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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Press Release : DHAKA, Monday, 16 February 2009. Identifying Root of Current Islam-West Conflict

STATEMENT
Minister Louis Farrakhan addressed a gathering of diplomats, politicians, intellectuals and activists in Dhaka on 7 Feb 1998 [at Restaurant Olive Garden, Gulshan-2].


He said: "...Every Muslim Country that seems to get strong militarily, there is a policy, even known or unknown, to destabilize that regime. Every Muslim country that has wealth, there is a secret policy to undermine and take away the wealth of the wealthy moderate state and the military potential of those Muslims who have some military potential.."

To keep her racial domination over the world culture and civilization Britain has been working on long-tern plans.

In the post-cold war era after the fall of Soviet Union the British network with the help of vested quarters have accommodated within her fold the atheist and leftist intellectuals and activists worldwide.

Britain continues to enjoy considerable influence over and access into the ruling elite of her former colonies - specifically the civil and military bureaucracies and the western educated elite. Britain is at the bottom of all conspiracies against Faith and Believer Muslims, Jews and Christians since she employed Darwin to create the Origin of Species Theory to rationalize colonization by one race over other races under the premise "Survival of the fittest".

The ongoing conflict has not been provoked by one or a group of Muslim or Jew. The ongoing conflict between Muslims and Jews, Islam and the West, Believers and Non-Believers have been planned and designed by Britain and executed with the help of misguided state-actors and international organizations, non-believer atheists, radical extremists, think-tanks, media, civil society and local mercenaries in the target nations.

 
Kazi Azizul Huq,
International Affairs Secretary
Cell: 01819-407963
E-mail : khelafat@dhaka.net, kahuq@dhaka.net
Copy of E-mail distribution Sent to Selected Governments & Media

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:47:12 +0600

To: "H.E.Seyyed Ali Khamenei"< >, "H.R.H. King Abdulllah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud"< >
From: Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon
Subject: For review: A synopsis of Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations

For Further Review & Study:

A synopsis of Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order


The Clash of Civilizations is a theory, proposed by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.

Huntington began his thinking by surveying the diverse theories about the nature of global politics in the post-Cold War period. Some theorists and writers argued that human rights, liberal democracy and capitalist free market economy had become the only remaining ideological alternative for nations in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, Francis Fukuyama argued that the world had reached the 'end of history' in a Hegelian sense.

Huntington believed that while the age of ideology had ended, the world had only reverted to a normal state of affairs characterized by cultural conflict. In his thesis, he argued that the primary axis of conflict in the future would be along cultural and religious lines.

The theory was originally formulated in a 1992 lecture at the American Enterprise Institute, which was then developed in a 1993 Foreign Affairs article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?",[2] in response to Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man. Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

In the 1993 Foreign Affairs article, Huntington writes: It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

Core state and fault line conflicts

In Huntington's view, intercivilizational conflict manifests itself in two forms:
1. fault line conflicts and

2. core state conflicts.

Fault line conflicts are on a local level and occur between adjacent states belonging to different civilizations or within states that are home to populations from different civilizations.
Core state conflicts are on a global level between the major states of different civilizations. Core state conflicts can arise out of fault line conflicts when core states become involved.[5]

These conflicts may result from a number of causes, such as:
• relative influence or power (military or economic),

• discrimination against people from a different civilization,
• intervention to protect kinsmen in a different civilization, or different values and culture, particularly when one civilization attempts to impose its values on people of a different civilization.[5]


Huntington argues that the widespread Western belief in the universality of the West's values and political systems is naïve and that continued insistence on democratization and such "universal" norms will only further antagonize other civilizations.

Huntington sees the West as reluctant to accept this because it built the international system, wrote its laws, and gave it substance in the form of the United Nations.

Huntington identifies the two "challenger civilizations", Sinic and Islam.

In Huntington's view, East Asian Sinic civilization is culturally asserting itself and its values relative to the West due to its rapid economic growth. He sees the hierarchical command structures implicit in the Confucian Sinic civilization, as opposed to the individualism and pluralism valued in the West.

Huntington argues that the Islamic civilization has experienced a massive population explosion which is fueling instability both on the borders of Islam and in its interior, where fundamentalist movements are becoming increasingly popular. Manifestations of what he terms the "Islamic Resurgence" include the 1979 Iranian revolution and the first Gulf War.

