After reading the above article, a logical question would be? How much is it costing the dummy TFG and its Ugandan and Burundi mercenaries in Somalia to Kill a single Shabab resistance fighter? who is paying for these costs? and how long can they sustain these costs? Nur

Neuman I am happy to be your host here at Islam Page. Its not because of your content that I have removed your post, but because of your choice of an Avatar. As a host at Islam Page I expect my non-Muslim Guests or non practicing " Muslims" to be sensitive to our faithful, which are hosting this site, so before we even begin discussing issues, I found your Avatar insensitive to devout Muslims feelings coming to this site for learning about Islam. Your choice of an Avatar may be tolerated at other pages of SOL, and rightfully so as its open for any taste short of pornography, but from the Islam page perspective that I am the host, your declared Avatar is in very poor taste to match the contents of this page, the sooner you switch to a more tolerable Avatar the better. I will be very glad to respond to any issue you raise, and hopefully to your content, after this minor problem is resolved. Peace Nur

Nomads I have posted this thread to start a discussion on Islamic Financial System. In this discussion, I invite you all to either add or ask about the fundamental difference between Islamic Finance and the Free Market Capitalism driven Interest based economy on th brink of collapse as I write this note. inshaAllah, I will contribute my share on the philosophical basis of Islamic Finance and its role in community development as well as its relationship to world peace and human brtherhood in contrast with the usury (interest) based capitalist system leading humanity to the brink of annihilation and moral decadence when greed replaces benevolence and faith. Nur

David Korten: Profit-centered market fundamentalism has become a national religion. By David Korten April 06, 2011 "YES! Magazine" -- We humans are living out an epic morality play. For millennia humanity’s most celebrated spiritual teachers have taught that society works best and we all enjoy our greatest joy and fulfillment when we share, cooperate, and are honest in our dealings with one another. But for the past few decades, this truth has been aggressively challenged by a faith called market fundamentalism—an immoral and counter-factual economic ideology that has assumed the status of a modern state religion. Its believers worship the God of money. Stock exchanges and global banks are their temples. They proclaim that everyone does best when we each seek to maximize our individual financial gain without regard to the consequences for others. In the eyes of a market fundamentalist, to sacrifice profit for some presumed social or environmental good is immoral. The result is a public culture that proclaims greed is a virtue and sharing is a sin. Having established control of the institutions of the economy, media, education, government, and even religion, market fundamentalists initiated a global social experiment to test their theory. The results are now in. The prophets of the older faith traditions were right. Our common future depends on rediscovering their truth and redefining our public culture and governing institutions accordingly. The following are some of the more visible elements of Wall Street’s global campaign of moral perversion. * It uses control of media outlets, advertising, and politicians to shape and spread a global culture of individualistic greed, material self-indulgence, ruthless competition, and moral irresponsibility. * Through the pursuit and celebration of financial gain at any cost, it provides role models for immoral behavior. * It undermines democracy and the legitimacy of government by buying politicians to do its bidding. * It uses student loan programs to get the best and brightest youth mired in debts they can repay only by selling themselves to jobs that serve Wall Street interests. * It buys up and monopolizes control of the world’s land and water resources in anticipation of extracting monopoly profits by charging what the market will bear as scarcity increases. * It uses its financial power and creative accounting skills to manipulate markets and obscure market signals, as when helping governments hide their debt or helping corporate CEOs hide their insider bets against the future of their own companies. * It buys the deeply discounted debt obligations of hapless underwater homeowners and countries on the open market and then demands full value payment from governments or philanthropists who step in to lend a helping hand to the afflicted. * It puts in place global rules requiring that if a government introduces regulations that prevent a foreign corporation from harming or killing people with its toxic products or discharges, the country’s government must compensate the corporation for the profits it estimates it will lose. By capitalism’s perverse moral logic, if a person sells toxic assets by knowingly misrepresenting them as sound, the fault lies not with the misrepresentation of the seller, but rather with the lack of due diligence on the part of the overly trusting borrower. When the assets prove worthless and threaten both the solvency of both the seller and the borrower, the logic says the party responsible for the misrepresentation has a moral obligation to demand redress from the government, “Buy my toxic assets at face value and make me whole so that I return to my trade in toxic assets, or I will be forced to stop lending and crash the economy.” Step back to take in the big picture, and it turns out Wall Street market fundamentalists have proclaimed the seven deadly sins of pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony, and sloth to be virtues. In turn they have proclaimed the seven life-serving virtues of humility, sharing, love, compassion, self-control, moderation, and passion to be sins against the market. There is a widespread sense that with Wall Street’s apparent recovery, the window of opportunity for serious structural change has passed. Such a judgment, however, is premature. Far from closing, the window of opportunity for serious change continues to widen as public awareness of Wall Street corruption grows and true and appropriate moral outrage builds. Most psychologically healthy adults recognize in their heart of hearts the moral perversion of the old economy, but may fear to speak up because so many experts—including even some religious leaders—continuously assure us in so many words that greed is good, even that God wants us to be financially rich and financial wealth is a mark of God’s favor. If all who share a mature moral consciousness find the courage to speak the simple truth that greed is driving us to collective self-destruction and cooperation is essential to our common salvation, we can put the perversion behind us and secure the future of our children. David Korten (livingeconomiesforum.org) is the author of Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World. He is board chair of YES! Magazine and co-chair of the New Economy Working Group. This Agenda for a New Economy blog series is co-sponsored by CSRwire.com and YesMagazine.org based on excerpts from Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd edition. This Agenda for a New Economy blog series is co-sponsored by CSRwire.com and YesMagazine.org based on excerpts from Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd edition. This is the fourteenth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK

How to Waste Money and Lives: The American Prison System By Celia Chazelle March 30, 2011 "MichaelMoore" -- -In 1970, fewer than 200,000 Americans were incarcerated. Today, with some 2.3 million in prison or jail, the US has more people and a higher percentage of its population locked up than any other country. Adding those on probation and parole, over seven million are under penal supervision. Although much of the growth stems from tougher drug laws, increased sentencing for most offenses has played a large role, too. According to criminologist Todd Clear, prison sentences in the US today average almost twice as long as thirty years ago. American prisoners now endure sentences twice those of the English, four times those of the Dutch, and five to ten times those of the French for the same crimes. Our penal system affects more middle-class white Americans than we might realize, yet the impact on them is tiny compared with that on minorities – especially young black men from impoverished urban neighborhoods. Over 90 percent of inmates are male, and while 12 percent of the U.S. population is African-American, over 40 percent of prisoners with sentences longer than one year are black. The toll on black families has been incalculable. From the end of slavery until 1970, most black children lived in a two-parent household; now, the majority are cared for only by women. While not the only factor at play, the numbers of black men behind bars have left an entire cohort of girlfriends, wives, and female relatives to raise their kids alone. In minority urban ghettos, where the effects are concentrated, so many men are incarcerated that children think of this as a normal part of adult male life. Many barely know imprisoned fathers. With most prisoners sent off more than 100 miles from home, family visits can be next to impossible. An added irony is that the prisons support the economies of distant, mainly rural and white locales, while the inner cities bearing the brunt of crime remain impoverished. The costs of our incarceration binge fly in the face of economic sense. From 1982 to 2006, the amount spent on corrections rose by 660 percent. The 2009 bill for jails and prisons was over $60 billion; New Jersey, where I live, spent about $39,000 on each state prisoner in 2009, far more than the cost of tuition at a state college. Some states have cut corrections budgets in response to the economic crisis, but others have increased them, as has the federal government. Our enthusiasm for locking up people raises important moral questions about ourselves. Dostoyevsky was right on the mark when he wrote, “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” But even if we focus only on dollars and cents, we must consider the lost opportunities to invest resources in schools, free clinics, afterschool programs, transportation, and other public goods. Politicians and the media have everyone in a frenzy about deficits. Two obvious ways to balance government budgets are to tax the rich and cut defense spending, but it would certainly help if we reduced the populations behind prison walls. Some states have made small moves in this direction, aided by recent declines in crime. But politicians are generally fearful that if they advocate policies to reduce prison populations, they will appear soft on crime. Despite our harsh prison sentences, however, most released inmates are rearrested within three years. Many get charged with parole violations, but the majority with new crimes. If incarceration is supposed to deter people from illegal behavior, it is not working for ex-prisoners. One reason is that most return to the jobless inner cities they came from, where criminal activity can seem the only way to make a living. Another is how corrections budgets are allocated. I tell students in my medieval history classes that for all our lip service to rehabilitating offenders, it is striking how much less this goal seems reflected in our penal policies than in those of European communities in the early Middle Ages, from about 500 to 1100. This is not to deny that early medieval justice could be brutal. Kings and lords condemned countless enemies to execution and dependants to be branded, blinded, or lose noses or ears. Judicial courts ordered torture and threw offenders into dungeons, where they might stay in chains until they died. It is no wonder the era is often called the Dark Age. Yet offsetting this nasty picture was the widespread practice of addressing an array of offenses, sometimes even murder, not through arbitrary judgment but as if they were disputes requiring negotiations. In these cases, negotiators worried less about formal law than restoring the peace by reconciling offenders with victims, victims’ representatives, and anyone else who felt wronged. Offenders were punished, but a key aim of the punishment was rehabilitation. This might require that they pay reparations, undergo penance, or perform a public ritual of humiliation. Such penalties were designed to repair the broken social bonds and ease the offenders’ reintegration into their communities. By contrast, criminal justice in the twenty-first century US gives rehabilitation short shrift. Many inmates suffer from mental illness and addictions, yet treatment programs for them are underfunded. So, too, is education; yet education may be the single most effective means to rehabilitate offenders. While not every prisoner needs substance abuse treatment, all could benefit from education. Most prisons have education programs, but they reach a fraction of their populations and average only 1 to 3 percent of state corrections budgets. The Center for Prison Outreach and Education that I co-direct provides college programming in New Jersey prisons thanks to federal grants and private benefactors; most notably, we have generous support from Doris Buffett’s Sunshine Lady Foundation. It has taken a lot of work to collect this extra funding. Despite the reluctance of state governments to fund prison education adequately, dollar for dollar, educating inmates is a more effective tool of crime reduction than building new prisons. Ex-prisoners face major barriers upon release; education increases their ability to navigate the hurdles and makes them more employable. One study estimates it lessens recidivism by 29%. Another revealed a 44 percent drop in recidivism for inmates who earned college degrees. Another suggests that $962 spent on academic education for inmates saved $5306 in future criminal justice costs. Along the way, educational programs also reduce violence inside prisons, improving security for both inmates and staff. African-American men who do not finish high school have almost 60 per cent chance of doing time by age forty. For those with high school diplomas, the rate plummets to 18 percent, and for those with some college education the chances are less than 5 percent. If we genuinely want to enhance public safety, help poor minority families, AND have more money to spend on public services for everyone, a truly cost-effective strategy would be to put substantial energy and resources into prisoner education. Celia Chazelle is chair of the History Department at The College of New Jersey, a co-founder and co-director of its Center for Prison Outreach and Education, and also co-editor of a forthcoming book, Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice. © 2011 MichaelMoore.com

