Bismillah


A slodiers story who came back from Iraq, talking about killing innocent civilians in Iraq, and we never know if the americans take over lebanon and other arab countries what they will do :angry2:


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=52...63426673&q=ivaw


Those who are crying over "imposed sharia law in Aceh"
and


"Sharia Police Chief Bahagia Hadi said raids on beauty parlors would be intensified in the Indonesian province of Aceh because such places were often found to be used for prostitution.



In order to put law and order in the country, and high morals, but can u tell us what do u call what is happening in Iraq, where is the human rights there, or it is okay they are muslims just kill them even if they are harmless.


I try to be a peacful person in my country, where american soldiers roam around as if they own the country, and maybe they do, but I just cant give a smile to any of them even if it was a woman soldier. It is enough talking about Islamic brutality, it is enough talking about islamic barbarism, we had it. Just look at what the american governement is doing, and that is proof of the plot they are planing for the islamic world


The Map of blood





Does anyone still dare talk about islamic brutality and human rights in islamic and arabic countries, the democracy they want for us is to be liars, stealers, usury merchants, prostitution to spread in our society, gays and lesbians, and so on and so forth in the name of freedom and democracy, only then to them islam will be REFORMED as they want, and only then they will be happy with us. But I would like to asure them, the more we are beaten on our heads the more stronger we get, the more they try to show how islam is brutal and barbaric, more people are entering and embracing islam, and the sooner the muslims(ignorant ones) will wake up to the beutified american democracy, being false, we will unite and win by will of Allah Almighty Ameeeen


Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem


Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) till you follow their religion. Say: "Verily, the Guidance of Allâh (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism) that is the (only) Guidance. And if you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) were to follow their (Jews and Christians) desires after what you have received of Knowledge (i.e. the Qur'ân), then you would have against Allâh neither any Walî (protector or guardian) nor any helper. (Al-Baqarah 2:120)



Hasbuna Allah wa Ni'ma Al-Wakeel :glare:

Hello. Im 18 n a muslim living in Singapore. But only from last year did i ever worth being mentioned a muslim. Last year after i completed my secondary education i had a 4 months break. During this time my parents left me alone here and went overseas. I was alone in my house for 1 month. During this time while i was searching for games on the internet i came across a website about the prophets. I learned about the life of the prophets and how they lead a wonderful life. My heart which have been leading a dark life for years was opened to the light of truth. I learned the truth about islam and started practicing islam and all the daily 5 prayers. I finally found peace in my life that i never found b4. I gave up all d bad habits i had( listening to music, girlfriend, smoking, visiting bad websites etc). Truly i was guided by my lord(Halhamdulillah) and my heart was opened to the truth.


Since i have lived in the dark for 17 years i failed to notice the evil around me. But now that i have been guided i started noticing the evil around me.


U see i help out my father at night in his provision shop. Some of the custormers in my shop are malay teenage women(muslims). But they dress like kaffirs, the r clothed yet naked, if u know wat i mean. They themselves are astray and are leading other custormers in my shop astray too. coz some of the custormers would stop and admire their beauty and charms b4 proceeding on. Im shy to say these but i sometimes would admire their beauty too...but i would try my best to lower down my gaze. The problem dosent stop here. My grandpa who is also helping out my father sells contact cement( a type of glue meant for shoes) to muslim teenagers(who follows the west) KNOWING tat they will use it for glue sniffing!! I tried to tell my grandpa that this is wrong but he ignores me and says tat this is business. The thing which is hurting me most is that all these people r muslims, and they are helping each other in sins and going against the limits set by Allah.


The prob still dosent stop here. Any one who have read the quran knows tat smoking is haram. My father sells ciggrates and smokelss tobaccos in his shop. He also sells prayer oil meant for hindus which means he is helping them worship idols. I have talked abt this prob to my uncle and father but they say tat "this things r widespread n i cant do anything abt it." ALL THIS HAVE BEEN BOTHERING ME 4 D PAST YEAR N I COULDNT 5N A SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEMS. THIS PROBLEMS HAVE ALSO BEEN REDUCING MY FAITH. I hope u guys can give me a soln to this problem. I sincerely hope tat u guys wont give the same ans as my father and uncle. May Allah reward u all.

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In the work to shut down Guantánamo, there is a part to be played by lawyers and human rights advocates. What is the role of the citizen? To stand up on behalf of the victims of the war on terrorism. On January 11, many of us will do that through nonviolent direct action, creatively challenging a system of laws that offer no justice.