Huntington argues that a "Sino-Islamic connection" is emerging in which China will cooperate more closely with Iran, Pakistan, and other states to augment its international position.

Huntington also argues that civilizational conflicts are "particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims", identifying the "bloody borders" between Islamic and non-Islamic civilizations. This conflict dates back as far as the initial thrust of Islam into Europe, its eventual expulsion in the Iberian reconquest, the attacks of the Ottoman Turks on Eastern Europe and Vienna, and the European imperial division of the Islamic nations in the 1800s and 1900s.

He believes that some of the factors contributing to this conflict are that both Christianity (upon which Western civilization is based) and Islam are:
• Missionary religions, seeking conversion by others

• Universal, "all-or-nothing" religions, in the sense that it is believed by both sides that only their faith is the correct one
• Teleological religions, that is, that their values and beliefs represent the goals of existence and purpose in human existence.
More recent factors contributing to a Western-Islamic clash, Huntington wrote, are the Islamic Resurgence and demographic explosion in Islam, coupled with the values of Western universalism - that is, the view that all civilizations should adopt Western values - that infuriate Islamic fundamentalists.


After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Huntington is increasingly regarded [citation needed] as having been prescient as

- the United States invasion of Afghanistan, 2002
- Bali Bombings, 2003
- Invasion of Iraq, the 2004
- Madrid train bombings, the 2006
- cartoon crisis [citation needed],
- the 2005 London bombings,
- the ongoing Iranian nuclear crisis and
- the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

fueled the perception that Huntington's Clash is well underway.

Huntington's influence upon U.S. policy has been likened to that of British historian A.J. Toynbee's controversial religious theories about Asian leaders in the early twentieth
century.

As a genuine advocate of the often-elusive dialogue of religions and cultures, Pope John Paul II once observed: “A clash ensues only when Islam or Christianity is misconstrued or manipulated for political or ideological ends.”


References
1. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.29196,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
2. a b Official copy (free preview): The Clash of Civilizations?, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993
3. Bernard Lewis: The Roots of Muslim Rage The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1990
4. http://s02.middlebury.edu/FS056A/Herb_war/clash3.htm
5. a b Huntington, Samuel P. (2002) [1997]. "Chapter 9: The Global Politics of Civilizations". The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (The Free Press ed.). London: Simon $ Schuster. pp. p 207f. ISBN 0-7432-3149-X.
6. Berman, Paul (2003). Terror and Liberalism. W W Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-05775-5.
7. a b c Russett, Bruce; John Oneal, Michaelene Cox (2000). "Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Déjà Vu? Some Evidence". Journal of Peace Research 37 (5): 583–608. doi:10.1177/0022343300037005003. Retrieved on 3 October 2007.
8. Edward Said: The Clash of Ignorance The Nation, October 2001
9. Edward Said: [1] Prof. Edward Said in lecture, The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations, University of Massachusetts, 1998
10. Edward Said: [2] Prof. Edward Said in lecture, The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations, University of Massachusetts, 1998
11. Beyond the clash of Ignorance, Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, June 2007
12. a b Tusicisny, Andrej (2004). "Civilizational Conflicts: More Frequent, Longer, and Bloodier?" (PDF). Journal of Peace Research 41 (4): 485–498. doi:10.1177/0022343304044478. Retrieved on 3 October 2007.
13. http://www.unesco.org/dialogue2001/en/khatami.htm Unesco.org Retrieved on 05-24-07
14. http://www.dialoguecentre.org/about.html Dialoguecentre.org Retrieved on 05-24-07

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Condolences on the sudden demise of Hazrat Hamidullah r.a.


Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:41:09 +0600
Subject: Condolence
From: Sunita Paul
To: K A Huq

Respected Brother Kazi Huq,
 
I am terribly shocked to hear that our loving brother Moulana Hafez Hamidullah, who had been championing the cause of interfaith understanding and harmony, suddenly left this world, for eternal peace. 
 
May G-d reward him for his life long dedication towards humanity and good to this world.
 
We shall surely miss a real guardian in Bangladesh, who never hesitated in standing against all forms of religious hatred and fanaticism.
 
Kindly convey my profound condolence to the members of his family and everyone else, who loved him for his extra ordinary dedication to humankind.
 
I shall include him in my prayers tonight and hope everyone in the world will also do so.
 
