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Friday 28 August 2015

EVERYTHING GLORIFIES HIM. Do We?



The One And Only!
Everything Glorifies Him.
Do We?

(M. Javed Naseem)


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We have neither Protector nor
any Friend other than Him.
He is our only Sustainer. So,
be honest & sincere to Him!

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سَبَّحَ لِلَّهِ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلأَرْضِ
وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ
“Whatever is in the heavens and on earth,
let it declare the Praises and Glory of Allah,
for He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.”
(al-Quran 59:1)


Everything in the heavens, on the earth and in between, glorifies Allah, the Supreme Creator, the Cherisher and the Sustainer of all. The only creation that strays and falters, is the Humans and the Jinn. These are the two that are given a choice, liberty and freedom. Hence the abuse!

قُلْ مَن رَّبُّ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلأَرْضِ قُلِ ٱللَّهُ
قُلْ أَفَٱتَّخَذْتُمْ مِّن دُونِهِ أَوْلِيَآءَ لاَ يَمْلِكُونَ
لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ نَفْعاً وَلاَ ضَرّاً قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِى
ٱلأَعْمَىٰ وَٱلْبَصِيرُ أَمْ هَلْ تَسْتَوِى ٱلظُّلُمَاتُ
وَٱلنُّورُ أَمْ جَعَلُواْ لِلَّهِ شُرَكَآءَ خَلَقُواْ كَخَلْقِهِ
فَتَشَابَهَ ٱلْخَلْقُ عَلَيْهِمْ قُلِ ٱللَّهُ خَالِقُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
وَهُوَ ٱلْوَاحِدُ ٱلْقَهَّارُ
“Say: Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the
heavens and the earth?" Say: "(It is) Allah!
Say: Do you then take (for worship) protectors
other than Him, such as have no power either
for good or for harm to themselves? Say: Are
the blind equal with those who see? Or the
depths of darkness equal with light? Or do
they assign to Allah partners who have
created (anything) as He has created, so that
the creation seemed to them similar? Say:
Allah is the Creator of all things. He is
the One, the Supreme and Irresistible."
(al-Quran 13:16)

Man is full of hypocrisy. When you ask him about his Creator, he would mention God (or Allah) right away. But when it comes to pay the due, he starts beating about the bush, looking for one excuse or the other. Then there are those shameless who don’t have any excuse. They try to rationalize and justify their sinful disobedience. They know very well that it was disobedience to Allah that got Satan (the Devil) expelled from Paradise.

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Remember your Lord and he will
remember you! Be grateful to Him
for all His favors to you! Don’t deny
Him or reject Him, otherwise you’ll
become the fuel of Hellfire!

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There is a modern group of Unbelievers (or atheists) who are dishonest but clever enough to copy the basic principles of equality and social justice of Islam and present them (even to the Muslims) as a “secular’ agenda! They are playing games to their own benefit. They cannot fool people who have the knowledge, they are fooling themselves. Allah is watching them as they are on trial too.

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَٱلْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ
أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْغَفُورُ
“He Who has created Death and Life, that
He may try which of you is best in deeds; and
He is the Exalted in Might, Oft-Forgiving”
                                    (al-Quran 67:2)
 

There are signs of Allah’s Creation everywhere, around us, on us, below us, within us and above us in the skies. Only the deniers cannot see them (because they don’t want to see them). Denying these signs means denying Allah, and those who deny or reject Him, their abode is Hellfire.

فَٱذْكُرُونِيۤ أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَٱشْكُرُواْ لِى وَلاَ تَكْفُرُونِ
“Then you remember Me;
I will remember you. Be grateful
to Me, and reject not Faith (Me).”
(al-Quran 2:152)

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِآيَاتِ ٱللَّهِ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ
وَٱللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ ذُو ٱنْتِقَامٍ
“Then those who reject Faith in the
Signs of Allah will suffer the severest
penalty, and Allah is Exalted in Might,
Lord of Retribution.”
(al-Quran 3:4)

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَن تُغْنِىَ عَنْهُمْ أَمْوَالُهُمْ وَلاَ أَوْلاَدُهُم
مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْئاً وَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمْ وَقُودُ ٱلنَّار
“Those who reject Faith, neither their
possessions nor their (numerous) progeny
will avail them aught against Allah. They
are themselves but fuel for the Fire.”
(al-Quran 3:10)

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“And it is certain that without faith it is
impossible for any one to please God.”
--- (Jesus Christ)
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Allah invites us to ponder over His signs; he tells us to think and reflect; use our brains and intellect. Today, when modern scientific research is exploring the universe, unearthing the secrets and producing the undeniable solid evidence to the fact that God (Allah) exists and He is the One Who is running the show, there is no logic or reason to deny Him. All power, glory and praise is due to Him. So why don’t we think; why don’t we reflect?
وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمْ مَّا فِى ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلأَرْضِ
جَمِيعاً مِّنْهُ إِنَّ فِى ذٰلِكَ َلآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
“And He has subjected to you, as from
Him, all that is in the heavens and on
earth. Behold, in that are Signs indeed
for those who reflect.”
(al-Quran 45:13)

Here are a few verses (42-45) of Surah an-Noor (the Light) from the Holy Quran for your review. Hopefully you’ll see the light and get the guidance. Insha-Allah.

وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلأَرْضِ وَإِلَىٰ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمَصِيرُ
“Yeah, to Allah belongs the dominion
of the heavens and the earth; and to Allah
is the final return (of all).”
(al-Quran 24:42)

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُزْجِى سَحَاباً ثُمَّ يُؤَلِّفُ بَيْنَهُ
ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُ رُكَاماً فَتَرَى ٱلْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ
مِنْ خِلاَلِهِ وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مِن جِبَالٍ
فِيهَا مِن بَرَدٍ فَيُصِيبُ بِهِ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَصْرِفُهُ
عَن مَّن يَشَآءُ يَكَادُ سَنَا بَرْقِهِ يَذْهَبُ بِٱلأَبْصَارِ
“See you not that Allah makes the clouds
move gently, then joins them together, then
makes them into a heap? Then will you see
rain issue forth from their midst. And He
sends down from the sky mountain masses
(of clouds) wherein is hail. He strikes therewith
whom He pleases and He turns it away from
whom He pleases; the vivid flash of His
lightning well-nigh blinds the sight.”
(al-Quran 24:43)

يُقَلِّبُ ٱللَّهُ ٱللَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ إِنَّ فِى ذٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً ِلأُوْلِى ٱلأَبْصَارِ
“It is Allah Who alternates the Night and
the Day. Verily in these things is an instructive
example for those who have vision!”
(al-Quran 24:44)


وَٱللَّهُ خَلَقَ كُلَّ دَآبَّةٍ مِّن مَّآءٍ فَمِنْهُمْ مَّن
يَمْشِى عَلَىٰ بَطْنِهِ وَمِنهُمْ مَّن يَمْشِى عَلَىٰ
رِجْلَيْنِ وَمِنْهُمْ مَّن يَمْشِى عَلَىٰ أَرْبَعٍ يَخْلُقُ ٱللَّهُ
مَا يَشَآءُ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
”And Allah has created every animal from
water. Of them there are some that creep
on their bellies; some that walk on two
legs; and some that walk on four. Allah
creates what He wills, for verily,
Allah has power over all things.”
(al-Quran 24:45)

We are supposed to glorify the name of Allah through His remembrance and prayer. It was an obligation for the previous nations (Jews and Christians) and by the same token it’s an obligation for us Muslims too. Even the preconditions are the same: Honesty, sincerity and devotion.

No Lip Service!
No Hypocrisy!

“… Yet no less does the man who goes to make prayer and prepares not himself. He turns his back to God and his face to Satan, and speaks well of him. For in his heart is the love of iniquity, whereof he has not repented. If one, having injured you, should with his lips say to you, “Forgive me”, and with his hands should strike you a blow, how would you forgive him?  Even so shall God have mercy on those who with their lips say: “Lord! Have mercy on us”, and with their heart love iniquity and think on fresh sins.” – Jesus Christ
(From the Gospel of Barnabas)

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Friday 21 August 2015

THE LAST CRUSADE And The Muslim Genocide



This Is The WW-III
The Last Crusade!

Humanity is being trampled by
the champions of human rights.
Terror and fear is being spread
in the name of ‘War on Terror’.
Islamophobia is being used to
mobilize and motivate crusaders.


The Muslim Genocide
Apartheid’s New Mask:
Islamophobia

(M. Javed Naseem)


A New York Court hears how a man was building an X-ray gun to kill all Muslims from the back of his van to 'help Jews get rid of their enemies'.
Secret audio was played in a New York court Tuesday in which Glendon Crawford, 49, discussed technical aspects of his Muslim-killing ray gun.  - (Courtesy: dailymail.co.uk)

(X-ray gun: Crawford's alleged plot involved remotely firing a death ray that would kill victims with radiation poisoning weeks later, a plot officials say may have worked. Courtesy: dailymail.co.uk)

(On trial: Crawford, seen here in 2013, is accused of trying to assemble a mobile X-ray device meant to kill people at a mosque and an Islamic center. His trial began Monday in Albany, New York. Courtesy: dailymail.co.uk)
 

وَٱلَّذينَ كَفَرُواْ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَآءُ بَعْضٍ إِلاَّ
تَفْعَلُوهُ تَكُنْ فِتْنَةٌ فِى ٱلأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ
“The Unbelievers are protectors, one of
another, and unless you do this, (protect
each other), there would be tumult and
oppression on earth, and great mischief.”
(al-Quran 8:73)

We were warned but we didn’t care. We trusted those who betrayed us again and again. We didn’t care about Allah’s warnings in the Quran because we didn’t want to annoy our unbelieving friends and masters. And it was ‘out of fashion’ too. Now those ‘friends’ have become ‘foes’ and we have nowhere to go, nobody to turn to.

