Broaden counterterrorism focus

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Two major terrorism plots in the last few weeks highlight Pakistan's central role in addressing global terrorism -- a role that could become larger and more successful if officials in Washington and Islamabad make the right moves.
One of these plots -- a plan to blow up airline flights midair between the United Kingdom and the United States -- was thwarted because British, American and Pakistani security agencies worked together. The other -- a series of bombings July 11 that killed nearly 200 on commuter trains in Mumbai, India -- has been linked by Indian officials to a terrorist group operating in Pakistan.
Pakistani counterterrorism cooperation since September 11, 2001, has been critical in helping to degrade al Qaeda's ability to plan and execute catastrophic acts of terror. Islamabad has arrested several key al Qaeda leaders and conducted military operations in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Pakistani soldiers.
Even so, the airliner plot and the Mumbai bombings, both linked to Pakistan-based terrorist groups, should prompt U.S. policymakers to think more critically about how to work with Pakistan to address the increasing dangers of extremism and militancy in that country. Tackling these problems now will determine longer-term success in fighting global terrorism.
The U.S. must convince Pakistan to condemn use of violence for political objectives and to disrupt Pakistan-based groups that operate in Kashmir. Reports have emerged that one of the main figures involved in the airliner plot -- British citizen Rashid Rauf, arrested in Pakistan last week -- had been a member of a Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant group, the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM). Pakistan has officially banned domestic terrorist groups like JEM and the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LET, now referred to as Jamaat ul Dawa) but has taken little concrete action to stop their activities.
President Pervez Musharraf, victim of at least two assassination attempts, should understand the danger radical militant groups pose to his country. He continues to distinguish, however, between radical groups fighting in Kashmir and al Qaeda, in the apparent belief his country's interests are better served if he tackles the Kashmir groups gradually. Unfortunately, time is not on his side. The longer these groups exist, the more support they attract, the more radical they become, and the more they merge their ideology and operations with those of al Qaeda.
Pakistan's Aug. 9 arrest of LET leader Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed is a step in the right direction, but the government must keep pressuring these groups by shutting down their training camps, restricting their funding sources, confiscating their weapons and destroying their ability to propagate their extremist, violent message. Firm action against the LET would also help defuse tensions with India, which has repeatedly raised its concerns about the group and suspects it may even be linked to the Mumbai bombings. These moves will no doubt be politically challenging for Mr. Musharraf, but the Bush administration's landmark decision to sell the country F-16s is a significant demonstration of our support and gives Mr. Musharraf ammunition to respond to critics who question the benefits of an expanded relationship with the United States.
To improve Pakistani public opinion toward America, we need to structure our assistance programs in a way that demonstrates the U.S. supports improving the lives of average Pakistanis, and isn't merely trying to buy regime support for counterterrorism cooperation. U.S. economic assistance to Pakistan since September 11, 2001, has focused largely on debt relief and direct budget support, rather than on development projects that touch the grass-roots of society and democratic institution building.
The robust response of the U.S. government to the devastating earthquake that hit Pakistan on Oct. 8, 2005, shows how our assistance can help shape attitudes toward Americans. A poll by the nonprofit organization Terror Free Tomorrow indicates the number of Pakistanis with favorable views of the U.S. doubled from 23 percent in May 2005 to 46 percent in November 2005. Yet it shouldn't take a natural catastrophe for the Pakistani people to understand that the U.S. cares about them. We need to think more carefully about ways to influence public opinion through our multiyear, multibillion-dollar aid program.
To achieve more successes in the war on terrorism like the foiled airliner plot, the U.S. must continue robust, high-level engagement with Pakistan. One of the chief purposes should be to get Pakistan to crack down on domestic groups that propagate violence, undermine values of peace and moderation and support the destructive and hateful ideology of al Qaeda.
Without a broader view of countering terrorism, President Musharraf will not achieve his goal of an enlightened, moderate Pakistan -- and the civilized world will be likelier to suffer further acts of mass murder and destruction.

Lisa Curtis is a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060828-101133-9804r.htm

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any comments?

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To achieve more successes in the war on terrorism like the foiled airliner plot, the U.S. must continue robust, high-level engagement with Pakistan
among other things :D
Yes Pakistan has played a big part in some successes, but it has also played a big part in some disasters, such as the London transit bombings. Pakistan is teeming with ignorant and unstable people. A hundred kinds of political and religious violence are normal there. Gestures and handouts from the USA are not the whole solution.

