6/14/2009


Volume 86, July 5, 2009
Toronto, Canada
Editors: HM Yusuf and Azra HMY


GLOBAL UMMAH IN PICTURES:
Where a picture speaks a thousand words




PHILIPPINES:




A photo released by newspaper Manila Times last year, shows a group Philippine police and soldiers looking at bodies of slain Muslim rebels belonging to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. More than a thousand Muslim rebels have been killed in the southern Philippines over the past year, despite the recovery of only 278 bodies, according to a military spokesman. (AFP/HO/File)



(ED NOTE: Yet another picture of our Muslim brothers murdered for a cause of establishing a Islamic homeland. The Global Ummah should be honest to admit that the UMMAH we talk about primarily is confined to the SPIRITUAL AND RITUALISTIC ASPECTS and does not transcend beyond above spiritual box. The price the UMMAH pays for this is very high.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Imagine if there was a GLOBAL ISLAMIC ARMY OF PEACE ACTIVISTS AND CONFLICT MEDIATORS. Would they have made even a small difference to the sufferings our Ummah is facing today ?)




GAZA CITY, ISRAEL





Palestinian schoolboys inspect a burnt classroom at a school run by UNRWA in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, January 2009. Israel has offered compensation for damage to United Nations facilities hit by its offensive in the Gaza Strip, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency said. (AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)



(ED NOTE: Thanks to Israel to offer compensation for above school. This compensation is really a drop in the bucket. The Global Ummah demands compensation from Israel in billions for the entire Palestinian population for forcibly occupying the Palestinian homeland and for all their brutality and subjugation of the Palestinians. What a shame to the civilized world for allowing an entire generation of Palestinians to be raised in refugee camps. While we know above demanded compensation may never happen, it does not hurt for the GLOBAL UMMAH to have a firm stand and position).



IRAQ






An Iraqi man carrying a child walks past Iraqi soldiers patrolling in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 12. Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until just hours before it was clear the city was about to fall after the US-led 2003 invasion, according to newly released FBI interviews with the deposed Iraqi dictator. (AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)




IRAN




Iranians chant anti-US and Israeli slogans during weekly prayers at Tehran University. A powerful Iranian cleric says local British embassy staff -- who were arrested for allegedly stoking post-election unrest -- will be put on trial, a move set to plunge already strained ties to a new low. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)



INDIA






Indian gay activists in Kolkata celebrate the court ruling on July 2. The Indian media hailed Friday a court ruling to decriminalise gay sex and urged the government to respond by striking a colonial-era ban on homosexuality from the statute books. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)

(ED NOTE: Thanks to the Delhi High Court ruling, which gives yet another blow to the already crumbling and unstable smallest social unit - the family. The WEST is already a LEADER in the breakdown and crumbling of the FAMILY in terms of divorce, family conflict and breakups, incest et.c now above ruling is just one more step for the great country of INDIA to move towards following the WESTERN values in this particular aspect.

Further above ruling is just the beginning, the next issues for the gays and lesbians would be to demand the right to be married, the right to adopt and raise a child, the right to be eligible for insurance and other government and job related benefits that heterosexual couples already receive et.c, et.c. While the above picture reflects colorful and cheerful faces of the Unnatural sex lovers, be assured that tears from millions of family members resulting from increased emotional pain would stream down the faces due to legalization and approval of above Court ruling. ONE MAN'S FRUIT IS ANOTHER MAN'S POISON)

WAKE UP CALL TO THE FAMILY WHO HAVE THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING THEIR MEMBERS BE GAY OR LESBIANS. They may request to get their "partner" at your next family gathering or other social get together. How prepared are you to honor such a request? Such requests are already common in the WEST)




COMORAN





Muslims attend Friday prayers at a mosque near Galawa beach in the Comoran capital Moroni, from where search parties continued to look for debris of the Yemenia Airbus that crashed at sea on June 30. Comorans began 30 days of national mourning on Friday for the victims of the crash as France threatened to blacklist the airline and appointed an ambassador for victims' families.

(AFP/Tony Karumba)



SOMALIA





A boy carrying ammunition for Islamic fighters shields his ears as a Islamic fighter shoot towards Somali government forces during clashes, Friday, in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

(ED NOTE: Above is yet another example of Media manipulating ISLAM. Dear Muslim Brothers, Sisters and Respected Islamic Scholars, please look at the picture above and tell me what is ISLAMIC about above fighters. Specially with Somalia where almost the entire population are Muslims, the Somali Govt forces are Muslims and the above fighters are Muslims, why is the word ISLAMIC being misused in this context. Basically it is Muslims fighting the Muslims and not ISLAMIC FIGHTERS FIGHTING THE NON-ISLAMIC FIGHTERS). It is high time that all concerned including the media and the various groups don't misuse the term ISLAMIC)



THAILAND:





Soldiers prepare to storm the house of suspected Muslim militants after an encounter in southern Thailand's Yala province, about 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok June 27, 2009. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom/Files





SWAT VALLEY- PAKISTAN




Displaced Pakistani girls attend their class in a makeshift school set up by UNICEF at Yar Hussain refugee camp in Swabi, Pakistan, Monday, June 29, 2009. More than 2 million people were uprooted by the fighting in Swat, an exodus international aid agencies say is threatening to become a humanitarian crisis. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Mohammad Sajjad)




RAWALPINDI - PAKISTAN


(DEVIATED SUICIDE BOMBERS STRIKES AGAIN:
Sad chapter for Ummah - Muslims killing Muslims)






Pakistani police investigate a vehicle after a deadly bombings in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Police say a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle has slammed into a bus carrying defense department employees, killing at least six people. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Vincent Thian)




KASHMIR, INDIA





Kashmir protesters throw stones at Indian police in Srinagar on July 3. Police used batons and tear gas to break up fresh anti-India protests in Kashmir on Friday, with more than two dozen people injured in the clashes. (AFP/Rouf Bhat)



AFGHANISTAN


(ED NOTE: Hello, below is NOT a Shura Council Meeting)





U.S. Marines sit with Afghani residents of the village of Noghara in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/David Guttenfelder)








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