USA’s freedom of expression doesn’t apply to muslims. A courageous man who was imprisoned for speaking the truth.
Tarek Mehanna: punished for speaking truth to power
If Mehanna is a terrorist conspirator for advocating resistance to US military occupation, then so am I, a Marine veteran
The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case
Read the eloquent statement of American Born Tarek Mehanna at his sentencing.
An American Former Congresswoman’s brave tale. A long read, but a very enlightening one. A perspective on how israel’s minions control the United States. Also, the quote about the Balkanization of muslim states such as Sudan (Pakistanis would do well to remember our situation vis a vis Baluchistan).
Some Quotes,
“People must not be afraid. Please don’t be afraid.”
“It all started with a fax,” she told me. As a candidate for the US Congress, she received a fax from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “The fax was a pledge stating that as a candidate I would commit my tenure, should I win, to the military superiority of Israel, to Jerusalem as the capital city, to continued aid at the level requested by Israel. There were around five to seven points on this piece of paper and I didn’t sign it.” This was in 1992. Most people, she said, do sign it and that is how politicians get money for their campaign. “I didn’t sign it; I didn’t really understand how Washington DC works, so I didn’t get any money for my campaign. I was able to win but I won with nothing. Then the fact that I didn’t sign the pledge kept coming up over and over and over again. So I knew that this document that I had balled up and thrown away was really very important.”
From the moment that she refused to sign the pro-Israel pledge, claims McKinney, “war was declared on me”. She did not realise the extent to which that was going to resound in her life. “I would get phone calls from people saying they wanted to throw a fundraiser for me and then I’d say fantastic and we’d start planning it and then the question would be asked ‘did you sign the pledge?’” She’d say no and then it was, “well then I can’t do a fundraiser for you.” And that was the way it went. “A lawsuit was filed against the district that elected me. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court.” Later she found out that the Anti-Defamation League, a notoriously pro-Israel group, had been involved in filing the brief: “Clearly, the ADL didn’t forget that I hadn’t signed the pledge.”
Came across an interesting article in DAWN,
A doctor who prescribes a dose of Quranic verses
A wonderful marriage of the physical sciences with spiritual healing. No compromise made to the medical treatment. Spiritual healing not used as a substitute to professional medical treatment and yet in perfect harmony with modern healthcare, Surah Al-Rahman from the Holy Quran brings healing and health to patients.
Also, the doctor talks about the need for young doctors to educate themselves about the composition of poisonous pills. The need for a helpline & monitoring cell for toxicology to be available to all
Excerpt,
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“During the treatment of Abbas, Surah Al-Rehman was continuously played by his bedside and this worked as a wonder antidote,” he said.Interestingly, Dr Javed is neither a cleric nor a faith-healer. He has a distinguished record as a medical practitioner as his visiting card shows — MBBS, FCPS (Pakistan), FCCS (USA) and FDM (USA). Currently, he is the head of the Services Hospital’s ICU and a consultant physician and intensivist.
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Came across this while browsing Yahoo News. Hajj is being streamed by Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information’s YouTube channel. The stream can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/hajjlive
Source
Google Blog
Glenn Greenwald lays bare the double standards of American media. See transcipt/video @
Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media’s Double Standard on “Terrorism”
Some quotes,
And it just struck me that when we think that Muslims are responsible for violence aimed at Western nations, it receives a huge amount of attention in the American media, and yet when the United States brings violence on that level to Muslim countries, kills an equal number of civilians, dozens of people killed by drone attacks and the like, and tons of people killed that way over Afghanistan over the past decade, it barely registers. I mean, an attack like this, this level of death in Iraq, for example, or Afghanistan, would barely register on the media scale.
Bush official + Fox News,
Well, unsurprisingly, if you combine a Bush terrorism official with Fox News, you’re going to get what you got there, which is too many factually false statements to even count. But I’ll just highlight a couple of them.
On the propaganda against Muslims
But the idea that Islamic terrorism is some sort of unique threat is completely belied by the E.U.’s own statistic. This idea of equating Muslims with terrorism is an incredibly propagandistic and deceitful term. The idea is to suggest that, as several of your guests were saying, that Islam is some sort of existential threat to Western civilization, to Europe and the like, and it’s propagated with this myth that terrorism is an Islamic problem. And that’s why the idea that the establishment media in the United States and in political circles equates terrorism, as a matter of definition, with violence by Muslims is so problematic, because it promotes this lie that terrorism is a function of Islamic ideology.
The lack of scrutiny of the inspiration for these murderers
That you would think that—you would think that in response to this attack, we would end up doing things like, for example, profiling Nordic males or tall, blond Americans, tall, blond, Nordic-looking people at airports, or would start to, for example, engage in surveillance on the communications of people who belong to right-wing groups in Europe, or you look at the people who inspire these attacks, people like Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller, people who engage in this sort of strident anti-Muslim commentary who inspired this individual.
Peter King Hearings & Islamophobia under the garb of terrorism hearings
And you would expect that Peter King’s hearings, if he were really interested in the threat of violence or terrorism, would be expanded to include what we now know is a very real threat, and yet it isn’t, which simply underscores that those hearings, like so many of these measures done in the name of terrorism, is really just a vehicle for demonizing Muslims, restricting their rights, subjecting them to increased scrutiny. It’s about Islamophobia and not about terrorism.
