14 Rabi' al Thani 1443 AH - November 21 2021 Issue # 47, Newsletter #1942
Editorial
Islam and the rulers of Bahrain, UAE, Saudi, Egypt Jordan,
Syria who are cooperating with Israel and other Oppressors.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
Islam Has declared Haram [forbidden] all cooperation, even
the slightest, with Oppressors
Officials cannot continue to cooperate with the oppressors
and still claim to be Muslims. In Islam there are no two
views on this:
"And incline not to those who are oppressors or the fire
will touch you, and ye will have no protectors other than
Allah, nor shall ye be helped." [The Qur'an 11:113]
In Islam, the question of cooperating with non-Muslim rulers
who oppress Muslims, such as in Iraq, Palestine, Somalia
and Nigeria, simply does not arise. However, there are clear
texts from the Prophet, pbuh, and his Companions, r.a.,
which make very clear the meaning of 11:113 as regards
Muslim rulers:
"There will be rulers after me who will tell lies and
oppress people. One who calls their lies 'truth' and and
helps them [in any way] in their oppression, such a one is
not of me and I have nothing to do with him and he will not
be anywhere near me at the Spring of Abundance (on the Day
of Judgement)." [Prophet Muhammad pbuh, Hadith in the
collections of Nasai, Tirmidhi and Hakim, narrated by Ka'ab
bin 'Ujra, r.a.]
"...One who approaches human rulers gets involved in Fitna
[disruption and turmoil.]" [Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, Sunan of
Abu Dawud, narrated by ibn Abbas, r.a.]
Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, said:"In the future there will be
rulers over you, some whom you will know and some whom you
won't. One who stays away completely from rulers will be
forgiven by Allah, one who looks at them and considers them
bad will be saved [by Allah], but one who accepts them and
follows them, Allah Almighty will remove him from His
Mercy." A person asked: Should we do jihad against such
rulers? The Prophet, pbuh, replied: Not as long as they
establish worship of Allah. [Hadith, Sahih of Muslim]
Let us look briefly at the establishment of powerful rulers.
Should we cooperate with them because they are powerful and
can harm us and we cannot fight them? What did the
outstanding scholars of Islam say when the non-Islamic
rulers established themselves. Here is a sample:
Saeed bin al-Musayyeb, one of the greatest scholars of
Hadith in the classical era of Islam said: When you see a
person who knows Islam, hanging around rulers, shun him
because he is thief.
'Auzai, another giant of Islamic learning from the golden
era of Islam said: With Allah Almighty, there is none worse
than one who knows Islam yet goes to the rulers.
Makhul, another great early narrator of Hadith said: One who
learns the Qur'an and gains knowledge of Islam and then
approaches the ruler out of greed and to flatter, every step
towards the ruler takes him towards the fire of hell.
Pakistan
Pakistani Female Judge Uncovered the Suffering of helpless
Women and the corruption of General Musharraf's regime.
[With thanks to Dr.T] [129000 views]
We have received a video of Justice Nasira Iqbal.
She narrates the suffering of three girls who were sent into
prostitution by their own mother.
A young man saved one girl and was accused of kidnaping her.
Judge Nasira uncovered the real story and gradually found
the other two girls as well.
She wanted to dismantle the entire mafia but the police
helped them to escape. The police she says was integral to
the corruption.
The judge narrates how the pro-American dictator of
Pakistan, General Musharraf shut down the judicial system by
bringing charges against judges and imprisoning the most
outstanding ones.
The people in the justice system came out to protest in the
streets. Political cases against the opponents of the
regime were covered up as anti-terrorism charges and
opponents could not be released.
After a long struggle, General Musharraf was defeated and
finally left Pakistan.
[Judge Nasira was married to the late Javed Iqbal.]
Pakistan: A case of Ideological meltdown
Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal
{Excerpted]
[We are thankful that Dr. Firoz has joined our efforts. He
showed his mettle during our Shoora meetings. Jazakallah
Khayr. ---Editor.]
