verification over the past three months. It is 
also clear
that international weapons inspectors need more "months" to 
finish
their job.

Canada is among those who support a practical option for the UN; 
that is,
to set concrete, detailed demands that Iraq must meet. Thus the 
UN could
justifiably allow the weapons inspectors to continue working for 
at least
another six months, through the heat of summer. By next fall, 
the UN
could then measure Iraqi compliance against its quantified list 
of
demands.

Having lived in Kuwait, I can affirm that in this part of the 
world,
desert weather in the fall is as good as in the spring for the 
Americans
to attack Iraq, if they can still justify their reasons for 
doing so.

But six more months given to the inspectors would make an 
enormous
difference -- the difference, in fact, between peace and war. 
The time
spent will be well worth it.

[Dr. Mohamed Elmasry , National president , Canadian Islamic 
Congress]

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3. SMEARING MUSLIMS,
Letter To The Editor, The Toronto Star, March 18, 2003 [Mohamed 
Elmasry]
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Re: Four terrorism suspects linked to local mosque (March 15, 
2003, p.
A24)

Opening sentences: "It's an inconspicuous cinder block building
surrounded by Scarborough strip malls. But through the front 
doors of the
Salaheddin Islamic Centre on Kennedy Rd. have passed at least 
four men
accused of being involved in terrorist activities."

I find your linking of "terrorism suspects" to a place they 
frequented as
worshippers is unreasonable, unfair and unprofessional.

Worse still, to highlight this wholly unnecessary link in both 
the
headline -- which spreads over six columns, placed above the 
fold -- as
well as in the story's lead paragraphs, does nothing but smear a
legitimate place of worship.

Suddenly, without any hard evidence, you have succeeded in 
causing
psychological and spiritual distress, not only to the 
congregation of
Salaheddin Islamic Centre, but to Canadian Muslims at large.

Such biased reporting is a cruel affront to all people of faith. 
The
Star's readers deserve an apology.

[Mohamed Elmasry, National president, Canadian Islamic Congress]

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4.REPORT ON ANTI-ISLAM MEDIA 'BIAS' NOMINATED FOR NATIONAL AWARD
Race relations board cites study slamming Citizen, Post, others 
for
 innovation in combatting racism 
[By Jason Fekete, Ottawa Citizen, Thursday, March 6, 2003]
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Excerpts: The Canadian Islamic Congress was nominated yesterday 
for a
national award of excellence for its report called Anti-Islam in 
the
Media, which slammed news organizations such as the Citizen, CBC-
TV, the
National Post and the Toronto Star for their negative coverage 
of Islam
and Muslims.

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation s $10,000 award, which 
will be
handed out March 27 in Toronto, is given on alternate years to an
organization that demonstrates achievement and innovation in 
combatting
racism in Canada.

The Islamic Congress report, released last month, was criticized 
by
academics and media executives for labelling Canadian news 
coverage as
racist and biased.

The foundation said yesterday that naming the congress as one of 
20
finalists for the award has nothing to do with the congress s 
views about
the media, but the group s efforts to eliminate racism in Canada.

By having the CIC as a finalist, it doesn t mean we are being 
critical
of the media, but are recognizing and honouring their attempt to 
make a
positive contribution and give a more balanced portrayal in the 
media,
said Karen Mock, executive director of the foundation.

By pointing out where media may even inadvertently give biased
portrayals, the effect of the report and monitoring isn t just to
criticize the media, but to give a better understanding of Islam.

Ms. Mock said the Islamic Congress shouldn t be criticized for 
trying to
rectify what it sees as a problem.

A lot of people complain about bias in the media, but then don t 
do
anything or offer educational tools to rectify it, she said.

In post Sept. 11 times it s so easy to take just a one-sided 
view, and
many Muslim people really felt the sting of racism. Whether the 
media
intended or not, it began to appear as though there were 
generalizations
being made about Muslims as a whole.

Lois Sweet, a journalism professor at Carleton University, said 
the
congress s nomination should be viewed as a positive step toward 
more
balanced journalism, rather than condemnation of the media. 
Being listed
as a finalist doesn t seem to be a stamp of approval that 
says  we like
your findings , she said.

What (the foundation) is saying is that we appreciate that 
you re doing
that work on behalf of everyone because the federal government is
committed to a society in which we don t discriminate against 
people on
the basis of religion or ethnicity.

PRESS RELEASE (English)  chec   la guerre Collective

Version Fran aise: 
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive.php?
montrealmuslimnews+73

NO TO  PRESIDENT BUSH S UNILATERAL ULTIMATUM! 

Let us pressure the Canadian Government to put its words in 
action: Let us
repatriate Canadian soldiers and ships. 

Montreal, March 18, 2003 - The  chec   la guerre Collective 
denounces the 48
hours unilateral ultimatum launched by president George W. Bush 
to the Iraqi
regime. "President Bush is making every effort to present his 
act of war as an
act of liberation of the Iraqi people and pacification of all 
the region. In
fact, this war is an aggression in obvious violation of the 
United Nations 
Charter " declared Francine N m h, spokeswoman of the  chec   la 
guerre
Collective. 

The determination of the United States and the sacrifices that 
this country is
willing to make are used to hide the arrogance of a hyper-power 
ready to commit
with impunity a massacre whose principal victim will, once more, 
be the Iraqi
civilian population. The "broad coalition" gathered around the 
United States
joins together in fact only some governments that are strongly 
rejected by their
own population and that act against the overwhelming majority of 
humanity. 

Besides, the  chec   la guerre Collective greets the political 
determination and
the courage of France, Germany and all the countries that 
resisted the blackmail
of the United States. With regard to Canada, the Collective is 
pleased with the
declaration of the Prime Minister Jean Chr tien to the effet 
that Canada will
not take part in the war. The Collective sees in it an obvious 
sign of the
impact of the unprecedented mobilisations across Quebec and 
Canada over the past
few weeks, but it worries seriously about the ambiguity of the 
Canadian
government s discourse. "Prime Minister Chr tien has just 
announced that Canada
would not take part in the war... while taking part in it at the 
same time!"
explains Raymond Legault of the  chec   la guerre 
Collective,"since we will
maintain the ships, manpower and the material which are already 
in the area
under the pretext of the fight against terrorism".  

We demand that the Canadian government openly and unambiguously 
condemn this war
of conquest which places a terrible threat on the security of 
all humanity. We
demand the immediate recall of all Canadian ships, manpower and 
military
equipment currently deployed in the Persian Gulf. We also 
require the recall or
the non-deployment of all the Canadian military forces which 
could constitute
reinforcement or indirect support to the Americain aggression 
against Iraq. 

Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: Lies, Damned Lies, and Ultimatums


Assalamu aleikum.

Author Mike Duncan has counted 20 lies (below) that the 
antichrist made
in his speech last night to prepare the US population for his 
imminent
campaign of genocide in Iraq.

But he missed some. For example, the antichrist said: "For more 
than a
decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient 
and
honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war." 
Honorable?
Over a million Iraqi children are dead from that "honorable" 
effort that
denied them access to medical supplies and food through the UN 
(read: US)
sanctions. Several years ago, when the death toll was still 
around
500,000, Madeleine Albright boasted that half a million dead 
Iraqi
children was a small price to pay.

Connected to that is another lie: "Our good faith has not been 
returned."
What "good faith"? And another: "Peaceful efforts to disarm the 
Iraqi
regime have failed again and again." Only if one subscribes to 
Tom
Lehrer's dictum about the Marines "We'd rather kill them off by 
peaceful
means." ("Send the Marines", Tom Lehrer).

Here's a doozy: "The United States of America has the sovereign 
authority
to use force in assuring its own national security. That duty 
falls to
me, as Commander-in-Chief, by the oath I have sworn, by the oath 
I will
keep." The antichrist's oath requires him to defend and protect 
the
Constitution of the United States. And that very Constitution 
makes any
treaties the US makes into part of the Constitution and the 
supreme Law
of the Land:

" ... This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which 
shall be
made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall 
be made,
under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme 
Law of the
Land ... " - Article VI, US Constitution

The treaty that established the UN Charter, to which the US is a 
founding
signatory, bars any country, including the US, from attacking 
another
country except in accordance with a Security Council resolution. 
By
acting without Security Council authority, Bush is violating the 
US
Constitution. He is violating his oath of office and perjuring 
himself in
the process.

There are probably other lies to be uncovered in the antichrist's
presentation, but these in addition to those listed by Mike 
Duncan should
suffice to show the true character of the crack-smoking, 
alcoholic AWOL
antichrist in the White House.


---


Lies, Damned Lies, and Ultimatums
Mike Duncan
Weekly Lowdown (Special Edition)
March 17, 2003
http://www.weeklylowdown.com/031703spec.shtml

I've decided to go through Bush's Monday address and count all 
the lies
in it. I lost count, you see, during the broadcast. This is from 
the text
the White House put out.

It is said that the best lies are mostly truth, so I'm just 
going to go
through every paragraph and say true or false. If false, I'll 
explain.

My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final 
days of
decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other 
nations
have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi 
regime
without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its 
weapons of
mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War 
in 1991.

True.

Since then, the world has engaged in 12 years of diplomacy. We 
have
passed more than a dozen resolutions in the United Nations 
Security
Council. We have sent hundreds of weapons inspectors to oversee 
the
disarmament of Iraq. Our good faith has not been returned.

True.

The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and 
advantage.
It has uniformly defied Security Council resolutions demanding 
full
disarmament. Over the years, U.N. weapon inspectors have been 
threatened
by Iraqi officials, electronically bugged, and systematically 
deceived.
Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime have failed again 
and again
-- because we are not dealing with peaceful men.

True.

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no 
doubt that
the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the 
most lethal
weapons ever devised. This regime has already used weapons of 
mass
destruction against Iraq's neighbors and against Iraq's people.

False. The most lethal weapons ever devised are hydrogen bombs, 
which we
possess, not Iraq. As America and the U.N. has failed to locate 
a single
WMD in Iraq, 'no doubt' is a lie.

The regime has a history of reckless aggression in the Middle 
East. It
has a deep hatred of America and our friends. And it has aided, 
trained
and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda.

False. There is no evidence of an al-Qaida alliance with Saddam.

The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, 
nuclear
weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could 
fulfill
their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of 
thousands of
innocent people in our country, or any other.

False. This builds on the last lie. As Al-Qaida is not allied 
with Saddam
in any way, I can hardly see Saddam handing them a nuke. 
Especially since
he doesn't have one.

The United States and other nations did nothing to deserve or 
invite this
threat.

False. Bin Laden has been yelling for years that the U.S. has 
stationed
troops in and meddled with the affairs of Arabic countries. So, 
yes, the
threat is not deserved, but it was certainly invited.

But we will do everything to defeat it. Instead of drifting 
along toward
tragedy, we will set a course toward safety. Before the day of 
horror can
come, before it is too late to act, this danger will be removed.

False. What danger? Al-Qaida? But Al-Qaida isn't involved with 
Iraq.

The United States of America has the sovereign authority to use 
force in
assuring its own national security. That duty falls to me, as
Commander-in-Chief, by the oath I have sworn, by the oath I will 
keep.

True.

Recognizing the threat to our country, the United States 
Congress voted
overwhelmingly last year to support the use of force against 
Iraq.

True, unfortunately.

America tried to work with the United Nations to address this 
threat
because we wanted to resolve the issue peacefully.

False. A good part of your Cabinet has been clamoring to finish 
off
Saddam for years, Rumsfeld and Cheney in particular - they wrote 
a letter
to Clinton begging him to take Saddam out. And, of course, 
deposing a
nation's leader, dictator or not, is not a peaceful route.

We believe in the mission of the United Nations.

False. Otherwise you would submit to its authority.

One reason the U.N. was founded after the second world war was to
confront aggressive dictators, actively and early, before they 
can attack
the innocent and destroy the peace.

True.

In the case of Iraq, the Security Council did act, in the early 
1990s.
Under Resolutions 678 and 687 -- both still in effect -- the 
United
States and our allies are authorized to use force in ridding 
Iraq of
weapons of mass destruction.

True.

This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.

False. The U.N. has obviously changed its mind.

Last September, I went to the U.N. General Assembly and urged 
the nations
of the world to unite and bring an end to this danger. On 
November 8th,
the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, finding 
Iraq in
material breach of its obligations, and vowing serious 
consequences if
Iraq did not fully and immediately disarm.

True.

Today, no nation can possibly claim that Iraq has disarmed. And 
it will
not disarm so long as Saddam Hussein holds power.

False. Iraq has so claimed such. And no one has been able to 
disprove
them, so... you'd think the most powerful nation on earth could 
find at
least one of these things, if they were so prevalent.

For the last four-and-a-half months, the United States and our 
allies
have worked within the Security Council to enforce that Council's
long-standing demands. Yet, some permanent members of the 
Security
Council have publicly announced they will veto any resolution 
that
compels the disarmament of Iraq.

True.

These governments share our assessment of the danger, but not 
our resolve
to meet it.

False. This is perhaps the greatest lie in the entire speech, 
for it is
twofold. If France and Russia and others 'shared the 
assessment', why
would they not have the resolve? It's not like the war is 
losable. And as
for resolve, Bush is certainly resolved to invade Iraq, yep - 
not make
peace.

Many nations, however, do have the resolve and fortitude to act 
against
this threat to peace, and a broad coalition is now gathering to 
enforce
the just demands of the world.

False. Broad, my ass - you hear that, Bulgaria and Chile?

The United Nations Security Council has not lived up to its
responsibilities, so we will rise to ours.

False. You never brought up the vote, remember? You caved when 
it was
apparent that it would not pass. Rather, you failed to live up 
to your
responsibilities as a member of the United Nations and the 
Security
Council.

In recent days, some governments in the Middle East have been 
doing their
part. They have delivered public and private messages urging the 
dictator
to leave Iraq, so that disarmament can proceed peacefully. He 
has thus
far refused.

True.

All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. 
Saddam
Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their 
refusal to do
so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our 
choosing.
For their own safety, all foreign nationals -- including 
journalists and
inspectors -- should leave Iraq immediately.

True, unfortunately.

Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, 
and I
have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, 
it will be
directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not 
against
you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver 
the food
and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror 
and we
will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. 
In a free
Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your 
neighbors, no
more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more 
torture
chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day 
of your
liberation is near.

False. Given the condition of Afghanistan after 
being 'liberated' by
American troops, this is the second biggest lie in the speech. 
There are
still executions and torture and rapes in Afghanistan, along 
with Taliban
law and warlords. If the pattern follows in Iraq, only Baghdad 
itself
will see any of this 'liberation', while the rest of the country 
falls
into might-makes-right chaos.

It is too late for Saddam Hussein to remain in power. It is not 
too late
for the Iraqi military to act with honor and protect your 
country by
permitting the peaceful entry of coalition forces to eliminate 
weapons of
mass destruction. Our forces will give Iraqi military units clear
instructions on actions they can take to avoid being attacked and
destroyed. I urge every member of the Iraqi military and 
intelligence
services, if war comes, do not fight for a dying regime that is 
not worth
your own life.

False. This didn't happen very often in the Gulf War, and I 
don't expect
it to happen any more now. Over 100,000 Iraqi soldiers died 
then, many on
that infamous road to Basra. I don't recall them getting a 
chance to
surrender, despite being in full retreat.

And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen 
carefully to
this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your 
action. Do
not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the 
Iraqi
people.

False. It belongs to the U.S. now.

Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction 
against
anyone, including the Iraqi people. War crimes will be 
prosecuted. War
criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, "I 
was just
following orders."

True enough, especially if you torch an oil well.

Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation, the American people 
can know
that every measure has been taken to avoid war, and every 
measure will be
taken to win it. Americans understand the costs of conflict 
because we
have paid them in the past. War has no certainty, except the 
certainty of
sacrifice.

False. America has forgotten the lessons of Vietnam - otherwise 
public
opinion would be steadfast against this war.

Yet, the only way to reduce the harm and duration of war is to 
apply the
full force and might of our military, and we are prepared to do 
so. If
Saddam Hussein attempts to cling to power, he will remain a 
deadly foe
until the end. In desperation, he and terrorists groups might 
try to
conduct terrorist operations against the American people and our 
friends.
These attacks are not inevitable. They are, however, possible. 
And this
very fact underscores the reason we cannot live under the threat 
of
blackmail. The terrorist threat to America and the world will be
diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed.

False. It will give Al-Qaida and other groups all the 
recruitment and
reason they need to fight on. Plus, of course, taking out Saddam 
won't
harm Al-Qaida in the slightest, given there is no connection.

Our government is on heightened watch against these dangers. 
Just as we
are preparing to ensure victory in Iraq, we are taking further 
actions to
protect our homeland. In recent days, American authorities have 
expelled
from the country certain individuals with ties to Iraqi 
intelligence
services. Among other measures, I have directed additional 
security of
our airports, and increased Coast Guard patrols of major 
seaports. The
Department of Homeland Security is working closely with the 
nation's
governors to increase armed security at critical facilities 
across
America.

True - assuming you're talking about Al-Qaida,and not Iraq.

Should enemies strike our country, they would be attempting to 
shift our
attention with panic and weaken our morale with fear. In this, 
they would
fail. No act of theirs can alter the course or shake the resolve 
of this
country. We are a peaceful people -- yet we're not a fragile 
people, and
we will not be intimidated by thugs and killers. If our enemies 
dare to
strike us, they and all who have aided them, will face fearful
consequences.

True - assuming you're talking about Al-Qaida, and not Iraq.

We are now acting because the risks of inaction would be far 
greater. In
one year, or five years, the power of Iraq to inflict harm on 
all free
nations would be multiplied many times over. With these 
capabilities,
Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies could choose the moment 
of deadly
conflict when they are strongest. We choose to meet that threat 
now,
where it arises, before it can appear suddenly in our skies and 
cities.

True enough for wild conjecture.

The cause of peace requires all free nations to recognize new and
undeniable realities. In the 20th century, some chose to appease
murderous dictators, whose threats were allowed to grow into 
genocide and
global war.

True.

In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and 
nuclear
terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a 
kind never
before seen on this earth.

False. Saddam is not Hitler, has no nukes, and has no ability to 
deliver
doubtful chemical weapons to America. And since America 
possesses all
these weapons already, don't pretend the effects haven't been 
seen, as we
tested them for years. Saddam never nuked a city full of innocent
civilians like we have.

Terrorists and terror states do not reveal these threats with 
fair
notice, in formal declarations -- and responding to such enemies 
only
after they have struck first is not self-defense, it is suicide.

False. Funny thing, that - the U.S. is still around after the 
invasion of
Poland and the raid on Pearl Harbor, to throw the WWII analogy 
back at
you. We struck back and won. You call that suicide?

The security of the world requires disarming Saddam Hussein now.

True, but what if he's already disarmed?

As we enforce the just demands of the world, we will also honor 
the
deepest commitments of our country.

False. Not in Afghanistan you didn't, so why should anyone in 
Iraq trust
your ass? Especially the Kurds, who learned the hard way not to 
trust
American presidents in 1991.

Unlike Saddam Hussein, we believe the Iraqi people are deserving 
and
capable of human liberty. And when the dictator has departed, 
they can
set an example to all the Middle East of a vital and peaceful and
self-governing nation.

True, hopefully.

The United States, with other countries, will work to advance 
liberty and
peace in that region. Our goal will not be achieved overnight, 
but it can
come over time.

True, especially given the pitiful rate Afghanistan is getting
assistance.

The power and appeal of human liberty is felt in every life and 
every
land. And the greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and
violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the 
pursuits of
peace.

Well, yeah.

That is the future we choose. Free nations have a duty to defend 
our
people by uniting against the violent. And tonight, as we have 
done
before, America and our allies accept that responsibility.

