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             I N F O R M A T I O N    &   N E W S    N E T W O R K

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Regarding the movie: EXECUTIVE DECISION
The Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE)
ALBALAGH
        Views and News about Islamic Issues
CAIR: Action Alert #88 - Denver Mosque Violated After Fajr Prayers
Is freedom worth so little to you?
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        Regarding the movie: EXECUTIVE DECISION

From: econip@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU (manzur)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:41:43 -0600 (CST)

>Assalamu Alaikum, Time-Warner has refused to listen to any of the demands by
>Muslims who met them. Our phone calls and letters can help this media empire be

They will continue to refuse to listen and humiliate you as long as you are
going to put yourself in a beggar's position.  Why do you let them humiliate
you?  Why can't you show that you have more power than just some phone call?
Since you are part of Pakistan News Service why can't you put a fraction of
your resources into lobbying pakistani govt to ban all business with Warner.
Lobby all the middle Eastern govts.  Being humiliated by muslim governments
is much better than begging and pleading to these filthy enemies of Islam.
If you can convince some muslim governments to abondone business with Warner
they will be forced to pay respect to you, you wont have to do ruku and
sajda before them.

>responsive to Muslims. Checkout Time-Warner Directory on Web for their local
>address and phone numbers. attached is a word file

These will have minimal impact, I believe.   They only know their pocket
book.  Also please contact Louis Farrakhan and get a statement from him to
boycott warners by all muslims.  I know you do not consider him to be
orthodox muslim, but you never miss a chance to say Jews and Christians are
all Abraham's children just to make yourself more acceptable to the
powerful.  You brothers are so knowledgeable about Quran, where do you find
any reference that allows you to kneel down and plead to the Kuffar?  Is
there any reference in the history of  Prophet(S)?  I believe Allah has
given far more honor to muslims than to put ourself in a position of
pleading to Warner, saying: "please don't show
us muslims in an unfavorable light, we are afraid people in this country
will attack us?"   Look what Imam Khomeini did in Rushdie affair.  He DID
NOT plead to Rushdie and his publishers, he did what an honorable community
leader will do.

Khoda Hafez.


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From: Ishmael Mustapha <ish@gateway.cool.mb.ca>
To: ISNA <isna@gateway.cool.mb.ca>
Subject: ISNA THIS WEEK (fwd)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:20:43 -0600 (CST)


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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:24:59 -0500
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To: info@cool.mb.ca
Subject: ISNA THIS WEEK

The Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE)
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It's time to make your input in developing a program for the 1996 annual
conference in AMSE.  For the first time ever, this year's conference is
planned to be in the same city and at the same time as the ISNA conference.
 That should make it convenient for you to attend.  If you ike to organize
a panel or be on one, thsi is the time to make a proposal to the program
chairman Dr. Ali Selim.  To contact him or for more information, please
contact AMSE at amse@usa.pipeline.com.

If you are not yet an AMSE member or have not renewed your membership, plan
to do so now.  If you are an ISNA member, your membership will be extended
by a half year at no cost.  Regular membership fees are $25/year ($15 for
students).

AMSE membership is open to all Muslim scientists and engineers (or students
in those fields).  Pass the word.  Get to know and work with others
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*** CONTENTS **********************************************
1.      Understanding Prophethood.
2.      Amr bil Maroof
3.      Review: Reader's Digest's Real Agenda  by Khalid Baig
4.      TESTIMONY ON SUDAN BY MURIEL MIRAK   (Forwarded Item)

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Understanding Prophethood.

According to a report in Musnad Ahmed collection of Ahadith, Prophet
Muhammad, Salla-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said:"From Adam to me, Allah
sent a hundred and twenty-four thousand Prophets, of whom three
hundred and fifteen were entrusted with a Book." The question is why
were there so many more Prophets than Books? To reflect on this is to
gain an understanding about the very institution of Prophet-hood. If
the role of a Prophet were simply to deliver the Book, as some
mis-guided people in our time try to argue, there should have been as
many Books as Prophets. But the very fact that there have been many
Prophets without a new Book, firmly establishes the need for the
Prophets as a source of guidance in its own rights.

It had to be so because life emulates life. We need live human beings
to inspire us; to show right from wrong in every day struggles of
life; to confront us and pose questions; to answer questions; to
clarify misconceptions; to hold our hand; to be the model. We
certainly need principles to guide our thoughts and actions. But we
also need real life examples to relate the principles to real life
situations. For most of our living experience involves judgment
calls. Politeness is a desirable moral value. But when does
politeness turn into weakness? Firmness is also a desirable attribute.
But when does it turn into arrogance? How do we balance our duties
towards Allah with those towards other human beings? How do we
balance both with duties towards ourselves? We are constantly faced
with conflicting claims on our resources, energies, and attention.
How do we resolve those conflicts, without doing any injustice? These
are real life questions that require real life answers.

