Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
palestine occupiers beat women activists.flv
This is absolutely disgusting that Israel can get away with this on a daily basis because its big bully daddy America encourages and approves of the continuous tantrums committed by its spoilt devil daughter.
A wise man once said if you take up arms you'll end it if you wait for the " authorities" to bring about a " just and peaceful" solution you will be waiting a long time .
Isn't about time we ended this !!!!!!
Political Islamic groups take another step forward towards political rights - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
Political Islamic groups take another step forward towards political rights - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
Once again political Islamic groups are in the spotlight, this time due to the formation of new political parties. In one day both the Salafis and the Gama'a al-Islamiya announced they will form their own parties and compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Once again political Islamic groups are in the spotlight, this time due to the formation of new political parties. In one day both the Salafis and the Gama'a al-Islamiya announced they will form their own parties and compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
On Tuesday the First Salafi party submitted its papers to the Parties committee to become the first Salafist party formed in Egypt. For years the Salafi movement rejected involvement in politics and considered forming or joining parties to be forbidden by religion.
The founders of the new party are mostly members or ex-members of the Salafi Call in Alexandria. However, the board of directors of the Salafi Call said earlier it would not form any political party for the time being but would participate in political life through other available means.
Al Nour Islamic party (meaning light) is said to be one of five parties the Salafi movement is planning to form. However, Emad Eddin Abdel Ghafour, one of the prominent Salafi figures in Alexandria and one of the party’s founders, denies it is a religious party.
"We have members from everywhere around the country, and all social sectors are represented in our membership," he tells Ahram Online. "We have a large number of university professors, doctors, engineers, lawyers and technocrats from almost every sector." The new parties law issued by the government in March requires that a party have five thousand members to be formally established. Al Nour says its membership currently exceeds seven thousand.
The new party's program, according to Ghafour aims to "maintain the identity of the country and regain its preeminent position among nations," and to further economic and social development. Yet the party may be unable to obtain the required legal approval as the new parties law prohibits religious parties.
On its official Facebook group Al Nour identifies itself as a party that "believes Islamic laws should control political, economic and social jurisprudence." The party also says it believes in the foundation of a modern state based on respectful coexistence among all citizens. "The party’s founders believe democracy should be achieved within the framework of Islamic law, that people should be free to form or join political parties which should operate without constraints, that power should be transferred peacefully through free and fair direct elections, and that the people should be able to freely choose their leaders," says the Facebook page.
Al Nour is not the only Islamic party on the way. The Muslim Brotherhood, a major Islamic political group announced weeks ago the formation of the new party Freedom and Justice. The party said it would nominate candidates for about half the seats in parliament. This week the Gama'a al-Islamiya also announced it will form its own party and participate in the upcoming elections. The Islamic group, which was outlawed in the 1980s after the assassination of former president Anwar el Sadat, had many of its leaders released after the ouster of president Mubarak.
Tarek al-Zumur, one of the group's senior leaders who was released a couple of months ago, told Reuters the group planned to launch a "civil political party based on Islamic principles" that would welcome members of Egypt's Christian minority. Al-Zumur, who was directly involved in the assassination of Sadat is expected to be a member of the new party's policy unit. "The party will not use violence in dealing with any situation or with the state and will abide by Egyptian law and the constitution," he told Reuters.
Al-Zumur’s statement about the party is not new, but it is considered by many as a sign that disputes within the group concerning the shape and limits of its participation in the political arena have been settled once and for all before the group's internal elections. Last Monday the Gama'a al-Islamiya announced the results of the first internal elections in years. In the press conference Esam Derbala, one of the group’s leaders said that the group does not accept the idea of separation between religion and politics. "We cannot mix them completely or separate them completely," he says. "We have to understand that Islam supports freedom and social justice, and this is what we will try to teach people in the street."
All Islamic parties' founders stress that their parties will be open to Christian membership, a step they hope will reduce society’s fear of political Islam. However, this is not guaranteed.
U.N. Warns Somalia’s Leaders to Stop Bickering - NYTimes.com
U.N. Warns Somalia’s Leaders to Stop Bickering - NYTimes.com
NAIROBI, Kenya — Members of the United Nations Security Councilsent an unusually blunt message to Somalia’s leaders on Wednesday to stop fighting among themselves or risk losing millions of dollars a year from Western donors.
Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press
Clashes between insurgents and African Union troops in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday resulted in deaths and injuries, an official said. One of the wounded was taken to a hospital.
Related
Somali and African Union Forces Advance in Mogadishu (May 23, 2011)
Somalia, Wobbly on Ground, Seeks Control of Its Airspace(April 15, 2011)
Times Topic: Somalia
Somalia’s leaders survive solely on international support, but instead of using that money to fight the Islamist militants who rule much of the country, or the innumerable pirateswho cruise Somalia’s seas, they have recently paralyzed the government with bitter infighting, disappointing Western donors and most Somalis with their passivity and lack of progress.
Representatives of the Security Council met with Somali officials here in the Kenyan capital, after visiting Sudan earlier this week. They held a news conference here Wednesday, during which they offered stark warnings, as they tried to push Somalia’s leaders to work together.
“The bickering has to stop,” said Mark Lyall Grant, Britain’s representative on the Security Council.
Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, was on the trip and was even more direct in a Twitter post. “Get your act together, resolve your differences or lose intl support,” she wrote.
The current political crisis pits the speaker of Somalia’s Parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden, a wily, illiterate livestock trader, against the president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, a religious teacher who came into office two years ago amid great expectations. The two used to be close, but the speaker is now trying to persuade fellow members of Parliament to oust the president and elect him as the new president.
Many Somali officials said the speaker was more popular than the president and that he had tapped into his vast wealth to buy allegiance from the Parliament. The president seems to know this, which is why he has been opposing elections anytime soon.
Somalia’s military forces are embarrassingly weak, analysts say, and if not for the 8,000 African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, the government would fall in hours. The European Union pays the salaries of Parliament members.
“And that money could be spent elsewhere,” Mr. Grant warned.
