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The western non-Muslim bigots have long history of blaming Islam for being racist toward women. In fact, it’s their Holy Books, the Bible and Talmud – which depicts women in the most insulting ways – from the “First Sin” to a “girl’s birth being equal to being born nothing”. Islam on the other hand is the only major world religion, which liberated women from pagan culture of Judeo-Christianity and raised them equal to men in spirituality and rewards in the life after death. Holy Qur’an has mentioned women 172 times in praise and Holy Qur’an has dedicated two chapters after women – Surah “Nisa” and Surah “Marriyam”.

In 2006, fascinated by Lebanon’s Islamic Resistance, Hizb’Allah’s, heroic fight against world’s fifth deadliest army, Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) in Southern Lebanon for 34 days - A Canadian Christian feminist and writer, Joanna Francis, wrote the following article in her personal blog.

Between the Israeli assault on Lebanon and the Zionist “war on terror,” the Muslim world is now center stage in every American home. I see the carnage, death and destruction that have befallen Lebanon, but I also see something else: I see you. I can’t help but notice that almost every woman I see is carrying a baby or has children around her. I see that though they are dressed modestly, their beauty still shines through. But it’s not just outer beauty that I notice. I also notice that I feel something strange inside me: I feel envy. I feel terrible for the horrible experiences and war crimes that the Lebanese people have suffered, being targeted by our common enemy. But I can’t help but admire your strength, your beauty, your modesty, and most of all, your happiness. Yes, it’s strange, but it occurred to me that even under constant bombardment, you still seemed happier than we are, because you were still living the natural lives of women. The way women have always lived since the beginning of time. It used to be that way in the West until the 1960s, when the same enemy bombarded us. Only we were not bombarded with actual munitions, but with subtle trickery and moral corruption.

They bombarded us Americans from Hollywood, instead of from fighter jets or with our own American-made tanks. They would like to bomb you in this way too, after they’ve finished bombing the infrastructure of your countries. I do not want this to happen to you. You will feel degraded, just like we do. You can avoid this kind of bombing if you will kindly listen to those of us who have already suffered serious casualties from their evil influence. Because everything you see coming out of Hollywood is a pack of lies, a distortion of reality, smoke and mirrors. They present casual sex as harmless recreation because they aim to destroy the moral fabric of the societies into which they beam their poisonous programming. I beg you not to drink their poison. There is no antidote for it once you have consumed it. You may recover partially, but you will never be the same. Better to avoid the poison altogether than to try to heal from the damage it causes.

They will try to tempt you with their titillating movies and music videos, falsely portraying us American women as happy and satisfied, proud of dressing like prostitutes, and content without families. Most of us are not happy, trust me. Millions of us are on anti-depressant medication, hate our jobs, and cry at night over the men who told us they loved us, then greedily used us and walked away. They would like to destroy your families and convince you to have fewer children. They do this by presenting marriage as a form of slavery, motherhood as a curse, and being modest and pure as old-fashioned. They want you to cheapen yourself and lose your faith. They are like the Serpent tempting Eve with the apple. Don’t bite.

I see you as precious gems, pure gold, or the “pearl of great value” spoken of in the Bible (Matthew 13: 45). All women are pearls of great value, but some of us have been deceived into doubting the value of our purity. Jesus said: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you” (Matthew 7: 6). Our pearls are priceless, but they convince us that they’re cheap. But trust me; there is no substitute for being able to look in the mirror and seeing purity, innocence and self-respect staring back at you. The fashions coming out of the Western sewer are designed to make you believe that your most valuable asset is your sexuality. But your beautiful dresses and veils are actually sexier than any Western fashion, because they cloak you in mystery and show self-respect and confidence. A woman’s sexuality should be guarded from unworthy eyes, since it should be your gift to the man who loves and respects you enough to marry you. And since your men are still manly warriors, they deserve no less than your best. Our men don’t even want purity anymore. They don’t recognize the pearl of great value, opting for the flashy rhinestone instead. Only to leave her too!

Your most valuable assets are your inner beauty, your innocence, and everything that makes you who you are. But I notice that some Muslim women push the limit and try to be as Western as possible, even while wearing a veil (with some of their hair showing). Why imitate women who already regret, or will soon regret, their lost virtue? There is no compensation for that loss. You are flawless diamonds. Don’t let them trick you into becoming rhinestones. Because everything you see in the fashion magazines and on Western television is a lie. It is Satan’s trap. It is fool’s gold.