This point is beautifully established in the Opening Chapter (Surah
Fatiha) of Qur'an. It is a short surah, consisting of only seven
verses, and it consists of a prayer for guidance:  O'  Allah! Show us
the Straight Path. Yet two of the seven verses are used to describe
the Straight Path in terms of people.  "The path of those on whom
Thou has bestowed Thy Grace. Not the path of those who earn Thine
wrath nor of those who go astray."  It would have been simpler to just
refer to the Straight path as the Path of the Qur'an. But the longer
description has been used to emphasis the fact that human beings need
a human model to provide complete guidance.

Of course Prophets were sent to provide the needed guidance. It is
also obvious that whatever a Prophet declares is binding on all his
followers.  "To accept a person as a Prophet of God and then to
refuse to accept his commands, is so ridiculous that I would not have
believed any sensible person would ever offer this proposition," says
prominent Hadith scholar Maulana Manzoor Naumani. But this most
irrational of ideas has been promulgated by a segment of Western
educated Muslims. They say, without a sense of irony, that we accept
the Qur'an but not the Hadith.

Anyone who says that he accepts the Qur'an but rejects the hadith
cannot be serious. Or he has not read the Qur'an either. For the
Qur'an says: "And We have sent down unto you the Message so that you
may explain clearly to the people what is sent for them and so that
they may give thought." (Al-Nahal 16:44). It also declares:  "Allah
did confer a great favor on the believers when He sent among them a
Messenger from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the Signs of
Allah, purifying them, and instructing them in Scripture and Wisdom,
while before that they had been in manifest error." (Aale Imran
3:164). So it is the job of the Prophet, Salla-Allahu alayhi wa
sallam, to explain the Qur'an. And it is the job of the believers to
obey him. "He who obeys the Messenger obeys Allah indeed" (Nisa
4:80).  And even more emphatically it says: "So obey Allah and obey
His Messenger."( Al-Taghabun 64:12)  It is to be noted that here the
Qur'an did not say "Obey Allah and His Messenger."  By  using the
command "obey" independently the fact  has been firmly established
that the status of an order given by the Prophet, Salla-Allahu alayhi
wa sallam, is the same as that given by Allah.

Even a casual reader of the Qur'an can notice that it gives commands
without giving many details. For example it refers to salat (ritual
prayers) 67 times.  But it never explains how the salat has to be
performed. The question is not just how a follower of the Qur'an is to
follow that command, but the bigger question is: why the omission in
the first place? Is it an oversight, in which case one cannot
consider it to be the Book of Allah, or is it simply because another
source for those details had been provided? Similarly the Qur'an
approvingly mentions many other practices, like the call to prayer
(adhan) and the Friday prayer, but never gives commands about them.
Again, why? Is there any other explanation possible except for the
obvious one that there is a parallel source of instruction in the
person of the Prophet, Salla-Allahu alayhi wa sallam?

Actually in the form of Hadith, Muslims have an unprecedented branch
of knowledge. Just a list of all the books written on the subject
would take several thousand pages,  says prominent hadith scholar
Habib-ur-Rahman Azami. Other religions also claim to possess revealed
scriptures. But no other religion has an example corresponding to
Hadith. "Hadith is a branch of knowledge whose equivalent is not to
be found in other religions," says Dr. Hamidullah.

For the design-your-own-religion crowd, that may be a problem, But for
the sincere follower, it is a great favor and blessing of Allah. We
have been entrusted with a unique treasure trove of guidance.  An
appreciation of that favor is the first step towards benefitting from
that treaure.

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Amr bil Maroof


It is the most common activity in all social settings. Sometimes it is
explicit: we argue for or against something. At others it is
implicit: we show interest or lack of interest.  More often than we
realize we are engaged in persuading others or are being persuaded by
them about big and small things in life. It is a very powerful force
also.  That is why marketers yearn for word of mouth publicity and
powerful media machines long for becoming the talk of the town.

Concerned with good as it is, Islam gives this tremendous social force
a purpose. It must be used for promoting good, truth and justice and
checking evil and injustice. That is the essence of
amr-bil-maroof-wa-nahi-anil-munkar. And Qur'an declares it as the
defining mission for this ummah: "You are the best community that has
been raised for mankind. You enjoin good and forbid evil and you
believe in Allah." [Aal-e- Imran, 3:110].

