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In Uncategorized on November 14, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Salaam, Shalom, Peace, Pax, Aman, & Shanti:

We are an AJMA, “congregation” of the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, and others. AJMA (www.ajma.org) is an American association of “the physical and spiritual progeny of the children of Abraham”; but also Atheists, Agnostics, Democrats, Republicans, Greens, & others building, a Tikkun community, based on the higher ideals of our faiths and the principles of tolerance & harmony, also embodied in Kabalism & Sufism.

We are the voice of Modernist, Westernized, Moderate, Liberal & Enlightened souls that seek to focus in on the positive, reaching out to a demonized community.

Like Rev. Martin Luther King we have a dream. We dream of rebuilding the Jewish-Christian-Muslim symbiosis of Al-Andulusia (Spain), the ecumenical harmony of the Ottomans, & Akbar’s Mughal India fostering “covivencia” among all communities in the USA & Europe today.

Using Said Nursi’s and Farangi Mahal’s (www.farangimahal.com) Non-Violence, Gandhi’s “ahmisa”, Pope John Paul IIs, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Quaker Folkalore ecunemical vision,& Tikkun (healing & rebuilding),our slogan is: “Each time there is a terror act, we should form new relationships among our community.”

Inspired by our prophets and God, we struggle against Anti-Semitism, Islamphobia, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Christianism, bigotry and hatred. Seeking “truth to justice”, we struggle for the civil rights of our fellow Americans, completing the American Revolution.

Involving churches, synagogues, schools, temples & mosques we present our research (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AJMA/files/)& brochures to build bridges. We engage authors and personalities to seek guidance & help on challanging untruths in the media.

We work with many organizations that work for peace. JOIN US, if you DARE to struggle for justice, march for peace, collect donations for disaster victims, & want to build bridges of harmony among Americans & form from our USA, & Europe to the world.

Geert Wilders Nazi Fitna here and the multiple response on this site

Geert Wilder. The 4th ReichGeert Wilders anti-Quran film. Silence will be the best response

Dutch Geert Wilder\'s unnecessary provocation from the NetherlandsDutch and Geert Wilders should ban these holy books too

Dutch Geert Wilders and the 4th Reich in the NetherlandsEurope: Muslim Integration and separatism lessons learned from the British Raj

Tulips to Dutch Geert Wilders in NeterlandsSend Tulips to Geert Wilders

Dutch Geert Wilders of the NetherlandsMuslims support SOIEs efforts to eliminate Islamic influences from Europe

Geert Wilders Duch Islamphobe from Holland“Fitna” Rebuttal to Geert Wilders. Refuting the Dutch Nazis

Danish Nazi collaboration creat Danish Nazi collaboration

Prophet Muhammad in the Christian context

THAILAND

Islam’s Thai problem: Occupied Patani Muslim Malay sultanate

MAYANMAR

http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/11/burmese-muslims-a-forgotten-minority/

MUSLIMS IN EUROPE

Supporting the SOIE

ISLAMPHOBES

http://rupeenews.com/2007/12/02/taslima-nasrins-dilemma-the-polemic-scheme-unravels/

Roharbacher in Dutch Taliban were created by the USA

We welcome all our Dutch friends. Welkomen!

Please also read the following articles and post them on this Dutch site (http://www.nujij.nl) and others. Thanks:
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WHERE ARE THE GOOD DUTCH?
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Muslim and loving Holland

Freedom of Speech Tested on Dutach boards. Rupee News faced Abuse, Ban and Censorship

Dutch Nazi collaboration seeds wilders new Anti-Semitism (Islamophobia)

Dutch provocation. Muslim Blowback!

Dutch Nazi Diamonds. A girls worst friend

  • Danish Rose to Dutch Wilders: Move simplistic not very well done
  • Muslim response to Fitna
  • Geert Wilders: Muslims support 10 point plan to stop Islamaization of Europe.
  • Europe: Muslim integration and separatism. Lessons learned form the British Raj
  • Muslim reponse to Geert Wilders.
  • Fitna here and the multiple response on this site
  • Geert Wilders anti-Quran film. Silence will be the best response
  • Dutch and Geert Wilders should ban these holy books too
  • Europe: Muslim Integration and separatism lessons learned from the British Raj
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    Shehzad doesn’t belong to the human race

    In Islam on May 6, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    The rapid arrest, prosecution, and detention of Mr. Faisal Shehzad and the way it was handled makes us all proud of America and its judicial system. The FBI did the right thing in reading Mr. Faisal Shehzad his legal rights. Mr. Shehzad is no different than Timothy McVeigh or Jeffery Dahmer. American society knows well how to deal with humans and with animals.

