We all have a Shaytaan to Battle. Do we recognize his
influence over us?
Narrated by Aisha, r.a.
Aisha, r.a. said: One day Allah's Messenger (saws) went out
of her (Aisha's apartment) during the night and she felt
jealous. Then he (saws) came and he saw me (in what agitated
state of mind) I was. He (saws) said: Aisha, what has
happened to you? Do you feel jealous?
Thereupon she said:
How can it be (that a woman like me) should not feel jealous
in regard to a husband like you?
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (saws) said: It was your
Shaytaan who had come to you, and she said: O Allah's
Messenger (saws), is there along with me a Shaytaan? He
(saws) said: Yes! I said: Is the Shaytaan attached to
everyone? He (saws) said: Yes. I (Aisha) again said: O
Allah's Messenger (saws), is it with you also? He (saws)
said: Yes, but my Lord has helped me against him as such
that I am absolutely safe from his mischief.
[saws stands for Peace be upon him.]
40,000 Muslims were made homeless in Hindu mob attacks. 4
years later cases against the attackers are being
withdrawn.
Muzaffarnagar, Shamli Riots: Yogi Government Initiates
Process to Withdraw 131 Cases (Mar 22, 2018, News18.com)
The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has
begun the process to withdraw 131 cases related to 2013
Muzzaffarnagar and Shamli riots.
The riots, which took place during the regime of Akhilesh
Yadav in August-September of 2013, left more than 40,000
homeless. A total of 502 cases were registered in connection
with the riots, in which 6,867 people have been accused.
Reacting on the state government's move, Samajwadi Party
spokesperon Sunil Singh Sajan said, "The government, which
came to power after the riots, is now trying to protect the
riot accused as they are associated with these people. The
Yogi government is misusing power and washing its own
sins."
News across Nigerian Muslim Ummah (30/03/2018)
by Abdulkabir Oyemomi
Amasa must get justice, says MURIC:
The Muslim Right Concern (MURIC) has cried out against the
Nigerian National House of Representatives over the manner
in which the case of a young Muslim girl Amasa Firdaus is
being handled.Amasa Firdaus had earlier been denied her
right to be called to Nigerian bar because she refused to
take off her hijab in "call to bar" ceremony held on Weds
13th of December,2017.
Taraba Priest who predicted Buhari's death in 2019 died
mysteriously:
A pastor and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)'s
president in Taraba State met his Waterloo in a motor
accident at a place called Zing on his way to Yola. The
Priest had earlier Predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari
of Nigeria would die in the year 2019.
Dapchi Muslim girls released:
Boko Haram insurgents group has released One Hundred and
Four(104) girls believed to have been Muslims amongst the
One Hundred and Ten kidnapped. It is reported that Five (5)
have been feared dead while One(1) not released on account
of her refusal to become muslim as allegedly demanded by the
group.
Both the act of kidnapping and subsequent release remain
questionable to many Nigerians, expecially the government's
critics! But the government of President Muhammadu Buhari
has been commended by many for the release, given the fact
that such ugly incidents that took place during the last
administration in Nigeria never brought happiness.
Israel Is Accelerating Its Annexation of the Palestinian
West Bank
Jonathan Cook
[With thanks to Mark Weber.]
Seemingly unrelated events all point to a tectonic shift in
which Israel has begun preparing the ground to annex the
occupied Palestinian territories. Last week, during an
address to students in New York, Israel's education minister
Naftali Bennett publicly disavowed even the notion of a
Palestinian state. "We are done with that," he said. "They
have a Palestinian state in Gaza." Later in Washington, Mr
Bennett, who heads Israel's settler movement, said Israel
would manage the fallout from annexing the West Bank, just
as it had with its annexation of the Syrian Golan in 1980.
International opposition would dissipate, he said. "After
two months it fades away and 20 years later and 40 years
later, [the territory is] still ours." ... All evidence
suggests that Washington is fully on board, so long as
annexation is done by stealth.
A Stunning Love Story which helps to understand White
America's Background.
