From: jisrawi@PHYSICS.RUTGERS.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: News from Algeria and the Muslim world
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:49:42 GMT

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*The ALgerian SOciety                                           *
* in BRitain (AL-SOBR)........Vol 1, No 2..........August 1992  *
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     IN THE NAME OF ALLAH MOST GRACIOUS MOST MERCIFUL



                     E D I T O R I A L


HONEST GOVERNMENT  =  FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

Patrick Watson and Benjamin Barber write in their book 'The
Struggle for democracy', (W.H.Allen & Co plc, 1988): "History
teaches us that the only way to guarantee an honest government is
to guarantee freedom of information - freedom of expression by
citizens, freedom of access to information by all. Democracy is
communication; people talking to one another about their common
problems and forging a common destiny. Before people can govern
themselves, they must be free to express themselves. Without free
expression there is no communication, without communication no
citizenship, no democracy. Freedom of expression is the lifeblood
of democracy, a fundamental right that encompass other related
rights such as freedom of assembly, of worship, and of
conscience. If there is a single right upon which all others
depend, a single freedom on which democracy is founded, it is the
right of self-expression, the freedom to communicate and exchange
information - to speak the truth freely as one sees it, to have
free access to the truth even when it is embarrassing to the
government."
     When democracy was born in Algeria with the 1989
constitution, the first thing that flourished was freedom of
expression. Despite the lack of experience and resources,
newspapers mushroomed from all corners, covering all the
spectrums of political, social and economic spheres. When
democracy was killed with the January Coup, the first thing that
suffered was the freedom of expression. First all the FIS titles
were banned (before the party itself), followed by free speech in
mosques, which were the only medium of popular expression during
the eighties, then came the turn of other journalists who dared
to speak out. Today we hear of the banning of three more
newspapers: El-Djazair El-youm, Le Matin, and La Nation. They
will certainly be followed by others.
     Most 'democrats' welcomed the banning of the diverse FIS
media. Unfortunately they were either naive, short-sighted, or
had nothing to do with democracy. Events over the past eight
months have shown that they just wanted to use democracy to get
power, when democracy did not work for them they dumped it and
decided to cling to the toes of the dictators instead. If they
were true democrats they would have defended freedom of speech
even for their enemies, because in doing so they will be
defending democracy itself. No motive whatsoever could be
accepted for banning a political newspaper. When the so-called
democrats accepted the pretexts under which the junta banned the
FIS media, they accepted the pretext for killing democracy. The
three newspapers have been stopped for various reasons and
without warrant from the courts. The reasons given are all
unacceptable, not to say ridiculous: one for allegedly publishing
an article on Italy withholding loans to Algeria, the other for
publishing information on the whereabouts of some police chiefs
and the other for writing about the newly launched FIS radio.
Although one may argue about the accuracy or the appropriateness
of the information, there is no reason even to caution them,
never mind ban them. The truth of the matter is that this ruling
junta is against anything which does not suite its plans. For
this regime people are free to say what it pleases the junta and
nothing else. Oh 'democrats' do wake up!. Have not you heard of
the saying: 'Ukiltu yawma ukila thawru el-abyadh'.



                 D J I H A D    N E W S


WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO ENSLAVE
PEOPLE WHEN THEY WERE BORN FREE !

With the cancellation of the parliamentary election on 11
January, in which FIS was poised to win the absolute majority and
therefore form the first freely elected government since indepen-
dence, the people of Algeria, who having been denied the right to
freely choose their representative, have taken to arms to defend
their freedom, their honour, and their property. A number of
mudjahideen groups have been formed throughout the country to
defend themselves from the oppression of the tyrants. Most of
their work has been targeted at the special units of the security
forces which have been randomly arresting people, harassing
whorshipers in mosques, and shooting at crowds in demonstrations.
     God has created people free. They cannot be slaves to anyone
but to Himself. He has also given them the permission to fight
those who try to enslave them. Although human life is precious,
no matter who's life it is, Allah has instructed us to kill and
get killed for His sake and for the sake of justice.
     The following are only some of the Djihad actions which have
taken place at the beginning of August.

