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Jamada al-Awwal 24, 1430/ May 19, 2009, # 24

Spotlight from Imam Badi Ali:

If you have only 5 minutes to do a project, spend 4 minutes in thinking about it [study it, research it, analyze it]. Spend one minute to implement it.

Spotlight #2 from Imam Badi:

Many Muslims in America tell non-Muslims what they want to hear. This causes confusion and misguidance. Tell the truth about Islam.

The Colbert Report: Insulting Jesus, pbuh, supporting Homosexuality, Honoring Cat Stevens [Yusuf Islam]

May 14, 2009: What was Yusuf Islam thinking of?

Colbert ridiculed Jesus, pbuh, claimimg that Jesus, pbuh, was tempted by bikini clad women [and other such dirty comments.]
Then Colbert started defending homosexuality and making fun of its critics.
Then he introduced Yusuf Islam and gave him the floor to play and sing from his "roadsinger" album.
We ask Cat Stevens: Was it worthwhile to make money off his introduction of his album a few minutes after Jesus, pbuh, had been insulted.
Did Yusuf think Muslims were not watching? Surely Allah Knows all that we do.

Latest News from Somalia

On May 17, Shabab al-Islam captured the town of Jowhar, north of Mogadishu. The defenders fled.
On May 18, Hizbul Islam, a similar group, captured Mahaday, a town 23 km north of Jowhar. The defenders left in a hurry.
Fighting is raging in Mogadishu as the pro-western government is holding on with the help of foreign troops.
The fighting began when Shabab objected to the presence of non-Muslim armed forces on Muslim land. The government threatened to call on America for help. That set it off.
[For latest photo of Islamic resistance in Somalia, please scroll all the way down .]

Obama Day 118
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Press release:

Obama-Natanyahu Meeting is an an Outrage: It Tears at the Heart of Palestine.

May 18: President Obama met Natanyahoo. Netanyahoo is a known Israeli terrorist. His crimes against the Palestinian, Lebanese, Arab and African people are too many to list here. Only in January 2009, the Israeli genocide in Gaza was hailed by Netanyahoo. The widows and orphans of Palestine know him as a criminal.
President Obama asked him to stop settlements. When? What about the ones already set up?

President Obama is suggesting to Netanyahoo that he think of a Palestinian state along with Israel. Have the Arab people or the Muslim world given Obama the right to think on their behalf that Israel should continue to get total U.S. support while it should graciously allow a puppet Palestinian puppet state to come into being?

Mr. Obama: Don't forget that Islam is the key to peace. Israeli military power is not the way to peace. Muslims will not accept an Israel-based puppet Palestinian entity.

Obama is taking the line that Israel will be doing everyone a favor by accepting at least the idea of a Palestinian state.

Please Mr. Obama, stop thinking of the Muslims as chumps and fools.

Latest War News from Swat, Pakistan: Taliban putting up stiff resistance, showing ability to regroup, avoid air attacks
from New Trend's Pakistan monitors

May 17-18, 2009: Heavily armed columns of Pakistani forces, with strong air support, have moved into the outskirts of towns held by the Taliban in Swat. Heavy fighting is reported from the towns of Matta, Kanju and the approaches to Mingora. The Pakistani forces are advancing up the roads leading to the towns. Most of the countryside and major areas of the towns remain in Islamic hands. Pak heavy artillery, helicopter gunships and jet fighters have been attacking the countryside in the hopes of hitting the Taliban but with little success.

New Trend analysts say that the Pak army claims of having killed 775 [now 1,000] "militants" turned out to be grossly exaggerated. Our analysis of the information coming out shows that the military assault has killed about 500 civilians, including women and children, and around 50 Taliban. In the few contacts the military has had with Taliban, the Paks have lost 48 of their elite forces killed and 78 wounded.

Pak fear propaganda calling for "evacuation" combined with the use of long range artillery and air strikes, including strafing by jet fighters, terrified the population and 1.7 million people became refugees [euphemestically called "internally displaced persons or IDPs by the military]. However another 200,000 people refused to leave and are helping the small Taliban defense forces which have not withdrawn from fixed positions.

Some of the civilian casualties caused by General Kayani's long range artillery are horrific, including women cut in two, children blown up and numerous people with serious wounds and no medical facilities.

Indications from the situation on the ground are that the U.S. funded and U.S. backed army is behaving like a mercenary force. Areas where the army takes over, curfew is imposed with great severity to terrorize the people.

The Taliban leaders, including the legendary Islamic hero of Swat, Maulvi Fazlullah, evaded capture in spite of a sophisticated heliborne landing of Pak troops behind his lines. His FM radio is still working and on May 18 he gave a brief, terse interview to BBC in which he said the military offensive was "a gift" from {President] Zardari to the USA.

Also on May 18, the famous Taliban spokesman in Swat, Muslim Khan spoke to the media from an undisclosed location and promised tough resistance in the Way of Allah.

African American intellectual and Independent Broadcaster notices the thoughtless continuation of Bush's policies
Afghanistan/Pakistan Where Empires Go to Die
"America can not afford this folly."

By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III [The writer lives in Maryland.]

Under the pretext of responding to the September 11, 2001 attacks in America, the United and States and Great Britain invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 under the banner of operation Enduring Freedom. President Bush 41' told the American people that the US strikes were, "...designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations, and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime...we will make it more difficult for the terror network to train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans. Initially, the terrorists may burrow deeper into caves and other entrenched hiding places...At the same time, the oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine and supplies to the starving and suffering men and women and children of Afghanistan... "

During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq in order to bolster the forces in Afghanistan in order to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda. "It's time to refocus our attention on the war we have to win in Afghanistan." I believe that this tactic was taken by the Obama team in order to placate the anti-Iraq contingent in the American electorate while not leaving himself vulnerable to the "soft on defense" hawkish critics on the other side. As a campaign tactic this approach proved to be successful. In reality, this may prove to be one of the greatest miscalculations President Obama could make.

After the historic election of President Obama, many historians and others placed this event in the context of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Some mistakenly saw this election as the fulfillment of "The Dream"; others mistakenly compared candidate Obama's "race neutral" approach and stellar oratory with Dr. King's.

Today, critics are asking the question "is the Obama administrations approach to the problems in Afghanistan/Pakistan going to be their Vietnam?" As America faces its most difficult economic challenges in recent history, compare President Obama's Afghanistan/Pakistan with President Johnson's Vietnam. Are the same mistakes that were based on arrogance, hubris, and a misplaced sense of empire being made again? Here's what the Rev. Dr. King had to say about US involvement in Vietnam in his speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,

"There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."

Today, President Obama is planning to send an additional 4,000 troops and other support personnel into Afghanistan. Like his predecessor, President Obama says, "If the Afghanistan government falls to the Taliban or allows al-Qaida to go unchallenged, that country will again be a base for terrorists." The additional 4,000 troops will bring the total US force up to 30,000 by the end of 2009.

President Obama is also ratcheting up the rhetoric and activity in Pakistan. In his announcement on March 27th, President Obama referred to the border region of Afghanistan/Pakistan as,

"the most dangerous place in the world... This is not simply an American problem - far from it. It is, instead, an international security challenge of the highest order. Terrorist attacks in London and Bali were tied to al-Qaida and its allies in Pakistan, as were attacks in North Africa and the Middle East, in Islamabad and Kabul. If there is a major attack on an Asian, European, or African city, it, too, is likely to have ties to al-Qaida's leadership in Pakistan. The safety of people around the world is at stake.".

President Obama and his advisors should learn from history, some ancient some modern, and not repeat it. This is the region of the world that has never been defeated militarily. It is where empires go to die. The Greeks, Indians, Persians, Mongolians, British, and Russians have tried to hold Afghanistan but never succeeded.

According to historians, Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. lost more men and more animals crossing the Hindu Kush than all his subsequent campaigns in central Asia. In 1839 the British invaded Afghanistan; in 1841 after an Afghan revolt, 4,500 British troops withdrew. According to a description published in the North American Review in 1842,

"On the 6th of January, 1842, the Caboul forces commenced their retreat through the dismal pass, destined to be their grave. On the third day they were attacked by the mountaineers from all points, and a fearful slaughter ensued..."

In most recent history, the Russians invaded Afghanistan. The initial deployment of the Soviet 40th Army began in Afghanistan on August 7, 1978. After nine years of fighting a US, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistani backed mujahideen resistance, the Soviet troop withdrawal began on May 15, 1988 and ended on February 15, 1989.

