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Massive executions, tortures, and violence of peaceful inhabitants are traces of Russism of Russia of 20th and beginning of 21st century on Chechen land. In the photo are civilian men and women shot dead by Russian occupant-terroristic formations. Vakha, 32, was arrested by Russians at a check-point, where he was taken into a ditch and beaten. He was found in a hole by the side of the road by some children, whose parents brought him to the hospital.


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26.10.2001
Theme: Might is Right. Wither Truth and Honesty

Resubmitted because of typo errors : "This report cannot be independently verified" By Pepe Escobar ISLAMABAD - "This information cannot be independently verified." This is the new mantra on 24-hour news TV as the Slaughter Show of the world's most miserable by the world's most affluent reaches its third week - with very good ratings indeed. Shame on CNN and BBC. Shame on Donald "Duck!" Rumsfeld. Fact: Afghan civilians are dying by the hundreds, victims of American bombing. But for Christiane "The Vulture" Amanpour, Father John Simpson, those sparkling, bubbly, fizzy CNN talking heads, and those dour, somber, frozen-cucumber BBC talking heads, "this information cannot be independently verified". CNN and BBC are now indistinguishable from "Duck!" Rumsfeld. They behave like fundamentalists: with arrogance - in their sense of unquestionable superiority; with certainty - in their iron belief in a set of absolutely universal values; with prejudice - why would they waste their time trying to understand what is profoundly different from themselves? As BBC's Tim "Mr Righteous" Sebastian put it in referring to Pakistan, why should the West cut "shabby little deals with shabby little nations"? The Rasool family was having breakfast in Kabul when a bomb supposed To hit a military base a mile away struck their house, killing nine members of the extended family and injuring 12. Refugees crossing the Chaman border every day tell of dozens of civilian victims in Kandahar. "Duck!" Rumsfeld would say they are nothing but liars. Afghan civilians, for CNN and BBC, obviously do not qualify as independent. They are the only eyewitnesses of the carnage inside Afghanistan. But "independently verified" means verified by CNN or the BBC - in their arrogant, barely contained rage at not being there, inside Afghanistan. Every serious journalist now working in Pakistan is obviously on the verge of a nervous breakdown brought on by the impossibility of being in the theater of war. But it is hard enough trying to convince the Taliban that it is in their own interest to open the borders for the global print media - without having to cope with the "You're lying" shrieks of CNN and BBC. Al Jazeera - the Qatar-based TV station - happens to be inside Afghanistan and as close to the theater of war as possible - but that is too much for the Anglo-American media giants, and Way Too Much for America itself, which does not think twice about censoring "sensitive" Al Jazeera broadcasts. Mohamad Bourini is a reporter covering the war for Al Jazeera from Peshawar. He worked for three years in Afghanistan. He said he was "never censored" by his bosses in Doha, Qatar. The smart, high-IQ bombs of the Pentagon may not find Osama bin Laden and the evildoers of Al-Qaeda, but they are finding houses a mile away from their targets, UN mine-clearing staff, shepherds and their families, a whole village, a Red Cross compound, a school, a bus, the bazaars of Kandahar, a hospital in Herat. It is a sterling record - but of course this cannot be independently verified. One of these days the Pentagon may even "inadvertently" drop a bomb on Al Jazeera's office in Kabul - and remain mute about it. Or accuse any accusing voice of lying. As this is an invisible war, and perception is reality, the fact is That the Pentagon can say or not say anything it wants: its barrage of Disinformation cannot be independently verified. So the major public relations lesson is this: if you are rich and Powerful and Western, you can bomb whatever you like, the way you like, for as long as you like. And you disclose information - if any - about it the way you like. If you are poor and miserable and Islamic, you shut up and get bombed. Don't make any attempt to say anything about it, because your information cannot be independently verified. The Greatest Armada in the History of the Universe took four days to Secure "aerial supremacy" over a pair of ailing MiGs. Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, the Taliban supreme military commander, said that not a single leader or commander was killed in two weeks of American ballistic fury. He said the Taliban planes were "safe", and Osama bin Laden was "safe, sound and in good spirits". The Taliban says it downed an American helicopter: but the spare parts shown by the Taliban, says the Pentagon, were made by Bin Laden Enterprises. So T S Eliot was wrong. This is the way the world ends: not with a bang – but with zillions of whimpers which cannot be independently verified. ((c)2001 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact
content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
tnghaznavi, USA
E-mail:
tnghaznavi@yahoo.com


26.10.2001
Theme: ABSOLUTE MADNESS!

When will the common man come to understand that we are all brothers! Governments, run by the powerful and elite, create wars to foster their goals, whether they be economic or political.  The people, whether American, Russian, Afgani, Chechen, etc., are not in and of themselves hostile towards one another. Instead, we have more in common with one another than differences.  We are fathers, sons, caring people, who want nothing but to enjoy our families and life.  The politicians should be the ones' made to fight the battles face to face.  However, through deception and propaganda, they entice the common man to fight and die for "their" cause.  And as a result, innocent people die.  Those people who chose to harm innocents in the name of governments or behind the cloak of religion should be condemned to hell.  Absolutely nothing justifies the taking of an innocent life when that life is removed from the treachery of governments and misguided religious fanatics.
SPEAKINGWINDS, USA
E-mail:
conservativeguy@AOL.COM

26.10.2001
Theme: I Agree

May Almighty bestow upon all of us the blessing of the way of Sacred Jihad! Amin! Yes and the sooner the better! good ridance.

