Imagine What The Mainstream Media Would Have Said If These Were Palestinian Children

Of course the mainstream media and those leeches who lie in wait for a passing moment of the right chance would go ballistic and home in on it with their hell-bent anti-Islamic rhetoric. Nothing is more “cool” to them than "Islam bashing”.

And of course the Israeli kids like in the picture above are peaceful people who are just protecting their “country” which was created in the first place to ensure that a massacre like the “Holocaust” (read: Hollow cause) never happened again. That the Israeli will stop its "retaliation" if the Palestinians do not raise a hand at them…. whereas even a photo of Muslim children releasing a white pigeon from its cage as a symbol of peace or a photo an palestinian baby under the rubble are equally guilty and deemed as brainwashed who plotted Israel’s destruction from Day 1 of its “rightful” existence… Yeah right!!! It does not matter to them as long as they are muslim... peaceful Israel my foot!!!

Imam Samudera: "I Dont Regret, Even If I Have To Die"

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"NEVER be sad. Rejoice, because my friends and I have done a transaction in accordance with Allah's commandment. That is a great victory. Even until death appproaches and gets at me, I would never regret."

“I never wish to apply for clemency from the kafir law. I am holding on to Islam tightly, clenching It in my fist and gripping It in my teeth" that was a piece of statement by Imam Samudera, as quoted by Lulu Jamaludin, his blood brother.

In the meeting, Lulu also found the opportunity to inquire and at the same time discuss about the reason of why his brother chose Bali as a target for his jihad. Imam Samudera stated that the inquiry is not an easy one to answer, Lulu said..

"The main target was the invading nations such as the Americans as well as its allies who were gathering in Bali. Therefore it was not about the location of the target. The mass slaughterings of the Muslims in Afghanistan in Ramadhan 2001 was the trigger . The invading nations were slaughtering innocent babies," Imam Samudera said. (In his book "I Am Fighting The Terrorists", Imam Samudera explained of how they were always wanted by the authorities and that their access overseas were blocked as they were not granted the papers, so they had to look for local targets)

Imam Samudera believed that the journey of life in this world is to proceed for the next journey, Paradise. "Who is truer in his promise than Allah? Be happy with the transaction you have made. That is a true success," Imam Samudera said.

In the opportunity of meeting with his brother, the issue of the statement of his case had also became a part of the discussion. As for the charges, Imam Samudera had been said to have met the term of the article 15 (of The Criminal Law Act), his actions had been defined to have the elements of an unusual crime.

"I am not afraid or going acrophobic at all. On the contrary I am saying this to the prosecutors; Death is just a part of the whole episodes, then it is eternal life. The believers are experiencing the sufferings, as well as the pains and sorrows” he clarified.

"The same goes with the others (the kafirs). But there is a difference. The mukmin (believers) are receiving the mercy of Allah, while they don't. May Allah strengthen me on the this path of Islam, until the angel comes to take my soul away. Bear witness, we are the Muslims," Imam Samudera explained.

Read also: The Dream About The Salafy Ustadz From Behind The Iron Bars

"Youth Mujahideen Movement in Somalia: Tribute to Abu Mohsen al-Ansari" VIDEO

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The Somali Mujahideen Group “Mujahideen Youths Movement” released a 36-minute-video paying tribute to its martyred commander Abu Mohsen al Ansari who was killed in a U.S. air strike on the town of Dusamareb, 500 km north of the capital Mogadishu, last April.

The video included old footage showing al Ansari, who was better known as Adem Hashi Ayro, giving a religious lecture, walking in a mountainous area, paying tribute to one of his mates killed in the battlefield and preparing explosives.

Ayro had been leading the military operations against government and Ethiopian forces in Somalia since 2006. He released an audiotape last November where he called for attacks on AU Peacekeeping forces in Somalia and threatened to behead Ethiopian invaders and chase them all the way to Addis Ababa.

An audio statement by the group’s new leader, Sheikh Abu al Zubeir, in which he eulogized Ayro was also included in the video and was followed by a long speech by the group’s spokesperson, Abi Mansour, who is also known as Mukhtar Ali Rubo, in which he talked about Ayro’s legacy and long experience since his participation in the fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan till his death in Somalia.

The video also included excerpts from an Al Sahab video titled: “No Peace Without Islam” released last June. The video featured a statement by senior al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi, in which he eulogized Ayro.

Also featured in the video were excerpts from an old Sheikh Bin Laden video where he talked about the virtues of martyrdom.

Go here to download:

http://clearinghouse.infovlad.net/showthread.php?p=69296

The Dream About The Salafy Ustadz From Behind The Iron Bars

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The following story is excerpted from the journal of Sheikh Ali Ghufron @ Mukhlas written from where he was confined, namely the Nusakambangan State Prison, Bali, in Jumadil Awwal 1428H. Delving into his writings is very enlightening and masha Allah... his ‘ilm (knowledge), iman and akhlaq (virtue) is very praiseworthy.
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Why are those terrorists who in the first place murdered the muslim civilians in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan not held accountable??? Why are the blood of one thousand Muslim children and women not more sacred than the blood of one Jew or Christians or Hedonist?

The following is what he wrote:

When we were in the Kerobokan Prison, Bali, there were at least three ustadzs who claimed to be the followers of the salaf or following the manhaj or the school of thoughts of the salaf (salafi) and had a share in rehabilating, educating and teaching the inmates there, alhamdulillah. One of the ustadzs (Ustadz M. Alim)had a weekly teaching session while the other two were just assigned as khatibs (speakers) for Solatul Jum’ah (Friday Prayer).

Those ustadzs were always satirizing us and our circle in their sermons, but alhamdulillah it was not direct that not everyone in the jama’ah understood the aim of their speech. Their sarcasms were such as the following accusations; doing deeds without knowledge (‘ilm), ahludh dhalal (peope of misguidance), ahlul bid’ah (people of innovation), away from the ulama’ (scholar) and ahlul ilmi (people of knowledge), the people whose good deeds are wasted, the wrongdoers and not the mujahid, the khawarij and so on.

However the most absurd behaviour shown by the ustadzs were the way they were reluctant to meet us and look us in the face (especially the three of us), they did not want to give and reply the greeting of peace (salam), they did not want to shake hands with us, when we puposely stood in their way they would divert to other directions.

This is nothing strange to us because we understand their principles and beliefs very well, according to them those acts are the requirement of the shari’ah and is the purest way (afdhal) of doing good deeds ('amal) and is their ‘jihad’ at this time, namely the jihad of reforming the ahlul bid’ah including the khawarij, and without a slightest doubt they did think of us as the khawarij.

These are presumptions which they confidently believed, inherited from the salaf 'ulama, to the extent that they mock, slander, gossip, etc. about people like us which includes the majority of the mujahideen who are on the path of jihad today (which according to some of them there is no jihad today and the time has not come for jihad). What they were doing (those ‘ugly’ behaviors) are to them good deeds which will be greatly rewarded and are ways of obtaining the pleasure of Allah that would make them enter paradise. Wallahu musta’an.

The acts of isolating and sarcastic hinting had become question marks on the minds of some of the inmates, especially those who had strongly resolved to repent and wanted to come back to the pure Islamic understandings which agrees with the salafi understandings. Facing such a situation, a fellow inmate came to see me one day and said: "Ustadz, I am surprised to see what’s happening between you and the other ustadzs, you got the same dress, same beard, the way of your solat is also the same, both are following the sunnahs and are anti bid'ah, both appears good, but why can't you get along with each other and there is no talking? Your circle were always hinted at sarcastically, accused of being jahil (ignorant), astray, ahlul bid’ah, we were told not to learn anything from you, etc." Thus more or less what have been communicated to me.

Therefore I said to him: “Actually we have a lot of similarities in our understandings of religious matters, we differ only on a few subjects, especially the jihad and the governance issues.

According to me the variance in opinions (khilafiyah) in issues like this is natural, and cannot be made as a reason for enmity between the Muslims, however those ustadzs precisely made those variance in opinions as a reason to shun us, hate us, and slander us, and moreover to call us ahlul bid’ah, ahludh dhalal, khawarij and so on. That was more or less what I had explained to the fellow inmate.

Then he asked: "If that's the case who and which one of you shall I follow?"
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I answered: "Follow the true (haq) and the good one, and leave the false (bathil) and the bad one."
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He commented further: "According to me the evidences from both sides are equally well-founded on Al-Qur’an and As-Sunnah," and he continued, "Ustadz, I am a person without knowledge, I am just starting to understand about sunnah from in here, previously I was busy with worldly affairs to the extent of forgetting to study and understand religious matters, so I am without understanding and I cannot evaluate who are truer, please tell and guide me."

So I told him that according to shari’ah, muslim people are divided into three groups:

1. Mujtahid

[scholars qualified to issue expert Islamic legal rulings directly from the primary textual evidence (ijtihad) - ed.]

2. Muttabi’

[followers of primary textual evidence, who compares between madhhabs and chooses the closest of them to the Qur’an / an intermediate degree between following scholarship (taqlid) and deducing rulings from primary texts (ijtihad) - ed.]

3. Muqallid

[followers of qualified scholarship without knowing the primary textual evidence (of Qur’an and hadith) - ed.]

And then I explained each one of the categories briefly and told him that the belonged to the muqallid, hence according to the ulama’, when a muqallid met two knowledgeable persons ('alim) who according to his evaluation are equally knowledgeable and when he could not differentiate who between the two, is more knowledgeable, then he should choose who is better in term of his akhlaq (his zuhd (asceticism), wara' (piety), etc.). So follow who, between the two, according to you is better in his akhlaq.

He said: “Both of them are good, and as though both of them are the same, equally maintaining the sunnah, equally bearded, trousers above ankle, generous with smiles, equally struggling for Islam.” And there were many other things that he mentioned such as that the zuhd and the wara' also appeared the same, equally anti-smoking and music and so on...

Subhanallah, I found it hard to answer, however, alhamdulillah, I found a way out in the end. Thus I said to him: “Now, just try to do this, please perform solatul istikharah (a Muslim prayer for guidance) and beg to Allah SWT to show you that the right is right and the wrong is wrong, end of story," alhamdulillah, he accepted my advice.

About two days later or could be more, I could not remember well, but it was less than a week, he came to see me again and informed me that he had a dream the night before and the story of his dream was more or less as follows:

Whereas, the ustadz who usually teaches weekly at At-Taubah mosque, Kerobokan Prison (Ustadz M.Alim), was standing in front of an assembly as the way he normally taught, and he was holding in his hand a rotten carcass of a snake. It was long and it gave out a very horrible smell, he ate that dead snake bit by bit, while at the same time inviting the attendees (his students) to join him enjoying eating his dead snake.

The students, including the one who had the dream said, "Ustadz! How can you eat such a rotten snake carcass?"
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The ustadz answered, "It is so delicious... Let's eat." He ate that rotten dead snake without stopping until he finished it all... no leftover and nothing was wasted. The dreamer said that at that moment everybody in the assembly felt so disgusted, and it stunk heavily all around especially when the carcass was munched and chewed, an extremely putrid stench came out of his (the ustadz) mouth. And in all of the students who were present, none of them touched or ate the snake even though they were being invited, offered and begged by the ustadz repeatedly.

After that, the fellow believing inmate asked me anxiously: “Ustadz, what is its 'takwil' (deeper interpretation)?”
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I said: “Masha Allah! My apology! It is not nice for me to comment on that dream of yours, it is better that the dream is being told to the relevant ustadz (Ustadz M. Alim). He, insha Allah will understand and have studied the science of dream interpretation, besides that, insha Allah your dream will be beneficial for him as a tadzkirah (admonition), because an ustadz also needs a tadzkirah, so don't forget when the ustadz come to teach here again, tell him about your dream."

He answered: "I am shy... I dont have the courage."
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I said: "What are you scared of? I am confident if you conveyed it to him, he will say 'Jazakumullah khairul jazaa'."
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The fellow insisted that he was shy and that he didn't have the courage, so I said to him: "If that's the case... then just keep quiet and beg Allah Ta’ala to bring about a lot of goodness from the dream."

That was approximately how the story about the dream goes, I purposely don't mention his name for the common good, may that dream of his become a tadzkirah and lessons for those who want to take lessons from it. I am confident -wallahu a’lam- that the dream that fellow inmate was a true and good dream, and the contents of his dream did not contradict Al-Qur’an and As-Sunnah, in fact it fits in nicely with the testament and the sayings of Allah Ta’ala in the Qur'an's chapter of Al-Hujuraat (49): 11-12, particularly at verse 12.

Allah has given a similtude that people who do ghibah [backbiting, speaking ill of a person behind his back which if he heard would hurt or injure his feelings] on his brothers in Islam is like eating the flesh of a dead brother. In the of verse the Qur'an, it is said that a backbiter is similar to an eater of dead human being, whereas in the dream it was an eater of a dead snake which was shown, what's the secret? -wallahu a’lam- according to me, if based on the science of dream interpretation, a snake is interpreted as an enemy. (see Ta’bir Ibn Seerin page.179).

Ustadz M. Alim (who was in the dream), if viewed from the outer aspect (his attitudes, speeches and actions), we can tell that he considered us and others like us as his enemies. In fact if we read the writings by people like them or who are of the same habitat as them, such as the Asy-Syariah, Al-Furqan dan Adz-Dzakirah magazines as well as the book; “They Are Terorists”, we and the people like us who are struggling to make an effort to do jihad in the path of Allah (who they considered as bid’ah) are regarded as their main enemies in this era.

So it was exactly fitting that what had been munched in the dream was a snake carcass instead of a dead human body, as a representation to show that the person (ustadz) in the dream and others like him were used to being prejudiced, tajassus [spying, looking secretly into the faults of others], ridiculing and other bad behaviours including ghibah towards the Muslim brothers who they considered as their enemy.

As for why it was not a dead human that was devoured in the dream like in the verse of the Qur’an, the secret, wallahu a’lam- according to me was because, if it had been a human corpse which was eaten it would mean that the persons whom they gossipped were ordinary muslim brothers who were hated because of certain disliked characters, but not to the extent of being regarded as enemies in religion. Therefore the person in the dream, who were depicted as a dead snake eater was more serious in terms of his transgressions compared to the one who eat the human corpse in this context.

And alhamdulillah, the takwil of the dream contained substances similar to what we had understood and believed all these while. The practices, traditions and habits followed by certain people from the camp who claimed to be the followers of the salaf (salafy) such as backbiting, criticizing, abusing, shunning, blaming with improper accusations, judging others as ahlul bid’ah, khawarij, etc. are based on conjecture and random guess, whether in their speech, writings, or actions towards their brothers from the fellow believers. All these while they believed that what they were doing were righteous deeds and a main jihad which could cause its doer to obtain the pleasure of Allah Ta’ala and enter paradise, however just exactly the opposite is reaped, they have attained great sins. Only Allah Ta’ala knows how much sins they have collected.

An Appeal

Due to the above, O my brothers who are reading this, if you have the opportunity to meet our brothers from the salafi camp especially those who are used to doing blameworthy actions as mentioned above, please convey this dream of a fellow inmate of mine to them, may it become a useful tadzkirah for them.

This, according to me, is a correct way of reminding them. I haven’t found a cleverer and wiser way of telling them that can knock on the door of their fitrah (innate nature) and that can penetrate their minds and hearts, because everything that comes from those they considered as terrorists and khawarij are valued as rubbish, even though it’s a pearl. Maybe, by this way, they would realize insha Allah.

Alhamdulillah, as what Allah had destined and willed, I have followed Ustadz M. Alim (who was in the dream) and listened to his sermons frequently. According to my judgement, even though his attitude showed that he disliked us, but the criticism and the sarcasm as well as the admonition delivered through his sermons were not as ferocious and as nasty as what had been given by Al-ustadz Luqman bin Muhammad Ba’abduh and his kind, if we were to value it mathematically it was not even 10%, and the representation in the dream was already that hideous.

How would it be, if supposing the person in the dream was ferocious and nasty as well making the ulama’ and the mujahideen whom they don’t like, whether those who are still alive or those who already passed away, as the subject of their derision, mockery and gossip... approximately how many rotten and disgusting dead snakes have they already chewed and devoured.

I am not making that dream as a dalil (proof) or hujjah (argument) like what I have elaborated above, however I am confident that the dream of that fellow inmate came from Allah because in addition to his dream being profound and symbolic, the dreamer did not have any other interest whatsoever other than just to find the truth, and what’s important to be known is that the dreamer did not harbor any ill-feeling towards the person in his dream. In fact that person is considered to be as one of the ustadzs whose taklim (Islamic study session) and style of teaching is most favored, moreover the dreamer had beforehand tried to obtain a fatwa and performed istikharah to be shown a way out pertaining to his dilemma. So I do not doubt that the dream was one of those dreams which is true and not flawed, a dream which is good that brings with it much benefits.

For that reason it is appropriate for us, the believers, to take as much lessons as we could from it and make it as a tadzkirah, by stopping doing bad practices such as those mentioned above which we are used to doing.

Do we like to continuously eat the rotten carcass of a snake and the corpse of our own brother? Till when are going to be that way. Nothing can be gained from such a situation, except creating advantage for the enemies of Allah from amongst the “satans”, made up of both the humans and the jinns laknatullah 'alaihim ajma'in.

And once again, O my brothers who are reading this, don’t forget to convey this important message to other brothers, with the niyyah (intention) of solely to attain the pleasure of Allah Ta’ala and to get His rewards. Then spend some efforts to appease (ishlah) the relations between the believers, may our efforts be blessed by Allah Azza wa Jalla and become a reason for the re-establishment of izzul Islam wal muslimeen (the honour of islam and the muslims). Ameen!
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Related post: Al Jazeera’s Interview With Sheikh Ali Ghufron Posted Online, After Being “Censored” By The Station

Jews Plan Al Aqsha Demolition

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After destroying the Muslims’ dwellings and replacing them with the Jewish settlements for decades, now they want to destroy the Muslim’s holy place of worship and replace it with the Jewish one, as per the report below. How much more terrorization does it take before the Muslim world, with its populations numbering over a billion, begin to rise up and hit back at the bullies courageously (read: jihad)?
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A group from the Israeli Jews is planning to conduct some trainings as a preparation for the demolition of Masjid Al Aqsa to give way for the construction Solomon's Temple (Haiqal-e-Sulaimani). Thus reported by the Israeli media.

Al Aqsa Foundation for The Protection Islamic Holy Sites of Palestine is again reminding the Arab world and the Islamic nations to act fast in order to save Masjid Al Aqsa from demolition. Al Aqsa Foundation also mentioned that efforts by a number of Jewish foundations supported by the Israeli occupation regime are getting bold and intense, Al Aqsa Foundation stated in a press release on Wednesday (23/7).

The statement was released following the news by several Israeli mass media which reported that a group of radical Jews, namely the “Habad” is in the process of preparing some trainings for the demolition of Masjid Al Aqsa and the construction of Solomon's Temple (Haiqal-e-Sulaimani). The trainings would be conducted for a period of 3 weeks, in 200 locations all over Israel. The purpose of the training is to form a working team for the construction of Haiqal-e-Sulaimani.

The media sources also mentioned that the trainings would present in detail the program for the construction work of Haiqal-e-Sulaimani, amongst them are; the process of demolishing Masjid Al Aqsha, the design for the entrance of Haiqal-e-Sulaimani, the making of the plans for the interior and exterior designs, the foundation-stone laying rituals, the uniforms of the priests, the sacrificial ceremony, architectural designs and layout, etc.

The leader of the “ Habad” circle, Khakhom Yousef Ahrounuf, as quoted from the Israel Maariv daily said that the trainings are traditions which were importantly held before the celebration, prior to the destruction of Haiqal-e-Sulaimani.

In the statement, Al Aqsa Foundation also said that judging from the various statements made by the circle of radical Jews regarding Al Aqsa, it shows that they are intensifying their efforts in trying to establish Haiqal-e-Sulaimani above the ruins of the mosque.

Therefore, Al Aqsa Foundation is requesting the Arabic and the Islamic worlds, either from the government or the power of the masses, to act fast in order to save the first kiblah (praying direction) of the Islamic ummah from being destroyed.

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Torture Photo Leaked From US Military Computer Network

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Baghram, Afghanistan – All these while, the muslims have been suffering enough in enduring the despicable acts of the US of America towards the Muslim brothers and sisters in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir... the same goes with the muslims captives in the Abu Ghuraib prison, the captives in Guantanamo, etc.

This time, the US are again and again making the hearts of the muslims boiled in anger when we, as the muslims, are again witnessing the photos of torture as conducted by the US military!

The following is a news I have excerpted from am Islamic site.

According to Wikileaks:

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Photo of a detainee held by the United States, with his face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked. According to digital camera metadata the image was taken on Feb 9, 2003 03:49:25. The 6 Aug 2004 is also mentioned in relation to this photo. Wiring the face is certainly something that is plain obvious as non-medical! The location of the detainee is unknown, possibly the US Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan. Although there is a resemblance to the US Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh, the connection is superficial. The negative image to the right was created by Wikileaks to draw attention to certain regions of the photo on the left. Wikileaks staff have verified that the photograph came from a US military computer network.

These are methods of torture by the Americans who are psycho neurotic!!!!!

This is an extreme act of the American Terrorists who are spiritually sick!!!!!

By Allah,
May you all be destroyed...
May you all be destroyed...
May you all be destroyed ... O enemies of Allah!!! Ameen!!

The Future Of ISLAM Is Bright In BRAZIL; 3 People Entered ISLAM Every Day

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A number of institutions in BRAZIL stated that the number of people embracing Islam every day in a city such as Sao Paulo alone, is 3 people.

Unfortunately there is no detailed statistic showing the total figure of Muslims living in BRAZIL, however some of the Islamic institutions estimated that their total number could reach 3 millions. This total number is divided into those of the immigrants from the Arabic and other Islamic countries, and the local BRAZILLIAN themselves who have embraced Islam.

Hosam El Bostani, an imam in one of the mosques in Sao Paulo stressed that most of the people who converted to Islam in Brazil are those from the youth and the female groups. This inspiring information strengthens further the belief that the religion of Islam has a bright future in BRAZIL.

Concerning the specific reason why the two groups from the society are very enthusiastic in becoming muslims, a female journalist from BRAZIL, Rita de Ceiba said, the women and the youth are both a group from amongst the society who are suffering the most in BRAZIL because of the pervalent cases of a broken home and the absence of harmony in the family institution. Obviously, these people have now found in Islam what they have always been looking for all this while.

As we know, Islam came to BRAZIL through the slaves from Africa who were recruited by the PORTUGUESE colonialists in between the 16th and 17th Century A.D. And from then on, Islam spread in that country. The spread of Islam had become more extensive with the arrivals of Immigrants from the Arabic countries in the beginning of the last century.