Walaalkiis This old thread may help answer some of your questions Nur

"Those of us who are secular Muslims" Prometheus a Muslim? A Secular Muslim? even a computer software can mix up between its many online identities? Nur

The Pentagon’s Pro-War Sock Puppets By Anthony Gregory March 24, 2011 "Independent Institute" March 22, 2011 - -- In the next years, if you find someone online defending the warfare state, it just might be a government propagandist. The web persona might be a complete fake, even the product of a computer program concocted by the US military “to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda,” reports the Guardian. It has become fashionable since 2001 or so to call the situation in America”Orwellian,” but before long, we will need another term, one that refers specifically to post-9/11 America and can be used to describe other phenomena of a similarly creepy and dystopian nature. Even Orwell could not predict what the U.S. has become—the military spies on the American people, federal officials irradiate and molest airline passengers en masse, the state borrows and inflates and spends to undo a crisis caused by borrowing, inflating and spending, and, by the way, we have always been at war with Libya. Yet there is something especially unsettling about the prospect of government infiltrators in civil society. They have long existed, but the post-9/11 drive to put them in positions of trust—package carriers, cable installers and telephone repairmen—whereby they would have access to Americans’ homes, seemed a bit too Stasi-like even for the American people, some of whose outrage apparently inspired Bush to cancel that program. But now we have what we could call Operation Sock Puppet—named after the common label given to a false online persona created for the purpose of weighing in on one side of the debate and to tip the scales of discourse—whereby the government plans to infiltrate social media and whoop it up for war. The bright side? Their typical propaganda apparatuses are not sufficiently working, perhaps. Even with the corporate media, big business, big labor, both political parties, the public school system, higher education, the press corps and their tentacles on the grip of most organs of the conservative movement and many of the left-liberal ones, the War Party must resort to ever more desperate attempts to shore up support for its wars. That’s a positive spin on the situation. We could alternatively argue that the wars—such as the new one in Libya—barely register on the minds of most Americans, and neither will this cynical ploy by the empire to solidify public support. If Obama tried to bring back TIPS, would it succeed, after nearly a decade of post-9/11 desensitization to government lies, torture, spying, jailing without trial and killing? Either way, we know the state cannot thrive without public support, or at least public acquiescence. Its sock puppet program only reminds us how much it distrusts, resents and even fears its subjects. We might lament how little Americans seem to strike back against these obscene yet everyday invasions. But at least we see how vulnerable the establishment is, which gives us some hope.

New Nomads e-Nuri is pleased to re-run old timeless posts that might interest you since e-Nuri and company can't find the adequate time to compose and post new creative Islamic Dawa Materials these turbulent days. Nur

Nomads Almost eight years has elapsed since I have posted this thread. I can't overstate the power of duaa in my life and my family. I have just emerged from a mind boggling test in life, and without duaa, I doubt that I would have emerged from it with a sane mind, but Alhamdulillah, the Dhiker of Allah and a sincere duaa have done the trick, when I ran out of tricks. Try Duaa, try it everyday, try it for every occasion, and inshAllah, (if you meet its conditions), Allah will throw you a rope of hope. Nur

Oba Markaan isla fiirinno Mowlidka, waxaa jira afar nooc oo Munaasabadood: 1. Munaasabaat Diini ah oo Allah loogu Dhawaado oo Allah Jideeyay ( Ciidda Carafa) 2. Munaasabaat Diini ah oo Allah loogu Dhawaado oo Allah UUSAN Jideynin sida ( Mowlidka) 3. Munaasabaat aan Diini Aheyn oo Allah Jideeyay ( Farxadda martigelinta iyo wixii la mid ah) 4. Munaasabaat aan Diini Aheyn, oo Dadka jideysteen. ( Birth Day Party) Wixii Allah loogu dhawaado, waa in Rasuulka SAWS looga daysado, haddusan Rasuulku sameynin ama dadka farin, waa xaaram inaan sameyno. Wixii intaas ka soo hadha, waaa bannaan yihiin, wixii ka soo hadha wixii nalaga xarrimay ( cunnada, cabidda ama ragga iyo haweenka xidhiidhkooda) Rasuulka Allah Wallahu Aclam Nur

Oba Markaan isla fiirinno Mowlidka, waxaa jira afar nooc oo Munaasabadood: 1. Munaasabaat Diini ah oo Allah loogu Dhawaado oo Allah Jideeyay ( Ciidda Carafa) 2. Munaasabaat Diini ah oo Allah loogu Dhawaado oo Allah UUSAN Jideynin sida ( Mowlidka) 3. Munaasabaat aan Diini Aheyn oo Allah Jideeyay ( Farxadda martigelinta iyo wixii la mid ah) 4. Munaasabaat aan Diini Aheyn, oo Dadka jideysteen. ( Birth Day Party) Wixii Allah loogu dhawaado, waa in Rasuulka SAWS looga daysado, haddusan Rasuulku sameynin ama dadka farin, waa xaaram inaan sameyno. Wixii intaas ka soo hadha, waaa bannaan yihiin, wixii ka soo hadha wixii nalaga xarrimay ( cunnada, cabidda ama ragga iyo haweenka xidhiidhkooda) Halkan Ka dhageyso Nasheedka Nabi Ammaanta Sharciga Waafaqsan: http://media.islamway.com/several/197/2.mp3 Wallahu Aclam Nur

