From: imnet2@max.u.washington.edu
Subject: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS (25th)
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 06:30:20 GMT

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AFGHANISTAN
A government committee is trying to put an end to fighting between
members of the Ittehad-e Islami and the Hizb-e Wahdat group, that has
claimed scores of lives in the western suburbs of Kabul. On September
21, the government announced that it had arranged a ceasefire as well
as reached agreement with the Hizb-e Islami led by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Hizb-e Islami whether
this indeed was the case.
The following day, the Hizb-e Islami claimed to have successfully
evicted the government-appointed governor of Nangarhar province
based at Jalalabad.
The Hizb spokesman said that a new governor had been appointed
by them. Jalalabad is under the control of Haji Abdul Qadir, a
commander belonging to the Hizb-e Islami [Yunus Khalis group].
In other developments in Kabul, an announcement by a government
spokesman in Kabul on September 23 said that the Hizb-e Wahdat
had again been given a number of cabinet posts to join the
government.
The last time the Hizb-e Wahdat, made up of Afghanistan's Shi'is,
was in the cabinet was when professor Sibghatullah Mujaddidi was
interim president for two months.

AFRICA
At least 30 to 40 million of the 118 million people in sub-Saharan Africa
are likely to suffer from starvation and may die if help is not immediately
provided to them. This was reported by humanitarian relief organizations
working in Africa.

ALGERIA
The Algerian military junta has set up a committee to control imports.
The country currently imports about $7 billion of which $1.8 billion
are spent on grain imports. The country's export earnings from gas
and oil will reach $11.3 billion this year but because of a
massive foreign debt, the payments made to service debts are
quite high. In fact, nearly 84 percent of the foreign exchange
earnings are consumed by servicing the interest on debts
accumulated by the profligate NLF regime that ruled Algeria for
nearly 30 years.
With political uncertainty as a result of the suppression of
the Islamic movement, the country is in deep financial and political
turmoil. Resistance to the military junta continues.

EGYPT
Members of the Islamic movement won a majority in elections for the
Egyptian lawyers' syndicate on September 14. All 14 members of the
Islamic movement were elected to the 24-seat ruling council.
In Egypt, the regime has launched a hysterical campaign against
the Muslims. To be a committed Muslim in Egypt is almost viewed
as treason.
The regime's subservience to the US/zionist interests is so
obvious that it now has to resort to shrill accusations to cover
up its own weaknesses.
The country's economy too is in bad shape, made worse by the
stoppage of remittance of workers from Iraq because Egypt joined
the US-led coalition to destroy Iraq last year.
An estimated two million Egyptian workers were expelled from
Iraq following the Mubarak regime's joining the US-led coalition
against Iraq.
Hosni Mubarak had hoped that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will help
bail him out by hiring some of his expelled workers but they
would much prefer western mercenary soldiers than Muslim/Arab
troops because they cannot be certain of their loyalties.
After all, it was Egyptian officers who shot dead Anwar Sadat
at a military parade in broad-daylight on October 6, 1981, in
Cairo. 

NIGERIA
Mallam Yaqubu Yahya, a young revolutionary alim of Nigeria, was
released from prolonged detention earlier this month.
Following his release, the authorities placed the northern city of
Katsina on a state of alert. Mallam Yahya is well-known for his
revolutionary teachings.
Another young alim, Mallam Yaqub Ibrahim Zakzaky, still remains in
jail because the regime of general Ibrahim Babangida fears that
he will lead an uprising against the military regime, if released.
Mallam Zakzaky has been in and out of jail for years.
He has denounced the Nigerian State as being based on the laws
of kufr and has categorically rejected saluting the flag as a
form of shirk.

ZIMBABWE
The International Monetary Fund has approved an SDR315 million ($450 million)
three-year loan to Zimbabwe, of which SDR200.6 million may be drawn under
the enhanced structural adjustment facility. Zimbabwe, currently suffering
under the twin economic pressure of drought and the worst recession in
60 years is desperately short of cash.

BOSNIA
Greece is supplying night vision equipment as well as other weapons
to the Serbs in contravention of the UN embargo but the so-called world
body or the US have taken no action. Last month when it was reported that
Iran may have supplied some weapons to the Bosnians to defend themselves,
the UN security council worked itself up in a lather, demanding to
know why the Iranians had done so. Russia and Romania, too, are supplying
weapons and other goods to Serbia through the Danube river.

The city of Vienna has closed its doors to refugees from Bosnia, alleging
that it feared similar unrest as has been witnessed in Germany in recent
weeks. Britain, meanwhile, has made contingency plans to accommodate
Jews from Bosnia if the situation deteriorates there further. No such
plans have been made to accommodate anyone else.
 