False. I'm not your 'we', and I don't accept jack, especially 
since what
you refer to as responsibility is really the responsibility of 
furthering
your own career.

That's 20 defections from truth, total. I'm sure someone even 
more
cynical than me could find more.

So, everybody who voted for this miserable excuse for a human 
being - are
you pleased with what you got? Is he really more truthful than 
Clinton?

Assalamu Alaikum,

Public being 'conned' over true content of chicken
By Steve Connor Science Editor
The Independent
13 March 2003 

Food companies are conning the British public by selling chicken 
with unacceptably high levels of added water and foreign meat 
protein, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said yesterday.

A survey of 25 chicken wholesalers found the majority were 
deliberately mislabelling their products to conceal the trick of 
adding water to make the meat look bigger and heavier. In some 
cases, the FSA found that chicken labelled as Halal   
slaughtered according to Muslim law   contained hydrolysed pork 
or beef protein that binds to the added water and prevents it 
escaping.

Labels on more than half the samples analysed claimed the 
product contained more meat than was present. In some cases, the 
chicken was more than 40 per cent added water. Almost three-
quarters of labels described the chicken as "breast" or "fillet" 
words that legally can only be used for meat with no added 
ingredients.

Nearly half of the 25 samples contained traces of DNA from pigs  
 banned food for Muslims and Jews   and all but one of those 
were labelled as Halal, said David Statham, director of 
enforcement at the FSA.

He said: "Consumers are not always getting what they pay for. 
What is even more unacceptable is the total disregard as to how 
offensive this is to Muslim communities who may be eating food 
which is forbidden by their beliefs."

Hydrolysed protein made from pig skins or cow hide is mixed with 
water and injected or soaked into chicken meat to provide added 
bulk. Although the practice is not illegal, the law states that 
products prepared in this way must be clearly labelled and the 
percentage of meat displayed.

It was the second time in two years that the FSA had found 
serious mislabelling among wholesalers supplying frozen chicken 
meat to the catering industry. "These results look worse than 
last time, although this time we targeted products that failed 
the first time around," Mr Statham said.

Most of the frozen chicken tested is eaten in restaurants, 
canteens, takeaways or sold as prepared meals. A small amount 
ends up being sold in smaller shops, he said.

"Consumers are not getting what they paid for. It is totally 
unacceptable that this protein is there in chicken, even more so 
when chicken is described as Halal," said Mr Statham.

Investigations by the FSA and 20 local authorities identified 10 
chicken-processing plants in the EU   one in the UK, two in 
Belgium and seven in the Netherlands   where the water bulking 
and mislabelling had taken place.

Their names were being withheld pending possible prosecutions, 
said Mr Statham. "What we don't want to do is to prejudice any 
legal proceedings that may follow," he explained.

The FSA had met officials in the Netherlands to discuss possible 
prosecutions of the seven Dutch Companies, Mr Statham said. "We 
are getting co-operation, the important thing is to eliminate 
this at source."

About 60,000 tons of chicken meat a year is used by the catering 
industry and only about 10 per cent is labelled as having added 
ingredients, such as water and animal protein. Fresh chicken 
sold in supermarkets are covered by specific regulations and 
should not have any added ingredients.

The FSA said there were no health risks from eating chicken with 
added animal protein even if it was beef because tests showed 
the protein came from hide rather than the specified offals 
banned under regulations designed to minimise the risk of BSE.

The motive for bulking chicken with added water was purely 
financial, Mr Statham said. "If you can sell water at the price 
of chicken breast then that must be a good move. Although some 
people have suggested that the chicken tastes more rubbery."

Advice from the agency to Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others 
worried about eating pork or beef unwittingly was that they 
should avoid buying chicken with added water. "You should 
certainly avoid the brands identified in this survey as 
containing undeclared pork of beef," the agency said.

Brands of chicken named yesterday by the agency in its report 
include De Kippenhof, Classic, and Lilly.

What the survey found

Of the 25 products tested by the Food Standards Agency:

* 15 claimed to have between 5 per cent and 25 per cent more 
meat than was actually the case. The rest was added water

* 18 used the description "breast" or "fillet", which should 
only he used for chicken with no added ingredients

* 12 tested positive for non-chicken DNA   11 for pork and 1 for 
pork and beef   and 11 of these were also labelled halal.

 

DEAR IRAQ ! WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP ?
Hope: At this critical juncture when war is the buzz word of the 
War Mongers, many Muslims are left in despair and in a state of 
hopelessness. It may seem that the death of millions of 
innocents is now inevitable, but we must continue to strive our 
utmost to defend them and to spread the truth about this immoral 
war.  Above all, we must remember that Allah Ta'ala has control 
over all things and can provide help in ways we do not even 
understand.  Not even the 'greatest' superpower can overpower 
Him! No falsehood is to remain forever. No oppression is to 
remain forever. After hardship comes ease. The bitter reality of 
the Muslim nation will come to an end, and tomorrow will be 
definitely better than today.  We should have HOPE in the ALL 
encompassing MERCY and HELP of Allah Ta'ala under all 
circumstances, whether it be in victory, defeat, happiness or 
sadness. 
Hadhrat Ibn Abbaas(radhiyallahu anhu) reported that : " I was
(once) behind Nabi(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) when he said to 
me: 'O son ! I shall inform of a few things: Remember Allah, and 
He will protect you. Remember Allah, and you will find Him close 
to you. When you have to ask for something, ask of Allah Ta'ala. 
When you require aid, seek His aid. Believe firmly that if all 
the creation desires to benefit you in anything, they can never 
benefit you, but, that which Allah has decreed for you. If they 
ALL unite to harm you, they will not be able to harm you in 
anything, but that which Allah has decreed for you."   (Tirmizi)
Duaa: Make ernest, sincere duaa. Try to shed tears and beg Allah 
Ta'ala to alleviate the suffering of the Muslims in Iraq; and 
other places where Muslims are oppressed. Beg Allah Ta'ala with 
sincerity.(like a child begging his mother). 
Nafl Salaat: Even if;one is not a regular performer of Tahajjud 
salaat; atleast for the sake of the lives of the innocents; get 
up at the time of Tahajjud and perform two rakaats of salaah; 
contemplate on the sufferings,that the Ummah is facing today; 
beg Allah Ta'ala for His Divine Help and assisstance.Shed some 
tears; Ask for Forgiveness and help for the Abstention from sin 
and for Allah Ta'ala's Divine Solution. 
Participate in Peace Rallies and Anti -war campaigns: keeping in 
mind the shariah injunctions of good character, hijab, peace 
etc. 
Charity(Sadaqah): Give some charity(sadaqah) on behalf  of the 
Muslims in Iraq; on behalf of the orphans; the widows;the 
martyrs and those that are the victims of oppression. This 
sadaqah may even be a loaf of bread or bottle of milk to a needy 
person in your area. 
Fast: Keep a nafl fast on any day of one's choice.  At the time 
of breaking one's fast ;Beg Almighty Allah Ta'ala, to alleviate 
the sufferings of the Muslim Ummah in Iraq and other parts of 
the world where Muslims are unjustly being opressed. 
Relief and Financial Aid: The lives;homes and infra-structure of 
the people of Iraq have been devastated over the last 12-15 
years. Assist by aiding financially to a legitimate Relief 
agency in your area. Spare ourselves from over indulgences and 
financially aid our Brothers and sisters in this hour of need. 
Make News outlets Aware: Keep a vigilant eye on the news 
outlets; magazines etc. and respond timeously to their bias 
comments and views. Participate in phone-in sessions on the 
Radio. If one is unable to do so; make those who are able to do 
so; aware of such comments; articles etc. so that timeous 
responses are made. Forward pertinent and relevant articles you 
come across to the International and local media outlets. 
Qunoot-e-Naazilah: Rasulullah(sallaaahu alayhi wassallam) 
encouraged the Ummah to read  this duaa at the time of distress 
and calamity. Encourage family members to recite this duaa 
daily; as well as our local ulama to recite in the Fajr 
salaah;preferably. We may learn or get a copy of the Duaa-e-
Naazila from our local Ulama; and may recite it; even as a Duaa 
outside salaah if we are unable to read it in salaah. 
Surah Yaseen: At these trying times, it would be beneficial to 
recite Surah Yaseen daily.  
Useful Wazeefahs:  One may read these beneficial wazeefahs; 100 
times daily during times of calamity and distress.
(i) "Hasbunallaahu wa ni'mal wakeel":  Allah is sufficient for 
us and our Guardian.
(ii) "La ilaaha illa anta subhaanaka inni kuntu minaz 
zaalimeen":  There is none worthy of worship except You. 
Certainly I am amongst the wrongdoers.
 
Hazrat Anas(R.A.) describes that Rasulullah(sallaaahu alayhi 
wassallam) said that Allah Ta'ala says that sometimes, He 
intends to send a calamity to a land; but the idea is given up; 
seeing those men who populate His houses(Masjids) and 
recite "ISTIGHFAAR" in the late hours of the night; and He 
witholds the calamity. (BAYHAQI)
 
Hazrat Jabir(R.A.) and Hazrat Abu Talha(R.A.) reported that 
Rasulullah(sallaaahu alayhi wassallam) has said that whosoever 
helps a Muslim at the time of loss of honour and humility; will 
receive Help from Allah when he is in need of help.( ABU DAWOOD)
 
This is a time for unity and solidarity with the innocent people 
who are
under attack. We are urged to do whatever we can for them, from 
the smallest action to the greatest.
LET US PARTICIPATE IN SOME HUMBLE WAY - FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE 
AND SANCTITY OF LIFE.

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim 

The stance of the true believer must be based on the 
Islamic  Aqeedah, i.e. it must be taken from the revelation; the 
Qur an and Sunnah. The Sharee ah has clarified the rule 
regarding this issue. Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta'aala) has obliged 
the believer to fight anyone who commits aggression against him 
whoever he might be; 


"Then whoever transgresses against you, you transgress likewise 
against him. And fear Allah, and know that Allah is with the 
Muttaqoon (Pious)" [TMQ Al-Baqarah: 194]. 


"And fight in the Way of Allah those who fight against you, but 
transgress not the limits. Truly, Allah likes not the 
transgressors" [TMQ Al-Baqarah: 190]. 


As for assisting the Kaafir to fight against Muslims, this is 
Haraam and a grave Munkar. Allaah, may He be Exalted, 
says: "Help one another in al-Birr and Taqwah; but do not help 
one another in sin and transgression" [TMQ Al-Maa idah: 2]. 

What transgression could be greater than that of helping the 
Kaafir to fight Islam and the Muslims? What greater crime is 
there than to deliberately kill a believer? Allaah, may He be 
Exalted, says: "And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his 
recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the wrath and the Curse 
of Allah are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for 
him" [An-Nisaa:93]. 


The one who participates in the murder he will have the same 
ruling as the killer. Allah has also highlighted the sanctity of 
a Muslim to another. "Everything regarding the Muslim is sacred 
to another Muslim, in terms of his blood, property and honour." 
[Reported by Muslim] 

As for granting power over the public resources of the Muslims 
to kufr, this is also prohibited by the Sharee ah. This is 
because oil and other such resources of the Muslims are their 
property. It is not allowed to give permission to any single 
person from them to own it, so by greater reason the kaafir 
cannot loot and plunder it. Thus, it is not allowed to help the 
kaafir in his plunder of such resources. 

It is haraam for a Muslim to let himself be used by the kaafir 
to control the resources of the Ummah. This is because it is a 
means to a haraam, and (according to the shar i principle) the 
means to a haraam is itself haraam. 

As regards blocking the crusader military action, there are many 
actions that must be undertaken to avert it. Permission must not 
be granted to American forces to use seaports, airports or bases 
in the Gulf and around Iraq. 

Political agreements with America and Britain must also be 
abolished and their embassies closed. All economic relations 
with America and Britain must be cut as well, so we should not 
have imports or exports to them. The sale of oil should be 
stopped to the world, until it adopts a stance that has an 
impact on the military action against Iraq.

However these steps cannot be taken, because they must come from 
the one in a position of ruling. All these actions require a 
political decision by the rulers of the Muslims. However, the 
rulers are agents of kufr; America and other kaafir nations, so 
any action linked to these rulers is doomed to failure. 

The role drawn up for these rulers is to empower the Kaafir over 
the Muslims, not to liberate the Ummah from the kaafir s 
dominance. Hence, no good can be expected from them. The most 
recent example of this is the meeting of the six nations in 
Istanbul, where they did not have the courage to stand up to 
America or the Yehudi state with even a single word. 

Rather their demands focused on Iraq, as if she was the one who 
was committing aggression against America, whilst America is the 
one who has brought her army across the seas to commit 
aggression against Iraq and to control the region and its 
resources. Thus, the correct solution, that Islam has obliged, 
is to change those rulers who are submissive agents to America 
and traitors to their Deen and Ummah; and to establish the 
Righteous Khilafah state and give the Bay ah (pledge of 
allegiance) to a Khaleefah who will rule the Muslims with Islam 
and lead them in the fight against their enemy. 

This is the realistic and practical method by which we will save 
ourselves from our shameful and humiliating situation. It is the 
practical method of stopping all of the actions undertaken 
against our Ummah by America. America is a great power; the gang 
of agent rulers cannot achieve anything for the Ummah through 
their servitude to America. 

On the contrary, America will achieve successes, one after the 
other, as long as our rulers are agents of kufr. The liberation 
will come when the sincere ones from the Ummah come forward to 
remove these rulers, announce the establishment of the Khilafah 
and rule the people by the Kitab and Sunnah. Allaah, may He be 
Exalted, says:

"If Allah helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes 
you, who is there after Him that can help you? And in Allah 
(Alone) let the believers put their trust" [TMQ Aali  Imraan: 
160]. 

O ALLAH! Inspire Muslims in important, strategic and influential 
positions around the world to use their skills, whether it be 
computer knowledge or financial ability, to RETALIATE against 
the enemy in every part of the World! Ameen

robin

Worrying Coincidence of Plane Crashes

Editor in chief, 
And dear reader!

Sad air crashes have happened in the last two years in Iran and 
some other parts of the world, which is the subject of the 
following article

The first plane crash was that of Yack 40 in spring 2001 (1381 
Iranian calendar). This plane was carrying a number of important 
Iranian statesmen. On its way from Tehran to Gorgan, it decided 
to land in the Sari Airport because of bad sight and weather. 
Unfortunately, in a low height, it wrongly turned toward the 
mountain rather than to the safe side of the sea, and it crashed 
into pieces after hitting against the mountain. Four days after 
this accident, the electricity was cut off in most parts of Iran 
for a few hours. The considerable point to note is that the 
electricity in the northern part of the country, esp. the 
provinces of destination and the probable crashing location of 
the mentioned airplane was reconnected sooner than in the other 
parts of the country. The cause of electricity cut-off was 
announced to be a breakdown in the central power stations. It 
came to my attention that the two events might have been caused 
intentionally and were extraordinary technological show of power 
by the two superior powers of the world.
The second plane crash was that of a Topolov-154 on 12 February 
2002 (same Iranian year) on the Tehran-*Khorram* *Abad* route. 
Tehran is the capital of a country in which a revolution took 
place 23 years before this date. The mentioned airplane took off 
the day after the anniversary of the Revolution, it gained 
altitude,   where to? To a green place, that can be the goal of 
a revolution. However, it hit against the mountain in a further 
wrong turn. It is interesting to note that approx. at the same 
date a US military cargo plane crashed in Qandahar, southeastern 
Afghanistan for an unknown reason and a number of US soldiers in 
it were killed or injured. Another point is that, again at 
approx. the same date, three high-ranking American statesmen 
stated that they had no certain plan for attacking Iran 
(peaceful statements). Do once again two great 
military/technological powers thus show power and converse with 
each other?
A third plane crash happed in Iran in the same year. The next 
day of *Corban* Feast, one of the engines of a Russian airplane 
of the Ilyoshin type flying from the Mashhad Airport caught fire 
in the sky and was forced to have an emergency landing in the 
airport of origin without any victims. The night of the same 
feast day a notice from the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps 
Common Staff was broadcast on the Iranian TV, stating that the 
Iranian
*Khoram: green,pleasant,delightful,cheerful,joyful
*Abad:flourished,improved
*corban:a sacrifire,offering,immolate
 military forces were completely prepared to fight back against 
foreign military attacks. The mentioned airplane was a Russian 
military cargo plane belonging the Guard Corps, which had been 
changed into a passenger plane.
The next crash is thus explained: In 1381 (2002-2003), 
production of a type of passanger plane was completed by an Iran-
Ukraine-Russia partnership. On the day when the Iranian TV 
announced completion of production of this plane, two Iranian 
military helicopters crashed in the sky of Esfahan over a 
village named "Khorram" for an unknown  reason and the 
occupants, all of whom were military, were killed or injured. 
Esfahan is a city in central Iran where the airplane was made in 
partnership with Ukraine and Russia.
Let's now take a look at the plane crashes outside Iran and 
their relationship with those in this country. Many political 
experts believe that the 11 September 2002 events were 
intentionally caused by the US. Shortly afterwards, almost three 
weeks after this event, a Russian Topolov plane flying from Tel 
Aviv to Moscow, was hit by a ground-to-air missile, apparently 
mistakenly, and all the 60 or 70 Israeli occupants were killed. 
It was said in media that it was a wondering missile and had 
been shot during a military exercise in Ukraine. Subsequently, 
one of the heads of the Ukrainian plane resigned, reminding that 
once the Western Bloc was known for its desire for wealth and 
the Eastern Bloc for its desire for power and the ruined 
skyscrapers in the United States were considered to be its 
important economic center. Another interesting point to mention 
is that the US war in Afghanistan began two days after the above-
mentioned event.
On 02 July this year, almost at midnight a Russian passenger 
plane severely hit against a German plane in the German sky at 
the Swiss border and all the occupants of both planes were 
killed. The above-mentioned Russian plane was carrying children 
of Russian government authorities, heading for Spain for 
holidays. The cause of the crash was announced to be the 
unfamiliarity of the pilots with the languages of each other and 
then that the Swiss control tower had been off. It is to be 
mentioned that Germany is a country that was divided after the 
world wars between the Eastern and Western Blocs. Switzerland is 
a country that had been impartial in the wars and is known as 
the country of peace. Two to three years before or after this 
event, 25000 American soldiers landed in Turkey and some 
newspapers wrote that the USA war with Iraq had begun.
It is to be mentioned that 03 July is the anniversary of the 
missile attack by the US navy against an Iranian Airbus plane, 
shortly after which the Iran-Iraq war ended. Is the Western Bloc 
once again conversing with the Eastern Bloc in this language, 
saying that it intends to break out war somewhere else and, if 
they do not understand the language of each other, deadly 
clashes will happen and they would not even care about each 
other's children?
On 27 July 2002, coinciding with the anniversary of 
establishment of the Ukrainian Air Force, a Sokho 27 plane got 
out of control of the pilot in an air maneuver, crashing on the 
watching people, with two pilots and approx. 150 being killed.
In Dey 1381 (December 2002-January 2003), an Antonov plane made 
by Iran-Ukraine-Russia partnership, carrying Ukrainian and 
Russian senior managers and aerospace industries engineers, who 
were flying to Esfahan upon invitation by Iran for participation 
in a seminar on making this plane, crashed near Esfahan and all 
its occupants were killed. Killing of the Israelis in the sky of 
the Black Sea, as was mentioned above, and the imminent US war 
with Iraq brings to one's attention the probability of 
intentional crash of this plane using sophisticated technology.
On 01 February 2003, the US Columbia shuttle spaceship, carrying 
7 occupants including an Israeli, an Indian and five Americans, 
exploded in the earth's atmosphere at 60 km above the surface of 
the earth and all the occupants were killed. On 01 February of 
24 years before that, Imam Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic 
Revolution of Iran, entered Iran, and this was the beginning of 
changes in the region against the United States of America and 
Israel. This year on the same day, the first troop of American 
soldiers entered Arbil Province, Iraq. The parts of the 
spaceship fell on the earth after explosion and a city of Texas 
State in the US where the people could see the parts is a city 
named Palestine. The Israeli spaceman that was killed was the 
first Israeli to become a spaceman. What comes to mind is that 
the Eastern Bloc, in response to the Western Bloc's causing the 
crash of the newly built Antonov carrying aerospace scientists, 
exploded the mentioned spaceship in a very precise action and as 
show of power. Another point to mention is that on the same day 
a Russian airplane crashed on East Timor, killing 6 people.
On 19 February 2003 (the night before Qadir Khum feast day), a 
Russian Ilyoshin airplane carrying 302 passengers and the flight 
crew, all of whom were military members of the Islamic 
Revolution Guard Corps, crashed between Zahedan and Kerman, 
resulting in the death of all the mentioned persons.
Similar plane crashes in the recent past, that the victims were 
military and the imminent war in the region bring to one's 
attention the intentional nature of the crash of this plane. An 
interesting point to note is that on the same day a Fokker plane 
made by the Western Bloc, carrying Pakistani air force commander 
along with some others, crashed in Pakistan, the neighboring 
country of Iran and all the people aboard died.
The above facts are undocumented speculation and information, 
which I hope to be false. Do the superpowers have technologies 
that can lock the airplane steer beyond the pilot's control on 
certain targets? Can they send false messages to the pilot that 
would not be recorded in the black box? Can they send wrong 
messages on the radar screen of the US navy so the navy 
commander would see the passenger plane as a warplane?
If the above accidents were all caused intentionally, knowledge 
of this is necessary in order to identify the main guilty 
person, to acquit the innocent of the charges and to follow up 
the rights of the victims and, moreover, recurrence of such 
events and their aftermath are unfortunately imminent.


