June 30, 2008 at 6:30 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: allah, imam khomeini, imperialism, iran, islam, islamic unity, monotheism, muslims, politics, satan
O’ Muslims of the world! O’ followers of monotheism! The secrets behind all of the problems in Islamic countries are disunity and a failure to cooperate. The secret of success is unity and cooperation. Allah, the most high, said in one sentence: “And hold on to the rope of Allah, everyone, and do not divide.” Holding onto or clinging to the rope of Allah is a way of stating the cooperation of all Muslims with each other. Everyone should be working for Islam, be moving towards Islam, and be working for the interests of Muslims by escaping disunity which is the foundation of all failure. I ask Allah for the greatness of Islam and the Muslims and for the unity of Muslims in the world.
Sahifah Noor, v.9, p.226, 1979
I am hopeful that the Muslims of the world who are facing the new century will look into their problems and what causes their problems. I am hopeful that they will take themselves up from under the flags of imperialism by creating unity and moving towards Islam. Muslims who are facing the new century have felt nothing but pain from the countries of the Great Satan – they have seen nothing but crime. They must join together with Allah and think about what to do with Islam.
Sahifah Noor, v.10, p.79, 1979
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June 30, 2008 at 4:43 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: attorney general, bill of rights, bush, bush regime, cheney, congress, constitution, denis kucinich, england, gonzales, habeas corpus, law, magna carta, michael mukasey, politics, presstv, republic, senate, superpower, us, white house
Press TV:We hear that Michael Mukasey is going to become the latest of the President’s Attorney-Generals to be subpoenaed, this time over his conversations with Bush and Cheney – does this show that Congress is serious about calling the executive to account?
Gore Vidal: No, Congress has never been more cowardly, nor more corrupt. All Bush has do is to make sure certain amounts of money go in the direction of certain important congressmen and that’s end of any serious investigation. After all, one of the bravest members of Congress is Denis Kucinich who brought the article of impeachment in to the well of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives must then try the president, and then after that it goes to the Senate for judgment. However, none of these things will happen because there’s nobody there except for Mr. Kucinich who has the courage to take on a sitting president who is kind of a Mafioso.
Press TV: How can it just be one person among so many hundreds of Congressmen who wants the impeachment of George W. Bush in these circumstances?
Gore Vidal: Well it’s because we no longer have a country. We don’t have a republic any more. During the last 7 or 8 years of the Bush regime, they’ve got rid of the Bill of Rights, they’ve got rid of habeas corpus. They have got rid of one of the nicest gifts that England ever left us when they went away and we ceased to be colonies – the Magna Carta – from the 12th century. All of our law and due process of law is based on that. And the Bush people got rid of it. The president and little Mr. Gonzales who for a few minutes was his Attorney General. They managed to get rid of all of the constitutional links that made us literally a republic.
Press TV: You have often written about the US’s superpower status in terms of the history of previous superpowers. Do you think we’re witnessing the end of US power as some suggest. Will the White House be seen like Persepolis?
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June 29, 2008 at 2:19 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: aunt, ayatollah javadi amoli, ayatollah jawadi amoli, daughter, grandmother, islam, jawadi amoli, jurisprudence, mother, sister, understanding women, wife, woman, women, women in islam
By: Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
1. The meaning of ‘woman’
When we want to speak about the foundational aspects to understanding women, first it is necessary to define what we mean by woman as opposed to man not a woman as opposed to her husband. A woman can take certain titles such as a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a grandmother, and the likes. Each one of these titles comes with special rights which have been mentioned in the books of law and jurisprudence. To make an example and woman with the title of ‘wife’ has been mentioned opposed to the title of ‘husband’ and each one of these titles has rights and duties in relation to the other. The title ‘mother’ has special rights in relation to children and visa-versa that must be observed. The title ‘daughter’ has special rights in relation to the parents. But, these titles will not be discussed in this research – only a woman in respects to being human opposed to a man will be discussed. But, in the continuation of this research other topics will also be dealt with.
2. A woman’s place in the universe
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June 29, 2008 at 4:01 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: america, american aid, american foreign policy, american military, arab, arab world, egypt, eisenhower, gaza, golan heights, israel, israeli army, israeli lobby, jewish settlements, judaism, middle east, military, opec, palestine, politics, six-day war, soviet union, suez canal, syria, united states, us, uss liberty, washington
Israel, without the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 war when Egypt, trained and backed by the Soviet Union, crossed the Suez Canal and the Syrians poured in over the Golan Heights. Huge American military transport planes came to the rescue. They began landing every half-hour to refit the battered Israeli army, which had lost most of its heavy armor. By the time the war as over, the United States had given Israel $2.2 billion in emergency military aid.
The intervention, which enraged the Arab world, triggered the OPEC oil embargo that for a time wreaked havoc on Western economies. This was perhaps the most dramatic example of the sustained life-support system the United States has provided to the Jewish state. Israel was born at midnight May 14, 1948. The U.S. Recognized the new state 11 minutes later. The two countries have been locked in a deadly embrace ever since.
