Monday, July 2, 2012

عورت اور ان پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت: قسط 51, Urdu Section, NewAgeIslam.com

Urdu Section
عورت اور ان پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت: قسط 51
بیبیوں کو خیال کرنا چاہئے کہ ان کا شوہر کس محنت اور تکلیف سے روپیہ کماتا ہے ۔ جس تکلیف سے وہ اس روپیہ کو پیدا کرتاہے اسی دردمندی کے ساتھ اس کو خرچ کرناچاہئے ۔ بجا اور بے جا خرچ کی شناخت کے لئے یہ اصول مقرر کرنا چاہئے کہ جب کوئی چیز بنوانی یا خرید کرنے کا ارادہ ہوتو اس وقت یہ دیکھا جائے کہ اگر یہ چیز گھر میں نہ ہوتو کچھ حرج یا قباحت ہے کہ نہیں۔ اگر کوئی ہرج یا قباحت نہ ہوتو جانو کہ یہ چیز فضول ہے اور روپیہ کو ایسے فضول طور پر ضائع کرنے سے بچانا چاہئے ۔ اس زمانہ میں آرام طلبی اور عیش پسندی کے سامان زیادہ ہوتے جاتے ہیں جن کی حقیقت میں کوئی ضرورت نہیں ہوتی۔ پس ان کے طلب میں ہرگز نہیں پڑنا چاہئے ۔ بیوی کو کفایت شعاری کے لحاظ سے ہر چیز کا حساب رکھنا چاہئے اور خصوصاً خاص اپنے اخراجات کا اور شوہر کے اخراجات کا تاکہ اس کو ہمیشہ یہ بات یادر ہے کہ خاص میر ی ذات کے لئے کس قدر خرچ کی ضرورت ہے اور اس میں بغیر اشد ضرورت کے اور زیادتی نہ ہو اور یہ بھی خیال رہے کہ عمدہ سے عمدہ انتظام کرلینا آسان ہے لیکن کمانا بہت مشکل ہے ۔ پس انتظام کرنے والے کے اخراجات کمانے والے کے اخراجات سے زیادہ نہیں ہونے چاہئیں ۔ یہ بات بھی یاد رکھنے کے قابل ہے کہ جس طرح اپنی حیثیت سے اترکر گھٹیاطریق زندگی اختیار کرنا خشت اور کنجوسی کہلاتا ہے اسی طرح اپنی حیثیت سے بڑھ کر بڑے آدمیوں کی ریس کرنا اور ان کا سا لباس اور طریقت معاشرت اختیار کرنا اوچھا پن کہلاتا ہے اور ایسا کرنے والوں پر لوگ کو سامنے کچھ نہ کہیں لیکن پیٹھ پیچھے ضرور ہنستے ہیں۔ ہماری قوم کے شرفا کے دستور کے موافق متوسط اور اعلیٰ درجہ کے لوگوں کا اور ان کے مستورات کا باہم ملنا ملانا ایک عام بات ہے ۔ دس روپیہ کا محررڈپٹی کلکٹر سےملتا ہے اور اسی طرح ان کی بیویاں بھی باہم ملتی جلتی ہیں ۔ اب اگر ایک ادنیٰ محرر کی بیوی ایسے عمدہ داروں کی بیویوں کی ریس کرنے لگے تو قطع اس کے کہ وہ اپنے شوہر کے لئے بلائے جان بننا چاہتی ہے وہ اپنی جگ ہنسائی کرواتی ہے۔

Women’s role in social revolution highlighted, Islamic World News, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic World News

Women’s role in social revolution highlighted

EDDAH: The women’s wing of Thanima, a cultural organization of Keralite expatriates, organized a convention here recently to highlight the role of women in social revolutions. Jamal Alwaye, Thanima’s chief patron, opened the event saying Islam has shown the middle way for women’s empowerment, between extreme feminism and anti-feminism.

Presenting a paper entitled “Women’s empowerment in Islam,” Shameena Aziz of Al-Hayat International School said women would be able to strengthen their position in society through education, political participation and achieving financial self-sufficiency.

In her keynote speech, Rahmathunnissa, campaign-coordinator for Saudi Arabia, underlined the role of women in bringing up a morally sound generation. She said women should be proud of motherhood bestowed upon them by God and work with men to build a better society.

Sulekha Yaqub, who presided over the function, spoke about the upcoming women’s conference organized by Jamaat-e-Islami in Kerala on Jan. 24, saying the event would play a major role in enlightening women about their rights and duties and their important role in society.

