Narrated By
Abu Mas'ud Al-Ansari:
The Prophet said,
"When a Muslim spends something on his
family intending to
receive Allah's reward
it is regarded as
Sadaqa for him".
Sahih Bukhari Volume 007,
Book 064, Hadith Number 263.
Muslim Responses to the 9.11 Attacks
by New Trend research team
Muslim responses can be divided into two main segments:
Muslim intellectuals, Iranians and non-Fighting Muslim
Groups.
It was done by the "Jews." Jews did not turn up for work
on 9/11 at the towers. Some Jews were seen laughing and
filming when the attacks were underway.
It was done by Bush. It was like the Reichstag fire. He
wanted to be Hitler.
Muslims can't fly big planes. How could they have done
it? Big planes cannot fly that low and make such steep
turns.
Osama was on Dialysis and he died in 2001.
Dynamite had been placed in the buildings. Planes
couldn't have done it. Steel can't melt.
The planes were dummies to cover up the "insider" attack.
US air force could have shot down the planes. Owing to
"conspiracy: they were not shot down.
Hijackers were not good Muslims. One of them was in a
night club the night before.
If a plane hit the Pentagon, why can't we see it.
Building number seven was not hit. It was blown up.
Perhaps the others were too.
None of the mujahideen groups have denied that it was
done by 19 Islamic fighters.
None of Osama's closest fighters have denied it.
Osama's closest friend, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, now leads
al-Qaida and has not denied the role of the 19.
Osama's son, Omar, has stated that the story of Osama's
dialysis and dying in 2001 or 2002 is totally false.
Osama's wives were with him when he was killed by US
Special Forces in Abbottabad. In all these years, Osama
never denied his role in the attacks other than one earlier
attempt to underplay his role.
Khalid Shaykh Muhammad and Ramzi al-Shibh are in US
custody and from whatever has come out till now have not
denied that the armed Islamic group known as al-Qaida did
it.
ISIS, which is very critical of al-Qaida, and is trying
to compete with it and even to replace it, has not denied
the role of al-Qaida and Osama.
[New Trend's understanding is that after delivering such a
devastating blow, Osama thought that the Muslim world would
rise up against America. He did not realize that most
Muslims are not willing or able to fight, though the numbers
of fighters are steadily increasing now. In fact American
attacks on and occupation of Muslim countries have brought
more people towards Osama's agenda than the 9.11 attacks.
The attacks did remove the fear of American power from the
minds of Muslim masses. The ongoing resistance in Syria,
Iraq and Afghanistan and now in Somalia and Nigeria has
permanently established Osama as the hero in Muslim minds
and as the villain in western minds....Editor
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia hosting 2.5 million Syrians.
by Dr. Shahid Qureshi, London.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not intend to speak about
its efforts to support Syrian brothers and sisters, during
their distress, as it has, since the beginning of the
problem, dealt with the situation from a religious and
humane perspective, and did not wish to boast about its
efforts or attempt to gain media coverage, an official
source of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, adding that
media reports have contained erroneous and misleading
information, and the Kingdom now considers it important to
discuss its efforts with appropriate facts and figures.
The official source explained that the following actions
have been taken by the Kingdom:
The Kingdom has received around 2.5 million Syrians since
the beginning of the conflict. In order to ensure their
dignity and safety, the Kingdom adopted a policy that does
not treat them as refugees or place them in refugee camps.
They have been given the freedom to move about the country
and those who wish to remain in Saudi Arabia (some hundreds
of thousands) have been given legal residency status "like
the remaining residents." Their residency comes with the
rights to receive free medical care, to join the labor
market and to attend schools and universities. This was
contained in a royal decree in 2012 that instructed public
schools to accept Syrian students. According to government
statistics, the public school system has accepted more than
100,000 Syrian students.
The Kingdom's efforts were not limited to accepting our
Syrian brothers and sisters after their crisis; it also
extended its efforts to support and care for millions of
Syrian refugees in neighboring countries such as Jordan,
Lebanon and others. Efforts included providing them with
humanitarian assistance, in coordination with the host
governments and with international human aid organizations.
Aid was provided, in cash and kind.
The aid provided by Saudi Arabia to the Syrian people
totals around $700 million, according to the statistics of
the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for
Syria, which took place in Kuwait on March 31, 2015.
Government aid and aid provided by the National Campaign,
are included in that number.
Humanitarian aid provided to Syrians by the Kingdom
consisted of food, medical, academic, residential supplies
and included the establishment of Saudi specialized clinics
in refugee camps, especially at Zaatari Camp in Jordan. The
Kingdom was able to provide medical care in the form of
immunization, preventive treatment and medical procedures.
In addition, Saudi Arabia sponsored a large number of Syrian
families living in Lebanon and Syria (specifically, through
paying for their rent and living costs).
The ministry official concluded by stating that: It is
apparent from the previous facts, that the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia will remain a leader among other countries supporting
Syrian people and it is impossible to outbid its efforts in
this matter, or to question its position in any way or form,
the statement concluded.
It is to be noted that some elements were criticizing KSA
for not doing enough for the Syrian refugee but they never
questioned why Syrians have become refugees and what Iran
and others have done?
Palestine
SHOCKER: United Electrical Workers Union Embraces
Anti-Israel BDS!
From Br. Rich [Nebraska]
Who are the People who did a Smear Job on Dr. Kaukab
Siddique in the July 22 issue of the Daily Beast?
by Nadrat Siddique
Evidently the Zionists continue to be irked by Dr.
Siddique's strong stance on Palestine, the Zionist
stranglehold on the U.S., and its connections with American
racism. It seems they were monitoring his (very public) face
book page, and noticed
postings they thought they could pull out of context, and
use to discredit and remove the professor from his teaching
position at a Pennsylvania university. After the period of
monitoring, the Daily Beast, on July 22, published an
inflammatory article on Dr.
Siddique's alleged misogyny and anti-semitism. The article
drew from Siddique's facebook page, as well as from an
interview he granted the Daily Beast.
The Daily Beast is an on-line Zionist newsmagazine known for
its sensationalized reporting. It was founded by one Tina
Brown, who was previously editor of Vanity Fair and also of
the New
Yorker. The current editor-in-chief, John Avlon, was
previously speechwriter for then
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Avlon is also currently a
political commentator for CNN. All of these are New
York-based
Zionists, heavily enmeshed in the power structure, who
support Israel, while also maintaining the racist status quo
within U.S. borders.)
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Activity in Masjid Rahma, West
Baltimore: Multi-colored 4-Page Document
On September 11, after juma', 100 Muslims received a
beautifully arranged 4-pager [organized by Sis. Kristi] .
This is Masjid Rahma in West Baltimore. Most of the people
were Indo-Pakistani, with some African Americans and a few
Arabs.
The four pages were:
Sis. Karin's article on Germany's generous reception of
Syrian refugees.
Boycott of Israel-related goods and scanning numbers to
look for.
Br. Kaukab's khutba against all kinds of slavery and in
support of modesty.