The United States has shipped in weapons. Still, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia controls only a small patch of the capital. Much of the rest of country, which is nearly the size of Texas, is ruled by militants.
In August, the mandate for the transitional government expires. The United Nations officials said they were calling on Somalia’s politicians to agree on a plan and to focus more on stemming extremism and piracy.
Earlier this week, six foreigners, including one American, were arrested at the airport in Mogadishu with around $4 million in cash. Somali government officials said the money was ransom for a pirate gang — paying ransoms is the most common way of resolving pirate hijackings. The Somali government has yet to say what it is going to do with the foreigners or the money.
Yemen: Fightings intensify. Units of scholar Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani take part in battle
source Armed clashes in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday spread to a neighborhood of Sanaa's International Airport, which led to its closure. Al Jazeera reports all planes arriving to the country's main air gateway were rerouted to the south - to Aden.
Fierce fightings between the guards loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and units of the influential head of the Yemeni clan Hashed, Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmar, erupted on Monday after a day earlier the head of republic refused again to sign the conciliatory initiative of Arabian monarchies to end the internal political crisis in the country.
Dozens of people have been already killed during the conflict.
Fighters of the Hashed clan, who is supporting the opposition, seized several government offices in the capital and still retain them. According to authorities, the victims of the clashes were 17 soldiers, 20 more were recoded as missing.
On Wednesday, groups of residents were started leaving the capital, fleeing from street fightings. Sporadic shootings continued throughout the past day. In addition to small arms, RPGs and heavy machine guns are also being used in the fightings.
According to some reports, clan members of Arhab also joined the fighting with Saleh's guards at the airport. They are led by a world-renowned Islamic scholar Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, author of many scientific papers, who is accused by Washington of supporting a so-called "terrorism".
Earlier President Saleh said that "he would not make any concessions to his opponents anymore and will fight against those who threaten the security and stability of the country".
Saleh accused supporters of al-Ahmar of the clashes, calling their actions "a provocation aimed at dragging the country into a civil war".
It is to be recalled that on Monday, the Yemeni President Saleh refused for a third time to sign the document on the transfer of power, which a day earlier was approved by the opposition. And this time, at the last moment, Saleh said he would not sign the agreement.
The Yemeni president explained his refusal with a need for further clarification on some issues.
In addition, Saleh appealed to the leaders of Western countries not to try to oust him from his post as the head of state, because in his view, the situation will worsen, and power in the country will be taken by the al-Qaeda.
Reuters quoted Saleh as saying:
"This is the message that I send to our friends and brothers in the United States and the European Union. The successor will be worse than what we have currently. If the system collapses... the al Qaeda will capture Maarib, Hadramout, Shabwa, Abyan and al-Jouf (and) it will control the situation".
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
source Armed clashes in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday spread to a neighborhood of Sanaa's International Airport, which led to its closure. Al Jazeera reports all planes arriving to the country's main air gateway were rerouted to the south - to Aden.
Fierce fightings between the guards loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and units of the influential head of the Yemeni clan Hashed, Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmar, erupted on Monday after a day earlier the head of republic refused again to sign the conciliatory initiative of Arabian monarchies to end the internal political crisis in the country.
Dozens of people have been already killed during the conflict.
Fighters of the Hashed clan, who is supporting the opposition, seized several government offices in the capital and still retain them. According to authorities, the victims of the clashes were 17 soldiers, 20 more were recoded as missing.
On Wednesday, groups of residents were started leaving the capital, fleeing from street fightings. Sporadic shootings continued throughout the past day. In addition to small arms, RPGs and heavy machine guns are also being used in the fightings.
According to some reports, clan members of Arhab also joined the fighting with Saleh's guards at the airport. They are led by a world-renowned Islamic scholar Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, author of many scientific papers, who is accused by Washington of supporting a so-called "terrorism".
Earlier President Saleh said that "he would not make any concessions to his opponents anymore and will fight against those who threaten the security and stability of the country".
Saleh accused supporters of al-Ahmar of the clashes, calling their actions "a provocation aimed at dragging the country into a civil war".
It is to be recalled that on Monday, the Yemeni President Saleh refused for a third time to sign the document on the transfer of power, which a day earlier was approved by the opposition. And this time, at the last moment, Saleh said he would not sign the agreement.
The Yemeni president explained his refusal with a need for further clarification on some issues.
In addition, Saleh appealed to the leaders of Western countries not to try to oust him from his post as the head of state, because in his view, the situation will worsen, and power in the country will be taken by the al-Qaeda.
Reuters quoted Saleh as saying:
"This is the message that I send to our friends and brothers in the United States and the European Union. The successor will be worse than what we have currently. If the system collapses... the al Qaeda will capture Maarib, Hadramout, Shabwa, Abyan and al-Jouf (and) it will control the situation".
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz CenterChairman of U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, made the following statement during today's hearing entitled, "The Future of Al Qaeda":
Today we consider the impact of Osama bin Laden’s death on the al-Qaeda terrorist network and U.S. counterterrorism policy.
For several years before his death, this terror mastermind was out of sight, out of mind. Indeed, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the State Department’s top counterterrorism official, didn’t even mention bin Laden’s name at a recent Subcommittee hearing.
Nevertheless, bin Laden "was the symbolic, ideological and strategic core of the al-Qaeda movement," and the "primary source of inspiration and cohesion" for associated groups and individuals acting in his name, according to one expert. His killing is a very significant development in our struggle against al-Qaeda.
With depleted ranks and resources, and its "star waning" in the Middle East, some go so far as to declare that al-Qaeda is "in its death throes." As we'll hear today, that's wishful thinking. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has proven all too adaptive.
One analyst notes that al-Qaeda operatives weren't driven by loyalty to bin Laden’s personality, but to his twisted ideals. As a 2009 USAID report on violent extremism noted, "we need to acknowledge at the outset the power of ideas…We need to recognize that many violent extremists are moved primarily by an unshakable belief in the superiority of certain values; by a perceived obligation to carry out God’s command; or by an abiding commitment to destroy a system they view as evil and/or oppressive." Bad ideas matter.
