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Subject: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS  (1/28/93)
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                     ISLAMC WORLD NEWS (1/28/93)
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BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
Fighting between the Croats and Serbs in Croatia's Krajina region
has provided a breathing space for the beleaguered Bosnians in
their own country.
The UN and the Europeans are spewing fire because the Croats have
not adhered to the ceasefire agreement. Their real concern is that
it puts pressure on the Serbs who are the west's darling.
The Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army has been put on full alert
and there were reports of clashes between the Serbian army and
Bosnia's Territorial Defence Forces on Bosnia's eastern border 
with Serbia.
The Serbs were trying to move their forces and equipment to
Croatia through Bosnia but have been unable to do so for now.
Meanwhile, the talks going on in Geneva under the UN/EC auspices
appear deadlocked despite a clear case of rewarding the aggressors
for their crimes. The plan will divide Bosnia-Hercegovina into
ten autonomous provinces.
According to this plan, the Serbs who constitute only 30 percent of
Bosnia's population will get nearly 50 percent of its territory;
the Bosnians will get only 28 percent for a population of 51 percent
while the Croats will keep the rest.
The fiction of a unified Bosnia is being maintained by a foreign
ministry that will represent all the people of Bosnia.
Since all groups will have their own independent militias, the idea
of a unified State will exist only on paper.

IRAQ
After playing cat-and-mouse with the US for two weeks in which US,
British and French planes bombed large parts of Iraq again, Saddam 
Husain, the Iraqi dictator, submitted meekly to western
demands.
Tarik Yohannes Aziz, a Christian and Iraq's deputy prime minister,
announced that Iraq would observe a unilateral ceasefire even in
the "no-fly" zones in southern and northern Iraq. And that allied
planes would not be fired upon.
Further, that the Iraqi regime was now prepared to cooperate fully
with UN inspectors. Aziz also stated that Iraq did not want to be
in a state of continuous confrontation with the US. He hoped that
the gesture of goodwill offered by Iraq to the new American
administration will be reciprocated.
UN inspectors, meanwhile are in Baghdad and are examining
everything virtually with a microscope. They have said that Iraq
has given them 90 percent of the information; they demand the
other 10 percent as well.
The game that is being played is likely to bolster Saddam's
standing among the Muslim masses who are extremely frustrated
over US imperialistic policies in the region.
The entire showdown is enacted to enhance Saddam's image while at 
the same time, it is intended to deliver a message to the Muslims that
they must submit to US dictates.

UZBEKISTAN
Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, appears determined to
crush all opposition to his regime.
Moulded in the old communist style, Karimov has used the country's
supreme court to silence members of the opposition and to terrorise
them into submission.
Birlik (unity), the main opposition party, was banned on January 19
for three months. It was accused of planning to organize a
demonstration against the government! What should an opposition
party do?
On January 26, Abdoumanob Pulatov, a leader of Birlik, was hauled
before the supreme court, and accused of insulting Karimov. This most
bizarre charge carries a maximum sentence of six years and the chances
are that poor Pulatov will be sent away for that period.
The charge emerges from an equally bizarre episode at Tashkent
University a year ago. The government has charged that Pulatov 
had handed a placard to a student. The placard had Karimov's picture
and carried a caption: "Here is a beast that devours its own
children."
While a strong case could be made for the truth of this statement,
Karimov appears determined to exact revenge, from someone, anyone.
In court, the government's witnesses contrdicted themselves but
it did not matter.
Respect for the rule of law is not a strong point of the communist
old guard.
The real purpose of the trial is to silence all members of the
opposition. There is total chaos in the republic; the economic
situation is getting desperate but Karimov appears determined
not to allow any  criticism of his government's handling of
it.
A number of opposition figures have been picked up by the secret
police in recent days and spirited away. None of them has been heard
from ever since.
Old-style fascism is alive and well in Uzbekistan under Islam
Karimov. L
Communism appears determined to make a last stand there.


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            THE DUALITY OF THE PALESTINIAN ISSUE
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              ISLAM, AL-INTIFADHAH, THE FUTURE
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By Imam Mohammed H. Asi

Part II

               RACISM AND NATIONALISM UNDO THE UMMAH 

     With the arrogant and exclusivist `theories' of racism,
nationalism, lingualism, regionalism, ethnicism, as
harbingers for the ultimate: Israeli Zionism, the once
inclusivist `Muslims' began to convince themselves of their
own racialism, nationalism, lingualism, ethnicism, etc... A
process of `ideological revolutions' swept through the
Muslim realm throughout the past two hundred years or so to
convince the Muslims that they are intrinsically superior
due to language, race or any other self-centered feature.
The concept of a united Muslim ummah was to crumble because
the constituents of this ummah began to harbor the `we/they'
bug.  When the dust settled after WW I the Muslim hemisphere
of the world was gripped by Iblisi administrations, each
claiming its own brand of superiority or supremacy. This in
actual fact constituted the first concrete gesture of
recognition to the yet unhatched Israel. Not only were the
Muslim lands parcelled into disjoined and incompatible
"Israel" (remember Israel is the Idea of particularism on 
natural cum ideological basis). The whole world, after WW I
was politically decimated to correspond with the psychology
of the conquerors. Henceforth the nation state became the
mode and model which set the international stage for the
birth of the "Israel" in 1948. It should come as no surprise
that the "United Nations" (in this context to chorus voice
of Iblis) gave a birth certificate to "Israel" in 1948, as
the new post WW I and WW II world order was for years now
pregnant with one of its own. Other nation-states which
objected to this "Israel" were defeating their own selves. A
fact that Egyptians finally discovered, but instead of
undoing their nation-state bondage they capitulated to it by
what is known as the Camp David accord. And as not to
confuse you, the Syrians are worst yet, as they are in a
rhetorical war which periodically and conveniently turns
debilatingly violent against a Hebrew Israel in Support of
an Arab Israel!
     The "Israeli spirit" is at work today in the Arab
regimes. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, & Lebanon, just to name the 
immediate ones, are very poor duplicates of the "Israel".
Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and what ever is left of a Lebanon are
all at war with the Palestinians, not as a national entity,
but as a supra national potential. After 41 years of bloody
proof it is naive and foolish to continue to draw a line
between the Israel in the Holy Land and the Israels around
it.

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      The newly established INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF
INC. (IMR) is conducting an aggressive campaign to help the
children of war in Bosnia Hercegovina. The sisters &
brothers involved in this project are planing to build an
orphanage and provide the needed medical assistance. You can
help by volunteering, sending medicines, and/or sending your
tax deductible donations to:
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF;
     Medical Fund
     235 Dixon Road, Suite 100 
     Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada M9P 2M5
     Tel. (416) 240-0570 Fax (416) 240-1728

     Bosnian Children Fund
     77 Pelham Road,
     St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 1S3
     Tel. (416) 685-6579 Fax (416) 685-3730
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