Regards
 
Your Sister, 

Sunita


Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:59:08 +0200
From: "David Rosen"
Subject: RE: Top BKA Leader - Sponsor of Muslim-Jews Dialogue - Dies in Dhaka
To: "Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon"

Dear Honorable Kazi Azizul Haq ,

I send you and your community my sincere condolences on the passing of Hazrat Maulana Hafez Hamidullah from this earthly abode. Such an early death of a learned and courageous lover of peace and dialogue is a loss for the world at large. I pray that his example and teaching will increasingly inspire others to follow in his paths of righteousness.

Having just lost my own brother - a great rabbi- at the same age as that of Hazrat Maulana Hafez Hamidullah, his loss is also personally poignant.

May Allah bless us to emulate their faith and goodness.

Ma salame,
David  

Chief Rabbi Dr. David Rosen , KCSG
Chairman, International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC),
International Director of Interreligious Affairs, American Jewish Committee (AJC) 
tel :+972-2-6255281 fax:+972-2-6256527 mailto:rosend@ajc.org http://www.rabbidavidrosen.net/


Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:42:47 +0800
From: Nizamuddin Ahmed
Subject: Condolence
To: Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon
 
 Dear Kazi Azizul Haq Bhai , 
Assalamualaikum 

I deeply condole the sad demise of Hazrat Maulana Hafez Manidullah . May Allah place his soul to the heaven of the highest order and pray for the peace of his bereaved family and community.
 
Thanks and regards
  
Nizam Ahmed
Senior Correspondent
Dhaka Bureau, Reuters News, Thomson Reuters 
Phone:+880-2-8330123, +880-2-8330121
Mobile: +880-1819-221594
nizamuddin.ahmed@thomsonreuters.com

thomsonreuters.com

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:15:22 +0200
From: Asher Eder
Subject:
To: kahuq@dhaka.net
Cc: Salah Choudhury


Shalom / Salaam,

Dear Brothers and Sisters of Abraham's Family.


Please, receive my heartfelt condolence for the demise of our dear Brother the Moulana Hamidullah. 


Although I had not the privilege to get acquainted personally with him, yet his honesty and true love of all the members of Abraham's Family in the Spirit of the Creator of all of us made - and makes - me feel so close to all of you, and share my grieve for the un timely departure of that one of us.


Sorry that I am somewhat late with that letter of mine - my PC was out of order for several days, and got fixed only to-day.


Hope to meet once personally, either here in Israel or in your country, to look into your eyes, embrace you, and share our views and hopes,


Sincerely yours,


Asher Eder
Jewish Co-Chairman,

Islam-Israel Fellowship, Yerushalayim/Israel

From: "Famigla Kossover"
To:
Subject: A message of condolence on the passing of a great man
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:25:02 +0200


My Dear Honorable Kazi Azizul Haq,
 
One of the duties every believing Jew is taught is to seek peace with his brothers. When a scholar who seeks to do this passes to his Eternal Reward, a bright flame is lit in the heavens, but a candle goes out here where we yet remain. Even here in Israel, I and others have heard of the efforts of Hazrat Hafez Hamidullah in his endeavors to bring peace between Moslems and Jews, so that the various Children of Abraham (PBUH) can view each other as brothers with love, and his passing to a different stage in his existence is a gain for the heavens that receive him and a loss for all of us who have not yet joined him.
 
I offer what puerile condolence a man can offer in the face of Destiny. The Eternal gives us so much time to accomplish His appointed tasks, and then decides when we have accomplished enough of these tasks. Apparently, developing the Bengladesh Khelafat Andolon was a big part of these appointed tasks. All we can do is praise the good deeds and pray and hope that the memory of Hazrat Hafez Hamidullah will be a blessing upon all of us. May you and your community and may the family of this great man be comforted by Allah in your time of grief and loss; may you draw courage and sustenance from this scholar's example to continue on in the holy task of seeking reconciliation and peace. 
 
A thought for you all. The Eternal only gives us to accomplish what He thinks we can accomplish. And most of us never really exceed with our reach what we can grasp. So much remains yet for us all to do.
 
May you all only hear good news.
 
Blessings from the Mountains of Samaria,
Reuven Kossover  


From: "Yehuda Stolov"
To:
Subject: Condolences
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:39:55 +0200
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512


Dear Honorable Kazi Azizul Haq ,

Please accept my sincere condolences on the early passing away of Hazrat Maulana Hafez Hamidullah. I wish you and your community with the traditional Jewish prayer: May God comfort you ... and you should know no sorrow!

