Archive for April, 2007
What do I say?
Another brother that we have disappointed as Muslims and as humans. Huseyin Cecil. A Canadian Uyghur Imaam was sentenced to life imprisonement on April 19th, 2007. As I was browsing the site that has been setup as a part of the Initiative to help release Cecil, I came across some very graphic pictures of how [...]
Oh Allaah, hasten their release..
Joyous are others, weeping is me
Playing are others, oppressed is me,
Others hear of liberty songs,
It is me listening to slavery fables
Liberated are others, enslaved is me,
It is me ridden as subjugated beast in
the caravan.
Çolpan, an Uygur Poet“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
“O you who believe! Be afraid of Allaah, and be with those who are true (in word and deeds).†[al-Tawbah 9:119]
Ibn Katheer (may Allaah have mercy on him) said (2/414): “It means: be truthful and adhere to truthfulness, and you will be among its people and [...]
“..and the skin on his forehead torn away..”
This is a picture of the 26 year old hotel worker who was killed while in the custody of the British Soldiers in Iraq [follow the story here]. This is what his father said:
“When I saw the corpse I burst into tears and I still cannot bear to think about what I saw. I was [...]“Surely, Allaah is All-Aware of what they do..”
U.K. captives’ release was `a gift’: IranApril 5.I’m not sure I understand all the hoopla about the 15 British soldiers who were detained by Iran. By all accounts, they were treated humanely and, after some bluster from both sides, released.
In contrast, the United States has kidnapped, arrested and still imprisons thousands of “insurgents” and “enemy combatants” all over the world, in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and now, it also appears, in Ethiopia. Solitary confinement and torture is widespread. And these suspected terrorists, in particular, are being held in a legal black hole indefinitely, without access to a lawyer or loved ones, the right to a trial or even knowing the case against them. Hundreds were turned in by bounty hunters and paid informants, whose names they do not know.
Which is worse?
Ten weird things.
Okay, so I got tagged by Umm Layth (who thinks I’m a very boring person :P) and I had to come up with 10 weird things about myself. Here’s the rule btw, for those who I’m gonna tag next:
“People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits [...]My rant on Facebook.
Okay. So like right now, I officially HATE facebook. Like seriously, I mean all that pokings gotta hurt one after a while, no? What ticks me off the most is how brothers poke sisters and vice versa. I know people come up with their “oh its not like I’m poking him/her in real life” lame [...]
Ottawa’s silence on Omar Khadr
Toronto Star - Editorial
 ”“Guantanamo should be closed … there is a taint about it.” That was U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates, speaking to American lawmakers just a few days ago about the infamous military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where 385 alleged terrorists are being held. He is right. The “military commission” trials being held [...]