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among other things :D
Yes Pakistan has played a big part in some successes, but it has also played a big part in some disasters, such as the London transit bombings. Pakistan is teeming with ignorant and unstable people. A hundred kinds of political and religious violence are normal there. Gestures and handouts from the USA are not the whole solution.
thats a point

[candypreet]

Heat on Pakistan, 'terrorism central'
Bruce Loudon, New Delhi
September 16, 2006
IT is mountainous country so remote and inhospitable that it has given Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants refuge, despite the unceasing efforts of the world's most potent and best-equipped intelligence services, using the most sophisticated methods, to track them down.
This is the tribal territory of Waziristan, on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, nominally part of Islamabad's Northwest Frontier Province, but in reality an area where even Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's soldiers now fear to tread.

For this, by all accounts, is the effective heart of the global war on terror. This is from where bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, together with the one-eyed Mullah Omar, notorious leader of the Taliban, are waging their offensive in Afghanistan.

Increasingly, Pakistan is "terrorism central", and as coalition forces in Afghanistan do battle in the southern provinces where the Taliban pose the greatest challenge, what is clear is that Islamabad is now central to the rapidly intensifying conflict there, just as it is to the war on terror being waged across the world.

And when in Havana, Cuba, yesterday General Musharraf sat down for a much-anticipated meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of India, what was clear was that the Pakistani military ruler is at the centre of a growing firestorm of controversy over just what role the country is playing in the fight against extremism.

Ironically, Musharraf, a Clint Eastwood fan, has titled his memoirs, to be released later this month, In the Line of Fire, and with even influential opinion-formers in Washington increasingly dubious about Pakistan's position, there is little doubt he is facing the heat as never before in the seven years since he seized power in Islamabad from the civilian government of Nawaz Sharif.

The Washington Post, in an editorial, criticised the deal between Musharraf and militants in Waziristan, the remote tribal area bordering Afghanistan where bin Laden and his deputy Zawahiri have their hideouts, and where the resurgent Taliban forces dominate.

Of the deal, the Post wrote: "The cost of this decision will be borne by American and NATO troops in Afghanistan, whose commanders already say that the ability of the Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters to retreat to Pakistan greatly complicates the challenge of defeating their escalating attacks."

But it was the influential Indian newspaper The Indian Express that drilled down to the heart of the matter, publishing a full-page graphic showing terrorist attacks since 9/11 and highlighting their links to Pakistan - and in so doing, in effect, labelling the country "terrorism central".

It is a charge that will infuriate Islamabad and enrage the normally good-humoured Musharraf.

But it is one that he will find increasingly difficult to defend, as he found when, on his way to the Non-Aligned Summit in Cuba, he stopped off in Brussels to address a gathering of the foreign affairs committee of the European parliament.

For, as The Indian Express graphic showed, time and again since 9/11 - in attacks across the world - there is a Pakistani connection.

Not, it must be said, an official Pakistani connection; but a connection that suggests jihadi terrorists are trained and equipped in Pakistan, or seek refuge there after they have carried out their assaults, or are loyalists of extremist Islamic groups based in Pakistan.

Take, as an example cited by the Express, the July 7, 2005, bombs on London's transport system in which 56 people were killed: three of the bombers had visited or trained in Pakistan. Similarly, when British police uncovered the bomb plot against multiple aircraft last month, it emerged that all the main suspects had links to Pakistan, including ringleader Rashid Rauf, who was arrested there.

In New Delhi in December 2001, five terrorists attacked the Indian parliament, killing 14 people. In October last year, there were multiple bomb blasts in Delhi markets that killed 61. And in Mumbai last July there was a series of blasts on trains that killed at least 187.

The Pakistani link? All the attacks, the Express recalls, were sheeted home to jihadi groups based in Pakistan - Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba among them.

The list goes on. Way back in November 2002, three suicide bombers attacked the Paradise Hotel on the Kenyan coast at Mombasa, killing 15 and wounding 40. Al-Qa'ida claimed responsibility and six Pakistanis were arrested.

Indeed, of the 14 top terrorists held by the US at Guantanamo Bay, seven have links to Pakistan: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of 9/11, was captured near Islamabad; Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, who also assisted in 9/11, was captured in Karachi; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali was a principal lieutenant to Khalid in Pakistan; Abu Zubaydah was a key aid to bin Laden before he was captured in Pakistan; Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailini, who helped bomb the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, was later arrested in Pakistan; Majid Khan, who was being groomed for a major terrorist role by Khalid, is a Pakistani; and Abu Faraj al-Libi, a Libyan who was regarded as the successor to Khalid, was also arrested in Pakistan.

