From: kaukab siddique <butshikan@msn.com>
Date: Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Shaykh Osama analysis+Pak rallies+Kashmir gives heart to Osama+Pak failure+El Salvador+Eddie Conway
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Jamada al-thani 4, 1432/May 8, 2011.
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Our America # 1
Free Marshall Eddie Conway Rally
| Time | Monday, May 9 · 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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| Location | 100 N. Holliday Street Baltimore, MD |
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This is a rally for Marshall Eddie Conway, Black Panther leader unjustly imprisoned for the last 41 years.
Why at the Baltimore City Hall?
The City Council passed such a resolution in 2001. We, who support freedom for this innocent political prisoner, are pressing for a reissuance of this resolution, as part of a larger campaign to free Eddie.
We will gather in front of City Hall at 4:00 PM. Then, at 5:00 PM, some of us will go inside, while others will continue to rally outside the building. An ID is required to enter City Hall. No signs are allowed inside City Hall.
Sponsored by:
National Action Network, Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter; NAACP Baltimore City Branch; The Paul Robeson Institute; Muslim Community Cultural Center of Baltimore; National Black United Front; Generations for Peace and Democracy; SCLC, Baltimore City Chapter; All People's Congress; A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Baltimore; Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle; The Local Organizing Committee of the Million Man March; Million Woman March; Baltimore Black Think Tank; Baltimore-D.C. Jericho Chapter; the Black August Planning Organization; the American Friends Services Committee; and Jamaat al-Muslimeen
For more information, contact:(410) 669-8683
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Our America: #2
Rally at World Bank in Support of El Salvador's People
On May 2, Jamaat al-Muslimeen participated in a rally organized by Cispes at the World Bank, 18th & H street near George Washington University. [Cispes is the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.] Here is an excerpt from the report on the event.
... And one more clip from the rally at the IMF. If you are not familiar with Salvadoran history, please educate yourself. The similarities between the U.S. role in El Salvador during the 1980s is very similar to that of the U.S. in Iraq today (although, in the former case, short of overt occupation). The U.S. undermined democracy, destroyed infrastructure, and created terror amongst the poor peasants and workers.
Death squads were rampant, as they are in Iraq today. Salvadoran people won back some basic rights when the FMLN (former guerrilla front) won elections, but U.S. corporations, like Pacific Rim, which we protested on Monday, want to continue the looting of El Salvador through other means.
- Nadrat Siddique
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May 8, 2011
Spotlight on Shaykh Osama bin Laden by Imam Badi Ali
Why do the Muslims love him? Propaganda won't work.
#1: We must understand why Muslims globally love Osama. Why do the Muslims reject all propaganda against him? He is not only a hero but someone much greater, somewhat like Salahuddin, the liberator of Jerusalem.
#2: At least 30 countries, including the US, Israel, France, Britain, Hosni's Egypt, Jordan's Abdallah, etc., used all their resources against Osama for 10 years. They were fighting a man who had no jets or tanks or armies and they couldn't win for 10 years. Celebrations of victory against him are self deception.
#3: Osama spread his ideology across the globe. An ideology can only be defeated by another ideology. His enemies don't have one. Jets and tanks and special forces cannot do it. With his death, his ideology will spread even more rapidly.
#4: His burial at sea is a travesty. Which Islamic school of thought teaches a burial at sea? Where did the Americans get that fatwa for burial at see? Can they mention any books? Scholars around the world, including al-Azhar, have denounced the burial at sea. Where did Obama get this idea. The British Imperialists never did this. The Nazis are so hated but they never did it. His body belonged to his family. We'll have to call the Indian Ocean "the ocean of Osama."
#5: Why is Osama important? His influence is all the way from Chechnya to Bosnia, Philippines, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, northern Africa... He was even respected by governments who did not agree with him.
#6: He was like a father to Muslims. His shoes cannot be filled by another because he was not national. He was international and he cannot be diminished by Zionist propaganda.
