By IANS,
Kabul : Afghan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly threatened to join the Taliban if he continues to come under "outside pressure" to reform, a media report said Tuesday.
Karzai made the unusual comments at a closed-door meeting Saturday with select lawmakers, just days after kicking up a diplomatic row with remarks alleging foreigners were behind the fraud in the 2009 disputed elections, the China Daily website reported.
"He (Karzai) said that 'if I come under foreign pressure, I might join the Taliban'," said Farooq Marenai, who represents the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Marenai said Karzai appeared nervous and repeatedly demanded to know why parliament last week rejected legal reforms that would have strengthened the president's authority over the country's electoral institutions.
Two other lawmakers said Karzai twice raised the threat to join the insurgency.
The lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Karzai dismissed concerns over possible damage his comments had caused to relations with the US.
The Taliban has become increasingly aggressive in Afghanistan amid reports that the US was preparing to pull out after a Pakistan-brokered deal with the "good Taliban".
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
BJP hints at snapping ties with AGP in Assam
By IANS,
Guwahati : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday almost put an end to the year-long honeymoon with Assam's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) by hinting to fight the 2011 assembly elections on its own and take power in the state.
"If they (AGP) want an alliance we can talk, or else we are ready to fight the 2011 elections on our own," BJP president Nitin Gadkari told journalists at the end of a two-day visit to Guwahati.
On Monday, the BJP president was even more vocal about snapping ties with the AGP.
"We have asked our party cadres to work towards having a BJP chief minister in Assam by next year," Gadkari told a public rally in the city.
The BJP and AGP had an electoral understanding during the 2009 Lok Sabha election although the AGP in recent months has maintained a distance from the former.
The electoral tie-up proved disastrous for the AGP, which won just one of the 14 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP bagged four seats.
The AGP-BJP tie up in the 2001 assembly elections also did not work out, with the combine routed by the Congress party.
"We are concentrating on strengthening our grassroot level workers in the state to make the party strong and vibrant," the BJP president said.
Gadkari was also critical of the Congress.
"Corruption is rampant in Assam and yet the government claims all is well. The people of Assam would never accept such a corrupt government," he said.
Guwahati : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday almost put an end to the year-long honeymoon with Assam's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) by hinting to fight the 2011 assembly elections on its own and take power in the state.
"If they (AGP) want an alliance we can talk, or else we are ready to fight the 2011 elections on our own," BJP president Nitin Gadkari told journalists at the end of a two-day visit to Guwahati.
On Monday, the BJP president was even more vocal about snapping ties with the AGP.
"We have asked our party cadres to work towards having a BJP chief minister in Assam by next year," Gadkari told a public rally in the city.
The BJP and AGP had an electoral understanding during the 2009 Lok Sabha election although the AGP in recent months has maintained a distance from the former.
The electoral tie-up proved disastrous for the AGP, which won just one of the 14 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP bagged four seats.
The AGP-BJP tie up in the 2001 assembly elections also did not work out, with the combine routed by the Congress party.
"We are concentrating on strengthening our grassroot level workers in the state to make the party strong and vibrant," the BJP president said.
Gadkari was also critical of the Congress.
"Corruption is rampant in Assam and yet the government claims all is well. The people of Assam would never accept such a corrupt government," he said.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Terrorist fall-out of Israeli rigidity over Jerusalem
BY SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY
It looks as if Israel will again get away. The Palestinians will again be thwarted, which will mean more recruits for Al-Qaeda and intensification of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Chechnya and in non-Islamic areas where jihadis have struck. The world may have to pay a high price for Israel's recalcitrance
The Moscow metro bombings are a warning of the intensified Islamist terrorist attacks that might be expected partly because of Israel's latest demonstration of rigidity. It bears noting, too, that Israeli forging of British, French and German passports to murder the Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai has incurred greater Western displeasure than the crime itself did. As long as such double standards prevail, Israel knows it can get away with literally and metaphorically murder.
