Belgian Kuffar Lawmakers Approve a Bill on Banning ‘Full Islamic Veils’

Belgium- A high committee of Belgian kuffar lawmakers have voted on Wednesday (31/3/2010) to issue a bill on banning any kinds of full Islamic face veils.

Voted under anonymity, the bill will be imposed in all public space, including streets, public gardens, sport halls, and public service offices; and exception will be on festivals like carnival.

According to the bill, those who ignore will face a fine from 15 to 25 euros (20-34 dollars) and/or a jail sentence of up to seven days, unless the local police office allow Muslim women to wear the face veil.

The bill alone is to be ratified into legal law by voting that will be held on April 22nd, 2010.

If agreed, this will make Belgium the first country in Europe to ban burqa-like veils after French parliament failed to do the same upon consideration that the ban will only result in constitutional risk.

Responses to the ban varies but mostly oppose against the bill.

On Tuesday, France’s top administrative body ruled that there were no legal grounds for a complete ban on the wearing of Islamic full face veil in public.

Isabelle Praile, vice president of the Muslim Executive of Belgium also responded to the bill negatively.

“Today it’s the full-face veil, tomorrow the veil, the day after it will be Sikh turbans and then perhaps it will be mini skirts,” she said.

The bill came to vote in the Belgian parliament after continuing controversy in the kingdom over the wearing of Islamic clothes in public places, even though Belgian parliament members often said the bill was taken upon security consideration.

A Muslim mathematics teacher at a municipal school has been challenged in legal court because she wears Islamic veil in the classroom.

At her protracted court battle, she has been given options whether to keep wearing the veil or be fired from her job at the school.

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Obama ‘Acting Like a Thief' – Taliban

Afghanistan- Taliban has released an official statement on Obama’s surprise visit to Afghanistan two days ago (28/3/2010) calling Obama is ‘acting like a thief.’

As the mainstream media has reported, Obama made an unconfirmed-to-Karzai visit to Afghanistan on Sunday (28/3/2010) night after six hours of trip from Washington and went back home at the same night.

“He comes during the night and hurries back in the darkness, ironically acting like a thief,” the release said.

Further the release said that the US is showing its ‘military’s fear and mistrust in Afghanistan’ referring to Obama’s ‘low-pitched and jittery-fraught voice’ during a speech in front of the US military terrorists at Bagram air base near Kabul.

“Similarly, the brief speech of Obama to American soldiers in a military base, being dotted with his low-pitched and jittery-fraught voice was demonstrating the scope of the American military's fear and mistrust in Afghanistan,” it said.

In his ‘thank-you’ speech to the US troops, Obama tried to boost his puppets’ motivation to ‘defeat’ Al-Qaida leaders and the Taliban as saying, “It had been attacked viciously on 9/11 and Al-Qaeda leaders and their Taliban allies were still in the region and had to be defeated.”

Taliban responded to the speech by saying, “There was no word in Obama’s speech, indicating any military achievement or at least giving good news to troops to boost their morale.”

“Obama admitted clear terms that their enemy (Taliban) were a determined and resolute opponent. However, he claimed that they would not defeat the Americans,” the released added.

Obama made a sudden visit to Afghanistan on March 28th, 2010 without any RSVP to the Afghanistan pupet president Hamid Karzai.

He only made a confirmation of his visit after addressing ‘thank-you’ speech or 25 minutes before a joint conference in the Afghan presidential palace.

It then, Taliban release said, ‘shows how arrogantly the American behaves with their henchmen.’

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NCIS Warned over Anti-Islam Bias in its Counterterrorism Training to Security Personnel

America- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has warned Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) over anti-Islam bias in NCIS’s counter-terrorism training to security personnel.

After a three-day surveillance detection by CAIR, NCIS was caught in hand playing a film that features terror ‘experts’ such as Daniel Pipes, Nonie Darwish, and Walid Shoebat – whom CAIR identifies those ‘experts’ as Islamophobic.

CAIR said the film promotes messages ‘Islam is synonymous with Nazism’ as well as ‘Islam is not a religion of peace.’

CAIR National Executive Nihad Awad had once written a letter to NCIS Director Mark D Clookie urging NCIS to base the role in securing the US on accurate and balanced information, not ‘on religious or ethnic stereotyping.’

“NCIS has an important tole to play in securing our nation and can best carry out that role when its actions are based on accurate and balanced information, not on religious ethnic stereotyping,” Awad said.

Further Awad demanded an investigation ‘to ensure that our nation’s security personnel are receiving training that is free of political or religious agendas.’

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Press Release from Taliban Mujahideen: Does America Want Peace in Afghanistan?

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

This is a main question every one asks. Does America want peace in Afghanistan? However, the following data can help us reach a rationale conclusion: At the beginning of 2009, American had 30,000 troops in Afghanistan which they increased to 68,000 soldiers until the end of the year. This shows 110 percent boost of military man power. In December 2009, US president Obama announced 30,000 more troops for Afghanistan, showing further 30% increase.

In January this year in London Conference on Afghanistan, US supported Hamid Karzai program of reintegration and reconciliation with Taliban i.e. the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Two weeks later, on 13 February, Pentagon launched a massive military operations against Marjah township in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, violating their own commitment to work for peace in the country. Now they are talking of taking the offensive to Kandahar.

So far, America has built 700 bases in the country, the major of them being in Kandahar and Bagram. They allocate hundreds of millions of dollars each year for construction of more bases in Afghanistan. In view of these facts, no one can say America wants peace in Afghanistan. They have hidden and long-term colonialist objectives, not only in Afghanistan but in the whole region.