COLD MOUNTAIN is about the final year of the American civil
war. The White armies of the north and the south collided
with unequalled hate and ferocity. Large numbers were killed
on both sides. Owing to lack of anesthesia, the wounded, in
their hundreds died brutally painful deaths.
At the center of the movie is a superb love story in which,
at the appeal of his beloved, a soldier gives up war and
travels back to the woman who wrote to him from Cold
Mountain [a real place in North Carolina].
During his journey back, we witness the condition of women
left behind the frontlines, terrified, alone and at the
mercy of northern troops looking for "supplies."
The southerner "Homeland Security" shot deserters out of
hand. The ugliness of the war is enhanced by the ready
"supply" of prostitutes living in organized sin.
Finally the hero meets his beloved and marries her in an
inversion of Islamic oath taking [The writer of the story
must have had an inkling of Islamic oaths.] The lady love
says that if triple divorce can end a marriage, then triple
acceptance would legitimize a marriage! [Don't try it!]
Black people are shown in marginal scenes drifting away with
the collapse of the state based on slavery.
The conclusion of the movie is tragic. [Its my impression
that many of India's movie makers have stolen a scene from
the conclusion.]
Editorial
From New Trend's Egypt Observer
Egypt is the latest Example that modern Democracy has
failed.
March 31: Egypt is the most important country in the Middle
east but its population has been reduced to complete
helplessness. How is it that General Sissi is getting votes
in the upper 90% in a three day vote?
All over the cities, pictures of Sissi are plastered on the
walls. One of his supporters stood as the opposition
candidate: that's part of his macabre sense of humor. The
only "Islamic" group allowed to operate is a salafi
one which is salafi only in the Saudi sense: long beard and
focus only on externals of prayer.
How did this humiliating situation come about in Egypt?
During 30 years of Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship, groups and
organizations which were secular, either totally westernized
or only nominally Muslim, were given dominance. USA gave
billions of dollars to the Mubarak regime to crush or
confuse Islamic sentiment, particularly opposition to
Israel.
Most of the people of Egypt were under extreme pressure from
lack of basic rights and from extreme poverty. Finally there
was an outburst of popular protests which were so big that
Hosni Mubarak was overthrown though his forces killed
hundreds of demonstrators.
The US held back the army from intervening. [The army had to
obey owing to complete subsistence on US handouts.]
After a great upheaval, elections were held and Dr. Mohammed
Morsi was elected president.
As was natural for the leader of a Muslim nation, he started
encouraging Islamic tendencies and opposing pro-Israeli
groups in a subtle process.
His fatal mistake was to appoint General Sissi as the head
of the army because in his private life Sissi was
conservative even with a wife who wore hijab. Sissi was an
agent of America and Saudi Arabia, a deadly enemy of the
Muslim Brotherhood [Ikhwan] who were Morsi's support
base.
Sissi not only removed Dr. Morsi by force but then went on
to crush peaceful demonstrations supporting Morsi to the
extent of carrying out mass shootings of protestors in broad
daylight. Nearly 2000 demonstrators were killed by the army
and associated police forces and more than 10,000 injured.
Thousands were arrested and sent to Egypt's torture cells
inherited from Hosni Mubarak.
Sissi's reign of terror has made it impossible to carry out
serious peaceful opposition to the coup leader.
The many secular groups plus the Coptic Christians who had
taken root during the Mubarak regime went on to "elect"
Sissi as the real leader of Egypt while the elected leader
remains in prison facing a death sentence.
Morsi was under the impression that the western powers
wanted democracy and would allow natural political
development to take place. Many young people who thought
Morsi was too religious were misled into thinking Sissi was
bringing "freedom."
Both are now in a state of shock and disillusionment.
With huge sums of money from Saudi Arabia and UAE, Sissi has
established his power. Now he is willing to hold fake
elections.
Meanwhile radical Islamic elements have joined ISIS and
there is a wholesale armed uprising going on in the northern
Sinai near Gaza. Recently the New York Times reported that
Israel has been bombing ISIS in the Sinai at the request of
General Sissi.
This is the utter humiliation of a great nation, relying on
Israel to bomb mujahideen groups.
