French Court Acquits Imam Of Incitement Charges For Quoting Islamic Text Commanding To Kill Jews
New
Age Islam News Bureau
19
September 2021
Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Photograph: Didor Sadulloev/Reuters
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French Court Acquits Imam Of Incitement Charges For Quoting Text Commanding To
Kill Jews
• Imran Khan Says, He Has Initiated A Dialogue With The Taliban Leaders So That They Establish An All-Inclusive Government In Afghanistan
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Anwar ul Haq Mujahid, The Mastermind Behind Bin Laden’s Escape Is Back—With His
Own Taliban Army
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153 Media Outlets At Risk Of Closure Since Taliban Takeover: International
Federation Of Journalists
Europe
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EastEnders spoilers: Bobby Beale and Dana Monroe are targeted over mosque
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Clashes in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp after Islamist handed to
Lebanese army
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Drone strikes prove that Muslim lives hold no value for Western imperial powers
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UK boxer Amir Khan kicked off US flight for COVID-19 mask rule violation
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Christmas dinner could be cancelled as Brits face meat shortage ‘in two weeks’
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Pakistan
• First Pakistan International Airlines Flight Carrier Of Sayyida Zainab Pilgrims Arrives In Damascus International Airport After 27 Years
• No legislation against spirit and teachings of Islam, says Chairman Ulema Council of Pakistan
• Gender roadmap to be adopted to achieve equality: Asad
• Maulana Aziz, others booked in terror, sedition case
• SC says it condones delay in filing of petitions from inside jail
• Proposed amendments to minority property ordinance challenged
• Health ministry notifies five members of Pims BoG
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North
America
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‘Not Feeling Safe’: Muslim Canadians Want Politicians To Take More Action On
Islamophobia
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California man pleads guilty to 2019 murder, arson at synagogue and mosque
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South
Asia
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153 Media Outlets At Risk Of Closure Since Taliban Takeover: International
Federation Of Journalists
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New Tokyo Mosque Hosts Friday Prayers For First Time
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2 killed 19 wounded in consecutive explosions in eastern Afghanistan
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Mideast
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Iran’s Khamenei Vows To Back Athletes From Muslim States Who Won’t Face
Israelis
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We Won’t Let Islamic State Establish Presence on our Border, Iran’s Raisi Vows
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$500 million trade target; Iran, Tajikistan annual bilateral trade exchanges
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Supreme Leader appoints Brig. Gen. Nasirzadeh as Dep. Chief of Staff
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Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Syrian gas pipeline
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Iran: The End for Mullahs in Sight
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Islamic terrorism and the Age of the Holocaust
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Allama Sajid Naqvi: Dictatorships supported in personal interests
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Senior Pakistani Shia cleric 'Allama Jafri' expresses condolence on sad demise
of Ali Ausat Rizvi
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world
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Morocco Says 'No' to Political Islam in the Last Parliamentary Election
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Sunni fighters foil an ISIS attack on a security checkpoint in Makhmour
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Islamic State leader in Sinai surrenders to Egyptian authorities
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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Condoles Algerian President on Death of Former
President
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India
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Kerala: Efforts Christian And Muslim Communities Have Led To The Removal Of
Objectionable Content Against Muslims From A Catechism Textbook
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For BJP, ‘Liberation Day’ In Hyderabad Has Always Been Hindu-Muslim Issue But Experts
Differ
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Muslim Men Accused In Delhi Violence Allege Brutality By Police And Jail
Officials
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Southeast
Asia
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In Rare Rebuke, Johor Ruler Urges Putrajaya To Drop Appeal Against Automatic
Citizenship For Children Born Abroad
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Pesantren, sharia economy can potentially boost national economy
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Hishammuddin: Malaysian Armed Force's Greater Klang Valley task force ceases
operation
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Zahid: Don’t blame BN for the downfall of Pakatan, Perikatan administrations
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Selangor police issue 423 compounds for disregarding SOP
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Islamic State affiliate leader killed in raid, says Indonesian military
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Africa
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How big is the Islamic threat in Mozambique? And why are Rwandan troops there?
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Miyetti Allah: Livestock Industry May Collapse If Our Members Keep Getting
Killed
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French Court Acquits Imam Of Incitement Charges For Quoting Islamic Text Commanding To Kill Jews
By
Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2021
Visitors
study the Grande Mosque in the district of Empalot in Toulouse, on June 23,
2018. (Eric Cabanis/AFP via Getty Images)
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(JTA)
— A senior imam in France who in a sermon recited a religious text commanding
Muslims to kill Jews has been acquitted of incitement to antisemitic hate
charges.
Mohamed
Tatai, the rector of the Great Mosque of Toulouse, had no desire to incite
hatred in his sermon from 2017, the Correctional Tribunal of Toulouse ruled
Tuesday. The sermon came days after news broke that the United States would
recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Jewish
community leaders, who broke relations with Tatai and his mosque following the
discovery of his sermon, protested the ruling. Tatai leads an interfaith
dialogue group called the Circle for Civil Dialogue.
Franck
Teboul, the president of the Toulouse chapter of the CRIF umbrella group of
French Jewish communities, said it was reminiscent of a recent decision in
France not to try the killer of a Paris Jewish woman who during the 2017
slaying of Sarah Halimi spewed antisemitic slurs and shouted about Allah. A
court ruled that Kabili Traore was too high on marijuana to make him
responsible for his actions.
“Even
when you kill a Jew you’re not convicted but considered crazy,” Teboul told
France Bleu. “So you tell thousands at a mosque to kill Jews and hide behind a
centuries-old text to avoid conviction.”
Muslim
community leaders praised the court’s acquittal.
Abdallah
Zekri, the president of the Observatory for the Fight Against Islamophobia, and
a community leader appointed by the Great Mosque of Paris, said the verdict
“cuts against radical fundamentalists who expected Tatai would be convicted to
tell their followers: ‘Look how they’re treating a moderate Muslim,’” France
Bleu quoted him as saying.
Zekri
defended Tatai, saying “he’s always maintained good relations with the Jewish
and Catholic communities.”
Tatai,
who has not resigned his communal posts, has received some backing from
prominent members of the Muslim community.
In
the sermon, which was filmed, he said that the Prophet Muhammad “told us about
the final and decisive battle: ‘Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims
fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the
stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew
hiding behind me, come and kill him – except for the Gharqad tree, which is one
of the trees of the Jews’.”
He
also predicted Israel’s demise and said the 2016 funeral of Israeli President
Shimon Peres was in fact Israel’s funeral.
Dalil
Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris and the president of the French
Council of the Muslim Faith, protested the controversy over Tatai’s sermon
rather than the sermon itself.
Acting
as Tatai’s spokesperson, Boubaker said Tatasi “apologizes to anyone who was
accidentally offended by the pulling out of context” of the sermon. Neither
imam explained what they believe to be the correct context.
Source:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Imran Khan Says, He Has Initiated A Dialogue With The Taliban Leaders So That They Establish An All-Inclusive Government In Afghanistan
By
Najibullah Lalzoy
18
Sep 2021
Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan at the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Photograph: Didor
Sadulloev/Reuters
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Pakistani
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he has initiated a dialogue with the
Taliban leaders so that they establish an all-inclusive government in Afghanistan.
The
Pakistan Premier in a series of tweets said that such in inclusivity will
ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan which will be ensured after 40 years
of conflict in the country.
As
per the Twitter posts, Imran Khan had a discussion over Afghanistan with
leaders from the neighboring countries of Afghanistan especially the president
of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon.
This
comes as the Taliban have repeatedly been saying that they are establishing an
inclusive government but the caretaker cabinet of them is thoroughly unilateral
and there is no sign of inclusivity in the cabinet.
The
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has said that the cabinet was much required and
is temporary so that they can reshuffle and include experts in the apparatus
later.
Source:
The Khamaa Press
https://www.khaama.com/imran-khan-asks-for-inclusive-government-in-afghanistan-3636436/
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No
legislation against spirit and teachings of Islam, says Chairman Ulema Council
of Pakistan
September
18, 2021
LAHORE:
The Special Aide to Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East, Hafiz
Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, has categorically said that neither any law is
being legislated nor will be accepted against the ideology of Pakistan and the
teachings of Islam.
Addressing
a meeting of scholars and Ulema of different religious schools of thought who
announced to join Pakistan Ulema Council on Friday, he asked them to come forward
for promoting unity and harmony in the society. He said the country's image was
being tarnished by fake news that a legislation was on the anvil to block
conversion of non-Muslims to Islam. The special aide to the PM said that Islam
neither allows forcible conversion nor obstructs anyone from willfully
embracing the religion. Tahir Ashrafi said that when the bill in question came
to the ministry, the Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Noor-ul-Haq Qadri
stopped it while strongly opposing its legislation. He reiterated there has
been no further movement on the issue and a formal explanation has also been
issued by Federal Minister Noor-ul-Haq Qadri. Inshallah, the incumbent
government will do anything that is against the Qur'an and Sunnah, he said.
He
said during the last few days, a lot of fuss was created over the single
national curriculum. Ashrafi said extremists are opposing the uniform
curriculum that teaches the youth about Islam, so they cannot be misled by
extremists or terrorists. The purpose of making Quran and Sunnah mandatory in
the curriculum is to enable the youth understand the message on the own,
cutting down any chance of them being misled, said Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood
Ashrafi. He said teaching Quran to children and the addition of the title of
'Khatim-un-Nabiyyin' to the name of Rasoolullah (S.A.W) is a great achievement
of the incumbent government
Ashrafi,
who also Chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), said that no system of faith
has ever given so many rights to women as given by Islam. He said some people
are campaigning against Hijab, which is followed by millions in line with the
Islamic teachings. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan's announcement to create a
state on the pattern of Madinah is a step in the right direction. He said today
those opposing the ideology of Imran Khan have only raised slogans of
Nizam-e-Mustafa since Independence without taking any practical action to
enforce it.
Source:
The News
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Anwar
ul Haq Mujahid, The Mastermind Behind Bin Laden’s Escape Is Back—With His Own
Taliban Army
Philip
Smucker
Sep.
