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ISRAELI CONTROL OF AMERICA: A VETERANS TODAY READER COMMENTS : Veterans Today

2010-10-13T03:12:00.000-07:00

ISRAELI CONTROL OF AMERICA

There is so much propaganda, constant lies and manipulation, Muslim this, Islam that, but all tilted far from truth. The media is owned and controlled by one cabal, offering slanted news, character assassination, sensationalized celebrity gossip, distraction and disinformation, and total avoidance of entire world concerns ( such as chemtrails, missing nukes, bombs in the buildings, etc ) – causing intelligent people to shut off their televisions to seek truth on the internet............

While some are working to shut down all independent investigation- their congressional lackeys are working to shut down the internet............

The truth is their greatest enemy. We have seen how they deal with the truth. Let’s use the holocaust for example: If you were a lawyer seeking to defend someone against say “holocaust denial” (yes, that is actually a crime in some countries – hard to believe, but it’s true) your lawyer can be imprisoned for trying to defend you with nothing but the best facts, figures and a very well preserved collection of meticulous military records. It is a crime to present this evidence: facts, figures and documents, the best evidence available, cross-checked from all actual records, including the Red Cross records, German military camp records, etc. – these are not allowed as evidence. These facts are not allowed, because these facts refute the holocaust storyline. Presenting the evidence is also denying the holocaust. Telling the truth becomes a crime.............................

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Israel | A Jewish Defector Warns America: Benjamin Freedman speaks

2010-10-13T02:56:00.000-07:00

The Truth will stand on its own merit

A Jewish Defector Warns America:

Benjamin Freedman Speaks

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Balonys Detection KIT

2010-05-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

Are you a Rational Thinker- Then here is the tool analysis things/Ideas you enclunter in life to see whether they are rational or not

Advise- Dont apply this test to Religion Likely to fail

Balonys Detection KIT

1) How Reliable is the source of the Claim

a.-Random data is likely to be scattered. if all data pointing to same direction Suspicious!

2) Does the source make similar claims?

a.-(open enough to new radical idea Not so open
enough so that your brain fall out)
belever in unforseen thinks like to believe in magics etc

3) Have the claims been verified by someone else

4) Does this fit with How the world works

5) Does anyone tried to disprove the cliam

6) Where does the preponderance of the evidence point?

7) Claimant playing by the rules of Science?

8) Is the claimant providing positive evidence

9) Does the new theory account for as many phenomena as old theory?

10) Are the personal beliefs driving the claim

Link to Video

60 Islamic ways to get and keep your wife's love forever- GUARANTEED!

2010-03-09T03:54:00.000-08:00

1.Make her feel secure; (sakina- tranquillity) QUIT BEING AGGRESSIVE

2. When you go home say 'Assalmualikum.' (Greetings) It kicks the shaitaan out of your home!

3. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) described the wife as a fragile vessel and said to take care of this vessel that’s fragile. Remember that there is goodness in this vessel so treat it gently.

4. When you advise her, do so in privacy, in a peaceful environment. NOT IN PUBLIC as it’s a type of slandering.

5. Be generous to your wife- it keeps her LOVED

6. Move and let her have your seat. It will warm her heart.

7. AVIOD ANGER. HOW? Keep your wudu at all times. Prophet Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam said if you are angry, sit down, if you’re sitting, then lie down. Follow the sunnah!

8. Look good and smell great for your wife. IT keeps the LOVE!

9. Don’t be rigid. It will break you. Prophet Mohammed - Sallal lahu Aleihi Wasallam (SAW means “May the blessings and the peace of Allah be upon him” (Muhammad).) said 'I am the best amongst you and I am the best to my wife'. Being rigid and harsh will not bring you close to Allah and neither does it make you more of a man.

10. Listen to your wife-BE a GOOD LISTENER

11. YES to flattering NO to arguing. Arguing is like poison in a marriage. Al zawai said 'When Allah (swt) wants evil for people He will leave them to argue amongst themselves'.

12. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said to call your wives with the best name, any name she loves to hear. Prophet Mohammed (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) called Aisha 'ya Aish' as an endearment.

13. Give her a pleasant surprise. I.e. if she loves watermelon, bring her one out of the blue. It will grow the love in her heart.

14. Preserve your tongue! Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said the tongue will throw people in the hell fire so watch what you say and how you say it!

15. All of us have shortcoming. Accept her shortcoming and Allah (swt) will put barakh in your marriage.

16. TELL her you appreciate her. SHOW her you appreciate her.

17. Encourage her to keep good relation with her relative, her mum and dad etc.

18. Speak with her with a topic of HER interest.

19. In front of her relative praise her. Confirm/ realize that she is wonderful, and that she is a good person in front of her family.

20. Give each other gifts. You will love each other more. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said gifts increases love.

21. Get rid of the routine once in a while, surprise her with something, it will get rid of the rust and polish it!

22. Husnul zaan- We have a demand from Allah (swt) that we have to think good of people. Think good of your spouse.

23. Ignore some of her mistakes- pretend you did not see/hear some of her small mistakes. It was a practise of Ali (RA). It’s like putting a hole in your memory. Don’t save it in your memory!

24. Increase the drops of patience, especially when she is pregnant or when she is on her monthly period.

25. Expect and respect her jealousy. Even Aisha (ra) used to get jealous.

26. Be humble. If your profession is good, respect that she is looking after your children, she is much more than you, she is the leader at home, her strength is your strength, and her success is your successes.

27. Don't put your friends above your wife.

28. Help your wife at home. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) used to help his wives at home and he was the best of creation. He used to sew his own clothes.

29. Help her respect your parents, you can’t force her to love them, but she can be helped to gradually love them.

30. Show your wife she is the ideal wife.

31. Remember your wife in your duaas. It will increase the love and protect it.

32. Leave the past. It brings nothing but pain and grief. It’s not your business. The past is for Allah (swt).

33. Don't try to show her that you are doing her a favour by doing something, like buying food for the house, because in reality we are the courier of sustenance, not the providers, as Allah is the provider. It’s also a way of being humble and thankful to Allah (swt)

34. Shaitaan is your enemy, not your wife. Sometime when husband and wife are talking a fight breaks out, then shaitaan is present there as a third person so he is the real enemy. It is not enough to hate the shaitaan, but you have to see him as an enemy as Allah has commanded. Shaitaan loves divorce. HE comes everyday and sits office and asks the devils what they have done, some say i have made a person steal, or i have made someone drink etc. And one devil will say i have made a man divorce his wife, and he is crowned as the one who has done the best job.

35. Take the food and put it in her mouth. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) taught us this. It’s a blessing. The food doesn’t just go to her stomach, but straight to her heart. It increases the love and mercy between you.

36. Protect your wife from the evil of the shaitaan and mankind. She is like a precious pearl that needs protecting from the envy of human devils and shitaan.

37. Show her your smile. Smile at your wife. IT’S A CHARITY.

38. Small problems/ challenges can become a big problem. Or if there is small thing she didn't like and you keep repeating them anyway, it will create a wall between you. Don’t ignore them as it can become big.

39. Avoid being harsh hearted and moody. Allah said of prophet (saw) 'if you were harsh hearted they (the companions) would have left you.' It confirms prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) was not harsh hearted, so GET RID OF IT.

40. Respect her thinking. It’s strength for you. Show you like her thoughts and suggestions.

41. Help her to achieve her potential and help her to dig and find success within as her success is your success.

42. Respect the intimate relationship and its boundaries. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said she is like a fragile vessel and she needs to be treated tenderly. Sometime she may not be feeling well; you must respect and appreciate that feeling.

43. Help her to take care of the children. Some men think it makes them appear less of a man but in fact it makes you appear a bigger man and more respected, especially in the sight of Allah (swt).

44. Use the gifts of the tongue and sweet talk her. Tell her she looks great, be an artist. Pick and choose gifts of the tongue.

45. Sit down and eat with her and share food with her.

46. Let her know you are travelling. Don't tell her out of the blue as it’s against Islam. Tell her the date/ time of when you are coming back also.
47. Don't leave the house as soon as trouble brews.
48. The house has privacy and secrecy. Once you take this privacy and secrecy to your friends and family you are in danger of putting a serious hole in your marriage. This secrecy stays home. Islam is against leaving them out like a garage sale for anyone to come and pick and choose.
49. Encourage each other for ibadah, i.e. plan a trip for hajj or umrah together. It increases and strengthens the love when you help each other perform a good deeds together i.e, do tahajuud together,or go to a dars together etc.
50. Know her rights, not only written in paper but engraved in your heart and engraved in your conscious.
51. Allah( swt) said 'live with your wives in kindness.' Treat them with kindness and goodness. It means in happy times and in sadness treat her with goodness and fairness.
52. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) showed that at the time of intimacy. Don’t jump on your wife like an animal!
53. When you have a dispute with your wife don’t tell everyone. It’s like leaving your wounds open to germs so be careful who you share your problems and disputes with.
54. Show your wife you really care for her health. Good health of your wife is your good health. To care for her health shows her that you love her.
55. Don’t think you are always right. No matter how good you are you have shortcomings. You are not perfect as the only one who was perfect in character was prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam). Get rid of this disease.
56. Share your problems, your happiness, and your sadness with her.
57. Have mercy on her weakness. Have mercy when she is weak or strong as she is the fragile vessel. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said that your wife is a trust in your hand.
58. Remember you are her strength, someone to lean on in times of hardship.
59. Accept her as she is. Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said that women are created from the rib which is bent. If you try to straighten her you will break her (divorce). Prophet (Sallal lahu alaihy Wasallam) said that you may dislike one habit in her but you will like another manner in her so accept her as she is.
60. Have good intention for your wife all the time, Allah monitors your intention and your heart at all times. Allah (s.w.t) said Among His Signs is that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who reflect.
May Allah fill our homes and heart with tranquillity, love and Mercy. AMEEN

Presidential Election 2010

2010-01-29T19:31:00.001-08:00

Note form a BLOG
Assalamualikum,

Finally, Mahinda Rajapaksha has won with overwhelming majority!

A significant majority seems to have voted for the candidate who did not differentiate himself from the state and who over the past four years selectively ignored the Constitution he had sworn to follow; whose campaign disregarded lawful directives from the Elections Commissioner and pretty much broke every rule in the book. The vote went to the antithesis of the rule of law.

This election was a collision between Constitutionalism and Feudalism as many experts describe.

Constitutionalism is respect for words on paper that say what power holders can and cannot do; it is basically about the widespread respect for law:

Under Feudalism the King was in complete control. He owned all the land in the country and decided who he would lease land to. He therefore only allowed those men he could trust to lease land from him. However, before they were given any land they had to swear an oath to remain faithful to the King at all times.

Jackson Anthony, a leading figure in Sinhala media and arts, who once presented a program on history, says, nepotism is right under national values, it is wrong for westerners and their system - democracy!

So, under feudal model

1. People can except from the King only 2 things: safeguarding the land from enemy and protecting the religion. (development is not an important issue)

2. King will use the resources of the country to his own desire, people cannot question. People have to pay the tax but cannot ask its use.

3. Artist and intellectual support the king unconditionally, not for the personal gain but it is considered as an honor

4. Finally we can understand the hatred towards the Sarath Phonseka. He has grown under the king, king has fed him. But, he went against the king. He aligned with enemies of this country â€“ Tamil, Muslim political parties and Westerners. He conspired against the king. He committed a big sin and he should be XXXX.

The message is : we should all protest the value system and democracy introduced to this country by Europeans and should follow the national system, which is almost similar to feudalism.

5 minute - Management Course

2009-08-26T10:13:00.000-07:00

5 minute - Management Course

Lesson 1:
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel andruns downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour.

Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800to drop that towel.'

After thinking for a moment, the woman dropsher towel and stands naked in front of Bob, aftera few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel andgoes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, 'Who was that?'

'It was Bob the next door neighbour,' she replies.

'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'

Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining tocredit and risk with your shareholders in time,you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Lesson 2:
A priest offered a Nun a lift.
She got in and crossed her legs, forcing hergown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly hadan accident.

After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg..

The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'
The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.
The nun once again said, 'Father, rememberPsalm 129?'

The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the fleshis weak.'

Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'

Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Lesson 3:
A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out.
The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.'
'Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. 'I wantto be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, withouta care in the world.'
Puff! She's gone.

'Me next! Me next!' says the sales rep. 'I want tobe in Hawaii , relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of PinaColadas and the love of my life.'

Puff! He's gone.

'OK, you're up,' the Genie says to the manager.
The manager says, 'I want those two back in the office after lunch.'

Moral of the story:
Always let your boss have the first say.

Lesson 4
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.

A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him,'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?'
The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.'

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

Lesson 5
A person was chatting with a bull.

'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the person, 'but I haven't got the energy.'
'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.'

The person pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, the person was proudly perched at the top of the tree..

He was promptly spotted by a farmer, whoshot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but itwon't keep you there..

Lesson 6
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.

While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.

As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.

The dung was actually thawing him out!

He lays there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and
promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.

(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your
friend.

(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep
your mouth shut!

Congratulations! !! THIS ENDS YOUR 5 MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE

Lets Know about Some Modern Islamic Scholars and Philosophers

2009-08-21T21:06:00.000-07:00

Lets Know about Some Modern Islamic Scholars and Philosophers

Yusuf qrdawi

Imam Shaeed hasan al banna

Nasiruddin al albani

Muhammad abduh

Muhamma rashid rida

muammad al ghazali

Jamal al din al alghani

RULERS OF MOST MUSLIM COUNTRIES. LACKEYS OF ..............

2009-08-11T04:28:00.000-07:00

RULERS OF MOST MUSLIM COUNTRIES.

LACKEYS OF ..............

by Ltheef Farook

Political and social changes in Turkey and their impacts in the region and beyond was the theme of a lecture organised by the website seylanmuslims. com at the Ranmuthu Hotel ,Colpetty on Wednesday 5 August 1009.

The historical aspect was dealt by Latheef Farook, senior journalist and author with more than a quarter century of working experience in the Middle East while senior journalist Ameen Izzadeen spoke about the overall changes now sweeping in Turkey. The lecture was followed by a stimulating question and answer session.

Dealing with the historic aspect and the forces that brought down the Othman Empire Latheef Farook had this to say;

In the little more than 14 century history of Islam and Muslims there have been many important periods such as 89 year rule of Omayyad in Damascus, 508 year Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad described as the Centre of Civilisation when Western Europe was in the dark ages, tenth century Fatimid dynasty in Egypt and North Africa, Muslim rule in Spain, Mughal rule in India and the Turkey’s vast Ottoman Empire.

Though the Abbasid caliphate was described as the Golden period of Islam, the Turkish Empire remains, the most glorious Islamic history .Othman Empire included North Africa covering Egypt that included Syria and Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia. Algeria and beyond. Over a period, they brought the entire Middle East under their rule. So much so Sheriff of Makka voluntarily offered the keys to the Holy City after which Othman Sultans assumed the title of Caliph of Islam.

Expanding towards Europe, they brought Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Cyprus, part of Hungary, Poland and Russia’s Crimean coast under their rule. They even reached the gates of Vienna and Paris. In the process, Mohammed 11 conquered Constantinople, the capital of Christian world and overthrew the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople, called Islambul during Othman rule was changed to Istanbul since the Othman Rule was brought down.

Second half of 16th century was regarded as the peak of the Othman Empire .In one of the unique records of dynastic history the first ten Othman Sultans provided able men of rare intelligence that enabled them to expand and build their empire uninterrupted. However, the subsequent rulers were found incompetent, degenerates and misfits leading to its decline of the empire in the 18th century.

The process of decline of the empire began with Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798. It was also the period when Europe started surging ahead following industrial revolution, technological advancement and the establishment of new colonies that brought them immense wealth. After establishing their colonies in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the two main European colonial powers ,Britain and France, wanted to bring under their control Muslim countries in the Middle East that were under Othman Rule.

By 1900 the Christian West led by Britain and France established upper hand in its political and military struggle against the Muslim world and began manipulating to topple Othman Empire.

It was the time, around early 20th century, Ottoman Empire was reduced to a ragged shadow of its former greatness. From 1889 onwards, opposition by a clandestine group called Young Turks began to intensify against the Ottoman ruler and a coup to overthrow him was crushed in 1896. However, the movement continued .In 1906 revolutionary cells were formed by serving military officers. The first was by Mustafa Kemal in Damascus.