Editorial #2
Pakistan's Shame
Ignoring Dr. Aafia, Honoring Malala
New Trend has received pages from Malala's book "I am
Malala" in which she emphasizes her friendship with Salman
Rushdie and Taslima Nasri, two of the most notorious Islam
haters in recent history. She shows no love for Pakistani or
Islam, yet she was honored in the Prime Minister's house
only a few days back.
The western powers have given her the Nobel Prize and have
had her travel across the world as if she is the
representative of Muslim women.
On the other hand, the Pakistani regime finds it impossible
to write a letter of inquiry or concern for Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui who is a political prisoner in Fort Worth, Texas,
having been sentenced to 84 years on ridiculous charges of
"terrorism" which are so fake that they would not stand up
in any court concerned with justice.
Malala was shot in murky circumstances when she was being
used through her father by the BBC and US and Pakistani
intelligence services to demonize the people who wanted
Sharia law in Swat [north eastern Pakistan]. She was swiftly
moved to Britain and has remained there living in great
comfort and being used for propaganda against Pakistan.
There are countless women in Pakistan who are far superior
to Malala in serving humanity. One of the best among them is
Dr. Aafia,
With thanks to Br. Sajjad for sending us pages of Malala's
book,
PAKISTAN
Rulers of Muslim Nations are Agents of the West.
Jamaate Islami's open denunciation of agent groups.
LAHORE, Mar. 31; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has denounced the Israeli troops' straight
firing on the Palestinian protestors leading to the
martyrdom of fifteen and injuries to more than 1500
others.
Talking to the media after addressing the Khatm e Bukhari
ceremony at the Jamia Qasimul Uloom, Sargodha, on Saturday,
he also condemned the Muslim rulers' silence over the
Israeli brutalities. He said it was due to the cowardice of
Muslim rulers that the tiny Zionist state was shedding the
blood of the Palestinians. He said that most of the Muslim
rulers were US agents and none of them had condemned
Israel's aggression lest it might annoy the US.
President, Ittehadul Ulema, Pakistan, Maulana Abdul Malik,
chief organizer Jamiat e Talaba Arabia, Maulana Ubedr Rahman
also spoke on the occasion.
Sirajul Haq led the funeral prayer of young Abdur Rahman,
fifteen year old son of a local JI leader who had been
gunned down by dacoits. He condemned the murder of the young
man; the JI chief said that dacoits were ruling all over the
Punjab. He said that young Abdur Rahman was asking Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif as to who was
responsible for his blood. He demanded the arrest of the
culprits within twenty four hours otherwise a siege would be
laid around the offices of the RPO and the DPO. He said that
questions were being raised about the good governance of
Shahbaz Sharif after the abduction and the murder of a
university girl student of Faisalabad.
Continuing, Sirajul Haq asked the Prime Minister Shahid
Khaqan Abbasi to explain whose petition he had presented to
the Chief Justice during his call on him. He said that the
poor masses were safe neither during the day nor at night.
He said that he would give a guideline to the youth at the
JI Youth convention being held in the Punjab capital on
April eight.
He said that it was no news that the Prime Minister had
called on the Chief Justice. He said what would make news
was whether the "Faryad" of any poor man had been heard or
any aggrieved person had got relief on time, because at
present, only the moneyed people could knock the door of the
courts.
The JI chief said that the liberal, secular leadership had
plunged the country into the sea of corruption. He said the
MMA would bring the Islam loving and patriotic people on one
platform and cleanse the country of corruption and other
evils.
He further said that the religious forces were at the back
of the madrissahs and would resist every conspiracy against
the seminaries.
War News
Kashmir
The area is in turmoil with thousands of
unarmed people protesting.
This latest happened after the Indian military killed 8
"militants" who want India to leave Kashmir. There was an
hours long gun battle.
The people are unarmed and the few fighters there are poorly
armed.
The people take great risks to protest against the Indian
occupation forces. Pakistan has been unable to arm the
people despite great support for Kashmir in Pakistsn/
Pakistan
Confirmation about attack in Swat
Finally the Pakistani military has admitted
that a martyrdom operator from Tehrike Taliban killed 11
Pakistani soldiers and wounded 13.
