Archive forJanuary, 2009
Open Address to Obama
JANUARY 23 UPDATE FROM MY BROTHER AT REVOLUTION.THABAAT.NET;
“The Muslim blood on Obama’s hands as well as his voters and supporters has now officially started. Some Muslims are fooling themselves into seeing Obama in a good light (for closing Guantanamo) and are totally ignoring the entire picture.
The Muslims need to get it through their heads: Obama does not support the establishment of Islam, therefore he does not support the Mujahideen.
Whilst he closes Guantanamo, he bombs Pakistan, killing 20 Muslims (some say 14).
The bigger picture is this: Don’t look at these isolated events – such as his plan to close Guantanamo and take the US troops out of ‘Iraq – and then judge upon that. Rather, try to understand the holistic view in order to see what he’s trying to achieve. The reality is that he is going to continue the dubious ‘War on Terror’ – once again misleading his nation into believing that the ‘terrorists’ hate the Americans for their freedoms – and he’s going to focus heavily on the root of ‘terrorism’ more than Bush ever did. Bush made the mistakes of getting sidetracked with ‘Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and so forth whereas Obama will clean up those mistakes and move his chess pieces in the direction of Afghanistan and Pakistan since it is this area where the Mujahideen have a stronghold and if their strength continues to increase, then they will easily take over these two Countries, becoming a massive threat to the Western world (since Pakistan has nuclear capabilities).
Thus, the point is, Obama and the Crusaders will fight the Muslims with a better strategy; that’s all to it.
They will continue to oppose the Shari’ah of Allah, Jihad fe Sabeelillah, and the Haqq.
Unfortunately, some Muslims will look at Obama on a point-to-point basis without looking at the full picture. They will say he did this, this and this good for the Muslims. Obama will never be a respectable man unless he meets the following criteria:
- Pulls all US troops, and Intelligence Agents out of all the Muslim lands, the foremost of them being Saudi Arabia.
- Leave off all military, political and economic aid for the 56+ Apostate Governments in the Muslim world. Abandon them, even if the soldiers of Islam grab hold of them.
- Leave off all military, political, economic and moral aid for the state of Israel, and ban your citizens from traveling to occupied Palestine.
- Cease all interference in the Religion, Society, Media and Politics of the Muslim world. Do not interfere in the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate.
- Free all Muslim captives from your prisons; closing down Guantanamo means nothing until you release them in their home countries safely.
If America fails to meet these demands, then how can they expect the ‘terrorists’ to stop fighting? It is only logical to assume that the ‘terrorists’ will continue the fight unless and until their demands are met. The reality is that they will never stop fighting for hundreds of years to come until the Government of America humbles itself and does what is right for its citizens.
As an advice: If Muslims don’t know what they want, then they will continue to be deceived by the devils. Put things in perspective and you’ll see Obama for who he is.”
Follow-up to Gaza and the Americas
In the last post, I touched on how we Muslims are quick to get upset about some Muslims’ sufferings and not others’ even to the point that many of us are unaware of the suffering of some Muslims. We also care little about the injustices suffered by other victims, Muslim or not, if they are too dark or they are not the politically popular cause at the time. We do not condemn what the Native Americans went through, or the Africans, or the even the Holocaust of non-Aryans in Germany (not just Jews but gypsies and other ‘undesirables’ there). We attack Islamophobia but not white supremacy, even though they are clearly related and our tolerance of one historically and even our acceptance of it is what opened the door for the other. We are a sad people who deserve to be called cowards in many senses.