19, 2021
Anwar
ul Haq Mujahid, a leader of Osama bin Laden’s former “Black Guard,” who helped
plan and orchestrate his escape from intense U.S. bombing at Tora Bora in 2001
and whose underlings were sent to prison in Guantanamo Bay, is back in charge
of Taliban fighters across eastern Afghanistan, The Daily Beast has learned.
“Anwar
ul Haq Mujahid, the son of Younus Khalis, has returned with hundreds of
vehicles and thousands of supporters to his family’s seat of power and to a
heroic welcome in Jalalabad,” said a recently deposed senior Afghan
intelligence official. “Everyone who worked closely with al Qaeda in 2001 is
back in his entourage, which arrived by air from Doha to help establish the new
government in Kabul and then travelled overland this past week from Kabul to
Jalalabad. He is now in charge of both Taliban and foreign fighters in Eastern
Afghanistan, including a Chechen contingent.”
A
senior U.N. political official and a Swiss-Italian journalist who was on the ground
in the province confirmed the return of Anwar to Jalalabad last Friday as well
as his role as a military commander. According to sources, the revered leader
of the “Tora Bora Front” was seen daily holding court in his clan’s sprawling
reception hall on plush Afghan carpets as hundreds of fighters and villagers
streamed to his home to listen to his wisdom and advice on the implementation
of Sharia law. Another one of Bin Laden’s former Black Guards, Amin ul Haq,
also recently made a triumphant return to Jalalabad, as first reported by The
Long War Journal.
The
sources said the two Black Guard commanders—Anwar, a pensive intellectual and
Amin, an ebullient bully—are exerting newfound authority from their respective
fiefdoms in the orange groves outside of the lowland Afghan city of Jalalabad.
Their very presence in Jalalabad, bin Laden’s old hometown, is a testament to
the U.S. government’s misguided efforts to eliminate terror in Afghanistan—and
across parts of the Middle East. Sources told The Daily Beast that Afghans
passing through Jalalabad from Kabul and seeking refuge in neighboring
Pakistan, particularly Hazara minorities, reported heavy harassment and
intimidation from soldiers under the command of both men this week.
Anwar
ul Haq Mujahid, who managed bin Laden’s meticulously-planned retreat from
Jalalabad into Tora Bora in November 2001 as documented in a U.S. Senate
Foreign Relations Committee investigation in 2009, and Amin ul Haq, who laid
the groundwork for the battle of Tora Bora and helped usher the Saudi sheikh to
safe haven in Pakistan for a decade, are enforcing unpopular Sharia laws and
openly praising their former al Qaeda associates, according to Rossi.
The
influence of the former Black Guard contingent in the Taliban’s new power scheme
comes as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used his personal influence to
garner international pledges of over a billion dollars Monday to help bail out
the Afghan Taliban government and the broader Afghan public from the nation’s
mounting humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
sought to reassure American senators this week that he is liaising with the
U.N. to “be sure U.S. assistance goes to the people of Afghanistan,” but not to
the Taliban, insisting carefully that the Taliban’s new government “includes
many key members who have very challenging track records,” and that the U.S.
was guarding against the “re-emergence” of international terrorism in
Afghanistan.
The
two leaders arrived separately a week apart, with Anwar arriving most recently
into Jalalabad. Both men have hundreds of fighters at their command, even as
some Afghans expressed anger that their former tormentors were allowed to
shuttle out of Pakistan where they sought refuge after the U.S. invasion. Pakistan’s
intelligence service (ISI) has also been long accused of harboring bin Laden in
a guarded compound close to their preeminent military academy in Abbottabad
until he was finally killed in an unannounced U.S. Special Forces raid in 2011.
The
participation of bin Laden’s core of former Afghan supporters—after al Qaeda’s
congratulatory message to the Taliban on their August victory and the return to
jihadist airwaves this week of bin Laden’s right-hand man, Egyptian Dr. Ayman
al-Zawahiri—is a sign that the Taliban leadership wants to have its cake and
eat it too in the town where bin Laden’s wives once hung his underwear out to
dry. The Taliban will continue to deny they are still allied with al Qaeda,
said Afghan, U.S. and UN sources, while raking in assistance from the West as
well as from less-known wealthy backers in the Middle East.
“Al
Qaeda remains in Afghanistan and closely associated with the Taliban: These are
facts documented by the U.N. and others,” former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Ronald Neumann, president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, told The Daily
Beast. Neumann added that, “Al Qaeda branches as far away as North Africa are
celebrating the Taliban victory in Afghanistan.” A special report by the U.N.’s
Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team released before the U.S. military’s full
retreat on Aug. 30, while warning of a likely Taliban takeover, also determined
that the Taliban is “closely aligned” with al Qaeda, adding that the allied
groups have also strengthened military and financial bonds through marriage.
The
role of the returning Eastern Shura leaders in aiding and abetting al Qaeda is
not nearly as well understood as the actions of the Taliban’s younger Interior
Minister and suicide bombing mastermind Sirajuddin Haqqani. The ties of the two
older men go back decades. Anwar and Amin are two hens that helped lay the
proverbial golden eggs for bin Laden and his plans to take down the World Trade
Center towers. There may be no greater Afghan bond with al Qaeda than that
claimed by the Pashtun clan of the deceased Younus Khalis, the father of Anwar
ul Haq Mujahid, who is fluent in Arabic, and valued by the Taliban as a
successful fundraiser.
Anwar,
who for years ran the multimedia “Tora Bora Front” from a secret base in
Pakistan told Swiss-Italian reporter Filippo Rossi that bin Laden “sought
sanctuary with us in 1996, and as our guest within our Pashtunwali code of
honor we were obligated to protect him. He was a Holy Warrior, like us, and a
friend.” The thin, bespectacled, gold-turbaned Pashtun leader’s calm demeanor
contrasts sharply with the more boastful persona of his associate Amin ul Gul,
often referred to in the past—erroneously—as “bin Laden’s bodyguard.”
Reporting
out of Jalalabad as a journalist amid intense U.S. bombing in November and
December 2001, I was able to observe and document the behavior of both these
men towards al Qaeda. Early on, my interpreter penetrated the Khalis family
compound and heard the clan’s patriarch Younus Khalis state that the U.S. would
surely fail to conquer Afghanistan and take down its stated prey. As B-52s
circled in figure eights overhead, a few dozen U.S. servicemen assembled nearby
to work as “spotters” for the air power provided to a feuding Afghan contingent
of the Taliban’s sworn enemies. The efforts led by these Afghan guns-for-hire,
as the U.S. public learned in retrospect, were part and parcel of a flawed
approach to taking down the world’s most wanted terrorist “dead or alive” as
President George W. Bush had earlier vowed.
Hasty
preparations for an escape to the White Mountains began two days before the
fall of Kabul on Nov. 12 when bin Laden rallied his forces at a sumptuous kebab
feast at the Taliban’s then-intelligence headquarters in Jalalabad.
Bin
Laden, dressed in loose gray Afghan clothing and wearing his signature
camouflage jacket, spoke in soft, polite tones to assembled followers, handing
them all cash envelopes worth tens of thousands of dollars, a down payment on
his own eventual getaway. In Jalalabad, al Qaeda’s leadership, in close
consultation with Anwar ul Haq Mujahid and bin Laden’s personal guard Amin ul
Haq, laid out the group’s secret plans to move into the cave and bunker complex
known as Tora Bora. The burly Amin ul Haq had earlier helped prepare the
fortified redoubt for bin Laden’s arrival.
Cradling
a pug-nosed Kalakov machine gun, Bin Laden stood with Anwar ul Haq Mujahid amid
an immense convoy after the feast day at 9:30 pm. Witnesses said the entourage
began its hasty retreat with bin Laden riding alongside his Afghan hosts in a
hatchback Corolla. The fleeing al Qaeda and Taliban fighters snaked their way
down a bumpy dirt road that ran through old battlefields and dusty villages and
into the Tora Bora base. Anwar’s own deputy Awol Gul boasted to us on Nov. 25 that
“the Americans can bomb all they want, but they’ll never catch Osama.” (Gul,
whose lawyer later petitioned me to identify his client as a small player,
would die without a trial after 10 years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay
prison.)
Though
bin Laden had earlier vowed that he would fight to the death, his retreat was
soon being planned from within the caves of Tora Bora, where his own Saudi chef
later confessed that he had cringed in fear from intense bombing while cooking
for bin Laden and finally fled himself without his boss’ permission. Bin Laden,
taking heed, bid his own troops farewell on Nov. 26. As quickly as he had
arrived to address his troops, bin Laden vanished into the scraggly pine
forests led by his bodyguard Amin ul Haq, whose role in the getaway would earn
him the affections and respect of Taliban followers in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, where he also would be briefly “jailed” between 2008 and 2011.
Bin
Laden, according to several fighters and a close Saudi associate, later radioed
back to Tora Bora’s central nerve center, urging his followers to keep
fighting, an effort that would buy him time for a trek out of the White
Mountains through the snow.
Justice,
of course, was never served in the cold wintry air beneath an armada of U.S.
air power. Nearly three dozen U.S. Special Forces, their faces wrapped in black
and white bandanas, laser target-designators in hand, looked on in dismay as
the Afghans, whom the CIA had paid excessively to “hunt” bin Laden, failed to
corner their man.
Over
this past weekend, another former U.S. ambassador and commanding general in
Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he believed Tora Bora
to be a clearly missed opportunity that could have—if only it had been done
properly—helped to rapidly wind down the $1.5-2 trillion U.S. misadventure in
Afghanistan long before it would morph into America’s “Forever War.” Like other
senior U.S. commanders, who have spoken wistfully of the failures at Tora Bora,
Eikenberry, whom I served under in the State Department at the U.S. Embassy,
insisted the key to getting bin Laden would have been to insert U.S. ground
forces to surround al Qaeda and seal the mountain passes.