At another place Qur'an declares promoting good as an attribute of
believers and promoting evil as an attribute of hypocrites: "The
believers, men and women, are protectors of each other: they enjoin
what is right and forbid what is evil."[Tauba, 9:71] On the other
hand, "The hypocrites, both men and women, proceed one from another.
They enjoin the wrong and forbid the right..."[Tauba, 9:67]

The implications are clear. It is not that a believer will never
commit a mistake or be involved in evil. Only that he will never
insist on it, justify it, or promote it. He may fail to do some
required good. But he will never be a force opposing it. In the
Islamic society sin is a private weakness, not a public cause. It is
for this reason that repentance for a public sin must also be made in
public while we must repent privately for our private sins. A public
sin may have encouraged others to do the same. A public repentance
will counter that.

Still in this life there will always be tendencies to deviate from the
Straight Path. And in the institution of amr-bil-maroof, the
Community of Believers has a built-in self- correcting mechanism.
Consider cruise control in an automobile. Once turned on, it keeps
monitoring the car speed and pulling it towards the set point. It does
not mean absence of tendency to deviate from the desired speed, only
an effective mechanism for monitoring and countering it. What cruise
control does for car speed, amr-bil- maroof does for the direction of
the society.

This mechanism works at two levels. At one level it is the
responsibility of every member of the society. When we see a wrong we
should correct it. A very famous hadith declares it as an issue of
faith.  "Whoever amongst you sees an evil should change it with his
hand. If he is unable to do that then with his tongue. If he is
unable to do that, then with his heart, and that is the weakest level
of Iman." [Muslim] So if a person does not even feel bad about an
evil, he has no faith whatsoever. Similarly we are encouraged to
promote good. One hadith promises that a person who persuades another
one to do some good deed will get the same reward as the person he
persuaded.  At this level the responsibility of every member of the
society is for his or her own sphere of influence: family, friends,
colleagues, neighbors. When taken together these spheres would
encompass the entire society.

At a higher level this is a specialized task. A full time job for a
qualified group to always monitor the direction of the society and
fight deviations at a collective level.  "Let there arise out of you
a group inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and
forbidding what is wrong. They are the ones to attain
success."[Aal-e-Imran, 3:104]  This is the responsibility of the
experts, the scholars, those qualified to lead the entire community.

Can we imagine what the ummah would look like had we followed this one
teaching seriously? For today we seem to be doing exactly the
opposite. There are Muslim women who have been pressured out of
observing hijab by friends and relatives. Men and women have been
enticed into riba transactions. All innovations (bid'at) and false
social practices continue under social pressures. Bribery, backbiting,
corruption, indecency, and dishonesty flourish under social
approval.  It is frightening to see how our real life matches the
description given for the hypocrites. For we are warned that if we
persuade others to commit a wrong we'll add to our burden of sins by
the same amount. It is one thing to commit a wrong out of weakness.
It is totally different to advocate the wrong and willingly multiply
our burden of sins.

At the collective level also, especially in the Muslim communities in
the West, one can see a tendency to avoid raising voice against
prevalent and accepted ills. It is far easier to give a pep talk
about the virtues of Islam at the Friday Khutbah. At other places one
may even hear advocacy of wrong in the name of ijtehad.

Of course for today's secular world amr-bil-maroof is an alien
concept. This world is driven by interests not principles. It
professes belief in some moral values -- like freedom-- to be
interpreted in the light of perceived interests. Thus defence of a
person's obscene attacks on Islam becomes a virtue. Yet it finds
nothing wrong in curbing the freedom of those who may challenge its
ideas, whether in Algeria or Egypt, in Kashmir or Palestine, because
that threatens its interests. No one should be surprised at such
contradictions when interests override relative moral values.

Yet we see a growing attitude in the Muslims in the West under the
influence of this slogan of freedom. It effectively says: "This is my
life, leave me alone." But we must remember that the Islamic society
is the only society with a declared mission of promoting good and
forbidding evil. Its definition of good and evil is not subject to
the whims and desires of every generation or the perceived interests
of a nation-state either. They are permanent concepts as defined in
its unalterable sources: Qur'an and Sunnah. In a world of moral
relativism these permanent values are the hope for the whole mankind.
To keep these alive in the society we need the institution of
amr-bil- maroof.


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Reader's Digest:  Real Agenda   by Khalid Baig

There are apologists and then there are apologists. And then there is
Sai'd Al- Shmawy, former chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Court and
the author of 15 books on Islam. Above all he is the author of an
introduction to Islam in the World's Most Read Magazine. "Islam's
Real Agenda" (Reader's Digest, January 96) deserves special place in
the Hall of Shame that owes its existence to a new breed of liberal
apologists.