CALL TO ACTION


We declare January 11, 2007, five years after the first prisoners arrived at Guantanamo, an International Day of Action to Shut Down Guantánamo. In Washington, DC we will hold a permitted march from the Supreme Court to the U.S. Federal Court; some may risk arrest they attempt to submit Habeas petitions on the behalf of the prisoners of Guantánamo. There will also be solidarity demonstrations from Amsterdam to Boise, Idaho and a National Call-In Day to Congress. We invite you to come to Washington and participate, or else join or plan an action in your own community.


JOIN US IN WASHINGTON, DC


Thursday, January 11, 10:00am. Gather at Upper Senate Park ( intersection of Delaware & Constitution Avenues, NE).


The day involves several elements:


"Prisoners of Guantánamo March." A provocative street theater performance involving people wearing orange jump suits, black hoods and chains, and bearing the name of a man imprisoned at Guantánamo. We will march in an orderly silent procession hauntingly evoking the moral disgrace that is Guantánamo. With your help, we will form a prisoner contingent including as many protesters as there are prisoners.


Nonviolent Direct Action. Following the march to the Federal Court, we encourage members of the prisoner contingent to risk arrest attempting to deliver motions on prisoners' behalf to the Court. To participate, please consider attending an orientation meeting on Wednesday night at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church ( 1525 Newton Street, NW) or come early to Upper Senate Park for an orientation and rehersal at 9:30am. Please let us know in advance if you are willing to participate in either the Prisoners Contingent, Nonviolent Direct Action, or both. Email jan11@witnesstorture.org.


Vigil & Rally. Those not participating in nonviolent direct action will vigil outside the Federal Court in a permitted rally involving street theater, puppets and a litany...as more hooded and suited prisoners wait for their day in court.


Teach-in. There will be a Teach-In on Guantánamo, Law and Justice at Georgetown Law School starting at 6:30pm.


Press Conference. In addition to the above activities organized by Witness Against Torture, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Amnesty USA are organizing a press conference that will take place on the steps of the Supreme Court at 10:30am.


Congressional Call-In Day. Visit www.witnesstorture.org/callin for details on how to contact your members of Congress on January 11th to demand an end to torture and indefinite detention.


For up-to-date details visit www.witnesstorture.org.


D.C. LOGISTICS


Housing for people attending the January 11 action will be available at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church. People risking arrest who have special needs and require a bed please let us know.


Food will be served on January 10 at 6:00 p.m. at St. Stephen's. A light breakfast will be served on January 11 from 7:00-8:00 a.m.


Directions to St. Stephen's Church and Upper Senate Park, and information about rides to D.C., are available at www.witnestorture.org/logistics.


Legal support will be available. See www.witnestorture.org/legal.


Consider bringing hoods & orange jumpsuits if you have them. Let us know if you do.


Donate online or send a check made out to "Witness Against Torture" to Mary House Catholic Worker, 55 E. Third Street, New York, NY 10003.


JOIN THE GROWING NUMBER OF LOCAL VIGILS - ATTEND OR ORGANIZE AN ACTION IN YOUR COMMUNITY


If you can't join us in Washington D.C., please consider attending or organizing a vigil, march or a public forum in your community. Actions are currently planned in Amsterdam, Holland; Boise, Idaho; Chicago, Illinois; Corvallis, Oregon; Dublin, Ireland; Duluth, Minnesota; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Humboldt County, CA; London, UK; Managua, Nicaragua; Miami, Florida; New York City, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; San Francisco, CA; Saratoga Springs, NY; Sydney, Australia; and Syracuse, New York.


Visit www.WitnessTorture.org for up-to-date details about solidarity events, as well as to find ideas for actions, to post to our calendar, or to download flyers and other resources.


WHO WE ARE


One year ago Witness Against Torture drew international attention after it walked to Guantanamo to visit the prisoners. Upon its return, the group has organized vigils, marches, nonviolent direct actions and educational events to expose and decry the administration's lawlessness, build awareness about torture and indefinite detention, and forge human ties with the prisoners at Guantánamo and their families.


Some of the organizations endorsing the Jan 11 Day of Action include:


Bill of Rights Defense Committee


Center for Constitutional Rights


CodePink


DC Anti-War Network


Declaration of Peace


Global Exchange


International Federation for Human Rights


National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance


Pax Christi USA


Peace Action


Torture Abolition and Survivors Coalition


United for Peace and Justice


War Resisters League


For more information go to www.WitnessTorture.org

PCHR: "Border crossing agreement, another year of suffering"


Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 17:41


The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published a report entitled "Crossings Agreement - Another Year of Suffering", in which the center conducted a study on the effects of restrictions and limitations imposed by Israel on the movement and lives of the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.