In a related development, during the second half of 19th century, Jews mastered Turkish language, pretended to have embraced Islam and changed their names though they remained faithful to Judaism. They, together with Christians and Alavis, managed to get into key positions in the armed forces and the bureaucracy only to emerge as a state within state.

Meanwhile Jews in Europe mooted the idea of establishing a separate state in Palestine .In 1897 the first World Zionist Jewish Congress in Geneva decided to establish a racist Jewish state in Palestine after driving out the sons of the soil, Palestinians, in violation of all accepted norms and human decency.

They sent delegation after delegation to persuade Othman Sultan to allow them to colonise Palestine with migrant Jews. These requests were turned down by Sultan. Therefore the Jews too needed to topple Othman rule to clear the obstacle to achieve their dream - a Jewish state. Thus, the Zionist Jews got together with Britain and France to work together round the clock to remove Othman Sultan.

As part of this sinister conspiracy Jews, Britain and France manipulated to put the gullible Arabs rulers against Turkey that was already under political turmoil and lost most of its European colonies. At a time when desperate efforts were made to save what was left of the empire Mustafa Kemal was appointed on 19 May 1919, as the inspector general of the ninth army in the Black Sea Coastal Town of Samsun. Nevertheless, he betrayed and turned against Ottoman ruler.

It was under these circumstances that Turkey was proclaimed a Republic on 29 October 1923 with Mustafa Kemal of Young Turks as its President. The Turkish people wanted to retain Ottoman Sultan as constitutional monarch. However, Mustafa Kemal and the Jewish and British forces behind him forced Sultan to flee the country into exile. The virtual power remained in the armed forces while the bureaucracy was dominated by Jews and Alavis.

After almost a century today it was not clear how Mustafa Kemal emerged so powerful to overthrow the Othman Sultan whose soldiers fought valiantly against British invaders and sacrificed their lives. The talk is that Britain and Jews bought over Mustafa Kemal, toppled Othman rule and placed him in power. Up to date the circumstance under which Mustafa Kemal assumed power was not told to the world.

History, as we all know, has been written by winners and not losers. In the case of Mustafa Kemal’s rise to power, so far we only know the version written by the Jews and Britain who were masters in the field of twisting and distorting history to suit their interests as they do even today. There was hardly a book giving the Othman ruler’s side of the story. In fact writing such a book perhaps may be regarded as treason warranting death sentence.

Once in power Mustafa Kemal, backed by his armed forces and bureaucracy ,introduced some of the draconian sets of laws aimed at erasing Othman history and eliminating Islam from Turkish society.

Under the guise of secularism and westernisation, Mustafa Kemal abolished caliphate and Sharia laws despite 99 percent of the population being Muslims. Instead he introduced a new legal code that combined Swiss civil, Italian Penal and the German commercial codes.

Polygamy was declared illegal and civil marriage and divorce were recognised.

The clause in the constitution stating that the religion of the Turkish state is Islam was deleted .Public use of Arabic letters were banned and, in its place introduced Latin based alphabet turning overnight the entire population illiterate. All religious schools, girl’s schools, sacred tombs and several places of worship were closed. A new law requiring Turks to adopt surname was introduced .Pilgrimage to Makka was banned. Sunday was made the official holiday instead of Friday. Hundreds of thousands of religious scholars were massacred.

Thousands of mosques were destroyed. All religious titles such as sheikh or dervish were abolished and Islamic calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar.

He changed the role of women in society. As early as 1924 coeducation of girls and boys was introduced, active and passive female suffrage granted, introduced first Miss Turkey contest in 1929 and opened public beaches to women. The deliberate dissolution of Othman Islamic culture was completed with the establishment of Turkish Historical Society to rewrite history, brainwash the people and mislead the world.

Caliphate was abolished on 3 March 1924 and in 1928 state was made officially secular.

Even today, a Muslim woman cannot wear Hijab in the government offices while girls were not allowed to wear Hijab in schools, colleges and universities. They remove the Hijab before entering the offices, schools and other such places and put on when they leave. Government employs preachers and muezzins in all mosques. Religious people played an important role in the society under Othman rule. However, they were eliminated.

A person may be worst Muslim. However, he would never go to this extent to challenge the Almighty Allah by trying wipe out His message- Islam. Only Jews defied Allah. However, this was what Mustafa Kemal, his armed forces and bureaucracy had done and still doing.

Today, 86 years later, comes the answer to this unresolved mystery. Widespread belief in Turkey is that Mustafa Kemal was not a Muslim but a Jew from Romania. People in Turkey confide that Jews and Alavis who constitute less than one percent of the population have controlled, and still control, the military and the bureaucracy. They were never interested in the welfare of the people or the country. Their only interest has been to protect their power base and luxury lifestyle.

As a result today the anti people and anti Muslim military and the bureaucracy remain on one side while the government and the people on the other.

This is the situation in Turkey! What about the plight of other Muslims countries in Middle East?

During the First World War, Britain and France, asked the Arab rulers to support them against the Muslim Ottoman Turks, promising them a kingdom comprising the entire Fertile Crescent, which included present day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Syria. The Arabs trusted and supported Britain that, after the war, betrayed them. Instead, Britain helped Jews who had not even set foot on Palestinian soil to set up a Jewish state in the Muslim dominated Palestine. They threw the Palestinians into refugee camps in neighbouring countries, where they still live in appalling conditions.

Entering Jerusalem to occupy Palestine on December 9, 1917, Britain’s Sir Edmund Allenby arrogantly declared “THE CRUSADES HAVE ENDED TODAY”. The so-called friend of the Arabs, T. E. Lawrence, widely known as Lawrence of Arabia, visiting Allenby’s headquarters described Allenby’s entry into Jerusalem as the Supreme Moment of the War.

Under the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement signed on May 1916, Britain, France and Russia arrogated themselves the right to inherit the defeated and dismembered Ottoman Empire. They drew the political boundaries with little regard to the Arab wish, divided the Arab world into spheres of British and French influences and installed puppet regimes, almost all of them secular and often at loggerheads with one another, but serving their masters in Britain, Washington and Paris controlled directly and indirectly by powerful and ruthless Jewish lobbies.

Under this scheme Palestine, now turned into Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf countries and even Iraq were brought under Britain while the entire North Africa ranging from Tunisia, Algeria., Libya , Morocco, Lebanon and Syria were handed over to France.

Both Britain and France installed their puppets as rulers who even today serve them obediently. For example in Syria, around 95 percent of the population have been Sunni Muslims while Alavis constitute the remaining four percentage. France carefully screened, selected and placed in power Alavis and even today the armed forces, bureaucracy and the government itself were controlled by the Alavis while the Sunnis remain a voiceless and powerless majority. This explains why Syria killed more than 30,000 Sunnis in Hama and around 30,000 Palestinians in Tel Al Zatar.

In yet another example, Britain and the Zionist Jews concluded a Treaty of Friendship in 1916 with Abdul Aziz Ibn Al Saud, who had established his control over Nejd with the capture of Riyadh early in the last century.

The Ottomans lost control over Makka and Jeddah before losing Madina in 1919. Four days after the abolition of the caliphate on 3 March 1924 in Ankara, Shareef Hussein, who was appointed Shareef of Makka by the Ottoman rulers declared himself the Caliph of Makka on 7 March 1924. The purpose was to turn the caliphate system as the rallying point for Muslims all over the world.

This would have been a historic opportunity to rehabilitate the Muslim world and revive Islam. However, alarmed Britain and the Zionist Jews armed, financed and got Abdel Aziz Ibn Al Saud to attack Shareef Hussein, capture Makka and the surrounding areas and establish the Saudi Wahhabi rule that was not favourable to the system of caliphate.

In return, Al Saud family has been obediently and shamelessly collaborating with Washington, London, Paris and the Zionist Jews in all their conspiracies against Islam and Muslims. This also include the Zionist sponsored and Anglo American implemented wars such as Iraq-Iran war, Gulf war to evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait, United States and United Kingdom spearheaded war on Iraq, Afghanistan and the December 2008/January 2008 Israeli carnage in Gaza to cite a few.

Meanwhile Egypt, once in the forefront in the struggle against Zionism, has now become satellite state of Israel. Egypt’s oppressive Dictator Hosni Mubarak has openly supported and assisted all Judeo Christian conspiracies against the Arabs and Muslims. Disgraceful state of affairs was such that there were reports that Israel, Palestine Authority, Egypt. Saudi Arabia and Jordan planned for six long months in Amman the Israel attack on Gaza. Egypt’s Dictator Hosni Mubarak described by the blind Egyptian cleric Sheikh Abdul Rahman as the “obedient dog of the West”, blessed the then Zionist foreign minister in Cairo 48 hours before Israel began its massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.

In Pakistan former dictator turned President Pervez Musharraf slaughtered his own people to please Bush-Blair crusaders. His successor in a sham of a democracy worked out by the Americans Asif Sardari , better known as Mr Ten Percent and was accused of murdering his own brother in law Murtaza Bhutto besides many other crimes, is no better as he is also shedding innocent Pakistani blood to please his masters in the West especially Washington.

Today the Zionist Jews set the agenda and the Arab rulers follow obediently under pressure from their masters in Washington, London and France. This is the shameful state of affairs in the Muslims countries where the rulers constitute some of the most oppressive dictators in the world .Their prime concern has been to protect their power at any cost and not the welfare of the people or the country. This is the tragic plight of the countries in the Middle East.

What about the position of Muslims in the vast Central Asian region? What happened in Turkey happened here too.

While the Jews and Britain were manipulating to bring down Othman rule in Turkey during the early 19th century, there came the Bolshevik revolution in Russia overthrowing Tsar and establishing an atheist communist regime. Prominent leaders of this movement were Karl Marx and Lenin who were all Jews.

As they did in the case of Turkey, the Jewish dominated communist regime in Moscow completely banned all religious activities .Thus the Muslim population in the entire Central Asian region were deprived of their right to practise their religion .In fact Islam was crushed and Muslims were brainwashed to be atheist.

In the aftermath of the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1990, Christian East bloc countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Chechoslavakia and Yugoslavia were allowed to go free and even join the European Union and NATO. However, the Central Asian Muslim countries such as Uzbekistan, Khazakistan, Kirgystan, Turkeminsitan Azerbaijan and the like were brutally kept under Russian grip with a façade of an organization called Commonwealth of Independent States; CIS. Thus, they were deprived of the freedom, which was given to the East bloc Christian countries. Chechens Muslims tried for autonomy and their fate is common knowledge. This oppression continues all over central Asia.

This is the plight of what we call the Muslim world that is controlled by London, France, Washington and Russia.

Under the circumstances, how can the innocent Muslims protect themselves from the Judeo-Christian crusade unleashed under the guise of war against terrorism, as it happens in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia and other places, while the puppet rulers in Muslim countries turn blind eyes? In this Jewish sponsored murderous campaign to demonise Islam and justify killing Muslim the Zionist Jews, Christian West, RSS Hindu in India and the communists , have got together while rulers in Muslim countries who have brought the Muslims to the brink of graveyards shamelessly collaborate. Ends

Land of Ibn sina

2009-08-08T18:14:00.000-07:00

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Recent History of Terkistan, in short:

India Vs Pakistan

2009-08-05T09:23:00.001-07:00

Written by a Pakistani journalist about India

Here's what is happening in India :

The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.

In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.

In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned forty-four three weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present: A sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless communication and a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and Mukesh is not India 's richest but the second richest.

Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean ). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building.. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four floors above the guest

floors are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea . On top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family and their family home.

In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct investment destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the top 25 countries.

In 2004, the United Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested the Election Commission of India to assist the UN in the holding elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and Dowlat-e Islami-ye Afghanistan . Why the Election Commission of India and not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi .

For the record:

12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin;

38 percent of doctors in America are Indian;

36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians;

34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians;

28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.

Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail.

Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla..

The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham.

Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project.

Four out of ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians.

Bollywood produces 800 movies per year

six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.

Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore .

India now has more than three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire) .

The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 billion.. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around $56 billion).

Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome haploid group. We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker (namely: M124). We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same movies and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians have and we don't?

INDIANS ELECT THEIR LEADERS

And also to mention: They think of construction of own nation, unlike nations who are just concerned with destruction of others.

Turkey’s Secularism - Western Conspiracy against Islam and Muslims

2009-07-07T05:20:00.000-07:00

Turkey’s Secularism - Western Conspiracy against Islam and Muslims

By Latheef Farook

Turkey has been known for its great Ottoman empire that covered vast areas of Middle East, North Africa, Balkan and even reached deep into European continent. Its great contribution in many fields for more than six centuries has been common knowledge. However in the aftermath of the World War 1 European colonial powers led by Jews and Britain toppled the Ottoman rule and installed in 1923 a mysterious pro Western and extremely anti Muslim military regime in this country where Islam and Islamic culture have flourished.

The irony is that most Arab rulers, bribed by Jews and Britain, supported them in their conspiracy to topple the Ottoman Empire that was on the decline. This also included the Saudi Royal family which was also installed in power in and around Riyadh by the Jews and the British early last century.

Today, after nine decades, Turkey is passing through its most crucial stage in its struggle to liberate itself from the clutches of the military and regain its political, religious and cultural identity and march ahead with dignity.

Since 1923, Turkey has remained under the ruthless military dominated republic that elected mysterious Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as the president.

Knowledgeable people of all walks of life both in Istanbul and in Ankara, who insisted on anonymity in view of the repression, explained during my recent visit there, that the armed forces and the bureaucracy that they carefully screened and built up remain staunchly secular. Throughout the past nine decades, the military and the bureaucracy have not been not interested in the welfare of the people or the country. Instead, all what they wanted was to retain power at any cost, amass wealth and enjoy the best of comforts.

Explaining the circumstance that led to the toppling of Ottoman rule, they pointed out that during the early last century the Zionist Jews who had decided to set up a Jewish state in Palestine, then an Ottoman province, have unleashed their campaign in full swing to achieve this goal. Time and again, they tried to persuade Ottoman ruler to permit them to colonize Jews in Palestine and late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir too approached the Sultan Abdul Hamid II. However, Sultan refused knowing the conspiratorial nature of Jews as proved after the State of Israel came into being.

Thus the Zionist Jews’ need to topple the Ottoman rule.

Britain, plotting and conspiring to destabilize the Muslim countries during the past few centuries, had its own agenda to exploit a weakened Muslim Turkey which aligned with the defeated Germany during World War 1 .Thus Jews and Britain, backed by other colonial powers, got together and brought down the Ottoman rule .They later divided Ottoman’s colonies in the Middle East as if they were dividing their inherited ancestral property. These powers also installed puppet Arab regimes in their newly carved out states.

Toppling of the Ottoman rule helped Zionist Jews achieve their target. Palestine was brought under British mandatory power that in turn helped colonize Palestine with Jews, drive out the sons and daughters, Palestinians, and thereby establish the state of Israel that remains the sole source of instability in the entire Middle East today

Though freedom of expression was completely suppressed under the military regime , the people in general seems to be very well informed of what goes on within the barracks. From historians, political observers, scholars, journalists and all others explained, of course in secrecy, that the Ottoman rule did not collapse, but was toppled under a conspiracy engineered by the British and the Jews.

They explained that during Ottoman rule a small minority of Jews, now around 16,000, Christians and others especially Alavis who belonged to a Shiite sect, have mastered Turkish language, won the confidence of the Ottoman rulers and managed to get into powerful positions both in the armed forces and administration. Some of them claimed to have embraced Islam in public though they remained faithful to their own religions in secret. They were called “dönme”. One among them was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk-some believe a Jew from Romania, who was a military commander under Ottoman ruler who sent him to Anatolia to fight against the British invaders. Instead of fighting, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was won over by the British. He turned against the Ottoman Sultan under a carefully prepared British conspiracy and joined the invaders that led to the final toppling of six centuries of glorious Ottoman Empire regarded as one of the golden periods of Islamic history.

Once Ottoman rule was toppled the Zionist Jews and Britain placed in high positions these ‘dönme’s in the armed forces and bureaucracy and entrusted the task of separating Islam from Turkish Muslims under the guise of secularism.

The military regime introduced sweeping changes under this well thought out plan aimed at creating a secular society. They annulled Islamic caliphate rule, changed the alphabet of Turkish language from Arabic script to Latin and made the entire population illiterate overnight, placed secularism into the constitution, banned traditional Islamic dress code, introduced western dress, changed Islamic Sharia laws, executed thousands of Islamic religious scholars, banned wearing of head scarf for Muslim women in all government establishments including universities, schools and other such institutions.