26.10.2001
Theme: Yet Another Crusade - Let us defend, O Muslims

Hipocrisy of Tony Blair’s Concern for his Citizens The British Prime Minister Tony Blair blew his horns when he proclaimed to the world that he is fully backing the United States in their crusade  against the Muslims of Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden. His reason was that Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network were responsible for the murder of civilians including Britishers on that fateful day.He futher said that even if there were no British victims he would take the same stand. The question that comes to my mind at this moment is that if he is so concerned about American civilian deaths in New York, why is he so unconcerned about his own nationals being slaughtered by Irish Republican terrorists. Take the case of  bombing of Omagh Supermarket,  where British civilians were killed and think of the many other ferocious attacks by these terrorists in that region. He even doesn’t like them being called Terrorists and prefers to call them Irish Republican Army. Why doesn’t this guy mobilize his battle ships and fighter bombers against these brutes who have been ruthlessly killing civilians for the past 30 years? Why is Blair so worried about the Americans and not concerned about his own citizens? You know why ? Because those terrorists in Ireland are not Muslims. But the Talaban and Osama are Muslims. This one action against the Muslims and the in-action against the Christian terrorists is a clear indication of the mission of the west which is the CRUSADE agaist ISLAM. O, Muslims, don’t be misguided by western statements that this war is not against the Muslims and Islam. They are out to kill another million Muslims. The Christian Crusaders did it in the past. Now it’s the beginning of yet another one. Unless we unite and take a firm stand we are doomed to face the same fate which will be a punishment for from Allah for our in-action   towards oppression. Allah commands in the Qur’an to fight oppression and made it an obligation on every Muslim. Our ancestors fought it bravely and were rewarded with victory. We lost our Khilafa when we deviated from the Qur’an. Dear brothers in Islam, never fear to express Islam as it is proclaimed in the Qur’an. Never preach apologetic Islam as most of our leaders and some ulamas have been doing to please America. Many a Muslims are seen as opportunists and have taken the side of the Devil. This is dangerous because Qur’an has many examples where such groups of people have been utterly destroyed by Allah. Allah and the Prophet (pbuh) hated cowards. Islam is not meant for cowards but for people like the brave fighters in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Our purpose in this world is to establish the rule of Allah. Nothing of His laws are antiquated or outdated. No laws in the Qur’an can ever be replaced. So unite and take a single stand by holding on to the rope of Allah. Never be divided in our understanding of the purpose. If everyone study and understand the Qur’an, there is no way we can be divided. May Allah help us at this moment of His trial. This is nothing but a test from the Almighty Allah. O, Allah make us realize this fact and give us the courage and wisdom and save us all from the torment of the fire of Hell for being negligent when our bothers and sisters are being brutally murdered while the nation of Afghanistan is completely surrounded by Islamic countries. O, Allah save us for letting our hipocritic leaders to join hands with the kuffar to totally destroy an Islamic nation whose only fault has been that they want to establish your laws in this land. O, Allah please wake our ummah up before these kuffar and hi! pocrits will destroy the foundations of monotheism and establish Kamal Ataturk type of secularism in the Muslim world. O, Allah give us the faith and courage to sacrifice our life in the defence against the on going CRUSADE of Muslims by the Americans. Aameen!
Your Brother in Islam

26.10.2001
Theme: AMERICAN UNREASONABLE ATTACK ON RIGHTFUL TALIBAN

ASSALAMALAIKUM.AS FAR AS WHAT NEWS ON TELEVISION,NET & NEWS PAPER GOES EVRY INDIVIDUAL KNOWS THAT THEER R NO DIRECT LINKS TO OSAMA BIN LADEN FOR TEHE WTC ATTACKS.YET WHEN AMERICA GOES FOR A COALLITION NO COUNTRY DENOUNCES & OPPOSES & CONDEMNS ITS ATTACKS BUT GARNERS SUPPORT,EVEN THOUGH IF ITS DIPLOMATIC KIND,BUT AGAINST THE CIVILIANS OF THAT COUNTRY AS WELL.AND WHO DOESNT KNOW THAT AMERICA WAS TEH 1ST FINANCIER FOR AFGHANISTAN AGAINST RUSSIA AT TEH TIME OF TEH COLD WAR WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD WAS TRYING TO EXPAND ITS INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES.WITH MILLIONS OF ATROCITIES ON MUSLIM ALL OVER TEH WORLD TEH WEST TRUNS A BLIND EYE ITS NOT A ISSUE BUT SIMILAR THINGS FOR INFIDELS IS A SIN & A SOCIAL CRIME.WHEN THE BABRI MASJID IN INDIA WAS DEMOLISHED BY INFIDELS,WHICH WAS AN ENTIRLEY A POLITICAL & DIPLOMATIC AFFAIR THE WEST TURNED A BLIND EYE,BUT WHEN THE TALIBAN DEMOLISHED TEH BAHAMIYAS THE ENTIRE WORLD COMMUNITY WAS THERE TO CTRICISE!!IS THIS WHAT U CALL A EQUAL STATUS TO ALL NATIONS.I ! BELIEVE THAT STATUS CAN BE ACHIEVED BY OYR OWN STANDARDS BY BEING ON THE RUGHT PATH OF ISLAM ,STARTING BY PRAYING 5 TIMES DAY & DEFINTELY HAVING COMPLETE TRUST IN TEH SUPERFIICAL & ALMIGHTY ALLAH.BUT WHAT CAN WE MUSLIMS DO AS OF NOW?WE HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY WHITE WASHED BY THE YAHUDIS TO SUCH A GR8 EXTENT TAHT THE POWER TO REASON HAS DISAPPERED.I ONCE READ IN AN MAERICAN ISLAMIC MAGAZINE HOW JEWS PLANNED TO REMOVE THE EXISTENCE OF ISLAM BY INFLUENCING YOUNG MUSLIMS TO TEH WESTERN WORLD & LURING THEM.BUT DOOMS DAY IS FAR & TILL THE TIME EVEN 1 MUSLIM TAKING TEH NAME OF ALLAH & RAEDING KALMA IS ALIVE TEH WORLD EXISTS.I WOULD LIEK TO END ON TEH NOTE THAT MAY ALLAH TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEMS TAHT HIS UMMAT IS FACING NOT ONLY IN CHECHNYA,PALESTINE & AFGHANISTAN..BUT ALL OVER TEH WORLD & TO MAKE MUSLIMS STRONGER PEOLPLE BY PUTTING IMAAN IN THEIR HERATS SO MUCH THAT THEY NEVER GO OFF COURSE & FOLLOW TEH SHARIYAT WITH FULL RESPECT.INSHALLAH ALLAH SHALL GIVE HIDAYAT TO ALL MUSLIM FELLOW ! BEINGS TO BE PUNCTUAL IN NAMAZ & ALL OTHER FARZ OF ISLAM.ALLAH HAFIZ.
ADIL, india
E-mail:
adil265@hotmail.com

25.10.2001
Theme: Which is more hideous Perpetration against innocents or making slander intended to perpetrate against innocents?

The whole Islamic world has sympathized with the American department and with the American people in denouncing the catastrophe which has befelled their country and shared them the feeling of grief and sorrow for the death toll from the criminal act which has been committed against innocents in a few moments. But what has the Islamic world been repaid by the American department in requital of its sincere sympathy which is originating from its religious creed and faithful resolution? The only repayment was that the American department has ignored the throngs of clues and suspicious cumulating and appearing successively around it, and in the depths of America, before which the American intelligence agencies have remained inadvertent, or rather dormant (if not involved therein) over the last years. They have surprisingly insisted to jump over such clues and suspicions in such an acrobatic move that is disgusting to reason and astounding to the rudimentary principles of investigat! ion all over the world, conjecturing that the crime should have been committed by the Islamic terrorism led by Usama Bin Laden! It is a chain of Zionist trickery which we thought that having tasted a lot of its hits, it is high time America endeavored to get rid of its confinement, but the whole world has become amazed at the fierceness of the Zionist confinement under whose fetters America has been succumbing. All political experts around the world watch and observe the Zionist plots which are contrived on the arena of events and to which the American haughtiness is exploited and dragged to carry out in amazing humility. The crime must be soon attached to Bin Laden who is settling in Afghanistan, whether true or not; and, consequently, barren war should be waged against those mountains, indentations, caves and valleys through Pakistan which if it refuses that, it will fall under the fires of an American warfare, and if it agrees, it will fall under the flames of an internal and Afghani warfare. In both cases its Islamic existence and its atomic reactors will be endangered. Subsequently, Islamic existence everywhere will also be endangered, especially in America in which rapid dispersion of Islam has made a great deal of fright enter into the heart of Zionist circles, consequently calling their thinking heads to hold a series of meetings with a view to looking for a secure way to stopping that tide! In addition the atmosphere required to directing fatal strikes to Palestinians and to their right of a homeland and of life has to be prepared. In order that all such objectives be attained, it was indispensable that that catastrophe occur in the same place in which it actually has done, and that that crime be committed and be attached to the Islamic existance whose assumed connection with terrorism has already been cooked on the fire of quiet arrangements. Alternatively, Zionism which has arranged all this course of events is in all cases nothing but a pure angel coming down from the heaven to wage wars, stir the flames of riots and produce catastrop! hes for putting an end to terrorism! Apart from plunging into accusations and into the indications of responsibilities, I wonder if the American department many inquire after the number of Jews who were absent from their works at the two giant buildings on the day of their collapse! And I think that such inquiry is rather easy to be made and it will never make this department enter into any labyrinth nor will put it in a critical situation before some groups. As for you, O men of this disunited and antagonistic Islamic world, I would like to remind you of what your Islamic doctrine promulgates – that it is impermissible to cooperate in any way, with oppressive tyrants, in striking or doing any harm to your Muslim brother. So, would you reserve the remainder of your dignity and self-respect by obeying the injunction of Allah?
S.R. Bouti