I do wish we can all follow his footsteps and continue develop the good relations between Jews and Muslims.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Yehuda Stolov
 
 
Yehuda Stolov, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Interfaith Encounter Association
www.interfaith-encounter.org 




Saturday, February 7, 2009

Top BKA Leader – Advocate of Muslim-Jewish Dialogue – Dies in Dhaka

PRESS RELEASE No.2009/0207.05 DATE: DHAKA Saturday 07, 2009.


Senior Naeb-e-Amir of Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan and one of the prominent Islamic clergies supporting interfaith harmony as well as lifting of travel ban on Israel, Moulana Hafez Hamidullah died in Dhaka on Friday late hours at his residence at Kamrangirchar, Dhaka at the age of 63. 

Late Hamidullah played important role in Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan since the inception of this party. He was also the Vice Principal of Noria Madrassa at Kamrangirchar, which was founded by his father late Moulana Mohammed Ullah Hafezzi Huzur. 

Late Moulana Hafez Hamidullah was one of the very few outspoken Islamic clergies in Bangladesh, who openly condemned all forms of militancy in the name of religion. He was a true prophet of preaching peace and peaceful coexistence of people of all religious beliefs. 

Hamidullah had aspiration of bringing the believers into one platform to combat all forms of social perversion, atheism and religious fanatism. 

He wrote a number of letters to Bangladesh government urging to drop the false charges against editor of Weekly Blitz. 

He was arrested, detained and tortured many a times during the rule of military dictator Hussain Muhammed Ershad. 

At the demise of Moulana Hafez Hamidullah, Bangladesh surely loses one of the rarest individuals who dedicated his entire life for global peace, religious harmony and unity of the believers.  

for Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon
 
Kazi Azizul Huq
International Affairs Secretary
Ph: +880-(0)1819407963
E-mail: khelafat@dhaka.net

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Support to Vatican Move on Prohibition of Cluster Bombs

Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:37:49 +0600
To: "H.E. Rev. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti", av@pccs.va,
From: Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon
Subject: Convention Prohibiting Cluster Munitions.
Cc: feedback@pmo.gov.bd,dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir,info@leader.ir,  webmaster@shura.gov.sa, comments@whitehouse.gov, usdeptstate@mailnj.custhelp.com,

Dt: Dhaka, Friday, 05 December 2008.
To : H.E. Rev. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States, Vatican.
Re : HOLY SEE SIGNS CONVENTION CONCERNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS

Excellency,
Assalamu Alaykum.

We are happy and pleased to confirm our support and endorsement to your ratification of the Convention prohibiting the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions.

Vatican under the current Pope H.H. Benedict XVI has once again courageously spearheaded its principled position in support of peace and Divine values.

We specially thank your excellency for organizing and representing the Vatican in this good work.

With best wishes and best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Kazi Azizul Huq
for Hafez Maulana Hamidullah ibn Hafezzi Huzur
Senior Deputy Amir and Nazim
Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon
314/2, J.N. Shah Road (Lalbagh Kellar Morr), Dhaka-1211, BANGLADESH.
Tel: 7320078, 8612465, 01819-407963, Fax:+880-2-9881436 , E-mail: khelafat@dhaka.net

VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE 
12.04.2008 - Eighteenth Year - Num. 219
 
HOLY SEE SIGNS CONVENTION CONCERNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS
 
VATICAN CITY, 4 DEC 2008 (VIS) - Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States yesterday participated in a ceremony, held in Oslo, Norway, to sign a Convention prohibiting the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions, the text of which was approved on 30 May in Dublin, Ireland.

 
  In his address, Archbishop Mamberti stated that "in order to send out a powerful political signal, the Holy See is ratifying this Convention on the same day as the signing. In the first place we wish to express to victims the human proximity of the Holy See and its institutions. We also wish to launch an appeal to States - especially to the producers, exporters and potential consumers of cluster munitions - to join the current signatories, so as to assure victims, and all countries gravely affected by these arms, that their message has been understood.
 

  "Credible security is not only possible, but actually more effective, when it is based on co-operation, on trust and on a just international order", while "order founded on the balance of power is fragile, unstable and a source of conflict", the archbishop added.

 
  The head of the Holy See delegation to the Oslo ceremony then indicated that "through contributions on everyone's part, the house of peace is now stronger, yet perseverance and patience are indispensable for its consolidation".