I’ll let you in on a little secret, just in case you’re curious: pre-marital sex is not even that great. We gave our bodies to the men we were in love with, believing that that was the way to make them love us and want to marry us, just as we had seen on television growing up. But without the security of marriage and the sure knowledge that he will always stay with us, it’s not even enjoyable! That’s the irony. It was just a waste. It leaves you in tears. Speaking as one woman to another, I believe that you understand that already. Because only a woman can truly understand what’s in another woman’s heart. We really are all alike. Our race, religion or nationalities do not matter. A woman’s heart is the same everywhere. We love. That’s what we do best. We nurture our families and give comfort and strength to the men we love. But we American women have been fooled into believing that we are happiest having careers, our own homes in which to live alone, and freedom to give our love away to whomever we choose. That is not freedom. And that is not love. Only in the safe haven of marriage can a woman’s body and heart be safe to love. Don’t settle for anything less. It’s not worth it. You won’t even like it and you’ll like yourself even less afterwards. Then he’ll leave you.

Sin never pays. It always cheats you. Even though I have reclaimed my honor, there’s still no substitute for having never been dishonored in the first place. We Western women have been brainwashed into thinking that you Muslim women are oppressed. But truly, we are the ones who are oppressed; slaves to fashions that degrade us, obsessed with our weight, begging for love from men who do not want to grow up. Deep down inside, we know that we have been cheated. We secretly admire and envy you, although some of us will not admit it. Please do not look down on us or think that we like things the way they are. It’s not our fault. Most of us did not have fathers to protect us when we were young because our families have been destroyed. You know who is behind this plot. Don’t be fooled, my sisters. Don’t let them get you too. Stay innocent and pure. We Christian women need to see what life is really supposed to be like for women. We need you to set the example for us, because we are lost. Hold onto your purity. Remember: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. So guard your “toothpaste” carefully!

I hope you receive this advice in the spirit in which it is intended: the spirit of friendship, respect, and admiration. From your Christian sister – with love…

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Monday, Sha’aban 3, 1429

Oh, Lord Shiva, save us from the claw of the tiger, the fang of the cobra, and the vengeance of the Afghan - An old Hindu prayer 

Afghans (Pathan) could be the only people, who have never accepted the domination of a foreign power. Alexander the Great, Russian Czars, British colonialists, and Red Army - all tried their best to defeat the will of these proud people - but all failed miserably in the end. Since October, 2001 - the US and its western willing allies have been trying similar imperialistic dream of converting the dignity of deep-routed Islamic/Pakhtoon society into a submissive western immoral culture under the slogan of liberty and democracy - which interestingly doesn’t not exist in their own societies.

It were Afghan Mujahideen, and not the US Army, which destroyed the invinsible myth of the Red Army - and destroyed the last remain colonial entity and world’s second super-power (USSR). Like western tradition of disloyalty - instead of being grateful to Afghan people for making US the world’s sole super-power - the US invaded Afghanistan on flimsy excuses to destroy another Muslim country.

On Sunday, October 14, 2001 - a week after the commencement of US attack on Afghanistan - London’s Independent Television (ITN) was still broadcasting the news every hour that FBI doubted if Al-Qaeda was involved in the WTC incident. However, the Zionist controlled mass media simply allowed this fact to die a quiet death for Israeli interests while the murderous bombing of innocent Muslims continued unabated.

Since December 2001 - Under constant Taliban and local dischanted public - the western puppet regime of Hamid Karzai (a US citizen) has not been able to extend its writ beyond the city of Kabul. After seven years of fighting with greatly ill-equipped Afghan resistance - the world’s sole super-power (US) and its western allies have finally admitted that there is no millitary solution to the “Afghan problem” and that a political solution must be worked out. This is a long way from heady days of November 2001, when the ’sole super-power’ appeared invincible as the Taliban were pushed out of Kabul.

Like US forces - NATO forces too have failed to defeat Taliban, who are gaining more and more daring successes in the recent months - from 1200 prisoners rescued from Sarposa prison in Qandahar (close to Canadian military base) on June 13; capturing of a dozen villages in Arghandab province, and Taliban poising a strike on Qandahar city - Afghanistan’s second largest city and hometown of Taliban.

Karzai administration has cost over US$45 billion to western donors at the Bonn and Paris Conferences. However, the money is not for rebuilding the infrastructure destroyed by US and its western allies - but to protect the puppet regime and supply of world’s 93% heroin - a US$700 billion trade mostly controlled by the Jews. UN Human Development index has ranked Afghanistan under US occupation worse than under Taliban rule - fourth from the bottom on a list of 178 countries.

After Zionist Armitage has softened up Pakistan’s military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf through his emissary - US secretary of states, Gen. Collin Powell called him up in Islamabad: “As one general to another, we need someone on our flank fighting with us. Speaking candidly, the American people would not understand if Pakistan was not in this fight with the US”. The elated Powell then called Iran’s Spiritual leader and supreme commander of Iranian Armed Force, Ayatullah Khomeini - but was shocked to his response: “You Americans have the most stupid president (Bush), who expects the heads of a soveriegn nations (Pakistan and Iran) and dictates his philosophy of ‘either with US or against US’. I don’t like Taliban, but I will never allow the US forces to use Iranian space or ground to attack my fellow Muslim Afghan.”

