Demolition of Baabree masjid in 1995 was a double blow for we Indian muslims.
We lost the masjid, in its place a temple is being constructed......... other major blow was loss of imaan/aqeedah/tawheed of majority of muslims.
Pre demolition a story was narrated by majority of khateebs around India. When Abraha reached the borders of Makkah, he discussed with leader of makkah. The leader told "abraha that you have robbed our cattle, release them". Abraha "told I thought you will negotiate about Ka'bah". He told "cattle belongs my tribe, Ka'bah is Allah's house, he shall protect it". then the story of ababeel.
Indian muslims were waiting for ababeels.
Again in 2019 elections, it was in ramadhan and the results were on 17th ramadhan, the badr day. Sermons were given that things will change. Things got worse.
So it is time for us to change our strategy.
Today whoever is in power, who has control over media, who has better military hardware shall prevail. It is known fact. If we can't compete ....... adopt the prevailing circumstances, don't do ghuloo in sermons and put imaan of masses on trial.
Don't raise slogans of takbeer on short spike responses and start celebrating.
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“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
Gaza health officials have demanded the urgent opening of corridors to evacuate the wounded abroad due to the “catastrophic” situation inside the besieged enclave.
More than 320 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, including many women and children killed in Israeli air raids on convoys fleeing Gaza City, according to health officials.
The rising toll comes as Israel continues bombing Gaza a day after telling 1.1 million residents to head south ahead of a looming ground offensive following Hamas’s attack inside Israel last week.
At least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed and 8,714 wounded in Israeli air attacks on Gaza. The number of people killed in Israel has reached 1,300, with more than 3,400 wounded.
In the occupied West Bank, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the past week has topped 50. More than 1,000 have been wounded and hundreds arrested.
In the midst of this. It is also important to remember that the Muslims rulers especially the Arabs. Could put a stop to this impending genocide in a matter of days.
They do not even need to use their armies.
All they would need to do is expel the American, British, French Ambassadors. In protest and cut of diplomatic ties for a limited period . And threaten the suspension of economic ties.
When these countries see their own interests, threatened you will see a very quick resolution.
But alas the rulers of these countries are munafiqoon and agents of the colonialists.
Few Essential historic facts and terminology concerning the Palestinian struggle.
(1) What is Zionism? it is a political, economic and propaganda movement. Established by Theodore Herzl in 1897, the objective being the establishment of a Jewish state in the Holy Hands primarily for White European Jews.
And since the establishment of Israel it has metamorphosed into a movement, to support Israel by all necessary means, by taking control of media organisations, financial markets and international corporations, and by lobbying and controlling politicians and world economic and political institutions. With the objective being to ensure that financial, military, and propaganda support is maintained for Israel. And that the Middle East is kept destabilised and the Arabs are prevented from uniting under a single banner.
Not all Jews are Zionist, there are some who are against Zionism. And not all Zionists are Jews their is a very large Christian Zionist movement in America who fanatically believe the return of Jesus will only happen if their is a Jewish homeland, in the holy land , and today there are also pro-Zionist rulers and individuals in the Arab countries.
(2) What does the word Semitic mean.?
Semite, is a name given in the 19th century to a member of any people from the Middle East , and North and East African origins who speak one of the Semitic languages for example Arabic or Hebrew.
The fact is both the Arabs and Jews from the Middle East are of Semitic origin and belong to the Semitic race.
The White European Jews are descendants of Jewish converts known they have no historic connection to the Middle East. They are not a Semitic race.
The White European Zionist Jews have monopolised and stolen the title of Semite exclusively for themselves. And label and cancel anyone who criticises or questions them or Israel as being anti-Semitic. And when anyone in the west especially Journalists or politicians who do question or criticise they are vilified and labeled as anti-Semitic. Their career then is essentially over, prime example in recent times is former Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
The irony here is that the Palestinians are a Semitic people. Any opposition to their right to their own homeland is infact the most rabid form of Anti-Semitism their is in this world.
(3) What is the Balfour declaration?
The Balfour declaration is named after a former British politician and Prime minister. It is a declaration made by the British Government to establish a Jewish state in Palestine . The British had conquered and colonised Palestine.
(4) How was Israel established and what is the Nakba?
In the 1930’s there was only a very tiny community of indigenous Jews in Palestine. Approximately 5%.
At the outbreak of Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of Jews from Europe were relocated as refugees and Asylum seekers.
A Jewish para-Military terrorist organisation called the Irgun, was established, by the British and the other western countries. They were armed to the hilt and they killed and expelled the native population of Palestinians out of their land stole their country and renamed it Israel, they then hastened the departure of the British by carrying out Terrorist attacks against them as well .
The expulsion of Palestinians and the establishment of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948 is what is known as the Nakba, to this day there are several million Palestinians living in refugee camps in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, etc.
The western media never mentions how Israel came to exist.
(4) What are settlers they are mainly White European and American Jews. Who have settled on stolen. Arab land and who continue to forcibly evict Palestinians in the West Bank and establish their settlements.
And if they say condemn Hamas tell them to let’s first condemn those who created Hamas. As Ahmed Deedat used to say “ turn the tables”.