 
  An English-language declaration accompanying Archbishop Mamberti's speech states that "in ratifying the Convention ... the Holy See desires to encourage the entire international community to be resolute in promoting effective disarmament and arms control negotiations and in strengthening international humanitarian law by reaffirming the pre-eminent and inherent value of human dignity, the centrality of the human person, and the 'elementary considerations of humanity', all of which are elements that constitute the basis of international humanitarian law.


  "The Holy See considers the Convention on cluster munitions an important step in the protection of civilians during and after conflicts, from the indiscriminate effects of this inhumane type of weapon", the text adds.


  "The Holy See", the document concludes, "considers the implementation of the Convention as a legal and humanitarian challenge for the near future. An effective implementation should be based on constructive co-operation of all governmental and non governmental actors and should reinforce the link between disarmament and development. This can be done by directing human and material resources towards development, justice and peace, which are the most effective means to promote international security and a peaceful international order".

DELSS/CLUSTER BOMB CONVENTION/MAMBERTI               VIS 081204 (420)

 

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Divine Heritage : Article From an American Jew

Yom Kippur

By Dr. Richard L. Benkin

 

Yom Kippur, in English “the Day of Atonement,” is considered by most Jews to be the holiest day of the year.  Together, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur are known to Jews as the High Holidays.  Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the ten intervening days (often called the Ten Days of Repentance); are a time when Jews everywhere are to consider their actions during the past year and think about how to be better people in the coming year.  It is not only the Jewish people who act, however, but the Jewish God, as well.

 

A common greeting on Rosh Hashanah is “May you be inscribed in the Book of Life for a sweet year.”  Jews believe that on Rosh Hashanah, God writes everybody’s name down for either another year of life or for death.  Jews have a chance to change God’s decree by what they do during the High Holiday period.  Because God might inscribe His judgment on Rosh Hashanah, but He does not seal it until Yom Kippur.

 

In the Torah, the Jewish holy book, God commands Moses to tell the Hebrew people, “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe complete rest, a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts.  You shall not work at your occupations.”  That is the origin of Rosh Hashanah, and it is why Jews are to do no work on that day.  Instead, they are to devote themselves to prayer and contemplation; to reflect on their behavior over the past twelve months and how it might seem in the eyes of God.  Traditional Jews spend most of the day in the synagogue.  As for Yom Kippur, the Torah tells us that God said, “Mark, the tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement.  It shall be a sacred occasion for you; you shall practice self-denial…you shall do no work throughout that day.”

 

The point for us on both holy days is that we are to set aside this time, not work or engage in our common leisure activities and such.  Traditional Jews do not even kindle fires or any kind or use electricity.  God wants us to do that so our entire beings are turned toward the meaning of the holidays.  In the above quote from the Torah, we are told to “practice self-denial” on Yom Kippur.  That has come to mean fasting, and Yom Kippur is one of seven fast days on the Jewish calendar. But Judaism suffers from the same problem other religions suffer from these days; most people observe it only marginally.  But the vast majority of Jews observe the High Holidays.  So, Yom Kippur is by far the most observed of the fast days.

 

Contrary to what some people think, however, the purpose of fasting is not punishment or repentance.  Judaism has no tradition of such things.  God does not want us to withdraw from the pleasurable things he has provided us.  (That is why, for instance, many religious Jews will have sex with their wives every week on the Shabbat to celebrate the miracles that God creates for us.)  The reason we fast (or “practice self-denial”) is so we are not distracted from the gift that God has given us for the day—that if we are truly introspective, we have a chance to soften His judgment.  But what a wonderful gift.  God has relieved us of our worldly burdens for the day so we can take that time to examine ourselves and become better people.

 

Our prayers tell us that we can soften God’s decree with “repentance, prayer, and charity.”  The Hebrew word for repentance is tshuva, which really means “return.”  In the Jewish religion, repentance is not about saying you are sorry—although sometimes that is necessary—but it is about returning to the way God wants us to be.  Just words are not enough; it takes action.  So if we show this between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, God will see it.  Even if we have not yet done it, but it is in our hearts and we will do it, God sees that, too.  Repentance for Jews is about returning to God.  Prayer can be offered with the lips only but no heart.  That is the case in all religions.  God, however, can tell the difference (we simple people can never expect to fool Him).  If we offer prayers from the heart, God will listen; but if our prayer is false and our hearts are set on continued misbehavior, God will see that, too.  The Hebrew word for charity is tzedekah, which means “righteousness.”  In the Jewish tradition, giving charity is only doing what is demanded of us.  If we are wealthy, we should help those in need; most importantly, we should help them help themselves.  If we are safe, we should help those who are in danger.  If we are strong, we should help the weak.  As much as we give to others in these situations, they are giving to us because they allow us to act as God wants us to act.  But it must be done with a true spirit of righteousness, understanding that it is the correct thing to do in God’s eyes, or it means little.