Br. Kaukab's research item on wife's right to khula
divorce without husband's interference.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Activity in Baltimore's Inner City
On September 11, 2015 two Jamaat al-Muslimeen documents were
given to 40 African American Muslims at an Islamic center
located at Hilton and North avenue [Baltimore inner city]
known as Islamic Culotural Community Center.
One document , 34 pages by Nadrat Siddique, was about the
Baltimore uprising against police violence. It indicates the
lack of basic human rights in the inner city and the
continuing struggle for justice. It includes a unique
interview Sis. Nadrat conducted with a female Black Panther
activists who lives in the area of the conflict.
The second document includes a khutba by Imam Khalil Abdur
Rahman given at the JAM masjid against the supreme court's
ruling on homosex plus the surprising new offensive by ISIS
plus discussion of the Confederate flag by Sis. Aisha and
Sis. Karin's comparison of the Charleston tragedy with the
marathon bombing.
The imam of the masjid was very gracious and in his khutba
came out against "gay marriage." He taught that we should at
not be looking critically at each other's dress. Keep your
eyes down. The booklet on Baltimore was well received. Its
an enlightened community.
Analysis
Iran: The Elephant in the Room. Republicans & Netanyahoo no
Match for Obama.
Why is US-Iran deal so Important for both Sides?
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
President Obama has worked hard to make the Iran deal a
success. His most serious challenge came from Netanyahoo who
had the gall to come to America and mobilize Congress
against Obama. After a couple of weeks of counter work by
Obama, almost the entire Jewish leadership is supporting
Obama. The chances that the Iran deal will not be passed are
becoming remoter by the day. How did he carry out this
brilliant coup against intense Israeli opposition? Here is
his modus operandi step by step:
Obama has re-assured Israel that USA will not only, as
usual, guarantee Israel's security, it will transfer huge
new amounts of the latest weaponry to Israel.
If Iran tries tricks, the military option is very much
there, both from USA and Israel.
It's quite clear that Iran has no nuclear weapons ability
right now and won't have any even if there were no deal.
Iran can provide the boots -on- the -ground in fighting
ISIS and al-Nusra which the US can no longer risk.
Iran is the bitter, relentless, enemy of all mujahideen
movements, in particular ISIS and al-Nusra. Already Iran is
deeply involved in the fighting in both Iraq and Syria.
Iranian generals have been killed fighting the Islamic
forces in both countries. Suleimani, Iran's top expert in
fighting mujahideen, has been active, though for the time
being the mujahideen have thwarted his projects.
Iranian elites are thoroughly westernized though the core
Imam Khomeini groups are still active. As Iran opens up to
the West, the Islamic core will be so eroded that there will
be no need for the western powers to oppose Iran.
Owing to muta [temporary marriage] Iranian women, in
large numbers, are turning against Shiism
Iran is quite isolated from the Muslim ummah. It's
supporters are non-Muslims, Russia and India, as well as
Shia extremists in Pakistan. Naturally, Iran will turn for
support to the West, not to the Muslim world.
Even Saudi Arabia has been persuaded by Obama [see King
Salman's meeting with Obama] that the real issue is ISIS and
al-Qaida and the Iran deal should be supported. Anti-Shia
rhetoric coming out of Saudi Arabia is meant to pre-empt the
much stronger anti-Shia rhetoric coming out of ISIS.
The ISIS caliphate must be de-legitimized. Already
Muslims from all over the world are going to its support. If
ISIS is not demonized, ISIS will emerge as a world power for
Islam. It not only has to be opposed but destroyed by the
use of overwhelming military action. [Saudi has mobilized
its clergy to condemn ISIS as "khawarij."]
American Muslims should understand that America controls
Israel. Most of us have been fooled into thinking that
Israel controls America. Notice how easily Obama is
defeating Netanyahoo. International Jewry knows that any
REAL weakening in US support for Israel will lead to an
exodus FROM Israel.
As the Islamic fighting forces get stronger, America will
become more pro-Palestine and will insist on a two state
solution, which is a polite recognition of Israel as
legitimate by the Palestinians. Don't be fooled: There is
nothing to be gained by attaining a demilitarized rump
Palestinian "state" controlled by Israel.
The two state solution is a trick to calm down Muslim
opposition to Israel and America.
The Jewish power structure knows that ISIS and al-Qaida
actually believe in the hadith that in the final battle even
the rocks will cry out: "there is a Jew hiding behind me."
Iran has never been a danger for Israel. Look at the
prosperous Jewish community in Iran.
Spotlights & Guidance
Are we going to let the West take care of our people? What's
our duty?
When you care for others, you are caring for
yourself.
The best response and answer to the refugee's issues
is to serve the refugees in their own countries or the
neighboring countries.
The rich and wealthy countries in the Middle East
have the ability to take the initiative in dealing with the
issue of the refugees, but they fail to do so.
Why are the Muslim and Arab regimes, organizations,
agencies, institutions and scholars not putting the effort
in dealing with the refugee affairs?
I never thought that the Arab and Muslim regimes or
organizations would do anything about the refugees because
they failed to answer the Palestinian refugee issue.
It will be sad if they allow or open the citizens of
the Muslim countries to seek a refugee status in the west.
All of them will leave with the exception of the royal
families and the ones who are benefitting from them.
It's a sad thing that in this world nowadays that
when people deal with political prisoners, they don't deal
with it as a humanitarian or an Islamic issue. They consider
it an individual issue and it is up to the prisoner's family
to do what it takes.
Here in America, it is not ethical for those who
serve the masjid or part of the administration to use the
masjid to achieve their own personal interests.
Here in America, the education system will take care
of your son or daughter if they are achievers. So help them
to achieve.
Imam Badi Ali leads a large Muslim community in Greensboro,
NC.
PAKISTAN
Pakistan's secret dirty war: Horrific Crimes by the Military
are destroying National Unity.
[With thanks to Shaikh Mohomed in London.]
In Balochistan, mutilated corpses bearing the signs of
torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and
farm workers. Why is no one investigating and what have they
got to do with the bloody battle for Pakistan's largest
province?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/balochistan-pakitans-secret-dirty-war Declan Walsh guardian.co.uk, Tuesday
29 March 2011 23.00 BST
The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the
dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week,
dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing
the scars of great cruelty. Arms and legs are snapped; faces
are bruised and swollen. Flesh is sliced with knives or
punctured with drills; genitals are singed with electric
prods. In some cases the bodies are unrecognisable,
sprinkled with lime or chewed by wild animals. All have a
gunshot wound in the head.
This gruesome parade of corpses has been surfacing in
Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province, since last July.
Several human rights groups, including Amnesty
International, have accounted for more than 100 bodies -
lawyers, students, taxi drivers, farm workers. Most have
been tortured. The last three were discovered on Sunday. If
you have not heard of this epic killing spree, though, don't
worry: neither have most Pakistanis. Newspaper reports from
Balochistan are buried quietly on the inside pages, cloaked
in euphemisms or, quite often, not published at all.