The betrayal
After the conquest of Delhi in the late 12th century by
Muhammad Ghouri, the creation of Pakistan is the most
important single event in the Muslim history of South Asia.
Pakistan came into being not only as a state but as an
embodiment of a concept, a faith, a philosophy, and an
aspiration.
The inspiration for such a great achievement came from no
other source or individual but from the Holy Qur'an -the
fundamental source of all inspirations of the Muslims. It
was another great leader like Qaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali
Jinnah who could successfully lead to another great victory
for the South Asian Muslims.
After a long colonial occupation, the degenerated and
demoralized Muslim ummah could find a ray of new hope in the
creation of this new country. It went like thrills of
astounding victory all over the Islamic world; and was
indeed a remarkable achievement of the Indian Muslims. While
the Muslims of other parts of the world were awfully
disintegrated and Islam's Arab heartland got fragmented into
22 pieces, the Indian Muslims showed an astonishing spirit
of pan-Islamic brotherhood and unity. It wasn't any tribal,
racial, geographical or linguistic affinity or any secular
ideology that helped create this largest Muslim country in
the contemporary world. It was only Islam that could
galvanize the Muslim population of the whole of South Asia
to overcome the differences entrenched in languages, dress
codes, food habits, lifestyles, and many geo-climatological
specifics.
They could establish an Islamic state despite the joint
opposition of the British colonialists and the Hindu
majority. It is also an article of Muslims' faith that they
can't attain such success on their own; all successes come
only from Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'ala.-(Surah Anfal verse 10).
It was indeed a great blessing from Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'ala
that was bestowed on them for their grand pan-Islamic
unity.
But the immense opportunity that came with the creation of
Pakistan also started quickly disappearing. The country was
occupied by a clique of people who showed the ugliest
betrayal against the cause of its existence. The betrayal is
against Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'ala, His sharia, and the
philosophy of pan-Islamic brotherhood. The ideology that
helped create Pakistan is no more welcome in its political
and intellectual circles. The country made another history.
It is the history of disunity and hatred based on ethnic,
linguistic, and regional affinity.
The pre-1947 pan-Islamic brotherhood is almost dead and
Islamisation of the state is no longer a priority. Instead,
secularisation of education, state and culture took its
place. The people got more interested in material gains and
more focussed on provincial matters, local tradition, feudal
politics, and party interests. They want more foreign money
and investment only to enhance their material affluence and
wellbeing.
Implementation of sharia or Islamisation of state and
education is perceived as an obstacle to the material agenda
-as it is unacceptable to the West. Hence to impress the
country's foreign stakeholders, de-Islamisation and
secularisation achieved a new level of priority and largely
eroded the binding glue of pan-Islamism from people's life.
So the country is politically divided along the provincial
borders as was in 1971. So the opportunity of an Islamic
renaissance which was in high hype in 1947 is now in deep
recession. Instead of following the Qur'anic road map, the
country's political leaders and the army generals are more
eager to be the partners of the US-led coalition's war on
Islam. Because it generates foreign money and ensures a
pompous life overseas. So, during the President Musharraf
era, the US drones were allowed the access in the Pakistani
air space to kill the innocent Muslims in neighboring
Afghanistan and also inside its own territory. The US drones
launched more than 400 drone attacks on Pakistani soil and
killed 1300 people. Of them, 90 percent are innocent.
(Source: Al-Jazeera English TV, 24/10/2015). It is claimed
that about 70 thousand Pakistanis have died in the US's war
on Islam. The US Cobra helicopter could violate the border
and kill anybody they wish -as they did in Abbottabad. The
Pakistan Army -boastful of their nuclear arsenal could stand
only as bystanders. If the US government has an iota of
trust in the Pakistan government and the Army, would have
asked the Pakistan Army to conduct the operation in
Abbottabad instead of violating Pakistan's sovereign air
space. Pakistan is relevant to the US only to use it as a
stooge to execute its agenda. Is it so difficult to
understand? The country that sacrifices its ideological
identity also loses its self-esteem and fails to understand
very simple things.
The evils of the colonial occupation
The long rule of the colonialists in South Asia helped
generate a huge army of ideological and cultural converts.