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Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:02 PM
Subject: A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush


> Published on Monday, March 17, 2003 by Michael Moore
>
> A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War
> by Michael Moore
>
> George W. Bush
> 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
> Washington, DC
>
> Dear Governor Bush:
>
> So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day
> that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on
> the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived.
> Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your
> lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more.
> So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few
> truths I would like to share with you:
>
> 1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and
> Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this
> one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in
> America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about
> wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why? 'Cause NO
> Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has
> even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average
> Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a
> threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don't want to
> kill him! Funny how that works!
>
> 2. The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected 
you -
> - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know
> what the real issues are that affect our daily lives -- and
> none of them begin with I or end in Q. Here's what threatens
> us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the
> stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if
> their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs
> almost two dollars -- the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq
> will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for
> things to improve.
>
> 3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to
> lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world
> is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among
> them.
>
> 4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The
> Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out
> against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize
> that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a
> war you personally won't have to fight. Just like when you went
> AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
>
> 5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of
> South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed
> forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send
> your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don
> their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of
> Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids
> for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so?
> Well, hey, guess what -- we don't think so either!
>
> 6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal
> screw-ups. Yes, some of them can pretty damn annoying. But have
> you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as
> America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in
> the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That our greatest
> thinkers and founding fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, Ben
> Franklin, etc. -- spent many years in Paris where they refined
> the concepts that lead to our Declaration of Independence and
> our Constitution? That it was France who gave us our Statue of
> Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of
> French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing
> what only a good friend can do -- tell you the truth about
> yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and
> thank them for getting it right for once. You know, you really
> should have traveled more (like once) before you took over.
> Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid,
> it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of.
>
> Well, cheer up -- there IS good news. If you do go through with
> this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I'm
> guessing there aren't a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their
> lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you "win" the war, you
> will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone
> loves a winner -- and who doesn't like to see a good ass-
> whoopin' every now and then (especially when it 's some third
> world ass!). So try your best to ride this victory all the way
> to next year's election. Of course, that's still a long ways
> away, so we'll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while we
> watch the economy sink even further down the toilet!
>
> But, hey, who knows -- maybe you'll find Osama a few days
> before the election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope
> alive! Kill Iraqis -- they got our oil!!
>
> Yours, Michael Moore
> www.michaelmoore.com
>
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Friends,

Here is the speech of Robin Cook, former British Foreign 
Secretary, who resigned
from Tony Blair's cabinet yesterday in protest against the 
illegal invasion of
Iraq by Britan and the US.

At the conclusion of his speeech, Robin Cook exposed the 
hypocrisy of the
Balir-Bush postion: "I have heard it said that Iraq has had not 
months, but 12
years in which to complete disarmament, and that our patience is 
exhausted. Yet
it is more than 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel 
to withdraw from
the occupied territories. We do not express the same impatience 
with the
persistent refusal of Israel to comply."

Read and reflect.

Tarek Fatah
===============

Cook's resignation speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/uk_politics/2859431.stm>
  
This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the 
House from the
back benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much 
better the view is
from here. 

None of those 20 years were more enjoyable or more rewarding 
than the past two,
in which I have had the immense privilege of serving this House 
as Leader of the
House, which were made all the more enjoyable, Mr Speaker, by 
the opportunity of
working closely with you. It was frequently the necessity for me 
as Leader of
the House to talk my way out of accusations that a statement had 
been preceded
by a press interview. 

On this occasion I can say with complete confidence that no 
press interview has
been given before this statement.  I have chosen to address the 
House first on
why I cannot support a war without international agreement or 
domestic support. 

The present Prime Minister is the most successful leader of the 
Labour party in
my lifetime. 

I hope that he will continue to be the leader of our party, and 
I hope that he
will continue to be successful. I have no sympathy with, and I 
will give no
comfort to, those who want to use this crisis to displace him.  
I applaud the
heroic efforts that the prime minister has made in trying to 
secure a second
resolution. 

I do not think that anybody could have done better than the 
foreign secretary in
working to get support for a second resolution within the 
Security Council. 

But the very intensity of those attempts underlines how 
important it was to
succeed. 

Now that those attempts have failed, we cannot pretend that 
getting a second
resolution was of no importance. 

French intransigence? 

France has been at the receiving end of bucket loads of 
commentary in recent
days.  It is not France alone that wants more time for 
inspections. Germany
wants more time for inspections; Russia wants more time for 
inspections; indeed,
at no time have we signed up even the minimum necessary to carry 
a second
resolution. 

We delude ourselves if we think that the degree of international 
hostility is
all the result of President Chirac. 

The reality is that Britain is being asked to embark on a war 
without agreement
in any of the international bodies of which we are a leading 
partner - not NATO,
not the European Union and, now, not the Security Council. 

To end up in such diplomatic weakness is a serious reverse. 

Only a year ago, we and the United States were part of a 
coalition against
terrorism that was wider and more diverse than I would ever have 
imagined
possible. 

History will be astonished at the diplomatic miscalculations 
that led so quickly
to the disintegration of that powerful coalition. The US can 
afford to go it
alone, but Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best 
protected not by
unilateral action but by multilateral agreement and a world 
order governed by
rules. 

Yet tonight the international partnerships most important to us 
are weakened:
the European Union is divided; the Security Council is in 
stalemate. 

Those are heavy casualties of a war in which a shot has yet to 
be fired.  I have
heard some parallels between military action in these 
circumstances and the
military action that we took in Kosovo. There was no doubt about 
the
multilateral support that we had for the action that we took in 
Kosovo. It was
supported by NATO; it was supported by the European Union; it 
was supported by
every single one of the seven neighbours in the region. France 
and Germany were
our active allies. 

It is precisely because we have none of that support in this 
case that it was
all the more important to get agreement in the Security Council 
as the last hope
of demonstrating international agreement.  The legal basis for 
our action in
Kosovo was the need to respond to an urgent and compelling 
humanitarian crisis. 

Our difficulty in getting support this time is that neither the 
international
community nor the British public is persuaded that there is an 
urgent and
compelling reason for this military action in Iraq.  The 
threshold for war
should always be high. 

None of us can predict the death toll of civilians from the 
forthcoming
bombardment of Iraq, but the US warning of a bombing campaign 
that will "shock
and awe" makes it likely that casualties will be numbered at 
least in the
thousands. 

I am confident that British servicemen and women will acquit 
themselves with
professionalism and with courage. I hope that they all come 
back. I hope that
Saddam, even now, will quit Baghdad and avert war, but it is 
false to argue that
only those who support war support our troops. 

It is entirely legitimate to support our troops while seeking an 
alternative to
the conflict that will put those troops at risk.  Nor is it fair 
to accuse those
of us who want longer for inspections of not having an 
alternative strategy. 

For four years as foreign secretary I was partly responsible for 
the western
strategy of containment. Over the past decade that strategy 
destroyed more
weapons than in the Gulf war, dismantled Iraq's nuclear weapons 
programme and
halted Saddam's medium and long-range missiles programmes. 

Iraq's military strength is now less than half its size than at 
the time of the
last Gulf war.  Ironically, it is only because Iraq's military 
forces are so
weak that we can even contemplate its invasion. Some advocates 
of conflict claim
that Saddam's forces are so weak, so demoralised and so badly 
equipped that the
war will be over in a few days. 

We cannot base our military strategy on the assumption that 
Saddam is weak and
at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he 
is a threat.
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly 
understood
sense of the term - namely a credible device capable of being 
delivered against
a strategic city target. 

It probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical 
munitions, but
it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam 
anthrax agents and
the then British Government approved chemical and munitions 
factories.  Why is
it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a 
military
capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped 
to create? Why is
it necessary to resort to war this week, while Saddam's ambition 
to complete his
weapons programme is blocked by the presence of UN inspectors? 

Only a couple of weeks ago, Hans Blix told the Security Council 
that the key
remaining disarmament tasks could be completed within months. I 
have heard it
said that Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to 
complete disarmament,
and that our patience is exhausted. Yet it is more than 30 years 
since
resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied 
territories. 

We do not express the same impatience with the persistent 
refusal of Israel to
comply.

I welcome the strong personal commitment that the prime minister 
has given to
middle east peace, but Britain's positive role in the middle 
east does not
redress the strong sense of injustice throughout the Muslim 
world at what it
sees as one rule for the allies of the US and another rule for 
the rest. Nor is
our credibility helped by the appearance that our partners in 
Washington are
less interested in disarmament than they are in regime change in 
Iraq.

That explains why any evidence that inspections may be showing 
progress is
greeted in Washington not with satisfaction but with 
consternation: it reduces
the case for war. 

What has come to trouble me most over past weeks is the 
suspicion that if the
hanging chads in Florida had gone the other way and Al Gore had 
been elected, we
would not now be about to commit British troops. The longer that 
I have served
in this place, the greater the respect I have for the good sense 
and collective
wisdom of the British people.

On Iraq, I believe that the prevailing mood of the British 
people is sound. They
do not doubt that Saddam is a brutal dictator, but they are not 
persuaded that
he is a clear and present danger to Britain. They want 
inspections to be given a
chance, and they suspect that they are being pushed too quickly 
into conflict by
a US Administration with an agenda of its own. Above all, they 
are uneasy at
Britain going out on a limb on a military adventure without a 
broader
international coalition and against the hostility of many of our 
traditional
allies. 

From the start of the present crisis, I have insisted, as Leader 
of the House,
on the right of this place to vote on whether Britain should go 
to war. It has
been a favourite theme of commentators that this House no longer 
occupies a
central role in British politics. Nothing could better 
demonstrate that they are
wrong than for this House to stop the commitment of troops in a 
war that has
neither international agreement nor domestic support. 

I intend to join those tomorrow night who will vote against 
military action now.
It is for that reason, and for that reason alone, and with a 
heavy heart, that I
resign from the government. 




========================================
I saw nothing but a scaffold 
With one single rope for two million necks 
I see armed cities of paper that bristle 
With kings and khaki

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March 18, 2003 

http://www.fair.org/activism/iraq-sources-networks.html

Network newscasts, dominated by current and former U.S. 
officials, largely
exclude Americans who are skeptical of or opposed to an invasion 
of Iraq, a new
study by FAIR has found. 

Looking at two weeks of coverage (1/30/03-2/12/03), FAIR 
examined the 393
on-camera sources who appeared in nightly news stories about 
Iraq on ABC World
News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and PBS's 
NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer. The study began one week before and ended one week after 
Secretary of
State Colin Powell's February 5 presentation at the U.N., a time 
that saw
particularly intense debate about the idea of a war against Iraq 
on the national
and international level. 

More than two-thirds (267 out of 393) of the guests featured 
were from the
United States. Of the U.S. guests, a striking 75 percent (199) 
were either
current or former government or military officials. Only one of 
the official
U.S. sources-- Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.)-- expressed 
skepticism or
opposition to the war. Even this was couched in vague 
terms: "Once we get in
there how are we going to get out, what s the loss for American 
troops are going
to be, how long we're going to be stationed there, what s the 
cost is going to
be," said Kennedy on NBC Nightly News (2/5/03). 

Similarly, when both U.S. and non-U.S. guests were included, 76 
percent (297 of
393) were either current or retired officials. Such a 
predominance of official
sources virtually assures that independent and grassroots 
perspectives will be
underrepresented. Of all official sources, 75 percent (222 of 
297) were
associated with either the U.S. or with governments that support 
the Bush
administration's position on Iraq; only four out of those 222, 
or 2 percent, of
these sources were skeptics or opponents of war. 

Twenty of the 297 official sources (7 percent) represented the 
government of
Iraq, while a further 19 (6 percent) represented other 
governments-- mostly
friendly to the U.S.-- who have expressed doubts or opposition 
to the U.S.'s war
effort. (Another 34 sources, representing 11 percent of 
officials, were current
or former U.N. employees. Although members of the U.N. 
inspection teams made
statements that were both critical of Iraq's cooperation and 
supportive of
further inspections, because of their official position of 
neutrality on the
question of war they were not counted as skeptics.) Of all 
official sources, 14
percent (43 of 297) represented a position skeptical or opposed 
to the U.S. war
policy. (Sources were coded as skeptics/critics if either their 
statements or
their affiliations put them in that category; for example, all 
French government
officials were counted as skeptics, regardless of the content of 
their quote.) 

The remaining 96 sources-- those without a current or former 
government
connection-- had slightly more balanced views; 26 percent of 
these non-official
sources took a skeptical or critical position on the war. Yet, 
at a time when 61
percent of respondents in a CBS poll (2/5-6/03) were saying that 
they felt the
U.S. should "wait and give the United Nations and weapons 
inspectors more time,"
only sixteen of the 68 U.S. guests (24 percent) who were not 
officials
represented such views. 

Half of the non-official U.S. skeptics were "persons in the 
street"; five of
them were not even identified by name. Only one U.S. source, 
Catherine Thomason
of Physicians for Social Responsibility, represented an anti-war 
organization.
Of all 393 sources, only three (less than 1 percent) were 
identified with
organized protests or anti-war groups. 

Overall, 68 sources, or 17 percent of the total on-camera 
sources, represented
skeptical or critical positions on the U.S.'s war policy-- 
ranging from Baghdad
officials to people who had concerns about the timing of the Bush
administration's war plans. The percentage of skeptical sources 
ranged from 21
percent at PBS (22 of 106) to 14 percent at NBC (18 of 125). ABC 
(16 of 92) and
CBS (12 of 70) each had 17 percent skeptics. 


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ACTION: 
Please urge ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS to broaden the sources they 
rely on in
coverage of the Iraq crisis. 

CONTACT: 

ABC World News Tonight 
Phone: 212-456-4040 
PeterJennings@abcnews.com 

CBS Evening News 
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NBC Nightly News 
Phone: 212-664-4971 
nightly@nbc.com 

PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer 
Phone: 703-998-2150 
newshour@pbs.org 

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maintain a polite tone. Please cc fair@fair.org with your 
correspondence. 


 

17 March 2003

URGENT ALERT: CONDEMNS SENSATIONALIST  TERROR TOUR  BY ILLEGAL 
JEWISH SETTLERS

Morbid fascination with violence surrounds this sensationalist 
and outrageous  terror tour , with the organisers seemingly keen 
to profit from the misery of the oppressed Palestinians. The 
settlers behind this outrageous  terror tour  offer the chance 
to take part in a mock attack on civilian Arab villages, learn 
hand-to-hand combat and listen to lectures giving by Israeli 
soldiers who participated in the infamous Jenin massacre. Also 
offered is the chance to sit in warplanes capable of dropping 
nuclear bombs on neighbouring (non-nuclear) Arab countries.

The offer of mock armed assaults on civilian Arab villages adds 
a further disturbing dimension. This serves to highlight the 
culture of anti-Arab hate, prejudice and demonisation which has 
become a predominate theme not just in the environment of 
illegal settlements in the occupied territories, but has come to 
characterise the collective attitude of Israeli society and has 
long framed both internal and external Israeli state policy. 

This insidious  terror tour  does little more than promote this 
culture of violence, thinly disguised under the pretext of 
security training. From December 1997 to the end of December 
2002, illegal Jewish settlers murdered 138 Palestinians, 
including 25 children. These very same settlers are conducting 
an armed campaign of intimidation against the Palestinian 
civilian population. This includes forcing Palestinians from 
their homes and land, the destruction of crops and trees, the 
disruption of commercial life and destruction of Palestinian 
water provisions and property. These acts have reinforced the 
image of the aggressive and racist Jewish fundamentalist settler.

The settlements are central in Israel s efforts to permanently 
displace Palestinians from their own land. Consecutive Israeli 
governments have sought to  de-Palestinianise  the occupied 
territories through land expropriation and the establishment of 
settlements populated by transferred Israeli Jews. There are 205 
settlements in the West Bank (including Jerusalem) and Gaza 
Strip. There are more than 403,249 settlers in the West Bank. 
One million Palestinians live on 360 square kilometres of land 
in the Gaza Strip, making it the most densely populated area in 
the world. Despite this fact, 5000 Israeli settlers continue to 
reside illegally in the Gaza strip and control 30% of the area, 
in violation of international law:

o Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention:  The Occupying 
Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian 
population into the territory it occupies . 
o The United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 242 calls 
for "just and lasting peace". The confiscated territories on 
which the settlements are built were confiscated illegally and 
in war. 
o The UN Security Council Resolution 465: "Israel's policy and 
practices of settling parts of its population and new 
immigrants" in the occupied territories constitutes "a serious 
obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace 
in the Middle East". The Security Council also called upon 
Israel to "dismantle the existing settlements.

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Prisoners 'killed' at US base

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2825575.stm



The US is accused of mistreating detainees
 
Two Afghan prisoners were killed while in US custody at their 
base at Bagram, a military coroner has concluded. 

The report said "blunt force trauma" had contributed to the 
deaths. 

The detainees had spent about a week in the detention facility 
when they died last December. 

However, US spokesman Colonel Roger King told BBC News Online 
the pathologists' verdict was not final - a military 
investigation had been launched and was due to be completed 
later this month. 

There are hundreds of former Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners held 
at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and in various overseas facilities. 

Last month, human rights groups accused the US Government of 
subjecting the prisoners to physical abuse leading to a number 
of deaths and attempted suicides in custody. 

Washington described the allegations of torture as "ridiculous". 

The first 

The US spokesman at Bagram said the two men who died there had 
been under allied custody for about 10 days altogether. 

The first man died on 3 December after a blood clot in his 
lungs, and the second died a week later after developing blood 
clots as well as suffering a heart attack. 

The homicide entry on the [military death certificate] form is 
different from the legal meaning of the term  


Colonel Roger King
US spokesman at Bagram 
 
But Colonel King vehemently denied the prisoners had been 
mistreated by US forces. 

"They are the first detainees to have required medical treatment 
at the Bagram facility," he said, and "the only casualties" so 
far. 