Since 2001, in spite of President Bush and now President Obama's noble speeches and military tactics, the US and its allies have not "disrupt(ed) the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations". The US has not been able to successfully "attack the military capability of the Taliban regime".

What the US has done is lost 1147 coalition forces; US Air Force data shows that Munitions dropped in Afghanistan have risen 1,100 percent, from 2004 to 2007 tonnage figures jumped from 163 tons to 1,956 tons. According to the United Nations, bombs have killed over 2000 Afghan civilians in 2008, up 40% from 2007. The Associated Press reports the direct correlation between the rise in Afghan civilian deaths and anti-American sentiment.

In terms of dollars, according to recently released pentagon reports, the price tag for running the war in Afghanistan/Pakistan will outstrip the cost of the conflict in Iraq next year. America can not afford this folly. As the Rev. Dr. King would say, then came the buildup in Afghanistan/Pakistan and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war...

The US and its allies could "disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations, and attack the military capability of the Taliban regime..." if more of this effort and money were spent on winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan and Pakistani people through real humanitarian assistance such as water, food, medicine, blankets, and building supplies.

The problem with this solution is that those who fuel and promote the military industrial complex in America do not profit from the sale of humanitarian assistance. They profit from war. This is why, if America is not smart, Afghanistan/Pakistan will once again be where empires go to die.

Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host of the nationally broadcast call-in talk radio program "On With Leon," and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Go to www.wilmerleon.com or email: wjl3us@yahoo.com .
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Facts about the Taliban which most People Don't Know
from New Trend's Research Support

"Taliban" is plural of Talib [student]. Major U.S. media mistakenly use it as singular. CNN frequently refers to "the Taliban is claiming ...."
Taliban in Afghanistan are the Taliban fighting NATO and are led my Mullah Omar. This movement, about 15,000 armed men, has widespread support in southern, eastern and western Afghanistan [which is about 50% of Afghanistan.] The Afghan Taliban have the support of Maulvi Haqqani [very solid support] and some, not very strong, support from Hikmatyar. Taliban cadres seem to be in place in Kabul and various parts of northern Afghanistan as well. [Without the U.S. air force, Karzai would collapse.]
The Taliban in Pakistan are a relatively new phenemonon. It's a decentralized movement for whom the term "Pakistani Taliban" is a generic term. Baitullah Mehsud is the leader of the Pak Taliban in South Wazristan's western areas. The eastern areas are led by Mullah Nazir [a Waziri tribesman]. The Mehsuds and the Waziris are now working together and are strongly supportive of Shaykh Usama.
North Waziristan, Bajaur, Hangu, Bannu, Kohat, Darra Adam Khel have a variety of fighting groups all of whom support the Taliban morally and perhaps logistically in Afghanistan but are distinct and independent.
In Swat, Changla, Lower Dir, Upper Dir and Buner, people have tremendous support for Shari'a [Islamic Law]. They are not Taliban but are very sympathetic to the Taliban. The hard core fighters among them support Maulvi Fazlullah's Taliban who are resisting a powerful Pakistani offensive in Swat.
In Punjab, the biggest province of Pakistan, a recent report by the BBC says that 43% of the people are either sympathetic to the Taliban or actually support the Taliban in minor ways. This support could be decisive in the future if most of Punjab joins the Taliban.
Is it true that the Taliban in general are against education, especially education for women? No! There is no truth in this claim although it is the main staple of anti-Taliban propaganda.
The Taliban want education, for men and women, but want it to be a strongly Islam-based education.
After the U.S. air force and the Pakistani military destroyed scores of Islamic schools, village mosques and the homes of Islamic preachers, teachers and leaders, zealots among the Taliban attacked westernized schools set up by the Pak government and destroyed some of them. No one one was killed in these attacks; however, hundreds of Islamic students and youths have been killed in attacks on Islamic institutions by the U.S. and Pak miitary. In one Islamic school in Bajaur, 86 Islamic students were killed in one U.S. attack.
Afghanistan has seen decades of war. It's the third year of war in Pakistan. The Taliban are operating in a VERY HARSH situation. We in America, Europe and even Pakistani cities cannot understand the agony and suffering of the Islamic populations. Strict Islamic laws have to be applied to save the family structure. We should not want Afghan women to live like women in America or France. Western feminist ideas have no relevance here.

Obama Day 116
U.S. Missile Attack in Pakistan Destroys Islamic School, kills 29 Muslims

May 16, 2009: Two missiles from a U.S. drone destroyed an Islamic school [medressa] and the home of Hikmat Roshan, a local Islamic activist, in the village of Khaisore, in the Mirali area of North Waziristan. At last reports, the death toll had risen to 29. The Waziri tribes have joined the Mehsud tribes in rallying to Shaykh Usama and are being targeted by the U.S. [Some say the drome attacks on the Mehsuds led the Waziri to join them in gesture of Islamic solidarity.]

The same day in North Waziristan, Pakistani helicopter gunships rocketed the homes of Islamic "militants" in a village 10 km east of Miran Shah. Losses were not reported. Earlier on May 14 a Pak army convoy was ambushed by the Waziris in this area: Three Pak troops were killed and 4 wounded. [The area borders Afghanistan.]

Taliban Raids in Afghanistan after U.S. Air Force killed 150 civilians including 95 Children.

The U.S. has accepted at least in part that civilians were killed in its air strikes in Farah province. Local reports including Karzai supporters now admit that the 150 civilians killed in the U.S. air attacks included 95 children. [NPR put up an elaborate defense of the civilian deaths in its May 18 broadcast. It quoted one Karzai saying that Pakistanis were among the Taliban there: it seems a propaganda gambit as Farah is nowhere near Pakistan.]

Taliban are continuing classic guerrilla warfare except in the rare cases where young martyrdom operators carry out totally unexpected attacks. One such was last week in Khost when 6 martyrdom operators together entered the central government buildings in the city and blew themselves up killing scores of Karzai's men and wounding at least 50. Karzai admitted 20 killed. The next day a martyr tried to hit the U.S. military base near Khost but was killed before he could hit U.S. troops. Six people working for the U.S. were killed. Observers are not surprised that U.S. troops are terrified of young Taliban.

On May 15, two U.S. troops were killed in a conventional attack in the same area by Taliban gunmen.

On May 14 A British elite trooper was killed in a Taliban attack in the Lashkargah area of Helmand province. A British Harris jet crashed at Kandahar airport. The pilot bailed out but was injured.

On May 13 In the south Ghazni area, a Karzai trooper was killed and 6 wounded.

In Maidan Wardak area, a Karzai officer was killed while fighting Taliban.
Earlier on May 7, four elite British troops were killed in combat with the Taliban., two in Gereshek [Helmand], one in Sangin , and one in Musa Qala [Helmand].

Two NATO soldiers killed along with 3 U.S. troops and 3 Karzais in a battle with Taliban on the Pakistan border were Latvians.

Letter: CNN Video was Fake. Taliban did not give interview to CNN

Assalamu alykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,
According to close sources of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the official spokesman Zabihulla Mujahid, this interveiw with CNN is fake.
Zabihuhalla Mujahid has said that he didn't meet any journalist from CNN.
Another plot of the enemies exposed.
Here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCptFrPZZG0

Pakistan Taliban

Jamaate Islami, a peaceful movement for Islamic change, held rallies in major Pakistani cities condemning the army action in Swat. This one [photo above] was in Karachi and was addressed by Karachi Jamaat leader Hussain Mahnati [inset]. The banners say [in Urdu] Stop military operation in Swat & start talks. [Left]. The one on the right says: Friendship with America brings nothing but destruction.

May 16. Syed Munawar Hasan, Ameer of Jamaate Islami Pakistan [center] and Sirajul Haq, Jamaat ameer in Frontier province [left] address refugees in Buner district, south of Swat. Hasan called for the withdrawal of the army from Swat and early peace talks. He condemned President Zardari's irrespnsible overseas trip to USA, UK, while tragedy unfolded in Swat. Jamaate Islami is leading the relief effort to help the 1.7 million people forced to leave their homes in Swat and Buner by General Kayani's offensive with heavy artillery, helicopter gunships and jet fighters.