Article on the intercept as to how Hamas came to exist.
In summary the Israelis funded the creation of Hamas hoping it would lead to a civil war with the secular PLO movement. As a policy of divide and conquer.
In a report by ABC News’ Matt Gutman on Saturday, Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv demanding the government to take action to save Israeli hostages held in Gaza were heard chanting “Bibi is a murderer”.
According to Gutman, protesters blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for prioritising his own political career over the safety of Israeli citizens. protesters in Tel Aviv demanding the government to take action to save Israeli hostages held in Gaza were heard chanting “Bibi is a murderer”.
According to Gutman, protesters blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for prioritising his own political career over the safety of Israeli citizens.
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“There has never been a clearer sign that not only is Israel prepared to commit war crimes, it is about to commit a crime against humanity”
Israel’s military on Friday ordered all civilians in northern Gaza, more than 1 million people, to move to the south of the besieged enclave within 24 hours.
Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said “absent of any guarantees or safety or return”, the Israeli demand would amount to the war crime of forcible transfer. “It must be reversed,” he said.
Tayab Ali, director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), told Good Morning Scotland: “One million people are being told to leave or die from what is effectively an open-air prison camp.”
There is already clear evidence that war crimes have been committed over the past week in Israel and the Gaza Strip, legal experts and human rights groups have said.
So what crimes may have already been committed and what prospects are there for accountability?
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UK could be complicit in Gaza war crimes, Tory MP warns
LONDON: The UK may be complicit in war crimes if it continues to support Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, an MP from the governing Conservative Party has warned.
Crispin Blunt is co-director of the International Center of Justice for Palestinians, which announced a notice of intention this week to prosecute UK government officials for “aiding and abetting war crimes in Gaza.”
He said “everyone must act to restrain people” if they are aware of the potential for war crimes, Sky News reported on Saturday.
Blunt’s warning comes after Israel issued an evacuation notice to northern Gaza’s 1.2 million people, demanding that they evacuate to the south ahead of an expected ground invasion.
He said he is “not sure (his) colleagues have grasped the legal peril they are in” due to steadfast support for Israel, which has enjoyed a “deal of exceptionalism and impunity from international law for a very long time now.”
Changes in international law could make UK officials a party to war crimes, Blunt warned. “If you know that a party is going to commit a war crime — and this forcible transfer of people is a precise breach of one of the statutes that governs international law and all states in this area — then you are making yourself complicit,” he said.
“And as international law has developed in this area, the fact of being complicit makes you equally guilty to the party carrying out the crime.”
Israeli airstrikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip have killed almost 2,000 Palestinians so far, including 583 children. Israel has also cut off the territory from water, food and electricity.
The situation has led to fears of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe, with nowhere for Palestinians to flee.
Blunt said: “What we’re not allowed (to do) is witness one crime being piled on with another, which is going to make the situation worse but is also fundamentally wrong.
“This has got to stop. If in response to the (Hamas) atrocity of last Saturday is an illegal atrocity that is even worse in scale — where does this lead?”
Blunt’s comments come as Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, criticized the UK for giving Israel “carte blanche to do whatever it pleases.”
She told Sky News: “Look at the annexation that has been announced officially this year of large swathes of the West Bank.
“Has anyone reacted to this? Not that I know of, other than in words and half-mouthed condemnations here and there.”
On October 7, Gaza broke out of prison
What the images of the Gaza border fence coming down meant for Palestinians.
Mariam Barghouti
Palestinian American writer based in Ramallah
In the early morning hours of Saturday, October 7, Palestinians across the West Bank woke up to the sound of explosions.
No one really knew what was happening until reports started trickling in that fighters from Gaza had taken control of Beit Hanoun crossing – the only one through which Gaza residents may reach the rest of historic Palestine on the extremely rare occasions the occupier allows them to.
Soon information appeared on social media that the wall that Israel had erected around the Gaza Strip to keep its 2.3 million people permanently imprisoned had been breached.
And then came the images and footage of the broken wall. In one video, showing a bulldozer bringing down the wall, a Palestinian man can be heard chanting in exhilaration: “Yes, go! Allahu Akbar [God is the Greatest]! Hit it, guys! Rest in peace, wall!”
It was unbelievable. It felt surreal. We wondered how it was possible that the people of Gaza had broken out of their prison.
Few in the world would understand our feelings in that moment. Perhaps political prisoners might.
The vast majority of the Palestinian population remaining in historic Palestine has been born in prison and only knows prison. Gaza is completely sealed off from the rest of the world by Israel’s apartheid wall and subjected to a debilitating siege, in which its neighbour Egypt happily partakes.
In the occupied West Bank, all entry and exit points of every Palestinian village, town, and city are controlled by the Israeli occupation forces; Palestinians – unlike the Israeli settlers stealing their land – have no freedom of movement.
Our imprisonment also features prison labour. With the Israeli occupation suffocating the Palestinian economy and the resulting high unemployment rate, Palestinians are forced to seek work from their prison wardens. The Israeli authorities, of course, strictly control this process, issuing Palestinians “work permits” and often arbitrarily revoking them.