The report also surveys the economic and social life of the Palestinian people, facing daily hardships and obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation.


The PCHR report revealed that one year after the Crossing Agreement was reached, Israel continued its restrictions on the movement of the Palestinian people limiting their movement between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.


The closure of crossings, weather border terminals, trade crossings, and checkpoints restricted the movement of the residents and barred them from receiving the needed educational, medical and social services, in addition to isolating them from each other and from the rest of the world.


Health services in Palestine had sharply deteriorated as a result of the closure and continuous Israeli attacks and policies.


The Israeli procedures also included imposing collective punishment on the people, as the army escalated its attacks and shelling and have barred the access of goods and medicine into the Gaza Strip.


The PCHR stated that the Israeli policies, especially the social and economical strangulation of Palestine caused a sharp deterioration of the social and economical conditions of the people, and prohibited the residents from having access to work.


Children, as well as most of the residents, have not been receiving the needed medical care and attention especially since Israel stepped-up its policies against the people, which barred the residents from having access to the needed medications and equipment, especially the people who have chronic diseases.


Unemployment level in the Gaza Strip reached 44%, and jumped to 55% after Israel increased the restrictions it imposes on the residents, especially the increasing closures.


Poverty level in the Gaza Strip were at 64% before the agreement was signed last year, now poverty level is 73%.


The income of the residents has sharply deteriorated over the last three years, and it has dropped from 32% to 45%, as the Israeli policies affected all aspects on the Palestinian life, especially the health, industrial, trade and transportation sectors.


One year after the agreement was signed, the movement of people and goods remained restricted, and the articles regarding the development of the Palestinian economy remained on the shelf.


http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23306/1/

Mother of three children killed by gunmen in Gaza


Maan News Network - Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 15:55


Following Monday morning tragic shooting, where unknown gunmen shot at the car of Major Baha' Balousha, killing his three children on their way to school, instead of him, the mother of the slain children spoke to Ma'an, and gave the following statements;


The three children are Osama, 10, Ahmad, 6, and Salam, 3 years old.


"They drained my blood when they killed my three children, and wasted my lifetime's fruit in the blink of an eye. If they consider that an accomplishment, I congratulate them for it", the bereaved mother said.


The mother, Linda Abu Taqiyya, 30, heard the sound of the shots from her home on Al-Kinz Street, in central Gaza City. She called her sister Hanady, saying, "Please go and check, I feel that it's my kids, and I can see their car, but I don’t know what is going on."


"They have wasted them and killed them!" she cried to her sister, after she heard from the neighbours that three children had been shot and killed. She said that her heart stopped when she heard the shots at 7:10 am.


"Ahmad didn't want to go to school today and Osama dragged him by force," she said.


Then she added in despair, "Over the last week, I have felt contractions in my heart. Last night, my three children tried to spend the night next to me, but I insisted that they go to sleep, so as to get up early in the morning for school.


In the morning, Ahmad woke up and told me that he feels very cold. I tried to warm him up, but he didn't want to go to school at the Roman Orthodox School with his big brother Osama. His other brothers dragged him by force. I wish I was with them and died, instead of staying alive, to live the life-long agony over losing them."


Wearing clothes of black, the bereaved mother continued: "The last words I heard from Osama were: "Mom, I have memorized the dictation lesson by heart, and I will get a full mark." He left the house unaware that the bats of the night had been awaiting him to plant 60 bullets in his and his brothers' tiny bodies, killing what is left of their parents' dreams."


She sat in her children's room on the tenth floor of the Al-Isra building and said,"for God's sake, that is enough. Yesterday they killed Tayseer Khattab and Jad At-Tayeh, and his attendants. Every day, there are explosions near the officials' houses. Is it my husband's guilt that he is a general in the intelligence service? Where is the government and where is the presidency?"


http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23174/1/

Mother prohibited from visiting her son in Israeli prison since 2001


Ali Samoudi, Palestine News Network - Wednesday, 06 December 2006, 13:35


Thirty five year old Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Al Zalav is a political prisoner in the Israeli Damon Prison. He was arrested as part of a campaign against the armed resistance, as he is among the leadership of Fateh's Al Aqsa Brigades.


His family lives in Jenin Refugee Camp and his mother is in her sixties. Life has been difficult since Mohammad's arrest, as he was the family's breadwinner. His mother Fawzia has not been allowed to see her son in five years.