The forces of law and order also seem to be curiously
indifferent to the plight of the dead men. Not a single
person has been arrested or prosecuted; in fact, police
investigators openly admit they are not even looking for
anyone. The stunning lack of interest in Pakistan's greatest
murder mystery in decades becomes more understandable,
however, when it emerges that the prime suspect is not some
shady gang of sadistic serial killers, but the country's
powerful military and its unaccountable intelligence
men.
This is Pakistan's dirty little war. While foreign attention
is focused on the Taliban, a deadly secondary conflict is
bubbling in Balochistan, a sprawling, mineral-rich province
along the western borders with Afghanistan and Iran. On one
side is a scrappy coalition of guerrillas fighting for
independence from Pakistan; on the other is a powerful army
that seeks to quash their insurgency with maximum prejudice.
The revolt, which has been rumbling for more than six years,
is spiced by foreign interests and intrigues - US spy bases,
Chinese business, vast underground reserves of copper, oil
and gold.
And in recent months it has grown dramatically worse. At the
airport in Quetta, the provincial capital, a brusque man in
a cheap suit marches up to my taxi with a rattle of
questions. "Who is this? What's he doing here? Where is he
staying?" he asks the driver, jerking a thumb towards me.
Scribbling the answers, he waves us on. "Intelligence," says
the driver.
The city itself is tense, ringed by jagged, snow-dusted
hills and crowded with military checkposts manned by the
Frontier Corps (FC), a paramilitary force in charge of
security. Schools have recently raised their walls;
sand-filled Hesco barricades, like the ones used in Kabul
and Baghdad, surround the FC headquarters. In a restaurant
the waiter apologises: tandoori meat is off the menu because
the nationalists blew up the city's gas pipeline a day
earlier. The gas company had plugged the hole that morning,
he explains, but then the rebels blew it up again.
The home secretary, Akbar Hussain Durrani, a neatly suited,
well-spoken man, sits in a dark and chilly office. Pens,
staplers and telephones are neatly laid on the wide desk
before him, but his computer is blank. The rebels have blown
up a main pylon, he explains, so the power is off. Still, he
insists, things are fine. "The government agencies are
operating in concert, everyone is acting in the best public
interest," he says. "This is just a . . . political
problem." As we speak, a smiling young man walks in and
starts to take my photo; I later learn he works for the
military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency.
We cut across the city, twisting through the backstreets, my
guide glancing nervously out the rear window. The car halts
before a tall gate that snaps shut behind us. Inside, a
55-year-old woman named Lal Bibi is waiting, wrapped in a
shawl that betrays only her eyes, trembling as she holds
forth a picture of her dead son Najibullah. The 20-year-old,
who ran a shop selling motorbike parts, went missing last
April after being arrested at an FC checkpost, she says. His
body turned up three months later, dumped in a public park
on the edge of Quetta, badly tortured. "He had just two
teeth in his mouth," she says in a voice crackling with
pain. She turns to her father, a turbaned old man sitting
beside her, and leans into his shoulder. He grimaces.
Bibi says her family was probably targeted for its
nationalist ties - Najibullah's older brother, now dead, had
joined the "men in the mountains" years earlier, she says.
Now a nephew, 28-year-old Maqbool, is missing. She prays for
him, regularly calling the hospitals for any sign of him
and, occasionally, the city morgues. Over a week of
interviews in Karachi and Quetta, I meet the relatives of
seven dead men and nine "disappeared" - men presumed to have
been abducted by the security forces. One man produces a
mobile phone picture of the body of his 22-year-old cousin,
Mumtaz Ali Kurd, his eyes black with swelling and his shirt
drenched in blood. A relative of Zaman Khan, one of three
lawyers killed in the past nine months, produces court
papers. A third trembles as he describes finding his
brother's body in an orchard near Quetta.
Patterns emerge. The victims were generally men between 20
and 40 years old - nationalist politicians, students,
shopkeepers, labourers. In many cases they were abducted in
broad daylight - dragged off buses, marched out of shops,
detained at FC checkposts - by a combination of uniformed
soldiers and plain-clothes intelligence men. Others just
vanished. They re-emerge, dead, with an eerie tempo -
approximately 15 bodies every month, although the average
was disturbed last Saturday when eight bodies were found in
three locations across Balochistan.
Activists have little doubt who is behind the atrocities.
Human Rights Watch says "indisputable" evidence points to
the hand of the FC, the ISI and its sister agency, Military
Intelligence. A local group, Voice for Missing Persons, says
the body count has surpassed 110. "This is becoming a state
of terror," says its chairman, Naseerullah Baloch.
The army denies the charges, saying its good name is being
blemished by impersonators. "Militants are using FC uniforms
to kidnap people and malign our good name," says Major
General Obaid Ullah Khan Niazi, commander of the 46,000 FC
troops stationed in Balochistan. "Our job is to enforce the
law, not to break it."
Despairing relatives feel cornered. Abdul Rahim, a farmer
wearing a jewelled skullcap, is from Khuzdar, a hotbed of
insurgent violence. He produces court papers detailing the
abduction of his son Saadullah in 2009. First he went to the
courts but then his lawyer was shot dead. Then he went to
the media but the local press club president was killed.
Now, Rahim says, "nobody will help in case they are targeted
too. We are hopeless."
Balochistan has long been an edgy place. Its vast, empty
deserts and long borders are a magnet for provocateurs of
every stripe. Taliban fighters slip back and forth along the
800-mile Afghan border; Iranian dissidents hide inside the
570-mile frontier with Iran. Drug criminals cross the border
from Helmand, the world's largest source of heroin, on their
way to Iran or lonely beaches on the Arabian Sea. Wealthy
Arab sheikhs fly into remote airstrips on hunting
expeditions for the houbara bustard, a bird they believe
improves their lovemaking. At Shamsi, a secretive airbase in
a remote valley in the centre of the province, CIA
operatives launch drones that attack Islamists in the tribal
belt.
The US spies appreciate the lack of neighbours - Balochistan
covers 44% of Pakistan yet has half the population of
Karachi. The province's other big draw is its natural
wealth. At Reko Diq, 70 miles from the Afghan border, a
Canadian-Chilean mining consortium has struck gold,
big-time. The Tethyan company has discovered 4bn tonnes of
mineable ore that will produce an estimated 200,000 tonnes
of copper and 250,000 ounces of gold per year, making it one
of the largest such mines in the world. Distributed in UK:
Society for the propagation of truth
Our America
Delaware
Emerging Challenges Facing Muslims in the USA
by Nasim Hassan, Delaware, USA
The straws in the wind indicate the upcoming storm. There is
a rising tide of hate crimes and discrimination in North
America. This started after sad September 11 episode and
continues unabated till today. Sometimes it manifests itself
as anti Sharia laws in various states and at other times it
shows as Hate Rallies.
The recent "Draw Muhammad" Contest in Garland Texas
indicates the well planned anti Islam campaign spreading
across the USA. Pamela Geller who organized this contest is
the same person who initiated the protest against Park51
Islamic center in New York
Muslim immigrants living in the USA are proud of their
Eastern values, strong family ties and long-term
relationships. They believe that living in America will not
impact them or their next generation.
However, the reality has started to dawn and now I see no
difference between the life challenges, hopes and dreams of
Muslims and common
American people.