By using Afghanistan as outpost, Washington wants to follows its policy of expansionism, regime change and disintegration in the neighboring countries. No doubt, America has been flaring up racial discord and religious differences among the people in Afghanistan and the neighboring countries. CIA agents and black water operatives have been given task to destabilize the region as per the long-term American strategy. Those who express common cause with America, should know that Washington would never become their strategic friend. Rather it is a tactical ally which wants to use them against their own people for its colonialist objectives and then discard them as it has done this in the past.

In Afghanistan, the White House rulers and the Pentagon generals do not want peace but only want to weaken the momentum of the war. They never intend to end the war. That is why on the one hand, Robert Gates, says Taliban leadership is irreconcilable or now it is not the right time to talk with Taliban but on the other hand, they offer cash, jobs and retirement bonuses for Taliban's ranks and files. The reason is that Pentagon is not interested in ending the war but they only want to reduce the scope of attacks on their soldiers.

The Afghan Mujahideen are aware of this war stratagem of the enemy. They have shown that Americans can't deceive them by phony overtures of peace. If America really wants peace in Afghanistan, they should draw up a national strategy of reconciliation; stop blind bombardment and night raids; release innocent prisoners and remove the blacks list, send black water and CIA agents back home from Afghanistan and close down all secret prisons in American military bases in Afghanistan which are run by intelligence teams of the Special Force.

There, innocent prisoners are tortured, killed by the Special Force and drowned in Helmand River and other rivers in Afghanistan during the night, with their hands being tied up, without any legal verdict of court. The Americans are committing gross violation of human rights in Afghanistan. However, no one, including the human rights advocacy entities all over the world, raise their fingers because all these are done under the name of promoting democracy and fighting terrorism. The world still has to know that the war started under the name of terrorism is, in fact, an illegitimate war of neo-colonialism, being waged for subjugation of the Afghans and all free people.

We call on all those with wake and free conscience to raise their voice against the American brutalities and violation of humane values in Afghanistan. All should know that Americans kill children, women and old men with impunity and cross all limits in their brutalities.

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Taliban Mujahideen Shoot Down Terrorist’s Helicopter in Zabul and Release Five Captive Soldiers

Afghanistan- Taliban’s spokesman, Qari Muhammad Yousuf officially confirmed that the Taliban Mujahideen (Muslim Holy soldiers) has shot down a helicopter of invading terrorists in Zabul Province, at early morning of March 29th, 2010.

The report said that all the ‘terrorists’ within were killed, but there was no further confirmation whether the helicopter belonged to IASF or the US invading forces.

Further report from Yousuf also revealed that there were 25 American invaders wounded in a powerful blast on a hilltop Ziyarat Ghundi, Musa Kala District, Helmand Province.

On the same day in Kandahar, 13 American invaders were sent to hell while those ‘terrorists’ were about ‘to carry out a search of house where explosives had already been placed by Taliban Mujahideen.

In Paktia, Taliban Mujahideen reported there were nine American terrorists killed in an ambush on Monday evening.

Another Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, has also confirmed that the Taliban Mujahideedn released five captive soldiers in Herat’s Rebat Sangi District.

The five captives, Muhammad Zaman, Abdul, Muhammad Ibrahim, Zalmai, and Muhammad Naeem, were released after constant requests from the surrounding Ulemas, tribal elders, and community leaders upon guarantee that they would not ‘join the rank of the US invaders and their Afghan minion army.’

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Quilliam Foundation Issues Provocative Report on UK’s Islam Channel

England- Qulliam Foundation, an anti-Islam organization, has just released a report saying UK’s Islam Channel ‘sowing suspicion between different religious communities and promoting intolerance and prejudice.’

The London-based counter-extremism think tank, in its report entitled ‘Re-programming British Muslims – A Study of the Islam Channel,’ also slammed Islam Channel for ‘confrontational’ theme, ‘destructive political issues,’ and ‘contentious religious subjects.’

A research fellow, Talal Rajab, even urged serious attention from the British government saying, “The disturbing evidence presented in this report requires urgent attention from government and civil society bodies that partner with the Islam Channel without challenging its separatism, extremism, sexism and anti-Semitism.”

Written in seven chapters, the provocative report of Quilliam Foundation accuses Islam Channel of: (1) marginalizing mainstream Muslims; (2) encouraging social seclusion and divisive relations with non-Muslims; (3) ‘misrepresenting facts’ on Arab-Israeli conflict and politics; (4) ‘making imbalanced’ news; and (5) supporting extremism.

Looking at the above points, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, said that the ‘attack’ by Quilliam Foundation is one of so many similar attempts to undermine the UK’s major Muslim institution and community.

“It is deeply regrettable that the Home Office and the Foreign Office have provided funding from its Preventing Violent Extremism programme for the Quilliam Foundation to pursue what is clearly a very blinkered and sectarian agenda. We believe this not only contributes to damaging trust between UK Muslims and the government but adds fuel to the current wave of far right violence and attacks against Muslim communities,” he remarked.

The Muslim Council of Britain, responding to the report, urged the government to take urgent note that the Quilliam Foundation has no grassroots credibility amongst the UK Muslims because even though the foundation self-claims to be ‘moderate Islamic think tank’ but its vocal supporters are often right-wing Zionists and anti-Islam bigots.

Islam Channel is the biggest Islamic television channel in the UK. It covers about 132 countries and is also available via satellite or the internet.

Founded in 2004, the TV aims to ‘succeed where the mainstream media fails; to properly represent the interest and convey the viewpoints of the global Ummah.’

One of Islam Channel’s chief executive, Muhammed Ali Harrath, has been said to have relations to ‘terror act’ in Tunisia. He was later on arrested in South Africa in January 2010 for that suspicion.

Praise to Allah, all charges against Ali Harrath were dropped in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on March 29th, 2010.