In fairness to Musharraf, the reality that so many of these top terrorists were arrested in Pakistan - sometimes in bloody gunfights that cost the lives of Pakistani security forces - lends credence to Islamabad's view of itself as being a potent element in the global coalition fighting Islamic terror.

"It's all baloney," one senior Pakistani official said yesterday. "Accusing us of being 'terrorism central' is just crazy.

"We're doing everything we can to assist in the war on terror - bearing in mind the reality of our geographical location and the support that exists for Islamic extremism among many Pakistanis - and to accuse us of being soft on terror is clearly malevolent nonsense."

Indeed, to neutral analysts of Pakistan's role, it does seem all too easy to accuse Musharraf and his administration of being soft on terrorism. But for this they have only themselves to blame, for the reality is that several of the world's most potent terrorist organisations have a presence in Pakistan, frequently operating under the noses of the authorities.

And when - as has now happened - Pakistan effectively sups with the devil and does a deal with Taliban-aligned militants in Waziristan, it is small wonder that the spotlight moves on Islamabad and assertions are made that Pakistan is the weak link in the battle against the jihadists.

In its exposition of what it termed "Pakistan's stamp on international terrorist acts post-9/11", The Indian Express pointed out that at least four major international terrorist organisations have a presence in Pakistan.

Al-Qa'ida is the most obvious of these organisations. But there are others, too. Lashkar-e-Toiba, which seems to be so attractive to Australian jihadists, is one of the most potent and is the military wing of the Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad. There are suspected links between it and Pakistan's shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) organisation.

And there is Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has close links to both al-Qa'ida and the Taliban, and Harkat-ul-Ansar.

Musharraf's supporters argue that Pakistan has the runs on the board showing it is doing what it can in a difficult situation to suppress such organisations and thwart their plans. They point out the acute difficulty that any administration in Pakistan would have in balancing the reality of widespread popular support for the jihadist movements against Islamabad's commitment to the war on terror.

But the certainty is that Musharraf is going to come under more pressure as the Taliban fighters step up their onslaught in Afghanistan and, as seems likely, the NATO-led coalition of forces sent to fight them, including Australians, experiences greater losses.

For Afghanistan is a conventional military strategist's nightmare. The wild-eyed, bearded tribesmen of the Khyber Pass and the Hindu Kush once saw off the might of the British army, and more recently demolished all and everything that the Soviet Union threw at them after Moscow's massive land and air invasion of December 1979.

I was in Kabul as the Soviet invasion was occurring. The officers of the Red Army were cocky and confident, strutting the streets with the assertive mien of neo-colonial masters. They believed that in no time they would humble the rag-tag mujaheddin. They didn't. They were ignominiously defeated and put to flight. They were picked off like sitting ducks by fleet-footed insurgents who moved like mountain goats through the rugged and frequently impenetrable terrain.

The mountain men taught the communist invaders a lesson from which Moscow never recovered.

Now the NATO-led coalition - yes, with forces that are far better trained and equipped than were the Soviets - is similarly locked in combat against the fierce, predominantly Pashtun tribesmen who support the Taliban.

The certainty is that the forces have an uphill battle ahead of them, and the harsh reality is that victory is no sure thing, not by a long shot. The coalition is going to need all the help it can get. Hence the demand that Pakistan do more to help. And the renewed focus on what Musharraf is really up to.

All week long, the focus has been on that deal in Waziristan, suggestions of ISI involvement with the Taliban, questions about why Pakistan has made no headway in the hunt for bin Laden, and, of course, references to repeated links uncovered between global terrorism and Pakistan.

It is an uncomfortable set of circumstances from Musharraf's point of view.

As far as it has gone, he has played a significant role in the war on terror since September 11. Without him in Islamabad - and, instead, say, with someone as extremist as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in charge - the global fight against the jihadists would be far more difficult than it is proving to be.

But the way things are going in Afghanistan is such that there is the demand for Pakistan to do more, not less. The world wants Musharraf to clamp down harder, not to pussyfoot around with the Taliban and al-Qa'ida and allow circumstances to persist that allow the world's terrorists, time and again, to operate from within its borders or to seek refuge there.