The Pope's Visit to Occupied Palestined and Support of Israel destroyed his Credibility

by Ibrahim Ebeid [New York City]

I was raised up in the Roman Catholic faith and was taught that "His Holiness" is infallible; he makes no mistakes. As a child I believed it but when I grew up and started to think on my own I came to the conclusion that no one is infallible, all human beings make mistakes and err and because the Pope also is human, he errs, like the rest of us.
On 12 September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he previously served as professor of theology, delivered a lecture entitled "Faith, Reason and the University - Memories and Reflections." The lecture received much condemnation and praise from political and religious authorities. Many Islamic politicians and religious leaders registered their protest against what they said was an insulting mischaracterization of Islam, contained in the quotation by the pope of the following passage:
Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.
Myriad Christian Arabs, including those who were brought up in the Catholic faith, felt offended and shocked by his remarks. His offence to our Muslim brethren was in violation of the teachings of the one that he claims to represent. Jesus Christ taught his followers to love each other and not to preach hate or trespass against the others and "His Holiness" did the opposite.
In his offensive remarks, he renewed the mantra of the crusaders and he fell in the same line of the Christian Right and Christian Zionists. He opened the wounds that the Crusaders inflicted upon us.
Muhammad, the Honorable Prophet of Islam, means a lot to us Christian Arabs. He was the leader who excelled in creating the modern Arab State of the time that we are hoping to restore, The Arab Prophet taught us love and humanity and Islam means PEACE.
Your "Holiness", the Prophet of Islam came with something new and genuine, the followers of Islam built the foundation of modern science, Mathematics and preserved Greek philosophy. They are the builders of Modern Civilization. They gave the West the numbers, that you call Arabic numerals that replaced the inferior Roman numbers. The Christian Arabs took part of building the Arab Islamic civilization and they are an indivisible part of the Nation of Muhammad, the Arab Nation. Prophet Muhammad is our leader and always will be our guiding light.
The pilgrimage of "His Holiness" to the Holly Land, occupied Palestine, on the month of May is a painful reminder for us because in this month the illegal state of the Zionist entity was created in our land and the Palestinian society was destroyed. I am one of those who were born in Palestine before the creation of the Zionist entity. I have seen the tragedy of Palestine unfolding, a bitter memory that I never forget. Like millions of Palestinians, I cannot return to my house in Jaffa, because racist colonialist settlers are living there, and you are visiting this illegal entity that is causing our misery and mass murdering our people? This act is not infallible, it is unholy.
We wish that "His Holiness" would apologize for his offense to our great Prophet and Leader Muhammad. We wish that instead of visiting "Israel" he would visit the refugee camps in the "West Bank" and Gaza to see the largest concentration Camps in the world, to observe the miserable conditions of the Palestinians in this area and to witness with his own eyes the destruction that the Zionists have done with the support and help of the United States.
We wish that he would declare that the Palestinians have the right to return to their homes and establish their state in their historic land that they were forcefully evicted from.
We hope that he realizes that his followers, the Roman Catholics of Palestine, who live out of Jerusalem, will not be able to participate in the mass that he intends to celebrate in the Holy Sepulcher because Jerusalem and the Sepulcher are under occupation.
We hope that he will realize that Bethlehem is surrounded by a wall 29 feet high and all the villages and towns in the West Bank are completely isolated with high fences or concrete walls. Most of our villages and towns are walled in and our people are living in these open jails, they are blockaded, they are starving, thirsty and sick, no one to consult them.
"Your Holiness," we wish that your visit to "Israel" occupied Palestine, would not take place; it is a bitter reminder for us for a bitter tragedy that stripped us from our livelihood and from our Homeland, especially when it coincides in the month of May.
http://www.al-moharer.net/mohhtm/i_ebeid279.htm

INDIA & Bangladesh
New Delhi Trying to Turn Bangladesh into a Desert: Petition to Oppose Move

From: Fuad Mahmood. Subject: [Qur'an Mission] Sign Petition Against Construction of TipaiMukh Dam

Dear Fellow Countrymen:
I would like to draw your generous attention and take couple of minutes from your precious time for the great sake of Bangladesh. I've read, signed and now submit for your kind signature in favor the global drive of a Petition to be submitted to the Government of India through His Excellency the Prime Minister Dr. ManMohon Singh.

The Petition earnestly calls for an effective cancellation by our neighboring country India of its declared construction of a Dam on TipaiMukh. As you know, TipaiMukh Dam may appear as yet another dangerous Farakka to turn our evergreen & ever fertile motherland a desert, by constantly causing serious drought during summer and flood during rainy season round the year which is a great threat to life, ecology and overall existence of Delta of ours on the surface of the Earth.

According to the international law of rivers and waters, waters of cross-border rivers are "res communis" or common property of human race which should be equitably shared by all riparian countries and not arbitrarily used by a mighty country to the detriment of a weak nation.

Certainly the brave nation of ours is critically facing an absence of a lion-like leader such as Mawlana Bhashani. But we should not betray his luminous contributions to our glorious past that has paved our current existence and future hope. If we cannot become another Mawlana Bhashani, at least each of us can revive his patriotic spirit in us for the sake of a free, prosperous and peaceful Bangladesh.

Please follow the link and sign the petition to save Bangladesh: http://www.petition online.com/ACTIPdoa/petition.html

You are kindly requested to circulate this to as many people as you can.
Best regards.

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To justify continued "blank check" US support for the Zionist state and its outrageous policies, these compliant politicians mouthed simplistic lies and half-truths about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and World War II.

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Montreal Perspectives
by Jalaluddin S. Hussain
Who is behind the push for breaking of the Swat Peace Agreement?

Montreal daily, "The Gazette" of May 6, 2009, headlined, "Pakistan army poised for push into Swat valley" This aggressive step, on the part of the Pakistani generals, in collusion with the Pentagon, will have dangerous and far-reaching consequences.

The whole world knows that when it was the matter of driving out the Soviets from Afghanistan, these very Taliban soldiers and al-Qaida operatives, were praised as the "fighters of Islam",but now they are called insurgents. This self-serving policy will just not work! Again, we cannot mix up the Afghan fighters, resisting NATO forces in Afghanistan, with the truly Islamically-inclined forces, trying to implement Shariah, in Swat.

Outside interference must be resisted

The provincial government in NWFP signed a Peace Agreement with the leaders of the resistance movement in Swat, which was duly approved by the National Assembly of Pakistan and signed by the President of Pakistan. Breaking this Agreement, at the instance of Pentagon, is treasonable, to say the least. The constant and relentless U.S. drone attacks, on the other hand, are killing the civilian population of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, in great numbers. Refugees from the Swat and Northern Areas are taking shelter in big cities like Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, As a result, tensions are building up between the refugee and the settled communities. If the intention is to create complete chaos in that nuclear-armed country of 170 million people, and nip in the bud the fragile democracy in Pakistan, then surely the outside powers have won. The civil society of Pakistan and those who want democracy to flourish in that country, must take stock of the situation and resist this nefarious outside interference.

Allow Abdelrazik to return home

Abousfian Abdelrazik, 47, a Canadian citizen, who is presently living in the Canadian Embassy of Khartoum, Sudan, must be allowed to join his family in Canada. He has been trying to return home after having been in exile in Sudan for the last more than six years! The latest excuse of the Canadian government is that Abousfian's name is on the UN No-Fly List. He has, however, been cleared of any terrorist activities, by both the the Canadian security agencies - the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Now that 220 people across Canada have even contributed money to purchase his air ticket, from Khartoum to Montreal, the government of Canada must not only allow Abousfian Abdelrazik to return home and join his family, but also request the UN authorities to expunge his name from their No-Fly List.

May 15th. every year is marked as the "Palestine Day". It is sad and shocking that even this May 15th., after more than 60 years of continuous fighting and sacrifices, the Palestinian people will not be able to see an independent and sovereign Palestine. Who is to blame for this: the Zionists, the major powers, the rest of the international community, or all together?

Hizbul Islam youths in Mogadishu, May 10, 2009

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Jamada al-Awwal 18,1430/ May 13, 2009, # 23

Mark Glenn [idaho] at his best.
See his blistering analysis of the hidden agenda behind Pope Benedict's visit to Palestine.
Br. Mark, a true follower of Jesus, pbuh, is greatly honored among Muslims and was hailed at Jamaat al-Muslimeen's International Peace Conference in Baltimore last year. [Please scroll way down.]