Unfortunately a growing number of affiliates and individuals are looking to fulfill bin Laden’s vision. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – linked to Ft. Hood, the failed "underwear" bomber and cargo plane plots - appears the most energetic part of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is threatening, with deep roots in North Africa and Europe. An increasing number of European and U.S. citizens have traveled to Somalia to link-up with al-Shabaab.
Bin Laden’s hideout location has raised yet more doubts about Pakistan. Was its intelligence service complicit or just incompetent? ISI has supported militant networks inside Pakistan and Afghanistan that are targeting U.S. soldiers. Nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan received state support. A terrorism trial in Chicago heard testimony this week that ISI provided "financial and military" assistance to the LeT, the group that killed more than 160 in the Mumbai massacre, including six Americans. In the past ten years, Pakistan has received nearly $20 billion in U.S. aid. Simply put, our Pakistan policy isn’t working.
Assuming connections between bin Laden and the Pakistani military and intelligence services, a former top IAEA official has asked, "What is to say they would not help al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups to gain access to sensitive nuclear materials such as highly enriched uranium or plutonium?" This isn't a far-fetched question.
Intelligence work, including interrogations, was key to tracking down bin Laden. It's notable that outside of Afghanistan and Iraq, there have been no reported U.S. detentions of high-value terrorists under President Obama. For instance, an Indonesian behind the Bali bombings was taken into custody by Pakistani authorities just months before bin Laden's death. Found near Abbottabad, he has been described as an intelligence "gold mine." Yet, the Obama Administration has "made no move to interrogate or seek custody" of him, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Bin Laden’s death comes as the Arab Spring is unfolding. The demise of autocracies is welcome, for sure. But there are legitimate concerns that democracy in these countries may empower parties hostile to the U.S., confounding counterterrorism cooperation.
One witness today will compare al-Qaeda to a "shark in the water that must keep moving forward – no matter how slowly or incrementally – or die." We look to today’s witnesses for answers on how to kill this deadly predator.
Today we consider the impact of Osama bin Laden’s death on the al-Qaeda terrorist network and U.S. counterterrorism policy.
For several years before his death, this terror mastermind was out of sight, out of mind. Indeed, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the State Department’s top counterterrorism official, didn’t even mention bin Laden’s name at a recent Subcommittee hearing.
Nevertheless, bin Laden "was the symbolic, ideological and strategic core of the al-Qaeda movement," and the "primary source of inspiration and cohesion" for associated groups and individuals acting in his name, according to one expert. His killing is a very significant development in our struggle against al-Qaeda.
With depleted ranks and resources, and its "star waning" in the Middle East, some go so far as to declare that al-Qaeda is "in its death throes." As we'll hear today, that's wishful thinking. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has proven all too adaptive.
One analyst notes that al-Qaeda operatives weren't driven by loyalty to bin Laden’s personality, but to his twisted ideals. As a 2009 USAID report on violent extremism noted, "we need to acknowledge at the outset the power of ideas…We need to recognize that many violent extremists are moved primarily by an unshakable belief in the superiority of certain values; by a perceived obligation to carry out God’s command; or by an abiding commitment to destroy a system they view as evil and/or oppressive." Bad ideas matter.
Unfortunately a growing number of affiliates and individuals are looking to fulfill bin Laden’s vision. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – linked to Ft. Hood, the failed "underwear" bomber and cargo plane plots - appears the most energetic part of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is threatening, with deep roots in North Africa and Europe. An increasing number of European and U.S. citizens have traveled to Somalia to link-up with al-Shabaab.
Bin Laden’s hideout location has raised yet more doubts about Pakistan. Was its intelligence service complicit or just incompetent? ISI has supported militant networks inside Pakistan and Afghanistan that are targeting U.S. soldiers. Nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan received state support. A terrorism trial in Chicago heard testimony this week that ISI provided "financial and military" assistance to the LeT, the group that killed more than 160 in the Mumbai massacre, including six Americans. In the past ten years, Pakistan has received nearly $20 billion in U.S. aid. Simply put, our Pakistan policy isn’t working.
Assuming connections between bin Laden and the Pakistani military and intelligence services, a former top IAEA official has asked, "What is to say they would not help al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups to gain access to sensitive nuclear materials such as highly enriched uranium or plutonium?" This isn't a far-fetched question.
Intelligence work, including interrogations, was key to tracking down bin Laden. It's notable that outside of Afghanistan and Iraq, there have been no reported U.S. detentions of high-value terrorists under President Obama. For instance, an Indonesian behind the Bali bombings was taken into custody by Pakistani authorities just months before bin Laden's death. Found near Abbottabad, he has been described as an intelligence "gold mine." Yet, the Obama Administration has "made no move to interrogate or seek custody" of him, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Bin Laden’s death comes as the Arab Spring is unfolding. The demise of autocracies is welcome, for sure. But there are legitimate concerns that democracy in these countries may empower parties hostile to the U.S., confounding counterterrorism cooperation.
One witness today will compare al-Qaeda to a "shark in the water that must keep moving forward – no matter how slowly or incrementally – or die." We look to today’s witnesses for answers on how to kill this deadly predator.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
CNN Homegrown Psy-ops Continue: Attempting to Extinguish the Light of Indigenous Resistance to Empire
By Younus Abdullah Muhammad
CNN that patriotic, Pravda-like state sanctioned media component of American Empire recently released an expose entitled Revolution Muslim Leader Changes Tune at the request of unwitting crony Yousef al Khattab. The segment represents but a parcel of an interminable propaganda war waged by the Corporatist News Network (CNN) to maintain at least tacit domestic support for the perpetuation of American-led imperialism. In reality, this new piece was yet another example of how untrustworthy the American free press is; it was widely inaccurate, selective, and rationally fallacious. However most viewers never have the time to verify information and indeed most will never read this short reaction displaying the propagandist nature of the report. Still, in order to clarify reality and continue to encourage alternative solutions to the Global War on Terror, I would like to take some time here to elucidate.