Pathologists, he said, had a limited choice when filling the 
military death certificate. 

Torture allegations 

Specific allegations of prisoner torture were first published in 
the Washington Post in December last year. 

According to the paper, interrogators from the Central 
Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been subjecting Taleban and al-
Qaeda suspects to "stress and duress" techniques of dubious 
legality. 

Suspects at US facilities in Afghanistan and other foreign 
countries were sometimes held in uncomfortable positions for 
hours and deprived of sleep, the paper alleged. 

About 650 men have been at Guantanamo Bay since the detention 
base was established in January 2002. Many more are held 
elsewhere. 

 

 

Thanks to 

BBC world service news

for bringing it to our attention

 

Mohamed S. Kamel

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Subject :    
A War Crime or an Act of War? Who really gassed the Kurds?  
   
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18 Mar 2003 15:45:06 -0000  
   
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A War Crime or an Act of War?

By STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE - New York Times January 31, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html?
pagewanted=all&position=top


MECHANICSBURG, Pa.   It was no surprise that President Bush, 
lacking smoking-gun
evidence of Iraq's weapons programs, used his State of the Union 
address to
re-emphasize the moral case for an invasion: "The dictator who 
is assembling the
world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole 
villages, leaving
thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured."

The accusation that Iraq has used chemical weapons against its 
citizens is a
familiar part of the debate. The piece of hard evidence most 
frequently brought
up concerns the gassing of Iraqi Kurds at the town of Halabja in 
March 1988,
near the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. President Bush 
himself has cited
Iraq's "gassing its own people," specifically at Halabja, as a 
reason to topple
Saddam Hussein.

But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds were 
bombarded with
poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty 
that Iraqi
chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only 
distortion in the
Halabja story. 

I am in a position to know because, as the Central Intelligence 
Agency's senior
political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a 
professor at the
Army War College from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the 
classified
material that flowed through Washington having to do with the 
Persian Gulf. In
addition, I headed a 1991 Army investigation into how the Iraqis 
would fight a
war against the United States; the classified version of the 
report went into
great detail on the Halabja affair.

This much about the gassing at Halabja we undoubtedly know: it 
came about in the
course of a battle between Iraqis and Iranians. Iraq used 
chemical weapons to
try to kill Iranians who had seized the town, which is in 
northern Iraq not far
from the Iranian border. The Kurdish civilians who died had the 
misfortune to be
caught up in that exchange. But they were not Iraq's main 
target. 

And the story gets murkier: immediately after the battle the 
United States
Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a 
classified report, which
it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-
know basis. That
study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, 
not Iraqi gas. 

The agency did find that each side used gas against the other in 
the battle
around Halabja. The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies, 
however, indicated they
had been killed with a blood agent   that is, a cyanide-based 
gas   which Iran
was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used 
mustard gas in the
battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the 
time. 

These facts have long been in the public domain but, 
extraordinarily, as often
as the Halabja affair is cited, they are rarely mentioned. A 
much-discussed
article in The New Yorker last March did not make reference to 
the Defense
Intelligence Agency report or consider that Iranian gas might 
have killed the
Kurds. On the rare occasions the report is brought up, there is 
usually
speculation, with no proof, that it was skewed out of American 
political
favoritism toward Iraq in its war against Iran. 

I am not trying to rehabilitate the character of Saddam Hussein. 
He has much to
answer for in the area of human rights abuses. But accusing him 
of gassing his
own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, 
because as far as
the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was 
used involved
battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be 
justifications for invading
Iraq, but Halabja is not one of them. 


In fact, those who really feel that the disaster at Halabja has 
bearing on today
might want to consider a different question: Why was Iran so 
keen on taking the
town? A closer look may shed light on America's impetus to 
invade Iraq. 

We are constantly reminded that Iraq has perhaps the world's 
largest reserves of
oil. But in a regional and perhaps even geopolitical sense, it 
may be more
important that Iraq has the most extensive river system in the 
Middle East. In
addition to the Tigris and Euphrates, there are the Greater Zab 
and Lesser Zab
rivers in the north of the country. Iraq was covered with 
irrigation works by
the sixth century A.D., and was a granary for the region.

Before the Persian Gulf war, Iraq had built an impressive system 
of dams and
river control projects, the largest being the Darbandikhan dam 
in the Kurdish
area. And it was this dam the Iranians were aiming to take 
control of when they
seized Halabja. In the 1990's there was much discussion over the 
construction of
a so-called Peace Pipeline that would bring the waters of the 
Tigris and
Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states and, by extension, 
Israel. No
progress has been made on this, largely because of Iraqi 
intransigence. With
Iraq in American hands, of course, all that could change. 

Thus America could alter the destiny of the Middle East in a way 
that probably
could not be challenged for decades   not solely by controlling 
Iraq's oil, but
by controlling its water. Even if America didn't occupy the 
country, once Mr.
Hussein's Baath Party is driven from power, many lucrative 
opportunities would
open up for American companies. 

All that is needed to get us into war is one clear reason for 
acting, one that
would be generally persuasive. But efforts to link the Iraqis 
directly to Osama
bin Laden have proved inconclusive. Assertions that Iraq 
threatens its neighbors
have also failed to create much resolve; in its present 
debilitated condition  
thanks to United Nations sanctions   Iraq's conventional forces 
threaten no one. 

Perhaps the strongest argument left for taking us to war quickly 
is that Saddam
Hussein has committed human rights atrocities against his 
people. And the most
dramatic case are the accusations about Halabja. 

Before we go to war over Halabja, the administration owes the 
American people
the full facts. And if it has other examples of Saddam Hussein 
gassing Kurds, it
must show that they were not pro-Iranian Kurdish guerrillas who 
died fighting
alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Until Washington gives 
us proof of
Saddam Hussein's supposed atrocities, why are we picking on Iraq 
on human rights
grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive 
regimes Washington
supports? 

Stephen C. Pelletiere is author of "Iraq and the International 
Oil System: Why
America Went to War in the Persian Gulf."


 

Subject :    
In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views  
   
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19 Mar 2003 01:31:17 -0000  
   
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In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views 

March 18, 2003 

http://www.orgsources

Network newscasts, dominated by current and former U.S. 
officials, largely
exclude Americans who are skeptical of or opposed to an invasion 
of Iraq, a new
study by FAIR has found. 

Looking at two weeks of coverage (1/30/03-2/12/03), FAIR 
examined the 393
on-camera sources who appeared in nightly news stories about 
Iraq on ABC World
News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and PBS's 
NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer. The study began one week before and ended one week after 
Secretary of
State Colin Powell's February 5 presentation at the U.N., a time 
that saw
particularly intense debate about the idea of a war against Iraq 
on the national
and international level. 

More than two-thirds (267 out of 393) of the guests featured 
were from the
United States. Of the U.S. guests, a striking 75 percent (199) 
were either
current or former government or military officials. Only one of 
the official
U.S. sources-- Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.)-- expressed 
skepticism or
opposition to the war. Even this was couched in vague 
terms: "Once we get in
there how are we going to get out, what s the loss for American 
troops are going
to be, how long we're going to be stationed there, what s the 
cost is going to
be," said Kennedy on NBC Nightly News (2/5/03). 

Similarly, when both U.S. and non-U.S. guests were included, 76 
percent (297 of
393) were either current or retired officials. Such a 
predominance of official
sources virtually assures that independent and grassroots 
perspectives will be
underrepresented. Of all official sources, 75 percent (222 of 
297) were
associated with either the U.S. or with governments that support 
the Bush
administration's position on Iraq; only four out of those 222, 
or 2 percent, of
these sources were skeptics or opponents of war. 

Twenty of the 297 official sources (7 percent) represented the 
government of
Iraq, while a further 19 (6 percent) represented other 
governments-- mostly
friendly to the U.S.-- who have expressed doubts or opposition 
to the U.S.'s war
effort. (Another 34 sources, representing 11 percent of 
officials, were current
or former U.N. employees. Although members of the U.N. 
inspection teams made
statements that were both critical of Iraq's cooperation and 
supportive of
further inspections, because of their official position of 
neutrality on the
question of war they were not counted as skeptics.) Of all 
official sources, 14
percent (43 of 297) represented a position skeptical or opposed 
to the U.S. war
policy. (Sources were coded as skeptics/critics if either their 
statements or
their affiliations put them in that category; for example, all 
French government
officials were counted as skeptics, regardless of the content of 
their quote.) 

The remaining 96 sources-- those without a current or former 
government
connection-- had slightly more balanced views; 26 percent of 
these non-official
sources took a skeptical or critical position on the war. Yet, 
at a time when 61
percent of respondents in a CBS poll (2/5-6/03) were saying that 
they felt the
U.S. should "wait and give the United Nations and weapons 
inspectors more time,"
only sixteen of the 68 U.S. guests (24 percent) who were not 
officials
represented such views. 

Half of the non-official U.S. skeptics were "persons in the 
street"; five of
them were not even identified by name. Only one U.S. source, 
Catherine Thomason
of Physicians for Social Responsibility, represented an anti-war 
organization.
Of all 393 sources, only three (less than 1 percent) were 
identified with
organized protests or anti-war groups. 

Overall, 68 sources, or 17 percent of the total on-camera 
sources, represented
skeptical or critical positions on the U.S.'s war policy-- 
ranging from Baghdad
officials to people who had concerns about the timing of the Bush
administration's war plans. The percentage of skeptical sources 
ranged from 21
percent at PBS (22 of 106) to 14 percent at NBC (18 of 125). ABC 
(16 of 92) and
CBS (12 of 70) each had 17 percent skeptics. 


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ACTION: 
Please urge ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS to broaden the sources they 
rely on in
coverage of the Iraq crisis. 


 

Subject :    
[muttaqiyyah] Islam is your Birthright  
   
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Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:08:47 -0800 (PST)  
   
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Islam is your Birthright


WAMY Series on Islam No. 14





Mankind and the universe were not created by accident or chance, 
but according to the plan of the Creator, who is known as Allah 
(lit.: the one God) in Islam. The Qur'an states that it is the 
duty of all individuals to learn about Allah and to live 
according to His will. As we cannot accomplish this by 
ourselves, Allah has sent messengers and prophets to guide 
humanity All of these chosen individuals have brought the same 
message and have served as examples to their people of how Allah 
desires all human beings to live. Through these selected people, 
we have been told why mankind was created, what will happen to 
us after death, and what Allah expects of us. But most 
importantly, we have been told that Allah is unique-He has no 
partners, no sons or daughters, and no competitors, as so many 
other man-made religious systems have postulated. This message 
always remains the same, whereas the laws laid down for a 
particular might show some slight differences. 

Muhammad, the last of Allah's prophets, was sent to present 
Allah's revelation in its final form and for the last time. This 
was necessary because the message delivered by the previous 
prophets and messengers had been corrupted or distorted by their 
followers. They had been mixed with philosophical speculations, 
superstitions, myths, and neglect. Therefore, Islam is not a new 
religion-it is a restatement of the original religion of Allah 
in its purest form and is designed to provide humanity with the 
uncorrupted message of Allah. 

Islam is an Arabic word that denotes submission and obedience to 
Allah. It also means "peace," for it brings peace of mind as 
well as peace on the individual and the social levels. 

*THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM

In Islam, the term "worship" covers any action that one does in 
accordance with the will of Allah. It can be mental, physical, 
spoken, or otherwise. All such actions will be rewarded. 

There are five acts of worship that are so fundamental that the 
Prophet grouped them together as the five pillars of Islam. 
Every Muslim is expected to fulfill these obligations. They are: 

1-THE DECLARATION OF MONOTHEISM:

Recognizing and acknowledging the monotheistic nature of Allah 
stands at the core of Islam. This consists of a public 
affirmation that:

 "there is no god but Allah (God), and Muhammad is His 
Messenger." 

One cannot be a Muslim until he states this fact in the presence 
of Muslim witnesses. 

2-PRAYERS: 

A Muslim must perform the five daily prayers. These must be 
performed at specific times, corresponding roughly with dawn, 
noon, afternoon, sunset, and nightfall. The prayers can be made 
in any clean place, but it is preferable to pray them with 
others in a mosque, for this communal undertaking acts as a 
reminder that all Muslims are equal. When many people are 
praying together, it becomes clear that color, economic status, 
social position, and all other artificial distinctions have no 
importance to Allah, for all Muslims are commanded to stand 
together, shoulder to shoulder, and prostrate themselves before 
Him. There are no exceptions. Prayers also elevated the 
individual to a higher level of morality, purifies his heart, 
and helps him to resist his desire to engage in forbidden 
activities. 

3-FASTING THE MONTH OF RAMADAN: 

Every year during the Muslim month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain 
from food, drink, and sexual activity from dawn to sunset. While 
this gives the body a much needed rest and improves ones health 
by getting rid of excess weight, it also increases ones 
commitment to Allah, develops his social conscience, and reminds 
him of how the less fortunate live every day In addition, it 
strengthens one's patience, self-restraint, will power, and 
sincerity. 

4-CHARITY (Zakat): 

Every Muslim whose net annual savings are above a certain 
specified minimum must pay an annual amount of 2.5% to the poor 
and needy This action purifies one's accrued wealth, fosters the 
quality of sacrifice, and rids him of selfishness and greed. It 
also helps to reduce resentment and envy between a society's 
poor and rich classes. 

5-HAJJ (Pilgrimage to Makkah): 

Hajj is an act of worship that is to be performed at least once 
in a lifetime, provided that one is physically and financially 
able to do so. During this time, Muslims meet from all corners 
of the world in an international congregation for the sole 
purpose of responding to the call of Allah. It also reminds the 
participants that all Muslims are equal, irrespective of their 
geographical, cultural, or racial origins. 

*THE ARTICLES OF FAITH

All Muslims believe in: 

- The oneness of Allah. Allah has no partner, son, daughter, 
helper, or competitor. There is nothing that even remotely 
resembles Him, for He is unique. 

- All of the messengers and prophets of Allah. The Qur'an states 
that each people has received revelation from Allah in its own 
tongue so that all individuals know what is required of them. 
The Qur'an mentions twenty-five of them by name, among them 
Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, 
Solomon, John, Jesus, and Muhammad. There are, however, many 
others who are not named. Muhammad, the last prophet, was sent 
with a universal message meant for all of humanity The message 
revealed through him is the Qur'an, which is Allah's final 
presentation of the original revelation received by mankind in 
its purest form. A Muslim must accept all of Allah's prophets 
and messengers as legitimate, for denial of one means denial of 
all. For western readers who are not convinced that Muhammad is 
a prophet of Allah, proof of this claim can be found in the 
Bible (Deut. 18:15-18, 33:2-3; Isaiah 29:12; Songs of Solomon 
5:16;John 14:1516, 16:12-14) as well as in the biographical 
accounts of Muhammad's life, which was lived in full view of his 
contemporaries. 

-The original messages revealed through Allah's various prophets 
and messengers. The purest of these is the Qur'an, for it was 
recorded during the lifetime of the Prophet and under his direct 
supervision. The revelations mentioned in the Qur'an as having 
been received by other prophets, such as the Suhuf of Abraham, 
the Torah of Moses, the Zubur (Psalms) of David, and the Injeel 
(Bible) of Jesus, have all been either lost or corrupted. 

-The existence of angels as part of the unseen world. They are 
spiritual beings who have no need for food, drink, or sleep. 

-The Day of Judgment. The Qur'an teaches that life is a test for 
each individual, for everyone must choose whether he will or 
will not follow the commands of Allah. On this day, a person 
will be resurrected and asked to account for what he did while 
he was alive. Those with good records will be rewarded and enter 
paradise, while those with bad records will be punished by being 
sent to hell. This belief develops within the individual an 
awareness of Allah's presence and a desire to obey His laws 
sincerely and voluntarily 

- A Muslim believes that nothing happens without the knowledge 
and permission of Allah. While we may not understand why certain 
things happens, it is part of the divine plan for our lives. 

MUSLIMS: THE MODERATE NATION

Islam does not divide life into "spiritual" and "secular" 
realms. As all of life is thus unified and interconnected, Islam 
avoids the dangers of the extreme ritualism, secularism, or 
materialism that is found in other civilizations. Activities are 
not classified as belonging to the state or the individual, 
religion or daily life, but as belonging to Allah alone, Who has 
provided guidelines for individuals. These are to be followed in 
every aspect of their lives: individual, social, governmental, 
political, economical, spiritual, and otherwise Reflecting this 
moderation, the Qur'an has entitled the Muslims the "moderate 
nation. " 

SOURCES OF ISLAMIC TEACHINGS

The Islamic way of life is based on the teachings and laws found 
in the Qur'an and the example (Sunnah) of the Prophet Muhammad. 

The Qur'an is the word of Allah and was revealed in portions to 
Muhammad, via the Angel Gabriel, over a twenty-three year 
period. Each portion was recorded in writing by his official 
scribes and memorized by thousands of his followers. After his 
death, the written collection was given to Abu Bakr, the first 
caliph, who oversaw its collection into one volume. The third 
caliph, Uthman, prepared several copies and sent them to 
different Muslim territories. Ever since that time, the same 
version has been used by Muslims. The wording, order, and 
language have never been altered in the slightest manner. No 
other book claiming to be a divine revelation can make this 
claim, and no one has ever been able to refute the claim of the 
Qur'an to complete authenticity 

The Sunnah consists of the teachings, sayings, and actions of 
Prophet Muhammad. This information was meticulously reported and 
collected by his Companions. It is essentially an elaboration of 
the Qur'anic verses that shows how they are to be implemented in 
one's daily life. 

ISLAM: THE RELIGION OF EQUALITY

Islam recognizes no man-made artificial distinctions based on 
color, tribe, race, nationality, or otherwise. As all people 
come from the original couple-Adam and Eve-they are all one 
family and therefore equal before God. What distinguishes people 
from each other is their commitment to Islam: "The most honored 
in the sight of Allah is (he who is) most righteous." (Qur'an 
3:86). 

ISLAM IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

Islam states clearly that everyone is born a Muslim and is 
therefore monotheistic by nature. We read in the Qur'an that 
humanity has been created with the natural disposition towards 
the unity of God. This is to be expected, for Allah, who has 
breathed His spirit into each of us, is Himself the example of 
perfect unity. In the words of the Prophet Muhammad: "Every 
person is born with the innate religious faith (to submit to God 
Almighty)." Thus when an individual accepts Islam, he is not 
turning his back on any prior revelation but rather is returning 
to the original and true revelation of Allah and to his own 
nature as a creation of Allah. This being the case, Islam is 
your birthright-other religious or ideological systems are 
either corruptions our outright denials of Islam. 

CRITERIA FOR TRUTH

How do you know if your belief system is true? Take a moment to 
look at the following list. 

* Are the teachings of your belief system rational? Do they 
conform to the norms of human reason and intellect? 

* Is the creator of your belief system perfect? Allah, the 
creator of Islam, is. . Does your belief system contain 
superstitions or myths? Islam presents humanity with only true 
knowledge. 

* Can your belief system withstand the discoveries and claims of 
modern science? Islam can and does. 

* How accurate are your belief system's prophecies and 
predications? Islam's are always completely accurate. 

* Could a person have devised your belief system? No one has 
ever been able to imitate the Qur'an, although many have tried 
over the centuries. 

Islam is not a new religion founded by Muhammad, but a final 
restatement of the original revelation that has been conveyed to 
humanity by messengers and prophets sent by Allah for that very 
purpose: "This day I have perfected your religion for you, 
completed My favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as 
your religion" (5:3). As the Qur'an is the final revelation and 
Muhammad is the final prophet, humanity is obligated to accept 
it: "If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will 
it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter he will be in the 
ranks of those who have lost all spiritual good" (3:86). 