The project of religious conversion of the European invaders
failed badly, but the ideological and cultural conversion
worked tremendously. These converts proved no less inimical
against Islam than the religious converts. They worked as
mercenaries to prolong colonial rule in the Indian
subcontinent. More than two hundred thousand Indian Muslims
even fought wars in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine to bring
those Muslim lands under the British occupation. The
colonialists have withdrawn their own army but not the army
of these ideological and cultural converts. As a result,
although the colonial occupation formally ended in 1947,
their ideological and cultural occupation continued. The
country's cantonments, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy
still remain the occupied territory of these cultural and
ideological converts. Islam with its fundamental concepts
like sharia, hudud, jihad, shura, khilafa had little access
to these occupied territories. The drinking of wine in
officers' mess in the cantonment was only stopped by General
Zia ul Haq in the late seventies. The kuffar law of the
British still rules the Pakistani judiciary; hence illicit
sex (jinna) is not punishable if done with consent.
Such occupation of Pakistan by the ideological and cultural
converts -the homegrown invaders restricts the practice of
full Islam, thereby prohibits the local citizens from
becoming complete Muslims. Whereas to please Allah Sub'hana
wa Ta'ala, a Muslim needs to have a full submission. "Udkhul
fis silm'e ka'affa" is the Qur'anic decree. Hence incomplete
submission is not a sign of full belief in Allah Sub'hana wa
Ta'ala, rather a marker of rebellion. Such a rebellion makes
it impossible to save a soul from the hellfire. Therefore
how a true Muslim dare oppose the implementation of sharia?
It is indeed the greatest and the ugliest calamity of kuffar
rule that sharia stays unpractised in a Muslim country. Like
many obligatory rituals,
it is an Islamic obligation that a Muslim must practice
sharia law. Any non-compliance with sharia makes a person
kafir (nonbeliever), zaleem (oppressor), and a fasiq
(sinner) -as revealed in Holy Qur'an in Surah Maida in
verses 44, 45, and 47. Therefore, can a Muslim ever accept
any non-sharia law? It is like accepting idolatry. This is
why before the advent of colonial rule, all the Muslim
countries had sharia law. Apart from sharia, the Muslims
were not accustomed to any other law. For more than six
hundred years of Muslim rule, therefore the Indian judiciary
ran on sharia law. The famous Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is the
collection of such laws. But the colonialists dismantled the
whole system; not only they took away political liberty, but
also put an embargo on the practice of Islam in the court.
Thus the colonial occupation of India caused the ugliest
catastrophe for the Muslims. It put a bar against becoming a
full Muslim. Hence the Muslims didn't have any choice but to
end the kuffar occupation and create an Islamic state.
War News
Uganda
Local Islamic groups have joined Islamic State forces.
Already there have been big explosions in Kampala aimed at
overthrowing the regime which supports LGBTQ and has full
western help
IS has reportedly captured a large northern area of
Uganda.
Mozambique
Islamic State groups supporting local Muslims are reported
to be advancing again in north east of the country after
being repelled by troops from Rawanda.
Syria
Major General Killed
November 20.
Northern Aleppo province.
A mechanized soil booster sent by Assad troops was destroyed
by pro-Turkish factions east of El-Bab.
In the Afrin area pro-Turkish Syrians exchanged heavy fire
with Assad troops.
Al-Raqqa province. Syrian pro-Turkish [Ain Essa area]
shelled SDF positions
South Idlib province: Heavy exchanges of machine gun fire
between Assad forces and Syrian opponents.
Southern Hama: Islamic group shelled Assad positions in the
town of Jurin.
November 18. Fath al-Mubeen Islamic group exchanged fire
with Assad troops in western Aleppo. Two Assadis killed,
several wounded.
November 16. ISIS advanced against Assad pro-Iran forces in
eastern Raqqa province and Deir ez Zor province. Russian
bombers attacked .
An Assad Major General and 4 of his troops were killed in an
ISIS attack in west Deir ez Zor desert.
News Within the U.S.
