Authentic research has shown that over 14,000 Brits have converted to Islam after having lost hope in the style of life the West is offering.
“Amongst the converts there exist many famous personalities which is a great booster for the Muslims who have become a prey to accusations of terrorism and are living in fear” in the words of Muslim leaders.
The Muslim Council has appointed the former health minister’s son Ahmed Dobson as chairman of their new committee which is striving to explain the reality of Islam to the whites living in the United Kingdom.
Yahya Britt (Jonathan Britt) the former BBC director has researched thoroughly the data of Christians converting to Islam and concluded that the total number of new Muslims in Britain was 14200. In his statement of conversion to Islam last week, Britt stressed the point that Britain also needed a leader to bring whites more easily into Islam, just as Malcolm X had done for the blacks of America and to make Islam a more national religion rather than the strange one it is at present. Furthermore, he explained how Islam’s balanced system, strong beliefs and spirituality gave him that hearts contentment.
Herbet Scott’s great grand daughter, Emma Clark has also accepted Islam as a way of life, a former designer for the gardens of the Prince of Wales is now involved in designing a mosque’s garden. She stated to the press a few days ago that “I accepted Islam after detesting the doubt standards of Western values and to lee from the filth that surrounds it. Her great grandfather who was the prime minister of Britain in 1908-1916 led his people to the lines of victory in the First World War.
Most new converts have been greatly influenced by Charles Eaton’s book, Islam and the Destiny of Man. He states that I’ve receives thousands of letters informing me that we have lost hope in today’s Christianity which is following the whims and desires of people and are searching for such a religion which does not have this.
The earl of Yarbrough who is the owner of over 28,000 acres of land in Lincolnshire told the press, “I have changed my name to Abdul Mateen and would only like to say that “Study Islam and you shall see its beauty.”
Her Majesty has given full permission for Muslim staff working in Buckingham Palace to take time off to perform their Friday prayers.
The above were examples of people who were directly connected to the kingdom, whose grandparents were the bearers of knighthoods and lordships, who used to sit in the houses of Parliament, wealthy people, from a nation who has never been ruled. But what happened to these people’s progeny? There was no slavery or force on them to make them accept Islam; “it was solely the unexplainable hearts contentment we found which compelled us.”
After all this I see not the reasons of my shyness, my regret, my inferiority complex that is stopping me from even performing my Jumu’ah Salaat amidst my colleagues at work only because of the fear of what will people say and that my business may lose important profits, yet the kingdom headquarters, Buckingham Palace, has such facilities.”
http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=4660
Thursday, December 24, 2009
US Debates Anti-terror Cyber Battle
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CAIRO — Some American experts believe their government should hunt and shut down websites seen as radicalizing Muslims, while others dismiss the approach as impractical and urge counter online campaigns.
"[Al-Qaeda doesn't] put people on planes anymore because they know we're good at spotting them," John Arquilla, a military theorist at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California, told Time magazine on Wednesday, December 23.
"And if we take away cyberspace we would achieve a crippling effect on the global terror network."
Some believe the US administration has done very little to fight the anti-terror battle in the cyberspace.
"Instead of thinking of cyberspace principally as a place to gather intelligence, we need to elevate it to the status of ‘battlespace'," Arquilla told the House Armed Services Committee last week during a hearing on the threat of online radicalization.
"This means that we either want to exploit terrorists' use of the Web and Net unbeknownst to them, or we want to drive them from it."
Many experts recognize that Al-Qaeda has become tech- and media-savvy in recent years.
Dozens of audio and video message produced by its media arm, as-Sahab, are immediately available on the internet.
Futile
But some experts are skeptical about the success prospects of declaring war at such websites, also citing their importance as source for intelligence gathering.
"If you shut down one of their websites today, they have a complete copy elsewhere and can put it up on a new server and have it up tomorrow," says Evan Kohlmann of the NEFA Foundation, created following 9/11 to track terrorism.
He believes such websites are a treasure of information overlooked by the US and are the only window the rest of the world has into al-Qaeda and other such groups.
"[This] would be like firing cruise missiles at our own spy satellites.
"If you start shutting down the websites it's like chopping up a jellyfish — you end up with lots of little pieces that are very difficult to monitor."
Scholars like Chris Boucek, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believe shutting down websites is not the answer.
"We're talking about a movement that's based on ideas and grievances, so we need to understand those ideas and grievances," Boucek says.
"Failing to engage in debate on those issues means we're ceding all of that to them, and that makes no sense to me."
