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MISSION OF COLUMBUS AND BIKINI ATOLL: WHO IS THE TARGET?

BM Research, 30 May, 2008:

At different turns in the history, various progressive intellectuals, home and abroad, in Bangladesh and out of Bangladesh, either Bangladeshi or other nationals, rebuked Islam and Muslim and called them ‘unscientific', ‘fanatic', ‘non-progressive', ‘fundamentalist', ‘terrorist' etc. for their uncompromising and rigid stunt in question to guard their beliefs .

Not only this, they had even engaged direct confrontation with them. Non-Muslims were, sometimes overtly appeared to fight, in some time; they covertly worked with the so- called hypocrite named Muslim. They are easily identified, yet they were appeared in the stage and had been tried to color that Islam was divided. Muslims seems to be divided and but in real sense the truth is still existed. At the last sermon of our Prophet Muhammad (SM) ordered his followers to firm on Al Quarana and his Sunnah , what else

We see. Most of the suspicious followers of Islam try to avoid the Quaran skillfully. Allah said that Al Quaran was revealed in a simple language and the hypocrite argues with the verses , those were obscured , but the obscurity was Allah's revelation , but the verses those are easy enough to understand may set us free from deprivation . These are one of the elements in existing Islamic society .Few examples may be drawn :

Once I had to stay at Villa wood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney , Australia . One of my fellow Bangladeshi, belonged to Sylhet, he was Mr. Shah, well- bearded. I used to notice one thing : when the salat or prayer was finished , he just posed to bring FAZAEL- E-AMAL and read from there , whereas in that prayer room , there were Tafsir or translation of Qauran , even while I used to bring , he was just little bit annoyed with me . This group is called Tabligh-e- Jammat. They arrange IJTEMA, every year on the bank of the Turag River at the north of Dhaka Metropolitan area in Bangladesh . Some of the organizers say that it is the second Hajj in the Muslim Ummah. My question is: who authorized to IJTEMA as the second Hajj? Is there any commandment of Hazrat Muhammad (SM) ? I am sure there is no Hadith and verse in the Quaran at all in support to their claim. Another group belongs to Majar Committee. They call them as the Tasauf follower. They propagate that tasauf is one of the pillar of Islam. But they are the same party who little say about Al-Quaran. Around their Majar lots of forbidden task fr instance sijda to the tomb of the dead man. (For instance, High Court Mazar in Dhaka and Shah Ali Mazar at Mirpur) Even you may find lots of prostitutes, drug addicts etc. like the priest of Hindu temple in India and as well as other parts of the world who use their temples as the source of income by narcotics, hem, and arranging women trade . Once I was talking Mr. Abdul Hai, a Dhaka University Student of Bengali Literature, told me that one poet acronym by ‘AC' was, once in charge of Majar (tomb) under the direct supervision of RAW, Indian intelligence service, I did not get further information. However, I believed in that statement, since, circling Majar or tomb of holy men some suspicious activities go on which clearly violate the principles of Allah and Muhammad (SM). Again I saw a picture at Patuatuli, sadarghat in Old Dhaka. The shop owner was a Hindu, but he was hanging a picture of the tomb of Azmer Sharif's Khaja Moinuddin Chsti (RA) circling around a flower wreath. Beside that he was hanging a picture of one Hindu Devi. So I was doubted. Later I was sure it is one of the best grafted conspiracy against the Muslim community. Moinuddin Chisti had to fight against the Hindu arrogant King, Hazrat Shah Jalal (RA) of Sylhet , Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali ( RA) and many other tombs of these persons had to engage jihad with the arrogant Hindu Kings to freed the local people from caste system and all other deprivation. But to wipe their glorious military role a group skillfully misrepresented the history. In the last hajj sermon of Muhammad (SM), he commanded to hold two things: Al Quaran and Hadith and mentioned that by holding these two gifts no Muslim would be misguided. Even the above mentioned manipulated two groups among the Muslim often silent that when Muhammad (SM) conquered Mecca after establishing Islamic state in Medina the sura had been revealed mentioning that Islam had been fulfilled . That is meant unless establishing an Islamic State, Islam can no longer be fulfilled. This command is also applicable to the follower of Muhammad (SM) till today – up to day of resurrection. More interesting that the group who advocates establishing Islamic State and trying to do so are the worst sufferer and oppressed. They do not receive western visa easily, even they are not normally entertained by red carpet reception! It is one aspect.

However, a group among the Islamic community who are the nightmare before the exploiters. Their role is like the slogan ‘tough on dirt, soft on clothes' i.e “Islam is tough on exploiter, soft on humanity.” Prophet Hazrat Muhmamd (SM) said that before the Day of Judgment there would 63 groups among the Muslims, only one group would be on the right path . We want to portray that the aspect of that group. None but this group among the Muslim is targeted by the exploiters who are exploiting by creating artificial crisis for arms trading , those who are engaged in usury trading to pacify their beast like desire by the detachment of the labor , prostitution , narcotics , wine , gambling are their

Tools to exploit the world habitat. During the life time of our Prophet and the time in the following, it is the group who are bullying, dashing. Yet they exist and inshallah they would exist till the Day of Judgment

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Recently the world is experiencing the concern of the westerners, basicially the USA about the empowerment of the Nuclear Technology. It is one of the reasons that the USA is afraid of the empowerment of the technology. Hundreds of Tabligh Jamati or pro – Majari are less important than the empowerment of the nuclear technology of I.R. Iran . When the Islamic Republic of Iran has to face such stress, w e the Bangladeshi, easily anticipate why we are not being developed with modern technology. In quest to the nuclear terrorism of the USA I was carefully going through the story of the secret and obscure History of Bikini Atoll. Bitini atoll is located in the Pacific Ocean . Geographically it is ultimately an island. Most significantly the habitants of the island were hypnotized by the name of Christianity by the USA authority to justify the supremacy of their Nuclear power after direct hit in Japan in 1945. The most terrible experience the people of the have ever experienced that the local habits have been cheated and they have been relocated and yet they have not been shifted to their own land likewise the Palestinians had to face in the contemporary period .Besides the hijacking of the land of a community, environmental terrorism had been conducted their when the severe consequence in the form of defacing of the human and agri- products. The level of radioactive is too high to live there. Amidst various hypotheses from the incident we will pickup the statement of an American Commodore who hypnotized to the local residents of the Islanders by the name of a ‘higher authority'. In 1946 Commodore Ben Wyatt of the United States navy met with the local residents of the Bikini Atoll under Marshall Islands after services and requested them to use their Islands for the pleasure of the higher authority which may benefit to the mankind. According to the National Geographic Magazine (1986, pp.814): “ Nearly 40 years had passed since that Sunday in 1946 when Commodore Ben Wyatt of the United Sates Navy met with then after church services to say that their island was needed for a project that would benefit mankind .He implied that an authority higher than any on earth would be pleased if they decided to cooperate.