Sour©e: alsofwah

The Lebanese Mujahideen Great Commander, Abu 'Umar Al Maqdese, Shaheed (Insha Allah)

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Lebanon – A Great Commander of the Lebanese Mujahideen, Abu 'Umar Al Maqdese (alias Shehada Jawhar), was shaheed, Insha Allah, during a battle with the murtadeen forces in 'Ain el-Hilweh. The murtadeen forces attacked him and others with him on Sunday morning, yesterday and he passed away in the fighting.

May Allah (SWT) forgive him, have mercy on him and accept him as a shuhada'. Ameen!

Also shaheed, Insha Allah, in the battle was a close friend of Abu 'Umar, Waleed Sallom, may Allah (SWT) also accept him as a shuhada'. Ameen.

Who is Abu 'Umar?

This blog featured the Exclusive Interview of Abu 'Umar (rahimahullah) by TV Al-Arabia before. He was a great mujahid, a trainer of the mujahideen, the financial acquirer and at the same time a weapon supplier for Al Qaeda in Iraq. Below is a short excerpt of the interview (Abu 'Umar rahimahullah in this interview used the name Jawhar)

When asked about his job as an arm dealer;

Jawhar: I am a businessman – an arm dealer.
Interviewer: You work as an arms dealer?
Jawhar: Yeah. What’s wrong with that? Is it illegal, or something?

When asked about his jihad to Iraq he answered with a touch of intelligent humor.

Interviewer: So you went to Iraq to particiapte in jihad?
Jawhar: Yes, of course. Do you think i went there to join the bowling team or basketball team?

Asked about Al Qaeda, and the shaheed of the mujahideen, he commented ;

Interviewer: Are you supporting the Al-Qaeda’s ideologies the time you left for Iraq?
Jawhar: What? Al-Qaeda created their own ideologies? They derived their ideologies from Al Qur'an dan As Sunnah.

Interviewer: Did you find and meet peoples from diverse nationalities?...
Jawhar: For Allah’s sake, a lot of people came and became shaheed, and we dont even know their nationalities. Let me tell you something –an ikhwan was killed, and we are still guessing whether he came from Eritrea, Yaman or Sudan.

And this was his answer when he asked about his accusation of being a terrorist;

Interviewer: Did they give you the death sentence?
Jawhar: I have received a death sentence and also a life sentence. Nothing to worry about it. Is there a problem? They can make as much accusation as they like. This is like an honour to me.

Interviewer: Are you calling yourself a terrorist?
Jawhar: Yes, I am a terrorist. Is there any problem with that? If i want to terrorize Allah’s enemy, what’s the problem with that?

Masha Allah, all his words showed how strong his Iman was, his faith in Allah (SWT). He was not afraid of anyone except Allah (SWT). Subhanallah!

Look at his photos after he was shaheed (Insya Allah), may Allah SWT accept him and make a thousand more Abu 'Umar to spring up after him. Ameen!

I have stressed it before and now I am stressing it again with confidence that the death of the leaders of the Mujahideen would not be able to diminish the flame of the struggle of the ummah (jihad), in fact it would make it even more intense. Normally when a prominent Mujahideen leader was martyred, victory would surely follow. It was like an early sign of 'victory' that Allah (SWT) would give to the ummah. Recent events in Afghanistan is a perfect example, a few big names in Jihad such as Mullah Dadullah rahimahullah was martyred early this year, and now we are witnessing the explosive revival of the Taliban Mujahideen like we have never seen before!

Farewell and may Allah be pleased with you, O Abu 'Umar.

Innalillahi wainnalillahi roji'un.... (Truly to Allah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return.)
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ADVISES FOR THE TIMES OF TRIAL

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All praise is due to Allaah, Lord of all the worlds. May peace and blessings be upon the Messenger, his household and companions.

Fellow Muslims! Allah’s favours on Muslims are countless. Among these favours is that He made us the best community ever raised up for the mankind.

Yes! Islam is the complete religion and law. Its words are decisive and its judgments are just. Whoever holds fast to it prospers in this world and the next and whoever deviates from it will have misery and hardship as his lot in this life and the next. It is an upright religion whose teachings are noble and characters are lofty. It is full of wisdom, incontestable proofs and the only guidance for mankind.

“Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted from him and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.” (Aal ‘Imraan: 85).

It is the only true religion on the surface of the earth; the abrogator of earlier laws and systems. Whoever rejects it is an infidel and the enemy of Allah, His Messenger (SAW) and the believers and his final abode will be Hellfire. The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, ‘By Him in whose hand is my soul, if any of this people be he a Jew or a Christian hears of me and yet does not believe in what I was sent with, he will be among the dwellers of Hellfire.’

However the enemies of Islam toil to cripple Islam and Muslims, they will never succeed. Allah says what translates as, “They intend to put out the light of Allah (the religion of Islam) with their mouths. But Allah will complete His light even though the disbelievers hate (it)” (As-Saff: 8).

To corroborate this verse, the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, ‘A group among my nation shall continue standing firm on the religion of Allah. None of those who forsake or disgrace them shall be able to harm them until they become victorious over all people.’ (Muslim).

We Muslims have never been in such need of self-examination as we are in these days of crises and hardship. We are in dire need of unity so as to wash away the filth of ignominy that is presently our lot. We must go back to the pristine sources of our great religion and follow their injunctions. The Messenger of Allah warned the Muslims of the causes of degeneration and weakness when he (SAW) said, ‘When you become preoccupied with transaction in credit and are so engaged in cattle rearing and in crops that you abandon jihad; Allah will enforce an ignominy upon you and will not remove it until you go back to your religion.’ (Aboo Daawood).

We must understand the causes of our problems and calamities in the light of the Qur’aan, the Sunnah and the guidance of our righteous predecessors. And while dealing with those problems, we must be truthful, sincere and free from whimsical desires and shirk. We must have confidence in Allah and put our trust in Him. He says what translates as, “When there comes to them some matter touching (public) safety or fear they make it known (among the people), if only they had referred it to the Messenger or to those charged with authority among them, the proper investigators would have understood it from them (directly). Had it not been for the Grace and Mercy of Allah upon you, you would have followed Satan, save a few of you.” (An-Nisaa’: 83).

What is incumbent upon us Muslims when calamities and trials befall us is to unite in order to protect our faith and to cooperate with each other in piety and righteousness in order to defeat the enemy. Allah addresses us with the verse which what translates as: “And do not dispute (with one another) lest you lose courage and your strength departs, and be patient. Surely, Allah is with those who are patient.” (Al-Anfaal: 46).

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, ‘Allah is pleased with you when you do three things: He is pleased that you worship Him without ascribing any partner to Him, that you hold fast unto the rope of Allah and that you are not divided. He is displeased that you engage in gossip, much (unnecessary) questions and wasting of money.'

The relationship brought about by our religion is the straightest relationship. It has its meanings and obligations enshrined in the Qur’aan and Sunnah. It is a relationship that destroys disbelief and aggression. Allah says what translates as, “The believing men and women are supporters of one another, they enjoin all that is good (on the people) and forbid all that is evil. They perform Solat, give the Zakaah and they obey Allah and His Messenger. These are ones upon whom Allah will have mercy. Surely, Allah is Almighty All-Wise.” (At-Tawbah: 71).

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) also said: ‘All Muslims are equal … and they are united against their enemies.’ (Aboo Daawood).

He also emphasised the importance of Islamic brotherhood when he (SAW) said, ‘Whoever prays our prayer, faces our Qiblah and eats our slaughtered animal is a Muslim who is under the protection of Allah and His Messenger.’ He also said, ‘The believers are like a structure whose different parts strengthen one another.’ (Bukhaari).

Each individual Muslim possesses a great sacredness and high position in Islam. We must give him this privilege and not deny him of it whenever he falls in trouble. Ibn ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) stood on the pulpit one day, raised his voice and said, ‘O you who are Muslims by tongue and faith has not penetrated your hearts! Do not harm Muslims nor pursue their imperfections for whoever pursues the imperfections of his Muslim brother, Allah will pursue his imperfection and whosoever Allah pursues his imperfection, He will disgrace him.’ He also stressed the sacredness of Muslim life when he said, ‘Indeed, the termination of this world is of lesser importance to Allah than the killing of a Muslim man.’ (At-Tirmithi).

Muslims today are facing different kinds of persecution from all parts of the world; they are being killed, tortured and expelled from their lands. In fact they are in pitiful and deplorable situations. Foremost among those who commit these crimes against them are world Zionists who are a treacherous nation and these crimes are committed in front of the whole world and nothing concrete is done to stop them. Where then is the claimed justice and fairness with all these slogans of civilisation, freedom and peace? We only see justice and fairness from those countries who claim to be champions of justice when the wronged happen to be the Jews.

One fact remains indisputable in view of our present condition: we will never conquer our enemies unless we first of all conquer our souls and whimsical desires. We can never defeat our enemies unless we first of all implement the law of Allah in every aspect of our lives. The Messenger of Allah (SAW) stressed this point when he said, ‘Nations will be on the verge of calling one another to attack you as people call on one another to a plate of food.’ The companions said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Is it because we will be few then?’ He replied, ‘No. You will rather be many and will be in multitude like the scum floating on flood waters. Your fear will be removed from the hearts of your enemies and theirs will be put in your hearts.’ The companions said, ‘What is the cause of this?’ He answered, ‘Love for this worldly life and the hatred of death.’ (Ahmad and others.)

By: Sh. Salaah al-Budair

UMMU HARAM IN THE BATTLE OF CYPRUS

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Ummu Haram binti Milhan (RA) was an aunt of Anas bin Malik (RA). The Prophet (SAW) often visited her and sometimes had his afternoon nap at her place. Once he was sleeping in her house and when he woke up smiling, Ummu Haram asked:

"O Prophet of Allah! you are dearer to me than my parents, tell me what made you smile?"

Prophet (SAW) said:

"I saw in my dream a few of my followers going for Jihad across the sea. They in their barges looked like Kings sitting on their thrones."

Ummu Haram Said: "O, Prophet of Allah ! Pray that I may also be one among those people."

Prophet (SAW) replied: "Rest assured, You will be one of them."

He went to sleep again and got up smiling for the second time. On Haram's query he said:

"I again saw some more people going for Jihad across the sea."

Ummu Haram requested him to pray for her joining them also.

Prophet (SAW) said:

"No, you are with the first group only."

Ummu Haram was granted a long life by Allah (SWT). During the Khilafat of Usman (RA) Amir Muawiyah, the Governor of Syria, sought permission to send an experditionary force to Cyprus Island. This permission was granted by Usman (RA). Ummu Haram, with her husband Abadah (RA) was in that force. While returning from the Island she fell from her mule broke her neck and died. She was buried in Cyprus. A monument in the form of a mosque was built in her honor.

Look at the spirit of Ummu Haram. She wanted to join both the expeditions. As she was destined to die during the first expedition the Prophet (SAW) did not pray her participation in the second one.
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Such was the bravery and the heroism of a Muslim woman in the time of the Prophet (SAW), and her longing for the "shaheed" in the way of Allah (SWT). Ummu Haram was solely hoping for rewards from Allah (SWT) ie. Firdausil A'la (the Highest Paradise). May the muslimah of today be able to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors. Ameen!

Daddy! Why Didn't You Go For Jihad?

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A little girl aged around 7, came to his father and asked him a question: “Hi daddy, why didn't you go for jihad?” The father of that little girl was surprised with what she asked and so he wanted to test his daughter and said: “My dear daughter, If I go for jihad, I could be killed, and that would make you fatherless unlike other children.” The little mujahidah replied: “If you are killed then that is the main point, because you will become a shuhada' and you will enter jannah, insha Allah and we will enter jannah together.”

This is a strong iman and pure fitra' (innate human nature) as well as a form of implementation of Allah's (SWT) decree which have been implanted in the self and the character of the little daughter. She is who we wants today in bringing up our sons and daughters, we'd like to educate them with the tarbiyah (cultivation and education) of iman and jihad.

So we must start by sowing in them the true and pure aqeedah, a creed which has no contamination in the form of diseases and treachery by the liberals and the munafiqeen (hypocrites). As well as educating them the true religion in the same manner as our Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and the salafusholeh (the righteous predecessors), then we place in them the understanding that they are a part of the Islamic ummah, and that they are the hopes of the ummah after Allah in improving the condition of the ummah and liberating it from the grip of the claws of 'humiliation' as well as declaring open enmity to the scheming kafir confederates. And hopefully they would reclaim the honor and the strength as well as the ultimate success of the ummah of this era.

It is also important for us to equip them with the appropriate physical as well as mental foundations, they should be trained until they know how to carry weapons on their shoulders, to be brave and to fight tooth and nail in the battlefields as well as seeking martyrdom in the way of Allah. It is all a way of bringing themselves closer to Allah and a main devotion with which they worship Allah.

We’d like them to develop until we reach the stage where they can absorb the entire importance of dignity and jihad and there sprout from amongst them someone who is dignified, a mujahid, who hold his religion with pride, the defender of his ummah, who is indeed proud to be a mujahid, and who could be a wad in the necks of the kafireen and munafiqeen confederates (In Palestine and Lebanon, Kashmir and Checnya, Afghanistan and Iraq, etc. Muslims are deliberately targeted, massacred, arrested and thrown into secret torture chambers "to break them down" and make them confess to crimes they never heard of. Thus it makes it only natural for the Muslims to feel utterly dejected and disgusted!)

We ask Allah to give goodness to our children, and make us and them mujahids in the way of Allah and give us rizq (bounty) in the form of shaheed as well as to gather us all in Firdausil A'la (the Highest Paradise).

PERSONALITY: MULLA MUHAMMAD UMAR MUJAHID

PART I

FAMILY BACKGROUND AND BIRTH

Ameer-ul-Mumineen Mulla Muhammad Umar Mujahid belongs to a respected family of religious scholars. His family is renown for the religious services offered by it for centuries. His full name is Muhammad Umar Mujahid bin Maulwi Ghulam Nabi Akhwand bin Mulla Muhammad Rasool Akhwand bin Mulla Muhammad Ayaz Akhwand. He belongs to a well-known branch of the Hootak tribe, which has been living in Kandahar for about a hundred years. Mulla Muhammad Omar was born in 1960 in the 'Noori' village in Kandahar Province. Kandahar used to be the capital of the Indo-Subcontinent when it was justly ruled by the great Afghan Mujahid conqueror, Ahmad Shah Abdali. Mulla Umar's father, Maulwai Ghulam Nabi, was a religious scholar and the Imam at a mosque in Noori. His predecessors lived in the province of Zabul, in the districts of Shakay and Beirut, where, even today, a water stream is remembered by the name of one of Mulla Umar's respected elders. Mulla Umar's family has produced religious scholars in every generation, who have rendered countless services to Islam for centuries. His family is well known to have a great fervour for Islam. Almost all of his predecessors have been religious scholars, rendering religious services in the southern provinces of Kandahar, Zabul and Uruzgan. The people of Afghanistan have consulted his elders for centuries, seeking guidance on religious, economical and social issues.

ORPHAN AT THE AGE OF THREE

Mulla Omar was just three when his father, Maulwi Ghulam Nabee Akhwand, passed away at the age of forty. He was the only child of his parents. His younger brother and three elder sisters had passed away at a young age. Therefore, after his father's demise, he was not only an orphan but also the only child of his mother. Who could have thought at that time that this poor boy would go on to become the Ameer-ul-Mumineen of Afghanistan and a symbol of bravery, valour, patience, humbleness and Jihad in the Way of Allah (SWT)? After his father's death, his eldest paternal uncle, Maulwi Muhammad Anwar, married his mother and remains the head of the family. Allah (SWT) gave the family three sons and four daughters, who are still alive and waging Jihad in the Way of Allah (SWT). One of his brothers was martyred in 1998 when a massive bomb went off outside his office in Kandahar.

It was an assassination attempt on his life planned by both the CIA and the Northern Alliance Commander, Ahmad Shah Masood, who by the will of Allah (SWT), was assassinated on 9 September 2001. Other paternal uncles of Mulla Umar are Haji Mulla Muhammad Hanafiyyah Akhwand, Haji Mulla Muhammad Jumma Akhwand and Haji Mulla Muhammad Wali Akhwand. All of his uncles are known to have great fear of Allah (SWT) but Mulla Wali Muhammad Akhwand stands out for his excessive prayers and remembrance of Allah (SWT). All his family members live under the same roof with love and unity. The young men in the family are all participating in Jihad and are sacrificing their life and wealth to rid the world of Disbelief and Evil.

ISLAMIC EDUCATION

Mulla Umar received primary education from his benign guardian, loving stepfather and generous uncle, Maulwi Muhammad Anwar, who was a religious scholar and Imam at a mosque in the Beirut district of the Uruzgan province where he taught a mass of religious students. Other than his under his uncle, he studied the Quran, Hadith and Fiqh from many accomplished scholars whose names are not available. For a period he also remained a student of his other uncle, Mulla Muhammad Jumma Akhwand.

FAMILY HOUSE, LAND AND ESTATE

Mulla Muhammad Umar's family, a family of tribal scholars, never went after the attractions of this world. Instead they chose to devout their lives for the propagation of Islam and the imparting of religious knowledge. Their lives are a living symbol of patience and gratefulness towards Allah (SWT). Upholding the name of Islam and following its laws staunchly were goals superior to all worldly gains. Wealth and material possessions were never able to weaken their resolve. It was due to this disregard for the luxuries and life of this world that neither Mulla Umar nor any of his uncles own any houses, land or estates.

MARCHING TOWARDS THE BATTLEFIELDS AT EIGHTEEN

It was 1978CE (1398 AH) and Mulla Umar was studying the highest-level book of the Hanafi school, the 'Hidayah', when Afghanistan was stormed by Communist aggressors, followed by the Soviet Red Army in December 1979. Thousands of young Muslims with the fear of Allah (SWT) and honour, decided to quell the Red insurgence. Among these soldiers of Allah (SWT) was an energetic young man of no more than eighteen years of age: Mulla Muhammad Omar. Filled with religious fervor and love for Islam, he took up weapons and headed for the battlefield. At the height of his youth, he stepped forward against the disbelievers and terrorised their ranks. He had resolved to revive the forgotten duty of Jihad that Allah (SWT) and his Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) adored so much and whose real meaning was bygone for the Muslim Ummah. He actively participated in the Jihad from the very beginning and it was then that the foundations of the Taliban Islamic Movement and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan were laid, which were to serve as the source of light, hope and life for the dejected Muslim Ummah drowned in the darkness of apathy. It was, in effect, the beginning of the Islamic renaissance.

INJURIES SUSTAINED IN URUZGAN DURING JIHAD

At the onset of the Jihad against the Communists and the Russians, he was fighting the enemies of Allah (SWT) in the Beirut district of Uruzgan Province. It was whilst he was wrecking the ranks of the disbelieving invaders that he sustained serious injuries on two occasions. The first time was when his leg was badly inured by rocket shrapnel and the second time was when he came under intense machinegun fire, which left his body riddled with bullets. He received medical treatment for the extreme wounds inflicted on his body, which, though they wounded his body, never scratched his incessant will to wage Jihad against the forces of Satan. Soon, by the grace of Allah (SWT), he regained his health and was back in the battlefield to devastate the enemies of Allah (SWT).

His valour and gallantry filled the enemies with terror and his ceaseless attacks on the Communists raised alarm. His experienced and perceptive uncle anticipated the designs and conspiracies of the Communists and advised him to move the centre of his guerrilla operations to the South-Western district of Panjwai. Another reason for selecting this area was that the Kandahar-Herat highway passed through this district, which was a crucial supply line for the Communists. This busy road was an excellent target for guerrilla activities, so Mulla Umar moved his unit of Mujahideen to Panjwai. His excellence as a leader, competence as a tactician and unmatched fearlessness made him emerge as an exemplary guerrilla commander. His fellow Mujahideen admired him for his humble ways, good manners and virtuosity, whereas the oppressed Afghans adored him for being an honest and generous man. On the other hand, his presence was a nightmare for the Communists and the Russians. He paid occasional visits to his parents in Uruzgan during this period of Jihad.

GETTING INJURED FOR THE THIRD TIME

It was during the period when he was fighting the Russians in the area of Sangsar, that he was badly injured for the third time, in an intense encounter with the Soviets. This time he sacrificed his right eye in the Way of Allah (SWT). His companions said that he was taken to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, due to the severity of his injury. After surgery, he was advised by the doctors to make Tayammum (ablution without water) instead of making Wudu (ablution with water) since water could have aggravated his wounds. Against the doctors' advice, he always used water for ablution and never prayed without proper Wudu. He used to say: "It is not possible for me to stop making Wudu for such minor wounds."

ON THE SIXTEENTH RPG, IT WENT UP IN FLAMES

Mulla Umar's companions during the Jihad against the Soviets and Communists included the Talibans' first and foremost Commander-in-Chief, Shaheed Mulla Muhammad (RA), Shaheed Mulla Naik Muhammad (RA), Shaheed Mulla Borjan (RA) and famous commanders, Mulla Bradar, Mulla Yaranah, Mulla Ubaidullah and Mulla Akhwandzadah. At that time he was associated with Maulwi Nabi Muhammad's group, Harakat-ul-Inqelab-al-Islami. He was the group's local commander and a sure shot with the RPG-7 (antitank weapon). Refreshing his memoirs of those days, one of his old time friends described an encounter with Russian armour. It was in the district of Panjwai where the Mujahideen under Mulla Umar's command were fighting the Russians. One of the Russian tanks was expertly hidden in the terrain and had inflicted substantial damage on the Mujahideen. This tank had martyred many of the Mujahideen therefore imposing on them considerable pressure. The tank was placed in its position with such skill thereby making it lethal for the Mujahideen to target. In order to tackle this hurdle and to ensure the safety of his fellow Mujahideen, Mulla Umar took the challenge. Armed with a RPG launcher and a supply of rockets, he moved to a position from where he could attack the menacing armour. He fired a sequence of rockets on the tank and at last, on the sixteenth RPG, by the will of Allah (SWT) it went up in flames.

INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD DURING JIHAD

During the Jihad neither Mulla Umar nor any of his family members migrated to Pakistan, Iran or any other country. They stood firm and chose to defend their faith and honour at the cost of their lives and wealth. On the rugged mountains they made their stand and from here they swooped on the Red Soviet Bear. During 14 years of Jihad against the Russians and after their defeat, Mulla Umar rarely travelled outside Afghanistan except for receiving medical treatment in the border town of Quetta. It was common practice among Afghan commanders to visit Pakistan every year and enjoy the luxuries of city life while they consulted their supporting governments and received aid. Mulla Umar, on the contrary, never made any such trips, which probably saved him from foreign influence and prejudice. Being a low-level commander, the needs of his unit were fulfilled locally and never demanded his absence from the battlefield. This turned out to be truly beneficial for the future of Islam and Jihad. Fortunately for the Muslim Ummah, all throughout his life he was exposed to only two elements: pure Islamic education and practical Jihad in the way of Allah (SWT). These exemplary fourteen years of his life are filled with purpose, chivalry, courage, vigour and perseverance in the way of Allah (SWT). Allah (SWT) willed for him a country life filled with Islamic knowledge and Jihad battlefields. The Almighty never exposed him to the outside world filled with greed, egocentricity and corruption. He was gifted with a true understanding of Islam and Shariah (Islamic laws), which, upon implementation, transformed war torn Afghanistan into a depiction of the Islamic society during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and his Companions (RAAH).

MARRIAGE AND RETURN TO EDUCATION

After the defeat and subsequent evacuation of the Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Mulla Umar went back to his religious studies. In a quiet and simple fashion, he got married at the age of 31. Allah (SWT) blessed him with two sons, Yaqub and Idris. There have been reports of Yaqub's martyrdom in the recent barbaric bombing by the Americans on Kandahar. While the Mujahideen commanders initiated a power struggle for Kabul, he started to teach at the local mosque.

POST-COMMUNIST ERA

With the passage of time, the post Communist era in Afghanistan saw even more destruction and oppression perpetrated by the so-called Mujahideen leaders. As the situation of law and order deteriorated, and the honour and property of the common man became even more insecure, the Afghans became dismayed with the power hungry commanders. Most of these commanders were Communists who had infiltrated the ranks of the Mujahideen to take advantage of their success. It was the survival of the fittest and the weak had no one to turn to for justice. The honour and chastity of women was neither safe inside their homes nor outside. Sick women were abducted from hospitals, never to be seen again. Parents smuggled their young sons to Pakistan just to save them from the paedophile commanders. The Governor of Kandahar, Gul Agha, married a boy in a well-set and publicised wedding. After every few kilometres was a commander's check post set up to dispossess the people of their livelihood and honour. Robbery and looting was commonplace. Human life became so cheap that people were killed on minor issues. Homes and businesses were ransacked and burned down. Allah (SWT) earth's was ravaged and plundered; there was no peace and all hopes of tranquillity were at an end. Then it seemed the blood of the Martyrs and the fruits of Jihad were going to be lost.

The following account was received from a reliable source and it unveils the Satanic face of the post Russian era commanders in Afghanistan:

A man was travelling in the province of Kandahar when he was stopped at a looting point set up by a Communist commander. When the poor man was harassed for money, he asked the commander's men why they were looting him and if Allah (SWT) and His Prophet, Muhammad (SAWS), had permitted them to do so. They said they would ask Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW). He was taken inside the check post and one of the harassers addressed a satanic clean-shaven man as Allah (SWT) and asked if he had given him permission to loot the poor man. The man replied yes. Then another ugly clean-shaven man was addressed as the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), who also granted their claim. Then the commander's men told the unfortunate man to hand over his money as he had witnessed Allah (SWT) and the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) affirm their demand.

STARTING THE TALIBAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT

Mulla Muhammad Umar's heart bled as he saw the misery of the Afghans. It was unbearable for him to sit in his mosque and teach while the land of Jihad was transformed into a living hell for his people. Islam was kicked aside by the commanders and the sanctity of Muslims were torn. Afghanistan was burning and the West warmed hands over it.

It was in 1993-94; at the age of 33, that Mulla Muhammad Umar Mujahid, with a group of around 15-30 religious students started the Tehreek-al-Islami-at- Taliban (the Taliban Islamic Movement). They attacked the local commanders' check posts in Kandahar and after securing them, took the border town of Spin Boldak in an amazing operation. After securing the area in and around Kandahar, they implemented the Shariah Laws and chased the Communists out of the province. More students joined them and the people welcomed the Taliban everywhere they went. Soon the oppressed people of other provinces invited them and the Taliban answered to their requests. One after the other, the Taliban took over the provinces of Afghanistan and by implementing Shariah, restored peace and order.

In 1996, the Taliban took over Kabul and Mulla Muhammad Umar was unanimously accepted as the 'Ameer-ul-Mumineen' (the Leader of the Believers) of Afghanistan. Thus the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan came into existence.

CONCLUDING GLIMPSE OF HIS CHARACTER

Once a delegation of guest came to visit Mulla Umar. Fresh bread, cream, tea and other delicacies were brought for the guests and they all began to eat heartily. All except Mulla Umar that is. He refused to touch the cream or the bread. His guests ushered him to eat with them but he refused. His advisors also urged him to eat with the guests, indicating that there was nothing wrong with him eating this food since it had not been brought especially for him; it was brought for the guests and he was the host. He still refused. A few moments later, a worker brought in a bowl of plain soup together with some hard, stale bread. Mulla Umar proceeded to break the hard bread with his hands and eat it with the soup. Upon being asked the reasons for his refusal to eat the cream, Mulla Umar said: "When the lowest person in my country eats this food, then I will eat it."

IN THE NEXT PART, INSHALLAH...

We will present Mulla Muhammad Umar Mujahid's achievements as Ameer-ul- Mumineen during the seven years of the Islamic Emirate. In addition, we will give more glimpses of his personality and virtues.

Sour©e: Radio Islam

World Attention On Islam Worries VATICAN!!

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Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a VATICAN official for the Inter-Religious Relations said, “The world at this time is obsessed with Islam.” He added, “We don't like the spread of ideas that there is a social class in religions, or that there is a religion that is better than the others out there!”

Tauran further said, “Islam is very important, but there are many other religions in Asia which are also considerably big and Islam is just one of the religions. Indeed, people have really become obsessed with Islam.!”

He also informed that he will be leaving for India shortly to hand over a treatise which contains declarations that all religions are the same, which is actually nothing more than just another plot to destroy Islam. Just like Christianity had been destroyed by this approach called 'liberalism', so they want to drag the muslims down with them too. While the Qur'an strictly says that Islam is the only religion acceptable to Allah (SWT), any muslims consenting to this scheme is completely disregarding the commandments of the Qur'an and the teachings of the Prophet, which we fear could take one out of Islam.

As we all know, the relation between the Muslims and the Vatican was once tense after the VATICAN Pope, Benedicts XVI delivered a sermon of ‘hostility’ towards Islam in Reginsberg, Germany as reported by the ‘El Mujtama’ magazine which was printed in Kuwait. He either ignorantly or intentionally misinformed his audience that Islam was spread by the sword of the Prophet (SAW).

Visit to the US

The leader of the Roman Catholic's visit to the US in April, was received with the latest factual finding where the US citizens are found to be getting more faithless and only a few them really know the Pope.

“America is Christian,” that's what many people say. At least it can be proved with the inscription of "In God We Trust" on every sheet of the American dollar. But is it really so? Obviously NOT. A survey was made by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, this month and the results were found to be very shocking. The findings showed that the US citizens are only calling themselves Christians but nobody attends these churches anymore resulting in a vast number of churches coming up for sale. Many of them, not only in the US but in Europe as well, have been converted to mosques.
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Talking about the Pope's visit to the country of Uncle Sam is not complete without mentioning the epidemic sex scandal in the Roman Catholic churces. Pope Benedict arrived in the US a few hours after he admitted of feeling very embarassed with the sex scandals that are occurring in the Roman Catholic churches in the US........

Taliban Returns And Now Surrounds Kabul

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The Taliban has liberated four districts in the province of Kunar. According to Jalal Jalal, official of Karzai regime, Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have total control over the districts of Bargi Matal, Ghaziabad, Langham and Chappa Dara.

According to Karzai puppets Taliban began it attacks on July 8. Local Karzai gangs were unable to oppose them. They reported to Kabul on Taliban attack and demanded backup, but they did not received any response, puppet officials said. Karzai gangs had to flee.

In the neighboring province of Nuristan combat actions between Karzai gangs and the Taliban are continuing for the fifth day. According to reports the district of Mum has also been liberated by the Mujahideen.

On the night of July 13 Taliban Mujahideen stormed American military base in Nuristan province, northeastern Afghanistan, using "surface-to-surface" rockets. As a result, according to official reports of the spokesmen of NATO occupation command, nine American soldiers were killed and another fifteen were wounded.

Earlier, in one of the central provinces of Afghanistan a powerful explosion occurred killing dozens of people.

Situation in the province of Helmand is getting complicated. According to Karzai puppets well-armed Taliban fighters have arrived recently here.

Karzai officials concerned that the Taliban are almost in the immediate vicinity of the capital of Afghanistan. Kabul might be surrounded, NATO officials as well as Afghan puppets admit.

According to reports Mujahid groups are quietly moving near Kabul in the provinces of Loghar, Maidan Wardak, Kapisa, Parwan and Laghman.

Local commentators indicate that the ranks of the Mujahideen are continuously replenished. In eastern provinces of the country two new formations have already appeared and joined the Taliban: "Jamaatul-dawa-al-suna" and "Ahadis". In groups are mainly consisted of Uzbeks and Arabs. Karzai puppets believe that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldashev is behind these groups.

Sour©e: Kavkaz Center

Afghanistan-The Taliban Returns

A short documentary about The Taliban, it's origins & returns. It's by skynews though... but quite neutral to be shown and attest their returns.

Read also: Obama To Send 10,000 Personnels To Afghanistan To Face The Might Of The "Super" Mujahideen

Obama To Send 10,000 Personnels To Afghanistan To Face The Might Of The "Super" Mujahideen

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The candidate for US Presidency from the Democratic Party, who is also a senator, Barrack Obama, said that he would send an additional number of 10,000 troops to Afghanistan to help the US and NATO in fighting the Taliban Mujahideen and Al-Qaeda.

Obama also said that he would begin troops withdrawal from Iraq, and send an additional number of two brigades to Afghanistan.

"We do not have enough resources to finish off the our job in Afganistan unless we reduce our commitments in Iraq," Obama wrote in his article which was published in "The New York Times" daily, in the Monday edition. (14th July).

Members of the Taliban Mujahideen successfully attacked an American military post located not far from the Pakistani border last sunday. This attack which killed nine of its personnels was considered by the US military forces as one of the deadliest they had received in the last 3 years.

More or less the total figure of US personnels killed in Afghanistan now is almost on par if not exceeded the number of casualties in Iraq.

Obama had fixed a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. But he promised to still retain a few small groups of personnels to train the Iraqi military.

He also mentioned that special operation forces will still remain in Iraq to hunt all the Mujahideen, though in many cases the hunter has become the hunted!

Alhamdulillah, the panic that gripped the crusader forces nowadays is clearly visible. May Allah continue to ignite the iman and spirit of of jihad in the hearts of the Islamic fighters all over the world...be it in Afghanistan or Pakistan, besides Iraq, Cascassus, Somalia, Algeria and as well as here in the Archipelago!!

Ameen!

Sour©e: muslimdaily.net

[::NO EXCUSE TO MISS SOLAT::]

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Solat (prayer) is compulsory and there is absolutely no doubt in its ruling. Solat is the pillar of our religion and those who do not perform solat has destroyed his/her faith. Rasulullah (SAW) stated in a hadith that the difference between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is solat. Hence, it is feared that those who purposely do not perform solat may die in a state of Kufur (die as a non-muslim).

The post this time features the importance of Solat in Islam. First I am presenting new inspiring photos I’ve collected from various sources over the internet which shows people performing prayers in unusual conditions and locations. Then there is a story from the collection of traditions (Riwayat) about Prophet Moses (AS) and an adulteress, and hadiths related to the above subject which further stress strongly the importance of not missing solat.

New Photos

The mosques that we always look up to with pride for their beautiful architecture do not guarantee people hurrying to perform solat in it, a solat at its earliest time and a solat which is khushoo, if people still prioritize worldly affairs to such an extent that they often let the chance of performing solat within its time slips away... is it worth it?

While everything could be easily available to some people; beautiful and intricate prayer mats, cushy and carpeted mushola and airconditioned mosques can be found everywhere... but others might find themselves not so lucky to be in the right circumstaces to be enjoying all those comforts. Like the muslim diver below who had to perform the duty underwater. Subhanallah…
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A Sin Greater Than 'Zina'

One lonely evening, a woman was seen walking with a stagger through an alleyway . Her dress was all black indicating that she was in great distress. Her face was almost fully covered by her veil and she had no make up nor any accessories adorning her body. Her clean skin, lean body and beautiful face could not get rid of the grief that had been tearing herself apart. She set out to drag herself towards the residence of Prophet Moses (AS).

She knocked on the door slowly and gave the greeting of peace. Then someone aswered the greeting from the inside and said, “Please come in”. The beautiful lady then entered with her head bowed and looking down at floor. Her tears were dripping from her eyes when she said, “O Allah’s Prophet, please help me. Make do’a (supplication) to God to ask for forgiveness for my dreadful sin.”

“What sin have you committed, O beautiful lady?” Prophet Moses (AS) asked.

“I am so scared to say it,” the beautiful lady replied.

“Say it please, don’t hesitate,” Prophet Moses insisted.

The lady then recounted hesitantly, “I have…. Committed zina (adultery/fornication)”

Prophet Moses’s (AS) lifted his head up, his feeling was really disturbed.

The lady continued, "From that zina, I soon became pregnant. After the baby was born and due to shame I strangled the baby until it….. died” the lady said while crying as much as she could.

Hearing that Prophet Moses (AS) eyes turned fiery and with an angry look, he scolded the lady, “Cruel woman! Get out of here! May Allah’s punishment not fall upon my house because of your crime. Get lost!” Prophet Moses (AS) screamed while turning his face away because he felt so disgusted.

With a heart as though a glass smashing on the rock, the lady with a beautiful face immediately got up and walked away in embarrassment. She stumbled and flinched away from the house of Prophet Moses (AS). Her wail and cry was so pitiful. She did not know where else to report to. In fact she did not want to know where her feet would bring her next. If a Prophet had already turned her away, what could she expect from ordinary people?

By the treatment she had just received from Prophet Moses (AS), she could imagine how big her sins were and how evil her deeds had been. But she did not know that soon after she left, Angel Gabriel came down to see Prophet Moses (AS). Ar-Ruhul Amin Jibreel (Gabriel the spirit of Faith and Truth, see Q. 26:193) asked Prophet Moses (AS), “Why did you reject a lady who wanted to repent from her sins? Don’t you know that there is a sin much bigger than what she did?”

Prophet Moses (AS) was shocked and overwhelmed with curiosity, “What is that sin bigger than the disgraceful acts of the fornicating and murdering woman?” Prophet Moses (AS) asked Gabriel (AS) further, “Is it true that there is a sin greater than that of the disgusting woman?”

"Yes, there is!" Gabriel (AS) answered firmly.

"What is that sin?" Prophet Moses (AS) was getting more anxious.

"A person who deliberately miss 'solat' and not regretting it. The sin of that person is greater than committing 'zina' a thousand time."

Hearing this clarification Prophet Moses (AS) immediately summoned the woman back to his house. He then lifted his hands up with full of reverence asking forgiveness from Allah (SWT) for that woman. Prophet Moses (AS) realized, a person who intentionally neglect solat and takes it lightly without any feeling of guilt or remorse is the same as if believing that solat is not obligatory and not required on him.

It is as if regarding God’s command as insignificant, moreover it is as if believing that God does not have any right to coordinate and regulate the lives of His slaves. Whereas if a person repents and expresses his regret over his sins with all his heart, it means that he still has Iman in his heart as well as believing that Allah (SWT) is always there if we are in the path of submission to Him. It is for this reason that God never refuse to accept the coming of His repenting slaves. (Quoted from the book 30 Exemplary Stories).

In a hadith of the Prophet (SAW) it was mentioned that a person who neglect solat is committing a greater sin compared to a person who burns 70 Al-Qur'an, murders 70 prophets and fornicate with his own mother inside the Ka'bah!... In a different hadith it was said that a person who leave solat until its time is over and then Qadha (performing it out of the prescribed time) the solat, then he will be punished in hell for duration of one ‘huqub’. A ‘huqub’ is equivalent to 80 years, and a year has 360 days in it, whereas the comparison for one day in the ‘akhira’ (afterlife) is like a thousand year in this world.

There goes the story of Prophet Moses (AS) and a adulteress, and the two hadiths of the Prophet SAW), may they serve as lessons and inspire the believing men or women not to ever miss solat! Ameen!

Related post: The Importance of Prayer in Muslim’s Life (Part I)

Nine Soldiers Of The Kafir ISAF Killed In Afghanistan

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Sarsah, Afghanistan – Nine soldiers of the kafir ISAF led by NATO were killed in a fierce firefight near the areas bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, Sunday, as officially admitted by ISAF.

Other fifteen soldiers of the ISAF and four Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the fight, the international team said in a statement.

The clash appeared to be one of the deadliest fights ever experienced by the international crusader team who arrived in Afghanistan at the end of 2001 to topple the Taliban Islamic Emirates's governance. The Taliban Mujahideen however gradually rose back from the ashes and are now haunting and fighting the International kafir forces superbly in full force.

The fighting took place in the mountainous northeastern region of the Province of Kunar, where an Afghan official related that the geurillas beforehand successfully attacked a post belonging to the ISAF and their Afghan collaborators, at dawn.

"Nine soldiers of ISAF were killed in the fight in northeastern Afghanistan near its border with Pakistan," the statement said.

"The fight started at dawn and continued until the next day when the geurillas were eventually forced to retreat from the post of the ISAF and the Afghan National Army," he said.

The international team were confident that the number of human losses on the part of the geurillas (Taliban Mujahideen) in the battle which lasted for a few hours, was also high, he said. However the statement by the international crusader forces was totally objected by the leadership in the Taliban.

The ISAF team had not mentioned the nationalities of those killed on their side but they had conveyed the announcement to the countries of origin for each victim.

However, a majority of the soldiers stationed in east Afghanistan are the kafir nationals of the USA which make up the biggest international forces in the country.

The NATO crusader forces did not have a clue who actually was behind these attacks which had so far killed so many of their soldiers. The Taliban are the main enemy of the NATO crusader forces and its partners in crime in Afghanistan but the Mujahideen of Al Qaeda are also amongst the Mujahideen groups who are the most active in fighting the American forces since the early days of occupation.

With these latest deaths, the total officially acknowledged number of the international kafir soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year amounts to over 200, a majority of them are due to attacks by the Mujahideen.

The Taliban Mujahideen, who governed Afghanistan then since 1996, flamed the resistance when they were overthrown from power by the invasion of Afghanistan led by the US in 2001 because of their refusal to hand over the leader of Al Qaeda Mujahideen, Sheikh Usaamah bin Laadin who was behind the 9/11 invasion.

The September 11 became an excuse for the international crusader forces to invade Afghanistan. The blessed attack of 9/11 had succeeded in making America fearful and traumatic of themselves because of what their hands had committed in the muslim worlds.

Bin laden stated in a documentary released by As Sahab Media, the media owned by the Jihad Organization of Al Qaeda, that the 9/11 attack is a punishment for all the atrocities and crimes perpetrated by America and its partners in crime which had caused the death of millions of Muslims all over the world.

Question & Answer: On Martyr Operations Carried Out by the Palestinians

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Question
As-salamu `alykum. Some people say that the operations carried out by Palestinians are considered suicidal acts and not a kind of jihad, is that true? Please tell me whether these acts are martyr operations and a kind of striving in Allah's Cause or not?

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Wa`alykum As-Salamu wa rahmatullahi wabarakaatuh.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Dear brother in Islam, we appreciate your forwarding the question to us, with the aim of getting acquainted with the teachings of your religion. This is what is required of all Muslims, to strive hard in seeking knowledge with which he will benefit Muslim Ummah.

First of all, we have to bear in mind that when we, Muslims, state that Islam is a religion of peace, we are not trying to prove something unreasonable or solve a crossword puzzle. Rather, we are just stating a fact backed by clear-cut evidence and unquestionable proofs. Even we don’t need to state this fact, for Islam, in itself, is self-explanatory, in terms of its meaning, its noble teachings and the core of its message conveyed by the Prophets Allah sent to mankind. At the same time, all peoples believe that peace and security should be attained through justice and equity.

Regarding the martyr operations, following is a relevant quotation of the resolution of the Islamic Fiqh Academy affiliated to the OIC in its fourteenth session, held in Duha (Qatar) 5–13 Dhul-Qi`dah1423 A.H., 11–16 January 2003 C.E.:

The Islamic Fiqh Academy stresses that martyr operations are a form of jihad, and carrying out those operations is a legitimate right that has nothing to do with terrorism or suicide. Those operations become obligatory when they become the only way to stop the aggression of the enemy, defeat it, and grievously damage its power.

Responding to your question, Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, deputy chairman of European Council for Fatwa and Research, states:

Martyr operations are not suicide and should not be deemed as unjustifiable means of endangering one's life. Allah says in the Glorious Qura'n: "And spend of your substance in the cause of Allah, and make not your own hands contribute to (your) destruction; but do good; for Allah loveth those who do good" (Al-Baqarah 2: 195).

The verse obviously indicates that failing to spend in Allah's Cause is like casting oneself into ruin. That is the reason behind the revelation of the noble verse. Reviewing the Islamic rule: "Words should be construed as imparting general meanings regardless of their specific occasions", the meaning of the afore-mentioned verse is bound to extend to include any negligence of a religious duty; i.e. forsaking a religious duty entails casting oneself into ruin. The same applies to committing sins.

Therefore, it's quite an abysmal analysis for someone to focus on the afore-mentioned verse through a narrow a perspective, without taking into consideration all relevant points.

Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) strictly forbade suicide and made it clear that anyone who commits suicide would be cast into hell. But in such case suicide means Muslim's killing himself without any lawfully accepted reason or killing himself to escape pain or social problems.

On the other hand, in martyr operations, the Muslim sacrifices his own life for the sake of performing a religious duty, which is jihad against the enemy as scholars say. Accordingly, a Muslim's intention when committing suicide is certainly different from his intention when performing a military operation and dying in the Cause of Almighty Allah. So it is natural that the religious legal status would differ in each case, as Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) says in a hadith: "Actions are but by intention, and every man shall have but that which he intended."

This means that martyr operations are totally different from the forbidden suicide. Concerning the Palestinians, they carry out the operations in showing resistance to the aggression launched by the enemy who has occupied their land, destroyed their houses, desecrated their sacred places and driven about four million of them out of their houses, replacing them with even larger numbers of Jewish settlements.