Above all the military regime also changed the syllabi in the schools and universities demonizing Ottoman rule to brainwash the younger generation. Thus, the military virtually banned everything related to Islam in its drive to create a western society of wining, dining, gambling, club going and free sex in this deep-rooted Islamic country.

The people in general consider this from the very inception as sheer madness. Will any Muslim military, in its proper sense, do this? Such disastrous policy has been the agenda of only Jews and European colonial powers.

This is the reason why the Turkish people always suspected the military and today their suspicions were proved right with many top officials in the armed forces and bureaucracy turned out to be Jews and Alavis. Only recently, a top retired army officer was found to be a Jew but has been pretending as a Muslims throughout his career. So much the army even entered into an agreement with Israel without consulting the elected parliament.

In the midst, a sham of multi party elections was introduced for the first time in July 1946, to hoodwink both the people and the world alike though the military remained the state within a state, described as Deep State, wielding complete control.

Under the circumstances, every time democratic forces began gathering momentum the military found some pretext to crush them ruthlessly. It happened on 27 May 1960 when the civilian government was toppled in the first military coup and the Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and two other ministers were hanged following the trial in a military court.

Eleven years later, once again democratic and Islamic forces began gathering momentum .This time the armed forces issued a memorandum and overthrew the government on 12 March 1971 in what was regarded as the second military coup against the people.

Once again, political parties were suspended and the democratically elected government was toppled on 12 September 1980 in third military coup. However, the first ever election held on 6 November 1983 brought Turgut Ozal to power in a landslide victory when the liberalization began recording remarkable progress covering almost every possible field. Suppressed Muslims began to breathe fresh air of religious freedom.

In the popular wave, Turgut Ozal became Turkey’s eight president on 9 November 1989. However, four years later to the shock and dismay of people he died of heart attack ,though the common belief is that he was poisoned in view his growing popularity and the growth of democratic forces.

The situation has changed altogether today as the country is openly polarized- military and the bureaucracy on one side and the government and the people on the other. The rapidly changing political scenario is demonstrated clearly in the boldness of the media which began highlighting the true face of the military and the bureaucracy.

Even as recent as five years ago speaking a word asserting democratic rights, leave alone challenging the military rule, was inviting not trouble but disaster. That was the degree of repression. However, today Turks have become bold in expressing their views and exposing the hostile forces.

The latest being a conspiracy hatched by the military to plant bombs in the premises of Fethullah Gulen led Islamic movement ,accuse them of plotting to overthrow the military and crush the rising faith-based movement. Details of this military plot have been disclosed in the Turkish media on a daily basis showing the true face` of the armed forces.

Almost all, from professionals, intellectuals, religious scholars, students and even the average person now openly demand the need to confine the military back to the barrack and allow the people to rule themselves. They want the armed forces to be under the control of the elected government. They do not want the military to remain as the Sword of Damocles over the heads of democratic and Islamic forces.

The so-called Anglo American led Western champions of human rights and democracy never raised their voices against the suppression of democratic freedom in Turkey, because the military regime’s agenda suited the Western anti Islamic agenda that today turned the world into a killing field under the guise of fighting a so-called war on terrorism.

Islamic Spirituality: the forgotten revolution © Abdal-Hakim Murad THE POVERTY OF FANATICISM

2009-07-05T09:24:00.000-07:00

Islamic Spirituality: the forgotten revolution
© Abdal-Hakim Murad
THE POVERTY OF FANATICISM

'Blood is no argument', as Shakespeare observed. Sadly, Muslim ranks are today swollen with those who disagree. The World Trade Centre, yesterday's symbol of global finance, has today become a monument to the failure of global Islam to control those who believe that the West can be bullied into changing its wayward ways towards the East. There is no real excuse to hand. It is simply not enough to clamour, as many have done, about 'chickens coming home to roost', and to protest that Washington's acquiescence in Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing is the inevitable generator of such hate. It is of course true - as Shabbir Akhtar has noted - that powerlessness can corrupt as insistently as does power. But to comprehend is not to sanction or even to empathize. To take innocent life to achieve a goal is the hallmark of the most extreme secular utilitarian ethic, and stands at the opposite pole of the absolute moral constraints required by religion.
There was a time, not long ago, when the 'ultras' were few, forming only a tiny wart on the face of the worldwide attempt to revivify Islam. Sadly, we can no longer enjoy the luxury of ignoring them. The extreme has broadened, and the middle ground, giving way, is everywhere dislocated and confused. And this enfeeblement of the middle ground, was what was enjoined by the Prophetic example, is in turn accelerated by the opprobrium which the extremists bring not simply upon themselves, but upon committed Muslims everywhere. For here, as elsewhere, the preferences of the media work firmly against us. David Koresh could broadcast his fringe Biblical message from Ranch Apocalypse without the image of Christianity, or even its Adventist wing, being in any way besmirched. But when a fringe Islamic group bombs Swedish tourists in Cairo, the muck is instantly spread over 'militant Muslims' everywhere.
If these things go on, the Islamic movement will cease to form an authentic summons to cultural and spiritual renewal, and will exist as little more than a splintered array of maniacal factions. The prospect of such an appalling and humiliating end to the story of a religion which once surpassed all others in its capacity for tolerating debate and dissent is now a real possibility. The entire experience of Islamic work over the past fifteen years has been one of increasing radicalization, driven by the perceived failure of the traditional Islamic institutions and the older Muslim movements to lead the Muslim peoples into the worthy but so far chimerical promised land of the 'Islamic State.'
If this final catastrophe is to be averted, the mainstream will have to regain the initiative. But for this to happen, it must begin by confessing that the radical critique of moderation has its force. The Islamic movement has so far been remarkably unsuccessful. We must ask ourselves how it is that a man like Nasser, a butcher, a failed soldier and a cynical demagogue, could have taken over a country as pivotal as Egypt, despite the vacuity of his beliefs, while the Muslim Brotherhood, with its pullulating millions of members, should have failed, and failed continuously, for six decades. The radical accusation of a failure in methodology cannot fail to strike home in such a context of dismal and prolonged inadequacy.
It is in this context - startlingly, perhaps, but inescapably - that we must present our case for the revival of the spiritual life within Islam. If it is ever to prosper, the 'Islamic revival' must be made to see that it is in crisis, and that its mental resources are proving insufficient to meet contemporary needs. The response to this must be grounded in an act of collective muhasaba, of self-examination, in terms that transcend the ideologised neo-Islam of the revivalists, and return to a more classical and indigenously Muslim dialectic.
Symptomatic of the disease is the fact that among all the explanations offered for the crisis of the Islamic movement, the only authentically Muslim interpretation, namely, that God should not be lending it His support, is conspicuously absent. It is true that we frequently hear the Quranic verse which states that "God does not change the condition of a people until they change the condition of their own selves."[1] But never, it seems, is this principle intelligently grasped. It is assumed that the sacred text is here doing no more than to enjoin individual moral reform as a precondition for collective societal success. Nothing could be more hazardous, however, than to measure such moral reform against the yardstick of the fiqh without giving concern to whether the virtues gained have been acquired through conformity (a relatively simple task), or proceed spontaneously from a genuine realignment of the soul. The verse is speaking of a spiritual change, specifically, a transformation of the nafs of the believers - not a moral one. And as the Blessed Prophet never tired of reminding us, there is little value in outward conformity to the rules unless this conformity is mirrored and engendered by an authentically righteous disposition of the heart. 'No-one shall enter the Garden by his works,' as he expressed it. Meanwhile, the profoundly judgemental and works - oriented tenor of modern revivalist Islam (we must shun the problematic buzz-word 'fundamentalism' ), fixated on visible manifestations of morality, has failed to address the underlying question of what revelation is for. For it is theological nonsense to suggest that God's final concern is with our ability to conform to a complex set of rules. His concern is rather that we should be restored, through our labours and His grace, to that state of purity and equilibrium with which we were born. The rules are a vital means to that end, and are facilitated by it. But they do not take its place.
The Holy Qur'an Sura 13:11.
To make this point, the Holy Quran deploys a striking metaphor. In Sura Ibrahim, verses 24 to 26, we read:

Have you not seen how God coineth a likeness: a goodly word like a goodly tree, the root whereof is set firm, its branch in the heaven? It bringeth forth its fruit at every time, by the leave of its Lord. Thus doth God coin likenesses for men, that perhaps they may reflect. And the likeness of an evil word is that of an evil tree that hath been torn up by the root from upon the earth, possessed of no stability.

According to the scholars of tafsir (exegesis), the reference here is to the 'words' (kalima) of faith and unfaith. The former is illustrated as a natural growth, whose florescence of moral and intellectual achievement is nourished by firm roots, which in turn denote the basis of faith: the quality of the proofs one has received, and the certainty and sound awareness of God which alone signify that one is firmly grounded in the reality of existence. The fruits thus yielded - the palpable benefits of the religious life - are permanent ('at every time'), and are not man's own accomplishment, for they only come 'by the leave of its Lord'. Thus is the sound life of faith. The contrast is then drawn with the only alternative: kufr, which is not grounded in reality but in illusion, and is hence 'possessed of no stability'.[2]
This passage, reminiscent of some of the binary categorisations of human types presented early on in Surat al-Baqara, precisely encapsulates the relationship between faith and works, the hierarchy which exists between them, and the sustainable balance between nourishment and fructition, between taking and giving, which true faith must maintain.
It is against this criterion that we must judge the quality of contemporary 'activist' styles of faith. Is the young 'ultra', with his intense rage which can sometimes render him liable to nervous disorders, and his fixation on a relatively narrow range of issues and concerns, really firmly rooted, and fruitful, in the sense described by this Quranic image?
Let me point to the answer with an example drawn from my own experience.
I used to know, quite well, a leader of the radical 'Islamic' group, the Jama'at Islamiya, at the Egyptian university of Assiut. His name was Hamdi. He grew a luxuriant beard, was constantly scrubbing his teeth with his miswak, and spent his time preaching hatred of the Coptic Christians, a number of whom were actually attacked and beaten up as a result of his khutbas. He had hundreds of followers; in fact, Assiut today remains a citadel of hardline, Wahhabi-style activism.
The moral of the story is that some five years after this acquaintance, providence again brought me face to face with Shaikh Hamdi. This time, chancing to see him on a Cairo street, I almost failed to recognise him. The beard was gone. He was in trousers and a sweater. More astonishing still was that he was walking with a young Western girl who turned out to be an Australian, whom, as he sheepishly explained to me, he was intending to marry. I talked to him, and it became clear that he was no longer even a minimally observant Muslim, no longer prayed, and that his ambition in life was to leave Egypt, live in Australia, and make money. What was extraordinary was that his experiences in Islamic activism had made no impression on him - he was once again the same distracted, ordinary Egyptian youth he had been before his conversion to 'radical Islam'.
This phenomenon, which we might label 'salafi burnout', is a recognised feature of many modern Muslim cultures. An initial enthusiasm, gained usually in one's early twenties, loses steam some seven to ten years later. Prison and torture - the frequent lot of the Islamic radical - may serve to prolong commitment, but ultimately, a majority of these neo-Muslims relapse, seemingly no better or worse for their experience in the cult-like universe of the salafi mindset.
This ephemerality of extremist activism should be as suspicious as its content. Authentic Muslim faith is simply not supposed to be this fragile; as the Qur'an says, its root is meant to be 'set firm'. One has to conclude that of the two trees depicted in the Quranic image, salafi extremism resembles the second rather than the first. After all, the Sahaba were not known for a transient commitment: their devotion and piety remained incomparably pure until they died.
What attracts young Muslims to this type of ephemeral but ferocious activism? One does not have to subscribe to determinist social theories to realise the importance of the almost universal condition of insecurity which Muslim societies are now experiencing. The Islamic world is passing through a most devastating period of transition. A history of economic and scientific change which in Europe took five hundred years, is, in the Muslim world, being squeezed into a couple of generations. For instance, only thirty-five years ago the capital of Saudi Arabia was a cluster of mud huts, as it had been for thousands of years. Today's Riyadh is a hi-tech megacity of glass towers, Coke machines, and gliding Cadillacs. This is an extreme case, but to some extent the dislocations of modernity are common to every Muslim society, excepting, perhaps, a handful of the most remote tribal peoples.
Such a transition period, with its centrifugal forces which allow nothing to remain constant, makes human beings very insecure. They look around for something to hold onto, that will give them an identity. In our case, that something is usually Islam. And because they are being propelled into it by this psychic sense of insecurity, rather than by the more normal processes of conversion and faith, they lack some of the natural religious virtues, which are acquired by contact with a continuous tradition, and can never be learnt from a book.
One easily visualises how this works. A young Arab, part of an oversized family, competing for scarce jobs, unable to marry because he is poor, perhaps a migrant to a rapidly expanding city, feels like a man lost in a desert without signposts. One morning he picks up a copy of Sayyid Qutb from a newsstand, and is 'born-again' on the spot. This is what he needed: instant certainty, a framework in which to interpret the landscape before him, to resolve the problems and tensions of his life, and, even more deliciously, a way of feeling superior and in control. He joins a group, and, anxious to retain his newfound certainty, accepts the usual proposition that all the other groups are mistaken.
This, of course, is not how Muslim religious conversion is supposed to work. It is meant to be a process of intellectual maturation, triggered by the presence of a very holy person or place. Tawba, in its traditional form, yields an outlook of joy, contentment, and a deep affection for others. The modern type of tawba, however, born of insecurity, often makes Muslims narrow, intolerant, and exclusivist. Even more noticeably, it produces people whose faith is, despite its apparent intensity, liable to vanish as suddenly as it came. Deprived of real nourishment, the activist's soul can only grow hungry and emaciated, until at last it dies.
THE ACTIVISM WITHIN
How should we respond to this disorder? We must begin by remembering what Islam is for. As we noted earlier, our din is not, ultimately, a manual of rules which, when meticulously followed, becomes a passport to paradise. Instead, it is a package of social, intellectual and spiritual technology whose purpose is to cleanse the human heart. In the Qur'an, the Lord says that on the Day of Judgement, nothing will be of any use to us, except a sound heart (qalbun salim). [3] And in a famous hadith, the Prophet, upon whom be blessings and peace, says that

"Verily in the body there is a piece of flesh. If it is sound, the body is all sound. If it is corrupt, the body is all corrupt. Verily, it is the heart.