In this write up I like to highlight the upcoming challenges
for Muslims with strong belief in common sense of American
people and judicial system. Although the system works the
Muslims in North America must make efforts to create a
positive image by their practical example. In fact the USA
provides more basic human freedoms as compared to many
Muslim countries. Recognizing the upcoming challenges listed
below is the first step in a long journey.
Islamophobia
Muslims should recognize the rising tide of Islamophobia in
the radio talk shows, negative portrayal of Muslims in the
Hollywood films and some award winning television shows such
as Homeland. The image of American Muslims continues to
decline in the news media. Let us accept the fact that the
general public does not receive the counter narrative from
Muslims. There is hardly a radio, television or newspaper
articles showing the positive side of Muslims as law abiding
citizens.
It is a very difficult task indeed to create quality radio
or television programs without proper training or
experience. Even then I believe that Islamic centers all
across the USA can create a positive image by opening their
doors to American people. This communication must continue
in the work place without any hesitation.
Contrary to common perceptions there is no specific dress
for Muslim women or men. In fact it would be difficult for
anyone to recognize working Muslims from ordinary Americans
walking in the shopping malls or amusement parks. Some
conservative Muslims certainly wear Arab dress and become
focus of attention.
Discrimination and Hate Crimes
There has been a gradual increase in hate crimes against
Muslims after 9/11. The murder of three Muslims in Chapel
Hill, NC is a recent example of hate crime. I foresee a
major problem of discrimination against Muslims in a
shrinking economy and growing budget deficits. People with
Muslim sounding names are routinely separated at the airport
and checked. This trend will extend gradually to education,
business, jobs and social interaction.
Who is to blame for this growing problem? The Muslim
community leaders, common people and indeed all of us need
to think deeply about the long-term impact of this
discrimination. The religious leaders here have a special
responsibility. They have to project an image of Islam to
focus on peace, tolerance, charity and equality.
At present, this issue is not being properly addressed in
Islamic centers. There is a lot of emphasis on prayer
rituals and very little is being said about universal
message of Islam that recognizes all biblical prophets and
their teachings.
Muslim communities all across North America have to take a
proactive approach and condemn all acts that do not conform
to the spirit of Islam. If nothing is done at this stage
then gradually Muslims will suffer the consequences. At low
income there is no safety net in the USA. Below poverty
level people of all religions and ethnic background suffer
crime, drug abuse, malnutrition and diseases.
Divorce and separation
This issue is related to marriage. Our young people do not
interact in any forum. In fact the Islamic centers actively
discourage all kinds of social interaction. Even supervision
of adult mentors is not acceptable. In the schools,
universities and work place there is no segregation. This
creates a lot of confusion. In the older generation, the
father rules the house and the mom follows. Young people
start behaving like their parents and fail due to current
era of women's right, equality and freedom. The divorce rate
for Muslims is equal or more than that of common
Americans.
I have seen a number of mature South Asians getting divorce
after years of married life. Ordinarily, such separation or
divorce would not happen if they were living back home. Here
they are living away from their parents, relatives and
friends. There is no social intervention mechanism. Back
home the parents and friends listen to both sides. Then the
parents advise and reconcile the differences.
In the USA, the ladies talk to their friends and tell them
their side of the story. Their friends listen to only one
side of the story and give advice accordingly. The husband
tells his grievances to his friends and the same thing
happens. Ultimately the courts decide and lawyers make
money. I have seen people in their fifties getting divorce
with grown-up children.
Children simply cannot advise their parents and let them go
their own ways.
There is a pressing need for counseling services in the
Muslim community. Muslims do not like to spend money on
counseling or getting help from psychologists or
psychiatrists. They believe this activity is sheer waste of
money. So once the process starts there is only one
direction it can lead to.
Level of Education
The first generation of immigrants that landed in the USA in
the seventies has done very well. They saved money, educated
their kids and built Islamic centers. These people were
highly educated and understood the dynamics of success in a
foreign country.
In the next wave, a large number of people who came were not
professionals. These people worked very hard and made a
better life. However, their long working hours and pursuit
of monetary benefits resulted in the neglect of education
for their children.
The off-springs of the second wave immigrants are not
getting the quality education.
If the Muslim community has its eyes on progress then it
should work hard on the education of their children. In the
global village, the less educated people living in the USA
have to compete with highly educated people from developing
countries.
Growing Old in America
This is a very complex issue indeed. Muslims aging in
America have only Islamic centers and nothing else. In the
majority of Islamic centers, people come for prayers and
then quickly leave to take care of daily business. So there
are hardly any people during the day time. In Friday prayers
the people come from work and then quickly leave. Since the
majority of Muslims are young this issue does not receive
the attention it deserves.
There is no social or cultural forum or place where the
seniors can meet and spend time together. Frankly, the first
generation immigrants have not thought seriously about this
issue. They are capable of facilitating interaction,
communication and other activities to keep themselves busy
at this time. This problem will emerge when a large segment
of less educated immigrants starts to retire in this
country. It is my hope that immigrants form and develop
organizations to tackle this issue.
Conclusion
The first step in addressing any challenge is to recognize
the problem. The problem has already emerged in various
forms of prejudice and discrimination. Negative image of
Islam and Muslims has been steadily growing after the attack
on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
There are so many ways for Muslims in America to improve
this image. The best option and initiative in my opinion is
increased communication with fellow Americans on individual
and organizational level. People in the USA do not carry any
historical prejudice against Muslims. Let us all take a step
forward to create peace and harmony among people of all
religions, races, creed and color.
Los Angeles
As Families break up, the Poor are neglected.
(Courtesy sis. Hamdiya)
Eastern Kentucky
The Dilemma of Kim Davis: "Gays" want to display Private
life!
"I Wish I Could Decide Whether Or Not To Do My Job And Still
Get Paid!"
by Sis. Aisha [New York]
This was the sentiment callers expressed regarding elected
Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' anti-gay marriage stance, on the
WLIB 1190 AM Al Sharpton Show. Though many of these same
callers agreed with her beliefs, this is a Black Christian
radio station, they were quick to point out that she is an
elected official and MUST work for everyone.
Kim Davis' issue is that as an elected official, her name is
stamped on those marriage licenses. Though she does not have
to give out the marriage licenses to gay couples, her deputy
clerks have been doing that; her name stamped on these
certificates gives the impression she approves of gay
marriage. She was released from jail on September 8th and is
due to return to work Monday, September 14th. However, her
lawyers are trying to get an injunction to remove Kim Davis'
name from the marriage licenses issued to gay couples. The
removal of her name is unlikely, however.
Kim Davis is in a dither because she is a Christian but, she
works for a secular government. Kentucky is apart of the
Bible Belt but, its government officials were the ones who
pushed for Gay marriage. Were they Christian, too? I have no
idea but, their behavior does not follow Scripture. This is
the difficulty we all must face: How to practice our faith
in a land that threatens our way of life?
There is no such thing as "to you be your way and to me be
mine" with gays and their straight-allies!