It is a big call, but it is one that Musharraf has no alternative but to accept if he means what he says when he declares himself to be a fully committed ally in the fight against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban.

To say that Musharraf is "in the line of fire" is, indeed, an understatement.

[Vancouver]

Karzai on the Islamic hate-schools of Pakistan:
http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41549

[rectar]

LPG scare after fire at RIL refinery
Jamnagar (Gujarat), October 25, 2006
The government is taking no chances after the major fire that engulfed the Jamnagar refinery of Reliance Industries this morning. Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said plans to import liquified petroleum gas (LPG) were being finalised, as a shortfall due to the fire is feared. Reliance accounts for 33 per cent of total domestic LPG production.
"So that people are not inconvenienced, we are going to import LPG," Deora told a television channel according to AFP.
Site president for Reliance Industries P.K. Kapil however said the company would not suffer any production loss.
At the site, firefighters and employees are mouthing silent prayers.
One of the operators has suffered 60 per cent burns. Another is missing. A third operator suffered a deep cut on his forehead while trying to escape the fire While arrangements have been made to airlift the injured operator to Mumbai for better medical attention, those who are safe can only hope and pray for the man who has gone missing.
All three operators were in charge of a set of refinery units.
A senior executive told Hindustan Times, "The man who went missing is yet to reach home. We cannot find him here. We hope he will be back tomorrow."
No one has been able to enter the area where the fire began - on the ground level of the vacuum gas oil (VGO) hydro-treating unit. Only when it is safe to enter the unit will it become clear whether the missing man perished in the fire.
While the VGO hydrotreater unit willobviously not be working for the time being, a second unit will take on more load. At the same time treated oil -- already stored -- will be used up to keep the catalytic cracker, whichused to get its feed from the affected VGO unit, running. This cracker receives its feed from the VGO unit.
Petroleum Secretary MS Srinivasan said the disruption at the refinery could last as long as 10 days and could lead to a 100,000-ton shortfall in LPG production.
Reliance has set up an inquiry committee to find out the reasons of the fire. The panel will have a representative of Shell, which regularly audits the safety measures at the Jamnagar refinery.
The prima facie reason seems to be a hydrocarbon leak, which went undetected by the monitors located at the site. The operators who found the leak were closing the valves to isolate the unit when the fire broke out. They informed the control room around 10.30 a.m. The blaze was finally brought under control around 1 p.m.
This is the first time that an accident of this kind has occurred in the plant, the country's largest petroleum refinery with a capacity of 30 million tonnes per annum.
The Jamnagar plant is among the world's most complex refineries, allowing it to use cheaper high-sulphur crudes to produce more profitable, ultra-clean fuels. A hydro-treating unit, which uses hydrogen to remove sulphur and nitrogen compounds from oil products, is crucial in the process of upgrading feedstock fuel, which is then fed into the fluid catalytic cracker to produce gasoline and olefins.

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[Petronas]

Rectar, can you enlighten us on the connection between "Abdur Rahman's Corner", your last post, and the subject of this thread "Counterterrorism Focus"? Thank you!

[candypreet]

Rectar, can you enlighten us on the connection between "Abdur Rahman's Corner", your last post, and the subject of this thread "Counterterrorism Focus"? Thank you!

exactly!

[rectar]

Rectar, can you enlighten us on the connection between "Abdur Rahman's Corner", your last post, and the subject of this thread "Counterterrorism Focus"? Thank you!Contrarily, good religion will do more to stop terrorists than force !