T. Rahmath, Sameera Qutub and Sahida Raheem answered questions from the delegates. The convention began with a Qur’an class by V. Mumthez.

http://newageislam.com/womens-role-in-social-revolution-highlighted/islamic-world-news/d/2312


Shah Bano returns to haunt, Islamic Sharia Laws, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Sharia Laws
Shah Bano returns to haunt
By Sandeep B
December 30, 2009

Muslim Law Board’s criticism of SC judgement upholding the right of a divorced woman to get maintenance from her husband smacks of an attempt to foster separatist tendencies

Every application by a divorced woman under Section 125… of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, pending before a Magistrate on the commencement of this Act shall, notwithstanding anything contained in that code… be disposed of by such Magistrate in accordance with the provisions of this Act.”

This quote is from that spectacular, Congress-created monster called the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986. That it was one of the chief factors leading to Rajiv Gandhi’s downfall is purely incidental, and depending on which side of the fence you are on, equally led to the rise of ‘Hindu fundamentalism’. Also, that the entire Red Spectrum rues till date that this Act was the undoing of about 40 years’ of their ‘hard work’ is also incidental. But all these are incidental because we see subtle portents that this phenomenon is eminently capable of self-renewal. All it needs is a simple perpetuation of the current political climate.

On December 4, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices Deepak Verma and Sudarshan Reddy upheld the right of a divorced Muslim woman, Shabana Bano to receive maintenance from her husband.

I don’t believe in the supernatural but it’s slightly eerie that the latest victim of that Congress party-created monster shares the same last name as her predecessor, Shah Bano. This news appeared in a remote corner in the newspapers in direct contrast to the Shah Bano affair, which in the 1980s was both front-page news and the subject of passionate editorials that played out for months.

http://newageislam.com/shah-bano-returns-to-haunt/islamic-sharia-laws/d/2311


The joy of dirt: Why cleanliness may be going out of fashion, Spiritual Meditations, NewAgeIslam.com

Spiritual Meditations
The joy of dirt: Why cleanliness may be going out of fashion

Dec 17th 2009 | PARIS

From The Economist print edition

Grub, filth, grime, muck, gunk, slag, grit, grunge, smut, dross, dust, sludge, squalor. Insulted, hounded and despised, dirt these days has nowhere to hide. A constant shower of advertising and health warnings orders you to scrub, cleanse or purify every corner of the body, office or home. Bugs lurk at every turn. Skin, as much as household surfaces, must be scoured, sterilised and sprayed. The latest scare is the computer keyboard: supposedly it contains nearly 70 times more microbes than the average lavatory seat.

The effort to remove dirt, and imbue bodies and bathrooms with the scent of tangerine, mint or almond instead, is big business. Each year, the world spends $24 billion on soap bars or liquid gels and wash, according to Euromonitor International, a research firm. Another $106 billion goes on cleaning laundry, dishes, lavatories and other surfaces, including the baths and showers the bodies themselves get scrubbed in. Shock studies periodically expose and deplore sloppy habits. Fully 76 per cent of kitchen sink cloths are infested with germs. One in three American men does not wash his hands after using a public lavatory. Worries about the spread of swine flu are currently doing wonders for the market in pocket-sized antimicrobial handwash.

There is nothing fixed, however, about Western fascination with dirt-or terror of it. As recently as 1965 only half of British women wore an underarm deodorant. Back in 1940 just over half of American households had a proper bathroom. In 1951 nearly two-fifths of English households lacked a bath-and not only for reasons of post-war poverty.

http://newageislam.com/the-joy-of-dirt--why-cleanliness-may-be-going-out-of-fashion-/spiritual-meditations/d/2310


Adoption In Islam: Why It Is Illegitimate, Islamic Ideology, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Ideology
Adoption In Islam: Why It Is Illegitimate
By Maulana Nadeemul Wajidi
Translated from Urdu by Raihan Nezami

An honourable Delhi court has recently suggested during the hearing of a Muslim woman’s plea that adoption is an inevitable reality irrespective of Muslim Personal Law’s rules and regulations. It ruled that an adoptee should be given all rights equivalent to a biological child. As adoption is illegitimate is Islam, this ruling is an absolute violation of Muslim Personal Law.

The government had brought “Adoption Law” on 23 May, 1972 in Rajya Sabha with the statement of the then minister for law Mr. H.R Gokhle that it was an important step towards the uniform civil code. According to the article 13 (2) of the bill, “The adopted child would be considered like a biological child in all matters, even in the case of father’s death without a will; the adopter would be considered like his real father equivalent to a lawful biological father from the date of adoption order. The relation of adopted child with the family of his birth would be considered void and it would be considered valid with the adopter’s family from the same date.