New Islam:

According to Al-Shmawy,  "Muslims believe that God, or Allah,
revealed some 1400 years ago a new spiritual faith to a middle class
merchant..." While this language is uncouth, the facts are crooked.
For the Qur'an insists that Islam is not a new religion, it is the
same religion that every Prophet was sent with. Yet we must grant
that Al- Shmawy's religion is certainly new. Consider these gems
about Islam: According to him 90% of shariah is "conventional
jurisprudence arrived at by ordinary men." Obviously that much can be
easily thrown out today to live in a "modern democratic world." Even
the other 10 percent should not pose any problem for most of it were
"temporary injunctions related to particular situations in which the
Prophet [Salla- Allahu alayhi wa sallam] and his followers found
themselves in the seventh century."

What is more even those injunctions have not been understood by
"fanatic" Muslims and their illiterate followers. For example there
is no requirement for hijab in the Qur'an. "In the Prophet's time
many women went about with their breasts uncovered." So the Qur'an
just asked them to pull a cloth across the chest. Similarly Jihad.
"Actually the Koran's call to arms, or jihad ('holy war'), relates to
a specific episode when the Prophet prepared to attack his enemies
from the city of Mecca." Too bad that in the past century the British
had to spawn a new religion (Ahmadis) to abrogate jihad. Al-Shmawy
could have done it so easily without breaking ranks with the 1.5
billion Muslims. Islamic State is the same way. There never was any
such thing as an Islamic State, "no government as we think of it
today." Surprised? Well, "The Prophet never formed a cabinet, put
together a budget, or established a police force." Obviously it makes
no sense to strive to resurrect something now when it never existed.

Tolerance, Tolerance:

Al-Shmawy declares with obvious pride: "My Islam is a religion of
tolerance and brotherhood." He goes to great lengths to show his
brotherhood and tolerance for all the peoples of the world, specially
Jews and Christians. That is wonderful. However there is one
exception. He has no tolerance for young Muslim men who wear beards
and robes; Muslim women who conceal themselves in hijab; "extremists"
who preach a return to true religious values of former times and want
to live under "strict sharia"; and "militants who look back
nostalgically to an ideal Islamic State." He freely uses phrases like
"Islamic militants,"  "Islamic extremists,"  "fanatics," and "thugs"
to describe those outside his universal circle of brotherhood.

His anger at these "fanatics" is justified because they are
threatening his hopes for "peace" with Israel. They are also to be
blamed for all the troubles in his world. When U.S. media, aided by
dedicated Israeli propagandists like Steven Emerson blamed Muslims
for Oklahoma Federal Building bombing, he was "pained deeply to
realize how much of the world now thinks of Islam as a religion of
killers." Talk of blaming the victims. One shudders to think that
this man was the chief justice in Egypt's Supreme Court. A few days
after Oklahoma bombing, even Steven Emerson found himself explaining
his blatant lies presented as expert opinions. After Al-Shmawy's
article he should feel vindicated.

Reader's Digest's holy war against Islam is nothing new (See Impact
February 95). In January 94 it published "All in the Name of Islam"
which reported that Muslims oppress their women and since there are a
billion Muslims in the world "we are talking hypothetically about 500
million Muslim women" who might want to flee their homes to seek
protection in  the West. In January 95 it published "A Holy War Heads
Our Way" to present Islam as a fascist religion. Now Al-Shmawy has
used the same language and the same allegations to demonize the same
people and the same religion. But this time the Digest has found a
Muslim name to stamp all of its anti-Islamic propaganda. This is not
unlike the use of the so-called Palestinian Authority to fight
Israel's war against Palestine. And the results are similar. One
Muslim newsletter in the U.S. praised this article as a "very well
written article that aims at dispelling the negative stereotyping of
Muslims and Islam in the Western media." Sure.  With friends like
these who needs enemies.?

It is sad, but not surprising, that Egypt, the home of Al-Azhar, has
become the source for such deviant scholarship. It is no secret that
it has been the focus of the most intense activities in all spheres
of life to keep it in check by the big powers. The largest U.S.
embassy any where is in Cairo. And the U.S. $3 billion in annual
"aid" used to  cultivate entire cadres of civilian and military
leaders seem to be paying off. It is sad, but not surprising, that
Reader's Digest should find willing accomplices in its propaganda war
against Islam. At a time when interest in Islam is at an all time
high and even Mrs. Clinton is declaring herself to be an eager
student of Islam, it is to be expected that there will be an increase
in the anti-Islamic propaganda campaign. But it only means that those
who want to fight such propaganda must redouble their efforts.

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TESTIMONY ON SUDAN BY MURIEL MIRAK   (Forwarded Item)

Schiller Institute, Washington, D.C.