The enemy relies on sophisticated military equipments while, at the same time, denying the Palestinians their basic human rights, killing their women, children and men mercilessly, and rendering the Palestinians powerless and incapable of defending themselves—even all the Arab countries face the same fate, lacking necessary weapons.

So the Palestinians have nothing in their disposal but stones which they throw at their enemy in order to defend their country. This, despite its indication of a high morale, cannot deter the enemy this way. So the Palestinians resort to martyr operations, in which the martyr blows himself/herself up, sacrificing his life for the sake of his country and inflicting serious but reciprocal harms on the enemy.

In the light of the above-mentioned facts, I believe that those missions are a sacred duty carried out in form of self-defense and resisting aggression and injustice. So whoever is killed in such missions is a martyr, may Allah bless him with high esteem. I call on every Palestinian not to hesitate in carrying out such operations as long as they are the only way of making jihad and are made with an intention of sacrificing one's life for the Sake of one's religion and nation. I wish that other scholars who hesitate concerning such a matter to reconsider their views according to what I have said and what other scholars have said. May Allah guide us all to what is right.

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A Very Touching Story: "Rwanda Turning To Islam"

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Masha Allah! This is really an inspiring story - the story of an orphan teenage convert who memorized the Quran in the midst of a civil war. Despite all the hardships, he (together with his friends who are also converts) was determined to journey and do 'hijra' in the way of Allah to seek knowledge, which is a form of jihad per se.

Determined To Spread the Message of Peace

The life story of Umugwaneza Sulaiman, a contestant for the Dubai International Holy Qur’an Award, is truly inspirational since he has risen from rubble to create a renaissance.

Even though he is only 19, this young man from Rwanda has survived a life of hardship. As a young child he survived the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. He still has horrific memories of hiding in forests from militias that were killing people. The rivers and roads they walked through were littered with bodies. Later on he lost his father and had to lead a harsh life in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Despite all his hardships, Sulaiman was determined to become a hafiz and was rewarded by becoming the first Rwandan to take part in the Dubai International Holy Qur’an Award competition. Sulaiman’s quest with the sacred book started when he converted to Islam at the age of 11.

“Even though my family were Catholics I was never interested in the church. The Azan from the mosque in my neighborhood fascinated me and I started attending classes there,” he said.

When asked if he faced any resistance from his family, Sulaiman said that his family had no issues with him becoming a Muslim, as Islam is a held in high regard in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. His whole family followed him a few years later and converted to Islam.

Since the genocide, Rwandans have converted to Islam in huge numbers. Muslims now make up 14 percent of the 8.2 million people in Africa’s mostly Catholic nation, twice as many as before the killings began. The reason behind the conversions lies in the fact that Rwandan Muslims did not take part in the genocide and played a key role in the humanitarian efforts that followed.

Muslims have been honored by the national government for their roles in saving the lives regardless of their faith. Many people attribute the recent spread of Islam to these humanitarian acts.

It took years of dedicated work for Sulaiman to memorize the Qur’an. The lack of qualified teachers in Rwanda made him make up his mind to travel to Kenya as there are good Qur’anic schools there.

“I was 15 when my five friends and I decided to travel to Kenya to seek knowledge. Two of my friends were converts like me,” he said.

The six young men packed their bags and traveled to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to find the school. They enrolled themselves in a free boarding school, which accepts students from all over East Africa. There they studied under the tutelage of Qur’an scholars. It took Sulaiman two years to memorize the whole Qur’an.

Now back home in Rwanda, Sulaiman works as a part time Imam and Qur’an teacher to supplement his income while studying at the only Islamic seminar in Kigali. “Masha Allah, there are so many Muslims now in my country. We are working hard at teaching the Qur’an to the new generation of Muslim children,” he said.

After finishing his education, Sulaiman hopes to get a scholarship to study Islam. “We get Muslim scholars coming from Uganda to spread the word of Islam in Rwanda. I hope that through my knowledge of Islam I will be able to help spread peace in my country,” he said.

Sour©e: Arab News

The Islamic Struggle Militarization And Its Impacts

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The United States of America, the sole superpower in the world, or the so-called “hyper-power”, the one with the most advanced armed forces, with satellites in the air and spies everywhere, is getting its nose bloodied in Afghanistan and suffering military defeat in Iraq. And who is inflicting these humiliations? Mujahideen armed with little more than iron determination to expel the occupiers from their homelands and establish a state ruled under Islam.

America’s co-occupier of Muslim lands, the zionist Frankenstein, has been similarly wounded in Lebanon and is bleeding in Palestine, although it is supposed to be the “regional superpower of the Middle East”. And who is bringing the zionists to their knees? Again, the mujahideen with few resources but mighty resourcefulness, are slowly but surely putting the fear of Allah into the hearts of His enemies. All credit and is due to the mujahideens their steadfastness and staying power when Arabian nationalists and liberals are genuflecting at the altar of imperialism and zionism.

The world is now beginning to realise that the US’s bullying tactics of colonialism and imperialism, along with racist zionism, all based on technical superiority and massive military firepower, and a Hollywood conception of the world, are no longer succeeding in forcing the rest of the world to accept occupation and exploitation. The Arab-Islamic East is where this imperialist-zionist hegemony is beginning to unravel.

And who is responsible for the unraveling and undoing of this zionist-imperialist axis? Is it the nationalists? No. The liberals? Of course not. The sectarians? No again. The pseudo-Islamists under Saudi patronage? What a joke. So who has brought the United States of America and the zionist state of Israel to their knees? It is the revolutionary Muslims who with their reliance on Allah alone are making the US and Israel desperate. For the Western technological and military superiority that terrified the Ottomans, and carved the world up into imperialist fiefdoms in the first half of the 20th European century, and fueled the zionists’ successful wars against the dummy armies of Arab nation-states, has been rendered obsolete and irrelevant by the power of popular Islamic movements.

A new era is dawning on us. The lesson that Muslims are going to have to learn – and it may take some time to work out all its implications – is that we cannot succeed against our enemies by adopting or emulating the strategies, weapons and mindset of those enemies. Every time we have fought them with arsenals of imported weapons, based on war-plans and combat strategies used by them, we have lost the battle or the war. Not once have Muslims succeeded in using the advanced weaponries sold to Muslim governments by Western powers at immense financial and political cost to defend the essential interests of their people. Whenever Muslims have ventured to the battlefield equipped with tanks, missiles, aircraft and weapons-systems manufactured by the imperialist-zionist military industrial complex, we have assured our own defeat.

Whatever one may think of the problems that have beset Afghanistan in recent years, the fact is that in the 1980s the Afghan mujahideen defeated the power of the Red Army with little more than faith and small arms. (We should not fall for the American propaganda that the few Stinger missiles that they provided in the last months of the decade were the deciding factor: the Reds had been defeated long before by their inability to force their will on the Afghan people, as the US is now being defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq.) It was also in the 1980s that the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon turned into a military fiasco, thanks to the emergence of local resistance forces determined not to allow Israel to turn Lebanon into an Israeli protectorate.


Similarly, during the first intifada, Palestinian youth, women and children ended the myth of the invincibility of the Israeli war-machine, despite its American-supplied Apache helicopters, F-16 fighters, tanks and missiles, with little more than stones, catapults and crude incendiary devices. In Somalia, Muslims living at little more than subsistence level taught the US military (operating under UN auspices) a nightmarish lesson about the impotence of a military ‘superpower’ when it is caught in the web of popular opposition. In Palestine again, the second intifada forced the Israeli generals to loosen their grip on the West Bank and to leave Ghazzah altogether because Israel’s losses were unsustainable.

Similarly, the US proved unable to respond to attacks on its embassies, military installations and Western businesses and cultural centers in Muslim countries. True, the US military, with help from NATO and probably Israel, succeeded in overthrowing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘athist regime; and in the mood of triumphalist euphoria in the US in 2002 and 2003 it seemed to some that American power had come good after all. However, in both countries emerging forces of popular opposition and grassroots resistance, with a clear Islamic character and determination, quickly changed the situation, disproving the statements of American officials such as Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of the Pentagon, who described the resistance to American forces in Iraq as “dead-enders” and the last remnants of an expiring regime.

The mujahideen at war against imperialism and zionism in Iraq and Palestine are showing the rest of us that we do not need armored military vehicles, supersonic jets or complex military establishments to oppose the American and zionist hegemony over our societies, be it military, political, social or cultural. We can fight these enemies without high-tech conventional military forces. We can resort to asymmetrical warfare. We can use methods of resistance of our own choosing. The Israeli-American forces are on our territories, within our cities, residing on our lands, and moving within our terrain, and we need have no hesitation about waging war in our own way, as and when it suits us, against them. This may include our spreading information about the state of the world and the Islamic efforts to change it; political campaigns that fit into our overall strategy; grassroots mobilization; the boycotting of merchandise and companies that are linked to zionist and imperialist sources; and other direct action as may be appropriate and effective, within the high moral and ethical standards that Islam imposes on us.

That this struggle will continue to have a military element is inevitable, as the US and its allies and proxies have no hesitation in using their military power aggressively against us, from their submarines at sea, supersonic jets in the air, satellites in space, and spies in our societies and institutions; hence the evident militarisation of the Islamic movement. So what? We need not take them on where they are strong; we can fight them where they are unprotected and unsafe. We will do this with our moral character. Thus we will avoid their military capabilities and exploit their vulnerabilities – and do so with honor. Mujahideen in the militry wings of the global Islamic movement are writing the armed combat manual with their blood.

Pacifism is a weapon of the status quo, used by those in power to discredit the struggles of the resistance forces against them. Muslims need not apologise for recognising the realities of the world and facing up to the challenges facing us, in every sphere. All we must ensure, now that the militarization of the struggle of Islamic movements has become inevitable, is that it does not come to dominate our understandings and outlooks, to the exclusion of other Islamic imperatives in other theatres of the effort to liberate our societies of Western hegemony, and to re-establish the political, social, ethical and moral norms of Islam in them.

Is the Holocaust A Hoax?

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Within five minutes, any intelligent, open-minded person can be convinced that the Holocaust gassings of World War II are a profitable hoax.

Fred A. Leuchter is America's leading specialist on the design and fabrication of execution equipment, including homicidal gas chambers. In 1988, Leuchter scraped samples from the alleged gas chamber walls in Auschwitz, Birkenau and Lublin. Cyanide residue would be clearly evident on all these walls if gassings did occur. To his astonishment, Leuchter found no significant cyanide traces in any one of these rooms.

In 1991, the Polish government repeated these tests to disprove Leuchter's findings, but they as well found no evidence of any gassings ever occurring.

The structural integrity of these "gas chambers" is also extremely faulty. These rooms have ordinary doors and windows which are not hermetically sealed! There are large gaps between the floors and doors. If the Germans had attempted to gas anyone in these rooms, they would have died themselves, as the gas would have leaked and contaminated the entire area. Also, no equipment exists to exhaust the air-gas mixture from these buildings. Nothing was made to introduce or distribute the gas throughout the chambers. There are no provisions to prevent condensation of gas on the walls, floors or ceilings. No exhaust stacks have ever existed.

Though six million Jews supposedly died in the gas chambers, not one body has ever been autopsied and found to have died of gas poisoning. We have been shown piles of bodies from World War II, but most of these persons died of typhus or starvation or Allied bombings and a great many of those were murdered Germans, not Jews. Roughly the equivalent of ten football fields should be packed full of gassed bodies to present as evidence, yet not one body has ever been discovered.

The Germans documented everything in meticulous detail from shrubbery to arbors, but no pre-war or wartime plans or documents exist that detail or even mention any gas chambers for reasons of genocide. All documents ever presented were drawn up AFTER the war.

Even if we threw away all the evidence and accounted for every so-called gas chamber, it would have taken 68 YEARS to accomplish gassing six million Jews!

Even The Diary of Anne Frank is a hoax. Portions of the diary were written with a ball point pen. These pens were not in use at the time Anne Frank lived.

It is not denied concentration camps existed. Tragically, many died of typhus or starvation, as often happens in such situations. There is, however, no evidence that any gassings occurred for the reasons of genocide.

Israel continues to receive trillions of dollars worldwide as retribution for Holocaust gassings. Our country has donated more money to Israel than to any other country in the history of the world -- over $35 billion per year, everything included. If not for our extravagantly generous gifts to Israel, every family in America could afford a brand new Mercedes Benz. Surely the American people would be outraged if they realized their hard-earned money is being squandered in these difficult times.

With all this money at stake for Israel, it is easy to comprehend why this Holocaust hoax is so secretly guarded. The Jewish name for Holocaust is "Shoah." In Zionist circles, it is known as "Shoah Business." If nothing else, this unbelievable coverup demonstrates the irrepressible Zionist influence and control of our country. Their only defense against the facts is to cry out "antisemitic," "Skinhead" or "Nazi," whereas the majority of those who question the Holocaust are ordinary citizens...though you would never know it from the media.

In whatever way you can, please help shatter this profitable myth. It is time we stop sacrificing America's welfare for the sake of Israel and spend our hard-earned dollars on Americans.

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Bush: “Israeli The Chosen Race”

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What differentiate US President George W. Bush from the great creative scientist, Albert Einstein, other than their brains? Could be their beliefs on the Israeli Jews? Let's see......

In his letter that is going to be auctioned in London, Einstein stated that he did not believe in the Jewish claim that the Jewish people are the 'chosen people'. However Bush strongly believes that the Israelis are really the 'chosen people'.

At the time when the Palestinians are reminded of the 60th year of the sufferings they have endured at the hand of Israeli Zionist regime due to the occupation, President Bush on the contrary celebrated and expressed his feeling of support for the Israeli Zionist regime, the invaders. In his public address in the event marking the 60th year of the formation of Israel, Bush said that the people of Israel are the "chosen people" and US will forever support Israel's existence.

The opinion of a thinking man,

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That of a scheming president of a country called USRAEL (ISRAELI ASS)...

...who besides being renowned as a habitual liar, is also stupid.

Who is to be believed?

You decide!

Related post: Jews Are Using Americans

The Barber

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As usual, a man, let's just called him Steve, went into a barber salon to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. He then started to have a conversation with the barber attending him. He chose to talk about a variety of topics, till finally the subject of “God” cropped up in the converstaion.

"Hi Mister, I do not believe that God exists as what you have mentioned," the barber said.

Hearing that statement, Steve was shocked and asked, "Why did you say that?"..

"So simple, you just have to stare out of that window and realize that God really does not exist. Please explain to me, if God exists, why are there so many sick people? Why are there so many neglected children? If there is God, there would surely be no sickness and sufferings. What god is it that allows all those to happen..." he said in a changed tone of voice.

Steve thought about what had just been uttered by the barber. However, he did not give a response at all so as not to stretch the argument any further.

When the barber was done with his job, Steve stepped out of the salon. Only after a few steps, he came across a man with long hair and his beard was thick and unkempt. As though that man had not visited a barber salon in a while and it made him looked untidy.

Steve came back into the salon and then he said to the barber, "A barber does not exist!"... The barber was startled by Steve's utterance.

"How could a barber not exist, the evidence is myself. I am right here and I am a barber," he refuted.

Steve again stressed firmly, "No, they don't exist. If they exist, there wouldn't be anyone with long hair and thick beard like the guy outside."
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"Ah, you must be joking... barbers are always out there, in every place. What happened to the guy is that he does not want to go to a salon to cut his hair or to shave his beard," the barber answered calmly in a smile.

"Exactly!" Steve exclaimed. "That is the point. God exists. What happened to mankind is that they do not want to come to look for God and find Him. That is the reason why there appears to be a lot of pain and sufferings in this world....most of the suffering in the world is caused by people straying from the perfect system (Islam) that God has set down for our betterment, understanding and happiness!"

Al Qaeda's Methodology Of Struggle – Does It Originate From Planet Mercury?

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It is so amazing that a lot of ‘ulamas’ or muslim scholars, when asked by the many news channels about their view of Al Qaeda, they told them that they do not understand the methodology (manhaj) of struggle by the Al-Qaeda!!!

Is the manhaj of Al Qaeda too complicated that make it difficult for the ulamas to comprehend?

Or is the ideology (fikrah) of Al Qaeda that mysterious?

Is it true that the fundamental beliefs of Al Qaeda is very unusual that the ulamas are not capable of understanding it entirely?

If you ask these ulamas, who come from the various islamic harakah (movement), tanzim (organization) or islamic party, be it the older ones or those that had just been set up, great or small ones, the popular or the less known organizations, with regards to the vision or fikrah or mafahim (understanding) of Al Qaeda, it is a “disgrace” and unacceptable if these ulamas say “I don't know”. Words like “I don't know” certainly reduce their scholarly credibility. Not to mention if the ulama is involved and have a post in the political arena (how can an intellectual, an alim, a political figure who surely need popularity, say “I don't know?…”)

Well, we can accept that when these ‘ulamas’ said they do not know nor understand the fikrah of Al Qaeda, maybe they feel that they do not need to know or that they do not have the interest to learn about the manhaj Al Qaeda. We can also acknowledge that maybe those ulamas have their own personal reasons for not having the interests in making any effort to study the manhaj of Al Qaeda. In the name of individual personal feedom, it is their right to be like that, and it is enough reason for us to stop annoying them by raising these issues further.

But then, when asked by a journalists about the flag/slogan of Al Qaeda, one of the ‘kibarul ulamas’ (great ulamas) said, “I dont really pay attention to the manhaj of Al Qaeda but if all that's occurring in the world today is a part of Al Qaeda's work, then it is a problem and a bad reality”. That's more or less what he said.

These are the words of a 'great ulama’ in Iraq, and there are many other ‘ulamas’ who are imitating his words, whether inside or outside Iraq, until such words have become a standard form of speech for them. (These people are saying “I do not know a thing about Al Qaeda”, but at the same time they are also stating “Al Qaeda is the source of all the evil and misfortune in this world”)

If we see this as the personal right of the ‘ulama’ to act and say like that, then we also do not have the right to blame the western society who through their lacking of information, are accusing Islam as a religion of fascism, ignorance and backwardness because it is also their personal rights likewise.

The western society is accusing Islam as such because they are seeing a few aspects of backwardness in a small portion of the muslim migrant population living in their countries (western countries). They make up their mind by trying to balance between the scale of ‘the superb and glorious majority’ and ‘the isolated and backward minority’, without making an effort to find out or study the reality of Islam and its true basic teachings. Because of being uninformed, they are blaming Islam with whatever the prejudices they want!!!

See The Similarity?

Can the Muslim scholars and ulamas blame the western society for accusing Islam with all kind of baseless accusations, and made up their mind from just having a glimpse at Islam without even trying to understand its reality? They are using an erroneous analogy but consider themselves as proficient enough to judge Islam, because they feel they are ‘advanced’ enough to understand Islam and all aspects of its teachings since every ‘material’ about Islam are widely available on the internet… they reckon they have adequate capability to evaluate Islam without even collecting valid and comprehensive informations from reliable sources, or do they feel they can make judgement even after admitting that they don't bother to find out the reality of Islam?!!!

(Those ulamas would surely say that the western society are unfair for accusing Islam without even knowing the reality of Islam. Those ulamas would again say that the western society are bias when they admitted that they do not have enough reliable information about Islam but keep on accusing Islam with all those wild accusations. See the hypocrisy? Na'uzubillah)

If you ask a teenager in the mountains of Himalaya, or an old man in the rural village of Africa, or a pedestrian in the street of New York, about Al Qaeda and its goal, they would surely respond to your question immediately with enthusiasm, regardless of whether they are pro or contra to Al Qaeda, and you would not find them saying “I dont know”, because it is something unacceptable! Because the fact is that there is no other movement or organization that is as well-known as Al Qaeda at the moment. But it is strange that if we ask our ‘ulama’ about Al Qaeda, they would say that they do not know. Indeed it is such an irony, and this is what had been forewarned by our Prophet (SAW) and it is what's called ‘the calamity of the ulamas’. .

If you ask these 'ulamas' about the theory of relativity, they would surely respond to you instantly with enthusiasm, regardless of whether their responses are correct or wrong, because in most cases they would not dare to say “I don't know” when it comes to this famous theory.

How very embarrassing for the people of a cultured society if they know nothing about the theory of relativity.

Even an uneducated person would avoid saying “I don't know”, so how can it be is so easy for the ulamas to say “I don't know”?

Is the theory of relativity more popular and easier to understand than the manhaj of Al Qaeda? Or is the manhaj of Al Qaeda exceedingly complicated, surpassing the complexity of the theory of relativity?

Among the common signs of a successful movement in history is that the manhaj of that movement should be:

Very clear
Very simple/straight forward
Easily acceptable

And the goal of the movement should be:

Precise and accurate
Easily monitored and explored
Able to fulfill the expectation of the executor

Concerning the manhaj of Al Qaeda which a lot of people claimed they do not understand, know that Al Qaeda does not have a manhaj other than the Dien Islam which raised the status of the ulama.

If communism based its methodology upon the fikrah of Marx and Hegel, and made their ideas as a dien (religion), then Al Qaeda adopts Dien Islam as its manhaj. Indeed the difference is like that of heaven and earth if we were to compare the people who takes a human's ideas as his dien to people who take Dien Allah as their manhaj.

The Battle Front of the War on terrorism as declared by the American regime are divided into three categories:

1. Attacking the bases of 'terrorism' in Afghanistan and cutting off its supply lines
2. Protecting America from further future attacks
3. Attacking the ideology of 'terrorism' and defeating it

After seeing the three battle fronts above, we would instantly realize that they (America) will be defeated.

They have failed at the first stage, because the ‘terrorists’ do not posses even a base in the area, that can qualify as a target for attack, and what we have called ‘training camp’ in Afghanistan is no more than a territory made up of barren lands, not a fixed and real training camp!

Meanwhile concerning the protection of America from the next attack, it is really something that is hard to achieve. And the decrease or the absence of attacks on America lately, does not mean that attacks on America have permanently stopped. This is just an issue of the right time, because every mission has its allocated time. The legendary 9/11 attack needed at least a 5 year period for its preparation. And as an idea, it already came into being 20 years earlier (since the Lebanon war in the 80's as revealed by Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin).

As for targeting to ‘cut off’ the inspirational sources and to make Al Qaeda 'dead before its outspread', by fighting and defeating the 'terrorists' ideology/fikrah, then in actuality it is the same as fighting the fikrah of Islam.

Specific to this front, we will not get much involved in this battle because it is a battle arena for a group of 'Neo Conservatives' with their ideology of Globalism against Allah (SWT) The Almighty, Who sends down this Dien Islam. Who will be the winner here? A simple fact that does not need an extensive clarification if the one reading this is a muslim or at least those of the muslim ‘scholars’.