The
aftermath of the multi-billion-dollar failure at Tora Bora, abetted by the
leading lights of the Eastern Shura with Anwar and Amin in the vanguard, has
left the Afghan public today groaning under the whims of religious ideologues
and domestic terrorists. Across the Middle East, jihadists are assembling with
renewed zeal to plan their own next adventures into Afghanistan and, in some
cases, seize Afghan wives.
Despite
assurances from the U.S. secretary of state, many analysts believe there is
little hope of helping the broader Afghan public as long as the Taliban remains
in charge.
“The
international donor community is taking a huge risk assuming that the Taliban
will distribute aid in a neutral, need-based way,” Jonathan Terra, a political
scientist, former State Department official in Afghanistan, and conflict
analyst for NATO, told The Daily Beast. “They are a brutal, self-interested,
mostly ethnic Pashtun Pakistani proxy government whose leaders were able to
seize power only through financial support, sanctuary and the backing of
Pakistani armed forces.”
Many
Afghans still on the ground insist, however, that assistance to the public
needs to continue. “Our primary health care system, which saw immense
improvements over the last twenty years, was being financed by the World Bank,
but has now been defunded,” Dr. Mir Dost Mohammad Zadran, an urologist and
transplant specialist who heads the Foreign Afghan Medical and Dental Doctors’
Association (FAMDA) in Kabul, told The Daily Beast. “We need the world’s help
here in Afghanistan today and as soon as heavenly possible.”
Source:
The Daily Beast
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153
Media Outlets At Risk Of Closure Since Taliban Takeover: International
Federation Of Journalists
By
Najibullah Lalzoy
18
Sep 2021
International
Federation of Journalists in its latest report said that 153 media outlets have
hardly been impacted since the Taliban takeover and are on verge of closing
their offices forever.
The
report also reads that the freedom of speech has been curtailed, female
journalists are left out of jobs, and violation against journalists has also
been increased.
The
report reads that the self-safety of journalists is also at risk and added that
the seizure of vehicles from journalists and their intimidation is rather
concerning.
Journalism
and freedom of speech and media have completely changed their shape after
August 15 and most of the journalists are afraid to work.
Earlier,
MILMA was the first local radio station in Paktika province that shut its
office after ten years of broadcast.
Source:
The Khamaa Press
https://www.khaama.com/153-media-outlets-at-risk-of-closure-since-taliban-takeover-ifj-6756875/
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Pakistan
First
Pakistan International Airlines Flight Carrier Of Sayyida Zainab Pilgrims
Arrives In Damascus International Airport After 27 Years
September
19, 2021
The
first flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) carries pilgrims of
Sayyida Zainab (A) arrived in Damascus International Airport on Friday
afternoon from Karachi Airport, paving way for the return of air traffic
between the two countries suspended for more than twenty seven years.
Source:
SANA, Shiite News
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click the following URL to read the full text of the original story:
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No
legislation against spirit and teachings of Islam, says Ashrafi
September
18, 2021
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LAHORE:
The Special Aide to Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East, Hafiz
Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, has categorically said that neither any law is
being legislated nor will be accepted against the ideology of Pakistan and the
teachings of Islam.
Addressing
a meeting of scholars and Ulema of different religious schools of thought who
announced to join Pakistan Ulema Council on Friday, he asked them to come
forward for promoting unity and harmony in the society. He said the country's
image was being tarnished by fake news that a legislation was on the anvil to
block conversion of non-Muslims to Islam. The special aide to the PM said that
Islam neither allows forcible conversion nor obstructs anyone from willfully
embracing the religion. Tahir Ashrafi said that when the bill in question came
to the ministry, the Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Noor-ul-Haq Qadri
stopped it while strongly opposing its legislation. He reiterated there has
been no further movement on the issue and a formal explanation has also been
issued by Federal Minister Noor-ul-Haq Qadri. Inshallah, the incumbent
government will do anything that is against the Qur'an and Sunnah, he said.
He
said during the last few days, a lot of fuss was created over the single
national curriculum. Ashrafi said extremists are opposing the uniform
curriculum that teaches the youth about Islam, so they cannot be misled by
extremists or terrorists. The purpose of making Quran and Sunnah mandatory in
the curriculum is to enable the youth understand the message on the own,
cutting down any chance of them being misled, said Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood
Ashrafi. He said teaching Quran to children and the addition of the title of
'Khatim-un-Nabiyyin' to the name of Rasoolullah (S.A.W) is a great achievement
of the incumbent
Source:
The News
Please
click the following URL to read the full text of the original story:
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Gender
roadmap to be adopted to achieve equality: Asad
APP
September
19, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on
Saturday said the government would adopt a gender roadmap to achieve equality.
He
was speaking at a meeting during which the member, social sector and
devolution, presented the draft gender roadmap proposing gender integration
across all national policies, programmes, offices and key management processes.
The
roadmap is designed to bridge the gender gap in education and employment,
simultaneously empowering the young women to yield a substantive SDG dividend,
which can in return catalyse the economic growth of Pakistan.
The
final gender roadmap is a key product emerging from months-long nation-wide
iterative consultations engaging the National Youth Council, academicians,
subject experts, national task forces, youth voices from across the globe,
government officials and development partners. Several high-impact
interventions were discussed to mainstream gender across all key priorities.
The
packages of high-impact strategic interventions were proposed keeping in view
the challenges to inform mindful investment in closing the gender gap and
creating equitable opportunities for women and girls.
The
minister underscored the importance of gender-transformative workplaces. He
desired that a policy framework be developed based on deliberations and rapid
research, identifying the current barriers faced by female workers in public
and private sector organisations.
The
key recommendations outlined in the framework should not only guide development
of a public sector programme but must also be supported by necessary legal
instruments to make working environment conducive and progressive for women.
During
the meeting, Mr Umar expressed his concern over the rising proportion of
out-of-school children following the pandemic globally as well as in Pakistan,
sharing the governments intent in tackling this challenge as a national
priority.
The
minister highlighted the need for exploiting e-school experiences from the
pandemic and using Covid-19 as an opportunity for introducing innovative
e-solutions, e-schools and
Source:
Dawn
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https://www.dawn.com/news/1647120/gender-roadmap-to-be-adopted-to-achieve-equality-asad
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Maulana
Aziz, others booked in terror, sedition case
Munawer
Azeem
September
19, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
A case has been registered against Maulana Abdul Aziz, his collaborators as
well as seminary students under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and different
sections of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) after flags representing the Afghan
Taliban were found hoisted on the rooftop of Jamia Hafsa in G-7/3 on Saturday.
Talking
to Dawn on condition of anonymity, officers of the capital administration and
police confirmed that the case was registered after flags representing the
Afghan Taliban were found hoisted on the rooftop of the seminary.
The
administrator of the seminary, Maulana Aziz, also openly threatened the police
with dire consequences by using the name of Afghan Taliban. Besides, the
seminary students and teachers challenged the police and taunted them with
remarks, they added.
The
case was registered with the Aabpara police station under the directives of a
senior officer of the capital administration under section 7 of the ATA, 124-A
(sedition) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant)
of the PPC and the arms ordinance, the officers said.
Afghan
Taliban flags hoisted on Jamia Hafsa; cleric threatens police, say officers
However,
after registering the first information report (FIR), it was decided to seal
it.
From
his Twitter handle, the deputy commissioner Islamabad said: “Area cleared,
flags removed, case registered.”
This
was the third time since Aug 21 the Afghan Taliban flags were hoisted on the
seminary.
Earlier,
at least five white flags were found installed on the rooftop of the Jamia.
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SC
says it condones delay in filing of petitions from inside jail
Nasir
Iqbal
September
19, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
The Supreme Court has said it always views delay in filing jail petitions or
applications for permission to file appeals in criminal cases by imprisoned
accused through the lens of fundamental rights, particularly when the right to
liberty, dignity and fair trial guaranteed under Articles 9, 14 and 10A of the
Constitution are involved.
“In
a criminal case where the liberty and freedom of a person is at stake,
‘sufficient cause’ is to be viewed by the court through the lens of fundamental
rights guaranteed under the Constitution, in particular through the right to
liberty, dignity and fair trial guaranteed to an accused under Articles 9, 14
and 10A of the Constitution,” observed Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah in a
judgement he wrote.
Justice
Shah was a member of a bench, also consisting of Justice Umar Ata Bandial and
Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin Ahmed, that had taken up an application by one
Mohammad Arshad Nadeem seeking condonation of delay in a post-arrest matter
against the Dec 14, 2020 Lahore High Court (LHC) order.
The
judgement noted that there was a delay of 72 days in filing the application for
leave to appeal against the LHC order whereby post-arrest bail was declined to
the petitioner.
In
the application for condonation of delay, the petitioner had said that he was
behind the bars and there was no male member in his family to pursue his case
that was why delay occurred in engaging a lawyer for filing the petition, hence
it was neither deliberate nor intentional.
The
judgement explained that Rule 2 of Order XXIII of the Supreme Court Rules, 1980
provided that a petition for leave to appeal, under Article 185(3) of the
Constitution, in a criminal matter should be lodged within 30 days from the
date of judgement or the final order against which the appeal was to be filed.
The
second proviso to the rule authorised the court to condone the delay, if
“sufficient cause” is shown, the order said, adding as the expression
“sufficient cause” could not be defined with any precision or exactitude, the
sufficiency of the cause was, therefore, to be determined in each case on the
basis of its own peculiar facts and circumstances.
The
judgement said the “sufficient cause” primarily translated into providing the
accused, who was behind bars, with equal access to court and proper opportunity
to defend and avail remedies allowed by law, as were available to a free
person.
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Dawn
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Proposed
amendments to minority property ordinance challenged
Kalbe
Ali
September
19, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
The Church Property Protection Movement has challenged the recent proposed
amendments to the Minority Common Property Ordinance Act 2020 in the Islamabad
High Court (IHC).
Legal
Adviser and Church Property Protection Movement Coordinator Zeeshan Ijaz said
the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony wanted to promote
thievery by playing into the hands of a few vested interests, who would sell
the church properties spreading all over the country.
The
petition maintained that the amendment moved by the Ministry of Religious
Affairs and has been approved by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on
Religious Affairs was a violation of the constitution.