See, we cry because the Jews and the Christians don’t respect us and they move against us. We want their respect, but what we really want is the respect of the European Jews and Christians, and that’s real. But in Rwanda, Islam was also a marginalized faith, appealing to only those who married foreign Muslims, orphans, and illegitimate children. However, it grew in population sharply, after the genocide, specifically because Muslism there refused to annihilate each other based on ethnicity and would hide anyone who sought refuge. The slaughterers were afraid to violate Muslim neighborhoods, and Marc Lacey of the New York Times has said that the safest place to be in Rwanda during the genocide was in a Muslim neighborhood. After 2002, it seems the growth stopped, but that left the Muslims at 14% of the population, and they were estimated at 4% before the genocide. Hutus and Tutsis alike have converted to Islam, Tutsis because they saw how safe they were and Hutus because some of them wanted to disassociate themselves from the killings. So, just by Muslims refusing to participate in the killing, they attracted others, and hamdulillah for their guidance, into the religion. They even repelled slaughterers from masajid in some cases! Would we have done this for any of the ethnic minorities in America if white supremacist sentiment had been agitated against them before 9/11? Hell no! Many Wuslims would have actually tried to side with the powers that be and called it hikmah! But that’s just it! Wuslims, by crying over the arrogant western Islamophobes who cannot respect or approve of us, have missed the boat with neutral people and failed to capitalize on the respect we do have in other areas! We’re like little rejected school kids on the playground, crying because no one wants to play with us, and when the neutral kids are pointed out to us, we balk and say “But they don’t count! They’re unpopular!” Yet, in Rwanda, those Muslims, who were so small in number and so marginalized, merely refused to participate in an evil atrocity, even though they had no respect on which to capitalize in doing so! When all of these Hutus were being riled up and even forced at gunpoint to hack up their own Tutsi family members, the Muslims of both tribal designations said flat-out, “We are closer to each other as Muslims than you are to each other as tribesmen!” Allahu Akbar! They weren’t looking for converts, they were looking for purity from an evil that swept the country at that time! They weren’t looking for approval from Hutus or Tutsis, the Muslims were already from both tribes and the tribes were already blood-related from so much intermarriage. They weren’t looking for converts! They were looking for abstinence from tribal warfare and looking for Allah’s approval! They got converts and approval, anyway!
Wuslims here are looking for Arab victories, not Muslim victory. Wuslims here are looking for the masajid to be dominated by whichever ethnicity from which we come! We’re looking for tribal supremacy amongst the Muslims in North America, and we’re looking for approval from the very same tribe that benefits from white supremacy and the only ones to be more Islamophobic than the Arabs of jahiliyyah! Like that’s gonna happen! We want to be nationalistic, tribalistic, and more white supremacist than the whites, and still convince the powerful oppressors to accept our religion as correct. We’re asking too much!
See, human beings tend to love who ever is winning in the dunya. The saying in Nigeria’s tribal languages goes “A rich man will always have followers.” And the Arabs of Mecca following Abu Jahl even when they were just about to follow Muhammad (saws) shows this. In English, we simply say “Everyone loves a winner.” But it’s the job of the Muslims to be different, and better, and to be the ones who will question, examine, and judge the winner by how honestly she or he won, not by what or how much they won. Muslims will do this, and wuslims absolutlely will not do this. This is what wuslims have in common with out-right disbelievers, hypocrites, and with apostates.
With all of the information and knowledge available to us in this first-world nation of vampirism, we have a lot to learn from the Muslims in Rwanda who have less in the way of wealth and technology!
Gaza and the Americas: The Pattern
As Aintrael (think; Israel Ain’t Real) pummels Gaza and starves it out, as Egypt’s Mubarak (Aintrael’s ho) blocks the local doctors from going to Gaza to help out, as the atheists in China continue to change Islam in its west, and as the Hindus in the subcontinent continue to pummel the stew out of the Muslims, they all have help from one party. Apostates. And they also do one thing in common to us. Each attacks distracts us from the others.
I openly condemn the attacks on all of the Muslims, just as I also condemn the attacks on Black men in handcuffs in the United States. See, Muslims, I usually keep quiet about the specific attacks on Muslims for various reasons. One is that by the time I have been informed of the attacks, like the siege on Gaza, or the attacks on the Hindus in Gujarat State, someone is already speaking on the issue and there is nothing I can say that will change anything. Most other Muslim bloggers are better informed than I am, so it turns out this way. Also, I tend to let the others speak on this because, frankly, Muslims don’t seem to get outraged when the victims are darker and have nappy hair and big lips. Muslims were a lot less outraged about Darfur than they were about anywhere else. Muslims get distracted from Darfur as soon as something happens somewhere else, but incidents in Darfur don’t necessarily distract us from what happens anywhere else. We should be outraged about Iraq and Afghanistan… and Somalia, but why should we be only mildly concerned about Darfur? Ironically, a Gambian man once said to me that in Muhammad’s dream in which Bilal preceded him into Paradise, it signified that the Black African people would be at the forefront of Islam. I didn’t let on that I agreed with him, because I had a different reason for it than he did. He seemed to think we were at the back of everyone else’s priorities and preferences because Allah had made us special. But Allah created people equally, so this would mean the reverse; ie that the only reason Allah would grant us any special staus or perks is because of our mistreatment by others. So when some Muslims ask why I say so little about Affia Siddiqui, Guantanamo, NWFP, and Gaza, it’s only because others have more constructive things to say than I do, and also because Muslims won’t say anything about incidents like the BART shooting this week and even the events before this, even when they involve a Muslim like Amadou Diallo. To see a video of this, click here and see how a cop shoots a handcuffed suspect in the back even when many people are standing there and filming.The shot sounds about 1:28 into the video.