The flag/slogan of Al Qaeda is very simple. It says:

“Al Quran is the guide and the swords help”

(Just like what Sheikhul Islam Ibnu Taimiyyah said, on his commentary of verse 25 of Surat Al Hadid, “… and this Dien Islam is established, by the Book [Al Quran] which guides, and the Iron [sword] which supports”)

This is more comprehensible and lighter compared to the slogans of other numerous organizations and Islamic jamaah (groups). And it is certainly shorter than the slogan of,
“The throne of power is our aim
And the West is our role model
And referendum-elections is our Qur'an
And living in the way parliament is our highest ambition”

Whereas for the goal of Al Qaeda…It is not something that requires deep thinking like the subject of logarithm or the equation in al jabar (algebra). The aim of Al Qaeda is simple and clear.

One of its immediate objective or strategy is summarized in the motto:

“I swear by Allah, the Almighty, Who erected the sky without pillars, America and the people who live in America won't find peace and security, until we feel peace and security in Palestine, and all the kafir forces and their might depart from the Holy Land, the birthplace of the Prophet (SAW)”.

Allahu Akbar!
Honor is only for Islam
Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon you all.

The one who is in need of Allah,
Abdur Rahman Faqeer

"Knights of Martyrdom" VIDEO

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Al-Furqan media, the mouthpiece of the ISI has now released a new 41-minute video featuring a number of istishahadah (martyrdom attacks) carried out by foreign mujahideen in Iraq. The video is the third of a series called "Knights of Martyrdom."

A major part of the video has been dedicated to a spectacular attack that destroyed the Badosh bridge, Northern Mosul, in May 2007. The attack was carried out by a Yemeni mujahideen going by the name Abu Huzeifa. He drove his explosives-packed truck past the security post at the entrance of the bridge, and detonated it about 150 meters further. The explosion was massive, causing the bridge to collapse. According to al Qaeda foreign mujahideens’ records released earlier this year by CTC, Abu Huzeifa was an arm-dealer from the city of Taez in Yemen. He arrived in Iraq via Syria, and registered as a martyrdom seeker on entering the country. He was 28 years old when he carried out the attack.

One of the martyrdom seekers who was featured in the video was Turkish. He addressed his mother as he made his final statement on camera, and asked her to bring up his little brothers to embrace the cause of Jihad. Another shaheed appeared to be a young mujahideen from Algeria or Morocco called Abu Gharib al-Muhajir. He carried out an attack on a checkpoint in Nineveh. The explosion from the vehicle sent soldiers, who manning the checkpoint, flying in the air. The last shaheed featured was from Syria.
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Theory Of 'Unity Of Religion' Is Aqidah Of Kufr, Atheism And Heresy

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Sufists (rather, those of its followers who attained the so-called "summit", i.e. the stage of "Unity of the Existence") claim that all religions are one: Judaism, Christianity, Heathenism, Communism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Islam and other religious doctrines. And whatever the religion is, it is the same as other religions, both Iman and Tawhid to them is same as Shirk and Kufr, and Islam is same as fire-worship. And all religions are correct regardless of the differences or whom they worship.

Ibn Arabi says: "The creatures have different beliefs about Allah. And I believe in everything that they claim."

He also says:

"There was a time when I was condemning my companion.
If his religion and my religion were not close.
Now my heart takes any pictures:
Pastures of gazelles, monastery of monks,
And temple of the idols, and Kaaba with the ones going around it,
And scrolls of the Torah, and scrolls of the Koran.
I profess the religion of love, wherever its caravans may head....
The Religion - my religion and my faith."

And here Ibn Arabi warns his followers from believing in one single religion and rejecting others: "Beware of accepting one religion and rejecting others - you will miss out on many blessings; what's more, you will miss out on the real knowledge of it, so be ye the matter for forms of all religious doctrines. Indeed, Allah is above limiting the religion by just one religion. Everyone is on the right way, and whoever is on the right way - the reward awaits him, and whoever gets the reward is happy, and whoever is happy deserves contentment."

Ahlu-s-Sunna wa al Jamaa are convinced that the only true religion is Islam, the religion with which Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was sent, and all other religions are false. The Most High said, "Indeed, the Religion of Allah is Islam" (The Family of Imran, 19)

And the Most High said, "And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers." (The Family of Imran, 85)

This verse (ayat) clearly points at the fact that among the religions there are those that are accepted and those that are not. The religion that is accepted is Islam, and all other religions are not accepted. It means that they are false, since had they been true, Allah would have accepted them and their followers would have been in eternal peace and not among the lost... How can it agree with the claim about unity of religions and their correctness?

Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) and his disciples were fighting against heathenism and idolatry. He destroyed idols that were inside and outside the Kaaba, worshiped by various tribes. Why? Would he have been fighting against these religious beliefs had they been correct and equal to Islam? The answer is obvious and clear.

We are asking Allah not to deprive us of intellect and consciousness, as He did with Sufis.

Conclusion: the theory of "unity of religions" is Aqidah of Kufr, atheism and heresy that makes the believer in it a kafir without the slightest doubt.

Muhammad Bagauddin,
Jamaat Shariat

Sour©e: Kavkaz Center

The Reality Of Life Behind This Game

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One day, a lady teacher was enthusiastically teaching her students a lesson in the classroom. She was sitting in front of the class facing her students. There was a chalk in her left hand, and a blackboard eraser in her right hand. The teacher said , "I have a game... The way to play it is like this; there is a chalk in my left hand and an eraser in my right hand. If I lift this chalk, you all say "Chalk!", if I lift this eraser, you say "Eraser!"

The students understood right away and they were eagerly with the teacher. The teacher began the game and lifted the left and the right hands alternately, slow at first but gradually getting faster and faster. The students followed the game with no problem. A few moments later the teacher exclaimed, "Good! Now look carefully. If I lift this chalk, say "Eraser!", if I lift this eraser, say "Chalk!". And the teacher repeated what she did earlier, but the students were confused. They felt awkward and found it too difficult to adjust in the beginning. However they soon began to get used to it and eventuallly became accustomed to it. They did not feel awkward anymore and it became second nature to them. A few moments later, the game stopped.

The teacher smiled at her students and said, "Dear students, likewise, that’s how we, the muslim ummah are. In the beginning the 'haq' (truth) is always the 'haq', the 'bathil' (falsehood) is always the 'bathil'. We were very clear on that. However, the enemies of Islam later on imposed on us all forms of oddity using various designs in order to change the 'haq' to become the 'bathil', and vice versa. It might be strange and difficult for us to accept in the beginning, but as time goes by due to the continuous indoctrination using systematic designs to make them look appealing, we become accustomed to them eventually. We would go along with them and they would become second nature to us.

"To go out on a date as a couple is not a strange thing anymore, sex is no longer a taboo, revealing clothes has become a normal thing, shame was thrown behind the backs, sex before marriage has become a trend, excessive entertainment that make us neglect our religious responsibility abounds, materialism is now becoming a lifestyle and etc... Our enemies would never cease to reverse and replace our values and ethics."

The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: "Surely you will follow the ways of those nations that were before you [e.g., Jews and Christians] (span by span and cubit by cubit), so much so that even if they entered a lizard's hole, you would follow them." (Sahih Bukhari)

"Everything is in reversal. And without realizing, we are bit by bit being conditioned and gradually accepting the alternative culture without any feeling of guilt or remorse."

"Understand?" the teacher asked her students. "Yes teacher..."

"Good, now a second game..." the teacher continued.

"Now I have a book and I will put it in the middle of a carpet. All of you will be standing outside the carpet. The game is; how to get the book from the middle of the carpet without even stepping on the carpet?"

After some thinking, the students tried various techniques, including using a long stick but it was all in vain.

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At last the teacher gave them a way out, she rolled the carpet slowly, and when it was within reach she grabbed the book. Thus how she fulfilled the requirement of not stepping on the carpet. "Dear students, that’s how the Islamic ummah and the enemies are...The haters of Islam would not step on you openly... because they know that by doing so they would be utterly repelled. Even an ordinary (muslim) person would react it if his religion is insulted in front of his face. Hence they would roll you slowly from the edge, so slow that you don’t even notice it.

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"That’s how the enemies of Islam are destroying us. They would not strike us openly, but they would slowly wear us out, starting with our behavior, lifestyles, dress and etc. In the end we are conditioned in such a way that despite being muslims we are not living the Islamic way of life anymore but follow their ways instead... And that’s exactly what they desire. It is a deliberate conspiracy!"

"If a person want to construct a strong house, he needs to build a strong base. The same goes with Islam, if you want to be strong, you’ve got to construct a strong aqeedah (creed). On the other hand, if you want to demolish a house, it would certainly be difficult if you start from its base first. You would have to start by removing all the wall decorations first, sofas need to be removed, wardrobes shoud be taken out one by one , only then the house can be demolished..."

"This is the phenomenon of “Ghazwul Fikri” (The Battle of Thoughts). And this had long been undertaken by the enemies, and are still undertaking it every day without us even thinking about it."

“Only after ensuring that the muslim ummah’s mentality has weakened due to this unrelenting attack on their minds, that they would dare to start the other phase of attack ie. to commence on attacking the muslim openly and physically, like the case of Palestine and Iraq. Once in a while they would need to test the water and see how “moderated” or reconditioned the ummah have become. So by creating provocations now and then such as the many issues we were confronted with lately, eg. the prophet’s cartoon, fitna video, the Vatican offensive remarks, etc. they are actually trying to evaluate the ummah's sensitivity. But Alhamdulillah, not all muslims are that cold and numb, there’s a group who still has blood flowing in their veins. And these people are the reason Allah would make the muslims triumphant in the end. Let’s aim and make du’a to be included amongst these people.”

The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said:

“A group of people from my Ummah will always remain triumphant on the right path and continue to be triumphant (against their opponents). He who deserts them shall not be able to do them any harm. They will remain in this position until Allah's Command is executed (i.e. Qayamah is established.” [Sahih Muslim Hadith 4715 Narrated byThawban]

Israel Is Poisoning Prisoners And Experiments On Them

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A Palestinian Authority newspaper reported medical experiments being conducted by Israel on Arab and Palestinian prisoners.

"The Israeli occupation is killing prisoners through slow deaths," says director general of prisoner affairs center at Al-Quds University.

"The occupation forces continue to conduct medical experiments on Palestinian and Arab prisoners in their facilities, this goes against all international treaties and conventions. And this is not limited merely to a policy of medical neglect, but violations that include using prisoners as trial subjects for medication," the Al Hayat al-Jadeeda newspaper wrote last weekend.

"Many of the male and female prisoners were given injections from needles they had never seen before, that led to permanent hair loss and facial hair loss. There are prisoners who have lost their sight and their sense, those who have lost their sanity and those whose mental condition is increasingly deteriorating, there are prisoners who have become barren and cannot reproduce," the article said.

SLOW DEATH IN PRISON

In a report from Sunday the paper accused Israel of killing Palestinian prisoners. The report quotes the director-general of the 'Abu-Jihad Center for Political Prisoners' Affairs' at the Al-Quds University in east Jerusalem, Fahed Abu Al-Haj, as saying that "the Israeli occupation is wiping out prisoners through slow deaths."

Al-Haj asserts that 226 prisoners have "died as martyrs" in Israeli prisons.

The paper goes on to report that Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, while serving as chairperson of the Science and Technology Committee "discovered in July 1997 that there were thousands of dangerous experiments being conducted every year on Palestinian and Arab prisoners. She said at the time that her office had thousands of permits from the Israeli Health Ministry given to the big Israeli pharmaceutical companies, allowing them to carry out trials on Arab and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails where poison was injected into the prisoners food in order to study how it affects humans and then conduct autopsies on those who die as a result."

Sour©e: Pakistan Daily

Journalist Syed Saleeem Shazhad of Asia Times Online Propaganda Exposed

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Recently journalist Syed Saleeem Shazhad of Asia Times online released a video, the video shows Syed Saleem Shazhad interviewing a person who is claiming to be a commander of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, for the provinces of Nooristan and Kunar. Theunjustmedia forwarded this video to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan official spokesperson, Zabihuallah Mujahid, after watching the video this is what he had to say.

"In Nooristan and Kunar provinces, we do not have any commander with Ziaur Rahman name, nor do we identify the person in this video, who is alleging to be a commander of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Islamic Emirate commander for the provinces of Nooristan and Kunar is Malvi Abdul Raheem. Before, any commander or fighter of Islamic Emirate speaks to a journalist, he must first get permission from the Media department of Islamic Emirate, also any journalist who enters Afghanistan must first get permission from the Islamic Emirate, cause more than sixty percent of Afghanistan in under the control of Islamic Emirate.

Syed Saleeem Shazhad who is claiming in this video to have travel in different parts of Afghanistan, Islamic Emirate, rejects this claim of his. The fake commander in this video also claims that there is money on his head, here we like to clear out that all commanders of Islamic Emirate on who's heads the American invaders and its allies have put up money, Islamic Emirate has their name list and this fake commander name is not on that list." Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan official spokesperson Zabihuallah Mujahid said.
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Theunjustmedia is puzzled at why would this journalist make a video and then tell the world that it is the Taliban, what is he trying to achieve with this lie, who is paying him to lie to the world about the Taliban and to spread information which is not true. We advice the concern citizens of this world to be aware of Syed Saleeem Shazhad who is a deceitful journalist, who's actions are tarnishing the noble profession of journalism.

Please forward this information to as many people as you can, also those websites and forums which posted this fake Taliban video, please let your readers know that this video is not of the Taliban movement but a propaganda. Thank You

The Video could be watched at the link below, please click:

http://theunjustmedia.com/clips/afgha/July08/fake/fake.htm

American Terrorist Brutality Murdered 27 Civilians

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Afghanistan - At least 27 civillians have been killed by the invading American terrosist forces. The brutal act of the American terrorists was accomplished by utilizing missiles fired from two helicopters on two civilian transports heading for a wedding ceremony in the Province of Nangarhar. The continuous American brutality could not be tolerated any longer. The Khilafah Rashidah must be established to end the American evil right away!

“This morning (4th July), two civilian buses transporting a wedding party became the latest victims of an air attack, 22 civilians were killed in the District of Waygal Province Nuristan,” Tamim Nuristani, the governor of Nuristan province, said, as reported by Associated Press, Saturday (5/7/2008).

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The irony is that it was only a day after G. Bush made a speech at the Independence Day 2008 celebration telling the Americans to be proud and praise what the American military has achieved in different parts of the world (he was interrupted several times by protesters yelling repeatedly "War criminal!"... "He has brought fascism to this shore," yet the president did not appear to acknowledge the protesters).

The chief government official in the Deh Bala District of Nangarhar Province, Haji Amishah Gul said the villagers reported as many as 30 to 35 people walking in a group toward a wedding were bombarded by the coalition forces. Even the women and children became the victims of the brutal acts of the American terrorists. More than 2,100 people had been killed due to the American forces brutality in Afgahnistan within a year period.

The Muslims' blood keep on pouring. Their lands are continuously invaded by the avaricious America. What reasons do the American forces have for being in Afghanistan other than carrying out occupation and murder. Why then the Muslim ummah are keeping quiet and where are the soldiers of Shalahuddin Al-Ayubi? Likewise where are the Muslim rulers now? Soon in the hereafter, they will all be questioned by the Almighty, the Lord of all the worlds for their inaction over the spilling of the Muslims' blood.

Afghan women collect the bloodstained clothes of the injured at a hospital in Jalalabad city, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 6, 2008, after U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul. Villagers have reported that 30 to 35 people walking toward a wedding were killed in a coalition bombing, according to a local government official.

This is not the first American brutality. Since their made up pretext and conspiracy for the onslaught on the Muslim world, it has been recorded that more than 1 million Iraqis had been killed due to the American brutality. This has placed America as the “Master of Terrorism”.

The pain suffered by the Muslim must not go on any further. The American brutality must be stopped. Only the Khilafah Islamiyyah will be able to stop the brutal acts of the American terrorism. Only thing is, how is it going to materialize when the Islamic ummah are silent and sadly, are even following the lifestyles of the American. If the Islamic ummah are reluctant to create the Khilafah immediately, then one day, it is possible that we will ourselves become the next victims of the American brutality. Still reluctant to unite?

Dokka Umarov: ''A Great Deal Of Purification Of The Ranks Of The Mujahideen Is Going On''

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Interview of Commander-In-Chief of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Umarov to Kavkaz Center's journalist Shamsuddin Nashkhoyev (Jumada Al-'Awwal 1429 / May 2008). This interview is a transcript of the latest video of Amir Dokka.

S.Nashkhoyev: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful! Assalamu Aleykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Abu Usman.

Abu Usman, everybody who knows you have been saying for quite a while that you never liked politics, that you have always been shunning any political groups and political confrontations, however hard they were trying to drag you in. How true is it? Has your attitude towards politics changed when you became the head of the Jihad in the Caucasus?

D.Umarov: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful! Praise be to Allah the One and Only and may the blessings and peace be upon the one after whom there is no other Prophet shall come. Assalamu Aleykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Really, I've never liked politics and I've always tried to stay away from it, and to tell you honesty, today I don't like politics either, the politics that humiliates the Muslims.

After the first war I, with a group of the Mujahideen that I fought side by side with, moved to the mountains and organized a military training base. Back at that time the group was not bad at all, nor was the base. And we know that after the first war there was no unity among the Mujahideen like in the old days, and the Mujahideen were organizing into groups. Since I had my group under my command, and since I had a military training base, it was impossible to remain outside politics back at that time, so even if you wanted to remain outside politics, they wouldn't let you do that, and the President of that time, Aslan Maskhadov, may Allah have mercy on him, appointed me Secretary of Security.

On that post during the well-known Gudermes Fitna (dissent) I with my Mujahideen was the referee and the peacekeeping side in that Fitna. I wrote the resignation letter to our President probably about ten times and every time I was turned down. It was easier for me to fight a war, to carry out assigned missions, I had enough of problems on the post of Amir (Commander) of Southwestern Front, and for me it was enough that Aslan, Abdul-Halim, Abdulla Abu Idris - it's Shamil, may Allah bless their Jihad, - were the ones engaged in politics.

Has my attitude towards politics changed when I became the head of the Mujahideen? I must say yes, it did, because it is impossible to be at the head of the Jihad and outside politics. What's more, politics is one of the most important sides of Islam. But, like I said at the beginning, so I will repeat one more time that I still do not recognize the politics where the clearly outlined goal is obscured, where a distinct position is blurred, and when all of it is being done under the guise that allegedly it is not politically beneficial at this time. In reality it turns out that Muslims are deviating from their Religion, disparaging their own selves, and all of it is being done in exchange for doubtful benefits that the adversary is promising. There are plenty of examples of today's politics in our world. Let's not bring them up because each of us knows that there are enough of such examples.

S.Nashkhoyev: After your address to the Muslims in the last month of Ramadan, along with the approval from the Mujahideen there also emerged some opponents, who until then had been our supporters. One of their claims is that a sharp change in politics occurred hastily and spontaneously. How real is it?

D.Umarov: Not real at all. Ever since Abdul-Halim headed the Jihad the topic of revision of our political system and bringing it in compliance with Aqidah was regularly discussed among the leadership of the Mujahideen and among ordinary Mujahideen as well.

Abu Idris insisted that I, as the Vice President, as Abdul-Halim's Deputy, regularly demanded that he revises our state structure to bring it in compliance with the Sharia. I was refusing, since I did not want to get into the area of responsibility of the leaders of Jihad. Abu Idris would argue, get offended, but I stuck to my opinion. Now I don't believe that I was right. Abu Irdis could not remain in the position of variance for too long, he was a true Mujahid, a noble man, energetic and active.

By the way, before Abu Idris became a Shaheed (Martyr), about half a year ago, he ordered a seal of the Caucasus Emirate. I have this seal now. It proves once again that revision of our policies is not hasty or spontaneous, and the people who say that it was a sharp change in policies, that everything happened hastily and spontaneously - these are the fantasies of hypocrites, ravings of hypocrites.

S.Nashkhoyev: And another commonplace accusation against you is that we declared the war on the entire world without having financial or human resources, even though your statement contained a clear Islamic position: the kuffar who attacked Muslims and occupied their lands are your enemies; the Muslims who defend their Religion and their dignity are your brothers. Clarify this issue.

D.Umarov: Yes, this is my Islamic position, the position of a true Muslim, even an ordinary Mujahid, because I'm thinking as a free Muslim, not as a slave.

And if today a kafir invades a land of Muslims under various pretexts, even if these pretexts are made up and the entire world sees that the pretexts are made up, they attack any Muslim country by hordes all together, as soon as something Islamic happens in that country, something that corresponds to the Sharia, something that was prescribed to us by Allah. And if a kafir attacks these countries, if these countries are being annihilated, bombed, their children exterminated, their families, their houses, their cities, and if I, an ordinary Muslim living in the Caucasus, have no right to say that it reverberates in my soul with anguish, that this is wrong, and if my position is being expressed by some lost Muslims, let me put it this way, lost Muslims, as if I declared war on the entire world, then I think, repeating myself again, it is self-humiliation, self-humiliation of Muslims.

Because today the war is declared not by me, the war against kuffar was declared long time ago. As soon as Muslims proclaim that they are not going to live by the laws of the kuffar (infidels), that they are going to live by the laws of Allah, the war is declared starting that very moment, and any state that proclaims, makes a proclamation that they are going to live by the laws of Allah, that state is attacked by kafir states in hordes. It gets annihilated, bombed, so today I think the whole defectiveness of these Muslims is in their statements and in their doubts that they express.

If you approach this issue logically, today the power is with Allah. Since ‘91 we declared the war on the Soviet Union, we declared the war on Russia, and we are waging the Jihad in our land, so that Islam would be here in our land and so that we become free and so that we would be a part of the Islamic Ummah (Nation). So why did we declare the war on such a superpower that takes up a large area of dry land and its might is no less that all these states combined? We declared the war, we are declaring the war because it was prescribed by Allah, because we must live by the laws of Allah, because today, when it was prescribed by Allah to declare a war, to take part in this war, if you are unable to participate, at least perform Dua, at least you have to condemn in your heart when a kafir does not let the Muslims to freely practice their Religion, to do Daavat, to live by the laws of Allah; and even we are unable to take part today, we must be condemning it, to be speaking about it, but today they do not even let us talk about it, and this is where the whole defectiveness lies.

This is why I, for example, stand by my words, and even if I were incapable of participating in the Jihad (today I take part in the Jihad in the North Caucasus), if there were no Jihad here in the Caucasus today, I (Insha Allah, if Allah gave me willpower - taufiq) would have participated in a Jihad where Muslim brothers are being exterminated, killed, therefore, it is my position, Islamic position, the position of a free Muslim.

I hope, I wish that all brothers would have the same position.