Murder is not only of individuals. It is the murder of the Palestinian dream of a sovereign homeland, small and drained of all resources though it be, in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in Jerusalem. Above all, it is the murder of the belief that Jews had drawn some worthwhile lessons from their centuries of wandering and terrible suffering at Hitler's hands. All that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appears to have learnt is that the successful victim emulates his oppressor.
Though now basking in the uncritical support of the US Congress, he must know that Congressional endorsement owes much to the persuasive funding power of American Zionists. The AntiDefamation League of Bnai B'rith constantly lobbies members of both Houses; and Fortune magazine once described the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as Washington's second most influential lobby. But the means probably interest Netanyahu less than the end, and the expectation is that no matter what President Barack Obama might have said at their recent one-on-one meeting in Washington, he will sooner or later quieten down and toe the line like his predecessors.
By all accounts the protracted discussion was a disaster. The usual trimmings of a state visit were cut out. No joint statement was issued. The two leaders were not photographed together, grinning or scowling. Even the public handshake that often goes on and on was omitted. Netanyahu's departure from America's shores was twice postponed, presumably because of hopes that extra time would allow something to be salvaged.
Next came Britain's decision to expel though couched more politely than that the head of the Intelligence services at Israel's embassy in London. This was retaliation for the 12 members of the Israeli hit team that murdered Mahmoud al-Mabhouh using forged (the preferred term is "cloned" because they were copies of genuine originals) British passports. Other Israeli assassins used similarly cloned French and German passports. They were all copied from the genuine passports of travellers at Israel's Ben Gurion airport. "Such misuse of British passports is intolerable" says Mr David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, warning that any British subject who visits Israel runs the risk of similar abuse. "The fact that this was done by a country which is a friend, with significant diplomatic, cultural, business and personal ties to the UK, only adds insult to injury." The wording of that not particularly harsh censure bears analysis. There is no condemnation of the murder. There is no reference to the heart of the matter Israel's refusal, despite the show of prolonged negotiations, to hand back conquered land that it has occupied for 43 years.
Miliband didn't even denounce the criminal act of forgery. All he asked in anguish was in effect "How can they do this to us?" Presumably, there would have been no cause for surprise or pain if Iran or Zambia or some other unfriendly country had cloned British passports. Presumably, too, there would have been no cause for complaint if Israel had cloned Iranian or Zambian passports.
Indignation arose because Miliband believed Israel had betrayed its special bond with Britain. That is not likely to worry Israel too much. Its operations to rescue Ethiopian Jews, kidnap former Nazis or destroy Iraq's nuclear capability demonstrate indifference to considerations of legality. It is convinced that survival justifies every action and that the European Union is hypocritical.
Also, the Israeli attitude to the surrounding Arabs is condescendingly European. Europe may have treated its Jews like vermin but that does not stop those Jews and their descendants from identifying with Europeans when it comes to Asians and Africans. There must also have been a special satisfaction for Israeli operatives in cloning German passports and masquerading as Germans.
The present controversy centres on Jerusalem. It makes sense for the ancient city, sacred to three of the world's great religions, to be joint capital of Israel and Palestine. But Israel wants all of Jerusalem, which reinforces the suspicion that it does not want an independent Palestine at all.
Even the moderate President Shimon Peres always wrote of a "Palestinian entity", never a "Palestinian state". The most Israel seems willing to concede is something like the "Bantustans" that apartheid South Africa created to cordon off its black population.
That view was further strengthened when Israel announced, while American Vice-President Biden was visiting the country, that it would build 1,600 more homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton called the decision an "insult to the US" that deliberately sabotaged American efforts to restart the stalled peace negotiations. Mrs Clinton had not forgotten that during his previous tenure as prime minister, Netanyahu did everything possible to extend Jewish settlements in the West Bank, consolidate Israel's military control and obstruct the peace process. The question now is not whether Britain is piqued but whether Israel can afford to antagonize the US which is its main diplomatic and financial supporter and arms supplier. Israel would not exist without heavy US backing. But a strategist like Netanyahu also knows that Israel's strongest card is the American Zionist lobby. Going back in history, Fraklin Delano Roosevelt promised King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia an independent Palestinian homeland. But when he died suddenly, the new president, Harry S. Truman, bluntly told State Department officials that he had to answer to hundreds of thousands of people who were anxious for the success of Zionism but did not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among his constituents.