The choice is yours to make!!! 
 

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Guantanamo Bay: A Blot on Humanity: Even Hitler Did not Treat 
Prisoners so 
Horribly
by Buut Shikan (Idol Breaker)

       At least 16 prisoners at the U.S. concentration camp in 
Guantanamo are 
reported to have attempted suicide during the last year. The 
U.S., other than 
reporting the attempts, has not permitted any investigation into 
the alleged 
attempted suicides. The human rights situation in the camp seems 
to be tragic 
and in blatant violation of international and Islamic law. 
Islamic people 
never attempt suicide. What could have happened to bring things 
to such a 
pass. 
Let's begin with what the U.S. has revealed of its interrogation 
techniques. 
The U.S. admits that it uses:
1. Sleep deprivation.
2. open-ended solitary confinement.
3. Flashing lights and/or extremely bright lights.
4. Keeping a person standing up till he collapses and them 
forcing him to 
stay standing.
5. Threats of immediate or impending execution.
6. Constant reminders that there is no hope or future for the 
captive.
7. Deprivation of medical attention.

Hopelessness is created by the U.S. not permitting relatives, 
journalists or 
attorneys to meet the prisoners. From the few releases we have 
seen 
(including an 80 year old Pakistani) there is a high probability 
that most of 
the prisoners are not combatants but simply Islamic people who 
were helping 
the people of Afghanistan when the Northern Alliance/Karzai 
groupings sold 
them to the U.S. as "al-Qaida" and "Taliban."

Judging from what happens in U.S. prisons on the mainland, the 
following 
procedures are destructive for Islamic prisoners and which are 
routinely used 
by the U.S.:
1. Strip searches on almost a daily basis.
2. Depersonalization of the prisoner through the use of a number 
instead of a 
name.

In the case of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners, their Islamic 
personalities were 
deliberately targeted. For months, they were kept hooded and 
dragged on 
chains when taken to the bathroom. To start off their beards 
were shaved. 
Later, they were given a government "imam" who taught them that 
being rebels 
against America ("terrorists"), they had gone against Islam. 

[As historian David Irving pointed out, Hitler did not treat his 
prisoners as 
badly as the U.S. has done with its Islamic prisoners. In fact, 
as my own 
reading shows,  American and British pilots who were shot down 
by the Germans 
after bombing population centers were  permitted
to wear their uniforms and were never  treated thus.]

      Amnesty International has pointed out that the U.S.'s 
disorientation 
techniques, which do not leave a mark on the body, are TORTURE. 
Thus the U.S. 
does practice torture.

       The world must take notice of the crimes against humanity 
being 
committed at Guantanamo Bay. Write to the U.S. embassy in your 
country and 
urge the U.S. to bring the prisoners to trial or let them go. 
Within the U.S. 
write to the Attorney General.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S POSITION ON U.S. USE OF TORTURE
 US officials claim that they use only
"acceptable techniques" for interrogation, including sleep and 
light
deprivation and the temporary withholding of food, water, access 
to sunlight
and medical attention, allegedly even for a prisoner who had 
been shot.

"The tactics US officials openly admit to constitute cruel, 
inhuman and
degrading treatment or torture. These statements by US officials 
are an
admission of complicity in torture," said Dr. William F. Schulz, 
Executive
Director of Amnesty International USA. "Furthermore, transfer of 
prisoners
to the custody of other countries where they are likely to be 
tortured is
also a violation of international law. President Bush should 
issue a public,
unequivocal statement rejecting all forms of torture by US 
officials and
their foreign allies, just as his father did in 1992. US and 
international
law are clear and absolute: torture is unacceptable regardless 
of the
rationale or threat."
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WHY ARE MUSLIMS SILENT ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF GUANTANAMO BAY?
[Most Muslim 'leaders' in America are in the government's 
pocket. Here are a 
few lines from a powerful poem Sis. Karen English wrote to try 
and awaken the 
deeply asleep Imam W.D. Muhammad of Muslim Journal in which she 
describes the 
condition of the Islamic prisoners:

"Our uncles in Guantanamo Bay  
Did you see them on the television?
Shuffling along with their ankles shackled?
Arms handcuffed behind them?
Faces hooded?Being pulled along on chains like dogs?
They're confined in jails built from shipping containers
The International Red Cross and Amnesty International
Say they are held in contravention of 
The Geneva Convention,
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 
The US Constitution
What do you say?"
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WHAT DOES ISLAM SAY ABOUT THE U.S. WAR PLANS FOR IRAQ?

[Some outspoken Muslims in Atlanta have broken the silence about 
Islam and 
the war which is so prevalent in controlled masjids. Here is a 
report of a 
press conference held at Masjid Mu'minun in Atlanta on March 10. 
It was 
covered by two local TV stations.]

Sis. Hedaya Majeed introduced the speakers with remarks about 
justice, 
integrity and peace. She said there can be no true peace if 
people are 
expected to give up their integrity (self-respect), not have a 
true voice 
(just go with whatever the status quo says or does right or 
wrong) and there 
can be no peace without true justice. 
She added that the use of Secret Evidence can not bring any true 
peace. 
 If the people of Iraq want Saddam Hussein out they will get rid 
of him 
themselves. They don't need the U.S. to decide that for them or 
to take 
action for them.
She spoke with a firm voice  for Islam.

ADVICE TO MUSLIM SOLDIERS IN U.S. ARMY
 The Imam of the masjid quoted the conditions of war that the 
Muslim must 
follow and then he stated he has written letters to the 
Commanding Officers 
of some Muslims in the US Armed Services requesting that they 
get duty that 
is not on the frontline fighting (if we go to war). 
He said the Islamic community supports the decision of some 
Muslims not to go 
into the military if a draft is called.  Muslims can not fight 
other Muslims 
under the conditions of this war that is being marshalled by 
President Bush.  
Since Iraq has not attacked anyone, this is not a just war and 
Muslims can 
not support it.
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       Three scholars of Islam from Arabia, the heartland of 
Islam, Arabia, 
have issued the following ruling:
    1. Anyone who helps the unbelievers in the war against 
Iraq's people will 
be involved in KUFR.
   2. Anyone helping the U.S. to capture mujahideen or helping 
the U.S. war 
in any way is a MURTAD (apostate) and has left the fold of Islam.
    3. Those who fight against the invaders should be considered 
mujahideen.

     The three  ulema who are signatories are: Ali al-Khudair, 
Nasir al-Fahd 
and  Ahmad al-Khadi. The Saudi police is looking for the three 
but is unable 
to find them.
[Source: AFP, from Dubai by Internet]
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WARNING: WATCH OUT FOR CHICAGO TRIBUNE REPORTER NOREEN AHMED.
      New Trend has received this information. A woman named 
Noreen Ahmed, 
working for the Chicago Tribune, is interviewing Imams and 
Muslim community 
leaders/activists. Please be VERY CAREFUL and BE ALERT.
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GROWING DOUBTS ABOUT THE ARREST OF KHALID SHAIKH MUHAMMAD
       London's Sunday Times and a number of other publications 
have 
questioned the U.S./Pakistani[Musharref] version of the arrest 
of Khalid 
Shaikh Muhammad.
     The family of Ahmad Abdul Qudoos, from where Musharref's 
ISI claims to 
have arrested Khalid deny that he was ever in that house or that 
he was there 
when the reported raid took place. The neighbors too say that 
they have never 
seen a stranger there, entering or leaving the house. The women 
of the house 
follow strict purdah and there was no question of any man coming 
in there 
from outside. The wall of the type at the back of the person 
shown in the 
picture which is supposedly Khalid Muhammad does not exist in 
that house.
     Musharref's agents have released a video of a man being 
arrested but his 
face is not shown clearly and there is no evidence that it is 
Khalid Muhammad.
     The cassettes of Osama's speeches, his letters, a lap top 
computer and a 
satellite phone, allegedly seized in the raid were definitely 
not in that 
house,  these reports say.
     Evidently, Khalid Shaikh Muhammad was arrested earlier 
somewhere else 
and Abdul Qadoos's house was raided to create a false connection 
with a 
Jamaate Islami family. (JI is a peaceful political party and 
Musharref seems 
to be working under U.S. supervision to create a "terrorist" 
connection with 
it owing to its burgeoning popularity.)

       [Some sceptics say that the whole Khalid Muhammad story 
may be a total 
fake. Digitally it is quite easy to create the likeness of a 
person. If the 
person captured is really the "mastermind" of 9.11, he should 
have been shown 
in a CLEAR PHOTO UNDER U.S. GUARD.]
       Also, one report indicates that Khalid Muhammad was 
supposed to be 
NUMBER 22 in the U.S. list when the list was started, not number 
3. If he is 
in any way the mastermind of 9.11, the U.S. should soon be able 
to tell the 
public how 9.11 happened. He is probably number 22 and hence has 
been easy to 
capture. The U.S. desperately needed a victory and was handed 
one by Bush's  
friend Musharref.
 Number 22 can be "promoted" to number 3 and to be 
a "mastermind" of 9.11 to 
help the U.S. justify its tremendous expenditures on the war 
against 
terrorism.
[Notice that Abu Zubayda and Ramzi al-Shibh have never been 
shown in U.S. 
hands after providing a whole bag of propaganda opportunity to 
the media. 
Even Manson was interviewed on U.S. TV. Why can't these people 
be shown on 
TV, let alone interviewed?]

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Subject :    
Israeli settlers receive three times more subsidies  
   
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This piece of news speaks for itself...

Israeli settlers receive three times more subsidies Monday, 10-
Mar-2003 7:40AM       

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JERUSALEM, March 10 (AFP) - Jewish settlers in the Palestinian 
territories and
on the Golan Heights receive three times more in housing 
subsidies from the
govrenment than other Israelis, according to a report published 
on Monday by the
country's regional councils.

Israel's 180 farming settlements, of which about 30 are in the 
Golan Heights,
have alone received 60 million dollars, or 54 percent of all 
subsidies awarded
by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture to Jewish farmers over 
the past year,
says the report.

The farming subsidies do not include aid to urban West Bank 
settlements.

A resident of a farming settlement receives on average a housing 
subsidy of 850
dollars compared with the average 260 dollars given to Israeli 
rural
inhabitants.

Settlements in the Palestinian territories are one of the 
biggest bones of
contention between Israel and the Palestinians.

ms/sd/mb

 

Subject :    
Coyness not a welcome trait in global affairs  
   
Date :    
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Coyness not a welcome trait in global affairs

By Iqbal Jassat - March 10, 2003 (Pretoria)
 
Radical departure from traditional stoical policies at the 
United Nations has
emerged as a new characteristic. And all thanks to South Africa.

More specifically, the accolade belongs to SA's UN ambassador, 
Mr. Dumisane
Khumalo. Single handedly, with grit and determination, he has 
succeeded in
ensuring that the highest decision making arm of the United 
Nations, the
Security Council, opens up its deliberations to the rest of the 
world.

This crucial intervention at a time when the world is threatened 
by hostile
war-thunder, emanating from an increasingly belligerent George 
Bush, is saluted
with appreciation. More importantly, the spotlight on the 
divisions within the
council, has aided in highlighting its inherent imbalances 
whereby five
countries with veto powers determine the fate of the rest of the 
world.

Ordinary people across the globe were provided an opportunity to 
take a peak at
the hallowed precincts of former colonial powers. Khumalo's 
indelible lobbying
also ensured that these ordinary people as part of an audience 
which remain
unconvinced by Powell and Straw's so called 'evidence', used 
there own veto
power in multi-million marches across all the major capitals of 
the world
protesting against a war on Iraq.

This nimble move by Khumalo to neutralise a clearly agitated 
team of seasoned
diplomats from the US and UK, has brought into sharp focus 
pertinent questions
about the abuse of the United Nations by these countries.

Perhaps such abuse can best be illustrated by the tragic plight 
of the
Palestinians under Israeli occupation. The genesis of this major 
conflict stems
from the time the United Nations transferred sovereignty of the 
indigenous
population to a foreign group.

Israel and the UN is a tale of regularizing the irregular. It 
can be traced back
to UN General Assembly resolution no 181 (ii) of 29 November 
1947. It
recommended a partition plan for Palestine and the establishment 
of a Jewish
state on 57 per cent of mandatory Palestine [14,500 km] and of 
an Arab state on
the remaining 43 per cent [11,000km].

The resolution was passed with 33 votes in favor, 13 against, 
and 10
abstentions. The immorality and injustice of this action was 
necessarily
resisted by the Palestinians as well as by the neighboring Arab 
states. They
failed to see the injustice by the attributing Jewish 
sovereignty while Jewish
landholdings consisted of less than 7 per cent of the total 
area, and that the
Jewish population was a minority.

The resistance continues to this day. It is known as the 
intifada and has not
given up its quest to liberate its lands.

Many would agree that Israel is in the eye of the storm, and as 
much as the
protection of its interests may be at the heart of the war on 
Iraq. Its legal
status still hangs in the balance. 

This further underlines the significance of SA's intervention at 
the UN. If it
is accepted that UN General Assembly Resolution no 181 could be 
reversed, it
behoves Dumisane Khumalo to drive that process.

By demonstrating his skills in the manner he succeeded in laying 
bare the
debates within the Security Council, which otherwise would have 
remained
obscured from public view, he has earned the respect of millions 
of ordinary
people.

A brazen and bold approach as exemplified by Khumalo is required 
to redress the
injustice perpetrated against the Palestinians more than five 
decades ago. This
will ultimately lead to the desired transformation of the UN as 
a whole.

 

Montreal March 12, 2003 (MMN Editorial)

Today, Quebec Premier Bernard Landry officially launched the 
provincial election
campaign.  On April 14, Quebecers will go to the polls and 
decide which party
will lead Quebec for the next four years. For the next 33 days, 
the length of
the campaign,  you will be asked to make a decision about which 
party to vote
for and many promises will be made to you.

These politicians, hundreds of them, will spread out throughout 
the province and
will talk about "visions" and "values" and with their words try 
to sway you to
vote for them. They will also mention jobs, healthcare,  
education, family
values and lower taxes - the  usual topics of discussion during 
political
campaigns. For our community they will tailor their message a 
bit and talk about
immigration issues, tolerance and discrimination. 

Each party will try to portray itself as being distinct from the 
others, but
let's face it, they are basically the same with almost identical 
ideologies
shaping their platforms, so we should not be fooled by the 
rhetoric.  The media
tries to highlight differences in the parties in order to keep 
our attention,
but this is just to sell papers and increase viewer ratings. 
Forget about all
this federalist-sovereigntist rhetoric, as it is just a 
diversion. 

Some in our community will chose to vote for the PQ party, while 
others will
choose to vote Liberal or ADQ. Others, on the other hand, will 
vote for the
smaller groups. And still others in our community will choose to 
work within
grassroots socio-political movements which seek to bring about 
change outside
the existing "mainstream" political system.  Some, sadly enough, 
will decide to
remain politically apathetic and not get involved at all in any 
capacity. 

Whatever you choose to do we admonish you all to proceed with 
caution. We as a
community should know by now that politicians say many things 
during election
campaigns, but they are not always sincere. Note, American 
Muslims supported
George W. Bush in the last American election and look at the 
disaster it has
been for the Muslim community.

We are not going to tell you who to vote for, or even urging you 
to vote at all,
but you can visit the following link to view the Quebec 
political party
websites: 
http://www.mondopolitico.com/parties/canada/quebec/can.qc.pp.htm 

In brief, our advice is don't rely solely on the professional 
talking heads in
the media, and don't be swayed by sweet talking and well groomed 
politicians.
Study the issues very carefully and read a variety of 
perspectives. Ask tough
questions and make educated choices based upon solid 
information.  Our children
will have to live with the choices we make today, so in all of 
your decision
making think of them and what future you want for our province 
and nation.

The Virtues of Allah s sacred month of Muharram and Fasting 
on  Aashooraa 


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What are the virtues of the month of Muharram and 
fasting 'Aashooraa'?


Praise be to Allaah, 

the Lord of the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our 
Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets and Chief of the 
Messengers, and upon all his family and companions.

Allah s sacred month of Muharram is a blessed and important 
month. It is the first month of the Hijri calendar and is one of 
the four sacred months concerning which Allaah says 
(interpretation of the meaning):

 Verily, the number of months with Allaah is twelve months (in a 
year), so it was ordained by Allaah on the Day when He created 
the heavens and the earth; of them, four are sacred. That is the 
right religion, so wrong not yourselves therein   [al-Tawbah 
9:36]

Abu Bakrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the 
Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:  The 
year is twelve months of which four are sacred, the three 
consecutive months of Dhu l-Qa dah, Dhu l-Hijjah and Muharram, 
and Rajab Mudar which comes between Jumaada and Sha baan.  
(Reported by al-Bukhaari, 2958).

Muharram is so called because it is a sacred (muharram) month 
and to confirm its sanctity.

Allaah s words (interpretation of the meaning):  so wrong not 
yourselves therein   mean do not wrong yourselves in these 
sacred months, because sin in these months is worse than in 
other months.

It was reported that Ibn  Abbaas said that this phrase (so wrong 
not yourselves therein ) referred to all the months, then these 
four were singled out and made sacred, so that sin in these 
months is more serious and good deeds bring a greater reward.

Qutaadah said concerning this phrase (so wrong not yourselves 
therein ) that wrongdoing during the sacred months is more 
serious and more sinful that wrongdoing at any other time. 
Wrongdoing at any time is a serious matter, but Allaah gives 
more weight to whichever of His commands He will. Allaah has 
chosen certain ones of His creation. He has chosen from among 
the angels Messengers and from among mankind Messengers. He 
chose from among speech the remembrance of Him (dhikr). He chose 
from among the earth the mosques, from among the months Ramadaan 
and the sacred months, from among the days Friday and from among 
the nights Laylat al-Qadr, so venerate that which Allaah has 
told us to venerate. People of understanding and wisdom venerate 
the things that Allaah has told us to venerate. (Summarized from 
the Tafseer of Ibn Katheer, may Allaah have mercy on him. 
Tafseer of Surat al-Tawbah, aayah 36).

The Virtue of observing more naafil fasts during Muharram.

Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:  The 
Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
said:  The best of fasting after Ramadaan is fasting Allaah s 
month of Muharram.   (reported by Muslim, 1982).

The phrase  Allaah s month , connecting the name of the month to 
the name of Allaah in a genitive grammatical structure, 
signifies the importance of the month. Al-Qaari said:  The 
apparent meaning is all of the month of Muharram.  But it was 
proven that the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
him) never fasted any whole month apart from Ramadan, so this 
hadeeth is probably meant to encourage increasing one s fasting 
during Muharram, without meaning that one should fast for the 
entire month.

It was reported that the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah 
be upon him) used to fast more in Sha baan. It is likely that 
the virtue of Muharram was not revealed to him until the end of 
his life, before he was able to fast during this month. (Sharh 
al-Nawawi  ala Saheeh Muslim).

Allaah chooses whatever times and places He wills

Al- Izz ibn  Abd al-Salaam (may Allaah have mercy on him) 
said:  Times and places may be given preferred status in two 
ways, either temporal or religious/spiritual. With regard to the 
latter, this is because Allaah bestows His generosity on His 
slaves at those times or in those places, by giving a greater 
reward for deeds done, such as giving a greater reward for 
fasting in Ramadaan than for fasting at all other times, and 
also on the day of  Aashooraa , the virtue of which is due to 
Allaah s generosity and kindness towards His slaves on that 
day   (Qawaa id al-Ahkaam, 1/38).

 Aashooraa  in History

Ibn  Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:  The Prophet  
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to Madeenah and 
saw the Jews fasting on the day of  Aashooraa . He said,  What 
is this?  They said,  This is a righteous day, it is the day 
when Allaah saved the Children of Israel from their enemies, so 
Moosa fasted on this day.  He said,  We have more right to Moosa 
than you,  so he fasted on that day and commanded [the Muslims] 
to fast on that day.  (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 1865).