#7: Attempts to trivialize him will not work. There are many holes in the stories American media are distributing. First they said his house was a $1 million. It turns out it was only $100,000. These videos being put out will not erode his dignity. Here was a man living without air conditioning, no fridge, no stoves. The claim that he used as a woman as a shield was entirely fabricated. Intelligent Americans like Michael Moore are not convinced.
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Radio Interview
Osama bin Laden and the latest developments in Pakistan: Unforeseen Consequences
On May 7, 12.30 PM, Dr. Kaukab Siddique was interviewed live for the "On with Leon Show" by Dr. Wilmer Leon. Dr. Leon can be heard on XM Radio across America. He is one of the few independent broadcasters in the US willing to listen to Muslim viewpoints. The interview lasted 30 minutes. Here is a summary of the main points made by Dr. Siddique.
- Much is not known of what happened in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1. Based on what we have till now, we can say the following:
- Osama bin Laden appears to have fooled both the Pakistani government and the US intelligence services for a very long time by hiding "in plain sight."
- Most Americans and Pakistanis do not know that the Pakistani regime had agreed to give the US permission to use Pakistani air and land space without requiring prior permission.
- The Raymond Davis case showed that a US intelligence officer, armed, could move about in Pakistan quite freely. He was caught only because he killed two Pakistanis in broad daylight, only to be bailed out by the US inspite of the public uproar.
- There were reports that some US drone attacks on Pakistani villages in the north east originated WITHIN Pakistan. Thus the US had free rein to use Pakistani space.
- The US has the technological ability to scope out entire cities and territories. It was this technological skill which finally traced Osama's last place of refuge.
- Don't blame the Pakistani government. It is totally corrupt and run by the US. Don't blame the Pakistani army. They are made-in-America and would have handed over Osama in a flash. They are incompetent or Osama was too clever for them.
- The Pakistani intelligence chief has been summoned to the US to explain the incompetence.
- The loyalty of Osama's people appears to have played an important role in his survival for so many years. Apparently, none of them wanted the $25 million on his head. A young woman, unarmed, reportedly gave her life for him. It is said by US sources that she RUSHED the navy seals and was killed. His wife shielded him and was shot, reports say.
- The incompetence of the Pakistani army in not discovering Osama living so near their premier military academy has unnerved the Pakistan secular ruling elite. How would such an army face an attack by India, they ask?
- A wedge of suspicion has been driven between Pakistani and US intelligence. Important elements of the US power structure are voicing alarm over the possibility, if not probability, that Pakistani intelligence was cooperating with al-Qaida.
- My analytical understanding is that such disloyalty by the Pakistani leadership to the US would be unthinkable and even suicidal owing to the military's dependence on the US.
- Our listeners should ponder the price of vengeance. The US has spent $1.3 trillion in finding and killing Osama. [Dr. Leon interjected that he has seen a figure above $3 trillion.]. On the trail of vengeance, 30,452 people have been killed in Pakistan. In the same process, the US lost more than 6,000 of its military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Our Christian listeners should ponder what, Jesus, pbuh, said about enemies: "...I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven." [Matthew 5:44-45.] St. Paul explained that message vividly: "Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written:' It is mine to avenge;I will repay, says the Lord.' On the contrary:if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink." [Romans 12:19-20]
- By going into a Muslim country and killing Osama in his home, it appears from Pakistani news reports, that the US has put its hand into the hornet's next. Pakistan is seething with protest and anger in every town and city.
- I do not know of ANY Islamic leader who was ever buried at sea. According to Islamic law he should have been buried in the area where he was killed [unless he left a will stating otherwise]. The US is inadvertently admitting in the sea burial that Osama is extremely popular and a land burial would have becomr a shrine.
- The immediate burial too is not absolutely required under Islamic law. Three days would be okay.
- The sea burial and the hurry to get rid of the body will fuel conspiracy theories which have already deflected Americans from the reality that the US is at war.