Mindful of this commandment, under which all the other commandments of Islam are subsumed, and which alone gives them meaning, the Islamic scholars have worked out a science, an ilm (science), of analysing the 'states' of the heart, and the methods of bringing it into this condition of soundness. In the fullness of time, this science acquired the name tasawwuf, in English 'Sufism' - a traditional label for what we might nowadays more intelligibly call 'Islamic psychology.'
At this point, many hackles are raised and well-rehearsed objections voiced. It is vital to understand that mainstream Sufism is not, and never has been, a doctrinal system, or a school of thought - a madhhab. It is, instead, a set of insights and practices which operate within the various Islamic madhhabs; in other words, it is not a madhhab, it is an ilm. And like most of the other Islamic ulum, it was not known by name, or in its later developed form, in the age of the Prophet (upon him be blessings and peace) or his Companions. This does not make it less legitimate. There are many Islamic sciences which only took shape many years after the Prophetic age: usul al-fiqh, for instance, or the innumerable technical disciplines of hadith.
Now this, of course, leads us into the often misunderstood area of sunna and bid'a, two notions which are wielded as blunt instruments by many contemporary activists, but which are often grossly misunderstood. The classic Orientalist thesis is of course that Islam, as an 'arid Semitic religion', failed to incorporate mechanisms for its own development, and that it petrified upon the death of its founder. This, however, is a nonsense rooted in the ethnic determinism of the nineteenth century historians who had shaped the views of the early Orientalist synthesizers (Muir, Le Bon, Renan, Caetani). Islam, as the religion designed for the end of time, has in fact proved itself eminently adaptable to the rapidly changing conditions which characterise this final and most 'entropic' stage of history.
What is a bid'a, according to the classical definitions of Islamic law? We all know the famous hadith:

Beware of matters newly begun, for every matter newly begun is innovation, every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in Hell. [4]

Does this mean that everything introduced into Islam that was not known to the first generation of Muslims is to be rejected? The classical ulema do not accept such a literalistic interpretation.
Let us take a definition from Imam al-Shafi'i, an authority universally accepted in Sunni Islam. Imam al-Shafi'i writes:

There are two kinds of introduced matters (muhdathat). One is that which contradicts a text of the Qur'an, or the Sunna, or a report from the early Muslims (athar), or the consensus (ijma') of the Muslims: this is an 'innovation of misguidance' (bid'at dalala). The second kind is that which is in itself good and entails no contradiction of any of these authorities: this is a 'non-reprehensible innovation' (bid'a ghayr madhmuma). [5]

This basic distinction between acceptable and unacceptable forms of bid'a is recognised by the overwhelming majority of classical ulema. Among some, for instance al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam (one of the half-dozen or so great mujtahids of Islamic history), innovations fall under the five axiological headings of the Shari'a: the obligatory (wajib), the recommended (mandub), the permissible (mubah), the offensive (makruh), and the forbidden (haram).[6]
Under the category of 'obligatory innovation', Ibn Abd al-Salam gives the following examples: recording the Qur'an and the laws of Islam in writing at a time when it was feared that they would be lost, studying Arabic grammar in order to resolve controversies over the Qur'an, and developing philosophical theology (kalam) to refute the claims of the Mu'tazilites.
Category two is 'recommended innovation'. Under this heading the ulema list such activities as building madrasas, writing books on beneficial Islamic subjects, and in-depth studies of Arabic linguistics.
Category three is 'permissible' , or 'neutral innovation', including worldly activities such as sifting flour, and constructing houses in various styles not known in Medina.
Category four is the 'reprehensible innovation'. This includes such misdemeanours as overdecorating mosques or the Qur'an.
Category five is the 'forbidden innovation'. This includes unlawful taxes, giving judgeships to those unqualified to hold them, and sectarian beliefs and practices that explicitly contravene the known principles of the Qur'an and the Sunna.
The above classification of bid'a types is normal in classical Shari'a literature, being accepted by the four schools of orthodox fiqh. There have been only two significant exceptions to this understanding in the history of Islamic thought: the Zahiri school as articulated by Ibn Hazm, and one wing of the Hanbali madhhab, represented by Ibn Taymiya, who goes against the classical ijma' on this issue, and claims that all forms of innovation, good or bad, are un-Islamic.
Why is it, then, that so many Muslims now believe that innovation in any form is unacceptable in Islam? One factor has already been touched on: the mental complexes thrown up by insecurity, which incline people to find comfort in absolutist and literalist interpretations. Another lies in the influence of the well-financed neo-Hanbali madhhab called Wahhabism, whose leaders are famous for their rejection of all possibility of development.
In any case, armed with this more sophisticated and classical awareness of Islam's ability to acknowledge and assimilate novelty, we can understand how Muslim civilisation was able so quickly to produce novel academic disciplines to deal with new problems as these arose.
Islamic psychology is characteristic of the new ulum which, although present in latent and implicit form in the Quran, were first systematized in Islamic culture during the early Abbasid period. Given the importance that the Quran attaches to obtaining a 'sound heart', we are not surprised to find that the influence of Islamic psychology has been massive and all-pervasive. In the formative first four centuries of Islam, the time when the great works of tafsir, hadith, grammar, and so forth were laid down, the ulema also applied their minds to this problem of al-qalb al-salim. This was first visible when, following the example of the Tabi'in, many of the early ascetics, such as Sufyan ibn Uyayna, Sufyan al-Thawri, and Abdallah ibn al-Mubarak, had focussed their concerns explicitly on the art of purifying the heart. The methods they recommended were frequent fasting and night prayer, periodic retreats, and a preoccupation with murabata: service as volunteer fighters in the border castles of Asia Minor.
This type of pietist orientation was not in the least systematic during this period. It was a loose category embracing all Muslims who sought salvation through the Prophetic virtues of renunciation, sincerity, and deep devotion to the revelation. These men and women were variously referred to as al-bakka'un: 'the weepers', because of their fear of the Day of Judgement, or as zuhhad, ascetics, or ubbad, 'unceasing worshippers' .
By the third century, however, we start to find writings which can be understood as belonging to a distinct devotional school. The increasing luxury and materialism of Abbasid urban society spurred many Muslims to campaign for a restoration of the simplicity of the Prophetic age. Purity of heart, compassion for others, and a constant recollection of God were the defining features of this trend. We find references to the method of muhasaba: self-examination to detect impurities of intention. Also stressed was riyada: self-discipline.
By this time, too, the main outlines of Quranic psychology had been worked out. The human creature, it was realised, was made up of four constituent parts: the body (jism), the mind (aql), the spirit (ruh), and the self (nafs). The first two need little comment. Less familiar (at least to people of a modern education) are the third and fourth categories.
The spirit is the ruh, that underlying essence of the human individual which survives death. It is hard to comprehend rationally, being in part of Divine inspiration, as the Quran says:

"And they ask you about the spirit; say, the spirit is of the command of my Lord. And you have been given of knowledge only a little."[7]

According to the early Islamic psychologists, the ruh is a non-material reality which pervades the entire human body, but is centred on the heart, the qalb. It represents that part of man which is not of this world, and which connects him with his Creator, and which, if he is fortunate, enables him to see God in the next world. When we are born, this ruh is intact and pure. As we are initiated into the distractions of the world, however, it is covered over with the 'rust' (ran) of which the Quran speaks. This rust is made up of two things: sin and distraction. When, through the process of self-discipline, these are banished, so that the worshipper is preserved from sin and is focussing entirely on the immediate presence and reality of God, the rust is dissolved, and the ruh once again is free. The heart is sound; and salvation, and closeness to God, are achieved.
This sounds simple enough. However, the early Muslims taught that such precious things come only at an appropriate price. Cleaning up the Augean stables of the heart is a most excruciating challenge. Outward conformity to the rules of religion is simple enough; but it is only the first step. Much more demanding is the policy known as mujahada: the daily combat against the lower self, the nafs. As the Quran says:

'As for him that fears the standing before his Lord, and forbids his nafs its desires, for him, Heaven shall be his place of resort.'[8]

Hence the Sufi commandment:

'Slaughter your ego with the knives of mujahada.' [9]

Once the nafs is controlled, then the heart is clear, and the virtues proceed from it easily and naturally.
Because its objective is nothing less than salvation, this vital Islamic science has been consistently expounded by the great scholars of classical Islam. While today there are many Muslims, influenced by either Wahhabi or Orientalist agendas, who believe that Sufism has always led a somewhat marginal existence in Islam, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of the classical scholars were actively involved in Sufism.
The early Shafi'i scholars of Khurasan: al-Hakim al-Nisaburi, Ibn Furak, al-Qushayri and al-Bayhaqi, were all Sufis who formed links in the richest academic tradition of Abbasid Islam, which culminated in the achievement of Imam Hujjat al-Islam al-Ghazali. Ghazali himself, author of some three hundred books, including the definitive rebuttals of Arab philosophy and the Ismailis, three large textbooks of Shafi'i fiqh, the best-known tract of usul al-fiqh, two works on logic, and several theological treatises, also left us with the classic statement of orthodox Sufism: the Ihya Ulum al-Din, a book of which Imam Nawawi remarked:

"Were the books of Islam all to be lost, excepting only the Ihya', it would suffice to replace them all." [10]

Imam Nawawi himself wrote two books which record his debt to Sufism, one called the Bustan al-Arifin ('Garden of the Gnostics', and another called the al-Maqasid (recently published in English translation, Sunna Books, Evanston Il. trans. Nuh Ha Mim Keller).
Among the Malikis, too, Sufism was popular. Al-Sawi, al-Dardir, al-Laqqani and Abd al-Wahhab al-Baghdadi were all exponents of Sufism. The Maliki jurist of Cairo, Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani defines Sufism as follows:

'The path of the Sufis is built on the Quran and the Sunna, and is based on living according to the morals of the prophets and the purified ones. It may not be blamed, unless it violates an explicit statement from the Quran, sunna, or ijma. If it does not contravene any of these sources, then no pretext remains for condemning it, except one's own low opinion of others, or interpreting what they do as ostentation, which is unlawful. No-one denies the states of the Sufis except someone ignorant of the way they are.'[11]

For Hanbali Sufism one has to look no further than the revered figures of Abdallah Ansari, Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, Ibn al-Jawzi, and Ibn Rajab.
In fact, virtually all the great luminaries of medieval Islam: al-Suyuti, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, al-Ayni, Ibn Khaldun, al-Subki, Ibn Hajar al-Haytami; tafsir writers like Baydawi, al-Sawi, Abu'l-Su'ud, al-Baghawi, and Ibn Kathir[12] ; aqida writers such as Taftazani, al-Nasafi, al-Razi: all wrote in support of Sufism. Many, indeed, composed independent works of Sufi inspiration. The ulema of the great dynasties of Islamic history, including the Ottomans and the Moghuls, were deeply infused with the Sufi outlook, regarding it as one of the most central and indispensable of Islamic sciences.
Further confirmation of the Islamic legitimacy of Sufism is supplied by the enthusiasm of its exponents for carrying Islam beyond the boundaries of the Islamic world. The Islamization process in India, Black Africa, and South-East Asia was carried out largely at the hands of wandering Sufi teachers. Likewise, the Islamic obligation of jihad has been borne with especial zeal by the Sufi orders. All the great nineteenth century jihadists: Uthman dan Fodio (Hausaland), al-Sanousi (Libya), Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (Algeria), Imam Shamil (Daghestan) and the leaders of the Padre Rebellion (Sumatra) were active practitioners of Sufism, writing extensively on it while on their campaigns. Nothing is further from reality, in fact, than the claim that Sufism represents a quietist and non-militant form of Islam.
With all this, we confront a paradox. Why is it, if Sufism has been so respected a part of Muslim intellectual and political life throughout our history, that there are, nowadays, angry voices raised against it? There are two fundamental reasons here.
Firstly, there is again the pervasive influence of Orientalist scholarship, which, at least before 1922 when Massignon wrote his Essai sur les origines de la lexique technique, was of the opinion that something so fertile and profound as Sufism could never have grown from the essentially 'barren and legalistic' soil of Islam. Orientalist works translated into Muslim languages were influential upon key Muslim modernists - such as Muhammad Abduh in his later writings - who began to question the centrality, or even the legitimacy, of Sufi discourse in Islam.
Secondly, there is the emergence of the Wahhabi da'wa. When Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, some two hundred years ago, teamed up with the Saudi tribe and attacked the neighbouring clans, he was doing so under the sign of an essentially neo-Kharijite version of Islam. Although he invoked Ibn Taymiya, he had reservations even about him. For Ibn Taymiya himself, although critical of the excesses of certain Sufi groups, had been committed to a branch of mainstream Sufism. This is clear, for instance, in Ibn Taymiya's work Sharh Futuh al-Ghayb, a commentary on some technical points in the Revelations of the Unseen, a key work by the sixth-century saint of Baghdad, Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. Throughout the work Ibn Taymiya shows himself to be a loyal disciple of al-Jilani, whom he always refers to as shaykhuna ('our teacher'). This Qadiri affiliation is confirmed in the later literature of the Qadiri tariqa, which records Ibn Taymiya as a key link in the silsila, the chain of transmission of Qadiri teachings.[13]
Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, however, went far beyond this. Raised in the wastelands of Najd in Central Arabia, he had little access to mainstream Muslim scholarship. In fact, when his da'wa appeared and became notorious, the scholars and muftis of the day applied to it the famous Hadith of Najd:

Ibn Umar reported the Prophet (upon whom be blessings and peace) as saying: "Oh God, bless us in our Syria; O God, bless us in our Yemen." Those present said: "And in our Najd, O Messenger of God!" but he said, "O God, bless us in our Syria; O God, bless us in our Yemen." Those present said, "And in our Najd, O Messenger of God!". Ibn Umar said that he thought that he said on the third occasion: "Earthquakes and dissensions (fitna) are there, and there shall arise the horn of the devil."[14]

And it is significant that almost uniquely among the lands of Islam, Najd has never produced scholars of any repute.
The Najd-based da'wa of the Wahhabis, however, began to be heard more loudly following the explosion of Saudi oil wealth. Many, even most, Islamic publishing houses in Cairo and Beirut are now subsidised by Wahhabi organisations, which prevent them from publishing traditional works on Sufism, and remove passages in other works considered unacceptable to Wahhabist doctrine.
The neo-Kharijite nature of Wahhabism makes it intolerant of all other forms of Islamic expression. However, because it has no coherent fiqh of its own - it rejects the orthodox madhhabs - and has only the most basic and primitively anthropomorphic aqida, it has a fluid, amoebalike tendency to produce divisions and subdivisions among those who profess it. No longer are the Islamic groups essentially united by a consistent madhhab and the Ash'ari [or Maturidi] aqida. Instead, they are all trying to derive the shari'a and the aqida from the Quran and the Sunna by themselves. The result is the appalling state of division and conflict which disfigures the modern salafi condition.
At this critical moment in our history, the umma has only one realistic hope for survival, and that is to restore the 'middle way', defined by that sophisticated classical consensus which was worked out over painful centuries of debate and scholarship. That consensus alone has the demonstrable ability to provide a basis for unity. But it can only be retrieved when we improve the state of our hearts, and fill them with the Islamic virtues of affection, respect, tolerance and reconciliation. This inner reform, which is the traditional competence of Sufism, is a precondition for the restoration of unity in the Islamic movement. The alternative is likely to be continued, and agonising, failure.
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NOTES

1. Sura 13:11.

2. For a further analysis of this passage, see Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad, Key to the Garden (Quilliam Press, London 1990 CE), 78-81.

3. Sura 26:89. The archetype is Abrahamic: see Sura 37:84.

4. This hadith is in fact an instance of takhsis al-amm: a frequent procedure of usul al-fiqh by which an apparently unqualified statement is qualified to avoid the contradiction of another necessary principle. See Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller, tr. Nuh Ha Mim Keller (Abu Dhabi, 1991 CE), 907-8 for some further examples.

5. Ibn Asakir, Tabyin Kadhib al-Muftari (Damascus, 1347), 97.

6. Cited in Muhammad al-Jurdani, al-Jawahir al-lu'lu'iyya fi sharh al-Arba'in al-Nawawiya (Damascus, 1328), 220-1.

7. 17:85.

8. 79:40.

9. al-Qushayri, al-Risala (Cairo, n.d.), I, 393.

10. al-Zabidi, Ithaf al-sada al-muttaqin (Cairo, 1311), I, 27.

11. Sha'rani, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra (Cairo, 1374), I, 4.
12. It is true that Ibn Kathir in his Bidaya is critical of some later Sufis. Nonetheless, in his Mawlid, which he asked his pupils to recite on the occasion of the Blessed Prophet's birthday each year, he makes his personal debt to a conservative and sober Sufism quite clear.

13. See G. Makdisi's article 'Ibn Taymiyya: A Sufi of the Qadiriya Order' in the American Journal of Arabic Studies, 1973.

14. Narrated by Bukhari. The translation is from J. Robson, Mishkat al-Masabih (Lahore, 1970), II, 1380.

Lakbima Again Srikes Muslim- Pasting Terrorist Label to Innocent Muslims of Sri Lanka

2009-06-30T07:55:00.000-07:00

Lakbima Again Srikes Muslim- Pasting Terrorist Label to Innocent Muclims of Sri Lanka

Armed Muslim groups to handover weapons by July 2

By Gayana Kumara Weerasinghe

Last week, this newspaper revealed that after the defeat of the LTTE, the security forces are now preparing to disarm armed Muslim extremist groups now raising their heads in the Eastern Province. Security forces are of the view that these armed extremist groups will be the next terrorist threat to be faced by Sri Lanka and the terrorism unleashed by these groups maybe far more brutal than that of the LTTE.
According to information received by military intelligence, a large number of armed Muslim extremist groups are at present operating secretly in the Eastern Province. The more prominent of these groups are known by names such as Jihad, Osama and Mujahib. In addition, there are also some armed extremist groups operating in the East which use the names of certain prominent politicians and are being sponsored by these same politicians of the Eastern Province.