She sat down with PNN on Wednesday. “Every time I go to the prison to visit I wonder how I will prove to them that I am his mother? I gave them all the papers and documents confirming that he is my son. They will not accept them. They say I am not his mother! Nor will they allow his brothers to visit under the pretext of 'security.'”


Fawzia began crying during the interview as she described their lives. “During the major attacks on Jenin Camp they destroyed the house and were killing so many. It was the saddest moment of my life and I was calling to God to help us.”


She has also appealed to international human rights organizations, but as is often the case, there are so many Palestinians appealing for help, most receive very little.


“I would take just one minute to see Mohammad's face, even behind bars,” Fawzia said. “He will be in the prison for 15 years for membership in the leadership of Al Aqsa Brigades. He was resisting the occupation and was already arrested so many times, chased and hunted. He was injured and he even did not see his wife often, nor has he seen his daughter who was born on the eighth day of the battle of Jenin. She is growing up, in kindergarten now. She always asks about her father and she cries.”


Mohammad Al Zalav's mother continued. “Mohammad spent four months in the cellars of Jelameh Prison and he was sentenced to two years, but the military intelligence refused to allow less than seven. My son Ahmed was arrested and injured several times. So was Soloman. He is disabled from the injuries now. Part of his body is paralyzed.


My other son, Walid, spent six months in Administrative Detention, without charge or trial. The occupation demolished everyones homes, they swept through in April 2002 and destroyed them all. But all I ask for is a glimpse of my son after five years of waiting.”


http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23084/1/

The Niggerization of Palestine


Jonathan Scott, Black Agenda Report - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 12:50


“What do you call a Black man with a PhD? Nigger.” - Malcolm X


The situation of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has become so bad that even the pro-Israeli New York Times is reporting on some of the more revolting developments.


For instance, on October 11 the Times ran an article titled “ Israel Bars New Palestinian Students From Its Universities, Citing Concern Over Security,” and in September it had published a “human interest” piece profiling the long struggle of Palestinian community leader Sami Bahour to gain a residency permit in Ramallah, the place where he has lived and worked for the past 15 years (“Israeli Visa Policy Traps Thousands of Palestinians in a Legal Quandary,” 9/18/06). In the latter piece the Times reported that, “Over the past six years, more than 70,000 people, a vast majority of them of Palestinian descent, have applied without success to immigrate to the West Bank and Gaza.”


In the former article the Times notes that the Israeli Army has just imposed an “outright ban” on all Palestinian students who wish to study at Israeli universities, even if the student has been already accepted into a doctoral program, which is the case of Sawsan Salameh, a Palestinian woman from the West Bank who recently earned a full scholarship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to begin a doctorate in theoretical chemistry. Instead of beginning her PhD studies in this fall semester, she is tied up with lawyers who are preparing her case for the Israel Supreme Court.


The Times here has reached the farthest limits of permissible discourse on the Israeli military occupation of Palestine, the longest colonial occupation in modern history and one that is impossible without the $8 billion in unconditional U.S. aid that flows annually to Israel. The occupation costs Israel $12 billion per year and would become immediately insupportable were the massive U.S. aid package suspended for even a month or two (80 percent of all U.S. foreign aid goes to Israel). Thus it's unlikely that the Times will follow up these two stories with the real story behind them, namely why it is that there exists not a single PhD program in any of the eight major Palestinian universities, in spite of the fact that Palestinians are among the most well educated people on earth.


The underlying issue, as is always the case with Palestine, is how Americans might respond politically if they came to know that a significant portion of their tax dollars is funding the most brutal system of racial oppression the world has seen since American Jim Crow and apartheid in South Africa. The thousands of dedicated Palestine solidarity activists across the U.S. work under the assumption that once the basic facts of Israeli racial oppression against the Palestinians are established, vividly and for the political education of the majority of Americans, organized opposition to the 60-year old U.S. pro-Israel policy will spring to life, leading finally to a just solution of what's called euphemistically in the West “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”


The Israel Lobby works with this same assumption, evidenced by their vicious attacks on anybody who dares call the Israeli occupation racist, or who merely points out the apartheid character of its new 700 kilometer segregation wall, whose “major aim,” as the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem, has put it, is “to build the Barrier east of as many settlements as possible, to make it easier to annex them into Israel.” As we know, merely naming properly the thousands of well paid pro-Israeli lawyers, academics, and media pundits and organized political lobbyists, whose sole objective is to suppress this kind of information in the West, will get you labeled “anti-Semitic,” as the liberal, establishment scholars Walt and Mearsheimer recently learned.