I am glad people showed support for Davis. This rally let
the promosexuals know that there is opposition to their
efforts to ram their sin down our throats! The fact that the
Sodomites tried to stone Prophet Lut (pbuh), for merely
voicing opposition to their sexual preferences, should be
our clue to their inflexible and uncompromising views. They
are not the ones who are preaching that your sex life should
be kept private. LGBTQ are exhibitionists by "nature." They
are are not trying to live in this society as private
citizens. The gays are trying to control it. They are making
moves to create public unisex bathrooms because of the
transgendered!
However, from this country's insurrection, it was always
anti-God! The attempted annihilation of the Native Americans
for this land, the importation of Stolen Africans to till
this land, the killing off of wildlife to make even more
room for European settlers, etc. If you know America's
history, it should be of no surprise that homosexuals and
the Zionists are ruling the roost!
This is why practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims must
stay away from American politics. It values individual
rights over society's and it's capitalist economy thrives
off of greed - these ideas go against everything we're
taught in Scripture and Holy Qur'an!
Kim Davis may have to resign because she is apart of an
infrastructure that separates Church from State! You can't
even have a Ten Commandments billboard in a federal building
because of atheistic protests. Davis' "movement" would mean
more if the government were harassing her, on behalf of
gays, as a private citizen. I think it would gain more
traction, since these stories are becoming more common.
Americans are getting tired of these promosexual bully
pulpits!
The government, sports leagues, public school, mainstream
media...these are all entities that the oppressor controls.
These entities have rules that are written and unwritten
that ensure they always have power over their dominion. We
become a squirrel in their world. But, this is not a new
problem. What is ridiculous is a practicing Christian
working for a government that separates Church from State
and expecting officials to accommodate her beliefs. Muslim
employees have a hard enough time getting prayer breaks on
the job, in the private sector!
However, there are times when fighting to practice your
faith is important. Muhammad Ali's refusal to go to Vietnam
is an example of the government trying to impose its will on
a private citizen. Former NBA player Imam Mahmoud
'Abdul-Ra'uf abstained from coming out during the National
Anthem and was suspended. But, should any sports league make
saluting the American flag a requirement? Most sports
leagues also host events dedicated to military personnel. I
certainly don't agree with their hero status! The above
mentioned instances involved individuals being persecuted
for following their beliefs, which did not affect anyone
but, that individual.
Just as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has said: There is no
compromise with Islam. The Nation of Islam and Jehovah's
Witnesses have always had the "No Vote" philosophy.
Assimilation was never their goals. We should struggle to
follow suit.
War News
Syria
First UK drone attack on British citizens
by Sis. Karin Friedemann [Boston]
The UK just created history on 21 and 24 of August 2015 by
committing targeted assassinations of British citizens
residing in Syria using drone strike.
"Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan, 21, and Ruhul Amin, from
Aberdeen, died last month in Raqqa, alongside another
fighter, in the first targeted UK drone attack on a British
citizen, Cameron told MPs," reported the BBC.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34178998
The British government claims the lads had been plotting
"barbaric" attacks on UK soil and they had no other choice
but to kill them just in case. The media called Junaid
Hussain a "cyber jihadist" and pictured him with a rifle in
a photo.
Both Khan and Hussain had been involved in actively
recruiting IS "sympathisers" and plotting to attack
"high-profile public commemorations" taking place in the UK
this summer, the prime minister said.
"There was a terrorist directing murder on our streets and
no other means to stop him."
This makes no sense. He was overseas. They could have just
prevented them from returning to Britain, arrested him and
given him a trial. And what do they mean by attacking? Like
he might have gone there to pass out flyers about the Syrian
situation? What exactly. I guess we will never know since
he's dead. God rest his soul.
"Khan was killed in a precision strike on 21 August by a
remotely piloted aircraft, "after meticulous planning" by
the UK government, while he was travelling in a vehicle,"
reported BBC. Another British national, Junaid Hussain, 21
and from Birmingham, was killed in a separate air strike by
US forces in Raqqa on 24 August.
Two years ago, Britain refused to enter the war to help
Syrian refugees but last September approved British
participation in air strikes against IS targets in Iraq
only. This recent action is the first time Britain has
droned anyone at all in Syria, so it is interesting that
their first choice as a target was their own citizens. To
spare themselves the hassles of being prosecuted or
retaliated by a foreign government, the UK has simply taken
to using their own citizens for target practice overseas. I
guess that would limit the legal repercussions!
We do not know enough information right now to determine
whether the UK was just practicing their weaponry on some
soft targets or if any of the victims were potential
political activists in some way. Officials told the media
the UK would "act immediately [in Syria] and explain to
Parliament afterwards."
The strike on Khan was "the first time in modern times that
a British asset has been used to conduct a strike in a
country where we're not involved in a war", said Cameron.
"Britain has used remotely piloted aircraft in Iraq and
Afghanistan but this is a new departure and that's why I
thought it important to come to the House and explain why I
think it is necessary and justified."
Pakistan
US Drone strikes kill 22 Islamics: Bilawal Bhutto says Not
Enough. Peshawar Gun Fight.
On September 12, in south Waziristan a US drone strike
killed 7 and injured two fighters from the Khattab group.
Probably Pakistani military was guiding the strike because
it immediately announced that those involved were from those
who attacked the Pakistani military school in December.
Earlier on September 11, a US drone strike killed 15 Islamic
fighters, in South Waziristan, including two local
commanders. [Daily Dawn]
Also on September 12, in a gunfight in a suburb of Peshawar,
one Pakistani police officer was killed and 4 wounded. Two
of the "militants" were killed and one wounded.
In Lahore, Bilawal Bhutto, son of Benazir Bhutto, sharply
criticized the government for failure to crush the
"extremists" though military operations against them have
been going on for SEVEN years. He was addressing a farmer's
convention in Lahore. He lashed out at the Nawaz Sharif
government for not keeping promises to the people.
Afghanistan
65 Villages in Badakhshan Collapse To The Taliban
by Faridullah Hussainkhail
At least 65 villages in Raghistan district of Badakhshan
province have reportedly collapsed to the Taliban, local
officials said Thursday.
District Governor Rustam Khan Raghi confirmed this and said
that the villages collapsed to the insurgents over the past
two days.
According to Raghi, 25 additional troops have been sent in
to the district but no air support has been provided. Raghi
said that the Taliban has advanced close to the Raghistan
Bazar but clashes between security forces and the Taliban
have seemingly stopped
Syria
Al-Nusra Victory captures Assad Air Base: Heavy fighting
around Damascus. al-Zabadani 7th week.
ISIS Advancing towards major cities: Homs, Hama, and Marea
[Turkish-US safe area.]
Syria is ablaze with mujahideen sensing victory, trying to
enter Damascus. Shells are falling now in the center of the
city.
Hizbullah failed once again to capture al-Zabadani, Assad's
escape route through the Qalamoun mountains. Assad's
military hit it with 12 ground to ground missiles and 22
barrel bombs but could not expel mujahideen.
In Lattakia, the Alawite heartland, mujahideen are now
entrenched in several areas and Assad's air strikes are not
working.