Anderson Cooper reported in the introduction to the segment that, “we’ve been monitoring this group Revolution Muslim for a while now confronting them on their extremist rhetoric.” In reality, his definition of confronting would entail sitting down for a half an hour interview and cutting and chopping the final version into small segments that suit CNN’s own political agenda. We have never been given an opportunity to discuss our views live with CNN and rather than confront our rhetoric, they have in reality deliberately manipulated the messages we have delivered.
For example, Anderson Cooper introduced the latest piece by saying that, “members of Revolution Muslim say it is their job to terrorize non-Muslims.” CNN then cuts to a clip including a quote from myself that says, “We’re commanded to terrorize the disbelievers in the Quran… Allah says very clearly in the Arabic language ‘turhibunna’ this means terrorize them.” The clip ends there. Thus, what CNN would have viewers believe is that we are including in this segment support for attacks against any non-Muslim, indiscriminate acts of violence against anyone that does not accept Islam. This is as an exaggeration and broad generalization that represents a deliberate and clear manipulation of reality to affect sinister gain.
The original video on CNN pertaining to Revolution Muslim first aired in November 2009 and contains the aforementioned quote in context. It is true I did highlight the reality that the word for terrorism is in the Quran, but that section of the interview in a deeper context was never aired as that segment of our conversation was about the concept of jihad in Islam generally. I was referencing the reality that Islam fights weapons with weapons and words with words and stated emphatically that our job as Muslims in the West was to combat Western propaganda against Muslims that are defending themselves from Western imperialism abroad. Were CNN to air the entirety of that interview without cut and paste efforts to manufacture rather than report the news that would become obvious. Still, the original interview itself makes clear the propagandist nature of this new report. Here is the full version of that segment in context from the 2009 interview:
Younus: “We’re commanded to terrorize the disbelievers?”
Drew Griffin: (Shocked) “You’re commanded to terrorize the disbelievers?”
Younus: “The Quran says very clearly in the Arabic language ‘turhibunna’, this means terrorize them, it’s a command from Allah?”
Shocking? Probably… True? Absolutely… the Quranic verse can be found in the eighth chapter, verse 60. The section continues,
Drew Griffin: (misleading or misunderstanding) “So your commanded to terrorize… anybody that doesn’t believe…”
Younus: “Doesn’t mean… you define terrorism as going and killing an innocent civilian… I define terrorism as making them fearful so that they think twice before they rape your mother, or kill your brother, or go onto your land and try to steal your resources.”
In no way, shape, or form is that a call for attacks against civilians. In no, way, shape, or form has Revolution Muslim ever called for attacks against civilians. What we do call for is anti-war activism and opposition to empire in the West with support for those physically, even violently, resisting the empire abroad. And we have consistently called Muslims and non-Muslims alike to this understanding.
“EYEWITNESS” INTERVIEW SAYS AMERICANS DIED, MISSION UNSUCCESSFUL
Full And Complete Translation Of The Pakistani News Video I Posted About Osama bin Laden
This is a translation of the video linked at the bottom and was translated by my friend Khan Taashk. THANK YOU my dear friend. I wish there were a way for ALL Americans to read this translation.
Anchor: Welcome back, Mohammad Bashir is a resident of Abboottabad’s Bilal Town. Muhammad Bashir might seem an ordinary guy but he is no ordinary guy. Muhammad Bashir lives in front of Osama Ben Laden’s house in Bilal Town Abbottabad. On 2nd of May, Muhammad Bashir was present on his rooftop from where he saw the whole American operation against Osama Ben Laden with his own eyes. Yesterday when our team was present In Bilal Town, Abbottabad, near Osama Ben Laden’s hose, Muhammad Bashir came to us and said, “Sister, I need to tell you something, something that is a burden on my heart and soul”, just listen to what he said.
Bashir: I am going to share something about the Abbottabad operation which till this day nobody else has told you.
Anchor: But Muhammad Bashir was a little afraid too, while talking to me he telephoned hia reletive, Vice President of Jummat-e-Islami, Abdur Razzaq Abasi, watch it
Reporter: Tell me your name and tell me whare do you live
Bashir: Let me first, Let me talk to him one minute, i will give you full interview, full or half?
Reporter: Full Full
Bashir: Let me first talk to him
Reporter: To whom? To Abbasi?
Bashir: yes, to Abbasi
Anchor: Muhammad Bashir told us something that no one said before. So we checked his identity card, we also confirmed that he really lives there, we asked from the senior fellows about him. We were very astonished by his story just see and listen what he said.
Bashir: We were awake, not asleep, a helicopter came, some men came down from that, into that house, then that helicopter went away
Reporter: How many men?
Bashir: 10-12, then that helicopter took rounds of those rear hills, then he came bac…k and when he came bach, two more helicopters arrived, one from the west and other from the north, there was a blast in the first helicopter and it was on fire, we immediately came out, when we reached there, the helicopter was burning, then after about 20 minutes the army and police arrived, they pushed us back, now we are asking that if oama was here then who took him to america because all those men that came in the helicopter died in the blast, now if Osama was in that helicopter he must have died and got burnt in that helicopter too, then how they took him? this is a question of serious concern. America claims they they killed him and picked him up. How they picked him up? This is what we are thinking
Reporter: Was there only one helicopter?
Bashir? Yes the other that came flew away to Mansehra, there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them but as he was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.
Reporter: Then were in it when it blew?
Bashir: Yes They were.
Reporter : How you know?
Bashir: We saw it with our own eyes
Reporter: You saw dead man?
Bashir: Yes, dead men,
Reporter: How many?
Bashir: I couldnt count them because then the compound was on fire. The gate was open, we went in, the army and police hadnt arrived then, there were some people but they werent stopping them. The whole neighborhood has seen that but they are silent now.
Bashir: We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing
Reporter: How many dead bodies you saw?
Bashir: We couldn’t count them because they were blown into pieces.
The reporter asked Bashir to narrate the story again.
Bashir said we could see the faces of those men but they were speaking pashto. I dont know whether they were Pakistani or American army or people of agencies, as you know that agency people can speak many languages.