We do not know how the mankind has been benefited with the blast and we are not sure how the supreme authority has been pleased. But since 1946 within 40 years nearly 23 explosions had been occurred and the intensity of the blast was so high that in 1972 Lekoj Anjain died by radiation –induced leukemia and affected directly and indirectly many more then even up to this time. . Regarding the intensity of the explosion The National Geographic (1986, pp.821) sketched: “ Bravo was the first test of a deliverable hydrogen bomb, surface shot detonated in 1954.It was an explosion of about 15 mega-tons, or 15 million tons of TNT (the bomb exploded over Hiroshima had a force of 15000tons of TNT), making it the most powerful weapon ever activated by the United States. A freight train carrying Bravo's equivalent in TNT would span the North American Continent .”

The report of the National Geographic reported in the same article that in 1951 there were hot tickets of ‘the military and civilian VIPs' to watch the devastation of a nation.

What we want to mean that their aim was to grab the Muslims sates and it was proven by the occupation of the Palestine , permanent occupation of the Middle Asian Muslim countries by the Soviet Unions .All these fake cold warriors were ultimately united in destroying the Muslims. It is the nut and nutshell of the history of the last 60 years of the world. Recently, Jimmy Carter, for USA President informed that Israel has 19 nuclear war heads. Nearly 12 thousands in the USA and Soviet Union, France and UK has 1200, the We know that it is the same ‘super warrior' has given nuclear warhead to local watch dog of South Asia ,India . Some how a single Muslim country has been allowed to have the nuclear capability , it was Pakistan but besides that none is allowed , even not Iran , If we say for the security of Bangladesh – why not? Because we are Muslim, belief matter, and belief is the sustainer indeed.

Secondly we would point out the letter of Columbus who once had the same task to serve the mankind and to please the supreme. Do you know who his target was? It was Muslim. He wrote a letter to Queen Isabella to kick back the Muslim in India .Since Constantinople was land locked by the Muslim and India was a prosperous Muslim ruler dominated state; he sought assistance to grab the land. Read the letter:

Your Highness as good Christian and Catholic princes, devout and propagators of the Christian faith, as well as enemies of Mahomet and all idolatries and heresies, conceived the plan of sending me, Christopher Columbus, to this county of the Indies, there to see the princes, the propels, the territory, their disposition and all things else, and the way in which one might proceed, to convert these regions to our holy faith.” (Cited in Askar Ibne Shaikh,1396BY)

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We may conclude that what the painting has been done over the Muslim states by the so called civil society, intellectual and VIPs it is clear that the western civilization and their allies are the common enemies of the Muslim. Whatever they are acting covertly and overtly against the Muslim countries aim to make them weaker. They want to set up their replica on the seats of the Muslim countries.

Moreover, it is a true that the Muslim group who has the capability to resist to any foreign occupiers as it is seen in Iraq , Afghanistan , Palestinian, and Hezbollah in Lebanon etc. In respect of Bangladesh , our sense of judgement which is built on the basis of Islam is ultimately a life guard. The weaker norms- those have been penetrated that we have discussed in “A” should also be aware of since these phenomenon is a patter of their covert operation. In such a circumstance, it requires to be understood.

How long it may take to understand you -VIPs?

References:
1.The National Geographic Vol.169 No.6 June 1986 page .813

2. Cited in Askar Ibne Shaikh(The Daily Inquilab, 9 Ashar,1396 ) Quoted from Crusade , Commerce and Culture by Aziz A. Atiya, Oxford University Press, 1962,p.128.

 

 

 

Israeli atrocities in GAZA continue: children killed! Human rights violated!!

BM DESK ,29 February ,2008

The Isareli air strikes in the Gaza killed at least 16 Palestinians, including six children; a few hours after killing threaten. IslamOnline. Net quoted from the Gaza source that four children, aged eight, nine, 11 and 12, and were killed in an Israeli air strike in Jabalya, a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said.The kids, three from the same family, were playing football when an Israeli missile struck at them.

Another boy wounded in the same strike, a 12-year-old neighbor, died later f his wounds, hospital officials said.Another 12-year-old boy died of wounds sustained in a Gaza raid the previous day, and a shepherd was killed in northern Gaza .Israel carried out at least 11 air strikes in northern and central Gaza using US-made F-16 warplanes, Apache helicopters and locally developed drones. A missile strike on a vehicle in the heart of Gaza City late Thursday killed at least two Palestinians. A raid against a police roadblock near the Gaza City home of sacked Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Shati refugee camp killed one and wounded four.Another attack in northern Gaza a short while later killed a Hamas resistance activist.Earlier, Israeli aircraft struck northern Gaza , killing two Palestinians, including a Hamas fighter. A Palestinian shepherd was also killed in northern Gaza .On Thursday morning, an Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed two members of the Popular Resistance Committees and another from Hamas. In the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, an Israeli strike killed two Hamas members, including son of senior Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Haya, who has himself survived several Israeli assassination attempts.In the West Bank, Israeli troops killed a member of the Popular Resistance Committees and another from the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in the Balata refugee camp, on the outskirts of Nablus .Thursday's fatalities came only a few hours after Israel killed 13 Palestinians, including a toddler.

In response to the Israleli atrocities Haniya responded that the " ongoing crimes committed by the Zionist occupation" and called on Arab countries to " stop their regrettable silence and act with urgency to stop the aggression ."West bank based government mentioned it “"abominable Israeli crimes" in Gaza .Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said Israeli military actions " meant only one thing: the Israeli government ... aims to destroy the peace process ."The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees called on Israel " to abide by international law and exercise maximum restraint, and not to endanger civilians "." The killing of innocent children is always tragic and condemnable, " UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness told Agence France-Presse (AFP).In Geneva , the International Committee of the Red Cross called on Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint.It said the escalation is causing " unacceptable distress and danger from the ongoing risk of attack ."On the other Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said whilel visiting in the Tokyo justified his crime mentioning “ fight is just beginning.” On the other hand, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the main patron of the USA responded lightly said “I think that's not a good way to address this issue. The issue is that the attacks -- rocket attacks -- need to stop” .However, she by passed the issue of Israel 's illegal occupation.