25.10.2001
Theme: What a Muslima is not

As a Muslim woman and an Afghan I am deeply offended by those women who parade as Muslims and offer their "expert" view on Islam while betraying themselves as complete Munafiks (Hypocrites) in their manner of dress and talk. Point in case, a certain Nasreen Gross who claims to be an "Afghan Muslim" woman, is being paraded all over Washington DC, the various press agencies, C-SPAN2, Fox Five, ectc.  and idiotic talk shows to ostensibly represent what an ideal Muslim woman should look like and behave. From her mini skirts, he rabsolute ignorance on Islam, her shameless views on Islam, her pride in marrying a Jew and her cheap and tawdry apperance it is obvious they dragged some aging prostitute out of Amsterdam and not any intellectual. We Muslim women are proud to wear our hijaab and stick to our conservative views. Why don't they bring in a real Muslima for her views on Islam and not some pathetic self deprecating shameless floozy who has the audacity to call her self a Muslim!
Bak Tanus, usa
E-mail:
baktanus@yahoo.com

25.10.2001
Theme: Robert Fisks latest is an excellent summary of the naked truth which the Allied Forces would love to deny

Robert Fisk: (
http://www.independent.co.uk/) As the refugees crowd the borders, we'll be blaming someone else 'It is palpably evident that they are not fleeing the Taliban but our bombs and missiles' 23 October 2001 Mullah Mohammed Omar's 10-year-old son is dead. He was, according to Afghan refugees fleeing Kandahar, taken to one of the city's broken hospitals by his father, the Taliban leader and "Emir of the Faithful", but the boy – apparently travelling in Omar's car when it was attacked by US aircraft – died of his wounds. No regrets, of course. Back in 1985, when American aircraft bombed Libya, they also destroyed the life of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's six-year-old adopted daughter. No regrets, of course. In 1992, when an Israeli pilot flying an American-made Apache helicopter fired an American-made missile into the car of Said Abbas Moussawi, head of the Hizbollah guerrilla army in Lebanon, the Israeli pilot also killed Moussawi's 10-year-old. No regrets, of course. Whether these children deserved their deaths, be sure that their fathers – in our eyes – were to blame. Live by the sword, die by the sword – and that goes for the kids too. Back in 1991, The Independent revealed that American Gulf War military targets included "secure" bunkers in which members of Saddam Hussein's family – or the families of his henchmen – were believed to be hiding. That's how the Americans managed to slaughter well over 300 people in an air raid shelter at Amariya in Baghdad. No Saddam kids, just civilians. Too bad. I wonder – now that President George Bush has given permission to the CIA to murder Osama bin Laden – if the same policy applies today? And so the casualties begin to mount. From Kandahar come ever more frightful stories of civilians buried under ruins, of children torn to pieces by American bombs. The Taliban – and here the Americans must breathe a collective sigh of relief – refuse to allow Western journalists to enter the country to verify these reports. So when a few television crews were able to find 18 fresh graves in the devastated village of Khorum outside Jalalabad just over a week ago, the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could ridicule the deaths as "ridiculous". But not, I suspect, for much longer. For if each of our wars for infinite justice and eternal freedom have a familiar trade mark – the military claptrap about air superiority, suppression of "command and control centres", radar capabilities – each has an awkward, highly exclusive little twist to it. In 1999, Nato claimed it was waging war to put Kosovo Albanian refugees back in their homes – even though most of the refugees were still in their homes when the war began. Our bombing of Serbia led directly to their dispossession. We bear a heavy burden of responsibility for their suffering – since the Serbs had told us what they would do if Nato opened hostilities – although the ultimate blame for their "ethnic cleansing'' clearly belonged to Slobodan Milosevic. But Nato's escape clause won't work this time round. For as the Afghan refugees turn up in their thousands at the border, it is palpably evident that they are fleeing not the Taliban but our bombs and missiles. The Taliban is not ethnically cleansing its own Pashtun population. The refugees speak vividly of their fear and terror as our bombs fall on their cities. These people are terrified of our "war on terror'', victims as innocent as those who were slaughtered in the World Trade Centre on 11 September. So where do we stop? It's an important question because, once the winter storms breeze down the mountain gorges of Afghanistan, a tragedy is likely to commence, one which no spin doctor or propaganda expert will be able to divert. We'll say that the thousands about to die or who are dying of starvation and cold are victims of the Taliban's intransigence or the Taliban's support for "terrorism" or the Taliban's propensity to steal humanitarian supplies. I have to admit – having been weaned on Israel's promiscuous use of the word "terror" every time a Palestinian throws a stone at his occupiers – that I find the very word "terrorism" increasingly mendacious as well as racist. Of course – despite the slavish use of the phrase "war on terrorism" on the BBC and CNN – it is nothing of the kind. We are not planning to attack Tamil Tiger suicide bombers or Eta killers or Real IRA murderers or Kurdish KDP guerrillas. Indeed, the US has spent a lot of time supporting terrorists in Latin America – the Contras spring to mind – not to mention the rabble we are now bombing in Afghanistan. This is, as I've said before, a war on America's enemies. Increasingly, as the date of 11 September acquires iconic status, we are retaliating for the crimes against humanity in New York and Washington. But we're not setting up any tribunals to try those responsible. The figure of 6,000 remains as awesome as it did in the days that followed. But what happens when the deaths for which we are responsible begin to approach the same figure? Refugees have been telling me on the Pakistan border that the death toll from our bombings in Afghanistan is in the dozens, perhaps the hundreds. Once the UN agencies give us details of the starving and the destitute who are dying in their flight from our bombs, it won't take long to reach 6,000. Will that be enough? Will 12,000 dead Afghans appease us, albeit that they have nothing to do with the Taliban or Osama bin Laden? Or 24,000? If we think we know what our aims are in this fraudulent "war against terror", have we any idea of proportion? Sure, we'll blame the Taliban for future tragedies. Just as we've been blaming them for drug exports from Afghanistan. Tony Blair was at the forefront of the Taliban-drug linkage. And all we have to do to believe this is to forget the UN Drug Control Programme's announcement last week that opium production in Afghanistan has fallen by 94 per cent, chiefly due to Mullah Omar's prohibition in Taliban-controlled areas. Most of Afghanistan's current opium production comes – you've guessed it – from our friends in the Northern Alliance. This particular war is, as Mr Bush said, going to be "unlike any other" – but not in quite the way he thinks. It's not going to lead to justice. Or freedom. It's likely to culminate in deaths that will diminish in magnitude even the crime against humanity on 11 September. Do we have any plans for this? Can we turn the falsity of a "war against terror" into a war against famine and starvation and death, even at the cost of postponing our day of reckoning with Osama bin Laden?
Gulshan Afridi, USA
E-mail:
gulshanafridi@yahoo.com