The Serbs' ethnic cleansing campaign is conducted through the inoccuous
sounding organization, the Agency for Assistance in Relocating Citizens
and their Goods, located in Banja Luka, Bosnia. The agency's purpose is
to expel Muslims from their homes by force at which it is very successful. 

Typhus cases have been recorded in Sarajevo because of the unsanitary
conditions and lack of medicines.

Muslims and Croats joined the Jewish residents of Sarajevo on September 10
to celebrate a festival marking the Jews' arrival in the Balkans after they
were expelled from Spain by the Catholic kings 500 years ago.
The people dressed-up, made speeches and had a cocktail party. 

CANADA
Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistan's angel of mercy, was in Toronto on
September 13, on a quick visit before leaving for Bosnia via New York.
At a ceremony at the Islamic Foundation of Scarborough, Maulana Edhi
explained the operations of the Edhi Foundation around the world
including immediate two-plane loads of relief supplies to Bosnia and
two more chartered planes to Somalia. A man of great taqwa, Maulana
Edhi maintains himself very humbly and during his brief presentation,
he repeatedly prayed that Allah save him arrogance and false pretences.
 
THE CAUCASUS
At least 300 people were reported killed on September 19 in Karabakh,
part of Azerbaijan claimed by Armenia and large parts of it forcibly
occupied by it. The fighting erupted despite a ceasefire agreed between
the two sides at Alma Ata, the Kazakh capital, last month.

Abkhazian freedom fighters attacked a Georgian military convoy on September
23 in the northwest of the republic, killing at least 20 soldiers. last
month a ceasefire was forced upon the Abkhazians by Boris Yeltsin of
Russia but the Georgians have failed to live up to their part of the
bargain yet.

INDIA
India and Israel are moving rapidly to increase cooperation in the
military field. A number of Israeli delegations have visited and others
are on their way to India to peddle their military hardware. The two
established diplomatic relations last January but covert cooperation had
gone on between them for years. Indian intelligence agencies are also
working closely with Mossad, the Israeli secret service, to train
Indians in extra-judicial execution techniques, especially in
Kashmir.

A number of prominent Muslims in Madras have set up an 'All India Zakat,
Sadaqa and Welfare Trust' to assist independent business ventures and
build houses for Muslims. Justice Khalid Muhammad will head the group
as president which includes several prominent Muslim businessmen and
professionals.

The Islamic History and Research Council is conducting a survey of mosques
in India. The body plans to enumerate and compile the history of all
mosques in India, according to S M Hameeduddin Hussaini Sharafi, a
spokesman for the body. The project to be completed in five years has
been started in Andhra Pradesh.
  
Criminal gangs, always a part of political life in India, are now staking
a larger claim. Politicians of all colours have used these gangs for
intimidation but in Andhra Pradesh, a state controlled by the fascist
Bharatiya Janata Party, criminals have resorted to killings. The latest
victim was the opposition politician, Mahinder Singh Bhatti, a member of
the AP legislature, shot dead on September 21. 

IRAQ
Nearly 47,000 children under the age of five died in Iraq from January
to August 1991, according to the latest edition of "The New England Journal
of Medicine". The authors of the report had twice visited Iraq to
collect data. The report once again highlights the suffering inflicted
upon innocent people in Iraq as a result of the US-led attack.
 
MIDDLE EAST
Farouk al-Sharaa, the Syrian foreign minister, said on September 23 that
his government was prepared to make total peace with Israel if the
latter returned all Arab lands occupied in the 1967 war.

During talks in Damascus on September 13, president Elias Hrawi of
Lebanon agreed to postpone discussion about the withdrawal of Syrian
troops from Lebanon until a new government is established in early
October. The staggered Lebanese elections were completed on September 6.

PAKISTAN
Honda and the Atlas Group of Pakistan have signed an agreement to build
Honda cars in a new plant near Lahore, in Pakistan. This was reported
by the Japan Automotive News earlier this month.

OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Dedi Zucker, head of Israeli parliament's legal committee, publicly
admitted recently that zionist settlers had cheated Palestinian
residents by twisting Israeli law to evict them from their homes.
The settlers had th full backing of the former prime minister,
Yitzhak Shamir.
There are believed to be more than 100,000 illegal zionist settlers on
lands occupied by Israel in the June 1967 war. The majority of them
are on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Some of the estimated $4 billion given as handouts by the US to the
zionist State each year are used to accommodate these pushy settlers.
Since 1968 to the present time, the US has given out a total of
$82 BILLION to the zionist State.
In the US meanwhile, there are currently 37.5 million people living
below the poverty level.
There are millions of homeless people; at least 18 million children
have no shelter; millions more have no medical coverage.
Despite all this, the US continues to give handouts to the zionists
from American taxpayers' money but cannot spare any to look after
its own citizens.
Who runs America, anyway?
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                  At the Altar of Zionism
                              
Excerpts From Imam Asi's latest speech.