Russian troops are pouring into Tartus. Russia is building a
vast runway to bring quick relief for Assad. Observers think
this is Assad's final hope. Will the Russian fire power
sweep away the Islamic fighters?
America too is trying to create a wedge in the north, Marea,
but ISIS is advancing on it.
Kurdish advances in the north east have come to a stand
still.
IRAQ - [Kurdish PKK in Iraq has killed scores of Turkish
police and soldiers but Turkey is countering the Communists
with full force.]
[US air strikes wiped out an ISIS ammunition hub near Ramadi
in Iraq.]
Viewpoint
The Victim Narrative
From The Holocaust To The Cosby Scandal
by Alexander Baron
Note from New Trend Editor - After the attack on Dr. Kaukab
Siddique by the Daily Beast, New Trend asked Mr. Baron to
write on these sensitive issues. As no one at New Trend is
an expert on these issues, we welcome any critical responses
or corrections. We are not asking for opinion but for
researched corrections if any.
One of the most controversial issues of the past forty years
has been the subject of so-called Holocaust denial. The
publication in 1974 of the pamphlet Did Six Million Really
Die? and then two years later of the meticulously researched
and irrefutable The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century caused a
furore in especially Europe. Both were banned even under the
Apartheid régime in South Africa.
At times, the mere mention of Holocaust denial, so-called,
generates hysteria in the media. Why should this be so?
While Holocaust Revisionists are denounced as Nazis,
anti-Semites, even lunatics, their supporters fight back
with claims that the hate campaign is directed by media Jews
or powerful Zionist forces behind the scenes. The usual
response to this is that
these people are promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy
theory, yet a dispassionate examination of the facts lends
support to the Revisionists and their supporters. To take
just one example, in December 2008, Joel Stein wrote (1) in
the Los Angeles Times: Only 22% of Americans now believe
"the movie and television industries are pretty much run by
Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation
League, which released
the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory
against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb
America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood. Then,
putting his money where his mouth is, he goes on to list all
the powerful Jews who run the American film industry. While
the arrogance is all too common, the candour is not. Jews
exercise enormous power and influence in the US media and
government, great power in the
UK, and indeed many other predominently white nations,
including South Africa. At times the influence is more
perfidious than the power, anyone who so much as mentions
the hidden hand of Organised Jewry risks social ostracism
and even financial ruin. Is this indeed a worldwide
conspiracy, or are other forces at work? Tempting though it
is to believe the former, I believe there is another
explanation, one that at its heart has little or nothing to
do with Jews, Zionism, anti-Semitism, or even Jewish power.
Please bear with me while I expound this hitherto unexplored
thesis.
It is well to remember that power comes in many forms,
including the illusory. In his 1987 book Jews in the German
Economy: The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935,
W.E.Mosse, writes: in 1908 in Prussia, there were 747
millionaires (with more than 5 million Marks), 162 of them
were of Jewish extraction - page 6. "[A Nazi] document of
June 1933 - to be treated with due reserve but seemingly in
the main reliable in many of its facts - claims that of 147
members of the stock, produce, and metal exchanges, 116,
almost 80 per cent, were of Jewish origin." There were 25
Jews and 11 Gentiles on the management committee of the
stock exchange, 12 Jews and 4 Gentiles on the produce and 10
Jews, 2 Gentiles in the metal exchange. - page 337.
This is economic power, but is it political power? (2) Let
us take a more general view. One of the de rigueur
complaints of social justice warriors is that big business
exploits us all, basically that businessmen - almost
invariably men - are predators who prey on us ruthlessly.
The mere existence of big companies is considered a social
evil, even supermarkets
are attacked as predatory. The reality is that big companies
and especially supermarkets are one of the great benefactors
of the modern age. Were it not for the economies of scale
that come with size, the cost of food would be much higher,
and consumer goods a lot rarer. While some companies do bad
things - weapons manufacturers, it might be argued - their
size does not make them evil, likewise, their power is often
illusory. Where retail is
concerned, it is the consumer who is powerful, because if
shoppers vote with their feet, the company will go out of
business, and indeed many huge companies have. To take just
one example, HMV was founded in 1921. At the time of writing
it owns 125 stores, but in 2007 it owned more than 400
worldwide, and in January 2013 it went into administration.
Jewish
economic power is no different, it is subservient to the
market, and even political power is not all it is made out
to be; Jews wielded enormous political power in Weimar
Germany, but with the rise of Hitler they were stripped of
this power, and their goose was cooked. (3) So how can we
explain the taboo and hysteria about the Holocaust, and more
generally about
Organised Jewry today? The answer is that Organised Jewry
are exploiting a victim narrative. This is the real source
of power for many pernicious ideologies, organisations and
people in the modern world, including feminism and those
responsible for the current historical child abuse
witch-hunt in the UK.
Feminism is a victim narrative, one of its sub-narratives is
that women can do no evil. This was not always the case, but
since the 1970s feminists have been pushing the idea that
anytime a woman does something bad, even a series of bad
acts, it is not her fault, rather it is the fault of the
mythical patriarchy, of men, or even of one man. In the UK
and Canada
especially, there are individuals and organisations who will
take up the cudgels for almost any woman accused of
murdering a husband or a lover, however overwhelming the
evidence against her. A stellar example of this is the
American woman Jodi Arias who murdered her lover Travis
Alexander.
Arias was obsessive about Alexander, and when her obsessive
behaviour went over the top, he parted company with her.
Months later, apparently over a period of weeks, she hatched
a diabolical plan to kill him. Faking a burglary at her
grandmother's home, she stole a gun, hired a car, and drove
a thousand miles across the Arizona Desert avoiding gas
stations where she might be captured on CCTV. On arriving at
his home she bluffed her way in with a promise of sex, lured
him into the shower (to destroy DNA evidence), stabbed him
to death, put a bullet in his skull, and nearly hacked off
his head for good measure. After her arrest, Arias claimed
at first not to have seen her victim for months, then
claimed she was present when he was murdered by two
mysterious individuals, and finally when that lie could not
be sustained either, she claimed to have killed him in
self-defence. Who would testify on behalf of such a woman?
Alyce LaViolette would, and did. Expert witness so-called
LaViolette listened to the lies of Jodi Arias, and stated on
oath that the murderess was the real victim. Can anyone
credit such nonsense?
This ludicrous victim narrative extends even to serial
killers, thus for loony feminist Phyllis Chesler, the person
responsible for the crimes of Aileen Wuornos was not the
damsel of death herself but her first victim, Richard
Mallory, who is said to have raped her. We have only the
word of common prostitute Wuornos for this, but according to
Chesler, it was this unspeakable act that pushed her over
the edge, and led her to murder another six totally innocent
men. Incredibly, Chesler was given space in a peer reviewed
journal to espouse this nonsense. (4)
Sometimes, indeed often, this special pleading succeeds,
thus in the UK, Stacey Hyde was originally convicted of
murder and given a 9 year tariff. She attacked her victim,
Vincent Francis, with a knife, stabbing him seventeen times.