Islamic organizations protested against the anti-Islamic ruling with all their might and Muslim Personal Law Board was formed at the historic convention held in Mumbai on 27/28 Dec.1972. After this vehement protest, this issue was temporarily kept in cold storage, but this Pandora’s box has again been opened. Our honourable courts keep attacking Muslim Personal Law Board from time to time. The issue of adoption is clarified with the following Aayat-e-Kareemah.

http://newageislam.com/adoption-in-islam--why-it-is-illegitimate/islamic-ideology/d/2309


عورت اور ان پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت: قسط 50, Urdu Section, NewAgeIslam.com

Urdu Section
عورت اور ان پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت: قسط 50

حقوق النسواں مولوی ممتاز علی کی تصنیف ہے۔ یہ کتاب 1898میں لکھی گئی تھی۔ مولوی ممتاز علی علیگڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی کے بانی سر سید احمد خاں کے ہمعصر تھے ۔ حقوق النسواں اسلام میں عورتوں کے حقوق پرپہلی مستند تصنیف ہے۔ مولونی ممتاز علی نےنہایت مدلل طریقے سے قرآنی آیات اور مستند احادیث کی مدد سے یہ ثابت کیا ہے کہ مردوں کی عورتوں پر نام نہاد برتری اور فضیلت اسلام یا قرآن کا تصور نہیں، بلکہ ان مفسرین کے ذہنی رویہ کا نتیجہ ہے ،جو مردانہ شاونیت (Chauvanism) کے شکار تھےاس کتاب کی اشاعت نے 111سال پہلے ایک نئی بحث کا دروازہ کھول دیا تھا۔ کچھ نے اس کتاب کی سخت مخالفت کی ،لیکن بہت سے علما نےاس تصنیف کو خیر مقدم کیا اور کچھ نے خاموشی ہی میں بہتر سمجھی روزنامہ ‘‘صحافت’’ ممبئی اسے اس لئے سلسلہ وار شائع کررہا ہے کہ ایک صدی بعد بھی یہ تصنیف اور اس کے مضامین آج کے حالات میں مطابقت رکھتے ہیں، اس لئے بالکل نئے معلوم ہوتے ہیں۔ امید ہے کہ یہ مضامین بغور پڑھے جائیں گے اور اس عظیم الشان تصنیف کا شایان شان خیر مقدم کیا جائے گا۔ایڈیٹر

اور اگر علیحدہ رہے تو دور رہنا ا س کے ناک ،کان آنکھ سب کا ادب کرنا۔ اس طرح کہ تجھ سے بجز خوشبو کے او ر کچھ نہ سونگھے ۔ اس کے کان جب سنیں تب اچھی بات سنیں ۔ اس کی آنکھیں جب دیکھیں تو اچھی بات دیکھیں۔’’

اس خالص اور بے غرضانہ محبت کا اس زمانہ کی عورتوں میں وجود نہیں۔ ان کی محبت اور الفت کا تھرما میٹر زیور اور لباس ہے۔ جتنی یہ چیزیں بڑھتی ہیں اتنا ہی محبت کا درجہ بڑھتا ہے ۔ جتنی ان میں کمی ہو محبت والفت بھی سکڑتی جاتی ہے۔ کہنے کو تو عورتیں کہہ دیں گے کہ نہیں نہیں ہمیں شوہر سے نہایت سچی الفت ہے اور شوہر کے ہوتے کسی چیزکا ہمیں مطلق خیال نہیں لیکن وہ دل میں سوچیں کہ جب ان کی کوئی ادنیٰ سی فرمائش پوری نہیں کی جاتی تو ان کی طبعیت کی کیا حالت ہوتی ہے۔

http://www.newageislam.com/urdu-section/عورت-اور-ان-پر-مردوں-کی-جھوٹی-فضیلت--قسط-50/d/2308


Change Is Coming To Islam, Ijtihad, Rethinking Islam, NewAgeIslam.com

Ijtihad, Rethinking Islam
Change Is Coming To Islam
By Ziauddin Sardar

26 December 2009, 05:13am IST

Last week, I took the Euro Star from St Pancras International station in London to Paris. Just after clearing immigration, I was stopped by a security officer. Nothing unusual in that, except I was the only one he stopped and questioned in literally thousands of passengers. I had some time to kill so I stood beside him to watch who else he interrogates . In 40 minutes, he only stopped two other people. The first was an old man clearly recognisable as a Muslim: beard, cap, badly-fitted suit, Arab (I guessed Tunisian) origins. The other was a person who strikes terror in the heart of every security officer: a Muslim woman in hijab.

This is perhaps the most noticeable feature of the passing decade for us Muslims. We are now universally regarded as objects of suspicion and subjects for interrogation.

The main reason behind this is the momentous atrocity that began the Noughties: the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. It is hardly surprising that the last decade has been dominated by the consequences of that attack. Most of the negative as well as positive developments in the Muslim world during the last ten years can be traced to that fateful event.

Terrorism, however, was not new to the Muslim world: it had been a problem before 9/11. In Pakistan , Kashmir, Egypt, and in Palestine, the cycle of sectarian and ideological terror and counter terror had already cost innumerable lives. In Chechnya, Bosnia and occupied Palestine, Muslims were victims of what can only be described as state-sponsored terrorism. And the vast majority of the victims of this internal and external violence were Muslims.

http://newageislam.com/change-is-coming-to-islam/ijtihad,-rethinking-islam/d/2307


Fazle Hasan Abed, Bangladesh NGO head gets UK award, Islamic World News, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic World News
Fazle Hasan Abed, Bangladesh NGO head gets UK award

The founder of one of the world's largest non governmental organisations, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, has been honoured in the UK.