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Letter: Call him Shaheed-e-Abbottabad
Mohtram Kaukab Bhai, ASA
It is 2:10 Am. I was sleeping and then got up to the realization that OBL is not killed. He is alive. He is Shaheed and Shaheed do not die. America has made him AMAR. He got his best desire fulfilled by Allah (SWT). He is the most successful man of this earth. He got the real Shahada, fighting in the way of Allah only for the pleasure of the Lord of this cosmos.
You can give the caption of "SHAHEED-E- Abbottabad" to the forthcoming issue of NT. It would be the best tribute to his memories and to your tireless fighting against Zalimeen of this world.
He was innocent. Mullah Omar, the Amir of the Islamic State of Afghanistan repeatedly asked the USA to send his crime list and he will put OBL to trial and punish him, if found guilty but America always refused to do so. It could not establish any charge against.OBL but killed him blindly just out of arrogance, pride and obstinacy of tyrants for its false prestige.
May Allah bless you and give Barakah in your efforts and Rizq.
Shamim
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Pakistan
Munawar Hasan calls for Unity against Aggression. [Source: JI Media]
Islamic Protest Rallies Across Pakistan on Three Points:
· Condemnation of US Military Intervention in Pakistan.
· Martyrdom of Shaikh Osama bin Laden
· Slave-like and degraded Condition of Pakistan's rulers.
On May 6, at the call of Jamaate Islami's ameer, Syed Munawar Hasan, protestors rallied in every Pakistani city and town, and Jamaate Islami leaders addressed the crowds on the above three points.
In Lahore, Syed Munawar Hasan addressed a huge juma' prayer gathering in Mansoora. He said that martyrdom is the desire of the Muslim. If one Osama has been martyred, new Osamas are rising up all over the world. America's attempts to attack Islam and Muslims will not end terrorism but will spread the fire of hate and disgust around the Muslim world.
Hasan ridiculed the Pakistani army's statement that next time we will not let it happen. He said that that Pakistanis have fed the army with their sweat and blood: the results they are getting are disappointing. The army is behaving like the puppet politicians and this weak response has emboldened India which is boasting of trying to raid Pakistani cities.
Hasan urged the Muslim masses to come out of their homes and carry out a peaceful revolution: Private grief and anger will not change anything, he concluded.
After the prayers, thousands of people rallied on Multan road and were addressed by Dr. Farid Piracha, Nazir Ahmed Janjua, Zikrullah Mujahid and Abdul Aziz Abid. Scores of anti-American banners were displayed. Dr. Piracha warned America not to think that Pakistani people are similar to the sold out rulers of Pakistan. He said, Pakistanis wil defeat the aggressive designs of the US and India.
In Peshawar, a large procession came out of Masjid Mahabat Khan and was addressed by Shabbir Ahmed Khan, Secretary General of JI in Frontier Province [now called Pakhtunkhwa].
In Abbottabad itself, where US forces martyred Osama, a protest rally was addressed by JI's ameer for Frontier Province, Prof. Ibraheem khan as well as JI leaders from Abbottabad.
In Karachi a huge protest rally was held on Empress road and was addressed by Karachi JI ameer Muhammad Hussain Mehnati and JI's national deputy ameer Prof. Ghafoor Ahmed.
In Multan, demonstrators gathered in front of the Press club and were addressed by Ameer of Multan JI Prof. Iftikhar Choudhury and Dr. Hafeez Anwar.
In Rawalpindi thousands gathered in front of the Press Club and were addressed on the three points by Sajjad Ahmed Abbasi, JI ameer for the greater Rawalpindi area, Shamsur Rahman Swati, JI's local Secretary General and Rizwan Ahmed, ameer of JI Rawalpindi city.
In Quetta, protestors were addressed by Mian Maqsood Ahmed, Deputy Secretary General of Jamaate Islami.
Smaller gatherings were addressed on the three points by local JI leaders in the towns of Kharan, Ziarat, Turbat, Wander, Bela, Hub and Noshki.