Despite all the cover-ups, the campaign of lies and deceptions has been exposed. Most nations of the world know fully well now who is behind all those war games to gain the total control of the world. It’s all about the hegemony of the world while the world is being fooled with words like democracy, human rights, women’s rights, safety and security. The blood of innocent Muslims and minorities is being spilled and the aggressors are chanting the songs of ‘war on terror’ – for the terror and fear they created themselves.

At the time of Iraqi invasion, George Bush used the term “crusade” and crusade means a Christian religious war. This crusade is going on against Muslim countries of the world, especially the Middle East. There is no doubt about it. The powerful have joined hands to crush the weak and plunder their wealth. Nimrod did the same thing; Goliath did the same thing, Pharaoh did the same thing, and so did the Romans. And they all had the same ending – humiliation and Hellfire.

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّواْ
عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ
حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوۤاْ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ
“The Unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder
(man) from the path of Allah, and so will they
continue to spend; but in the end they will have
(only) regrets and sighs. At length they will
be overcome, and the Unbelievers will be
gathered together to Hell.”
(al-Quran 8:36)

In this campaign of terror and fear, Muslims are bearing the brunt. Why? Because they are far from Islam; they are not true Muslims. They are Muslim by name only. They are following the atheists, the hypocrites and the secular. They have abandoned God and, in return, God has abandoned them. In this situation when, due to disobedience, we don’t belong to Allah, how can we expect Allah to intervene on our behalf? Allah tells us very clearly: Remember Me, I’ll remember you!
Allah will not change our condition unless we try to change it ourselves.

ذٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمْ يَكُ مُغَيِّراً نِّعْمَةً أَنْعَمَهَا عَلَىٰ قَوْمٍ
حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ
"Because Allah will never change the grace
which He has bestowed on a people until they
change what is in their (own) souls. And verily,
Allah is He Who hears and knows (all things)."
(al-Quran 8:53)

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ
وَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ سُوۤءًا فَلاَ مَرَدَّ لَهُ
وَمَا لَهُمْ مِّن دُونِهِ مِن وَالٍ
“… Allah does not change the condition of
a people unless they change what is in their
hearts. But when (once) Allah wills a people's
punishment, there can be no turning it back,
nor will they find, besides Him, any protector.”
(al-Quran 13:11)

The present leaders of the Muslim world are nothing but stooges, pimps and pawns. They, in particular, and Muslim Ummah in general, are responsible for the plight and misery of Muslim population of the world. Allah keeps sending them warning signs but nobody pays attention.   

وَأَنِـيبُوۤاْ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمْ وَأَسْلِمُواْ لَهُ مِن قَبْلِ
أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ ثُمَّ لاَ تُنصَرُونَ
"Turn to your Lord (in repentance) and
bow to His (Will), before the Penalty comes
on you. After that you shall not be helped.”
(al-Quran 39:54)

Faith is power because the true Faith (Islam) comes from God (Allah) Almighty. And when you put your trust in God (Allah), He never lets you down. He helps you and protects you. Remember the battle between David and Goliath? The size and power does not matter.

وَلَمَّا بَرَزُواْ لِجَالُوتَ وَجُنُودِهِ قَالُواْ رَبَّنَآ أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا
صَبْراً وَثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَنَا وَٱنْصُرْنَا عَلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلْكَافِرِينَ
فَهَزَمُوهُمْ بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُدُ جَالُوتَ
“When they advanced to meet Goliath and
his forces, they prayed: ‘Our Lord! Pour out
constancy on us and make our steps firm!
Help us against those that reject faith!’
By Allah's will they routed them;
and David slew Goliath.”
(al-Quran 2:250-51)

Remember the battle of Badr? The numbers and odds don’t matter! When you live by Allah’s rules, He bestows His mercy upon you. He helps you and protects you. And He is the Best Protector!

يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِئُواْ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَىٰ ٱللَّهُ
إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْكَافِرُونَ       
“Fain would they extinguish Allah's light
with their mouths, but Allah will not allow
but that His light should be perfected, even
though the Unbelievers may detest (it).”
(al-Quran 9:32)

O Muslims of the world! Have you not prepared for the worst yet? What are you waiting for? This is the World War-III, the last Crusade! The enemy is destroying you, your culture, your countries, your children and your future! And you are wasting precious time chasing women or chatting on FB. What a shameless and lamentable attitude in the face of Muslim genocide at the hands of the West! Stand up, get united, help each other but don’t do anything stupid! They already have enough excuses to bomb you. And when they don’t have one, they make one. Your only hope is Allah. So try to get closer to Allah!