Underworld connections

These groups operate in areas in the Eastern Province which have a large Muslim populus. The areas include Eravur, Kaththankudi, Oluvamavadi, Sammanturai, Akkaraipattu, Kalmunai Panama, Muttur and Kinniya.
Intelligence agencies also say that another armed group which has the blessings and support of these extremists groups is operating in Puttalam, led by a politician.
Security forces also now have evidence that certain underworld gangs operating in Colombo also maintain connections with the armed Muslim extremist groups in the East. Muslim underworld groups in the Maligawatta and Slave Island areas received most of their weapons from the extremist groups in the province.
On information from intelligence agencies that there was a possibility of these armed Muslim extremist groups organizing and rebelling together, the security forces attention has turned to them with a vigour never seen before.
The arrest of 7 persons with a large haul of weapons belonging to armed extremist groups by the Kaththankudi police confirms this situation. The haul included 7 T56 weapons, 1 LLR firearm, 3 hand grenades, 1 anti-personal mine and a walkie-talkie.
During police questioning, the suspects said that 200-250 persons were members of armed Muslim extremist groups in the Kaththankudi area possessing an assortment of weapons handed over to them by the LTTE whilst retreating from the East. Some were sold to them. The Muslim extremists had bought T56 weapons for less than Rs 5000 per firearm.
When one time LTTE commander and current government Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman broke away from the LTTE, members of these groups received weapons from cadres who broke away with him.
“The Muslims armed themselves due to the suffering they underwent at the hands of the LTTE, not to oppose the government or to carve out a separate state. Some politicians started to use these groups to further their own political agendas. This is why armed Muslim extremist groups have now raised their heads in the Eastern Province. If Muslims continue to bear weapons, they will be a threat to national security. We need to disarm them,” said an intelligence officer who is tracking these armed Muslim groups. Significantly, this officer is himself a Muslim.
According to him only one Muslim armed group -Jihad- operated in the Eastern Province in the beginning. “Jihad started its operations on a small scale during the late 80s and became more powerful during the period 90-94 with the blessings of a prominent Muslim politician. During this period, Muslim youth from the Eastern Province travelled to Afghanistan and Arab countries and obtained weapons training. In addition a large number of retired Muslim military and police officers also joined Jihad and helped it become powerful, and the group directly functioned via a number of mosques in the East.
The Indian army arrived in Sri Lanka and established a 7000 strong Tamil army in the Eastern Province. The EPRLF, led by Varadaraja Perumal was also part of this Tamil army. They had large stocks of military weapons. This Tamil army also broke apart when the Indian army left Sri Lanka’s shores. Most of their weapons fell into the hands of the Jihad which operated against the LTTE. The group never threatened the maintaining of law and order. However, the situation is drastically different now. There are currently 13 armed Muslim extremist groups operating in the East verified by intelligence reports.” said the intelligence officer

Survival

Muslim politicians. maintain these armed groups for their survival. Some groups are said to be maintained by Muslim businessmen and Hajiars in the East. Security forces have received information that they are maintaining these groups with the aim of furthering their businesses. However, that does not mean that they don’t engage in contract killings and armed robberies once in a while.
Batticaloa DIG Edwin Gunathilaka was entrusted with the task of disarming such Muslim extremist groups. DIG Gunathilaka was also at the forefront of the campaign to disarm the Karuna and Pillayan factions which broke away from the LTTE. He had also made a significant contribution to disarm the Sinhala armed groups which were active in the South during the 88-89 reign of terror.
Accordingly, the DIG commenced the task by convening meetings involving highly respected personalities in the Muslim community including Muslim politicians, VIPs, Hajiars and Muslim religious leaders. He explained to them the dangers of armed extremism. One such special meeting was organized at the Hisbullah cultural centre in Kaththankudi Baticaloa on the evening of the 19th. Security forces Commander in the East, Major General Srinath Rajapaksa, Head of Operations of the STF, DIG R.W.M. Ranawana and a large number of senior army and police officers were also present on the occasion. Over 300 representatives of the Muslim community attended the meeting.
During his speech at the meeting, DIG Gunathilaka also issued a warning, stating that if armed groups do not take steps to hand over their weapons to the security forces, then he will be reluctantly compelled to take stern action against them. The warning vaguely alluded to certain persons present who are known to back these armed groups.
At the end of the meeting, the Muslim community urged that an amnesty period be declared for armed Muslim groups to hand over their weapons. They assured that arrangements will be made towards this end and implored the security forces not to take any action until this had been done.
Security forces officers, including DIG Edwin Gunathilaka agreed to this request. Accordingly, an amnesty was declared for Muslim armed groups to hand over their weapons. This amnesty period will continue upto 2 July. Security sources reveal that several armed Muslim groups are set to hand over their weapons at a mosque in the East on that same day. Security forces are already formulating plans to conduct operations against all Muslim armed groups which do not hand over their weapons by this date.

Lakbima Again strikes Muslim by twisting News

2009-06-28T08:41:00.000-07:00

Lakbima Strikes Muslims By spinning News
Crackdown Jihad

Response from Web
This report for me looks as if the seeds of hostility between muslims and the Sinhalese community are being sowed. Who will believe that Saudi is funding the Tableegh Jamaat, when they are ideologically different. This is a plain LIE.

A few people who possess guns and have a muslim name DO NOT REPRESENT THE MAJORITY of the muslims in Sri Lanka. If the government is disarming them it is good - BUT WHY should this report put a twist and spin to it. It seems that among the Sinhalese there are enemies of the Sinhalese.

The President of Sri Lanka has been unequivocal in his noble statement that there are no minorities in Sri Lanka - ONLY THOSE WHO LOVE THE COUNTRY AND THOSE WHO DO NOT. We must keep repeating this great thought everywhere and to everyone - be it to a muslim, sinhalese, tamil, burgher etc.

I believe, all Sri Lankan muslims must rally behind this noble statement of the President and ensure that the President's noble thought is carried forward.

It would be helpful if some form of positive action is taken on a continuing basis by Muslim organisations in co-ordination with the Sinhalese brothers/sisters to stem such attempts by the enemies of Sri Lanka, the enemies of Sinhalese and Tamils, the enemies of the Muslims and the enemies of a peace loving Sri Lanka.

As Muslims we have to stand up for justice even if it is against a Muslim. We should always support truth and justice. This is what the Quran and the Prophet Muhamed (PBUH) has taught us.

Muslim thinkers, social workers, organisations etc may please consider my viewpoint and create a forum along with our sinhalese brothers/sisters to monitor such unpatriotic activities in the guise of patriotism.

Following Is a Collection of Fake Islamic web sites Maintained By Anti Islamic People and Organizations

2009-06-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

But people will never forget how you made them feel.

2009-05-20T22:28:00.001-07:00

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston , and walked timidly without an appointment in to the Harvard University President's outer office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge .

'We'd like to see the president,' the man said softly. 'He'll be busy all day,' the secretary snapped. 'We'll wait,' the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away.. They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.

'Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave,' she said to him!

He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested Gingham dresses and Homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted to ward the couple. The lady told him, 'We had a son who attended Harvard for one year.
He loved Harvard.. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.'

The president wasn't touched.. He was shocked. 'Madam,' he said, gruffly, 'we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.'

'Oh, no,' the lady explained quickly. 'We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard..'

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, 'A building! Do you have any earthly
idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.'

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, 'Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?'

Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away,traveling to Palo Alto , California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University , a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

THIS IS A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes about the founders of the now world renowned STANFORD UNIVERSITY !!

People will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, Love truly and forgive quickly.

A Nation Raped and Ravaged Iraq after six years of US led invasion:

2009-04-08T03:48:00.000-07:00

A Nation Raped and Ravaged
Iraq after six years of US led invasion:
Full Article Link @ Sunday Observer

by Latheef FAROOK

Iraq, a land where many great ancient civilisations such as Mesopotamian, Sumer, Akkad, Babylonian and Assyria flourished between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers for more than 7,000 years, has been ruthlessly raped and ravaged by the European colonial powers followed by the United States to loot its oil wealth for more than a century.

A mosque after a bomb attack

.....................full article at Sunday Observer

9-11

2009-03-22T20:25:00.000-07:00

This Video i got from net don't know the source-May be some truth

"Assuming the LTTE finished is fantasy masquerading as fact"-By Qadri Ismail

2009-03-04T21:10:00.000-08:00

Articulating Ethics and Politics: A Leftist Engagement With The Present
"Assuming the LTTE finished is fantasy masquerading as fact"
By Qadri Ismail (Link for the Article)
Che Guevara once said: â€œif you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are my comrade.â€�
The distillation of a lifetime of agitation, intervention, reflection, this statement, the opposite of a sound bite, pithily articulates ethics with politics. Weâ€™ve known, at least since Aristotle, that the two are inextricable, yet distinct.
Che links them together in exemplary leftist fashion. If one understands ethics, following Levinas loosely, as deference to the other; and politics, following Derrida equally loosely, as a calculus about the possible; then Cheâ€™s formulation insists that, while the leftist might not (be able to) act upon every injustice, she must be moved. Narcissistic indignation is called identity politics.

[Che Guevara appeared on Meet the Press at CBS Television on December 13, 1964-AP]
When the leftist acts, she cannot be deterred by considerations of difficulty, of (im)possibility. They get overdetermined by the ethical imperative, the banal necessity, to resist injustice, oppression of the other. Not the political calculation whether resistance might be fruitful. Necessity, as opposed to choice, characterizes leftist action.
In other words, the leftist is not and has never been a realist. Revolutions, national liberation struggles, campaigns against patriarchy were not inspired by opportunists. Neither is the Tamil struggle for justice in Sri Lanka. The legitimacy of that struggle doesnâ€™t stand or fall by the record â€“ the abysmal, atrocious record â€“ of the LTTE.
And yet, as one writes, many on the left, thinking the LTTE in the past tense, advice the Tamils to adopt a â€œrealist,â€� that is to say mendicant, position regards the Rajapakse regime: reconcile with the actuality of its overwhelming power. Take what you can get. In effect, surrender.
As one writes, that same regime continues to bomb, from air and ground, the tiny territory still in LTTE hands. It kills between 10 and 20 Tamil civilians every day, maims dozens of others. Many little children are now amputees. They might be safe if the LTTE, unconscionably, does not hold them as human shields; even, horribly, shooting those who try to flee. But that is no alibi for this governmentâ€™s brutality.
Yet, as one reads, one finds no indignation, no outrage, from sections of the left. There is, of course, the mandatory, parenthetical â€“ pathetic â€“ gesture of concern about civilian casualties. But the brutality of this government, it appears remarkably enough, should not shape our response to it. Only the â€œfactâ€� of its assumed victory.
Take, as symptomatic instance, a recent position paper by Sumanasiri Liyanage. It expresses with clarity a position held by many about â€œthe post-LTTE era.â€� But assuming the LTTE finished is fantasy masquerading as fact. Its record suggests resilience, not oblivion. Weakened, broken as the guerillas are â€“ theyâ€™ve never been so unpopular, even amongst their own â€“ thereâ€™s nothing inevitable about their disappearance from our politico-military terrain. Regardless, the leftist commitment to the justice of the Tamil struggle is not bound to the fate of the LTTE.
Liyanageâ€™s undeniable commitment to peace with justice has been established over decades, with great consistency. I have admired his many thoughtful interventions, especially in the last couple of years. But, now â€“ and this is said with loss, not anger â€“ he effectively whitewashes the regime. Arguing that â€œrevolutionaryâ€� constitutional change is â€œunlikelyâ€� â€“ the word litters the article â€“ he advances realistic â€œreformâ€� as the position we should all adopt. One could ask, in response: if U.S. slaves had considered the likelihood of ending their captivity, if they had realistically calculated their chances against the overwhelming power of the white establishment, would they have rebelled? Unlikely.
Incredibly, Liyanage doesnâ€™t once identify the Rajapakse regime as responsible for any â€“ not a single â€“ part of the horrible Sri Lankan present. The â€œJVP and Hela Urumayaâ€¦[are] the main advocatesâ€� of exclusivist nationalism. The SLFP, it would appear, doesnâ€™t share this ideology, is innocent of blame.
As one writes, the Rajapakse regime has announced plans to house Vanni Tamils in specially constructed detention camps for up to three years. These camps will include schools, hospitals and banks. The populace inside will be held captive, policed by the military. The Rajapakses, brazenly, have even approached the U.N. and other international NGOs â€“ the same organizations its spokespeople routinely slander â€“ to fund these centers akin to concentration camps.
Given the career â€“ brief, but consistently exclusivist â€“ of this government, one doesnâ€™t need to be an astrologer or political scientist to foresee the next stage of the plan. Over the past two years, led by the JHUâ€™s Champika Ranawaka and Basil Rajapakse, the regime has systematically alienated Muslim land in the east. Sinhala settlers cannot be far behind.
There is little reason to doubt that the Vanni territory, once denuded of Tamils, will also be colonized with Sinhalese. This is the Rajapaksesâ€™ â€œfinal solutionâ€� to the national question: make the Tamils politically irrelevant. Physically eliminate any resistance, even the non-violent. Concentrate the rest in camps.
In this regard, the only moot question is whether Sinhala nationalism, which has systematically followed such a strategy since D. S. Senanayake in the late 1940s, learned this from Zionism â€“ or whether the Israelis copied the Sri Lankan example. Not coincidentally, the two states have been co-operating openly since the mid-1980s. Mahinda Rajapakse, opposition M.P., may have been a champion of Palestinian rights, a progressive, in those 1980s; his regime is comparable to the Israeli state.
In such a context, advocating reform would be to debate how many Sinhalese should be allowed to colonize the north. Not whether colonization should occur in the first place.
But â€œreformâ€� and â€œrevolutionary changeâ€� are not the only alternatives. Resistance â€“ the unyielding demand for peace with justice â€“ is another. Liyanage, however, frames his position with canny rhetoric. Reform, after all, sounds realistic, possible, even reasonable. Naming its alternative revolutionary â€“ spin worthy of U.S. conservatives, the (white) guys who call universal health care â€œsocialismâ€� â€“ is delegitimizing. For, in the worldview fabricated by George W. Bush, that Liyanage reproduces, perhaps unwittingly, a synonym for revolutionary is terrorist.
Yes, the LTTE could be accused of terrorism â€“ if one finds the term productive. Among national liberation organizations, its brutality is unmatched. Its record is too well known to require iteration here. A powerful case could be made that the LTTE and its leadership must face trial for war crimes. But, surely, an equally powerful case could be made about leading figures of the government.
On the other hand, if one advocates engagement with the regime, shouldnâ€™t one also advocate the same with the LTTE? Ideologically, both embody exclusivist, extremist â€“ if not totalitarian â€“ nationalism. Both equate dissent with treason. Gotabhaya Rajapakse actually said this to BBC television, following the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge. The LTTE has systematically assassinated resistant Tamils, including K. Padmanabha and Rajini Thiranagama. The only difference is that the LTTEâ€™s brutality extends for decades. Simply put, it has killed, intimidated, devastated more. But considerations of number should not determine leftist ethics.
Liyanage knows this. He refers to the Tamils and Muslims as â€œnumerically small nations,â€� desiring not to other the Tamils and Muslims by calling them â€œminorities.â€� Yet he cannot frame his position outside the logic of number. For, one could ask, after Derrida: at what number does a nation become small or large? Would we also need a cage for the medium-sized? Would the Chinese be extra-large? Is there some secret book of rules, available only to social scientists, with the right answers?
More importantly, does it matter? Does their number have anything to do with the fact that weâ€™re moved, appalled, outraged by the oppression of the Tamils â€“ or the Palestinians, for that matter? Should indignation not serve as the launching pad of our response?
The argument for engagement, for reform, is an argument for accepting the continued domination of the Tamils and Muslims. It negates the very basis of the Tamil struggle, for peace with justice. Even worse, it provides the Rajapakses with an alibi. For, one must ask: given that the president himself turned the consensus within the APRC, for greater devolution, into acceptance of the status quo, what are the chances of this regime, even minimally, reforming the state? Unlikely.
The stagist argument â€“ finish the LTTE first, then attend to Tamil â€œgrievancesâ€� â€“ is, at best, counter-factual, presumptuous. Both about the LTTE, that it canâ€™t re-emerge; and the regime, that it will suddenly, miraculously, turn democratic.
But what are the chances of the Rajapakses, who cannot countenance journalistic resistance â€“ witness the murder of Wickrematunge, the continued imprisonment of J. S. Tissainayagam â€“ suddenly becoming democratic? Is it â€œrealisticâ€� to expect this regime, which refuses to honor the 17th amendment, to discover the virtues of constitutional governance? Or, as Jayadeva Uyangoda begs, Mahinda Rajapakse to display â€œstatesmanshipâ€�? You know the answer.
The Sinhala left has a long, impressive, honorable record on the question of social justice. Despite being woefully underfunded, we can boast of free universal health care and education through university. The United States cannot. Despite the best efforts of J. R. Jayewardene, in the 1980s, our trade unions thrive. They even strike every now and then. Without the left, this would not be the case.
On the national question, however, the organized left, with the rare exception of a Vickremabahu Karunaratne or Sarath Muttetuwegama, has been a paragon of complicity with Sinhala nationalism. It bears iteration that the same Colvin R de Silva, who said with astute prescience in 1956, that establishing Sinhala as the only official language would lead to separatism, sixteen years later effectively instituted Buddhism as the state religion. The militant Tamil resistance was inaugurated that same year, 1972. Then, as now, members of the CP and LSSP adorn the cabinet.
Just last January, after the murder of Wickrematunge, after the rampages of this regime against Tamil and Muslim civilians, documented over three years, an old leftist â€“ I donâ€™t have the heart to mention his name â€“ told a mutual acquaintance: â€œMahinda is basically a progressive.â€�
Surely, the task of our intellectual left must be to hold these positions to account, not make them role models!
Our task is to insist, and keep insisting, that there cannot be a just peace in Sri Lanka without radical â€“ not reformist, or revolutionary, but radical â€“ constitutional change. (Revolutionary change, a complete, total break from the past, is impossible â€“ even conceptually. ) A form of confederalism, if thatâ€™s what it takes; which accounts for Muslim, as well as Tamil demands.
The equality of all citizens, including those outside the northeast, must be institutionalized in something like a bill of rights. As importantly, the symbols of the state must signify such equality. This means no special status for Buddhism. And redesigning the flag, which as it now flies reproduces â€“ with its dominant, armed, scary lion and two miserable stripes for the minorities â€“ Sinhala nationalist dominance.
This will take a long struggle, but reform â€“ surrender to Sinhala nationalism â€“ takes us down a dead-end. This will involve rethinking the tired clichÃ©s about peace weâ€™ve inherited from social science, conflict management. This entails much labor, patience, anger and frustration, but we must abide by our convictions, not yield to our most conformist instincts.
Edward Said once told me, when I asked of his vocal opposition to the Oslo accords, that they could only lead to the continued subjugation of the Palestinian people â€“ while providing Israel with the alibi of commitment to peace. Despite tremendous pressure, mostly from the PLO, he refused to yield his position. Refused, that is, to settle for mere reform.
The point is not that he turned out to be right. He was no realist. Rather, after a lifetime of agitation, intervention, reflection, he had conviction. He understood that the leftist, when confronted with surrender or resistance, doesnâ€™t have a choice. Like Che, Said knew how to articulate ethics with politics.