Yet, American dissent against the Israeli occupation has tended to avoid the obvious “niggerization” process in Palestine. In this way, what Edward Said referred to as “the last taboo in American politics,” that is, any discussion of Israel as an imperialist power in aggressive pursuit of regional military and economic domination, needs to be qualified, for in the aftermath of the Israeli Air Force's annihilation of Lebanon this kind of discussion is beginning to happen. What's not happening, though, is a discussion of the racial character of Israeli imperialism against the Arab nations, beginning of course with the Palestinian nation.


The parallel between the nature of Israel's establishment in 1948 and the Anglo-American extermination of the indigenous population, the Native Americans, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is clear and many Palestinian scholars have always stressed it. In 1948 Israeli Zionists executed a genocidal war against the Palestinians, the style of which would have made Joseph Conrad nod in instant recognition. Recall his description in Heart of Darkness of the murderous British imperialism let loose in the Congo: “They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale.”


More than 800,000 Palestinians, or 80 percent of the indigenous population, were forcibly expelled from their land and the ripest parts of it, the beautiful and bustling port cities of Haifa, Jaffa, and Akka, immediately confiscated by Israeli Zionists and set aside for Jews only. Palestinians had fled in horror after having either witnessed first-hand the massacre of fellow townspeople and villagers or heard the stories of the hundreds of neighboring towns and villages razed to ground by Zionist militias, who murdered everyone refusing to abandon their homes.


Many works of Palestinian historiography are available that document these basic facts, and there are several classic works of Israeli historiography that do the same, which came out of the 1980s period in which a great deal of declassified material was released by Israel. See in particular Rosemary Sayigh's Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries and Nur Masalha's Expulsion of the Palestinians; for the Israeli accounts, see Benny Morris's The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and Simha Flapan's The Birth of Israel. These Israeli scholars use the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe the establishment of Israel and its dispossession of the Palestinians. By the logic of the Israel Lobby, these Jewish scholars are guilty of “anti-Semitism” and worse are “self-hating Jews,” even though both scholars are actually staunch Zionists.


In fact, the original Zionist idea was to reserve the land for European Jews only, modeled after the well established pattern of nineteenth-century European racialist colonialism in Asia and Africa, but this proved to be a very difficult task as the majority of European and Euro-American Jewry then preferred, and continues to prefer today, the life of a Manhattan or London Zionist to that of an actual Jewish colonial-settler on occupied Arab land. Consequently, the majority of Israeli society is comprised of Arab Jews, mainly from Iraq, and 20 percent is Palestinian. In Israeli public discourse, these facts are referred to openly as “the demographic problem.”


Any “demographic problem” is completely racial: it presupposes the existence of two distinct types of human being, one deserving full civil rights and social privileges and the other an aggravating nuisance that must be got rid of, because this type is merely pretending to be human no matter how much education, property, or eloquence the person possesses. This is the hallmark of the “niggerization” process.


There is a startling abundance of empirical evidence documenting Israel's “niggerization” of the Palestinians, from the various studies conducted by international human rights organizations to local Palestinian and Israeli monitoring groups, who document meticulously everything from daily torture in Israeli prisons, water theft and house demolitions, to racial profiling, harassment and physical assault at military checkpoints, collective punishment and the systematic use of “administrative detention” (imprisoning a person without charge or evidence) as a means of incarcerating a whole generation of rebellious Palestinian youth, in other words, those who have rejected the “niggerization” process.


For those interested, see B'Tselem's perspicaciously maintained web site, and also visit the excellent Electronic Intifada site, among many others. Yet I feel strongly that at this point the documentary record is simply overwhelming the crucial everyday life stories of Palestinians to the extent that more data and analysis will add nothing useful to the discussion. As Dr. King and the African American civil rights movement proved to the world, the moral critique of racial oppression is what changes people's perceptions, not more facts and expert commentary.


Every day I travel back and forth between West Bank and Jerusalem as part of my teaching responsibilities at Al-Quds University, for we have two main campuses. For Palestinians from West Bank, this kind of commute is impossible because Israel has banned all Palestinians from entering Jerusalem, their own capital, except for the few who have Jerusalem identity cards. Consequently, close to 90 percent of all Palestinian students and faculty at the university cannot use the Jerusalem campus, which means that there are many courses students cannot take to graduate because they cannot reach the Jerusalem campus to take them, and conversely many courses are cancelled because professors cannot get there to teach them. They are also cut off from essential library resources. Taking seven or eight years to graduate is becoming normal, and there are many unfortunate student dropouts as well as a gradual loss of faculty, since there is only so much a person can take. Many students require four hours to get to the West Bank campus, coming as they do from all over West Bank where Israel has in place around 800 military checkpoints altogether.


