From: imnet2@max.u.washington.edu
Subject: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS (11th)
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:49:46 GMT

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*     IN THIS ISSUE:                                                 *
*                   - NEWS UPDATE (SEP. 11th)                        *
*                   - ISLAM & REVOLUTION (Part III)                  *
*                             By Imam Mohammed H. Asi                *
*                   - ANNOUNCEMENTS                                  *
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AFGHANISTAN
President Burhanuddin Rabbani of Afghanistan demanded war
reparations from Russia for the death and destruction caused
in Afghanistan during the period 1979 to 1989. He said that
1.5 million Afghans were killed and millions uprooted by the Red
Army which also left behind 10 million mines. President Rabbani was
addressing the non-aligned summit meeting in Jakarta, Indinesia, on
September 5.

BANGLADESH
Begum Khaleda Zia, the prime minister of Bangladesh, dissolved on
September 7 the central committee of her party's student front and
ordered it to suspend its activities at Dhaka University.
Rival factions in the group fought a pitched battle in which
two students were killed on September 4.

BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
The Serbs in Bosnia have 300 tanks, 200 armoured personnel
carriers and between 700 to 800 pieces of heavy artillery,
according to classified US intelligence reports.
The Bosnian defenders, on the other hand, have two tanks, two armoured
personnel carriers and less than two dozen artillery pieces.
While there is a UN arms embargo on all the former Yugoslav republics,
the Serbs get their supplies from the Serbian government and the
stockpiles of the Yugoslav army.
The Bosnians are prevented from getting any supplies as was
evident when a plane load of weapons was seized at Zagreb airport by
the Croatian authorities on September 4.
The plane, an Iran Air 747 was believed to be delivering weapons to
the Bosnians through Croatia. This was reported by The New York Times
on September 10. Last month, French reports also mentioned help from
the Iranians and the Turks for the besieged Muslims in
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
While pretending to be allied to the Bosnians, the Croatians have
their own plans for Bosnia's carve-up.

THE CAUCASUS
Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, met president
Abulfaz Elchibey of Azerbaijan in Baku on September 8 and also
attended the ceremonial signing of an agreement between the republic
and British Petroleum. Though not controlled by the communists, the
present government in Azerbaijan is dominated by nationalists who
are closely aligned with Kemalist Turkey.

LEBANON
The Hizbullah and Amal both scored massive gains in the
first ever elections in Lebanon in 20 years.
The elections were held on three consecutive Sundays starting
on August 20.
Of the 128 seats, the following was a rough breakdown:
Amal - 18 seats; Hizbullah - 12 seats; Selim al-Hoss (former prime
minister) bloc - 15 seats; Mar Karami (another former PM) bloc - 11
seats; Michel al-Murr (defence minister & Christian) bloc - 8 seats.
Bahiya al-Hariri, sister of Rafiq al-Hariri, the Saudi-Lebanese
millionaire, became the first woman to be elected to the
Lebanese parliament.
The Christian parties, like the Phalange, fearing that they will be
defeated, boycotted the polls. Amin Jumayyil, the former Maronite
president, even appealed in an article in the New York Times
(September 3), calling upon the US government to prevent the
elections from taking place.
Most Christians, however, ignored such rantings and went ahead.
59 Christians were elected, some on Muslim party tickets, but most
as independents, to the new parliament.
Lebanon had been ruled under a French-imposed arrangement, called
al-Mithaq al-Watani (the National Charter) since 1943. In that
year, the French had held a census and any subsequent censuses
forbidden, to claim that the Muslim and Christian population
of Lebanon was equal and therefore must share power equally.
This in itself was an un-equal arrangement since in a cabinet of
11 members, six important portfolios were always controlled by
the Christians.
Thus, the president always had to be a Maronite Christian; the
prime minister a Sunni Muslim and speaker of the assembly, a
Shi'i Muslim. The defence portfolio and that of the army chief
were also controlled by the Christians.
By popular consent, the Muslims constitute nearly 65 percent of
the population but they have been denied a fair share of power
in the government.
The civil war in Lebanon, deliberately started by the Christian
warlord, Suleiman Franjieh (who finally died last month, age 82!),
lasted for 15 years because the Christians did not want the
country to settle down and have a political agreement. They
would have lost the privileges they have enjoyed for so
long.
At long last, these may be coming to an end.

The Middle East
Two members of Islamic movement and elected members of parliament in Jordan,
Laith Shbeilat and Yacoub Karash, were arrested by the Jordanian security
forces on charges of possessing explosives.
Yacoub Karash was arrested on August 26, only on suspicion that he
may have possessed explosives. Laith Shbeilat was charged by the
Jordanian security court on September 4 of possessing explosive.
In the past members of the Islamic movement have helped take arms
into Palestine to support the struggle against zionist occupation
but for the subservient Jordanian regime, struggle against the
zionist occupiers in treason.