The
petitioner highlighted that the amendment had been made in the ‘The Protection
of the Communal Properties of Minorities Ordinance 2001’, but this law does not
exist, because all the functions related to the religious minorities including
this ordinance has been transferred to the Provinces after the 18th Amendment.
The
amendment in the law states that the Ministry of Religious Affairs would be
authorised to issue NOCs for the sale, purchases, transfer and gifts of
communal properties, on the recommendations of the National Commission for
Minorities.
Zeeshan
Ijaz, legal adviser to the Church Property Protection Movement, said that there
were three violations in the said amendment.
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Dawn
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Health
ministry notifies five members of Pims BoG
Ikram
Junaidi
September
19, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Saturday appointed five
members of the board of governors (BoG) of the Federal Medical Teaching
Institution (FMTI) of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims).
The
BoG will hold a meeting on Monday to elect its chairman.
The
employees of the hospital have shown their support for the members and hoped
that having experience in hospital management they would be elected as chair of
the BoG.
According
to a notification, available with Dawn, “in pursuance of Section 4 of the FMTI
Act 2021 and with the approval of the cabinet the BoG of FMTI has been
constituted with immediate effect.”
The
members of the BoG are: Naveed Khalid Butt (telecommunication industry), Dr
Shagufta Hussain (former professor of pathology at Pims), Prof Dr Arshad Javaid
(ex-VC Khyber Medical University), Dr Abid Malik (ex-dental surgeon Pims) and
Muzammal Rasheed (chartered accountant).
The
notification has been sent to the Printing Corporation of Pakistan Press for
printing in the official gazette.
An
official of the hospital, requesting not to be quoted, said the members will
hold their meeting in the hospital on Monday.
“During
the meeting, they will elect the chairman of the BoG,” he said.
Grand
Health Alliance Chairman Dr Asfandyar Khan while talking to Dawn said the
employees have welcomed the members of the BoG.
“We
expect that they will take steps for the betterment of the patients and staff.
We hope that they will play their role to protect the civil servant status of
the employees,” he said.
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Dawn
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Europe
EastEnders
spoilers: Bobby Beale and Dana Monroe are targeted over mosque
Calli
Kitson
18
Sep 2021
Bobby,
Dana, Waseem, Iqra (Priya Davdra) and Kioni are handing out flyers for the
support of the new mosque.
However,
Dana is left feeling apprehensive when she spots a group of men approaching.
The
men antagonise the group with racial slurs.
Harvey
(Ross Boatman) pops by later trying to show his support but makes an offensive
joke to the horror of the others.
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Metro
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Clashes
in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp after Islamist handed to Lebanese
army
The
New Arab Staff
18
September, 2021
Clashes
erupted in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon on
Saturday after an Islamist was handed over to the Lebanese army, local media
reported.
The
fighting erupted after the Fatah Movement - in charge of security inside the
camp - handed over a man identified as Mustafa F. from the Islamist Jund
al-Sham movement to Lebanese military intelligence, according to the official
National News Agency.
Machine
guns, RPGs and grenades were used in the clashes and could be heard in the
vicinity, while smoke was seen billowing from the densely urban area.
While
some injuries were reported, residents were forced to leave their homes after
the situation quickly deteriorated, especially in the camp’s Taamir
neighbourhood where Mustafa was arrested.
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English.Alaraby
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Drone
strikes prove that Muslim lives hold no value for Western imperial powers
Afroze
Fatima Zaidi
18th
September 2021
The
US recently admitted that its drone attack in Kabul, perpetrated on 29 August,
killed 10 civilians. Seven of them were children. The youngest victim, a
toddler named Sumaya, was only two years old.
With
this development has come a fresh wave of outrage against US military
aggression. But the outrage means little without an outright rejection of the
neoliberal system of which these strikes are a feature. It also means little if
it comes from people who won’t acknowledge the Islamophobia inherent in the war
on terror – and the dehumanisation of Muslim lives that it’s enabled and
legitimised.
At
the start of the 1987 Hollywood film Predator, American soldiers charge into an
unidentified forest in Central America and indiscriminately gun down an entire
encampment. Their aim was to save hostages, but their policy was to shoot first
and ask questions later. More recently, The Suicide Squad similarly depicted US
agents accidently gunning down a camp that later turned out to be ‘the good
guys’.
The
drone attack in question is a real-life example of this approach. The attack
has turned on its head the notion that the US is, or ever has been, a
benevolent protector of Afghan people. But moreover, this incident is symbolic
of US foreign policy for at least half a century. Acts of military aggression
instigated on claims of freedom, democracy, and justice are anything but.
Whether the bogeyman is communism or terrorism, the objective remains the same:
protecting US interests.
And
in service of this aim, human life is reduced to collateral damage. Of
secondary importance. Its loss is regrettable but necessary. The US attack on
29 August killed 10 people, none of whom were IS agents. Sorry about that, but
oh well.
Source
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UK
boxer Amir Khan kicked off US flight for COVID-19 mask rule violation
Tamara
Abueish
19
September ,2021
British
boxer Amir Khan said on Saturday he was kicked off an American Airlines plane
for allegedly violating COVID-19 mask regulations, despite the airline not
having any proof.
The
34-year-old said police had removed him and his colleague from the US flight
after someone complained that his friend’s mask “was not high enough.”
In
a video posted on his Twitter, Khan said that he was heading to a training camp
in Colorado Springs but has now been forced to reschedule his trip.
“I
find it so disgusting and disrespectful,” Khan says in the video. “I was so
disgusted that American Airlines would do this to me and ban me from
traveling.”
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English.Alarabiya
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Christmas
dinner could be cancelled as Brits face meat shortage ‘in two weeks’
Harrison
Jones
19
Sep 2021
The
unprecedented rise in gas prices has forced the closures of two large
fertiliser plants in Teesside and Cheshire, which supply CO2 produced as a
by-product to the food industry.
The
gas is vital in cooling systems used to refrigeration, meaning frozen food is
likely to be badly hit. It also extends the shelf-life of products and is used
while slaughtering livestock.
The
owner of Bernard Matthews and 2 Sisters Food Group says the issue, combined
with a shortage of workers, will impact the supply of Christmas turkeys and
could tip the industry ‘over the edge’.
Ranjit
Singh Boparan explained: ‘There are less than 100 days left until Christmas and
Bernard Matthews and my other poultry businesses are working harder than ever
before to try and recruit people to maintain food supplies.
‘Nothing
has fundamentally changed since I spoke about this issue in July. In fact, I
take no pleasure in pointing out that the gaps on the shelves I warned about
then are getting bigger by the day.’
He
continued: ‘The supply of Bernard Matthews turkeys this Christmas was already
compromised as I need to find 1,000 extra workers to process supplies. Now with
no CO2 supply, Christmas will be cancelled.
‘The
CO2 issue is a massive body blow and puts us at breaking point, it really does
– that’s poultry, beef, pork, as well as the wider food industry.
‘Without
CO2, the bottom line is there is less throughput and with our sector already
compromised with lack of labour, this potentially tips us over the edge.’
The
intervention is far from the first warning about supplies to the UK over
Christmas, including to wine, and comes amid various shortages across the
country, which experts have partly blamed on Brexit, Covid and staff shortages.
The
Government met with a number of industry leaders on Saturday to discuss CO2
issues and Business Secretary Kwasi
Kwarteng tweeted that there is no ‘cause for immediate concern’ over the supply
of gas in the UK.
But
Mr Boparan went on to warn that having to keep poultry on farms will compromise
animal welfare as well significant reductions in supply.
‘This
is clearly a national security issue and unlike the labour supply crisis, where
the Government response to our sector has been disappointing to say the least,
it has to be dealt with as a matter of urgency.
‘It
really beggars belief when such a key infrastructure operation can arbitrarily
decide to switch off the taps because of price inflation. It is irresponsible
and catastrophic for our sector.’
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Metro
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North
America
‘Not
feeling safe’: Muslim Canadians want politicians to take more action on
Islamophobia
By
Noushin Ziafati
September
18, 2021
Dareen
Shilbayeh can’t stop herself from looking over her shoulder while out in
public.
The
London, Ont., resident who wears a hijab says she’s been worried she’ll be
targeted because of her faith ever since a Muslim family was killed in the city
this summer.
“Every
corner I take, even at the mall, when it’s a public place, it’s like, I have to
be careful,” said the 19-year-old who grew up in London and is a student at the
city’s Western University.
It’s
a sentiment many Muslim Canadians have shared after four members of the Afzaal
family, who were out for an evening stroll, were run down and killed by a
vehicle in what police have called an attack motivated by hate.
At
a vigil held outside a London mosque two days after the June 6 tragedy, federal
party leaders condemned Islamophobia and made promises to fight it.
But
some, including Shilbayeh, say there has been little action since then, and
argue the issue hasn’t been discussed enough during the campaign.
Saboor
Khan, a friend of the Afzaal family, said the issue of tackling Islamophobia
appears to have been pushed down on the political priority list.
The
Liberals said that if re-elected, the measures they will take to fight
Islamophobia include presenting a national action plan on combating hate by
2022, investing $10 million for a national fund for survivors of hate-motivated
crimes, and introducing legislation within 100 days to tackle hateful online
content.
“We
recognize that there is a lot more to do, and a re-elected Liberal government
will continue to work closely with Muslim communities and all Canadians to
address hate in Canada,” said spokeswoman Adrienne Vaupshas.
Meanwhile,
the Conservatives said they were committed to working with the Muslim community
to “do the hard work of finding concrete solutions to these problems.” They
also said they plan to fight online hate “by clearly criminalizing statements
that encourage violence against other people or identifiable groups.”
Source:
Global News
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California
man pleads guilty to 2019 murder, arson at synagogue and mosque
September
18, 2021
A
California man this week pleaded guilty to a murder committed at a synagoguge
in 2019, a crime for which he faces the possibility of life in prison.
John
Earnest "pleaded guilty in federal court to a 113-count indictment for the
religiously and racially motivated murder of one person and the attempted
murders of 53 other persons," the Justice Department said in a Friday
press release.