Netanyahu's far-right ruling coalition would collapse if he yields to American pressure. He might be able to put together another coalition with the centrist Kadina Party, but that would not be to his liking. Moreover, he knows that with the mid-term Congressional elections due in November, Obama might find his hand forced by his Democratic supporters who fear that the powerful Zionist lobby mentioned earlier will finance their Republican opponents.
Netanyahu has an external card too: he can attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The Americans have built up the Iranian bogey and whatever Mr Obama's feelings, he can hardly criticize an attack too much in public.
So it looks as if Israel will again get away with its gamble. The Palestinians will again be thwarted, which will mean more recruits for Al-Qaeda and further intensification of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Chechnya and in non-Islamic areas (New York, London, Madrid, Moscow) where jihadis have struck. The world may have to pay a high price for Israel's recalcitrance.
It looks as if Israel will again get away. The Palestinians will again be thwarted, which will mean more recruits for Al-Qaeda and intensification of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Chechnya and in non-Islamic areas where jihadis have struck. The world may have to pay a high price for Israel's recalcitrance
The Moscow metro bombings are a warning of the intensified Islamist terrorist attacks that might be expected partly because of Israel's latest demonstration of rigidity. It bears noting, too, that Israeli forging of British, French and German passports to murder the Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai has incurred greater Western displeasure than the crime itself did. As long as such double standards prevail, Israel knows it can get away with literally and metaphorically murder.
Murder is not only of individuals. It is the murder of the Palestinian dream of a sovereign homeland, small and drained of all resources though it be, in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in Jerusalem. Above all, it is the murder of the belief that Jews had drawn some worthwhile lessons from their centuries of wandering and terrible suffering at Hitler's hands. All that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appears to have learnt is that the successful victim emulates his oppressor.
Though now basking in the uncritical support of the US Congress, he must know that Congressional endorsement owes much to the persuasive funding power of American Zionists. The AntiDefamation League of Bnai B'rith constantly lobbies members of both Houses; and Fortune magazine once described the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as Washington's second most influential lobby. But the means probably interest Netanyahu less than the end, and the expectation is that no matter what President Barack Obama might have said at their recent one-on-one meeting in Washington, he will sooner or later quieten down and toe the line like his predecessors.
By all accounts the protracted discussion was a disaster. The usual trimmings of a state visit were cut out. No joint statement was issued. The two leaders were not photographed together, grinning or scowling. Even the public handshake that often goes on and on was omitted. Netanyahu's departure from America's shores was twice postponed, presumably because of hopes that extra time would allow something to be salvaged.
Next came Britain's decision to expel though couched more politely than that the head of the Intelligence services at Israel's embassy in London. This was retaliation for the 12 members of the Israeli hit team that murdered Mahmoud al-Mabhouh using forged (the preferred term is "cloned" because they were copies of genuine originals) British passports. Other Israeli assassins used similarly cloned French and German passports. They were all copied from the genuine passports of travellers at Israel's Ben Gurion airport. "Such misuse of British passports is intolerable" says Mr David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, warning that any British subject who visits Israel runs the risk of similar abuse. "The fact that this was done by a country which is a friend, with significant diplomatic, cultural, business and personal ties to the UK, only adds insult to injury." The wording of that not particularly harsh censure bears analysis. There is no condemnation of the murder. There is no reference to the heart of the matter Israel's refusal, despite the show of prolonged negotiations, to hand back conquered land that it has occupied for 43 years.
Miliband didn't even denounce the criminal act of forgery. All he asked in anguish was in effect "How can they do this to us?" Presumably, there would have been no cause for surprise or pain if Iran or Zambia or some other unfriendly country had cloned British passports. Presumably, too, there would have been no cause for complaint if Israel had cloned Iranian or Zambian passports.