Peace, one and all…
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I’m currently taking part in an Utrujj Foundation (http://www.utrujj.org/) course, taught by Shyakh Abu Aaliyah on the 8th century hijri scholar and mystic, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Wasiti (May God sanctify his secret). Allah! It’s really good and I think it’s just what I needed, al hamdu lillah. In the coming days and weeks I’ll be posting some of my thoughts and reflections (as well as some passages from the text we’ve been studying, which incidentally is called Miftah Tariq al-Awliya).
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The Wisdom of Rumi (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/tag/the-wisdom-of-rumi/)Islamic History: Day 3 (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/islamic-history-day-3/) Friday July 21st 2006, 12:28 pm
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Peace, one and all…
Tomorrow’s the 3rd Day School (of a series of 4) that I’ll be teaching on Islamic History: the First 150 Years. Last Saturday was really enjoyable (al hamdu lillah) and so I’m looking forward to it.
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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The Moon Above Trees… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/the-moon-above-trees/) Saturday July 15th 2006, 3:13 am
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Peace, one and all…
Just looking out of my window and thinking about things as I look out of my window waiting for fajr. O how I love looking at the full moon through trees! It’s just such a beautiful sight. Ma sha Allah!
Ma’as salama
A wistful Abdur Rahman
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The Corner Moves! (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/hello-world/) Monday June 26th 2006, 12:42 pm
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Peace, one and all…
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim wa al-salatu wa al-salamu `ala nabi al-karim sayyidina Muhammad wa `ala aalihi wa ashabihi ajma`een
I've recently got myself some wordpress.com (http://www.wordpress.com/) blog space. I thought I'd check it out (as their fonts look much better). I'll give it a whirl and if I like it, I'll move for good. The Corner (http://www.muslimcorner.blogspot.com/) (and related blogs) still exists at blogspot though.
Ma'as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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What is True Value? (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/21/what-is-true-value/) Wednesday June 21st 2006, 11:35 am
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http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/200/Uthman-mushaf1-25.jpg (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/1600/Uthman-mushaf1-25.jpg)Peace, one and all…
I was listening to a talk by Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani al-Kibrisi (http://www.yursil.com/blog/2006/06/shaykh-maulana-nazim-al-hakkani-videos/) recently (provided by the excellent Mind, Body & Soul (http://www.yursil.com/blog/)) and an interesting question occured to me. What is true value?
Shaykh Nazim pointed out that living a life for Allah brings blessings, whilst living for other than Allah brings nothing but curses. How true!
How then can I see the truly valuable within my own life? Hmmm…now that’s the real question.
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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The Value of Silence… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/the-value-of-silence/) Tuesday June 20th 2006, 11:04 pm
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http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/200/malcom-%2850%29.0.jpg (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/1600/malcom-(50).1.jpg)Peace, one and all…
I was making wudu this evening for my Isha prayer and my wife called me, as she needed something from me. Often, in the past, I would have called back (possibly being angered by the interruption). Tonight, by contrast, it occured to me that I should keep silent whilst making wudu.
Al hamdu lillah, it made a real difference. Not only was I able to concentrate better on my wudu, it also meant that I didn’t repsond without thinking.
There is, indeed, value in silence.
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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Stray Thoughts… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/16/stray-thoughts/) Friday June 16th 2006, 1:29 pm
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(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/1600/Salaam-(25).jpg)Peace, one and all…
I’ve got 5 minutes before Jumuah and I’ve just been looking at Islamic educational sites (such as Dar al-Mustafa (http://www.daralmustafa.org/) and Zaytuna Institute (http://www.zaytuna.org/index.asp)). I feel the need to study Islam properly, from the ground up. This has been a recurring thought since becoming Muslim and one which seems to be getting stronger with age. I thought, ‘why don’t you stop thinking and daydreaming and start doing? You’ll never know what the water’s like unless you jump in!’
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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Abdal Hakim Murad on Islam & Gender Issues (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/abdal-hakim-murad-on-islam-gender-issues/) Tuesday June 06th 2006, 3:56 pm
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Peace, one and all…
I was recently reading ‘Islam, Irigaray, and the Retrieval of Gender’ (http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/gender.htm) by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. As is usually the case with the Shaykh’s work, I enjoyed this article immensely and thought I’d post a link to it here. We don’t hear these kinds of voices often enough at present and so this is a small effort in this direction.
The article is drawn from Masud.co.uk (http://www.masud.co.uk/), as ever, a veritable goldmine of interesting and thought-provoking essays. So, a hat tip is definitely due.
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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Congratulations and Mabruk… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/congratulations-and-mabruk/) Tuesday June 06th 2006, 12:51 pm
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http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/400/Salaam-%2850%29.0.jpg (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/43/1374/1600/Salaam-(50).0.jpg)Peace, one and all…
I just wanted to offer my congratulations to a good friend of mine who has recently been awarded his doctorate. So, Dr. Amjad Hussein, mabruk wa ma sha Allah alayk.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloke, as we say in London!
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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The Number of the Beast! (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/the-number-of-the-beast/) Tuesday June 06th 2006, 11:59 am
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Peace, one and all…
As you’re no doubt aware, today’s date is June 6th 2006. In other words, it’s 6/6/06. 666 is widely supposed to be the number of the Beast (Shaytan) in the Christian tradition. As such, the papers are full of ‘devilish’ articles today. This is all based on the Book of Revelations (the final book of the New Testament canon according to most Christian churches).
Actually the passage in question is as follows:

‘Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six’This passage (in a heavily symbolic and allegorical book) has given rise to a truly astounding number of interpretations. Some have identified this character with Nero, President Reagan and so on. Our own beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw) was also believed to have been this figure (the Anti-Christ).