Source
:Justthe News
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South
Asia
New
Tokyo mosque hosts Friday prayers for first time
September
19, 2021
News
Code : 1181123
Muslims
held the first Friday prayers at a new mosque and community center established
in the Nishi Kasai district in Edogawa, one of the 23 wards of Tokyo.
On
the second floor, an imam led a Friday prayer for about 80 Muslims, while
loudspeakers conveyed the audio to the first floor of the building in an area
set up for females worshippers.
Source:
IQNA
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2
killed 19 wounded in consecutive explosions in eastern Afghanistan
By
Najibullah Lalzoy
18
Sep 2021
Three
consecutive explosions targeting rangers of the Taliban killed 2 and wounded 19
more among them women and children in Police District 5 of Jalalabad city of
eastern Nangarhar province.
Health
officials of the provincial hospital in Jalalabad city said that 21 wounded
people have been rushed to the hospital among them two died due to severe
injuries.
As
per the local health officials, three of the victims were civilians, and the
rests of them were Taliban fighters.
Source:
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Mideast
Iran’s
Khamenei vows to back athletes from Muslim states who won’t face Israelis
By
AFP
18
September 2021
TEHRAN,
Iran — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday reasserted the
Islamic Republic’s longstanding ban on competitive sport with Israelis, and
promised support for athletes disciplined by international bodies for
respecting it.
Iran
does not recognize Israel — with top officials like Khamenei regularly calling
for its destruction — and its athletes usually refrain from facing Israeli
opponents, whether by forfeiting the match or by simply not participating.
But
while their actions earn them praise from top officials back home, they have
sometimes resulted in disciplinary measures from international bodies.
“Any
Iranian athlete worthy of the name cannot shake hands with a representative of
the criminal regime in order to win a medal,” Khamenei told a reception for
Iran’s medallists from the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Source:
The Times of Israel
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We
Won’t Let Islamic State Establish Presence on our Border, Iran’s Raisi Vows
SEPTEMBER
18, 2021
Iran
will not allow the Islamic State group to establish a presence on the country’s
border with Afghanistan, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Saturday
“We
will not allow terrorist organizations and IS to set up next to our border and
strike other countries and the region,” Raisi said as he wound up a visit to
Tajikistan.
The
Taliban took Afghanistan’s capital on August 15, exploiting a vacuum caused by
the withdrawal of US troops from the country and the subsequent rapid collapse
of the Afghan military.
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$500
million trade target; Iran, Tajikistan annual bilateral trade exchanges
September
19, 2021
High-ranking
delegations from Iran and Tajikistan, chaired by the presidents, discussed the
ways to set a target to increase the value of annual bilateral trade exchanges
to $500 million.
Iran's
President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon
co-chaired a meeting of high-ranking delegations of the two countries in
Dushanbe on Saturday morning.
In
the gathering, the Tajik leader pointed to 160 cooperation agreements that the
two countries have signed in the past years, bemoaning the fact that the volume
of bilateral trade exchanges has decreased to $57 million.
Source:
Tasnim News
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Supreme
Leader appoints Brig. Gen. Nasirzadeh as Dep. Chief of Staff
September
19, 2021
Leader
of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier
General Aziz Nasirzadeh as Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces.
In
a decree on Sunday, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ayatollah Khamenei
appointed Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh to the position of Deputy Chief of
Staff of Iran's Armed Forces.
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: Mehr
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Islamic
State claims responsibility for attack on Syrian gas pipeline
By
REUTERS
SEPTEMBER
18, 2021
Islamic
State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a gas pipeline at Deir Ali
power station in Syria, according to a statement published on Saturday on its
affiliated Telegram channels.
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Jerusalem Post
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Iran:
The End for Mullahs in Sight
by
Dr. Saeid Sajadi
18th
September 2021
Iran’s
mullahs have taken full advantage of many events, including the Iran-Iraq war,
the 1991 gulf war, the 2003 Iraq war, and the COVID pandemic, to prolong their
criminal rule. Today, however, the regime has reached a dead-end on all
strategic fronts. The regime is confronted with a crisis of legitimacy, a
contracting power structure, an economy in shambles, a population yearning for
freedom through uprisings, and last but not least, a vast network of rebellious
resistance units targeting the regime’s manifestations of power at every
opportunity.
It’s
crucial to recognize that the uprisings of December 2017 and November 2019 were
different from previous uprisings for several reasons:
(a)
the radicalism of their slogans and demands,
(b)
the primary involvement of the lower socio-economic sector of society-
erroneously considered as the base to the regime in the past,
(c)
the mind-boggling speed of their spread to hundreds of towns and cities within
a day or two, and
(d)
a much shorter span of time between the major uprisings. Khamenei had no choice
but to specifically single out the resistance units- led by the MEK for leading
the uprisings. This revelation was necessary in order to reorient his forces to
the brunt of the threat.
The
message of the 2017/2019 uprisings rapidly evolved. A popular slogan throughout
Iran was: “hardliner, reformer: the game is now over.” This development put an
end to the utility of the so-called reformist faction, which internally
functioned as a safety valve to impede radicalization of the protest movement
and externally served as the basis to the narrative justifying foreign powers’
appeasement of the Mullahs. The price tag to put an end to this “game,”
however, was the lives of more than 1,500 protesters murdered by the regime’s
forces in a matter of 48 hours during the 2019 uprising.
Source:
Ncr-iran
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Islamic
terrorism and the Age of the Holocaust
By
MOSHE DANN
SEPTEMBER
18, 2021
The
20th century, marked by two world wars and the Holocaust, also saw the advent
of the nuclear age and the UN; peace, however, didn’t last long. Regional wars
erupted: when the State of Israel was declared, Arab nations invaded in an
attempt to wipe it out; backed by Communist China, North Korea invaded South
Korea and then North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam.
Many
African nations are plagued by civil wars between Islamists and Christians.
Afghanistan has been conquered by the Taliban; UNICEF calls Yemen, torn by
civil war initiated by Islamists and assisted by Iran, “the largest
humanitarian crisis in the world.” Yazidis, an ethnic minority in Iraq, have
been slaughtered and enslaved by Islamists. Islamist insurgents in Nigeria have
killed around 35,000 people and displaced at least two million in the past
decade, driven first by Boko Haram and more recently by its offshoot, Islamic
State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Islamist terrorists threaten Mali, Somalia,
Sudan and neighboring countries.
The
mass slaughter that ended in 1945 is an ongoing trauma in our society,
especially for the survivors, their children and the wounded. Attempts to annihilate
Israel in 1948, 1967 and 1973 continue – carried on by Islamic terrorists, led
by Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and its proxies,
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others, focused on “statehood” and
destroying Israel. It is the core of the ideology of Palestinianism, which,
strangely, is accepted and legitimized by the EU, the UN and the international
community.
Shrouded
by what is portrayed as a “humanitarian” agenda – “self-determination,” “end
the occupation – free Palestine,” “global jihad/intifada,” etc. – radical
Islamists promote terrorism, murder and genocide. It motivated the 9/11
attacks, justified by Islamists because of America’s support for Israel. It
was, they claimed, a “sacrifice for Allah.” Palestinian suicide bombers say the
same thing when they blow up Israeli restaurants and buses. For them, death is
more important than life.
Source:
Jerusalem Post
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Allama
Sajid Naqvi: Dictatorships supported in personal interests
September
18, 2021
On
the occasion of World’s Democracy Day, Head of Shia Ulema Council (SUC) of
Pakistan, Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi said that the internationally prevailing
democratic system was based on imperialistic doctrine. In this system, so many
things and points were available which could be modified according to Islamic
rules.
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Shiite News
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Senior
Pakistani Shia cleric 'Allama Jafri' expresses condolence on sad demise of Ali
Ausat Rizvi
September
18, 2021
In
a condolence message on the sad demise of Former Secretary Political Affairs
Syed Ali Ausat Rizvi, head of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen of Pakistan Allama Raja
Nasir Abbas Jafri said that late brother Ali Ausat was an active member of pain
keeping fraternity of the Nation.
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Shiite News
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Arab
world
Morocco
Says 'No' to Political Islam in the Last Parliamentary Election
Marwan
Asmar
September
18th, 2021
Why
were the Islamists thrashed in the last parliamentary elections in Morocco? The
literal decimation of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) to 12 seats from
the 125 they had in the previous parliament was a major blow and surprised
everyone including the pro-state, pro-monarchy and pro-establishment parties.
It
is as if the tables were turned around, and regardless of allegations of
vote-buying and vote rigging, these elections brought the pro-monarchical
parties to the forefront of Moroccan politics with the National Rally of
Independents (RNI) getting 102 seats, Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM)
winning 86 seats and Al Istiqlal Party 82 seats. Through Morocco’s
coalition-style government they are set to form the next Cabinet in the country
out of a Parliament of 395 seats.
This
is seen as a new chapter; a political stage were the Islamists are likely to be
in the opposition for the first time in 11 years. Hurrah! The liberals and
businessmen are set to rule the government and state. It is rather ironic the
RNI under the leadership of billionaire businessman Aziz Akhannouch and a
former Agriculture Minister in the last elections. He is the second richest man
in the country with a fortune earmarked at $2 billion and is set to rule a
country where poverty shot up by seven percent just in 2020 and the Covid-19
lockdowns made things worse. But he has promised the voters of 18 million he
would provide 1 million jobs, comprehensive health insurance and spike
teachers’ salaries and guaranteed pension.
Three
scenarios are being laid out in Morocco for what is seen as the effective death
of the PJD from political life. This moderate Islamic party is presently in a
state of political flux, questioning just where it went wrong and couldn’t
there have been a turning point to save itself.
But secretly they may have known the mess they got themselves into for
ruling is not an easy thing.
The
first scenario can be described as thematic and relate to the dwindling
fortunes of “political Islam” in the Arab world. Political Islam as a group of
parties which began to rule in some countries of the Arab region was flagging
with the traditional state and security apparatuses becoming much stronger than
the waves towards democratic representations.