May be they were speaking Pashto so that we consider them Pakistani.
They knocked and banged at our doors and told us not to come out.
I laid down on my rooftop and was watching them.
My kids were calling me, I told them to go to their rooms and let me check whats going on.
The reporter asks Bashir, that when he saw that the helicopter was American what was he thinking then?
Bashir said that he got afraid. He didn’t had in his mind that they will attack that house. He thought that they might have come to attack the Pakistan Army.
The reporter asked so when was your cousin Shamraiz taken away?
Bashir: Shamrez was at our home, as the helicopter exploded, me and many others went out of our homes to see what happened. Shamrez also came out and the gate of the compound was open, we went in, every thing was lying scattered, as it is a huge compound, some body parts were lying here, some there, legs, arms, heads, broken and torn body parts, during that time some part of the helicopter inside, may be the engine or other fuel related part had an explosion so we rushed out. During that time Shamrez was taken away, he is in his home now, but no one is allowed to meet him and i couldn’t get a chance to talk to him later.
Then the anchor says that they had vegetations inside the compound and Shamrez was their gardener. We know that two men Arshad and Tariq used to live there. They had good relations with the neighbours, they used to buy things from the local store. Sometimes imported dates and used to send many things to their neighbours.
Then the reporter is at Abdullah Ben Zubair Mosque, which is the nearest to compound of Osama.
She asks a guy: do you think people would have been glad and happy if they would have ever met osama?
The guy : Yes, possibly. Because he was a muslim and he believed in God.
This is the whole story! Every aspect and point translated.
The gentleman being interviewed lives across from the compound. His cousin Sahab Jamrez Khan used to grow vegetables in the compound. He was taken away in all the hullabaloo on tape @10.29 Bashir says he did not see when they wisked his cousin away.
Interviewer asks “Have you spoken to your cousin?”
Bashir “No, I have not seen him yet he in in the house. “They will not let him get out” “They will not let me get in.”
2 other men Arshad Sahib and Tariq Sahib used to go to market to shop for that compound and bought international brand items. Dates, dried meat found in compound. Also food used to come from compound to Bashir’s house Kabulu Pilau and things like that used to be presented to Bashir. They will follow up with more information. In the end the lady is standing in front of Abdullah Bin Zubair mosque. The mosque was with in walking distance of the compound. She asks people if Osama did attend this mosque people would have be happy? The one answered maybe. The other said Osama did “not” live here but he was muslim and believed in God. Interview ends.
Another thing to note is that Bashir mentioned that we are very “sharif” meaning law abiding honest people. His town was a peaceful place no excitement no murders, fights, and he is unhappy how they have made his town so frightful with all this news. One thing is very clear in this video. Two helicopters hovered never landed. One landed dropped Pashto speaking poeple on the roof 10-12 of them Helicopter left fo 20 minutes returned to load people in and small blast engine failure fire helicopter parts all over. Body parts arms, legs, head, all over. Pakistani Army/Police came in dispersed crowd. The whole scene is cleaned up totally now. No evidence left to examine.
‘Interview with the wife of Yusuf Hawwash (executed with Sayyid Qutb)’
We lived together for two years,
and he spent the rest of his life in prisons
Could you give us a brief introduction to the life of your husband Yusuf Hawwaash?
My husband is Muhammad Yusuf Hawwaash (May Allah have mercy upon him). He was born on the 12th of October 1922. He achieved a diploma from Industrial Schools in 1943. He joined the Ikhwaan (Muslim Brotherhood), during his studies in the Gharbiyyah province. He married me in 1953 and I had from him two children, Ahmad and Sumayyah. They are both now doctors, and each has four children, both male and female.
How did your marriage start?
One of the brothers recommended me to him as a wife, to help him carry the burden of the da`wah (calling to Allah). And he remained for a whole year, whenever he met my brother, saying "We are still on our agreement", but he did not propose because of problems his family was going through. At the end of the year, I told my brother to inform him that this matter was over. Indeed we ended the matter, then another
brother came to propose to me, but then he [Yusuf] returned, to reiterate his request anew. So I refused, and my brother advised me to pray Salaat-ul-Istikhaarah. When I prayed, I saw myself in the reception of our house in the village, and there was no lighting. Then a bright lamp was hanging in front of me, in the shape of his face, so I agreed and the contract was made. He later told me that when he made Istikhaarah, he saw me making wudoo' with him pouring the water for me, and even though it was not much water, I did it well.
Your husband was imprisoned more than once during the beginning of your married life, so how did this situation pass?
He was imprisoned after the Aqd [contract], then when he was released, we married and stayed together for one year, then he was imprisoned in 1954 and after the sentence was passed, he gave me the choice of staying with him or divorce. So I reprimanded him harshly, and informed him of something he did not know. That once during our engagement, he was giving a talk in one of the open gatherings, and he fell unconscious, and was taken to hospital. Then we found that one of his kidneys wasseverely damaged, because of an old illness he got when he was imprisoned as a
student, in a cell filled with cold water in winter. [At that time] the brothers offered me to cancel [the engagement] if I wanted, but I refused not to be with him on this journey because of this situation that Allah Almighty had placed him in during one of his trials.
and he spent the rest of his life in prisons
Could you give us a brief introduction to the life of your husband Yusuf Hawwaash?
My husband is Muhammad Yusuf Hawwaash (May Allah have mercy upon him). He was born on the 12th of October 1922. He achieved a diploma from Industrial Schools in 1943. He joined the Ikhwaan (Muslim Brotherhood), during his studies in the Gharbiyyah province. He married me in 1953 and I had from him two children, Ahmad and Sumayyah. They are both now doctors, and each has four children, both male and female.
How did your marriage start?
