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Spotlights from Imam Badi Ali, Jamaat al-Muslimeen, N.C.
Quetta, July 19: The Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan expressed its complete solidarity with the people of
Addressing the huge gathering at the JI sit-in at Quetta during the day, Syed Munawar Hasan said the future of Pakistan was linked with Baluchistan. He said that the rulers in Islamabad had fallen prey to the conspiracies of the US and other western colonial powers which could darken the future of the country.
He said the people of Baluchistan were being provoked through continuing military operations and maimed dead bodies of their missing people to fulfill the international agenda.
Syed Munawar Hasan counseled the rulers to learn a lesson from the developments in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries where the US agents in power had been swept away by the mass movement.
Syed Munawar Hasan said both the federal and the provincial governments were to be blamed for the present deprivations of Baluchistan. He urged President Zardari the Prime Minister Gilani to give up oppressive policies against the Baluchistan people to escape divine wrath. He said the JI had been continuously stopping the masses from taking to the path of revolt but if the rulers did not mend their ways, the situation could change.
He said the latest come back of the MQM was the sixth in recent times. He said Mian Nawaz Sharif and Altaf Husain had been providing crutches to the Zardari government for the last three years. The Grand Alliance, he said, in fact aimed at saving the Zardari government.
The solidarity with Baluchistan camp in Lahore was set up at Faisal Chowk and was attended by thousands of people. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha called upon the government to stop military operation in Baluchistan and accept the genuine demands of the people there.
In the federal capital, a demonstration was held in front of the Islamabad Press Club. Speaking on the occasion, JI Secretary General, Liaquat Baloch said that the whole nation was with the Baluchistan people and the rulers could not deprive the Baluchis of their rights for long. .
In Karachi, the solidarity camp was set up at Empress Market. Senior JI leader Prof. Ghafoor Ahmed and JI Karachi chief Muhammad Husain Mehnati addressed the gathering. In his address, Prof. Ghafoor Ahmed said that the federal government attitude towards the Baluchistan people was improper which was deepening a sense of deprivation among them.
In Peshawar, the Solidarity camp was set up at the Yadgar Chowk, Addressing the gathering at the spot, JI deputy chief Sirajul Haq said the people of Baluchistan were our brothers and we shared their grief and problems. He said if the government did not correct its behaviour towards the Baluchistan people, the entire nation would rise in their support.
The Solidarity camp in Hyderabad was set up at the local Press Club and was addressed by the JI Sindh chief Asadullau Bhutto. Speaking on the occasion, Asadullah Bhutto said the people of Sindh won't allow the rulers to exploit the people of Baluchistan any more.
Yemeni forces backed by armed tribesman launched an offensive to try to retake the southern provincial capital of Zinjibar yesterday, after months of fierce fighting with al-Qaeda militants who seized two cities and an army base in the area. Dozens have been killed and some 54,000 civilians have fled the flashpoint southern province of Abyan, which has descended into daily bloodshed as the army faces a rising challenge from militants the government says have ties to al Qaeda.
After weeks of pleas for support from a besieged military brigade near Abyan's capital Zinjibar, Yemen sent reinforcements aiming to flush militants out of the seaside city. Zinjibar sits down the coastline from the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait, where some 3 million barrels of oil pass daily.
The head of the Defence Ministry sent reinforcements including tanks, rocket launchers, and 500 extra soldiers," a local official said. "These forces began attacking (the city) backed by heavy tank shelling and rocket attacks from naval ships in order to liberate the 25th brigade just outside Zinjibar and under siege for over a month.
Residents told Reuters by telephone they saw army ambulances screeching through the city, filled with wounded people.
Yemen Times photo of two Al-Qaida fighters moving openly in the key port city of Aden.
Aden is still under government control.
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Written by Abdul Jabbar [London, England]
Excerpted: July 22, 2011
Member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Osama Haneef abducted on his way to his office In Islamabad, Pakistan
Whilst the whereabouts of the Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan, Imran Yousufzai, and Hizb member, Hayan Khan, remain unknown, the secret agencies have abducted yet another member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Osama Haneef, a graduate of NUST and a Telecom Engineer, whilst he was on his way to his office today, at nine am.
