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Subject: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS (13th)
Date: 14 Oct 1992 02:20:08 -0500
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!                   * ISLAM AND REVOLUTION                                     !
!                             By Imam Mohammed H. Asi                          !
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        EGYPT
        An earthquake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, rocked
        Cairo on October 12 causing widespread damage and
        destruction.
        According to initial estimates, at least 370 people were
        reported killed when several apartment buildings collapsed
        in downtown Cairo.
        A number of schools were also destroyed, killing a number of
        children. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt cut short a visit
        to China to oversea rescue operations.
        A number of countries have offered to help with the rescue
        effort.

        KUWAIT
        The US used strong arm tactics to secure a $4 billion
        contract to supply tanks to Kuwait. US president George
        Bush, vice president Dan Quayle and defence secretary Dick
        Cheney, are all reported to have exerted pressure on Shaikh
        Jaber al-Sabah, the amir of Kuwait, to purchase the US-
        manufactured Abrahms M1-A2 tank instead of the British-
        manufactured, Challenger tank.
        The deal involves the sale of 236 tanks as well as supply of
        spare parts and maintenance.
        In the last few weeks, the US has been pushing hard to sell
        its weapons of mass destruction to the tin-pot dictators
        in the Middle East.
        Last month, the US announced its intention to sell 72 F-15
        planes to Saudi Arabia, estimated to bring in more than
        $5 billion.
        Bush has been pushing for arms sales as part of his campaign
        strategy to "save jobs", as he puts it. While the sales may
        save jobs, the recipients -- the Arab potentates -- can only
        use these weapons against fellow Muslims. The pathetic state
        of the Kuwaiti army was demonstrated in the August 1990
        Iraqi invasion when the "royal family" and the army were the
        first to flee.
        Resistance to Iraqi occupation was offered not by the army
        but by the ordinary people of Kuwait. These people have now
        been brushed aside.
        Since the early seventies, the oil-rich Arab States,
        especially Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab
        Emirates, have purchased several hundred billion dollars
        worth of weapons but when it comes to an emergency, they are
        not even capable of defending themselves. In the seventies,
        these weapons were purchased under the spurious excuse that
        they face a threat from Israel.
        While the Israeli threat was a genuine one; it continues to
        be today, but the weapons are not being acquired to fight
        the zionist occupiers of Palestine. In fact, all the Arab
        regimes without exception, are lining up to sign the treaty
        of surrender, abandoning the Palestinians. The weapons that
        these regimes are acquiring will be used against fellow
        Muslims.
        First, these were used against Iran by supplying them to the
        Ba'thist regime in Iraq. Once that war ended, and Saddam
        Husain of Iraq began to threaten his fellow Arabs, these
        weapons were turned on Iraq.
        The US was invited to slaughter 500,000 people in Iraq but
        Saddam survived. The Arab regimes all lined up behind the US
        paying more than $84 billion in cash and costing them a
        total of $620 billion in one year [as per the annual report
        of the Arab Monetary Fund, released last month].
        Is there any reason to believe that these regime will behave
        or operate any differently today than they did yesterday?
        From the evidence available, they will continue to throw
        billions of dollars of their country's wealth to buy US
        scrap metal, otherwise called weapons, whose only function
        is to kill Muslims.
        Perhaps the sale of US tanks to Kuwait will also be used by the
        zionists to extract more money and weapons from America.
        Last month when the sale of 72 planes was announced to Saudi
        Arabia, there was an immediate hue and cry about
        "compensating" Israel. One wonders when has the rag-tag army
        or airforce of Saudi Arabia posed a threat to Israel? The
        Saudi armed forces are only used for killing Muslims, they
        are not capable of confronting the zionists; they are not
        meant for that anyway.

        OCCUPIED PALESTINE
        The zionist occupation forces killed at least two
        Palestinians and have injured more than 200 in four days of
        protests in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
        The Palestinians had joined rallies in support of the
        estimated 12,000 Palestinian prisoners who were and are
        being mistreated in the desert concentration camps. The
        prisoners had gone on a two-week hunger strike to demand
        treatment as human beings.
        They are subjected to the worst kind of
        torture and physical abuse and degrading treatment.
        Some of the prisoners ended their hunger strike on October
        11 after the zionist occupiers promised to improve the
        living conditions in the camps.
        The worst camp seems to be the Ketziot concentration camp in
        the Negev desert. Outside observers are not allowed to visit
        the  camp. Family visits are severely restricted. Many of
        the detainees, held without charge or trial, are routinely
        humiliated and tortured.
        Even Israeli human rights groups have condemned the barbaric
        practices of the zionist forces.
        Israel was forced to make some concessions because the so-
        called "peace-talks" are due to begin again on October 21 in
        Washington DC. The Palestinians would have boycotted these
        talks causing an embarrassment for the zionists.
        The concessions given to the Palestinian detainees are
        clearly only a temporary phenomenon. This is a route that
        the Palestinian strugglers are quite familiar with, but they
        are prepared to fight every inch of the way.
        Every little victory is important because it demoralises the
        enemy that is both ruthless and cunning.

        BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA
        A day after the security council passed a resolution banning
        Serbian military flights over Bosnia, the Serbs defied the
        ban by bombing Gradacac.
        Late in the evening of October 9, the security council
        passed a mild resolution but avoided specifying any mechanism
        to enforce the flight-ban or what to do if the Serbs defied
        it.
        Muhammad Sacirbey, Bosnia's ambassador at the UN, pointed
        out that the Serbs will continue to defy the flight ban
        because there is no mechanism for enforcement. Only a few
        hours after he spoke, Serbian airforce planes took off from
        Banja Luka and bombed the town of Gradacac in northern
        Bosnia.
        The security council just watched its resolution shredded to
        pieces by the Serbian fascists. This is a game that the
        security council has been playing with the lives of poor
        Bosnians.
        The same day, October 10, the Serbs attacked an orphanage in
        Sarajevo with mortars and grenades. Four young orphaned
        children were killed and at least 13 others were injured.
        The children were playing in the yard outside the
        orphanage building.
        For the Serbian fascists, everything in Bosnia is a
        legitimate target: be it a school, an office, an apartment
        building or even a cemetery. They take special pleasure in
        killing innocent people.
        An amateur Video prepared by a Muslim from England who
        visited Bosnia recently has captured horrific scenes of
        carnage at the hands of the Serbs.
        The video shows mutilated bodies, men with their throats
        slit, others with their bodies burned and left in twisted
        shapes and horrible scenes of death and destruction.
        Upon his return from Bosnia, the businessman made this video
        available to all the major television networks in Britain as
        well as to the officials of the British government.
        The British TV showed only unimportant segments of the
        carnage in Bosnia, completely ignoring the horrible scenes
        that the video depicts. The British politicians have been
        even more hypocritical. They are the ones who have blocked
        even such mild efforts as are being made at the UN to
        censure the Serbs.
        The CRESCENT INTERNATIONAL has obtained a copy of this
        video.
        It is available at $20 plus $5 for postage and handling.
        Proceeds from the sale of the video will go towards the
        Bosnian Relief Fund.
        Copies of the Video can be obtained by sending the
        appropriate amount to:
        CRESCENT INTERANTIONAL
        300 STEELCASE ROAD WEST, UNIT 8
        MARKHAM, ONTARIO L3R 2W2, CANADA.
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                     ISLAM & REVOLUTION
                       (Part V of VI)
                              
                             by
                    Imam Mohammad H. Asi

                           (...)
Today Qureish  - reincarnated  as the  royal family of Saudi
Arabia - performs its Tawaf (or at least the head honchos)
after vacating  the premises  of the  Ka'bah  of  the  other
Muslims?! Today the daughters and sisters of Saudi Qureishia
are not  wedded to  other Muslims,  although they  may be on
occasions betrothed  to a  conveniently converted Phalangist
or Marinate,  and there  is no  "Islamist" many  of whom are
swarming into  the petro-domain  of "quick  wealth" none  of
these self-styled  islamists  have  displayed  the  will  to
rehearse the  meanings of:  "and surge  onward together with
the multitude  of all  the other people who surge onward" to
the contemporaneous lords of the Saudi clan.

Today there  are heated  debates in  certain Islamic circles
pertaining to the Islamic legality of a revolutionary change
in  the  regimes  and  dictatorships  that  have  come  into
existence in Muslim lands. Menacingly, the old guards in the
Islamic movement  do not  favor a  rupture with  the taghuti
systems. I  sincerely disagree, and as a matter of prophetic
revolutionary discipline,  do not  have a choice but to take
issue  with   the  old   guard's   establishment   (taghuti)
proclivity,  especially   those  who   are  buttressed   and
mattressed by  the affluence  of petro-riches  while (their)
brothers and  sisters in islam and in humanity are subjected
to their  master's (the  Saudi  royalty)  satisfaction  with
Zionists and  imperialist wars in the Levant and against the
Islamic revolution  in Iran  in particular,  as well  as the
general condition  of oppression  and  injustice  throughout
Asia and Africa.

