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26 Rajab 1446 AH - January 26 2025 Issue # 4, Newsletter #2068



Scroll down for report on "NYPD Officer Settles Lawsuit With NYC" by Sr. Aisha ; "The Heart is Tarnished by Two Things and Polished by Two Things" by Sr. Yasmin and "America and Humour from Hell" by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD


Do Muslims Understand the Politics of Texas?
By Dr. Kaukab Siddique

Muslims must understand the politics of Texas. Many of the lawmakers in the Senate and in the House of Representatives come from Texas. In a sense, one could say it is the Texas mindset which now rules America. It shapes the viewpoints of the entire country.

As can be seen in movies and entertainment, male orientation is very Texan.

Samuel Houston was a leader and very active and the city is named after him.

Ms. Harris, though given vast amounts of publicity all over America, was easily defeated in Texas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a diehard Republican, and also a stalwart supporter of Israel. He has passed resolutions on the state level in support of the Zionist entity.

The situation in Texas is that it is easy to go after people who are not White. The best example of that is what happened in the school shooting in Uvalde. Uvalde is only 60 miles from the Mexico border, and 90% of the 600 of the students in the 2nd through the 4th grade at the school where the shooting took place were Hispanic.

The people of Dallas don't realize that the war has ended, and that there's a ceasefire. They're celebrating as if they won. They don't realize they have lost, and wars like they carried out in Palestine cannot be won by throwing bombs and killing civilians.




Focus on Donald Trump's Cabinet Appointees

Rubio: Arch-Zionist and Genocider for Secretary of State

To understand the focus and philosophy of the incoming Trump administration, it is helpful to scrutinize the background of Trump's Cabinet appointees. Mark Rubio, former U.S. Senator representing Florida, is Trump's new Secretary of State.

According to Wikipedia, "Rubio is a staunch supporter of Israel. He is a co-sponsor of a Senate resolution expressing objection to the UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as a violation of international law. Rubio condemned Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel and expressed his support for Israel and its right to self-defense. He called for the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza. When asked if there was a way to stop Hamas without causing massive civilian casualties in Gaza, Rubio said Israel cannot coexist "with these savages.... They have to be eradicated." In 2023, he said Hamas was "100 percent to blame" for Palestinian casualties in Gaza.

Also according to the Wiki, in February 2022, Rubio condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In November 2024, he called Ukrainians "incredibly brave and strong", but said the war in Ukraine had reached a "stalemate" and "needs to be brought to a conclusion" to avoid further casualties."

So, Rubio not only uses extremely racist and white supremacist terminology in his description of Palestinians, but clearly supports genocide. He also has an evident double standard when it comes to who has a right to self-defense and self-determination, Palestine or Ukraine. One wonders if Rubio realizes that the Palestinians are fighting back and winning.




Holocaust Remembrance Day: Fortification for the Holocaust Industry?

By Dr. Kaukab Siddique

On January 27, an unofficial holiday few people know about will be observed in the U.S. That's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Although it was initiated by the U.N., it is most broadly celebrated by Zionists and their supporters in the U.S. It is telling that given the ongoing genocide of Palestinians that the only Holocaust worthy of commemoration in certain quarters is the Jewish Holocaust.

It also gives rise to the question why the U.S., a country not involved or complicit in the Holocaust (as told by Zionists and their supporters) should commemorate such a day. Then, too, there is the issue of evidence for the events upon which the entire story stands.

As the German writer Germar Rudolph, imprisoned for his audacity in conducting mathematical analysis of events purported to have taken place during the Holocaust pointed out, there are many unanswered questions about the event. For example: Where were the bodies of the six million Jews allegedly killed by Germany in the Second World War?

No one seems to know, but that doesn't seem to perturb the lobbyists, government officials, and other Zionists who capitalize on this story to extract the tax dollars of working-class Americans to send to Israel. Strangely enough, there are Holocaust museums in most major U.S. cities, although there was no holocaust of Jews in the U.S. It seems to be a psychological imposition on the people of America. In fact, America was dragged into World War II owing to manipulation by the British, and as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

So is there any documentary evidence to support the Holocaust story? To date, not a single mass grave has been found, exhumed, or examined, which would support the Holocaust story.

Not one of the allegedly numerous, giant burning sites has been located or examined. And in no case were murder weapons found by the Nuremburg and related courts. (Dissecting the Holocaust, page 87 Germar Rudolf)

By contrast, Palestine was bombed every day by Israeli jets, helicopters, tanks, long range artillery, and warships. Heavily armed Jewish infantry carried out atrocities on foot during house-to-house raids. Massacres were carried out by Zionist gunmen. Killings of Palestinians were carried out on a daily basis, with little to no notice by the major U.S. media. Civilians, including women and children, were attacked by Israeli armored vehicles. None of the Israeli killers were punished. Not one. Media were banned from reporting Jewish atrocities. Meanwhile, Zionists and their supporters in the U.S. government and media fixate on "Holocaust Remembrance Day."