This is the third abduction in Islamabad so far, this month.
Engineer Aftab, who was abducted in Multan, has finally been "recovered" from the secret agencies and put behind bars by the police. It is regrettable that the courts have handed him back to the brutal police for "physical remand", instead of ordering his release.
As for Osama, a young father of a baby girl, he has had an outstanding academic record and is an outstanding and respected individual. He was one of the best students in the nationally reputed National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST). The abduction of Osama has proved that the government agencies have absolutely no regard for the law of the country. Yet, when it comes to crushing Muslims they claim the "sanctity" of Kufr law and justify the burning of the chaste Muslim girls of Jama-e-Hafsa with white phosphorus. Moreover, they present the argument that the students of Lal Masjid challenged the writ of the state, because they abducted corrupt people.
We ask the government doesn't its abduction of Hizb members by secret agencies violate this writ? Will the transgressors of this "sacred writ" be punished in the same way as the girls of Jama-e-Hafsa? And the same false excuse is being used for the current military operations in Kurram and Mohmand Agencies of the Tribal region. Millions of people have become homeless and tanks and fighter planes are bombing the tribal people. This brutal act was not even committed by India in Kashmir, during their operations against the so-called terrorists.
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Proposed Saudi Arabian anti-terror law would strangle peaceful protest
22 July 2011
The organization has obtained copies of the Draft Penal Law for Terrorism Crimes and Financing of Terrorism, which would also allow extended detention without charge or trial. Questioning the integrity of the King or the Crown Prince would carry a minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
The leak of the draft comes as ongoing peaceful protests across the Middle East and North Africa are being met with government repression.
"This draft law poses a serious threat to freedom of expression in the Kingdom in the name of preventing terrorism," said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Deputy Middle East and North Africa Director.
"If passed it would pave the way for even the smallest acts of peaceful dissent to be branded terrorism and risk massive human rights violations."
A Saudi Arabian government security committee reviewed the draft law in June but it is not known when or if it might be passed.
'Terrorist crimes'
The definition of "terrorist crimes" in the draft is so broad that it lends itself to wide interpretation and abuse, and would in effect criminalize legitimate dissent.
Under the draft law, terrorist crimes would include such actions as "endangering…national unity", "halting the basic law or some of its articles", or "harming the reputation of the state or its position".
Violations of the law would carry harsh punishments. The death penalty would be applied to cases of taking up arms against the state or for any "terrorist crimes" that result in death.
A number of other key provisions in the draft law run counter to Saudi Arabia's international legal obligations, including those under the UN Convention against Torture.
Detainees' rights
The draft law allows for suspects to be held in incommunicado detention for up to 120 days, or for longer periods – potentially indefinitely – if authorized by a specialized court.
Incommunicado detention facilitates torture or other ill-treatment and prolonged detention of that nature can itself amount to torture.
Detainees in incommunicado detention are also, by definition, denied access to a lawyer during their investigation.
The draft law allows for arbitrary detention: it denies detainees the right to be promptly brought before a judge, and to be released or tried within a reasonable time. It gives the specialized court the power to detain without charge or trial for up to a year, and to extend such detention indefinitely. Detainees are not given a means to challenge the lawfulness of their detention in front of a court.
It also fails to include a clear prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment.
The draft law gives wide-ranging powers to the Minister of the Interior "to take the necessary actions to protect internal security from any terrorist threat." It does not allow for judicial authorization or oversight of these actions.
"At a time when people throughout the Middle East and North Africa have been exercising their legitimate right to express dissent and call for change, Saudi Arabian authorities have been seeking to squash this right for its citizens," said Philip Luther.
"King Abdullah must reconsider this law and ensure that his people's legitimate right to freedom of expression is not curtailed in the name of fighting terrorism."