Boucek lauded a Saudi campaign, Sakina, which helps scholars to go online to militant websites and debate what is and isn't permitted by Islam.
"There's a multiplying effect when they put this on their website for other people to read.
"Also on their website are different documents and studies, recantation videos, things like that that explain extremism and radicalization."
Boucek believes Washington should launch a similar program to be handled by academics rather than by government officials.
"You can't have the American military telling people what their religion allows.
"It's shocking to me that eight years into this conflict, we don't have a formal institution doing this."
CAIRO — Some American experts believe their government should hunt and shut down websites seen as radicalizing Muslims, while others dismiss the approach as impractical and urge counter online campaigns.
"[Al-Qaeda doesn't] put people on planes anymore because they know we're good at spotting them," John Arquilla, a military theorist at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California, told Time magazine on Wednesday, December 23.
"And if we take away cyberspace we would achieve a crippling effect on the global terror network."
Some believe the US administration has done very little to fight the anti-terror battle in the cyberspace.
"Instead of thinking of cyberspace principally as a place to gather intelligence, we need to elevate it to the status of ‘battlespace'," Arquilla told the House Armed Services Committee last week during a hearing on the threat of online radicalization.
"This means that we either want to exploit terrorists' use of the Web and Net unbeknownst to them, or we want to drive them from it."
Many experts recognize that Al-Qaeda has become tech- and media-savvy in recent years.
Dozens of audio and video message produced by its media arm, as-Sahab, are immediately available on the internet.
Futile
But some experts are skeptical about the success prospects of declaring war at such websites, also citing their importance as source for intelligence gathering.
"If you shut down one of their websites today, they have a complete copy elsewhere and can put it up on a new server and have it up tomorrow," says Evan Kohlmann of the NEFA Foundation, created following 9/11 to track terrorism.
He believes such websites are a treasure of information overlooked by the US and are the only window the rest of the world has into al-Qaeda and other such groups.
"[This] would be like firing cruise missiles at our own spy satellites.
"If you start shutting down the websites it's like chopping up a jellyfish — you end up with lots of little pieces that are very difficult to monitor."
Scholars like Chris Boucek, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, believe shutting down websites is not the answer.
"We're talking about a movement that's based on ideas and grievances, so we need to understand those ideas and grievances," Boucek says.
"Failing to engage in debate on those issues means we're ceding all of that to them, and that makes no sense to me."
Boucek lauded a Saudi campaign, Sakina, which helps scholars to go online to militant websites and debate what is and isn't permitted by Islam.
"There's a multiplying effect when they put this on their website for other people to read.
"Also on their website are different documents and studies, recantation videos, things like that that explain extremism and radicalization."
Boucek believes Washington should launch a similar program to be handled by academics rather than by government officials.
"You can't have the American military telling people what their religion allows.
"It's shocking to me that eight years into this conflict, we don't have a formal institution doing this."
Need to launch public movement in India to support Palestine: Speakers
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: As India has emerged a strong global economy there is a need to launch a massive movement in the country supporting the Palestinian cause to force the government to review its policy towards Israel. India’s strong support for Palestine at this moment will have impacts on Israel and global politics surrounding the Palestinian issue, said political and religious leaders yesterday in New Delhi.
They were speaking at a daylong national conference on “Solidarity with Freedom Movement of Palestine” organized by Muslim Political Council of India in cooperation with Palestine Solidarity Movement, a newly formed group in Delhi.
L-R: Dr Tasleem Rahmani (Muslim Political Council), Rafeeque Ahmed (Jamaat-e-Islami Hind), Mulayam Singh Yadav (MP and chief of Samajwadi Party), Abdul Wahab Khilji (All India Milli Council) and Bhim Singh (Panthers Party)
Member of Parliament Nilotpal Basu of CPM alleged that India was indirectly supporting the Israeli atrocities on Palestinians by strengthening its economy through weapons purchase.
“India is buying weapons from Israel at large scale and thus supporting its economy. So the Israeli attacks on innocent Palestinians are indirectly supported by India,” Basu said. He stressed on the need for a joint campaign from all communities irrespective of religion to support Palestinian statehood. “India is a strong emerging economy, so a massive movement here to support Palestinian movement will have impact on Israel and global politics,” he said.
Rafeeque Ahmed, Secretary, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, termed the Palestinian issue a human rights issue and sought support from all communities.
“Palestinian issue is a human rights issue, so we all should support it. Israel has occupied Palestinian land by carrying out genocide,” Ahmed said and tagged the peace of world with solution of this issue. “No peace is possible in the world without solving the issue of Palestine.”