Cairo
started the ball rolling when in 2013 the then Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al
Sisi instituted a coup, probably with the help of the army to remove the
country’s first elected government made up of Muslim Brotherhood members under
Mohammad Morsi who was subsequently charged, imprisoned and sentenced to death.
The fact that the Muslim Brotherhood had won the elections the previous year
didn’t make a blind bit of difference and his removal from power showed the
strength of the deep state and its apparatuses in Egypt. Subsequently as well
there was a crackdown on members of the Muslim Brotherhood with many of them
executed or imprisoned on different charges.
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Sunni
fighters foil an ISIS attack on a security checkpoint in Makhmour
2021-09-19
Shafaq
News/ Fighters from the Tribal Mobilization successfully thwarted an attack
waged by militants of the terrorist organization ISIS southeast Mosul, the
capital city of the Nineveh governorate.
A
source told Shafaq News Agency that a force from the Sunni paramilitary group
an attack waged by the extremist organization on a security checkpoint of the
Tribal Mobilization near al-Kashaf area in Makhmour.
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Islamic
State leader in Sinai surrenders to Egyptian authorities
September
19, 2021
CAIRO
— A high-profile Islamic State commander in Sinai has given himself up to a
tribal union loyal to the Egyptian military, exposing possible cracks within
the organization and potentially putting valuable information at the disposal
of Cairo.
Mohamed
Saad Kamel, also known as Abu Hamza al-Qadi, turned himself in to the
Association of Sinai Tribes on Sept. 10 after contacting association leaders.
He got pledges from the association for his safety and that of his wife and
three children.
Qadi
is the highest-ranking IS Sinai commander to turn himself in to the authorities
to date, suggesting the noose is tightening around the terrorist organization
in the Egyptian territory, which shares borders with Israel and the Gaza Strip.
"There
is close coordination between the army and Sinai tribes," Sinai tribal
leader Sami Kamel told Al-Monitor. "This advances the crackdown on the
terrorist organization noticeably."
The
military has been running a massive operation in northern and central Sinai
since February 2018. Codenamed Sinai 2018, the operation involves all divisions
of the military, including the air force and the navy. Ground troops comb every
inch of northern and central Sinai for IS militants, tracking down dozens of
militants and arresting or killing them.
On
Aug. 1, Cairo said it had killed 89 extremists and seized machine guns,
ammunitions and explosive devices in their possession during operations in
northern Sinai. On Aug. 13, the military said it had killed 13 extremists in
northern and central areas of the peninsula.
The
tightening grip of the military and Sinai tribes loyal to it appears to be
stopping IS militants from attacking military checkpoints and camps and forcing
the terrorist organization to resort to untraditional tactics, including the
planting of roadside bombs.
On
Aug. 13, nine police officers were killed and six others wounded when a
roadside bomb strick their armored vehicle in New Rafah, near the border with
the Gaza Strip. The attack came only 13 days after IS militants attacked a
security checkpoint in the northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, killing five
troops and injuring six others.
These
attacks and others show that IS is still alive, even as military troops and
civilian police fight tooth and nail to defang the terrorist group.
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Custodian
of the Two Holy Mosques Condoles Algerian President on Death of Former
President
18
Sep, 2021
The
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a
cable of condolence to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of the People's
Democratic Republic of Algeria on the death of former president Abdelaziz
Bouteflika.
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India
Kerala:
Efforts Christian And Muslim Communities Have Led To The Removal Of
Objectionable Content Against Muslims From A Catechism Textbook
K.M.
Rakesh
19.09.21
Conciliatory
efforts by leaders of two minority communities have led to the removal of
objectionable content against Muslims from a catechism textbook published by a
Kerala Christian diocese and provided a possible template on easing the
tensions fuelled by a statement from a Catholic bishop.
M.K.
Muneer, the Indian Union Muslim League MLA from Koduvally in Kozhikode, led a
delegation of community leaders to meet Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil and his
clergymen from the Diocese of Thamarassery in the district late on Friday
evening over the controversial catechism textbook for Classes X to XII.
Bishop
Inchananiyil issued a media statement announcing the withdrawal of the
controversial contents within minutes of the meeting that started around 7pm,
an Islamic scholar who was part of the discussion said.
“Bishop
Remigiose Inchananiyil informed about the withdrawal of a portion related to
Islam in the book, titled Truth and Realities in 33 Questions and Answers, at a
meeting held to discuss the matter. He expressed regret at hurting the
religious sentiments of Muslims over some remarks in the book. The meeting held
under the chairmanship of Koduvally MLA M.K. Muneer decided to work for
communal harmony and against social ills,” the statement in Malayalam said.
Dr
Hussain Madavoor, the Islamic scholar, told The Telegraph on Saturday: “It
seemed the bishop had already decided to remove the hurtful contents since he
immediately agreed to our objections, apologised for the lapse and said the
book had been printed without his knowledge.”
The
smooth reconciliation had shown that communal harmony could be strengthened
through dialogue, cooperation and mutual respect as secularism was the “prime
driver” of Kerala’s society, Church officials said.
The
row over the catechism textbook had erupted a few days after Bishop Mar Joseph
Kallarangatt of the Pala Diocese in Kottayam had told Christians to protect
their children from “love jihad” and “narcotic jihad”.
The
choice of the phrases was seen as a deafening dog whistle targeting Muslims
although the bishop’s supporters sought to claim that he was addressing his
flock and his objective was to caution families against the drug menace among
the youths.
The
subsequent exchanges in the public domain saw tensions rising between sections
of Christians and Muslims like never before in a state where the minorities
together account for around 45 per cent of the population and wield
considerable political and economical influence.
The
balance is so delicately poised that even the usually assertive CPM-led
government faced charges of walking the tightrope, unwilling as it was to
antagonise any group by taking stringent action. CPM sympathisers have sought
to defend party and government by saying that sagacity and restraint, not
accusations that can drive the situation out of control, should be the
immediate priority.
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For
BJP, ‘Liberation Day’ in Hyderabad has always been Hindu-Muslim issue but
experts differ
RISHIKA
SADAM
18
September, 2021
Hyderabad:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been celebrating 17 September as
‘Liberation Day’ ever since the state of Telangana was formed in 2014. But the
party has been demanding state recognition of this day, which commemorates the
accession of the princely state of Hyderabad to India in 1948, for over a
decade now.
This
demand was levelled up during Home Minister Amit Shah’s public gathering in
Hyderabad Friday, where he said the BJP will commemorate ‘Liberation Day’ when
it comes to power in 2024.
However,
Shah’s speech very evidently targeted the Muslim political party All India
Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) and its chief Asaduddin Owaisi.
“When
BJP comes to power (in 2024) we will celebrate Hyderabad Liberation Day. We are
not scared of MIM or anyone. The day we took freedom from Razakars is 17
September and that day shall be celebrated as Liberation Day in Telangana,”
said Shah at the gathering.
When
India got independence from the British, all the 500-odd princely states and
chiefdoms were given a choice to join India or Pakistan or remain independent.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel asked the Nizam to accede to India after independence,
the ruler refused and Hyderabad was declared an independent nation on 15 August
1947.
The
Nizam established a feudal state and under him, the Razakars carried out
violent atrocities against the people of Hyderabad and also molested women.
This eventually led to a rebellion against the Nizam.
“People
rebelled against feudalism. They wanted their rights on the lands, equal
representation in the administration. And that led to the whole movement in the
state against the Nizam ruling and the Razakars,” Professor Kodandaram,
activist and founder of the party Telangana Jana Samithi, told ThePrint.
Indian
armed forces then intervened, when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the Home
Minister, and the state of Hyderabad was annexed from the Nizam with ‘Operation
Polo’ on 17 September 1948.
However,
experts noted that the Hyderabad freedom movement did not have a Hindu-Muslim
angle since people from both communities were part of both the Nizam’s
administration as well as the resistance movement.
Reacting
to Shah’s statement later in the day, MP Owaisi called himself the ‘Laila’ of
politics, saying the focus of different parties is always on him.
“Be
it BJP, Congress or TRS — all of them are praising ‘Laila’ … all of them are
talking just about Owaisi and MIM. They can’t see anyone else except us. Even
we are not scared of anyone … Home Minister Amit Shah is really troubled that
he came to our constituency, to Charminar, but lost both wards. UP CM was made
to roam for four hours in our constituency … but no use, they lost. So, they’re
troubled about it and they’re expressing it this way. Why are they talking
about ‘fear’ in a democracy? In a democracy, should they not instil confidence
in minorities? They’re the ruling government, majority … why are they talking
about ‘fear?,” he said.
After
Hyderabad’s accession to India, Qasim Razvi was jailed for almost a decade and
then released in 1957 on the condition that he will leave for Pakistan. It is
then that Razvi handed over the reins to Abdul Wahid Owaisi, Asaduddin’s
grandfather, who rebranded the organisation as AIMIM.
The
party has even said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and the ruling
Telangana Rashtra Samithi do not observe 17 September as ‘Liberation Day’
because of the former’s close ties with the AIMIM party chief.
“CM
KCR, at the time of separate state agitation, promised he would observe liberation
day- but why is he not doing it now? Who is he scared of? Does CM not remember
people’s sacrifices?” said Shah.
K.T.
Rama Rao, KCR’s son, responded to Shah’s comments Saturday and said that for
the Telangana government, 2 June — when Telangana was officially carved out —
is the ‘Liberation Day’.
Rao
further said that the party does observe the day but the state government will
not support any efforts or let anyone use liberation day as a tool to target
one particular community.
Shah’s
meeting also came in the wake of a crucial Huzurabad bypoll in the state. It
was also held at Veyi Udala Marri, where the Razakars allegedly killed 1,000
people fighting against the Nizam near a banyan tree at Udala Marri.
The
Hyderabad state under the Nizam rulers constituted the present Telangana
region, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and parts of Karnataka.
While
BJP has been promoting the ‘Liberation Day’ issue as a Hindu-Muslim one,
according to experts, the freedom movement of Hyderabad had no such communal
angle.