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Obama ‘Following in the Footsteps of His Predecessor’ – Sheikh Osama bin Laden

United States- A new audio tape of Sheikh Osama bin Laden has been released via Al-Jazeera on March 25, 2010.

The audio tape of Sheikh Osama is a message to the White House over ‘injustice’ against Muslims and its support to the Israel’s settlement expansion in Palestine.

“The politicians in the White House were practicing injustice against us and still they are. Especially by supporting Israel in its continuous occupation of Palestine,” Sheikh Osama remarked.

Sheikh Osama has also called the US President Barrack Obama ‘following in the footsteps of his predecessor’ (George ‘Terrorist’ Bush) because the US has made the decision to execute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other SUSPECTS of 9/11 attack.

“The White House has declared its wish to execute (Mr Mohammed and the other four SUSPECTS). The day the United States takes such a decision, it would be also taking decision that any of you falling into our hands will be executed,” said the Sheikh threatening Obama.

“They used to think that America across the oceans is protected from the rage of the oppressed until our reaction was loudly heard at your home on the 9/11 with God’s help,” the audio tape said.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other SUSPECTS allegedly involved in the 9/11 attacks are due to go on trial in the US, in which the prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in 2003 by Pakistani ‘puppet’ troops and sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2006.

The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has lured debates in the US.

First, Sheikh Mohammed and the four SUSPECTS were planned to undergo a military trial, but last November, Eric Holder – the US attorney-general – said that those SUSPECTS would be in a New York civilian court.

Mr Mohammed alone has once underwent a trial at a CIA secret prison, where he was subjected to harsh interrogation techniques and a practice known as water-boarding, which simulates drowning.

The Pentagon then threw fraud information about Sheikh Mohammed saying that the Sheikh has admitted to being responsible ‘from A to Z’ for the 9/11 attack in New York and Washington.

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Nigeria Banns Twitter, Facebook Forums as They ‘Mock’ Islam

Nigeria- An Islamic court in Nigeria has banned forums either in Twitter and Facebook as they ‘would mock’ the Islamic sharia law.

The court of Kaduna City supports a case by a pro-sharia group saying that the debate on the amputations of Malam Buba Belloe Jangebe would lead to insulting Islamic law.

The forum’s administrator, the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, has confirmed that they would appeal against the ruling.

The newspaper ThisDay quoted the judge's ruling as saying:"An order is hereby given restraining the respondents either by themselves or their agents from opening a chat forum on Facebook, Twitter, or any blog for the purpose of the debate on the amputation of Malam Buba Bello Jangebe."

Mr Jangebe is the first person in the history of Nigeria as he was found guilty of stealing a cow.

Stealing in Islam is strictly forbidden, and therefore Islam orders the amputation of limbs to those found guilty of stealing.

In Nigeria, Islamic law is implied in 12 of 36 Nigeria’s states.

Sharia judges can order amputations of limbs for pretty crimes in those states.

The case mostly deal with domestic issues such as marriage and divorce.

The country has just recently sentenced some women to death by stoning for adultery, but those sentences have not been carried out.

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No One Taliban Mujahidin Meets Former UN Envoy to Afghanistan Kei Eide

Afghanistan- The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, in its official statement, claimed that no one Taliban Mujahidins attended some meetings held by UN former envoy to Afghanistan, Kei Eide.

It also says that Jihad against the US ‘terrorist’ forces will continue until the US withdraws its troops unconditionally.

“Some baseless propaganda is underway, claiming that a delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan had participated in meeting held in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Maldives and now as per their claim, have met Kei Eide,”

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan refutes these allegations and clearly declares that delegations of the Islamic Emirate have not participated in these meetings,” the statement says.

Taliban sounded seven points in its official response including a statement saying that the remarks of Kei Eide last Friday as ‘part of the massive propaganda launched by the White House recently to ensure the success of Obama’s military strategy.’

In the view of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Kei Eide had faced failure during his term as a UN envoy to Afghanistan.

“His recent remarks are ostensibly efforts to hide his failure and his claims being baseless and unfounded,” it says.

On the last Friday, Kei Eide remarked that he had held some meetings with some high-ranked Taliban members in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Maldives for further chance of peace talk.

The ‘propaganda’ was then rejected by Taliban as declaring ‘The Jihad will continue against the Americans and their allies until the unconditional withdrawal of their invading forces from Afghanistan.’

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not believe in any political surreptitious contacts nor has it had such contacts,” it says.

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Egypt’s President Appoints Ahmed El-Tayyib the Grand Muslim ‘Scholar’ of Al-Azhar

Egypt- While the president of Egypt, Husni Mubarak, is dying at Heidelberg Hospital in Germany, he appointed a new grand Muslim “scholar” of Al-Azhar University.

Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayyib, a graduate of Sorborne University in the field of Islamic philosophy, has been elected as the successor of Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi.

Tayeb was previously Egypt’s grand mufti (Muslim ‘scholar’ assembly) for a short period during 2002 until 2003.

The appointment of Ahmed El-Tayyib as the new grand Muslim ‘scholar’ at Al-Azhar lured protest amongst those Muslims who are struggling to purify Islam from Westernization.

Ahmed El-Tayyib is viewed too much “Western-minded” as well as his involvement as a member of Egypt’s ruling party, National Democratic Party, which is chaired by the son of the ruling president.

Deriving from that fact, some politicians argue that the appointment of Ahmed El-Tayyib the new grand Muslim ‘scholar’ of Al-Azhar is the mere president’s agenda to pass down the presidency to his son, Gamal Mubarak.

Ahmed El-Tayyib is also famous for his clash against the biggest Muslim organization in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, saying, “The university will never be an open field for the Brotherhood (to spread its political or religious agendas).”