The Heroes are the Villains

2009-03-04T19:15:00.000-08:00

The Heroes are the Villains
Hameed Abdul Karim

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Here’s the script. A is the monster. B and C along with D are the good children doing all they can, risking life and limb, to save the world from this monster. The scriptwriters have used all their cunning to brainwash the audience to want the good children to succeed in their noble task of killing the monster. Mass hysteria is built up. There is tension in the air and suspense too. And when in the end ‘good’ triumphs over ‘evil,’ as in every movie, the entire audience heave a sigh of relief and approve the good deeds of their celluloid heroes.

The only thing is that this not a movie. This is real life. A is Iran. B, C and D are the US, Israel and the EU cartel. The scriptwriters are the ‘embedded journalists’ in the Western media. With ‘journalists’ like these, blood thirsty rogue nations and war criminals in a cocktail like that, you have an ideal recipe for disaster — disaster for non-complying non-white states. Together they are gunning for Iran the same way they went after Iraq.

And like in Iraq’s case the story begins in the media, with the same old fibs, as any discerning reader or viewer will notice when reading or listening to the constant refrain that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had threatened to ‘wipe Israel off the world map.’ Never mind the fact that on more occasions than one Iran had denied their leader had ever made such a remark in the context that it’s being circulated in the world media and also in the local media, as made out in the article, "Choice: An Iranian bomb or bombing Iran" in The Morning Leader of February 4, 2009.

Iranians have repeatedly said Ahmedinejad was only quoting Ayatollah Khomeini when he (Ahmedinejad) was speaking to a group of Palestinians urging them not to give up hope and that the occupation of Palestine will also end in the same way the Shah’s rule in Iran had ended. What Imam Khomeini had actually said then was ‘this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the pages of time.’ Like the occupation of other regimes had ended.

Both Imam Khomeini and Ahmedinejad had spoken in Farsi and the translation of these words into English has been twisted out of context to fit into the doctrinaire system of the West’s agenda for global domination. Remember the Plan for the New American Century (PNAC)?

What’s never mentioned in what’s called the mainstream media is that Israel has over 200 nuclear weapons all ready to blast off at the press of a button. Iran doesn’t have even one. So what makes Iran the enemy of civilisation and all that? Is it not possible that Israel is the real enemy? Is it not possible that Iran might be seeking a nuclear bomb as a deterrent to Israel’s huge arsenal? Hush!

Such talk doesn’t enter into the main stream media ….it’s just not permissible discussion. Not for those ‘embedded journalists’ who report from the Western side of the fence. It’s about time somebody from ‘our’ side of the fence reports from a Third World perspective.

But to attack Iran they have to brainwash governments and their peoples’ to believe that Iran is indeed a threat to world peace. So they ‘monsterise’ Iran to a point where the whole world, especially the Americans, are programmed to believe the crap the media dishes out as ‘news.’ Hence the turbo charged propaganda line ‘Israel must be wiped off the map.’

Connect this to Iran’s nuclear programme for peaceful purposes and you have a ready mix of juicy propaganda to fool the world that’s already fed heavily on a regular diet of holocaust stories. All you need is Goliath to play the role of David. And Israel is doing that just fine.

However, there is one glitch in the script. And that’s Palestine. Nobody ever mentions that ‘Palestine was wiped off the world map.’ Neither do they name the culprits who did the foul deed. That doesn’t come within the realms of permissible discussion either.

Palestinians are paying a heavy price for the crimes of the people who now have the gumption to call themselves the ‘civilised world’ without an iota of shame.

Iran has not invaded any country in modern history. Israel, the US and many member nations of the EU cartel have done just that, spilling the blood of innocents in one slaughter after another. Israel has invaded all its neighbours. And yet we are made to believe they are the good guys in the movie and Iran is the monster. In actual fact the heroes are the villains. They are the enemy. The old phrase ‘they who tell the tales control the world’ holds true.

Unfortunately for the Palestinians and the Iraqis and the Afghans the movie hasn’t ended yet. Sadly for them there’s going to be more bloodshed, more slaughters, cries of anguish and many tears before the scriptwriters bring on the words ‘The End.’

Hameed Abdul Karim

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2009-03-02T01:12:00.000-08:00

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Response to-‘Men of God and men who kill in God’s name’

2009-02-27T02:58:00.000-08:00

This Response Was not publish in the Morning Leader as usual
By Latheef Farook

About CNN presenter Christian Amanpour’s dissemination of news. The pro Jewish Western media, integral part of Western war machines, always manipulates public opinion, with their lies, to facilitate the warmongers to help implement their evil designs especially on Muslim countries. For example, encouraged by the US Ambassador April Glaspie the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sent his troops to Kuwait and triggered off the Gulf Crisis.

Media, especially Christian Amanpour and her CNN, played a crucial role in misleading the world to enable the US to invade and destroy Iraq under the guise of liberating Kuwait . As a journalist who witnessed the media manipulation during this war from the Gulf, I could state that the media won this war before the armies even entered the battlefield.

Who benefitted? The western weapons industry .They sold a staggering $ 157 billion of armaments to Gulf countries that were all brought under the military umbrella of the US . In his first statement after the war, former US President George Bush Sr said, “ Israel is safe and the oil flows freely”. It was Israel that badly wanted this war and the US merely obliged.

Islam gave birth to one of the greatest civilisations in world history, enriched many other civilisations and in fact it was the Muslims’ contribution that triggered off the Renaissance in Europe . So how come the Muslims with such a fascinating and inspiring history have suddenly become terrorists now?

It was the years of systematic injustice, brutalities and oppression of Muslims by US, Britain, Europe, Zionist Jews and now joined by the Hindutva dominated India that turned peaceful Muslims to resort to armed struggle to establish their rights and dignity. Besides, they also imposed and protected cruel and oppressive dictators in Muslim countries who keep the people suppressed and obstruct their progress

Dealing with religious fundamentalism, Brian spoke about al Qaeda, Hamas, LeT and Taliban, but conveniently dropped the two largest and deadliest terrorist groups in the world- Zionist Jewish and Hindutva terrorism. Kashmiris were known for their peaceful nature. Political manoeuvrings of the Central Government in Delhi , rigging of elections in 1987 and 1996, years of political turmoil, economic problems, poverty and many other factors led to the 1989 mass uprisings and created the LeT.

Hamas is an organisation struggling to free the Palestinians from the Zionist Jews who robbed their lands to set up their Jewish racist state of Israel that was born out of terrorism. Israel is not a democracy, but an ethnocracy. Hamas was elected in a spotless free and fair election supervised by no lesser a person than former US President Jimmy Carter. Trying to crush Hamas only showed that the US claim to promote democracy is a farce.

About what Pope said;

In an extremely inflammatory speech, Pope Benedict associated Islam with violence at his former University of Regensburg , in his native Bavaria in Southern Germany , on 12 September 2006.

Citing an obscure medieval text, recounting a fictitious conversation between 14th-century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) Pope Benedict asked “show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached”.

He called upon Muslims to fight terrorism. This would have sounded fair if Pope Benedict, as Cardinal Erst Ratzinger, had called upon the Catholic community to shed terrorism when the IRA bombs killed more than 3,500 people, or if called upon Zionist Jews to stop killing innocent Palestinians who were made prisoners in their own homes and lands. However, Pope Benedict was not slow to punish Muslims around the world with a collective and guilt-ridden responsibility.

Pope Benedict’s remarks were either “the result of pitiful ignorance" about Islam and its prophet, or worse, a deliberate distortion of the truths. He later said he was “deeply sorry for his comments on Islam”.

Child abuse has been a major problem within the Catholic Church and did the Muslim media or any Muslim scholar in the world exploit this opportunity to humiliate the church and Catholicism?

Nevertheless, the question is how can Pope Benedict, as head of Catholic Church and a man of peace, accept an invitation by George Bush, who was described as a monstrous war criminal by Richard Horton, a doctor and the editor of the Lancet, named as a war criminal by British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. He demanded that the Pope’s host be taken to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague .

Yet Pope Benedict accepted Bush’s invitation, marking his 81st birthday, and provided a seal of approval for his crusade against Muslims. There Pope Benedict never found time to speak a word about the slaughter of more than 1.3 million Iraqi Muslims and virtual destruction of the Iraqi society.

According to Brian, Muslim terrorists have killed a total of 1027 people in Bali , US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania , US and French peacekeepers and others in London and Madrid . He should probe little more and find out the cause for these killings.

George Bush and Tony Blair together with their Australian racist poodle John Howard unleashed a global campaign demonizing Islam to inflame hatred against Muslims.

Iraq was an almost developed country known for its rich historic past. The US led invasion killed more than 1.4 million innocent men, women, children and the aged and threw more than four million into refugee camps both within and outside the country where they suffer to this day in appalling conditions. Hundreds of thousands of innocent women were raped and killed destroying the fabric of a society known for its religious values. Highly developed health, education, water, sewage and all other basic facilities were in ruins and Israel ’s secret service Mossad murdered hundreds of intellectuals and professionals.

In Fallujah, a city of 300,000 people, Bush dropped internationally banned and improved versions of napalm bombs, which burnt and melted fasting Muslims to death. The American media, despite its modern technology, was quite conspicuous in its silence on the Fallujah massacre, which is one of the most horrendous acts of genocide in modern history. There is lawlessness everywhere. Today the entire Iraqi population remains traumatised and these are the obscene images of crimes that cry out to the Heavens for vengeance. Yet did Brian ever describe Bush and Blair and Howard as terrorists?

If Brian Jansz was an Iraqi whose family was wiped out and whose daughters were raped and killed what would be his feeling towards Bush and Blair? I am sure if you have little bit of self-respect, dignity and feelings for your slaughtered loved ones you would rise up against this Anglo American savagery. Under such circumstance if I call you a terrorist what, would be your feeling? This is what you had done, Mr. Jansz, when you described the oppressed Muslims fighting for freedom as Islamist terrorists!

About 9/11 it was not the Muslims, but the Jews who danced in jubilation from neighboring building and video filmed the collapse of the WTC buildings. Almost every independent study undertaken by numerous professionals, institutions and organisations into the collapse of the WTC building came to one conclusion. And that was Muslims have nothing to do with this disaster as the Twin Tower buildings were not brought down by the aircrafts but by missiles placed within the buildings.

Exploiting the fear psychosis created by the media in the aftermath of 9/11 George Bush accused Al Qaeda of masterminding the attacks, invaded Afghanistan within 27 days, killed hundreds of thousands of poverty stricken Afghans and installed a restaurant owner Hamid Karzai as president against the will of the people before starting to set up military bases all over the country. Afghans have been waging a fierce struggle to oust the occupier. Can we call them terrorists? If they are terrorists, what do we call George Bush and Tony Blair who had inflicted this unprecedented death, devastation and sufferings?

Almost eight years after 9/11 today, provoking the religious sensitivities of Muslims to justify the destructive designs has become an organized global campaign. Inevitably, average Christians have become victims of this plot just as much as the unfortunate Muslims have been.

With regard to Danish cartoons insulting Islam’s beloved Prophet.

Prophets are no ordinary people. They were chosen by the Almighty God to send His message to humanity as a whole. Is there any need to make fun out of them. No Muslim ever insulted Jesus or Moses because they are two of the most important prophets of Islam.The mere thought of insulting a prophet is blasphemy.

This caricature to stir up racial and religious antagonisms was first published in January 2006 in the far rightwing Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Why Denmark ? Why not London or New York ? Denmark is the centre of activities for Mossad, which maintains very close relationship with the Danish intelligence service. The journalist who was instrumental in triggering off the controversy over the cartoons is an Islam-hating Ukrainian Jew, operating under the name of “Flemming Rose” with close working relations with the Israel ’s far right forces. Columnists James Petras and Robin Eastman pointed out that ‘the centre piece of the current explosive confrontation between the Muslim world and the US and Western European regimes and publishers are rooted in Israeli efforts to polarize the world in its favour and to promote isolation, economic sanctions and/or a military attack on Iran ’.

No Muslim throughout their more than 14 century history ever insulted members of other faiths. This is not part of Muslim culture and Islam completely forbidden such sadistic perversion.

Manipulating the media the West managed to successfully sell the Al Qaeda threat although, even today, Al Qaeda remains an organisation without an office, without an address, without a telephone or fax number and even without an e-mail address.

Muslim countries are being attacked and bombed with impunity; Muslims are tortured and killed, their religion and prophet mocked. Muslims are among the poorest people in the world and their countries the least developed despite some Muslim countries having enormous wealth and riches. Muslims now realise that the fight against terrorism was a skilfully executed conspiracy, crusade, against Islam and Muslims to reduce Muslim countries to wastelands.

This was proved beyond doubt by recent events in Iraq , Afghanistan , Somalia , Algeria , Bosnia , Kosovo , Albania , Chechnya , occupied Palestine , Kashmir, Gujarat and Central Asian Muslim Republics and many other areas where Muslims were suppressed. However, no one speaks about them. During the past one and a half decades, more than 12 million Muslims were driven to refugee camps where they suffer in abject poverty.

So long these oppressions continues Muslims are bound to fight for their Rights and Dignity .Ends

‘Men of God and men who kill in God’s name’

2009-02-27T02:51:00.000-08:00

Morning Leader Article
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‘Men of God and men who kill in God’s name’

I refer to an article penned by Dr. Marina Reffai in your esteemed newspaper a few weeks back regarding the above subject. ‘Jihad’ means a ‘Holy war.’ In the true context it is fighting ‘temptation’ of shaitan (satan) or against anyone desecrating the name of God. The blurbs of the CNN presenter Christian Amanpour outlined how that news channel covered all aspects of world news and not as an insult to any religious belief.

