by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
During the three weeks when I was not well and could not go
to work, I had the opportunity to read books.
One of the best is The Issues of Islamic Revival by Dr.
Firoz Kamal. It is a 446 page book sent to me personally
autographed by the author. I have dipped into it here and
there and here is a nugget which should make every Muslim
think:
"In the Muslim world, the west's military occupation has
formally ended. But the cultural and ideological occupation
still thrives. In the former colonies, imperialists' armies
may not be visible in uniforms but their soldiers - both the
natives and the westerners- are still present in thousands
to promote their ideas, culture, values, education, politics
and commerce. They work both in civil and military
establishments of the former colonies. Therefore even after
the formal departure of the imperialists, their way of
thinking, living, eating, drinking, dressing and politics
didn't die out, rather flourished. In such a conducive and
ideological milieu, the westerners enjoy a huge advantage in
Muslim lands. As fish freely swim in the water, they too ,
freely roam in these former colonies." [p. 126]
How true. In the smallest detail, Pakistanis like to shave
to look like the "gora" sahibs!
A book titled
Einsatzgruppen
In America we are surrounded by the constant publicity of
the Israelis who have occupied Palestine. No one dare
contradict them. On line I have been introduced to a group
of scholarswho have taken on the most gruesome stories of
the attacks on the German forces who fought against Russia
in World War II. I want to buy this book. Here is the
introduction:
"Before invading the Soviet Union, the German authorities
set up special units meant to secure the area behind the
German front. Orthodox historians claim that these units
called Einsatzgruppen primarily engaged in rounding up and
mass-murdering Jews. This study sheds a critical light into
this topic by reviewing all the pertinent sources as well as
material traces. It reveals on the one hand that original
war-time documents do not fully support the orthodox
genocidal narrative, and on the other that most
post-"liberation" sources such as testimonies and forensic
reports are steeped in Soviet atrocity propaganda and thus
utterly unreliable. In addition, material traces of the
claimed massacres are rare due to an attitude of collusion
by governments and Jewish lobby groups." Set of two
volumes.
Available from:
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust | PO Box 20774,
York, PA 17402
Iran
Iran Regime Seems Determined to Crush its People
8 Oct 2022
Schoolgirls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and
street clashes erupted across Iran as protests over the
death of Mahsa Amini entered a fourth week in defiance of a
bloody crackdown.
Anger flared after the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurd's death on
September 16, three days after she was arrested by "morality
police" for an alleged breach of Iran's strict dress code
for women.
An investigation found Amini died of a longstanding illness
rather than "blows" to the head, Iran said on Friday,
despite her family reportedly saying she had previously been
healthy.
But the protests continued on Saturday even as President
Ebrahim Raisi posed for a group photograph with students at
Tehran's all-female Al-Zahra University to mark the new
academic year.
The government has described the protests as a plot by
Iran's enemies including the United States, accusing armed
dissidents - among others - of violence in which at least 20
members of the security forces have been reported
killed.
Raisi addressed professors and students. "They imagine they
can achieve their evil goals in universities," state TV
reported. "Unbeknownst to them, our students and professors
are alert and will not allow the enemy to realise their evil
goals."
In Amini's hometown Saqez, in the western province of
Kurdistan, schoolgirls were heard chanting "Woman, life,
freedom" and seen marching down a street swinging
headscarves over their heads, in videos the Hengaw rights
group said were recorded on Saturday.
In another video it shared, a group of girls could be heard
chanting the same phrase as they entered a school in
Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province.
Gruesome videos were widely shared on Twitter of a man who
appeared to have been killed while sitting at the wheel of
his car in Sanandaj, where gunfire was heard in other
footage.
A police official said security forces did not use live
rounds and the man was killed by "counter-revolutionaries",
the state news agency IRNA reported.
Al Jazeera
Support Assange who Uncovered what US was doing in Iraq
by Victoria Lynn Hall
Time is running out for Julian Assange and Press Freedom.