“India has always supported Palestinian movement but since 1992 India’s foreign policy regarding Israel has changed,” he added while urging for a mass movement on the issue. “Such occasional programs will not help, there is a need to launch a public movement to support Palestine.”
Dr Tasleem Rahmani, president, Muslim Political Council of India, expressed hope that apparently Palestinians seem to be losing but at the end of the day their movement will succeed.
“It is no war when tanks are confronted with boys with stones in Palestinian streets and it seems Palestine will disappear from the map of the world, but given the determination of new Palestinian generation to free their motherland, it is certain the Palestinian movement will succeed,” he said and condemned the Indian policy vis-à-vis Israel.
“India has always supported nonviolence but surprisingly today it is silent on Israeli atrocities in Israel.”
Dr SQR Ilyas, Executive Committee Member, All India Muslim Personal Law Board, also expressed his concern on growing India-Israel strategic relations.
“India-Israel strategic relations now going beyond mere military relations will put in danger the security of India itself. The development will make India a colony of the US and Israel,” Dr Ilyas said and expressed concern over the fact that our country sends IPS officers to Israel for training.
Deepankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, CPI-ML, expressed solidarity with the Palestinian movement and termed Israeli occupation on Israel as the greatest injustice on earth in 20th century.
“Occupation of Palestinian land by Israel is the greatest injustice of 20th century,” Bhattacharya said adding that there is a need to change foreign policy of India to keep it free. He also expressed concern on efforts to present Muslims in India as villain and to demonize the whole community.
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief and former defence minister, criticized the Union Government for not having clear foreign policies.
“For a long time, India has lost vision as it has no clear stand on foreign issues. In fact India has no friend in the world today,” Singh said addressing the gathering as chief guest.
“Jawahar Lal Nehru had said India will never be silent on human rights violations but the Congress party of Nehru has forgot his policy,” Singh said adding that his party supports the Palestinian cause.
The co-organizer of the conference Palestine Solidarity Movement has given a call to boycott about 90 products/services of companies which are directly or indirectly attached with Israel. The products include cold drinks like Pepsi, Coca Cola, Fanta and Sprite, IT companies like Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Nokia and soaps like Dove, Lux, Pond’s and Rexona.
http://twocircles.net/2009dec23/need_launch_public_movement_india_support_palestine_speakers.html
New Delhi: As India has emerged a strong global economy there is a need to launch a massive movement in the country supporting the Palestinian cause to force the government to review its policy towards Israel. India’s strong support for Palestine at this moment will have impacts on Israel and global politics surrounding the Palestinian issue, said political and religious leaders yesterday in New Delhi.
They were speaking at a daylong national conference on “Solidarity with Freedom Movement of Palestine” organized by Muslim Political Council of India in cooperation with Palestine Solidarity Movement, a newly formed group in Delhi.
L-R: Dr Tasleem Rahmani (Muslim Political Council), Rafeeque Ahmed (Jamaat-e-Islami Hind), Mulayam Singh Yadav (MP and chief of Samajwadi Party), Abdul Wahab Khilji (All India Milli Council) and Bhim Singh (Panthers Party)
Member of Parliament Nilotpal Basu of CPM alleged that India was indirectly supporting the Israeli atrocities on Palestinians by strengthening its economy through weapons purchase.
“India is buying weapons from Israel at large scale and thus supporting its economy. So the Israeli attacks on innocent Palestinians are indirectly supported by India,” Basu said. He stressed on the need for a joint campaign from all communities irrespective of religion to support Palestinian statehood. “India is a strong emerging economy, so a massive movement here to support Palestinian movement will have impact on Israel and global politics,” he said.
Rafeeque Ahmed, Secretary, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, termed the Palestinian issue a human rights issue and sought support from all communities.
“Palestinian issue is a human rights issue, so we all should support it. Israel has occupied Palestinian land by carrying out genocide,” Ahmed said and tagged the peace of world with solution of this issue. “No peace is possible in the world without solving the issue of Palestine.”
“India has always supported Palestinian movement but since 1992 India’s foreign policy regarding Israel has changed,” he added while urging for a mass movement on the issue. “Such occasional programs will not help, there is a need to launch a public movement to support Palestine.”
Dr Tasleem Rahmani, president, Muslim Political Council of India, expressed hope that apparently Palestinians seem to be losing but at the end of the day their movement will succeed.
“It is no war when tanks are confronted with boys with stones in Palestinian streets and it seems Palestine will disappear from the map of the world, but given the determination of new Palestinian generation to free their motherland, it is certain the Palestinian movement will succeed,” he said and condemned the Indian policy vis-à-vis Israel.