22.10.2001
Theme: TOUCHED THE MAIN SWITCH

DAY OF AMERICAN OPPREESORS ARE NUMBERED. MAY ALLAH CURSE AMERICA AND ALLIES. THEY WILL NEVER BE PEACEFUL. REMEMBER THEY HAVE TOUCHED THE MAIN SWITCH AFGANISTAN.
MAJMOOR, BANGALADESH
E-mail:
majmoo@hotmail.com 

22.10.2001
Theme: Tony Blairs Concern for his Citizens?

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair blew his horns when he proclaimed to the world that he is fully backing the United States in their crusade  against the Muslims of Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden. His reason was that Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network were responsible for the murder of civilians including Britishers on that fateful day.He futher said that even if there were no British victims he would take the same stand. The question that comes to my mind at this moment is that if he is so concerned about American civilian deaths in New York, why is he so unconcerned about his own nationals being slaughtered by Irish Republican terrorists. Take the case of  bombing of Omagh Supermarket,  where British civilians were killed and think of the many other ferocious attacks by these terrorists in that region. He even doesn’t like them being called Terrorists and prefers to call them Irish Republican Army. Why doesn’t this guy mobilize his battle ships and fighter bombers against these brutes who have been ruthlessly killing civilians for the past 30 years? Why is Blair so worried about the Americans and not concerned about his own citizens? You know why ? Because those terrorists in Ireland are not Muslims. But the Talaban and Osama are Muslims. This one action against the Muslims and the in-action against the Christian terrorists is a clear indication of the mission of the west which is the CRUSADE agaist ISLAM. O, Muslims, don’t be misguided by western statements that this war is not against the Muslims and Islam. They are out to kill another million Muslims. The Christian Crusaders did it in the past. Now it’s the beginning of yet another one. Unless we unite and take a firm stand we are doomed to face the same fate which will be a punishment for from Allah for our in-action   towards oppression. Allah commands in the Qur’an to fight oppression and made it an obligation on every Muslim. Our ancestors fought it bravely and were rewarded with victory. We lost our Khilafa when we deviated from the Qur’an. Dear brothers in Islam, never fear to express Islam as it is proclaimed in the Qur’an. Never preach apologetic Islam as most of our leaders and some ulamas have been doing so to please America. Many a Muslims are seen as opportunists and have taken the side of the Devil. This is dangerous because Qur’an has many examples where such groups of people have been utterly destroyed by Allah in the past. Allah and the Prophet (pbuh) hated cowards. Islam is not meant for cowards but for people like the brave fighters in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Our purpose in this world is to establish the rule of Allah in every land. Nothing of His laws are or will ever be antiquated or outdated. No laws in the Qur’an can ever be replaced. So unite and take a single stand by holding on to the rope of Allah. Never be divided. If everyone study and understand the Qur’an, there is no way we can be divided. May Allah help us at this moment of His trial. This is nothing but a test from the Almighty Allah. May Allah make us realize this fact and save us all from the torment of the fire. Aameen!
NY, Kuwait

22.10.2001
Theme: CIA authorized to kill bin Laden

By Bob Woodward THE WASHINGTON POST
<< Oct. 21 —  President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the founding of the agency in 1947, explicitly calling for the destruction of Osama bin Laden and his worldwide al Qaeda network, according to senior government officials. >> BUT DID CIA AUTHORIZE THE KILLING OF STARVING CHILDREN OF AFGHANISTAN. WE ARE ASHAMED OF OURSELVES CRIMINAL LEADERSHIP.
John, U.S.A.

22.10.2001
Theme: "The Taliban Are Well Liked"

A Japanese doctor's up-close observations contradict overseas reports
By MUTSUKO MURAKAMI
Thursday, October 18, 2001 http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/daily/foc/0,8773,180342,00.html
Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura works with leprosy patients and refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's a job that keeps him in touch with the raw reality of life in that troubled country. And he says that from what he has seen, the Taliban are being wrongly portrayed internationally. "There's something wrong with the media reports," he says. "This talk of the Taliban being vicious and disliked doesn't fit with reality." Nakamura says the fundamentalists have wide support from the population, particularly in rural areas. "Otherwise, how can they rule 95% of the country with only 15,000 soldiers?" Villagers around Nakamura's Peshawar base hospital and 10 clinics in both northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan were pleased to see peace established under Taliban rule, he says. The Pushtun people, who make up two-thirds of the Afghan population, can accept strict Muslim codes because they have lived by them all their lives, he says. Women are not deprived of education or jobs, as far as he can see. In fact, half the local doctors at his clinics are women. So why are the people of the capital, Kabul, reportedly hoping to see the Taliban overthrown? "The Taliban may act differently there," he told me when we met recently in Tokyo. "They're obliged to fix the corrupt urban life. The people most vocal in criticizing the Taliban are upper-class Afghans who have been deprived of their privileges." Nakamura's words reminded me of news footage I have seen several times since the attacks on New York and Washington. Shot by French journalists in Afghanistan, it showed Afghan women speaking critically of the Taliban. Significantly, they are dressed in shiny silk-like costumes, with large rings on their fingers. Nakamura, 55, says the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance are not the freedom fighters some journalists describe them as. Villagers are frightened of them because they are more violent and cruel than the Taliban, he says. They execute innocent people in horrific ways, though not in public as the Taliban do as a warning to others. Nakamura has seen foreigners visiting Afghanistan and returning home to criticize the Muslim culture -- from a Western perspective. These people may be "heroes or heroines in London or New York," he says, "but they contribute nothing to the welfare of Afghans." As for suggestions the Taliban have cut the country off from the world, Nakamura says the Afghans are perhaps better informed than the Japanese, as they listen daily to BBC radio in their own language. The doctor's greatest concern is the fate of millions of starving refugees in and around Afghanistan. Over one million of them are suffering from hunger, he says, while up to 40% are bordering on starvation. He thinks 10% could die during the winter. Nakamura and his staff stopped focusing exclusively on leprosy in the l980s as they had so many refugees to deal with, many suffering from malaria, diarrhea, infections and fever. Severe draught in recent years created hundreds of thousands of refugees. And now the American bombing and the fear of an invasion has brought more. His aid agency helps to dig wells not only to provide water but also for irrigation for farms, so that the refugees can return to their villages.
NY, Kuwait

