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#16 [Permalink] Posted on 9th April 2012 22:42

There was so much zeal here www.muftisays.com/forums/people-s-say/6212/.html?p=31466 where is it all gone? come on brothers and sisters. Just because Babar Ahmed became a house hold name, I think that boosted his votes, lets treat this in the same way and get what our Muslim brother deserves. Please!

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#17 [Permalink] Posted on 14th April 2012 00:42

From the Post of Our brother Babar Ahmad, by Yasin"

Three men were competing to see who was the cruellest.

The first one attacked a man beating him until he was bleeding and couldn't stand.

The second man saw him in this state and stamped on his hands and face over and over. He then turned to the other and said, "No one can be worse than me"

The third man replied, "No, I am worse because I just stood by and watched."

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In this example, the first man is the police of the UK. The second is the justice system. The third man are the Muslims (more like general public) of the UK who stand by and do nothing. And the the victim here is Babar Ahmad...in this case Shaker Aamer

This will be a huge fail from the Muslim amongst the other hundreds of failures if we do not reach 100,000 votes.

Getting 100,000 youtube hits is easy for Muslims and comedy videos but this.... we just let it slip by

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Just in case you haven't already done it here's the link: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29410

REMEMBER!! you mustclick on the link in the email you receive back from the e-petition for the vote to be counted.

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#18 [Permalink] Posted on 14th April 2012 00:45

By Abu Mohammed in the Babar Ahmed post

just a few things to clarify in case you're thinking:

1) I am worried about giving my name and address to this Addresses and email addresses are not published or accessible by any member of the public, 40,000 people have already signed this petition. Why would the Government spend time and resources chasing up on each of those 40,000 people in the middle of a recession when they have so many bigger issues to worry about-just because they signed a recognised and legitimate Government petition, acting within the law?

2) What difference would it make anyway? What's the point? It took one woman to cause a revolution in Egypt, billions of tiny drops of water come together to form the ocean...there is always a point-even if it is just the fact that we can say to Allah Ta-'aalaa on the Day of Judgement "We saw a brother in need, we did this to try to help him."

3) We don't want to ask this "non-Muslim" or non-shariah government for anything, we should just make Dua and not do this petition. That would have been fair enough if this was an Islamic state. The bottom line is that there is no third option-Trial in UK or trial in the USA. No one has asked Babar what kind of trial he would like. Once you are arrested and locked up, you are bound by the laws of the authorities that locked you up in the first place-whether you like it or not.

4) I want to sign it but I have had so much on, I have been too busy to get to it. This petition expires on 10th November 2011-then that opportunity to sign will be over.Imagine the feeling of sadness and regret if we miss out our target of 100,000 by just a small handful of signatures-that could have been if people didn't procrastinate. Or worse still, seeing the news that Babar Ahmad has been put on a plane to the US.

Just in case you haven't already done it here's the link: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29410

Please use the correct email address as you need to verify the signature by clicking on the link they send you.

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#19 [Permalink] Posted on 15th April 2012 18:15

Currently the e-petition is down for "maintenance" but will be back up and working tomorrow. I hope, Insha-Allaah

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#20 [Permalink] Posted on 18th April 2012 10:18

Only 8,068 signatures and theres less than a month left.

You must all be thinking: "Its ok brothers and sisters, he's not important. He's only a Muslim. We wont have to answer for him. We dont care and we are proving it."

The blood of a believer is more sacred than the Holy Ka'bah. But why are you worried?

Just in case you haven't already done it here's the link: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29410

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#21 [Permalink] Posted on 8th April 2014 21:35

Guant�namo Bay: last British detainee suffering from PTSD
8 April 2014

Lawyers for Shaker Aamer, cleared for release by US seven years ago and never charged with a crime, ask for his release

Shaker Aamer with two of his children, daughter Johina and son Michael. Photograph: PA
The last British resident detained at Guant�namo Bay is suffering from a potentially life-threatening medical condition as well as post-traumatic stress disorder, and should be returned urgently to his family in London, his lawyers have argued.

Shaker Aamer, who was cleared for release by the US seven years ago, "requires psychiatric treatment, as well as reintegration into his family and society," according to a 20-page report of a medical evaluation carried out by Dr Emily Keram, an independent psychiatrist, who depicted a grim tale of Aamer's declining health after extended periods of torture and mistreatment.

Aamer, who Reprieve said in court documents is 47, has been imprisoned at the US naval base in Cuba since February 2002. US military files leaked in 2011 said that he was suspected of being "a member of al-Qaida, with significant ties to senior level extremists". However, he has never been charged with a crime.

His lawyers said in a motion filed to a federal court in Washington that both the Geneva Conventions on war and US military regulations suggested that he should be released due to ill health. "Even if he receives the intensive medical and therapeutic treatment his condition requires, Mr Aamer will take many years, if not a lifetime, to achieve any significant recovery," they said.

The court ruled in October last year that Ibrahim Idris, a Sudanese inmate at Guant�namo Bay who suffered from serious health problems such as schizophrenia, should be released. He was returned to Sudan in December.