Under American Jim Crow and South African apartheid, this was known as the illegalization of literacy, one of the basic elements of racial oppression. The other three elements - the declassing of property-holders, the deprivation of civil rights, and the destruction of the family - are also deployed in Israel's racist policy of excluding Palestinians from Jerusalem, which is very obvious and can be illustrated by a only few examples.


In the Palestinian West Bank village where I live, there are many new shopkeepers selling cheap goods in direct competition with more established shops. At first I didn't understand why a person would attempt such an impossible business enterprise, especially during a time when Palestinians are suffering extreme cash-flow problems due to the ongoing U.S. economic blockade of the Hamas government. So I asked a few shopkeepers. One had his tour bus business ruined after Israel imposed its ban on Palestinians from West Bank entering Jerusalem, since this meant he could no longer drive his bus in and around Jerusalem, while several others were forced to abandon their wholesale produce businesses for the same reason: without access to Jerusalem restaurants and grocery stores, they lost their whole clientele.


This central aspect of the “niggerization” process in Palestine is not new; the fact is that it is now nearly complete. Palestinian political economist Adel Samara points out that it began within days of Israel's conquest of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, when hundreds of new military orders were issued, half of which involved Israel's economic interests. “These interests include the employment of a cheap labor force,” says Samara. “Military orders cut the occupied territories off from the rest of the world, making Israel their main supplier (90 percent of the occupied territories' imports come from or through Israel). Thus the wages paid to the workers were returned to Israel as payments for Israeli consumer goods. By absorbing the labor force, while at the same time pursuing a policy of rejecting Palestinian applications for licenses to start productive projects, the Israelis were able to destroy the occupied territories' economic infrastructure, thus facilitating the integration of the latter's economy into that of Israel” (For a full analysis, see his book, The Political Economy of West Bank).


In terms of the deprivation of civil rights, being denied entry into Jerusalem means the denial of the right to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which are not only two of the holiest sites in Islam but also located in al-Haram al-Sharif, a 35-acre sacred area in the southeastern corner of the Old City, one of the most venerated places of worship in the entire world much less historic Palestine. Palestinian scholar Salim Tamari has referred to the Israeli policy of denying Palestinians access to worship in Jerusalem “a regime of discrimination.”


“East Jerusalem has been reduced from Palestine's commercial and political capital to another Palestinian ghetto.”


The denial of building permits is the other side of Israel's policy of denying visas to Palestinians who hold North American or European passports: the latter blocks the development of Palestinian society by robbing it of both capital and a skilled cadre of professional analysts, social planners, architects, and administrators, while the former produces ghettoization on a massive scale. The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality issues on average only 100 building permits annually to Palestinians, as compared with 1,500 to Jewish Israelis. As a result of this racist policy, between 1986 and 1996 40 to 60 percent of Palestinian Jerusalemites were forced to move outside the municipal boundaries. Most belong to Palestine's middle class. East Jerusalem has been reduced from Palestine's commercial and political capital to another Palestinian ghetto. Within these ghettos, it's very common to find Palestinian businessmen as well as college graduates driving broken down shuttle vans for less than $10 a day.


Last week I was riding in one of these vans on the way to visit a friend in Ramallah when the engine quit. The driver graciously returned our money - a mere shekel and a half each, about 30 cents - and we piled out of the van to wait along the road for a different van. While waiting together we could see a speeding sports car brake as it approached us. The windows came down and the people inside, a family of Jewish Israelis, flipped us the middle finger. A small thing compared to the total scale of Israeli oppression of Palestinians, yet the image has stayed with me. A shiny new BMW, a well-scrubbed family on the way perhaps to the local synagogue or a birthday party, their sparkling faces, taking a little time out of their busy day to say hello to a group of dusty travelers stranded by the side of the road.


Jonathan Scott is Assistant Professor of English at Al-Quds University and the author of Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press, 2006). He can be reached at Jonascott15@aol.com. This article was reprinted from the Black Agenda Report.


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Competing religions and ideologies that do not espouse the intolerance and revulsion of an alternate view are at a disadvantage to one ideology in particular that has not shed the violence and hatred that were prevalent when it emerged from 7th century Arabia. The result is all too frequently dead infidels


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Risk of anti-Christian attack growing as Christmas approaches


Bomb threat made against Christian radio in Jakarta. More than 18,000 police officers will be deployed to protect places of worship across the Indonesian capital. Tensions are running high in Poso.