From the corner of Bangladeshmoves we condemn the Israeli air-strikes and expect her roll up from the state she occupied by force.

 

 

Bangladeshi Community in the USA should support Obama to save the USA

M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu) <cgmpservices@yahoo.com> .

20 February,2008 :  

I just like to remind ourselves that we need to make right decision before it is too late.  I know Bangladeshi communities in NY, CA or big states are supporting Clintons for long time.  Even it is too early to tell who will get the nomination in the Democratic Party, but we need to look at the candidate's conviction who will bring Change in USA and how our future generation in USA will get bright future.

After all the thinking and consideration, I believe Presidential candidate Barak Obama can provide exclusive benefits to USA and its image to the world.  We do not want USA to be bankrupt being in Iraq for 100 more years.  We want USA to be financially and morally high in the years to come.  I personally believe that he is the only hope and only person who can bring the change which is long over due.

I will urge all concern Bangladeshi and Bangladeshi origin people to support Barak Obama in the USA election nomination process and help him to be elected in November 2008. 

Yes, CHANGE we can believe in and HOPE we can attain.

 

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‘Allahu' in the sky of Kashmir...........

BM Desk, 24th January,2008 :

The name of the Almighty Allah in the Arabic form is recently seen in the sky of Kashmir . The Islam online , a popular web site concerning with the Islamic issue, confirms the fact and hoists the picture which caught my attention with the assistance of one brother -Mr. Mokarram. It is, therefore, known to us that through long wage of jihad for the independence from the burden of the Brahmin India, the Kashmiris are desperate which do not wake the western elites who frequently advocate in restoring the human rights and right of the freedom loving peoples. By the conspiracy on the eve of the partition of the subcontinent, this Muslim majority part of India ought to be the part of the Pakistan or whatever they wanted, went in the jaws of Inadi . However, the then British authority led by Mount batten intention the dream of Kashmiri did not come in to force . In the follwoing years of the independence - 1947, the issue of the Kashmir transformed in to a war . On that eve, a resolution of the Security Council was passed on 17 January, 1948 (Document no.S/651 .Dated 17 th January, 1948) which clearly stated that “ Commending the Governments of India and Pakistan for their statesman like action in reaching the agreements embodied in the United Nations Commission's resolutions of August 13, 1948 and January 5, 1949 for a ceasefire , for the demilitarization of the Sate of Jammu and Kashmir and for the determination of its final disposition in accordance with the will of the people through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite …” Even the then Indian Representative Gopalaswami Ayyengar's address to the Security Council again clarified the commitment of India for the plebiscite. The exert: “ We desire only to see peace restored in Kashmir and to ensure that the people of Kashmir are left free to decide in an orderly and peaceful manner the future of their state. We have no further interest, and we have agreed that plebiscite in Kashmir might take place under international auspicious after peace and order have been established .” Unfortunately we have not yet seen the initiative of the authority for the plebiscite. In that situation, when the British Ambassador's advice, here and there to the ‘election' is a double standard indeed! The betray with the Kashmir India lead to encompass arrogance which produced destruction of the Babri mosque and the Gujarat killing , even ,some sources say that in each day ,on average, two Muslims are murdered by the hands of Hindu in India.
In this situation, British Prime Minister Mr. Gordon' s arrival in India and the Israel –UK- USA-India nexus may be a red signal to the Muslims of the subcontinent .

On the context of the nexus, we, the Bangladeshis are more concerned with the effort to destabilize Bangladesh by the patron of the pointed Indian agents who are advocating arranging to the trail of the so called war criminals of 1971. We know that the war of 1971 staged here -India actively participated in taking the revenge which was confessed by the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi : “Hajar sal se badla lela ..” (Revenge of thousand years). Is it the revenge of the Aryan? If this was and is the norm of the politics of the Subcontinent, we the Muslims of Bangladesh, too, like the Kashmir , would play differently inshallah. The name of Allah in the sky of Kashmir is not only seen there we see everywhere, even, in the sky of Bangladeshi's heart too. Oh! Allah none but you are our sustainer . We seek your blessing and victory is ours!!

Reference : UN documents.

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Truth revealed >>>>>

:'Charge as many as possible' :

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22747968-2,00.html By Sally Neighbour November 13, 2007 01:00am

Courtsey: Saaid Merhi ,Sydney,Australia .

A SENIOR counter-terrorism officer with the Australian Federal Police has testified that police were directed to charge "as many suspects as possible" with terrorism offences in order to test the new anti-terrorism laws introduced in 2003.

The admission was made by federal agent Kemuel Lam Paktsun, the senior case officer on the Operation Newport investigation that led to the arrest of Sydney medical student Izhar Ul-Haque, whose trial was sensationally dismissed in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday.

Agent Lam Paktsun's startling testimony came during a pre-trial hearing on October 24 that has not previously been reported, when he was questioned about the circumstances of Mr Ul-Haque's arrest in April 2004."At the time we were directed, we were informed, to lay as many charges under the new terrorist legislation against as many suspects as possible because we wanted to use the new legislation ," Mr Lam Paktsun testified.

"So regardless of the assistance that Mr Ul-Haque could give, he was going to be prosecuted, charged, because we wanted to test the legislation and lay new charges, in our eagerness to use the legislation."

The frank admission was made under cross-examination during a hearing to test the admissibility of two AFP interviews conducted with Mr Ul-Haque, who was charged with receiving training from the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Toiba in January and February 2003.

The case against Ul-Haque was dismissed yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court when judge Michael Adams found the conduct of two ASIO officers who interviewed Ul-Haque prior to his formal AFP interviews had been "grossly improper and constituted an unjustified and unlawful interference with the personal liberty of the accused".

The case of the promising young medical student arrested, charged and almost tried as a would-be terrorist is the latest in a litany of failed terrorism prosecutions in which the Australian authorities' determination to obtain convictions appears to have outweighed their commitment to do so in strict accordance with the law.