 

God also tells us that we can come to Him and ask for His forgiveness, and he can grant it.  But, he tells us, for sins that man commits against God, God can grant forgiveness.  For sins that a man commits against his fellow man, God cannot grant forgiveness.  We must get that forgiveness from the man against whom we have trespassed.  That is a wonderful value because it recognizes that if we have wronged another, true tshuva can come only when we have taken the actions that brought us closer (returned us) to our fellow man.  We cannot wrong another and expect to be forgiven without making things right with that other person.

 

Because the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, all observances begin at sundown the evening before the day of the observance; and they end at sundown on the day of the observance.  So, in 2008, the Jewish date of 10 Tishre, on which Yom Kippur falls, corresponds to the date of October 9.  That means Yom Kippur begins at sundown on October 8 and ends at sundown on October 9.  At that moment, in every congregation all over the world, the great shofar or ram’s horn is sounded as it was in ancient days at our Temple in Jerusalem, letting all Jews know that the time of the observance is over, that God has sealed our fates, and that it is now up to each of us to go forth in the world and live in accordance with the moral principles that God has set down for us and which are now in our hearts.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

LETTER TO SAUDI KING REGARDING MADRID INTERFAITH CONFERENCE

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Dt: DHAKA, Saturday, 12 July 2008.

To: H.R.H. King Abdulllah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Saudi Arabia.

Cc: H.E. Rev. Chief Rabbi David Rosen, Director of AJC, Chairman of IJCIC, Israel.
  H.E. Rev. Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican.
  H.E.Rev.Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenie, Rahbar, IR Iran.
  H.E. Rev. Maulana Hafez Hamidullah, Secretary General, BKA.
  Dr. Richard L. Benkin, Interfaith Strength, USA.
  Mr. Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury, Editor, Weekly Blitz.
  Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, Convener, Islamic Democratic Party (IDP) 
  Mr.Sanjeeb Chowdhury, Chairman, Human Rights Forum.
  To Whom It May Concern

Re: Interfaith Conference Sponsored by KSA in Madrid July 16-18

Asslamu Alaykum.

We welcome the Saudi initiative to hold a major Interfaith Conference in Madrid July 16-18. We are thankful to Allah Almighty that the Dialogues of which we are also an important component have started yielding result. 

We urge the believers to take care that the evil quarters of atheists, agnostics, racists, perverts and materialists do not infiltrate these Dialogues to ruin its Divine purposes. Interfaith Conferences of the adherents of the Abrahamic Faiths must also be aimed to strengthen the Unity of the Believers particularly of the Monotheists worldwide. Those who are known to be promoter of anti-Faith agenda and homosexuality should not be allowed to sit in such conference as dignitaries and decision makers. 

May Allah Bless the mankind with Faith & Obedience to Allah, to His revealed Divine Scriptures and to the Heritage & Missions of His Messengers.

With best wishes and best regards.
 
Kazi Azizul Huq 
(ibn Abdulhuq ibn Izzatullah ibn Abdulhamid)

Designations:
International Affairs Secretary, Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon (BKA). 

Cell: 01819-407963 Tel: 9881436
Fax: +880-2-9881436 E-mail: khelafat@dhaka.net, kahuq@dhaka.net

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Naya Digonto Story Against US and Israel

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

DHAKA, 2 July 2008.

To: Mr. Mir Quasem Ali,
       Chairman, 
       The Daily Naya Digonto
       Motijheel, Dhaka.

Assalamu Alaykum. 

Today in the front page of Nayadigonto On-line edition I read read the report by Mr. Murshidul Alam Chowdhury regarding Zionist Propaganda Against Bangladesh.