Parents Protest Against Forced Medication.
Hadith opposes it.
by Sis. Aisha
[Jamaat al-Muslimeen]
I already have an article about the protests against
COVID-19 Vaccine. I wasn't going to touch the exoneration of
Malcolm Shabazz's accused killers. That Netflix documentary
is being credited with this effort, which has been going on
for decades! They knew then that these brothers were
innocent but, most importantly, the identity of the real
killers.
"We put medicine in one side of his mouth but he started
waving at us not to insert the medicine into his mouth. We
said, "He dislikes the medicine as a patient usually does."
But when he came to his senses he said, "Did I not forbid
you to put medicine [by force] in the side of my mouth?" We
replied, "We thought it was just because a patient usually
dislikes medicine." He said, "There is none who is in the
house except that they will be forced to take medicine in
the side of their mouth while I am watching, except
Al-'Abbās, for he had not witnessed your deed."
(Al-Bukhārī (no. 5712) reported that Ā'ishah
(radiyallāhu 'anhā)
On November 14th, there was a protest in the Bronx,
organized by fully-vaccinated Republican candidate for New
York governor Rob Astorino. Over 100 protesters, including
vaccinated parents, were present. But, the purpose of the
protest was to tell New York State to leave the
decision-making to the parents where their children's
welfare is concerned. The protesters stressed that it was an
anti-mandate protest, not anti-vaccine.
Many of the parents held hand-made posters, one of which
read, "My child, my choice." However, the poster with a
swastika and hypodermic needle titled, "Crimes against
humanity," is the one that drew Zionist attention. New York
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who is Jewish, introduced the
bill requiring children to be vaccinated in order to attend
school, including daycare.
There are many people who consider these government mandates
and lockdowns fascist. Nazi Germany was considered a fascist
government. Most notable about Nazi Germany were the Jews
being forced to wear the Star of David to identify
themselves. Today, in post-COVID-19 America, you have
vaccinated people being forced to identify themselves with a
COVID-19 vaccination card just to gain access to certain
places or events. The mainstream media simply calls these
measures unprecedented but, many others see it as totalitarian.
But, why were some people so offended by this swastika
poster? This poster was comparing these COVID-19 mandates to
Naziism. Zionists claim to have been the only victims of
Naziism and want everyone to believe that the Holocaust was
the world's only example of modern-day oppression. Zionist
culture stresses victimhood. And they claim, with pride,
that they are the world's saddest, most poorly treated
people on Earth. They are the only true victims. As victims,
they don't like any competition!
There are a few hadiths against the forcing of medication on
the sick, regardless of its benefits to the patient. The
oppressor subdues the adults then, makes his move against
the children. It is un-Islamic to force people, physically
or by law, to take any form of medicine.
Unfortunately, people who are skeptical of the COVID-19
vaccine are being associated with right-wing conservatives.
Vaccination status is being politicized. A new Civil War is
emerging where you have those who are vaccinated with the
COVID-19 vaccine against those who are not. At least, this
is how the media is trying to make it seem. In spite of
unfair criticism from the mainstream media and insults from
celebrities, these anti-mandate protests are becoming more
frequent.
(Sources: Abu Khadeejah : أبو
خديجة & lohud.com)
Opinion
Malcolm X Mystery Murder Still not Solved?
[Courtesy Slate]
Now the inaugural executive director of the Lawrenceville
School's Hutchins Center for Race and Social Justice, Ali
argues that the mystery of Malcolm's death is far from
solved. We talked about why he always firmly believed in the
innocence of the exonerated men, what other questions arise
from this reversal, his theories on why the courts rushed
their convictions through, and the consequences this
reversal will have for Malcolm X's legacy.
Our conversation has been edited and condensed for
clarity.
Aymann Ismail: How big of a deal is this week's news for
people who closely follow the life and death of Malcolm X,
like you?