Personal from the editor in Georgia: My sister insists on da'wah and spirituality. I met my sister again this weekend. It was Mothers' Day and she was celebrating the walima of my niece and her husband who recently embraced Islam. It was a joyous occasion with hundreds of guests, Muslim and non-Muslim, including some from California, Illinois and Massachusetts. As usual I got into a debate with my sister and as usual she was vehement in her disagreements with me. I look at her and wonder at the transformation from a scientific powerhouse of secularism to a baffling spirituality which draws steadily from the life of the best of men, Muhammad, peace be on him. I try to spot the deep sorrow in her facial contours: Somewhere deep in there lurks the cataclysmic death of her college going son, swept away in one of Georgia's sudden rain squalls.
At the Walima she had thought of all the possible Sunnah things to do, including a pack of water containers for the guests going for istinja and wudu. An English translation of the Qur'an, nicely wrapped up, was given to many of the guests. In spite of our differences, she insisted that I give adhan, lead prayers and make the du'a. The number of people who joined the salat, [standing room only], including sisters, was quite heartwarming. With the new light which has emerged in her demeanor, she told me in a voice softened with deep conviction: My main concern is da'wah, peaceful, spiritual da'wah. I also found out that once more she is preparing to visit the Beloved in Makka.

Jamaat al-Muslimeen Press Release:
From Kaukab Siddique, Ameer of Jamaat al-Muslimeen
The Pope Wants Palestinians to Recognize the Terrorist Entity known as Israel as a Legitimate State!

May 13, 2009: We see with great sorrow, the Roman Pope's visit to Palestine. He had nothing to say about the Israeli genocide in Gaza: He pretended that the elected government of Hamas does not exist. He did not have a word of criticism for Israel. Instead he lectured his [Christian] Palestinian audience to be reconciled to Israel and not to seek revenge or have rancor. He spoke as if the Palestinians' main problem is the lack of jobs and the inability to move around because of "the wall." Who put up the wall was not clear.
The Pope was not listening to his Christian audience [shown live on EWTN] who complained loudly about Israeli behavior.
What is the point of visiting the Dome of the Rock when he is silent about the 130 mosques destroyed by Israel. The Catholic church always knew Israel as a usurper but this Pope not only wants to see Israel as a legitimate entity but is working hard to get the victims of Israel to do so too.

Muslims cannot forget that this Pope insulted the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, and then did not apologize [even till now].
The Pope should understand that legitimate representatives of Islam will NEVER recognize the terrorist entity known as Israel. Why should they? Why should the victims of Israel want to legitimize the terrorist?

The way to peace is not for Muslims to recognize the terrorist entity known as Israel. The way to peace lies through Israeli withdrawal from Palestine which it usurped by force. If it does not leave peacefully, the mujahideen will force it to leave. It's only a matter of time.

Another FATWA on Pakistan by Imam Badi Ali, Natiional Islamic Shoora leader, Jamaat al-Muslimeen.

Army of Shame or Army of Islam?

[A Fatwa is a religious ruling based on the Qur'an and Hadith and issued with FEAR of ALLAH [taqwa]. It is issued by a scholar of Islam who is known for his integrity, honesty, courage and fearlessness. It has great impact if the scholar is not connected, directly or indirectly, with the power structure and oppressive forces and has nothing to gain from the Fatwa. If the scholar is linked in any way to a government, or supports oppressors, the fatwa will be invalid.]

Question: The Pakistani army recently launched its second military assault on Swat valley where the people had opted en masse for the implementation of Shari'a [Islamic Law]. Vast numbers of people are leaving Swat following the army's use of heavy artillery, helicopter gunships and jet fighters. Pakistan's military says it has killed more than 700 "militants." The Islamic Taliban forces are standing firm and the military has not gained control of Swat. Pakistanis in Amerca are extremely confused because the Pak military is carrying out a systematic disinformation campaign against the Taliban, calling them Indian agents and, believe it or not, even American agents. What does Islam say about the Taliban and the Pakistan military?

Reply by Imam Badi Ali [North Carolina]

The Pakistan army's military offensive resulted from the visits of Pakistan's civilian and military leaders to America. There is no place in Islam for Muslims to help the armed forces of enemies of Islam to enter a Muslim country, be it Afghanistan or Pakistan. The Pakistan army is not fighting for Islam or Pakistan. It is fighting for the enemy and the interests of the enemy. The army is fighting the Taliban who are the most outstanding today in standing up for Islam. The Taliban are the servants of Allah. Their lives are totally at the service of Allah. They fight and die for the victory of Islam. There is absolutely no scope in Islam for any Muslim to fight the Taliban.

So, our FATWA is: It is HARAM for the Pakistani military to fight the Taliban. Its attacks have already made more than one million people homeless in Swat. These attacks have made the Pakistan army, the ARMY of SHAME. We want it to be the army of Islam. As Muslims, the soldiers must be made aware that they must not shoot at the followers of Islam. It is HARAM to shoot at the Taliban. If there are differences between Pakistanis, the army must step aside and let the Pakistanis solve their problems peacefully. Pakistani soldiers should read sura al-kafiroon. There is a clear separation between Islam and kufr.

The final part of our FATWA is: All the people of Pakistan and all the people of Afghanistan must support the Taliban in every posssible way. The Taliban are the spearhead of Islam. Pakistanis and all Muslims, be they in America or elsewhere, should pray for the success of the Taliban resistance and that Allah may accept their sacrifices. The world is passing away. The Hereafter is better and more lasting.

Obama Day 109
U.S. Air Strike on Pakistan

May 9: A U.S. air strike in South Waziristan with missiles fired from a drone killed 3 and wounded 5 Islamic Pakistanis in a village.

Obama Day 111
U.S. Air Strike on Pakistan: 8 Guided Missiles

May 11: In the latest U.S. air strike, a drone fired 8 missiles at the village of Shawal Sara Khawas in South Waziristan. At least 15 Islamic people were killed and many more wounded.
[Observers say that the U.S. is trying to kill Shaykh Osama bin Laden but has instead motivated Mullah Nazir to unite his forces with those of Baitullah Mehsud who sympathizes with Shaykh Osama and Egyptian mujahid Ayman al-Zawahiri.]

Latest War News:
General Uprising in Frontier Province: Swat Heavily Bombed Remains in Islamic hands.

As New Trend had noted earlier Islamic forces are now in control of most of the Frontier province, in particular South and North Waziristan, parts of Bajaur, Lower Dir, most of Buner and Swat. Indications are that Peshwar and Mardan are surrounded by Taliban waiting for signs of Pak weakness to move in.

May 12, Pak dropped special forces by helicopter in Peochar valley [Swat district] in an attempt to kill Maulvi Fazlullah whose FM radio has been mobilizing the peoples' resistance.
By May 13, the Maulvi had not been spotted. Looks like the Paks lost the element of surprise [24 hours]

By last news Mingora, the capital of Swat remains in Islamic hands..Pakistani military columns are trying to push into Swat while jet fighters, helicopters and heavy artillery pound suspected Taliban positions. Heavy civilian casualties are reported and increasing Taliban losses are indicated.

Heavy Pak attacks are reported in Lower Dir but the area remains in Taliban hands.
Earlier, on May 11, in the Darra Adam Khel area, far away from the fighting, a martyrdom operator hit the Frontier Corp's base camp killing 8 troopers and wounding 14. The bomber was 17 years old according to Pak Urdu media.[Frontier Corp has been re-armed and trained by the U.S.].

New Trend Ahead of the Curve: BBC stated May 13 that only 38% of Frontier Province is still in Pak hands. The rest, 62% is either totally in Islamic Taliban hands or has large scale support for the Taliban. The areas of Taliban control shown in the BBC map are about the same which New Trend had listed earlier.
[Are we good or what?]

BBC map.

Something Is Not Right About This Picture: The Trio who met in Washngton For Muslim Afghans and Pakistanis this was a "talking down."

by Sis. Sofia [The writer teaches English in New York City.]

The three Presidents of three different cultures met in the White House in Washington, D.C. in the first week of May 2009. And at the end, all three made statements before the Press. President Obama stated that they were "joined by a common goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat" their common enemies namely al-Qaida and the Taliban. (Were the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan aware of, informed of their rights as citizens, taken into consideration prior to this visit to the White House to fight their "common enemies"?)
President Obama claims that the three nations' security is now linked. (How and when did the security of the United States get linked with the security of Afghanistan and Pakistan? What made Afghanistan and Pakistan to become insecure and in dire need to invite a third country to intervene in their internal affairs? Was it 9/11 and America's vengeful attitude and fear tactics used to continue these wars against Muslims around the globe by using these so-called "leaders" to ravage the lives and bomb the homes of their own citizens making them refugees in their own land? And, what threats were used by the Obama regime to make this happen? Were these two men threatened with bombing of the atomic sites in Pakistan or a U.S. military takeover of the two countries just as they did in Iraq?
President Obama seems to be more concerned about protecting his own backside (he seems to lack the ability to empathize with the poor and the powerless-a dangerous lapse in a leader of any country), and for political and economic gains (it seems the Jewish lobbyists never left Washington, D.C.) than he is of human rights or the dignity of all human being. The tactics and strategies that are being used to destroy Muslims around the globe in modern times were done to the Native Americans and the African slaves in America by its past Presidents, namely demonizing and killing the peoples and their leaders, their cultures, their religious beliefs, their languages, their families, their children's education, etc.
So, what was the "change" that President Obama promised America to get elected?