21.10.2001
Theme: Muslims have the right to avenge the killing of our brothers in Afghanistan!

My Afghan brothers and sisters, You are not alone in your struggle. We are all with you. Insha Allah we will teach America a lesson to learn for their life time. They are cowards. They are no match to face our great fighters. They come only with a big force to fight a small number of you. Don't you worry we the Muslim Ummah will teach the Americans a lesson to learn for a life time. We will not let them live in peace after they have killed our children unjustly. This is our right. No one can blame us. We willl surely avenge this brutal murder of our brothers and sisters. So hold firm to your faith Help of Allah is near. We are all concerned about you. We seek Allah's help for your courage and your sincerity. Allah will surely punish and humiliate the Americans and their agents, especially Musharraf, who betrayed you for 379 million dollars. Musharraf is Kamal Ataturk of Pakistan, as he told once that he likes the policies of that criminal Ataturk. Pakistanis should now out him and all his stooges. It will happen soon. May punish those renponsible for the killing of such large numbers of Muslims in Afghanistan. Our leaders are silent and they will pay dearly for this very shortly. May Allah's curse be on them. May Allah give victory soon to Taliban, Osama and the people of Afghanistan, and send hosts from the heaven to punish the Americans and their allies.
Brother of Afghans, Land of Islamic Khilafa


21.10.2001
Theme: understanding

God be with all of you, i am writng this in the dead of the night. contemplating my future, my freedom,and my country. as a small child in the mountains of tennessee i was forced to attend a small "Fundamental Babtist " chruch.it was the bain of my existance. i hated waking up sunday morning and have to go listen to this old man tell me what i was supposed to do to get to "heaven".i dont suppose i ever really listened, but as a grew older i found that so many people i knew went to "church".so around the age of 14 i decided i wanted to understand God.i quickly found that in my country there are many forms of "christianity". one day i found an old book in my step-fathers closet on the cover it read Koran. so i took the book to my step-father and asked what it was. and suddenly i saw a clear answer. these days i read that "old book" quite often. wanting to understand why so many of my countrymen had to die. why my sister had to die <building 2 wtc>. im not sad that those people died. i am not sad that my sister died. <she made her Peace with God long ago> i have tried to write my feelings here before but i know Kavkaz censors will not take to my comments too well. so i ask that someone who reads this will please help me to understand. as i said im not sad over the deaths. i feel that almost 7,000 people is a harsh awakening for America, but a nessecary "kick" in some ways. and i feel that those who died were taken by God not by another man. i have seen "Ground Zero". it is a sight i will never forget. i just wish to understand ..to in some way relate to my "brothers" who took my sister. ive come to think of myself as a believer, follower even. but as happy as i am that my sister is finally home i still feel twinges of confusion over these events. May Almighty God help us ! all <><>~tag
chris, usa
E-mail:
badboy0238@hotmail.com

20.10.2001
Theme: Were the scenes of Arabs dancing taken out of context?

Put this URL through the URL translator: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html Put it through the URL translator on this page, then choose "German to English": http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr This link is good too: http://www.iap.org/rejoicing.htm In case the translator site doesn't work, here is the article translated: THE POWER OF THE TV-CPictures What is the truth? Of Lisa earthling Only few hours after the assassination attempts on New York and Washington showed the television stations world-wide pictures of Palestinians, who cheered the incomprehensible act. Now it, a part of these pictures means possibly placed, the remainder is old. AP
Rejoicing before the camera for a piece of cakes Hamburg - children are jubilant, a woman with black heading cloth and eyeglasses tear joyfully the levers highly, a man applaud and sign other passanten here: A road scene, filmed in Jerusalem on 11 September, on the day of the assassination attempts in New York and Washington. Pictures, which went around the world. Pictures, which shook many humans. Hunger after information and filmmaterial was unstillbar on this day - in such a way also these recordings of the TV senders transmitted, underlaid with the words, these Palestinians would again and again celebrate the impacts in the USA. But now, after the impacts, the Pool of broadcasting corporations Politmagazin " panorama " reports ten days the fact that there is possibly another truth about these pictures that the scene is perhaps even placed. The jubilant Palestinians of two press agencies were filmed: Reuters and Associated press (AP). The viewers got few seconds of the material in the passed week only to see. Altogether however about four minutes accumulated with the TV stations. The panorama talking document urine Annette Krueger Spitta regarded the entire tapes of the two agencies more exactly. " that is finally explosive material ". It determined discrepancies. AP
Children celebrate the assassination attempts before the camera - in the background indifferent passanten hurry past The finished cut message films in the passed week had the impression aroused, there celebrated many humans on the road. Participated no total accommodations, which showed the whole road, but only small groups of humans. On the supplied material however very probably were total ones - they showed clearly that only one handful of Palestinians was jubilant, many different passed simply indifferently. " the woman with the heading cloth said later, she was jubilant into the camera, because one promised its cake ", so Krueger Spitta. The Palaestinenserin explained, it was frightened, when it saw, in which context their rejoicing was shown. It abhors the acts in New York and Washington. What is the truth? Already in the passed week excited Mails swept to a similar case approximately around the globe. CNN used ten years old pictures, in order to occupy thereby the alleged rejoicing of the Palestinians. A Brazilian student, Marcio, had gepostet on Wednesday on the Website of Indymedia, an independent medium platform, a letter. It wrote, it had proofs for it that the pictures were to be seen on 11 September with the American news station, was falsified. The filmmaterial originates from the year 1991 and shows joy celebrations of Palestinian young people after the Iraqi invasion in Kuweit. One of its lecturers compared videoaufzeichnungen from at that time and it with the current reports. Result: Both pictures are identical. CNN makes tendency against the Palestinians. Only two days later, on Friday, Marcio ruderte back. The information was only an assumption, the university teacher cannot not prove its suspicion. But it was already too late there. To today Mails with the incorrect information by the network, until today many editorships, receive also we, again and again anxious notes to spirit from readers. CNN international disclaimed the reproach opposite MIRROR ON-LINE ONE violently. Also Reuters TV, which supplied the material at CNN, hurried, to weaken the reproaches. Even on the Website of Indymedia there was doubt about the reproach. A reader explained, that could not come pictures at all from the year 1991, because on it a Ford from series from 1995 on was to be seen.
Samata Ullah, UK
E-mail:
samataullah@aol.com