 This is a righteous day    in a report narrated by Muslim, [the 
Jews said:]  This is a great day, on which Allaah saved Moosa 
and his people, and drowned Pharaoh and his people. 

 Moosa fasted on this day    a report narrated by Muslim 
adds:    in thanksgiving to Allaah, so we fast on this day. 

According to a report narrated by al-Bukhaari:    so we fast on 
this day to venerate it. 

A version narrated by Imaam Ahmad adds:  This is the day on 
which the Ark settled on Mount Joodi, so Nooh fasted this day in 
thanksgiving. 

 and commanded [the Muslims] to fast on that day    according to 
another report also narrated by al-Bukhaari:  He said to his 
Companions:  You have more right to Moosa than they do, so fast 
on that day. 

The practice of fasting on  Aashooraa  was known even in the 
days of Jaahiliyyah, before the Prophet s mission. It was 
reported that  Aa ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) 
said:  The people of Jaahiliyyah used to fast on that day  

Al-Qurtubi said:  Perhaps Quraysh used to fast on that day on 
the basis of some past law, such as that of Ibraaheem, upon whom 
be peace. 

It was also reported that the Prophet  (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him) used to fast on  Aashooraa  in Makkah, 
before he migrated to Madeenah. When he migrated to Madeenah, he 
found the Jews celebrating this day, so he asked them why, and 
they replied as described in the hadeeth quoted above. He 
commanded the Muslims to be different from the Jews, who took it 
as a festival, as was reported in the hadeeth of Abu Moosa (may 
Allaah be pleased with him), who said:  The Jews used to take 
the day of  Aashooraa  as a festival [according to a report 
narrated by Muslim: the day of  Aashooraa  was venerated by the 
Jews, who took it as a festival. According to another report 
also narrated by Muslim: the people of Khaybar (the Jews) used 
to take it as a festival and their women would wear their 
jewellery and symbols on that day]. The Prophet  (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:  So you [Muslims] should 
fast on that day.   (Reported by al-Bukhaari). Apparently the 
motive for commanding the Muslims to fast on this day was the 
desire to be different from the Jews, so that the Muslims would 
fast when the Jews did not, because people do not fast on a day 
of celebration. (Summarized from the words of al-Haafiz Ibn 
Hajar   may Allaah have mercy on him   in Fath al-Baari 
Sharh  ala Saheeh al-Bukhaari).

Fasting on  Aashooraa  was a gradual step in the process of 
introducing fasting as a prescribed obligation in Islam. Fasting 
appeared in three forms. When the Messenger of Allaah  (peace 
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to Madeenah, he told 
the Muslims to fast on three days of every month and on the day 
of  Aashooraa , then Allaah made fasting obligatory when He said 
(interpretation of the meaning):    observing the fasting is 
prescribed for you   [al-Baqarah 2:183] (Ahkaam al-Qur aan by al-
Jassas, part 1).

The obligation was transferred from the fast of  Aashooraa  to 
the fast of Ramadaan, and this one of the proofs in the field of 
Usool al-Fiqh that it is possible to abrogate a lighter duty in 
favour of a heavier duty.

Before the obligation of fasting  Aashooraa  was abrogated, 
fasting on this day was obligatory, as can be seen from the 
clear command to observe this fast. Then it was further 
confirmed later on, then reaffirmed by making it a general 
command addressed to everybody, and once again by instructing 
mothers not to breastfeed their infants during this fast. It was 
reported from Ibn Mas ood that when fasting Ramadaan was made 
obligatory, the obligation to fast  Aashooraa  was lifted, i.e., 
it was no longer obligatory to fast on this day, but it is still 
desirable (mustahabb). 

The virtues of fasting  Aashooraa 

Ibn  Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with them both) said:  I 
never saw the Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him) so keen to fast any day and give it priority 
over any other than this day, the day of  Aashooraa , and this 
month, meaning Ramadaan.  (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 1867).

The meaning of his being keen was that he intended to fast on 
that day in the hope of earning the reward for doing so.

The Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
said:  For fasting the day of  Aashooraa , I hope that Allaah 
will accept it as expiation for the year that went before.  
(Reported by Muslim, 1976). This is from the bounty of Allaah 
towards us: for fasting one day He gives us expiation for the 
sins of a whole year. And Allaah is the Owner of Great Bounty.

Which day is  Aashooraa ?

Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:    Aashooraa  and 
Taasoo aa  are two elongated names [the vowels are elongated] as 
is stated in books on the Arabic language. Our companions 
said:  Aashooraa  is the tenth day of Muharram and Taasoo aa  is 
the ninth day. This is our opinion, and that of the majority of 
scholars. This is the apparent meaning of the ahaadeeth and is 
what we understand from the general wording. It is also what is 
usually understood by scholars of the language.  (al-Majmoo )

 Aashooraa  is an Islamic name that was not known at the time of 
Jaahiliyyah. (Kashshaaf al-Qinaa , part 2, Sawm Muharram).

Ibn Qudaamah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

   Aashooraa  is the tenth day of Muharram. This is the opinion 
of Sa eed ibn al-Musayyib and al-Hasan. It was what was reported 
by Ibn  Abbaas, who said:  The Messenger of Allaah  (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be upon him) commanded us to 
fast  Aashooraa , the tenth day of Muharram.  (Reported by al-
Tirmidhi, who said, a saheeh hasan hadeeth). It was reported 
that Ibn  Abbaas said:  The ninth,  and reported that the 
Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to 
fast the ninth. (Reported by Muslim).  Ataa  reported that he 
said,  Fast the ninth and the tenth, and do not be like the 
Jews.  If this is understood, we can say on this basis that it 
is mustahabb (encouraged) to fast on the ninth and the tenth, 
for that reason. This is what Ahmad said, and it is the opinion 
of Ishaaq. 

It is mustahabb (encouraged) to fast Taasoo aa  with  Aashooraa 

 Abd-Allaah ibn  Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with them both) 
said:  When the Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him) fasted on  Aashooraa  and commanded the 
Muslims to fast as well, they said,  O Messenger of Allaah, it 
is a day that is venerated by the Jews and Christians.  The 
Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
said,  If I live to see the next year, in sha Allaah, we will 
fast on the ninth day too.  But it so happened that the 
Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
passed away before the next year came.  (Reported by Muslim, 
1916).

Al-Shaafa'i and his companions, Ahmad, Ishaaq and others 
said:  It is mustahabb to fast on both the ninth and tenth days, 
because the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
fasted on the tenth, and intended to fast on the ninth. 

On this basis it may be said that there are varying degrees of 
fasting  Aashooraa , the least of which is to fast only on the 
tenth and the best of which is to fast the ninth as well. The 
more one fasts in Muharram, the better it is.

The reason why it is mustahabb to fast on Taasoo aa 

Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:  The scholars   
our companions and others   mentioned several reasons why it is 
mustahabb to fast on Taasoo aa : 

the intention behind it is to be different from the Jews, who 
only venerate the tenth day. This opinion was reported from 
Ibn  Abbaas 

the intention is to add another day s fast to  Aashooraa . This 
is akin to the prohibition on fasting a Friday by itself, as was 
mentioned by al-Khattaabi and others.

To be on the safe side and make sure that one fasts on the 
tenth, in case there is some error in sighting the crescent moon 
at the beginning of Muharram and the ninth is in fact the tenth. 

The strongest of these reasons is being different from the 
People of the Book. Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah 
have mercy on him) said:  The Prophet  (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him) forbade imitating the People of the Book in 
many ahaadeeth, for example, his words 
concerning  Aashooraa :  If I live until the next year, I will 
certainly fast on the ninth day.   (al-Fataawa al-Kubra, part 6, 
Sadd al-Dharaa i  al-Mufdiyah ila l-Mahaarim )

Ibn Hajar (may Allaah be pleased with him) said in his 
commentary on the hadeeth  If I live until the next year, I will 
certainly fast on the ninth day :  What he meant by fasting on 
the ninth day was probably not that he would limit himself to 
that day, but would add it to the tenth, either to be on the 
safe side or to be different from the Jews and Christians, which 
is more likely. This is also what we can understand from some of 
the reports narrated by Muslim.  (Fath, 4/245).

Ruling on fasting only on the day of  Aashooraa 

Shaykh al-Islam said:  Fasting on the day of  Aashoraa  is an 
expiation for a year, and it is not makrooh to fast only that 
day   (al-Fataawa al-Kubra, part 5). In Tuhfat al-Muhtaaj by Ibn 
Hajar al-Haytami, it says:  There is nothing wrong with fasting 
only on  Aashooraa .  (part 3, Baab Sawm al-Tatawwu ).

Fasting on  Aashooraa  even if it is a Saturday or a Friday

Al-Tahhaawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:  The Messenger 
of Allaah  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) allowed 
us to fast on  Aashooraa  and urged us to do so. He did not say 
that if it falls on a Saturday we should not fast. This is 
evidence that all days of the week are included in this. In our 
view   and Allaah knows best   it could be the case that even if 
this is true (that it is not allowed to fast on Saturdays), it 
is so that we do not venerate this day and refrain from food, 
drink and intercourse, as the Jews do. As for the one who fasts 
on a Saturday without intending to venerate it, and does not do 
so because the Jews regard it as blessed, then this is not 
makrooh   (Mushkil al-Aathaar, part 2, Baab Sawm Yawm al-Sabt).

The author of al-Minhaaj said:    It is disliked (makrooh) to 
fast on a Friday alone   But it is no longer makrooh if you add 
another day to it, as mentioned in the saheeh report to that 
effect. A person may fast on a Friday if it coincides with his 
habitual fast, or he is fasting in fulfilment of a vow, or he is 
making up an obligatory fast that he has missed, as was stated 
in a saheeh report.   

Al-Shaarih said in Tuhfat al-Muhtaaj: 

   If it coincides with his habitual fast    i.e., such as if he 
fasts alternate days, and a day that he fasts happens to be a 
Friday.

  if he is fasting in fulfilment of a vow, etc.    this also 
applies to fasting on days prescribed in sharee ah, such 
as  Aashooraa  or  Arafaah. (Tuhfat al-Muhtaaj, part 3, Baab 
Sawm al-Tatawwu )

Al-Bahooti (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:  It is makrooh 
to deliberately single out a Saturday for fasting, because of 
the hadeeth of  Abd-Allaah ibn Bishr, who reported from his 
sister:  Do not fast on Saturdays except in the case of 
obligatory fasts  (reported by Ahmad with a jayyid isnaad and by 
al-Haakim, who said: according to the conditions of al-
Bukhaari), and because it is a day that is venerated by the 
Jews, so singling it out for fasting means being like them  
except when a Friday or Saturday coincides with a day when 
Muslims habitually fast, such as when it coincides with the day 
of  Arafaah or the day of  Aashooraa , and a person has the 
habit of fasting on these days, in which case it is not makrooh, 
because a person s habit carries some weight.  (Kashshaaf al-
Qinaa , part 2, Baab Sawm al-Tatawwu ).

What should be done if there is confusion about the beginning of 
the month?

Ahmad said:  If there is confusion about the beginning of the 
month, one should fast for three days, to be sure of fasting on 
the ninth and tenth days.  (al-Mughni by Ibn Qudaamah, part 3   
al-Siyaam   Siyaam  Aashooraa ).

If a person does not know when Muharram began, and he wants to 
be sure of fasting on the tenth, he should assume that Dhoo l-
Hijjah was thirty days   as is the usual rule   and should fast 
on the ninth and tenth. Whoever wants to be sure of fasting the 
ninth as well should fast the eight, ninth and tenth (then if 
Dhoo l-Hijjah was twenty-nine days, he can be sure of having 
fasted Taasoo aa  and  Aashooraa ). 

But given that fasting on  Aashooraa  is mustahabb rather than 
waajib, people are not commanded to look for the crescent of the 
new moon of Muharram as they are to do in the case of Ramadaan 
and Shawwaal.

Fasting  Aashooraa    for what does it offer expiation?

Imaam al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: 

 It expiates for all minor sins, i.e., it brings forgiveness of 
all sins except major sins. 

Then he said (may Allaah have mercy on him):

 Fasting the day of  Arafaah expiates for two years, and the day 
of  Aashooraa  expiates for one year. If when a person 
says  Aameen  it coincides with the  Aameen  of the angels, he 
will be forgiven all his previous sins  Each one of the things 
that we have mentioned will bring expiation. If there are minor 
sins for which expiation is needed, expiation for them will be 
accepted; if there are no minor sins or major sins, good deeds 
will be added to his account and he will be raised in status  If 
he had committed major sins but no minor sins, we hope that his 
major sins will be reduced.  (al-Majmoo  Sharh al-Muhadhdhab, 
part 6, Sawm Yawm  Arafaah).

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) 
said:  Tahaarah, salaah, and fasting in Ramadaan, on the day 
of  Arafaah and on  Aashooraa  expiate for minor sins only.  (al-
Fataawa al-Kubra, part 5).

Not relying too much on the reward for fasting

Some people who are deceived rely too much on things like 
fasting on  Aashooraa  or the day of  Arafaah, to the extent 
that some of them say,  Fasting on  Aashooraa  will expiate for 
the sins of the whole year, and fasting on the day of  Arafaah 
will bring extra rewards.  Ibn al-Qayyim said:  This misguided 
person does not know that fasting in Ramadaan and praying five 
times a day are much more important than fasting on the day 
of  Arafaah and  Aashooraa , and that they expiate for the sins 
between one Ramadaan and the next, or between one Friday and the 
next, so long as one avoids major sins. But they cannot expiate 
for minor sins unless one also avoids major sins; when the two 
things are put together, they have the strength to expiate for 
minor sins. Among those deceived people may be one who thinks 
that his good deeds are more than his sins, because he does not 
pay attention to his bad deeds or check on his sins, but if he 
does a good deed he remembers it and relies on it. This is like 
the one who seeks Allaah s forgiveness with his tongue (i.e., by 
words only), and glorifies Allaah by saying  Subhaan Allaah  one 
hundred times a day, then he backbites about the Muslims and 
slanders their honour, and speaks all day long about things that 
are not pleasing to Allaah. This person is always thinking about 
the virtues of his tasbeehaat (saying  Subhaan Allaah ) and 
tahleelaat (saying  Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah ) but he pays no 
attention to what has been reported concerning those who 
backbite, tell lies and slander others, or commit other sins of 
the tongue. They are completely deceived.  (al-Mawsoo ah al-
Fiqhiyyah, part 31, Ghuroor).

Fasting  Aashooraa  when one still has days to make up from 
Ramadaan

The fuqahaa  differed concerning the ruling on observing 
voluntary fasts before a person has made up days that he or she 
did not fast in Ramadaan. The Hanafis said that it is 
permissible to observe voluntary fasts before making up days 
from Ramadaan, and it is not makrooh to do so, because the 
missed days do not have to be made up straight away. The 
Maalikis and Shaafa is said that it is permissible but is 
makrooh, because it means that one is delaying something 
obligatory. Al-Dusooqi said:  It is makrooh to observe a 
voluntary fast when one still has to make up an obligatory fast, 
such as a fast in fulfilment of a vow, or a missed obligatory 
fast, or a fast done as an act of expiation (kafaarah), whether 
the voluntary fast which is being given priority over an 
obligatory fast is something confirmed in sharee ah or not, such 
as  Aashooraa  and the ninth of Dhoo l-Hijjah, according to the 
most correct opinion.  The Hanbalis said that it is haraam to 
observe a voluntary fast before making up any fasts missed in 
Ramadaan, and that a voluntary fast in such cases does not 
count, even if there is plenty of time to make up the obligatory 
fast. So a person must give priority to the obligatory fasts 
until he has made them up.. (al-Mawsoo ah al-Fiqhiyyah, part 28, 
Sawm al-tatawwu ).

Muslims must hasten to make up any missed fasts after Ramadaan, 
so that they will be able to fast  Arafaah and  Aashooraa  
without any problem. If a person fasts  Arafaah and  Aashooraa  
with the intention from the night before of making up for a 
missed fast, this will be good enough to make up what he has 
missed, for the bounty of Allaah is great.

Bid ahs common on  Aashooraa 

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) was 
asked about the things that people do on  Aashooraa , such as 
wearing kohl, taking a bath (ghusl), wearing henna, shaking 
hands with one another, cooking grains (huboob), showing 
happiness and so on. Was any of this reported from the Prophet  
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in a saheeh hadeeth, 
or not? If nothing to that effect was reported in a saheeh 
hadeeth, is doing these things bid ah, or not? Is there any 
basis for what the other group do, such as grieving and 
mourning, going without anything to drink, eulogizing and 
wailing, reciting in a crazy manner, and rending their garments?

His reply was:

 Praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds. Nothing to that 
effect has been reported in any saheeh hadeeth from the Prophet  
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or from his 
Companions. None of the imaams of the Muslims encouraged or 
recommended such things, neither the four imaams, nor any 
others. No reliable scholars have narrated anything like this, 
neither from the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
him), nor from the Sahaabah, nor from the Taabi een; neither in 
any saheeh report or in a da eef (weak) report; neither in the 
books of Saheeh, nor in al-Sunan, nor in the Musnads. No hadeeth 
of this nature was known during the best centuries, but some of 
the later narrators reported ahaadeeth like the one which 
says,  Whoever puts kohl in his eyes on the day of  Aashooraa  
will not suffer from eye disease in that year, and whoever takes 
a bath (does ghusl) on the day of  Aashooraa  will not get sick 
in that year,  and so on. They also reported a fabricated 
hadeeth that is falsely attributed to the Prophet  (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be upon him), which says,  Whoever is 
generous to his family on the day of  Aashooraa , Allaah will be 
generous to him for the rest of the year.  Reporting all of this 
from the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is 
tantamount to lying. 

Then he [Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him)] discussed 
in brief the tribulations that had occurred in the early days of 
this ummah and the killing of al-Husayn (may Allaah be pleased 
with him), and what the various sects had done because of this. 
Then he said:

 An ignorant, wrongful group   who were either heretics and 
hypocrites, or misguided and misled   made a show of allegiance 
to him and the members of his household, so they took the day 
of  Aashooraa  as a day of mourning and wailing, in which they 
openly displayed the rituals of jaahiliyyah such as slapping 
their cheeks and rending their garments, grieving in the manner 
of the jaahiliyyah  The Shaytaan made this attractive to those 
who are misled, so they took the day of  Aashooraa  as an 
occasion of mourning, when they grieve and wail, recite poems of 
grief and tell stories filled with lies. Whatever truth there 
may be in these stories serves no purpose other than the renewal 
of their grief and sectarian feeling, and the stirring up of 
hatred and hostility among the Muslims, which they do by cursing 
those who came before them  The evil and harm that they do to 
the Muslims cannot be enumerated by any man, no matter how 
eloquent he is. Some others   either Naasibis who oppose and 
have enmity towards al-Husayn and his family or ignorant people 
who try to fight evil with evil, corruption with corruption, 
lies with lies and bid ah with bid ah   opposed them by 
fabricating reports in favour of making the day of  Aashooraa  a 
day of celebration, by wearing kohl and henna, spending money on 
one's children, cooking special dishes and other things that are 
done on Eids and special occasions. These people took the day 
of  Aashooraa  as a festival like Eid, whereas the others took 
it as a day of mourning. Both are wrong, and both go against the 
Sunnah, even though the other group (those who take it as a day 
of mourning) are worse in intention and more ignorant and more 
plainly wrong  Neither the Prophet  (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him) nor his successors (the khulafa  al-
raashidoon) did any of these things on the day of  Aashooraa , 
they neither made it a day of mourning nor a day of celebration 

As for the other things, such as cooking special dishes with or 
without grains, or wearing new clothes, or spending money on 
one s family, or buying the year s supplies on that day, or 
doing special acts of worship such as special prayers or 
deliberately slaughtering an animal on that day, or saving some 
of the meat of the sacrifice to cook with grains, or wearing 
kohl and henna, or taking a bath (ghusl), or shaking hands with 
one another, or visiting one another, or visiting the mosques 
and mashhads (shrines) and so on  all of this is reprehensible 
bid ah and is wrong. None of it has anything to do with the 
Sunnah of the Messenger of Allaah  (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him) or the way of the Khulafa  al-Raashidoon. It 
was not approved of by any of the imaams of the Muslims, not 
Maalik, not al-Thawri, not al-Layth ibn Sa d, not Abu Haneefah, 
not al-Oozaa i, not al-Shaafa'i, not Ahmad ibn Hanbal, not 
Ishaaq ibn Raahwayh, not any of the imaams and scholars of the 
Muslims. (al-Fataawa al-Kubra by Ibn Taymiyah)

Ibn al-Haaj (may Allaah have mercy on him) mentioned that one of 
the bid ahs on  Aashooraa  was deliberately paying zakaat on 
this day, late or early, or slaughtering a chicken just for this 
occasion, or   in the case of women   using henna. (al-Madkhal, 
part 1, Yawm  Aashooraa )

We ask Allaah to make us followers of the Sunnah of His Noble 
Prophet, to make us live in Islam and die in a state of faith. 
May He help us to do that which He loves and which pleases Him. 
We ask Him to help us to remember Him and be thankful to Him, to 
worship Him properly and to accept our good deeds. May He make 
us of those who are pious and fear Him. May Allaah bless our 
Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions.