“The
(rebellion) movement was led by the Communist Party, Hyderabad State Congress
(not part of Indian National Congress then) and socialists. BJP was not even in
the picture,” said Kodandaram.
He
added: “This was never a Hindu vs Muslims issue. There were a lot of Hindu
ministers in the administration who supported the Razakars and the Hindu
community fought against them too. Similarly, a lot of Muslims opposed Razakars
atrocities and fought against them.”
According
to senior political analyst Nageshwar Rao, the BJP is trying to project 17
September as a day when Hindus got freedom from the Muslim king’s rule.
“But,
in reality that was not the case. Both communities together fought against the
administration. But because there is this Hindu-Muslim angle to it, even ruling
party has refrained from celebrating it anyway because of their relationship
with MIM. The party is under opinion
that talking against Nizam might hurt Muslim sentiments and votes. But, what is
the relation between Nizam and Muslims?” Rao said.
Columnist
Mohan Guruswamy highlighted that several Hindus were also part of the Nizam’s
administration, even though it was predominantly Muslim.
“It
is said that the Deshmukhs helped Razakars. One of the key persons in the
Communist Party which spearheaded the movement was Khaja Moiunddin – then how
is this a Hindu-Muslim fight? BJP is creating a Hindu-Muslim cleavage here
again. A clear attempt to polarise and break communal harmony,” said Guruswamy.
Independent
researcher Faisal C.K., meanwhile, pointed out that Razakars terrorised the
Hindu community and the MIM supported these activities.
He
also noted that during Nizam’s rule 50 per cent people spoke Telugu, 25 per
cent spoke Marathi, 11 per cent Kannada and hardly 1.2 per cent spoke Urdu.
“Muslims
in Hyderabad still have a feeling that once they were the ruling class, that
soft corner for Nizam rule will be there. And distorting history and presenting
it, especially when people do not know what happened exactly will obviously
help them with the polarisation. They’re talking about Sardar Patel and his
operation — he was a Congressman, secular and in fact banned RSS,” he added.
Source:
The Print
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Muslim
Men Accused In Delhi Violence Allege Brutality By Police And Jail Officials
PRABHJIT
SINGH
18
September 2021
According
to two Muslim men in their early twenties, who were arrested in March 2020 in
two cases pertaining to the Delhi violence, Delhi Police personnel and
officials at the national capital’s Mandoli Prison Complex beat and verbally
abused them in custody. After the Delhi Police arrested the men in March
2020—Shahbuddine and Farman—they were lodged in the Mandoli Prison Complex till
they received bail in June 2021. The men were accused of murdering a fellow Muslim,
Babbu Khan, during the communal violence in Delhi, among other offences. They
denied these allegations. Witnesses against Shahbuddine and Farman gave
statements against the men only after their arrests, the court orders granting
them bail noted.
Over
multiple interviews in July and August, Shahbuddine and Farman told me about
their experience of dealing with the police and officials at the Mandoli jail.
They could not recall the exact dates of the incidents they described.
According to Shahbuddine, while arresting and beating him, one of the policemen
told him, “Tum mulle dangey karte ho”—You Muslims riot. Farman told me, “I
wanted to hang myself in jail.”
Emails
to the Sunil Kumar, the superintendent of Mandoli jail; Rajesh Chopra, the
deputy inspector general of Mandoli jail; and SK Sain, the deputy commissioner
of police of north east Delhi, went unanswered. Pawan Kumar, the station house
officer of the Khajuri Khas police station, said in a WhatsApp message, “The
matter is subjudice in court. However, if you have any questions please do
visit the office after a call.” But in a subsequent call, he reiterated that
the matter is subjudice and said that he cannot give a comment.
According
to the first-information report 119 of 2020, Khan, a 32-year-old auto driver,
was injured on the third day of the communal violence, on 25 February, at a
chowk in northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas area. He died on 27 February at the
Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital. The next day, the police lodged an FIR against a
complaint that his brother had filed. The FIR mentioned offences of rioting and
murder but did not name any accused. The case was transferred to the crime
branch on 7 March. While the original FIR did not name any accused, the Delhi
Police arrested Shahbuddine and Farman that same month. The chargesheet in the
case, filed on 15 June 2020, accused 16 men, including Shahbuddine and Farman.
Eleven of the 16 men were Muslim.
Shahbuddine
and Farman were not named in the second FIR against them either. FIR 103 of
2020 was registered against a complaint by a police constable on 26 February.
The FIR was filed under several offences—including rioting; assaulting or using
criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging his duty; and under
two sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984, that
pertain to damaging public property—but did not name any accused. The
chargesheet in the case, filed on 6 June 2020, listed 21 individuals as
accused—11 of them were also accused in FIR 119.
Shahbuddine
lives with his family in Khajuri Khas. His mother, Tabassum, is a domestic
worker. She told me that she lost her husband two years back—he was an
alcoholic—and that her elder son also died a few years ago. Tabassum said she
could never afford to send her six children to school. Before his arrest,
Shahbuddine told me, he performed odd jobs at weddings—including that of a
washer and waiter—in Faridabad, Haryana. Farman lives with his family in a
jhuggi in Delhi’s Wazirabad area. He told me he was the sole earner of the family
and like Shahbuddine, he also worked at weddings.
According
to Shahbuddine, personnel from the Khajuri Khas police station picked him up on
the night of 9 March. “I was on the road, returning from work, when the police
came,” Shahbuddine said. The personnel asked for his identification details,
such as his name and address, he said. Shahbuddine told me he offered to give
these details on the road itself, but the police forcibly took him to the
station. “They punched and kicked me on the road while taking me,” he said.
In
custody, the police accused him of rioting and looting. Shahbuddine said he
denied their allegations and told them he was in Faridabad at the time of the
violence. According to Shahbuddine, other inmates at the station told him that
the policemen were drunk. He said that the policemen’s demeanour suggested this
was true. “They kept slapping me and they abused me,” he said, before adding
that his lip and tongue began to bleed. “There was blood on my shirt and it
tore.” Shahbuddine said that the police personnel made remarks like, “Bhenchodo
tumne dange kiye the”—You fuckers created riots. Shahbuddine added, “I had a
tabeez”—talisman—“around my neck, they broke that. They took my medicine also.”
The next day, he said, he was presented in the Karkardooma district court as an
accused in the FIR Number 103. After the hearing, he was sent to Delhi’s
Mandoli jail.
A
few days later, at Mandoli jail, Shahbuddine said, some officials informed him
that he was also named an accused in the case of Khan’s murder. According to
him, his family had resided in the same neighbourhood as Khan in the past, and
that his father was acquainted with the deceased. Shahbuddine said he informed
the officials of this and said, “Janaab, musalmaan musalmaan ka murder thodi
kardega”—Sir, a Muslim will not murder a Muslim. Tabassum also made a similar
remark. “How could my son kill a fellow Muslim in Hindu-Muslim riots?” she
said.
Adbul
Ghaffar, Shahbuddine’s lawyer, told me that the police had cited a video as a
basis of Shahbuddine’s arrest, but it “was never shared with us.” At one point
of time, Shahubddine said, some officials at the Mandoli jail showed him a
video of the riots and asked to identify people in it, but he could not do so.
He did not remember the date of this interaction. According to Shahubddine,
officials asked him to sign a document—he did not know what it said, but he put
his thumb impression on the document.
Shahbuddine
said that jail officials beat him brutally once in jail—he did not remember
when this incident took place. According to Shahbuddine, an official falsely
accused him of adding insects to the food, after which his hands were tied
together with a rope and so were his feet. Shahbuddine said that the officials
then bound his arms and calves to a lathi suspended between two chairs, such
that he was hanging from it, a little above the ground. Then, Shahbuddine said,
jail officials rained lathis on his body, including his ankles, for ten
minutes. While recounting his time in jail, he said, “I was missing my family.
I was crying a lot.”
Like
Shahbuddine, Farman said he found out about the murder accusation against him a
few days later. Farman told me that at the Mandoli jail, some two or three
officials—who did not work at the jail complex—came to inform him of FIR Number
119. According to Farman, the officials then asked him to identify people in a
video, but he did not know anyone. Then, he said, the officials asked him to
sign a document. Farman told me the officials then kicked and slapped him for
thirty minutes, while verbally abusing him. “I wasn’t able to take it, so I
signed. I thought I’ll at least escape this,” Farman said.
Even
for the rest of his stay, Farman said, officials regularly “harassed” him and
the other Muslims accused of participating in the Delhi violence. According to
Farman, in one instance, the Hindu men accused of participating in the violence
blamed Muslim prisoners for fomenting the Delhi violence, which led to an
argument and “almost resulted in a scuffle.” Jail officials then intervened and
took the Muslim men, about ten of them, to the “chakkar”—Farman said this was a
colloquial name for a particular area in the jail. There, Farman told me, they
beat the Muslim men with plastic batons. “Each person was hit at least thirty
times,” Farman said.
Further,
Farman said, one particular Hindu inmate rained lathis on him and the other
Muslim prisoners accused in the Delhi violence to wake them up on multiple
mornings. After this, Farman told me, the inmate would direct them to clean
toilets by hand, without providing any products to do so. Muslim men accused of
participating in the violence were asked to work in the jail more than the
Hindus accused, according to Farman.
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Southeast
Asia
In
rare rebuke, Johor Ruler urges Putrajaya to drop appeal against automatic
citizenship for children born abroad
By
Syed Jaymal Zahiid
18
Sep 2021
KUALA
LUMPUR, Sept 18 — Sultan Ibrahim today urged the Federal Government not to
appeal the recent High Court ruling that recognises citizenship rights to
children born abroad regardless if the Malaysian parent is the father or
mother.
This
is the first time a monarch has openly spoken about the thorny issue. The Johor
ruler said in a statement issued this evening that all children born to
Malaysian parents on foreign soil must be accorded the right to citizenship.
“The
sanctity of the court must be upheld. Why discriminate against Malaysian
mothers with overseas-born children? This is a basic right of every child,
irrespective of whether the Malaysian parent is the father or the mother,” he
stressed in a statement to the Royal Press Office.