Ul-Haque was a polite, studious teenager excelling in high school when his family moved from Pakistan to the middle-class Sydney suburb of Glenwood in 1999 to complete their children's education. After winning a scholarship to attend North Sydney Boys High School , Ul-Haque distinguished himself as an "outstanding student", earning a university entrance score of 99.7 per cent to gain a place in the University of NSW medical school.

"After 36 years of teaching, one can identify the gems among the young people; Izhar is one of those gems", his former principal Bernard Newsom testified in an affidavit in 2003.

But the Ul-Haque family's dream of a prosperous new life in Australia turned to disappointment in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US and the Bali bombings in October 2002. Amid a backlash against Muslims, Ul-Haque's father was unable to find work and returned to Pakistan . Distracted from his studies, Ul-Haque failed his second year of medicine.

In late 2002 he wrote to his family: "I'm fed up with Westerners. Western patients look at me as if I'm a frog. They don't wish to speak English to me. How can I spend five to six years with them?" Disheartened and frustrated, he was ripe for recruitment, when he was targeted by a fellow immigrant from Pakistan , Faheem Lodhi, who is appealing against a 20-year sentence handed down last year for facilitating terrorist acts.

When the older man invited him to travel to Pakistan to join the jihad, Ul-Haque readily agreed. He wrote again to his family, saying that he was planning to join LET to fight the Indian army in Kashmir and that, God willing, he would die a martyr.

Appalled by his actions, Ul-Haque's brother and father followed him to the LET camp to persuade him to come home. Ul-Haque finished the 20-day beginners' training course, which he later described as being "like kindergarten" and decided, to his family's relief, that he was "physically incapable" of being a jihadist. "I decided I wanted to be a doctor, not a fighter," Ul-Haque later told the Australian Federal Police.

When he flew back to Australia , Ul-Haque was stopped by Customs officers who found in his luggage diaries and notes recording details of his training. After a lengthy interrogation, Ul-Haque was allowed to go. LET had not been proscribed as a terrorist group at that time, and the authorities were seemingly satisfied with Ul-Haque's account of his three weeks' training.

Nothing more happened until November 2006, after the arrest and deportation of the French terrorist suspect Willie Brigitte. The Australian authorities had been left red-faced by their failure to pick up on Brigitte's presence in Australia , and were thoroughly investigating all of Brigitte's Australian contacts, including the Pakistani immigrant who had taken Ul-Haque to the LET training camp. On November 6, 2003, on his way home from university, Ul-Haque was stopped by three ASIO officers who had waited for him in a carpark near Blacktown railway station.

"You're in serious trouble", an ASIO officer code-named B15 told ul-Haque. "You need to talk to us and you need to talk to us now."

The ASIO officers interviewed Ul-Haque at length in a park near the railway station and later in his home, in a manner described by Justice Adams as intimidating, deceptive and constituting a "gross breach of powers".

Ul-Haque was not offered a lawyer, nor informed that he was not obliged to answer any questions. "They were aware that what they were doing was unlawful," Justice Adams said.

After questioning Ul-Haque until 3am while his home was being raided, the ASIO officers handed him over to the federal police for a formal record of interview. Justice Adams found: "I am satisfied that when he said he believed he was under arrest and that if he did not comply with what the officers asked him they would either use physical violence or take him to a more sinister place for interrogation, or otherwise do something else to his family or him, the accused was telling the truth. Furthermore I think that this state of mind was intentionally instilled."

Ul-Haque was interviewed by the AFP on November 7 and 12, 2003, and in January 2004, and repeated the admissions he had made in the earlier illegal ASIO interviews. The AFP interviews formed the basis for his arrest on a charge of training with a terrorist organisation, which was hailed by the Howard Government as a vindication of its "tough on terror approach".Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced: "This is exactly what the federal police should be doing, making absolutely sure that people are properly protected in this country."Yesterday's verdict and the admission by Federal Agent Lampaktsun that the police were under pressure to mount terrorism prosecutions raises disturbing questions about the lengths Australian authorities have been prepared to go to obtain convictions in a highly politicised "war on terror".Ul-Haque's case echoes a string of earlier failed prosecutions.

In March 2005, Sydney man Zak Mallah was acquitted on terrorism charges after a trial in which police were found to have acted illegally and improperly in obtaining evidence against him. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of threatening to kill commonwealth officers and served two years in jail. In 2006, Melbourne man Jack Thomas had his conviction on terrorism charges overturned in the Victorian Court of Appeal, after it found that his AFP interview had not been voluntary and was unfair and contrary to public policy. Thomas is to face a re-trial next year. And in July, Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef was charged with terrorism-related offences in a highly politically charged case, which was later withdrawn for lack of evidence.The disturbing inference, which is seemingly confirmed by Lampaktsun's testimony, is that terrorism prosecutions are being driven not by a reliance on evidence but by a political imperative to obtain convictions. The effect of this was summed up by Ul-Haque's former principal at North Sydney Boys High in his testimony to the court.

"Terrorism wins an awful victory when we are prepared to destroy a young person's reputation and future on the flimsy grounds which have landed Ul-Haque in this present situation," Mr Newsom said.

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The Turkish rejected 'Secularisam'

BM Desk, 13th August ,2007

At last the Turkish whim dissolved in Islam. Since the inception of Kemal Ataturk ‘s kemalism in 1923 , an important Islamic state dipped in to the booby-trap of secularism .Some argued that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk invigorated his effort to separate Military from Politics, but in reality, Military played a key role to nourish the Kemalism and resisted Islam for its political establishment . Fortunately the Turkish has rejected the Kemalism wining the AKP party allowing 46.76% vote and giving them 341 parliamentary seats out of 550 of Grand National Assembly, in the election held on 22 July, 2007. Although the executive powers vested to the Prime Minister, the President acts as head of the state: elected at every 7 years interval. This time the post of President has also been secured by the Islamist Abdullah Gull through the election in the parliament on August 28, 2007. This political development shall , oviously , inspire many Muslims who have zero intolerance to Islam since their experiments with the secularism are nothing but suicidal tasks and Islam is their final destiny.