........With settlement resolution veto An America that understands that the settlements are the obstacle should have joined in condemning them. By Gideon Levy February 20, 2011 "Haaretz" - - This weekend, a new member enrolled in Likud - and not just in the ruling party, but in its most hawkish wing. Located somewhere between Tzipi Hotovely and Danny Danon, U.S. President Barack Obama bypassed Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan on the right and weakened their position. The first veto cast by the United States during Obama's term, a veto he promised in vain not to use as his predecessors did, was a veto against the chance and promise of change, a veto against hope. This is a veto that is not friendly to Israel; it supports the settlers and the Israeli right, and them alone. The excuses of the American ambassador to the UN won't help, and neither will the words of thanks from the Prime Minister's Office: This is a step that is nothing less than hostile to Israel. America, which Israel depends on more than ever, said yes to settlements. That is the one and only meaning of its decision, and in so doing, it supported the enterprise most damaging to Israel. Moreover, it did so at a time when winds of change are blowing in the Middle East. A promise of change was heard from America, but instead, it continued with its automatic responses and its blind support of Israel's settlement building. This is not an America that will be able to change its standing among the peoples of the region. And Israel, an international pariah, once again found itself supported only by America. This should have disturbed every Israeli. Is that what we are? Alone and condemned? And all for the continuation of that worthless enterprise? Is it really worth the price? To hell with the UN and the whole world is against us? We can't wrap ourselves in this hollow iron dome forever. We must open our eyes and understand that if no country, aside from weakening America, supports this caprice of ours, then something fundamental is wrong here. Israel, which is condemned by the entire world but continues merrily on its way, is a country that is losing its connection to reality. It is also a country that will ultimately find itself left entirely to its fate. That is why America's decision harmed Israel's interests: It continued to blind and stupefy Israel into thinking it can go on this way forever. A friendly U.S., concerned for Israel's fate, should have said no. An America that understands that the settlements are the obstacle should have joined in condemning them. A superpower that wants to make peace, at a time when Arab peoples are rising up against their regimes and against the U.S. and Israel, should have understood that it must change the old, bad rules of the game of blanket support for the ally addicted to its settlements. A friendly America should have mobilized to wean Israel of its addiction Only it can do so, and it should have started, belatedly, at the Security Council on Friday. But promises of change and of real concern for Israel are one thing, and diplomatic behavior is another: another automatic veto, as if nothing has changed. Obama or George W. Bush, there's no difference. When Ambassador Susan Rice said that the draft resolution risked hardening the positions of both sides and could encourage the parties to refrain from negotiations, she misled. She knows that what prevents negotiations and hardens positions is continued building in the settlements. And when the Israeli Foreign Ministry said it is "peculiar that the Security Council should choose to consider one single aspect" of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations "while ignoring the wider scope of events in our region," it, too, misled. Do the Foreign Ministry's spokesmen really believe there is a serious party that would agree to Israel creating irreversible facts on the ground without let or hindrance? And to call this "one single aspect?" Perhaps it is only one, but it is certainly the most destructive. And thus it is the one the world sought to condemn - and rightly so. Moreover, this veto was not cast during ordinary days. These are days of boiling lava in the region. If there were a responsible government in Israel, it would have stopped settlement building long ago - not only to deflect fire from Israel, but to promote an agreement that has never been more vital for it. If the U.S. had been a responsible superpower, it would have voted for the resolution on Friday to rouse Israel from its dangerous sleep. Instead, we got a hostile veto from Washington, shouts of joy from Jerusalem and a party that will end very badly for both.

...With settlement resolution veto An America that understands that the settlements are the obstacle should have joined in condemning them. By Gideon Levy February 20, 2011 "Haaretz" - - This weekend, a new member enrolled in Likud - and not just in the ruling party, but in its most hawkish wing. Located somewhere between Tzipi Hotovely and Danny Danon, U.S. President Barack Obama bypassed Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan on the right and weakened their position. The first veto cast by the United States during Obama's term, a veto he promised in vain not to use as his predecessors did, was a veto against the chance and promise of change, a veto against hope. This is a veto that is not friendly to Israel; it supports the settlers and the Israeli right, and them alone. The excuses of the American ambassador to the UN won't help, and neither will the words of thanks from the Prime Minister's Office: This is a step that is nothing less than hostile to Israel. America, which Israel depends on more than ever, said yes to settlements. That is the one and only meaning of its decision, and in so doing, it supported the enterprise most damaging to Israel. Moreover, it did so at a time when winds of change are blowing in the Middle East. A promise of change was heard from America, but instead, it continued with its automatic responses and its blind support of Israel's settlement building. This is not an America that will be able to change its standing among the peoples of the region. And Israel, an international pariah, once again found itself supported only by America. This should have disturbed every Israeli. Is that what we are? Alone and condemned? And all for the continuation of that worthless enterprise? Is it really worth the price? To hell with the UN and the whole world is against us? We can't wrap ourselves in this hollow iron dome forever. We must open our eyes and understand that if no country, aside from weakening America, supports this caprice of ours, then something fundamental is wrong here. Israel, which is condemned by the entire world but continues merrily on its way, is a country that is losing its connection to reality. It is also a country that will ultimately find itself left entirely to its fate. That is why America's decision harmed Israel's interests: It continued to blind and stupefy Israel into thinking it can go on this way forever. A friendly U.S., concerned for Israel's fate, should have said no. An America that understands that the settlements are the obstacle should have joined in condemning them. A superpower that wants to make peace, at a time when Arab peoples are rising up against their regimes and against the U.S. and Israel, should have understood that it must change the old, bad rules of the game of blanket support for the ally addicted to its settlements. A friendly America should have mobilized to wean Israel of its addiction Only it can do so, and it should have started, belatedly, at the Security Council on Friday. But promises of change and of real concern for Israel are one thing, and diplomatic behavior is another: another automatic veto, as if nothing has changed. Obama or George W. Bush, there's no difference. When Ambassador Susan Rice said that the draft resolution risked hardening the positions of both sides and could encourage the parties to refrain from negotiations, she misled. She knows that what prevents negotiations and hardens positions is continued building in the settlements. And when the Israeli Foreign Ministry said it is "peculiar that the Security Council should choose to consider one single aspect" of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations "while ignoring the wider scope of events in our region," it, too, misled. Do the Foreign Ministry's spokesmen really believe there is a serious party that would agree to Israel creating irreversible facts on the ground without let or hindrance? And to call this "one single aspect?" Perhaps it is only one, but it is certainly the most destructive. And thus it is the one the world sought to condemn - and rightly so. Moreover, this veto was not cast during ordinary days. These are days of boiling lava in the region. If there were a responsible government in Israel, it would have stopped settlement building long ago - not only to deflect fire from Israel, but to promote an agreement that has never been more vital for it. If the U.S. had been a responsible superpower, it would have voted for the resolution on Friday to rouse Israel from its dangerous sleep. Instead, we got a hostile veto from Washington, shouts of joy from Jerusalem and a party that will end very badly for both.