President Obama claims that this venture will bring a better life to the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The United States will "give" Pakistan fifteen billion dollars over five years. Was this "union" of three countries brought by behind-the-scene threats of military attacks on these two nations by the U.S.A? What happened to the recent sham elections in Afghanistan and Pakistan to elect these two U.S. stooges?
President Zardari [Bhutto] -- (the ten percent man who has now become the million dollar man, thanks to American taxpayers) --who said that he was doing this "to avenge the death of his wife"-and President Karzai do not seem overly concerned about either their people's wishes or their security. Is there any doubt in anybody's mind that these two leaders are stooges of an alien power, their Constitutions "be damned"?
Muslims around the globe have endured corrupt political leaders for a long time now and they have neither respect nor faith in either them or the "foreign powers" that corrupt them and their democratic processes. Thus far, the spirit of the Muslims to resist exploitation, social corruption and injustices lives on. Leaders in the West need to wake up to this fact , and live by what they claim are their "values" instead of attempting to destroy the values of other cultures and religions, particularly Islam which they seem to fear and hate.
The United States has not yet acknowledged its loss of world dominance status and its recent fall from grace. The only country, to date, that has used atomic bombs on civilians of two cities has been the United States. It is this that the world fears and the fact that America and its political "strategies" seem to have many hidden agendas-- one of which is Israel's behind-the-scene corrupting influence and power over the United States Presidents, the citizens-elected U.S. House of Representatives, Wall Street, the media, the educational and justice systems, etc., etc. It is all of these factors that enrage the peoples of the world. If the United States gets a grip on its own corrupt and unethical Wall Street bankers that have wrecked economic havoc around the globe then the United States and the entire world could become a more secure place. They need to fight these "wars on terrorists" in their own backyard.
In comparison, the Taleban and al-Qaida are the "Bogey-men" of politicians in countries such as the USA and the UK. If and when they stop meddling in internal affairs of countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, etc., then the world would once again become a safer place for all. The picture that the West wishes to impose on the world regarding their political wheeling and dealing is full of lies and hidden agendas. It is not authentic.

What is wrong with this picture at another level? A great deal! The unspoken words and the body language of these two leaders spoke volumes. They appeared as two "poodles" of the United States-a far cry from leaders of two "sovereign" nations. But more disturbing was the stark disconnect of cultures between them. Both their use of the English language and their body language were of two different cultures. They were not sharing a common experience of "terrorism" or whatever they had come together to discuss or resolve. And when they turned their backs to the cameras at the end of the Press event, President Obama walked away ahead of the other two, leaving the Pakistani President and the Afghan President to do what is always done in their cultures-walking together, as a gesture of respect and equality, but lost on President Obama-a "cultural slip" of body language.

Conclusion drawn by Muslim Afghans and Pakistanis to this is that this was a "talking down" to elected Presidents of two "sovereign nations" in the White House by a President of the U.S.A. This state of world affairs will continue and so will the political and social instability and upheavals around the world unless and until the citizens of these countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan rise up and protest and put a stop to them once and for all.
No matter who sits in the White house, it all ends up as "business as usual" because the United States democracy has imploded from within and is not likely to recover from this "virus" in the near future.

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Miseducation is Key to Amerca's Problems and Global Intervention, says top Mathematician
Think about it!

Photo: Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz , Endowed Chair of Mathematics, Grambling State University, Louisiana, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, is the Philosopher of Jamaat al-Muslimeen with numerous students, including Ph.Ds, across America and in Africa.

Dr. Shabazz teaches Jamaat Shoora leaders that America's problems arise from its skewed educational system, including its sophisticated network of universities. America's elites carry with them the virus of White Supremacy and its undertow of racism. Race is a false construct, he says, which is used to divide people and nations. The supremacy idea is behind war as it has been conducted in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza.

We see the dumbing down of entire populations by the system of education itself. The exploitation and oppression is built into subtle, institutionalized racism.

Outreach in Greensboro, North Carolina: May 8, 2009
Khutba to 500 + 250 Arab American Muslims
Dr. Siddique Emphasizes Women's Participation in Peaceful Resistance to Mass Culture.
America's Underside: Racism, Zionism, Secularism, Exploitation of Women.

The Islamic Center of the Triad [ICT] has become become an important place for the peaceful development and growth of Muslims in Greensboro in particular and North Carolina in general. Starting off with a basic population of Arab Americans, mostly from Palestine, Iraq and Egypt, as well as Africans from Somalia and Sudan, it is now attracting African Americans and Pakistanis.

Imam Badi Ali has a strong team of young people with him which humbly serves the community. Refugees from Iraq and Sudan are being helped. The refugees are suffering poverty in affluent America. The latest appeal was for 20 fans for families which do not have air conditioning in their apartments.

The Friday prayer gatherings have grown so that now two juma's are held. Dr. Kaukab Siddique gave khutba to both gatherings and led prayers for the second one, with a Sudanese brother leading the first.
A very young brother named Abbas, who recently embraced Islam, facilitated Dr. Siddique with the technology for the khutba.

About 500 people attended the first juma' and about 250, the second. Here is a summary of the main points made by Dr. Siddique which hopefully will get countrywide distribution and help other khateebs:

Text #1: "The believers, men and women, are each others' protecting friends and guardians: they emphasize what is just and forbid what is evil: They establish regular prayers, they pay the zakat and they obey Allah and His messenger: On them will Allah pour His Mercy, for Allah is Exalted in power, Wise." [The Qur'an 9:71]

Text #2: "When the messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, passed away, he had no proparty, no finances big or small, no slave male or female, or anything else, except a white mule and weapons [for jihad] and a piece of land which he left for sadaqa [charity]." [Hadith, Sahih Bukhari , kitab al-wasaya.]

#1

Unity of the Ummah is central for Islamic progress. This unity is not possible unless it begins with unity within the family and the unity of men and women within the islamic framework.
Our sisters must come and participate in the masjid and all Islamic work including decision making.
We must respect and honor women. In Islam EVERY DAY is Mother's Day because every woman is potentially a mother. The Qur'an puts the mother second only to Allah. [Sura Nisa']
The best among you is the one who is the best to his wife, taught the Prophet, pbuh, in Sahih Hadith. Ayesha,r.a., about whom he said, "Love the one I love," became the leader and teacher of Muslims.
When his daughter Fatima Zahra, r.a., visited him, the Prophet, pbuh, would greet her, kiss her hand and seat her at the place of honor in his home. Fatima, r.a., was on the battlefield of Uhud with him and tended his injuries.
His sister-in-law Asma, r.a., was an important part of the Prophet's life and helped him in the historic journey from Makka to Madinah [hijra] when he was in great danger.
A woman Umm Ammara, pbuh, defended the Prophet, pbuh, sword in hand.
The Muslim women of America should not lag behind the Muslim women of the Ummah today.
The Kashmiri women have made great sacrifices for Islam. The Taliban women are telling their men: Don't come back if you can't face the enemy: That's why the Taliban can face the NATO crusaders. The Iraqi women have made the resistance so strong that the occupation army was defeated and is now waiting to be brought back home.
Look at the Palestinian women. They are telling their children, helpless as they are, even if you have nothing, go and THROW A STONE at the yahood.
Our American Muslim sisters should not be subservient and left out. By peaceful means, they can help their men to serve Allah and serve the community. If we leave out 50% of our population, we have no future.