Fazle Hasan Abed - who holds dual British and Bangladesh citizenship - will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2010 for services in tackling poverty.

He has also been awarded for empowering the poor in Bangladesh and globally.

Mr Abed's name was included in the Queen's New Year's Honours List released on Thursday.

'Multi-dimensional approach'

"I feel very humbled to receive this award," he told the BBC from his office in Dhaka, "which I am delighted to accept on behalf of all Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (Brac) workers across the world.

"I now want to build on this success to continue Brac's fight against poverty not only in Bangladesh but in eight other countries in the world where we are involved - Afghanistan, Uganda, Tanzania, Southern Sudan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Sri Lanka."

Brac also has plans to expand into Haiti.

Mr Abed says that Brac's success was because of a "multi-dimensional approach" to fighting poverty such as improving education, healthcare and financial services.

He Abed is to be made a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and is the first person of Bangladeshi origin to be honoured with a knighthood by the British Crown since 1947.

Mr Abed is the second person in his family to be honoured with a knighthood. His grand uncle, Justice Nawab Sir Syed Shamsul Huda, was knighted by the British Crown in 1913.

http://newageislam.com/fazle-hasan-abed,-bangladesh-ngo-head-gets-uk-award/islamic-world-news/d/2306


Karachi blast death toll mounts to 43, Islamic World News, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic World News
Karachi blast death toll mounts to 43

ISLAMABAD: Karachi was in mourning a day after the deadly suicide attack on a Muharram procession in which the death toll has now climbed to 43.

Despite the incidents of widespread arson following the bombing, the situation remained under control.

But until late into the morning, fire engines continued to battle flames in properties that were set ablaze by rioters after the bombing.

The provincial government declared on Tuesday a holiday and designated it as an official day of mourning for the dead.

Shops, businesses, schools and petrol pumps remained closed and there was no public transport as the city prepared for the funerals of those who were killed in the attack.

Hundreds of shops were burnt in Monday’s arson spree following the suicide attack. Interior minister Rehman Malik, who visited Karachi on Tuesday, said the incidents of violence were a “pre-planned” conspiracy to engulf the city in flames.

He said it was improbable the Shia mourners in the processions were carrying jerry-cans of petrol ready to torch properties.

Conspiracy

The fires began within minutes, and this, Mr. Malik said, pointed to a conspiracy against Pakistan.

He promised that the government would compensate traders for the losses, which may be run into billions of rupees.

Police officials said they were studying CCTV footage of the bombing. The bomber is said to have used 16 kg of explosives.

Earlier, the police issued a photograph of a severed head discovered from the site of the attack, thought to belong to the bomber, but it was later discovered to be that of a mourner in the procession.

This was the first major terror attack in Pakistan’s financial hub in over two years.

http://newageislam.com/karachi-blast-death-toll-mounts-to-43/islamic-world-news/d/2305


Fighting for the Soul of Islam, Muslims and Islamophobia, NewAgeIslam.com

Muslims and Islamophobia
Fighting for the Soul of Islam
By A. Akbar Muhammad
Dec 3, 2009

(FinalCall.com) - In recent days, there have been a number of articles cantered on the tragic killing of 13 military personnel at Fort Hood in Texas allegedly by an Army major and psychiatrist. This tragedy brought pain, hurt, and shame to the American people and in particular the military establishment. My heart goes out for those families who suffered through this tragedy and buried their loved ones. Everyone, including the president, is searching for a reason behind Major Nidal Malik Hasan's alleged actions. Critics have blamed Major Hasan's religion for the crime he is accused of committing.

But in order to understand what is, we must draw from the lessons of history and look back at how we arrived to where we are today. We are in a time when Muslims are Fighting for The Soul of Their Faith as they are being demoralized from every corner of the world. This has put many Muslims in the fight mode to intellectually defend their faith.

According to scholars, there are 1.4 to 1.6 billion Muslims in the world with nearly 10 million Muslims in America.

On President Barack Obama's recent trip to the Far East, it is interesting that he didn't visit Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population; nor did he travel to the Philippines where there are 7 to 10 million Muslims who have struggled for nearly 40 years, to receive due recognition that includes political and economic attention to Mindanao, located in the southern Philippines.