Hyde had been drinking at the time with Francis and his
lover Holly Banwell. She did not live with the couple, but
had been invited
back to their home for a drinking session. She murdered
Francis while Banwell was on the phone to the police, yet
she was cleared of murder at a retrial, and walked free. She
had been supported by a self-styled women's rights
organisation. Would any men's rights organisation do the
same for a man?
This particular feminist narrative has been around for forty,
perhaps fifty years, yet it is already ingrained in the
media, even in the law. The Jewish victim narrative has been
around for at least two thousand years - from the time of
the Crucifixion - and in a sense goes back three and a half
thousand years, to the Exodus. Throughout history, Jews have
indeed suffered persecution - as have all peoples - but only
they have made a religion of it. For Torah-true Jews,
persecution and anti-Semitism are divinely inspired, they
are a message from the Almighty telling them to stay on the
narrow path as God's Chosen People, to lead by example. For
Organised Jewry and political Zionism though, the Chosen
People concept has an entirely different meaning, namely
that they are better than everyone else, and are
thereby entitled to ride roughshod over the rest of Mankind.
The Jewish victim narrative is mpart and parcel of that, and
includes the Holocaust survivor narrative.
Feminism tells us to believe women uncritically, including
and especially victims of domestic violence and rape. After
all, who but a sexist, a misogynist or a rape apologist
would do otherwise, right? For Organised Jewry, uncritical
belief in the Holocaust, and the testimony of survivors is
part and parcel of that narrative. Anyone who does not
concur 100% each and every time can only be tainted with
anti-Semitism. Now that we have identified this narrative,
let us take a long hard look at the reality of the
Holocaust.
The first thing one must never challenge is the 6 million
figure, and already we run into a problem, because this
figure is not simply emblematic, it is pure fiction. Back in
the 1990s, someone unearthed a reference from the American
Hebrew newspaper to a Holocaust of 6 million Jews. This
paper was dated October 31, 1919! Since then, Dr Töben and
his team have unearthed many more references dating to as
early as 1915. It is clear this figure has no basic in fact.
Next we have what was used for decades as the propaganda
proof of the Holocaust, all those terrible photographs from
especially Belsen and Dachau camps, but these are not proof
at all, because similar photographs can be found of other
concentration camps, including from the American Civil War,
and even from humanitarian tragedies that have nothing to do
with
war, famines, for example.
As Professor Butz wrote in his aforementioned classic,
quoted here from page 55 of the 2003 edition: It is, I
believe, Belsen, which has always constituted the effective,
mass propaganda "proof" of exterminations, and even today
you will find such scenes occasionally waved around as
"proof." In fact these scenes, repeated in varying degrees
at other German camps, e.g. Dachau and Buchenwald, were much
less related to "extermination" than the scenes at Dresden
after the British-American raids of February 1945, when
many, many times as many bodies were found lying around."
This claim is as true today as it was when these words were
written, but the reality is there are two Holocausts: the
one peddled by the media, and the other which is confined to
academic books. In the media, the 6 million figure is
sacrosanct, while the atrocity photographs are used as the
mass propaganda proof, after all, who can deny these very
emotive and powerful photographs? Yet in their specialist
texts, Holocaust academics - Jew
and Gentile - concede readily that these photographs are
proof of no such thing. Which brings us to the eyewitnesses,
the survivors.
If one can cast suspicion on the 6 million and even on the
photographs, surely one cannot challenge the veracity of the
survivors, the living victims? Yes, we can and should, much
of the time. The reality is that many of these survivors -
those who have taken to print - are shameless liars. Some
are fantasists. A few are not even genuine. (5) And those
who were there, either their memories are polluted with
horrific but fanciful tales and rumours, or
when their recollections are both honest and accurate, they
paint an entirely different picture of the camps from
Hollywood.
Take for example the case of Gena Turgel, the self-styled
Bride of Belsen. Her ghost-written autobiography (6)
contains a ludicrous reference to Anne Frank, and the claim
that she herself was actually inside a gas chamber at
Auschwitz. This was really a shower, but she has repeated
this nonsense many times, including at the age of 90.
In December last year, the London Daily Mail published an
interview with another former concentration camp inmate;
Klara Markus is said to have survived Dachau, Ravensbrück
and Auschwitz, which begs the question, if the Nazis were so
keen to exterminate all Jews, why did she survive even one?
But it gets worse, she survived Auschwitz because the Nazis
ran out of gas that day. And bullets too, presumably. In
2010, she is said to have told a Romanian newspaper that
when she asked about her mother and sisters, the SS replied:
"Maybe, you should search for them in the smoke or ashes!"
These claims are not simply ludicrous, they insult our
intelligence, but at the time the paper interviewed her, Mrs
Markus was a hundred years old, and about to celebrate
another birthday. Is anyone going to challenge the testimony
of a 101 year old woman, seriously? Contemporaneous reports
by concentration camp inmates are no more reliable; there
were two women who claimed to have been sent to the gas
chamber and actually gassed: Sophia Litwinska and Regina
Bialek. These claims are not well publicised, but documents
from the relevant trials are available on-line. (7)
The Litwinska and Bialek testimonies are typical of
something I have long maintained, namely that eyewitness and
survivor testimonies that support the official version of
the Holocaust are not credible, while testimonies that are
credible support the Revisionist interpretation. And,
incredible though it may seem, we can thank Holocaust true
believer Steven Spielberg for reinforcing this indisputable
fact. Alarmed that Revisionists were being
taken seriously, this powerful Jewish movie mogul decided to
set up a foundation to document the testimonies of survivors
on film. The young American Revisionist Eric Hunt has
carried out a superb deconstruction of Spielberg's
foolishness, and has included a number of such testimonies
in his documentary The Last Days Of The Big Lie.
In spite of this, and in spite of the skepticism shown by
regular historians to survivor testimonies (off the record),
it is considered anti-Semitic, even obscene, to call them
out. Again, this is not because it is indeed anti-Semitic to
do so, but because the victim narrative must never be
challenged. The parallels with the feminist rape narrative
are uncanny. Everyone knows rapes happen, but the reality is
that many, perhaps half or more of all
allegations are false, and contrary to the claims of the
abuse industry, rape is not always a uniquely evil act from
which no woman ever fully recovers. Yet anyone who disputes
the spurious rape statistics or the professed effects on
victims can only be sexist, a misogynist, and very likely a
rape apologist.
At the time of writing we are seeing a witch-hunt in the UK;
celebrities have had their names dragged through the mud,
and at least three, probably four, have been convicted of
imaginary crimes and given long prison sentences. Some of
these imaginary crimes date back forty or more years; the
victims were said to have been too traumatised at the time
and for decades later to report them, but once one comes
forward, the floodgates open, the proof of
these crimes is the fact that so many allegations have been
made. Major or even impossible discrepancies in the accounts
of the victims are considered to be the result of that
trauma, thus Rolf Harris was convicted of indecently
assaulting one woman even though there was absolutely no
evidence that he had ever visited the community centre where
this very public assault was supposed to have taken place.
Query this though, and you are mocking the victim.