#2:

Almost all of us here are immigrants. We must study and understand America. It has much good in it but it also has great evil. We can save America from its evil.
Our children are targeted by the mass culture of this country, from New York to Los Angeles. The good in this country is being destroyed, rapidly and relentlessly, by mass media and other forces which are evil in the extreme and are hostile to both Islam and Christianity.
The family, the church and the schools, the foundations of civilization, have been destroyed by racism, worship of wealth, zionism/imperialism, secularism and the exploitation of women.
We must understand these negative forces and work to oppose them at all levels.
Racism comes from the destruction of the Native peoples and 400 years of slavery. This land is soaked with the blood of the oppressed.
Islam does not permit us to admire and praise the rich and the powerful, but we Muslims are becoming like the others that we see the rich as celebrities and role models. Muhammad, pbuh, was poor, an orphan, prayed to be raised with the poor and the oppressed [Sahih Hadith], and died poor, having given away all he had.
Zionism/imperialism leads this country into war overseas and the destruction of religious values at home. Things have gone so far that the many of the churches are the purveyors of homosexuality. The yahood have become so powerful that one of them ALONE looted this country of $50 billion. When Madoff the Jew was brought to court, he boasted that he had stolen not $50 billion but $65 billion!
Schools are steeped in secularism and are creating generations of youths interested only in making money and having random sex.
Women are the helpless victims of America. They are exploited for money making and have been persuaded that if they take off their clothes to please men, they are enjoying freedom.
Our young people will be lost if they [and we] do not understand mass culture. Prayer is good but it cannot suffice against mass culture [peer pressure, sibling pressure] being propagated by multi million dollar corporations. Piety must be part of social action and organized effort.
Always remember that we are ONE UMMAH. Masjids and organizations based on race, nationality and language will be swept away by the storm swirling around our children.
ONE ALLAH, ONE LEADER [Muhammad Mustafa, pbuh], One qibla, one Qur'an, one Sunnah. One Ummah!

Understanding the fighting in Swat
Meet the Taliban Spokesman Muslim Khan: Discusses Why the Taliban are fighting
Speaks in English and Arabic
Courtesy Asia Times Online [The interview was conducted 2 months before the latest fighting but is still relevant.]

Pakistan has used the police, paramilitary forces, politically-backed militias and the army itself in an attempt to tame the Taliban in the Swat Valley, without success. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) projects that the situation in the Swat Valley and the tribal areas will deteriorate this year, causing a fresh displacement of up to 625,000 people.

"An analysis indicates that there is a significant likelihood of large-scale clashes and intensified military offensives throughout 2009, and possibly into 2010," the study said. According to the OCHA's "humanitarian response plan", the displacement will exacerbate an "already complex humanitarian situation".

The Swat Valley's transformation from probably the most peaceful place in Pakistan to one of its most militant has been startling, as has the popularity of the Taliban's ideology, which is widely seen as extremist.

In an attempt to get some understanding on these issues, I spoke to Haji Muslim Khan. He speaks many languages, including English and Arabic, as he has spent many years abroad, mostly in Kuwait and the United States. His house was demolished by the Pakistan army and his family is displaced; he now lives in Taliban bunkers in the mountains and traveled specially to a population center to give this interview.

Asia Times Online: You are the official chief spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat. Could you tell us about yourself, your childhood, education, and your intellectual journey through various political and religious movements. And what inspired you to align with Mullah Fazlullah and his movement? [Mullah Fazlullah, nicknamed "Radio Mullah", is the leader of the Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi - Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law, TNSM - and controls the insurgency in the Swat area.]

Muslim Khan: First, I thank you for coming here and meeting with us, without any fear and greed. I thank you for you and your organization allowing us the opportunity to air our view. Regarding your question about my childhood, I belong to a poor family of Swat. My father was a tehsildar [revenue administrative officer] during the time of the Swat [princely] state. I matriculated from Dahrai High School [Swat]. For intermediate [arts], I went to Jahanzeb College, Swat. I could not pass my intermediate from college as I joined the Pakistan People's Party [PPP] and I was sent to jail, where I spent 25 days, and I was expelled from the college.

My father was annoyed at the discontinuation of my education, so later on I passed my intermediate as an external student. By that time, I felt my responsibilities towards my home and family and to acquire further studies I went to Karachi [Pakistani southern port city]. However, God had something else planned for me over there. [Instead of work and studies in Karachi] I went into the sea service.

Meanwhile, from when I was in the eighth grade, I was inspired by the Palestinian al-Fatah movement and was in regular correspondence with their Islamabad office. Then I made contact with Dr Israr Ahmad [a famous orator at state-run Pakistan Television during the late General Zia ul-Haq period, who was also the founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami organization, which works for the revival of the Islamic caliphate].

However, when the Pakistan People's Party came into power [early 1970s], those were my college days ... and their rhetoric of Islamic socialism in their manifesto ... inspired me as from the beginning only Islam had been my inspiration.

I joined the Pakistan People's Party because Maulana Kausar Niazi [former minister of information in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's cabinet, religious scholar and former leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami] raised the slogan of Islamic socialism.

However, I observed that after the election victory, the leaders of the Pakistan People's Party exploited their power. That was the first election in Pakistan [on the basis of adult franchise], so we could measure what election politics were all about. We found it to be dirty politics. Even today it is like that. Therefore, I gave up the Pakistan People's Party.

Then, to earn my bread, I joined the sea service for three or four years. Then I went to Kuwait, where I spent 14 years. In this period, I continued my association with various religious parties, including the Jamaat-i-Islami and Dr Israr Ahmed [Tanzeem-e-Islami]. At last, while in Kuwait, I was connected with Maulana Sufi Mohammad [the founder of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi and the father-in-law of Mullah Fazlullah].

I found his claims for Islam true. From his first speech I heard, I could measure that this is the right man for the enforcement of Islamic laws and therefore I supported his cause and movement. Everybody knows of this movement and how it passed through different phases in Malakand division [in Pakistan] in the last 17 years.

Then came the last phase when Mullah Fazlullah, who spent 18 months in jail in Dera Ismail Khan [in the NWFP], as he was arrested while coming back from jihad in Afghanistan [after the US invasion in 2001], he launched a movement and we supported it as much as we could.

This was not for his personality but for a cause, that we are Muslims but live under a heretic system ... no Islamic jurists or Islamic scholar can dish out an argument that while living in this system. God would forgive us. This is the sole mission. On this land, that belongs to God, only his laws should be implemented.

ATol: What is your understanding of Islam in the perspective of Pakistan. It is said that Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam. The Objective Resolution [which declares that no law can be formulated against Islamic laws] is part of our constitution, under which several Islamic and political parties claim Pakistan as an Islamic state. Why then is there a need for this movement for the implementation of Islamic laws?

MK: As far as the name Pakistan [Land of the Pure] is concerned, it is good to have this name, but as far as practice is concerned, it is not even 1% [true]. Before us, there were several academics, political parties and intellectuals who strived [for the implementation of sharia law], but as far as governance is concerned, we are responsible, we betrayed God and his religion, and in my opinion we should be tried, as nation, for committing this crime. We established this state of Pakistan under Islamic ideology and under the banner "There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his Messenger," but we did not move an inch forward for this cause. Instead, we retreated from this cause by several miles. The reason is that we are still slaves - our intelligentsia, the rulers and segments of life, politics, education, are slaves. The economy is driven by usury.

ATol: What do you mean by slaves?

MK: It means we are not free in anything. We cannot formulate laws independently ... We cannot make laws by our choice.

ATol: Then by whose choice do we make laws?

MK: From the choice of those from whose rule we got independence [Britain], symbolically, their virus still infests our rulers. Whatever they [rulers] do, first they seek permission from there [the West]. For politics, they go to Dubai [in the United Arab Emirates] to hold meetings. Politics concern this country, but their meetings are held in Dubai and London. Therefore we are not free.

However, there are a few things in which we are free - the nation has freedom in extravaganza, obscenity and spreading nudity. From the ideology for which this country came into being, we have not inched forward. This is the reason the Tehrik-i-Taliban came into being in Swat. Soon, our intelligentsia will realize our cause, that our struggle is not for any rule, but to implement this ideology.

ATol: There are areas in Swat where the Khans were very powerful. Can you shed some light on their role, their character and influence?

MK: There were 360 idols in holy Kaba [in Mecca. These were the icons through which Mecca was ruled by powerful families before Islam]. If I tell you the truth, here in every village there were 360 idols. For the upholding of this system [prevailing in Pakistan], even a cop and SHO [Station House Officer of the police] became god, but the Khan saheb [rich and powerful Pashtun feudals] became the biggest god. They never regarded people as human beings. The poor and the downtrodden had no position as human beings.

In all government departments, God forbid me, officials became god. They never regarded religion nor human values. For Europeans and Westerners, humanity lives in the West, but they never care about the human rights of the people living in Pakistan. In Pakistan, tyranny has crossed all limits, at the hands of the Khans or at the hands of the wadera [feudals from southern Sindh province] and from the police.