Zaheer Ali: I think it would be a mistake to frame this new
development as a resolution of this case. I think it's
important that these two men—men that many people,
activists, students, scholars, have believed to be
innocent—that their innocence be finally admitted by
the state. What [the development] now raises are the
questions: One, who is responsible? And two, why, given some
of the evidence that the state and various law enforcement
agencies had at the time that pointed in another direction,
did they seek to quickly wrap up this case with the
prosecution of these two men? Was it an act of misdirection?
Was it an act of protecting assets? Was it to deflect
attention away from other parties that might have been
involved?
To me, this is not the closing of the case. This, to me,
begs for a reopening of the case. This is justice delayed
for 55 years. I don't know how one makes up for this. Only
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, or Norman Butler, is still alive, but
you've had families and communities that have been harmed
for this. Where is accountability for the state and law
enforcement's role in, at the very least, mishandling the
investigation and the trial? I appreciate the district
attorney's office (and of course it's a different district
attorney, but it's the same office) acknowledging that this
was an error and moving to exonerate these two men. But that
to me is not accountability.
I read that the innocence of the two men convicted was
already known and widespread among Malcolm X scholars. Did
you encounter that theory early on in your time studying his
life? Did you believe it right away?
The first time I encountered the details around the
assassination, which would've been in the early '90s, I knew
that there were inconsistencies. I knew that there wasn't
even circumstantial evidence that placed them at the scene
of the crime. At that time I didn't have any more details. I
knew that they were not picked up at the scene of the crime,
but many days later. That they had alibis for their
whereabouts on the day that Malcolm was killed. And the
reason why they were convicted, from what I discerned at the
time, was some eyewitness testimony, which was inconsistent
across the board. There seemed to be a desire on the part of
the prosecution to wrap this up in a neat little bow: The
people from the mosque that Malcolm left were the people who
came after him.
And that to me was just not sufficient in terms of
explaining how these men would've been involved. There were
people who were with Malcolm who came from that same mosque
who would have recognized them [at the scene]. This was to
me a case, for the state, of Let us just find some people to
wrap this case up. We really don't want to dig too deep
because we are afraid of what we might find. Or maybe we've
been told not to go there. We do know that both the FBI and
NYPD withheld evidence that could have led to their exoneration.
News played this out as gang violence, turf warfare between
two rival groups. That is how this gets framed. And I do
think it was in the interest of the state to frame it this
way, in order to neutralize the impact that both Malcolm and
the Nation of Islam were having on Black communities.
I worked with the late Manning Marable as part of his
Malcolm X Project. In his biography, Malcolm X: A Life of
Reinvention, Marable was able to pull together many of the
threads that had been woven by previous scholars. Marable
was the first person to really go through the DA's case file
[on the shooting] that had been languishing in the municipal
archives until one of his researchers found it and organized
it. Many of the doubts that people had became validated upon
reviewing some of the inconsistencies in the investigation.
Then certainly when Marable's book got published in 2011, he
brought these questions to the surface again.
You can go far back as George Breitman's The Assassination
of Malcolm X, first published in 1969, that raised these
questions [about the guilt of the two men]. You can go as
far back as Peter Goldman's The Death and Life of Malcolm X,
from 1973, where he begins to explore it. At one point, the
two men [convicted of the crime] had hired William Kunstler,
who's this famous New York-based attorney known for taking
unpopular cases that he believed represented miscarriages of
justice. And William Kunstler tried to reopen the case in
1977 or '78.
So this has been an ongoing thing, but we know that
sometimes this just remains the domain of specialists and
hobbyists and devoted scholars. And what the documentary did
was bring many of these threads and unravel them to a much
wider audience, making them just unavoidable. And it can, in
really visceral ways, illustrate the urgency of redressing
this issue, by focusing on the sense of loss, the sense of
betrayal, the questions that people had about how this case
was mishandled.
It's not just in this instance. We've seen the New York
Times' documentary on Britney Spears, how that mobilized
people around her case. I think of the movie Judas and the
Black Messiah, how people were so shocked by that [story of
the assassination of Fred Hampton]. And that's a history
that is well established. I think there is something about
the medium—storytelling in that format, given the
nature of how we receive information in this current moment,
how powerful that is to move people, and then for those
people to move the state.