Only mass public pressure is going to bring this man home
and fight back against the political persecution of
journalists. Attend this event or one in your area or
organize one if there isn't one. And please share this
event. Take action. You can make a difference.
FreeAssange.net
War News
Syria
SOHR reports
October 9 Turkey and Syrians supporting Turkey shelled SDF
held areas in Ain Eissa causing huge damage. Turkey also
shelled Ai-Abyad countryside.
In areas of Lattakia controlled by Islamic groups Turkey is
using cement blocks to build a check point at a strategic
position.
ISIS used an IED which injured Assad troops in the Jabal
al-Bishri area.
Assad artillery shelled Idlib countryside.
In north west Hama Assad forces and Fath al Mubeen exchanged
fire with light losses on both sides.
In Kobani area 4 Assad border guards were killed by Turkish
artillery fire.
October 8
In Deraa province unidentified machine gunners killed an
Assad officer and injured another.
Tutkish shelling killed an Assad army officer east of
Aleppo.
October 7
Russian air strikes on Islamic military camps in Idlib.
Several Afghan Shia militia and Iranian militia were killed
in a battle with ISIS in eastern Homs desert.
Zahedan, Iran
Iranian Massacre of Sunnis who Protested rape of 15 Year
old by Police Chief.
Thu, October 6, 2022 at 6:26 AM·
Iranian security forces have massacred over 80 people in the
southeastern city of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchestan province,
in a crackdown on protests that erupted as Iran is convulsed
by nationwide demonstrations, rights activists charge.
President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation into
the unrest that started on September 30 after Friday
prayers, which officials have characterised as attacks by
"extremists" on police stations.
Activists however say the horrifying images of bloodied
corpses with bullet wounds are emblematic of Tehran's
repressive polices towards a poor ethnic minority
region.
- Where did the killings take place?
Zahedan is the main city of Sistan-Baluchestan, Iran's
poorest region, on the border with Pakistan. Zahedan is one
of Iran's few Sunni-majority cities and the region is
populated by the Baluch ethnic minority who adhere to Sunni
Islam rather than the Shiism predominant in Iran.
Activists have long complained the region has been the
victim of discrimination by Iran's Shiite clerical
leadership, with disproportionate numbers of Baluch killed
in clashes every year and also hanged in executions.
The region has been the scene of attacks on the Iranian
security forces that Tehran has blamed on Sunni extremist
groups, while the border area is also seen as a hub for drug
smuggling by armed gangs.
Amnesty International said that in 2021 at least 19 percent
of all executions were of members of the Baluchi minority,
who it said make up five percent of Iran's population.
"Killing Baluch does not cost much for the Iranian
government," said Abdollah Aref, director of the UK-based
Baluch Activists Campaign (BAC).
-What sparked the protests?
The unrest erupted two weeks into nationwide protests in
Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by
the notorious morality police.
However the trigger for the protests were accusations that a
regional police chief had raped a 15-year-old-girl in
custody in the port city of Chabahar, also in
Sistan-Baluchestan. It is not clear why she was
detained.
The accusation had been made public last month by the Friday
prayer leader in the town of Rask south of Zahedan,
prompting protests that then spread to the main city of the
region.
-What was the chain of events?
According to Aref, a protest was planned after Friday
prayers in Zahedan on September 30. Demonstrators then
headed to the police station to protest the rape and also
shouted slogans against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei.
Amnesty said "a minority" of protesters threw stones at the
police station. Security forces responded by firing "live
ammunition, metal pellets and teargas", including from the
roof of the police station.
The protests then spread across the city, targeting other
police stations, said Aref. "The police sought to send a
message," he added.
Internet monitor Netblocks reported access disruptions in
Zahedan.
-How many people were killed?
According to Amnesty, 82 people have been killed, with 66
losing their lives on September 30 alone, including three
children.
The protest "was bloodily suppressed by security forces. It
has since been named Zahedan's 'Bloody Friday'," said
Norway-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR).
Influential Sunni cleric Molavi Abdol Hamid charged that "a
group of officers... opened fire Friday evening on a crowd
that gathered around a mosque, killing and wounding multiple
young people".