10 MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY FORCES SHOT DEAD IN THE ALGIERS REGION

According to the Mudjahideen Newsletter, An-Nafeer, 10 people
have been killed on August 1st & 2nd, in the region between Ain-
El-Bunyan and Bouira.

THE DJEMILA BATTLE: 62 GENDARMES DEAD

According to the same source 62 gendarmes have been shot dead in
the battle which took place in Djemila (Setif) between a group of
Mudjahideen and the forces of tyranny.

MUTINY IN EL-MARSA EL KEBIR

On 28 July, a mutiny took place in the barracks at Marsa El-
kebir. A group of soldiers escaped from the barracks with their
ammunition to join the Mudjahideen.

7 DEAD IN MEDEA

According to our sister Newsletter, Le Critere, produced by
Fraternite Algerienne en France, a battle took place in Hamdania.
7 gendarmes are reported to have been killed.

5 DEAD IN KSAR-EL-BOUKHARI

An attack was carried out on a gendarmes patrol in Ksar-El-
Boukhari. It left 5 dead among the patrolmen.

5 DEAD IN AL-ACHOUR (TIPAZA)

A gendarme check-point was attacked on August 1st. It left 5 dead
among the gendarmes.

2 DEAD IN SIDI BEL ABBES

A similar attack was carried out in Sidi Bel Abbes. Two gendarmes
are reported to have been killed.




   T H E   R U L I N G   J U N T A   I N   P E R S P E C T I V E


MOSQUES CLOSED DOWN

Algerian papers have reported the closure of another mosque, this
time in Ouled Yaich (Blida). According to the same sources, the
decision was taken after the people of the region refused to pray
behind the state-appointed imams. The people are of course right
to decide who should lead them in prayers either from the Islamic
Jurisprudence point of view or from a democratic point of view.
But the tyranny of the junta will not have that!

THE LAW ENFORCING THE USE OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE SUSPENDED

The law which enforces the use of the Arabic language in
administration, which was supposed to come into force on July 5th
(Independence day), has been suspended by the ruling junta. The
law was voted by the previous parliament, elected by the people.
The law, which caused an uproar in France upon its voting last
year, is therefore suspended by people who represent nobody but
themselves. This action demonstrates that these puppets are
nothing but French agents.

A SENSE OF DEJA-VU

In their effort to restore single-party system in Algeria the
authorities are using exactly the same tactics as those used by
the FLN before. They have started by monopolising the state-run
television and radio, then confiscating the dailies El-Moudjahid
and Es-Shaab from the FLN in the name of returning them to the
people. They are using state resources to lure people to their
'Rassemblement Patriotique National' (which was of course born
dead). When people did not come forward, they resorted to lies.
For instance, it was reported, by their media, that 6750 joined
their party in a single week at the end of July in the city of
Djidjel alone. If we assume that this is true, and apply
statistical analysis to this figure, taking it as the mean value
and assuming either Binomial or Poison's distributions. Over a
period of six months, they would have a membership larger than
the whole of the Algerian population. That is exactly what the
FLN used to boast before, until the truth was discovered in two
free elections!  After 30 years of cheating they still have not
learnt how to lie convincingly! We all of course know that the
only people who are supporting this party are the communists (who
got 0.1% in the local elections) and the unscrupulous desperadoes
who cling to anything to get to power.