S.Nashkhoyev: Some of our brothers are saying that along with military operations there has to be flexible diplomacy as well, and as an example from the Sunnah they quote the Hudaybiya Treaty, which was signed by Prophet (pbuh).

D.Umarov: I have heard this argument many times. The Hudaybiya Treaty is mentioned often but they do not get into its meaning. And its meaning is that the main most influential power of that time, Quraish heathens recognized the Muslims as an equal force and signed an armistice for ten years. In that agreement there was not a single item, not a single word that would limit the Religion, the Davaat of Muslims. The question is: who is offering the Hudaybiya Treaty to us Muslims today? Who is letting us freely practice our Religion and establish the Sharia? No one.

To us, Muslims, today all around the world it is not the Hudaybiya Treaty that is being offered, but rather an ultimatum is being given: "either you renounce the Sharia, or we will be bombing your cities and villages", which we can see happening today, "and will invade your lands". This is the kind of treaty that is being offered. And you shouldn't delude yourself, we are not going to agree on these terms, it is self-deception.

But Insha Allah, the time will come when a kafir will offer us an agreement, and then we will accept their peace, because the Koran says that if they offer you peace, then accept it. War is not the goal for the Muslims in and of itself, so today's Hudaybiya Treaty with today's politics, with what's going on, -- our Ulama, many of our brothers don't understand its meaning and misinterpret it.

S.Nashkhoyev: Abu Usman, many are interested which insignia the Caucasus Emirate will have.

D.Umarov: Insignia, the way I understand it, is a coat of arms, an anthem, and so forth. If our Prophet (pbuh) had a coat of arms, an anthem, etc., I would accept it with no objections. If no one can quote me a proper Dalil, then we can well do without that insignia, especially since we are not going to get an appointment at the UN secretariat so that they could recognize us and register the Caucasus Emirate, may Allah save us from such a delusion.

I know that Prophet had a black flag. This is the flag under which the new generation of Muslims all around the world came out to Jihad, and this is the flag that is our insignia.

Second: the stamp. We have one. So far this is as far as the insignia goes. And also I would like to warn our brothers and supporters not to hurry in creating a virtual state of the Emirate, so that they do not put the cart before the horse. As of today, the Mujahideen are controlling the woodland, the mountains and some of the foothill villages - this is our territory and our base, Insha Allah. The control is not complete so far, not absolute, because the kuffar at times gather large forces and enter our territories, but the kuffar and apostates are not capable of controlling the valley either, and the Mujahideen enter cities and villages and carry out operations and raids.

Insha Allah, the time will come when this balance will be upset and the control by the Mujahideen will spread across the entire territory of the Caucasus. The result is with Allah. And what is the most important is that whoever fights on the way of Allah never loses, whichever result is prepared in this life, and this is true.

S.Nashkhoyev: Abu Usman, right now many young men came out to Jihad. The predominant age is 18 to 33 years old. Not too many have remained from the old generation of the Mujahideen. Those who took part in both wars are saying that they are different in their character. What is your opinion in this regard?

D.Umarov: Yes, there is a difference, even though all wars are somewhat alike. I'm not going to list all differences of the two wars, but I'd like to draw attention to one important detail. The first war was difficult in its own way, because it was the first one for our generation. From peaceful life getting under the rain of bomb fragments and bullets was not easy. War, hardships of life, as well as blessings of life is a test from Allah. Allah warns us in the Koran that we will also be tested by fear, cold, hunger, privations, the way previous communities were. All of this one way or another happened in that first war and in the beginning of the second war.

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But the state of affairs and the situation are changing. In the past it used to be relatively clear who is on which side. But over the recent years Allah has been putting Muslims to the real tests: whether to betray your companions, or to put the lives of your loved ones in danger, and such a test cannot be overcome even by those who have been taking part in Jihad for a long time, who even participated in the "first" Jihad, in the "second" Jihad, who have been considered reliable and incorruptible persons. Allah is leading these people astray into delusion further and further, and they are committing the crimes against the faith and the believers that they even overshadow the inveterate apostates.

I think that a great deal of purification of the ranks of the Mujahideen is going on, but Allah knows best, we know nothing. Insha Allah, when the stage of purification is over, Allah will grant us victory, Insha Allah. We all must do Dua and be sure of that.

S.Nashkhoyev: One more time on policies. As far as I understood, and many Mujahideen approve of that too, the entire essence of our policies is not to deviate from Aqidah. Where do you see the deviation and the delusion among the Muslims who were waging Jihad and attained independence, since this is what our objective was during the first war? I mean the Jihad in Bosnia and Kosovo, for an example.

D.Umarov: Yes, Balkan examples for any Muslim who came out on Jihad today must serve as forewarnings. They were doing Jihad to get independence from Serbia and get under dependence from America and NATO; they were doing the Jihad to get from kuffar to kuffar, may Allah preserve us from such a way.

Repentance Surat in the Koran says:

"Or think ye that ye shall be abandoned, as though Allah did not know those among you who strive with might and main, and take none for friends and protectors except Allah, His Messenger, and the Believers? But Allah is well- acquainted with (all) that ye do."

It's been said clearly and unambiguously, and it is understandable to any Muslim, i.e. you can't take anyone as friends except Allah, His Messenger and the believers, i.e. you can't take as friends the UN, OSCE, the European Union or NATO as it happened in the Balkan Jihad. These kafir organizations were not created to provide unselfish assistance to Muslims, but to subdue Muslims to their dictates, and then again the Koran warns:

"O ye who believe! If ye obey the Unbelievers, they will drive you back on your heels, and ye will turn back (from Faith) to your own loss."

I.e., in this particular case we are losing in both this life and the next, may Allah preserve us from such a Jihad.

S.Nashkhoyev: And in conclusion of our conversation, Abu Usman, what would you like to say to the Muslims of the Caucasus and the entire world?

D.Umarov: While concluding our today's conversation, I would like to address to all Muslims, the Muslims of the Caucasus and the Muslims all around the world.

First of all, I would want unity, unity is important to us today as never before; respect for yourselves; respect for the Ummah of the Prophet, the most revered prophet in this world; the right evaluation of the events going on in this world; freedom from the slavery that we are in today.

We, praise be to Allah, are praising the Most High for being united, we, the Mujahideen of the Caucasus and Muslims of the Caucasus, the true Muslims of the Caucasus, that Allah gave us such opportunity that today, however weak we may be so far, however small we be, all of it is by the will of Allah, but the main thing that today we all are united. This, I think, hasn't happened until now, and today Allah is the One Who gave us this opportunity, Insha Allah, from this will we have barakat (blessings). The main things is that power is in the hands of Allah, and when He wishes to put it into our hands, it will be put into our hands and with our hands the kuffar and the apostates will be destroyed; the main thing that today we are united, the main thing is that we love one another and are worried about one another.

My wish is so that we somehow get free from slavery, which is great too. Why? Because today Muslims from the Ummah of the Prophet, the most revered prophet in this world (pbuh) are in slavery, and if something happens somewhere, if somewhere Muslims are being killed, humiliated, we are not worried about it, we take it all calmly, as long as the label of terrorism does not touch us, and this label is put on anyone who does not think the way they are allowed to think.

Let's take just one day from the information space. Israeli invaders fire a tank shell and kill a family in Palestine, where four children die - the children who has not even realized who they are, what they are, who haven't even inflicted any harm on Israelis or anyone in the world. But the entire world is calmly watching it, and it is calmly accepted. Mujahideen of Afghanistan, the Taliban warriors risk their lives and penetrate into the stadium where the apostates headed by Karzai conduct some kind of a parade, and make an attempt to remove that apostate, and the entire world gets shocked and starts condemning it the very next day. Pay attention: the difference! The difference! Pay attention what bounds we have been driven into. This world has been divided by the kuffar and the Satan. We are assigned the role of slaves, and even in that role we have no right to grumble. This world is divided, and divided not by us, and the values in this world are all replaced, all values. And we are not allowed to even grumble, we are not allowed to resist to only get free from that slavery.

This is why I am calling on the Muslim brothers to wake up so that they know, so that they memorize one commandment, commandment of Allah, that nothing in this world can happen, whether good or bad, other than what Allah has foreordained. This is the commandment: both bad and good that happens to us is all by the will of Allah. The main thing is that we must seek to please Allah in this world. The main things is so that in the future life we would be in an good place, so that in the future life we would be in Paradise, so that in the future life we do not regret this life. Why? Because we have not done much and we have to answer for it. I want all Muslims to think about it.

Wallahi, Wallahi, maybe the satanic mass media are presenting our fight, our Jihad as if we are fanatics... no, it is no fanaticism, it is nothing; but a man who can think freely after getting free from that slavery, who can read the Koran, he already understands what kind of state Islam is in and, the Koran says it too, that Allah will never change the state that we are in until we ourselves show willingness to change it. Therefore we, the brothers, must change the state that we are in; we, the brothers, must know today that we are people from the Ummah of the Prophet (pbuh), the most worshipped, the most loved prophet, that we must be free, we must preach our Religion, we must do the Daavat, we must spread Islam, we must live freely, and not by the laws that the kuffar imposed on us, but by the laws that were sent to us by Allah.

Today in our understanding the Religion is nothing but words, and when Allah was establishing the Religion, it was both words and deeds. Today we diverged from the deeds, we have no deeds. This is why I want today's Muslims and today's Mujahideen to accept the Religion as both words and deeds. Deeds are the important part of the Religion. And the word of Allah is the Koran, and none Alhamdulillah can change it, and Insha Allah, as soon as we can see and read the Koran, we understand what Allah wants and what is required from us so that we can be virtuous.

This is where I conclude my talk.

Glory be to you, o Allah; praise be to you. I testify that none has the right to be worshiped but you in repentance. Assalamu Aleykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

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Video Games Insult Islam

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The following video games are found to be insulting Islam... may the brothers and sisters reading this help spread the words. Let these games insulting Islam be known, so they can be avoided. Read on !!!

1. “Devil May Cry 3” (for PS2 platform) One scene in the game portrays the door of Kaaba as a door that connects the two worlds; the world of satan and the real world... and the character who opens that door is a c.g.i. character who submitted himself to the power of the black magic (an act forbidden in Islam). In order to open the door, the c.g.i. character has to read a verse... more or less, the verse begins like this, ' O door which connect the world of darkness...' and that verse was read from a book the character holds in his hand. The book appears to be a bible... because in the end of the scene, the character did mention the verse of the 7 deadly sins which could be found in the bible... wrath, sloth, lust, gluttony, and I forgot about the rest..... but I can assure that this was a game of satan.

2. “Counter Strike Condition Zero Deleted” Its First Stage.. the player have to fight and shoot soldiers who are portrayed as muslims. If we notice.. during the shooting scenes and when hit, we could hear the soldiers shouting ALLAHUAKBAR... JIHADD.
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3. “Prince Of Persia” The sword in the game... there is an Arabic Caligraphy on it which says 'Convey my teaching to the people even if it were a single sentence' (hadith) and 'That He may make your conduct whole and sound and forgive you your sins: He that obeys Allah and His Messenger, has already attained the highest achievement' (Surah Al- Ahzab:71). If we play this game it means that we are supporting what they are trying to convey and perform; so may the message in this article be able to reach the brothers and sisters out there.

Please advise our kids and avoid the above mentioned games at all cost.

“Dont regard this as a petty thing”

Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Military Operations

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Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan spokesmen Qari Muhammad Yousuf and Zabihuallah Mujahid reported from Afghanistan, 06-07-2008.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

All Praise and thanks are due to Allah, the Lord of all that exists and may peace and prayers be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, companions in entirety.

Bride among 53 martyred in American invaders precession bombing in Nangarhar. Sunday 06-07-2008, American occupation brutalities struck a wedding ceremony in Deh Bala district of eastern Nangarhar province. In the morning, occupation helicopters mercilessly bombarded a wedding ceremony in a mountainous area, martyring the bride and thirty others including women, children and elderly, also wounding twenty. Also, Saturday 05-07-2008, the invaders bombardment martyred twenty two civilians in the Waigul district of Noristan province. Reported Zabihuallah Mujahid

Martyrdom Operation kills 12 German invader terrorists and destroyed 2 vehicles in Kunduz. Sunday afternoon 06-07-2008, a courageous Mujahid of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Musa Kalim said "Allahu Akbar" and rammed his booby-trapped car into a convoy of German occupation army near the center of Chardara district of Kunduz province, in which four vehicles were completely destroyed and twelve German terrorists were killed. We ask Allah to accept our brother among martyrs in Eelleyeen (high rank in the paradise). All praise and gratitude are due to Allah. Reported by Zabihuallah Mujahid

Here is how the mainstream news is reporting this Martyrdom operation

Suicide bomb wounds three Afghan schoolgirls. A suicide car bomber targeting German troops wounded three schoolgirls in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the deputy provincial police chief said. The bomber rammed a Toyota saloon car into a German military vehicle 15 km west of the city of Kunduz, destroying the vehicle and wounding the three passing schoolgirls, Kunduz Deputy Police Chief Abdurahman Abtash told Reuters.

Does this make any sense? Destroying the vehicle and wounding the three passing schoolgirls, what about those soldiers who were in the destroyed vehicle? Today is Sunday and the Schools are close on Sunday. Secondly, Schools are close for summer holidays, this is just one example of news distortion that the masses are bombed every day with.

more reports @ unjustmedia.com

Do You Know This Book?

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Of all the acclaimed masterpieces that the world has seen, nothing can be compared to the book known as the Qur’an. Millions have become Muslims upon simply hearing a verse from this amazing book, yet still the majority knows nothing of it.

The Qur’an is the Final Revelation from the Creator to humanity. It was revealed in the year 610CE to the Prophet Muhammad (saw), and completed over a period of 23 years. These 23 years of revelation resulted in a book which comprised of 114 chapters and 6,666 verses. All of this was to become the primary source of law for the whole of mankind to live and die by.

The impact of this book is such that Allah says :

“Had We [1] revealed this Qur’an upon a mountain, surely you would have seen it humble itself and crumble out of the fear of Allah. Such are the parables We put forward to mankind so that they may reflect” (Surah Al-Hashr 59:21)

However, it seems as if the hearts of the people have become harder than the mountains which tower above us. When the Qur’an is recited or even mentioned, people turn away with disgust. In the West, this is primarily due to the negative exposure from the media. It has resulted in many non-Muslims not even wanting to hear the name of this amazing book. Muslims too, have become hardhearted because of the cultural influences of the West. Many young Muslims perceive the Qur’an to be nothing more than an old wrapped up book, which comes off the highest shelf once a year during Ramadan!

If people were to truly reflect upon this book, they would realise that nothing in this world is quite the same. So why should this claim be accepted over others? Why should the Qur’an be given precedence over the likes of the Bible, the Gita[2] or the Granth Sahib[3]? The following reasons will insha Allah give an indication as to why this book deserves the attention of all humanity.

Preservation

“There is probably in the world no other book which has remained twelve centuries with so pure a text”. Writing 200 years ago, these are the words of the famous English critic of Islam, Sir William Muir. But as Muslims we do not need Williarn Muir to tell us this: 1,400 years ago, the Muslims accepted this reality when Allah revealed to them:

“Indeed it is We who have sent down the reminder (the Qur’an), and indeed it is Us who shall preserve it” (Surah Al-Hijr 15:9)

These words have proved true to this very day. From the moment the first words were revealed to Muhammad (saw), to this very day, every single letter and word of the Qur’an has remained unchanged.

Before Islam, all the revelations sent were not given this divine assurance. This is why we find that books like the Bible are riddled with interpolations and inaccuracies. It is well known that man has tampered with the Bible to the extent that annually different versions are produced to suit trends and desires[4]. In fact this has been going on for so long that it is almost impossible to see what of the words of the Creator are left, if any!

With the Qur’an it is the exact opposite. The contents of this amazing book are stored in the hearts of millions of Muslims worldwide. Children as young as 12 have memorised the entire book in its original language, Arabic. There is no other religious scripture on earth which is orally preserved in its original language by so many and over such a period of time, without having been tampered somewhere along the line. The Bible is a prime example of this. Many Christians believe that English is the divine language of the Bible. However Jesus (as) spoke Aramaic. From Aramaic, his life-story was translated into Hebrew. From Hebrew it was translated into Greek. From Greek to Latin, and then finally from Latin to English!

There has not been a single vicar, priest or layman in recorded history who has even memorised the Bible in English, let alone the Aramaic! As Muslims we believe the Qur’an can only be in the language it was revealed in, i.e. Arabic. Anything else is a translation and not the divine words of the Creator. A true test of this divine preservation would be to burn all the books and manuscripts in existence, to see which can return as it was. The Qur’an would be the only book which would return in its original form, letter for letter, word for word.

Many Christians say that the Qur’anic claim of preservation needs to be backed-up by manuscript evidence. For us this is not a necessary criteria, but in order to quell the doubts, the Muslims have ample proof. Two copies of the Qur’an are in existence which date back to the Third Caliph Uthmaan (ra), 20 years after the death of the Prophet (saw) These two copies are to be found in the Topkapi museum, Istanbul, Turkey and in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Tashkent copy is thought to have been the personal copy of the Caliph as it still contains stains of his blood, which was shed when he was murdered whilst reading it. Any copy of the Qur’an which is compared to these copies, will show that there is not a single difference between what we have today and what was in existence 1,400 years ago. Thus Allah’s promise holds true.

No Mistakes

Man as a creature is fallible. For this reason anything which is produced by him will naturally have faults. With the Qur’an, such a notion cannot even be considered as it is from the One Who is Infallible. In fact Allah clarifies this matter beautifully when he says:

“Do they not consider the Qur’an? Had it been from other than Allah surely they would have found much discrepancies within it” (Surah An-Nisa 4:82)

Throughout history many have tried to scrutinise and search the Qur’an for mistakes and errors. To this day no one has been able to bring a shred of proof showing that this book is not from Allah. Some Christians have even called it the work of the Devil because the book affected them so much when they read it! With other scriptures, contradictions, mistakes and absurdities are constantly present. When people contrast these ambiguities with the Qur’an, it often results in the acceptance of this faultless book.

The Arabic Language

Upon hearing Qur’anic recitation, you may be rather startled. Besides hearing the reciter of the prayer, you often hear people in the background sobbing and wailing heavily.





So what is it that makes these people cry so much? It is nothing more than the beauty and eloquence of this book which moves millions to tears. This beauty is expressed in the language of the Arabs. Allah says:

“Indeed We have revealed this as an Arabic Qur’an so that you may understand” (Surah Yusuf 12:2)

At the time of the Prophet (saw) three modes of expression were used. There was normal speech, the speech of the soothsayer and poetry. The Arabs were the masters of their language, and poetry was their cultural highlight. Arabic poetry is split into 16 categories, each separate from the other. When the Qur’an was proclaimed to the Arabs it amazed them beyond all limits. It was like nothing they had ever heard before. It did not fit into the 16 categories of poetry, nor was it the speech of a soothsayer, and it certainly was not normal speech. If it was not all these, then it could only be the word of Allah.

The eloquence and majesty of the early chapters of the Qur’an moved many to tears, and the beautiful Qur’anic Arabic converted millions of Arabs in the Middle East. Not only did the Qur’an affect the lives of these Arabs, but it also transformed their culture. Even today, no serious study of the Arabic language is possible without reference to this book.

The reaction of some pagans was that they accused Muhammad (saw) of being a soothsayer and a madman. In order to silence them, Allah issued a challenge. At first he asked them to produce a book like the Qur’an. When it could not be done, Allah asked them to produce ten chapters like it. When this too could not be done Allah finally stated:

“And if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed to Our slave, then produce a chapter like it” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:23)

The smallest chapter in the Qur’an is only three verses long (Chapter 108). The pagans at the time of the Prophet (saw) could not even produce something as small as this, and since then no one else has completed this impossible task. All of this is in light of the fact that the Prophet Muhammad (saw) could not read or write, thus refuting those who say that the Qur’an was his own handiwork.

The Qur’an is the Final book of revelation. After it there will be no more. However, many have tried to deny this by producing their own new versions of the Qur’an. Among them have been the two false prophets, Musailama[5] and Ghulam Ahmed[6]. Many Chapters in the Qur’an are named after animals, such as the Ant, Spider etc. Musailama tried to copy this, and went about creating a chapter in his book called the Weasel! In Arabic it is called Al-Wabl and it hardly causes people to be struck in awe! On the other hand Ghulam Ahmed, the ‘British stooge’, claimed to receive revelation in cockney English!! Such foolishness could never compare to the beauty of the Qur’an with its clear and beautiful Arabic language.

Science

Over the past few decades much interest has been shown in the scientific content of the Qur’an. Scientific data which has been discovered in recent times, has been existent in this book for 1,400 years. In fact the very common origin of this universe is stated clearly by Allah, the Most High:

“Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together, then We parted them. And We made from water every living thing. Will they then not believe?” (Surah Al-Anbiya 21:30)

This parting of the heavens and the earth is more commonly known to scientists as the ‘big bang’. It is also a fact that life originated from water and that every living cell is composed of 85% water. Without water life is impossible.

The mountains of the earth, like icebergs, have roots going deep into the ground. This ensures that they will not topple with their extreme heights – this is known as ‘isostasy’. In this way the mountains are like the stakes which are used to anchor a tent. But this fact is already known to us when Allah says:

“Have We not made the earth an expanse and the mountains stakes?” (Surah An-Naba 78:6-7)

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“Allah has cast into the ground mountains standing firm so that it does not shake with you” (Surah Luqman 31:10)

The embryological data which is found in the Qur’an is astounding. Allah describes the formation of a baby inside the womb from the very moment the sperm reaches the ovum, to its formation into a human. This data, which was only discovered about 30 years ago, has amazed many western scientists. Amongst them is Dr Keith Moore [7] from the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr Moore is a recognised authority in embryological circles, with his university text book being set as a standard text in many universities throughout the world. When Dr Moore was asked as to how this information in the Qur’an could be explained, he replied: “It could only have been divinely revealed”.

History

The Qur’an is a book of historical accuracy. One accuracy which has corrected the mistakes of many Christians and historians, is the fate of the Pharaoh who drowned in the Red Sea whilst pursuing Moses. The Biblical story would have us believe that the matter ended when the Pharaoh drowned. But the Qur’an explains further. When he was drowning the Pharaoh confessed his faith in Allah. But it was too late, and Allah promised him:

“This day We shall preserve you in your body, so that you may be a sign for those who come after you. But indeed many of mankind are heedless of Our signs” (Surah Yunus 10:92)

In 1898 the tombs of various pharaohs were discovered in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. In 1975 Dr Maurice Bucaille, an eminent French surgeon was allowed to examine the mummified bodies of Rameses II and the pharaoh who had pursued Moses - Merneptah. Dr Bucaille discovered that Merneptah had received very violent blows to several parts of his body and had suffered a massive heart attack. Amazingly, these are the results which occur when someone dies from drowning! Thus Allah had saved the body of the transgressing pharaoh as a sign for all humanity.