وَمَا جَعَلَهُ ٱللَّهُ إِلاَّ بُشْرَىٰ وَلِتَطْمَئِنَّ بِهِ قُلُوبُكُمْ
وَمَا ٱلنَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
“Allah made it but a message of hope, and
an assurance to your hearts; (in any case)
there is no help except from Allah. And
Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.”
(al-Quran 8:10)

The saying goes: First deserve then desire! We can ask Allah for help but we should qualify for that first. If we try to please Allah only then we merit His help and blessings.

وَجَاهِدُوا فِى ٱللَّهِ حَقَّ جِهَادِهِ هُوَ ٱجْتَبَاكُمْ
وَمَا جَعَلَ عَلَيْكمْ فِى ٱلدِّينِ مِنْ حَرَجٍ مِّلَّةَ
أَبِيكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ هُوَ سَمَّاكُمُ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ
مِن قَبْلُ وَفِى هَـٰذَا لِيَكُونَ ٱلرَّسُولُ شَهِيداً
عَلَيْكُمْ وَتَكُونُواْ شُهَدَآءَ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ
فَأَقِيمُواْ ٱلصَّلواَةَ وَآتُواْ ٱلزَّكَواةَ وَٱعْتَصِمُواْ
بِٱللَّهِ هُوَ مَوْلاَكُمْ فَنِعْمَ ٱلْمَوْلَىٰ وَنِعْمَ ٱلنَّصِيرُ
“And strive in His cause as you ought to
strive, (with sincerity and under discipline).
He has chosen you, and has imposed no
difficulties on you in religion - it is the cult
of your father Abraham. It is He Who has
named you Muslims, both before and in this
(Revelation), that the Messenger may be a
witness for you, and you be witnesses for
mankind! So establish regular Prayer, give
regular Charity, and hold fast to Allah!
He is your Protector - the Best to protect
and the Best to help!”
(al-Quran 22:78)

(Afghan villagers sit near the bodies of children who they said were killed during a NATO air strike in the Kunar province of Afghanistan. April 7, 2013. (Reuters)

4 Million Muslims Killed
In Western Wars!
Should We Call It Genocide?


By Kit O’Connell, August 18, 2015
(From: MintPress News)


AUSTIN, Texas — It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be 4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accuse the United States and its allies of genocide?
A March report by ‘Physicians For Social Responsibility’ calculates the body count of the Iraq War at around 1.3 million, and possibly as many as 2 million. However, the number of those killed in Middle Eastern wars could be much higher. In April, investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed argued that the actual death toll could reach as high as 4 million if one includes not just those killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the victims of the sanctions against Iraq, which left about 1.7 million more dead, half of them children, according to figures from the United Nations.

The definition of genocide:
The term “genocide” did not exist prior to 1943, when it was coined by a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin created the word by combining the Greek root “geno,” which means people or tribe, with “-cide,” derived from the Latin word for killing.

In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the convention in 1948, although it would take three more years for enough countries to sign the convention, allowing it to be ratified. According to this convention, genocide is defined as:

“…any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Under the convention, genocide is not merely defined as a deliberate act of killing, but can include a broad range of other harmful activities:

“Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group includes the deliberate deprivation of resources needed for the group’s physical survival, such as clean water, food, clothing, shelter or medical services. Deprivation of the means to sustain life can be imposed through confiscation of harvests, blockade of foodstuffs, detention in camps, forcible relocation or expulsion into deserts.”

It can also include forced sterilization, forced abortion, prevention of marriage or the transfer of children out of their families. In 2008, the U.N. expanded the definition to acknowledge that “rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide.”


A Middle Eastern genocide:

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush employed a curious and controversial choice of words in one of his first speeches. He alarmed some by referencing historic, religious conflicts, as The Wall Street Journal staff writers Peter Waldman and Hugh Pope noted:

“President Bush vowed … to “rid the world of evil-doers,” then cautioned: “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.”

Crusade? In strict usage, the word describes the Christian military expeditions a millennium ago to capture the Holy Land from Muslims. But in much of the Islamic world, where history and religion suffuse daily life in ways unfathomable to most Americans, it is shorthand for something else: a cultural and economic Western invasion that, Muslims fear, could subjugate them and desecrate Islam.”

In the wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. not only killed millions, but systematically destroyed the infrastructure necessary for healthy, prosperous life in those countries, then used rebuilding efforts as opportunities for profit, rather than to benefit the occupied populations. To further add to the genocidal pattern of behavior, there is ample evidence of torture and persistent rumors of sexual assault from the aftermath of Iraq’s fall. It appears likely the U.S. has contributed to further destabilization and death in the region by supporting the rise of the self-declared ISIS by arming rebel groups on all sides of the conflict.


(You can kill as many Muslims as you want but you cannot kill Islam! It was prescribed by God.)

After 9/11, the U.S. declared a global “War on Terror,” ensuring an endless cycle of destabilization and wars in the Middle East in the process. The vast majority of the victims of these wars, and of ISIS, are Muslims. And, as extremist terrorists created by the unrest increase tensions with their attacks on the West, some Americans are embracing Bush’s controversial language of religious warfare, calling for Muslims to be placed in camps or even openly calling for genocide.

