From: ztm36307@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T. Minhas)
Subject: Re: BOSNIA ----- need to place message on MSA and MNN
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:29:41 GMT

In article <1ejkioINNkj5@life.ai.mit.edu> Pervaiz Hasan <P.Hasan@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>We have all witnessed, on our television sets, the persecution and murder of
>Muslims in Bosnia. We have become accustomed to hearing about the annihilation
>that is taking place there on a daily basis. One aspect which never fails to
>shock us, however, is the rape and abuse of our Muslim sisters. Some of these
>girls are only seven years old; north-east of Mostar, the Chetniks have made a
>habit of hanging on branches the dresses of the little girls they rape.
>
>Francine Proulx, a French humanitarian aid worker, recounted the tale of an 18
>year old Muslim girl who was kidnapped by Serbian soldiers. She was frequently
>sodomized by her captors. She was given no food or water; the soldiers made
>her drink drink their urine. She was kept bound and blind folded; they only
>fed her if she could correctly guess, from an identity parade, which soldier
>had sodomized her.
>There has been countless number of similarly disgusting (and even worse)
>incidents reported from all over Bosnia. These brutal acts are often performed
>publicly if front of the victim's parents, family and neighbours.
>
>Try and imagine how you would feel if it was your sister that was stripped
>naked and thrown to the floor. Imagine her screams as the kuffar take turns to
>rape her. Imagine trying to struggle to stop her tormentors. Imagine them
>crashing their rifle butts on your nose and cheek bones, your eye falls out of
>its socket, and they continue until you are senseless or dead. This is the
>reality of the situation facing our Muslim sisters and brothers in Bosnia. Why
>have these savage and inhuman acts not been prevented? Why has the rape of our
>sisters gone unanswered? Who will fight for the dignity and honour of the
>Muslims?
>
>There is only one solution. Allah (SWA) has ordered us :
>
>  "Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but do not provoke
>   hostility. Slay them wherever you come upon them and expel them from
>   they have expelled you"
>   [2:190]
>
>  "And the one who attacked you, attack him, in like manner as he 
>   attcked you"
>   [2:194]
>
>  "O you who believe! Fight against the disbelievers who besiege you, 
>   and let them find harshness in you; and know that Allah is with those 
>   who fear him"
>   [9:123]
>
>This fighting is jihad. To undertake this fighting, we need an army. we have
>many armies. Across the Muslim world, we have millions of Muslim soldiers
>sitting in their barracks. They surely feel as fustrated as we do that their
>rulers prevent them from doing their duty. Our shameless rulers refuse to heed
>the command of Allah (SWA) and send their soldiers to liberate the Muslims from
>their suffering. Allah (SWA) has warned us about those who disobey Him:
>
>   "Those who do not rule what Allah has revealed are
>    disbelievers....oppressors......transgressors"
>    [5:44 - 47]
>
>   "Have you seen those who claim that they believe in the revelation 
>    revealed to you and the revelation revealed earlier? They resort 
>    together for judgement to the evil (taghut), although they have 
>    been ordered to reject it"
>    [4:60]
>
>It is very obvious that the rulers of the Muslim lands intend to stand by and
>let the kuffar mercilessly wreak their havoc and oppression on the Muslims.
>However, just because they refuse to do their duty, we must not fail in
>completing our duty. Allah (SWA) says :
>
>   "you (the Muslims) are the best of all nations, raised for mankind. You
>    enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil"
>    [3:110]
>
>The Prophet (SAW) said:
>
>   "Perform jihad against the disbelievers, with your wealth, your souls, and
>    you tongue"
>
>   "The best jihad is to speak up for truth in the face of a leader who
>    deviates from the right path"
>
>We can speak out against our leaders and our governments. We can remind them
>of their duty. We can attempt to put pressure on them publicly to obey the
>commands of Allah(SWA). We implore you take this duty very seriously and
>struggle in the way prescribed by Allah (SWA). May He gran the Muslims a
>victory soon.
>
>
>		           DEMONSTRATE !
>
>	Join the rally to protest to the Saudis, Syrians & Turks.
>
>	These cowardly & unjust regimes have much needed manpower
>	& resources, yet they hinder the Muslims from victory.
>
>
>	Date:  Wednesday, 25 Nov, 1992
>
>	Venue: Saudi Embassy, 30 Belgrave Square London, SW1.
>
>	Time:  2:15 pm
>
>	organised by: Imperial College Islamic Soc.
>
>	Contact Salman: 071 589 5111 ext 5230
>
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>
>Jazakallah Khair
>
>Pervaiz Hasan (UCL).
>


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