Ahmed El-Tayyib’s preference in dress-code does also stimulate criticism from other real Muslim scholars at Al-Azhar University.

Ahmed El-Tayyib prefers wearing “Western suits” to the trues Islamic dress-code as worn by most of Al-Azhar shiekhs.

For such Western-minded, Ahmed El-Tayyib does also support the ban of niqab amongst the students of Al-Azhar University blindly calling niqab the tradition of Arab, and therefore is not an obligation for Muslim women.

Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayyib was born in Cairo and studied Islamic theology and philosophy at Al-Azhar University.

Soon after that, he took a professorship of theology and philosophy at the same university before he was chosen the Dean of the School of Islamic Studies at Qina University, Egypt.

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Jihad against America Binding on Every other Muslim – Anwar Al-Awlaki

America/Yemen- Yemen-American born Muslim Mujahid scholar, Anwar Al-Awlaki, called on American Muslims and other Muslims in the world to follow his path, taking part in the global Jihad against America.

Aired through a 12-minute audio message, Anwar Al-Awlaki said that the obligation of Jihad against the US is ‘binding upon’ himself and other Muslims.

“I eventually came to the conclusion that Jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every other Muslim,” he remarked.

Al-Awlaki is reported to use his personal website to encourage Muslims to kill US terrorist soldiers in Iraq saying that the US government leads the war against Islam and Muslims.

“To the Muslims in America, I have this to say; ‘How can your conscience allow you to live in peaceful coexistence with a nation responsible for the tyranny and crimes against your own brother and sisters?

How can you have loyalty to a government leading the war against Islam and Muslims?” he said.

Anwar Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents. He lives in Yemeni since late 2001 or early 2002.

Anwar Al-Awlaki is an outstanding academics. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, and a Master’s degree in Education Leadership from San Diego State University.

The US government alone relates Anwar Al-Awlaki to some ‘terrorism’ acts occurring in the US, such as Fort Hood shooting on November 5,2009 and a martyr operation by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

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In United Arab Emirate, Webpage that Insults Allah and Islam Gets Banned from Facebook

United Arab Emirate- Abu-Dhabi-based Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has instructed all internet service providers in the UAE to ban a site on Facebook that insults Allah, Islam, Muhammad and all relating to Islam.

The mentioned webpage, named ‘God and Prophets’ Site,’ was banned in the UAE after TRA received numerous calls and complaints from internet users.

“TRA received numerous calls and complaints from internet users expressing their anger against unidentified people who created a site on Facebook that is offending to God, prophets, messengers, the Holy Quran and even to all God’s books,” said Mohammad Al-Ganem, TRA General manager, to Gulf News.

A group of internet users also launched a campaign urging people – including Muslims and Christians – to boycott Facebook starting from March 20 if Facebook administrators did not take any action towards the offending webpage ‘God and Prophets’ Site.’

God and Prophets’ Site contains online materials mainly insulting to Allah, the Prophet Muhammad, Quran, and all relating to Islam.

The website’s manager, likewise, self declared to be God, saying that he owns divine attributes within himself.

He also distributes distorted writing pretending they are verses of his ‘religion’ as well.

In United Arab Emirate, public’s response to the decision to ban the webpage is warm; even they will soon boycott Facebook if Facebook does not act towards the offending webpage.

Zainab Umm Mikail Syed from Dubai said, “I am a regular Facebook user but I will definitely boycott Facebook if they don’t block this site. Everyone has the freedom for their own belief but that doesn’t justify insulting another religion.”

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Hurva Synagogue Reopened Near Al-Aqsa, Ten Palestinian Muslims Injured, 16 Civil Palestinians Detained

Palestine- The Israeli terrorist government reopened the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City after 60 years closed.

The reopening of the synagogue becomes controversial because it is just about 700 meters away from Islam’s third holiest place of worship, Al-Aqsa.

Khaled Meshaal, the exiled Hamas leader, denounced the synagogue reopening saying that it ‘signifies the destruction of Al-Aqsa.’

“We warn against this action by the Zionist enemy to rebuild and dedicate the Hurva synagogue. It signifies the destruction of Masjid Al-Aqsa,” he said from Damascus via Aljazeera.

Further Meshaal views the reopening of Hurva Synagogue a ‘falsification of history and Jerusalem’s religious and historic monuments.’

“Israel is playing with fire and touching off the first spark to make the region explode,” he remarked.

Built at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Hurva inauguration ceremony is making tense situation followed by the deployment of thousands of Israeli terrorist police and border guards throughout the Old City.

Moreover, the synagogue’s location is just about 350 meters from al-Haram al-Sharif (The Noble of Sanctuary) that might call provocation by Palestinian leaders and religious figures.

The tension is getting hotter as the Israeli terrorist government keeps ignoring the international call for settlement freeze near East Jerusalem.

International Middle East Media Center has reported on Monday that ten Palestinians were injured when Israeli terrorist troops opened fire at students from Birzeit University in Ramalah City, West Bank.

At the same time and place, 16 Palestinians were detained by Israeli terrorist forces in the southern West Bank village of Sourif and another civilian from a village in Ramallah.

Witnesses said that the terrorist troops used sound bombs and police dogs to force residents out of their homes then searched them, and therefore took 15 men from the village.

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Indonesian Muslims Unite to Reject Obama

Indonesia- Indonesian Muslims continuously sound disapproval to Obama’s plan to visit Indonesia on March 23, 2010.

Indonesia’s Hizbut Tahrir has just currently released a fatwa on banning Obama to visit Indonesia calling any programme to welcome Obama a Haram (forbidden or proscribed by Islamic law).

In its press release, the Head of Indonesia’s Hizbut Tahrir Rohmat S Lahib elaborated two main considerations on banning the Muslims to welcome Obama.

