Jamaat al-Muslimeen International Press Release

AWARD NAMED AFTER NON-COMPROMISING JIHAD LEADER
Will Recognize and Honor True Islamic Scholars

"Be patient and endure, o family of Yasir, for Paradise
awaits you." (Hadith, Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, extolling the oppressed strugglers.)


Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman, hafize Qur'an, erudite teacher of Bukhari's Sahih, Ph.D in research on Jihad, spiritual leader of Egypt's al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya spent Eid al-Adha in prison in solitary confinement. Alone, cut off from the whole world, unable to speak even to his captors, he refused to compromise:
1. No compromise with Israel. No recognition of the Zionist terrorist state.
2. No compromise with dictatorship and tyranny.
3. Enlightened approach to Islam based on the wisdom of the Qur'an and the authentic Hadith.

There are very few scholars who have been placed in such a severe test and yet refused to bow down before oppression.
Such scholars should be recognized, identified and honored.
We have named the award after this great mujahid-scholar who has spent his life against oppression.

Jamaat al-Muslimeen would like to give the SOAR Award to 10 scholars before the year 1422 ends. Each award will have a stipend of $1000 with it. The awards will go to those scholar-mujahideen who have not been recognized on an international level as yet.

The COMMITTEE TO FREE SHAIKH OMAR 'ABDEL RAHMAN will carry out shoora to decide whom to select for the awards.

We need Muslims, mosques, individuals to donate for these awards. An honor list of people donating for the awards will be published.
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MUSLIMS OF THE WORLD: IT IS YOUR TASK TO FREE SHAIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN.
Write to the American embassy nearest to you, and demand that the Shaikh be freed.
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SEND THIS BRIEF MESSAGE TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT by email:
WE DEMAND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF SHAIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN, LEADER OF EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT, al-GAmaa al-ISLAMIYYA, who is imprisoned in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The email address of the Attorney General is: web@usdoj.gov
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2001-03-21 Wed 17:29ct