Indignation arose because Miliband believed Israel had betrayed its special bond with Britain. That is not likely to worry Israel too much. Its operations to rescue Ethiopian Jews, kidnap former Nazis or destroy Iraq's nuclear capability demonstrate indifference to considerations of legality. It is convinced that survival justifies every action and that the European Union is hypocritical.
Also, the Israeli attitude to the surrounding Arabs is condescendingly European. Europe may have treated its Jews like vermin but that does not stop those Jews and their descendants from identifying with Europeans when it comes to Asians and Africans. There must also have been a special satisfaction for Israeli operatives in cloning German passports and masquerading as Germans.
The present controversy centres on Jerusalem. It makes sense for the ancient city, sacred to three of the world's great religions, to be joint capital of Israel and Palestine. But Israel wants all of Jerusalem, which reinforces the suspicion that it does not want an independent Palestine at all.
Even the moderate President Shimon Peres always wrote of a "Palestinian entity", never a "Palestinian state". The most Israel seems willing to concede is something like the "Bantustans" that apartheid South Africa created to cordon off its black population.
That view was further strengthened when Israel announced, while American Vice-President Biden was visiting the country, that it would build 1,600 more homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton called the decision an "insult to the US" that deliberately sabotaged American efforts to restart the stalled peace negotiations. Mrs Clinton had not forgotten that during his previous tenure as prime minister, Netanyahu did everything possible to extend Jewish settlements in the West Bank, consolidate Israel's military control and obstruct the peace process. The question now is not whether Britain is piqued but whether Israel can afford to antagonize the US which is its main diplomatic and financial supporter and arms supplier. Israel would not exist without heavy US backing. But a strategist like Netanyahu also knows that Israel's strongest card is the American Zionist lobby. Going back in history, Fraklin Delano Roosevelt promised King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia an independent Palestinian homeland. But when he died suddenly, the new president, Harry S. Truman, bluntly told State Department officials that he had to answer to hundreds of thousands of people who were anxious for the success of Zionism but did not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among his constituents.
Netanyahu's far-right ruling coalition would collapse if he yields to American pressure. He might be able to put together another coalition with the centrist Kadina Party, but that would not be to his liking. Moreover, he knows that with the mid-term Congressional elections due in November, Obama might find his hand forced by his Democratic supporters who fear that the powerful Zionist lobby mentioned earlier will finance their Republican opponents.
Netanyahu has an external card too: he can attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The Americans have built up the Iranian bogey and whatever Mr Obama's feelings, he can hardly criticize an attack too much in public.
So it looks as if Israel will again get away with its gamble. The Palestinians will again be thwarted, which will mean more recruits for Al-Qaeda and further intensification of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Chechnya and in non-Islamic areas (New York, London, Madrid, Moscow) where jihadis have struck. The world may have to pay a high price for Israel's recalcitrance.
Muslims terrorised in Moscow. Russians themselves catch them and give to police
31 March 2010, 18:24
As Moscow sources report, after the attacks in the Moscow Metro, on Wednesday morning, two passengers in the foyer of metro station "Komsomolskya", detained and forcefully brought to police station a Dagestan national, demanding to check his participation in "terror acts".
They explained that they found suspicious the big bag, carried by Dagestani, his Caucasian appearance, and also his aggressiveness, who pushed one of the passengers.
Two Muslim students wearing headscarves had almost lynched straight on a train en route from "Kolomenskaya" towards the center. On "Autozavodskaya" the passengers demanded them to leave. They refused, the doors closed, and the train moved to "Pavlezkaya".
When the train arrived to the station, the girls were already beaten and so did not protest so they were kicked out of the carriage. At the station they were detained by police officers, but found nothing suspicious.
Also, there were harassment of people wearing beards in Moscow.