First, Obama brings ‘evil’ agenda behind his visit to Indonesia. Obama is said to make Indonesia the US Military headquarter.

Second consideration is based on the recent fact revealing that Indonesia’s police has shot-dead some ‘terrorist’ SUSPECTS, but Indonesian government stupidly plans to welcome cordially the big-father of terrorist.

“We strongly reject Obama’s visit to Indonesia because he is the president of invading country. Indonesia is famous to be anti-colonialism, and we should reject Obama because it has been clear that America has invaded Indonesia economically,” Rohmat said.

Further Indonesia’s Hizbut Tahrir has planned to hold massively huge street protest in Jakarta and some other cities ahead of Obama’s visit on March 23, 2010.

Another call for rejection to Obama also came out of Indonesia Muslim Ummah Forum (FUI) saying that Obama is the most responsible American figure following the million Muslims suffering from the US invasion either in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“Obama has no place in the Muslim’s land like Indonesia because his hands are full of blood as the result of the US invasion to Afghanistan and Iraq,” said the FUI’s spokesman M. Shodiq.

FUI, as the third biggest Muslim umbrella in Indonesia, also called on Muslims to expel Obama from Indonesia.

“Obama is just the same as Bush. He is a terrorist with a cruel face. Indonesian Muslim ummah should be united to reject Obama’s coming to Indonesia and to expel him away from this land,” Shodiq added.

FUI – by coordinating with the entire masjid administration throughout Indonesia – has distributed thousands of letter sounding to reject Obama.

Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.

Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,

Except for those who return [repenting] before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.  (Surah Al-Maidah [5]: 32-34)

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‘La Tahzan’ (Don’t be Sad) Brooklyn Muslims...!

America- A plan by Brooklyn Muslims to have a four-storeys masjid (mosque) is being faced with another problem after coping with legal permission from the Department of Buildings.

In July 2009, the proposal to errect a masjid with a four-storey community center and a minaret in Brooklyn’s Voorhies Ave was rejected by the Departments of Building over zoning regulations.

Rather than the zoning regulations, Muslims view the Department of Buildings’ denial was more a feedback from the ban of the Swedish government on minaret building.

It was proven when the community resubmitted a renewed proposal, which excluded minaret from the masjid building, thus it was approved.

The process of construction building in on the progress now. However, it should be faced with another big obstacle.

Some non-Muslim residents named after the Bay People distributed leaflets urging the local community and others to ‘Say NO to mosques at 2812 Voorhis Avenue.’

The Bay People, likewise, is also currently running an online petition that is so far signed by nearly 300 residents.

Worse, the petition openly accuses the masjid building’s sponsor, the Muslim American Society (MAS), of attempting to establish an Islamic State in America as well as its critical voices to Israel policies.

Responding to the accusation, Mahdi Bray, the Director of MAS’s Freedom Foundation, said there are a lot of people who are critical of Israel policies such as Jimmy Carter.

“It does not make them anti-Semite and does not make MAS anti-Semite either,” he said to Islam Online.

There have been always rejection and denial from those non-Muslims when Muslims are trying to build places of worship in America.

Arguing that any masjid building will only cause parking and traffic problems, those anti-Islam people are actually fearing of the fast growing of Islam.

Fain would they extinguish Allah.s light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow but that His light should be perfected, even though the Unbelievers may detest (it) (At-Tawba [9]: 32)

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Israel ‘Terrorist’ Forces Restrict Muslims Aged under 50 from Praying at Masjid Al-Aqsa

Palestine- Israel’s War Minister Ehud Barak has released an order to restrict Muslims aged under 50 from praying at Masjid Al-Aqsa on March 13, 2010.

Likewise, visitors from other religions will be barred from entering the Islam’s third holiest place after Mecca and Medinna.

The order came out on Friday midnight (12/3/2010) upon consideration of another clash emergence.

Indeed, Israeli ‘terrorist’ forces engaged in a clash against Palestinians Muslims after Friday prayer at Masjid Al-Aqsa that resulted in one Palestinian injured as well as the arrest of three Palestinian Muslims.

Tension between Israeli ‘terrorists’ and the Palestinian Muslims has risen following in the Friday prayer last week and Israel’s plan to build 1,600 illegal homes in Jerusalem.

Israel’s response to the international call for settlement freeze has been neglected saying that Israel will not accept a complete freeze on settlement construction and that the plan to build homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem will not be cancelled.

The situation is getting worse when Egypt decided to succeed in blocking the tunnels that pass under its border into the Gaza Strip.

The UN humanitarian chief has warned Egypt for the tunnels blockade saying that Gaza would find it difficult to survive for the lack of food, medicine, and commercial goods.

Egypt’s President Husni Mubarak defends the decision to block the tunnels for the security of his nation.

John Holmes admitted to be ‘very frustrating’ to see the recent condition in Gaza, in which there is no rebuilding after three-week Israel’s massacre in January 2009 that resulted in 1,400 civil Palestinians martyred and 13 Israeli terrorist forces killed.

“What people in Gaza want to see is the opening of the crossing… not only for goods but for people because they are living… in a large open-air prison,” Holmes said as cited by The Palestine Telegraph.

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Clarksville’s Islamic Center Opens Newly Renovated Office

America- The Islamic Center of Clarksville held an open house to announce the public of its newly renovated office on Uffelman Drive (13/3/2010).

The new office, accordingly, will be functioned a multipurpose masjid and an Islamic education center for either the local Muslim community or the public in general.

“This is more than a house of prayer for us, but it is also a center where we educate our children in our faith and whoever wants to learn more about Islam,” said Ahmad Joudah, current president of the Clarksville’s Islamic Center.