See, Amadou Diallo was a Muslim, but he was a West African Muslim, not Desi or Arab or Kurdish or Turkish Muslim. He was shot 41 times and his death was more outrageous to the non-Muslims, white and Black alike, while the Muslims didn’t even wimper about it. It didn’t matter to Muslims that another Black man died. After all, Muslims were safe, right? I mean at least the real Muslims, not the darkies from Africa whose Arabic sounds like jungle talk out of a Tarzan movie. :\ Well, after 9/11, everyone was asking AAs to come to their aid and stand up for them, but even after being Muslim, I am glad that AAs let the lighter Muslims catch hell and even some beat-downs. Even an Arab schoolmate of mine was glad because it killed some of the Arab nationalist spirit in his community. He hoped that AAs didn’t come to anyone’s aid or help anyone because once these groups were out of trouble, they’d go right back to certain white supremacist ideas many entertained and make their relations with the AA community even worse than they already were.
I hate to harp on this, but the fact is that Gaza, the West Bank, Australia, Southern Asia, Africa, and the Americas are all part of one pattern. Not white people, but white supremacists specifically taking land and resources from darker people and then tormenting those who fight back and still tormenting those who do not fight back! Only because many AAs, even Muslims, are so patriotic and loyal to America, do the white supremacists relax their oppression of us, and even then it is continued still. Mexicans are being used for cheap labor that continues to build this country up to this day. The rest of the Americas get pillaged and plundered for their resources, and the full-blooded Indians are oppressed by other Indians who have Spanish ancestors, so white supremacy still survives to this day there. In some countries, like Argentina and Uruguay, you can’t even see Real Americans left there, and if someone has American ancestry in their veins, they either aren’t informed of it or they will not admit it. And in Africa, even after colonization has ended, the resources are still plundered and pillaged by European corporations on behalf of the governments from which they have been “de-colonized”. But let there be a revolt of people against these corrupt leaders who give away resources for their own fortunes, and those EU countries will send their troops back in a heart beat to quell these revolts and keep their puppets in power. And whether a country has European troops in their borders or not, the people have made skin bleach the highest-selling cosmetic product on the entire continent of Africa!
This has everything to do with the Muslims, everything! Fact is, these doors to these oppressions of others only open up when Muslims get weak and give ground to others who don’t care about the judgments they will face later! Look up Boabdil, also known as Muhammad XII, of Granada. He gave up Granada and went into exile, then next thing we know, his daughter Aisha is taken as a concubine by King Ferdinanad of Spain as a concubine, has this devil’s son, and is then cast aside by him and becomes a nun!
This surrender of his opened up the way for Ferdinand and Isabella to fund Columbus to stumble on to the Americas and then cause the tradegies here for the Real Americans and the Africans! Centuries later, the oppressors of the planet succeeded in dismantling the caliphate with full support from the US and England, and that opens the way for the Europeans to give the Jews someone else’s land in Palestine! Now what does this all show you? The Spaniards couldn’t stand being ruled by Africans and Arabs, so they revolted. One of ours got weak and opened floodgates for further disaster across the Atlantic. The Spaniards who went there couldn’t stand seeing dark red people with their own way of life, so they exterminated them almost, then started bringing Africans to replace them as slaves because they couldn’t stand seeing darkies in the tropics live their own way, either! Then, in Europe, the Christians decided that the Jews weren’t white enough, so they persecuted them and kept them segregated into ghettoes from which poor neighborhoods get their name now! After failing to exterminate them despite practically no opposition from Aryan, Gentile Germans, the Europeans decided “You’re still not white enough for our tastes, but you are white enough for us to give you someone else’s land who’s darker than you are, and we’ll support you as long as you oppress them instead of trying to live with us as equals!” Now, think of this, Muslims. Why didn’t the League of Nations give them land in Austria and Germany which owed them to begin with? Here’s the answer; It was already inhabited by whites, and it’s a tenet of white supremacy that you do not give whites’ land to non-whites. The Jews at that time were seen as non-whites in Europe, only outside of Europe are they considered white! And why were they given an eighth of the land mass of Florida in Palestine? ‘Cause they weren’t white enough. They were victimized twice by white supremacy, despite being Europeans even by blood!