(Kit O'Connell is a gonzo journalist from Austin, Texas, a Daily Staff Writer for MintPress News, and Associate Editor of Shadowproof.)
(Courtesy: www.mintpressnews.com/4-million-muslims-killed-in-western-wars-should-we-call-it-genocide/208711)


Jesse Ventura: Off The Grid


Jesse Ventura To Jeb Bush:
“You Can't Be President
If You're A War Criminal!”

By Off The Grid on August 18, 2015

The Guardian reports that Jeb Bush has refused to end the United State's use of torture if he becomes president. He says he doesn’t want to make ‘a definitive, blanket type of statement’ when it comes to torture. 
Jeb Bush, this is an outrage! You have opened yourself up to be a war criminal.
You're just another person that never served in the military so he doesn’t know a thing about it. You're making it so that other countries will then torture our soldiers too. If torture is allowed, then we’re going to get tortured too.
I always thought that the United States was above all that, but I guess your brother already showed me that we’re not. We’re willing to stoop so low that we will use torture.
You're essentially saying that you would consider using torture. This should completely disqualify you from the running. The President of the United States should not be a war criminal.
-Jesse Ventura

From: 5 Pillars
Is ISIS the
‘unintentional consequences’
of the illegal US-led war in Iraq?

How significant was the US-led war in Iraq in facilitating the emergence of ISIS, Dilly Hussain asks. 

In a recent interview with Shane Smith, the founder of VICE News, President Barack Obama said: “ISIL is a direct outgrowth of Al Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion, which is an example of unintended consequences.” This admission is evidence of the general causality between Western military interventionism in the Muslim world, and the rise of reactionary armed militia groups. In this particular case, the US-led invasion of Iraq undoubtedly paved the way for the rise of the self-professed ‘Islamic State’, better known as ISIS. Depending on who highlights this “unintended consequence” when commenting on recent events in Iraq and Syria, it is usually given very little importance or completely dismissed. Understandably, the pro-war policy makers in Washington and London who orchestrated the invasion of a sovereign state based on false intelligence, would rather focus on how to “degrade and destroy” the monster they created, as opposed to acknowledging fault and accepting blame.

Western forces invaded Iraq on false intelligence and charges of possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in 2003.
Furthermore, it appears from numerous public statements that President Obama conveniently deflects the decisions made by his predecessor, George W Bush, when questioned about ISIS, by disregarding America’s problematic foreign policy in the Middle East, to shifting the attention exclusively to an extreme interpretation of Islam. This rhetoric is a pattern which has been overwhelmingly consistent with European leaders, some of whom were brothers-in-arms with the US when invading Iraq.

Like President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron also parrots the same narrative, ignoring the misdeeds of Tony Blair in failing to take the advice of the former head of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller, when she warned that the Iraq war would increase the domestic terror threat to the UK. Similarly, the Dutch and French governments amongst other European states, who have joined the 60-country coalition against ISIS, also prefer to blame “Islamic extremism”, instead of introspectively learning from their bloody colonial history in the Muslim world.


Video: Israeli Lobby Has Destroyed
The Political Careers Of Israel’s Critics

Author Max Blumenthal has been critical of the Israeli government’s military and political suppression of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, and his new book takes a look at the deadly siege in 2014 that left hundreds of Palestinians dead. Producer Priya Reddy spoke with the author recently and gives this report on his views about the war and the effect of the Israeli lobby on American politics.

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A comment by a reader:
Michael Francis

The Israeli lobby, Zionism and Judaism in general will attack and attempt to destroy anyone who threatens the bubble of lies and propaganda they need to survive and continue their crimes. The truest words in Judaism………
"To communicate anything with a Goy about our relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
Found in both the Torah and the Talmud on Jewish Virtual Library site.
The Zionist cult and its Rothschild/Bilderberg masters are going to choke on what they hate and fear most ……. THE  TRUTH.
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Thursday 13 August 2015

PAKISTAN: The Bumpy Road To Progress



Pakistan 1947 – 2015
Bumpy Road To Progress,
But The Climb Continues

(M. Javed Naseem)


August 14 commemorates the Independence anniversary of Pakistan. Today, Pakistan is the most advanced Islamic country in the world! Despite the road-blocks, it keeps marching on the road to progress. The road is bumpy and those bumps and blocks are created by international conspiracies, from across the border infiltrations, terror acts and subversive activities of disloyal elements, foreign agents and enemies of Islamic Republic who are trying to make Pakistan a secular or socialist state. But the positive climb continues.
Pakistan is the fortress of Islam. It was created in the name of Allah (‘La ilaha illa-Allah’ being its slogan) and it’s going to stay no matter how much effort the enemies of Islam are putting in to destroy it. It’s progressing at a normal pace. It’s the symbol of the ‘Light of Allah’ and the infidels or unbelievers cannot blow it out.