Joudah further added that the Center will be open for all Americans who want to learn about Islam as an effort to tell the world that Islam is a ‘religion of peace and harmony.’

“We teach our children that we are Americans and our religion is Islam. As Muslims, we are not terrorists,” he said to The Leaf Chronicle. 

Muslims in Clarksville are mostly ‘committed Americans,’ in which most of them are working as professors, physicians, engineers, businessmen, and merchants.

Even though the Muslims in Clarksville originally came from several countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, and Palestine, they have committed to ‘contribute to the build up’ of America as much as their countries of origin can ‘contribute to the building up of themselves and their families.’

“We are looking forward to standing side by side with other faiths in giving back to the community,” said a local Muslim.

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2,000 Atheist Thinkers Gather in Melbourne to Spread Non-religious Message to the World

Australia- More than 2,000 atheists from all over the globe are currently holding a meeting in Melbourne, Australia – that’s BBC has reported on Friday (12/3/2010).

The world’s largest gather of atheist thinkers is aimed at celebrating their lack of religious belief.

The event, named after ‘The Global Atheist Convention’, is featuring philosophers, writers, and comedians from the entire parts of the world.

They are planning to issue a statement on the negative effects of religion on society.

Richard Dawkins is scheduled to be at the event as well as discussion on Islam and terrorism entitled ‘The Cost of Delusion.’

There will also be a hearing on a film proposal on the amount taxpayers spend to subsidize religion.

Finally, the participants are urged to avoid ‘missionary zeal’ in their determination to make people in the world ‘non-religious.’

Unfortunately, those atheists do not consider the Allah’s saying as noted in Surah At-Tawbah [9]: 32:

“They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.”

This means that no matter how hard those atheists struggle to make the world ‘non-religious,’ Allah has guaranteed that those atheists cannot ‘extinguish the light of Allah’ (Islam).

Indeed, Allah would ‘perfect His light although disbelievers dislike it.’

The evidence of the above verse has been seen in Afghanistan and Iraq, in which Zionists and atheists have attempted to eradicate Taliban and Al-Qaeda but they cannot reach that goal.

As His promise, Allah then makes the enemies of Islam defeated either in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Allahu akbar….!

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400 Muslim Scholars Suggest Three Recommendations for Aceh

Indonesia- Following the meeting of Southeast Asian Muslim scholars that was held in the city of Meulaboh, Aceh Province, Indonesia, three recommendations are suggested for a better Aceh.

Talking to Indonesia’s state-run news agency Antara, Mursalim – Western Aceh District’s spokesman – said that the meeting urged the Aceh Government to apply full Islamic law throughout Aceh.

The meeting, which was participated by about 400 Muslim scholars, also suggested that Aceh government put greater priority for Islamic education empowerment in effort to underpin the implication of full Islamic law in Aceh.

The third recommendation sounds for more frequent Muslim scholars meeting either nationally or internationally.

Further, there will be Acehnese Muslim scholars meeting once in two years as well as Indonesian Muslim scholars meeting in every three years.

Muslim scholars meeting at the international level will be held every year engaging more Muslim scholars from worldwide.

The year Southeast Asian Muslim scholars meeting held from March 9 to 10, 2010 was participated by about 400 Muslim clerics from eight countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Thailand, Cambodia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.

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56 Tajikistan Muslims Arrested

Tajikistan- Tajikistan’s top court sentenced 56 Muslims for engaging within ‘extremist activities’ in the Central Asian State on Wednesday (10/3/2010).

Arrested in Dushanbe in December 2009, the trial began several weeks later under very thight security, and therefore was closed for public expose.

Twenty-three of them were sentenced to three to six years in prison while the remaining 33 were fined between $8,000 and $16,000.

Those arrested Muslims are all members of Jamaah Tabligh (JT) – a group of Muslims that has declared to prevent politics for spreading the message of Islam.

Tajikistan alone has been famous for arresting members of either Jamaah Tabligh or Hizbut Tahrir upon consideration of threatening the nation’s governance.

Jamaah Tabligh was first founded in 1926 as an independent Muslim organization in India.

Beginning its expansion in 1946, the organization moved from one Masjid to another in effort to inspire Muslims from sin and follow the true path of Islamic teaching.

Even though the organization has declared to prevent politics from its mission, many nations consider the organization extremists.

In Indonesia, 13 Jamaah Tabligh members were wrongly arrested as considered ‘terrorist’ group several days after the bombing of JW-Marriott and Ritz-Carlton bombings in the middle of 2009 ago.

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1,000 Javanese Muslim Scholars Reject Obama Visit to Indonesia

Indonesia- 1,000 Muslim scholars from the entire East Java have agreed to vow the government to reject Obama's visit to Indonesia in March 22-23, 2010.

All of those scholars argue that Obama is the living symbol of the West's arrogance to the Muslim people worldwide.

“We are one voice to reject Obama's visit to Indonesia. This is kind of our solidarity to our Muslim brethren who are living in suffering because of the US arrogance,” said East Java's Hizbut Tahrir leader, Khoiri Sulaiman to Indonesian media.

The decision was drawn in two big cities in East Java, that are in Malang and Surabaya. They planned to hold a street protest in front of the US General Commissariat in Surabaya on March 14, 2010.

Khoiri wished that the government would hear Muslim scholars' voices to reject Obama's visit to Indonesia.

To him, Muslim scholars' voice is only taken into consideration when some politicians are going to compete in any election.

When those politicians get voted, Muslim scholars are no longer heard.

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US Muslims Urged Police to Hold ‘Internal Investigation’ for Detaining LA Muslims for Praying

United States- A Los Angeles Muslim human rights organization has sent a misconduct complaint and urged Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to hold an internal investigation of policemen in Henderson, Nevada.