About 14:00 am local time at the "Prospect of the Peace" station 5 Muslims (from Tabligh Jamaat) were beaten and taken to the hospital in serious condition.
At the same place in 20 minutes, two more Muslim women were beaten. At the "Petrovsko-Rasumovskaya" station, near the restaurant "73", armed people attacked a group of Caucasians.
The police also harass Muslim women. The source of KC informed, that at 11 am in one of the Moscow regions, 13 Muslim women were detained, when they were going for studies.
Even Armenians get attacked. One Armenian in his own foyer was stubbed, and the graffiti against Muslims written on the walls.
Especially nervous situation is in metro. Russians initiate attacks on Caucasians and Asians.
There were cases, when Muslims, and also Caucasians and Asians were turned away from the hospitals.
Many Muslims prefer to be at home in these days and not go outside.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
As Moscow sources report, after the attacks in the Moscow Metro, on Wednesday morning, two passengers in the foyer of metro station "Komsomolskya", detained and forcefully brought to police station a Dagestan national, demanding to check his participation in "terror acts".
They explained that they found suspicious the big bag, carried by Dagestani, his Caucasian appearance, and also his aggressiveness, who pushed one of the passengers.
Two Muslim students wearing headscarves had almost lynched straight on a train en route from "Kolomenskaya" towards the center. On "Autozavodskaya" the passengers demanded them to leave. They refused, the doors closed, and the train moved to "Pavlezkaya".
When the train arrived to the station, the girls were already beaten and so did not protest so they were kicked out of the carriage. At the station they were detained by police officers, but found nothing suspicious.
Also, there were harassment of people wearing beards in Moscow.
About 14:00 am local time at the "Prospect of the Peace" station 5 Muslims (from Tabligh Jamaat) were beaten and taken to the hospital in serious condition.
At the same place in 20 minutes, two more Muslim women were beaten. At the "Petrovsko-Rasumovskaya" station, near the restaurant "73", armed people attacked a group of Caucasians.
The police also harass Muslim women. The source of KC informed, that at 11 am in one of the Moscow regions, 13 Muslim women were detained, when they were going for studies.
Even Armenians get attacked. One Armenian in his own foyer was stubbed, and the graffiti against Muslims written on the walls.
Especially nervous situation is in metro. Russians initiate attacks on Caucasians and Asians.
There were cases, when Muslims, and also Caucasians and Asians were turned away from the hospitals.
Many Muslims prefer to be at home in these days and not go outside.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
FSB 'death squads' murdered a Muslim lady from Kizlyar in retaliation to the Moscow's sabotage
1 April 2010, 18:12
A dead body of a young girl was found on Thursday morning on a roadside of Lepkinskoe highway, near house #35 in Mytishchi town, Moscow region. The body was found by passers, who called the police.
There was a passport found in her pocket. A young girl born in 1988, is a native of Kizlyar city of Dagestan.
According to portal Life.ru, the dead person's name is Tamila Aliyeva. She was thrown to the roadside out of the car near the FSB School which is located in Mytishchi district. It is reported that the car with tinted glass from which the girl was thrown out left the scene at speed.
During the examination of the body the traces of injection were found on Aliyeva's hands.
Also, 2 booklets in Arabic language were found in young girl's pockets.
A dead body of a young girl was found on Thursday morning on a roadside of Lepkinskoe highway, near house #35 in Mytishchi town, Moscow region. The body was found by passers, who called the police.
There was a passport found in her pocket. A young girl born in 1988, is a native of Kizlyar city of Dagestan.
According to portal Life.ru, the dead person's name is Tamila Aliyeva. She was thrown to the roadside out of the car near the FSB School which is located in Mytishchi district. It is reported that the car with tinted glass from which the girl was thrown out left the scene at speed.
During the examination of the body the traces of injection were found on Aliyeva's hands.
Also, 2 booklets in Arabic language were found in young girl's pockets.
Letter to Russian mass media from mother of Sayeed al-Buryati
May Allah reward all Muslims who sincerely worried for my son, all those who wholeheartedly supported him and us. When I read your comments about Sayeed's Martyrdom, for me, as his mother, this loss becomes easier. Because your support preserves my faith.