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“Pakistan has the fastest growing
Nuclear program in the world.
By 2020, the Islamic Republic
could have a stockpile of fissile
material that, if weaponized, could
produce as many as 200 nuclear devices,
roughly equivalent to the size of the
United Kingdom's nuclear arsenal.”

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Some say that Pakistan is facing political and economic instability due to some security issues and political infighting. But, at the same time, some Western experts see Pakistan’s march on the road to success pretty consistent and unstoppable. Even in the political arena of Europe and America, people with Pakistani origin are advancing.

Pakistanis In British Parliament:

2015 is a remarkable year! A record number of 42 non-white MPs were elected in recent British parliamentary elections, many from white majority areas. That number includes 10 members of Pakistani origin, 10 of Indian origin and 3 of Bangladeshi origin.

Somebody said that it was an eye-opener for PTI Government in KPP for not allowing women to cast their votes in the recent bye-election held in Dir (north Pakistan).

The 10 MPs of Pakistani origin are:
1. Former Pakistani TV actress Tasmeena Shaikh, representing the Scottish National Party.
2. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labour Party from Bolton South East.
3. Labour Party’s Naz Shah, a 41-year-old disability rights campaigner who defeated her left-wing rival popularly nicknamed “Gorgeous George” Galloway from Bradford West. Naz has an incredible life story of her own. She was brought up in poverty, taken to Pakistan to escape domestic abuse and then forcibly married. Shah's mother ended up killing her abusive partner and going to jail after suffering a long time in silence.
4. Imran Hussain was also elected on the Labour Party ticket.
5. Sadiq Khan of the British Labour Party was elected from Tooting.
6-7. Shabana Mehmood and Khalid Mehmood were elected from Manchester.
8-10. Weldone's Conservative candidate Nusrat Ghani (8), Gillingham & Rainham's Conservative candidate Rehman Chishti (9), and Bromsgrove's Conservative candidate Sajid Javed (10) were also elected.

Pakistan Is Progressing!

(Pak-China Economic Corridor: A $46billion mega-project of 3,000km network of highways, railways and pipelines from Gawadar to Kashgar to make Pakistan richer and stronger than ever before, a strategic game-changer. Construction began in 2015)
Pakistan could have
200 nuclear weapons by 2020.

Here's a report broadcast by the German TV/Radio giant Deutsche Welle (The Voice of Germany):
While many states are downsizing their nuclear stockpiles, Asia is witnessing a buildup. Pakistan, located in a region "most at risk of a breakdown," has the fastest-growing nuclear program, as Gregory Koblentz tells DW (Deutsche Welle).

In a report released by the US-based Council on Foreign Relations titled Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age, author Gregory D. Koblentz, an expert on arms control and non-proliferation, identifies South Asia as the region "most at risk of a breakdown in strategic stability due to an explosive mixture of unresolved territorial disputes, cross-border terrorism, and growing nuclear arsenals."

In this context, Pakistan has the fastest-growing nuclear program in the world. And as Koblentz says in a DW interview, by 2020, the Islamic Republic could have a stockpile of fissile material that, if weaponized, could produce as many as two hundred nuclear devices, roughly equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom's nuclear arsenal.

The only four countries currently expanding their nuclear arsenals are China, India, Pakistan and North Korea. Although each nation's buildup is motivated by different reasons, the combination makes Asia the center of a new nuclear arms race.

India and Pakistan's slow-motion arms race picked up speed in 1998 when both countries conducted multiple nuclear tests. The ensuing nuclear and missile buildup by both countries shows no signs of abating. Last month, Pakistan tested two missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads: the 900-kilometer range Shaheen-1A (Hatf-IV) and the 1,500-kilometer range Shaheen 2 (Hatf-VI).

Altogether, Pakistan has deployed or is developing eleven different nuclear delivery systems including ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft. India is also fielding an increasingly capable array of ballistic and cruise missiles to complement its nuclear-capable aircraft. Both states are also expanding their capacity for producing highly enriched uranium and plutonium, the two key materials needed to produce nuclear weapons.
Since their nuclear tests in 1998, India and Pakistan have fought one low-intensity war (the 1999 Kargil War) and experienced two serious crises spurred by terrorist attacks (allegedly) launched from Pakistan (the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and the 2008 Mumbai attack). The geographic proximity of the two countries complicates crisis management since the flight times of ballistic missiles is measured in minutes. Finally, while both states claim to seek only a credible minimum nuclear deterrent, regional dynamics have driven them to pursue an array of nuclear and missile capabilities.

