7/09/2009

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH



Volume 87, July 12, 2009 Toronto, Canada
Editors: Haja Mohideen and Azra HM Yusuf

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



A general view shows the Saudi capital Riyadh in 2007. Special security courts in Saudi Arabia have convicted a number of militants of plotting attacks inside the country with Al-Qaeda, the state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Hassan Ammar)






A policeman fires a tear gas shell towards Kashmiris protesting the death of a man they say was abducted by security forces in Srinagar, India, Wednesday.(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Dar Yasin)




Iraqis wave Iraqi flags and dance as they celebrate the U.S. withdrawal from Iraqi cities on June 30, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq celebrated as it declared June 30th 'National Sovereignty Day' after U.S. troops handed over control of Iraq's cities to their domestic security forces.(Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images)





Iraqi parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai (C) arrives at the Kuwaiti national assembly in Kuwait City. Iyad al-Samarrai on Wednesday proposed that Kuwait invest the multi-billion-dollar war reparations it is owed by Baghdad into his country's economic reconstruction.(AFP/Yasser al-Zayyat)




Chinese riot police watch a Muslim ethnic Uighur woman protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province following a third day of unrest. Canada on Monday expressed alarm over violence in the ethnic Uighur enclave of Xinjiang in China, where scores of protesters were killed during weekend protests against the Beijing government.(AFP/Peter Parks)





Tobba Yahya and her husband Mohammed Shafee speak to reporters at their home in Montreal about the loss of their children Geeti, aged 13, Sahar, aged 17 and Zainab Shafia, aged 19, on Friday, July 3, 2009.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter McCabe




Afghan women walk in the artisan's village of Istalif in the Shomali plains, about 30 kms north of Kabul. Rape in Afghanistan is "widespread" and violence against women serving in public life is on the rise, a UN report said Wednesday, nearly eight years after the fall of the Taliban.(AFP/Shah Marai)




Afghans sit around the graves of victims of an explosion in Logar province on July 9. A truck rigged with explosives blew up near Kabul on Thursday, killing 25 people including many students in one of the deadliest blasts this year in Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Shah Marai)




Afghans dig the graves for victims of an explosion in Logar province on July 9. A truck rigged with explosives blew up near Kabul on Thursday, killing 25 people including many students in one of the deadliest blasts this year in Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Shah Marai)

BEWARE OF ANTI-ISLAMIC WEBSITES




SAVE YOUR RELIGION, Please send this message to every Muslim you know...ASAP! If you don't...A Muslim somewhere in the world could be receiving false information about Islam. So prevent that from happening.!PLEASE!Beware of the following websites:













These sites have been developed by Anti-muslims , who Intentionally are spreading wrong information about the QURAN , the HADITH and ISLAM itself. Please spread this information To all the Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. The list of traced
anti- Islamic websites, about Islam are:




1. http://www.islamreview.com/ This site has posted fake stories of how Muslims converted to Christianity. How do I know? Read the following excerpt from one of the stories:First the 'convert' says: (emphasis added)In the end, I managed to convince my mother, as it was for Allah and I joined the Islamic College. Having graduated as an ustaz, I was soon posted to my neighbourhood.And then:My trip to Mecca for the Haj (pilgrimage) was tiring but eventful. I did not have the rare opportunity to see inside the holy Kabah and the holy idols inside, which Prophet Muhammud had helped to place, as explained in Bukhari's HadithAn Ustaz (scholar) in Islaamic Studies is saying that there are idols inside the Kabah and that too placed by Muhammad (saw) himself!?!?!This clearly shows that the author is deliberately trying to spread misinformation about Islaam and wants to convey to possible reverts to Islaam that it is religion of idol worship.In fact most of the Christian sites use this tactic of false convert stories but it's not always possible to prove it.


2. MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "http://www.faithfreedom.org/" claiming to be http://www.faithfreedom..org/
AlhamduliLlaah I was able to catch another site posting fake stories of Muslims leaving Islaam. See the false information imparted here. That the attempt is deliberate is known through the claim that the 'convert' has done detailed study about the topic.For Islamic Education, I had to study about marriage in detail to do well. So, I learnt all the stuff and got the highest grade anyone can get for Islamic Education. And guess what? Because I know it so well, I know that there is a lot of discrimination against women in Islam. Things like a father and grandfather can marry a girl/woman to whomever they want even if the girl/woman doesn't want to marry that person. In addition, I learned things like women couldn't be witnesses in Syariah Courts and things like that. The first point here is a total lie whereas the second is a distorted version of the truth.