Meanwhile, a struggle of a different kind is being waged by
members of the Gulf Cooperation Council whose members include
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Oman.
Abdullah Bishara, the secretary general of the GCC called
upon the six member States to boycott 487 Egyptian writers,
artists and lawyers for criticising Kuwait during the Iraqi
invasion of August 1990.
The GCC took no such stand against Salman Rushdie, the murtad,
following his blasphemous attacks upon the noble messenger of Allah.
In fact, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia own shares in the parent
companies -- Pearson and Dalton China, for instance --
that own the publishing company, Penguin, which produced
Rushdie's filth.

OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Kazakhastan has assured Israel that it will not allow its nuclear
arsenal to be sold to anyone, especially any Muslim country.
The assurance was given by Sergei Tereschenko, the Kazakh prime
minister during a visit to Israel on September 7.
Tereschenko was on a three-day visit to the zionist State.
The two countries have already signed about $65 million worth of
agricultural agreements. Israeli companies are operating in Kazakhstan
to set up agricultural ventures.
The US, too, is helping Israel is to penetrate the Central Asia market.

In the 'Promised Land' meanwhile, Ethiopian Jews, called Falashas,
angry at being discriminated against, held a noisy demonstration
outside the prime minister's office in occupied Jerusalem
on September 6. They demanded recognition for their religious leaders
as well as jobs and housing. Most of the 14,000 Falashas live in
absorption centres where the conditions are pathetic.
Racism is also rampant in the zionist State where Judaism is used
only to justify the robbery of Palestinian lands. Otherwise, most of
the Jews -- zionists would be a more appropriate term because many
Jewish people too dissociate themselves from the racist zionist
ideology -- are racist in nature.
Their outlook is colored by the prevailing attitude of discrimination
against people of color. Russian and European Jews are the most racist.
This the Falashas are now finding to their cost.

PAKISTAN
Torrential rains in northern Pakistan from September 8 to 10 left
at least 700 people dead in villages in the Himalayan mountains on
both sides of Murree, the Hill station.
Rescue workers used speed-boats to help stranded people near Rawalpindi
and cities as far as Jhelum. The city, downstream of the Mangla dam,
was reported to be submerged six feet in water.
Muzaffarabad, capital of Azad Kashmir, was similarly submerged in water.
The Jhelum and Neelum rivers join at the entrance to Muzaffarabad
at the Quaid-e Azam bridge. Immediately inside the city is the
Al-Abbas Hotel.
The two rivers overflowed their banks and two floors of Al-Abbas Hotel
were submerged in water. The government of Azad Kashmir has declared
Muzaffarabad a disaster area and emergency supplies are being sent
by army helicopters.
All road communications with Murree and the rest of Pakistan have been
cut off because of mountain slides. Many villages have simply
disappeared. Once the rescue workers reach remote villages, the
death toll could be higher.
The government of Pakistan has also declared emergency in many areas.
The country's cotton crop, one of the main foreign exchange earner, has
been wiped out.

SOUTH AFRICA
More than 10,000 people, mostly Muslims, participated in a rally in
Cape Town, earlier this month to express their support for the struggling
people of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Algeria, Kashmir and Palestine. They also
wanted to draw attention to the plight of the suffering humanity in
Somalia. 

GERMANY
Right-wing hooligans, neo-Nazis, in several German cities have been
on a rampage attacking hostels for immigrants.
The violence against immigrants has been going on for more than 10 days
since it started earlier this month. Quedlinburg, Waren and
Duesseldorf, among other cities, have been particularly hard-hit.

BRITAIN
Touche Ross, liquidators of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International
(BCCI) won a high court order in London to obtain documents seized from
the homes of three former senior executives. The documents were confiscated
by police from the London homes of Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI's founder,
Swaleh Naqvi, a former chief executive, and Zafar Iqbal, a former deputy
chief executive. The papers may shed light on 'problem loans' the bank
had. Depositors of the failed bank are seeking compensation for their
money in the bank.
The bank's major shareholder, Shaikh Zayd bin Sultan al-Nahyan, has
offered to settle with the depositor for $1.6 billion provided they
agree to relinquish all claims against the bank and major shareholders
in the future.
The possession of hitherto secret papers may shed light on how
some British banking officials and others dealt with the BCCI
affair.
Whether the depositors will get anything is another point.
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                    ISLAM AND REVOLUTION

By Imam Mohammed H. Asi

Part III
     
     The   revolutionary    language   of   the   Quran   is
unmistakable. It  frankly -  like all revolutionary guides -
assails them  by saying:  "Verily,  you  and  all  that  you
obey/worship instead of Allah are but the fuel of hell: That
is what you are destined for" [21:98]
     Then the  revolutionary spirit  in the Quran goes on to
assail fiercely  usury,  which  was  the  oppressive,  money
generating mechanism  of the  Qureishi power structure: "And
(remember); whatever  you may  give out  in usury so that it
might increase  through (other)  people's  possessions  will
bring (you) no increase in the sight of Allah. . . " [30:39]
     The  revolutionary   justice  in  the  following  ayahs
threaten those mercantile elements: "Woe unto those who give
short measure; those who, when they are to receive their due
from (other)  people, demand  that it  be given in full. But
when they  have to  measure or  weigh whatever  they owe  to
others, give less than what is due!" [83:1-3]