Although the deviation from the Islam is not inherited from the soul of mass people, it is clearly the betrayal of Kemal Atatürk. When Arab Nationalism was patronized by England lead by the leader of Mecca Sharif Hussein Hashmi in 1915 and the war started in 1919, the Turkey Caliphate was dismantled . Since Turkey supported Germany and in the First World War allied force lead by England won, the plan to divide Turkey Caliphate, was possible. However, the Turkish Muslims, even the Muslims of Indian subcontinent supported Turkey Caliphate in that critical moment . In the mean time, a military man Kemal Attaturk used the Islamists and liberated most of the lands from the control of England . Lastly he betrayed with the sentiments of the Muslims and after grabbing the power he overthrew last Osmani Calipha Sultan Muhammad Hashim in 1922 and abolished Caliphate. The peoples who wished to regain the Islamic spirit, a military man Kemal , mutilated Islam imposing secularism over the head, which is ultimately called ‘Kemalism' ,frustrated thousands of Muslims .

According Abbas Ali Khan (1991), “As soon as Kemal grabbed the power he declared that he would abolish the memento of Islam from the life of the Turkish. The Turkish can only be advanced and respected by abolishing Islam. In this way, he started to announce against Islam every where. He brought a bill in the parliament on 3 rd March, 1924 in order to impose secularism. He advocated that religion and state should be separated .Turkey should be set up a model Secular state.”

This direction did not lead Turkey a model state, rather, neither she received the acceptability of Europe nor did she get the full support of Islamic states. In this suffocating moment, Turkey declared her mission towards Islam through the election is undoubtedly the memento of righteous.

References:

Islam O Jaheliater Chirantan Danda

Abbas Ali Khan, Islamic Centre Kataban Masjid Campus,

Dhaka .

 

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'Enough is Enough'Australian Muslims burst into protest

Sydney Correspondent, 29th July 2007:

Australian Muslims again burst in to protest for the lawful intimidation to the Muslim .The fear has grown among the Australia born youth Muslims whether Australia would be livable for them or not . In part of it the Australian organization ‘Hizb-ut Tahrir ' had arranged a protest at Bankstown Local Court , Bankstown in Sydney today . The protest highlighted the issue of Muslims using as political football, misuse of anti terror law against them, spreading fear among the Muslims, role of media about Muslim aspect etc. Former Australian PM Adam Houda and Malcolm Fraser send message to the program. In addition, the relative of Dr.Hanif- Imran Siddiqui, Dr. Hanif's lawyer Peter Russo, Dr. Ali White, Shaykh Basir Khan, Emran Dandan, Jalal Chami, Firdaus Zein, Fautimeh Ardati had delivered their speech in the program.

 

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Terrorism Quiz -1

Reader's collection ,12 June 2007 :

1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over twenty different countries since 1945?

2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons?

3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history?

4) Which country's illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 was described by the UN Legal Committee as a "classic case" of terrorism?

5) Which country rejected the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to terminate its "unlawful use of force" against Nicaragua in 1986, and then vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on all states to observe international law?

6) Which country was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s?

7) Which country unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001?

8) Which country renounced the efforts to negotiate a verification process for the Biological Weapons Convention and brought an international conference on the matter to a halt in July 2001?

9) Which country prevented the United Nations from curbing the gun trade at a small arms conference in July 2001?

10) Aside from Somalia, which is the only other country in the world to have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

11) Which is the only Western country which allows the death penalty to be applied to children?

12) Which is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines?

13) Which is the only G7 country to have voted against the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998?

14) Which was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism?

15) Which country refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions?

16) Which country invaded Iraq using the excuse they had WMD, which till this day, has not been found! Then used chemical weapons themselves during the Fallujah fight against insurgents?


Which country is charged for 16 allegations ? Storm your brain and the answer is in 13th issue inshallah.

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Kasam Vs. Guided missile : Who shall win?

BM Desk,7th June,2007:

The birth of Isreal state is the most notorious historical blackmailing that raised division, bloodshed and war in the heart of the world - Middle East . History suggested that on 14 th May ,1948 -with the diplomatic and military aid of the United Kingdom -ISRAEL state was born under the patron of the United Nations occupied by the refugees from Eastern Europe declared them as Jews who were insulted by the respective countries there. Religion was nakedly used to give birth Israel - the single state hourboured terrorism in the century.

After the birth of Israel the so- called Jews made Muslims enemy and captured Palestine, Golan Heights and part of Egypt by the war erupted in 1956, 1967, 1973 . The misuse of the word ‘Isreal' was the historical hijacking that painted a black chapter in the History. Bane Israel was the blessed nationality who was respected and honored by Al Quaran in subject to the obedience to the Prophets of Allah. Bane Israel became the slave of Pharoh and the Prophet of Islam Musa (AS ) helped them freed from the perilous life by the assistance of Allah, later most of them became arrogant and killed the Prophets declared by Musa for their appearance after his death. They were disobedient to Musa and killed the prophets came aftermath .According to Quaranic , hadith and research source – after Musa there were few prophets came viz. Hazrat Hizqeel(As), Hazrat Elisha(As) , Hazrat Shamil(AS) , Hazrat Daud(AS) ,Hazrat Sulaiman (AS) , Hazrat Shia(AS) ,Hazrat Aramya(As),Hazrat Daniel(As), Hazrat Uzair(As), Hazrat Zecariah(Ah), Hazrat Jahya(As), Hazrat Isa(As) and Hazrat Muhammd (SA) . Among them after Hazrat Musa(As) – Hazrat Daud(AS) ,Hazrat Isa(AS) and Hazrat Muhammad(SA) were Rasul , superior among the other prophets mentioned. All the Prophets were united and they had the same mission. The arrogant part of the Isreal denied the prophets. Those who followed them became Muslims as per the channel of prophethood. During the time of Hazrat Shamuel (As) he organized Israelites in order to fight against Philistinies since he was oppressive and against the path of Allah. Allah assisted the Israelites by the Prophet Shamil(AS) ,who is famous in the western world as Samuel , who is the prophet of Present Muslim as well . The story of David and Goliath that is vogue in the western world is the mis-interpretation. It was Saul or Talut, not David, this Talut fought against Goliath with few number of believers by the guidance of Hazrat Shamil(As) ,ultimately the super guidance of Allah.