After the 1999 Kargil War, India developed a new doctrine of rapid, limited conventional military operations designed to punish Pakistan but remain below Pakistan's presumed nuclear threshold.
In response, Pakistan has begun deploying tactical nuclear weapons, such as the Nasr (Hatf-IX) short-range ballistic missile, to deter even limited Indian military intervention. Since the conventional military imbalance between India and Pakistan is expected to grow thanks to India's larger economy and higher gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, Pakistan's reliance on nuclear weapons to compensate for its conventional inferiority will likely be an enduring feature of the nuclear balance in South Asia.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Pakistan currently has enough fissile material, in the form of highly enriched uranium and plutonium, for about 100-120 nuclear weapons.
However, Pakistan is expanding its capability to produce even more weapons-grade material. By 2020, it could have sufficient weapons-grade uranium and plutonium to manufacture more than 200 nuclear weapons, roughly equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom's nuclear arsenal.

(JF-17 Thunder became the first indigenous combat aircraft produced by Pakistan)
Although Pakistan initially focused on the uranium route to nuclear weapons, in recent years it has focused more on the plutonium pathway. Pakistan currently has three reactors at the Khushab nuclear site, 200 kilometers south of Islamabad, capable of producing enough plutonium for six to seven nuclear weapons a year.
In addition, Pakistan is constructing a fourth reactor at this site and expanding its ability to reprocess the spent fuel from these reactors to obtain additional plutonium. Once all four reactors and associated reprocessing facilities are complete, Pakistan will be able to produce an estimated 10-12 bombs-worth of plutonium a year.
The next crisis between India and Pakistan could be sparked by a cross-border military incursion, a mass-casualty terrorist attack, or a high-profile assassination. The growth of nuclear and missile capabilities on the subcontinent since 1998 has increased the risk that such a crisis could escalate in unforeseen and dangerous ways.
As India and Pakistan deploy new nuclear forces, such as cruise missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, and sea-based nuclear missiles, new challenges to crisis stability, deterrence, and command and control will arise. If India and Pakistan don't change their current trajectory, a nuclear crisis, or even worse, is likely to occur.

(Gregory Koblentz is an Associate Professor in the School of Policy, Government and International Affairs at George Mason University and author of the Council on Foreign Relations report, "Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age.")
(Courtesy: DW Germany)

Pakistan’s Golden Era:
(From: Wikipedia)

Between 27 October 1958 and 25 March 1969 under Ayub Khan, Pakistan’s economic growth averaged 5.82% during his eleven years in office as President. Manufacturing growth in Pakistan during this time was 8.51%, far outpacing any other time in Pakistani history. It was the time when Pakistan first got an automobile industry, a cement industry and few other heavy manufacturing industries. However tax collection was low averaging less than 10% of GDP. The Export Bonus Vouchers Scheme (1959) and tax incentives stimulated new industrial entrepreneurs and exporters. Bonus vouchers facilitated access to foreign exchange for imports of industrial machinery and raw materials.

(President Muhammad Ayub Khan with Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy)
Tax concessions were offered for investment in less-developed areas. These measures had important consequences in bringing industry to Punjab and gave rise to a new class of small industrialists.
Land reform, consolidation of holdings, and stern measures against hoarding were combined with rural credit programs and work programs, higher procurement prices, augmented allocations for agriculture, and, especially, improved seeds were introduced as part of the Green Revolution. However, academics have argued that that while the HYV technology enabled a sharp acceleration in agricultural growth, it was accompanied by social polarization and increased inter personal and inter regional inequality.

(Tarbela Dam, 50km from Islamabad, on the Indus river in Pakistan, is the largest earth filled dam in the world, second largest by structural volume. It was constructed in 1968)
During the same period there was construction of several infrastructure projects (notably Tarbela Dam and Mangla Dam), including canals, dams and power stations, began Pakistan's space program.

(Rehbar was series of sounding rocket launches into the upper atmosphere and the edge of space. Rehbar-I was the first rocket launched by Pakistan's Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), on 7th June 1962. Rehbar-I was a two-staged solid fuel rocket. Various Rehbar sounding rocket models were launched 200 times between 1962 and 1972)
In 1959 the country began the construction of its new capital city – Islamabad. A Greek firm of architects, Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, designed the master plan of the city based on a grid plan which was triangular in shape with its apex towards the Margalla Hills. The capital was not moved directly from Karachi to Islamabad; it was first shifted temporarily to Rawalpindi in the early sixties and then to Islamabad when the essential development work was completed in 1966.

(Beautiful Islamabad - The capital of Pakistan)

1980s-1999: Era of
Privatization and Stagnation:


According to Sushil Khanna, professor at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, the Pakistani economy under President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq benefited from a number of special factors, both domestic and external. The completion of the long gestation period Tarbela Dam helped unleash an unprecedented agricultural growth, while fertilizer and cement investments contributed to the industrial growth.