For those who say that Muhammad (saw) knew his history and wrote it in the Qur’an, the following shall prove otherwise. In the year 615CE the Roman army was defeated by the Persians. About this event Allah revealed:

“The Romans have been defeated in the lowest land, but in a few years they shall be victorious again, within three to nine years. The decision of the matter, before and after, is only with Allah” (Surah Ar-Rum 30:24)

The words of Allah proved true as the Persians were defeated at the battle of Issus, 7 years later in 622CE. There is no possible way that Muhammad (saw) could have known (if he wrote the Qur’an) that the Romans would be victorious. In fact he also did not know that the ‘lowest land’ at which the battle was fought was literally that. The battle in 615CE was fought on the shores of the Dead Sea, the lowest point below sea level on earth, at 1,300ft.

A book with these credentials could only be from the Creator of the heavens and the earth. A book which we need to acquaint ourselves with. A book . . .

“... which has been revealed to you (O’ Muhammad) so that you may lead mankind out of the darkness and into the light” (Surah lbrahim 14:1)



Footnotes

1 The word ‘WE’ does not mean that there is more than one God. Rather it is a plural of respect which gives Allah grandeur over His creation.
2 The Baghwad Gita is one of the Hindu scriptures.
3 The Guru Granth Sahib is the Sikh scripture
4 The most recent version of the Bible is the ‘Politically Correct Version’!!
5 Musailama claimed prophethood just before the death of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). He was from the region of Yamaamah in Arabia and from the tribe of Haneefah.
6 Ghulam Ahmed was born in 1840 in Qadian, India. He claimed prophethood at the request of his imperialist masters, the British Government.
7 Besides Dr Moore, there have been many other famous Western scientists who have accepted Islam. One of the most prominent was the famous French oceanographer, Jacques Yves Cousteau who has recently passed away. Cousteau was amazed at the accuracy of the Qur’anic statements regarding underwater activity and thus embraced Islam. As a result of his death, Cousteau’s life achievements have been highlighted in the Western media. However his acceptance of Islam was conveniently absent from the news-reports.

TURKS ARE READY TO CONFRONT THEIR HISTORY. ARE ARMENIANS READY TO CONFRONT THE TRUTH ?

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As the representatives of Turkish 153 Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) we would like to express our deep concern and disappointment regarding the "genocide" accusation inflicted upon our ancestors. Herewith, we would like to convey our views and the grounds which oblige us to explain such allegations.

There are accusations from almost all over the world for an "Armenian genocide" which derive mainly from the prejudiced sources provided by the Armenian view. There are various reasons why this view of history has become the accepted wisdom in the world at large. No single issue moves the Armenian Diaspora as much as what has come to be known as genocide, and many Armenians, having attained positions of wealth and influence throughout the western world, have made the perpetuation of this issue their crusade. As a result, virtually all the information that we have concerning the tragic events of 1915 comes from Armenian sources, or of their sympathizers. What works to the pro-Armenians’ advantage is that the western world has failed to regard the two peoples on an equal plane. The much greater suffering endured by the Muslims of the period has been almost completely ignored.

The inherent prejudice that prevents most people from analyzing these events with an open mind presents as significant an obstacle today as it did during the time of the events. It is unfortunate that the image of the "Terrible Turk" is still alive and well. Those who can overcome their ingrained bigotry and objectively look at the genuine evidence soon become aware that what is known as "Turkish propaganda" stems mainly from sources without reason to be false. These are the very western sources that have often maintained their prejudices against the Turkish people, along with internal Ottoman documents never meant to be public relations exercises. Today’s so-called genocide scholars overwhelmingly support the Armenian thesis, but there are very few historians among their ranks. Many conclude there was genocide first, and then fit selective evidence to support their conclusion ; in effect, working in reverse of what we would normally expect of genuine scholars.

After the wave of Armenian terrorism hit in the 1970s and 80s, this subject began to be studied seriously, and many specialists in Ottoman history came to reject the notion of genocide. For example, 69 Western academicians signed a 1985 statement to that effect. Targeted increasingly by ad hominem attacks, most were intimidated away from this debate. As a result, the pro-Armenians have succeeded in presenting the image that it is only the Turkish government that has come to "deny" this alleged genocide.

In the face of this malicious campaign to distort history, what stands out is that pro-Armenians have rarely expressed willingness to engage in honest debate. One must ask, if they are so certain of their facts, what have they got to be afraid of ? Why, for example, have they refused to take their case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague ?

The truth is that during World War I, when the Ottoman forces were fighting on five fronts, they also faced an armed uprising of Armenians. At the instigation and with the support of Czarist Russia, Armenian insurgents sought to establish an Armenian state in an area which was predominantly Muslim. With the Russian invasion of eastern Anatolia, the degree of Armenian collaboration with the Russian enemy increased dramatically. The Ottoman army’s rear was gravely threatened when supply lines were cut by Armenian guerilla bands. Furthermore, Armenian revolutionary bands massacred the Muslims of the province of Van, in anticipation of the expected arrival of the invading Russian armies. The Ottoman government’s response was to order the relocation of its Armenian subjects from the path of invading Russians and other areas where they might undermine the Ottoman war effort.

That the Ottoman State’s Armenian minority launched a bloody insurrection at the very time the country was fighting a World War goes a long way towards explaining the resultant suffering that was borne by Armenians and non- Armenians alike. Most of the casualties from both sides were victims of famine, disease and exposure, as well as inter-ethnic clashes and regular warfare. A favorite pro-Armenian source, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, himself had written that thousands of Turks were dying daily from starvation because few were left to till the fields ; he estimated an entire quarter of the Turkish population had died of starvation alone. It is not correct to deem the great numbers of Armenians who died from the same causes as ’victims of genocide’. Ottoman archives which are now open to research without any restriction contain tens of thousands of documents shedding light on the relocation process. Among them are a great number of Ottoman Government directives ordering the governors, military commanders and other public officials, to implement the relocation in an orderly way, taking the necessary measures for the security of those who were being moved, with maximum care for the protection of their lives and possessions ? (However, it is also a fact that orders from the central government were not always followed by local officials. As often happens with operations of great magnitude, particularly those undertaken at the last minute with limited resources and manpower, not everything went smoothly.)

In the overall implementation of the relocation the nonexistence of even a disguised intent to kill and destroy is obvious. This could also be deduced from the following indications : All along the war the Armenian population continued to exist in most of western Anatolia, such as in Istanbul and Izmir where the government was in control, and were not subjected to relocation. Those who were subjected to relocation had to travel on foot because of lack of proper transportation and were unfortunately attacked by lawless bands and other renegade forces. This is the opposite of what one would expect if there had been a government implemented policy of genocide. Meanwhile, high level Armenian bureaucrats continued to serve in the Ottoman government.

Contrary to overriding belief, the great wave of immigration of Armenians came well after the war was over, and after many had returned to their homes in what was left of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian Patriarch estimated some 645,000 remained as late as 1921. 500,000 had already mostly traveled, on their own accord, to Transcaucasia alone, according to a UCLA Armenian professor. Armenians today concede one million survived. The pre-war population according to most neutral Western sources of the period (such as the Encyclopedia Britannica) was around 1.5 million. Pro-Armenian claims that 1.5 million were killed are arithmetically impossible.

Often called the "foremost authority on the Armenian Genocide," Prof. Vahakn Dadrian himself had written (in Sept. 21, 2004) that "in 1916 ... the genocide had all but run its course." He was referring to the relocation policy, but it is obvious that such a policy in itself cannot be termed a genocide. (Otherwise, the movement of W.W.II Japanese-Americans would be similarly defined.) The question must also be asked that if this process was the kind of Hitlerian "Final Solution" it is often compared to, why should it have come to a halt so soon ?

The 1948 U.N. Convention on Genocide requires "intent" to be proven. Aside from hearsay, there is absolutely no factual evidence proving any such thing. Similarly, the Armenians had been a "political group" aiming to ethnically cleanse the Turks in a sizeable part of eastern Anatolia, in an effort to establish their own independent state. "Political groups" are not among the groups protected under the Genocide Convention.

A "Nuremberg" was held at the end of the war, in the form of the Malta Tribunal (1919-1921). The British sought the evidence to convict accused Ottomans, numbering over 144 at one point. The U.S. State archives were their last resort (significantly, the very foundation of most "Armenian genocide evidence" today), and the British Embassy in Washington delivered the following message on July 13, 1921 : "I regret to inform your Lordship that there was nothing therein which could be used as evidence against the Turks who are being detained for trial in Malta." Consequently, without going to trial, every single prisoner was freed. The point here is that the 144 prisoners were released without any charges being brought. Some 1,600 Turks were, on the other hand, taken to tribunals and court- martials during the war in their own country, for crimes against Armenians. Most were convicted, and over sixty were condemned to death. These actions are hardly consistent with an intended genocide.

The truth is that the Armenians’ portrayal of themselves as the helpless victims of "The First Genocide of the 20th Century" is without any basis. Even that claim is inaccurate ; there were systematic extermination campaigns earlier in the century preceding the Armenians, as in Albania, South West Africa, and the Philippines.

Often ignored, the Balkan Turks were victims of an enormous ethnic cleansing campaign, also preceding the Armenian experience. Once again, it is prejudice that prevents the world at large from recognizing the tremendous tragedies the Turks suffered.

During 1918-1920, the newly formed Republic of Armenia systematically exterminated their own Muslims, constituting some 38% of their population. During and after World War I, the Armenians also killed over half a million Ottomans, mostly Muslims including the entire Jewish population of the caucuses, numbers that are documented in the Ottoman archives. Few Western sources will corroborate this very unknown tragedy because Muslim and Jewish lives were insignificant. A British colonel by the name of Wooley, according to the U.S. Archives, estimated that 300,000-400,000 Ottoman Muslims were killed by Armenians in three districts alone. What disturbs us most is that in the midst of deportations, massacres, ethnic cleansing, and other atrocities, only the deaths of the Armenians is selected and falsely characterized as genocide. Genocide can briefly be described as killing people for what they are, rather than what they have done. No mention is made of the Greek mass murder of Muslims in Anatolia (well documented), the mass murder of Muslims when the Russians captured Erzurum (well documented), the mass murder of Muslims in Van (well documented), and the mass murder of Jews in Van (well documented). Uniquely the death of the Armenians is singled out and termed genocide with lack of any reliable documentation. Turkey does not make light of its appalling treatment of the Armenians but it seems that governments in the west have chosen to ignore the deaths of innocent Muslims, let alone accept that these cases were genocide : government sponsored elimination of thousands of civilians for no other reason than that they belonged to a particular religion.

If Armenia adopts a realistic attitude and is not fearful of confronting its past, a mixed commission to investigate the issue could be established. In this context, first, the two parties should set up a mixed committee of Turkish and Armenian historians. Second, they should declare that they will open their respective archives without any restriction on research. Third, representatives from an international organization, for instance UNESCO, should be a part of this process, assuming the role of public notary.

If the Armenian side is truly certain about the righteousness of its claim, it should not hesitate to espouse this proposal and thus contribute to bringing clarity to this period of our mutual history.

Yours sincerely,
On behalf of the joint 153 NGOs’ initiative Prof. Dr. Aysel Eksi ( Mrs).
E. mail : ayseleksi@hotmail.com

Sour©e: w w w . i n f o - t u r c . o r g

New Book Review: "THE SKULLS THAT DEMOLISH DARWIN "

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THE SKULLS THAT DEMOLISH DARWIN

Darwin's thesis-that human beings and apes are descended from a common ancestor-has not been supported by any scientific findings, either when he first proposed it, nor in the following period of some 150 years. The fossils obtained have proved that apes have always existed as apes, and that human beings have always existed as human beings. Apes did not transform into humans, and present-day apes and humans have no common ancestor.

Investigations into ape skulls, skulls from other vertebrate species, and various races of humans that lived at different times in the past show that they all possessed their different characteristics from the beginning and remained unchanged right through the passage of years. This means that living things never evolved, but were all created by Allah, Almighty God. Through the evidence of fossil specimens depicted in this book, you too will see why the theory of Darwinism has collapsed.

The Story Of The Prophet's Companions: “Competing For Jihad”

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The Story Khaitsamah And His Father

The Prophet’s companions' understanding of Allah’s pleasure, the last day, paradise and other similar subjects are the best understanding of all. It is not us, the people of the end times nor the saints who are the main reasons for the spread of dienul Islam to every part of the world.

When Rasulullah (saw) prepared to leave for the battle of Badr during which Allah (swt) really tested the faith of the muslims, Sa'ad bin Khaitsamah (ra) and his father, Khaitsamah bin Harits (ra), were both contending to be the chosen one and join Rasulullah (saw) to Bad’r as either one of them should stay behind to protect the community.

Knowing that, Rasulullah (saw) made a decision, "Only one of you could be allowed to go. So cast a ballot between the two of you."

Khaitsamah (ra) said to his son, Sa'ad (ra), "It is better if I go and you just stay to protect the women."

Sa'ad (ra) answered, "If not because of paradise, I will give in to you, O father. However I indeed want enter paradise."

After the ballot was casted, it was Sa'ad’s name that came out. Therefore, it was him who was allowed to go and join the Prophet (saw) to Badr. He was jubilant and consequently fought the battle valiantly. In the end Sa'ad got his wish as he was killed in that battle.

Thus goes the story of a soul who was a true yearner of paradise.

The Spirit Of Jihad In The Boys At The Time Rasulullah SAW

The speeches and the talks of the companions of Rasulullah (saw) when it came to jihad was such that it reached a point where it was very much affecting the ambitions and the fighting spirit of their children. If our children today talked empty words such as about fictional superheroes that have nothing to do with their aqeedah at all, the children of the companions talked about the bravery and the duty of their old folks in raising the kalimah (words) of Allah (swt).

Such were their enthusiasms, every one of them wished to be amongst the grown-ups in their struggle to defend the religion. Even though they had not reached the age of puberty, yet their heroic spirits have made stories for the later generations to take lessons from. Not only for the children, but also serves as examples for the adults. They truly showed us how to act in order to defend our religion and struggle for its cause.

It was customary for Rasulullah (saw) to instruct those who were ready to go for jihad to parade and stand firm in one line. This practice conformed to what Allah (swt) wants, and it was also to make it easy for Rasulullah (saw) to see and make sure that there was no under-aged amongst them.

Thus how it happened during the days approaching the battle of Uhud. The Prophet (saw) was forced to soften down the enthusiasm in the children by sending them back to their parents’ house. Amongst them were Abdullah bin Umar (ra), Zaid bin Tsabit (ra), Usamah bin Zaid (ra), Zaid bin Arqam (ra), Barra bin Azib (ra), Amr bin Hizam (ra), Usaid bin Zhuhair (ra), Urabah bin Aus (ra), Abu Sa'id al Khudri (ra), Samurah bin Jundub (ra) dan Rafi' bin Khadij (ra).

The children were frustrated for certain and seeing the frustration in his son, Khadij (ra) tried his best to defend his son and persuaded Rasulullah (saw) to allow his son to go to the battlefront. Khadij (ra) said, "My son, Rafi' is good in archery." And true to his father’s words, with a spirit like steel, Rafi' made himself stood on his toe so that he would look taller. In the end Rasulullah (saw) allowed Rafi' bin Khadij (ra) to go and join the expedition.

Looking at Rafi'’s (ra) success, Samurah bin Jundub (ra) pleaded with his step-father, Murrah bin Sinan (ra), "Father, Rafi' is allowed to go to fight, but I am not, whereas I am stronger than him. Should there be a competition, I will surely beat him"

Rasulullah (saw) agreed and approved for a contest to be held. Both of the boys then competed in front of Rasulullah (saw). Evidently Samurah bin Jundub (ra) managed to beat Rafi' bin Khadij (ra). As a result it was Samurah who was allowed go and participate in the expidition.

The resultant outcome of that contest was really unexpected. The spirit of the other boys soared high into the sky. Many of them rushed back to Rasulullah (saw) to offer themselves, hoping to be permitted to go and fight in the battle. However, in the end the Prophet (saw) only allowed a few of them to take part in the battle. Subhanallah.

In our time, we can almost find the same thing happening. In Afghanistan, it is not only the youth who are flocking to join the Taliban, but also baby-faced teenagers, mostly too young to grow facial hair, are zealous to join them. But the leadership in the Taliban somehow only allowed those whose facial hair has been growing to fight and liberate their homeland.

And in Palestine we can witness scenes of struggles by the Palestinian children in defending their honorable rights. We can see the boys standing in the way of the mighty tanks, armed only with rocks. In their own words, “We are only small kids who want peace, but we are not willing to see the Israeli Zionists oppressing us and our religion (Islam). There are no other words that we could hurl, only these handful of rocks in our hands as a mute witness for a promise of victory from Allah.” Allahu Akbar!!!!

"Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure." (Qur’an 61:4)

Debate Over US-Iraq Treaty Confirms Both The US’s Ambitions And The Limits Of Its Power

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The US is facing two deadlines in its dealings with the government in Iraq over the proposed “security treaty” by which it hopes to legitimise its continued occupation of the country. The first is the expiry of the UN mandate to remain in the country, which expires on December 31. The second is the end of the Bush presidency, which will effectively end when his successor is confirmed in the presidential polls in November. The neo-cons surrounding Bush are desperate both to secure their interests in the future before having to hand power to another administration, and to secure something they can claim as a success as part of their legacy.

Details of the proposed treaty have been leaking out slowly for several months, since US president George W. Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Declaration of Principles setting out its broad outlines in September last year. This was followed by months of detailed negotiations behind the scenes, with no official documents made public, but details leaked by various parties and intensely discussed in political circles. These suggest that the terms demanded by the US are humiliating: open-ended Iraqi approval for up to 58 military bases in Iraq; immunity from prosecution for both US forces and “contractors” (i.e. mercenaries) working for them; freedom to arrest Iraqis at will without reference to Iraqi authorities and without being answerable to Iraqi courts; freedom to launch military operations against any target from Iraqi bases without reference to the Iraqi government; and total control over Iraqi airspace below 29,000 feet. These “security” provisions are of course over and above the control over Iraqi resources and economic activity that the US is trying to secure through the proposed oil and gas legislation and other economic agreements, and are rightly interpreted as effectively reducing Iraq’s status to that of a colony or a protectorate, rather than an independent sovereign state. This has, of course, been the ultimate objective of the US invasion and occupation all along, despite all the pious words about freedom, democracy and the rights of the Iraqi people.

Demo against Bush in London recently

The issue of the security agreement burst on to the public consciousness in May, when Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that it would be finalised by the end of July. This brought the matter into the open, and numerous public figures raised their voices to prevent the Maliki government from accepting them. Ayatullah Ali al-Sistani -- still massively influential, despite his quietist reluctance to engage in politics -- urged the government to protect Iraq’s independence, sovereignty, and national and economic interests. Muqtada al-Sadr accused the US of trying to cement its occupation of the country and said that his militia would maintain their resistance activities against US-led forces. His statement came as government forces were cracking down on his fighters in al-Amarah, a Sadrist stronghold in the Maysan province. Sadr suggested that the crackdown was an attempt to divert attention from the debate over the security agreement. Sunni politicians who the US had hoped would support the agreement have been forced to moderate their position in the face of anger from their own community in Iraq, as ulama, community leaders and commentators have joined in the rejection of the pact, raising hopes that the issue could reunite Iraqis against the common enemy after the sectarian divisions of recent years.

Whether the issue will be settled by the end of this month is doubtful; few such deadlines have been met in Iraq recently. What is clear, however, is that the US is determined to secure its interests, and that the Maliki government knows that it cannot survive without continued US support. But Maliki and all other Iraqi politicians know that no agreement that is acceptable to the US will be seen as anything but humiliating by Iraq’s people. Some compromise will be reached, which all will try to present as securing their interests, but it is unlikely that the anger of the Iraqi people will be assuaged for long. In Iran, the Shah’s granting of extraterritorial rights to the US contributed to the resentment against his rule that fuelled the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In Iraq, the similar terms of this agreement are likely to provide the basis of political resentment and disorder in future years, and could yet have a similarly revolutionary impact. The only question is whether there is any leadership in the country capable of providing the clear vision and principled leadership that its people deserve, and without which continued disorder is more likely than any improvement in the situation.

When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the hope was that a strong, stable and pro-American Iraqi government would secure their interests in the region, which -- as Alan Greenspan famously confirmed -- are primarily about oil. Having failed to establish such a regime, the US is now trying to secure American interests as best it can by imposing this agreement on the weak and unreliable government that is all it has succeeded in establishing. But the real power in Iraq rests with its people, and their anger at what the US has done to their country is likely to prevent the US from maintaining its presence in Iraq for much longer, regardless of any agreements by which it tries to legitimise its role.

Bush’s legacy is bound to be one of failure, and whoever succeeds him in November is likely to seek radically different solutions to rescue the situation, for example the imposition of another dictatorial strongman in place of the pseudo-democracy that is proving altogether too concerned with the wishes of Iraq’s people.

Sour©e: muslimmedia.com

Iraqi Ulama: "It's Haram To Coperate With The Invaders"

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Sheikh Dr. Abdul Malik As Sa’di, one of the chief ulamas (kibar ulama) of Iraq issued a fatwa which says that it is haram to have an agreement and cooperation with the occupiers. The fatwa mentioned that the action is haram in a qath’i (absolute) way. Except in cases when the invaders are on the verge of withdrawing from Iraq and are giving the Iraqis full rights to administer their own country, it is allowed in this case.

Sheikh As Sa’di mentioned that Rasulullah (SAW) ordered his companions to write an agreement with the Jews of Madinah, as well as at the time of Hudaybiyah treaty. In situations other than these, namely when the Islamic ummah's power are suffering, be it in Mekkah or Madinah, he never ordered to write the agreement. The treaty must be built on the basis of strength.

And the agreement should not have any element of 'asking for help from the kafir' to maintain stability, and above all, not asking for assistance from the kafir in order to fight other Muslim. He (SAW) said, ”I do not ask for help from the mushrikeen (polytheists)”.

The weak Iraqi government today are apostates as they have formed a league with the kafir invaders. It is totally out of a sound mind for a muslim to cooperate with the evildoers, so as they could carry on with their crimes!

The Fatwa was released by Al Islam Al Yaum on Thursday (26/6). It also mentioned As Sa'di's recommendation that the government should abandon the agreement and not listen to the invaders.

