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 In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEFS - 6/9/2002

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HEADLINES:

* HADITH OF THE DAY: BE DUTIFUL TO YOUR MOTHER
* CNN HOST'S 'WAR ON ISLAMISTS' SPARKS THORNY RELIGIOUS DEBATE
* U.S. REPRESENTATIVES CREATE KASHMIR FORUM
* RELIGIOUS GROUPS RAISING MONEY FOR HABITAT PROJECT (Ledger-Enquirer)
* AMERICAN MUSLIM WOMEN: LIFE POST 9/11
* LETTERS: ISRAELIS TO BLAME (Pioneer Press)
* CONFESSIONS OF A BULLDOZER DRIVER (7 Days)
* LETTERS: TRAINING MUSLIMS AS CHAPLAINS (Washington Post)
* NOT WHAT THE PROPHET WOULD WANT (Washington Post)
* THE MOST STUPID RELIGION IS ISLAM (Lethbridge Herald)

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HADITH OF THE DAY: BE DUTIFUL TO YOUR MOTHER

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "God has forbidden you to be
undutiful to your mothers, to withhold (what you should give) or demand
(what you do not deserve), or to bury your daughters alive (a pre-Islamic
practice).”

Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 8:6

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CNN HOST'S 'WAR ON ISLAMISTS' SPARKS THORNY RELIGIOUS DEBATE
By Joyce Howard Price, Washington Times, 6/8/02
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020608-85041276.htm">http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020608-85041276.htm>

CNN's Lou Dobbs spent much of this week telling viewers of his show,
"Moneyline," that the war on terror should be renamed the "war on Islamists…"

"We are fighting a war against extreme, radical Muslims, who are trying to
destroy us, our society, our economy, our way of life. They're called
Islamists not Muslims or Islamics, Islamists. They are the enemy," Mr.
Dobbs said on his show Wednesday night.

Not surprisingly, Muslim groups were not pleased by his comments. But an
aide to Mr. Dobbs said his statements generated more than a thousand calls
from viewers, most of them favorable.

CNN issued a statement late yesterday that defended Mr. Dobbs' activities
and his use of the term, but said the views "do not represent the opinion
of the network…"

Ibrahim Hooper, a Muslim and spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, said yesterday that Mr. Dobbs "has taken the definition of
Islamist from bigots and is trying to apply it to the war on terror."

"The bigots of the world say if you are an Islamist, you want to kill all
who are non-Islamist. They define almost every Muslim activist as an
Islamist," Mr. Hooper said…

In a telephone interview, Mr. Dobbs defended his use of the term "Islamist"
to define what he called "radical, fringe elements of Islamicism, not Islam."

He cited several Muslim scholars, including author Salman Rushdie, who he
said agree with his definition of Islamist…

URL: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/moneyline/

NOTE: The use of “Islamist” as a derogatory term is being promoted by
Muslim-bashers like Daniel Pipes. SEE: Who is Daniel Pipes?
<a href="http://www.cair-net.org/misc/people/daniel_pipes.html">http://www.cair-net.org/misc/people/daniel_pipes.html>

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U.S. REPRESENTATIVES CREATE KASHMIR FORUM
Reps. Pitts, Brady, and Bonior to seek avenues for peace
<a href="http://www.house.gov/pitts/kashmir.htm">http://www.house.gov/pitts/kashmir.htm>

Washington - Three Members of Congress announced the formation of a
congressional Kashmir Forum to educate their colleagues about the troubled
territory and seek avenues for peace.Kashmir is a disputed territory
claimed by both India and Pakistan.The two nuclear powers are currently in
a tense face-off which many fear could lead to open war.The Kashmir Forum
will not advocate any one side of the dispute, but seek to understand the
complexity of this issue and its effect on the people of Kashmir and the world…

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RELIGIOUS GROUPS RAISING MONEY FOR HABITAT PROJECT
BY ALLISON KENNEDY, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, 6/8/02
<a href="http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/living/3423442.htm">http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/living/3423442.htm>

After Sept. 11, when tensions worldwide among religious groups were high --
especially anger toward Muslims -- various members of three faith groups
began meeting in Columbus.

The goal was simply to become more knowledgeable about one another's faith.
The group continues to meet and includes a Jewish rabbi, an Episcopal
priest and a couple of Islamic representatives, including a cleric.

Now, the three faith communities are planning to build a Habitat for
Humanity house together in the fall, and will kick off their effort with an
international dinner Sunday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church…

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AMERICAN MUSLIM WOMEN: LIFE POST 9/11
A panel discussion at Arlington County Public Library, June 26, 7-9:30 pm

“American-Muslim Women: Life post 9/11” is the title of a panel discussion
to be held Wednesday, June 26, 7-9:30 p.m., at Arlington Central Library,
1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington. The program, which is free and open to the
public, will focus on hearing the experiences of Muslim women in our
community and the impact of 9/11 on their lives. After panelists speak,
audience members will participate by learning and practicing listening
skills. For details, call 703-228-5984. The program is part of the
“Understanding Islam” series sponsored by the library.