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Anxiety, fear, alienation, marginalization, betrayal, and 
disillusionment: This
is how Sept. 11, 2001 and its aftermath have left Arab and 
Muslim Canadians
feeling   indeed, reeling. 

There have been many causes of this. Key among them is what 
would, by Canadian
standards, easily qualify as an excessive, overzealous security 
agenda.

Hours after the events of Sept. 11, hate and racism were 
directed at Arab and
Muslim Canadians on the streets of our cities, in schoolyards 
and workplaces,
from neighbours and strangers alike, from vandals who attacked 
places of
worship. While such acts continue to this day, they have, by and 
large,
subsided. 

However, we fully expect they will dramatically rise again once 
the war on Iraq
has started.

Next came mass detentions of Arabs and Muslims: Hundreds here, 
thousands across
the border, incarcerated under a cloak of secrecy; secret 
detentions, secret
hearings, secret evidence, secret names, secret numbers of those 
arrested.

Canada's Bill C-36 followed and quickly became law, allowing, 
among other
things, preventative detentions and forced testimony   anathemas 
in a free
society. While some argue, rightly, that the Anti-Terrorism Act 
does not single
out Arabs and Muslims and is directed at all Canadians, we 
nevertheless feel it
targets us. 

Watch it kick in with the new war on Iraq.

In the months following 9/11, there were reported abuses by law 
enforcement, and
CSIS in particular, which seemed to cast too wide a net. While 
on this fishing
expedition, CSIS conducted intrusive interrogations of innocent 
people, and,
most damaging, pressured ordinary Arab Canadians to act as spies 
and inform on
their friends and colleagues.

Many commentators have had a field day demonizing Arabs and 
Muslims and painting
us all with the Osama bin Laden brush. The stereotypes and 
racist overtones put
forward by some in the mainstream media confirmed the 
permissibility of singling
out Arabs and Muslims for suspicious treatment. They are guilty 
by association,
suspect by nature of their ethnicity and religion, therefore, an 
acceptable
subject of hate.

Our failure as a society in this regard was in not sending a 
clear signal to the
contrary   society did not come to the aid of this maligned 
minority. This,
despite the best efforts of church groups, other well-meaning 
citizens and some
in the law enforcement community, who built bridges and spoke 
out against
discrimination. 

But by and large, Arab and Muslim Canadians were left on their 
own, having to
explain themselves and prove their loyalty; defend their 
religion and
demonstrate its goodness; and at times hide their ethnicity and 
deny their
heritage in a bid to escape scrutiny. 

The effect on our communities is that, like our Japanese-
Canadian counterparts
during World War II, we, too, have become victims of 
psychological internment.
In the meantime, our mainstream institutions, including 
governments, simply
looked the other way. 

Perhaps our officials felt they could not be introducing 
legislation and
measures that target Arabs and Muslims while at the same time 
telling other
Canadians not to single us out for discrimination.

One can argue, that we, as a country, had no choice   given our 
alliance with,
and reliance on, trade with the U.S.   but to enact tough 
security legislation
and ratify firm measures following 9/11. But why did we have to 
turn our backs
on the Arabs and Muslims among us in the process?

Why did the Justice department, after agreeing to work with us 
on 11 specific
concerns, then walk away? Why did the solicitor-general, after 
expressing
empathy with our plight, then refuse to help us monitor abuses 
of the Anti
-Terrorism Act by law enforcement agencies?

Why did the minister of foreign affairs lift the travel advisory 
to the U.S.
when Arab and Muslim Canadians travelling there continue to face 
humiliation and
are subjected to treatment normally reserved for charged 
criminals? 

Why did the Ontario public safety minister condone the racial 
profiling taking
place at the U.S. border against his own citizens? 

Why is it that the mayor of Canada's largest city, whose logo 
is "Diversity is
Our Strength," never spoke out against the victimization of 
Arabs and Muslims
post-Sept. 11?

We ought to have learned from past internment and 
marginalization of groups.

We should know that institutionalized discrimination leads to 
hate, that
targeting every Arab or Muslim as a suspect is not only 
degrading and unjust but
dangerous for our society too.

Our country has effectively engaged in an exercise of self-
mutilation: stripping
away civil liberties it holds dear, trampling on citizen's 
rights it had
foresworn to protect, and tearing away at its multicultural 
fabric with
recklessness.

Arab Canadians are today convinced there is a bigger threat to 
our way of life
from the security agenda than there is from terrorism itself. 

The question that remains is: Given that multiculturalism is 
premised on the
equal treatment and respect of all citizens, will 
multiculturalism survive the
security agenda?

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In the modern society or so called advanced and civilized 
society which has no moral values, man has dropped the idea of 
sin from their lives. They have attributed a new name to 
sin "the necessity of life". For them, fornication is not a sin 
but an act for physical necessity of life. Like wise, gambling 
prostitution, strip clubs, burlesque clubs, nude clubs, gay 
clubs, drinking and taking drugs(narcotics), mingling with the 
opposite and same sex and common law marriages are not sins 
anymore, but these are the products of the modern world. 

Islam is a Deen( a Way of Life and also a religion). That is why 
it gives us lessons to maintain Haya and sharam all the time and 
everywhere, whether we are among the people or alone. 

In Islamic terms, Haya implies the shyness a wrong-doer feels in 
his own nature and before Allah( SWT). This shyness is the force 
which prevents man from indulging in indecency and obscenity. 
If, however, he commits a sin under the impulse of his animal 
nature, the same shyness makes him feel the pains of conscience. 
The moral teachings of Islam aim at awakening this dormant 
feeling of shyness in human nature and try to develop it as a 
part of man's mental make-up, so that it may serve as a strong 
moral deterrent against all evil inclinations. 

The hadith, which says," Every religion has a morality and the 
morality of islam is Haya". In another place Prophet(saw) 
said, "Haya is the vital part of Islam". The Quran mentions it 
as the highest quality of a Muslim. 

Another hadith on the same subject, the holy Prophet (SAW) 
said, "When you do not have Haya, you may do whatever you 
please". When a person does not have the deterrent of Haya, his 
desire will spring from his animal instinct and lay complete 
hold of him and he will not hesitate to indulge in sin. 

The feeling of Haya is inherent in man, though in crude form. It 
abhors all sins by nature, but it lacks knowledge. This lack of 
knowledge gradually weakens its feeling of abhorrence and 
repeated commission of sin at last destroys his sense of modesty 
altogether. Quran refers to the people who get themselves 
deprived of this instinct(HAYA) as 

"Deaf, Dumb and Blind, they will not return (to the right path)".
(2:18) 

The concept of Haya is vast and it is not possible to cover the 
details. However, following illustrations may help us to 
understand the sources of corruptions in our lives. 
1. Hidden Motive: Every evil inclination towards a member of the 
opposite sex outside marriage amounts to adultery. Thus enjoying 
the beauty of the other woman with the eyes, relishing the 
sweetness of her voice with the ears, drawing pleasure of the 
tongue by conversing with her, all are not just the 
preliminaries of adultery, but the adultery themselves. 

2. The Evil Look: The evil look is the worst culprit in this 
regard. 
The Quran says " O Prophet(SAW) tell the believing men to 
refrain their eyes (from looking at the other women) and guard 
their shameful parts; to lower their gaze". In other place, the 
Holy prophet(SAW) has ordered 
his wife to observe purdah even from a blind man, Ibn Umme 
Maktoom. 

3. Urge for Display: the feminine urge for the display if beauty 
is another evil which is linked up with the evil look. This urge 
is not always prominent; it is generally hidden in the depths of 
the heart. It often finds expression in the selection of 
pleasing and bright 
clothes, fancy hair-dos, and many other seemingly insignificant 
female acts. "All beautification and make-up which is meant to 
please and entertain other than the husband is sheer ignorance. 
This tendency, springs from the woman's own heart. She herself 
can only search her heart to detect any hidden evil desire. If 
it is there, it has to be eradicated according to the following 
Divine Commandment, " and remain in your houses, and so not of 
about displaying your fineries as woman used to do in the days 
of ignorance..." (33:33) 

4. The Voice: The voice is another agent of the evil spirit. A 
man and a woman may apparently be absorbed in innocent talk, but 
the hidden motive of the heart is at work. The Quran detects 
this hidden motive and 
ordains "if you are God-fearing, do not talk in a soft voice, 
lest the man of the unhealthy heart should cherish false hopes 
from you". It is the same evil desire which finds pleasure and 
satisfaction in relating or listening to stories about other 
people's lawful and unlawful sex relation. To satisfy the same 
urge, lyrical poetry, love 
songs and imaginary love romance are written. which take 
people's fancy and spread in the society like a wild fire. The 
Quran warns man "those people who desire to spread indecency and 
obscenity among the believers have a grievous torment in store 
for them in this world and in the hereafter".(24:19) 

"Both man and woman have been forbidden to describe their own 
sex affairs before other people, because this also causes 
indecency to spread by creating evil desire in the hearts."( Abu 
Daud) 

5. The Sound: Women should not stamp the ground in walking, so 
as to reveal their decoration (by their jingle).(24:31) 

6. The Perfume: The perfume also acts as a messenger between two 
evil spirits. This is the finest and most subtle means of 
communication which may be trivial in the eyes of others but the 
Islamic Haya is too sensitive to let it slip undetected. "the 
woman who uses perfume and passes through the people is 
promiscuous.( Mixed, indiscriminate)" 
(AlTirmidhi) 

7. Nudity: Islam hates nudity. The men and women of the most 
civilized nations in the world today do not feel any hesitations 
to uncover any parts of their bodies. For all these people, the 
dress is a means of decoration and not for covering nakedness. 
In Islam, nudity is an indecency which can never be tolerated by 
the Islamic Haya. The Holy 
Prophet(SAW) said, "beware, never be naked for you are being 
attended by the angels who never leave you except at the time 
when you have attend the call of nature or when you go to your 
wives. Therefore you should feel ashamed of them and have regard 
for them". (Al Tirmidhi) 

According to Islam, the dress which shows the body and reveals 
the shameful parts is no dress at all. The Holy Prophet(SAW) 
said, " Those women who remain naked even after wearing clothes, 
allure others and are allured by others, will never enter 
paradise, nor even get its 
fragrance". (Muslim) 

The Holy Prophet(SAW) said "No man should look at a naked man 
and no woman should look at a naked woman".(Muslim) 

Brother and Sister: If you lose Haya, you will lose Iman. 
Protect your Haya by refraining from indecencies. Shaitaan gains 
control over you through indecencies. Give up the company of 
indecent people because they are the agents of Shaitaan. Please 
remember, SIGN OF HAYA MEANS SIGN OF IMAN. 

May Allah(SWT) protect us from the traps of Shaitaan. Ameen. 

Robin

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Assalam Alaikum brother G. Waleed,

 

My assessment says that it is not that you are in doubt about 
the hadiths alone, but I feel sure you doubt the authenticity of 
the Quran as well. You are still not a true Muslim, and you are 
still jihad-ing inside your conscience about what is right and 
what is wrong.

 

I am sorry to sound so blunt but this is the truth. I think you 
belong to the category of those who need proof for everything. 
And even if you will be shown the facts from all sides, you will 
still remain in doubt.

 

Now you are considering the hadiths of all Sahabas wrong because 
you compare them to the people of the Book, who had earlier 
altered their scriptures. 

 

So I am very sorry to disappoint you because the people of the 
Book who altered their scriptures were born in period which 
lacked security of recording methodology, as compared to the 
period of Sahabas, from where arose the real development of 
specialized recording techniques like printing and publishing of 
materials through proper channels. 

 

And another reason for your denial of the hadiths could be that 
you believe: the Sahabas were liars, and thus not true Muslims. 
So if this is the reason you give, then I suggest there was no 
such thing revealed like the Quran, and there was no such person 
as Muhammad (SAW), or may be the prophet himself was a fake 
Prophet? Is this what you are trying to prove?

 

Then I pity you for your disbeliefs.

 

If you still think that all hadiths lack authenticity, go up to 
the root of the matter, dig the truth, and bring your reasons 
for why you disqualify such and such hadith. If you do so and 
the scales are heavier on your part, then we shall InshaAllah be 
the first people to support you for bringing readings being a 
true Muslim, and enlightening us on the dark aspect of a 
particular version.

 

Now about the question from where emerged this long 
discussion:  Is Rajm justified for adultery? 

 

Let me first tell you that for the Fiqh Law to be formulated, 
three things are required: the Quran; the authenticated Hadiths; 
and the  Qiyas  or analogical reasoning. Through these three 
sources, the  Ijma  or the consensus is reached upon. And then 
the law is formulated to be applied. 

 

You can doubt a Fiqh incase the law is derived only through the 
Qiyas or the Ijma. But here in our discussion, you are denying 
the Quran as well as the Hadiths. 

 

I say this because, you denied my article on this subject 
calling Astaghfar, and what not, in spite of it being based o 
the Quranic revelations.

 

I had later on put up this question, that if the verse 24:2 
applies to both: the fornicators and the adulterers, then how is 
it possible (in case of adulterers) that they be married again 
with respect to 24:3 ?

 

No answer to it.

 

You bring instead another verse in question:

<<4:25 says a married slave girl should receive half the 
punishment of a free woman if she commits adultery.

Man can easily devide 100 into half and get 50.
Man cannot devide death into half.>>

 

Now for your information the verse you refer is not 
regarding  zina , it is regarding lewdness (fahisha).



 

 wa- man lam yastat.ic min -kum t.awl(an) 'an yankih. al- 
muh.s.anaat al- mu'minaat fa- min maa malakat aymaan -kum min 
fatayaat -kum al- mu'minaat wa- 'allaah aclam bi- 'emaan -kum 
bacd. -kum min bacd. fa- inkih.o -hunna bi- 'idhn 'ahl -hunna wa-
 'aato -hunna 'ujor -hunna bi- al- macrof muh.s.anaat ghayr 
musaafih.aat wa- laa muttakhidhaat akhdaan fa- 'idhaa uh.s.inna 
fa- 'in 'atayna bi- faah.ishah fa- calay -hinna nis.f maa calaa 
al- muh.s.anaat min al- cadhaab dhaalika li- man khashiya al- 
canat min -kum wa- 'an tas.biro khayr la- -kum wa- 

'allaah ghafor rah.em 

 

 And whoso is not able to afford to marry free, believing women, 
let them marry from 

the believing maids whom your right hands possess. Allah knoweth 
best (concerning) your faith. Ye (proceed) one from another; so 
wed them by permission of their folk, and give unto them their 
portions in kindness, they being honest, not debauched nor of 
loose conduct. And if when they are honorably married they 
commit lewdness they shall incur the half of the punishment 
(prescribed) for free women (in that case). This is for him 
among you who feareth to commit sin. But to have patience would 
be better for you. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.  [Quran: 4:25]

 

 

 wa- 'allaate ya'tena al- faah.ishah min nisaa' -kum fa- 
istashhido calay -hinna arbacah min -kum fa- 'in shahido fa- 
amsiko -hunna fe al- buyot h.attaa yatawaffaa -hunna al- 
mawt 'aw yajcal 'allaah la- -hunna sabel(an)  

 If any of your women are guilty of lewdness take the evidence 
of four (reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and 
if they testify confine them to houses until death do claim them 
or Allah ordain for them some (other) way.  [Quran:4:15]

 

AY Ali s note 3709 to 33:30, says:

 The punishment in this life for ...fornication is public 
flogging with a hudred stripes, under xxiv.2; or for lewdness
(seeiv.15) imprisonment; or stoning to death for adultery  
(obviously from the hadiths.)

 

Thus the point you purport for the slave girl, half the 
punishment implies, half the imprisonment; and not half death.

 

Decision is all yours.