    The FBI did not resort to torture, yet it accomplished its goals–of preventing damage to life and property of Americans, and preventing the escape of “person” who has truly lost his right to call himself human.

    Mr. Shehzad should have known that there is no discrimination, or war that justifies the killing of innocent human beings in Times Square. There is no excuse for parking a car laden with murder in the heart of New York. There is no calamity great enough to try to justify the plan to kill the hard working and the innocent in the commercial hub of America. No matter how bad the grevience, there is nothing that can ever justify anyone to take the law in his own hands.

    Murder is murder.

    There is no excuse for murder.

    The Bible says “Thou shalt not kill”. The Quran says “the murder of one human being is like the murder of all humanity”. No religion on this planet allows a human being to target bombs and shrapnels at passersby. commuters, shopkeepers, strollers, women, children and simply people going about their business.

    These people have not harmed anyone.

    Mr. Shehzad you are not one of us–we are all human beings first–you have fallen below that category. We are all Americans, you sir do not qualify either as a human being, or an American. And for the love of God, you certainly do not qualify as a Muslim.

    Don’t even try that—you are not my brother–and we want nothing to do with your credo. You have brought shame to your family, to your country of birth and to America–which was hospitable and generous to you.

    While critics Wednesday questioned the government’s decision to inform the Times Square car bomb suspect of his constitutional right to remain silent, FBI officials said that it was the proper way to ensure that criminal charges against him would not be undermined.

    Faisal Shahzad was arrested late Monday night and soon began talking to FBI investigators. At some point hours later, he was notified of his Miranda rights, including his right to remain silent and his right to an attorney. He kept cooperating.

    Some Republicans have suggested that Shahzad, an American citizen, should not have been treated as a traditional criminal suspect, but instead questioned for an indefinite period as an “enemy combatant.” Moreover, some legal experts say that agents weren’t required to inform Shahzad of his rights at all if they determined that securing intelligence about potential terrorism plots was more important than being able to use his self-incriminating statements in court.

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    The debate has highlighted a fundamental structural issue in America’s anti-terrorism framework: There is no other way to prosecute a citizen arrested here for terror-related offenses than through the criminal system. A law passed by Congress in 2006 bars trials for citizens by a military commission, which left federal charges as the only option. That means investigators were looking to build as strong a case against Shahzad as possible.

    FBI agents were able to question Shahzad for hours before informing him of his rights because of something known as the “public safety exception” to the Supreme Court-mandated Miranda rule, which allows agents to postpone the warning when there is a clear and present danger to the public and they believe the suspect has information that can end the emergency. In that time, the Justice Department said, Shahzad provided important information.

    A senior FBI official said Wednesday that the agents talked to Shahzad for about three or four hours under the exception beginning late Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday. They then decided to read him his Miranda rights. At that point, the officials said, Shahzad continued to talk despite the warning.

    The source, who asked not to be identified because the case is still active, added, “You have to make a decision on a case-by-case basis. Have you accomplished the public safety component? And you also have to make determinations on whether he’s talking or not talking. So there is no hard-and-fast rule. But it has to be reasonable. You can’t utilize it indefinitely.”

    Still, investigators were not compelled to read Shahzad his rights.

    “Miranda is not a constitutional requirement, like giving someone a lawyer,” said Paul Cassell, a University of Utah law professor and former federal judge. “People who grew up watching cop shows on TV think it is more than that, but it’s not.”

    The Supreme Court held in 2004 that law enforcement officers are not constitutionally required to issue Miranda warnings. The risk, however, is that incriminating statements, such as a confession, are not later admissible, potentially weakening the government’s case.

    Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said Wednesday that investigators “got lucky” that Shahzad kept talking and that he should have been treated as an enemy combatant.

    An aide to Cornyn said that the government should have taken the time to extract every useful bit of information about Shahzad’s time training in a Waziristan, Pakistan, terror camp before risking the chance that he would go silent after being informed of his rights.

    But not all conservatives felt the same way. Appearing on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday morning, commentator Glenn Beck defended the FBI’s actions. “We don’t shred the Constitution when it’s popular,” Beck said.

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday he wants to modify federal law to allow the government to hold a terrorism suspect and interrogate him for an extended time before a decision is made about federal prosecution. “Even if you’re an American citizen helping the enemy, you should be viewed as a potential military threat, not some guy who tried to commit a crime in Times Square,” Graham said.

    Ron Kuby, a New York criminal defense attorney who has handled terrorism cases, said it really did not matter whether the FBI read Shahzad his rights, because there appeared to be enough evidence already to convict him, most likely in a guilty plea. He pointed to the keys left in the SUV, his purchase of the SUV and his hurried attempted flight out of JFK.

    The FBI is not worried that it cannot use any statements they are getting from him, because “he’s burned already,” Kuby said. joliphant@latimes.com, david.savage@latimes.com. James Oliphant and David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau,
    May 5, 2010 | 5:09 p.m. Reporting from Washington

    Muslims, and Muslims Americans condemn this act of violence not because someone demands it, but because we are repulsed by this wanton act of a person who happens to be a Muslim and happens to be or Pakistani origin. Like Jeffery Dahmer or Timothy McVeigh we dislike him, and his actions.

    Neither fellow Americans, nor Muslims, nor Pakistanis, nor Pakistani-Americans should be saddled with collective guilt about the insane actions of a man who clearly had pathological problems and a mind that was demented and insane.

    Justice will prevail, and Mr. Shehzad will be punished according the laws of my land—he should be given exemplary punishment and asking for the capital punishment for him is the right thing to do.

    As proud Americans, we are happy, that the timely actions of the Law Enforcement agencies prevented a calamity in Times Square–one of my favorite spots in New York. May it continue to the vivacious and lively center of energy that it is.

    Inshallah it will remain the center of commerce, currency and enlightment.

    60% of Protestant Pastors agree with Graham’s bigotry

    In Islam on April 28, 2010 at 7:40 pm

    Last week, the Pentagon dumped Franklin Graham from a May 6 National Day of Prayer event for insulting Muslims. Graham has called Islam a dangerous and evil religion.

    Many of Graham’s fellow preachers agree with him.

    That’s according to a new poll from Nashville-based LifeWay Research. The poll, conducted by Zogby, surveyed 1,000 Protestant ministers in early March. They were read a negative statement from Graham about Islam, followed by a statement from former President George W. Bush saying Islam is a religion of peace and charity.

    Forty-seven percent agreed with Graham. Twelve percent agreed with both. About a quarter of pastors agreed with Bush alone.

    “This means a majority of Protestant pastors chose statements that agree with Franklin Graham’s statement,” said Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research.

    Stetzer said Protestant ministers see Islam as a
    rival faith to Christianity. The two faiths compete for believers. Both claim to offer the only way
    to heaven. That may explain why Protestant ministers have a negative view of Islam.

    “This should not surprise us — Protestant Christianity is, in a sense, a competing faith, and that comes through in the survey,” Stetzer said.
    Coexisting in peace

    Most ministers also said they don’t believe that Muslims and Christians pray to the same God. But about 60 percent of pastors said Christians and Muslims should peacefully coexist in the United States.

    “The fact is Protestant pastors tend to hold a negative view of Islam, but they also believe they should seek to coexist,” Stetzer said.

    On Thursday, the Pentagon rescinded Graham’s invitation. Army spokes man Col. Tom Collins said Graham’s remarks were “not appropriate.”

    “We’re an all-inclusive military,” Collins said. “We honor all faiths. … Our message to our service and civilian work force is about the need for diversity and appreciation of all faiths.”

    Graham is honorary chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force. The Christian nonprofit, led by Shirley Dobson, organizes Day of Prayer events around the country.

    The group has decided to pull out of the Pentagon event.