NYPD Officer Settles Lawsuit With NYC

By Sis. 'Aisha
Jamaat al-Muslimeen New York City

Staten Island NYPD Officer Mathew Bianchi has settled his lawsuit with New York City over his refusal to comply with the use of "courtesy cards." He was awarded a $175K settlement in the case.

NYPD officers issue courtesy cards to family members and friends. These laminated cards, which have an image of an NYPD badge and the name of one of the NYPD unions, have been used to get out of traffic stops and other minor traffic infractions. They are usually doled out by officers in exchange for discount meals and other favors. These cards have also appeared on eBay for sale.

Although the police department does not officially recognize courtesy cards, Bianchi claimed that he was retaliated against for issuing traffic tickets even after he was shown the card. He was taken away from his daytime traffic shift and placed on night patrol duty.

Bianchi still works as an NYPD officer, but his career has suffered because of the lawsuit. The 40-year-old nine-year veteran has stated that he will continue to operate the same way and issue traffic tickets when the need arises. Bianchi believes there should be closer oversight over how these cards are distributed to officers and protections for those who challenge their misuse.

Bianchi's attorney, John Scola, praised his client's bravery and hoped it would inspire others to become department whistleblowers. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, an NYPD union, referred all questions to the law department.
Source: Yahoo.com




America and Humour From Hell
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD

Politics is always a game of pretension. Politicians remind us of inherent lies, deception, embedded greed and mastery of persuasive propaganda to voters to do good to fellow citizens if chosen for leadership. They possess an irresistible impulse of political power to grab as their own property to set the agenda of actions - the fate and future of millions and millions of innocent human beings to rule as democracy at work.

The US professes to be a nation of peace, equality, justice and freedom. Is it so? After the Joe Biden presidential election, Donald Trump raised a scheme of uproars, confusion and attack at the Nation's Capital alleging 'election fraud' that he was the real winner. To several criminal cases, he alluded to as politically motivated, but some of the judicial hearings charged him with criminal acts. Now re-elected Donald Trump gets 'unconditional discharge' in the NY court hush money case; other cases in all probabilities would go with the wind too as he assumes the presidency on January 20th. Could a common citizen of the US be entitled to such a favorable treatment?

Concerned global thinkers and informed citizens wonder if it was a joke to prosecute Donald Trump (the former president at the time), or was it a true medium of the travesty of justice to make America "Great" again in despotic reasoning? America risks losing its sustainable democratic future if one recalls the attack on the Capital Hill on January 6, 2020. "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" proclaimed George Orwell. It was the failure of institutional system and people to have allowed Trump to orchestrate such an upheaval. The US Republican Congress supporting Trump should see the mirror and set the course of history straight for future generations. The world needs America for future-making but if its leaders are a sell out to one track extreme thinking of Netanyahu, the US could end -up losing its own history of national freedom, human rights and equal justice. Those who get into political power via unreasonable cliches become intoxicated in power not by reason but by political force and money as a means to dominate the masses with wrong thinking and wrong reasoning. Ironically, President Biden will transfer the power peacefully to Trump on January 20th which Trump denied to Biden in January 2020 and alleged a 'fraudulent election' outcome. Would he be a Marc Antony or Brutus (William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar), to deliver the sermon and adore Biden for his courage and leadership or twist the logic of history? Recall, Marc Antony funeral oration over Julius Caesar:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man

Those who elected Trump must be enjoying the creative momentum of American humour irrespective of the criminal record, violent force, horrors and killings implied against the American people at a climax of great upheaval called 'domestic terrorism' and reason to unfold mischievous futuristic catastrophes by men who are feared and questioned for moral and intellectual integrity to change America into a wonderland of experimental democracy claiming liberty, justice and equality before law. Truth cannot be made more true by fake statements. Often one wonders, how President-elect Trump would see the occasion of a peaceful transfer of presidential power come January 20th, 2025? Would he reiterate the old cliches of abusive power and come to reason the unreason to which he subjugated America in 2020:

He hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

Netanyahu felt a terrible sense of helplessness during the unpredictable American presidential election time spot but rejoiced at the re-election of Trump as he had renamed 'Golan Heights' as 'Trump Heights' - the occupied territory belonging to Syria. The contradictions covered up by adroit, Trump wants the Panama Canal back, and would it be renamed as "Trump Canal", and claims to occupy Greenland to be of security necessity, and could it be renamed as " Trump Greenland", and not to mention of Canada as a 51st state, ridiculed by the outgoing Canadian PM Trudeau who had a little embarrassing encounter with Trump in Florida. Would Canada be renamed after Trump declares forceful victory? At times, people who make phony jokes could become a joke in the annals of history.