The attack was at Kabal town in Swat.
The attack was reported by al-Jazeerah more than a month ago
but at that time Pakistan said it was minor and only 3 were
killed.
Pakistan occupied Swat NINE years back at a signal from US
when the people of Swat came out in massive support of
Sharia.
Nine years later, there are still 6000 Pakistani troops in
Swat.
Libya
Two Deadly Events
March 24:
A US air strike killed 2 fighters of al-Qaida in the Islamic
Maghreb [AQIM]. One of them was a leader: Musa Abu
Dawud.
The bombing was near Ubari in south western Libya.
March 30:
A human bomber sent by ISIS killed 6 troops and wounded 9 at
the entrance tp Adjabia [eastern Libya] The troops were from
General Haftar's forces supported by the US.
Iraq
Turkish Troops Entering. Regime Admits War not over.
ISIS Stronghold in Harmeen Mountains,
US air strikes across the Country
April 1. Turkish troops entered the PKK stronghold in
northern Iraq and established 3 bases in the Qandeel
mountains. They have built a 13 mile road to connect the
bases.
US air force is continuing to bomb Islamic State [IS] forces
trying to squelch their re-remergence. The latest air
strikes are near Qayyarah, Hawijah and Ramadi. [Source Daily
Caller.]
On March 27, Mr. Abadi, PM of the Shia regime installed by
the US and Iran, admitted that the war against ISIS has not
ended although he had declared complete victory in early
December 2017.
On March 29, US general Priat met Kurdish leader Barazani to
discuss the serious situation created by re-emergence of IS
in the Kirkuk area.
The same day, French President Macron met
Kurdish leaders in Paris to coordinate action against IS.
Also on 3.29, in an IS ambush 40 miles west of Mosul, 5 Shia
regime troops were killed.
March 31, in another ambush 3 members of Hashad Shaabi were
killed and 20 wounded in in Tuz Kharmudu where IS have
emerged. Hashad is a militia heavily armed by Iran.
In central Kirkuk a regime intelligence officer was shot but
survived.
Earlier on March 26, at Ganou, east of Shirqat, 2 regime
troops were killed and 1 wounded.
In the Harmeen mountains, IS has set up an armed network of
check points. Regime forces are refusing to go into the
mountains and have said that IS knows the area well and they
don't. It could be deadly.
Syria
Iran-Russia-Assad changing Population around Damascus.
Refugees in Idlib Beg Turkey to Help.
ISIS inflicting Serious Losses on Regime.
Latest: In major towns of Idlib province, refugee
demonstrators from the suburbs of Damascus are begging
Turkey to save them from the atrocities of
Assad-Russia-Iran. They say the world has abandoned them.
Chanting against Bashar Assad.
Latest:
April 1. A cargo of weapons entering Syria from Iraq in the
Deir ez Zor area was attacked and captured by ISIS fighters.
Nine Assad troops guarding the cargo were killed, Losses of
attackers were not revealed.
March 31: Four towns in north west Hama province were
shelled by artillery of Lebanese Hizb.. Three other towns
were bombed by Russian jets,
In south Daraa city and smaller towns were shelled by Assad
troops.
Major exodus: The entire area near Damascus which was
controlled by at-Rahman corp has been vacated under Russian
guarantees.
Total number of people who have left for the Islamic
province of Idlib and for FSA [Turkish] area near Afrin are
now 195400 [computed by SOHR].
Also till April 1: Jaysh al-Islam is refusing to leaving
Douma. About 60,000 civilians in Douma anxious that Russia
might start bombing again. Some are are quietly slipping
away while negotiations with the Russians continue.
Mujahideen commander Abu Abdel Rahman Qa'qa is refusing to
leave,
Manbig [north central Syria] which was captured by Kurdish
Communists with American help is witnessing sneak attacks by
ISIS as follows:
An American and a British officer have been killed by
IED, 9 injured.
Two important intelligence officers have been quietly
killed.