20.10.2001
Theme: my heart cries for palestine

BIS MILLAH HIRRAHMAAN NIRRAHEEM assalamalaikum to everyone of u! dear friends i'm really glad to see all of u participating in the struggle of our people around the world!it's very disgusting to see our so called arab leaders remain so calm when our people are driven out of their homes,tortured and slaughtered openly be it in bosnia,albania,chechnya,kashmir, kosovo and palestine.i pray to THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH[SWT] to open their eyes and widen their hearts so that the arab nations strongly condemn the attack on muslims and our holy places and also threaten to use force against the oppressers! please ask everyone to join us in the fight against the common enemy.our success is eminent only if INSHALLAH every muslim prays all five times and make dua for the victory of muslims in this holy mission of jihad! JAZA KALLAHO KHAIRAN, sadia masroor.
sadia masroor, india
E-mail:
sadia_edge@yahoo.com

20.10.2001
Theme: What happen to the world

Did anybody stop and wondered what happened to the world today.  We are experiences multitude of human tragedies either in form of low level conflicts or terrorist attacks.  Instead of understanding, we see fanatics of all kind trying to kill as many people as possible for purpose just to make a statement. Just to show how good they are in the eyes of the world.  The Middle Eastern terrorism has nothing to do with religion.  I believe that true christianity and true muslim religion teaches peace and harmony, and understanding.   They teach love of God.  What does terrorism achieve?  I believe it achieve more destruction and mainly more hate.  So what is the gain?  Is one better than the other?  People need to stop for moment and ask themselves a question.  What is the gain?  Fire cannot be estiquished with fire.  In the war there are no winners.  All sides will loose something.  Is this madness really worth it.
Peter Dvorak, USA
E-mail:
rexrox@kc.rr.com

19.10.2001
Theme: Afghaniwomen is a hypocrite

My name is not afghaniwoman, it's my nickname on the Net. Unlike you, I was born there and there is not need to teach me Islam. Don't tell me that you are writing your pathetic propaganda from Afghanistan.. The psychotic young men, members of such extremist organisations as Al-Muhajiroun and 'Supporters of Sharia', shouting fascist obscenities outside the Pakistan  Embassy in the UK or USA, etc. , are enjoying the fruits of Western freedom of expression.< Psychotic? When they protest against the slaughtering of innocents they are psychotic? What a hypocrite! If you think freedom of expression is not an Islamic trait, then why do you claim to be a Muslim? >Their declared aim is to establish 'Islamic states'. But in any self-proclaimed Islamic state, they would be ruthlessly silenced.< Fallacious logic, you are saying that they will want to protest against the very thing they created (i.e. an Islamic state) which is stupid logic, you really are not Muslim, are you? >This is not the first time concerned Muslims have raised such questions (like myself in my previous letter). But we have been forced to ignore them for two main reasons. In a world where it is always open season for prejudice and discrimination on Muslims and Islam, our main task has seemed to be to defend Islam. The other reason concerns Ummah, the global Muslim community. We have to highlight, the! argument goes, the despair and suffering of the Muslim people - their poverty and plight as refugees and the horror of war-torn societies. So, all good and concerned Muslims are implicated in the unchecked rise of fanaticism in Muslim societies.< It is not Islam which has put us in this downtrodden state, it is our secular rulers. >We have given free reign to fascism within our midst, and failed to denounce fanatics who distort the most sacred concepts of our faith.< What is so fanatic about Muslims wanting to re-establish the Shariah? >We have been silent as they proclaim themselves martyrs, mangling beyond recognition the most sacred meaning of what it is to be a Muslim.< So the Mujshideen in Chechnya who fight against Russian oppression are not martyr's? >But the events of 11 September have freed us from any further obligation to this misapplied conscience. The insistence by the Muslim Council of Britain that the Islamic cause is best served by the Taliban handing over Osama bin Laden, is indicative of this shift. The devotion with which so many Muslims, young and old, in Europe and America, are organising meetings and conferences to discuss how to unleash the best intentions, the essential values of Islam, from the rhetoric of jihad, hatred and insularity, is another.< Fool, you are a hypocrite, Jihad is self-defence, so why are you saying self-defence is bad? Are you a Muslim? (Of course, you, living in Pakistan, are not). But we have to go further. Muslims are in the best position to take the lead in the common cause against terrorism. That's right, we must fight against *terrorism*, therefore we fight against this: 
http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/samataullah/western.htm
and this: 
http://www.angelfire.com/ab5/samataullah/western2.htm
Incidentally, where is the OVERWHELMING proof that the Taliban or Al-Qaeda did it? http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=98195 
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=96697
>The terrorists are among us, the Muslim communities of the world. They are part of our body politic. And it is our duty to stand up against them.< Can you name we one "terrorist" group which is not fighting for a just cause? Why don't you complain about the Western terrorism, O Hypocrite, O Munafiqh. >We must also reclaim a more balanced view of Islamic terms like fatwa. A fatwa is simply a legal opinion based on religious reasoning. It is the opinion of one individual and is binding on only the person who gives it. But, since the Rushdie affair, it has come to be associated in the West solely with a death sentence. Now that Islam has become beset with the fatwa culture, it becomes necessary for moderate voices to issue their own fatwas.< So we Muslims think a Fatwa is only a death sentence? Which group of people are always on TV saying that a Fatwa is just a decree? You are a hypocrite.
Samata Ullah, UK
E-mail:
samataullah@aol.com


19.10.2001
Theme: a critic to so called "afghanwoman"

Dear afghanwoman i see you those days how you are trying to look very smart and exposed that you are a real muslima but deep in my soul i realized that you are just a true munafeeq qoz the signes of munafeeq are told by the Prohpet pbuh. the reason why i say this is that if you loved you ppl or afghansitan you would have lived there or at least you should have supported your own people there if not then your family living there if you already have none! 2nd i realized that you are trying to conviced us that islam should change as christianity , you want to see reforms in islam i'll tell you that Quran will never change not coz you or me or Bush or who ever might be but because Allah said that and 3rd i realized that you want everyone to come with his own fatawa!!!if this is possible then we muslims would never have IJMMA which we are told to follow the ulemaa and ijjma. like Allah said in the Quran:" for things that you dont know go ask the alims" i would like to send a speacila shout out to all muslims who knows their DEEN DONT COMPROMISE ISLAM, Islam guides from darkness to light. I ask Allah SWT to deastroy USA and their supporters may Allah punish them in this world for their terrorist attack on afghanistan, Iraq , palestine, bosnia 1993 -7000 muslims were slaughtered in the eyes of UN! and many things which i have forgotten but not Allah. Ameen YA RABBI
Abu Talha, FYROM albanian

19.10.2001
Theme: Abkhazia

I want to discuss problem of Abkhazia in consideration of Caucasian problams. At first I want remark that some Caucasians in Caucasia and mainly outside Caucasia unfortunatly think that in Abkhazia was agression of georgia against Abkhazian people and there culture ,I want to note that it is wrong to consider caucasian peoples particulary Georgians and Abkhazians as enemies ,no one can say that Georgian ethnos is against Abkhazian ethnos because Georgians and Abkhazians belong to one nation and there cultures are parts of one culture and full each other .    To make Caucasians enemies of each other is in interests of enemy of Caucasia -Russian impery.Many Abkhazian were expiled and killed by Russia two centuries ago,many Abkhazian relative people died from Russsian policy,now Chechens are in war with Russia and Russia makes genocide of Chechens.    Caucasia suffer from Russian policy.I think Abkhaziqa is occuped by Russia as other parts of Caucasia and all Caucasians and firstly Abkhazians must free Abkhazia from Russian occupants.Unfortunatly despite all bad things which were done by Russia against Abkhazia and whole Caucasia Abkhazian government is suporter of Russian policy.   I hope that reunion Abkhazia and Georgia will be start of Caucasian union,only Tese way is way of peace and freedom for Caucasia. 
P.S. I will be glad if someone writes me to discuss problems of Caucasia.My email is dalak7@yahoo.com
shamil, Georgia
E-mail:
dalak7@yahoo.com

