There are some illnesses which inflict people and which they ascribe to the Jinn. There are also people who claim to see and hear the Jinn, and to command them and carry out many actions through controlling them, or through their controlling people. What is the reality of this? Is there any material, sensorially-perceivable relationship between man and Jinn?
Thus is the case that we have used the principle of interpreting the general in light of the specific and thereby understood that the intent of ‘people' in one of the two narrations is ‘Muslims', and hence there is no right for the Ahl al-Dhimmah in the public property (except for the public utilities, as the evidences clearly indicate), or is there some other understanding in this issue?
Does what is called a ‘karāmah' exist or not? If the answer is yes we seek a comprehensive explanation in this matter, and if the answer is no, then how do we understand the story of the Ahl al-Kahf for instance or Ashāb al-Ukhdūd, or the saying of Umar ibn al-Khattāb (ra), ‘O Sāriya, the mountain!' Similarly the incident of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas in the Tigris River, and many like occurrences?
Linking the notorious NRO (Nation Reconciliation Ordinance) with Misaq-e-Madina (Covenant of Medina) doesn't only amount to disgracing Islam but it also brings disrepute for the Messenger of Allah (saaw). We ask the rulers what corruption charges were dropped under Misaq-e-Medina?! How many Sahaba (r.a) were pardoned for murder?!
Over the past few days the American crusaders have been bragging about the success of operation Moshtarak in the southern province of Helmand, Afghanistan. The operation is the biggest since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, and involves some 15000 soldiers functioning under the aegis of the American aggressors. The goal of the operation is to clear out the Taliban from the town of Marjah and then to keep hold of the territory through a combination of meek Afghan troops and support from the corrupt central government. The role of Karzai's sleazy government is to provide essential services to the local population and the Afghan troops are meant to keep the Taliban out- something which has eluded Karzia and his henchmen for the past nine years.
These occupying crusaders expect will diminish the local Afghan support for the Taliban and serve as a template to be applied elsewhere in the country. Furthermore, the Americans are convinced that the approach would erode Taliban's effectiveness and force them make concession in any negotiations with the occupiers. This is as far as theory goes. The reality however, threatens to turn very ugly for the Americans and their allies.
Thousands of civilians have fled the area and those who were left behind were unscrupulously targeted by the crusaders. Last week a NATO airstrike slaughtered 12 civilians. Some western newspapers chose to cover up the ghastly crime by claiming that the rogue missile hit the correct target. Yet, none of these media outfits report the glaring fact that more and more afghan men who are not affiliated with Taliban choose stand and fight the crusaders in a desperate bid to protect their Islam, women and children.
Even those who are meant to be on the same side as the occupiers are not safe. A few days ago, a NATO airstrike killed several Afghan policemen. Zemarai Bashary, the Afghan interior ministry spokesman described the incident as a mistake. So if the government cannot stand up to the occupiers and defend those who are responsible for providing security to the local populace, then what chance do ordinary civilians have? All along the Americans have maintained the success of their plan depends on minimizing civilian casualties. And like their previous pseudo pledges the recent bouts of reassurance have turned out to be nothing more than lies.
Nor has the operation provided any long-term answers on what America intends to do with the Taliban that opt to disappear from the combat zone only to reappear somewhere else and cause havoc for the occupiers.
The operation also threatens to bring down the fragile crusaders alliance. Only this Saturday, the Dutch government collapsed over plans to extend its Afghan mission. This means that 2000 Dutch troops will ditch Afghanistan by the end of 2010 and return home defeated and humiliated. The move is a first for the NATO alliance and signals that more European governments are set to follow the Dutch. The Americans are furious and want the Europeans fill the void. "The one most important shortfall is in the category of trainers," said a senior US official. "We'd like them [Europeans] to step up. We'd like every ally to put up more trainers. This is critical." The whole episode threatens to splinter the crusader alliance and has ushered in a period of political uncertainty.
Hence, increasingly and like its previously failed strategies and ineffectual operations, America is relying more and more on the Pakistani army to play a significant role. This explains why India has relented to American pressure and offered talks with Pakistan to resolve bilateral issues- an euphuism for the resolution of Kashmir. This America hopes will eventually lead to the redeployment of Pakistani soldiers from the border with India to the border with Afghanistan. America has also released overdue payments from the coalition support fund. In return, Pakistan apprehended Mullah Baradar-number 2 in the Afghan Taliban leadership-but is refusing to hand him over to the CIA. All of this appears to indicate that the Pakistani leadership is haggling with America for a few measly dollars. But why bargain with a losing side?
Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that America is facing a catastrophic defeat in Afghanistan. If the Pakistani army switched sides, Pakistan could make America's defeat a reality and end the crusader occupation of Afghanistan and their savagery in the tribal areas. The practical way to achieve this result is for the Muslims of Afghanistan and Pakistan to work for the re-establishment of the Caliphate. The Caliphate will unite the Pakistan army and Pushtun resistance into a powerful force and then oust the crusaders from the region.
Abid Mustafa
Feb 21 2010
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World trade plummets by 12%
Global trade flows contracted by a catastrophic 12% in 2009, the fastest pace since the second world war, Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organisation revealed today, as he urged its 153 member countries to breathe new life into the ailing Doha trade round. This latest estimate is considerably worse than the WTO's previous forecast of a 10% decline for last year, underlining the hefty costs of the financial crisis for the world economy. "The main explanation for this freefall in trade has been the simultaneous reduction in aggregate demand across all major world economies," Lamy told a conference in Brussels.