Raymond Davis Had Taliban Links: Pak Media By Press Trust of India February 22, 2011 "NDTV" -- -- -Islamabad: American official Raymond Davis, arrested for double murder, had "close links" with Taliban and was "instrumental" in recruiting youths for it, the Pakistani media claimed today, close on the heels of reports in the US that he was a CIA agent tracking movements of terror groups like the LeT. The "close ties" of 37-year-old Davis, arrested in Lahore on January 27 for killing two men he claimed were trying to rob him, with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan came out during investigations, 'The Express Tribune' reported quoting an unnamed senior official of Punjab Police. "Davis was instrumental in recruiting young people from Punjab for the Taliban to fuel the bloody insurgency (in Pakistan)," the official said. The report came a day after The New York Times, citing US government officials, said that Davis "was part of a covert, CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country." Among the groups that Davis was keeping an eye on was the banned Lashker-e-Taiba, which carried out the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the New York Times said. The Express Tribune quoting unnamed sources said that call records retrieved from mobile phones found on Davis had allegedly established his links with 33 Pakistanis, including 27 militants from the banned Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The report claimed Davis was "said to be working on a plan to give credence to the American notion that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not safe." "For this purpose, he was setting up a group of the Taliban which would do his bidding," it said. Davis' job was to trace the links of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in different parts of Pakistan but instead investigators found that he had developed "close links" with the Taliban, the report said quoting a source. Investigators had reportedly recovered 158 items from Davis, including a 9mm Glock pistol, 75 bullets, a GPS device, an infrared torch, a wireless set, two mobile phones, a digital camera, a survival kit, five ATM cards and Pakistani and US currency. The camera allegedly had photographs of Pakistani defence installations. Intelligence officials claimed these items proved that Davis was involved in "activities detrimental to Pakistan's national interests."