We see victim narratives of this sort everywhere, they are
used to excuse bad, criminal or even murderous behaviour, as
in the case of Stacey Hyde. The victim narrative empowers
the faux victim, and the alleged perpetrator is himself
victimised by society, including to the full extent of the
law. It is this, I believe, that is the true secret - if
secret it be - of Jewish power,
especially with regard to the Holocaust.
The latest manifestation of this nonsense is something that
is called intersectionality, in which various minority
groups including women (who are far from a minority) compete
for victim status. At the top of the chain of oppression are
white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual males, who cannot be
oppressed, although some allowance may be made for the white
working class male. White women are of course not quite as
oppressive as men, then comes black men, then black women.
What happens though when oppressions collide? An amusing
example of this is the Bill Cosby rape scandal.
In 2005, Cosby was accused of drugging and raping a white
woman, thirteen other victims came forward, but the scandal
went to sleep for a decade after he settled with his first
accuser. Last October it returned with a vengence, and
initially the media was somewhat skeptical. Talking heads
were also in an uncomfortable position: did they side with
the women and risk being branded racist, or did they side
with Cosby and become rape
apologists? Eventually, this bandwagon became too seductive
for a number of black women, and after they jumped on it
too, the issue was no longer racism v rapism but a wealthy
and powerful man using his power to violate vulnerable
women. The most fascinating thing about the Cosby scandal is
that the majority of his accusers have little if any
credibility, yet the media never mentions this. The numbers
are certainly impressive, but so are those for sightings of
the Loch Ness Monster.
Returning to the Jewish Question, I will add that the reason
we are supposedly seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism in
Europe is because the Jewish victim narrative in the Middle
East has lost out to the Palestinian victim narrative. After
decades of censorship, double standards and at times naked
tyranny, the sheeple have woken up to the reality of Zionism
and its atrocities. Indeed, there are now so many Jews
opposed to the barbarism of the Israeli Government that it
is hopeless even for the Zionists to try to defend it
anymore, so instead they have created a new victim
narrative, now anti-Semites are out to get the Jews
everywhere else.
Another victim narrative deserving of mention is that of the
homosexual lobby. It is difficult to credit that when I was
a boy, homosexual acts between consenting adults were
criminal here in the UK until the so-called Wolfenden
reforms, and even in the US. In practice,,homosexuals were
tolerated as long as they did not attempt to corrupt the
young, and
otherwise kept themselves to themselves. In October 1953,
the famous Shakespearean actor Sir John Gielgud was fined
after being arrested for cruising in a public toilet. It did
not do his career the slightest harm.
Today, the organised homosexual movement is not satisfied
with mere legality, they and their supporters demanded - and
got - the right for men to marry other men, and now they
demand not only that society recognise their perversion, but
the social ostracism and even criminal prosecution of those
who are unwilling to accept their gay lifestyle. There have
been several cases recently on both sides of the Atlantic
which have seen the full force of the law used against
dissenters, yet still homosexuals portray themselves as
victims.
One final lesson should be learned from all this, the usual
explanation for the rise of Nazism and the purge of Jews by
the Government of Adolf Hitler is anti-Semitism or more
generally racism. The reality is that black Americans were
second class citizens in the Deep South at the same time and
for a long time before, but apart from the occasional
lynching, since the
abolition of slavery blacks were never in danger of being
purged from the American economy, and were certainly never
rounded up and thrown into concentration camps. The Nazis
were able to treat the Jews like this because they created
their own victim narrative the anti-feminist blogger Alison
Tieman calls this a threat narrative, but it amounts to the
same thing. A substantial tranche of the German
establishment was able to convince the bulk of the
population - or at least a significant number of those who
mattered - that the German people were victims of Jews (by
their apparent domination of the economy, etc). In contining
to plug their own victim narrative, Organised Jewry are
playing a dangerous game, as is evinced by the about face of
Western establishments over the past forty years on
homosexuality: yesterday's oppressor is tomorrow's victim,
and vice versa.
I could write a lot more about victim narratives, but I will
end by saying that they are so pernicious I truly believe
that along with usury they account for most of the evils
that currently plague Mankind. Victim narratives are largely
unknown, and when they are detected are just as widely
misunderstood. The far right blame them on "the Jews",
Zionism, cultural Marxism; the conspiratorial left like some
elements of the far right on the Illuminati.
The big mistake they all make is that they are looking for a
conspiratorial hub that doesn't exist; it is not the people
behind them that are evil necessarily, but the victim
narratives themselves, although many of those pushing them
are indeed evil, some beyond belief. We must expose and
destroy victim narratives wherever they rear their ugly
heads. This does
not mean that we should not have compassion for genuine
victims; in one sense we are all victims, because we are all
born to die. If we die young, then we are victims on that
account; if we live to any reasonable age, we will all have
our share of physical and spiritual pain, some more than
others. Some of us will face disfigurement, lose limbs, we
will all lose friends
and a man who has no friends to lose is doubly a victim - we
may suffer financial loss, humiliation, loss of honour
(rightly or wrongly), and so on. But the fact that we are
all victims and that some suffer more than others should not
be used to exploit others or demand special privileges by
manipulating the hierarchy of oppression.
Notes And References
Who runs Hollywood? C'mon, from the on-line edition,
December 19, 2008. This article has of course been widely
cited by the usual suspects.
In 1933, the London Jewish Chronicle published a
supplement with its February 24 issue which included an
extensive analysis of German Jewry. The make up of the
professions was given as follows: actors - 31, authors -
374, dentists - 713, doctors - 3,670, editors - 41, lawyer
2,208, singers - 113. If these figures are correct, they are
surprising; Jewish influence in the media was minimal, yet
out of a population of around 600,000, 1% were either
doctors or lawyers.
To give just one example from this period, in 1936 it
was reported that 7,000 Jewish egg dealers had been
eliminated from German commerce and that the egg industry
was not 96% "Jew-free", Jewish Chronicle, April 17, 1936,
page 12.
Both these cases are sufficiently notorious as to
require no citation. For a discussion of both and other
cases, see my article In Denial Of Female Evil. Chesler's
sickening apologia for Aileen Wuornos, A Woman's Right to
Self-Defense: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos, was
published in the Fall-Winter 1993 issue of St John's Law
Review.
Only very occassionally will this be admitted in a
regular public forum. See for example The men who whitewash
Hitler by Gita Sereny, published in the New Statesman,
November 2, 1979.
I Light A Candle by Gena Turgel with Veronica Groocock,
published by Grafton, London, (1987).
Litwinska's deposition can be found at Kew in file
WO235/21. Bialek's testimony even found its way into print
in TRIAL OF JOSEF KRAMER AND FORTY-FOUR OTHERS (The Belsen
Trial), Edited by Raymond Phillips, Foreword by the Right.
Hon. Lord Jowitt, published by William Hodge, London,
(1949), page 657.
The Author
Alexander Baron is an independent researcher and archivist.
The author of several books including two on the Holocaust
from the Revisionist perspective, the advantage he has over
most others in this field is that he did not attend
university and was therefore not taught how not to think.
Having though spent half his life researching in some of the
most prestigious archives in the world, he does not feel his
education has been in any way compromised
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