     Was it  prudent for the divine script to antagonize the
financial tycoons,  the  multi-national  merchants  and  the
religious establishment  within the Qureishi power structure
all at  once!? Of course our present day `Islamists' who are
busy enjoying  the claim that they are the true `Sunnis' and
thus causing  a spurious  commotion in  the Muslims  because
they are  following the policies, precedents, and procedures
of the  beloved messenger  (PBUH). The consequences of these
divine revolutionary  guidelines were  an  increase  in  the
Qureishi   persecution   of   Muslims.   The   revolutionary
guidelines were  an increase  in the Qureishi persecution of
Muslims.  The   revolutionary  students  and  companions  of
Mohammed (PBUH)  were tortured,  but  did  not  leave  their
torture chambers  convinced that the only way to power is by
joining the  Qureishi power  structure and  changing it from
within.   They did  not depart  their torture  sessions  and
incarceration cells  convinced of  the fact that they had to
ally themselves  with the devil to undermine the aristocracy
of Qureish.  They graduated  from their torture chambers and
solitary   confinements   with   a   fervent   revolutionary
conviction that  Allah will  deliver them; either to worldly
power or to heavenly peace: "Patience, O Household of Yasir,
for your rendezvous is paradise."  [Hadith]
     Quraish instigated  policies of boycotts and embargoes;
it  activated   its  mouthpieces   and  media   against  the
revolutionary impulse  of the  emissary and his deen, but he
continued to criticize them and he continued his ideological
and political  struggle to  undermine the  prevailing Meccan
order. The  revolutionary thrust  of  Islam  was  his  prime
concern. He  made no  bones  about  it  He  did  not  imply,
suggest, give  in, or buckle under. He did not discriminate,
nor did  he fawn,  inspite  of  the  tremendous  barrage  of
affliction  coming   from  Qureish.  Remember,  he  was  one
individual,  unarmed,  unassisted  and  unsupported  by  any
secular power center.
     At the  beginning  of  the  Wahyi  [revelation],  Allah
imparts this  revolutionary directive to his dear messenger:
"O you  (in your solitude) enfolded! Arise and war! And your
sustainer's greatness  glorify! And thine inner self purify!
And all  defilement shun!  And do  not through  giving  seek
thyself to  gain, but  unto thy  sustainer turn in patience.
And  warn   all  people   that  when   the  trumpet-call  of
resurrection is  sounded, that  very day  shall be  a day of
anguish, not  of ease,  for all  who  now  deny  the  truth!
[74:10]
     And indeed,  the  obedient  revolutionary  follows  the
orders of  the only sovereign in man's life and he calls for
an assembly  of people. The people gather and are anxious to
listen to what `The Truthful' and the `veracious' (as he was
known) had  to say. At 40 years of age they only knew him to
be honest and sincere. After they assembled, he asks them if
they ever  had known  him to  make a  false statement? Their
answer was  no, Then  he asks  them what  if he were to tell
that there  is impending  enemy beyond  this mount  (he  was
addressing them  from an  elevated position  on a  mountain)
would they  believe him? they said yes they would. So he, in
the best  of revolutionary  candor, communicated to them the
message of  Allah, and  that he  is appointed  by God  as  a
messenger, that they should denounce the power, overlordship
and aura  of everyone  and everything,  and that they should
ascribe these attributes to Allah.
     Upon  catching  the  intent  and  the  extent  of  this
revolutionary  and   ideological  statement,  Abu  Lab,  the
Messenger's uncle, viciously symptomatically reacted as most
with a  vested interest  in the  status quo would. Abu Lahab
said: "Wretched  are your hands, O Mohammed! Is this why you
have called us to this meeting?"
     Now, if  we were  to think that the Quran is a passive,
neutral,  apologetic,   otherworldly   or   in   any   sense
nonrevolutionary text  then a  statement such as Abu Lahab's
would not  invoke an eternal divine reply. But subsequent to
that  Abu  Lahab  statement,  the  Quran  responded  in  its
revolutionary tone:  "Doomed are  the hands  of him  of  the
glowing countenance,  and doomed is he! What will his wealth
avail him,  and all  that he has gained? In the life to come
he shall  have to  endure a  fiercely glowing fire, together
with his  wife, that carrier of evil tales, who bears around
her neck a rope of twisted strands!?" [surah 111]
     What is significant beside the fact that the dignity of
Mohammed (PBUH) and Islam were not to go unnoticed by divine
attention is  the second  sentence: "What  will  his  wealth
avail him,  and all that he has gained?"  This sentence cuts
down the  Abu Lahabs  to their  correct size.  The money and
possessions of  this bourgeois is and will be of no value or
comfort. Certainly  Abu Lahab  could have been denounced for
his harsh  words or  his shirk  or  kufr,  but  the  Quran's
revolutionary cadence  marches to  the core of the issue; in
this case it is the affluence and wealth of this capitalist.
And as  the case  is with  money-mongers most  of the  times
their interests  do not  recognize nephews  or sons when the
issue has to do with financial prosperity.
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