19.10.2001
Theme: Why is the JTF allowed to spew hate on US TV

In the New York, USA on the Queens Public TV Channel, a venomous, hateful and spiteful half an hour segment by an organization called the the Jewish Task Force (JTF.org) is allowed to run each day in late evenings for approximately half and hour. In that time frame one or two individuals disguised with wigs, large sunglasses and hats, proceed to pile hate and the most profane and outrageous insults on Muslims, African Americans, Arabs and Gentile Jews. African Americans and Arabs are often mocked as 'Monkeys', 'Camel Dung', 'Filthy Animals' and right wing Jews are urged to actively seek out and eliminate Gentiles. I have never seen such an orgy of such vile spewing from any organization let alone an individual and that too telecast from a US Public Television. If I remember correctly the US incarcerated a certain blind Egyptian cleric on the charge of instigating civil violence, yet this group is given a free hand at not only expressing their hatred for various ethnic and reli! gious groups but indeed to openly encourage civil strife and racial violence. How can this be allowed is beyond any sane person's comprehension. It is such instances of overt preferential treatment of mad cap racist lunatics such as the JTF group which makes one wonder at the claim of the US government that its justice is even handed and impartial. I do feel that the beauty of the US is that all ethnicities, races and creeds can co-exist in peace and harmony and such groups such as the Jewish Task Force  present a clear danger to the democracy that America represents.
TNGhaznavi, USA
E-mail:
tnghaznavi@yahoo.com

19.10.2001
Theme: Speech of HP CEO

Carly Fiorina, the CEO of Hewlett Packard, recently gave a speech defining the relevance of leadership in today's world.  Below is quoted from the final part of her speech.  For the full speech (well worth reading), please go to: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/minnesota01.htm "As business leaders, as we are faced with questions of life and death >rather than how much our stock is worth, the significance of our >business contribution to the world may be increased. And that is a good >thing. > >I'll end by telling a story. > >There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world. > >It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from >ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within >its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds >and ethnic origins. > >One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, >the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made >up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed >a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of >this civilization's commerce extended from Latin America to China, and >everywhere in between. > >And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its >architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians >created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of >computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the >human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into >the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and >exploration. > >Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance >and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too >steeped in fear to think of such things. > >When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on >them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge >from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and >passed it on to others. > >While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the >civilization I'm talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 >to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, >Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the >Magnificent. > >Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other >civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The >technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab >mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions >of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of >tolerance and civic leadership. > >And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership >based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed >the full capabilities of a very diverse population-that included >Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions. > >This kind of enlightened leadership - leadership that nurtured culture, >sustainability, diversity and courage - led to 800 years of invention >and prosperity. > >In dark and serious times like this, we must affirm our commitment to >building societies and institutions that aspire to this kind of >greatness. More than ever, we must focus on the importance of >leadership- bold acts of leadership and decidedly personal acts of >leadership."
human, UK
E-mail:
human@sisna.com

19.10.2001
Theme: Side of the STRONG

In the Name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful. Dear Alex, highlights from CNN are both easy to remember and quote, but can be very deceiving if you don’t sit down and study the case in its dept. If I asked you to give me the full details of the events in 2 of the country’s you mentioned, you would probably have to give up your army job and become an investigator&#61514;.  The attacks on the WTC are without any doubt horrendous acts, and your anger towards the people who did this is justified. On the other hand you’re failing to feel the misery and anger of the Muslim world caused by your Government. Let us ask why? The answer is simple it wasn’t done to “U”. Yes the U.S helped Muslims in Bosnia, not because they wanted to, but to keep their hypocrite face to the world. Let me remind u that it took several years before they did anything at all. Do you have an answer to why or what they were waiting for?? On the other hand Iraq was attacked within weeks!! Do you see a contrad! iction here? NO=Brainwashed. Let me explain why: Iraq has the second-largest oil reserves in the world, 11% of the world's oil. It had nothing to do with human rights or protecting the Kuwaiti people, it was simply about money. So not U, nor your hypocrite government have the right to tell tales on behalf of people/countries, let them speak for them self’s. Why don’t you go to Iraq and ask the people there about the sanctions. Why don’t you travel to Israel and read the writing on the bombs that are dropped over Palestinian people: Made in U.S.  Why don’t you travel to Afghanistan and sit beside the children in Kabul, screaming for help in complete darkness.  The only light they see now days is from the bombs dropped by your government. Bravo America, Bravo. Infinite Justice my as*!
Tahir, Tahir,Norway
E-mail:
none@yahoo.com

18.10.2001
Theme: How did this war start?

I once remember seeing an article somewhere showing that FSB agents were caught (prior to the 2nd Russian-Chechen war) attaching bombs to the bottom of buildings. This proved that it was the Russians who initiated this war, my question is, where can I find it again, sources etc? I want to know the details because I really can't remember where I saw it and I want some sources, can anyone help?
Samata, UK
E-mail:
samataullah@aol.com


18.10.2001
Theme: Depleted Uranium Weapons

Good people of Kavkaz, 
If you are aware of media sources that are  available to reach the people of Afghanistan, please have them warn the people that they shouldn't handle the bomb fragments.  I saw footage of the bombing attacks where many people were holding and examining the shreds of weapons distributed in the rubble.  I read today where the US was shipping depleted-uranium tipped weapons to the Middle East and Southeast Asia.  The DU weapons fragments and dust from the explosions can be highly radioactive and toxic.  Many men, women and children in the Balkans and Iraq have died as a result of exposure to DU and others have developed cancers and other serious illnesses. I have also heard of cases where children who played with the fragments and adults who kept them as souvenirs ended up dying as a result.  There has also been an increase in the number of birth defects among the children born to people who were exposed to DU. My heart goes out to all who are suffering from the ravages of war.  ! May God keep us all safe from harm.
jcb, USA