And only now, I clearly realize that all that Sayeed tried to propagate was not in vain. And his first intentions, when he for the first time read Russian translation of Quran, are coming true.
I do not have a talent to express my thoughts as clearly as my son did, and I don't actually need one. But for the sake of justice I cannot be silent when the headlines and the information in Russian media are full of made-up stories about his life, starting from his school period up to the "Nevski Express".
When it comes to time when he was a kid, even then in the kindergarten which Sayeed was attending, the kindergarten teachers asked me to pay attention to him, because he seemed very unusual child to them, and even back then he puzzled them with his unchildish questions. And, do I even need to speak about his school, when in the 6th grade he already had such a deep knowledge of history, and in other humanities subjects likewise, and what the teachers tried to teach there wasn't equal to his knowledge. He was interested in school only when there was something he could learn from his teachers, the rest of his time he spent in the city libraries.
The unique ability of his memory has puzzled me many times. I even asked him once: "I don't understand, how you do it, how can you read books on different subjects, all at the same time, and be able to retell the pages full of dates and names, and not in general terms?" And Sayeed replied to me: "I'm more amazed by the fact, that I may repeat same names and dates more than ten times, but people still do not remember them!"
And this was said not because of his pride, meaning "look how smart I'm"! No! He really regretted it, and it seemed to him that he is doing something wrong, or that he is not delivering his lectures right.
So, when he read the translation of Quran for the first time he said: "Now, I know what I want in life. I want to embrace Islam, I want to learn about this religion and spread it to other people, so everyone can live in justice as it is written in this Book."
And this was in Buryatia, when he was 17 years old, and he almost immediately started to perform namaz (salat), at the beginning not the way it should have been done, because back then it was almost impossible to find any literature on this subject.
He had only a small booklet with a description of namaz (salat), and it wasn't hard for him to memorize it. The same year, he started to search for people who can tell him anything about Islam, but he could not find anything except of a couple of books from the library.
So, after we talked things over, we decided that we need to address a mosque, and the closest one was in Irkutsk city, and he went there. I've got to hand it to the Imam of that mosque, he immediately responded to Sayeed's wish to study the religion. Of course, imam was pretty much surprised, because it was for the first time when a young man from Buryatia approached him with an intention to be part of this religion and also to start studying it.
The imam directed him to Moscow Islamic Institute, so with such clear and sincere intentions he started his way to knowledge.
After he has studied there for 2 years, he continued his education in Egypt. After his return from Egypt in 2003, Sayeed continued to study and work in Moscow. And in 2004, he underwent 4 months study course of Arabic language in Kuwait.
He was not alone there, a big congress with participants representing many countries, was held there. So, the ignorant journalists who do not posses any information about Sayeed's life, need to stop to ascribe to him a "special training" in some kind of made up "special training camps" in different countries.
And in 2007, Sayeed performed Hajj to the sacred house of Allah. And that is it for Sayeed's foreign trips, too bad that the Russian media wants to invent something else.
I'm providing this information only for the justice regarding my son. And of course it mostly concerns Russian media. Because, no matter how hard they try to sniff something out about his personal life, they are not succeeding. And the silence from the part of close to Sayeed people, makes information hungry journalists invent stories.
The media is trying to ascribe to Sayeed something incredible, mentioning the last names of our neighbors who have never existed in real life, the stories about him changing different religions, and many more other things.
Therefore, I would like to reassure all the followers of Buddhism and Christianity that Sayeed did not "betray" your religions, because he has never practiced them.
If anyone is worried by the fact that he is well educated in many canons of different religions, it is only because of the knowledge of an educated person with wide interests and excellent memory.
With the same passion he could talk about ancient civilizations, people and even tribes, it was very interesting for Sayeed. He was searching for the purpose of life, the reason why a man was created, and praise be to Allah, he has found it only in Islam. So, don't even mention about him studying in a Buddhist school or a Turkish lyceum (when the Turkish lyceum was opened where we lived, Sayeed had already gone for knowledge to Moscow).