The "spokesman" of the US backed Manbig Council has been
seriously injured.
Al-Suwaida countryside [south east of Damascus] in Tel Saad,
a large explosion killed several of Assad's troops and
injured some.
Inside Damascus, , ISIS advance is facing heavy fighting
with the Assad regime forces. The Assad regime losses in the
surprise ISIS attack have now risen to a total of 114 [from
the earlier 63]. IS losses are 17 killed. The regime is
bringing up Shia militias, Iranians and Hizb to counter the
Islamic entry into Damascus. [SOHR statistics]
At the other end of the country, IS launched a big attack on
Assad forces in Deir ez Zor in the desert, killing 63
Alawite-Shia troops. Thirty of the fighters were also
killed. [Western media are completely silent about ISIS
advances although SOHR has provided the infor.]
Russian bombing resumed:
Air raids on the Islamic province of Idlib have been
resumed. On March 31, 12 people were killed in the sporadic
raids. These included 7 children, 2 women, 1 refugee from
Damascus suburb and 2 fighters of Tahrir .
In northwest of Aleppo, opposition groups are fighting each
other, jousting for gaining positions which would benefit
them in linking up with advancing Turks.
Outreach
Abduction, Abuse, Molestation & Rape of Dr. Aafia.
Marathoner Muslimah Challenges "Me Too" Movement & US
Media
From: Nadrat Siddique
To: letters@washpost.com
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018
Subject: A MeToo Moment at the DC Marathon
Dear Editor,
With the advent of the MeToo Movement, one would expect the
name of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and the massive violation of her
rights to come to the fore. Dr. Siddiqui is a political
prisoner, currently being held at Carswell USP in Fort
Worth, TX. The petite Pakistani neuroscientist, a graduate
of MIT and Brandeis University, was convicted in 2010 of
absurd charges which included assaulting seven American
servicemen in Afghanistan, by a New York court riddled with
emotion and fear of terrorism.
But it is Aafia herself who has been terrorized. During her
15-year incarceration, which includes a period of captivity
at a "Secret Prison" in Afghanistan—where, in
violation of international law, her presence was not
acknowledged—and she was therefore subject to all
manner of horrors, Aafia, like many of the women who have
come forth in the MeToo Movement, was repeatedly assaulted
and raped.
The primary difference between her and the America women
accusers who form the MeToo Movement is that Aafia is a
Muslim woman, and horrifyingly, the assaults against her
occurred while she was in the custody of the U.S., or its
Pakistani and Afghan allies (at U.S. behest).
And—unlike the women of the MeToo Movement, Aafia's
voice remains completely unheard. Held in administrative
detention even as her health deteriorates to dangerous
levels, she is allowed almost no visitors, and zero phone
calls or interviews. Her family, who are mostly in Pakistan,
are not permitted to visit or call her. Most bizarrely, her
petition for a new trial, perhaps her last opportunity to
seek redress through the legal system, was withdrawn
(ostensibly) by the defendant herself, under suspicious
circumstances.
On March 10, I, a Pakistani woman marathoner, ran the Rock
'N Roll DC Marathon to call attention to Dr. Aafia's case.
It was my 36th marathon, and I dedicated it to the freedom
of this courageous Muslim woman scientist. Approximately 10
months prior, I ran the Boston Marathon in her name. A
long-time resident of the DMV, I traversed DC's strikingly
beautiful streets, starting near the African-American Museum
and the Washington Monument, and ending at RFK Stadium, in a
black long-sleeved tee-shirt reading "Free Dr. Aafia
Siddiqui." I finished the marathon in 3 hours, 54 minutes,
in the top 14% of my division, and qualified again to run
Boston (my 10th time qualifying for that prestigious
race).
In the course of running 26.2 miles in the nation's capital
for Aafia, questions raced through my head: In the age of
MeToo, Why is Aafia, after all she suffered, still locked
up? As Aafia's sister, Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui, asked in a
recent International Women's Day speech, "Is not Aafia also
a woman?" Isn't assault, rape, and torture a cause for
concern if the victim is a Muslim woman prisoner? If nothing
else, the gross pre-trial violation of rights guaranteed to
Aafia—under both the U.S. Constitution and the Geneva
Convention—cry out for a nullification of her
conviction.