Contact: Pamela Garlick, Arlington Library, <a href="mailto:pgarli@co.arlington.va.us?Subject=Re:%20(ai)%20[Fwd:%20ISLAM-INFONET:%20CNN%20Host's%20'War%20on%20Islamists'%20Sparks%20ReligiousDebate]%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;3D03BAE7.54A7ED1B@speconsult.com
">pgarli@co.arlington.va.us</a>
Rita Jimenez, program facilitator, 202-692-2525

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LETTERS: ISRAELIS TO BLAME
The Pioneer Press, 6/7/02
<a href="http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/editorial/letters/3415700.htm">http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/editorial/letters/3415700.htm>

One of the big lies that Israel uses in its nonstop barrage of slander
against Palestinians is that families teach their children to hate Jews,
when it's their racism, land confiscations, destruction of villages,
agricultural lands and orchards, deprivation of Palestinian water rights,
beatings, torture, illegal arrests, extrajudicial killings and
assassinations, settlements, collective punishments, home demolitions,
curfews, roadblocks, administrative detentions, expulsions, bypass roads
and refugee exclusion  among other things  that teaches hatred to children.

Palestinian children see their parents' humiliation, degradation and
deaths. They don't need parental instructions to learn hatred.

Theft of another's lands and brutalization of its indigenous inhabitants
have a price; what Israelis sow, they now reap. It's time for Israel  with
support from the United States  to end the pretense of innocence and
acknowledge that it has been, and continues to be, the chief catalyst of
hatred in the region.

NICK AND MARY EOLOFF
St. Paul

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FROM THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE IN ISRAEL

CONFESSIONS OF A BULLDOZER DRIVER
Subtitled: Where is The Hague?
7 Days Magazine (Yedioth Ahronoth), 6/4/02
<a href="http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/29399.html">http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/29399.html>

In Jenin, Nisim called himself Duby Al-Kurdi (Kurdish bear cub). I
recommend to everyone that they read the original interview which appeared
under the title, I created for them a Teddy Stadium [2]in the center of the
camp, by Zadoc Yehezakli. The following is a summary of the interview.

At the time of the Israeli invasion of the Palestinian refugee camp in
Jenin, Moshe Nisim was unemployed. He had recently been released from his
position with the municipal government under suspicion of taking bribes.
Nisim doesn't normally do military service. For the last 18 years his army
unit has chosen not to call him to do his annual service. But when he heard
that his friends were being called up to serve in operation Defensive
Shield, he insisted, this time, on being called up.

Nisim's trade in the Army is vehicle electrician, but this time he insisted
on driving the armored bulldozer known as the D-9. Usually you need a long
course to become qualified to operate the D-9, but from the information he
provided, Nisim had only 2 hours of training. He arrived at the site of the
Jenin refugee camp at about the time 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in an
ambush. Nisim mounted his bulldozer from which he flew the flag of his
favourite soccer club and proceeded to bulldoze houses.

When asked by the reporter, What part of your work was difficult? Nisim
responded, Difficult, what difficult, you must be joking. I was always
begging the officers to give me another house to destroy. And believe me we
destroyed too few. For 3 days I just erased and erased. I erased every
house they (Palestinians) were shooting from and others in the
neighbourhood. The officers warned them to leave before I entered, but I
didn't give anyone a chance to escape. I would come and give a big hit, the
hardest I could, so that the house would fall immediately. Some Israelis
were telling stories that they restrained themselves, but these are only
stories. There were many people in the houses when we began to destroy
them. I didn't see people amid the ruins, but if there were any, I wouldn't
care. I am sure that people died in these houses, but it was very difficult
to see. There was a lot of dust and we worked mainly at night.

I got great pleasure out of every house I took down. I know they
(Palestinians) don t care if they live or die but losing their home really
hurts them. If I have any regret, it is because we didn’t destroy the
entire camp.

Nisim continues, I derived great satisfaction from my role. I enjoyed
myself. I couldn’t stop. I wanted to work all the time. I made the officer
in charge crazy.

After the fighting was over, we were ordered to remove the D-9 because the
army didn’t t want reporters and photographers to see them working. I
fought with the army because I was getting great satisfaction from my work
and wanted to stay. It was like putting the 18 years I didn’t serve in the
army into 3 days. The soldiers came to me and said Kurdi, you’re OK you’re OK!

When Nisim was asked by the reporter, How were you able to serve 3 days and
3 nights without sleep?, he responded, I didn't feel tired at all. I drank
whisky all the time. Everyone else packed clothes, but I packed whisky and
snacks. Jenin made me strong. Jenin made me forget all my troubles.

[1] Reference to the International Court of Justice based in The Hague,
Holland

[2] Reference to the home playing field of the Betr soccer club.

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LETTERS: TRAINING MUSLIMS AS CHAPLAINS
Washington Post, 6/8/02

A May 25 Religion News Service article erroneously stated that "only one
recognized program certifies Muslim chaplains," the Hartford Seminary
Islamic Chaplaincy Program ["Filling a Hole in Campus Communities," Metro].