Therefore, you Russian journalists, leave the Buryat lamas without Sayeed's company. Moreover, if we speak about his ancestors, they are from Irkutsk Buryats who also have nothing to do with Buddhism, and his grandmother from father's side is Kazakh.
It may seem strange to some people, but for those who were born and raised living in Siberia, there is nothing strange in a big quantity of mixed marriages, because the population here in its majority are the descendents of once deported to Siberia people of different nationalities.
And this concerns me as well; we are all Russians according to our passports, but I'm not actually Russian myself. So, I would like to "disappoint" all the spiteful critics regarding the phrase "father is a Buddhist, mother is a Christian". I was never a Christian, and also was looking for truth in this life and when searching in the books about religions did not find anything intelligible, until I came across an article by A. Men "The Son of Man", you should remember him; he was the Christian archpriest who was slain with an axe.
So, this article brought me to Islam, even thou it may sound very odd. And the author writes that Jesus (Isa) when addressing God in ancient Aramaic language called Him "Ellah"!!! And I went hot and cold all over from the truth that the name of God is Allah, and Jesus also called Him Allah. And when finally I realized the truth then everything found its right place and the heart was soothed by the knowledge. And this happened 2 years before Sayeed embraced Islam, I was asking Allah, and making prayers to make my son become a Muslim, and Allah has heard my prayers, and He actually until these days answers all sincere prayers. Allhamdullilah!
Of course, for us, Sayeed's family, it is a great loss, because he indeed was a beloved son, brother and husband. And he has left his comfortable life in the Moscow apartment at the time when indeed we were living in prosperity and harmony. And this proves once again that he had to make a very tough choice at that moment. He understood that he will lose everything and also make us lose everything, but he did not abandon his choice until the end.
This little information is all that I wanted to share for the sake of authenticity and in order to expose the journalist's lies around name of my son.
Umm Sayeed
Source: IA Hunafa
And only now, I clearly realize that all that Sayeed tried to propagate was not in vain. And his first intentions, when he for the first time read Russian translation of Quran, are coming true.
I do not have a talent to express my thoughts as clearly as my son did, and I don't actually need one. But for the sake of justice I cannot be silent when the headlines and the information in Russian media are full of made-up stories about his life, starting from his school period up to the "Nevski Express".
When it comes to time when he was a kid, even then in the kindergarten which Sayeed was attending, the kindergarten teachers asked me to pay attention to him, because he seemed very unusual child to them, and even back then he puzzled them with his unchildish questions. And, do I even need to speak about his school, when in the 6th grade he already had such a deep knowledge of history, and in other humanities subjects likewise, and what the teachers tried to teach there wasn't equal to his knowledge. He was interested in school only when there was something he could learn from his teachers, the rest of his time he spent in the city libraries.
The unique ability of his memory has puzzled me many times. I even asked him once: "I don't understand, how you do it, how can you read books on different subjects, all at the same time, and be able to retell the pages full of dates and names, and not in general terms?" And Sayeed replied to me: "I'm more amazed by the fact, that I may repeat same names and dates more than ten times, but people still do not remember them!"
And this was said not because of his pride, meaning "look how smart I'm"! No! He really regretted it, and it seemed to him that he is doing something wrong, or that he is not delivering his lectures right.
So, when he read the translation of Quran for the first time he said: "Now, I know what I want in life. I want to embrace Islam, I want to learn about this religion and spread it to other people, so everyone can live in justice as it is written in this Book."
And this was in Buryatia, when he was 17 years old, and he almost immediately started to perform namaz (salat), at the beginning not the way it should have been done, because back then it was almost impossible to find any literature on this subject.
He had only a small booklet with a description of namaz (salat), and it wasn't hard for him to memorize it. The same year, he started to search for people who can tell him anything about Islam, but he could not find anything except of a couple of books from the library.
