VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Volume 69, March 8 , 2009
St. Louis, Missouri

Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful

EDITORIAL:

Unfortunately some misinformed Imams have abused the privilege they have been given by their local Muslim community to give speech during Friday prayers by giving false information and stirring up hatred between various groups of human beings.

One such Imam is Ahmad Abd Al-salam whose hate filled propaganda against Jews has no truth or basis whatsoever. Allah has declared in the Holy Quran: "Mankind is but one Community". We only wish Imams such as Ahmad Abd Al-Salam work towards fostering love, affection between people of above ONE COMMUNITY of Mankind.

Below is a condensed version of his speech:

February 24, 2009 No. 2259 MEMRI (THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE)

Ahmad Abd Al-Salam: "The Jews 'will not fail to corrupt' the believers. What does this mean? The Jews are never remiss - they invest their utmost efforts, day and night, in conspiring how to corrupt the Islamic nation, the nation led by the Prophet Muhammad.

"I want you, Muslim viewers, to imagine the Jews sitting around a table, conspiring how to corrupt the Muslims, and how to destroy their worldly and religious affairs. The Jews 'will not fail to corrupt you,' and this is why we hate them."

The Jews "Infect Food with Cancer and Ship It to Muslim Countries"

"The Jews conspire day and night to destroy the Muslims' worldly and religious affairs. The Jews conspire to destroy the economy of the Muslims. The Jews conspire to infect the food of the Muslims with cancer. It is the Jews who infect food with cancer and ship it to Muslim countries."

"We Hate the Jews Because They Spare No Effort in Stripping Muslim Girls of their Clothes"; "Sexual Temptations... Were Conspired By the Jews"

"We hate the Jews because they spare no effort in stripping Muslim girls of their clothes. It is the Jews who conspire to have Muslim girls, and even married Muslim women, wear clothes that are tight, short, or see-through, or clothes that are open from the front, or the back, from the right or the left.

"The Jews 'will not fail to corrupt you,' and this is why we hate them. The Jews conspire to destroy Muslims. The Jews conspire to bring Muslim youth down to the pit of sexual temptation. The sexual temptations, which are prevalent worldwide, were conspired by the Jews."

(EDITORIAL NOTE CONTINUED)

IT IS HIGH TIME THAT BOTH MUSLIMS AND JEWS WHO HAVE HAD HISTORY OF EXTREME SUFFERINGS DEVELOP INCREASED EMPATHY AND WORK TOWARDS FULFILLING ALLAH'S DECLARATION IN THE HOLY QURAN: "Mankind is but one Community".

As an example, during the brutal Israel aggression against the Palestinians, we appreciate the Jews who came out in support with the Muslims against such Israel heavy handedness and aggression. Below is a condensed version of related article.

January 15, 2009 (Yahoo News)

Jews Join Protests Against Israel’s Gaza Actions

By Lilly Fowler

Protesters demonstrate in front of Israeli Consulate.

Wearing white masks with eyes surrounded by red paint and streams of red teardrops, a coalition of protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate last week to speak out against Israel’s invasion into Gaza. Chief among them were members of Los Angeles’ Jewish community, many of them active in L.A. Jews for Peace.

“Every single human being in Israel, whether I agree with them or I don’t agree with them, deserves their human rights respected,” said Rick Chertoff, co-chair of the organization. “Solve the problem without killing people. Do they [Israel] have the power? I think it’s so obvious that they have the power.”

“And to oppress people in that way and expect them not to react and then damn them for the resistance,” Chertoff continued, referring to Israel’s blockade of the territory, “is not only nonsensical, it doesn’t conform to human decency, and that’s why I’m here.”

Among those seen enthusiastically carrying signs at the protest were Latinos and some, like Victor Kozaski, Jewish Latinos.

“We, the Latinos, feel the injustices felt by people everywhere,” he said in Spanish, while a poster reading “Latinos united with the people of Palestine” waved in the background.

“We are part of the same pain,” he said.

Carolyn Rosenstein, 71, explained her decision to stand against Israel this way: “I was raised on the story that it was, you know, a purely good, wonderful thing that happened that Israel was established,” she said.

But “there’s more to the story than that, which is somebody else was living there when they came there,” she said. “There’s blood on everybody’s hands.”

Although the number of protesters gathered at the candlelight vigil was relatively small, with an estimated 150 people stemming from three different organizations, including the Quaker group, American Friends Service Committee, and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, members of the Jewish community have also been heard on local radio stations speaking out against the war.

That same week, KCRW’s “Which Way, L.A.?,” the station’s discussion-oriented program led by moderator Warren Olney, welcomed as a guest Diane Balser, executive director of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, a grass-roots organization dedicated to promoting a two-state solution.

“This is a political problem,” Balser said on the program. “It can’t be solved militarily.”

Some rabbis have also begun speaking out against the war, including Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller of UCLA Hillel and Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center.

In a recent letter to The Jewish Journal, they wrote that the war had “led to the loss of lives of innocent civilians without offering any prospect of political resolution to either Israelis or Palestinians.”

That night in front of the consulate, as cars whizzing by honked their horns, Warner went one step further and argued that his organization represents a majority of Jewish opinion, not the minority.

“I think most Jewish Americans really are on the same side as I am, but they’re silent,” he said.

Jazakullah Khair

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