Now for the million-dollar question; why did they ever agree to this to begin with? Why didn’t they insist on land in Germany and Austria or even Spain which was the first country to expel them who did not convert to Catholicism?! Why did they accept to take away a tiny, inadequate sliver of land from a supposedly ‘related’ people who had not harmed themand not to fight for their right to a more adequate stretch of land from those who owed them in the first place? Simple. The same reason why Yankee cops shoot handcuffed darkies in the back at the same time and in the same way that Aintraelis are bombing and starving and oppressing Palestinians and the rest of the world is ganging up on Muslims as they would have been glad to gang up on Africans before 9/11… white supremacy. The Jews had come to believe in the same white supremacy with which Hitler led masses to victimize them and turn them into ashes! Until Muslims see this as the manifestation of Shaytan, who actually hates all races of humanity, Muslims will not understand the enemies of Islam. Persecution of Muslims is as racial as it is religious, and this is why the same machine that annihilated Real Americans and drove Africans insane and dysfunctional is now leading the world in doing these same things and more to Muslims everywhere and from every background of Adam and Eve’s descendants!
Some will say in response to this that I am paranoid, carrying this anti-white attitude from my days in the Nation Of Islam. Well, I never was in the Nothing of Islam. Nor do I have an anti-white attitude. As a Muslim who knows better and knows history, I am required to oppose doctrines of racial inequality. But Black supremacy is not a doctrine anywhere except in less than half a million households in the US as a reaction to white supremacy! Indian supremacy is no doctrine, be it for those associated with dots or feathers! Aboriginal supremacy is no doctrine I’ve ever heard of until I just thought about as I was typing this! But white supremacy, that’s a doctrine, a system, a way of life, a cause of white privilege, and an anti-thesis to Islam. Even Arab supremacy, as close to becoming a doctrine as it may have come, is now no doctrine. (And please separate all of these non-existent supremacies from the very real biases that exist among all of our ethnicities.)
Anyway, in anticipation of those who will attempt to refute, allow me to list the pre-emptive tear-downs of these refutations.
- Why do many of us Muslims still wish our Caucasian Muslim sisters and brothers “Happy Thanksgiving” or “Merry Christmas”, as if they are given special license to shirk or as if they are not really Muslims? Which of these wrong messages are we sending to them?
- Why do so many of us get more delighted to meet them than we are to meet Muslim reverts who are darker?
- Why do some of us even target Caucasians for dawah and make more compromises and apologies to them than to others?
- Why do White sisters get more marriage offers at their conversion than do any others?
- Why do White brothers get more daughters offered to them at their conversion than do any others?
- Why do Black women get less marriage offers than any others at their conversions? “She is still new to Islam, she needs to learn her religion first.”
- Why do Black men get less daughters offered at their conversions than any others?
- Why are compromises made by White Muslim sisters and brothers treated more delicately than those made by darker converts?
- Why are some Black Muslims assumed to know less of the deen and be less serious than others? In some places and masajid, it’s the reverse. Why?
- Why are the Black students (of all national origins) placed in a separate room to learn Qur’an at the madrassah associated with Al-Farooq Masjid in Atlanta?
- Why does every Black graduate of Dar-un-Noor Academy in Atlanta have nightmarish memories of their years there?
- Why is it that often the only ones disgusted by the preferential treatment given to whites are the White Muslims themselves?
- Why is it that often times AAs can find better hospitality in non-Muslim Thailand or the Phillippines than they can find in Muslim lands?
- Why are many of us reading or hearing this saying “Well, it’s not just muslims who are racist!” instead of asking ourselves “Why have we letothers become less racist and biased than we are? Why do we remain more white supremacist than the non-Muslims?”
- Why do many of us argue about whether the Palestinians or the AAs have suffered more? Obviously, the Aintraelis are going to continue persecuting them until they become as non-threatening as many AAs are to America. Obviously,the white supremacists had centuries of practice on us before they started on the Palestinians! The same thingwill happen to us both if they get their way!
- Why do many Muslims refuse to learn what’s coming down the pike for us by merely looking at the successes and failures of the civil rights movement?
- Why do Muslims delight in the material achievements of Muslim Spain more so than in other lands ruled by Muslim, even though in Spain the Muslims were another caliphate altogether and a stinking example of weakness and wislam before the Reconquista?
- Why are so many of us supporting not the sisters and brothers in their homes in Gaza, but specifically Hamas, who disavowed solidarity with the Chechen mujahideen in order to get money from Russia a few years ago?
- Aren’t most if us against the WD Muhammadites for insisting on being different from Arabs, while we forget this faux pas of Hamas?