But state media has put the death toll from the events at
20, including six members of the security forces.
Aref said the death toll was accentuated by a shortage of
blood and bandages, meaning many of the wounded died from
their injuries.
He added: "Many did not go to hospital for fear of being
arrested. They preferred home treatment but then lost a lot
of blood."
Amnesty said that, according to its evidence, "the majority
of victims were shot in the head, heart, neck and torso,
revealing a clear intent to kill or seriously harm."
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on
Wednesday blamed the violence in Zahedan and elsewhere in
Iran on "foreign interventionists, organised agents and
terrorists".
-What is the situation now?
Aref said the situation in Zahedan has calmed, although new
protests were possible after weekly prayers this Friday.
But he added many people had been arrested in a clampdown on
participants in the protests, although the precise figures
were not clear.
Security forces used aerial drones and facial recognition
technology to identify protesters and arrest them, he
said.
Reports said that Taftan, the main border crossing east of
Zahedan between Iran and Pakistan's Balochistan province,
had been closed in the wake of the unrest.
Meanwhile executions of Baluch have continued. Four of five
people who were hanged at the weekend in the prison in the
city of Mashhad for drug related crimes were Baluch, IHR
said.
Out of 251 people executed in Iran this year, 67 were
Baluch, it said.
sjw/jsa
[Yahoo News and others.
Indian Muslim Leader Questions Modi on Uighur Muslims
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president
Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra
Modi to explain why India abstained on a draft resolution at
the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) calling for
a debate on the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang
region.
Taking a dig at Modi, Owaisi asked if the former was "scared
of offending (Chinese President) Xi Jinping."
"Will the PM Modi saheb explain the reason for India's
decision to help China out in the UNHRC on the Uighur issue
by choosing to abstain from an important vote? Is he so
scared of offending Xi Jingping, whom he met 18 times, that
India can't speak for what is right?" the AIMIM leader
tweeted.
Will the PM Modi saheb explain the reason for India's
decision to help China out in the UNHRC on the Uighur issue
by choosing to abstain from an important vote? Is he so
scared of offending Xi Jingping, whom he met 18 times, that
India can't speak for what is right?
https://t.co/TJNy3Ffn2w
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) October 7, 2022
Hadith Guidance from Sis. Yasmin
'Assalam Alaikum Wa Rehmath Ullah'
**********************************************
*BEGGARS OF A DIFFERENT KIND*.
by Br. Nisar
Last week after finishing my 'Fajr' Salah I spotted
a man in a corner of the 'Masjid',
supplicating to Allah.
The man was in a very simple dress
and was literally weeping...!
That aroused my interest as I have discovered many potential
chances to help the needy from people
who don't beg before men but
they approach only Allah...!
This man had a pitiful face and a huge body,
I would say obese. I sat little far from him and waited for
him to finish his duas.
Meanwhile his phone rang
and he spoke in a painful tone.
I could sense the immense pain in his words.
he was saying to someone on the phone...
'Right now I am sitting in the 'Masjid'
before Allah and He is the only hope'.
I was more curious about his sorrows
so I waited to talk to him.
Finally he finished and got up to leave.
I hurried to him and greeted him.
he was still wiping his tears.
I asked him: Akhee ! Is everything okay ?
he replied: My niece is serious in Hospital.
I responded him:
'Do you need some money' ?
(though I am not wealthy but I love to be a response for
someone's Dua)
Suddenly he looked up at me and hugged
me then he wiped his tears
and we walked out of the Masjid.
He was still not in a position to talk so I put my hands on
his shoulder and whispered...
'I have some savings with me in case it's your
emergency'.
We had reached in the parking of Ajman's big Masjid and he
was still quiet.
Then he put his hand in his pocket and I saw a car key
hanging on a beautiful key chain.
The man got emotional and this time he patted my shoulders
and said---
'That's how we should hand over our matters to Allah even if
you can afford.
Before or while using our sources
Allah should be our first option...!