However, tyranny emerged in its extremes in Swat when our people, women and children, were targeted with bombs of 30 kilograms and above; shells and mortars. Our Khans were the ones who invited them [the army] to bomb us, provided space to them and approved their attacks. Now, these Khans are now sitting in their bungalows in Islamabad or in Peshawar and the oppressed people are running for their lives to take refuge here and there. Human-rights organizations do not look after those oppressed people, nor do those Khans who once ruled those people.

ATol: Do you have rich people in your movement, or is it only a movement of poor people? Your leader Mullah Fazlullah sailed boats for his earnings by transporting people on the Swat River.

MK: Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him, was an orphan. Our policy is not against the poor, or against the rich. If Islamic laws are implemented in this region, only then will it be realized whether the Taliban launched their movement and their struggle and waged jihad for opposition to rich people. Only once Islamic laws are implemented will it be realized whether we were against the rich people or whether we were against a system which is a remnant of British rule. We only want to implement the Islamic system. Only the Islamic system can give rights and protection to both the rich and the poor. These are only stunts [the accusation that the movement is against rich people].

ATol: Your movement is branded as anti-education and it is alleged that you destroy schools. Especially, you are allegedly against girls' education. But now it is said that you have destroying male and female schools. Is it correct that you are against both men's and women's education?

MK: This is sad, that we are slaves in all sections of our society, even, please don't mind, the media are slaves. Nobody is ready to sit with the Taliban and ask what they want from all this. The education system and the curriculum are both remnants of the British.

We are Muslims. Had there not been an Islamic system of education and curriculum, then it would have been all right to import a system of education belonging to others. But fortunately, Islam provides its own system of education, politics, economics and justice. We often say in Pakistan, even in the schools, especially the intelligentsia, that Islam is a complete code of life. If Islam is a complete code of life, then what is the need to import education from the United Kingdom?

ATol: This is an ideological and academic debate. You might be right or wrong in your argument. However, the issue is violence. The Taliban are said to have bombed schools and destroyed them. What do you say about that?

MK: Very true. Nobody can prove that we bombed any school building during phase one of the military operations in the Swat Valley. [Sarcastically] Why did the "well-educated" and "very qualified" Pakistan army set up military bunkers in the schools? This is my question.

If the security forces can set up military bunkers in order to fight against us and against the cause of Islamic laws, we also have the right to retaliate and destroy those schools in which they have set up bunkers, or bridges for that matter.

These are the "well educated" and "very qualified" people of our security forces who bombed our villages and destroyed them. We have, therefore, the right to destroy those schools which brought up this generation, sold out to foreigners and sold their own people to foreigners.

On [the basis of] just one phone call, they handed over our air bases to the enemy. We hate this system and this system of education. As far as school buildings are concerned, I can guarantee you that we can rebuild those buildings within a month [once military operations are over] and at the same time I tell you that not a single child was hurt in our attacks. But I ask you, why was the Islamic seminary Jamia Hafsa targeted in Islamabad [in 2007] and to add salt on the wounds, even female students were killed. Why did they do that? That was also conducted by "very well-qualified generals". Why?

ATol: How do people view you? Do you think the Taliban are popular?

MK: People do like the Tehrik-e-Taliban [Taliban movement]. We don't care about individuals. Our people and the Taliban sacrificed a lot for the cause and this should be written in gold in history.

ATol: Are you loyal to the state of Pakistan?

MK: If we are 100% loyal to Pakistan, our leaders and rulers are 200% disloyal to Pakistan and its subjects. They rule us against the ideology and the constitution of the country. When Pakistan came into being in 1947, they did not implement Islamic laws. This was a betrayal against the nation, religion and God. Then in Malakand division, when the government promised us the implementation of Islamic laws - we have the documents to show this - why did they betray us? Why were Islamic laws not implemented? Therefore, our struggle is justified and those who oppose Islamic laws, they are outlaws.

ATol: How can two different systems coexist at the same time? Islamic laws could be enforced in the whole country, and then they would be applied in Malakand. But how can these laws be applied in a particular region when the whole of the country is governed by separate laws?

MK: If the system of panchait [a system of arbitration] can coexist with civil laws in Punjab, if the jirga system [tribal councils]) can coexist in the provincially administered tribal areas [like Malakand] with the civil laws, why can't Islamic laws coexist with civil laws? However, we say that we should not run two system. Being Muslims, we should implement only Islamic laws.

ATol: Your movement is touted as no more than a local movement. Yet it is believed to have connections with al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. What is the reality?

MK: Al-Qaeda was the same as the mujahideen and the Taliban only a few years back when they were fighting against the Soviets [1980s] and they were supported by the Americans. Everybody boasted of them as the mujahideen, including the Western media.
My question is how yesterday's mujahideen can became the terrorists of today? Today, they are declared as terrorists only because the way they threw the Russians across the Amu Darya [Oxus River], they are aiming to throw the Americans across the Atlantic Ocean.

Therefore, the jihad is against their interests, and that's why they are against us. They are here to grab the resources of Muslim countries and therefore whether it is the Taliban or al-Qaeda or Muslims, they are against their [the US's] cause. Since they have great influence on our rulers, their cause is justified. Their rulings are ratified by our rulers. Having said all these things, I tell you that our fight is for a change of the system in Malakand. We are branded as Indian RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] proxies. Let me tell you that once Islamic laws are implemented, then you will see our real face. Let us tackle the issues of Palestine, Afghanistan and Kashmir, and then it will be shown whether we are Indian proxies or not.

ATol: The Pakistani establishment has consistently accused your movement of being an Indian proxy. They claim to have arrested men who were Hindus and cannot even speak the local dialects and languages. In some cases, the government claimed to have found men who had not been circumcised, which proved they were non-Muslim.

MK: This just shows the government's weaknesses as well as propaganda. It is baseless. Just present five examples and we will leave the movement.

ATol: You movement is connected with [Pakistani Taliban leader] Baitullah Mehsud, and his command stretches all over. It is said that the movement aims to separate the North-West Frontier Province from Pakistan.

MK: This is an international conspiracy against the Pashtun territories. Pashtuns are very much attached to the religion, whether they live in Pakistan or in Afghanistan or elsewhere. They are always ready to sacrifice their lives for Islam. Some are bad people, but as a whole they serve the religion.

This is just propaganda against us by the Pakistani intelligence agencies and this is also their mental weakness. They are the people who have not been able to liberate Kashmir from India in the past 60 years. They propagate us and mint money from the Americans and the European.

Propaganda against the mujahideen is their source of income. Now, to justify a war against their own people, they propagate such things that we want separation and that we are Indian proxies. Killing the mujahideen and selling them out is a means of earning for our generals. This is also the way to avoid confrontation with American troops. If our forces cannot fight against cowardly Hindus, how come they can face American troops? Whether it is Kargil [the war with India in 1999] or Afghanistan, the mujahideen were used. Is there any Muslim country which can claim to liberate Palestine? No. Maybe God does not want to use these people for his cause because every officer is a pharaoh in his character.

ATol: You mentioned the Pashtuns. The Awami National Party [ANP] in North-West Frontier Province represents Pashtuns. However, the Taliban have killed some ANP members and the noose is tightening around them.

MK: Indeed. I said that the majority of Pashtuns are loyal to the religion. The others are Pashtun by name, but practically they are traitors. They deserve such treatment. They were given government after 40 years, but they did not thank God. If they have said it once, the Taliban have said it 10 times, that killings in this region should be stopped.

We sat with them and held talks. They made many commitments, but they could not fulfill them. Real Pashtuns always fulfill their commitments, but these are Pashtuns who were sitting in the Soviet Union's lap for money and now they are in the American lap. They are the Pashtuns who sell their beliefs and the nation. They are a stain on the name of Pashtuns. They are traitors of the nation and to religion.

ATol: That gun of your's, it's not locally made, and it is not the kind used by the Pakistan army. Where did you get it?

MK: These are the fruits of jihad, which are in the hands of the mujahideen today. This is manufactured in Austria. Those infidels gave them to our army to use against our mujahideen. There is a police station called Dewale in Swat. We snatch them from there from the Pakistani security forces. I am surprised when people ask us from where we get modern weaponry. These are the fruits of jihad. Whoever manufactured this and for whatever cause, now it is in our hands and for our cause.

Apart from this, our army used a spiritual guide [pir], a religious leader, to fight against us. We not only killed that pir, but recovered 20 best-quality light machine guns, besides 20 other guns that had been supplied to that pir by the Pakistan army. Now these guns are in our possession.

ATol: How many Taliban are there?

MK: The more we are oppressed, the more we spread. Yesterday, if they were 10, now there are several times more.

ATol: I thank you Muslim Khan for your time and your efforts to leave your place in the mountains and come to meet me.