As in a real prison, we are also subjected to round-the-clock surveillance through cameras in public places, drones, the tapping of phones and telecommunications, a network of infiltrators and spies, etc.
And of course, just like prisoners, we are “punished” for “misbehaving”. In Gaza, punishment means indiscriminate bombardment of densely populated areas that always results in the mass killing of civilians.
In the West Bank, we are subjected to “search-and-arrest raids” on a nightly basis, where occupiers invade our homes, brutalise our loved ones in front of terrified children and take them away (sometimes the children themselves) to detain them indefinitely without charge. Shooting dead Palestinian civilians in those raids is, of course, a regular occurrence.
In this context, seeing those images and videos of the prison wall torn down in Gaza is liberating. Their symbolic power cannot be overstated.
We felt the same exhilaration back in 2021 when we heard the news that six Palestinian political prisoners had broken out of Israeli prison. They had dug a tunnel out of jail using spoons, pieces of metal, and loads of patience.
That prison break became an emblem of Palestinian perseverance. Palestinians cheered on the prisoners as they evaded their prison wardens for days. We celebrated their simple acts of savouring freedom – eating a prickly pear for the first time in 20 years, hugging a cow, walking in the hills of Nazareth. We breathed freedom with them, as if we were also free.
The liberating feeling of breaking out of prison has also come from our brave imprisoned hunger strikers. In 2011, Khader Adnan, who had been detained by the Israelis on and off without a charge for a decade, started a hunger strike against yet another unjust detention. He was joined by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Despite threats and mistreatment, he persevered until enough pressure built up and Israel was forced to release him. We also celebrated Adnan’s freedom as if it were our own.
These brief moments of rupture in our reality of imprisonment are at once terrifying and exhilarating. Of course, they are always short-lived – brief instances of Palestinian triumph before the unbearable weight of Israeli military domination comes back crushing us.
The initial euphoria of seeing the apartheid wall come down in Gaza was quickly overtaken by the terrifying realisation of what would come next.
We knew war broke out the moment Palestinians in Gaza broke out of their Israeli prison. My conversations with peers and friends, my group chats, phone calls – all were dominated by the same dark premonition: “They are going to kill us all.”
We know, from direct experience, what Israel’s policy of revenge means. We also know that no matter what savagery its army commits, the West would “stand by” it and point to “Palestinian crimes”.
Israel had waged five wars on Gaza, each time mass killing Palestinian civilians as Western leaders justified the slaughter with the familiar mantra “Israel has the right to defend itself.”
And of course, that is exactly what is happening now. Israel is carpet bombing Gaza. It has imposed a full blockade on Gaza, with no water, electricity, food or medicine entering the Strip. Telecommunications infrastructure has been bombarded, effectively cutting off Palestinians in Gaza from the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the West Bank has been completely blocked; checkpoints closed all across, effectively paralysing the whole territory. Israeli soldiers are shooting Palestinians and encouraging settlers to do so as well.
And yet, the West is “standing by” its ally, Israel, and its “right to defend itself” from the people it brutally occupies and oppresses. Western nations are lapping up Israeli propaganda, that it is fighting “Islamic terrorism”, that “Hamas is ISIS”, that Palestinians are “sub-human”, that they are “beheading babies”. All pretences of morality, logic and truth have been dropped in order to justify the mass killing of Palestinians.
In the past seven days, the Israeli army has killed more than 2,200 Palestinians in Gaza, including 600 children. Its soldiers have murdered at least 53 Palestinians in the West Bank. Since the start of the year, 250 others have been killed, making it the most lethal year since the United Nations began documenting fatalities in 2004-2005.
All of this we expected. All of this still is painful and horrifying. All of this will go down into Palestinian history as yet another episode of resistance by the Palestinians and mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing by Israel.
However, unlike other moments in Palestinian history, something is different this time. Not only did Palestinians manage to break free from their prison in Gaza – albeit for a short while – but also for the first time, they dealt a blow that will have a far-reaching impact.
The Palestinians have struck Israel where it has struck Palestinians for more than 75 years: lives and land. The Israeli arrogance and sense of security that it can oppress, kill and steal land with impunity have been shattered.
We’ve been held hostage by Israel for decades. We’ve been prisoners in our land for generations. But this October, the wimpy kid finally got his punch and the bully is now shaken.
As our oppressors are out killing indiscriminately in blind rage, an uncomfortable feeling is creeping in among them that the prison they are holding us in is starting to crumble.
The UN agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, says it is no longer able to help the more than two million people trapped in the Gaza Strip.
“Gaza is running out of water, and Gaza is running out of life. Soon, I believe, with this, there will be no food or medicine either,” Unrwa Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement. “In fact, Gaza is being strangled and it seems that the world right now has lost its humanity.”
At least 14 Unrwa staff members have been killed and most of their 13,000-person staff in Gaza are displaced or out of their homes, he added.
“There is not one drop of water, not one grain of wheat, not a litre of fuel that has been allowed into the Gaza Strip for the last eight days,” he said.
“The number of people seeking shelter in our schools and other Unrwa facilities in the south is absolutely overwhelming, and we do not have any more the capacity to deal with them.”
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This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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