Keram's 20-page report depicts a bleak 12 years in the life of Aamer, a Saudi citizen who once worked for immigration lawyers in London, where his wife and four children still live. He has suffered "significant disruptions in his ability to function," according to the psychiatrist, and frequently lost concentration or began "suddenly and loudly singing" to distract himself during their interviews.

After 25 hours of evaluation, Keram concluded that Aamer was suffering from severe edema which, "if left untreated, may reflect an underlying life-threatening organ or vascular dysfunction". She also found he endured severe tinnitus, debilitating headaches, asthma, ear pain, worsening vision, kidney pain and other physical ailments.

Keram said that she had further diagnosed Aamer with PTSD and depression. She said that he was suffering from anxiety, paranoia, insomnia and a number of other serious psychological problems, and experienced difficulty eating and using the bathroom after years of being deprived access to both.

Aamer claimed to have been beaten and tortured by his Afghan captors in 2001 and then by the US forces to whom he was transferred. He was kept awake for 10 straight days while detained at Kandahar airfield, he said, where one interrogator threatened to rape his five-year-old daughter. "A British agent came to see me, a young officer with a red beret," Keram quotes him as telling her. "I wouldn't talk with him because he said he couldn't do anything to help me."

The mistreatment continued once he arrived at Guant�namo, Aamer said. He claims to have been "tied up" for 36 hours at a time and left exposed to the elements in an open-air cage. "I told the interrogators everything to decrease the torture severity," Keram reports that he said.

In their motion to the court, Aamer's lawyers cited the third Geneva Convention, which states that parties in a conflict "are bound to send back to their country, regardless of number or rank, seriously wounded and seriously sick prisoners of war". They also pointed to a US Army regulation that states "chronically ill prisoners" are eligible for repatriation if they are not expected to recover within a year.

Clive Stafford Smith, one of Aamer's lawyers, sent a copy of Keram's report to the British foreign secretary William Hague, and asked the UK government to file a brief in support of Aamer's release. The government has already stated publicly that Aamer, who was again cleared for release by the Obama administration in 2009, should be freed to return to his family.

"This desperate news about Shaker's mental and physical state comes on top of twelve years of abuse, and it's hardly surprising to learn from an independent doctor that he is suffering severe PTSD in Guantanamo," said Stafford Smith, the director of Reprieve, the legal pressure group.

"Shaker has described himself as a rusty old car that is falling apart. There is no reason he should not have come home to his wife and kids when he was cleared, seven years ago. How is it that anyone in his right mind can think that a torture victim should suffer even one more day of abuse?"

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#22 [Permalink] Posted on 20th December 2014 22:08

Hmmm....freedom at what cost? I don't believe these people will ever be the same or go on to live normal lives....May Allah Grant them the best of both worlds....Aameen.

Afghan Guantanamo inmates freed

Four Afghan detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison have been sent back to their home country, the Pentagon says.

Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul Ghani and Mohammed Zahir were repatriated after a thorough review of their cases.

Eight Afghans are believed to be among the 132 detainees remaining at the US prison in Cuba.

President Barack Obama has pledged to close the facility, opened in 2002 to hold "enemy combatants" in what the US termed its war on terror.

'Nowhere to go'

"As a result of that review, which examined a number of factors, including security issues, these men were unanimously approved for transfer by the six departments and agencies comprising the task force," a Pentagon statement said on Saturday.

The four Afghans - who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay for more than 10 years - were flown to Afghanistan's capital Kabul aboard a US military plane and handed over to the local authorities.

The Pentagon provided no further details.

Afghanistan's High Peace Council - a body set up by the government to deal with insurgents - said all four would be reunited with their families in the "near future", according to the Associated Press news agency.

US lawyers for the former detainees had always argued that there clients were innocent.

The repatriation is the latest in a series of transfers from the Guantanamo Bay, as President Obama seeks to eventually shut the facility.

Earlier this month, six prisoners were flown to Uruguay, which said they would enjoy complete freedom in the South American nation.

About half of the remaining inmates at the Guantanamo Bay have been cleared for transfer - but have nowhere to go because their countries of origin are unstable or unsafe.

President Obama's efforts to shut the facility have also been stalled in part due to a reluctance by Congress, the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan in Washington reports.

The facility in Cuba was opened a year after the 9/11 attacks in the US.

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#23 [Permalink] Posted on 25th September 2015 18:02

Alhumdulillah, the brother will be a free man after 1 month.

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#24 [Permalink] Posted on 25th September 2015 22:42

Alhamdulilah good news

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#25 [Permalink] Posted on 27th September 2015 01:36

Shaykh Zahir Mahmood : Corbyn did a lot more for his release than any muslim politician.

Jeremy Corbyn wrote:

I am very pleased to hear the breaking news that Shaker Aamer will be released from Guantanamo Bay. He is the last Briton to be detained there despite never being brought to trial after his arrest in 2001.