March 13, 1996
Submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on International Relations

Subcommittee on Africa and Subcommittee on
International Operations and Human Rights


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

It is documented in this testimony by the Schiller
Institute, that the leading witnesses against
Sudan:

        (1) are engaged in witting fraud on the
Congress;

        (2) that they are acting as agents of a
foreign power, intent on imposing on the United
States, a policy of willful destruction of a
nation and its people;

        (3) that they have been and are interfering
into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation;

        (4) that the policy they promote, of
sanctions against Sudan combined with military,
political, and logistical support for insurgent
rebels against a sovereign government, aims at
dividing that nation; and finally

        (5) that said policy, if implemented, would
unleash genocidal war across the entire region of
eastern Africa.

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On Oct. 10, 1990, `Nayirah', a young woman
identified as a nurse from the Kuwait city
hospital, testified to the Congressional Human
Rights Caucus on the subject of alleged Iraqi
atrocities committted against the Kuwait civilian
population following the Aug. 2, 1990 invasion.
Identified only as `Nayirah,' the young woman
testified that she had watched 15 infants being
taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in
Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who "left the babies
on the cold floor to die."  The testimony,
tearfully delivered, had a profound impact on the
U.S. Congress and on the nation, contributing
significantly to the overwhelming support given to
then-President George Bush in launching war
against Iraq. The then chairman of the Caucus,
California Democrat Tom Lantos and Illinois
Republican John Edward Porter, at the time had
claimed that the young woman's identity had to be
kept secret to protect her family from reprisals
in occupied Kuwait.

It was only later revealed that the woman in
question was none other than the daughter of the
Kuwaiti ambassador in Washington, Saud Nasir
al-Sabah, and a member of the ruling royal family.
Such a pertinent fact might have led to
impertinent demands for proof of Niyirah's--her
actual name--whereabouts in August and September
of 1990, when she said she witnessed the
atrocities, as well as corroboration of her
charges. It later came to light that the entire
testimony had been concocted as a public relations
operation, by the PR firm, Hill and Knowlton, to
which Congressmen Lantos and Porter were linked.
Hill and Knowlton, was the public relations firm
hired by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, the
Kuwaiti-financed group that lobbied Congress for
military intervention. The facts, once made
public, gave rise understandably to a scandal.

The current hearings on alleged slavery in the
Sudan, run the risk of being transformed into a
similar scandal.


1. Witting fraud

Witnesses Baroness Caroline Cox, John Eibner,
Gaspar Biro, et al., have fabricated testimony
during several trips to Sudan, many of them
undertaken in violation of international norms,
i.e., without proper visas. Reports issued by the
above have typically been compiled on the basis of
third- or fourth-hand information, from the milieu
of political forces hostile to the Sudanese
government. These are, typically, persons from
refugee and displaced persons camps in southern
Sudan, or neighboring (hostile) countries.
Although allegations have been put forward, of
torture by "Islamic government forces" of
"southern Sudanese Christians and animists,"
including crucifixion, no documented proof or
evidence has ever been brought before an
international body, to substantiate such grave
claims.

Although it is a norm of international law, that
the burden of proof lies on the shoulders of the
accusers, in the case of the campaign against
Sudan, this has not been observed. Hearsay,
rumors, fourth-hand "reports," and perjured
testimony have been the substance offered. As John
Eibner recently said, in reference to the current
trip to Washington of the Christian Solidarity
International, "There is a lot going on behind the
scenes.... <The slavery issue is important to
motivate action.>"


2. Agents of a Foreign Power


The Christian Solidarity International (CSI),
described by Baroness Cox as an
"inter-denominational Christian human rights
organization which tries to help victims of
repression, regardless of their color, creed, or
nationality," is in reality a vehicle of the
intelligence services of Great Britain. It is
nominally headquartered in Switzerland, and is run
by Baroness Caroline Cox and Lord Avebury (Eric
Lubbock). Lady Cox is Deputy Speaker of the
British House of Lords, and Lord Avebury is the
chairman of the British Parliament's All Party
Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.

Lady Cox is also a trained psychologist in
psychological warfare, who began her career as a
Tavistock Institute-trained expert on nursing
education. Tavistock is British Intelligence's
psychological warfare division, which was at the
center of British Army psychological warfare
operations in World War II. Among her studies was
one on the reactions of the average member of
society, to an environment of suffering and death.

Since 1992, she has been deployed in the campaign
against Sudan. Following an article she authored
for the International Herald Tribune in August
1993 (see below), a London source confirmed that
"whatever Baroness Cox does, is done on behalf of
the government and the establishment."