عورت اور ا ن پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت : قسط 30, Urdu Section, NewAgeIslam.com

Urdu Section
عورت اور ا ن پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت : قسط 30
درحقیقت نکاح کا یہ اصول کی روٹی ٹکڑے کا آرام ہو جائے ایک فرع ہے اس عام غلط اصول کی کہ عورت مر د کے آرام کے لئے ہے۔ اسی وجہ سے باپ بیٹوں کو خدمت گار سمجھتا ہے۔ بھائی بہنوں کو خدمت گار جانتا ہے اورمیاں بیوی کو باندی بنا کر رکھتا ہے اور اس اصول کی بنیاد ہے خود غرضی اور طمع کیونکہ بحالت مساوات حقوق زن و مرد اخراجات خانگی المضاعف ہوجاتے ہیں ۔ کبھی کبھی یہ اصول اپنی اصلی صورت میں نمایاں ہوتا ہے جب کہ بعض لوگ ایسے امری شخص کی بیٹی سے شادی کرنے کے خواہش مند ہوتے ہیں جو اولا د نرینہ نہ رکھتا ہو کہ بیوی کی بدولت مال کے وارث بنیں ۔ پس جب جوروں کی کمائی کھانا نکاح کا اصول ٹھہرا تو ایسے اصول پر چلنے والوں کو کیا ضرورت ہے کہ بیوی کے پسند اور منتخب کرنے کی زحمت اٹھائیں نتیجہ اس کا یہ ہوتا ہے کہ ناموافقت مزاج ہونے کی وجہ سے جو اس قسم کے نکاحوں کو با الطبع لازم غیر منفک ہے تمام عمر عذاب میں گزرتی ہے اور اصلی نکاح سے جس قدر برکتیں اور راحتیں پیدا ہوتی ہیں اتنی ہی ان نکاحوں سے رنجشیں اور خرابیاں پیدا ہوتی ہیں ۔ اور آخر کار بجز اس کے کوئی چارہ نہیں پاتے کہ اس شادی کو جو ماں باپ نے کرائی تھی کا لعدم سمجھ کر کسی اور عورت کو جو خوش صورت وخوش سیرۃ ہو رفیق بنائیں ۔مگر قوم کی حالت وستور اجازت نہیں دیتا کہ اپنا اختیار وپسندیدیگی پورے طور پر کام میں آسکے۔ ہر چند رسول صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کا حکم موجود ہے کہ نکاح کرنے سے پہلے دیکھ لو مباد ا ن میں کوئی عیب یا ایسا امر ہو جو بعد نکاح موجب ناموافقت ہو مگر کون خدا اور کس کا رسول ۔یہاں فرضی ناموس اکبر سے بھی زیادہ عزیز ہے۔ لاچار شرفا کے بچے بجز کسبیوں کے اور کسی کو نہیں پاتے جو اس حکم رسول خدا صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کااستعمال اپنے پر ہونے دیں ۔لاچار ہو کسبیو ں کو گھر میں ڈالتے اور شریف خاندانوں کو بدنام کرتے اور اپنے بڑوں کی عزت کو جو ضروری ڈوبنی چاہئے تھی ڈبو تے ہیں۔

What drew me to Islam, Islamic Society, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Society
What drew me to Islam
By Diana Doss

Growing up in a “Middle Eastern” family gives me a slight advantage as a new Muslim.

The phrases commonly used by Muslims such as “in sha’Allah” or “alhumdulillah” were already a part of my everyday vocabulary, and I easily blend into any group of Arab Muslims.

The only thing that gives me away is my name and perhaps the fact that I excitedly pick up books having anything to do with Islam.

The transition from Christianity to Islam was relatively easy for me in terms of adopting Islamic values and adapting to Muslim culture, but the road to get here was difficult and lonely at times.

I was born in an Egyptian Christian household. My mother was raised in the Coptic Church, and my dad was Catholic.

I went to Christian school from kindergarten through high school, and was always finding myself in between Catholic, non-denominational and Coptic churches.

My parents wanted me to find a balance, or rather, a niche, within what seemed like contradicting versions of Christianity.

By my last year of high school, I felt disconnected from common themes within Christianity and after years of Bible classes, the confusion surrounding certain doctrines only increased, and so did the inability of religious leaders to explain them to me.

http://newageislam.com/what-drew-me-to-islam/islamic-society/d/2193


Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics, Islamic Culture, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Culture
Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics
Dec. 03, 2009

When Jimi Hendrix smashed his guitar in the 1960s, it was clear he was attacking the Establishment. When a Muslim punk rocker smashes up a guitar outside an American Muslim convention, the now-standard rock 'n' roll trope gains a few new meanings. These young punks are taking on every establishment going: Muslim, American and Muslim American. "In this so-called war of civilizations, we're giving the finger to both sides," says the godfather of the Muslim punk movement, Michael Muhammad Knight, in Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam, a new documentary by Pakistani-Canadian director Omar Majeed. As a mashup of piety and politics, hard-core music and anarchy, the Muslim punk movement makes the Sex Pistols look like Fleetwood Mac.