We are forwarding to you following materials for your review:-

1. Letter to Chief Advisor Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed dtd 12-Feb-2007
2. Letter to Saudi King dtd 13-May-2007 
3. Muslim-Jews Dialogue upto 09-06-2007
4. Muslim-Jews Dialogue on Palestine Issue
5. Medina Charter
6. Last Sermon of the Holy Prophet SAWS
7. Commandments (613) Believed and obeyed by Jews
8. Muslim-Jews early history


We have found that neither the Zionists nor the Americans are the real enemy of the Believers and the Muslims. The actual enemy of Believers and Muslims are European racists and atheists led by British vested quarters who have been secretly fueling Muslim-Jews hatred and conflict.  

Probably about 50 percent ethnic Muslims of Bangladesh today do not even know the very Qalimah without which one can not be counted as a Muslim, while more than 50 percent ethnic Christian population of USA make prayer to God before taking their food. US Government continues to inscribe on its Dollar "In God we trust". People may criticize but they declare proudly that they are Believers in God. May be this is why they continue to be the leader of the world. Because US Government agrees Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Choice including Religious Freedom, Muslim preachers enjoy the freedom to convert Americans to Islam. 

There are both believers and unbelievers (atheists /agnostics) in almost all the ethnic religious communities of the Books including Muslims, Christians, Jews and Hindus. Almighty Allah has promised that irrespective of religious ethnicity whoever believe in Allah and the Last Day and work righteousness shall have their reward with their Lord.

Arab leaders and Muslim fighters against Turkey's Muslim ruler were no less responsible for the creation of the State of Israel after the First World War. And it was the failure of the Arabs and the Muslims that Israel could expand beyond her 1948 borders. May be it was the Divine Punishment for fighting against Turkey's Muslim ruler. 

One can not solve problems by blaming others. We ethnic Muslims are stabbing each other on the back. We ethnic Muslims have deviated from the Path of Piety & Righteousness and have chosen to ignore Divine Scripture, Prophetic Mission and Human Experience. Our Iranian revolutionaries talked so much about the Divine Mission of the United Ummah. But in practice they welcomed US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. 
 
Faith and Righteousness is more important today than religious ethnicity. Our Holy Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihi Wa Sallam) taught us not to blame the son for the offence of father. It is not correct to blame all Jews for the wrongs of a few Jew in earlier times. Is it piety for any Muslim to call the Jews sons of pigs and apes? Is it the teaching of our Holy Prophet (SM)? 
 
Our Holy Prophet (SAWS) migrated from Makkah to Yathrib (Medina) on the invitation and consent of those most of who were friendly Jews and Pagans. At that time there were less than 500 Muslims in Yathrib (Medina) while the population of Yathrib (Medina) was nearly 10,000 - about fifty percent Jews and fifty percent Pagans. Those majority Jews and Pagans agreed Hazrat Muhammad ibn Abdullah (SAWS) to become the political leader and administrator of the City State of Medina and Holy Prophet (SAWS) guaranteed their rights and status by Medina Charter which called all citizens of Medina irrespective of religion as "Ummah". On the other hand, Holy Prophet (SAWS)'s own relatives and tribe in Makkah were called "Kafir" not because they were idol-worshippers but because they were enemies.  
 
We need the support of principled God fearing people irrespective of their ethnic or religious identities. We need the support of Vatican and other non-materialist believer Christians. We need the support of the Monotheist Jewish Clergies who have been holding important heritage of Divine Scriptures and Missions of Prophets of Allah (Blessings of Allah be upon them all). We need the support of non-materialist believer God-fearing Hindus who have been holding important heritage of Divine Scriptures and Missions of Prophets of Allah (Blessings of Allah be upon them all). We need to understand that the vested interests of elitist agnostics and atheists of Europe led by British administration is the prime enemy of Faith, Righteousness and Justice in the world. 

We are already in the midst of the Third World War. All God fearing righteous people irrespective of ethnic religious identity have to come closer and work together to fulfill Divine Will. Our anger and hatred is not going to solve our problem. We need to be God fearing, wise and righteously active. 

With best wishes and best regards.

Maassalam.

Kazi Azizul Huq 
(ibn Abdulhuq ibn Izzatullah ibn Abdulhamid)
E-mail: khelafat@dhaka.net

Designations:

International Affairs Secretary, Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon
Founder Convener, CIRB-Hezbollah
Advisor, Islami Gono Andolon
(Organization led by veterans of Afghan War of Liberation from Soviet Occupation)
Team Leader, Human Rights Forum