The reasons  for an Islamic movement's hostility towards the
autocratic regimes are the following:

" And,  finally, (O  Mohammad), we have set thee on a way by
which the  purpose (of  faith) may  be fulfilled:  so follow
thou this  (way), and  follow not  the likes and dislikes of
those who do not know (the truth)" (45:18)

"Hence, judge  between them  in accordance with what god has
bestowed from on high, and do not follow their errant views;
and beware of them, lest they temp thee away from aught that
God has bestowed from on high upon thee...." (5:49)

".. for  they who  do not  judge in accordance with what God
has bestowed  from on  high  are,  indeed,  deniers  of  the
truth!" (5:44)

"...  Judge,   then,  between   the  followers   of  earlier
revelation in  accordance with what God has bestowed from on
high, and  do not  follow their  errant views, forsaking the
truth that has come unto thee." (5:48)

"BEHOLD, We have bestowed upon thee from on high this divine
writ, setting  forth the  truth, so  that thou  mayest judge
between people min accordance with what God has taught thee.
hence, do  not contend  with those  who are  false to  their
trust" (4:105)

"Do they,  perchance, desire  (to be  ruled by)  the law  of
pagan ignorance?  But for  people who  have inner certainty,
who could be a better law-giver than God?" (5:50)

"After me,  there will come men who will rule over you; they
will reverse  the munkar  and also  reverse the  ma'ruf (  a
process by  which good  is considered  as evil, and legal is
made illegal).  Whoever of  you lives to see those days then
should not  obey anyone  who is  a ruler who disobeys Allah,
most high  and most  supreme. [ALOHA  & Al-Tabarani (A Sahih
Hadith)]."

"There will  be those  rulers (kings,  presidents, monarchs,
dictators,  amirs,  sheikhs,  sultans,  etc.)  who  postpone
prayers and  cause innovations (diversions and deviations of
an apostatic  nature). I  asked: "What do I do?" The Prophet
answered, "Are  you (seriously)  asking me  what do you do?!
YOU DO  NOT OBEY  HE WHO  DISOBEYS ALLAH." [Al-kabir, by Al-
Tabarani (A Sahih Hadith)]

And there  are many  other hadiths  that demand  and suggest
revolt  and   insurgence  against  the  established  taghuts
prevalent  in   our  Muslim  lands.  (Of  course,  with  the
exception of the Islamic Republic.) For those people who are
looking for  fiqhi justifications in the works of faqihs and
mujtahids that  date back  over one thousand years they will
not find  an opinion  for changing  the  present-day  rulers
because in  those days,  the  system  was  -  with  all  its
injustices and  mistakes -  an Islamic one and not a secular
one as  exists today.  Political corruption  set in  and was
institutionalized  since   the  Arab   nationalist  days  of
Mu'awiyah and  the monarchial twist that evolved ever since.
There were  justifications for  the  uprisings  and  revolts
against the  subsequent corrupt  administrations. That twist
has come  full circle now, and the issue now is definitely -
if there were any doubts - between Islam and kufr.
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Medical Doctors Relief & Development(MDRD), a voluntary,  
non-profit organization is seeking the support of members and 
volunteers who are willing to provide medical relief and
set up development operations in the poor countries of the world.
For more information, please contact Dr. Mohammad Amjad Alvi,
   1530 Albion Rd. Rexdale, Ont. Canada, M9V 1B4.
    Tel. (416) 240-0570, Fax (416) 240-1728
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Bosnia Appeal Fund:
As Muslim suffering continues in Bosnia, another committee has 
setup a follow up league to coordinate the support. Donation could 
be mailed to:
Bosnian Appeal Fund,
4174 Dundas Street West,
Suit 209, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Phone (416) 236-9411
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The Third Annual Islamic week IS held from Oct. 12th - 21st
at the Univesity of Washington. The program consists of:
Islamic art and books display, Panel discussions, and lectures.
Imam Mohammed H. Asi will be in Seattle on Oct. 16th in Sha' Allah. 
For more information contact the Union.
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Crescent International Has opened a Somali Relief Fund for onward 
transmission:
Somali Relief Fund c/o Crescent International,
300 steelcase Rd West,
Unit 8, Markham, Ont. L3R 2W2, Canada.   Phone (416) 474-9292
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