The CSI was launched by Rev. Canon Michael
Bourdeaux, who is staff director and founder of
the Keston Institute in Oxford, England. The
Keston Institute was founded in 1969 to "supply
factual information on religious life in communist
lands," and operates under the patronage of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, who has also been active
in destabilizing Sudan. From its inception, the
Keston Institute has been deeply involved in
intelligence operations, working with the British
Broadcasting Corporation, the Royal Institute of
International Affairs, and Oxford University.

Prince Philip granted Rev. Bourdeaux, the founder
of CSI, the Templeton Prize for Religion. The CSI
operates with full support of the British Crown.
That the aim of the CSI is to determine U.S.
foreign policy towards Sudan, was stated
explicitly by Baroness Cox during her February
1995 visit to Washington. "The time is now ripe
for the U.S., with the support of Britain, to
overthrow this regime," she said to Cong.
Christopher Smith (R-N.J.). John Eibner, also of
CSI, and in the delegation, has said, on the issue
of possible sanctions against Sudan, that he
"thinks the Clinton Administration is now moving
in the right direction" with respect to Sudan, and
that the CSI was "pleased" with this.


3. Interference in Internal Affairs

Prior to their January 19-25, 1995, trip to Sudan,
the CSI had organized five visits to the country,
four of which had involved ILLEGAL ENTRY into the
regions controlled by rebel forces in the south.

Baroness Cox organized a conference of the
Sudanese opposition groups, in Asmara, Eritrea, in
June 1995, which issued a resolution calling for
extending the war in southern Sudan to the whole
country, and overthrowing the Khartoum government
by force.

Baroness Cox organized another meeting of the
Sudanese opposition from November 29-December 1,
1995, sponsored by the CSI, and held in the
British HOUSE OF LORDS! The conference endorsed
the resolution of Asmara, that is, it endorsed the
call for the violent overthrow of a sovereign
government.

4.  Plot to Divide the Nation
It was John Eibner of the CSI, who first issued in
print, the scenario for splitting up Sudan. In an
article in the Wall Street Journal in 1992, he
called for dividing Sudan up into five
micro-states. Mr. Eibner promoted this perspective
at the above-cited Asmara conference, to "give the
initiative a Sudanese face," he said.

The CSI has actively supported, not only political
opposition groups inside Sudan and abroad, but
also the military forces of the rebel groups,
whose explicit aim is to divide the south from the
rest of the nation.  The House of Lords conference
resolution text (point 6) reads:  "In the struggle
<for the overthrow of the NIF [National Islamic
Front] regime> and the struggle for the
restoration of democracy and rule of law, <the
opposition forces need unity and solidarity>.  The
Conference resolves that the unity of all the
political groups opposed to the fundamentalist
National Islamic Front (NIF) regime is of
paramount importance and <measures should be taken
to promote this unity>."

        According to the Feb. 2, 1995, issue of
Foreign Report, the SPLA has been receiving
"clandestine arms deliveries from America across
the Ugandan border," and is also receiving
supplies from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Zimbabwe. The
British newsletter Africa Confidential reported in
its March 3, 1995, edition that "Washington plans
to `strengthen the military capability' of
neighboring states [to Sudan,] especially Uganda
and Eritrea. This would open the way for arms
supplies to the SPLA, which already gets arms via
Uganda, and potentially to the Northern opposition
via Eritrea."

Africa Analysis, another major British
intelligence report on Africa, reported in its
Nov. 17, 1995, issue that diplomatic sources in
Kampala said that the "U.S. is establishing a
field headquarters in Uganda for a mobile training
team as part of its effort to contain Sudan....
The MTT will train and advise the Ugandan army and
possibly offer it equipment. It is also expected
to be involved in any joint military maneuvers by
Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Ugandan forces."

The military supplying of the SPLA through Uganda
and Ethiopia has been a consistent refrain in the
British press. If their claim of direct U.S.
military involvement is not true, it at the very
least represents an intent of British
intelligence.  Will the British manuever to send
American soldiers to fight their dirty, colonial
war?

5. Threat of Genocidal War

The stated aim of the CSI delegation, is to lure
the United States governemnt into support for
sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions are to be
voted up through the United Nations Security
Council, at its upcoming session at the end of
March. The initial resolution voted up January 31,
1996, against Sudan, was put through a session
chaired by Great Britain,  and on the initiative
of the British, through Ethiopia, whose
representative had been coached by London to
present a complaint.

The CSI strategy is to impose an oil and weapons
embargo on Sudan, in order to prevent the central
government from continuing its defense of national
unity, against insurgents in the south.

Simultaneously, the CSI is actively supporting the
rebel forces, and urging political forces, as well
as regional powers (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt,
Uganda), to enter the conflict, to extend the war
to the north.