One of the brothers recommended me to him as a wife, to help him carry the burden of the da`wah (calling to Allah). And he remained for a whole year, whenever he met my brother, saying "We are still on our agreement", but he did not propose because of problems his family was going through. At the end of the year, I told my brother to inform him that this matter was over. Indeed we ended the matter, then another
brother came to propose to me, but then he [Yusuf] returned, to reiterate his request anew. So I refused, and my brother advised me to pray Salaat-ul-Istikhaarah. When I prayed, I saw myself in the reception of our house in the village, and there was no lighting. Then a bright lamp was hanging in front of me, in the shape of his face, so I agreed and the contract was made. He later told me that when he made Istikhaarah, he saw me making wudoo' with him pouring the water for me, and even though it was not much water, I did it well.
Your husband was imprisoned more than once during the beginning of your married life, so how did this situation pass?
He was imprisoned after the Aqd [contract], then when he was released, we married and stayed together for one year, then he was imprisoned in 1954 and after the sentence was passed, he gave me the choice of staying with him or divorce. So I reprimanded him harshly, and informed him of something he did not know. That once during our engagement, he was giving a talk in one of the open gatherings, and he fell unconscious, and was taken to hospital. Then we found that one of his kidneys wasseverely damaged, because of an old illness he got when he was imprisoned as a
student, in a cell filled with cold water in winter. [At that time] the brothers offered me to cancel [the engagement] if I wanted, but I refused not to be with him on this journey because of this situation that Allah Almighty had placed him in during one of his trials.
Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington) | Mother Jones
Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington) | Mother Jones
One day in October 2001, a pilot for Northwest Airlines refused to let Arshad Chowdhury, a 25-year-old American Muslim ("with a dark complexion") who had once worked as an investment banker in the World Trade Center, board his plane at San Francisco National Airport. According to Northwest's gate agents, Chowdhury writes [4] in the Washington Post, "he thought my name sounded suspicious" even though "airport security and the FBI verified that I posed no threat." He sued.
Now, skip nearly a decade. It's May 6, 2011, and two New York-based African-American imams, a father and son, attempting [5] to take an American Airlines flight from New York to Charlotte to attend a conference on "prejudice against Muslims," were prevented from flying. The same thing [6] happened to two imams in Memphis "dressed in traditional long shirts and [with] beard," heading for the same conference, when a pilot for Atlantic Southeast refused to fly with them aboard, even though they had been screened three times.
So how is the war in Afghanistan going almost 10 years later? Or do you think that's a non sequitur?
I don't, and let me suggest two reasons why: first, boredom; second, the missing learning curve.
At home and abroad, whether judging by airline pilots or Washington's war policy, Americans seem remarkably incapable of doing anything other than repeating the same self-defeating acts, as if they had never happened before. Hence Afghanistan. Almost 10 years after the Bush administration invaded Afghanistan and proclaimed victory, like imam-paralyzed airline pilots, we find ourselves in a state that might otherwise be achieved only if you mated déjà vu with a Mobius strip.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Killing Our Way To Defeat Obama's Private Killing Machine
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Porn in the USA - By Yvonne Ridley
May 22, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- I wonder what the US Administration makes of the idiom that includes the words pot, kettle and black.
The reason for this recent musing comes from revelations that a stash of pornography was found during the infamous Abbottabad raid in Pakistan by US Navy seals.
Not only did the Obama gang boast that they’d finally got the world’s most wanted man but they gleefully revealed a few days later that among the “millions” of intelligence documents was a pile of porn.
Of course we’ve not seen an ounce of evidence to support either of these claims, so not surprisingly there are those demanding that the Americans either ‘put up or shut up’.
Obama argues he will not release pictures depicting the al-Qaida leader’s death because they are too graphic and could offend and inflame Muslims across the world.
It’s an odd argument since he then sees no problem in allowing people to think the al Qaida leader wiled away his days with his head buried in dirty magazines.
But quite frankly, ever since the WMD lies peddled by the US Government to justify the invasion and war in Iraq were exposed most people hold a healthy scepticism towards any official statements coming out of Capitol Hill.
The gullible truly want to believe their government and so they do, but cynics – and they are growing in number even in America these days - recognise weak, transparent propaganda when they see it.
And the OBL porn revelations were indeed weak, highly predictable but also hypocritical. I say this because if you chip beneath the thin veneer of US respectability and family values the country is awash with X-rated smut.
Had Osama bin Ladin checked in to the Marriott, Westin or Hilton hotel chains in America he could have had his pick of X-rated in-room, movies.
I’m told that demand is so high that the blue movie business generates more money than hotel mini-bars.
In Obama’s Apple Pie America, cable and satellite companies pump pornography into millions of homes where the American Dream has, for some, become X-rated.
And the Americans are keen to share – I remember one of the first things that followed the arrival of US forces in Afghanistan was the sex industry.
Scores of channels promoting straight and gay porn suddenly became readily available on television sets without even the need to subscribe.
Yes, I bet that really helped Tony Blair and George W Bush’s crusade to liberate Afghan women.
The internet is also awash with obscene material which exploits women, and it is downloaded daily from US military bases across the world – some sites are so patriotic they even offer their services free of charge to those serving Uncle Sam.
The scale of the problem is so vast that 12 years ago Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases to keep the Christian right happy but it was never rigorously enforced.
I can reveal that certainly in Guantanamo the porn industry was very much in evidence when I visited with a documentary crew. You’ll have to take my word for it because the Gitmo PR team that escorted me around the base in May 2008 stopped me from filming the shelf racks at the local shop which was awash with dodgy magazines and videos. I still remember one lurid title “Debbie Does Dallas” sitting next to Penthouse.
I thought it would make a sharp contrast to the filming we’d just done in the library used by the Guantanamo detainees where shelves were filled with English classics, Islamic works and copies of the National Geographic.
Of course the reading material accessed by the detainees was specially selected by the authorities but perhaps the Pentagon should be equally selective over the material its soldiers access because there is a link between sexual predators and their reading and viewing material.
Just a few weeks ago 17 veteran and active-duty soldiers filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon. They accuse the U.S. military of permitting a culture that tolerates rape and sexual assault.
Reports show that as many as 3,250 reported rapes or other sexual assaults took place in the U.S. military, in 2009 alone. Military sources admit the unreported incidents could be as high as 16,000 because 80 percent of the victims may not have reported the incidents for fear of reprisal.