That is my Super Market and
we are very rich Alhamdulillah
but nothing works like an earnest Dua'.
Saying this, the rich man thanked me and walked away towards
his car.
He lived in a huge villa nearby
but was a beggar before Allah.
I stood there stunned to discover one more common man
leaving a huge impact of
'Tauhid' and 'Tawakkul'on me...!
He was right---
Allah should always be our first option.
I went back to the 'Masjid' and started making my own Duas
to Allah.
Surely some people breeze into our lives
but work like a storm ...!!!
{'Subhan Allah'}
~MY ' SALAAMS ' TO ALL~
~Y a s m i n ~
*Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah*
******************************************
"All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide
{Forever}
the Face of thy Lord, full of Majesty, Bounty and Honor"
{'Qur`an'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27 }
[Source: Article By Nisaar Nadiadwala]
Pakistan
United Islamic Rally in Lahore's Main Street Opposes use of
transgender issue to Undermine our culture.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE: Oct 07: Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said
the transgender law has nothing to do with the rights of the
trans community rather it was an attempt to attack the
ideological basis of the Muslim society.
The government reluctance to repeal the law would force the
people to hold long march against it, he said while
addressing a protest demonstration at The Mall against the
trans act on Friday.
Representatives of different religio-political parties also
addressed the protestors.
Sirajul Haq also warned the government against introducing
amendment in article 62 (1) (f) of the Constitution, saying
the millions of Muslims had not rendered sacrifices for
secular Pakistan but their objective was to establish an
Islamic welfare state.
The apparent fight among the ruling political parties was
only for self-interests as they were all on the same page
when it came to matter of imposing western secular agenda
in the country, he said.
Religious parties, Council of Islamic Ideology had rejected
the trans law and the Constitution also did not permit
legislation against Quran and Sunnah, he said, issuing
warning to the rulers not to be the tools of the secular
lobbies.
If the rulers remained stubborn in their act, the nation
would never forgive them, he said.
Sirajul Haq clarified the JI always wanted the trans
community should be given all their rights. But, he said,
the masses would not permit vulgarity in the name of any
law.
He said the JI would hold a long march to save the
ideological basis of the country while the others held
protests for their self-interests and to attain power.
He said the JI would resist any move to bring damage to the
Islamic provisions of the constitution. He appealed to the
masses to be part of the JI struggle to transform Pakistan
into Islamic welfare state.
Outreach
New Trend's web site is doing quite well.
It received 59116 hits in September,
It is also hosting three translations of the Qur'an and the
translation of Sahih Bukhari.
[
quran.htm
]
It is also good for activism as it lists businesses which
support Israel.
[
boycott.htm
]
It supports Muslim political prisoners.
Includes Dr/ Kaukab Siddique's interview with Meyercord
answering aggressive attacks on Islam.
[
civildiscordshow.htm
]
Thank you Br. Rich. This is a unique achievement on a
voluntary basis.
Our latest books are:
Hadith and Women [$10]
Media Perspectives on Bush's Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
[$20]
Both by Dr. Kaukab Siddique.
We are publicizing a big book:
The Issues of Islamic Revival by Dr. Firoz Kamal.
After a while we will start selling it.
Palestine
{Global News}
[Palestinian Resistance]
The Israeli army said a soldier had been "killed as a result
of being critically injured by a shooting attack".
Police said the incident took place in Israeli-annexed east
Jerusalem near Shuafat Palestinian refugee camp.
Another Israeli had been "severely injured", police said,
and a third person, whose nationality was not specified, was
hit by "shrapnel" in the incident, according to emergency
services group Magen David Adom (MADA).
U.S.-brokered peace talks aimed at establishing a
Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem,
collapsed in 2014 and show no sign of revival.
Israeli security officials have called on Abbas's
Palestinian Authority (PA) to do more to rein in
violence.
The PA, increasingly unpopular in the West Bank, says its
ability to exert its rule has been systematically undermined
by Israel's incursions.
Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said in a statement
that Israel's government was "delusional" in thinking such
actions would promote peace and stability.