Davis Case Has Thrown Overboard America’s Rules On Terrorism By Asif Haroon Raja February 22, 2011 - "Asian Tribune" -- As per Paul Craig Robert, hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed. While it enjoys torturing other peoples for American sins, it objects to human rights abuses of countries it despises such as Burma, Pakistan, Iran, Syria. In USA if a person tortures a dog he is sent to jail, but a government functionary indulging in torture against fellow beings is ignored. The US has destroyed two Muslim countries and acutely lacerated the third Muslim country under the plea of curbing terrorism and making the world peaceful but its own track record shows that it is the leading terrorist state. It not only indulges in state terrorism but also foments terrorism through clandestine black operations in other countries. While the US has put the entire Muslim world on the chopping block, it considers its own executioners above law. Hypocrisy and double standards of the US came in full spotlight when one of leading CIA’s agent Raymond Allen Davis, a former green beret working for State Department, was arrested by Lahore police after he shot dead two motorcyclists Faheem and Faizan with his 9mm semi-automatic Glock pistol in broad daylight on 27 January. 47 eye-witnesses recorded their statements saying that they saw Davis continuing to shoot at the two after they had turned to flee. Both were repeatedly hit in the back; hence question of self-defence didn’t arise. Davis stated that he shot them not because they had menaced him with guns but because he believed that they were armed. The speeding back up SUV of US Consulate in Lahore which he summoned for his rescue trampled to death another motorcyclist Ibadur Rehman. Instead of attending to him, the driver who was driving recklessly on the wrong side of the road chose to slip away. Davis has been charge sheeted and his case is in the court while the driver and other occupants of second vehicle have reportedly secretly flown back to USA. Punjab government had written five letters to Consul General Ms Carmella Conroy while Lahore Police had tried hard to gain access to the accused but were denied. Davis case has locked up USA and Pakistan in a diplomatic row. The incident has thrown overboard all rules framed by USA on terrorism and abetment to terrorism after 9/11. The whole Muslim world as well as Muslims residing in USA and eastern countries were hounded, humiliated, persecuted and killed on the plea of terrorism for over nine years. Hearts of American rulers have not softened even after massacring over two million Muslims, inflicting inhuman torture to the detainees in prisons, destroying their homes, hearths and their means of livelihood. Spree of death and destruction is still continuing unabated since the fire of revenge over faked 9/11 is still burning intensely. Ironically rules on terrorism applied on the Muslims are not applicable to USA, western world, Israel and India. State terrorism by USA, Israel and India and their uncanny fondness for secret wars are not covered under punishable acts of terrorism. Drone attacks enjoy immunity and so does Raymond Davis like killers who are behind most terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Reportedly Davis was the chief coordinator and intelligence provider for drone attacks. This is evident from the fact that after the last drone attack in North Waziristan on 23 January, the next one took place on 21 February. Davis arrest had disturbed the whole network and it took CIA one month to reassemble the network under another Davis. America has provided licenses to kill to its soldiers and secret agents and desires Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, the three most affected countries to grant full immunity to all US nationals. Musharraf regime as well as current regime had given their consent on the quiet but now that the ruling regime is in dire straits; and the Army and ISI have adopted principled stand on national security matters, the US is finding it difficult to have its own way and is off colors. Sacked foreign minister Qureshi is another disappointment for the US as well as for Zardari since he defied American and PPP leadership pressure. He stood his ground asserting that he would not give a certificate about Davis immunity since according to foreign office record he was not entitled to it. He fell from the US and Zardari’s grace and lost his seat but enhanced his stature among he people. Davis is a confirmed CIA agent and is on a special mission to harm Pakistan. He had served in Special Forces for ten years after which he opened a security company at Las Vegas Nevada with fake addresses. He was sent to Pakistan as a security contractor under the aegis of Blackwater in 2007 and was attached with US Consulate in Peshawar. During his two years stay he developed contacts in North and South Waziristan and made frequent trips. It was in Waziristan that he got addicted to Naswar (intoxicant) which he still loves to have. He was also in regular contact with Xe Services compound at Chinar road University Town which housed several black colored armored Chevys. Davis was declared persona non-grata twice because of his suspicious activities. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was rocked with maximum terrorist attacks during his stay. After he moved to Lahore Consulate in 2009, Lahore became turbulent. While Davis has confessed his crime, the driver and occupants of back up SUV are runaway proclaimed offenders. Carmella comes under the felony of harboring the accused, refusing to hand them over to police and then facilitating their escape. She is also responsible for the conduct of Davis since he was employed under her. The framers of terrorism laws have themselves got caught up in the jumble of their own laws. Instead of feeling ashamed, Obama downwards are all breathing over the neck of already harassed rulers of Pakistan to immediately free Davis or face the consequences. They are brandishing both stick and carrot and also trying to buy over the family members of the deceased. Senator Kerry was here to mesmerize our leaders by his sweet talk and take along Davis or as a minimum force Pakistan leadership to bend its rules, over look court jurisdiction and raised emotions of the people and hurt sentiments of the aggrieved family members of three victims and grant Davis diplomatic immunity. His abortive mission has made US leaders glum faced. Resignedly they say that the US popularity in Pakistan which had shown some improvement in the aftermath of floods has again slumped. It is intriguing that top US leadership is exerting so much pressure on Pakistan for a low-ranking security contractor and fails to understand that even diplomatic immunity doesn’t become a safety valve for those involved in serious crimes. Had Davis committed this crime in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Balochistan, he would have been killed by the people on the spot. At the same time I may add that had this crime been committed in Islamabad or in any of the smaller provinces and survived the wrath of the on spot crowd, Davis would have flown out by now. The US leaders must be direly missing Gen Musharraf and PCO judges and cursing Shabaz Sharif. Had Musharraf been in command, Davis would have been freed on 28th January. Detained Davis has become a ticking bomb for Pakistan. His safety till completion of his trial which will take a considerable length of time has become an utmost concern for law enforcement agencies in Lahore. There are possibilities he could be swooped away by the US Special Forces already secretly positioned in Pakistan through a sting operation. RAW could play a dirty role in harming him to put Pakistan in another tight corner. Fearful of Davis divulging CIA’s clandestine operations in Pakistan, the CIA could get him bumped off. Anti-American militant groups based in Pakistan may attempt to kill him in case they feel that he is being freed without a trial. Davis himself is becoming nervy and has reportedly refused to have his meals since he desires Mexican food and removal of camera which enables the police to keep a watch on him. Once he finds that the US government has been unable to rescue him he may attempt to harm himself. In each case the blame would come on Pakistan government. The US has categorically stated that it will hold Pakistan fully responsible for his safety. If he is released under pressure of USA, it could trigger serious law and order situation and possibly Tunis, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen like uprising. Heavens have not fallen after the postponement of tripartite meeting in Washington. Pakistan will not collapse if Zardari’s visit to Washington is postponed, or the US blocks aid or Obama cancels his visit to Pakistan. Pakistan has gone through much worst testing times and is even now suffering despite American aid. What is important to understand by our leaders is that under the changed geo political environment in Afghanistan; the US needs Pakistan as much as Pakistan needs American financial support. The US has assured that Davis affair irrespective of its strong reservations will not strain Pak-US relations. Unfinished war on terror has compulsively made the US glued to Pakistan irrespective of its strong disliking. Hence, we should not make any compromises and let the law run its full course. At the same time, Pakistan should get rid of about 1100 Davis like noxious CIA agents roaming freely at the earliest.