Tremendous boost to economic activity was provided by rising worker remittances, which rose to a peak of US $3 billion in 1982-83. In 1982-83, these remittances were equivalent to 10% of the gross national product of Pakistan. Zia also successfully negotiated with USA for larger external assistance, unprecedented in the history of Pakistan.
(Spread over 1700 acres (about 7square km) Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, is the top university in Pakistan. It was constructed in 1967 and has currently 7,800 students enrolled)
In addition to direct assistance to Pakistan, the United States and allies funneled about US $5–7 billion to the Afghan Mujahedins through Pakistan, providing further boost to the local economy. Similarly, the narcotic trade which gathered momentum in the 1980s strongly supported the service sector of the economy. Under Zia, the economic policies became market oriented. Buoyant remittances and aid eased the foreign exchange constraints on the economy.
As an aftermath of the 1990 general elections, the right-wing conservatives under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif came to power for the first time in the history of Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif struck the stagflation with full force after forcefully implementing the Privatization and economic liberalization programs. The stagflation was temporarily ended in the country.
(Pakistan rolled out 4G in mobile communication in 2014, aiming to capitalize on over 140 million mobile phones in the country)
After returning to power with heavy margins, Nawaz Sharif made several attempts to end the stagflation in the country. Overall, the conditions had been worsened and a year after being elected, Sharif ordered the nuclear tests in a response to India's nuclear aggression. Despite the Asian financial crises in 1997 and Russian financial crises in 1998, and amid economic sanctions in the wake of nuclear tests, the foreign exchange increased to $1.5 billion, the stock market improved and inflation was contained at 3.5% as opposed to 7% in 1993-96.
(Pakistan developed first motorway in South Asia in 1997. Today it has been expanded to over 1,000km long operational network with another 1,500km planned for next 10 years)
Nawaz Sharif's second government restored the GDP growth to 3.49% in 1997, though inflation remained high at 11.80%. Little progress was made by Sharif in 1998, and his reforms only leveled up the GDP growth to 4.19%, while retaining the inflation and unemployment at 7.8%.

2000s: Economic Liberalization,
Growth and Re-stagnation

Under Shaukat Aziz’z government, the country's national economic growth improved at the rate range by 6.4% to 9.0% a year. All revenue collection targets were met on time for the first time in the history of Pakistan, and allocation for development was increased by about 40%. However, this economical success is attributed largely to debt reduction and securing of the billion dollars worth US aid to Pakistan in return for the support in the US-led war on terror.

Moreover, despite a series of internal and external distresses, economic situation of Pakistan improved significantly and reserves increased to US$10.7bn on 30th June 2004, as compared to US$1.2bn in October 1999. Exchange Rate became stable and predictable; the inflation rate dropped to 3.5% during the last 3 years as against 11–12% in 1990.
(Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, is Pakistan’s largest international and domestic airport. It is a regional aviation hub. In 2013, it handled more than 16million passengers (more than 44,000 daily), and 113,345 aircraft movements were registered)
The administration of Yousaf Raza Gillani oversaw the dramatic high rise in suicide, corruption, national security, high unemployment, and without the sustainable economic policies along with compilation of other factors, the country's economy re-entered in the ‘era of stagflation’ (a virtual period that country had seen in 1990s earlier). The Pakistan economy slowed down dramatically to ~4.09% as compared to 8.96%—9.0% presided under his predecessor, Shaukat Aziz in 2004–08; while the yearly growth rate has come down from a long-term average of 5.0% to ~2.0%, though it did not reached the negative level.

Since 2013:
Privatization and Liberalization

Nawaz Sharif inherited an economy crippled with many challenges including energy shortages, hyperinflation, mild economic growth, high debt and large budget deficit. Shortly after taking power in 2013, Sharif won a $6.6 billion loan from the IMF to avoid a balance-of-payments crisis. Lower oil prices, higher remittances and increased consumer spending are pushing growth toward a seven-year high of 4.3 percent in the fiscal year of FY-2014-15.

(A 1,000MW Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park was constructed in 2015 in Bahawalpur, 100MW operational today. It is the largest in the country, and once fully completed would be the largest in the world)
Pakistan's GDP growth rate for FY-2012-2013 was down to 3.59% with estimates suggesting that it will only reach 3.65% by the end of 2013. However, the government expects to increase it to 5.8% for FY-2014-2015. Business confidence in Pakistan is at a three-year high in May 2014 largely backed by increasing foreign reserves to $10b while it is expected that they will cross $15 billion by mid-2014. Along with that, in May 2014 the IMF claimed that Inflation has dropped to 13 per cent compared to 25% in 2008, foreign reserves are in a better position and the current account deficit has come down to 3 per cent of GDP for 2014. Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Corporation changed Pakistan's ranking to stable outlook on the long-term rating.

(Gawadar port project, one of the biggest in Asia, is under construction now)
On 5 May 2015, Standard & Poor’s revised projections for Pakistan's average real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for 2015 to 2017 to 4.6 per cent from 3.8 per cent and also upped its outlook on Pakistan's long-term 'B'-credit rating to ‘positive’ from ‘stable’. S&P attributes the largely positive projections to diversification in income generation, the government's efforts towards fiscal consolidation, improvement in external financing conditions and performance, and stronger capital inflows and remittances.
(Courtesy: Wikipedia.com)

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