So, after we talked things over, we decided that we need to address a mosque, and the closest one was in Irkutsk city, and he went there. I've got to hand it to the Imam of that mosque, he immediately responded to Sayeed's wish to study the religion. Of course, imam was pretty much surprised, because it was for the first time when a young man from Buryatia approached him with an intention to be part of this religion and also to start studying it.
The imam directed him to Moscow Islamic Institute, so with such clear and sincere intentions he started his way to knowledge.
After he has studied there for 2 years, he continued his education in Egypt. After his return from Egypt in 2003, Sayeed continued to study and work in Moscow. And in 2004, he underwent 4 months study course of Arabic language in Kuwait.
He was not alone there, a big congress with participants representing many countries, was held there. So, the ignorant journalists who do not posses any information about Sayeed's life, need to stop to ascribe to him a "special training" in some kind of made up "special training camps" in different countries.
And in 2007, Sayeed performed Hajj to the sacred house of Allah. And that is it for Sayeed's foreign trips, too bad that the Russian media wants to invent something else.
I'm providing this information only for the justice regarding my son. And of course it mostly concerns Russian media. Because, no matter how hard they try to sniff something out about his personal life, they are not succeeding. And the silence from the part of close to Sayeed people, makes information hungry journalists invent stories.
The media is trying to ascribe to Sayeed something incredible, mentioning the last names of our neighbors who have never existed in real life, the stories about him changing different religions, and many more other things.
Therefore, I would like to reassure all the followers of Buddhism and Christianity that Sayeed did not "betray" your religions, because he has never practiced them.
If anyone is worried by the fact that he is well educated in many canons of different religions, it is only because of the knowledge of an educated person with wide interests and excellent memory.
With the same passion he could talk about ancient civilizations, people and even tribes, it was very interesting for Sayeed. He was searching for the purpose of life, the reason why a man was created, and praise be to Allah, he has found it only in Islam. So, don't even mention about him studying in a Buddhist school or a Turkish lyceum (when the Turkish lyceum was opened where we lived, Sayeed had already gone for knowledge to Moscow).
Therefore, you Russian journalists, leave the Buryat lamas without Sayeed's company. Moreover, if we speak about his ancestors, they are from Irkutsk Buryats who also have nothing to do with Buddhism, and his grandmother from father's side is Kazakh.
It may seem strange to some people, but for those who were born and raised living in Siberia, there is nothing strange in a big quantity of mixed marriages, because the population here in its majority are the descendents of once deported to Siberia people of different nationalities.
And this concerns me as well; we are all Russians according to our passports, but I'm not actually Russian myself. So, I would like to "disappoint" all the spiteful critics regarding the phrase "father is a Buddhist, mother is a Christian". I was never a Christian, and also was looking for truth in this life and when searching in the books about religions did not find anything intelligible, until I came across an article by A. Men "The Son of Man", you should remember him; he was the Christian archpriest who was slain with an axe.
So, this article brought me to Islam, even thou it may sound very odd. And the author writes that Jesus (Isa) when addressing God in ancient Aramaic language called Him "Ellah"!!! And I went hot and cold all over from the truth that the name of God is Allah, and Jesus also called Him Allah. And when finally I realized the truth then everything found its right place and the heart was soothed by the knowledge. And this happened 2 years before Sayeed embraced Islam, I was asking Allah, and making prayers to make my son become a Muslim, and Allah has heard my prayers, and He actually until these days answers all sincere prayers. Allhamdullilah!
Of course, for us, Sayeed's family, it is a great loss, because he indeed was a beloved son, brother and husband. And he has left his comfortable life in the Moscow apartment at the time when indeed we were living in prosperity and harmony. And this proves once again that he had to make a very tough choice at that moment. He understood that he will lose everything and also make us lose everything, but he did not abandon his choice until the end.
This little information is all that I wanted to share for the sake of authenticity and in order to expose the journalist's lies around name of my son.
Umm Sayeed
Source: IA Hunafa
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