Jakarta (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A Christian radio station is threatened whilst authorities increase security details around Christian places of worship and community centres as fears of Christmas attacks grow.


On Saturday afternoon Radio Pelita Kasih, which is in Dewi Sartika in eastern Jakarta, received a phone call that threatened a bomb attack. Police and the bomb squad inspected the premises but found nothing. The radio station broadcast Christian music and religious programmes.


On Monday, Colonel Ketut Untung Yoga, spokesman for the police, announced that 18,000 police officers would be deployed to protect thousands of churches and other religious sites in Jakarta for fear of attacks by Islamic extremists. “Places of worship are our priority,” Yoga said.


In 2000 a series of coordinated bombs killed 19 people during the Christmas season.


On December 31, 2005, a market in a Christian area in the city of Palu (Sulawesi) was the scene of another attack that left seven people dead.


In both cases Jemaah Islamyah, a militant Islamist group thought to be linked with al-Qaeda, was blamed.

Quote:ABU Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah, has been cleared of involvement in two of Indonesia's most devastating attacks of recent times - the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 Marriott Hotel blast
Indonesia's highest court late yesterday overturned Bashir's 2004 conviction over the two atrocities, which killed 202 people and 14 people respectively.


The decision clears the way for Bashir, 68, to claim compensation for time he has served in jail.


He was released from a Jakarta prison in June to wild adulation after serving almost 26 months of a 2½-year sentence for terrorist conspiracy charges, but continued with the Supreme Court appeal in order, he said, to clear his name.


"He thanks God and says he is glad everything has now been revealed," his son Abdurrohim said late yesterday.


"We welcome this decision with great happiness. Hopefully it can become a signal that for all this time, everything was slander from the enemies of Islam who wanted to destroy the image of Indonesian Muslim preachers.


"We're happy the judges have made their decision according to the facts, and have taken into account nothing that was fabricated."

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Insurgents killed two men and launched arson attacks in southernmost provinces, police said Wednesday.


A 33-year-old Buddhist man was shot and then set alight by gunmen who ambushed him in front of his house in Pattani late Tuesday night.


Police could not confirm if the former community police officer died of the four gunshot wounds or his burns.


Also Tuesday, a 27-year-old villager was killed in a drive-by shooting in nearby Narathiwat.


Militants also set fire to two government-run elementary schools in Pattani, while in nearby Yala province insurgents staged arson attacks on a local health office and a day care centre.


No one was injured in the arsons, which were carried out in the middle of the night.

Bismillah:


<b>the prophet Muhammad pbuh said:</b>


<b>Character </b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "One who covers up the failings of someone in this world will have his shortcomings covered up by God on the Day of Judgment." - Riyadh us-Saleheen, 240


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "By his good character, a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day." - Abu Dawood, Hadith 2233


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Being rich does not mean having a great amount of property, but [it] is being content [with what one has]." - Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Hadith 453


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "(God) has revealed to me that you should adopt humility so that no one oppresses another." - Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 1589


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "No one has swallowed anything more excellent in the sight of God...than the anger he restrains, seeking to please God most high." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1324


- A person once asked the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him): "What is faith?" The Prophet replied: "When a good deed becomes a source of pleasure for you and an evil deed becomes a source of disgust, then you are a believer." He was then asked: "What is a sin?" The Prophet said: "When something pricks your conscience, give it up." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 8


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Envy is not permitted except in two cases: (Envy) of a person who God has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, and (envy of) a person who God has given wisdom and he gives his decisions accordingly and teaches it to others." - Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Hadith 490


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Wealth consists of various kinds of treasures, and those treasures (all) have keys. Blessed is the man whom God has made a key for good and a lock for evil." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1366


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever suffers an injury and forgives (the person responsible), God will raise his status to a higher degree and remove one of his sins." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 998


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Shall I tell you who are the best among you?...The best of you are those who when seen are a means of God Being brought to mind." AL-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1302


- Narrated Masruq: "I asked (the Prophet Muhammad's wife) Aisha which (good) deed was most loved by the Prophet. She said: 'A deed done continuously.'" Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Hadith 232


<b>Charity </b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Charity does not diminish wealth." - Riyadh-us-Saleheen, Volume 1, Hadith 556


Equality


The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "God does not judge you according to your bodies and appearances, but He looks into your hearts and observes your deeds."