The history of force is always trivial and endangers the present and sustainable future. "Hell will break" warns President elect Trump to the Arab leaders and Hamas if Israeli hostages are not freed prior to his taking of the office. They "should not have been taken in the first place" reiterates Trump not understanding how Israel occupied Palestine and continuously bombed the people of Gaza for decades. If time and truth carry any meaning, America desperately needs a new awakening of consciousness and moral soul. Paranoid and politically charged with failure, Netanyahu could re-emerge as a kind of refurbished leader to claim some relevance as Trump blames "Hezballah" for the January 2020 attack on the US Capital. The fictitious blame not only compliments Netanyahu's psyche but shocks the spirits of dead leaders of Hezbollah targeted by Israel. Was Brutus intelligent or Antony right to deliver a rational speech on the body of Julius Caesar? Do the masses in America or the Western democracy live in a reality which is not their own except pernicious consequences wanting a navigational change, reasoned morality and equal justice for all.

Cynicism about politicians is always endemic and part of the seamless democratic cultures constantly progressive and often rebuked by social and political entertainment as an after dinner joke. The masses have a passion for happiness and progress, but they never imagine or do not wish to think that politics is a game of pretense - stage acting best portrayed and fashioned by hourly hired media consultants and advisors to win the political elections and deceive the masses that "Emperor has clothes." There is always much evil and much good in every society but evil cannot diagnose political tyranny, falsehood and resentment, the cure to evil is honesty, equal justice, freedom of expression, moral values and righteousness to lead and serve the people. The prospects of global peace, equal justice and conflict resolution are disappearing after what has been witnessed in Gaza, Ukraine and other parts of the world. The global systems of responsible governance are broken and the US supporting Israeli war made it dysfunctional and are alleged by the ICC and ICJ to have committed crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza. If Trump has a vision for change and peace for America, should know his strengths and weaknesses and be cautious not to foresee the world through the eyes of Netanyahu but come out of the perplexities with clarity of his own mind to co-exist with the larger global community. If he believes in making America great again, it would be through peace and not intransigence against Panama, Palestinians or Canada or Greenland. He would have to rebuild his own credibility as a leader who can lead despite perpetuated ignorance and rejection of learning from history. It could be a hollow humour coming out of hell to imagine if America or some West European nations have any sense of human rights, to protect the civilians in war like Gaza or Ukraine and to support the conscientious global community standing for peace, justice and the end of bogus wars against innocent people.

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, and a forthcoming book: Global Humanity and the Remaking of Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness.

You can see his blog here:

RealOvi.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/america-and-humour-rom-hell-by-mahboob-a-khawaja-phd




Guidance from Sis. Yasmin

Prophet (SAW): *Polish for Tarnished Hearts*{!}~*The Heart is Tarnished by Two Things and Polished by Two Things*

'There is a Polish for everything that
takes away Rust ...{!}
and the Polish for the Heart is ...
The Remembrance of Allah.'
[Source: S. Bukhari]

Al-Bayhaqee relates from Ibn 'Umar [Radiallaahu 'Anhu] that....

PROPHET ﷺ said...
"For everything there is a Polish,
and the Polish for the Hearts is the 'DHIKR'...
[Remembrance of Allah]

There is nothing more potent in saving a
person from the punishment of Allah
than the 'Dhikr' of Allah."
It was said...
'Not even 'Jihad' in the path of Allah' {?}

Prophet [Sallallahu 'Alayhi wa Salaam] replied...
" Not even if you were to continue striking
with your sword until it breaks."

[Source: Saheeh: Related by Ahmad (4/352), from Mu'aadh ibn Jabal [Radiallaahu 'anhu].

A Little Note....
The polish for a rusty heart is the
'Dhikr' of ALLAH !
This is because 'Dhikr' is like a polish
(which polishes the heart) like a shiny mirror !
when 'Dhikr' is left, the rust returns...{!}
But when 'Dhikr' resumes...?
then the Heart is again Polished...{!}

~Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (Rahimahullah) said...
"Doubtless, a heart grows tarnished like brass
or silver, and its polish is by remembrance,
which may make it shine like a crystal mirror!

so when one neglects the remembrance it
Tarnishes....{!}
and when he returns it Shines...{!}

Since the heart is Tarnished by two [2] things...
Heedlessness and Sin...
it is polished by two [2] things...
Remembrance and asking Forgiveness."

{'Subhan Allah'}

Inspirational quotes by Prophet Muhammad 22
[Source #2~ Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (r)-The Invocation of God]

2025-01-26 Sun 08:39:42 GMT/UTC/Zulu

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