The letter of complaint came out as some Henderson policemen detained seven Southern California Muslims who were having a prayer at a shopping centre car park.

It happened when seven Muslims were driving through Henderson on December 20, 2009.

They stopped for food and gas at a shopping centre before finally conducting a prayer next to their vehicle.

Two police patrol officers then soon arrived, followed by a police sergeant.

For more than one hour, they were investigated as if they had just made a terror act.

One of the officers – as the statement of the Council of American-Islam Relations (CAIR) – said that those Muslims were detained because of ‘doing weird moves.’

The human right organization has asked for disciplinary action against the offices, changes in officer training and compensation for the emotional distress suffered by those seven Muslims.

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Four Civilians Killed as Indonesian Police Ambushes Muslim’s Military Camp in Aceh

Indonesia- In an operation against some Muslims who are accomplishing a Military training in Aceh Province, Indonesian Police has blindly shot dead four civilians.

The operation alone has been started on February 22, 2010 and it is still continuing to this day (06/3/2010).

The first careless shoot took place in February 22, 2010 when two local fishermen were angling for fish.

The two casualties were identified as Kamaruddin (37) and Suheri (14), who lived at Cot Leupeng, Cot Glie Sub-district, Greater Aceh District, Aceh Province.

Another shoot was at Lamtamot Village, Greater Aceh District on Wednesday (03/3/2010).

Abdullah bin Ismail (30) was on the way back home; and what an unfortunate, he was shot dead by some Indonesian policemen when he was getting off of the bus.

At the same day, Nurbari (60) was killed by a shot of an Indonesian policeman in Meunasah Tunong, Lamkabeue, Seulimum Sub-district, Greater Aceh District, Aceh Province.

On that night, Nurbari was going to check his farm and all of sudden his neck was struck by a bullet when he met with a group of Indonesian police.

A local human rights organization warned the Indonesian police for those accidents.

Hendra Fadli, a member of Commission for Displaced Person and Abusive Action (KontraS), urged the police not to act ‘militarily’ in effort to probe some Muslims who are accomplishing military training.

The Indonesian police is currently deploying hundreds of its soldiers to probe some armed-Muslims who are running a military training in Indonesia’s province of Aceh.

A local source, who was not willing to be named, admitted he met those armed-Muslims when they were asking for rice.

To him those Muslims said they are having a Military training as a preparation to take part in the Jihad in Afghanistan.

Neglecting his witness, the Indonesian police then blindly claimed that those Muslims are planning ‘terror’ act against Indonesia.

Worse, the Indonesian police did only let one national TV station to broadcast the ambush; while other media are not allowed.

In its on-air reports, the TV station’s reporters identified those armed-Muslims as ‘terrorists’ because they wear Islamic clothes and grow beard.

The statement then sparked angry from hundreds of Muslims in Solo, Central Java Province, and other places in Indonesia.

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Arrahmah.com’s Leader Accused of being Involved in the 2009-JW Marriott Bombing as He Met Noordin M Top in 1998

Indonesia- The second trial of Arrahmah.com’s leader Muhammad Jibril Abdurrahman, which was held Tuesday (2/02/2010), has led the public to a total confusion.

The prosecutor accused Muhammad Jibril of involving in the 2009-JW Marriott bombing because he met Noordin Muhammad Top in 1998, when Muhammad Jibril was studying at Lukmanul Hakim Islamic boarding school, Malaysia.

Muhammad Hariadi Nasution, Jibril’s lawyer viewed the prosecutor’s judgment was probably inspired by a fortune-teller such as Mama Lauren.

“Was Jibril accused of keeping ‘terror act’ since 1998 just because he encountered with Noordin M Top that time (1998)?” he said.

Further the prosecutor accused Jibril because of his study at Islamic University Karachi in Pakistan, in which finally Jibril ceased in 2004.

From such an accusation then Hariadi Nasution questioned about the possibility for Jibril to meet Noordin M Top when he was at the university far in Pakistan.

“What are relations between studying at Islamic University Karachi, Pakistan and the bombing of JW Marriot, in fact he didn’t meet with him (Noordin M Top) there?” Nasution said.

Realizing the weakness of those accusation, the trial was postponed for two weeks allowing the prosecutors to formulate feedback against Jibril’s lawyer.

Talking to VOA-Islam.com, Muhammad Jibril said, “If we met someone, and does it mean that we will know all of his/her businesses?”

“All accusation addressed to me was only based on the mere prejudice without any fact,” Jibril said.  

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Two Muslim Women Opt to Miss £400-Worth Flight as They Refuse to Go through ‘Naked’ Full-body Scans

England- Two Muslim women who were going to traveling to Islamabad opted to miss their flight and forfeit tickets worth £400 each rather than be screened ‘nakedly’ at Manchester Airport on March 3, 2010.

The two passengers refused to pass through the controversial ‘naked’ full-body scanner because of religious and medical reasons.

Above all, every single good Muslim of course would not let other people who are not their blood-bound brothers to see their private organs.

The X-ray scanner alone enables security staffs to see a naked image of passengers, and therefore Muslim men and women reject it for showing clear outlines of passengers’ genital images.

For that reason, a number of human rights organizations have delivered criticism against the scanner because it targets not all passengers arriving at or departing from the airport.

It means that there is tendency to scan only certain people that might be based on their race and religions, especially Islam.

However, the airport officials later confirmed that they randomly select passengers to be scanned nakedly at the X-ray scanner, which have scanned 15,000 passengers.

Alex Deane, director of Big Brother Watch, said, “People shouldn’t have to sacrifice their health, their faith, their dignity, or their privacy in order to fly.”