- To the WD Muhammadites, why do you distance yourselves from Arabs or Desis who don’t deserve the cold shoulder, but you are patriotic to the white supremacist US that started our problems? Why do you say “Blame the Arabs and the Pakistanis” but you consider it blasphemy to blame the white man or blame America?
- To Muslims in Africa, why do so many of you scoff at the mandatory salawat as being too Arab, but then you’ll bleach your skin and marry the first Caucasian that you can?
- Why are Muslims anywhere, Africa or the subcontinent, buying skin bleach in the first place? What’s wrong with tanning lotion if that’s the case? After all,aren’t the white masters buying it for themselves?
- What’s up with Muslims wearing blue or green contact lenses? Do you see any one with blue or green eyes wearing darker color contact lenses?
- Why are you some of you getting angry at me for saying this when I have already specified that I mean absolutely no harm to any of us and I actually want what is good for us?!
When the Islamophobes attack Islam, they have an assortment of false attacks and reprimands that we can tear down. They have one we cannot so easily tear down, though. Not Islamic racism, but racism among Muslims. We love to say the old phrase, “There is no racism in Islam,” but we need to add to that the phrase “but there is racism among Muslims, specifically white supremacy and we are wrong for this!” Because frankly, while many Muslims are ignoring the anti-Islamic manifestations of white supremacy, many people of African descent are not only rejecting Islam, but leaving Islam because of Muslims’ acceptance of it in practice! Simply put, Muslims are driving others into apostasy by our apathy, because we don’t recognize who our enemies are. “You insult Arabs, you’re an enemy to Islam. But you lynch darkies, you’re not our enemy, you’re the darkies’ enemy. You can stop by my house for chai, gulab jamun, or baklava anytime. Ahlan wa sahlan.” And by not recognizing this, we fail to see the connection between those who provoked the reaction called the “Nation of Islam” and those who are currently bombing our sisters and brothers in Gaza in the first place!
May Allah make us to recognize all of His enemies and to be enemies to them for His sake.
He Said It, Not Me
This isn’t me talking, it’s a man named Norman Finkelstein. I don’t support Hizbullah because I do not support Shiaism, period. But he supports them in one context only… that they resist when everyone else says not to! What does he say? He says Arabs (Muslims) should be more like Jews in only one way, to never forgive and never forget! Be sure to listen to the whole thing, it gets more riveting as it goes on. By 5:51, he’s pulling no punches!
Example of Failure
In a history class yesterday, the teacher asked a question. Were Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller just captains of industry or were they robber-barons? Various students answered differently, but I asked a question. I was than asked which one they were. Knowing the teacher was looking for my justification more than for my answer itself, I answered her with the reasons.
“Well, the fact that is a debate and the terms are not mutually exclusive mans they were both at the same time. Matter of fact, when the laws do not protect laborers and workers, it becomes necessary to become a rober-barron in order to lead an industry. Only the most ruthless exploiters of labor make the most profits if the rights of laborers aren’t protected by law.”
This answer wasn’t deep or profound, after all it only came from me. But it was based on what I had learned from history and Islam put together. The Shariah protects workers’ rights, demanding as Muhammad told us (saws) that the worker is to be paid before the sweat dries. Yeah, that’s real. That’s what the Shariah calls for, a full millenia and some centuries before Carnegie’s and Rockefeller’s worker went on strike, only to be shot down by their armed guards. Oh yeah, the first strikers in the US got shot to death, whereas under the Shariah of the caliphate, they could take their employer to court right off the bat. In the US, with no laws to the contrary, the exploiters of workers had to be the richest because the richest had to be the most exploitive of workers. Any industrialists who did not do so would be beaten out by those who did.
Ironically, both of these robber-barrons were also philanthropists who gave in abundance to colleges and cities and organizations. These things still last, while their actual business that shot down strikers and exploited workers no longer exist. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
One more reason to never let any one make you feel ashamed or inferior about the Shariah.
Inshallahshaheed is back up!
Allahu akbar! The Inshallahshaheed blog is back up and running! Hamdulillah! In your face, Bill Warren and Rusty Shackleford! I wanted to tell you earlier that I knew you were lying, Bill Warren, with your Michelin Man-looking self, but I didn’t want to steal Samir’s thunder. Hey, Rusty Shackleford, someone told me you think you know who I am! Well, I tell you what, if you’ve guessed right, I’ll confirm it myself! I never expected to hide my identity, anyway, just to see who’d take the time and effort to track down someone as insignificant as me! Looks like you’re the one who had nothing better to do. And don’t talk about ownage, either. Samir just owned you and Fatty Warren!