"CIA Spy" Davis Was Giving Nuclear Bomb Material to Al-Qaeda, says Report By ANI London, Feb 20 ( ANI)-- Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report. Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned "grave" as it appears that open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United States, The European Union Times reports. The SVR warned in its report that the apprehension of 36-year-old Davis, who shot dead two Pakistani men in Lahore last month, had fuelled this crisis. According to the report, the combat skills exhibited by Davis, along with documentation taken from him after his arrest, prove that he is a member of US' TF373 black operations unit currently operating in the Afghan War Theatre and Pakistan's tribal areas, the paper said. While the US insists that Davis is one of their diplomats, and the two men he killed were robbers, Pakistan says that the duo were ISI agents sent to follow him after it was discovered that he had been making contact with al Qaeda, after his cell phone was tracked to the Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the paper said. The most ominous point in this SVR report is "Pakistan's ISI stating that top-secret CIA documents found in Davis's possession point to his, and/or TF373, providing to al Qaeda terrorists "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents", which they claim are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war in order to re-establish the West's hegemony over a Global economy that is warned is just months away from collapse," the paper added. (ANI)

Yaa Tahay Its about lack of adequate food, shelter. Its about unbearable injustice, tyranny and oppression. The dilemma some Islamic visionaries face today is how to react to the fast breaking events in the Arab World, should they side with the people who are on the streets demanding Justice and bread as well as Democracy? or should they be neutral by not participating in these demonstrations? ( Remember if the demonstrators become stuuupid enough to demand Islam, instead of Democracy, they will be classified with the boys in the caves and they will be played one on the other by the architects of Tyranny, so give them a brake, demonstrating for bread is safer these days than for demanding Islam as the system of governance). Today, the public is so impoverished that the real competition to their hearts and minds is food, shelter and some dignity as they have been subjected to years of humiliation and oppression, they are now interested more in food than in Islam. So what would be your priority at this historical intersection if you were a man with a mission , Yaa Tahay? Nur

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LazieG Yaa Ghaaliyah; I am not yet done with the main topic, your patience is appreciated, meanwhile, I will respond to your post soon inshAllah, thank you for taking the time to participate, it looks like your are the only one around here who is not afraid from the Power of AIPAC! can't you see how quiet this audience is? I will respond to interesting points that you have raised: 1. Validity of Mubaraks and Al Ahram's report on the reason of Egypt's woes being fast population growth. 2. Mubarak's competence as A President 3. Reason for high unemployment in Egypt ( political; Rigged Votes, The Emergency Rule for the past 30 years, and Economic; Crony System, Privatization of state companies etc, Agricultural Aid and its devastating effect on Egyptian Economy) 4. Corruption and the structure that supported it ( beginning with Washington and ending with clerks in Egypt) 5. The Expert Opinion of Mubarak's stolen $70 Billion and where it is currently 6. and Finally. The power of the Jewish Lobby in The USA Nur

Follow up to date events of the People's Revolution in Egypt Here Nur

In a hospital ward for accident patients, a fellow patient observed that his next bed neighbor receiving many guests who seem as the arrive very worried for the patient as his injuries seem over 90% of his body, internal as external organs being affected. But, as they leave, they laugh all the way to the door of the Hospital, which made the next bed patient very curious as to what he tells them that makes them change their mood of sympathy to loud laughter. So when the visitor traffic, subsided, he asked: "Excuse me, why are your visitors laughing hysterically as they leave" The patient tried to explain: " You see, I was dreaming one night, and in the dream I was in a bus on a long trip in a highway. I saw a sign on the highway that reads " Hell 250 Km, Heaven 150 Km." so, I kept talking with my friends in the bus as the discussion was very interesting. Suddenly it dawned on me that we have just passed Heaven's stop was and that Hell was the next destination. I walked to the driver and told him that I was supposed to get off at the Heaven stop, the driver who was looking like a devil told me that all the remaining passengers are going to Hell with him, since all Heaven bound passengers have gotten off the bus a while back. At that moment, I jumped from the bus, and I found myself at the Hospital Emergency room. I was sleeping on the balcony of my apartment and I just fell to the street below" Nur