The guitar-smashing episode occurred in 2007 after a crowd of Muslim punks were thrown out of the Islamic Society of North America's open-mike night. They had shocked attendants at the meeting — North America's largest annual Muslim gathering — not just by cranking up their amps, swearing and screaming their lyrics, but also by having a woman sing onstage. In the documentary, young women in hijabs are shown staring open-mouthed at first, then rocking out and yelling, "Stop the hate!" The concert then comes to an abrupt halt when the meeting's organizers, backed by Chicago police, step in, deeming it "not Islamically appropriate." Afterward, the punks smash their guitars and begin an ironic, anti-authority chant outside: "Music is haram [forbidden]!" (See pictures of Muslims in America.)

http://newageislam.com/muslim-punk-rock--a-mashup-of-piety-and-politics/islamic-culture/d/2192


Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America, Books and Documents, NewAgeIslam.com

Books and Documents
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America
By Fern Sidman
December 4th, 2009

Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America

by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry

Published by World Net Daily Books (2009)

P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry obtained more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video for their book Muslim Mafia.

The Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-based Islamic terrorist organization, appears to be alive and well and cloaking itself in legitimacy in our nation's capitol under the guise of a front group, say intrepid undercover agents P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry in their new book, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America (World Net Daily Books 2009). Investigative journalism reaches new levels in doughtiness and concludes with a shocking crescendo in this tome, as Gaubatz, his son Chris and Paul Sperry infiltrate the shady Washington, DC-based organization known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest and purportedly mainstream Muslim-American "civil rights" advocacy agency. The frightening facts published in this book are supported by more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video captured in this unprecedented undercover operation.

http://newageislam.com/muslim-mafia--inside-the-secret-underworld-that-s-conspiring-to-islamize-america/books-and-documents/d/2191


Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America, Books and Documents, NewAgeIslam.com

Books and Documents
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America
By Fern Sidman
December 4th, 2009

Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America

by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry

Published by World Net Daily Books (2009)

P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry obtained more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video for their book Muslim Mafia.

The Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian-based Islamic terrorist organization, appears to be alive and well and cloaking itself in legitimacy in our nation's capitol under the guise of a front group, say intrepid undercover agents P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry in their new book, Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America (World Net Daily Books 2009). Investigative journalism reaches new levels in doughtiness and concludes with a shocking crescendo in this tome, as Gaubatz, his son Chris and Paul Sperry infiltrate the shady Washington, DC-based organization known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest and purportedly mainstream Muslim-American "civil rights" advocacy agency. The frightening facts published in this book are supported by more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video captured in this unprecedented undercover operation.

Through painstaking and nuanced research of internal memos and documents, the authors establish that CAIR is the ideological cousin of the notorious Muslim Brotherhood and their leadership is inextricably tied to the promulgation of an explosively violent "jihadist" agenda. Utilizing double-speak and a wide variety of cleverly devised subterfuges, CAIR manages to present itself as a law abiding, pro-American organization; however, the authors expose their unbridled mendacity in its most egregious form.

http://newageislam.com/muslim-mafia--inside-the-secret-underworld-that-s-conspiring-to-islamize-america/books-and-documents/d/2191


Swiss Radicalization: A Sign of Things to Come?, Muslims and Islamophobia, NewAgeIslam.com

Muslims and Islamophobia
Swiss Radicalization: A Sign of Things to Come?

Nestle. The United Nations. Rolex. Secure Banking. Toblerone. Yodeling. William Tell. Cowbells. Neutrality. Rousseau. Alpine Skiing. Heidi.

These are a few of the things -- mostly pretty -- that come to mind when you say "Switzerland."

But now thanks to a recent popular vote on a controversial referendum, things like "intolerance," "paranoia," and "limitations on freedom of religion" have joined the merry list.

In case you have not heard already, 57% of Swiss voters approved a proposal Sunday to ban mosque minarets in a nationwide referendum sponsored by the Swiss People's Party (SVP), a right-wing group long known for its anti-immigration campaigns. A complacent Swiss government subsequently stated that it will "respect the decision" of the people and will affect the ban on all new minarets in the country.

2009-12-02-swiss_minaret.jpgThe SVP flooded the tiny landlocked Alpine state with posters in which minarets appeared as missiles rising from the Swiss flag. They told voters that "the minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls." This is not true of course.

Most Muslims accept the minaret as an architectural conduit for the call to prayer, but most do not seek political power, subscribe to the burqa, tolerate forced marriages, or accept genital mutilation of girls. Forced marriages and female circumcision happen mostly in poor, uneducated parts of the world and have no foundation in Islam. The burqa is worn by less than 1% of Muslim women. How these three things are "comparable" with a minaret must be Switzerland's dirty little secret because I cannot figure it out.