“The Iraqis should not believe and trust the Americans who are openly lying to the world with regards to the WMD.”

Indeed asking for assistance from the kafir, is always haram, no matter what the conditions are, even after the occupation has ended, because asking for help from the enemies of Allah is a form of loyalty to them.

“O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.” He cited Al Maidah 51.(prince/Al Islam Al Yaum)

Islam: A Manifesto of Human Liberation

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In the minds of people, the term "humanism" has a certain magic, electric charm - like the "Aladdin's lantern." It bemuses many with its so-called rational, liberating gimmicks. Many Muslims, therefore, have developed false opinions without questioning the origin of western humanism and its effect on modern man. I shall attempt to clarify this subject by borrowing from the writings of a noted Islamic scholar, a sociologist, Dr. Ali Shariati.

The pundits of all schools of thought cannot agree upon a precise definition of the term "humanism." A definition of what is human will vary according to the religious belief, scientific perspective, or philosophical school. Despite all the ambiguity as to the proper meaning of human existence, the aggregate of the generally accepted assumptions may be labelled as "humanism." In his book, "Marxism and other western fallacies - an Islamic critique," Dr. Ali Shariati writes, "By humanism, we refer to a school of thought that proclaims its essential goal to be the liberation and perfection of man, whom it considers a primary being, and principles of which are based on response to those basic needs that form the specificity of man." In today's world there are four intellectual currents which, despite their mutually contradictory nature, claim to represent this humanism. These are: (1) western liberalism; (2) Marxism; (3) existentialism; and (4) religion.

Western humanism is deeply rooted in ancient Greek mythology where we find jealousy, competition and opposition between the forces of heaven and earth, between the world of gods and men. Humanity seeks to liberate itself from the yoke of oppression, tyranny and captivity as laid upon it by the gods in attaining self-awareness, freedom, liberty, independence and sovereignty. It struggles to rule over nature to unseat Zeus, who symbolises the rule of nature over mankind. He wants to be the 'only' mentor of his destiny. As such, a bond of enmity between the gods and men was altogether natural and logical to the Greek myths.

However, it was wrong, and obviously so, on the part of great minds of western humanism - from Diderot and Voltaire to Feuerbach and Marx - to equate the mythical world of ancient Greece, which remains within the bounds of material nature with the spiritual and sacred world of ancient religions of the East (Islam in particular). They have compared and even dared to equate humanity's relation to Zeus with that of Allah, whereas the two sets of relations are in truth antithetical. In the former world, Prometheus steals "the divine fire" from the heavens while the gods were asleep and brings it to earth. For this sin he is punished at the hands of the gods. On the contrary, in Islam, Allah curses Iblis for not prostrating to Adam - the first man. Furthermore, Allah entrusts the "divine fire" in the form of heavenly light of wisdom, of revelation, to His prophets so that it might be brought to humanity for bringing the progeny of Adam out of darkness to light. Man is entrusted to be his viceregent on earth. Allah, in contrast to mythical Zeus, wants humanity to be free of the yoke of slavery to nature and proclaims: "All the angels have prostrated themselves at the feet of Adam, and land and sea have been made subservient to you." It is, therefore, in the mythical world-view of ancient Greece, quite natural and logical that a humanism should grow in opposition to rule by, and worship of, the gods. And as such, it is easy to see the fallacy of western humanism, which is born out of the Greek myths, and to sense its opposition against theism (or western and eastern polytheism).

It is worth mentioning here that Catholicisim as practiced in the Middle Ages, which was at odds to humanity, was further responsible for inducing humanism in the West. It maintained the same opposition between heaven and earth like ancient Greece, and with its Greek-style exegeses of original sin, atonement, and man's expulsion from Paradise, it represented man as helplessly condemned because of divine displeasure and anger, and declared him to be a weak sinner. It exempted only the class of clergy, and held that the only means of salvation for the rest of mankind lay in blindly following them and through membership in the Churches. We therefore notice that even the arts in the Middle Ages revolve around the images of super-humans, angels, and even if human figure appears, it is only in the persons of apostles and saints with their faces obscured by a halo of celestial light. Everywhere, thus, in medieval Catholicism, we see a good resemblance between mythical-Christian God and mythical-Greek god Zeus. It is therefore easy to visualise how the theory of secularism would eventually influence the minds of western men of learning after the Renaissance as a mere by-product of that very western humanism which wanted to liberate the human spirit from the clutches of oppressive Catholicism.

Just as it was natural for Greek humanism, through the denial of the gods, disbelief in their rule, and cutting of the bond between gods and men, to struggle to arrive at an anthopocentric universe and to tend towards earthly materialism, so is modern western humanism drawn into the same fountain of ancient Greece. Shariati writes, "The history of western culture is the persistence of these two contrasting currents that issue from the same spring, whether we refer to religion or science." Both these divergent streams of today have their root in Greek humanism. Marxism and bourgeois liberalism alike share this human materialism in theory and in practice. Thus, we find Marx and Voltaire both closing their eyes to the spiritual dimension of the human essence. It is only natural, thus, that both these philosophies are centred on and around the "physical" man.

The Radicalists of the "new humanism" of Europe - proclaimed in a manifesto that they published in 1800: "Set aside God as the basis of morals and replace Him with conscience." They held that man is a being that in and of itself possesses a moral conscience, which in their view springs from his original and essential character, and which his human nature requires. This reliance upon human nature, as well as upon moral conscience, forms the fundamental basis of western athiestic humanism of the present age. The modern day humanists have come a long way since 1800 to first doubt and then to outright deny human nature as an outlying principle. Commenting on this, Dr. Shariati writes, "Nonetheless, the new humanism - upon which western bourgeois liberalism as a system is based - regards humanity as possessing eternal moral virtues and noble, supramaterial values for which man is the essential focus. It is at this point that it placed its reliance upon man in and of himself, as against nature or the supernatural... ... This humanism arrogates human morals as a whole from religion, but, while denying their religious rationale, it proclaims the possibility of spiritual development and growth in adherence to the moral virtues without belief in God."

On the subject of existentialism, Shariati remarks, "Just as the bourgeois liberalism of the West sees itself as the heir to historical humanistic culture, and Marxism presents itself as a path for the realisation of humanism, of the whole man, so existentialism is humanism, and of course a more rightful claimant to humanism than its two predecessors." Existentialism speaks of humanity as a separate spun cord loose in the world, a being with no determinative character or quality owed to God or nature, but capable of choice, and thus creating its own reality. This is beautifully articulated by Dr. Shariati when he says, "In comparison with capitalism, which reconstituted man as an economic animal; in comparison with Marxism which found man an object made of organised matter; in comparison with Catholicism, which saw him as the unwitting plaything of an imperious unseen power (the Divine Will); in comparison with dialectical materialism, which saw him as the unwitting plaything of the deterministic evolution of the means of production. It paid him the grandest worship: All beings of this world realise their existence after their essence is determined, except man, who creates his essence subsequent to his existence."

Lastly, we come to the fourth category of humanism, that of religion. Religion proclaims its own world-view, with its own mission for the guidance of humanity. While, we have noticed that Christianity (Catholicism in particular) has created a god similar to Zeus, in eastern religions humanity has a unique relationship with the God of the worlds. Especially, in Hinduism, we see the other extreme where we find man and god(s) so much intermingled as to be essentially inseparable. In Islam, however, while the gap from man to God is infinite, that from God to man is altogether eliminated. Man is bestowed with Divine spirit, entrusted with divine trust.

Islamic concept of human dignity relies upon the theme of oneness of God (Surah al-Ikhlas), oneness of our ancestors (Qur'an 49:13), and oneness of our religion (Qur'an 23:51-52). Universal peace in the light of Islam presupposes peace of conscience (that is peace within one's self), peace at home, peace in society and finally peace in the world. Universal brotherhood is one of the cardinal principles of Islam, and this important matter is completely ignored by all other religions. The Qur'an describes the Islamic ummah to be a middle (wasat) nation and the best (khayr) ummah ever raised on the ground that they believe in one God, enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. Islam urges its followers to rescue humanity from all man-made bondages and to fight against injustice to dignify man. War is waged only against injustice and despotism and to rescue humanity from oppression.

In closing let us say that Islam is a manifesto of human liberation. It frees man from worship of others; sovereignty belongs truly to the creator. Its first summons, "Say, there is no god but Allah, and prosper", propounds Tauhid as the necessary means to that end.

By: Dr. Habib Siddiqui. (The author of the book, Islamic Wisdom)

The above essay was delivered as a speech at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Muslim World League Journal, vol. 36, No. 3, March 2008.

Afghanistan’s Occupiers Hope For “Grand Reconciliation” As Resistance Increases

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Their situation being precarious at the best of times, last month was even worse than usual for President Hamid Karzai and the foreign occupation forces in Afghanistan. A day after Kabul received pledges of $20 billion in aid from donors at the Paris conference, the Taliban carried out a spectacular raid on the Sarposa prison in Qandahar, releasing nearly 1,200 prisoners, among them 400 Taliban fighters, on June 13. On the same day, four American soldiers were killed in Farah province. A day later, Karzai hurled a rhetorical volley at Pakistan: he threatened to “send his troops” into Pakistan; on June 15 word came from Arghandab province that the Taliban had captured at least a dozen villages and were poised to strike at Qandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city and the traditional home of successive Afghan rulers, as well. The Arghandab story quickly fizzled out, but it points to the challenge posed by the Taliban to Hamid Karzai’s government and the foreign occupation forces.

One can almost see Karzai smashing his karakul (his hat) on the ground in frustration. The jailbreak on June 13 caused huge embarrassment not only to Karzai but also to NATO forces operating in Afghanistan. The Canadians, who are primarily responsible for the area’s security and have a military base within shouting distance of the prison, were particularly red-faced, although General Rick Hillier, the outgoing Canadian chief of defence staff, tried to play down the situation by saying that the escape of 1,200 prisoners is “not significant”. This is patent nonsense, but like much else that has gone on in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion in October 2001, reality is often stranger than fiction. The Taliban prison operation looks more like a script from a Hollywood movie.

In order to cover their embarrassment both the Kabul regime and NATO occupation forces announced that they had launched a massive operation to search for escapees. They seem to have had little luck: Qandahar is Taliban territory and the people have readily given the escaped prisoners shelter and protection. Karzai was so rattled by these developments that he lashed out at Pakistan, threatening to “deal with” the militants if Islamabad fails to check their “infiltration”. The prison raid had nothing to do with militants allegedly infiltrating from Pakistan but Karzai needed a scapegoat because his brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, heads the Qandahar Provincial Council. He is responsible for the area and should have resigned but did not; nor will Karzai fire him.

There is also another reason for Karzai’s threat. On June 10, the US killed eleven Pakistani paramilitary personnel in a missile strike inside Pakistan. The Americans said it was a “mistake”, but both the Pakistani government and military officials categorically rejected this, insisting it was deliberate. Tensions have escalated between Pakistan and the US occupation troops in Afghanistan recently. The US strike was also prompted by the Americans’ frustration over various security and intelligence failures; several containers carrying helicopter parts that were being transported from the Pakistani city of Peshawar to Jalalabad in Afghanistan have been intercepted and captured by the Taliban. That the Taliban knew of such an important cargo, were able to carry out a daring operation, and succeeded in overwhelming the guards accompanying the convoy confirms their reach, sophistication and competence.

The storming of villages in Arghandab valley, adjoining Qandahar city, caused huge panic as villagers fled in fear of American air strikes, which often result in enormous civilian casualties. This is now so well established that people know for certain that the Americans and their Western allies do not care about Afghan lives or property. Scores of bombed-out Afghan villages and the rapidly expanding graveyards (the only growth industry in Afghanistan) in each village are grim and permanent reminders of American-NATO brutality.

Soon after threatening to “send” troops into Pakistan, Karzai announced that he was rushing them to Qandahar to deal with the Taliban. But Afghan troops are notoriously unreliable; even Karzai does not trust them: so American (not Afghan) guards are assigned for his security. Landlocked Afghanistan is almost entirely dependent on Pakistan for its trade, 85 percent of which passes through Pakistan. Should Afghan forces set foot on Pakistani soil, Afghanistan would not only be brought to a standstill with the interruption of fuel supplies but most Afghans would also starve to death pretty soon. Karzai, of course, does not care about the people; his only concern is to line his own pocket and those of his relatives, friends and the ubiquitous warlords that run the country by dividing it into little fiefdoms.

Karzai had gone to Paris seeking $50 billion in development aid over the next five years. One must give him credit at least for thinking big. He got pledges of $20 billion but it is not clear how much of this will ultimately make its way to Afghanistan: of the $25 billion pledged at the Bonn Conference at the end of 2001, only $15 billion have been delivered. International donors are notorious for making highly publicised pledges at international conferences but not fulfilling them; or they “recycle” their so-called aid by using it to pay the salaries of “experts”and “aid-workers”, and by selling expensive equipment to recipients who have little use for it. Most aid-workers live in luxury while the Afghans suffer poverty. According to the UN Human Development Index, Afghanistan ranks fourth from the bottom on a list of 178 countries. It also produces 93 percent of the world’s heroin, according to UN statistics on drugs.

Government corruption is so widespread that even international donors have had to tell Karzai repeatedly to take steps to control such practices. In the absence of proper accountability, donors feel money given to the country is being wasted. The foreign occupation forces, especially the Americans, are not above striking their own deals with warlords either. Many warlords are on the Americans’ payroll and, as long as they do not attack them, the warlords are pretty much free to do as they please. In such an environment, it is unfair to blame Karzai alone for the mess in Afghanistan.

But there is more to the shady deals, especially by the Americans and the British, and now it would seem even by the Canadians, than meets the eye. For instance, the British had struck a well-publicised deal with the Taliban in Helmand province in 2006 in return for maintaining peace there. The Taliban could do whatever they liked as long as they did not attack British troops. This arrangement worked for more than a year before the Taliban retaliated for British treachery and ended the “military-political” deal.

After seven years of fighting, the US and its Western allies have finally admitted that there is no military solution to the “Afghanistan problem”, and that a political solution (underpinned by economic development) must be worked out. On June 11 NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels said as much. This is a long way from the heady days of November 2001, when the “sole superpower” appeared invincible as the Taliban were banished from Kabul. Also on June 11, Colin Kenny, chair of the Canadian senate defence committee, proposed that Canadian military and diplomatic staff begin negotiations with the Taliban to persuade them to not fight. The Canadian government, run by rightwing ideologues, is loth to accept such a proposal publicly, but this may change because their neocon allies in Washington are already busy working on a grand deal involving none other than Ghairat Bahir, the son-in-law of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, leader of the Hizb-e Islami. Bahir was released from the notorious US-run Bagram prison at the end of May after spending nearly six years there. Since then he has been feted and dined by Karzai, and urged to work for a “grand reconciliation”. Karzai has told Bahir that the Hizb can have any ministries it wants, provided it gives up fighting.

Both Hikmatyar and Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban leader, have demanded the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan before any deal can be made. This demand has also now been repeated by Jalaluddin Haqqani, another veteran mujahid commander who gained fame by fighting against Soviet occupation in the nineteen-eighties. Haqqani was the target of a US missile strike in late October 2001. He was offering early morning prayers at a mosque in Jalalabad when the missile struck; he was badly injured but pulled out of the rubble alive. He has now joined the fight against NATO occupation troops and has achieved notable successes in recent weeks.

The idea of a “grand reconciliation” is being floated at a time when Karzai is blamed for all of NATO’s failures. He is accused of being weak (which he is), but the failures are not entirely his. The Americans and other foreigners micro-manage almost every aspect of life in Afghanistan; Karzai can hardly be blamed if things go wrong. Further, NATO has demonstrably failed to defeat the Taliban; if anything, the resistance has become stronger and better organised. That explains why NATO’s allegations against Pakistan have become so shrill, demanding for instance that it stop “infiltration” across its border. General Dan McNeill, the US general who commands NATO troops in Afghanistan, admitted last month that even if Pakistan were able to completely seal the border (a very big if), that would still not end the insurgency in Afghanistan.

Under such circumstances, the only viable option is for the foreign occupation troops to leave and let the Afghans make their own grand reconciliation, something they have done many times before. The people of Afghanistan have suffered enough and the foreign do-gooders can do them one last favour by leaving them alone.

By: Zia Sarhadi

Sour©e: muslimmedia.com

Mobile Footage of ING Forces Celebrating Victory until One of Them Is Shot (clips)

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This video clip was taken from a cellphone of one of the ‘Iraaqi National Guard soldiers. It shows the Apostates singing and dancing to some music due to a victory. Then they started to realize that they weren’t victorious after all… the Mujahideen shot one of them.

The Apostates in ‘Iraaq are known for their stupidity and horrible fighting skills. Even the American Soldiers insult them. This is what you call humiliation.

To the disbelievers and apostates: if you are going to sing and dance on the battlefield, make sure you actually win first.

The funny thing is that America is pouring billions of dollars into shaping up the ‘Iraaqi forces… and that’s the result they get.

May Allah’s curse be upon the disbelievers and Apostates.

May Allah grant the Mujaahideen victory over them.

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Poll Result By 500,000 Votes: The Top 10 Best Thinkers In The World Are Muslims!!

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The Commission on British - American Joint expressed their ‘surprise’ when a survey they conducted proved that the best intellectuals in the world are made up of Muslims.

The survey was supervised by the ‘Prospect’ magazine which was printed in the UK and the ‘Foreign Policy,’ the American political magazine.

The survey involved 500,000 votes, and the results really gave a blow to the organisers.

However, the surprise is not strictly because the first position is occupied by a muslim; but the first top ten for best intellectuals are also dominated by Muslims, including those who have won the ‘Nobel’ Prize!!

Islamtoday.com reported the news titled "Foreign Policy: Turkish Voting Campaign Sways 'Top Intellectual' Poll" dated 23rd June 2008:

In this year's Foreign Policy poll entitled "The Top 20 Public Intellectuals", Muslim thinkers took all the top ten places. Foreign policy, the award-winning magazine of global politics, and Britain's Prospect magazine have conducted a global public poll to pick the world's top intellectuals and thinkers who are shaping the tenor of our time with their ideas.

In the previous May/June issue of Foreign Policy issue, the journal published a list of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" in the world and asked readers to vote for their picks of the world’s 20 top public intellectuals, which it promised to publish in the current issue.

Foreign Policy explained how it chose a top 100 out of many more candidates: "Candidates must be living and still active in public life. They must have shown distinction in their particular field as well as an ability to influence wider debate, often far beyond the borders of their own country."

The response to its call for reader votes was unexpected. The journal's editors reported: "No one expected the avalanche of voters who came forward. During nearly four weeks of voting, more than 500,000 people came to ForeignPolicy.com to cast ballots."

Topping the list was Turkish thinker Fethullah Gülen, followed by other leading Muslim intellectuals:

1. Fethullah Gülen
2. Muhammad Yunus
3. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
4. Orhan Pamuk
5. Aitzaz Ahsan
6. Amr Khaled
7. Abdolkarim Soroush
8. Taerk Ramadan
9. Mahmood Mamdani
10. Shirin Ebadi
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Other listed intellectualls engaged in self-promotion as well, according to Foregn Policy:

• A number of intellectuals—including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled—mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites. Others issued press releases or gave interviews to local newspapers. Press coverage profiling these intellectuals appeared around the world, with stories running in Canada, India, Indonesia, Qatar, Spain, and elsewhere.

Prospect's editor, David Goohart, admitted to not having previously heard of Gülen and said his supporters had "made a mockery" of the poll. But he also said the result flagged up significant political trends in Turkey.

"The victory of Gülen draws attention to the most important conflict in Europe, played out in Turkey between the secular nationalist establishment and the reforming Islamic democrats of the AK [Justice and Development] party," he said.

Not all the top twenty are Muslims, and some are people with antagonistic views towards Islam or towards religion in general. For instance, Bernard Lewis ranks 13, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ranks 15, and Richard Dawkins ranks 19 on the list.

Other notable thinkers listed are Noam Chomsky (11), Al Gore (12), and Umberto Eco (14).

Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the bimonthly Foreign Policy is one of America's leading magazines for researching and analyzing international affairs and making recommendations for US foreign policy. The magazine touted the 100 men and women from around the world as "some of the world's most sophisticated thinkers."

Sources:

"The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals" June 23, 2008

Abdullah Bozkurt, "Fethullah Gülen tops the FP's 'The World's Top 20 Public Intellectuals' list " Today's Zaman June 23, 2008

Robert Tate, "Islamic scholar voted world's No 1 thinker" Guardian UK June 23, 2008

Qassam Brigades In Gaza Issue Urgent Appeal To Leaders Of Al-Qaeda

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Exasperated by it leaderships pointless efforts to negotiated peace deals with Zionist Israel, the Qassam Brigades, the Military Wing of Hamas have issued an urgent appeal to Al-Qaeda leaders saying that they no longer tolerate the acts of their leaders who misled them and appealing for their support.

Addressed to Al-Qaeda Leader Sheikh Osama bin Laden and his deputy Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri as well as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Senior Al-Qaeda Leader Abu Yahya Al-Libi, the statement rebukes the leadership of Hamas for drifting away from the path of jihad and engaging in the political process with the Western-backed Palestinian authority that has resulted in further tightening the noose around the Palestinians necks. It goes on to pledge solidarity with the global jihad and asks that al-Qaeda lend its support to their military effort.

The statement was accompanied by a video showing a former senior operative Ramy Nizar Abu Sweirah expressing these same views. Abu Sweirah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza last Thursday just hours after the so-called truce came into effect.

This latest statement signals a important turn of events. With Al-Qaeda operatives already underground in Gaza and fighters training in Lebanon for Palestinian missions, it appears this is the crack in the wall that Al-Qaeda and the Palestinian people have been waiting for. There have been countless so-called peace deals with Zionist Israel, all that have been violated by them within hours or days of their signing and it is little wonder that the Palestinian people place no credence in any political arrangements with them.

On the other hand, should Al-Qaeda make good on its promises to liberate Palestine and open a new front, the US will quickly rally with its Zionist soul-mate and yet another war zone will be ignited that the US can ill afford. With potential deployments into Pakistan, its sightlines on Iran, war still ravaging in Iraq and Afghanistan that are requiring further US and British troops deployments, the sheer logistics is sure to spread thin the US military that will result in increased casualties. They will simply have bitten off more than it can chew.

This also signals a rallying point of Muslims worldwide as Palestine is at the core of Muslim anger. InshaAllah, with Palestine an open jihad front, Muslims will find common ground to focus on that will unite the grass roots movement and put aside the petty differences that are necessary for the Islamic nation to rise from its oppression. (JUS)

By: Ubaidah Al-Saif Jihad Unspun