Instead of peddling silly propaganda about the stash of porn found in Abbottabad, I suggest American authorities look closer to home.
Interesting that those briefing the media about OBL’s alleged porn stash did so on condition of anonymity … well I wonder what they have to hide?
Could it be a case of porn, kettle and black?
*British journalist Yvonne Ridley is patron of the London-based human rights organization Cageprisoners and European President of the International Muslim Women’s Union.
The reason for this recent musing comes from revelations that a stash of pornography was found during the infamous Abbottabad raid in Pakistan by US Navy seals.
Not only did the Obama gang boast that they’d finally got the world’s most wanted man but they gleefully revealed a few days later that among the “millions” of intelligence documents was a pile of porn.
Of course we’ve not seen an ounce of evidence to support either of these claims, so not surprisingly there are those demanding that the Americans either ‘put up or shut up’.
Obama argues he will not release pictures depicting the al-Qaida leader’s death because they are too graphic and could offend and inflame Muslims across the world.
It’s an odd argument since he then sees no problem in allowing people to think the al Qaida leader wiled away his days with his head buried in dirty magazines.
But quite frankly, ever since the WMD lies peddled by the US Government to justify the invasion and war in Iraq were exposed most people hold a healthy scepticism towards any official statements coming out of Capitol Hill.
The gullible truly want to believe their government and so they do, but cynics – and they are growing in number even in America these days - recognise weak, transparent propaganda when they see it.
And the OBL porn revelations were indeed weak, highly predictable but also hypocritical. I say this because if you chip beneath the thin veneer of US respectability and family values the country is awash with X-rated smut.
Had Osama bin Ladin checked in to the Marriott, Westin or Hilton hotel chains in America he could have had his pick of X-rated in-room, movies.
I’m told that demand is so high that the blue movie business generates more money than hotel mini-bars.
In Obama’s Apple Pie America, cable and satellite companies pump pornography into millions of homes where the American Dream has, for some, become X-rated.
And the Americans are keen to share – I remember one of the first things that followed the arrival of US forces in Afghanistan was the sex industry.
Scores of channels promoting straight and gay porn suddenly became readily available on television sets without even the need to subscribe.
Yes, I bet that really helped Tony Blair and George W Bush’s crusade to liberate Afghan women.
The internet is also awash with obscene material which exploits women, and it is downloaded daily from US military bases across the world – some sites are so patriotic they even offer their services free of charge to those serving Uncle Sam.
The scale of the problem is so vast that 12 years ago Congress banned sales of sexually explicit material on military bases to keep the Christian right happy but it was never rigorously enforced.
I can reveal that certainly in Guantanamo the porn industry was very much in evidence when I visited with a documentary crew. You’ll have to take my word for it because the Gitmo PR team that escorted me around the base in May 2008 stopped me from filming the shelf racks at the local shop which was awash with dodgy magazines and videos. I still remember one lurid title “Debbie Does Dallas” sitting next to Penthouse.
I thought it would make a sharp contrast to the filming we’d just done in the library used by the Guantanamo detainees where shelves were filled with English classics, Islamic works and copies of the National Geographic.
Of course the reading material accessed by the detainees was specially selected by the authorities but perhaps the Pentagon should be equally selective over the material its soldiers access because there is a link between sexual predators and their reading and viewing material.
Just a few weeks ago 17 veteran and active-duty soldiers filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon. They accuse the U.S. military of permitting a culture that tolerates rape and sexual assault.
Reports show that as many as 3,250 reported rapes or other sexual assaults took place in the U.S. military, in 2009 alone. Military sources admit the unreported incidents could be as high as 16,000 because 80 percent of the victims may not have reported the incidents for fear of reprisal.
Instead of peddling silly propaganda about the stash of porn found in Abbottabad, I suggest American authorities look closer to home.
Interesting that those briefing the media about OBL’s alleged porn stash did so on condition of anonymity … well I wonder what they have to hide?
Could it be a case of porn, kettle and black?
*British journalist Yvonne Ridley is patron of the London-based human rights organization Cageprisoners and European President of the International Muslim Women’s Union.
Note on Recent Accusations and old South Park Incident
NOTE: Due to media reports we are cross-posting the clarifications that it is suggested were to provoke violence. The recent indictment is a perfect example of the reality that touted principles like "freedom of speech and freedom of expression" do not apply to people that seek to expose the reality of the U.S. Empire and the reality that imperialism is as ideological as it is physical. A simple read of the allegedly threatening document, the clarification posted below and other resources, documents repeated emphasis that efforts were not meant to incite violence but dialogue.
The case is an example of intimidation, forcing silence, while the US goes on killing millions of Muslims and defaming the sacred tenets and people of the true religion. The real reason for this indictment has much more to do with economic work that has been going on behind the scenes of islampolicy and that would potentially push the the Muslim world toward true sovereignty. The FBI is clasping at straws, very old straws I might add. However, this new economic thinking has been understood by Islamist parties and has been adopted by a few coming off the Arab Uprisings and trying to make them truly revolutionary endeavors. The case is a deliberate effort to silence our growth and development and stifle the advancement and adoption of a complet Islamic policy set, trying to prevent me from traveling to countries that were ready to listen to these crucial ideas. We will, inshAllah publish that work soon and hope that the ummah adopt them. It is the only means of salvation and sovereignty.
Finally, these tests of life are only a means of increasing faith and conviction and suffering in the way is a part of seeking to establish truth. It comes with those that refuse compromise and remain firm on conviction. We hold honor for our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws) and by the will of Allah will continue to protect that honor even if it costs us our own lives. Rise up Ya Muslimeen!!!
Younus Abdullah Muhammad
The case is an example of intimidation, forcing silence, while the US goes on killing millions of Muslims and defaming the sacred tenets and people of the true religion. The real reason for this indictment has much more to do with economic work that has been going on behind the scenes of islampolicy and that would potentially push the the Muslim world toward true sovereignty. The FBI is clasping at straws, very old straws I might add. However, this new economic thinking has been understood by Islamist parties and has been adopted by a few coming off the Arab Uprisings and trying to make them truly revolutionary endeavors. The case is a deliberate effort to silence our growth and development and stifle the advancement and adoption of a complet Islamic policy set, trying to prevent me from traveling to countries that were ready to listen to these crucial ideas. We will, inshAllah publish that work soon and hope that the ummah adopt them. It is the only means of salvation and sovereignty.