Yet by casting the minaret, a mainstream symbol of normative Islam, as some kind of Trojan horse bearing the Achilles heel that will vanquish Swiss political and cultural hegemony, the SVP seems to have petrified people into a knee-jerk acceptance of a draconian ban that amounts to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

While the ban has dismayed Muslims, it should also embarrass Switzerland whose polished image will likely take a major beating. The Swiss logic here is as arbitrary and nonsensical as if Dubai were to ban skyscrapers because they "represent American corporate greed which is partially to blame for the misguided war in Iraq." Imagine the scornful reaction around the world then.

http://newageislam.com/swiss-radicalization--a-sign-of-things-to-come?/muslims-and-islamophobia/d/2190


Suicide bombers assault mosque in Rawalpindi, kill 40, Islamic World News, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic World News
Suicide bombers assault mosque in Rawalpindi, kill 40

The Taliban have struck again in the heart of Pakistan's military garrison city of Rawalpindi. A Taliban suicide assault team estimated at between three to five men entered a mosque in the city and opened fire on the worshippers and detonated their vests, killing 40 and wounding 83 more. The attack killed a senior general and wounded another.

Two of the members of the suicide assault team have been killed. The assault team was not interested in taking hostages or negotiations, according to the Pakistani military.

"They exploded bombs inside the mosque," Major General Athar Abbas, the top military spokesman told AFP. "They opened fire on the worshippers... There is no hostage situation. Two terrorists have been killed."

The blasts caused parts of the roof of the mosque to collapse.

The attack took place in a mosque that is used by Army officers on a day when the mosque is sure to be filled; Friday is the Muslim day of prayer.

"There were about 200 or 300 worshippers in the hall," an eyewitness told AFP. "Army officials mostly offer their Friday prayers in this mosque."

Major General Bilal Omar Khan, who had served as the commander of the Pakistani Rangers, and the son of the Peshawar Corps commander were both killed in the attack, according to Samaa. General Mohammad Yousuf, the retired former Vice Chief of Army Staff, was wounded.

The Taliban and allied terror groups have struck at the military and police forces in Pakistan's major cities to counter the ongoing military operations in South Waziristan, Khyber, Arakzai, Kurram, and Swat.

Today's Rawalpindi attack is the latest in a wave of Taliban violence that emerged in the beginning of October. Suicide bombers have struck in Islamabad, Peshawar, Shangla, Kohat, and Charsadda, and assault teams have targeted police in Lahore and Peshawar as well as the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Just two days ago, a suicide bomber detonated outside the gate of the Naval headquarters in Islamabad.

The Oct. 10 assault on Army General Headquarters shut down Pakistan's military command for nearly a day, as hostages were held. The Taliban are reported to have obtained sensitive data from computers and files during that assault.

http://newageislam.com/suicide-bombers-assault-mosque-in-rawalpindi,-kill-40/islamic-world-news/d/2189


عورت اور ا ن پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت : قسط 29,

Urdu Section
عورت اور ا ن پر مردوں کی جھوٹی فضیلت : قسط 29

نسبت امر دل ہم اہل اسلام ہندوستان کی حالت نہایت قابل افسوس پاتے ہیں ۔صرف یہ ہی نہیں کہ انہوں نے کوئی عام حد عمر نکاح مقرر نہیں کی یا بہت صغر سنی میں نکاح کیا جاتا ہے بلکہ دودھ پیتے بچوں او رکبھی کبھی بن پیدا ہوئے بچوں کا جو ابھی پیٹ سے جنیں ہوتے ہیں رشتہ ہوجاتا ہے جو نکاح سےبھی زیادہ موکد اور ناقابل اکتنسیخ ہوتا ہے۔ اس قسم کے ازدواج سے صرف یہ ہی نقصان نہیں ہوتا کہ فریقین ازدواج اس خود معاشرتی سے جو خوشی کے انتخاب و پسندیدگی کا نتیجہ ہے محروم رہ کرنا موافقت باہمی کدورت کی تلخی تام عمر چکھتے ہیں بلکہ اس زبردستی کے رشتہ کے ہوجانے کے بعد نکاح بھی ایسی صغرسنی میں ہوجاتا ہے کہ اس وقت تک لڑکے اور لڑکی کے اعضا کا نشوونما اس رشتہ کے قابل نہیں ہوتا۔ اس لئے جو بچے بچپن میں ہی شوہر و زوجہ او رچند روز بعد باپ اور ماں بن جاتے ہیں ان کی صحت کو ایسے سخت صدمے اٹھانے پڑتے ہیں کہ پھر کسی قسم کی تدبیر یا علاج سے تمام عمر اس کی تلافی نہیں ہوسکتی ۔