What other questions do you have about what happened that
day, and in the days leading to Malcolm's death?
I don't have new questions. I just have questions that
remain unanswered. We don't have an answer from the FBI
about the tens of thousands of pages of redacted documents
and files they have on Malcolm and on the Nation of Islam
and on Muslim Mosque Inc. [one organization Malcolm founded
after leaving the Nation of Islam] and on Afro-American
Unity [a second such organization] and on many of the people
whose lives he shaped and encountered. We have the Manhattan
DA saying, These two men didn't do it.
So then my question is, well, who did it? And why have they
not been brought to justice? Why did y'all withhold
evidence? Why was there no police detail? The day that
Malcolm was killed, there was a noticeable absence of police
presence. We know that there were also a number of
undercover officers. There are all of these questions that
remain unanswered.
Will this change in Malcolm X's official history alter his
legacy in any way?
I think it makes it an even stronger case for the power that
Malcolm represented to challenge the system. A system that,
even after he was killed, worked to neutralize his legacy
through misdirection, malfeasance, and corruption. There was
a community-based understanding of what went down, and the
media didn't carry it. Maybe people didn't believe it. Law
enforcement, of course, didn't take it seriously at the
time, but there have been some elders and pioneers who held
close to their heart that one day we would be a little bit
closer to the truth. We don't have the full truth yet, but
we are closer to it.
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
.'Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam
'ala Rasulillah'.
'As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu'.
ALLAH is Testing us in this world with
a Life that will end in DEATH...!
We are promised Eternal Life Hereafter.
'We should know that Allah has created us
to live an Eternal life with no Death...!
a life of Pride and Ease with no Humiliation...
a life of Security with no Fear...!
a life of Richness with no Poverty...!
a life of Joy with no Pain...!
a life of Perfection with no Flaws !
ALLAH is Testing us in this world with
a Life that will end in DEATH...!
a life of Pride that is accompanied by
Humiliation and Degradation...!
a life that is Tainted by Fear...!
where Joy and Ease are Mixed with
Sorrow and Pain... !
{'Subhan Allah'}
{Source~ Shaykh Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah ~(R)
My 'Salaams' to all..
Y a s m i n.
"Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah"
' Son of Adam! You are nothing but a number of days,
whenever each day passes then part of you has Gone.
[Al-Hasan Al-Basree(r)]
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by Abu Huraira, r.a.
Allah's Apostle said,
"Whoever has oppressed another person concerning his
reputation or anything else, he should beg him to forgive
him before the Day of Resurrection when there will be no
money (to compensate for wrong deeds), but if he has good
deeds, those good deeds will be taken from him according to
his oppression which he has done, and if he has no good
deeds, the sins of the oppressed person will be loaded on
him."
Bukhari, Volume 3,
Book 43, Number 629
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
The Door of Repentance
As-slamu alaikum,
Allah Almighty says:
"اِنَّ
اللّٰهَ
يُحِبُّ
التَّوَّ›بِيۡنَ
وَيُحِبّ¥
الۡمُتَط¤هِّرِيۡنɦ.."
"Truly, Allah loves those who repent, and He loves those who
cleanse themselves."
The doors of repentance are always open. Therefore, don't
delay your repentance in a hope of tomorrow, as tomorrow is
uncertain.
Repent now and make it a habit to ask Allah's forgiveness by
reciting "Astaghfirullah".
Oh Allah! You are Forgiving and love forgiveness so forgive
me. Ameen..
Ignoring Palestine, WHYY [NPR] regurgitates 75 Year old
anti-German War Gossip
[Note from Kaukiab Siddique]
WHYY is churning out anti-German war time propaganda as if
the war is still going on! It is public radio but they never
allow any opposing views.
Revisionists have shown that there are no documents which
would support the idea that Germany wanted to exterminate
"God's Chosen People."
They never mention the destruction of German cities and the
mass rape of German women by the victors.
Why this propaganda about 80 years after the war ended? It
is Indirect support for the Zionist genocide of Palestinians
and the military occupation of a Muslim country.