On 02/03/10, government of Afghanistan banned direct reporting from war zones and the reason to justify this coward act is that because such reporting help enemy to plan their attacks against the security forces and will use it for the publicity of their activities.
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UK: Muslim women who refused to take full-body scan are barred from flying
Two Muslim women have become the first passengers to refuse to subject themselves to controversial 'naked' full body airport scans. The pair - who security officials insist were selected at random - opted to miss their flight to Pakistan and forfeit tickets worth £400 each rather than be screened. One of the women refused to go through the full-body scanner at Manchester Airport on religious grounds while her companion also declined for 'medical reasons'. The women were travelling together to Islamabad when they were selected to pass through the controversial security screen after checking-in at Terminal Two at the airport. An estimated 15,000 people have already passed through the scanners, with the pair the first passengers to refuse a scan.
Dutch anti-Islam leader is major winner in polls
Dutch anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders scored major gains in local authority polls Thursday, making him a serious challenger for power in a June national election, preliminary results showed. In the first test of public opinion since the collapse of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's coalition government last month, Wilders's Freedom Party (PVV) led in the city of Almere and was second in The Hague. The results came on top of an opinion poll showing that the PVV, which campaigns against Muslim immigration as its main platform, would win the most seats -- 27 in the 150-member Dutch parliament -- in the June 9 election. The popularity of Wilders, who compares Islam to fascism and the Koran to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf," has dented the image of the Netherlands as a country that has often portrayed itself in the past as a bastion of tolerance. The PVV has been pitching its policies to a nation of 16 million that is turning increasingly inward as the economy struggles and social tensions rise. There are nearly 1 million Muslims in the Netherlands. "The leftist elite still believes in multi-culturalism, coddling criminals, a European super-state and high taxes," Wilders told cheering supporters at a rally in Almere after polling ended Wednesday. "But the rest of the Netherlands thinks differently. That silent majority now has a voice," he said.
U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia
While nearly half the population of Somalia teeters at the edge of starvation, the U.S. is preventing the United Nations from delivering desperately needed food. According to documents obtained by the New York Times, the Americans demand that aid agencies guarantee that no fees are paid "at roadblocks, ports, warehouses, airfields or other transit points" controlled by Shabab resistance fighters. Since the Shabab and other militias control more than half of the area in conflict, United Nations compliance with U.S. conditions would mean starvation for about three million people.Indeed, if international aid were restricted to areas controlled by the U.S.-backed puppet regime, only a few neighborhoods in Mogadishu, the capital, would be fed. As the Americans' Somali puppets' position becomes more untenable, the U.S. squeezes the UN's food delivery system, in effect punishing the entire Somali people. U.S. food relief to the UN's Somali operations in 2009 was only half that of 2008. In 2007, United Nations officials declared Somalia the "worst humanitarian crisis in Africa...worse than Darfur," as a result of the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion in late 2006. Thus, the United States has been waging continuous war against the people of Somalia, directly or by proxy, for over three years under the guise of the "war on terror."
Astonishing number of birth defects reported in Fallujah
Doctors are investigating reports of a very high rate of birth defects in a city of Iraq that was often the scene of heavy fighting involving U.S. troops. The BBC reported the residents of Fallujah are seeing birth defects, including heart problems, at a rate of 95 in every 1,000 births. The report said that represented 13 times the number of similar birth defects in Europe. A doctor told the BBC she is seeing two or three cases every day of birth defects, including paralysis, brain damage and cardiac problems. Data indicate prior to 2003, doctors would have seen perhaps one such case every two months. Local officials have advised woman in Fallujah not to have children, the BBC said. Residents link the timing of the surge in defects with about a year after a U.S. military-led offensive in Fallujah in 2004 and suggest armaments used in the fight may be to blame for their children's problems. Military officials told the BBC they had received no official reports of an increase in birth defects in the area but that exploded ordnance is a "recognized hazard." One researcher said she had seen "footage of babies with an eye in the middle of the forehead, the nose on the forehead."
That was a war council in Damascus
The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi. "The timing of the meeting, the way it was undertaken and the ensuing press conference that was held at its conclusion, all point to a strategic coalition being reinforced. This is the build-up of a new front that will spearhead the confrontation with the US-Israeli alliance and whichever Arab countries that may, expressly or implicitly, be affiliated with it."The Iranian president said he expects war to break out somewhere between spring and summer of this year.
Ensure Pakistan does not use military aid against us: India
Raising concern over the reported decision of the United States to supply sophisticated arms to Pakistan, New Delhi on Thursday said Washington should ensure that the military aid was not used against India. Defence Minister A.K. Antony expressed concern over the move to supply a whole array of sophisticated laser guided bomb kits, surveillance drones and latest-model F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. In a statement here, Mr. Antony said: "Given our bitter past experience of how Islamabad used such aid against India, Washington should ensure that the latest tranche of military aid is used only for the purpose of countering al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists and not against India." Pentagon also decided to refurbish and expand the F-16 fighter jets Pakistan has been using since the 1980s. It also has got Cobra attack helicopters and C 130 transport aircraft from the U.S. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration was expanding weapon sales to India and Pakistan "in a bid to forge closer ties with each country, while creating new opportunities for American defence firms." It said that while India paid for its own weapons, Islamabad used American grants to fund most of its arms purchases. During the visit of U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates to Pakistan, there were reports of Pentagon willing to offer surveillance drones to Islamabad, now used in the frontier areas. The U.S. annual military aid to Pakistan is now around $3 billion.