MK: It is a pleasure, and thank you for coming all the way to Swat.

Jewish Anti-Semitism Towards Jesus and Christianity
Silent As Death–Catholic Church Muzzled on Israeli Butchery of Palestinians with Bishop. Williamson Controversy

Pope Benedict XVI in Palestine
" ....he made sure to elucidate the fact that the Church stands firmly in Israel's camp."

Published May 13, 2009

In the aftermath of the infamous interview with Bp. Richard Williamson earlier this year where he stated with both straight face and clear conscience his belief that "holocaust" history as it has been told now for the last half century is much like any other production coming out of Jewish Hollywood–meaning a work of fiction designed to propagandize the masses–the world was inundated with minute-by-minute/how-by-hour breaking news reports.
Numbering in the millions in terms of dollars, man hours and words spoken, it should be remembered that the well-organized campaign of screeching and howling on the part of Jewish interests concerning the Great Holocaust Heresies of Bp Williamson took place in the midst of an economic meltdown truly apocalyptic in its scope and at a time when America finds herself in the midst of 2 disastrous wars with several more on the back burner just waiting to boil over. Judging by the scale, volume and shrill nature of the reports one would have assumed the world was about to be consumed in a heaven-sent ball of fire with all life on earth destroyed.
Watchers of the drama (with good reason) assumed all the noise was just a case of "business as usual" when it comes to Jewish interests who believe and operate under the assumption that the world revolves around them and their great experiment in bringing all the Yahweh-ordained butchery and narcissism of the Old Testament to life in the creature known as the Jewish state.
Now however, with the recent trip to Israel by Pope Benedict XVI, who as "Commander-In-Chief" of over 1 billion Catholics worldwide can effectively be considered the most powerful Western leader in the world it is obvious now that the real reason for all the noise months ago concerning one Bp. Williamson and his blasphemous maltreatment of the sancta sanctorum of Jewish suffering known as the holocaust can be summed up in one word–"pressure". In particular, interested players wanted to put the heat on the Catholic Church in general and the Pope in particular just prior to his scheduled visit to the Holy Land for reasons now easy to see.
As with many things, and particularly those involving the various agendas and maneuvers of this thing known as the Jewish state, the "proof" of this thesis can now be seen in the "pudding" of what has transpired since Benedict XVI's arrival in the Holy Land this month. Despite various photo ops and truckloads of flowery language dealing with lofty items of peace, justice, and all the rest, in its essence the high-media exposure event has basically had but one apparent beneficiary, that surprise, surprise, turns out once again to be the Jewish state. Nothing more than a public relations opportunity for the Jewish state in the wake of her massacre in Gaza that has cast Israel in her true light as a violence-addicted nation of psychopaths, Pope Benedict Arnold VXI spoke of the "inseparable bond" between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people.
Although carefully avoiding a repeat of the disaster he wrought in Regensburg several years ago when he described Islam as an inherently violent religion, nevertheless he made sure to elucidate the fact that the Church stands firmly in Israel's camp and will not use an ounce of her formidable voice in speak out against the injustices that have and continue to fall upon the real Semites in the region, meaning the innocent men, women and children in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq or elsewhere.
In the meantime, he assiduously avoided visiting Gaza or talking about the recent purposeful carnage taking place there by Israel. No mention of the women and children deliberately incinerated with Phosphorus bombs or the gunning down of hands-held-high families as they exited their homes upon orders of the IDF.
Instead, the man who commands the attention and respect of over a billion Catholics worldwide spoke about "peace" in the holy land in the same way some single-digit IQ beauty contest candidate talks about how she will wipe out world hunger if she wins. Deliberately vague and yet equivocating the violence perpetrated against Palestinian Christian and Muslim civilians whose deaths number in the thousands with the resistance on the part of an oppressed people who have to date killed only dozens, his comments on the trip have so far been a mirrored reflection of Rodney King's infamous "Can't we all get along, y'all?" taking place in the wake of the LA riots following the acquittal of the police officers charged with beating him more than a decade ago.
Those who think the thesis of the Williamson hurricane being used as a means of maneuvering the Vatican into polishing Israel's image after the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza is all some mad "anti-Semitic conspiracy theory" should check what Israel's press has to say before voicing such opinions. An Associated Press piece entitled "Israel Hopes for Tourism, Image Boost from Pope" reads as follows–

"Israeli officials are hoping that the visit of Pope Benedict XVI will boost tourism, improve Israel's image and bolster relations between the Jewish state and the Vatican. Briefing reporters, Israeli Tourism Minister Yuli Edelstein hoped the images of the pope at prayer would push aside some of the impressions of Israel as a focus of war and violence. "I'm not naive enough to think that it will fill all the screens and that everyone will forget about the conflict," Edelstein said, hoping the visit would create better understanding abroad "of Israeli democracy, of religious freedom, that of the existing and vital Christian minority in this country," which "is enjoying all the rights."

Of course, not mentioned in the minister's disingenuous comments is the fact that Christians in Israel can be punished with a 5-year prison sentence for merely passing out New Testament pamphlets to Jews, as well as the infamous burning of several hundred copies of the New Testament by Jews in a synagogue parking lot recently.
If there was ever proof that indeed the world's most powerful Christian organization–the Catholic Church–is now like any other governing body in the Western world chokeholded by Zionist interests, it is the deathly silence of the church and her leaders surrounding the recent massacres perpetrated against Palestinian Christians and Muslims by the Jewish state. Whether it was Israel's month-long attack on Lebanon in 2006 where she mercilessly rained bombs down upon on for-the-most-part Christian villages that resulted in over a 1,000 dead or her recent holocaust in Gaza where close to 8,000 people (mostly civilians as well) were either killed or wounded and the church's deafening silence regarding both, it is apparent now that persons finding themselves in the crosshairs of fanatical, genocidal Jewish terrorists have little to hope for in terms of moral support from Rome.
Those who doubt that Jewish interests would worry about the Pope's influence to such an extent as to foment a non-stop campaign of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the comments of one Bp. Williamson should consider a few things first. That the Catholic church (despite its waning influence over the years) is an influential world body is not some wild theory based solely on superstition or nostalgia. Despite the fact that (geographically speaking) it is the smallest country in the world nevertheless it is one of the largest in terms of its citizenry, and certainly the largest among western nations. The better part of her 1.2 billion followers scattered across the globe in virtually every country look upon the Pope as their commander-in-chief, and historically when push has come to shove they have deferred to his authority over that of their political leaders. Indeed, the power of the church's opinion on any given matter was of such weight and caliber that once upon a time presidents, prime ministers and princes with large numbers of Catholics living under their rule dared not get sideways with the Vatican for fear of what kind of public relations trouble such a position could bring them.
And despite the fact this power has been seriously weakened over the years, nevertheless like some middle aged blond bombshell actress who has put on a few pounds and gained a few wrinkles the power of the papacy still retains enough of a punch to be problematic for certain players with agendas the church might find obnoxious. What's more is the fact that in the modern informational age, at a moment's notice if the Pope decides to get in front of a camera and issue a statement or write a paper on a particular subject he will have no trouble whatsoever in rousing the interest of worldwide media. Thus, like someone throwing a stone into a lake resulting in waves that reach the furthest edges he can effect how over a billion people think, spend their money, how they vote, etc, etc.
Therefore, there is definitely good reason for Israel to worry about the Pope "finding Jesus" as it were and taking up the anti-Zionist cause. A man with his office who commands the loyalty of not just millions, but rather thousands of millions of people spread out within literally every corner of the globe could cause a hell of a lot of trouble for Jewish interests if he suddenly allowed his conscience to get the best of his mouth. One can just imagine the waves of panic that would grip Jewish interests if suddenly the Pope started discussing such things as Israel's involvement in 9/11 or if the Catholic world suddenly warmed itself to the world‘s 1.5 billion Muslims and started speaking up on their behalf. The man calling himself the successor to Peter could certainly be a very painful thorn in the side of the present thugs occupying the asylum for the criminally insane known as the Jewish state if he suddenly began pondering and then acting upon that question heard so much within certain Christian circles today, which is "What Would Jesus Do?"
Sadly though, in the final analysis, it must–sadly–be concluded that all the screeching and kvetching surrounding the Williamson affair had the intended outcome, which was to make sure that the world's most powerful Christian body (and her leader) remain just as they have over the course of the last century when it comes to the issue of Jewish brutality on the indigenous Semites people in the Holy Land–as silent as death.

(c) 2009 Mark Glenn
Correspondent, American Free Press

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