In the CSI Draft Preliminary Report of January
7-15, 1996, Visit to Asmara and the
Eritrea-Sudanese Borderlands, Baroness Cox and
John Eibner note, after a meeting with President
Afewerki, "It is Eritrea's duty to cooperate with
the Sudanese opposition to get rid of the NIF
regime because this is in the interests of Eritrea
and of neighboring countries." In an interview
with Al Hayat, January 25, 1996, Eritrean
President Isayus Afewerki, in answer to the
question of whether "Eritrea will give weapons and
military support to the Sudanese opposition
(Democratic National) Alliance," replied: "There
is no secret about this, because if the alliance
needs weapons, we will support the Sudanese
opposition without hesitation." He confirmed that
this includes "military support, training,
weapons, and so on."

Regarding the call for sanctions, the CSI has made
no secret of the fact, that sanctions are the aim
of their intervention against Sudan. On August 16,
1993, Baroness Cox wrote in the International
Herald Tribune, "The United Nations will be
sending the right signals to the Khartoum
government if it moves rapidly to impose an
embargo on the shipment of weapons and oil to
Sudan and to establish a military air exclusion
zone over the South and Nuba Mountains."

In the first week of February of 1995, Baroness
Cox led a delegation to Washington. In testimony
to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on
February 6, she called for "recognition of the
right of self-determination" of the southern
Sudanese rebels, and for an "arms and oil embargo
against Sudan" as well as an "air exclusion zone
over Sudan."

On March 24, Cox's delegation returned for
hearings before the House International Affairs
Subcommittee on Africa, during which Frank Wolf
(R-Va.), also a member of CSI, called for
"stepped-up operations" against Sudan.

Later, on May 8, 1995, Lady Cox addressed the Arab
Lawyers Association in Cairo, and called for a
full trade embargo against Sudan, as well as "safe
havens" for civilians in the south--a euphemism
for the introduction of foreign troops on Sudanese
soil.

If the United Nations were to impose on Sudan the
embargo which the CSI demands, the result would be
immediate economic dislocation, chaos, and war in
the entire region. Disrupting trade with the nine
nations Sudan shares land borders with, as well as
with Saudi Arabia across the Red Sea, would cause
misery for all populations involved, particularly
those living in the border areas who are dependent
on such trade.

An oil and weapons embargo would aim at crippling
Khartoum's defense of its national territory.
Continuing weapons supplies into the rebel forces
in the south, would increase, to fuel the "war
against the government" which the CSI has been
promoting. Ethiopia, which has already launched
military incursions into Sudanese territory
(December-January 1996) on British prompting,
would be drawn in, as would Uganda, which has been
functioning, under British mandate, as the
launching pad for military supplies to the rebels,
and has provided its own troops against the
Khartoum government. Were Egyptian forces to be
involved, even marginally, in any military actions
against Sudan, this would provoke chaos, if not
revolution, inside Egpyt.

In consideration of the above, the Schiller
Institute deplores the war-mongering actions of
the CSI, and the false testimony which that agency
of a foreign government, is presenting here.

The Schiller Institute urges the honorable members
of the United States Congress to examine the
credentials, the documented basis, and the
political motivation of those providing testimony
against Sudan.

Let it not be said, that the members of the
Congress did not know, what the dangers of the
proposed sanctions policy were. Once such a
genocdial dynamic of chaos and war were set into
motion, as the tragic cases of Rwanda and Burundi
have made too clear, there is no way to stop it.
Millions of lives of Africans are at stake.

Thank you.
                          * * *
The Schiller Institute, which has submitted
Congressional testimony to standing committees on
issues related to the struggle for peace through
economic development, was founded by Helga
Zepp-LaRouche. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche, the current
international president of the institute,
travelled to Sudan in April 1993, to deliver a
keynote address at the International Conference on
the Religions in the Sudan. Schiller Institute
representatives have conducted seven trips to the
Sudan since 1993, and have held extensive
discussions with representatives of all walks of
life--politics, the economy, and religion.

The Schiller Institute home page:
       http://inet.uni-c.dk/~sch-inst/





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From: cair1@ix.netcom.com (CAIR )
Subject: CAIR: Action Alert #88 - Denver Mosque Violated After Fajr Prayers
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:29:03 -0800

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

CAIR Action Alert
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)       Alert #88
1511 K Street N.W., Suite 807, Washington, D.C.  20005  Tel:
(202) 638-6340  Fax: (202) 638-6412

DENVER MOSQUE VIOLATED AFTER FAJR PRAYERS
National Muslim community asked to offer calls and letters
of support

(WASHINGTON, DC - 3/21/96) - CAIR is investigating whether
federal charges may be brought against three people who
attacked a Denver, Colo., mosque on Tuesday. The intruders,
one wearing a mock turban and a Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf T-shirt,
burst into the mosque after morning worship services.