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:Bernama
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Pesantren,
sharia economy can potentially boost national economy
19-09-2021
Aji
Cakti, Suharto
Jakarta
(ANTARA) - State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir believes that Islamic
boarding schools (pesantren) and sharia economy have great potential for
boosting national economy.
Until
the first quarter of 2021, Indonesia had a total of 31,385 Islamic boarding
schools, with more than 4.29 million students, he said in the 12th Diplomat
Success Challenge held online in Jakarta on Saturday.
Meanwhile,
the Indonesian sharia economy is ranked fourth in the world, with a Global
Islamic Economy Indicator (GIEI) score of 91.2. The excellent sectors of the
Indonesian sharia economy cover halal food, finance, tourism, Muslim fashion,
cosmetics, media and amusement, he said.
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Hishammuddin:
Malaysian Armed Force's Greater Klang Valley task force ceases operation
18
Sep 2021
KUALA
LUMPUR, Sept 18 — The Malaysian Army’s (TDM) Greater Klang Valley Task Force
(GKV TF) has ceased its operation after 41 days following the positive
development of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the Klang Valley.
Senior
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said it was done with the
consent of the Greater Klang Valley Special Task Force (GKVSTF) and the Health
Ministry (MOH) after the number of daily cases started to decline and the
capacity of hospitals was under control, and in view of the increasing number
of fully vaccinated individuals.
With
the termination of the GKV TF operation, the Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) would
continue focusing on various Covid-19-related operations throughout the
country.
“It
includes building more field hospitals in states identified by the MOH and
increasing the number of the Combat Medic Vaccination Team (CMVT) to assist MOH
in the vaccination process especially in interior areas,” he said in a
statement today.
Source
:Bernama
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Zahid:
Don’t blame BN for the downfall of Pakatan, Perikatan administrations
19
Sep 2021
BY
KENNETH TEE
KUALA
LUMPUR, Sept 19 — Both the Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional coalitions
have only themselves to blame for the collapse of their respective governments,
Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.
Ahmad
Zahid, who is also Umno president, said the dissatisfaction of the people
towards the two previous governments stemmed from their failures in fulfilling
their promises to Malaysians.
Source
:Bernama
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Selangor
police issue 423 compounds for disregarding SOP
18
Sep 2021
SEPANG,
Sept 18 — Selangor police have issued 423 compounds to members of the public
for flouting the standard operating procedure (SOP) under Phase Two of the
National Recovery Plan (PPN) from Sept 10 until yesterday.
Selangor
police chief, Datuk Arjunaidi Mohamed said the compounds were issued for
various offences like failure to wear a mask, disregarding social distancing
and others.
He
said about 3,000 personnel from 700 monitoring teams have been assigned to
ensure that the public adhere to the SOP since Klang Valley transitioned to
Phase Two of the PPN where inter district travelling is allowed and many had
taken advantage of this to do various recreational activities.
“We
are monitoring the beaches and places of attractions in Selangor like water
falls to ensure visitors closely adhere to the SOP,” he told the media after
observing public SOP compliance at Pantai Bagan Lalang, here today.
On
today’s observation, Arjunaidi said he was satisfied with the public for
observing the SOP while at the beach, which is a popular spot among visitors.
“If
we look at the overall situation, it is true that many came but a majority of
them came with their families and were having group gatherings among family
members.
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Bernama
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Islamic
State affiliate leader killed in raid, says Indonesian military
18
Sep 2021
Associated
Press
Indonesia’s
most wanted militant with ties to the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed
in a gun battle with security forces, the military said, in a victory for the
counter-terrorism campaign against extremists in the jungles of Sulawesi
island.
Ali
Kalora was one of two militants killed in the shootout, according to Central
Sulawesi province’s military chief, Brig Gen Farid Makruf. He identified the
other suspected extremist as Jaka Ramadan.
The
two men were shot during a raid on Saturday by a joint team of military and
police officers in Central Sulawesi’s mountainous Parigi Moutong district,
Makruf said. It borders Poso district, which is considered an extremist hotbed
in the province.
“Ali
Kalora was the most wanted terrorist and leader of MIT,” Makruf said, referring
to the East Indonesia Mujahideen militant group, which claims allegiance to IS.
He said that security forces were searching for the four remaining members of
the group.
The
East Indonesia Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for several killings of
police officers and Christians, who are a religious minority.
Security
operations in Central Sulawesi have intensified over recent months in efforts
to capture members of the network. The network pledged allegiance to IS in
2014.
Source
:The Guardian
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Africa
How
big is the Islamic threat in Mozambique? And why are Rwandan troops there?
September
19, 2021
Since
2017, jihadist militias in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado
have mounted an armed insurgency against the Mozambican government. Their
stated objective is to instil Sharia law across northern Mozambique. This is
said to be in response to the region’s chronic poverty, unemployment and weak
public services under the Frelimo-led government in Maputo.
The
Mozambican insurgents represent a new armed Islamic front, with entirely local
motivations and command structures. However, their propaganda invokes common
tropes of regional and global jihad.
They
often claim responsibility for attacks using the name given to them by the
local population, ‘Al-Shabaab’. But there is no evidence that they have any
direct links to Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
But,
again, there appears to be little direct connection between the Mozambican
jihadists and the Islamic State. ISIS has previously attempted to claim
responsibility for attacks by unassociated Islamist groups elsewhere in Africa,
for example the Allied Democratic Forces in eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo
The
jihadists pose a significant threat to local civilians and foreign economic
interests in Cabo Delgado. The four-year low-intensity civil war has killed
more than 3,000 civilians, displaced 800,000 and caused widespread food
insecurity.
Meanwhile,
the energy giants ExxonMobil and Total have suspended their liquid natural gas
projects in Cabo Delgado. ExxonMobil is investing US$30billion and Total
US$20billion.
The
insurgents have cited the perception that local people will fail to benefit
from government deals with the multinational companies as one catalyst for
their attacks.
The
combination of widespread violence and threats to foreign businesses have led
to a patchwork of international military and security interventions. This
includes reports of:
In
addition, Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) –-
including South African special forces – have deployed peacekeepers to Cabo
Delgado.
The
Rwandan government frames this as a ‘responsibility to protect’ mission. This,
it argues, has been inspired by the international community’s failure to
protect civilians in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
The
Rwandan intervention in Mozambique came shortly after French President Emmanuel
Macron’s visit to Kigali in May 2021. Some commentators have suggested that
Rwanda, funded by France, has intervened to shore up France’s interests,
principally the gas reserves of French-owned Total.
The
Rwandan government has chafed against the claim that it is simply doing
France’s neo-colonial bidding. It has stressed the humanitarian basis of its
intervention.
There
is scant evidence of direct French backing for Rwanda’s military campaign.
Nevertheless, France held a series of high-level talks with Rwanda and South
Africa about the Cabo Delgado conflict in the months preceding their
interventions in Mozambique. This suggests close coordination between Paris and
these actors, reflecting the enormous French interests at stake.
In
May this year Macron discussed military solutions to the crisis with a number
of African heads of state at a summit in Paris. They included Mozambican
President Filipe Nyusi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwandan
President Paul Kagame. This was succeeded by similar talks with Kagame and
Ramaphosa in Kigali and Pretoria several weeks later.
Crucial
to Rwanda’s involvement in Cabo Delgdao are growing ties between Rwanda and
Mozambique after the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding in
2018.
Earlier
this year Nyusi made a lightning-stop visit to Kigali to ask for Rwanda’s
military assistance in Cabo Delgado. Nyusi had previously stated his preference
for bilateral rather than multilateral military intervention. He is perhaps
concerned about ceding too much control to a SADC mission led by regional
powerhouse South Africa.
He
also noted Rwanda’s track record of conducting highly disciplined and effective
peacekeeping missions. These have included Rwandan battalions operating in the
Central African Republic outside the broader UN peacekeeping mission, similar
to Rwanda’s current support for Mozambican forces outside of SADC.
Alongside
its humanitarian objectives, the Rwandan government stands to benefit in
security and diplomatic terms from its involvement in Cabo Delgado.
The
intervention fits a pattern of Rwanda’s ‘responsibility to protect’ role in
peacekeeping missions in Darfur, Mali, CAR and Haiti. These have bolstered its
international image and afforded it considerable international leverage. For
example, in 2010 when foreign donors considered prosecutions and suspending aid
to Rwanda because of its alleged crimes in eastern Congo, Kigali threatened to
withdraw its peacekeepers from Darfur.
The
Cabo Delgado campaign is also consistent with Rwanda’s recent talk of tackling
Islamist threats at home and in the wider region.
Source:
The Conversation
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Miyetti
Allah: Livestock Industry May Collapse If Our Members Keep Getting Killed
September
19, 2021
The
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has alleged that
five of its members have been killed by either bandits or kidnappers in 2021.
In
a statement issued by MACBAN’s National Secretary, Othman Ngelzarma, the group
decried the increasing level of insecurity faced by its members nationwide.
“The
death of Abubakar brings to five the number of MACBAN officials killed either
by bandits, kidnappers or cattle rustlers this year across the country,” the
statement reads.
Source:
This Day Live
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Anti-Open
Grazing: SGF Won’t Reply Miyetti Allah, We Are Not In The Same Category –
Akeredolu
By
Temidayo Akinsuyi
Sep
18, 2021
Ondo
State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has said the Southern Governors Forum (SGF)
will not dignify the leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association Of
Nigeria (MACBAN) over their opposition to the anti-open grazing bill which has
been signed into law in some states.
But
Akeredolu, who spoke in an interview on Channels Television monitored by DAILY
INDEPENDENT said the anti-open grazing law is here to stay.
While
condemning Miyetti Allah for asking the Federal Government and National
Assembly to stop implementation of anti-open grazing law enacted in the state,
Akeredolu who said governors will not dignify the association with a response,
said anyone not comfortable with the law should challenge it in court.
“Let
me be clear on this. The position of the Southern Governors is that we have
resolved not to respond to MACBAN, Miyetti Allah or whatever name they call
themselves. We do not want to dignify them with a response”.
Source:
Independent
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