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Muslims in Kashmir, led by Geelani, declare Shaikh Osama Shaheed. Prayers for him in every city.
by Wasim Khalid.
Srinagar, May 6: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Friday led funeral prayers in absentia of the slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden Shaheed at Batamaloo here. Funeral prayers for Osama were also held at various other places across the valley on the call of Geelani. Special prayers were also held for Osama in many masjids.
The Hurriyat (G) leader was put under house arrest by the authorities and his movement was crippled by a contingent of police deployed outside his Hyderpora residence this morning. However, later the authorities wavered on the decision and Geelani was allowed to offer the prayers.
After Geelani along with hundreds of people offered the funeral prayers outside the Batamaloo Shrine, he described Osama bin Laden as a martyr.
"We are concerned about the killing and offer our condolences," Geelani said while addressing the gathering. "After he was martyred and buried in the sea, the Muslims and Muslim scholars around the world are angry and expressed their anguish and expressed disappointment. It has hurt Muslim sensibilities throughout the world. The scholars have also urged for leading the in-absentia prayers of the martyr. We have also done the same," the veteran leader said.
He said many "power drunken" nations of the world are using their army, sophisticated war machinery and modern technology to impose there hegemony on the weaker people.
"I strongly urge that strength and power should be acquired by the God fearing people by hard work and dedication," Geelani said. "Only then peace will come in the world."
He stressed that for peaceful world, it is imperative that Palestine,
Chechnya should be granted freedom and western forces should leave Afghanistan and Iraq. "And there should be end of illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir," he said.
"Peace will remain elusive till India does not withdraw its troops and
implement United Nations resolutions," Geelani said. "If they say people are participating in the voting process, it is high time right to
self-determination should be implemented. Wherever majority will vote, the decision will be respected."
Geelani had appealed to Imams across the Kashmir Valley and the people to offer funeral prayers of Osama Shaheed after the Friday prayers.
He also demanded that all the youth and political prisoners should be released with immediate effect. Geelani also spoke abut his continuous house detention and said he was forcibly detained at his residence and his movement was being restricted.
Referring to Pakistan, Geelani said it was the only Islamic country with the nuclear power. "The country is surrounded on all sides by the dangerous forces who want it should give up the nuclear weapons. It's a larger conspiracy to weaken the Islamic nation. I appeal people to pray for Pakistan so that it comes out of these difficult times. We should pray for the safety and prosperity of Pakistan."
Lastly, while speaking on the social issues in Kashmir, he said the
co-education system in valley should be stopped. "There should be separate schools, colleges and universities for the women folk," Geelani said.
Following the speech, the area resonated with slogans like "We want freedom" and "Go India Go Back." The authorities deployed many contingents of policemen and CRPF personnel on law and order duties.
Soon after, large groups of youth while raising slogans started pelting stones on the police. The police retaliated by chasing them and hurling stones. One civilian was ruthlessly beaten in Batamaloo Chowk by the security personnel. The pitched battles continued till late evening.
Sensing trouble, reinforcements were called in. Senior police officers also arrived at the spot to take stock of the situation.
Meanwhile, Chairman Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Ahmad Shah, also led in absentia prayers of Osama at Iqra Mosque Saraibala here. He said Al Qaeda chief was against the enslavement of Muslim politics and religion.
"So it's incumbent for every Muslim to offer his funeral prayers," Shah
said. "After he was martyred in custody, his burial in the sea was disgrace
to Muslim sensibilities. It was an act of cowardice."
Shah said Osama was not just a name of a person but he represented an
ideology which rarely dies with the person.
"He was a very rich man. He left his luxurious life for the benefit of
Muslims," he added.
The in absentia prayers for Osama were offered at many places like Nowgam, Samundarbagh, Sopore, Bandipora, Pulwama and south Kashmir.
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Indian Muslims in Channai Declare Osama a Martyr
PTI adds from Chennai: Funeral prayers were held in a mosque here for slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden Shaheed and its Imam slammed the US for 'inhumanly' killing and burying him in the sea.