Washington, at the beginning of the relationship, was able to be a moderating influence. An incensed President Eisenhower demanded and got Israel’s withdrawal after the Israelis occupied Gaza in 1956. During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli warplanes bombed the USS Liberty. The ship, flying the U.S. Flag and stationed 15 miles off the Israeli coast, was intercepting tactical and strategic communications from both sides. The Israeli strikes killed 34 U.S. Sailors and wounded 171. The deliberate attack froze, for a while, Washington’s enthusiasm for Israel. But ruptures like this one proved to be only bumps, soon smoothed out by an increasingly sophisticated and well-financed Israel lobby that set out to merge Israel and American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Israel has reaped tremendous rewards from this alliance. It has been given more than $140 billion in U.S. Direct economic and military assistance. It receives about $3 billion in direct assistance annually, roughly one-fifth of the U.S. Foreign aid budget. Although most American foreign aid packages stipulate that related military purchases have to be made in the United States, Israel is allowed to use about 25 percent of the money to subsidize its own growing and profitable defense industry. It is exempt, unlike other nations, from accounting for how it spends the aid money. And funds are routinely siphoned off to build new Jewish settlements, bolster the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories and construct the security barrier, which costs an estimated $1 million a mile.
The barrier weaves its way through the West Bank, creating isolated pockets of impoverished Palestinians in ringed ghettos. By the time the barrier is finished it will probably in effect seize up to 40 percent of Palestinian land. This is the largest land grab by Israel since the 1967 war. And although the United States officially opposes settlement expansion and the barrier, it also funds them.
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June 28, 2008 at 4:04 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: al-qaeda, austria, bush, cia, council of europe, dick marty, egypt, england, european union, far east, fbi, france, germany, italy, middle east, muslim, politics, secret prisons, silvia cattori, spain, swiss, switzerland, un, un black list, un sanctions, united states, war against terror, youssef nada
Under the cover of the ” war against terror “, the United States and the European Union have granted unlimited powers to secret services and police. Emergency measures which were introduced on a provisional basis in 2001, outside any judiciary control, have become permanent. Since September 2001, at least 80,000 people, mainly Muslim, would have been kidnapped, kept in secret prisons, and tortured by CIA and FBI agents. Hundreds of others have been put on the UN « black list ». That’s what happened to the businessman Youssef Nada, 77 years old, an Italian citizen of Egyptian origin, accused by U.S. President, G.W Bush of financing Al-Qaeda. Two judiciary investigations resulted in a non-suit, but Mr. Nada didn’t get his name deleted from the UN « black list » (*). His assets remain frozen; he is barred from travelling to or transiting in any country. He can’t go outside the tiny enclave of Campione – an Italian enclave inside Swiss territory – where Silvia Cattori went to meet him.
Silvia Cattori : Once he knew, in detail, your incredible story, Mr. Dick Marty denounced the injustice which is inflicted on you. He reported on your case, 19th March 2007 to the Council of Europe. Despite his report, you remain on the « black list » of people suspected of assisting terrorism, deprived of freedom because my country continues to uphold the UN sanctions against you. You are living in Italy, yet being kept as hostage by Switzerland?! I want to tell you that many of us are outraged by the martyrdom that Switzerland continues to inflict on you.
Youssef Nada : You can’t say that it is “the country, Switzerland”. The citizens are one thing, and politics is another. It is true that, in Switzerland, the people here are tolerant and peaceful, and neutral. Not only is the Government neutral, but the people themselves are neutral. But Mr. Dick Marty proved that he is one of the best Swiss citizens. Really, you feel when you read and hear what he says, that he is a humanitarian. The risk he took when he followed the “Extraordinary Renditions” case, nobody took before him. All the politicians know what is going on, but no one has the courage to speak. He was the only one who had the courage. Although I respect all the Swiss people, I respect Mr. Marty more, and not only because of the attitude he had towards me. His courage when he talks about people who are helpless in front of the biggest power is unique.
Silvia Cattori : Mr. Marty’s behaviour was exemplary; but unfortunately not the behaviour of the media. You implicate them on your personal website [3]. Does that mean that the journalists are apologists in support of this war?
Youssef Nada : Some journalists do have a special agenda, which they just mix up. They take part from me, part from their preconceived ideas, and make their own story. However, most journalists and media are honest. You can’t generalise. There are a lot of honest people within the media, doing their job and looking for the facts and for the interest of the public. Every month, I speak to about 15 to 20 journalists. TV journalists came: two from France, two from England, one from Austria, two from Germany, two from Italy, one from Spain, others from the Middle East and from the Far East. Some of these journalists are very honest. In fact, some of them, even without seeing me, defended my case in a correct way.
Silvia Cattori : It must have been a terrible hardship for you. Every day, you were confronted by new accusations, all more unlikely and overwhelming than the last, without being able to answer them!
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June 26, 2008 at 4:56 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: ayatollah shahrudi, iran, judiciary branch, politics, sayyid ali khamenei, shahrudi, supreme leader
These are excerpts taken from this speech released on the English version of the Supreme Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei’s website:
The demand that was made seven years ago urging the heads of the three movement branches to seriously and decisively fight economic corruption is still important
These valuable measures which were taken within the framework of the general policies and the second development plan of the judiciary branch must be pursued fully and seriously.