     Nowadays, and  throughout all the approaching days from
now until  the American elections are over we ( the Muslims)
can expect  the Democrats  and the  Republicans to bend over
backwards to appease their Zionist superiors.
     Look at president Bush, who worked up the media, trying
to convince  the public that he had the backbone to withhold
$10 billion  in loan guarantees to Israel. it terns out that
his backbone is as sturdy as a jellyfish's.
     Now Bush, the American president is doing all he can to
prove his loyalty to Zionism. A Middle east peace conference
is reconvened  in Washington  and the election focused media
is  drawing   an  optimistic  picture  of  the  Israeli  and
Palestinian delegations; we are shown and repeatedly told by
Arab delegates,  especially the Syrian ones, that there is a
change in the air. All of a sudden after 44 years of Zionist
occupation and  illegal presence  with all  the Likud? Labor
governments that killed or were directly responsible for the
killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings in
Palestine, Lebanon,  Jordan, Syria,  Egypt and  other  human
consuming Wars,  six  of  them  since  1948,  with  all  the
millions who  have been displaced, thrown out of their homes
and  lands,   living  like  cattle  and  herds  that  wonder
throughout the Middle East; now all of a sudden just because
the Arab governments are reaching their moment of truth when
the hundreds of millions will see who is really in charge in
Damascus, Baghdad,  Riyadh, Cairo, Algiers, etc. . . at this
time when  elections in Jordan, Algeria, and now Lebanon are
indicating an  unmistakable rise  in Islamic favor, when the
Islamic movement  in Palestine is replacing the corrupt PLO,
at this time when Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Saudi Arabia
either have to rely on the US for their continuation or fool
their people (which is harder to do now than is was a couple
of generations  ago) by  pretending they  have a  formidable
military to rely upon (when in fact no longer have a weapons
source, no  experts and  technicians,  no  spare  parts,  no
diplomatic cover,  virtually nothing;)  at  this  time,  the
Muslims, are  supposed to  believe that  the Washington M.E.
peace talks will get us somewhere!!!
     Let us make it clear for all to hear: after 44 years of
Zionist   universal    and   systematic    aggression    and
dehumanization of  the human  Muslim presence  in the Middle
East there  can be  no Peace Conference nor tens of them, no
Republican administration  in the  US even  if  it  were  to
convince all  its audience  of the  validity of  this `peace
conference,' no  Arab governments  even if  the American and
Israeli  administrations   did  all   they  could   to  give
credibility to  Damascus Amman,  Cairo, and  Beirut, none of
the above  combined all  together with  an infusion of solid
and liquid  financial capital,  none of  that which  may  be
presented in  the Language of the Saudi or Syrian vocabulary
of Islam  - none  of it will be a substitute for the Islamic
aspirations  and  divine  commitments  and  their  political
expression throughout the whole Middle East.
     And just  in case  Clinton slips  into the White House,
his pledge  to the American and Israeli Zionists all crumble
in the course of time.  Clinton's pro-Zionist position is as
fanatic as they come:
     - Clinton  wants to  shower the  Zionist  thieves  with
money which he call loan guarantees, and other aid to assist
in the  foreign Jews  stealing more  Palestinian land and in
giving preferential  treatment to  Soviet Jews  to leave  to
Palestine. We  haven't  heard  about  Christian  Soviets  in
Clinton's speeches.
     - Clinton wants to continue with Bush's `Peace process'
but with the condition that the US should not interfere with
Israeli strategy; the Zionists should be given unconditional
(Bush would say self-defeating) US support.
     - Clinton  is on  record as  opposing the creation i.e.
fabrication of  an independent Palestinian (nation) State. I
guess Clinton  does not  have the Full range and spectrum of
what is being planned.  With the disintegrating and break-up
process now  in motion  from Belgrade to Baghdad the talk of
an `independent (truncated) Palestinian state (with national
antagonism built  into it) would fit very comfortably into a
`new regional order' within a `new world order,' wouldn't it
Mr. Clinton?
     - Clinton  wants to  create a US-Israel high technology
commission for  the 21st  century, to help apply `the genius
of Israel's  people.'  What a way at saying we the Americans
should give  our latest technology advances to the Israelis.
When it  comes to  national security  considerations this is
tantamount to Israel riding at the US piggy-back.
     - Clinton  wants to  ensure that  any peace  settlement
guarantees the security of Israel's boundaries.  Clinton and
we, and in the future more people, know that the only proven
threat  to   Israel's  boundaries  comes  from  the  Islamic
dimension of  this issue.  So what is Clinton trying to say:
should the  Islamic movement  be eliminated to guarantee the
ever changing borders of Israel, or does he mean that the US
and Arab  governments should  get involved along with Israel
to subdue the Islamic movement?
     -  Clinton   says  "there  should  be  no  support  for
`dangerous, despotic  regimes', such  as  Iraq  and  Syria."
Wow! What  a confession.  Do  you  know  what  Clinton  just
uttered in  the above  sentence?   The US  is supportive  of
`dangerous, despotic  regimes!'   this would make for a very
interesting Q&A between Bush and Clinton.
     - Clinton  goes on  and emphasizes  enhanced logistical
cooperation with  Israel and  assurances  that  Israel  will
retain its qualitative military edge.
     Don't worry Mr. Clinton, president Bush is not going to
be outdone.  The American naval vessels in the Mediterranean
are moving  in and out of haifa, port calls are on the rise,
journalists are  painting the  whole M.E. as a tinder box to
ignited by  Islamic `extremism'  with Israel  as  a  mammoth
American aircraft  carrier, or military base. Clinton raises
the stake, Bush raises the ante'.
     - Clinton  says there  should be  a completion  of  the
Arrow missile  defence program,  based  on  American-Israeli
cooperation.   Boy! this Clinton is really obsessed with the
military image  of little  of  Israel.  Every  turn  in  his
statements and  we find  him as  anxious a  groom on wedding
night concerning Israel `security'.
     - Clinton  wants to  see to it that al-Quds (Jerusalem)
`remains' Israel's  undivided capital.   Clinton's campaign,
reads like  a hate-Muslim-manual.   The  Jew boys, or anyone
else  for  that  matter,  could  have  looked  for  whatever
antagonizes and  victimizes the  Muslims and  included  that
into Clinton's public addresses.
     - Clinton is so sensitive to Israeli psychology that he
did not  forget about  an Israeli spy in an American prison,
he promised  to `seriously review' the case of confessed and
convicted Israeli  spy  Jonathan  Pollard.    What  we  have
mentioned is  only the  tip of  the  iceberg.  The  American
political process  is  betrothed  to  the  Israeli/  Zionist
interest.
     Where would  you find in the public addresses of George
Bush or  Bill   Clinton any  reference to any Islamic cause?
You will  not. Jonathan  Pollard is  one  hell-of-a-spy  who
committed treason  against millions  of Americans,  nay, the
whole American  nation. And Clinton has the straight face to
mention Pollard!
     A case  can be  made for  a prison  population that  is
discovering and  accepting  Islam.    Many  system  nurtured
criminals  have   become  born-again  human  beings  in  the
American `correctional' facilities.  The numbers are hard to
come by,  but if  our  reading  of  the  scene  is  somewhat
accurate there  must be  tens of  thousands of prisoners who
have  become   Muslims  while  incarcerated;  is  there  any
presidential candidate  who will  even mention this fact and
look favorably  upon these  Muslims  the  same  way  Clinton
favors the  forbidden sin  of espionage  and its perpetrator
Jonathan Pollard?
     This should  demonstrate to some of us how important it
is to  be politically alive.  There would be ample reason to
think about Muslims in this country in the highest office if
Muslims in  the US   and  Muslims abroad  were working  in a
strategic sense.
     Look at  it this  way, and  let's be  a little dramatic
about it,  just to make the point there is one lousy Israeli
American who  owes his  allegiance to the Zionist government
before even  considering the  national interests  of the US.
This  good-for-nothing   turncoat  has   one   Middle   East
government (Israel) concerned for him and his future. All of
a sudden  in an  election  year  he  has  become  (at  least
publicly, to Clinton) a campaign issue.
     But on  the other  hand we  have over 40 governments in
the M.E.  and beyond  who write  off Islam  in the US as you
would write off a dead skunk.
     We don't  know of  any M.E.  government which  is  even
trying to  lobby for  the future  of Islam  in this country.
Keep an  eye on this American presidential campaign. Between
now  and  November  we  may  be  in  for  a  few  surprises,
especially if  we continue  to refuse  to think Islamically.
AND. .  . As  Bush puts  his `peace  Conference' into  third
gear, remember these numbers:
                  Israel's Human Rights Record
                     (only since 1988)
Deaths:                             1100
Injuries requiring hospitalization  123000
Expulsions                          70
Administrative Detentions           15240
Curfews                             11525
Land confiscation    (acres)        90000
House demolitions                   2200
Tree Uprootings                     144000
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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 Musl;im 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 will be 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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