I don’t intend to make this a controversy but explain to the doctor that it is the bounden duty of newscasters to disseminate news as it happens utilising the modern technology available. There is nothing to be sore about when it comes to facing the ‘truth.’ In modern times ‘religious fundamentalism’ has become a weapon of certain terrorist groups viz. al Qaeda, Hamas, LeT, Taliban among many others who are holding the free world hostage with their twisted ideologies. To prove the facts let me outline a few atrocities;

1. The Pope says that jihad violence is against God’s nature — Muslims get insulted

2. Muslim terrorists murder 202 tourists in Bali — expects no criticism.

3. Muslim terrorists murder 292 innocents in US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania — expect no criticism

4. Muslim terrorists murder 241 US and 58 French peacekeepers in Beirut — expects no criticism.

5. Muslim terrorists murder 52 in London and 191 in Madrid — expects no criticism

6. Muslim terrorists behead Western hostages in Iraq and Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia — expects no criticism

7. Muslim extremists force women to wear sacks in Afghanistan, stone to death women for getting raped or leaving home un-escorted, engage in honour killing of sisters and daughters for dating a suitor — and expect no criticism.

8. Muslims danced in the streets and handed out sweets to the children to celebrate the horror of 9/11 and other worldwide terror attacks — and expect no criticism

9. Muslims have carried out over 5,800 fatal terrorist atrocities since 9/11 — and expect no criticism.

What a hue and cry was raised when a Danish cartoonist produced some caricatures. Demonstrations by the Muslim diaspora who, in the first place, had poured into Denmark seeking safety from terrorists in their own countries, demanded an apology.

The Danes quite correctly reciprocated. "We’re sorry we gave you shelter when war drove you from your country, sorry we took you in when other Muslim nations rejected you, sorry we gave you food and shelter when you had none, sorry we let you re –unite with families when your homeland was not safe, sorry we never forced you to work while we paid your bills, sorry we gave you free rent, phone , internet, car and school for your 10 kids, sorry we built mosques so you could worship your religion in our Christian land, sorry we never forced you to learn our language even after living for 30 years."

Due to holy wars and ideological wars Muslims, en masse, have found refuge in many Western countries as refugees and after establishing themselves — thanks to the generosity of those countries — want the hosts to ‘play ball.’

In this respect I will quote John Howard the former prime minister of Australia, a courageous leader: "Immigrants, not Australians, must adapt. Take it or leave it. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Our culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories of millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak English, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic Chinese, Japanese, Russian or any other language. Therefore if you wish to become part of our society you have no choice but to learn our language. Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact because Christian men and women, on Christian principles founded this nation and this is clearly documented. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture. We will accept your beliefs. And will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with as. This is our country, our land and our lifestyle and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy this. But once you are finished complaining, whining and griping about our Flag, our pledge, our Christian belief or our way of life, I highly encourage you to take advantage of one other great Australian freedom… the right to leave! If you are not happy here then leave. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to come here. So accept the country you accepted.

So to those who daily see and hear the atrocities of war due to extreme, religious fundamentalism causing such suffering of innocent people in the world I have outlined the twisted egotistic ideologies of the few individuals who ‘want to rule the world and people’s minds’ through terror tactics.

In closing I wish to recall an incident I witnessed whilst working in the Middle East. It took place during the Iran-Iraq war a few year back. This occurred on an Arab TV channel that was showing pictures of that war.

The irony is that while the war rages on the soldiers in the battlefield kept a continuous barrage of firing on the opposing side while they do likewise. When the muezzin (priest) calls all believers to prayer (which is done five times a day) every man lays down his arms, spreads out his prayer mat and prays. The very moment it is finished they all are back in business — killing each other.

Brian Jansz, Pannipitiya See The Reply to this Article

Equal Grounds

2009-02-25T03:08:00.000-08:00

Homosexuality
Are we handling the problem correctly

(this was my response to the discussion on Equal Grounds (NGO) conducting workshops in kathankuddy)

Human Sexuality involves

Sex Identity
Sex Role
Sexual Orientation

Sex Identity consists of:
1. Identity due to external body organs (like penis for males)
2. Social or Legal Identity - By giving a female name we identify person as female (Social) or in birth certificate it is recorded as male or female (legal)
3. Psychological where a person thinks he is male or female children develop this at the age of 3 years

Sex Role
Is How each sex behaves
it is learned from society, Boy learns from father brother and same sex friends
girl learns from mother, sister and same sex friends
Sex roles are different from society to society
it is changing with time
e.g.-Trouser was a basically male dress item but not any more

Sex Orientation
Once person matures he or she is physically and sexually attracted to opposite sex
(heterosexuals) , and some percentage of people are attracted same sex (Homosexuals)

There are lot of knowledge and theories in medicine (psychology) explaining how human sexuality develops starting from genetics to neuro hormonal influences to social influence

Homosexuality is a problem of Sex orientation
Transgender is problem of sex Identity
and the list goes

A male Homosexual is
Biologically male
He thinks he is a male (sex Identity)
He behaves like a male (sex Role)
He is attracted sexually to males (sex orientation)

A Lesbian is
Biologically female
She thinks she is female (Identity)
Behaves like a Female (sex Role)
She is sexually attracted to Females (orientation)

As mentioned above There are theories to explain why a person becomes Homosexual (any standard Psychology text books explains in detail)

Homosexuality was considered Psychological Disease ( Mental and Behavioural Disorders ICD9)
But WHO ICD10 (international Classification of Disesess 10) do not consider as disease still Homosexuality could be included as disease under other categories). Americans do not consider homosexuality as form of disease.

So we like or not there will be percentage of Muslim who are Homosexuals- Not due to fault of theirs but due to various affects during early child development.

What are we going to do?- we can close our eye and wait wishing they go to hell or formulate a good response and create a program to rehabilitate them. If not Organizations like EG will come to their rescue with or without hidden agenda and use them ageist us.

Equal ground web site Promoting Homosexuality

Flight Crashing into Inlad revenue buliding live

2009-02-22T17:52:00.000-08:00

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2009-02-20T20:39:00.001-08:00

LTTE-"the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself"

2009-02-18T21:21:00.000-08:00

Strategic Miscalculation by the LTTE

By Shanaka Jayasekara
Associate Lecturer,
Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT)
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

In recent history there is only one example of an absolute victory over a terrorist group, that too from South Asia. The Indian forces completely destroyed the Khalisntan terror groups in Operation Blue Star in 1984. Today the Khalistan terror groups are limited to a few diaspora supporters in Canada, US and UK.

Sri Lanka is now at the threshold of being the second example of an absolute victory over a terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The defeat of the LTTE is much a success of the Sri Lankan military as it is a grave miscalculation by the LTTE.

The beginnings of the collapse can be traced to changes in the LTTE strategy from 2004 onwards. In October 2004, a delegation of the LTTE, headed by Suppayya Pramu Tamilselvan, undertook a month long tour of Europe and held high level meeting with senior officials of Foreign Ministries in 10 European countries. The meetings were arranged by Norwegian diplomats in each of these countries.

The LTTE had, by this stage, undergone a paradigm shift in thinking. After many years of pursuing a military strategy, they had come to believe the next phase towards statehood was the progressive achievement of international acceptance. The LTTE believed direct diplomatic access in Europe had paved the way for "Proto-State" status in the corridors of Western powers.

The LTTE, for the first time, had shifted from power broking in Tamil Nadu politics as the means to pressure Sri Lanka, to building a more ambitious Western led diplomatic offensives against the Sri Lankan government. The LTTE were either misinformed by the influx of diaspora advisers or were under an illusion that access to Foreign Ministries equated to a foreign policy shift on Sri Lanka. It is likely that it was a combination of both, over ambitious diaspora advisers and LTTE delegations flattered by overseas experiences.

At the time, the LTTE considered primary obstacle to greater international acceptance was the UNP links (Ranil-Moragoda) with the liberal-conservative side of politics globally. The former LTTE ideologue, Late Anton Balasingham, accused the UNP of building a global safety net to the detriment of the LTTE.

At the Presidential elections in November 2005 the candidates of the two main political parties had taken very different positions on the path to a political solution to the conflict. The UNP candidate Ranil Wickremasignhe in his manifesto stated, he will pursue a political settlement based on the Oslo Communiqué to explore a federal solution. (pages 16 & 17 UNP Peoples manifesto). The candidate from the SLFP/JVP coalition, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his manifesto stated that the unitary structure of the State would be preserved. (Mahinda Chnthana English version page 32). The candidates had clearly indicated the type of devolution offered to the LTTE.

The UNP, the only national party to have an elected representative from the Jaffna district, traditionally on a two party preference, poled better among minority groups.

The LTTE had control of the Vanni region in the Northern Province and the capability to influence the Jaffna peninsula. The primary objective of the LTTE was to achieve diplomatic parity and the main obstacle was the Ranil-Moragoda connections. The LTTE had become over confident of its military capabilities and was ambitiously pursuing a strategy of diplomatic successes. Towards this end, the LTTE had already assassinated former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, thereby creating a dearth of internationally recognized personalities in the SLFP/JVP coalition. The LTTE were convinced that they would be favoured over a SLFP/JVP coalition Presidency by the international community and this provided a better chance of achieving a level of legitimacy for the organization.

Realizing that UNP candidate, Ranil Wickremasignhe, may win the Presidential elections if the minority Tamils voted, the LTTE imposed a complete boycott of the Presidential elections in the Northern Province. As reported in the EU Election Observer Mission Report (Nov 2005), the LTTE successfully enforced a total boycott of the elections in areas controlled by them.

The final results of the Presidential elections, Mahinda Rajapaksa received 4,887,152 votes and Ranil Wickremasignhe 4,706,366. The SLFP/JVP candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa won the Presidential elections by 180,786 votes. The registered voters in the Northern Province that were prevented from voting by the LTTE exceed 400,000 persons.

As Sun Tzu in his book, Art of War, writes "the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself". Indeed the LTTE being over confident of its military capabilities had grossly miscalculated strategy. It blatantly disregarded the capacity of the Sri Lankan state to mobilize a military campaign, and banked on diapora advice for a diplomatic offensive against Sri Lanka .

The LTTE began mounting an international diplomatic campaign and was gaining ground following the collapse of the Geneva peace talks, the cancellation of the Millennium Challenge grants, Senator Leahy amendment restricting military assistance, loss of seat at the Human Rights Committee and the EU GSP+ coming under scrutiny, demonstrated the international strengths of LTTE activists . At this crucial stage, Anton Balasingham, the only accurate representation of the LTTE outside Sri Lanka, died in December 2006. It was Anton Balasingham that acted as the channel of communication for the LTTE with foreign governments. To the LTTE, he was indispensable. In fact officials of the EU and several other governments travelled to London regularly to meet with Balasingham. The LTTE had no replacement for Balasingham and the ambitious diplomatic victories fast faded out.

The LTTE strategy had not factoured the arrival of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the United States, the elder brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Gotabaya, a retired Colonel in the Sri Lanka Army, actively participated in the battles of Vaddamarachchi in 1987. Gotabaya assumed office as Secretary of Defence and set about a strategy for the elimination of the LTTE, drawing on his own experience on the battlefield. The "Gotabaya Strategy" was three pronged the first priority was to enhance the manpower strength of the military. Between 2006-2008 the security forces expanded by 70,000 soldiers and the auxiliary civil defence force by 40,000 persons. The second element of the strategy was to destroy the weapons supply capability of the LTTE. In this regard the Navy played a pivotal role by destroying almost the entire shipping fleet of the LTTE. The Navy targeted these floating armories in international waters sinking seven large merchant vessels operated by the LTTE. The third element of the strategy was closer cooperation between the three armed forces. In the absence of a structured coordination process, Gotabaya used his personal relationships with senior commanders of the three services to ensure effective coordination at the operational level.

When the LTTE blocked the Mavil Aru reservoir in July 2006 preventing irrigation and water supply to rice fields downstream, the government was ready to use military force to evict the LTTE from the Eastern Province. The defection of LTTE Eastern leader Karuna had factionalized the LTTE in the Eastern Province. The security forces after one year of battle had totally liberated the Eastern Province with the final battle of Thoppigala in July 2007.

In February 2008, the security forces embarked on clearing the Northern Province, commencing with the battle of the Madhu Church. Security Forces pursued a strategy of capturing the coastline on the North Western and Eastern coast. This strategy of progressing along the coast prevented the LTTE from landing supplies, limited the operational space for the Sea Tigers and prevented and outflow of refugees to India. The Army had established several offensive divisions which spearheaded the forward thrust, while defensive divisions were tasked with consolidation newly liberated territory. The Army adopted innovative battlefield strategies that out maneuvered the LTTE defences. Special Forces teams actively operated in enemy territory disrupting the mobility of the LTTE.

In 10 months, the security forces had reached the northern most town of Pooneryn on the western flack and had come almost to Mullaitivu on the Eastern flank. The three main offensive divisions were supplemented with additional manpower strength by establishing three more semi-strength divisions. At the time of the Kilinochchi battle three full divisions and three semi-strength divisions (Task Force) were positioned for attack from six directions. The Gotabaya Strategy of crippling the weapons supplies had prevented the LTTE from replenishing ammunition stocks. The LTTE could not prevent the advance of the security forces due to a serious shortage of ammunition. The LTTE had expected to receive a consignment of weapons which they procured in July 2008 from Ukraine. However, only one trawler load managed to breach the naval cordon and reach the coast at Mullaitivu. This consignment helped the LTTE stall the military advance for a short period resisting the fall of Kilinochchi. This was when LTTE sympathetic defence writers suggested that Kilinochchi was the "battle of Stalingrad" and the LTTE elite fighting units will reverse the battlefield fortunes.. However, with six flanks closing in on the LTTE, the defences at Paranthan north of Kilinochchi collapsed (01 January 2009) and following a string of attacks by the security forces the LTTE was evicted from their prestigious stronghold of Kilinochchi (02 January 2009) considered the de-facto capital of the LTTE.

After the LTTE defences at Elephant Pass collapsed (08 January 2009) two additional divisions stationed in the Jaffna peninsula reached the battle ground on the mainland. At present, one division (55 Division) is moving south from the Jaffna peninsula, three full divisions (57 Division, 58 Division & 59 Division) and three semi-strength divisions (Task Force 2, 3, & 4) are positioned from the south and south-east. A four ring Naval cordon is positioned off the coast of Mullaitivu. The Security Forces entered Mullaitivu (25 January 2009), the last major town held by the LTTE. The LTTE had constructed several underground command and control facilities, fuel dumps and ordnance factories in areas surrounding Mullaitivu, all of which have now been captured by the Security Forces. The capture of the 67,000 litre diesel storage facility at Dharmapuram has caused an acute mobility problem for the LTTE and power shortages for communication equipment. The LTTE has retained the hardcore fighters for the final battle. However, the manpower strength of 4 Divisions and 3 semi-strength Divisions approaching on seven flanks is more than what the depleted LTTE can resist.

Military Position as at 29 January 2009

As the government continues to encircle the LTTE, the civilian population that has been displaced due to the conflict, which numbers around 200,000 persons, will need to be protected. Accorditing to Human Rights Watch Report titled "Trapped and Mistreated"December 2008, the LTTE is using the displaced population as a human shield and preventing them from leaving LTTE terrirtory. The Government has demarcated a Civilian Safe Zone and have air dropped leaflets informing the populations to move to this area. The government will need to take extra precuations to minimise civilian casualties, especially be cautious of deceptive LTTE intelligence that could result in an embarresing humanitarian debacle for the government.

Territory Controlled by the LTTE

The survival of the LTTE is completely dependent on the survival of its elusive leader Velupillai Prabakran. The LTTE is structured around an all powerful leader to whom all must take an oath of allegiance, and has no second-in-command. Therefore, the elimination or exile of Prabakaran will create a power vacuum among the key commanders all of whom are of equal rank in the organization. There is a strong likelihood that the elimination of Prabakaran could splinter and factionalize the LTTE with key commanders operating independently of each other. In the current situation the fate of Prabakaran can take three scenarios.

The contracting territory of the LTTE will make Prabakaran more vulnerable. In fact over the last few weeks the human and technical intelligence on LTTE movements has increased several fold. On 12 January 2009, a former bodyguard of Prabakaran was captured by the security forces and two underground hideouts of Prabakaran were targeted with bunker-buster bombs. Therefore, the first scenario is that improved intelligence may lead to a surgical air or ground strike killing Prabakaran in the next few weeks.