This proper position is equivalent to generating the general feeling that the judiciary branch is faithful and fair in administering justice
The leadership of Ayatollah Shahrudi who is a knowledgeable, scholarly person and the presence of prominent personalities in the judiciary branch provide good opportunities in order to improve this branch of the government and help it achieve the position it deserves.
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June 25, 2008 at 2:04 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: actress, convert, entertainment, hejrat foundation, islam, jennifer lopez
Jennifer Lopez, the famous Latina actress and singer has recently accepted the Islamic faith. She said that she was tired of her previous life – a life full of corruption and sin. She took her shahadah (this means she bore witness that there is no God save Allah and that Muhammad is His messenger) on June 24th, 2008 at the Hejrat Foundation in Los Angeles, California stating that Islam is a way of life that can bring someone out of the darkness of a life full of sin and into the light of a life full of spirituality.
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June 25, 2008 at 4:30 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: ahlul-bayt, art, fatimah zahra, imam, imam khomeini, iran, islamic revolution, politics, sayyid ali khamenei, spiritual, supreme leader
These are the words of the Supreme Leader taken from his speech given on the anniversary of Fatimah Zahra (a) and Imam Khomeini (r)’s birthdays. It is a translation of what was released on his site.
Love of the Ahlul-Bayt (a), especially Fatimah Zahra (a) is a great field to show artistic ability. Therefore, the more people of thought and feelings ponder upon this reality the more gems they will achieve.
Refer to the words and narrations of the Pure Imams (a) and with the help of this family put your artistic abilities and feelings into the service of these infallibles (a).
The Islamic Revolution was not only an event in Iranian history, rather it was a special occurrence in world history. The more times passes the realities and effects of it become clearer.
For centuries the world is quickly going after a material understanding in life. But, the Islamic revolution of Iran has stood up to this great wave and has increased spiritual knowledge and desire for spiritualism, even in western youth.
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June 24, 2008 at 2:35 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: convert, converts, fabrika, hijab, islam, masha alalykina, muslim, religion, russia, zamzam
Masha Alalykina is a famous name in Russia and Russian speaking countries. Two years ago she was an attractive artist and model. Her fame reached its peak and her music group – Fabrika– was at the top of the charts.
Masha, the former star of the cinema, dancing, and music (google her are you will see how popular she was), now wears a hijab and is teaching. She says that she hates the fake façade of her past and now feels that she is successful.
The following is a translation of an interview with this Muslim artist on the Russian site islam.ru
Islam.ru: How did you put all of your success behind you and accept Islam?
Masha: By Allah’s grace I took a step in his direction. This was the will of Allah.
Islam.ru: When you were a singer did you ever think that you would become Muslim, fast, and perform the pilgrimage?
Masha: No. It did not even cross my mind that I might perform the pilgrimage and drink the best water – the water of Zamzam.
Islam.ru: Was the path that you took which led you to Islam a long path?
Masha: I became Muslim two years ago. I was reading one day when I realized that one of my close friends slipped into a coma in another city. I did not know how I could help my friend. That day, for the first time, I prayed and made supplications asking God for help.
The next day that same friend called me and said: “I saw you when I was unconscious and you helped me a lot.” I cried a lot at that instant because it was the first time in my life that I wanted something from God.
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June 24, 2008 at 5:34 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: gulf, islam, islamic unity, juma, qatif, safar, saudi arabia, shaikh hassan al safar, shaikh mukhlef bin daham al shamri, shamr tribe, shamri, shiite, sunni, unity
Qatif: In a rare gesture of unity and amity with their brothers in Islam, a delegation of Sunnis performed Juma prayers at one of the Shiite Mosques in the eastern city of Qatif, the only part of Saudi Arabia where Shiites are a majority.
Observers see it as an unprecedented move to soothe the feelings of alienation among the Shiite minority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The delegation, headed by Shaikh Mukhlef Bin Daham Al Shamri, were attentive to the Friday sermon delivered by the well-known Shiite Shaikh Hassan Al Safar, in which the preacher underscored the
significance of strengthening Islamic and national unity and closing ranks among followers of Islam.
“This is part of our duty to promote virtue and prevent vice,” he noted. The new initiative on the part of Sunnis and Shiites to close their ranks received wide media coverage and some foreign media such
as BBC also covered it extensively.
Shaikh Al Shamri is one of the shaikhs of Shamr tribe, which spreads over a vast area in various regions of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. In yet another gesture to express the significance of national unity, Shaikh Al Shamri and those accompanying him, covered their shoulders with the Saudi flags while they were praying at the mosque, according to witnesses.
During the talks with the Shiite community, Shaikh Al Shamri proposed that a similar delegation of Shiites would come over to one of the Sunni mosques in Al Khobar next Friday. This move was regarded as a bold initiative from the part of the majority Sunnis to bury the hatchet and show their reciprocal respect to fellow members of the community.
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