“India has always supported nonviolence but surprisingly today it is silent on Israeli atrocities in Israel.”
Dr SQR Ilyas, Executive Committee Member, All India Muslim Personal Law Board, also expressed his concern on growing India-Israel strategic relations.
“India-Israel strategic relations now going beyond mere military relations will put in danger the security of India itself. The development will make India a colony of the US and Israel,” Dr Ilyas said and expressed concern over the fact that our country sends IPS officers to Israel for training.
Deepankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, CPI-ML, expressed solidarity with the Palestinian movement and termed Israeli occupation on Israel as the greatest injustice on earth in 20th century.
“Occupation of Palestinian land by Israel is the greatest injustice of 20th century,” Bhattacharya said adding that there is a need to change foreign policy of India to keep it free. He also expressed concern on efforts to present Muslims in India as villain and to demonize the whole community.
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief and former defence minister, criticized the Union Government for not having clear foreign policies.
“For a long time, India has lost vision as it has no clear stand on foreign issues. In fact India has no friend in the world today,” Singh said addressing the gathering as chief guest.
“Jawahar Lal Nehru had said India will never be silent on human rights violations but the Congress party of Nehru has forgot his policy,” Singh said adding that his party supports the Palestinian cause.
The co-organizer of the conference Palestine Solidarity Movement has given a call to boycott about 90 products/services of companies which are directly or indirectly attached with Israel. The products include cold drinks like Pepsi, Coca Cola, Fanta and Sprite, IT companies like Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Nokia and soaps like Dove, Lux, Pond’s and Rexona.
http://twocircles.net/2009dec23/need_launch_public_movement_india_support_palestine_speakers.html
Manipur Muslim separatist leader arrested in Guwahati
By IANS,
Guwahati : A top separatist leader of Manipur was arrested by security forces in Assam's main city of Guwahati Thursday while on a specific mission to recruit cadres to carry out operations, officials said.
A police spokesperson said the arrested rebel leader Mohammed Raihanuddin is the self-styled commander-in-chief of the outlawed People's United Liberation Front (PULF), a Muslim-based rebel outfit active in Manipur.
"Based on specific intelligence that the PULF leader was in the city and would be visiting a certain locality to meet some people, security forces stepped up a search operation and managed to capture him unchallenged from Guwahati's Athgaon area," a police official said.
Police recovered two hand grenades from a bag carried by the PULF leader, besides several documents, including extortion demands.
"The PULF leader was in the city for some time with a specific mission to recruit some people in Guwahati to look after their operations, mainly to carry out extortions from people here who have business interests in Manipur," the official said.
Two more people were also picked up along with Raihanuddin.
"We have not arrested the other two people, but are questioning them about any direct role they might have with the PULF leader," the official said.
Police said the arrested leader belongs to PULF's Azad faction with the outfit split into groups, although their objectives are the same - seeking to safeguard the interests of the minority Muslim community in Manipur and carving out an Islamic country in the northeast through an armed struggle in collaboration with other Islamist fundamentalist groups.
Extortion targeting the civilian population and traders in its areas of operation constitutes the major source of funding for the PULF.
Guwahati : A top separatist leader of Manipur was arrested by security forces in Assam's main city of Guwahati Thursday while on a specific mission to recruit cadres to carry out operations, officials said.
A police spokesperson said the arrested rebel leader Mohammed Raihanuddin is the self-styled commander-in-chief of the outlawed People's United Liberation Front (PULF), a Muslim-based rebel outfit active in Manipur.
"Based on specific intelligence that the PULF leader was in the city and would be visiting a certain locality to meet some people, security forces stepped up a search operation and managed to capture him unchallenged from Guwahati's Athgaon area," a police official said.
Police recovered two hand grenades from a bag carried by the PULF leader, besides several documents, including extortion demands.
"The PULF leader was in the city for some time with a specific mission to recruit some people in Guwahati to look after their operations, mainly to carry out extortions from people here who have business interests in Manipur," the official said.
Two more people were also picked up along with Raihanuddin.
"We have not arrested the other two people, but are questioning them about any direct role they might have with the PULF leader," the official said.
Police said the arrested leader belongs to PULF's Azad faction with the outfit split into groups, although their objectives are the same - seeking to safeguard the interests of the minority Muslim community in Manipur and carving out an Islamic country in the northeast through an armed struggle in collaboration with other Islamist fundamentalist groups.
Extortion targeting the civilian population and traders in its areas of operation constitutes the major source of funding for the PULF.
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