“People with health and religious concerns shouldn't be forced to go through these scanners if they have good reason not to. Foolishly, the government has ignored both issues and ignored privacy concerns to boot - they are in the wrong on this,” he added.

The controversial full-body scanner alone was first introduced at Heathrow and Manchester airports on February 5, 2010.

A week after the scanner was introduced, Islamic scholars in the U.S. said Muslim travelers should not pass through the scanners because they violate religious rules on nudity.

The Fiqh Council of North America issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, warning Muslims not to go through the scanners.

‘It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,’ read the order.

‘Islam highly emphasizes haya (modesty) and considers it part of faith. The Quran has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts.'

In the U.S., there are now 40 scanners in 19 airports and could be as many as 450 by the end of the year.

The powerful council of ten scholars that issued the fatwa is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America. (MyNews)

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US Drone Attack Has Killed 1,200 Civil Pakistanis in Six Years

Pakistan- A Washington-based organization has currently released a finding telling that the US drone aircrafts have killed 1,200 civil Pakistanis only in six years.

The New American Foundation stated that the US military forces has launched 114 aistrikes in Pakistan since 2004, and therefore adds the number of civilian casualties there.

No matter what, the US ‘terrorist’ forces insist that those killed ‘accidentally’ were Muslim insurgents.

A number of contradictive statements from the Pakistanis have aired so far, but such a blind attack keeps going on.

From such a continuous blind attack towards civil Pakistanis, many Pakistanis are yelling anti-America slogans.

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Imprisoned, The Bush Grenade Thrower Embraces Islam

Georgia- The man of a Georgian national who threw an empty grenade at Bush in Tbilisi eventually embraced Islam, grew beard and learnt the Arabic language.

Vladimir Arutyunian, a resident of Tbilisi from an Armenian ethnicity is currently undergoing a life sentence in Georgia since 2006.

He was prosecuted for attempting to kill the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and ex-president of America George W. Bush, as well as killing a policeman.

Now, the man has been reported to have converted to Islam inside the prison.

His lawyer, Gela Nikolaishvili said that the condition of Arutyunian is normal and he is in a healthy condition.

“During his time in the prison, he changed religion by converting to Islam, grew beard and learnt the Arabic language,” Nikolaishvili said as reported by the Russian media (15/2).

Arutyunian was earlier a follower of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

He had also tried to change religion before, and this was his second attempt and he succeeded this time.

According to the statement from his lawyer, Arutyunian has lodged an application to the European Court of Human Rights so that he is granted appeal for the sentence he had received from the court in Georgia.

“The essence of Arutyunian’s appeal is that his case is to be reviewed. However, based on the law in Georgia, he could only do it in the period of six months after the verdict was decided. He did not immediately appeal for the review at that time due to some reasons, including his health condition and the unavailability of independent lawyers to accompany him,” Nikolaishvili explained.

On May 10, 2005, Arutyunian threw a hand grenade, wrapped in a handkerchief, at the podium where Bush delivered his speech.

As many as 10,000 people filled in the Liberty Square in the capital of Georgia. Saakashvili and other officials sat behind the American president.

The grenade was dropped 30 meters from the podium where Bush stood behind bullet-proof glass, but the grenade did not explode at all.

The security department of Georgia stated that the grenade was purposely set not to explode.

The American officials said that Bush was not in a dangerous situation.

However, the Americans later changed their statement saying that the grenade had threatened the life of their president.

The Georgian department said that the grenade thrown by Arutyunian was a type that is usually used for training.

The grenade did not contain explosive materials and it fell far away from the position where Bush was standing, thus it did not cause danger to him at all.

The grenade was thrown only to make the crowd panicked and to attract the attention of the medias.

After throwing the grenade, Arutyunian escaped but was able to be captured two months later.

The single and unemployed man was captured near the house where he lived with his mother in the poorest district at the outskirt of the Tbilisi.

In the process of his capture, he killed a police personnel who was chasing after him. He was given a life sentence in January 2006.

In his detention, while lying in hospital, he admitted to have thrown the grenade at Bush.

In the confession broadcasted through the TV stations, Arutyunian expressed his hatred for the new government, which he considered as the puppet of America.

The man who was 27 years old at the time of his arrest said that he did not regret over what he had done.

When leaving the courtroom after the trial, one of the reporters asked him whether he considers himself as a terrorist or anti-globalization.

“I don’t consider myself a terrorist, I am just an ordinary human being,” he answered. (TheUnjustMedia)

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UK Islam-based Schools Performs Higher National GCSE Average

England- Referring to a statistics compiled by the Muslim News, 71 % of the 1,683 students who had their GCSE attained at least one A* to C grade in modern language.

This number means that the achievement of Muslim students in most UK Islam-based schools is 26 % higher than the national average.

The research also revealed that 79% of male Muslim students studying at Muslim boys’s schools achieved A* to C grade in a modern foreign language; while the female Muslim students only at 71%.

61% of those Muslim students in Islam-based schools and colleges attained five or more A* to C grades, including English and Mathematics. This also means 11% higher than the national average of 50%.

Islam-based schools have been acknowledged for their outstanding achievement so far.

Tauheedul Islam Girl School (TIGS), which is voluntarily aided, has 90% of the 60 girls who sat their exam in the Blackburn based school had attained 5 or more A* to C pass rate and a 531,6 average point score.

For the last three years, TIGS has been recognised by the government as one of the top 100 highest achieving schools in the country.

Last year, the school was also awarded for the Humanities Specialist Status.

“Being recognised as one of the top schools in the country is always nice. However, the most important driver for everyone at Tauheedul is a commitment to not just achieving excellence, but sustaining it.” Said Patel, an official of the school.

Believing in spiritual intelligence can develop; Patel further added that the school’s success is also based on the personalised pastoral support for each student.

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