18.10.2001
Theme: To so-called Kam from Afghanistan

My name is not afghaniwoman, it's my nickname on the Net. Unlike you, I was born there and there is not need to teach me Islam. Don't tell me that you are writing your pathetic propaganda from Afghanistan.. The psychotic young men, members of such extremist organisations as Al-Muhajiroun and 'Supporters of Sharia', shouting fascist obscenities outside the Pakistan  Embassy in the UK or USA, etc. , are enjoying the fruits of Western freedom of expression. Their declared aim is to establish 'Islamic states'. But in any self-proclaimed Islamic state, they would be ruthlessly silenced. This is not the first time concerned Muslims have raised such questions (like myself in my previous letter). But we have been forced to ignore them for two main reasons. In a world where it is always open season for prejudice and discrimination on Muslims and Islam, our main task has seemed to be to defend Islam. The other reason concerns Ummah, the global Muslim community. We have to highlight, the! argument goes, the despair and suffering of the Muslim people - their poverty and plight as refugees and the horror of war-torn societies. So, all good and concerned Muslims are implicated in the unchecked rise of fanaticism in Muslim societies. We have given free reign to fascism within our midst, and failed to denounce fanatics who distort the most sacred concepts of our faith. We have been silent as they proclaim themselves martyrs, mangling beyond recognition the most sacred meaning of what it is to be a Muslim. But the events of 11 September have freed us from any further obligation to this misapplied conscience. The insistence by the Muslim Council of Britain that the Islamic cause is best served by the Taliban handing over Osama bin Laden, is indicative of this shift. The devotion with which so many Muslims, young and old, in Europe and America, are organising meetings and conferences to discuss how to unleash the best intentions, the essential values of Islam, from the rhetoric of jihad, hatred and insularity, is another. (Of course, you, living in Pakistan, are not). But we have to go further. Muslims are in the best position to take the lead in the common cause against terrorism. The terrorists are among us, the Muslim communities of the world. They are part of our body politic. And it is our duty to stand up against them. We must also reclaim a more balanced view of Islamic terms like fatwa. A fatwa is simply a legal opinion based on religious reasoning. It is the opinion of one individual and is binding on only the person who gives it. But, since the Rushdie affair, it has come to be associated in the West solely with a death sentence. Now that Islam has become beset with the fatwa culture, it becomes necessary for moderate voices to issue their own fatwas.
afghaniwoman, Switzerland
E-mail:
afghaniwoman@yahoo.de

18.10.2001
Theme: Jesus The God? - Lena

Hello Lena, I am a revert to Islam and I have read Bible and Quran. Your comment about Jesus(Peace be upon him) and Allah(SWT) are from the rhetoric which I use to hear in Church sermons and christian community. I don't much time to go in detail but I am well aware of all the tacticts use by church and how the christian's twist the reality which is right in the Bible itself. Let comment on this verse cited by you "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder. And His name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God(Emmanual), the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Fact: Jesus was never called Emmannual or God by his desciples or followers. Second: Jesus clearly says "My desciple is not greater then me and my Father is greater then I..." Third: "Son does not bear the inquity of Father and Father does not bear the inquity of the son..." The above verse is enough to throw apart the sin concept adopted by Christians. I can't understand what more clear words do you guys need, Jesus himself is saying that everyone is responsible for his/her own sins. Lena here is a challange for you: Just show me one unequivocal sentance in the Bible where Jesus said " I am God worship me". Trust me I will get baptized again the very second. Few more things that Jesus said: "I have all the message to say unto you (he is addressing his desciples) but you're not fit to take my message so when the spirit of truth (truth was converted for Muhammed and his name in actual hebrew scriptures is present till this day by Muhammedim) follow him, he is going to glorify  me. The only religion which glorify Jesus after him is Islam. You should read Koran and find out yourself, also it will make you more intelligent when you're discussing Islam. Don't repeat the rhetoric of Church and Ignorant western media. Now comming to your comment about the Lord of the worlds Allah(SWT) "Even Allah does not claim to forgive sin" if you have read Koran and understood its message you wouldn't have made this very Ignorant remark (I am sorry to say this but I know your psychology and ignorance, which used to mine) In Koran Allah(SWT) have repeatedly saying many many times that he is the most merciful and forgiving and even says Human tends to mistake repeatedly but if he/she asks forgiveness he will forgive him/her easily!!!! .... I can go on and on but you read it you will know it and don't caught speaking Ignorance again, its a dangerous thing. Let me close you by this verse from Bible "On that ye(priests) will come to me and will say O Lord! O Lord! didn't we cast out the devils, treated blind, deaf, lepards and sick in your name..." upon this Jesus(PBUH) will say get out of my sight I don't even know you ..... Let me explain you the above verse " On that day" here Jesus(PBUH) is talking about the day of judgement and he is clearly saying to the pops, christian priests to get lost even though they are pleading that they did good works in his name.... why Jesus is angry? because you Christians have misunderstood his message and Idolized him which is completely against his teachings.... Also one last thing Islam never preached Hate nor its followers practiced (I am sure you will bring up the current situation, for that you have answers written by the readers in clear proofs) but its always the trumpet of west to demonize Islam. Do you know Islam ruled more than Half of the known world upto 1000 years with peace and prosperity for all the religions under its empire without satelites and nuclear bombs. see what's happening with the world every where is bloodshed whithin 90 years of world power!!! you pick which is the best... History tells you whether you deny or accept it, the fact is fact...... You want to know more about Islamic history go to www.pbs.org and order "Islam Empire of Faith" its a documentry by Ben Kingsly.... if you're afraid to read Koran or atleast watch the above then I would say you're afraid that you will loose your shaky faith.
George, Virgin Islands
E-mail:
george@home.com

18.10.2001
Theme: today's Phirown will fall

american tolerance: 
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By Allah u will never live in peace till the people of palistine and the oppressed nation which u have raped and destroyed return to peace.
uk

18.10.2001
Theme: Muhammad(Pbuh) in the hebrew bible

Muhammad(peace and blessing upon him) as mentioned in the hebrew bible in the Song of Solomon 5:16. According to Christians it prophesied the advent of last prophet and he was Jesus(peace be upon him according to bible) but let the bible speaks in its real language first! Here it goes HIKKO MAMITTAKIM WE KULLO MUHUMMUDIM ZEHDOODEE WA ZEZEHRAEE BAYNA JERUSALEM..translation: His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is Muhammad. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughter of Jerusalem . Song of Solomon 5:16. The problem with english and non-hebrew bibles is they translating human name into another language, like Muhammad into Altogether lovely. For more info about text in hebrew go here http://jews-for-allah.org/Muhammad-and-Judaism/the-Jewish-Bible /Muhammad-in-Songs.htm other prophesy about Muhammad(saw) in the bible can be seen in this verse "He said: 'The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.' (From t! he NIVBible, Deuteronomy 33:2)" Sinai is the place where Moses(pbuh) got his revelation from God, Seir was in the palestine where Jesus(pbuh) got his revelation from God and the last prophet is mentioned to be in mount Paran( Meccan Mountain) here the maps of paran http://www.answering-islam.com/paran.htm It was well known by muslims that jewish tribe of bani an-nadhir was waiting their last prophet in that region, a prophet like Moses(pbuh)as in the Duet 18:18 and they were upset to found out the last prophet was an arab. This was the starting time of Jewish people being cursed by God Almighty after they denying His command to follow the last prophet. Jews are cursed many time in the Al-Quran and even the bible as they trangress many limit that God set up for them. For more info read http://www.convertstoislam.com/ or http://www.answering-islam.com/ Cheers
Slave of Allah, Allah's Land

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