Read the research of Germar Rudolf about the extermination
myths. I can send you a complimentary copy.
Israel is also a leader in support of LGBTQ which is being
used to undermine Christian and Islamic values.
Person to Person
On November 14, Jamaat al-Muslimeen brother Abu Talib gave
out the October 10 issue of New Trend to 25 people after
Juma salaat at the Shia masjid in Brooklyn, New York.
America :
Any Surprise Here?
[Courtesy Grundge.com]
After hurling accusations at China for committing some of
the most gruesome crimes against humanity since slavery and
the Holocaust, the United States now admits to permitting
precisely zero Uyghur Muslim refugees within its borders
(via Time).
As a point of reference, the U.S. government dropped a
record-breaking 7,423 bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 (via The
Guardian). This was done under the banner of liberating
Muslims from Taliban rule. Yet, when liberating Muslims
becomes a matter of opening borders and providing a safe
haven for refugees fleeing genocide, suddenly the matter is
covered in bureaucratic red tape.
Experts give a variety of excuses for refusing Muslim Uyghur
refugees. Some believe the refugee system lacks
accessibility. Others presume it is a matter of fear of
retaliation from the Chinese government. To make matters
worse, other countries have attempted to safely house Uyghur
refugees, only to later return these individuals to the
hands of their oppressors. Refugees who left China and then
were later returned are now rumored to have mysteriously
disappeared, leaving behind them a cloud of panic and
uncertainty.
Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch says, "For Uyghurs, there is
really nowhere for them to go." In this is a message for all
of humanity and a warning for those who are paying
attention.
Peaceful Resistance
Petition with 750 Signatures Right Up to Dr. Aafia's Prison
and message to local Paper.
The following is my letter to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
written shortly after I ran the Fort Worth Marathon for
#FreeAafiaSiddiqui, then visited FMC Carswell to deliver my
petition to the warden. I was accompanied on both ventures
by the indomitable Saleema Gul. Unfortunately, the
Star-Telegram letter was not published.
To: The Editor
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
letters@star-telegram.com
I wonder how many Fort Worth residents realize their town
houses a prisoner whom hundreds of thousands worldwide view
as a political prisoner. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is serving an
86-year sentence at FMC Carswell for a putative crime in
which no one was killed or injured. This past Sunday, I ran
the Fort Worth Marathon to draw attention to her case. It's
a case which former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark
(himself a native of the DFW area) characterized as "the
worst case of individual injustice I have ever witnessed."
Like Aafia, I hail from Pakistan, a country which boasts few
women marathoners. So, in that regard, I am a rarity.
Leading up to the Fort Worth Marathon, I'd done 47 marathons
in 14 different states. Previously, I'd done two Boston
marathons, two Chicago marathons, and a Washington, DC
marathon--all to protest Dr. Siddiqui's plight. Fort Worth
was my 48th full marathon, and the 6th one which I dedicated
to Aafia.
It seemed particularly appropriate, given that Aafia had
been attacked 2 1/2 months prior by another inmate at FMC
Carswell who smashed a coffee mug on her face, burning and
cutting her. Afterwards, the prison administration did
nothing to protect Aafia, placing her in solitary
confinement, as if she were the one at fault.
Running in my "Free Aafia Siddiqui" tee, I placed #3 in my
division, which came as a shock since I was quite
sleep-deprived, and lacked "home court advantage."
The next day, a friend and I headed to FMC Carswell to
deliver a petition bearing around 750 signatures calling for
Aafia's release on humanitarian grounds. We attempted, but
were unable to deliver the petition, because administrative
offices appeared closed. We left, resolving to return another day.
Sincerely,
Nadrat Siddique
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Africa
Sudan
The military has strengthened its hold. It has fired
repeatedly on protestors.
15 demonstrators have been killed.
The western powers are urging the military to restore
civilian rule.
Strangely military rule is damaging for Israel. The civilian
rule was moving towards recognition of Israel.
Ethiopia
Bitter fighting is continuimg between the regime in Addis
Ababa and Tigray.