The second scenario is Prabakaran fleeing into exile. The Tamil diaspora has been actively attempting to facilitate Prabakaran's escape from Sri Lanka. It is possible that Prabakaran may attempt to seek refuge in a South East Asian country. It is suspected that LTTE weapons procurement chief Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) for whom several INTERPOL arrests warrants have been issued lives safely in South East Asia. Therefore, it is plausible that Prabakaran be transported clandestinely to a South East Asian destination. The Tamil diaspora is of the view that Prabakaran even in exile can provide inspirational leadership to the remaining elements of the movement, locally and overseas.

The third scenario is a mutiny within the LTTE in which Prabakaran is killed by one of his own commanders. It is possible that some commanders and combatants may contemplate a life after LTTE. Already, the security forces are making overtures to senior LTTE commanders to defect. The success story of Karuna as a head of political party and now a member of Parliament may be viewed as incentives for defection.

Whatever the fate of Prabakaran, the LTTE as a conventional force has been completely annihilated. The LTTE will no longer control territory and not have the capacity to launch conventional style battles again. It is possible that factional and splinter groups may reorganize themselves as guerrilla outfits attempting to engage in internecine attacks to destabilize the Northern Province.

The most likely scenario is that the international network of the LTTE which remains active and strong will continue the battle for Tamil Eelam in exile. They will follow the same path as the Khalistan groups which have an active diaspora movement but do not have a commensurate local military campaign.

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2009-02-14T03:19:00.000-08:00

How Khilafah was destroyed (Rajab Campaign, HT Australia) Lights Off Turn down the lights

2009-02-09T07:20:00.000-08:00

Video

Global Khalifa

2009-02-09T07:15:00.001-08:00

You tube video Global Khalifa

How Palestine became Isreal

2009-02-04T06:53:00.000-08:00

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=18248&printsafe=1

How Palestine Became Israel.

In the late 1800s a small, fanatic movement called “political Zionism” began in Europe.

Its goal was to create a Jewish state somewhere in the world. Its leaders settled on the ancient and long-inhabited land of Palestine for the location of this state.¹

Palestine's population at this time was approximately ninety-six percent non-Jewish (primarily Muslim and Christian).²

Over the coming decades Zionist leaders used various strategies to accomplish their goal of taking over Palestine:

Encouraging Jewish immigration to Palestine, partly through the invention of such deceptive slogans as "a land without a people for a people without a land," when, in fact, the land was already inhabited. Since the majority of Jews were not Zionists until after WWII, Zionists used an array of misleading strategies, including secret collaboration with the Nazis, to push immigration.³

Convincing a “Great Power” to back this process. By turn, Zionists approached the Ottomans, the British, and the U.S. to further their cause. While the Ottomans turned them down, the British (being promised that American Zionists would push the U.S. to enter World War I on the side of England) eventually acceded, as did the U.S. (due to concerns of politicians like Harry Truman that they would lose elections otherwise).⁴

Buying up the land (sometimes through subterfuges), proclaiming it Jewish for all eternity, and refusing to allow non-Jews to live or work on the purchased land. This was called "redeeming" the land and was financed by a variety of means, including by such wealthy banking families as the Rothschilds.⁵

Historic Palestine, the land now occupied by the state of Israel, was a multicultural society. The creation of Israel involved the expulsion of 750,000 men, women, and children from their homes.

4. Violence, if such financial dispossession should fail or prove too slow – as it did.⁶

In the 1930s, Jewish land ownership had increased from approximately 1% to just over 6% of the land, and violence had increased as well. With the emergence of several Zionist terrorist gangs (whose ranks included a number of future Prime Ministers of Israel), there was violent conflict. Numerous people of all ethnicities were killed – then, as now, the large majority of them Christian and Muslim Palestinians.⁷

The Catastrophe

This growing violence culminated in Israel's ruthless 1947-49 "War of Independence," in which at least 750,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were expelled from their homes – half of them even before any Arab armies joined the war. At every point in this war, Zionist forces outnumbered Arab forces. This massive humanitarian disaster is known among Palestinians and others as ‘The Catastrophe,’ al Nakba in Arabic.⁸

Zionist forces committed at least 33 massacres and destroyed 531 Palestinian villages and towns. Author Norman Finkelstein states: “According to the former director of the Israeli army archives, ‘in almost every village occupied by us during the War of Independence, acts were committed which are defined as war crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes’...Uri Milstein, the authoritative Israeli military historian of the 1948 war, goes one step further, maintaining that ‘every skirmish ended in a massacre of Arabs.’”⁹

Count Folke Bernadotte, a former vice chairman of the Swedish Red Cross who saved thousands of Jews during World War II and was appointed U.N. mediator in Palestine, said of the refugees: "It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes.”¹⁰

Injustice Continues

Over the 60 years since Israel’s founding on May 14, 1948, this profound injustice has continued. Palestinian refugees are the largest remaining refugee population in the world.

1.3 million Palestinians live in Israel as “Israeli citizens,” but despite their status as citizens, they are subject to systematic discrimination. Many are prohibited from living in the villages and homes from which they were violently expelled, and their property has been confiscated for Jewish-only uses. In Orwellian terminology, Israeli law designates these internal refugees as “present absentees.”¹¹

In 1967 Israel launched its third war and seized still more Palestinian (and other Arab) land. Israel also attacked a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Liberty, killing and injuring over 200 Americans, an event that remains largely covered-up today, despite efforts by an extraordinary array of high-level military officers and civilian officials to expose it.¹²

Israel militarily occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip – the final 22% of mandatory Palestine – and began building settlements for Jewish Israelis on land confiscated from Palestinian Muslims and Christians. It has demolished more than 18,000 Palestinian homes since 1967. In 2005 Israel returned Gazan land to its owners, but continues to control its borders, ports, and air space, turning Gaza into a large concentration camp, where 1.5 million people are held under what a UN Human Rights Commissioner described as “catastrophic” conditions.

Approximately 11,000 Palestinian men, women, and children are imprisoned in Israeli jails under physically abusive conditions (many have not even been charged with a crime) and the basic human rights of all Palestinians under Israeli rule are routinely violated. A number of prisoners tortured by Israel have been American citizens.¹³

American Involvement

American taxpayers give Israel approximately $7 million per day – far more than we give to all of sub-Saharan Africa put together. In its 60 years of existence, Israel, the size of New Jersey, has received more of our tax money than any other nation on earth. While most Americans are unaware of these facts (studies have shown that media report on Israeli deaths at rates up to 13 times greater than they report on Palestinian deaths) our governmental actions are making us responsible for a continuing catastrophe of historic proportions – and which is, in addition, creating extremely damaging enmity to the US itself. Israel partisans have played a significant role in promoting U.S. attacks on Iraq and Iran.¹⁴

As more and more U.S. citizens across the political spectrum and of all ethnicities become informed on this issue, they are demanding that their elected representatives change current policies. In recent history, the Berlin Wall has fallen, Northern Ireland has achieved peace, and South African apartheid has ended. Change is possible and justice attainable – when people become informed.¹⁵

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005.

“Confusion about the origins of the conflict all too often has obscured Americans’ understanding of its true dimension. It began as a conflict resulting from immigrants struggling to displace the local majority population. All else is derivative from this basic reality.” – Donald Neff, former Senior Editor, Time Magazine, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945.

“The story of 1948... is the simple but horrific story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine... Retrieving it from oblivion is incumbent upon us, not just as a greatly overdue act of historiographical reconstruction or professional duty; it is... the very first step we must take if we ever want reconciliation to have a chance, and peace to take root, in the torn lands of Palestine and Israel.”

– Ilan Pappe, Israeli Historian, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"

“The Palestinian Holocaust is unsurpassed in history. For a country to be occupied, emptied of its people, its physical and cultural landmarks obliterated, its destruction hailed as a miraculous act of God, all done according to a premeditated plan, meticulously executed, internationally supported, and still maintained today...”

– Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta, "Palestine Right Of Return, Sacred, Legal, and Possible"

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Gaza Articles summary

2009-01-30T16:41:00.001-08:00

Palestinian Rep at the UN:

'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Moses.

When he struck the rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath!'

He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water.

When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. An Israeli had stolen them.'

The Israeli representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Israelis weren't there then.'

The Palestinian representative smiled and said: '...And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.

Students from the London School of Economics has occupied a lecture theatre until the University meets its demands supporting the innocent civilians caught up in this crisis. - http://lseoccupatio n.blogspot. com/

UK Academics Stand up against the injustice - http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jan/ 16/gaza-israel- petitions

We are creating suicide bombers from the sons of the dead' - http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jan/ 17/refuseniks- israeli-dissent- military

Fresh Evidence of Israeli Phosphorus use in Gaza emerges - http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jan/ 17/israel- gaza-phosphorus- civilians

Israel and US offer differing reports on UN resolution abstention - http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2009/jan/ 13/israelandthep alestinians- us-olmert- bush

Phospherous Bomb attack on to a Gaza school

2009-01-26T19:48:00.000-08:00

Phospherous bombs

2009-01-24T21:43:00.000-08:00

News That you want see in CNN and BBC

2009-01-19T02:59:00.000-08:00

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

See thi 90 min video and educate yourself-

Human Shield

2009-01-15T21:12:00.000-08:00

Holocaust

2009-01-10T02:44:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

I am sure you all would have watched Hotel Rwanda, showing the genocide that unfolded. If you haven't then you would have probably read about it, either way you saw the cruel and bloody side of humanity. you probably wished you could have done something about it even in your own locality. The time has passed. However,

There is a genocide that's happening right in front of our eyes now! you can act now!! do your bit for humanity's sake! show solidarity for the innocent people who are dying.

If you have not been up to date with the massacre that's unfolding then read the articles by clicking the following links.

Fascinating essay, written by King Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/kabd_eng.html

UN member states lack courage to stop Israel By Thalif Deen at the united nations - http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090104/Columns/inside.html

Israel collaborator recruiter punked - http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10114.shtml

The other side of the Story! - Pictures - make sure you scroll till the end - http://palestinian.ning.com/forum/topics/the-other-side-of-the-story

So what have the Palestinians got to complaint about? - Mark Steel - http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mark-steel/mark-steel-so-what-have-the-palestinians-got-to-complain-about-1218135.html?startindex=40

UN: Humanitarian crisis worsening - http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/20091604547963392.html

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask - http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html

'Yes I know it sad what's happening, but what can I do??' if this is what your thinking, there is a lot you can do from your own locality. A few points on that, obviously you can do more!

Donate Now and continuous Commitment

There are many organisations who have active bases in Gaza, donate some money to make sure the hospitals have sufficient supplies. Make a continued commitment, make a monthly donation to ensure you help these families rebuild.

Protest

There has been many demonstrations all over the world, join one of them or start one and show that you will not stay silent witnessing these war crimes, crimes against humanity!

Create Awareness

Start talking to people, make them aware of the crisis that's unfolding. if you are good at writing then start writing to the newspapers, whether it be the school, local or the national one.

Boycott

I know this is going to be hard, but trust me there are alternatives, so start boycotting brands that directly support the militarisation of Israel and then use them to kill innocent human beings.

A list of brands can be found here, This is a very effective way of showing solidarity and sending a message to the western leaders about what people around the world think! http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-brands.html

Pray

pray for those children and families who have lost their loved ones. Pray to end this violence!

& get others involved

Pass this message and be active and ensure others do their bit as well.

2009-01-07T01:06:00.001-08:00

Open Letter to Barack Hussein Obama, President-elect of the United States of America
By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

January 1, 2009

Dear Mr. President,

I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian. But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well.

I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes.

That is because America and Americans have become the most hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and
subjugation.

It is the custom on New Year's day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.

1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated.

War is primitive, the cavemen's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.

2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.

3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you.

In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed.

What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.

4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently.

5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.

6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries.

Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.

7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. . Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions.

Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.

8) Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements.

9) Show respect for the United Nations.

I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake.

But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009th year of the Christian Era.

If you can do only a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.

May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
(Former Prime Minister of Malaysia)

If Barack obama was born in Sri Lanka

2008-12-25T02:18:00.000-08:00

The Shocking History of Human Medical Experimentation in the United States

2008-12-25T01:52:00.001-08:00

The Shocking History of Human Medical Experimentation in the United States
Beware: The following article contains shocking information that may be disturbing and unsuitable for some readers.

Human experimentation -- the practice of subjecting live human beings to science experiments that are sometimes cruel, painful, or deadly -- is a major part of U.S. history that you won't find in most history or science books. It is still continuing today. Here are a few examples, out of many more. They are not for the faint of heart:

1845: J. Marion Sims, later hailed as the "father of gynecology," performs medical experiments on enslaved African women without anesthesia. These women would usually die of infection soon after surgery. Because of his belief that the movement of newborns' skull bones during protracted births causes trismus, he uses a shoemaker's awl, a pointed tool shoemakers use to make holes in leather, to practice moving the skull bones of babies born to enslaved mothers.

1895: New York pediatrician Henry Heiman infects a 4-year-old boy whom he calls "an idiot with chronic epilepsy" with gonorrhea as part of a medical experiment.

1906: Harvard professor Dr. Richard Strong infects prisoners in the Philippines with cholera to study the disease; 13 of them die. He compensates survivors with cigars and cigarettes. During the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors cite this study to justify their own medical experiments.

1919: Researchers perform testicular transplant experiments on inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California, inserting the testicles of recently executed inmates and goats into the abdomens and scrotums of living prisoners.

1931: Cornelius Rhoads, a pathologist from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, purposely infects human test subjects in Puerto Rico with cancer cells; 13 of them die. Though Rhoads gives a written testimony stating he believes that all Puerto Ricans should be killed, he later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1932: The U.S. Public Health Service in Tuskegee, Ala. diagnoses 400 poor, black sharecroppers with syphilis but never tells them of their illness nor treats them; instead researchers use the men as human guinea pigs to follow the symptoms and progression of the disease. They all eventually die from syphilis and their families are never told that they could have been treated.

1939: In order to test his theory on the roots of stuttering, prominent speech pathologist Dr. Wendell Johnson performs his famous "Monster Experiment" on 22 children at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport. Dr. Johnson and his graduate students put the children under intense psychological pressure, causing them to switch from speaking normally to stuttering heavily.

1944: As part of the Manhattan Project that would eventually create the atomic bomb, researchers inject 4.7 micrograms of plutonium into soldiers at the Oak Ridge facility, 20 miles west of Knoxville, Tennessee.

1956: U.S. Army covert biological weapons researchers release mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever over Savannah, Georgia, and Avon Park, Florida, to test the insects' ability to carry disease. These experiments result in a high incidence of fevers, respiratory distress, stillbirths, encephalitis and typhoid among the two cities' residents, as well as several deaths.

1962: Researchers at the Laurel Children's Center in Maryland test experimental acne antibiotics on children and continue their tests even after half of the young test subjects develop severe liver damage because of the experimental medication .

1963: Chester M. Southam, who injected Ohio State Prison inmates with live cancer cells in 1952, performs the same procedure on 22 senile, African-American female patients at the Brooklyn Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in order to watch their immunological response. Southam tells the patients that they are receiving "some cells," but leaves out the fact that they are cancer cells. He claims he doesn't obtain informed consent from the patients because he does not want to frighten them by telling them what he is doing, but he nevertheless temporarily loses his medical license because of it. Ironically, he eventually becomes president of the American Cancer Society.

1987: Philadelphia resident Doris Jackson discovers that researchers have removed her son's brain post mortem for medical study. She later learns that the state of Pennsylvania has a doctrine of "implied consent," meaning that unless a patient signs a document stating otherwise, consent for organ removal is automatically implied.

1994: In a double-blind experiment at New York VA Hospital, researchers take 23 schizophrenic inpatients off of their medications for a median of 30 days. They then give 17 of them 0.5 mg/kg amphetamine and six a placebo as a control. According to the researchers, the purpose of the experiment was "to specifically evaluate metabolic effects in subjects with varying degrees of amphetamine-induced psychotic exacerbation".

1995: A 19-year-old University of Rochester student named Nicole Wan dies from participating in an MIT-sponsored experiment that tests airborne pollutant chemicals on humans. The experiment pays $150 to human test subjects.

2003: Two-year-old Michael Daddio of Delaware dies of congestive heart failure. After his death, his parents learn that doctors had performed an experimental surgery on him when he was five months old, rather than using the established surgical method of repairing his congenital heart defect that the parents had been told would be performed. The established procedure has a 90- to 95-percent success rate, whereas the inventor of the new procedure would later be fired from his hospital.

Sources:

Natural News March 6, 2006

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