In this way, through fabrication and arrogance the so called Zionism concept was developed at the beginning in the late 1800 's when the so called Jews were oppressed by Eastern Europe . When Israel was created using the historical name of a nation, then she became the pocket of all the Jews residing different parts of the world in order to perish the Muslim, such Golith wanted to perish the Bani Israel.

To day the Palestenians are trying to regain their state and the Goliath like Isreal is using guided missile and the Talut is using Kasam. Once Talut won as he followed Hazrat Shamil (As), present kasam charger Talut shall win over the Present Goliath ,inshallah, if they follow the path of Hazrat Muhammd (SM) .

 

 

Million MOM march ,Michigan massacre ,logi boitha and our movie

BM Desk ,2 May ,2007 :

Recently in Virginia , USA a horrific incident staged with the shooting of 32 students by Cho Seung-hui , South korea origin, a final year student studying in English lived in campus, in Virginia Technical University . This incident shocked the whole world when the USA administration stepped towards Iraq and Afghanistan to protect the respective civilians from the so called terrorists. The President of the USA George W Bush addressed a memorial service for the victims of the shootings in Blacksburg . Mr Bush said it was "a day of sadness for our entire nation". Along with President the Governeor Kaine warned against making snap judgments, saying he had "nothing but loathing" for those who took the tragedy and "make it their political hobby horse to ride".
We are also shocked with the tragedy. In commemoration to the incident different organization including the Virginia Tech Muslim Student Association expresses great sorrow for the tragic events that occurred on the Virginia Tech campus. They conveyed their deepest condolences to the families of the victims and offer their help in anyway to the university campus community. They would like everyone to please keep them in their duaz and prayer.

The association also commented that some people already taking the opportunity to throw around veiled (and sometimes direct) accusations against the Muslims in light of this tragedy - to whip up more suspicion and hate.

Any way, we are also concerned with the incident while the USA 's advice is dropping to us. When a country herself is unsecured can no longer secure others. In that situation we think that our traditional formula is enough to protect us.

This situation in America is not new .Those that regularly read the news, must have not forgotten the ‘Million Mum March' in Washington most probably 1999/2000. Nearly one million mothers gathered in Washington DC in demand to protect their children from the shooting. A statistics provided by the International Time .That showed that nearly 5000 children were killed in whole America while they were carried by their Mum and put in to the cross fire by the gunmen. It is known to all that main business of the USA is arms trade to the whole world. The Jews owned companies sells guns like the grocery in America .Except some province, most of the province allow their citizens to carry arms. As a result for a tiny feud is ended by the gun fight. And the central Government earns a lot of revenues from the arms trade. These arms traders are always busy enough to sell their fire arms by hook or by crook .Their cruel marketing policy also enhanced the episode. The USA movies those are released in different parts of the world also full of the performance of their guns. As a result a bad impact over the juvenile produced such Virginia tragedy. Following the Hollywood , the Indian bollywood is also plotting the same impact to the young generation of their courtiers and our countries also. The top terrorists those are being hooked up by our security force like RAB obviously would confess the influence of Bollywood and Hollywood movies. The Bangladeshi movies and TV channel's from India also plotting the same bad impact .In support to my claim I shall provide the posters of the Movies. The Logi boitha holder also the brain child of them which is also shown in the site.

So the blind followers of this vested civilization may never escape us from the ruin, we have to go back our traditional belief and the direction .The sooner the better .

 

 

FUEL ISSUE: International experince

BM DESK, 17 MARCH 2007 :

The fuel for the daily use became the prime target for the aggression . Since the third world reaching towards the development similar to the traditional industrialized countries, conspiracy is mixing to the same proportion. In the case for Bangladesh the electrical power, gas sectors made turmoil political environment. The conspiracy of NAICO in the gas field of the eastern zone of the country, brought the bloodiest consequences . On the other hand, Importing electricity from India was the only option for the AL during their 95-2000 term. Later during the 4-party alliance Government, the country was running without importing electricity from India was suddenly halted while the electricity supply became erratic during the month of Ramazan last year. Investigation revealed that the electricity supply authority had the plan to get illegal donation from the different business establishments since the business flourished in the month . However, people became furious while they went to protest against their indifferent role to supply electricity .Later when the authority misbehaved and came to beat the peoples, then situation turned to clash with the police. It happened at Pallabi in Dhaka . Later the electricity minister had to resign for that and the whole ruling body became controversial with the issue. In addition, the incident in Kansat related to electricity made us clear that the conspiracy involved in this sector. The concerned quarter believes that if the supply of the electricity can be controlled the industrialization of Bangladesh can be stopped .While the request threw to keep remain the electricity bill , the authority ignored the request and increased the bill with the suggestion of some interest group.

In this regard we should take a vigorous step, for instance, nuclear power sector or such. But what will be the consequences? Answer can be found from the experience of Islamic Republic of Iran. Since Iran is a sovereign state- has the right to keep nuclear power project since it is available in the maximum number of the countries in the worlds is faced a tremendous pressure from the nuclear arms aided western countries, specially America and local watchdog Israel . Recently the diplomats from some countries have decided to impose sanction against Iran since Iran has not stopped nuclear plant.

Although it is the legitimate right of Iran is threatened by the arrogant states to halt the prosperity of the country. In the case for Bangladesh if we take the same step for the maximum development other than the micro credit ,it may be faced the same consequences.
So it is the prime time to the international community to be united against the conspiracy to be self sufficient in the power or fuel sector despite the stant of the arrogant states .

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Self sufficiency in Middle Eastern Diplomacy

BM Analaysis,9 February,2007, Dhaka :

T he self sufficiency in the Middle East diplomacy is evident following the Mecca Conference to stop civil war between HAMAS and FATAH of Palestinian.On February 8, 2007 the two parties continued their second day long conference to attain national unity Government.

Following the clashes between the two factions, the Saudi King Abdullah invited the leaders of the both parties in quest to end the violence.Nearly thirty activists of the both parties died following the bloody conflict.In the same way Egypt and Syria tried to negotiate, however, their efforts had little success. Lastly the Saudi King's effort might bring fruitful outcome.The most interesting thing is that these are the regional diplomatic efforts to end the crisis whereas the Middle Easterners were faced to the west. Their self -sufficiency in the diplomacy might impact other part of the world, basically to the Muslim world.