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

In an article in The Independent Magazine, (15/8/1992) Robert
Fisk, reporting from Algiers, looks at the struggle of the
Algerian people from before the start of the Algerian War in 1954
until today. He looks at the itinerary of the chahid Mustapha
Bouyali as "the missing link between Algeria's savage
independence war against France and its increasingly ferocious
civil war today." He argues that because Bouyali was both a loyal
FLN guerrilla fighter against France and an Islamic guerrilla
fighter against the regime which replaced the French, his
activities call into question the meaning of Algerian history. He
compares the period when a handful of pieds noirs ruled the
country with the Algerians living as second class citizens, to
the present day era in which, again, a handful of corrupt
officials enjoy a luxurious lifestyle while the majority of the
people live in deprivation. He goes on to compare the two eras
action for action and finds that the similarities are very
obvious. He argues that the Algerians were cheated of the fruits
of independence by their wartime leaders. He concluded that the
junta lead by Khalled Nezzar believes that a military victory
will end the crisis, like the French before them, forgetting
that, even if a military victory was possible, it would create so
much hatred that political defeat would be inevitable.




           M U S L I M    W O R L D    N E W S 


IF ONLY I COULD BE GIVEN A WEAPON, I WOULD FIGHT. THIS IS OUR
HOME... OF COURSE, WE CAN WIN. BUT YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING AGAINST
A TANK WITH A RIFLE.

This was the answer of Bosnian Muslim Ismet Dupanovic, a retired
railway engineer from Bihac, the last large Muslim town in
northern Bosnia not to have fallen to Serbian forces. It is being
constantly bombarded. They are doing to it what they did to other
towns. The stories coming out of Bosnia are incredible. The
Serbian atrocities have surpassed all imagination. The Serbs are
destroying everything to do with Islam. They started by killing
Imams and destroying mosques. Those who have not been brutally
massacred or burnt alive, have been put in Nazis-style
concentration camps. In fact the Serbs are duplicating what the
Nazis did to the Jews, and inventing new methods of their own:
Young Bosnians drained of their blood to provide transfusion for
injured Serbs, bodies mutilated by having the cross carved into
them with knives, people burnt alive in underground hide-outs,
women and children beheaded and their heads raised on poles, ...
Every crime we hear about seemed to be more inhumane that the
previous one. The towns they have not yet captured are being
constantly shelled. Muslims armed with little except old rifles,
have no means of retaliation because of the UN embargo.
     While the UN and the rest of the world community is talking
about securing some food to the besieged, the Bosnians are making
it clear that that is not what they are asking for. What they
want is arms to be able to stand up and defend themselves. In
fact the UN is doing exactly the contrary. The UN embargo is
hurting the Muslims but not the Serbs who inherited the military
machinery of the former four largest European army. Some reports
suggest that when Bosnians tried to break through Serbian lines
which surround Sarajevo, the UN forces were the first to fire on
them. These same UN forces are asking the defenceless Bosnians to
look after them. Ukraine, for instance, which has 420 peace-
keepers at Sarajevo airport, said it reserved the right to
withdraw all of them after one of its officers died of shell
injuries. A Ukrainian official said: "The Bosnians agreed to the
dispatch of Ukrainian troops and were under obligation to create
specific security conditions. The question we ask: How can you
ask exposed people to create specific security conditions if they
cannot secure them for themselves?
     Muslims who visited Bosnia said that the Bosnians' spirit is
quite high. They draw their strength from their deep belief in
Allah. They know that although the world is, at the moment,
against them, Allah will never let them down.
     If the Muslims want avoid a repeat of another Andalous, then
they better stand up and raise to the challenge. We cannot expect
anything from our enemies who have demonstrated beyond any shadow
of doubt that the new world order for them, is one in which
Muslims have no place. To destroy a Muslim nation (Iraq) they
amassed the biggest force ever gathered in human history. Today
these same 'human-right champions', 'peace-loving', 'supporters
of justice' are making a thousand and one calculations to send
soldiers to defend food convoys. Their hypocrisy has come out
naked time and time again since the Gulf War. The only way we can
come out of our misery is to rely on Allah first, then on
ourselves. Nobody is going to fight our war for us. It is up to
us to help our brother and sisters in Bosnia. If we don't, we
must start preparing our answers for when we meet our Lord on the
day of judgement.

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