Finally, these tests of life are only a means of increasing faith and conviction and suffering in the way is a part of seeking to establish truth. It comes with those that refuse compromise and remain firm on conviction. We hold honor for our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws) and by the will of Allah will continue to protect that honor even if it costs us our own lives. Rise up Ya Muslimeen!!!
Younus Abdullah Muhammad
We have received a high volume of reaction to our efforts to counter the South Park cartoons depiction of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) and after dealing with repairing the damage to the website, letting the situation die down a bit, and getting some of the events we are working on that we hold as important as well, we will return for open dialogue with those that are interested. In order to engage in this dialog however, some statements must be made.
We received an overwhelming amount of media response due to one sentence included in a post last week. The media, in its eternal ignorant manner rushed to cover the controversy especially because it dealt with the South Park cartoon, something as American as Apple pie. However, what cannot be displayed by a mainstream media that is focused only on sound bytes and controlled by elite interests is depth and two-way dialog. To display this we recorded an interview with the AFP – here is how long it lasted:
Now here is what was published:
South Park creators threatened over Mohammad depiction
Posted
South Park episodes have often drawn criticism. (www.dan-dare.org)
A US Muslim group has issued an internet warning to creators of the satirical animated TV show South Park over a depiction of the Prophet Mohammad in a bear outfit.
"We have to warn Matt (Stone) and Trey (Parker) that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show," said a post on RevolutionMuslim.com.
The website posted an accompaning graphic photo of the late Dutch filmmaker Van Gogh, who was killed in 2004 by an Islamic militant over a movie he made that accused Islam of condoning violence against women.
Also posted was link to a news article with details of a mansion in Colorado that Parker and Stone apparently own, suggesting they know where to find the South Park creators.
Younus Abdullah Muhammad, head of Revolution Muslim, said the post was not a threat.
"How is that a threat? Showing a case study right there of what happened to another individual who conducted himself in a very similar manner? It's just evidence," he told Reuters.
Muhammad said his group "didn't tell anyone to go to their houses and conduct violence."
He added he is not worried the post would lead to violence against Parker or Stone.
The episode in question aired last week on Comedy Central.
The cable channel declined to comment.
- Reuters
Close to nothing right? This only what highlights the call that this was a direct threat and only in order to suits their needs?
Now here is the typical response that media like this breeds – However we do want to continue a discussion that will open not a clash of civilizations but an opportunity for understanding which is apparent from efforts to establish dialog.
While thousands of calls came in threatening us, and saying nothing intelligent at all in opposition, many voiced their opposition intelligently, and we can understand many of the positions. We had many intelligent conversations around this controversy and one is included below to display the way that we can discuss the events and circumstances of the age.
Here is a sample of one of the critical but productive e-mails we received:
I forwarded your recent email about the South Park issue to everyone I know, along with this preface:
Hello,
A U.S.-based Islamic fundamentalist organization called Revolution Muslim is getting a lot of media attention lately due to what most perceive as thinly veiled threats posted on their website against the creators of South Park. These threats were allegedly made in retaliation for mocking the Prophet Mohammed in a recent episode of the show. If you haven't already heard about this issue, you can catch up on it here.
I contacted Revolution Muslim months ago, long before they made headlines in connection with the South Park issue, and have been on their mailing list (using an alternate name and email address) for months. I learned of their existence when I saw an extremely alarming television news report in which members of the group were shown preaching hatred against the United States on a street corner near the largest mosque in New York City. It is a marvel to most people, including me, that such unambiguously treasonous hate-mongering is protected as free-speech in the United States, but Revolution Muslim gets away with it because they are careful not to say anything that is illegal under current laws.
In response to what they regard as unbalanced mainstream media coverage of the South Park issue, Revolution Islam sent out an email today in order to tell their side of the story. I'm sure most people will agree with me that the author writes well, and presents his point of view intelligently. Many will also agree with much of what he has to say about U.S. foreign policy, and some will share my odd admiration for his tenacity and courage. However, I predict that almost nobody will fail to be horrified, as I am, by his narrow conception of free speech, and by his eagerness to condone a literal interpretation of the Koran's commandments regarding how to deal with those who insult the Prophet.
Before reading the email, I would like anyone who is prone to stereotyping all Muslims as terrorists to note that the author addresses many of his criticisms toward other Muslims, the majority of whom are evidently too moderate for his taste. This is a clear indication that Revolution Muslim does not speak for mainstream Islam, though I admit they may speak for what a dangerously large minority seem to think of as pure Islam.
You will never get this kind of "in-depth coverage" unless you dig deeper than what CNN and Fox choose to report. This should be highly illuminating for everybody.
I have questions:
1.) Given that the Koran clearly and unambiguously calls for killing anyone who insults the Prophet, would you personally kill Matt Stone and/or Trey Parker given the chance? If your answer is no, how do you justify your answer in light of your insistence on adhering to the letter of Islamic law?
2.) What if Matt Stone and Trey Parker expressed a willingness to engage in peaceful dialogue with Muslims regarding the matter of free speech, but stopped short of repenting for their depiction of the Prophet? Would Koranic law still require that they die?
3.) What is your opinion of depictions of the Prophet in general, as in art works that attempt to render him respectfully?
Thank you for the email update. I do not agree with all your principles, but I do admire that you stick up for them in the face of so much opposition.
... To conclude, despite the latest efforts to silence Muslims, and utilize Gestapo like tactics to intimidate and coerce, every Muslim is under an obligation to stand up in an era of US terrorism... we continue to seek dialogue with any interested and will fight these atrocious claims considering them part and parcel of the War on Islam and the Messegers (Peace be Upon them All). Feel free to contact us with any inquisitions at islampolicy@gmail.com
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