 

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Khilafah Conference in Sydney on 28th January 2007

BM Desk-24,2007:

Muslim community in Australia arranging Khilafah Conference on 28 th January 2007 at Lakemba in Sydney . After a long debate the Government approved to arrange this conference. A group of Muslims in and around Australia ,inshallah, participate in the conference .Although the whole program schedule has not yet been achieved we can expect the conference shall focus the problems of Muslim countries mainly the Middle East , Afghanistan, Sudan ,Somali crisis .Even the conference shall concentrate the local Australian issue regards to the Muslims in Australia. It is well- established that Muslim community in Australia has great contribution to the prosperity of Australia . We expect the conference shall focus the issue i.e. the immigration law and racial treatment to the community that is widely discussed in the country. In addition, the conference can call on Australia to abandon from the imperialistic role towards Muslim world. The program shall be web casting .The details can be achieved from the web:

www.risala.org/Khilafah-conference

Clock wise : poster, Mosque at Lakemba ,Mosque at Auburn,Aussie wearing Australian flag.

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USA 's 'feminist juggling diplomacy': where's the end?

 BM research:

The banner that is used in the site depicted from the International Time magazine's article core teaching which unveiled the black chapter of the USA diplomacy in Iraq . The article published under the banner “A Man You Could Do Business With” written by TED GUP. Time published the article on March 11, 1991. To make the effective relation with the USA we should read the article for avoiding the misunderstanding for the diplomatic relations between the countries, especially in the case for Bangladesh .

The part of the article:

“……. If the U.S was slow to discern Saddam's intentions, Saddam was worse at understanding the U.S .He knew little of America and drew many a false conclusion .U.S. Ambassador Glaspie told State Department colleagues how Saddam had marveled at some earthworks constructed in Iraq by Vietnamese workers. Saddam had been amazed that a Third World people could defeat a superpower and may have been emboldened by thought. He seemed to repeatedly conclude from America 's experience in the Vietnam War that the U.S. lacked will. “He thought he knew more about us than we knew about ourselves, and that was ultimately his most severe miscalculation “observes a senior State Department official.

But given the mixed signals the US was sending Saddam, no wonder he misread Washington 's intentions. On July 25, a week before the invasion Glaspie was summoned to a hasty meeting with Saddam even as his troops threatened the boarder with Kuwait .She told him, “We don't have much to say about Arab-Kuwait differences, like your border difference with Kuwait .” After the invasion Glaspie was severely criticized for her remarks, which were seen by much foreign policy analysis as having given Saddam a virtual green light for invasion. The criticism was misplaced. “She was an ambassador operating on the basis of instruction s.” says Representative Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East .

The mistake was compounded on July 31,two days before the invasion ,when Assistant Secretary of State of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs John Kelley told a congressional subcommittee, “ we have no defense –treaty relationships with any of the [gulf] countries .We have historically avoided taking a position on border disputes or on internal OPEC deliberations, but we have certainly ,as have all administrations ,resoundingly called for the peaceful settlement of disputes and differences in the region.” Says Hamilton …..

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US was not winning the war in Iraq-President Bush

Mr Bush also announced plans to expand the "stressed" US armed forces to deal with the long-term fight against terrorism.

In his search for a new strategy for Iraq , Mr Bush appeared to adopt the formula advanced by his top military adviser, General Peter Pace, to describe the situation in Iraq . "We're not winning, we're not losing," he told The Washington Post .

The assessment was a striking reversal for a President who, days before the November elections, declared: "Absolutely, we're winning."

In another turnaround, Mr Bush said he had ordered Defence Secretary Robert Gates to develop a plan to increase the troop strength of the army and marine corps, heeding warnings from the Pentagon and Capitol Hill that multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan were stretching the armed forces towards breaking point.

Mr Gates last night made a surprise visit to Baghdad to consult with US military commanders and Iraqi leaders, just two days after being sworn in.

"The whole purpose is to go out, listen to the commanders, talk to the Iraqis, see what I can learn," Mr Gates told reporters travelling with him. His goal, he said, was to "learn a lot".

The International Crisis Group released a report yesterday urging Washington to distance itself from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's beleaguered Government, which has failed to tackle sectarian militias, and reach out to US arch-foes Iran and Syria .

"Implementation of the various measures mapped out in this report is one last opportunity. It is at best a feeble hope," the ICG paper says.

"But it is the only hope to spare Iraq from an all-out disintegration, with catastrophic and devastating repercussions for all."

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sends Letter to American People

BM DESK,10 December,2006

 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a lengthy letter to the American people on 29th November addressing the American as "Noble nation'. It is the first attempt of President of Iran to make direct relation through letter whilst the first letter posted addressed to the US President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The President tried to find out the fields where the two nations can meet .In doing so he found out the field like God-fearing, truth-loving , justice-seeking, and dignity, respect and perfection haunter.

"Both greatly value and readily embrace the promotion of human ideals such as compassion, empathy, respect for the rights of human beings, securing justice and equity and defending the innocent and the weak against oppressors and bullies." He mentioned in the letter.

In the letter he mentioned the sufferings of the Palestenians and Lebanese and he supported Hezbollah and Hamas for their role to safeguard the right of the respctive countries.

The President claimed the US Governmen's responsibility for the long agony of the Iraqis
.In the time when the people around the world spiritually dipped in to the destruction, he reminded the Americans to follow the true path should be followed to safe guard the civilization.

"I am confident that you, the American people, will play an instrumental role in the establishment of justice and spirituality throughout the world," Ahmadinejad writes.

For the whole text please click ( You need to have PDF installed in the computer)
LETTER IN THE PDF

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Ben Bella lauds role of Lebanese Hizbollah

Algiers , Dec 5, IRNA

Algeria - Nasrallah - Meeting
The former Algerian president, Ahmad Ben Bella here Tuesday lauded the status and role of Lebanon's Hizbollah and said that 'if the late Egyptian president Abdel-Nasser had been alive, like me, he too would have taken pride in being a soldier of Hizbollah Chief Seyed Hassan Nasrallah and fight with Israel'.

He made the remark in a meeting with Iran's ambassador to Algiers, Hossein Abdi Abyaneh.

Ben Bella underlined that the only right approach towards the enemies is the one practiced by Hizbollah during the 33-day conflict, when they defended Lebanon against the aggression of the Zionist regime.