 

Juhi Suhel

 
 

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Assallamu Allaikum

The Quran is the word of God Almighty and it is the main source 
of
guidance for mankind. Yet what do we actually know about the 
Quran?
Below The Revival brings to you almost everything you need to 
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100 Question & Answers on The Quran
http://www.therevival.co.uk/articles/100_questions_on%20Quran.htm

1) What is the meaning of the word "Qur'an"?
A) That which is Read.
2) Where was the Qur'an revealed first?
A) In the cave of Hira (Makkah)
3) On which night was the Qur'an first revealed?
A) Lailatul-Qadr (Night of the Power)
4) Who revealed the Qur'an?
A) Allah revealed the Qur'an
5) Through whom was the Qur'an revealed?
A) Through Angel Jibraeel (Alaihis-Salaam)
6) To whom was the Qur'an revealed?
A) To the last Prophet, Muhammed (Sallahu Alaihi Wasallam)
7) Who took the responsibility of keeping the Qur'an safe?
A) Allah himself
8) What are the conditions for holding or touching the Qur'an?
A) One has to be clean and to be with wudhu (ablution)
9) Which is the book which is read the most in the entire world?
A) The Qur'an
10) What is the topic of the Qur'an?
A) Man
11) What are the other names of the Qur'an according to the 
Qur'an
itself?
A) A l-Furqaan, Al-Kitaab, Al-Zikr, Al-Noor,Al-Huda
12) How many chapters of the Quran were revealed in Mecca?
A) 86
13) How many chapters of the Quran were revealed in Medina?
A) 28
14) How many Manzils (stages) are there in the Qur'an?
A) 7
15) How many Paara or Juz (parts) are there in the Qur'an?
A) 30
16) How many Surahs (chapters) are there in the Qur'an?
A) 114
17) How many Rukoo (paragraphs) are there in the Qur'an?
A) 540
18) How many Aayaath (verses) are there in the Qur'an?
A) 6666
19) How many times is the word 'Allah' repeated in the Qur'an?
A) 2698
20) How many different types of Aayaath (verses) are there in the
Qur'an?
A) 10
21) Who is the first 'Haafiz' (memoriser)of the Qur'an?
A) Prophet Muhammed (Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam)
22) At the time of the death of Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu 
Alaihi
Wasallam) how many Huffaz (people who memorised th eentire Quran)
were there?
A) 22
23) How many Aayaath (verses) on Sajda (prostat ion) are there in
the Qur'an?
A) 14
24) In which Paara (part) and Surah (chapter) do you find the 
first
verse about Sajda (prostation)?
A) 9th Paara, 7th Chapter-Surah-al-Araaf, Verse 206
25) How many times has the Qur'an stressed about Salaat or Namaaz
(prayer)?
A) 700 times
26) How many times has the Qur'an emphasized on alms or charity?
A) 150
27) How many times in the Qur'an, is the Prophet Muhammed
(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)addressed asYaa-Aiyu-Han-Nabi?
A) 11 times
28) Where in the Qur'an has Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam) been named 'Ahmed'?
A) Paara 28th, Surah Saff, Ayath 6th
29) How many times has the name of Rasool-ullah (Sallallahu 
Alaihi
Wasallam) been mentioned in the Qur'an?
A) Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)-4times Ahmed (Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam)-1 time
30) Name the Prophet whose name is mentioned and discussed most 
in
the Qur'an?
A) Moosa (Alahis-Salaam)
31) Who were the Kaathibe-Wahi (scribes of the revelations) of 
the
Qur'an?
A) Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu), Usman (Radhiallahu Anhu), Ali
(Radhiallahu Anhu), Zaid Bin Harith(Radhiallahu Anhu) And 
Abdullah
bin Masood(Radhiallahu Anhu)
32) Who was the first person who counted the Aayaath (verses) of 
the
Qur'an?
A) Ayesha (Radhiallahu Anha)
33) On whose advice did Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) decide to
compile the Qur'an?
A) Omer Farooq(Radhiallahu Anhu)
34) On whose order was the Qur'an compiled completely in written
form?
A) Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu)
35) Who confined the recitation of the Qur'an on the style of the
Quraysh tribe?
A) Usman (Radhiallahu Anhu)
36) Out of the copies of the Qur'an compiled by Usman 
(Radhiallahu
Anhu), how many and where are they at present?
A) Only 2 copies. One in Tashkent and the other in Istanbul.
37) Which Surah of the Qur'an was Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam) reciting while praying, that Hazrat Jabeer Bin
Muth'im Listened to and embraced Islam?
A) Surah Thoor
38) Which was that Surah of the Qur'an which the Prophet Muhammed
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) had recited when one of his enemies 
Utba
after listening to it fell in Sajda (prostation)?
A) The first five Ayaaths of Ham-Meem-Sajda
39) Which is the first and the most ancient Mosque according to 
the
Qur'an?
A) Kaaba
40) In Qur'an mankind is divided into two groups.Which are those 
two
groups?
A) Believers and disbelievers
41) Who is the man about whom, Allah has said in the Qur'an that 
his
body is kept as an admonishing example for future generations to
come?
A) Fir'aun. (Pharaoh)
42) Besides the body of Pharaoh, what is that thing which is 
kept as
an admonishing example for future generations to come?
A) Noah's Ark.
43) After the wreckage of Prophet Noah's Ark, which is its place 
of
rest mentioned in theQur'an?
A) Cave of Judi.
44) In the Qur'an the name of whic h companion of Prophet 
Muhammed
(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) is mentioned?
A) Zaid Bin Harith.
45) Who is the relative of the Prophet Muahmmed (Sallallahu 
Alaihi
Wasallam)whose name is mentioned in the Qur'an?
A) Abu Lahab
46) In the Qur'an there is a mention of a Prophet who has been
called by his mother's name. Who was he?
A) Jesus [Prophet Isa (Alahis salaam)] is mentioned as bin 
Maryam.
47) Which was the agreement that was titled 'Fath-hum-Mubeen'
without fighting a battle?
A) Treaty of Hudaibiya
48) What are the different names used for Satan or Devil in the
Qur'an?
A) Iblees and Ash-Shaitaan.
49) Which category of creature does the Qur'an put 'Iblees' into?
A) Jinn.
50) What were those worships and prayers that were ordered by 
Allah
to the community of Bani Israeel and which were continued by the
Muslim Ummah also?
A) Salaat and Zakaat. (Al-Baqarah:43)
51) The Qur'an repeatedly warns of a certain day.Can you say 
which
day it is?
A) Youmal Qiyamah.(Day of Judgement)
52) Who were those people with whom Allah was pleased and they 
were
pleased with Him, as mentioned in the Qur'an?
A) Companions of Prophet Muhammed.(Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)
53) In which Holy Book of Non-Muslims does the Qur'an mention
repeatedly?
A) In the Holy Book of Sikh Community-Granth Saheb.
54) In which year were the vowels inserted in the Qur'an?
A) 43 Hijri.
55) Who were the first serious students of the Qur'an?
A) As-haabus Suffah.
56) Which is the first Residential University where the faculty 
of
the Qur'an was established for the first time?
A) Masjid-e-Nabvi.[Mosque of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi 
Wasallam)
57) By what name did the Qur'an address those noble and pious 
people
who were selected by Allah to convey His message to mankind?
A) Nabi (Prophet) and Rasool (Messenger).
58) What type of a person does the Qur'an want to make?
A) Momin(Believer)
59) What is the scale or measure of one's dignity according to 
the
Qur'an?
A) Taqwa. (Piety)
60) What according to the Qur'an is the root cause of the evil?
A) Alcohol.
61) What are the two most important types of kinds of Aayaat 
(Verses)
found in the Qur'an?
A) Muhakamaat and muthashabihaath.
62) Which is the longest Surah (Chapter) in the Qur'an?
A) Surah-al-Baqarah.
63) Which is the smallest Surah in the Qur'an?
A) Surah-al-Kausar.
64) What was the age of Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam) when Qur'an was first revealed to him through Jibraeel
(Alaihis-salaam)?
A) 40 Years.
65) How long did Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)
receive the revelation of the Qur'an in Makkah?
A) 13 Years.
66) How long did Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)
receive the revelation of the Qur'an in Madinah?
A) 10 Years.
67) Where was the first Surah revealed?
A) In Makkah.
68) Where was the last Surah revealed?
A) In Madinah.
69) How many years did it take for the complete revelation of the
Qur'an?
A) 22 years,5 months and 14 days.
70) Which Surah(Chapter) of the Qur'an is to be read 
compulsorily in
each raka'at of the Salaat (Namaaz)?
A) Surah-al-Fatihah.
71) Which is the Surah, which Allah taught as a Du'a(Prayer)?
A) Surah-al-Fatihah.
72) What is the reason of keeping Surah-al-Fatihah in the 
beginning
of the Qur'an?
A) It is the door to the Qur'an
73) What is the Surah (Chapter) revealed completely and found 
first
place in the Qur'an?
A) Surah-al-Fatihah.
74) Who was the only lady whose personal name is found in the 
Qur'an?
A) Mariam(Alaihis-salaam).
75) In which Surah (Chapter) of the Qur'an do you find maximum
instructions?
A) Surah-al-Baqarah.
76) When and Where did the Prophet Muhammed Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam) and Jibraeel (Alaihis-salaam) meet for the second time?
A) On Friday,18th Ramadan,in the Cave of Hira.
77) What was the interval between the first and the second
revelation?
A) 2 years and six months.
78) Which is the Surah (Chapter) that does start without 
Bismillah?
A) Surah-al-Taubah or Bara'ath.
79) In which Surah (Chapter) of the Qur'an Bismillah is repeated
twice?
A) Surah-al Naml.
80) How many Surah (Chapter) in the Qur'an have the titles named
after different Prophets?
A) 6 Surahs (Chapters):
a) Surah-al-Yunus.
b)Surah-al-Hood.
c) Surah-al-Yusuf.
d) Surah-al-Ibraheem.
e)Surah-al-Nuh.
f) Surah-al-Muhammed.
81) In which part of the Qur'an do you find 'Ayat-ul-
Kursi'(Verse of
the Throne)?
A) In the beginning of the third Part .(Chapter2-55)
82) How many different names of Allah are mentioned in the 
Qur'an?
A) 99
83) Who were the three non-prophets whose names are mentioned 
with
due respect in the Qur'an?
A) Luqman,Aziz of Egypt and Zulqarnain.
84) At the time Abu Bakr (Radhiallahu Anhu) how many companions 
had
compiled the Qur'an in the form of a book?
A) 75 companions.
85) Which is that only book which is completely memorized by
millions of people in the world?
A) Al-Qur'an.
86) What did the Jinns who heard a few Aayaath Verses) of the 
Qur'an
say to each other?
A) We have heard a unique discourse which shows the right path,
verily we believe in it.
87) Which are the most popular translations of the Qur'an in 
English?
A) Translation by Muhammed Marmaduke Pickthall and by Allama 
Yusuf
Ali.
88) Into how many languages of the world has the Holy Qur'an been
translated?
A) Nearly 103 languages.
89) Who was the first translator of the Holy Qur'an into Urdu?
A) Moulana Shah Rafiuddin Muhaddis Dehlavi.
90) What will be our condition on 'The day of the Judgment'
according to the Qur'an?
A) Everybody will be in a state of anxiety.
91) Who was the Prophet mentioned in the Qur'an whose three
generations were prophets?
A) Ibraheem (Alaihis-salaam).
92) What is that book which abolished all old rules and 
regulations?
A) Al-Qur'an.
93) What does the Qur'an say about property and wealth?
A) They are tests of one's faith.
94) According to the Qur'an who is "khaatamun Nabiyyeen" (the 
last
of the Prophets)?
A) Prophet Muhammed (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)
95) What is the name of the book that tells us clearly about the
reality of the beginning and the end of the world?
A) Al-Qur'an.
96) In the Qur'an what other name is given to the city of Makkah?
A) Bakkah and Baladul Ameen.
97) According to the Qur'an what other name is given to the city 
of
Madinah?
A) Yathrib.
98) Whose Generation is known as "Bani Israeel" according to the
Qur'an?
A) The generation of Prophet Yaqoob(Alaihis salaam) who is also
known as Israeel.
99) Which are the mosques that are mentioned in the Qur'an
a) Masjid-ul-Haram.
b) Masjid-ul-Zirar.
c) Masjid-ul-Nabawi.
d) Masjid-u l-Aqsa.
e) Masjid Quba.
100) The name of which angels are mentioned in the Qur'an?
a) Jibraeel Ameen.Alaihis salaam)
b) Meekaeel.(Alaihis salaam)
c) Haroot.(Alaihis salaam)
d) Maroot.(Alaihis salaam)

 

the information on 'Islam and Slavery'??
Ma-Salaam Khalil Muhsin
--- juhi suhel wrote:
> 
> Assalam Alaikum,
> 
> 
> 
> And may Allah guide us to the truth of all things.
> Aameen
> 
> 
> 
> I don t know where to start. It is a gross gross
> misconception in the minds of Muslim men that Islam
> allows them to have illegal relations with the slave
> girls.
> 
> 
> 
> Allah have mercy on the state of beliefs Muslim men
> keep regarding women. Ruby I think you have
> summarized rightly:  THIS IS MIND BLOWING .
> 
> 
> 
> Here we are heading toward a war, and I am pushing
> people to support justice, support Islam, support
> Jihad. Please if you men have such very good
> thoughts about the captives of the war, it is a
> sanguine request: Please sit at your homes. Or we
> shall be the losers. Allah will never guard us.
> Allah is never unjust to anyone on earth. And this
> is the reason why Allah doesn t give Muslims
> dominion over earth. 
> 
> 
> 
> UNLESS AND UNTIL MUSLIMS DO NOT PURIFY THEMSELVES
> FROM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, THEY WILL NOT GAIN VICTORY.
> 
> AND I REALLY PRAY ALLAH TO NOT TO GIVE VICTORY TO
> PEOPLE UNJUST.
> 
> MAY ALLAH SHOW ALL MUSLIMS, HOW TO BE A TRUE MUSLIM,
> ONLY THEN MAY ALLAH GIVE US SUCCOUR.
> 
> 
> 
> Check this out:
> 
> http://filebox.vt.edu/users/oraja/slavery13.html
> 
> In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most the
> Merciful
> 
> ISLAM AND SLAVERY
> 
> FEMALE SLAVES/PRISONERS OF WAR
> 
> It is entirely a misconception to claim that Islam
> allowed the Muslims to have conjugal relations with
> slaves before they were in a married state. To have
> conjugal relations with your slaves, before marriage
> would have amounted to fornication, a grievous sin,
> and to have been married and have had conjugal
> relations with slaves without first marrying them
> would then that would have amounted to the sin of
> adultery. 
> 
> The Qur an tells us if you cannot marry, you must
> remain chaste, and the Prophet Muhammad (saw) also
> laid stress on remaining in a married state. 
> 
> "And those who cannot afford to marry should remain
> chaste " (24:33) 
> 
>  O assembly of young people! Whoever of you has the
> means to support a wife, he should get married, for
> this keeps the gaze low and guards chastity; and he
> who has not the means should take to fasting
> (occasionally), for it will have a castrating effect
> on him.  (Bukhari) 
> 
> This here is a Makkan verse:  And go not nigh to
> fornication: surely it is an obscenity, And evil is
> the way.  (Qur an 17:32) 
> 
> Also a Makkan verse:  And they who call not upon
> another god with Allah and slay not the soul which
> Allah has forbidden, except in the cause of justice,
> nor commit fornication; and he who does this shall
> meet a requital of sin  (Qur an 25:68) 
> 
>  The woman and the man guilty of adultery or
> fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred
> stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case,
> in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in
> Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the
> Believers witness their punishment.  (Qur'an 24:2) 
> 
> The misconception arises from these verses which
> were revealed at Makkah: 
> 
>  And those who guard their modesty, Except in the
> presence of their mates or those whom their right
> hands possess   for such surely are not to be
> blamed.  (23:5-6;70:29-30) 
> 
> Religion of Islam: By Maulana Muhammad Ali states: 
> 
> These verses apply to men and women equally, and no
> more can they justify a man having sexual relations
> with female slaves, it can also justify similar
> relations of a woman with her male slave. But no one
> has ever drawn such absurd conclusions from these
> words! 
> 
> The Arabic word for guard their modesty as used
> here, is furuj, (pl. of furj) which means the part
> of a person which is indecent to expose (LL.)
> Hifz-al-farj therefore signifies in a wider sense
> not only refraining from actual sexual intercourse
> but also refraining from exposing certain parts of
> the body which is indecent to expose. 
> 
> But a certain degree of freedom in this latter sense
> is allowed, to both men and women, in the presence
> of their slaves, to women in the presence of their
> husbands and female servants and to men in the
> presence of their wives and male servants. 
> 
> But even if, for the sake of argument, the inference
> drawn from these words was that the Muslims are
> allowed to have concubines and were accepted as
> true, that argument loses all its value when you
> consider the fact that the two chapters (23:5-6,
> 70:29-30) in which this expression occurs are really
> Makkan revelations when Islam had not introduced its
> reforms. 
> 
> The Prophet Muhammad (saw) received revelation in
> Makkah for the first 10 years of his Prophethood,
> and for his last 13 years in Medinah after the
> Hijra, or migration from Makkah to Medina 
> 
> And that the permission if ever there was any to
> keep concubines was taken away by the reforms
> introduced at Madinah, when a clear injunction was
> given that all female slaves should be kept in a
> married state. If the female slave must be married,
> the master certainly has no right to sexual
> enjoyment with her." 
> 
> The evil of concubinage was removed by making
> rightful wedlock an essential for cohabitation with
> women in bondage. Marriage with slave girls was
> encouraged, and such alliance paved the way for
> emancipation. In this respect the Qur an says: 
> 
>  And marry those among you who are single, and those
> who are fit among your male 
> slaves and your female slaves. If they are needy,
> Allah will make them free from want out of His
> grace. And Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.  (Qur an
> 24:32) 
> 
>  And let those who can not find a match keep
> chaste, until Allah makes them free from want out of
> His grace. And those of your slaves who ask for a
> writing (of freedom) give them the writing, if you
> know any good in them, and give them of the wealth
> of Allah which He has given you. And compel not your
> slave girls to prostitution when they desire to keep
> chaste, in order to see the frail goods of this
> world s life. And whoever compels them, then surely
> after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful 
> (Qur an 24:33) 
> 
> Again if the reference in (23:5-6, 70:29-30) is to
> sexual relations for the sake of argument, the
> permission regarding those whom their right hands
> possess must be read subject to the conditions of
> 4:25, among other verses. 
> 
> In the Qur'an 4:24 talks about whom it is forbidden
> to marry and an exception is made regarding those
> whom your rights hand possess, meaning the prisoners
> of wars. Sometimes it happened that such prisoners
> became converts to Islam, and therefore they could
> not be sent back, so it was therefore lawful to take
> them in marriage. 
> 
>  And whoever among you cannot afford to marry free
> believing women, let him marry such of your
> believing maidens as your rights hand possess (4:25)
> 
> 
>  And whoever among you cannot afford to marry free
> believing women, (let him marry) such of your
> believing maidens as your right hands possess. And
> Allah knows best your faith   you are (sprung) the
> one from the other. So marry them with the
> permission of their masters, and give them their
> dowries 
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Salaamu Alaikum Wr Wb

BismillahHirRahmanNirRahim

There are numerous ayahs of Quran Kerim referring to the Order 
of 
following Nabi(saw), not one ayah of Quran Kerim say otherwise, 
as 
following Quran is obeying Allah, following Nabi(saw) is 
following 
BOTH Allah and the Messenger of Allah(saw), not following 
hadiths of 
Prophet(saw) is going against the Prophet(saw) and Allah 
Almighty.


Concerning Adherence to the Sunnah in the Holy Qur' n:

       "O ye who believe! Obey All h, and obey the Messenger, 
and 
those charged with authority among you." [Holy Qur' n 4:59] 
       "O ye who believe! Obey All h and His Messenger, and turn
not 
away from him when ye hear (him speak)." [Holy Qur' n 8:20] 
       "O ye who believe! give your response to All h and His 
Messenger, when He calleth you to that which will give you life; 
and 
know that All h cometh in between a man and his heart, and that 
it
is 
He to Whom ye shall (all) be gathered."  [Holy Qur' n 8:24] 
       "Ye have indeed in the Messenger of All h an excellent 
exemplar for him who hopes in All h and the Final Day, and who 
remembers All h." [Holy Qur' n 33:21] 

Imam Ghazzali (RA) says: "Know that the key to total bliss 
(Saadah) 
lies in following the Sunnah and in emulating the life of 
Rasulullah 
(SallAll hu Alayhi Wasallam) in ALL that issues from him, and in
ALL 
his doings even if it concerns the manner of his eating, rising, 
sleeping, and speaking. I do say this in relation to rituals in 
worship ONLY because there is no way neglecting the Sunnah 
reported 
of him in such matters - but what I say INCLUDES EVERY ASPECT of 
his 
daily life." (Kitab al Arbain Addin, Cairo 1344, p. 89). 
Furthermore, 
in the Holy Qur' n, All h told Rasulullah (SallAll hu Alayhi 
Wasallam) to say: 

"Say: "If ye do love All h, Follow me: All h will love you and 
forgive you your sins: For All h is Oft-Forgiving, Most 
Merciful." 
[Holy Qur' n 3:31] 


A warning to us all is also in the Holy Quran Kerim, if we not 
heed 
the following of the example of the Prophet(saw).

And they prevent others from him (from following Prophet 
Muhammad 
SAW) and they themselves keep away from him, and (by doing so) 
they 
destroy not but their ownselves, yet they perceive (it) not.
6:26


May Allah forgive me for saying anything incorrect here, May 
Allahs 
Blessings be with you all.

Wa-Alaikum Salaam
Sufi_1976 -  A Weak Servant Of Allah Almighty -

--- In islamic_net@yahoogroups.com, "G.Waleed Kavalec" 
<Greg@k...> 
wrote:
> Walaikum asalaam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu
> 
> 
> > No less than the QURAN tells us to follow our prophet(saw) 
Hadith