I attended an all-party delegation to Washington, in May of this year, which demanded his release. The pressure mounted by the British parliament contributed to today’s decision, but we must recognise the steadfastness of his family and the commitment of all those who joint this campaign, whether they lobbied their MPs or demonstrated on the streets outside parliament against this clear injustice.

This is a hugely important development and we must praise the important role those campaigners made in bringing about this decision.[/quote]

[quote=somebody else commented] Jeremy you are a magnificent (unintentional) troll. You defend Palestine, you wish us Eid Mubarak, you mourn the passing of pilgrims, you care about the working class and you don't behave (or dress) like a pompous buffoon. Right wingers must soil themselves in anger when they read your stuff.

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#26 [Permalink] Posted on 27th September 2015 01:39

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Brother I believe he was illegally detained for over a decade and not just a month.

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#27 [Permalink] Posted on 27th September 2015 02:12

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I'm pretty sure he means, "Within one month, the brother will be a free man إن شاء الله"

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#28 [Permalink] Posted on 30th October 2015 14:04

Shaker Aamer: Last UK Guantanamo Bay detainee arrives in UK

The last British resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay has landed in the UK, having been detained for 13 years.

Shaker Aamer was held at the US military base in Cuba over allegations he had led a Taliban unit and had met Osama Bin Laden, but was never charged.

Downing Street said there were "no plans" to detain him after his arrival.

Concern has been raised over the health of the Saudi national, 48, whose family live in London, and the BBC has seen an ambulance arrive at the airport.

Number 10 said Prime Minister David Cameron "welcomes" the release of Mr Aamer, who has permission to live in the UK indefinitely because his wife is British.

It also said any necessary security measures "will be put in place".

The father-of-four landed at London's Biggin Hill Airport shortly before 13:00 GMT.

Mr Aamer's father-in-law, Saeed Siddique, said his release was a "miracle".

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#29 [Permalink] Posted on 30th October 2015 17:38

alhamdulillah

Aamer, born in Medina, Saudi Arabia, 47 years ago, is a British resident with a British wife and four British children who live in London.

He was captured by what are said to be bounty hunters from the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and handed over to US forces in December 2001. Two months later, he was rendered to Guantánamo Bay.

Repeated calls by successive British governments for his release will weaken the impact of any hostile stories, or smear tactics, directed at Aamer on his return to the UK.

As his release was welcomed Moazzam Begg, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee warned: “Shaker’s greatest tests are yet to come – that is the heartbreaking part – and anyone who has been imprisoned away from their family can attest to this.”

He added: “However, Shaker is a courageous, resilient, kind and thoughtful person who has faced the worst the world has to offer and survived. His qualities have been acknowledged by his tormentors and I’m certain he won’t disappoint when he’s ready to tell his side of the story. Until he does, he deserves our respect, support, prayers and right to family life and privacy.”

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, chair of the Shaker Aamer all-party parliamentary group, said he was “breathing a heavy sigh of relief along with other campaigners”.

“Shaker was simply a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, a charity worker building wells in Afghanistan, who was kidnapped, ransomed and falsely imprisoned. He has been cleared twice for release, never charged and no serious evidence has been presented against him.”

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who attended an all-party delegation to Washington in May which demanded his release, said pressure mounted by the British parliament had contributed to Aamer’s freedom, as well as the steadfastness of his family, and the commitment of campaigners.

“Now that Shaker has been released, the scandal of the Guantánamo detention camp itself must be brought to an end,” he said.

Green MP Caroline Lucas, a longstanding campaigner for his release, said Aamer’s case “reinforces the urgent need for the judge-led inquiry into UK complicity in torture that the prime minister promised in 2010 but then backtracked on”.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group Liberty, said while his release brought huge relief to his family, serious questions remained. “Why did it take us so many years to persuade our closest ally to behave decently? How many young Britons have been radicalised, at least in part, by kidnap, internment and torture in freedom’s name?”

Campaigners spoke of their concerns that he will be tagged or monitored by security services. Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told the Press Association: “The state cannot arbitrarily place restrictions upon him. It would be quite wrong to demonise him because there is no evidence to justify demonising him in 2015. I am sure there will be state authorities here who would like to interview him in the hope that he will provide them with some assistance in securing the safety of the public in this country. My view is that he should now be given the space to spend time with his family and catch up on all he has missed while he has been detained.”

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#30 [Permalink] Posted on 31st October 2015 14:14

Shaker Aamer’s statement, October 30, 2015

“The reason I have been strong is because of the support of people so strongly devoted to the truth. If I was the fire to be lit to tell the truth, it was the people who protected the fire from the wind.

“My thanks go to Allah first, second to my wife, my family, to my kids and then to my lawyers who did everything they could to carry the word to the world. I feel obliged to every individual who fought for justice not just for me but to bring an end to Guantánamo.

“Without knowing of their fight I might have given up more than once; I am overwhelmed by what people have done by their actions, their thoughts and their prayers and without their devotion to justice I would not be here in Britain now.

“The reality may be that we cannot establish peace but we can establish justice. If there is anything that will bring this world to peace it is to remove injustice.”

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