Syed Maudoodi: A testimony and a Comparison
By Dr. Malik Badri [Sudan]
American University of Beirut and Muslim Students:
Introduction:
In 1953, I was admitted to the American University of Beirut. At that time this university was still under the influence of extreme anti-Islamic sentiments of the era of the Crusades. In was in reality a Christian missionary institution, though not outwardly so. Most of the students were Muslims but three times a week they had to participate in religious discussions held in the university's church. A covert purpose of these discussions was to imbue the minds of students with the concepts of western modernism. Students who excused themselves from these programs were assigned difficult research topics in the library. Already burdened by regular course work, students usually chose the easy way out by going to the university church.
At the conclusion of each lecture or sermon, the speaker told the students to get up and join in a Christian religious song. Christian and students from western countries loved the loud music in the chapel and joined in the chorus. Muslim students would stand by quietly or pretended to join the crowd. I was 21 at the time and I had grown up in a westernized family living in British occupied Sudan. In spite of all that, as Muslim I felt the humiliation of these activities.
During the first two years of their studies, all the students were required to complete two courses in addition to the syllabus. The first required course was titled "Islamic Philosophy," This course , usually taught by Christians, had been compiled on the basis of the work of al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and early Muslim philosophers like Ikhwan-us-Safa who had apparently been influenced by Greek philosophers. Long drawn out and vague arguments went on about the claims of these philosophers when God was cognitive of the personal lives of humans , whether humans have freedom of choice or is everything pre-ordained? If God has be pre-ordained everything, how can justice be fulfilled? Is life after death meant for both body and soul or is it only for the soul or is there any collective life after death? Is the death of the human after life the ultimate end? Is the moon located on the third heaven or on the sixth? And should the prophet or the philosopher be considered a better human being?
For Muslim students coming from secondary schools in the rural areas of Arab countries, these issues created complexities and anarchic thoughts which had been culled from the ancient books of Muslim philosophers with great expertise. These were being presented as the refined Islamic thought of early Muslim philosophers. Some incidents from Muslim history had been cleverly included in this course which were meant to underline differences between Sunnis and Shi'as. Some of these were the conflicts between Usman, r.a., Ali, r.a. and Muawiyya, r.a., as well as the Battle of the Camel and the role of Ayesha, r.a in it.
The second course based on General Education was extensive, covering 12 credit hours, which covered the evolution of humanity from the birth of the first man to the appearance of the modern, western, man. Ancient and modern history, evolution, art, architecture, philosophy, religions and other social stories had been expertly woven into this course. Guest scholars were invited to join the university's professors in teaching this course, The students, already bewildered by the first course on "Islamic philosophy" were brought towards the assumption that western modernism is indeed the apogee of human civilization. In the fifties, this education was enough to convince the new generations affected by western colonialism. Such were the common experiences of students in that era of trial and tribulation.
The Great Favor done me by Syed Maudoodi.
Inspite of this limited educational background, I searched for authentic Islamic sources. Thus I read the entire Qur'an for the first time when I was a young man. Owing to this reading, I became capable of answering the groundless criticism of Islam by my professors in an uncompromising way, although in front of these seasoned Christian missionaries, my questions must have sounded naive. In this mental condition I soon joined a small group of Ikhwan al-Muslimoon which included students from various countries who felt stuck and helpless like me. Among them were Prof. [now] Ishaq Farhan who went on to be President of Zarqa University in Jordan, Dr. Yaseen Abeera of Eritrea [who has passed away], Dr. Nabeel Mahayni of Syria, Dr. Muhammad Qoja and Dr. Ali Shabaika of Sudan. We found the Ikhwan's literature impressive and spirited. One very impressive was Prof. Muhammad Qutb's Haul al-Islam [Islam and the Doubts of the Modern mind]. This book was effective for the new generations of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Prof. Qutb's fluent Arabic was magical,its touching arguments and relentless criticism of western modernism could not be resisted and it was seen as a unique book.
[To be continued] [Translation from Urdu by Kaukab Siddique.]
Book received from Sajjad Niazi in Pakistan
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