Sincerely,
Ms. Nadrat Siddique
Ellicott City, Maryland
[As of today, 4/1/18, there has been no response from the
Washington Post]
News Within the U.S.
5th Day of Protests on Police Shooting of
Stephon Clark in Sacramento, Ca.
[ABC News]
New Trend has received info that he was a Muslim.]
Jamilia Land, a family friend of the Clarks, stood at a
podium Saturday above two poster board signs with Clark's
likeness as well as one of Joseph Mann, the 50-year-old
local who was wielding a knife when police shot and killed
him in July 2016.
She told the approximately 150 protesters that living in the
community where Clark was shot was like living in "war
zones."
She also charismatically took aim at the city's failure to
treat mental illness in lieu of Clark's 19-year-old brother
Stevante who has been witnessed in a series of public
outcries.
Land also said Clark's brother, Stevante -- who broke up a
City Council meeting last week to protest the shooting --
has had to cope with the loss of his brother. Their
grandmother, too, is riddled with guilt for not being able
to help Stephon Clark before the officers fired.
"You don't know what it's like to go to the home that you
grew up and feet from the couch you live on, your brother
was murdered in his grandmother's backyard," Land shouted
and cried. "You don't know the pain his grandfather is
feeling for hearing him knock on the window that night for
help."
Former NBA player Matt Barnes helped organize the Saturday's
rally, which assembled across from the California capital's
City Hall.
Guidance
A BELIEVER EXHAUSTS HIS DEVIL LIKE YOU EXHAUST A CAMEL
DURING TRAVEL
Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala
Rasulillah'. 'As Salaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa
Barakatuhu
ALLAH the Exalted says... 'For over My servants no authority
shalt thou have, except such as put themselves in the wrong
and follow thee.' {Quran 15:42-43}
Some of the Companions (r.a.) said... 'Verily the believer
exhausts his devil just like one of you exhausts his camel
during travel.' meaning the believer wears out his devil, so
he debilitates him and makes him lose weight from his grief
and sadness... because he is not able to tempt him...{!}
Just like the person wears out his riding camel during
travel and makes it lose weight due to the length of the
travel and its hardships and this is the condition of the
believer with his devil in the constant struggle with
him...{!} he resists his plots and plans and whispers by
always being firm upon the obedience of ALLAH the Exalted
and Mighty...{!}
Ibn Abi Dunya {Allah be pleased with him} narrates in his
book...
"The plots of the devil" Verily a devil meets another devil
so he says to him... "Why is it that I see you looking
sickly...? (Meaning the change is weight)"
The (other) devil replies... Verily I am with a man that...
if he eats he remembers the name of ALLAH ! so I can not eat
with him ! And if he drinks he remembers the name of ALLAH
so I can not drink with him ... !
And if he enters into his home he remembers the name of
ALLAH so I am rejected outside of the house...{!} The other
devil says, but as for me then I am with a man if he eats he
does not remember ALLAH so he and I eat together, and if he
drinks he does not remember ALLAH so I drink with him, and
when he enters his home he does not remember ALLAH so I
enter with him...{!}
~ Courtesy Sis Yasmin~
Uprising in Gaza
15 Killed, 1500 Injured in Israeli Firing on Unarmed
Palestinian Demonstrators.
Demonstrations and rallies have been held along the entire
Southern Gaza Strip next to the Israeli occupied territory.
Tens of thousands of people participated. As they
approached the Israeli held area, the Israelis fired tear
gas and then opened fire. Israelis claimed they were
"threatened" by the demonstrators, some of who threw stones
and shouted at the Israelis. The killing of demonstrators
has been condemned around the world but not Muslim rulers.
The demonstrations are scheduled to continue into May, till
the date of the original Israeli occupation of Palestine
which is known as "The Nakba", which is arabic for "The
Catastrophe".
Photo shows gathering for Friday Prayers before the
demonstration near Israeli occupied territory [March
30].