"America killed him inhumanly and left his body in the sea without
performing Janazah. So, we conducted Janazah (funeral prayer) for him,"
Moulana Shamsudeen Qasimi, the Imam of Makkah Masjid in Anna Salai, said.
Asked whether they had sought permission from police, the Imam said "it was conducted inside the mosque. We need police permission only if it was conducted in a public place."
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Iraq: First Retaliatory Attack for Osama
May 5: According to Reuters, al-Qaida carried out the first retaliatory attack for Osama bin Laden in Iraq. A car bomber rammed his vehicle filled with explosives into the police headquarters in Hilla city, killing 21 policemen and wounding 80. Forces are on high alert after receiving threats to revenge Osama.
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Afghanistan: Kandahar City Paralyzed by Taliban Attacks
May 7: According to the BBC, six explosions rocked the city of Kandahar . This was followed by machine gun fire as Taliban fighters attacked government offices up and down the city. The administration seems to have collapsed but it might have been hit and run raids, not an attempt to take over.
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Egypt: Muslims Attempt to Free Woman Convert to Islam. Battle follows.
May 7: Nearly 500 salafi Muslims rallied at a Coptic church in Cairo, demanding that a woman who converted to Islam and was being held against her will in the church be released. Witnesses told BBC that the Copts opened fire on the protestors and then both sides fought with guns and rocks. At least 5 people were killed and dozens injured.
Egyptian troops with tanks intervened to end the fighting. Our observers say, the Copts became very powerful under Hosni Mubarak's anti-Islam regime.
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Letter: Compliments on our Hadith Blog
As-Salaam Elekum Brother!
Your first segment / article for the new blog explaining Hadith was well-written and the content was clear and focused on essential issues.
Thanks for filling in for a "need of the hour" response to anti-Islam rhetoric of the West. Also this issue needs to be tackled because even many Muslims who profess their dedication to Hadith are often as ignorant of Hadith as they are of the content and essence of the Qur'anic Message. They are able to pay only lip service to the Hadith due to lack of "real" "educated" knowledge of its content. They appear to be using Hadith as a tactic just "to belong" in a "clanish" sort of way, to lay their claim as better "Muslims" among Muslims and in the process they create further fragmentations in the Ummah by putting negative labels on "other" Muslims. I have seen this in action over and over again.
The impact of several centuries of western colonizers' attempts to destroy the power inherent in Islam through anti-Islamic propaganda and attack on the Qur'an and Hadith has led to fragmentation of Islamic cultures across the globe which continues to this day.
I believe that your blog deserves to get published in book form and, inshallah, will be of help to all English speaking readers.
Keep up the good work!
As-Salaam Elekum!
Sofia [New York City]
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Letter: Comment on Syrian Army's Attack on Mosque
As-Salâm 'alaykum wa-Rahmatullâhi wa-Barakâtuhu,
"Attacked the Omari mosque in Deraa and occupied it?" Are these people Muslims? What, exactly, do they believe will happen to them on the "Day of Which There is No Doubt?" Do you think that they even believe in That Day?
Sis Hamdiyya [Charlotte, NC]
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Letter: On the Passing of Br. Hodari Ali
May Almighty Allah grant him Aljannatul-Firdaus, and may He give his family the fortitude to bear the Loss (Amin).
"Allahumma ighfirhum, warhamhum, Allahumma ighfirnaa war-hamnaa ba'adahum"...Amin.
Please send my sympathy and condolence message to members of his family, may Allah continue to take care and protect them after his (Bro. Hodari) departure from this world (Amin).
Maassalam.
Moosa Abdul Faiz [Zaria, Nigeria]
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Letter: Br. Hodari Ali, a Beautiful Person
Assalam alaikum: Please convey my condolences to the family of Br. Hodari Abdul-Ali . May Allah bless him and give him place in Jannatal Firdaus.Amien.
Allah hafiz.
Shaikh Ali-Khan [Canada]
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