جن شرائط پر دوسرے مقصد کا حصول ہے وہ بھی نکاح مروجہ میں کلی طور پر مفقود ہوتی ہیں اول تو شوہر کو زوجہ کے پسند کرنے کا اختیار ہی نہیں ہو تا اور اگر ہوتا بھی ہے تو دس بارہ برس کا بچہ کیا جان سکتا ہے کہ میں کس قسم کا اور کتنی مدت کےلئے معاہدہ کرتاہوں اور اس کا کیا اثر میری کل زندگی پر ہوگا لیکن اس قدر صغر سنی میں نکاح ہونا ایسا صریحا مذموم امر ہے کہ اس کی مذمت سے عموماً لوگ واقف ہوگئے ہیں اس لئے اس امر پر زیادہ زور دینا ضروری ہے ۔ لیکن جو نکاح عموماً زمانہ بلوغت یا اس سے بھی بعد عمل میں آتے ہیں ان کے پسندیدہ ہونے میں شاید بہت کم لوگوں کو کلام ہوگا ۔مگر ہم ان نکاحوں کو بھی سخت قابل اعتراض سمجھتے ہیں۔ جہاں تک ہمارا تجربہ ہے کہ کسی صورت میں لڑکی کو تو اپنے لئے شوہر کے پسند کرنے یا اس بات میں کچھ ضعیف سی بھی رائے دینے کا اختیار ہوتا ہی نہیں الا سمجھنا بھی کہ لڑکوں کو ایسا اختیار حاصل ہوتا ہے صریح غلطی ہے ہاں یہ صحیح ہے کہ بزرگوں کا بزرگانہ دباؤ اور عزیز واقربا کا زبردست لحاظ اور دوستوں کی پاس خاطران سب امور کا مجتمع قوی اثر بیچارہ لڑکے پر ڈال کر اس سے شرما شرمی کسی نہ کسی طرح اظہار پسندیدگی کر والیتے ہیں ۔مگر آیا یہ ان کی دلی اور حقیقی پسندید گی ہوتی ہے ان کی متاہلا نہ زندگی کے طریق عمل سے بخوبی ظاہر ہوتا ہے۔

http://www.newageislam.com/urdu-section/عورت-اور-ا-ن-پر-مردوں-کی-جھوٹی-فضیلت---قسط-29/d/2188


Rahul Gandhi to motivate Aligarh Muslim University students to pursue higher education, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic World News
Rahul Gandhi to motivate Aligarh Muslim University students to pursue higher education

HAATHRAS: AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will interact with the students of Aligarh Muslim University, during his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh starting December 7.

"Rahul, who has been invited by vice-chancellor P K Abdul Azis, will address students at Kennedy hall of the university on December 7," AMU spokesman Rahat Abrar said here.

This will be Gandhi's first visit to AMU. Around 800 students selected from various faculties, residential halls and schools affiliated with the AMU will also attend the event.

"Rahul will motivate students to pursue higher education," Abrar said.

The Congress leader will also visit Jama Masjid and pay tributes to Sir Syed Ahmad, founder of the AMU.

On the second day of his visit, Gandhi will attend a convention of PCC representatives to be held at UPCC headquarters in Lucknow on December 8 where the party's membership campaign would be discussed.

Later in the day, the Congress leader will also attend programmes to be organised in Ambedkar Nagar and Kanpur.

"Rahul Gandhi, who will be on a two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh, will attend various programmes to be organised in Sitapur, Bahraich, Aligarh, Aliganj (Etah) and Hardoi district on December 7," party spokesman Dwijendra Tripathi said in Lucknow.

AMU revokes suspension of 18 students

The Aligarh Muslim University administration on Thursday revoked the suspension of 18 students, who were charged with misconduct and indiscipline.

"These 18 students were suspended on November 4 for their involvemet in vitiating the academic functioning of the university leading to its closure last month," an official said here.

The suspension was revoked on a condition that each student would provide a written undertaking for maintaining good behaviour in future, he said.

http://newageislam.com/rahul-gandhi-to-motivate-aligarh-muslim-university-students-to-pursue-higher-education/islamic-world-news/d/2187


Pakistan: What Obama left unsaid, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror
Pakistan: What Obama left unsaid

By David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt

Barack Obama has authorised an expansion of the war in Pakistan — if only he can get a weak, divided, suspicious Pakistani government to agree to the terms.

Active voices: The expanded operations in Pakistan could include drone strikes in the southern province of Balochistan where senior Afghan Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding

U.S. President Barack Obama focused his speech on Afghanistan. He left much unsaid about Pakistan, where the main terrorists he is targeting are located, but where he can send no troops.

Mr. Obama could not be very specific about his Pakistan strategy, his advisers conceded on Monday evening. U.S. operations there are classified, most run by the CIA. Any overt U.S. presence would only fuel anti-Americanism in a country that reacts sharply to every missile strike against extremists that kills civilians as well, and that fears that America is plotting to run its government and seize its nuclear weapons.

Yet quietly, Mr. Obama has authorised an expansion of the war in Pakistan as well — if only he can get a weak, divided, suspicious Pakistani government to agree to the terms.

In recent months, in addition to providing White House officials with classified assessments about Afghanistan, the CIA delivered a plan for widening the campaign of strikes against militants by drone aircraft in Pakistan, sending additional spies there and securing a White House commitment to bulk up the CIA’s budget for operations inside the country.

http://newageislam.com/pakistan--what-obama-left-unsaid/war-on-terror/d/2186