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And yet, the minute that it turned out that the perpetrator wasn’t Muslim, but instead was this right-wing figure, the exact opposite view arose, which is, “Oh, his views and associations aren’t relevant. It’s not fair to attribute or to blame people who share his views or who inspired him with these acts.” And it got depicted as being this sort of individual crazy person with no broader political meaning, and media interest disappeared. It’s exactly the opposite of how it’s treated when violence is undertaken by someone who’s Muslim.
Who is it that will lend unto Allah a goodly loan, so that He may give it increase manifold? Allah straiteneth and enlargeth. Unto Him ye will return.
Surah Al-Baqara – Verse 245 (English Translation: Pickthal)
This is not a fictional work but a real incident. A story about a kitchen help/dishwasher woman in Lahore, Pakistan. A poor woman. One day, in the holy month of Ramadan (i.e. the month of fasting), she ran out of flour (atta) for her family. The family started the day by fasting and the woman left for work not knowing where her next meal would come from. She didn’t ask her employers for help. Her predicament remained. Out on the road, she came across a flour van/truck. In the month of Ramadan, people are more generous and give food items such as flour bags. There were others on the road, but for some reason, the man in the van singled her out and gave her a sack of flour. She put the sack on her head and headed home breathing a sigh of relief. On the road, she met a woman with a crying child. It turned out that the woman and child were hungry and had no food. Moved by the sight, she handed over the flour sack to the other woman. (She had a family, husband, children of her own to feed. She was poor and yet she helped someone she deemed more needy than her. Put yourself in her shoes. How many can make such a decision when hunger threatens you and your loved ones?) She resumed her journey home empty-handed fraught with worry. What would her children, her family say when they found out what she had done? How would she feed her family?
She entered her house and what did she see? There were TWO sacks of flour. “HOW?” She asked. Turns out, her husband, who was a laborer on daily wages, went to work. Being the month of giving and charity, the man who hired the laborers for work only took labor for half a day instead of the full day, gave the laborers Rs 250 apiece as well as two sacks of flour to every one.
A poor woman in need found the generosity to make such a big sacrifice and she was rewarded and fed in such an unexpected way. When we give, we get returns in this life in so many ways even if we may fail to recognize those returns. The returns can come in many forms and manners. But, the reward that awaits the sincere charitable people in the after life – one can only imagine their wonderful returns.
Sahih Muslim
Book 041, Number 6904:
Thauban reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake. And I have seen its eastern and western ends. And the dominion of my Ummah would reach those ends which have been drawn near me and I have been granted the red and the white treasure and I begged my Lord for my Ummah that it should not be destroyed because of famine, nor be dominated by an enemy who is not amongst them to take their lives and destroy them root and branch, and my Lord said: Muhammad, whenever I make a decision, there is none to change it. Well, I grant you for your Ummah that it would not be destroyed by famine and it would not be dominated by an enemy who would not be amongst it and would take their lives and destroy them root and branch even if all the people from the different parts of the world join hands together (for this purpose), but it would be from amongst them, viz. your Ummah, that some people would kill the others or imprison the others.
(English Translation: Abdul Hamid Siddiqui)
A nice read I came across on OnIslam.net
Read full article @ Living a Single Life
By Fatimah Asmaal
Snippet
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Therefore, we also have to remember that just as marriage is an integral part of faith, so is exercising trust in and patience with the decree of Allah, All-Wise. We have to realize that — ultimately — if we are still unmarried, it is simply because Almighty Allah has willed that we be single at this point in time. We have to opt for one of two choices: to lose sleep over it, beat ourselves up everyday, and feel really sorry for ourselves, or to realize that the time we have in our hands is a gift from our Lord and a trust from Him that should not to be wasted in counterproductive thoughts and futile tears and fears.Having come to grasp the value of time, we have to start spending it in the most beneficial way.
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Sahih Muslim, Book 016, Number 4160:
Abu Bakra reported that (in the Farewell Address) Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Time has completed a cycle and come to the state of the day when Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year is constituted of twelve months, of which four are sacred; three of them consecutive, viz. Dhu’l-Qa’da, Dhu’l- Hijja and Muharram, and also Rajab the month of Mudar which comes between Jumada and Sha’ban. He (the Holy Prophet) then said: which month is this? We said Allah and His Messenger know best. He (the narrator) said: He (the Holy Prophet) remained silent for some time until we thought that he would give it a name other than that (by which it was known). He said: Is it not Dha’l-Hijja? We said: Yes. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Which city is this? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He (the Holy Prophet remained silent until we thought that he would give it another name. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Is it not the Balda (the city of Mecca)? We said: Yes. He said: What day is this? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He (the Holy Prophet) remained silent until we thought that he would give it another name. He said: Is it not the Day of Sacrifice? We said: Allah’s Messenger. yes. Thereupon he said: Your blood, your property (Muhammad, one of the narrators, said: I think, he also said this) and your honour are sacred to you like the sacredness of this day of yours, in this city of yours, and in this month of yours. You will soon meet your Lord and He will ask you about your deeds. So do not turn after me unbelievers (or misguided), some of you striking the necks of the others. Behold I let him who is present convey to him who is absent, for many a one whom a message is conveyed has a more retentive memory than one who hears. He again said: Behold! have I not delivered (the message) to you? This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters, but with a slight variation of words.
I previously blogged about Madinah Arabic here.
The site has gone through a major update. The site can be accessed at
www.madinaharabic.com
There are still lessons that are not available yet, but they are slightly more advanced & come later. The beginning lessons for arabic reading/language should keep a learner well occupied. The layout has been changed as well as new features added.