The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS) in Leesburg
offers both a master of arts degree program in Islamic studies and a master
of religious practice degree program. This is a professional 90-credit-hour
degree program that takes three years of full-time studies to complete,
designed specifically to train chaplains and imams for the U.S. military,
federal and state prisons, universities, hospitals, mosques and Islamic
centers. It is sanctioned by the Armed Forces Chaplains Board of the U.S.
Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the federal
Bureau of Prisons. Out of 14 Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military, nine
are GSISS alumni.

About six months ago Muslim university chaplains formed the National Muslim
Chaplains in Higher Education Council, which will set standards to ensure
that Muslim chaplains at universities are adequately trained.

-- Ahmed Alwani

The writer is executive dean and registrar of the Graduate School of
Islamic and Social Sciences.

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NOT WHAT THE PROPHET WOULD WANT
By Sohail H. Hashmi, Washington Post, 6/9/02
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15818-2002Jun8.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15818-2002Jun8.html>
Sohail Hashmi teaches international relations at Mount Holyoke College in
Massachusetts.

Suicide bombings challenge two fundamental principles of Islamic ethics:
the prohibitions against suicide and the deliberate killing of
noncombatants. Suicide for any reason has been strongly condemned
throughout Islamic history and its practice is extremely rare in Islamic
societies. In the context of war, however, the line between suicide and
combat is often extremely fine and easily crossed. Just as some Americans
still commemorate the "suicidal" military exploits of the defenders of the
Alamo or Gen. George Pickett's division at Gettysburg, so Muslims honor
many a doomed struggle, most famously perhaps the challenge of the
prophet's grandson Husayn to the Umayyad caliph. Husayn's stand against all
odds at Karbala in 680 has made him the "prince of martyrs" for both
Shiites and Sunnis.

Yet the prophet Muhammad, the principal exemplar of Islamic ethics
(including military ethics), clearly sought to draw a line separating
martyrdom in battle from suicide…

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THE MOST STUPID RELIGION IS ISLAM,
SAID BEST-SELLING FRENCH NOVELIST MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ...
By Leona Flim, Lethbridge Herald (Canada), 6/9/02
<a href="http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/channels/medicinehatnews/lethbridgeherald/index.htm">http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/channels/medicinehatnews/lethbridgeherald/index.htm>

The most stupid religion is Islam, said best-selling French novelist Michel
Houellebecq. In his latest novel, Plateforme, he has the narrator say:
"Each time that I hear that a Palestinian terrorist, or a Palestinian
child, or a pregnant Palestinian woman has been shot in the Gaza Strip, I
shiver with enthusiasm at the thought that there is one less Muslim."

Houellebecq is a cynical poseur who would say anything to gain attention,
but the problem is many Europeans give him the attention he craves rather
than shunning him. Yet what are we all being urged to worry about
(especially by American political commentators)? Not about rampant
Islamophobia in Europe, but rather about the alleged upsurge of
anti-Semitism in the continent.

The anti-Semitism scare was unleashed by National Front leader Jean-Marie
Le Pen's surprise success in pushing the Socialist candidate into third
place in the first round of the French presidential elections in April. But
Le Pen is not a new Hitler; he is just an opportunistic political thug
whose dismissive remarks about the Holocaust ("a detail of history") have
never been forgotten or forgiven by the majority of French voters. In the
run-off round of voting in May, 82 per cent of French voters held their
noses and supported President Jacques Chirac despite his obvious
corruption, rather than vote for the racist rabble-rouser Le Pen. As for
the 18 per cent who did back Le Pen, far more would have been motivated by
their hatred and fear of immigrants' (i.e. Muslims) than of Jews.

So why, then, do the American media in particular continue to harp on the
threat of resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe? Mainly because it serves as a
convenient (if false) explanation for why European governments and peoples
show much greater sympathy for the Palestinian cause than is normal in
American official and media circles.

The reality is that the recent and unprecedented entry of far-right
political parties into governing coalitions in a number of European
countries is directly connected with rising popular resentment of
immigrants and the majority of those immigrants almost everywhere are
Muslims. Look at the recent inclusion of far-right parties in the Danish,
Norwegian and Portuguese governments: not an anti-Semitic word or hint in
any of their campaigns.

Look at the remarkable success of assassinated politician Pim Fortuyn's
party in last month's Dutch election: he won his popularity by calling for
an end to immigration and referring to Islam as "a backward religion," but
he never uttered a single word that suggested he harboured anti-Semitic
views. Even Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a right-wing populist
who freely airs his anti-Muslim views, would never dream of saying anything
anti-Semitic in public…

In all of Europe, however, there is a rapidly rising tide of Islamophobia:
politicians capitalizing on popular dislike of Muslim immigrants and even
outright vilification of Islam. It is no worse than the routine public
vilification of infidels and their satanic creeds by Islamic extremists
that goes unrebuked in many of the world's Muslim countries, but that is no
excuse for Europeans to behave the same way. Why is it happening?...

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