Irony of the situation is that Pakistan, which played the front line for US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 - is now blamed for American failure by all three players - the US, NATO and Karzai. US Gen. Dan McNeill, who commands NATO troops in occupied Afghanistan, admitted last month that even if Pakistan were able to completely seal the border (an impossible job), that would still not end the local resistance in Afghanistan.

Under such circumstances, the only honourable alternative left for the invaders is to pack-up and leave the Afghan nation to make their own reconciliation - which they had done several times in the past history.

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Sunday, Sha’aban 2, 1429

Israeli professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi in his book “The Israeli Connection” (1987) reveals that Israel has taken a direct or indirect part in almost every country where Muslim communities have been victimized - such as in Iran under Shah; Algeria under France; military support for former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin; training and arms for Kurdish rebels in Iraq; Philippines’ genocide of Muslim Moros; Mossad’s activities in apparthied South Africa; Ethiopian genocide of Muslims; support for military dictatorship in Turkey and Zaire; Morroco’s suppression of Islamic movement; military co-operation with India in occupied Kashmir; occupied Iraq; occupied Afghanistan; Bosnia; Russia; Uzbekistan, and so on. Israel was also behind the notorious Danish Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and French roits under its Zionist interior minister Sarkozi (now president of France). The author also suggest that Israel is NOT a “surrogate of the US”, but does act as a “strategic asset” and a valuable ally of Washington when it comes to covert operations in Muslim world. He calls Zionism a “colonialism” - a system under which, in a defined territory, non-natives are entitled to political rights which natives are denied. Under Zionist-regime, a man from New York, whose mother happened to be born Jewish - has more rights than a Muslim or Christian native, whose ancestors may have lived in Palestine for centuries.

Currently, the Zionist-regime considers Islamic Iran, Sudan and Syria as great threat to its colonial empire in the Middle East. The Jewish Lobby in the US and other western countries are applying its muscles to push Christian armies to attack these Muslim lands and die for Israel. It’s using not only international forums like UN but also International Criminal Court (ICC) to target the elected leaders of those countries. For example, ICC’s chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has demanded that Sudan’s Islamist president be indicted for genocide and crime against humanity. Interestingly, his conscienous never bothered him while seeing the Israeli, American, Indian or Russian leaders carring out genocide and ethnic-cleansing of Muslims under their rules. Interestingly, the US has still to ratify its membership to ICC - which it refused on the basis of not receiving amunity for US soldiers

A country size of France - Sudan’s 40 million population is 70% Sunni Muslims, 25% indigenous beliefs and 5% Christians. The ethnic conflict between Arab Muslims and African Muslims in Sudan is used by foreign powers to destable the largest Muslim African country for its oil resources (over 12% of world’s known deposits) and the fear of having another Islamic-regime next to Israel.

Southern Darfur, like Southern Sudan, is rich in oil. China\’s National Petroleum Corporation holds the largest oil concession in Southern Darfur. According to The Washington Post (Nov. 10, 1996) - Washington gave US$20 million to three African countries (Ethiopia, Eriteria and Uganda) collaborating to help over-throw the Islamist-regime in Sudan. The USAID was for surplus military equipment and military training mostly supplied by Israel.

According to some sources - there are 30 different armed groups fighting against the central government in Sudan. They’re supported by the US, Israel and some other western countries.

Canadian war correspondent Eric Margolis wrote in The Toronto Sun (August 15, 2004) - “Washington’s continued attempts to overthrow Sudan’s government (for Israel’s benefit) are making things even worse. Allow Africa to solve its own problems.”

Sudan has blamed foreign powers for using Darfur crisis as “smoke screen” to fool world opinion - as they did in cases of Iraq’s WMDs and Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

According to the book “Israel and Sudanese Liberation Movement”, published by Dayan Institute - “Israel adopted a strategy which they called ‘pulling the limps then cutting them off’. What this policy entailed was of building bridges with minority groups, pulling them out of national context and then encouraging them to separate through military conflicts. Tel Aviv hope that such strategy will eventually weaken Muslim world, break it down and threaten its interests at the same time. In order for this strategy to work, Israeli Mossad agents opened lines of communication and connection with Iraqi Kurds, Lebanese Christians and Southerners in Sudan.

According to Israel’s daily Ynet - 24 Jewish organizations are behind West’s Darfur phobia.

The Jewish Journal in its May 8, 2008 issue described the laughable Jewish attitude toward China’s holding Olympics 2008. While Israel maintains arms trade with China - Jewish Lobby is not happy with China’s US$2 billion investment in Sudan’s oil exploration.