According to local law enforcement officials, the people,
all employees of a local radio station (KBPI), then
proceeded to harass and intimidate the worshipers while
broadcasting the incident live on the radio. One man played
the national anthem on a trumpet, while another person
allegedly attempted to force headphones on two worshipers.

All of the intruders entered the mosque without removing
their shoes and refused to leave when asked. (Denver Nuggets
star guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf recently refused to stand for
the playing of the national anthem.)

On Thursday, leaders of the local Muslim community, along
with interfaith representatives, held a news conference in
Denver. A statement released at the news conference read in
part: "The actions of KBPI and its employees were designed
to motivate racial, ethnic and religious prejudice in the
minds of their listeners, and is an example of one of the
numerous forms of hate crimes." So far, local law
enforcement agencies have responded appropriately to the
attack. KBPI Radio said the incident was an "ill-conceived
attempt at humor."

CAIR has condemned the attack and is demanding that the
perpetrators be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and
that they be dismissed from their positions with the radio
station. A CAIR representative is traveling to Colorado to
help coordinate the local and national response of the
Muslim community and to meet with state and federal law
enforcement officials to demand that houses of worship be
safeguarded from such attacks.

"As we saw following the tragic bombing in Oklahoma City,
American Muslims are routinely targeted by those who hold
stereotypical views of Islam and Muslims. American Muslims
must stand up as a unified  community to defend their image
and their rights. We must support our brothers and sisters
in Colorado," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED:

1) DEMAND THAT THE RADIO STATION EMPLOYEES BE FIRED.
Contact: Mr. Jack Evans, Operations Manager, KBPI Radio,
P.O. Box 103, Denver, CO, 80236  TEL: 303-893-3699  FAX:
303-329-3699 E-MAIL: fmradio@thefox.com.

As always, be POLITE but firm. Your letter could also demand
sensitivity training about Islam for radio station employees
given by local Muslims and a public apology to the Muslim
community.

2) SEND LETTERS OF SUPPORT TO THE DENVER MUSLIM COMMUNITY.
Send to: Islamic Center and Colorado Muslim Society, 2071
South Parker Road, Denver, CO, 80224  TEL: 303-696-9800 FAX:
303-750-4763.

3) ISSUE A STATEMENT OF CONDEMNATION FROM YOUR COMMUNITY OR
ORGANIZATION. Send the statements to CAIR at: 1511 K St.,
NW, Suite 807, Washington, DC, 20005. The statements will be
forwarded to the appropriate agencies. Fax the statements to
CAIR at: 202-638-6412.

Note: Each Action Alert costs CAIR about $500. Please
support this important work by sending donations (not tax
deductible) to CAIR or by helping plan a fundraising event.

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From: taadah@ici.net
Subject: Is freedom worth so little to you?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:30:18 -0500 (EST)

Subject: DENVER MOSQUE INCIDENT
TO:   MR.JACK EVANS - OPS MGR. KBPI RADIO
DT:    MARCH 21, 1996


Mr. Evans,

I can say with complete sincerity that I am shocked at the proported attempt
at humor your DJ's engaged in this past week.  Denver is my hometown and  I
was a loyal listener of KBPI while growing up.

To think that employees of KBPI would stoop so low at to enter a religious
service with the intent to disrupt, play the national anthem on brass
instruments while prayer is going on and to have the audacity to go live, on
air, with all the tumult is beyond words.

Your DJ's have not only affronted a religion that I have made my own with
this outrageous behavior, but sullied a song about the battle waged to
protect the freedoms my religious brothers and sisters were engaged in.

How your station could have possibly approved this is beyond me.  Why your
station did not pull the plug while the act was occurring is a thought to
ponder.  DEAD AIR would have been better than this attack of the freedom of
religion and expression.

Would your DJ's have entered a Christian Church, Jewish Synagogue or even
the Buddhist Temple downtown and disrupted religious services there?  Would
you have only suspended the DJ's had they entered these places of worship
and caused a disturbance?  Or would they have been fired outright?

 I care not that this was "supposed" to be an attempt at humor, this was and
is a violation of civil rights.  Since your station has not acted in the
public interest, in fact the opposite, one wonders if it would not be
prudent to act to have KPBI's license pulled.

It is heart warming to know that the entire religious community of the
Denver Metro Area have sided with the Islamic community.

Will you also act in the best interests of the community you serve?

Sincerely,

Cynthia Sulaiman
Director, Muslim Home School Network and Resource

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