Nomads Like most of you, I have been closely following the people's revolution in Egypt these past few days and I can't overstate how reassured I am regarding the "Modus Operandi" of foreign players who have an important stake in the current events, Namely US and Israel, like they have always supported a local loser, like the Apartheid system in South Africa. You see Paesano, through its 3000 years of existence as one of the greatest powers in the world and the land of superlatives, Egypt was ruled by some twenty five Dynasties as far back as 3100 BC up until 656 BC. The lasting legacy of Egypt throughout these epochs has been its architectural masterpiece and splendor and its material civilization. Today, some 5000 years later, Egypt as a modern nation state is still here, but it ranks 98 in Transparency International Ranking which means that its a very corrupt country and at the same time an staunch friend of US and Israel ( Three of the 4 most corrupt countries in the world have been invaded by the US, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq). Now, how can one resolve the fact that US claims that it stands for civilized principles ( on the Walls of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC): "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state and on a general plan." So what is the relationship of corruption and civilizations? Paesano, I can assure you that the Project Managers ( Or Slaves) who built the Pyramids have not taken a kick back , if they did, you wouldn't have seen these immaculate edifices known for their time tested resilience and resistance to weathering. What I am trying to say is that civilization ( at least the material one), can not stand on top of a pile of stolen money, like the case of President Mubarak's looted $70 Billion in Western banks, ( Has anyone audited our Somali Warlords cum Politicians and Sheikh Sharif for graft i.e. Using his phony office to give contracts to his relatives and friends) which is what earned Somalia's TFG's consecuthief governments the title of the most corrupt government in the world. eNuri would like to give the Somali TFG government another title that goes well with the first one: the Title of the Least Civilized Nation On Earth. A story I was told goes like this: "In 1989-90, A Japanese Company was laying Telephone cables in Mogadishu, but their job took too long to finish. So a Japanese Project manager noticed that the copper cables they lay in the day were being stolen at night. So, he complained to a Somali official " Excuse me sir, the Japanese calmly asked; do you have enemies as a nation?, because last night I saw men who were stealing the copper cables that we were laying for your own country's development and as Aid from the Government of Japan". The Somali Official jokingly told the Japanese Project Manager, "calm down pal, we Somalis, are our own enemies" Caro Paesano, the term "Civilization" refers to the level of know-How aka Technology, Politics, Science and Arts as well as culture and the advancements in transportation, housing and education, all of which require some degree of decency and transparency, which we Somalis are not well known for ( Major part that is) In our international corrupt system, those who rise to the top are very likely to be the most corrupt, which serves the interests of our adversaries, mainly Ethiopia (2 points shy of the top 60 Corrupt Countries) and its sponsor, the USA ( 22nd least corrupt) So, Somalia, and other client states, like Afghanistan and Iraq and Egypt, have one thing in common: US Patronage. How does this Patronage work? Let us say, that a political action group like the AIPAC ( American Israeli Political Action Council) has an mission to always safeguard the interest of Israel ( even if it conflicts with the US interests). The AIPAC will lobby congress and the White House to formulate a policy in the Middle East that serves the best interest of Israel. The US formulates the policy and if this policy is like cash, it can be redeemed at local groceries ( sorry I meant Governments) in the rough neighborhood Israel finds itself, you can call it hush money, paid to presidents who are willing to work as US Governors in their countries. After many years as a patron, the President of the client state, amasses a lot of wealth which he usually can't find projects big enough in his own country to invest in, so the money ends up in Swiss banks, or in the case of the Mubarak family in the UK banks. Whats is interesting is that corruption is unsustainable business, after thirty years in power, in which Mubarak was receiving $ 3 Billion yearly from the US, Egypt's external debt has grown probably equal to the stolen US aid money, which explains how Western Aid Money is like a rubber ball, it just bounces back to their own banks after their own appointed tyrants collect their commissions and a huge National Debt is left for the poor nation to bear. And then, to inflame the wound, the western Media refers to these despotic nations of their own creation as Banana Republics, or in our case in Somalia as a "Failed Nation", like the world is a big classroom and the teacher who teaches you the wrong lessons all year long, examines the Tyrant with a difficult concepts that the Tyrant failed to study, like Human Rights, The Right Not To be Tortured, and so on. On this last Egyptian Episode, what infuriated me about Egypt's Tyrant Hosny Mubarak's latest service for his people is about his plagiarism, that he stole an original eNuri Idea and applied the whole script verbatim without any due credit to my online organization, which was part of an eNuri Anarchist Product Line branded as: Link: Anarchy A La Carte ............ Link: Link: The Lighter Side Of Tyranny! To be continued........................................................................ 2011 eNuri Political Islam Islam Is the Solution

An effective motivational post HM ! MaashaAllah Tabaarkallah! Awoodaha aynu leenahay wexey muuqataa markii aanu leenahay hadaf ( Goal). Mushkiladda weyn oon jeclaan lahaa inuu Sheikha ka hadlo ( Haddusan mar horeba ka hadlin), waa Mushkiladda qaayo la'aanta ah ( Aimlessness) dadkeennu intiisa badani ay ku sugan yihiin. Waxaan is leeyahay, haddaanu ku guuleysanno inaan yeelanno qaayad aynu ku qanacsan nahay, in ay sahlanaan laheyd in awooddeenna aan maalno oon ku bixinno sidii aan u gaadhi lahayen qaayadaas sare. Culimadii hore, qaayadooda wexey ka qaateen, Risaalada Diinta Islaamka in Basharka la gaadhsiiyo, mana ayan aheyn kuwo wax u barta si ay u nooqdaan " Caalim" ama "Mufti" oo qudha, laakin qaayadooda wexey kuu hiigsan jireen Risaalada ( Mission / Purpose) uu nabigeenna Muxammad SCWS uuga tagay umadda in cilmiga la gaadhsiiyo umadda oo dhan oon laga yeelin cilmiga mid dad gaar ah naficigiisu ku eg yahay. Sheikh Mustaffe, Culimada uu ka hadlay, dadaalkooda ku ma ekeyn wax baridda dadka oo Qudha, haseyeeshee, wexey ahaayeen kuwo hammi weyn iska saari jirey marka hore in Diinta la xafido, dabadeedna in la fidiyo diinta Islaamka, hiil iyo hoona iyo wax walboo qaali ahna loo quudho darteeda, wexey u noolaayeen Diinta darteeda, wexeyna jeclaayeen iney u dhintaan ayagoo diintaas xafidaya sidii uu noogaa dardaarmay Suubbanihii SCWS Waxaan mar hore ku soo qoray SOL Islam pages, qoraalkan u yara dhow fikradda aan ka hadlayo, aan filayana iney taakuleyso Shiekh Mustaffe mawduuca uu ka hadlay oo ah Awoodaha aan Dayacnay oo uu Alle na siiyay. Riix Halkan: <a href="http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/5284-Are-You-Fit-For-The-Purpose?highlight=success ">Qaayadeenna Ma U Diyaarsan Nahay? Nur

A Good Answer Follows Below: Are Muslims Terrorists ? Nur