<b>Family </b>


- A man once told the Prophet that he had many children but did not kiss any of them. The Prophet (pbuh) replied: "Verily, God will only show mercy to those of His servants who do good to others." Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


- "Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worhsip none save Him, and show kindness to your parents. If one or both of them attain old age with thee, say not "Fie" unto them or repulse them, but speak unto them a gracious word." Holy Quran, Surah 17, Verses 23-24


<b>Forgiveness </b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever suffers an injury and forgives (the person responsible), God will raise his status to a higher degree and remove one of his sins." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 998


<b>Honesty </b>


- The Prophet (peace be upon him) quoted a person who will face severe punishment on Judgment day as saying: "I enjoined others to do good, but did not do it myself, and I forbade them to do evil, but did it myself." - Riyadh-us-Saleheen, Hadith 198


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "If you guarantee me six things on your part I shall guarantee you Paradise : Speak the truth when you talk, keep a promise when you make it, when you are trusted with something fulfill your trust, avoid sexual immorality, lower your gaze (in modesty), and restrain your hands from injustice." - Al Tirmidhi, Hadith 1260


<b>Justice </b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is oppressed." People asked, "…It is right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him from oppressing others." Sahih Al-Bukhari, 3:624


- The Prophet also stated that God said: "O My servants, I have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one another." - Hadith Qudsi, 17


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "To administer justice between two people is charity." - Fiqh-us-Sunnah, 3:98


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "The just and fair will be seated on chairs of light before God. Such people are those who decide with justice and deal justly in matters relating to their families and other affairs entrusted to them." - Riyadh-us-Saleheen, Hadith 650


- "God does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear. Each will enjoy the good it earns, as indeed each will suffer for the wrong." - The Holy Quran, Chapter 2, Verse 286


<b>Kindness </b>


- A man once told the Prophet that he had many children but did not kiss any of them. The Prophet (pbuh) replied: "Verily, God will only show mercy to those of His servants who do good to others." Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "If one of you loves his brother, he should tell him that he loves him." - Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished." He also said: "Make things simple and do not complicate them. Calm people and do not drive them away." - Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) would hear the crying of a child in the company of his mother during payer, and he would then recite only a short portion of the Quran (to end the prayer and let the mother comfort her child)." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 220


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "God did not send me to be harsh, or cause harm, but He sent me to teach and make things easy." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 707


<b>Life & Human Nature </b>


- "God does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear. Each will enjoy the good it earns, as indeed each will suffer for the wrong." - The Holy Quran, Chapter 2, Verse 286


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "There is no disease that God has created, except that He has also created its treatment." - Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume, Hadith 582


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "If anyone would like to receive an answer from God in times of difficulty, he should make many supplications when times are easy."


- A person once asked the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him): "What is faith?" The Prophet replied: "When a good deed becomes a source of pleasure for you and an evil deed becomes a source of disgust, then you are a believer." He was then asked: "What is a sin?" The Prophet said: "When something pricks your conscience, give it up." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 8


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Wealth consists of various kinds of treasures, and those treasures (all) have keys. Blessed is the man whom God has made a key for good and a lock for evil." Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1366


<b>Manners </b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "One who covers up the failings of someone in this world will have his shortcomings covered up by God on the Day of Judgment." - Riyadh us-Saleheen, 240


<b>Mercy </b>


- A man once told the Prophet that he had many children but did not kiss any of them. The Prophet (pbuh) replied: "Verily, God will only show mercy to those of His servants who do good to others." Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


<b>Moderation </b>


- The Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) said, "Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights." - Sahih Al Bukhari - Volumn I, Hadith 8


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "God did not send me to be harsh, or cause harm, but He sent me to teach and make things easy." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 707


<b>Time</b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "A time will come when the murderer will not know why he has committed the murder, and the victim will not know why he has been killed." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1356


<b>War </b>


- "During [a military expedition], a woman was found killed, so [the Prophet Muhammad] forbade the killing of women and children." Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Hadith 258


<b>Witnessing </b>


- The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Should I not tell you of the best witness? He is the one who produces his evidence before he is asked for it." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 799


<b>Women </b>


- The Prophet (pbuh) said: "The most perfect in faith amongst believers is he who is best in manner and kindest to his wife."


- The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: "The best thing in this world is a virtuous woman (wife)." - Riyadh us-Salaheen, 1:280


- The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: "Whoever has three daughters, cares and provides for them, and shows them mercy, will enter Paradise ." Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


- A man once told the Prophet that he had many children but did not kiss any of them. The Prophet (pbuh) replied: "Verily, God will only show mercy to those of His servants who do good to others." Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners


- As he carried his grandson on his shoulders, the Prophet was heard to say: "O God! I love him, so You love him too." Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals and Manners.


Salam.