On the popular level, this is the stuff of superstition. However, Islam has its own traditions about the coming Imposter (al-Masih al-Dajjal, may Allah protect us all from him). Interestingly, he is said to be one-eyed (lacking the depth of bi-ocular vision perhaps?) As I understand 666, it is drawn from Jewish/Early Christian thought which understood 777 to be the perfect number. 666 is thus less than that.
At the end of the day, God knows best (Allahu alim).
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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Let Them Eat Chips! (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/let-them-eat-chips/) Tuesday June 06th 2006, 11:46 am
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Peace, one and all…
I was listening to Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/) today. There was a brief debate on the issue of obesity and the NHS. In other words, one commentator was arguing that we should impose a kind of ‘fat tax’ on chronically obese people.
Whilst I think that it is important to promote responsible behaviour and participation in society, I think that this suggestion is a bit off of the wall, to say the least. The interviewee (whose name I didn’t catch) said, in essence, that he objected to paying for other people’s laziness and greed. ‘I’m a responsible person and though I enjoy a bag of chips once in a while, I don’t overindulge’ he opined.
Ma sha Allah! What a deep insight into the problem! The other interviewee made the perfectly valid point that obesity often goes hand in hand with other issues such as poverty, lack of education and other such forms of social deprivation. ‘What middle class drivel’ was the objection. Again, a profound insight (not)!
Obesity is a complex issue and needs to be tackled sensitively and appropriately. Creating a kind of fat underclass isn’t going to help. Whilst we’re on the topic of greed, why don’t we include the greed and over-consumption of our entire society: the kind of society in which footballers can earn £90,000 per week, and status is defined by how many things you can acquire.
Allah says in the Quran: al-hakum al-takathur, hatta zurtum al-maqabir… ‘The mutual piling up of wealth diverts you, until you come to the graves…’. Now, that’s the definitive answer to the problem.
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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The Message… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/the-message/) Sunday May 28th 2006, 11:35 am
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Peace, one and all…
I’m currently sitting in my father-in-law’s house, watching The Message with my young brother-in-law. This film holds a special place in my affections, as it was really the first coherent account of the Prophet’s life (saw) that I saw as a new Muslim, back in rural West Wales.
Although, of course, watching the Message is no substitute for serious study and reflection, it certainly helped ease me into Islam. In these times, where film and TV are the predominant media, I suppose that it’s also helpful in getting the message across.
O Allah! How the heart aches for You!
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
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A Blessing… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/a-blessing/) Wednesday May 24th 2006, 11:55 am
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Peace, one and all…
My sister-in-law is soon to be married, insha Allah, to a good brother and friend of mine. He comes from the land of Bosnia (hence the picture). I wanted to say mabruk to both of them: ibn Sifet and bint Ahmad. May Allah bless your marriage; may He grant you both all that you could wish for, in this world and the next; may He help you both to walk along life’s road, hand in hand.
Ameen!
Abdur Rahman
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Post 100… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/post-100/) Tuesday May 23rd 2006, 1:33 pm
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Peace, one and all, wherever you may be…
Post 100 eh? Well, as this is something of a milestone, I thought I’d mark the occasion with a passage from the Quran. After all, this is muslimcorner.blogspot.com (http://muslimcorner.blogspot.com/)!

‘The messenger believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers; they all believe in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers; We make no difference between any of His messengers; and they say: We hear and obey, our Lord! Thy forgiveness (do we crave), and to Thee is the eventual course’ (2:285, trans. Shakir)Ma’as salama,

Abdur Rahman
Or (faulty) ‘Servant of the Merciful God’
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A Vision of Paradise… (http://thecorner.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/a-vision-of-paradise/) Tuesday May 23rd 2006, 1:11 pm
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Peace, one and all…
When I feel the need for something uplifting, I imagine what it would be like to be in Paradise. The aim is to attain God’s pleasure, without thought of reward (easy to say, hard to achieve) but it’s nice to think about it…
These pictures seems like a vision of paradise: children happily playing…
Ma’as salama,
Abdur Rahman
PS - the pictures come from Muslim Cultures (http://muslimcultures.blogspot.com/)

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