3. http://www.answering-islam.org/Testimonies/younathan.html
Here's yet another extract from a false convert story aimed at spreading misinformation about Islaam.As I started thinking about my life and the Quran, I realized all Muslims, even the prophet Muhammad, would go to Hell for certain sins they committed in their lifetime.This is a common ploy of the Christian Missionaries. They first inform gullible victims that Jesus (God) is Love and just by believing in the Crucifixion, you will be assured of Paradise . Whereas the concept of God in Islaam is so harsh that no one will be spared from Hell and that even Prophet Muhammad (saw) was not sure of where he would end up. For this purpose they quote an ayat of the Qur'aan out of context. Here there have gone a step further by saying that even our beloved Prophet (saw) would have to go through hell. Nothing could be further from the truth.Anti Islaamic Sites under misleading names






Anti Islaamic Sites apparent even by name
























































Always check the source of any Islamic web site even if it is very convincing A FAKE AMERICAN QUR'AN
(The FURQAN QUR'AN)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579211755/qid=1096805827/102-4933271-2395342


PLEASE DO NOT ignore this and FORWARD this to as many Muslims as you can. The new AMERICAN Qur'an: a dangerous trick. A new Quran is being distributed in Kuwait , titled 'The True Furqan'. It is being described as the verses of the Shaytan and Al-Furqan weekly magazine has found out that the two American printing companies;'Omega 2001' and 'Wine Press' are involved in the publishing of 'The True Furqan ', a book which has also been titled 'The 21st Century Qur'an '!



It is over 366 pages and is in both the Arabic and English languages...it is being distributed to our children in Kuwait in the private English schools! The book contains 77 Surats, which include Al-Fatiha, Al-Jana and Al-Injil. Instead of Bismillah, each Surat begins with a longer version of this incorporating the Christian belief of the three spirits. And this so called Qur'an opposes many Islamic beliefs. In one of its verses it describes having more than one wife as fornication, divorce being non-permissible and it uses a new system for the sharing out of the will, opposing the current one. It states that Jihad is HARAM. This book even goes as far as attacking God Almighty Allah!All this is poisoning our children at approx. $3.


BROTHERS AND SISTERS PLS SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH AS MANY MUSLIMS AS POSSIBLE.

May Allah reward you. Ameen.



Our appalling ignorance of matters Muslim

By Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star


Recent events in Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Egypt, Germany and France challenge some well-entrenched notions.


Indonesia – the world's most populous Muslim nation, at 235 million, and the third largest democracy, after India and the U.S. – held a free and fair presidential election. It featured three secular-minded candidates, including a woman who does not wear the hijab.
The incumbent, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, won. He was rewarded for ushering in political and economic stability, controlling crony capitalism and corruption, and rooting out Islamic militancy.


Three months earlier, there had been parliamentary elections. Parties with an Islamic agenda lost to those who wanted to keep state and religion separate, though many may themselves be deeply religious.

Neighbouring Malaysia has begun rolling back a decades-long quota system for the majority Malays, which discriminates against Chinese, Indians and others. Prime Minister Najib Razak is pre-empting the resurgent opposition leader, former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose pledge to end the quotas was gaining traction.
Democracy is also working well in Turkey. The government has just proclaimed a law limiting the power of military courts. Civilian courts will try military personnel in peacetime and military courts will be barred from prosecuting civilians.


This complies with the European Union's requirements for Turkey to be eligible for EU membership. But its real significance is that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the popular prime minister, has ended the 80-year-old immunity enjoyed by the army, which used to stage coups and topple governments.


If you include the elected governments in Pakistan and Bangladesh (populations 176 million and 158 million, respectively) and add the Muslims of India (155 million), you realize that about 800 million Muslims enjoy varying degrees of democracy.


The Western view of Muslims living under military or monarchical despots is true mostly of the Middle East. And the worst among them (Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states) are the closest allies of the U.S. – and Canada.


So the idea of America as the harbinger of democracy for Muslims is humbug. The ballyhooed democratization of Iraq and Afghanistan (never the aim of the invasions) has come at a horrendous human cost, widely viewed in the Muslim world as crimes against humanity. A parallel notion, that Muslim women are living in the Dark Ages, also applies mostly to the Arab world, especially the nations closest to the U.S. and Canada.


Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey and Bangladesh have had women leaders. Even in Iran, the land of limited democracy and crackdowns, women are in the forefront of civic engagement, including protests.


In Germany, a pregnant hijabi woman was stabbed, 18 times, to death in a courtroom, as her 3-year-old son looked on. Instead of going after the suspect (a man who hated Muslims and was in court for calling her "a terrorist"), police mistakenly shot her husband, one presumes by presuming him to be at fault. He's in critical condition.


Marwa Sheribini was buried in her native Egypt where angry protesters condemned German Islamophobia, as did the Arab League. Elsewhere, Muslims berated the Western media's silence. Among them: Wahida Valiante, the hijab-wearing president of the Canadian Islamic Congress. Its executive director, Zijad Delic, added that if Sheribini's attacker had been a Muslim, "the media would've reported it widely. Then for days afterwards, they would deliberate the case and conclude that Muslims are `brutal and uncivilized.' But when a racist European murders an innocent woman, the silence is deafening."


In France, Ayatollah Nicolas Sarkozy has issued a fatwa against the niqab: It's "not a sign of religion. It's a sign of subservience and debasement." Perhaps. However, the issue is not theological but rather secular: On what legal basis does a democracy ban one person's veil but favour another's bikini?


The above examples point to geopolitical inconsistencies or instances of individual racism and state complicity/complacency. But they most glaringly highlight the West's appalling, and dangerous, ignorance of matters Muslim.
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