 American Jewish groups demand Olympics boycott.

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Saturday, Sha’aban 1, 1429

Israel which has a long history of finding excuses not to fulfil its promises to both its friends and enemies alike and have ignored all United Nations’ resolutions against it - has come up with its latest Chutzpah - that’s “Hizb’Allah would find some excuse to continue its Jihad against Zionist occupation of Muslim lands in order to refuse to disarm”.

After its failed 34-day invasion of Lebanon - Zionist entity agreed with the UN for a cease-fire, allowing UN peace-keeping forces to stop Hizb’Allah fighters from attacking Jewish soldiers, while Israel Air Force kept violating Lebanon’s airspace.

According to Israeli daily Ha\’aretz, Tel Aviv has blamed Hizb’Allah for planning to install anti-aircraft missile batteries along Southern Lebanon border to shoot-down Jewish spy planes. The joke is that while Zionist entity boasts of having world’s fourth most powerful armed forces - equipped with the latest American military hardware and over 240 nuclear bombs - it’s still afraid of Hizb’Allah’s few thousands freedom-fighters, who are fighting only with guns and unguided rockets.

Pro-Israel western government leaders keep dancing to Zionist-tune that the so-called “Biblical chosen people (Jews)” have G-d given right to use whatever military option needed to terrorize the Native Palestinian Muslims and Christians and the Gentile Arabs living in the neighbouring countries. However, if Tehran or Damascus ever choose to play by the same rule - both would immediately be labelled as being a serious threat to world peace. YES, according to western moral standards - the Jews, who were expelled from almost every European country - now have the right to defend themselves from the non-European people whose lands they have occupied - but their victims have no right to demand the return of their lands occupied by European Jews, whose regime was declared as the greatest threat to world peace in a 2003 poll conducted among 7,500 citizen of 15 EU nations.

Only governments of Israel, the US and Canada has listed Hizb’Allah as ‘a terrorist’ organization.

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Saturday, Sha’aban 1, 1429

In 711 CE, a few thousands Muslims soldiers under the command of Tariq Ibn Ziyad (remembered by “Jabal Tariq” or Gibraltar) landed on the shores of Spain and within three years, they held all Spain to the Pyrenees. Only a few Spanish Catholics remained in the mountains, not worth conquering. With the fall of Granada (1492 CE), the last Muslim soldier retreated to North Africa and on their heels came Isabella’s and Ferdinand’s troops - over 4 million Muslims and 800,000 Jews had been put to Crusaders’ swords.

Muslims liberated the Jewish population from Church’s persecution. Jews were known as Serf (slaves) under Catholic kings. In Elvira (305 CE), near Granada, the first law against Jews was estalished - Christian woman were forbidden to marry a Jew unless he convert to Christianity. Jews were forbidden to show hospitality to Christians. Jews were forbidden to keep Christian concubines and were also forbidden to bless the fields of Christians. In 589 CE, the Third Council of Toledo ordered that children born of marriages between Jews and Christians be baptized by force. Thousands of Jews were converted to Christianity, while others fled to neighbouring lands.

Through Sicily, the Arabs gave Europeans “the awakening of Islam”. Through Spain, the last flare of their energy gave the world the discovery of America. Of course Columbus did not discover America. A map now in Venice, drawn by Arab navigators 300 years before Columbus was born, shows Newfoundland correctly, where it is (Canada).

In the 13th century Europe, “the father of modern science” spend much of his life in jail for not agreeing with general belief that men don’t control their own thoughts. Giordanno Bruno, the Italian student of Muslim science and philosophy, was burned at stake for believing that every human has the divine right to be a free thinker. Galileo saved his life by rejecting his statement that the earth moves.

For one century after the fall of Granada, Spaniards were less submissive to government than any other Europeans. During that century, Spaniards explored and conquered the New World and conquered Europe. After that “Spain had practically ceased to exist”. - Rose Wilder Lane in “The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority”

Visiting Alhambra known in Arabic as “Al-Hamra” - has been my life-long dream, which came to realization last week. See more here.

Granada (Arabic Karnatta), meaning pomegranate - reached its peak in Islamic civilization under the rule of Emir Yousef (1334-54) and Emir Muhammad V (1354-91), during which Al-Hamra castle was build. Within the castle, there were royal palaces and a garrison of 40,000 soldiers.

The final expulsion of the remaining Spanish Muslims lasted from 1499 until 1609 CE - the nine centuries of both glories and defeat for Spanish Muslims, which brought down one of the greatest civilizations in world history and culture. Muslim Spain (Andalusia) still evokes the wonders and sympathy of today’s tourists. Washington Irving wrote “Tales of the Alhambra” in 1828 CE. A room in the royal palace where he stayed - is still carry his name. Canadian professor T.B. Irving also wrote “Falcon of Spain”.

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