Describing Nasrallah as a prominent figure, he praised the courageous resistance of Lebanese people as well as the role and sacrifice of Hizbollah under the leadership of Nasrallah.

 

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THE NAKED FACE OF INTOLERANCE IN THE UK POLITICS

 

By Halima Columbo ** Freelance Writer — UK

The spotlight was on the Muslims, as if they alone were to blame for a lack of harmony in society

 

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was showing a group of Eastern European visitors around Manchester . They were the guests of the City Council, and they came from one of the small Baltic countries that had recently gained their independence from the USSR . One of these visitors turned to me and complimented me on the tolerance of Britain . Asking him what he meant, he waved his arm at the crowds of passers-by and said, "Look at all these Muslim women, just walking about the streets. In my country, this would not be allowed." He then went on to explain that he felt the British were able to tolerate difference because they felt secure due to their long democratic traditions and history as an independent island nation. If his theory was correct, then Britain 's confidence has been shaken recently.

Under Attack

The month of Ramadan has seen British Muslims under attack in the media and in the streets. It kicked off when Blackburn MP Jack Straw went public about his dislike of the face veil, calling it "a visible symbol of separation and difference." These few remarks unleashed a flood tide of anti-Muslim sentiment, which Tariq Ramadan has described as part of a generalized fostering of a "them versus us" attitude between Muslims and non-Muslims. This is clear from Straw's explanatory remarks to the Lancashire Evening Telegraph : "It was done out of respect for Islam — out of affection for the Muslim community ... but of concern too, especially about their future in our society".

Many Muslims in Blackburn and elsewhere in the UK are shocked that, despite that Muslims have lived in Blackburn for half a century, many of them having been born and bred here, their MP is still categorizing 30 percent of his constituents as outsiders with an uncertain future.

It is a classic example of blaming the victim. A number of recent reports indicate that intolerance, racism, and extremism are far more widespread among non-Muslim communities than among Muslims in the UK . Other reports detail the many barriers, disadvantages, and inequalities faced by Muslims in key policy areas such as the labor market. Despite these reports, Straw seemed to think that the issue worth talking about was the decision of perhaps one percent of Muslim women in the UK to wear the full veil.

Jack Straw was supported by his colleagues including Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, and Tony Blair, who described the veil as "a mark of separation." Shadow Home Secretary David Davis also chimed in criticizing the Muslims for "imposing a voluntary apartheid." A week later, the whole veil debate received fresh impetus when Phil Woolas, the minister with responsibility for community cohesion, called for a veiled class assistant in Dewsbury to be dismissed on the grounds that by wearing the veil she had put herself in a position where she can't do her job. He argued that the veil as an assertion of identity "can create fear and resentment" among non-Muslims, leading to discrimination and benefiting the British National Party (BNP). The views of the politicians were quickly taken up in the media. The Daily Express conducted a poll as part of a campaign to ban the veil, which revealed that 98 percent of readers wanted to ban the veil "to safeguard racial harmony."

Wave of Islamaphobic attacks

This was then quickly followed by a government proposal, later rejected by the House of Lords, to compel faith schools to take up to 25 percent of pupils from different faiths, in a bid that was clearly targeted at Muslim schools following criticisms a year ago that Muslim schools posed a threat to our "coherence as a nation" by the Chief Inspector of Schools in England Ian Bell. Yet another announcement reported that the government is asking lecturers and university staff to spy on Asian-looking and Muslim students for suspected involvement in Islamic extremism.

Thus the debate quickly widened from being about the veil to being about suspicion of Muslims generally living in "parallel communities.” If there was an incident to portray Muslims in a negative light, the media seized on it, such as the Muslim taxi cab driver who refused to take a blind woman on the grounds that her dog was "unclean." In contrast, the arrest of a BNP candidate for Lancashire for having the largest cache of chemical weapons ever found in the UK only made the local press. Even when the BBC admitted bias against Christians, it was somehow twisted to imply favoritism to Muslims with the deputy director-general being asked whether the BBC favors Islam and whether he would ever employ a newsreader in a veil.

The spotlight was firmly on the Muslims, as if they and they alone were to blame for a lack of harmony in society. But what about other communities who choose to live close together, such as the Jews of Stamford Hill or the Chinese of China Town? Why is it that Muslims are singled out for doing the same thing? What about the phenomenon of "white flight" —white families moving out when other people move in — which Trevor Phillips, chair of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) identifies as the fundamental cause of segregation in the UK?

Blaming the Muslims also runs contrary to a Lancaster University research project that found that Muslim children in Burnley are far more tolerant of other faiths and races than white children. Burnley is just down the road from Jack Straw's constituency and the same place that the chemical weapons hoard was found. Surely Jack should be raising his voice about these issues? Or maybe he should be concerned about the Joseph Rowntree Trust survey in April that found that 25 percent of the white populations in Britain as a whole were considering voting for the racist BNP?

It would have been greatly appreciated by Britain 's beleaguered Muslims if the politicians and media had at least condemned the wave of Islamaphobic attacks that inevitably followed their official pronouncements. The BNP was jubilant, releasing a mail shot including a photo of a veiled woman. A number of Muslim women were shouted at in the street and intimidated; some had their scarves forcibly removed. The number of attacks on mosques and homes has risen, a 53-year-old imam was beaten up, and there was even a drive-by shooting in Oxbridge where a family was shot at while out shopping.

The most disconcerting thing about all these shenanigans is that they felt orchestrated. If this was an intentionally manufactured crisis, then the responsibility for the upsurge in hate crime lies squarely at Labour's door. Was it because they were piqued that many solid Labour-voting Muslims deserted them in the last elections because of their disgust with Labour foreign policy? Or was it because they wanted to capitalize on the upsurge in support for the BNP — always a dangerous but popular card for politicians to play. I sincerely hope not. But if it just came about by coincidence, then surely we must learn from its consequences of the need to choose our words carefully, to avoid fanning the flames of bigotry, or we risk losing the cherished tolerance that our Baltic visitor so admired. And that is something I think we would all regret.

 

**  Halima Columbo embraced Islam in 1990. After obtaining a bachelor's in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University , she worked as a researcher in local community and economic development, with a particular interest in holistically interpreting and managing social change. She lives on the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire , formerly the cradle of the industrial revolution and battleground for working and welfare rights, now center stage for a new battle for tolerance and community cohesion .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
   
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